Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?

Subject: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: GUEST,Rod Valve
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 11:54 AM

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 11:59 AM

You can't. The devil doesn't exist.

Sorry.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Peg
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 12:04 PM

I was thinking maybe this was a thread about a song with this title...

please tell me this person doesn't really want to make a pact with Satan.

Why would he assume anyone here would know anything about this?

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: JenEllen
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 12:04 PM

Existenstial quandries aside, what would make you think that a devil would want to make a deal with you?

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Midchuck
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 12:07 PM

Finally, someone asks a question to which "Go to Hell!" is the correct answer, and not merely gratuitous abuse.

Peter.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Midchuck
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 12:09 PM

Finally, someone asks a question to which "Go to Hell!" is the correct answer, and not merely gratuitous abuse.

Peter.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Midchuck
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 12:09 PM

Finally, someone asks a question to which "Go to Hell!" is the correct answer, and not merely gratuitous abuse.

Peter.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Jim Krause
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 12:21 PM

Maybe Guest wants to follow in the footsteps of Robert Johnson. I think there are better ways, existential questions aside. Like Practice, Practice, Practice.
Jim

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: DougR
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 12:25 PM

Perhaps you already have!

DougR

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 12:32 PM

Going to the crossroads at midnight is the usual method.

Murray

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Grab
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 12:44 PM

Do you work for Microsoft? The US Government (bonus points if your agency is unlisted)? Local UK Government (bonus points if your agency involves planning permissions)? Traffic warden? Lawyer?

If so, why are you asking us....?

Graham.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 12:53 PM

Well, I believe the usual price is your immortal soul...at least that's what I've heard. How you go about setting up the meeting, I am not sure...

Why not just make a deal with Conrad Black instead?

- LH

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Cappuccino
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 01:57 PM

Involves a signature in blood, as I recall, and I gather there are no re-negotiation clauses. There was a wonderful short story by.... oh, hell, American sci-fi writer.... yes, Bradbury, I think, on the subject. I think the general procedure was that you just generally shout your offer aloud to the wind, and he hears and visits you.

Speaking purely personally, I find that the same method works rather better with the other side, thank you very much!

- ian B

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Fortunato
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 01:59 PM

INTERVIEWER: Are you the famous 'Doctor Faustus', the infamous German necromancer and astrologer who sold his soul to the Devil in exhange for knowledge and power?

FAUST: I am Dokor Faust.

INTERVIEWER: Then is it true that you sold your soul to the Devil?

FAUST: No it is not. I am merely a humble scientist doing private research.

INTERVIEWER: Then how do you explain the fact that you are still alive after some 5 or 6 hundred years?

FAUST: Good genes?

INTERVIEWER: Is this your wife? (A buxom you woman in flimy dress, apparent age 19)

FAUST: She is an old friend of the family.

INTERVIEWER: Has anyone ever told you look exactly like Dick Clark?

FAUST: Yes. Next question.

INTERVIEWER: That's all the time we have, I really must be going.

FAUST: Just out of curiosity, what is your blood type?

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Amos
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 03:07 PM

LOL, Fortun!!

A

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 03:08 PM

Until I realized the thread was started by a Guest, I was going to answer exactly what DougR did!

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Bert
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 03:09 PM

I'm making a deal with Rick (he says he can improve my guitar playing), is that the same thing *GRIN*

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 03:10 PM

Then there was the dyslexic devil-worshipper.
He sold his soul to Santa!
Baada-bing-bada-boom!

