2 BZ 4 church? No problem: thanks to cell phone “Short Message Service”,
church can come to you. To help, a religious group has “translated” the
Lord's Prayer into SMS shorthand. “Our Father, who art in heaven” is
delivered as “dad@hvn” while “hallowed be thy name” becomes “urspshl.”
The entire prayer fits the SMS limit of 160 characters—with 3 to spare.
The group's spokesman says the prayer is “an experimental form of virtual
worship.” (London Times) … Which is pretty much what all prayer
is.
Via my dog
wants to be on the radio,
Lt Us
Pra!
The English translation of the SMS translation of the King James translation
of the Lord's Prayer reads
like a Pigdin English as used by Aboriginees and Cargo Cults. Very strange
stuff indeed.
Spring moved her
van due to the impending towing the
Condo Commandos have threatened.
Bastards!
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