Francis Schaeffer Test

Here's another one of those tests I ran across on the world wide web---take it and record your scores!

Are you Francis Schaeffer? Take this quick test to find out!

1. When you are invited to someone's home and see a nice tea set with cups arranged on the table, you would most likely say:

A. Oh, what a nice tea set.

B. My grandmother had a set like that.

C. Give me some tea!

D. Smash the phonograph!

"C" is the correct answer. If you answered "D" you may also be Francis Schaeffer in a different "plane of being."

2. Your house is most likely:

A. Ranch style.

B. English tudor.

C. Swiss chalet with an "upper storey" and a "lower storey."

D. One with no frames whatsoever.

Once again, "C" is the proper answer. Of course, if you answered "D" you may be Mondrian.

3. Your idea of a great vacation is:

A. Hiking in the Grand Canyon.

B. Diving and snorkeling off the coast of Hawaii.

C. Going on a Mediterranean cruise with an atheist and asking him if his wife is "really there."

D. Playing golf with Billy Graham and Wayne Alderson.

Finally, "C" is the correct response. If you answered "D", you may well be R.C. Sproul.

That's all! Editor's note: there were only 3 questions because any more would constitute a "final experience".

Additional editor's note: The above may be fairly incomprehensible to those unfamiliar with the writings of the late Dr. Schaeffer, who was seriously one of the greatest Christian apologists of the 20th Century.

Top 20 List of Phobias

For what it's worth, here is the official list of the top 20 phobias reported to be suffered by Americans as listed in Zagat's Science Digest:

1. Acrophobia- Fear of Height
2. Adreiaphobia- Fear of Width
3. Claustrophobia- Fear of Closed Spaces
4. Ocarophobia- Fear of Open Spaces
5. Egrephobia- Fear of Slightly Ajar Spaces
6. Agoraphobia- Fear of the Marketplace
7. Gastragophobia- Fear of the Winn-Dixie*
8. Arachnophobia- Fear of Spiders
9. Rooseveltophobia- Fear of Fear Itself
10. Mortaphobia- Fear of Death
11. Vocabiphobia- Fear of Public Speaking
12. Mortavocabiphobia- Fear of Giving the Eulogy
13. Aerophobia- Fear of Flying
14. Aeroflotiphobia- Fear of Crashing
15. Bellaphobia- Fear of War
16. Pacephobia- Fear of Peace
17. Tolstoyiphobia- Fear of War and Peace
18. Xenophobia- Fear of Foreigners
19. Classicrockophobia- Fear of Foreigner
20. Compulsophobia- Fear of Not Completing a "Top 20" List

*-listed as Fear of the Safeway in states outside of the Southern U.S.

I realize that there may be much disagreement with this list, some of it vehement, but email your complaints to Zagats and not to me.

"I used to know a dyslexic with delusions of grandeur who went around telling everyone that he was Leon Pano."-Anon.

Solving the Energy Crunch

Although gasoline prices have sort of stabilized a bit in the past week or so, the cost of filling one's tank is still putting a huge dent in the wallet. I agree with the view that gives credence to both consumptive conservation, both individual and corporate, as well as additional drilling for oil in and around our great country with its vast resources, much of which is of yet untapped. It's obvious that we cannot continue to rely upon the crumbs which OPEC tosses to us.

Current technological approaches to the solution through hybrid fuel vehicles, various types of hybrid fuels (sugarcane probably better than corn, etc.) and improved combustion engines which get many more miles to the gallon than is usual in most vehicles, are encouraging though. I share Reagan's optimism as to the caliber of our American brainpower (as given through God's grace of course)

Let's just hope the fuel situation does not approach levels of wartime Britian when even members of the professional class in affluent Whitehall in London were forced to find alternative means of transportation for commute to their places of employment.

Welcome to my Weblog.

I created this weblog purely by accident, but I've always enjoyed commenting on others' blogs so I'll try my hand at my own. I hope to post some interesting things here from time to time, while also trying to figure out how to technically maintain this weblog and refrain from embarrassing myself. I'll also probably change the font and other things from time to time because I haven't yet figured out how to actually edit a post without deleting it in its entirety.