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The following is a true story.
When I was an undergrad student (the institution shall remain nameless) I attended a Lutheran campus ministry (nameless). It was a great place to meet friends and fellowship in Christ. One Lenten season the Pastor (anonymous) prepared a series of sermons on specific characters from the passion narratives in the Gospels, Pontius Pilate, Peter, the slave whose ear was cut off in the garden, etc. Some of the students volunteered to dress in costumes and say a few lines. One student had the brilliant idea that flowing from beneath his sheet (he was supposed to be a ghost, remember) there would be billows of fog, to set the ambiance for his “other-worldly” appearance.
How to do this was the problem. So he came up with the plan to put dry ice in a bag of water suspended from his waist. A rubber tube would deliver the fog from the bag to the outside of the sheet. Well, a few of us knew ahead of time what he was planning (of course the Pastor was completely in the dark), and we waited for the ghost’s dramatic appearance with eager anticipation. When the big moment arrived there were only tiny, almost unnoticeable little whisps of fog, and a huge distracting noise coming from beneath the sheet, as the plastic bag rattled around rubbing against the “ghost’s” body. It didn’t work.
Chasing the cheese wheel . . .
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