The Deuce Weekly, 6/12 - 6/18/01

By now, The Deuce Weekly was totally hitting its stride, a stride I think it would keep until at least next summer. Readership was high, and over the summer, I had at over 100 people on the list--thats not an exaggeration

Vol II, Iss IV
6/12-6/18

THIS IS THE FINAL DEUCE WEEKLY FROM PARISIAN EMAIL… PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS AFTER MONDAY, JUNE 11, 2001. PLEASE REPLY TO TANGUY2001@AOL.COM UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE! THANKS,
DW EDITORS (Sure, go ahead and email on the other one too... ha!)

Coming Up:
*Tuesday, June 12th…

Discipleship training at Common Ground, from 6-8. If you are interested in being discipled or discipling someone, make sure you attend!

*Friday, June 15th…
Josh Crosby is getting together a group to go see Tomb Raider. Contact Josh at Josh.Crosby@wgint.com (I still have yet to see Tomb Radier... yay for me)

*Saturday, June 16th… Luau at Sybil’s House!
7 to 11, poolside games, limbo, shish-ka-bobs, coconut bras… what more could you want?

*Sunday, June 17th…
Song of Solomon II… Valleydale Baptist, 9:40am, Common Ground.

*Wednesday, June 20th… AtlantaFest, a four day Christian music festival at Six Flags, begins.
Michael and a select few others are going up this day to enjoy all the festivities…. for more info about the Fest, look up www.AtlantaFest.com, or contact Michael at nubjubjr@aol.com

*Friday, June 22nd-24th…
Some of us are going to Atlanta for Friday night and Saturday, returning early Sunday morning in time for church. While some are at AtlantaFest, others of us are doing the cheap thing this weekend… lodging provided my Emily! Contact Miss Emmy at emeldridge@yahoo.com for details. (I think that should have been "by" Emily, not "my Emily")

*Friday, June 29th-30th… WalkAbout Dinner Theater-On Holy Ground.
Besides Common Ground, The Deuce and Alyssa Milano, my other obsession lies with the middle school drama team, WalkAbout. The dinner will be $5.00, the show is free, times TBA! Get your ticket soon!

*July 3rd-4th… BBQ NIGHT!
We are selling mass quantities of BBQ at $8 a pound for the Seattle Mission Trip in August. This particular night we are going to gather together and cut up BBQ all night to get it ready to sell on July 4th! Should be interesting. Contact Sybil for more details at Sybil@datacrest.com or sjohnson@valleydale.org.

*July 7th… DEUCEFESTDEUCE…
Grilling out hamburgers and such, or whatever meat you decide to bring…Three dollars per person, getting you in the door, access to the pool, the food, the ice cream, the concerts and Deuce Weakest Link. Grilling done by Vic and Ken Nipp.
In Concert are DJ Phrenzy, Ashley O’Neal, Justin Glenn and headlining, Stephanie Knipp. Special Musical Appearance by Sean Hall and Steph Campbell. BE THERE! Or, be somewhere else, but probably not having near as much fun.

Coming Soon:
*July 14th… Le Perc at Common Ground, a coffeehouse with a twist
*July 20th-21st… YEC with Salvador, LaRue and Rebecca St. James in concert
*July 27th… Raiders of the Lost Ark at the Alabama Theater
*August 3rd-4th… Furnace Fest, a hard core punk rock Christian music festival at Sloss Furnace
*August 4th… So Long Steph, a tribute and farewell (for now) to the Deuce First Lady, Steph Knipp
*August 7th… N’Sync in concert
*August 24th… Grease at the Alabama Theater
*September 1st… The DFC Begins… more info soon.
*September 2001… Survivor III kicks off
*October 20th… DeuceNight, our first semi-formal
*December… Jill graduates from Auburn, J’Quinn graduates from Alabama
*December 22nd… It’s a Wonderful Deuce Christmas
*February 2002… Deuce Date Party 2
*Summer 2002… Matt and Ginger get hooked up.

The DRL (deuce request live) Top Five of Everything
5… Andrea Brobst older sister, just because she said she’s never been mentioned. (I mean, come on... Wendy Brobst read this thing?)
4… Susan Cooper. Thanks for coming! You rule! (for the record, I was the reason she met Jason Quinn... and they got married and decided they were too good to be with us--yes I'm bitter... I liked the Scooper)
3… Ty Coffey vs. The City of Hoover. Don’t even ask me.
2… Ryan and Tanya Smith’s house
1… Wookiee… What a long strange trip it’s been… to be Baptized! Rock on.
Just missed the list: Josh Crosby, Brian, Emily’s Potato, Evolution, Tetris

The Spotlight Haiku
June is Deuce History Month… This is our fourth in a series of Spotlight Haiku, shining the spotlight on the residents of The Deuce. This week we honor Michael Nipp, with a haiku written by the Deuce First Lady Steph Knipp.
Mike rub your tummy
Bounces like a tennis ball
Watch out, Andre A

If I Can Be Serious For a Minute…
This morning at 8:14ET, the government held, via lethal injection, its first execution at a federal level in a long, long time. Timothy McVeigh blew up a building in Oklahoma City in 1995, and in my opinion, he deserves to die. In my opinion, he deserves to die a much more painful death. Stick him in a chair and put some dynamite in his pocket. Of course, that’s just my opinion. Is that a wrong attitude? Yes, it is.
Who am I to judge him? Yes, he caused the death of 162 people. But God loves him. And God would forgive him just as much as me asking forgiveness for not tithing like I should. So this week, when you hear all the hoopla surrounding his execution, and you hear cries denouncing execution (I still support it) and cries wanting him to die much more horribly than a needle filled with poison, say a prayer. The Bible never said you can’t become a believer if you kill over a hundred people at one time. Pray for healing of the victims, pray for the victims themselves… and pray for Timothy McVeigh. You never know what God might have done in his heart at the last minute.

This Week’s Top Ten List
Top Ten Amys, Stephanies, Stefanies and Ways to Wash Your Car, in no Particular Order (I just cracked myself up)
10.. Amy Anderson
9… Amy Wible
8… Stephanie Knipp
7… Amy Dennis (blast from the past alert!)
6… Stephanie Campbell
5… Stefanie Jovanovich (saw her the other day at starbucks)
4… Use a hose and a rag
3… Stephanie Crook (another blast from the past alert!)
2… Amy Valdmanis
1… Amy Vos

The Top Ten Christian Albums of All Time
At number ten on our list was Homecoming, by Craig’s Brother… over the next nine weeks, we’ll be doing our countdown of your all time favorite Christian albums!
Scott Latta’s favorites: 4) Steven Curtis Chapman’s Signs of Life; 3) dcTalk’s Jesus Freak 2) dcTalk’s Free at Last and 1) Steven Curtis Chapman’s Great Adventure. (Part of me wonders if this has changed by now)
Number Ten-Craig’s Brother-Homecoming
Number Nine-Third Day’s debut album
Says Drew Morris:
Third Day brought a sound to Christian rock that had never before been attempted (or at least, never was achieved). Their first album contained hits like "Consuming Fire" and "Thief" that are still just as popular as they were 5 years ago when it was released. But more importantly, that album (and it's popularity) showed the world that not all Christians sound like Twila Paris or Chris Rice.

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