Someone wrote in and made a great suggestion. Vespa Virgins for the new Church of the Holy Vespa! We could have Vespers for the Vespa Virgins to attend. Oh this could get totally out of control. Wonder how much I could sell spots in the Vespa Virgins for? I could get the donators photo, airbrush robes on them and put them on a Vespa scooter.
Anyone know how many Vestal Virgins there were? (I so wish I had thought of Vespa Virgins!)
I stumbled across this tortured answer to a question about what the duties of a Medieval Nun were. Of course I had to share it with you. My agony is your agony. I added the paragraph breaks so it would be a bit easier to read. Everything else is exactly as the writer typed it:
As Monarchy was the dominant form of government in thos Feudal days, it is only right and proper that among other roles, Nuns functioned as both spiritual advisors and ladies -In Waiting to Queens and Princesses, among other noblewomen.
as recently as l926 In Italy and l952 in Portugal , Nuns, probably nurses, performed mortuary functions for Queen Margherita of Italy (In l926) and Former Queen Amelia of Portugal in l952.l
The Portugese ex-Queen died in Versailles, so missionary hoisital nuns had to be seconded from a Paris-area Convent. so they funcitoned inthe usual Nun roles as teachers and also nurses ( or equivalent) Undertakers for the females of the nobililty,and the usual churchly functions such as sacristan (supervisor of church housekeeping an specificaly that of religious articles)
This evolved into the interesting (Logistics Apostolate) of the St. Zita Convent in New York, responsible for Religious artifcles logistics of ocean-going ships. ( a big pipeline for ship re-supply ran under l4Th street, near their convent- a big coincidence. ) No, the Nuns did not run the Tanker-supply pumps, but did distribute religious articles to ships. COn Ed runs the pipeline.
Don’t you just love the right turn from Feudal days to nuns don’t run tanker supply pumps. No clue why the writer felt obliged to add the bit about Con-Ed but it adds a certain … oh .. I don’t know… stream of consciousness feeling to the answer. I just hope some poor kid didn’t trot back to school with this clipped into their essay.
I now have this lovely image of nuns in penguin suits, leaning up against a tanker truck chewing gum and pumping gas. Wow, that’s an image that will burn your retinas out!
What to have a giggle? Find an episode of Lawrence Welk on TV, turn the sound off and watch the fun. We have a great time Saturday nights while waiting for the British comedies to come on. I never realised ole Lawrence was colour blind… that’s the only explanation possible for the incredible colour combination – leisure suits and crinoline in purples and oranges, greens and red oh the horror, the horror. It’s a designer’s nightmare…oh lordie they are in a salmony orange suits against yellow curtains and a purple wall. As I said “MY EYES”..owow that stirs up the migraines. Good God the guest conductor is in a brick red suit. Ouc…thunk…I think I passed out because of sensory overload.
When you turn the sound off you begin to see how, er, how will I put this without sounding cruel? Oh WTF, it’s impossible, how truly ungraceful and uncoordinated some of the dancers were. The Lawrence Welk Show – masters of mediocrity.
And just when you think it can’t get any worse… get a load of this lovely video clip from 1971 featuring 2 of Welk’s performers singing One Toke Over the Line. You read that right… It’s worth hanging in to the very end to hear Lawrence say “And there you heard a modern spiritual by Gale and Dale”. It was spiritual to some folks Lawrence, but not the kind you were thinking of.
Don’t you wish you could have seen Lawrence’s face when someone whispered in his shell like ear that the men who wrote the tune had just been condemned by then Vice President Spiro Agnew, as a subversive threat to American youth. And don’t you wish you were a fly on the wall when someone got the courage up to tell him what the song really meant? “What do you mean it’s not a gospel song? It has the words Sweet Jesus and Mary in it… it has to be a gospel song”.
Do you think someone was looking for a new job after this?
Periodically I receive a comment that can only be called noxious. While I try to be tolerant of other view points, I do have limits to my patience. The posts I delete tend to be either vile racist rants, pornographic insults or as in the case of one I deleted today – simply odious.
I knew, before I even hit the Publish button, that I would receive hate mail over my previous post on the Charles Darwin pic, Creation. Barely had the post hit the web than I received a silly, anti-Semitic rant that blamed the British for all the world’s woes because of Darwin… I think… I didn’t read the entire comment because I really hate wasting my time on drivel and it can be fun using that old delete button! I find it fascinating how even the mention of Charles Darwin’s name can bring out the raving lunatic glee club. Where do they lurk?
I’m sure I’ll receive more. So to all of those from the abusive lunatic fringe I leave you these last thoughts:
Charles Darwin, Origin of Species, Evolution, tolerance, Faith – these ideas are not mutually exclusive.
I’ve been having so much fun with the UK political scandals that I put my observations on a host of other stunningly silly moments on the back burner. Time to trot them out.
I don’t watch beauty pageants or fashion shows – I can hear you all saying “REALLY?” But the yes, the truth is, I don’t watch them. I have a low nausea threshold and the thought of watching these cattle calls pushes me over the edge.
HOWEVER… the Miss California (of the Miss USA Pageant) was a god send. If you don’t read the same scurrilous rags I do, you may not be aware that she was under fire for her comments on gay marriage. She came out and said she doesn’t think they should happen. Okay, fine. That’s her opinion. I can ignore that. But she just couldn’t leave it at that. She had to firmly put her foot into it with the following statement on who shw thought was behind the question:
mmmn Honestly, I felt as though Satan was — and I don’t want to say that this person represented Satan, but — I felt as though Satan was trying to tempt me in asking me this question. And then God was in my head and in my heart saying, ‘Carrie, do not compromise this. You need to stand up for me. You need to share with all these people. If there were 95 percent of the people in the audience that were gay, you need to witness to them, and you need to show that you’re not willing to compromise that for this title of Miss USA.
There you have it folks. Further proof God has nothing better to do in the world than meddle in Beauty Queen contests. War, genocide, famine, drought – not as important as making sure a contestant in the Miss USA pageant stays on the path of right wing nonsense.
I’m curious as to why so many people thing God has nothing better to do than make sure they win football games, beauty pageants and such. What this says to me is the losing side must be in league with Satan, I mean after all why didn’t God help them win? Seriously, when you are cooling your heels at the bus stop or stuck in traffic, mull this over in your mind. I’m sure you will have a Road to Damascus moment over this stunning revelation. Then again maybe not….
As if being in Afghanistan isn’t dangerous enough, a group of Evangelical US soldiers are making the situation even worse by promoting their own evangelical agenda.
Soldiers were handing out bibles to this very, very conservative and largely illiterate nation. Just having a Bible in their possession could jeopardise the lives of the poor Afghan that does not understand they are being used in a new cold war between the Taliban and the Christian Right. A number of accusations have flown in the past few years over the hijacking of the military by right wing Christian groups, this is just the latest. Listen carefully to the tape and you will see the soldiers involved know they are violating military policy, and to compound the violation, talk about ways of circumventing them. The US military said the Bibles in question have been destroyed. But a new question comes to mind: how has the US military allowed such open prostylization to occur?
