Cavalry vs. Calvary

[nq:1]Can you picture my grin when I called Cavalry Portfolio Services, a collection agency, and the girl in the recorded greeting said, "Calvary Portfolio Services"? How appropriate! Inflicting intense mental suffering *is* their specialty, of course.[/nq]
There is a connection. Calvary is a hill and the cavalry always comes riding over a hill to save the day.

dg (domain=ccwebster)

[nq:1]Skitt hath writ:[/nq]
[nq:2]Can you picture my grin when I called Cavalry Portfolio ... appropriate! Inflicting intense mental suffering *is* their specialty, of course.[/nq]
[nq:1]There is a connection. Calvary is a hill and the cavalry always comes riding over a hill to save the day.[/nq]
True, but the connection I mentioned, inadvertent as it may have been, was much better. Mo

don groves filted:
[nq:2]Can you picture my grin when I called Cavalry Portfolio ... appropriate! Inflicting intense mental suffering *is* their specialty, of course.[/nq]
[nq:1]There is a connection. Calvary is a hill and the cavalry always comes riding over a hill to save the day.[/nq]
And if they ride all the way to the rodeo in Alberta, they're in Calgary..r

[nq:1]don groves filted:[/nq]
[nq:1]And if they ride all the way to the rodeo in Alberta, they're in Calgary..r[/nq]
...and possibly causing a stampede resulting in much suffering.

Maria Conlon

[nq:1]don groves filted:[/nq]
[nq:1]And if they ride all the way to the rodeo in Alberta, they're in Calgary..r[/nq]
I'll have to Mull that over.

Mike Barnes
Cheshire, England

[nq:1]Can you picture my grin when I called Cavalry Portfolio Services,[/nq]
Yes. When I was a young kid I lived nearby to a huge shed of a building; "Calvary Baptist Church". Clearly this had to be such a huge building for a church, because they needed the extra room for the horses...

[nq:2]don groves filted: And if they ride all the way to the rodeo in Alberta, they're in Calgary..r[/nq]
[nq:1]...and possibly causing a stampede resulting in much suffering.[/nq]
and subsequent nappy washing.

Charles Riggs

[nq:2]don groves filted: And if they ride all the way to the rodeo in Alberta, they're in Calgary..r[/nq]
[nq:1]I'll have to Mull that over.[/nq]
Have I said before that one Kintyre of this kind of thing?

Mike.

[nq:1]Services, a[/nq]
[nq:2]I'll have to Mull that over.[/nq]
[nq:1]Have I said before that one Kintyre of this kind of thing?[/nq]
Some instances are appalling.

Mike Barnes
Cheshire, England

[nq:2]Can you picture my grin when I called Cavalry Portfolio Services,[/nq]
[nq:1]Yes. When I was a young kid I lived nearby to a huge shed of a building; "Calvary Baptist Church". Clearly this had to be such a huge building for a church, because they needed the extra room forthe horses...[/nq]
OT, a while ago I learnt that one of Imperial Britain's regular exports was flat-pack churches