I laughed when I read "Blessed Assurance"! Did you drawwwwwww ouuuutttt the second "This ---- is --- my --- story"?

In Wales, the annual week-long August National Eisteddfod (competitive festival) culminates in a Gymanfa Ganu (Singing / Hymn session) with about 2000 voices, and it's broadcast live, so it's a Big Deal to us. A few years ago they did Blessed Assurance and the Conductor drove home the fact that the congregation WOULD remember to watch him on that phrase and they WOULD remember to halve the tempo because they knew and he knew that if they didn't then Sods Law was that the TV camera would be on THEM when THEY screwed up. OK - maybe he didn't use quite those terms, but he put the fear of the Lord into them anyway. Got a big laugh, too.

Bigger laugh from me as the camera happened to hit on a friend of mine who claims she can't sing worth a hill o' beans ... but she put on a great mime act!

Oh, and Whispering Hope! << big sigh >>

sian