Seamus

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Kim C
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 03:13 PM

I would ask Dick Clark or Chuck Berry. Or Jerry Lee Lewis.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: GUEST,ta2
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 03:25 PM

go to the crossroads.......................the M1 and the M6 would suffice

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 03:32 PM

Old Nick is now known as "Sir Devil." (Conrad Black moves to England so he can accept title from Lizzie). Canada has lost one devil, but there are plenty more.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 03:43 PM

You could start by watching the Bruce McDonald Rock & Roll movie "Highway 61". I'm sure you can pick up some tips there.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: gnu
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 04:27 PM

Send all your money to me and I'll put in a bad word for you.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 06:42 PM

Come to London, Ontario (Canada). The devil may be there. According to the pastor of the Missionary Church of Christ, one of his parishioners may have been possessed by the Devil. The pastor, Guillermo Fabian, said that at a service, the 19-year old was confused, mixing up English and Spanish and talking very strange. His parents tied him in a chair and denied him food and water. He died. According to today's Calgary Herald, the parents have been charged with murder. Apparently the pastor won't be charged.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Tweed
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 06:50 PM

Donate a dollar to re-elect the President;~)

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 07:32 PM

Bush ain't the Devil. He's just brain-dead.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: toadfrog
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 08:03 PM

You must first have Faith. The rest follows easily.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: 53
Date: 12 Jan 02 - 12:23 AM

TRADE HIM A GOLD FIDDLE, HE'LL LIKE THAT. bob

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 12 Jan 02 - 01:01 AM

Read the Johnson thread on this site, I have followed the same path; and its value in this world has been most successful. All the necessary details lie within Max's detailing within the thread. Seek and ye shall find.

Bon Apetite!

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Caveate Empter - study the other side THOROUGHLy - for you do not want to go gentle into that good night.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: DougR
Date: 12 Jan 02 - 01:10 AM

Damn, Garg, you had me going for a spell there. I kept scrolling up and down until I realized you were talking about the Robert Johnson thread! Okay, it's late and I had a Senior moment. Anyway, I'm gonna read it because you suggested it. However, I think Guest started this thread because he/she had nothing else to do anyway.

DougR

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Jan 02 - 07:36 AM

Chant her name three times.... wait, that's Beetlegeuse. I think you begin by wanting something for free. Perhaps you are in her debt already !

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Mr Red
Date: 12 Jan 02 - 10:11 AM

Who says I don't exist?

the deal is......... it'll cost ya....... the deal is ...........

lets go someplace private and .... bring your chequebook.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 12 Jan 02 - 10:58 AM

Crossroads at midnight . . . or, as I was told in the late '60s by someone who was with someone who at least thought about trying, you seek "Mary Worth" in a mirror.

(Does that count as a "friend of the cousin of my boss's ex-wife's uncle's barber's car guy who read it on the internet"?)

Linn

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: GUEST,Green Eyes
Date: 12 Jan 02 - 11:24 AM

If you have an deal in your head already, the deal is done. Cause she knows all and is ready to retrieve. Before you know it, you got what you want. And she will let you know that she exists. When the time is near, you'll realize that you've already made the deal (you suddenly notice little simple things most of the time beginning with extreem coincidence)...and there is no turning back I think...Just let it come over you....but don't think about it.

"Everybody got to hold on hope" -guided by voices

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 10:07 AM

You are DEFINETELY asking in the wrong place, Rod Valve....try a Rock & Roll site........*g*

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: GUEST,vince
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 01:01 PM

If you're in England - vote conservative!!

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: SDShad
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 01:54 PM

Marry MacLeod's right--crossroads is the place. Make sure it's Legba you meet, though--accept no substitutes. You might end up making a deal with Santa instead of Satan, and then where would you be?

Shad

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Mr Red
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 02:24 PM

Bat Goddess
SDShad
Crossroads is old hat......... all them BMW drivers!! Think they own the road.
I OWN THEM! Sooner than they think!!!

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Muskrat
Date: 14 Jan 02 - 02:53 AM

You could always sign up with AOL

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: English Jon
Date: 14 Jan 02 - 12:02 PM

Well we all know what happened to Benny from crossroads...

Be warned. I exchanged my immortal soul (and £50) for a hit record. Still waiting for the big-time. I'm starting to think that bloke on Deptford market wasn't really the Devil at all...

EJ

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: The Walrus at work
Date: 14 Jan 02 - 01:30 PM

First you really have to believe you have an immortal soul to trade, then you must assess its value, after all, if you don't think it's worth anything, "the other party to the deal" won't either and that should kipper the deal.

