Still remembering the Bible: the not last supper

About a week ago there was a poll about books people had not read (!). It seems that 65% of people lied about books they had read. Anyway one of the books people lied about reading was the Bible. Charlie Brooker wrote about this in the Guardian on Monday [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/09/charlie-brooker].
He says
'Potential partners who genuinely adore reading the Bible on a daily basis traditionally don't mention it until later, when they've invited you back to their place to unexpectedly nailgun your hand to the wall while loudly reciting a selection of their favourite parables from memory.'
Now this was not a technique I'd seen referred to in any daily Bible reading notes I've ever seen, nor a method of RB I'd tried myself. I wasn't sure wether to invite him round and see if the same effect could be produced with my staple gun.
However, it did illustrate once again how the Bible keeps getting into the news, even in this rather odd way. As for 'reciting their favourite parables from memory' - Hurray! They have favourite parables in their memory.
On Monday evening I meet six young people at a local Boy's Brigade group. We got started. One said he had a Bible: small red one with New Testament written on it that he got at school. No one else owned up to having one. Anyway I asked them if they thought they remembered anything from the Bible (well from the story of Jesus life of course, I am a gospels woman). No they said. So we got the string and pegs out. Forty minutes later they had remembered this:

Jesus was born in a stable.
Before he was a year old the king tried to kill him but he escaped.
When he was 12 he got lost in a temple.
When he was an adult he went into the desert for 40 days and 40 nights, then he met some fishermen and he told them to fish on the other side of the boat, and they got a net full of fish, and then he went into Jerusalem on a donkey.
The night before he died, he had the last supper with his friends.
He was crucified, but a couple of days later he came back to life.
And then he had another supper with his friends so that was 'the not last supper'.

So there it is. A core remembered gospel generated by 6 teenagers in 40 minutes with a piece of string and some pegs. Not a nail gun in sight. Brilliant!