Thursday, August 11, 2022

Day Whatever: Ollie, Ollie, Oxen Free!:

Apostle Pack, Please Call the Office...


"Olly olly oxen free" is a catchphrase or truce term used in children's games such as hide and seek, capture the flag, and kick the can to indicate that players who are hiding can come out into the open without losing the game; 

or, that the position of the sides in a game has changed (as in which side is on the field or which side is at bat or "up" in baseball or kickball); 

or, alternatively, that the game is entirely over.

The origin of the phrase is unknown. The Dictionary of American Regional English says the phrase may be derived from all ye, all ye outs in free, all the outs in free, or possibly” calling all the outs in free”; in other words, all who are out may come in without penalty. Others speculate the phrase may be a corruption of a hypothetical and ungrammatical German phrase alle, alle, auch sind frei (all, all, also are free).








21 comments:

Anonymous said...

It would be helpful if we had a sighting page, you know like Elvis has. You know, Davie C has been spotted at dance club in downtown Newark....

Tonto said...

Maybe Pack will just mysteriously disappear , ala Jimmy Hoffa, DB Cooper, or Amelia Earhart.

It would actually add an interesting ending to his already strange and sordid legacy.

Anonymous said...

Pack and Flurry should be forced to account for their failed prophecies. I am sure they will NEVER admit to their failings. They should also be forced to disclose their expenditures,especially 3rd tithe donations

Anonymous said...

Doesn't Dave still have relatives in UCG, COGWA, and LCG? Maybe he could hide out with them while working remotely with a realtor to raise some cash by selling properties?

Anonymous said...

Has he done a runner?

Marc Cebrian said...

My buddy and I were talking and he joked, "I wonder if Dave Pack got fed up with all the prophecy nonsense and quit RCG."

Unknown said...

Best thing that could happen to RCG would be for Davy to disappear permanently!

Zippo said...

Add "Where's Dave?" to the "Questions for Bob" list.

DW said...

Personally, I wouldn't even bother looking for him. One less phony prophet in the world sounds great to me! No more Dave, no more innocent people being deceived by his false teachings.

Now, if only Flurry and the other little false prophlet/flower girl would get the hint!

Anonymous said...

I have heard through an anonymous source that there is a trailer park just outside of Wichita Kansas that takes in such people.

Anonymous said...

He could be hiding out here in the CA desert at Slab City.

https://roadtrippers.com/magazine/slab-city-california-desert/

Anonymous said...

I wonder if it was a coup. Not a coup d'état, but a coup d'église.

Anonymous said...

Wouldn't it be hilarious if someone in Wadsworth last week saw the post here that explained Ohio's procedures for involuntary psychiatric commitment, and followed through? Maybe Dave Pack, who thinks he's Elijah, Moses, That Prophet, etc. is now in a padded cell, preaching to inmates who think they are Napoleon or Elvis?

Anonymous said...

Joined forces with Bob Thiel ..... book it!

Anonymous said...

Could he be hold up in the basement of the Wadsworth Compound? I understand there is a secret crisis room for when "the walls come a tumblin down"... (p.s. who is taking care of the tulip garden and feeding the horses?)

Anonymous said...

He's at the summit in Montreal along with "Big Bobby" Thiel and Gerry "Sky King" Flurry. Big things going down.

Anonymous said...

"Joined forces with Bob Thiel ..... book it!" too funny.

The problem with this though is that Booby is too big of a narcissist and blowhard to share the spotlight with Pack. Besides, it would be Booby joining up with Pack. Booby is the submissive of the two.

Tonto said...

NEWS FLASH---

Even Dave Pack got fed up with Dave Pack , and quit!

Anonymous said...

Dave probably got some fake ID and some facial surgery and joined the COGaWA. Its the only group that we never discuss or mock here.

DennisCDiehl said...

He's regrouping and going to go up the PR with the Community and change his approach to save the empire. He'll want his prophecy failures to fade in the memories of the members and get back to whatever he wants to get back to. He has probably been forced to realize it's this or lose it all.

Anonymous said...

Maybe he finally made it to the spaceship behind the Hale-Bop comet…??