By the bye, if you are looking for a cross-roads, make sure it's one with a "hanging tree" (preferably one used by suicides) it all adds to the atmosphere (and if anyone offers you fern seeds.....).

Walrus
Ahhhhh Brimstone!

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: GUEST,does it really matter who it is from
Date: 14 Jan 02 - 02:36 PM

hey here is a new idea ! just be a rotten person! do not fear god, do not read the bible, break all the commendments! THERE U GO ONE YOUR WAY TO MAKING A ETERNAL DEAL WITH THE DEVIL ! JERK!

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: M.Ted
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 01:16 PM

This was a trick question--the real one should be, "How can I avoid making a deal with the Devil?" The answer is, "You can't."

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Mr Red
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 01:17 PM

Nah - need something a bit more er....... well eternal actually.
Masochist need not apply.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: GUEST,ghost
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 05:04 PM

Go to the tool menu, click on it, then double click "deals with" from the drop down box, then right click on "devil" and select contracts. Read over all the fine print carefully. *Tip (Use the font tool to increase text size if necessary.) When finished, click on the "I agree" button at the bottom of the screen and you're as good as toast. Say hi to RJ for me when you get there.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Steve in Idaho
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 05:34 PM

I really liked the one about sending me some money and I'll put in a bad word for you. My computer took a nose dive and it is expensive replacing it so I could use the money.

And I've broken all of the Ten Commandments - does this mean ...... Oh poop -

Steve

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: SharonA
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 05:58 PM

SDShad (re: making a deal with Santa): Hmmm.... I'd never thought about it, but since both Santa and Satan are dressed in red, one might confuse the two of them... LOL!

I suppose that selling your soul to Santa means you'll be spending eternity in his workshop, freezing at the North Pole, making toys without end, surrounded by annoying little elves, listening to piped-in Christmas music all year every year... kinda sounds like hell to me!

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Burke
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 06:06 PM

ghost, I love the click thru contract. If there isn't one somewhere on the Internet, there really ought to be.

One could read how others have done it. Faust & RJ have come up. There's always Jabez Stone as well.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Burke
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 06:14 PM

Here ya go

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 06:26 PM

The Bells of Hell go ting-a-ling-a-ling, for you but not for me. SharonA's hell reminded me of this old war song. At least I don't think old sweat shop Santa would shoot you!

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 06:45 PM

Bells of Hell

Spaw

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: GUEST,Oulmole
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 12:59 AM

I dunno exactly how the demonic Deal goes Down (so to speak); but here's one for the British Mudcatters. I remember hearing on radio in London, maybe 37 years ago (presumably the numbers would be far different today), my all-time favorite poll analysis: that a survey revealed that 80% of Britons believed in the existence of Hell, and 70% in the existence of the Devil -- "leaving [said the BBC] an intriguing 10% who believe in a Hell presided over by someone else."

Do I hear any nominations? :)

God Bless England is my Prayer, - Joe in Connecticut

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: The Walrus
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 07:14 PM

Joe in Connecticut,

"...leaving [said the BBC] an intriguing 10% who believe in a Hell presided over by someone else...."

A neo-anarco-syndicalist commune with every member taking a stint as executive officer for the week ?

Or perhaps they just believe that we are already in Hell and those that are doing really well are part of the management.

Walrus

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Jan 02 - 11:17 PM

Nominations for the top management of hell? Like I said, Conrad Black. Apologies, Barbara, but that's how I feel. Satan no longer wears red, he wears a business suit, usually in dark business-like colors.

Other ways of making a deal with the devil are to vote for any major political party just about anywhere these days...or to land a big military contract.

Another surefire way is to join any religious group that tells you that ALL the people NOT belonging to that group are going to Hell, Sheol, damnation or some other nasty fate. As methods of actually being in hell go (hell being mainly a state of mind), this one is ironclad, guarantied, and will probably get you there faster and feeling better about it than any other method known! The more exclusive and fanatical the group is, the better.

Then too, if hell were the desired destination, one could just move to Disney World...

- LH

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Rolfyboy6
Date: 17 Jan 02 - 01:45 AM

Yanni and Zamfir preside over hell on alternate weeks. Wanna make a deal with them?

