#1 2007-12-21 12:40:57
#2 2007-12-21 15:06:34
opsec wrote:
Oh, and Cates (or one of his ilk) sent an ecard...
Now I know I'm going to Santa hell. I've not only seen 90% of those twisted xmas toons, I've collected them and then some.
One classic I lost has eluded me for years. Santa pissing Merry Christmas in the snow, drawn by a Playboy cartoonist named Shoemaker. Anyone got it?
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#3 2007-12-24 06:33:43
It's not so much the Santa impaled on the cross in front of Art Conrad's Bremerton home, it's the headless Santa that sings carols on his front porch that has neighbors crying humbug.
"It's horrible and gruesome," said Vickie Marquina, who lives near Conrad on Olympic Avenue. "It's offensive, and Santa with no head is just horrid."
Conrad, 52, who just moved into the house, said his Santa-on-a-cross is his personal protest against the commercialization of Christmas. The headless Santa on his porch is the unfortunate result: He needed a Santa head for his cross display, so he pilfered it from his singing Santa.
Basically, said Conrad, who works in real estate, his display is art, and the fact that it hasn't been greeted with universal warmth is a sign of good art... (read more)
GPS Tracker Installed In Baby Jesus Statue
There should not be much trouble keeping track of a new statue of the baby Jesus that will go into a nativity scene at Bal Harbour in South Florida. The new statue has a GPS navigation device inside it.
The original statue was stolen in early December. Its high-tech replacement was donated by a Cincinnati attorney who saw the story on the Internet. (source)
If those fail to win the War on Christmas, how about replacing key components of the Nativity creche with severed pig heads? With the Baby Jesus GPS in mind, I figured one other invention should be on everybody's gift list for the red-blooded, heterosexual, American sportsman in their lives:
The Christian Fisherman™
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#4 2007-12-24 11:53:42
Nice links Pale! It's a shame to bury them in one of my threads as they're each topic worthy.
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#6 2007-12-24 18:04:26
opsec wrote:
It's a shame to bury them in one of my threads as they're each topic worthy.
Thanks. You can bust them out, if you believe it's worth the four or five clicks and about 90 seconds of editing, but I thought they went well together and fit within the scope of your title. We don't necessarily want half a dozen dated threads haunting us through the New Year, like ghosts of Xmas-soon-to-be-past.
I'm sure tomorrow evening will bring us 12 tree fires, 11 domestic violence cases, 10 food poisonings...well, you get the picture.
Baby Geepus wuvs you.
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#9 2007-12-27 21:27:57
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#10 2007-12-27 22:09:59
I suppose it serves her right for swiping it after a story runs about the Infant Savior's newest Borg implant, but grand theft? I'm not sure of the Florida statute's exact dollar amount, but this implies a papier-mâché statuette is worth quite a bit more than I'd expect. Is there a black market for stolen Nativity components that I don't know about, or is this one of those back-door/under-the-counter things at the local pawnshop?
A last holiday thought to warm your crevices:
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