Thread killer

[LEWTFL]

Everybody must get sconed.

[rhvfd1214]

How about an ice cream scone?

[firecat1]

Let s/he who is without cin{namon}, cast the first scone.

[rhvfd1214]

Leave no scone unturned.

And the biscuit sang... "Papa was a rolling scone..."

Make no buns about it...

[firecat1]

ARRRGGGGGG!!!
That blankety-blank commercial won't stop running thru my head!!!

[rhvfd1214]

That's odd, I have the commercial for Dunkin Donuts... "Time to make the Donuts" ... going through my head on a regular basis. Too bad I don't know how to make the donuts.

I'll take 6 lemon filled and a dozen sugar glazed...

[MalahatTwo7]

I concur 100%!

[firecat1]

Which online newspaper did you get the Mutts strip from? You know I have to have it!!!

[firecat1]

Just had to share the happies with y'all.......

[rhvfd1214]

And just like rabid rabbits, they began to multiply...

More and more, until one day, Cats ruled the Earth...

[MalahatTwo7]

And just like rabid rabbits, they began to multiply...

More and more, until one day, Cats ruled the Earth...

{music intro} And the Cat came back the very next day...

[MalahatTwo7]

Biblical bedroom billboard rouses New Zealanders’ ire

By Miral Fahmy, Reuters December 17, 2009 5:02 AM

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A billboard sponsored by a local Anglican church that shows Joseph and Mary in bed has set tongues wagging in New Zealand, with the Catholic Church condemning it as others found it funny.

The controversial billboard, erected by St Matthew-in-the-City Church in Auckland, shows a dejected-looking Joseph under bedcovers beside a sad Mary. Underneath the image, a caption reads: “Poor Joseph. God is a hard act to follow.”

Church archdeacon Glynn Cardy said the billboard was intended to lampoon the literal interpretation of the Christmas conception story and highlight the real significance of the festival.

“What we’re trying to do is to get people to think more about what Christmas is all about,” Cardy told local media.

“Is it about a spiritual male God sending down sperm so a child would be born, or is it about the power of love in our midst as seen in Jesus?”

The billboard has so far drawn the ire of the Catholic Church in New Zealand, which called it “inappropriate” and “disrespectful.” It was also condemned as offensive by family values group Family First.

“The church can have its debate on the Virgin birth and its spiritual significance inside the church building, but to confront children and families with the concept as a street billboard is completely irresponsible and unnecessary,” Family First director Bob McCoskrie told news website stuff.co.nz.

The website also showed a picture of the billboard daubed in brown paint, saying it had been defaced a few hours after it was put up outside the Anglican St Matthew-in-the-City Church.

Archdeacon Cardy said the church had also received several emails and phonecalls about the advert, which he said was exactly what it had been intended to do — provoke debate about one of the most important festivals on the Christian calendar.

“The true importance of Christmas is in the radical hospitality Jesus offered to the poor, the despised, women, children, and the sick, and says: ’this is the essence of God’,” Cardy said.

© Copyright (c) The Ottawa Citizen

PHOTOCREDIT:

A handout picture released by the St Matthew-in-the-City Anglican church shows a billboard erected outside the church depicting the biblical figures of the Virgin Mary and Joseph in bed together on December 17, 2009. A church billboard showing an apparently naked Virgin Mary and Joseph in bed together has sparked the ire of conservative Christians in New Zealand.Photograph by: St Matthew-in-the-City, AFP/Getty Images

[rhvfd1214]

Sometimes, it is better not to comment on a story. No billboard comments here.



but..

nah..


better not...

still, a funny idea...

[LEWTFL]

Merry Christmas.

[rhvfd1214]

Christmas has come and gone. It will be a New Year soon. What's for supper?

[rm1524]

Christmas has come and gone. It will be a New Year soon. What's for supper?

Leftovers.

[rhvfd1214]

I was the visitor on Christmas, so I didn't have leftovers. I guess there is always spam and eggs!

[rhvfd1214]

Wow, a New Year. What was wrong with the last one? Did the warranty go out?

[RspctFrmCalgary]

Better keep our favorite threads active or the WT will come along and nuke them.

[MalahatTwo7]

Fortunately I don't require this coverage.