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: GUEST,ghost
Date: 17 Jan 02 - 12:24 PM

Burke, LOL that was a hoot! Thanks for the giggles.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Cappuccino
Date: 17 Jan 02 - 12:45 PM

Joe in Connecticut got this Brit thinking with his phantom ten per cent.

As a Christian band, we recently recorded a John Mayall blues called 'Somebody Watching', in which he says quite clearly that his good life has been due to 'somebody watching over me'. We dropped a note to his office enquiring politely about his religious beliefs.

The strange reply said, in effect, that Mayall's song simply referred to an omnipotent power watching over him.

On reading this thread, I suddenly thought... Oh ****!!!!

- Ian B

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Dave Wynn
Date: 17 Jan 02 - 07:17 PM

Maybe I'm a bit of a simpleton but surely it would be much better making a deal with your God. He /She would probably give you a better overall deal and will usually offer guranteed results.

Saves all this crossroads and walking round oak trees backwards at midnight malarky.

Think about it.

Spot. (who always wonders if animals have souls and the offer of a place in heaven)

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Gwi
Date: 17 Jan 02 - 07:28 PM

Is that devil or deveel? I don't know where to locate the first unless it's true that the devil lives next door to the church...however for a deveel...first you have to learn how to dimension hop. Then you have to figure out how to get to the Bazaar at Deva...oh and if you think you got a ggod deal from a deveel you better count all of your fingers, toes, children, grandchildren....etc.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Gwi
Date: 17 Jan 02 - 07:28 PM

Is that devil or deveel? I don't know where to locate the first unless it's true that the devil lives next door to the church...however for a deveel...first you have to learn how to dimension hop. Then you have to figure out how to get to the Bazaar at Deva...oh and if you think you got a ggod deal from a deveel you better count all of your fingers, toes, children, grandchildren....etc.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Gwi
Date: 17 Jan 02 - 07:29 PM

Is that devil or deveel? I don't know where to locate the first unless it's true that the devil lives next door to the church...however for a deveel...first you have to learn how to dimension hop. Then you have to figure out how to get to the Bazaar at Deva...oh and if you think you got a ggod deal from a deveel you better count all of your fingers, toes, children, grandchildren....etc.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: gnu
Date: 18 Jan 02 - 06:24 AM

... and clicks !

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Burke
Date: 18 Jan 02 - 06:55 PM

All that Deevil stuff is pure MYTH.

Skeeve

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Tom French
Date: 18 Jan 02 - 07:16 PM

You've got a deal. Shake hands!!

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: GUEST,oulmole
Date: 18 Jan 02 - 09:37 PM

(aka Joe in Connecticut) Checking back after a while, this Guest is pleased to see some fine Nominations to fill the hellish Vacancy, and seconds them all. Although considering the UK heritage & vintage of my ancient BBC recollection, I had half-expected an old-crocks-like-me nominations Crossfire of (From the Right!) Harold Wilson! and (from the Left!) Maggie Thatcher! However, all named candidates are well qualified.

to Tom French (a bit nervously; what if he's not joking?): HAHAHA LOL sure, I'd shake hands on the bargain! But, uh, whadda I do about them there cloven hooves....?

to Gwi: Hm good point; maybe it IS "deveel". But me, I'll stand with Bobbie Burns: The De'il's awa' wi' th' Exciseman.

and to IanB (like I said, God Bless England): hee hee Yes indeed, what a fine circular nonanswer from John Mayall's people. Reminds me, in turn, of this one from the DT listings:

CONFUSING GRACE (Unitarian Hymn) (Dick Greenhaus)

Confusing grace, so rich, so rare Each day we live, we learn; And offer daily all our pray'r To whom it may concern!

Thanks, Mudcatters, for the good commentary. --Joe in Connecticut

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: GUEST,Paul O.
Date: 19 Jan 02 - 12:24 AM

as in that old tv show "lets make a deal" they would say are you going to take cutain no.1 or go for whats in the box? often the contestant would come out empty handed. I think it's about time we realize that anything Lucifer gives, in time will soon spoil like rotting food. The only things that last, are given by God.(ie. salvation of your soul) Mark 8:36 For what shall it profit a man,if he should gain the whole world and lose his own soul?

