Saturday, February 17, 2007

Boyd Quiz

What is Samuel Boyd's middle name?

7 comments:

JD said...

bar? Shmuel bar Boyd? Or maybe Smuel brei deRabbi Boyd? something like that?

A Sojourner said...

It's a trick question - he has no middle name. In fact, his original name was just one word that consisted of 0 letters. Yeah, only Sam could pull that off. He took on a surname only to distinguish himself from such imposters as Madonna, Cher, and Prince.

Greg said...

i don;t know the answer, but i'm so glad i found this site...
such a huge fan!

JD said...

I know, his middle name is Samuel. That's right, one time his parents accidentally ran his birth certificate through the wash and the first word was erased, leaving only _____ Samuel Boyd. So they decided just to start calling him Samuel because everyone knows how big a pain it is to get a new birth certificate.

JD said...

And Mark: how is that bad? When I had him, Tipton did Gaffin better than Gaffin did Gaffin. And he'd always tell you when you went from point a to point b, unlike Gaffin who'd start at a and suddenly you were at 2d and didn't know how you got there.

Unknown said...

JD:

Exactly my point! The curse would be having Tipton lectures without the highly detailed outlines.

For the unitiated, who have never experienced the level of detail in a Lane Tipton outline, I reproduce here an actual (I am not making this up!) example:

I.A.1. This is an extremely helpful way of communicating the full redemptive-historical, biblical-theological and systematic implications of the Communicatio Idiomatum.

I.A.2. Let me now explain how this is an extremely helpful way of communicating the full redemptive-historical, biblical-theological and systematic implications of the Communicatio Idiomatum.

I.A.3. This is an extremely helpful way of communicating the full redemptive-historical, biblical-theological and systematic implications of the Communicatio Idiomatum in at least three aspects...

Unknown said...

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