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December 17th, 2007

Scarf, etc

scarf

I know you’ve seen this one before. There is nothing new under the sun. Everything is just like the wheel, but reinvented in different sizes, shapes, colours etc.

Talking of unrelated things, Advent seems to have become the season for bad religious memorabilia. Various websites have gone to the trouble of gathering it together:

The young Anglicans in Canada have The Cavalcade of Bad Nativities.

[Update: It turns out that the above Cavalcade of Bad Nativities was inspired by this earlier Cavalcade of Bad Nativities on GoingJesus. To confuse matters, this latest GoingJesus Cavalcade of Bad Nativities seems to feature some nativities from the aforementioned second Cavalcade of Bad Nativities, which in turn used some nativities from the first Cavalcade of Bad Nativities.]

Dean at the Heal Your Church Website is currently on day 3 of 12 Days of Jesus Junk.

…and of course the people who (probably) started it: Ship of Fools: The 12 Days of Kitschmas.

Talking of Ship of Fools, the pictures from their recent ecclesiastical pub crawl following in the steps of the Bishop of Southwark are on line: It’s what we did - the Southwark Pilgrimage. Mrs W and I went along at the end heavily disguised as ourselves so as not to get into the photographs. I came away with a box of Anglican fudge. Not quite sure how.

Finally, another great article on the Ship: Steve Tomkins - When Santa met Darwin.

I’m filing this under ‘Saturday links’. Future generations need never know that today has been a Monday.



This is a single Cartoon Blog entry, posted by Dave on Monday, December 17th, 2007 at 6:19 pm.

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11 Responses to “Scarf, etc”


  1. Mary Sue says:

    Cavalcade of Bad Nativities II: Electric Baby Jesus Boogalo.

  2. ginny says:

    Those Southwark pilgrims look like my kind of party people. Must remember to look them up on my next trip to England!

  3. basso says:

    Thanks, Mary Sue.

    Sara of goingjesus is on her second Cavalcade. Accept no substitutes!

  4. Dave says:

    I have updated the post to include the Going Jesus Cavalcades. I had no idea there was so much competition in the Cavalcade of Bad nativities industry.

  5. Russ says:

    What does everyone think of the so-called ‘Chav Nativity’ - link is http://theconnexion.net/wp/?p=3254

    Opinion seems divided on this irony-heavy representation, but I think there’s some reality lurking in the vicinity …

  6. Phelim McIntyre says:

    Dave - when I first saw the picture I thought you had left the scarf on a train and these were where it had been spotted.

  7. rosalind says:

    Have you left a pair of jeans in our church? A pair found in the vestry after a school carol service…..

  8. Gregory Porilo says:

    The simple answer is not to take your scarf off when shopping! I can honestly say that I’ve never left my scarf anywhere because there’s absolutely no reason to take it off. Umbrellas are another matter though. If I had a penny for each umbrella I’ve left somewhere, I’d surely be a millionaire by now!!!

  9. chris clark says:

    as a supreme typo maker I feel I can’t cast any stones but what is does “litte bit latter” mean :-)

  10. Ricky says:

    I’m just wondering what you were doing in Lairg trying to do Christmas shopping? And, indeed, why you should have taken your scarf off when you were there? ;o)

  11. Dave says:

    Chris - thanks. Irritatingly I had already corrected the type, but uploaded an old version.

    Ricky - sometimes one has to go to several places to find what one is looking for.

    Gregory - I stop for coffee.

    Rosalind - it depends what size.

    Phelim - Like Gregory I tend to leave umbrellas on the train. There is one going back and forth between London and Southend even as we speak.