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Kaleea
Date: 19 Jan 02 - 12:31 AM

Can't believe that you 'catters missed the obvious! Simply ask any banjo player who has made a few CD's.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Jan 02 - 02:09 PM

Why would you want to make a deal with Number Two?

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: GUEST,annabella
Date: 19 Jan 02 - 03:13 PM

The last known appearance of the Devil was in a dance hall at Tooreen co. Mayo sometime in the fiftys. A few lines of a song goes

"there came a dark stranger or so i've heard tell who said dance with Briget come on what the hell"

Does anyone know the rest of the song or who wrote it?

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: gnu
Date: 28 Jun 11 - 06:04 PM

How did this thread get refreshed? It just appeared on my screen.... last post was in 02??? Joe?

[threads get refreshed when someone posts with no name and post is deleted and gnu responds quickly.]

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 28 Jun 11 - 06:20 PM

If you want to make a deal with the Devil, kiss the anus of a goat.

If you can bring yourself to kiss the anus of a goat for your greed then you can do any nasty, immoral thing that you need to do to get your way. So you don't really need the Devil to get what you want.

But if you want a golden fiddle then go Down to Georgia and play the fiddle really fast!

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: DrugCrazed
Date: 28 Jun 11 - 07:11 PM

Hmmm. I think Joe's been talking again...

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Jun 11 - 07:27 PM

Sheet fire... The real question is how do I un-do the deal I made with the Devil???

B~

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: DrugCrazed
Date: 28 Jun 11 - 07:30 PM

Read the fine print.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 28 Jun 11 - 07:56 PM

Two words Bobert

Danil Webster

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: gnu
Date: 28 Jun 11 - 09:52 PM

Bobert... pay up.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Jun 11 - 10:02 PM

Man, he don't want no money... He wants my soul... Heck, I already moved to NC... What more Hell can there be??? LOL... No, it ain't about money... I told him that if he would...

Oh, never the heck mind... I ain't gonna lower myself to be talkin' about this little deal...

B~

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Jun 11 - 10:05 PM

" I already moved to NC... What more Hell can there be???"

for YOU? Try Texas... on many levels. *There's even a song about it*

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: gnu
Date: 28 Jun 11 - 10:11 PM

Don't try ta weasel out by talkin bout money... you knew it was your soul when you shook his hand... pay up... and be damned.

Say... there's a blues song in there... "I'll be Damned" Bobert... ya gotta do it!

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 29 Jun 11 - 01:38 PM

Pay no attention to the naysayers, Bobert. Check out the building down in the valley that has a cross on it. You'll be okay.

Or you can look for the Lady in the blue robes. She likes music, all kinds.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 29 Jun 11 - 02:16 PM

"Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?"

First, get in touch with Dick Cheney.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 29 Jun 11 - 02:23 PM

Bobert, WV to VA to NC, each move was a step up for you. Although the suburbs of Charlotte are the armpits of this state.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 29 Jun 11 - 02:31 PM

If you really want to, you can meet the Devil, but she's very old now, and talks about when she was Prime Minister and smashed the unions.....

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 29 Jun 11 - 02:40 PM

I thought he was middle aged, fondly remembers GW Bush, and secretly became Catholic.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Jun 11 - 10:52 AM

"you knew it was your soul when you shook his hand... pay up... and be damned."


I disagree, gnu. Consider what we've heard of Bobert's life recently. Bats in the attic. Hinky appliances. Pond that doesn't hold water. I feel a good case can be made that the Devil has failed to fulfil his part of the deal, and the deal is null and void.

See the Lady in the blue robe about this, Bobert. She helps everybody, even atheists.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Stringsinger
Date: 30 Jun 11 - 07:22 PM

I think he came down to Georgia but was a guest on the Grand Ol' Opry.

You can always do lunch in Washington.

