In case it's not on your regular reading menu, a recent posting from Crooked Timber tickles the risibility meters (they're stereo...): The Holy Trinity is getting a makeover.... Puts me in mind of a favorite Pratchettism, in which I first encountered the [well known British] term "godbothering" [glossed as "fervent religious grovelling"] :
Archchancellor (of Unseen University) Mustrum Ridcully: So... how are things in the godbothering business?(from Terry Pratchett's Reaper Man, pg 91) Posted by oook at June 30, 2006 07:25 AM
Chief Priest of Blind Io: We do our humble best. How is the dangerous meddling with things man was not meant to understand?
Ridcully: Pretty fair. Pretty fair.
(incidentally, they are brothers)