Feb
16
2010
Ah Yes, that Famous American Colloquialism . . .
I happened to glance today at the Wikipedia entry for Jonathan Edwards, and it contains this line (which will likely be removed soon enough):
His sermons such as “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” inspired his parishioners to coin what has now become an American colloquialism: “Ain’t no sermons like a J. Edwards sermon, ’cause dem J. Edwards sermon don’ stop.”
Indeed. If I had a dime for every time I heard that famous phrase—well, I’d still be broke!
18 Comments
That’s just awesome. We need to put that up on Urban Dictionary.
Ah, Wikipedia, the always-accurate source of information. I had a friend who a certain town named after a chocolate confection in Kentucky and posted it to Wikipedia. It’s still there. Like, three years later.
Heh – at one point, my college friends and I made a disambiguation page for “Ramen” arguing that the noodly snack also doubled as an obscure currency roughly equivalent to $0.18 U.S. dollars.
Andy, that’s pure gold!
Posted this on my 18-year-old’s Facebook wall! Brilliant!
Hilarious! Got me bobbin’ my head! :-)
Well, it is gone now. But it did last a full 15 hours according to the page log!
Proving yet once more that Michael Scott is a visionary genius:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFBDn5PiL00
Funny.
I’m not American (though I desire to be). Is that really an American colloquialism?
I’ve never heard it before. Most Americans wouldn’t know who Edwards is anyway.
No this is not at american colloquialism, someone with too much time on their hands decided to post this on Wiki as a joke. This phrase is acutally taken from some rap song in the 90′s i think.
Props to my brother, Trevor, for this one… he was the mastermind behind it all… this was the result of a day of “fun” we had with wikipedia, and his is the only one that survived at least a day…
hopefully some more good ones to come?
- Aaron
yes, or “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” set to rap music. you never know quite what to expect with trevor…
Yeah, Northhampton was bumpin hip hop music left and right during the 1700′s. They probably had a great breakdance scene going then too. Those were the days.
Aaron and Susan…do I have to keep my eyes on you? Truly, I think that Edwards had a Reggae thing going…set to the sound of “Don’t Worry, Be Happy!” but the words are in stead…
“Your Like a Spider on a thread…
Held over a fire and you’ll be dead…
You better worry…
I’m angry…”
How very ture!
“Just check Wikipedia, and if you don’t like it you can always change it”- famous cartoon satire