Seriously, the horny old guy doesn't really exist but the myth is pretty interesting. Comes from the Satyrs (maybe Satan comes from that), half-goat, half horny manlike creature who was in the German forest chasing maidens.

Selling your soul is like buying the Brooklyn Bridge.

You can always put it out on e-bay.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 30 Jun 11 - 07:27 PM

in the German forest

Satan is German?

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: gnu
Date: 30 Jun 11 - 09:26 PM

In the end, you can just ask her..... her tongue, it goes clickety clack (Tommy Makem... The Cobbler).

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Bobert
Date: 30 Jun 11 - 09:52 PM

"Shook hands"????

Hey, I never shook the Devil's hand!!! Does that mean that the deal was never consummated???

Sheet fire, ya'll... I think I has a loophole!!!

Ya' hear that, Mr. Devilman???

We didn't shake...

Read 'um and weep, loser!!!

B~

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Jun 11 - 10:17 PM

Bobert, I just talked with That Dude and he said you got a surprise comin', 'cause a handshake ain't part of the deal. Somethin' about Robert Johnson and you bein' in the same sort of contract and eventually you'll have to live in Manhattan or maybe Los Angeles forever and ever Amen.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 30 Jun 11 - 10:18 PM

Comes from the Satyrs (maybe Satan comes from that), half-goat, half horny manlike creature who was in the German forest chasing maidens.


I think Satan comes from the Hebrew "ha-satan" and means "the accuser". I'd guess there isn't a connection with Satyrs except perhaps in medieval artwork and popular ideas of the horny guy with a fork from that?

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Bobert
Date: 30 Jun 11 - 10:31 PM

Listen, Rap, you gotta quit watching them ol' movies... I mean, "Crossroads" got it all wrong... Robert weren't no "religious" kinda guy... Might of fact, Robert was a screw up... So, hey, he didn't believe much of anything that anyone told him... He even believed he was drenkin' good whiskey when he was being poisoned... Now the Devil would go offin' you if he had just made some deal, would he???

(He might, boberdz... After all, he is the Devil!!!

Never mind that...

Legend has it that Tommy Johnson, also a Mississippi bluesman, was the one with the pact (source: John Sinclair, former Top Ten Wanted, currently doing radio show somewhere down Losie'aner...)

Now back to said deals...

B~

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 30 Jun 11 - 11:08 PM

Hi, Jon. That is interesting about Satan meaning 'the accuser.' I can see that. He doesn't tempt you with forbidden things, he destroys your pride so you don't try to make your life worthwhile.

Bobert, ignore all those stories about Robert Johnson. They were started by people who were jealous because his playing was better than theirs. Of course, they never really practiced...

Pitifully transparent!

Rapparee: Manhattan or Los Angeles? You make my blood run cold. But wait - Manhattan, Kansas is pretty nice.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: DougR
Date: 01 Jul 11 - 08:48 PM

Try contacting our president. He could probably offer some excellent advice.

DougR

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 01 Jul 11 - 09:08 PM

Wake up Doug Van Winkle. W hasn't Been President for a couple of yrs!!

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: frogprince
Date: 01 Jul 11 - 10:43 PM

Actually Doug has something there. Obama has been forced to deal with a diabolic faction of congress ever since he was elected.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: LadyJean
Date: 02 Jul 11 - 12:06 AM

In Appalachian tradition, you stand on one hand, and put the other on the top of your head (You'll have to squat.) Then say, "Everything between these two hands belongs to Satan." I don't know if it works. I haven't tried it. I didn't believe in Satan, until I moved to my present abode. Now I'm not so sure.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 02 Jul 11 - 10:07 AM

Making a deal with the Devil is about as likely as Hell freezing over, which is now even more unlikely given the impact of global warming.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: gnu
Date: 02 Jul 11 - 12:25 PM

LadyJean... what about the other leg?

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 02 Jul 11 - 12:34 PM

On Easter Sunday, AD 33 all deals with the devil became breakable (with no prior notice and no penalties for early withdrawal) by the party of the second part.

That is, if you even believe in the devil.

