Such a respectable hobby
I used to do bellringing, the only two people I knew in the same group were a friend from school and her friend M who was by far the worst influence I had at that age (about 13). There were a few more ringers than bells so for each...tune? I forget what they're called? a couple of people had to sit out. We had access to the main church to take a seat on the pews as there wasn't much room in the bellringing room.

M decided she wanted a snack. So she broke into the communion cupboard and we snacked on the wafers and wine.

Then she washed the wafer crumbs off her hands and dried them on the altar cloth.
(GothicTechie, Sat 3 Sep 2011, 12:32, 7 replies)

Surely, after all that drinking
She needed to use the urinal.
(speedevil, Sat 3 Sep 2011, 13:03, closed)

Did she wash her hands with regular water or holy water?
(MC Toffeehammer, Sat 3 Sep 2011, 14:32, closed)

Sadly I think it was regular water as that would have been the icing on the cake (or maybe the marzipan given the altar cloth thing). In fact washing her hands at all might be me remembering it wrong and she just wiped off the crumbs on the altar cloth. Mind you, had we broken into the holy water as well God might have just thought that was the last straw and lightning bolted us rather than just waiting for us to die of natural causes before the everlasting hell.

Also that would have been the first time I took communion in any sense. All times since then have been only slightly more legitimate as they involved not mentioning that I'm not actually eligible for it.
(GothicTechie, Sat 3 Sep 2011, 21:21, closed)

I suspect drinking holy water might hurry along the natural causes
Back in my churchgoing days the priest was very proud of the water that he'd had sent over from the River Jordan. I wouldn't have drunk it for a pension.
(richardm, Tue 6 Sep 2011, 12:14, closed)

campanologists
www.thefreedictionary.com/campanologists
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sat 3 Sep 2011, 16:30, closed)

If you call someone "as gay as a bellringer"
is it a camp analogy?
( wynoh kills threads by his mere presence, Sun 4 Sep 2011, 10:54, closed)

Except that's a simile
Sorry, couldn't resist, in fact it's a good gag. Kudos.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 5 Sep 2011, 9:19, closed)