Month: December 2003

Unitarian Universalist Jokes

I was raised a UU, and even in 2nd grade I needed to come up with a quick summary of what UU’s believe, so I started telling friends it Unitarianism was like believing all the religions rolled into one. That seemed sufficient, most kids what stop asking questions at that point. Even now when discussing any religions with friends I use my updated version, “I was raised a Unitarian so i’m equally ignorant of all religions'”

As part of my ongoing quest to try to figure out what it is that I do believe, and what it means to be a UU, I have been collecting UU jokes over the years from e-mails, newsgroups and now websites. I’ve had a page on my website with these for years, I just figure it’s time to move that part of my site in here. I also edited it and added a few new ones that I’ve heard in the past few years.

There are lots more UU jokes out there now, in fact there are several websites that have more UU jokes.

http://stoney.sb.org/uujokes.html
http://www.huuweb.org/Sermons/UUjokes.html
http://www.firstunitariantoronto.org/uu_humour.htm?

Below is a longer list of UU jokes that I’ve found amusing, but I’ll post my favorite one that I first heard while going to YRUU conferences in the NY Metro district ’83-’87:

How many UUs does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
None. They screw in sleeping bags in the Church basement.
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Radio Thoughts

For those of you who don’t know, I do a monthly “folk” radio show on WERU FM up here (sorry, no streaming yet, working on that). I’m at the station as I write this, ripping mp3’s off new stuff and cool stuff from the library while a mix of songs I’ve ripped from here and my library in the past (now at 11000 whoo hoo) is playing in the studio (now playing ‘Dar Williams – Christians & the Pagans‘.

It’s a strange thing being a DJ. Last night I was listening to a musician I like, Jamie Anderson live on KXCI in Tucson, AZ (they are streaming, I’m jealous) she mentioned that being a DJ is a very selfish thing, very attention seeking. Deja vu to my earlier post about web pages and journals being ‘look at me’ type things.

But again, is that what being a DJ is all about? I hardly like to talk on the air, so I’d like to think it’s not about me, it’s about the music. But then again, it’s me picking the music, it’s me foisting my opinion of what’s good music on the unsuspecting public listeners. What’s my reason for doing this?

Hmmm…