By: Danny Jansen Youth Development Major
Alright, we’re all guilty of it, myself extremely included, of reusing a joke or a funny story until it’s almost too much. But I am officially calling out the lack of humor and over-indulgent use of the “Bedside Assembly” joke. We all know that college students are really busy, and that at North Central we are encouraged to ‘get plugged in’ at a local church, but do we really need to regurgitate this same old hack every week?
I admit that the first time I heard mention of “Pastor Pillow” and “Sister Sheets” I giggled, you could almost consider it a chuckle, but really people, it’s had a long and plentiful life and wants to die happy and alone.
It is reasonable to understand that we have fallen prey to the glory of a good laugh and that sometimes a situation almost begs for a specific joke. But we are all adults here, you don’t need a reason to skip church, and now you have no reason to believe that the use of the “Bedside Assembly” joke is ever going to be called for again. As of today its reign over the Sunday afternoon Clay Commons conversation is officially finished. Anyone seen or heard using this joke will be put on ‘social probation’ and sentenced to 3 hours in the prayer lounge on their respective floor to think about their heinous crime. (But probably only be coming up with a new joke that will be funny at first and just get more and more repulsive every time it rings through my consciousness.)
Since we are on this subject there shall also be no more use of sexual innuendos that contain the phrases “laying on hands”, “speaking in tongues”, or “anointing with oil.” And if I hear one more freshmen girl turn my offer for a movie down because “Jesus is her boyfriend”, I might commandeer “Sister Sheets” from the church and see if she wants a job at the gallows.
