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cooby Dec 02 2006 11:02 PM

Those are some baaaaad nativities. http://www.goingjesus.com/cavalcade1.shtml Celebrity wax figures navity? I saw a native american set which featured forest animals in a catalog a few weeks ago. That was pretty bad too.

ScarletKnight41 Dec 02 2006 11:05 PM

This one's pretty bad also -

cooby Dec 02 2006 11:06 PM

Yeah, that's one's really kinda insulting... I mean, a cat or dog Mary and Joseph isn't too bad, but ducks?

TheOldMole Dec 03 2006 07:37 AM

how can you resist this one?

patona314 Dec 03 2006 07:58 AM

I don't know about you, but I never want to have to decide if I should eat the baby Jesus feet-first or head-first. [URL=http://img146.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bakenativityup9.jpg][/URL]

seawolf17 Dec 03 2006 06:48 PM

The duck one actually made me laugh out loud. Good find.

cooby Dec 13 2006 06:37 PM

] resolve not to let "imaginary" internet people, other drivers, and anyonelse get the best of me in 2007. Darn it I'm 30 I should freaking act it! Steve, if you can figure out a way to do this, let me know. I'm just a tad past thirty and those things bother me too.

TheOldMole Dec 15 2006 11:36 AM

This is an answer-ask lyrics spinoff, for Cooby: ]ames Russell Lowell, who was later to serve as editor of The Atlantic Monthly and the North American Review during the period of the Civil War, and then as American minister to Spain and ambassador to England, in 1845 as a young man, was writing a poem that quickly became popular and we now know as the hymn, “Once to Every Man and Nation”. You know the lines: “Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side” Lowell wrote these words to protest the U.S. war with Mexico. The “evil side” was the war with Mexico, a main purpose of which was to expand the territory of the slaveholding South; “truth” was to be found in opposing that war. It is the closing stanza of the poem, less well known today than the first, that gained significance as the Civil War approached: “Though the cause of evil prosper, yet the truth alone is strong; Though her portion be the scaffold, and upon the throne be wrong; Yet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own.”

cooby Dec 15 2006 06:58 PM

It's a powerful song, and it's helped me make some wise choices in my lifetime. Thanks for the history lesson; I did not know any of that. I have not heard or sung it in many years (it was left out of the new Lutheran Hymnal in 1978) but I have never forgotten it

TheOldMole Dec 15 2006 07:30 PM

I remember it from my school days, all the way through. And my school days were a long time ago.

cooby Dec 15 2006 08:52 PM

Me too. So was 1978 :)

TheOldMole Dec 15 2006 09:05 PM

For my grandson born in 2000, the Reagan era will be as far in his past as the beginning of the Roosevelt era was for me. Nixon's resignation will be as far back as the onset of World War I; the Kennedy administration as far back as McKinley for me.

DocTee Dec 15 2006 11:21 PM

If you REALLY want to feel old, try this game I learned in grad school: Choose an event that happened in your lifetime (Mets championship in 1986)... then, see how long ago it happened (20 years)... now... realize all the things that happened in the same span (20 yrs) BEORE said event... Wow-- the Mets last championship was closer to their first one than to this season...My birth is closer to the start of WW2 than the end of the 20th century... It's sobering

cooby Dec 15 2006 11:24 PM

Geez, you're right

Rockin' Doc Dec 15 2006 11:54 PM

Man, you two are old.

Yancy Street Gang Dec 16 2006 07:05 AM

DocTee wrote: Wow-- the Mets last championship was closer to their first one than to this season...My birth is closer to the start of WW2 than the end of the 20th century... It's sobering And my birth is closer to Charles Lindberg's flight in the Spirit of St. Louis than it is to the end of the 20th Century. Sheesh. I remember when Lindbergh's flight was 50 years ago. Now the Dodgers' and Giants' moves to California are almost 50 years ago.

patona314 Dec 16 2006 07:12 AM

I'm not as old as you guys posting here, but old enough to say that my first baseball memory is the willie mays/ bud harrelson play at the plate in the 73 series. i know, i know, i'm not THAT old, it just feels like a long time ago.... and my knees hurt.

cooby Jan 12 2007 05:20 PM

]Neither one plays an important role in my life, but as a thing, suede is probably "more fun" than corderoy, so I'll go with suede. But corderoy does make a fun noise when you walk...