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IN THE SIXTH MONTH the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary.
Mary was surprised as the angel did climb in her window knocking over some potted plants and a souvenir statuette from Jerusalem.
And after finally squeezing in he did pant “Greetings, O favoured one, the Lord is with you!” And Mary did look upon him and was amazed, and she did say “Could you not have used the door?”
The angel did mumble an apology and then he did proclaim “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favour with God.” “It’s only a door,” Mary did reply, “you knock on it and wait for somebody to answer. How hard can it be?”
And the angel tried to smile, but he was flustered now and had forgotten his place in his speech. Then he did pluck his notes from one of his wings and did read “Figs, some olive oil, oranges…” and it was a while before he realised it was actually the Holy Spirit’s shopping list.
From his other wing he did take the proper notes and thence went back to proclaiming “And behold, Mary. You will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.” “What if I want to call him Frank?” Mary did ask, and the angel was perturbed and lost his place again. “It says Jesus here” the angel did say. “How do you spell that?” Mary did sigh. And the angel told her and she wrote it down.
Mary then motioned the angel to speak on.
“He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David-” “How long more will this take?” Mary did ask, “it’s just that I have to go to market.” And the angel did speak on in a stuttery way “And he will reign…he will rei…hold on I’ve lost my place. He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”
And Mary regarded the angel and asked: “How will this be, since I am a virgin?” And the angel did blush and stammer some more “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and-” “Will he be coming through the window?” Mary did ask “it’s just that you’ve set a really bad precedent.” And the angel told her he would look into it.
“The power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be borne will be called holy – the Son of God.” And Mary did nod and say “So what has God planned for my Son?” And the angel looked pale “Well, there’s this whole thing. You don’t really need to know.” And Mary did glare at him. “No, really, you don’t.” And she did look upon the angel with such sternness that his voice did quake, and he seemed to shrink, and he said in a small voice “It’s my first day.”
And Mary said “Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word, yadda yadda. You can leave through the window.” And the angel departed from her by clambering back through the window. Although he did get stuck and was heard to cry out “Little help?”
And Mary sighed and shook her head and pushed him out. And in that way he took his leave of her.
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You would want to be an idiot to buy this stock. Bebo forever
WARNING: completely pointless begrudging comment here : He’s a lucky lucky man, right place at the right time. Not saying his design and work put into it didn’t make it what it was, but at the of the day, something like fb is exactly where people were headed online wise.
I also think he’d be wise to sell alot of his shares. Not saying its a guaranteed bubble that will burst but who knows what will slowly rise up next.
They’ve gone heavy on intrusive flashy adverts ahead of the floatation. I think it cheapens the site and ppl are getting bored with it.
I don’t think it’s the ads that make me bored of it. It is all the “like this if you’re against cancer” or “share this picture to win a prize” rubbish that makes it boring.
The idiots have taken over. Text speak and faux outrage are here to stay. Evolution is going backwards.
Cheapens it alright. Only worth about 97 billion now to be fair.
It is worth that as they have 900 million users. That’s big advertising dollars.
The quality of the user doesn’t affect the service. The user is the product that is being sold to advertisers.
I’ve been noticing for a while now that less and less of my friends post anything on Facebook and a good few have told me that they haven’t signed in in ages. I posted something on a friends wall this morning after reading this article as it reminded that Facebook still exists. While it had some relevance to me about a year ago, if it folded tomorrow my life wouldn’t be any the poorer. If none of friends are using it then what’s the point. It appears everyone has moved over to twitter.
Your right its downhill from here..
You will find more and more people leaving facebook. Did it over a year ago myself, best decision i made in a long time.
How do you know your not missing out on something good?
Missing what exactly? 4am drunken status updates? Pictures of babies and dogs? Wacky instagram pictures?
Come on Nuck.
Yes, find myself using it less and less. I spent about 6 months updating everyone with my status about all kinds of rubbish which most people ignore. The thrill of getting a few ‘Like’s’ is wearing thin when it comes to my random thoughts.
Its a bubble exactly the same as the dotcom bubble in the late 90s, on a $90bn valuation FB is valuing each of its customers at $100 in terms of the future revenue they can extract from them but FB doesn’t sell anything and only makes small amounts of revenue on advertising making this ludacris. Just like every bubble its all going to end in tears.
Mike Hunt likes this
Bono will become a billionaire of this would he not?
I’m not quite correct there. His shares are worth quite a lot though.
And that’s a bubble for sure
So every share is worth $1billion and now the company is worth $1,000,000,000,000? For a company that makes diddly squat from advertising
More hype from Facebook, they’ve been dithering about this “magical” flotation since 2010 and it still hasn’t happened yet.
Hey Facebook…Feed the World?
Yes exactly
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