"an elderly, somewhat eccentric evangelical lady with a good heart but sometimes defective reasoning ... "?
I couldn't resist ....
My screen name dates back a long long time (in fact to long before I was Catholic). I was lurking here and posting on a couple of other (since defunct) boards with that name as early as the Clinton impeachment.
Its origin was with a regular letter-writer in the old Baltimore Sun. The author took a tongue-in-cheek position as an elderly, somewhat eccentric evangelical lady with a good heart but sometimes defective reasoning. (He was actually the Danish Consul in Baltimore.) But there was usually a good idea at the bottom of it, under all the fun.
To the Editor of the Evening Sun: Sir—Some time ago I wrote you to reccommend the holding of prayer meetings on streetcars while our young folk were coming and going to work morning and evening. I felt that so much good could be accomplished through these prayer meetings and that it would help our young folk to start their workday and to finish it in a beautiful frame of mind. Unfortunately nothing came out of my loving recommendation at the time, but I see now that masses are going to be done on the trains that are carrying people to the Eucharistic meeting in Chicago, Ill. Now, I do not hold with Popishness, but aside from that I think this a most beautiful idea, and if these people can have masses done on the trains, why cannot we here in Baltimore, a Protestant city, have prayer meetings or sermons on the streetcars for the good of our working boys and girls? …AN AMERICAN MOTHER
Read all about it here. (Never mind that "Baltimore, a Protestant city" was thrown in just to provoke a response from everybody who grew up on the Baltimore Catechism or went to Mass at the Basilica)
"an elderly, somewhat eccentric evangelical lady with a good heart but sometimes defective reasoning ... "?
I couldn't resist ....