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safeinOhio

(38,063 posts) Mon Apr 16, 2018, 11:54 AM Apr 2018

CHURCH ORGANIST SUSPENDED AFTER PLAYING STAYIN ALIVE AT EASTER SUNDAY SERVICE

http://christianfunnypictures.com/2016/11/church-organist-suspended-playing-stayin-alive-easter-sunday-service.html

From the Head Office of the Royal College of Organists, Bishop George Piper, said this at a press conference held on Tuesday:
“For the last 16 years organist Mr Ross Stanhope has provided spiritually uplifting music to worshippers at St Albans Cathedral, Chicago, Illinois. It is therefore with great sadness that I inform you that he has been suspended pending further investigation and advice. There is now clear evidence that tends to prove he has strayed from musical orthodoxy by playing a short organ flourish of ‘Stayin’ Alive’ in the middle of one of the Easter hymns at a recent service”

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CHURCH ORGANIST SUSPENDED AFTER PLAYING STAYIN ALIVE AT EASTER SUNDAY SERVICE (Original Post) safeinOhio Apr 2018 OP

Phew, thank GOD the important shit is being addressed in this day and age, eh! Eliot Rosewater Apr 2018 #1

It's a joke. The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2018 #4

That is funny Sanity Claws Apr 2018 #2

In these troubled times, "Stayin' Alive" is an expression of hope. Girard442 Apr 2018 #3

on a related note, if you ever have to give cpr, remember "stayin' alive" unblock Apr 2018 #5

Next you're gonna tell me Jesus can't dance Docreed2003 Apr 2018 #6

After all, it was April FOOL'S day!....... n-t Ernesto Apr 2018 #7

I do know of one organist who was playing Pachelbel's Canon Fortinbras Armstrong Apr 2018 #8

I would have excommunicated the organist. guillaumeb Apr 2018 #9

Eliot Rosewater

(34,296 posts)

1. Phew, thank GOD the important shit is being addressed in this day and age, eh!

Reply to safeinOhio (Original post)

Mon Apr 16, 2018, 11:55 AM

Apr 2018

The Velveteen Ocelot

(131,261 posts)

4. It's a joke.

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 16, 2018, 11:59 AM

Apr 2018

Sanity Claws

(22,440 posts)

2. That is funny

Reply to safeinOhio (Original post)

Mon Apr 16, 2018, 11:56 AM

Apr 2018

Sacrilegious but funny.

Girard442

(6,921 posts)

3. In these troubled times, "Stayin' Alive" is an expression of hope.

Reply to safeinOhio (Original post)

Mon Apr 16, 2018, 11:58 AM

Apr 2018

Something we all want to do as long as possible.

unblock

(56,265 posts)

5. on a related note, if you ever have to give cpr, remember "stayin' alive"

Reply to safeinOhio (Original post)

Mon Apr 16, 2018, 12:10 PM

Apr 2018

it has a nearly perfect beat for the rate at which you're supposed to do chest compressions.

Docreed2003

(18,714 posts)

6. Next you're gonna tell me Jesus can't dance

Reply to safeinOhio (Original post)

Mon Apr 16, 2018, 12:55 PM

Apr 2018

Ernesto

(5,077 posts)

7. After all, it was April FOOL'S day!....... n-t

Reply to safeinOhio (Original post)

Mon Apr 16, 2018, 01:47 PM

Apr 2018

Fortinbras Armstrong

(4,477 posts)

8. I do know of one organist who was playing Pachelbel's Canon

Reply to safeinOhio (Original post)

Mon Apr 16, 2018, 02:48 PM

Apr 2018

As a processional, and her mind started wandering, until she realized that she was playing Blues Traveler's "Hook", which has a very similar chord structure.

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guillaumeb

(42,649 posts)

9. I would have excommunicated the organist.

Reply to safeinOhio (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 10:18 AM

Apr 2018

I hate that song.

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