Reply #16: Actually, I have a lot of fun here

[TlalocW]

I'm a computer programmer, but I do entertaining (magic, balloons, juggling) on the side, and you cannot believe how freaked out certain church-goers will get over certain magic tricks. I had one woman believing I had real psychic (contradiction in terms) powers and implied I was of the devil. :)

Another time, I needed some small manilla envelopes for a trick I wanted to do. I went to a Christian stationary store (Mardel's) to get them because they're used to put donations in at various churches, and I figured they would have them. I asked for help in finding them, and a saleslady took me to where they were and asked me what I needed them for (probably thought I was a youth minister or something), and without thinking, I told her, "A magic trick." I saw her visibly flinch, so I figured, oh, what the hell and told her, "Yeah, it's really cool. I pull five cards, a poker chip, and a five dollar bill from the envelope and then have someone place the poker chip in front of whichever card they want, and I bet them the five that I'll be right, and of course I am." She quickly got away from me as fast as she could as I was going to use Christian goods to perform evil involving psychic powers and gambling. I should have worked in, "Oh, and I'm drunk and naked when I do it."

As bad as Oral Roberts is, Rhema (in Broken Arrow - a suburb) can be just as bad. The joke is that Rhema pisses off everyone for 11 months out of the year then makes up for it at Christmas by stringing up over a million lights on the campus for people to walk around and look at for free.

TlalocW