Comments on: On the Dangers of Seminary (Pt. 4): The Danger of Becoming a Dork

By: Nathan Finn

Nathan Finn — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:55:50 +0000

Dawson Jarrell cannot be trusted.

By: Dawson Jarrell

Dawson Jarrell — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:04:34 +0000

Love IT – And realize I too have some dork in me

Further as someone who enjoyed a dorm room across the hall from the emanate Nathan Finn, I for a fact can attest to him at one time owning a camouflage baseball cap.

By: Bruce Ashford

Bruce Ashford — Thu, 28 May 2009 01:24:19 +0000

Alvin, I second everything you said, especially the shot at JD. I was going to mention you and JD in the post, but I figured I’d need an entire post devoted you guys alone. Also, I’d be careful throwing around the word “metrosexual” if I were you. Nathan Akin and Tanner Turley are probably more than a little bit offended.

By: Alvin Reid

Alvin Reid — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:19:42 +0000

I have spent plenty of time around dorks. My brother, with a PhD in inorganic chemistry and a penchant for lab coats and such, has been my role model for decades. Maybe that explains why I love snakes.

If you cannot turn a wrench, cannot tell Briggs and Stratton from Smith and Wesson, you are either a dork or a metrosexual, or both which is worse. I suppose if you put product in your hair you are merely a metrosexual, which would be another whole post written by someone else (JD maybe? JUST KIDDING). On the other hand, if you do not own good Baxter (the book, not NAF’s son) or have at least one decent set of commentaries and are a minister, you could be a bumpkin or even worse, a redneck.

But if you can swing a sling blade and work a slingbox, can hit a knee to talk to a child and yet parse the aorist, and can discuss both American Eagle and American history, you may make a pretty good minister.

Now after reading all this I am going outside to grab my posthole diggers and do me some manwork.

Well, and some gloves :-).

By: Dougald McLaurin III

Dougald McLaurin III — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:49:00 +0000

Dr. Ashford,

I don’t own a TV. But I do own Netflix. And, I do watch the office when its out on DVD. :)

By: Bruce Ashford

Bruce Ashford — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:34:19 +0000

Betsy, it wasn’t difficult to impress my 11-year old sister was it? :-)

Big J, I don’t appreciate you using my blog to commence a drive by shooting, aimed at my purchase of a Thai suit FIFTEEN YEARS AGO!

By: Big J

Big J — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:29:44 +0000

Bruce,
I had to Google both seersucker AND Dwight Schrute. So does that earn me a net zero in dorkiness points or what?

I’ve never owned a seersucker…or a “saran wrap” skin-tight custom-made silk suit from Thailand, for that matter.

In my opinion, Nathan has made dorkiness the new cool. You’re my hero, Nathan.

Jason, I know where you live…AND that you too spend your free time reading the dictionary.

Big J

By: Elizabeth Ashford

Elizabeth Ashford — Mon, 25 May 2009 15:52:50 +0000

Don’t be so hard on yourself, I thought you looked pretty cool back then, and you def. had a loyal following of all of my 11-year-old friends who thought you looked hot!

By: kschaub

kschaub — Mon, 25 May 2009 02:11:26 +0000

Searsucker suit?! Didn’t even know what that was till now!

Kevin Schaub

By: Bruce Ashford

Bruce Ashford — Sun, 24 May 2009 21:31:57 +0000

Ryan, lawnmowers do need oil changed regularly, right? :-)

Steve, that is a great point and ripe for an entire post of its own. the Christian music I appreciate the most is not a knock off, but rather the result of a Christian musician’s theologically sound and musically appropriate creativity. Keith and Kristin Getty, for example.