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12.23.2008
Blurbs
    Here’s the latest list of blurbs submitted by Lingamish readers. If the total gets to 100 before January 1, 2009, I made a foolish vow to read the REB version of the Bible from cover to cover in 2009.
  1. David Ker is biblioblogdom’s Erma Bombeck! (Esteban Vázquez)
  2. Lingamish is the hippoest blog in the bibliopotomusphere! (James McGrath)
  3. David Ker? Who the devil is that? (Jim West)
  4. Lingamish, you are shameless–you know that, don’t you? (thainamu)
  5. Lingamish is the most provocative blog in the multiverse!(Peter Kirk)
  6. Reading Lingamish makes me want to wallow in a wadi of words! (ElShaddai Edwards)
  7. I came to Lingamish for the insight, but I stayed for the hippo pictures (and vice versa). (Will Fitzgerald)
  8. Lingamish, you are my Velvet Elvis, my Blue Like Jazz, and my Why Men Hate Going To Church, all wrapped up in one. You drive me back to my Bible every time I read your blog. (Lingamish’s Dad)
  9. Lingamish: Three years of blogging and no Apocalypse yet. (Chuck Grantham)
  10. “Lingamish is a must-read for all who love each other, hate each other, or simply co-exist. Don’t leave home without it.” (Damian)
  11. Lingamish is the leviathan of biblical blogs. (Job 41:1)
    “Can you pull in the leviathan with a fishhook or tie down his tongue with a rope?) (Rudy)
  12. Thanks to David Ker’s blog…the bug zapper light in the jungle of biblical blogs. (Rudy) n
  13. Lingamish: There aren’t 100 readers so the 20 of us who do are obliged to write 5 blurbs each. (Jim West)
  14. Lingamish: The one advantage of reading David’s blog is that it keeps one from eating too much. (Jim West)
  15. Lingamish makes toffee-nosed blogging seem almost normal…sometimes. (Tim Bulkeley)
  16. Lingamish is almost always stimulating and never (or at least not too often) really silly. (Tim Bulkeley)
  17. Lingamish makes coffee seem lace collared. (Tim Bulkeley)
  18. I know how much weight you’ve gained in five months. (B)
  19. Lingamish the only blog whose writer gains weight at the expense of his readers. (Tim Bulkeley)
  20. Lingamish the only sharp, witty and profound biblioblog NOT to properly appreciate the REB. (Tim Bulkeley)
  21. Lingamish: He’s not N.T. Wrong. Probably. (Chuck Grantham)
  22. Thanks to Lingamish, I only have 1435 minutes a day to kill. (Chuck Grantham)
  23. Lingamish, always Wrong but never NT. (Peter Kirk)
  24. Lingamish, always NT (or OT) but never Wrong. (Peter Kirk)
  25. Lingamish makes bombastic Bible bashing seem boring. (ElShaddai Edwards)
  26. Read Lingamish because has the courage to admit he hates slogging through the original Biblical languages as much as you secretly do! (Chuck Grantham)
  27. Lingamish is the peanut M & Ms of biblioblogging. (Chuck Grantham)
  28. Lingamish is the lentil soup of the Internet. You know it’s good for you, but you’re not exactly sure why… (ElShaddai Edwards)
  29. Lingamish: Closing Comments And Redirecting Readers Since 2008. (Jim West)
  30. Lingamish: Home of the pasty pale white African biblioblogger. (Jim West)
  31. David Ker: Biblioblogdom’s Paula Abdul. (Jim West)
  32. Lingamish is the only blogger in the universe who knows how to turn his own new year’s bible reading resolution into a daring public-vow dare and get technorati ratings out of it to boot. (J. K. Gayle)
  33. In Lingamish’s own words: “my keen Biblical insights have caused the scales” (J. K. Gayle)
  34. Another Lingamish self-referential quotation: “mythical status as a missionary cut” (J. K. Gayle)
  35. Then there’s Lingamish’s own confessions: “I’m beginning to think” followed by the nearly comprehendible “I made a foolish” (J. K. Gayle)
  36. Lingamish, my favorite blogger. (J. K. Gayle)
  37. Lingamish is uh – a mixture of Sanskrit and Hebrew – a curious name. (Bob MacDonald)
  38. There’s something wrong with David. (Miss Wilson (David’s first-grade teacher))
  39. Lingamish is the whipped cream to my mocha (Cameron)
  40. “The whole point of Lingamish is to decide who burns at the stake.”* (Damian) [Ed. note: This is in reference to a statement I once made about theology: The whole point of creeds is to decide who gets burned at the stake.]
  41. Lingamish is gonna get biblical on yo’ donkey*. (Damian) [Ed. note: For the background on this censored blurb, see the comments.]
  42. Fact: Lingamish loves hippopotami. Why? There was a hippopotamus in the stable with the baby Jesus. (Damian)
  43. Nobody need ever read a commentary again: Lingamish is here! (Damian)
  44. Lingamish: speaks more wisdom than Balaam’s … animal. (Peter Kirk)
  45. Lingamish: serving collared greens to lace collars for over three years. (ElShaddai Edwards)
  46. Lingamish is the Radar O’Reilly of the 4077th Natural English Bible Unit. (ElShaddai Edwards)
  47. Lingamish: an American in Africa who lives in Hippoland. (jane)
  48. Lingamish-would be bloggy perfection if it only had cat pictures. (nora)
  49. David Ker: the Bishop Nazir-Ali of Mozambique. (Peter Kirk)
  50. Lingamish: Chastising hippo-potty-mouths in biblioblogdom. (James)
  51. Before I began reading David Ker’s blog I was a good man. But after only a short time of reading Lingamish’s execrable drivel, my life began to change. Now I’m a wretch, t
    hanks to David’s help. ((Esteban Vázquez)
  52. David Ker is the Asaph of Biblioblogging (agathos)
  53. David is the sort of person who writes for others – you can always tell the others by their haunted expression! (agathos)
  54. Before I began reading David Ker’s blog I was annoying. But after only a short time of reading Lingamish’s high minded scribblings, my life began to change. Now I’m an unknown celebrity thanks to David’s help. (Scripture Zealot)
  55. To blurb or not to blurb, that is the question;
    Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
    The slings and arrows of outrageous bloggers,
    Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
    And by opposing, end them. (Ruth Hubbard)
  56. TNIV @ Amazon.com: $14.99
    Gallon of gas in Orlando: $1.57
    Pez Hippo on Stripe BonBons Card on eBay: $4.95
    Lingamish: PRICELESS (Ruth Hubbard)