In the modern world the devil gets you (if you want to believe in a devil at all), not by going after your soul, but by destroying your mind.

Last week in River City, a 22-year-old guy broke up with his girlfriend. For some reason he decided that was the end of the world. Drank a lot of vodka, got in a pick-up truck and started driving 80 to 100 mph down city streets.

Ran a stop sign and struck a vehicle with a 65-year old woman in it. She was going to her church to help do some painting. She died on the scene. His truck must have had lots of airbags, because apparently he didn't even go to the hospital. (There is no justice.)

Her seven kids and thirty grandchildren will mourn her. And who can describe the shame and regret that his own family feels? All because a 22-year-old idiot didn't have enough pride to preserve his own intelligence.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Micca
Date: 02 Jul 11 - 02:30 PM

If you need to contact the Devil one of my Ex Mothers-in-Law can put you in touch, she is his Sister!!!

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: LadyJean
Date: 02 Jul 11 - 11:20 PM

One is supposed to put one hand under both feet and the other hand on top of one's head. I don't know if it's feasible. I've never tried.

I did plat St. John's Wort in the cloven hoofprints I found in my back yard, just to be on the safe side.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 02:21 AM

Fee-foh-fum
Here I come

♉

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: goatfell
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 05:03 AM

join the tory party

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 05:41 AM

I warned you ~~~

♆♆♆

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 08:13 PM

The devil came to me to make a deal. I played dumb. The devil came back as a woman with an exam. I gave the wrong answer on purpose. The devil came back a third time and said that my life would go downhill if I said no to him again and that his will always be the higher road.

I said no.

The devil shot me with a microwave beam weapon. From the floor I could see that he had opened the safe and taken his exam back.
The punishment continued from four different corners of his domain, Religion, Beauracracy, Banks and Media.

Most would have said, if you can't beat em join em. I did not, yet I still have the talents that he wanted in the first place. The only difference is that other people distorted and perverted those talents for the devil instead of me, and that is why we are where we are today.

Not enough people said no.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 08:26 PM

Donuel-

My mother's nursemaid Ella Madison used to sing her this version of a battle with Ole Satan:

Fight Wid Ole Satan

(From singing of Ella Robinson Madison in early 1920's as remembered from Dahlov Ipcar and as collected by Winifred (Wendy) Holt)

I had a fight wid ole Satan de odder night,
As I lay half awake;
Ole Satan, he come to my bedside
An' me he began to shake;
He shook me long an' he shook me strong,
He shook me plumb outa bed;
He done grab me by de collar and he looks me in the face,
An' whaddaya reckon he said?

"Whad he say, Aunt Jane?
Whad he say?"

"All de gole in de mountain,
All de silber in de mine,
Shall all belong to you, Aunt Jane,
If you will only be mine."
He led me to de winder an' the sight was dark
An' de moon was shinin' bright;
De hills an' the mountains all aroun'
Lay terror to my sight;
He said, "All des t'ings will be yours while you live
If you will be my general when you die."
But I look ole Satan right plumb in de eye
An' whaddaya t'ink I said?

"Whaddaya say, Aunt Jane?
Whaddaya say?"

"Getcha gone, ole Satan!
Don't you ever come 'round here again;
You might fool a white man wid dat tale
But you can't fool yo' ole Aunt Jane;
Live humble, humble youself,
I got glory an' honour, praise Jesus!"

You are not alone!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 09:42 PM

Charlie, you were lucky to have such a friend.

If only people realized that their choices that their choices are as monumental as the choices of the 56 [eople who sigbed the Declaration of Independence.

They chose by pledging their lives, their fortune and their sacred honor.

Apply those standards to your choices and you will be saying yes to something of lasting value and virtue.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 09:18 AM

Thanks for the song, Charley.

Subject: RE: Help: How can i make a deal with the devil?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 04 Jul 11 - 09:26 AM

Leeneia and Donuel-

I never got to hear Ella Madison sing but thousands did when she won a singing part in the first production of Porgy (later named Porgy & Bess) in 1929.

"West Indies Blues" is another of her songs that I do sing and have recorded.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble