Friday, November 09, 2007

The Tablet is for Dummies



We sell The Pill at the back of Church, I must say I really find it annoying, it whinges, though as as it aged contributors go to their eternal reward it is becoming better than it used to be - slightly. This morning I had a conversation with some of my parishioners about sudoku or is it sudoki?

We all thought The Tablet was really easy, obviously aimed at pretty dim people. The Times (Fiendish) was actually reasonable difficult, but the absolute horror was the The Catholic Herald. This morning I did it in 35 minutes, someone needed me to be around whilst the sorted out the wifi: disappointing, last weeks was much trickier.

10 comments:

Dr. Peter H. Wright said...

"The Tablet is for Dummies."

I think that is a very fair decsription of it, and I don't mean its sudoku puzzle.

Stick to the Catholic Herald.
(It has some good contributors..)

Anonymous said...

Once upon a time (early 90's) my wife and I had a subscription to the 'pill'. After a while you got to wonder whether this was a Christian let alone Catholic paper. We soon cancelled our subs and requested that the balance be sent to charity. If you want up-to-the-minute, 'tell-it-as-it-is' Catholic News, go read the blogs!

Anonymous said...

Perhaps you should join the ranks of priests who have come to the decision that it isn't appropriate to sell such anti-Catholic rubbish on Church property?

Anonymous said...

Well you're an intellectual Fr! mind you i can at least be very proud of the fact that i've never read a single copy of The Tablet..praise God for that!

Anonymous said...

I'm not sure how happy Fr Ray will be about being called intecual, a term i thought he despised

Anonymous said...

If the tablet is for dummies ,what r these sites for ?

JARay said...

I can remember the days what The Tablet was a serious Catholic weekly with good articles which were straight down the line Catholicism.
Mind you; it was a very, very long time ago.
JARay

Anonymous said...

It is well known that the Tablet has a significantly larger non-Catholic readership than Catholic. The majority of its readers are Anglicans. If it reverted to its former position pre-Tom Burns its sales would slump and it would probably fold. It is caught in a cleft stick as it would not succeed as an independent Christian or secular journal either. The best parts, in my view, are the back pages; book reviews, arts criticism etc and the round up of church news here and abroad. As with blogs, you don't have to read it. But one reason for doing so is to know what the other side are up to.

Nobody with a brain would ever suspect Fr Blake of being an intellectual.

Et Expecto said...

I agree about the Catholic Herald Sudoku. Since someone else has taken charge I have been finding it extremely difficult and have failed to get it finished three weeks in a row. I am still struggling with the current one.

Can you give me some clues? Is the very top left square a 1 or a 4?

Fr Ray Blake said...

et expecto,
Hope your not cheating! The top line is 852,731,496

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