Michael Peter Van Gilst Day
Sacred Journey, in recognition of the birthday of Michael Peter Van Gilst, Westminster Theological Seminary’s Student Association President-Elect Divinely Ordained Vicegerent, officially declares this
MICHAEL PETER VAN GILST DAY
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In recognition of this auspicious day, for one day (and one day only), we hereby declare that Michael Peter Van Gilst is actually cooler than Samuel Boyd.
Actually, our legal staff has informed us that we may only allow Michael Peter Van Gilst to be cooler than Samuel Boyd until 6 p.m. this evening. Mr. Boyd needs his coolness back for his evening clubbing in The Windy City.
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March 27th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Sam Boyd fans around the world began to mount up against the Sage and MVG; their chant was ‘This day is the Day of Boyd’, and many of the people at Westminster were affraid
March 27th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Regarding this other gentleman being “cooler” than Samuel Boyd: No.
March 27th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
You’ll have to sue us, Matt, to get it removed! But make sure you get it filed before 6 p.m., because we’re returning the title then anyway.
March 27th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
First of all, what’s this “president-elect” business? Nobody elected me; I assumed that by divine right, baby! And I dunno who this Burly character is, but I taught Boyd at least some of what it means to be cool…maybe…Ok, so he transcends cool and I’d still be wearing jams if it weren’t for him. But I have a cowboy hat, so that makes me somewhat cool, right?
March 27th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
I feel a ¿quien es mas macho? smackdown coming on!
Are you up for it, VG? It will take more than divine right to unseat Master Cool Boyd.
March 27th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
UPDATE: MPVG Official Title fixed.
March 27th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
Every time I look at Mike’s last name I see “Evangelist.” That’s a pretty cool mind trick that Mike keeps playing on me. On the other hand, whenever I see Sam Boyd’s last name, all I see is “Boyd.” That’s not nearly as cool as “Evangelist.” So I vote to extend Mike’s tenure as “Divinely Ordained Vicegerent” until 9 pm. And if you change “vicegerent” to “viceregent” I’ll vote for a further extension to 9:20 pm.
March 27th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
I try turning vicegerent back to viceregent, but every time I do I hear the voice of Dr. McCartney saying, “And no, that is not a misspelling,” and I shudder and shrink back.
Curious that the Foxfire spell checker accepts vicegerent but not viceregent.
March 27th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Is that EST or CST?
March 27th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
AEDT (Australian Eastern Daylight Time), which (sadly for Mike) means that even if he were granted a full day of glory, it ended at 10 am this (Tuesday) morning, Philly time. Sic transit gloria mundi.
March 27th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
Every time I look at Mike’s last name I see “Evangelist.â€
Really? Sadly, all I see is Vangelis. Boyd’s cooler than that, hands down. And he doesn’t even have to prove it on a Sunday.
March 27th, 2007 at 11:17 pm
Mark:
I feel a song coming on. Green and McCartney doing the duet “You say vicegerent. I say viceregent …”
Anyway, from the Macquarie Dictionary (the definitive word on Australian English):
Vicegerent: “an officer deputed by a ruler or supreme head to exercise the powers of the ruler or head.”
Viceregent (or vice-regent): “a deputy regent, one who acts in the place of a ruler, governor, or sovereign.”
Different roots, same basic idea. Go figure (as they say in America).
March 27th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
Mike:
Don’t sell yourself (or your quasi-namesake) short. I remember Vangelis. Chariots of Fire, yes? He was really cool …
… 25 years ago.
March 28th, 2007 at 12:21 am
I’d like to point out that if Mr Boyd goes clubbing at 6pm, he’s not cool AT ALL! Are there any clubs even open at 6pm? I don’t think so!
March 28th, 2007 at 6:10 am
Ros,
This is Chicago we’re talking about. You haven’t been to Chicago yet, have you?
March 28th, 2007 at 7:52 am
For the record, there is an imposter “Michael” in our midst; accept no imitations. There can be only one President Cooler-Than-Sam and I am he…look-it, I’ve gone continental, there is no stopping the Evangelist now! And I feel the conversation has sidetracked: must I remind you all that I have a cowboy hat?? Sam can’t contend with that…although I think he has cowboy boots. DANG IT!
March 28th, 2007 at 9:16 am
Found out this morning that MPVG has cut his hair. This has caused the coolness panel to go into emergency session. Paula thinks he still has “got it,” but Simon has his doubts. It may once again all come down to poor David.
March 28th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
I do have a cowboy hat- Resistol (made in my birth state of TX), and am currently wearing shark-skin boots (Lucchese boots to be exact, same kind that John Wayne and Gary Cooper used to wear) whilst pointing Old Aramaic inscriptions and taking a course on Mosaic cultural memory from Jan Assmann (yes, that’s his name).
However, in all these things I’m afraid my awesomeness has been trumped, since I could never be cooler than a blond haired 6 foot something stud. I gladly give over the crown to Dr. Blonde A-Go-Go (also sometimes known as Dr. Van Stinkle-Foot, some of the various names by which Mike is known) on the condition that he grow a mullet.
Mark- you HAVE to announce these things earlier. I totally wasn’t prepared, and to have one’s awesomeness eclipsed for a day and not know it is traumatic.
At any rate, I’m glad to have someone with whom I can be more awesome than Pete. Happy birthday, bro!
Sam
March 28th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Nah, on second thought, I’m still more awesome than Mike and Pete.
March 28th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
I think we may have to call the contest over. No way Mike could ever match actually having a professor named Assman.
Of course, Mike has referred to a couple of professors with that moniker.
April 11th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
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