UPDATE: Spotted this video linked at Nice Deb:

Cute video of the best kind of bird ever made!

This is the funniest thing I ever got in an e-mail. It’s a real e-mail exchange.

It starts like this:

From: Jane Gilles
Date: Wednesday 8 Oct 2008 12.19pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Overdue account

Dear David,
Our records indicate that your account is overdue by the amount of $233.95. If you have already made this payment please contact us within the next 7 days to confirm payment has been applied to your account and is no longer outstanding.

Yours sincerely, Jane Gilles

Click here for the rest of the exchange.

Second, here is a catchy tune for you to brighten your day from IMAO.us: (H/T Free Canuckistan)

And our weekly lesson in capitalism also from IMAO.us. (You have to click through to see the video)

Happy Friday!

UPDATE: I noticed that Dawn Eden had posted a serious post by Catholic Mark Shea about the different ways that Catholics and Evangelicals talk. Evangelicals are masculine and Catholics are feminine. Everybody knows that!

It’s funny to hear Catholics described like this, but it’s so true:

Similarly, Catholics should not dismiss Evangelicalism as simplistic chatter merely because Evangelicals tend to be more verbal about their faith. There is nothing noble or spiritual about the common lay Catholic’s inability to be always ready to give an account of the hope within us (cf. 1 Pet. 3:15).

But we Evangelicals also get whacked:

[1] Back in my Evangelical days, I saw a cartoon in The Wittenburg Door featuring an earnest Evangelical hunched over in prayer with eyes clamped shut, pleading, “Oh Lord, I just really worship you and I just really want to come before you and just really pray that you would just really take the words just and really out of my prayer vocabulary.” Not all spontaneous prayer is up to the glory of the task, and there is much wisdom in Catholics using the great and poetic prayers of the saints as their own.

It’s funny because it’s true!