Jesus Was Way Cool Jesus Was Way Cool "Jesus Was Way Cool" is a song by avant-garde band King Missile. It appears on the band's 1990 album "Mystical Shit." In "Jesus Was Way Cool," frontman John S. Hall, over a simple piano figure, delivers a deadpan monologue in which he declares Jesus "way cool" for such skills as healing, walking on water, and turning water into wine. Hall states that Jesus did "anything he wanted to do," and could have surpassed the achievements of Jimi Hendrix, Wayne Gretzky, and Mikhail Baryshnikov in their respective fields. Hall then postulates that the crucifixion of Jesus was
The Mouse Turned into a Maid The Mouse Turned into a Maid The mouse turned into a maid is an ancient fable of Indian origin that travelled westwards to Europe during the Middle Ages and also exists in the Far East. The story is Aarne-Thompson type 2031C in his list of cumulative tales, another example of which is "The Husband of the Rat's Daughter". It concerns a search for a partner through a succession of more powerful forces, resolved only by choosing an equal. The fable’s Classical analogue is Aesop's Fable of "Venus and the Cat", in which a man appeals to the goddess Venus to