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November 15th, 2010

Embarrassing incidents cartoon

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I have updated my We Blog Cartoons website for the first time in quite a while with this diagram, entitled Embarrassing incidents. We Blog Cartoons is my site with cartoons that you can repost for free on your personal weblog. For print rights and suchlike please contact me.

This diagram was drawn for those who, like me, squirm continually at the thought of the things they have said and done and then regretted.

In my mind I’m beginning to compile a liturgy for the healing of embarrassing incidents. Examples would be read out, and then the congregation would respond with ‘Dear me, that is embarrassing!’ or other appropriate words. I’ve not got far with it as you can tell. If it turns out to be any good I’ll submit it to the people at Common Worship and see what happens. Or I might take it along to Synod, loiter in the corridors and see whether I can get any bishops to endorse it. To tell the truth I haven’t really looked into how one goes about these things.

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9 Responses to “Embarrassing incidents cartoon”


  1. Phil Ruse says:

    I just wish there was a carpet & brush for those memories I have no wish to remember!

    November 15th, 2010 at 11:17 am
  2. Nicola says:

    Straying into the world of the confessional…

    November 15th, 2010 at 12:08 pm
  3. Kathryn says:

    I love the liturgy but wonder if people might be too embarrassed to read out their stories; could we have a variation with more general categories, like your diagram?

    “At all the times we have had a bit too much to drink and said something really stupid that we don’t quite remember clearly the next day….We are not alone” or something along those lines…

    November 15th, 2010 at 12:27 pm
  4. chris clark says:

    The liturgy could be as they say in computer speak “recursive” as for some us the embarrassing moments are whilst conducting liturgy…you know wrong name at funeral/wedding, completely losing one’s place..

    November 15th, 2010 at 12:49 pm
  5. Sarah B says:

    I think the forgotten names section should be much bigger!!

    Bishop Stephen Cotterell talked to our diocese about an amnesty on our prayer lives – He might be interested in your embarrassment liturgy!

    November 15th, 2010 at 1:15 pm
  6. Dave says:

    Kathryn – I think you are right. I’ve not had much experience at writing liturgy, as may be apparent.

    Chris – I think a member of the clergy embarrassing themselves whilst conducting this liturgy would be immediately forgiven.

    Sarah – I believe he’s now our bishop. I think I should wait until it is a more fully-formed before sending it to him. I’m already fairly misunderstood in the diocese following the Synod fiasco.

    November 15th, 2010 at 4:54 pm
  7. Liz from the sewing room says:

    I had a very embarrassing incident today. And my daughter immediately told everyone on facebook. We had been to lunch at a rather nice place and the time came to pay. I added a gratuity because they had made me something specially, I am coeliac, and I did the chip and pin thing wrong and added my pin number to amount to pay, and it tried to take over a quarter of a million pounds in payment. Thankfully, my card provider rejected it.

    If we are having a liturgy about embarrassing mistakes can we have one about forgiving people who put our mistakes on facebook.

    November 15th, 2010 at 5:25 pm
  8. Martha S. says:

    Incidents filed on extensive “Misspeaking” shelf to be depicted by a foot retrieved directly to the mouth!

    November 15th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
  9. hopeeternal says:

    Brilliant! Part Heath-Robinson, part Numskulls (from the Beano?) which I always loved…
    hopeeternal

    November 15th, 2010 at 6:35 pm