Ramblings On - The Color Purple
(And I don’t mean the book)
by Betty Van Volkenburg, Publisher
At a Bible study class last week our Rector casually asked us why we used Purple in Advent. I think he was as surprised as we were when no one could remember why – we were just used to the color being there and had long since forgotten the reason we had learned in our distant youth.

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** The Young Ventriloquist **

A young ventriloquist is touring the clubs and stops to entertain at a bar in a small town.

He's going through his usual run of silly blonde jokes when a big blonde woman in the fourth row stands on her chair and says, "OK jerk, I've heard just about enough of your denigrating blonde jokes. What makes you think you can stereotype women that way?

What do a person's physical attributes have to do with their worth as a human being? It's guys like you who keep women like me from being respected at work and in my community, of reaching my full potential as a person...because you and your kind continue to perpetuate discrimination against not only blondes but women at large...all in the name of humor."

Flustered, the ventriloquist begins to apologize, when the blonde pipes up, "You stay out of this mister, I'm talking to that little bastard on your knee!"

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