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Saturday Night Live could not have come up with something this funny.  The best part is, it’s for real!
I’m pretty safe in assuming that no one over at the Lawrence Welk Show knew what the word “toke” meant.

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My four-year-old just walked into the kitchen, saying this:
“We were at the beach . . . everybody had matching towels . . . “

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(To be sung to AURELIA. HT to Vrouw Jonker for this one.)
Our church is mighty spikey
with smells and bells and chants,
And Palestrina masses
that vex the Protestants.
O happy ones and holy
who fall upon their knees
For solemn Benediction
And mid-week Rosaries.
Though with a scornful wonder
men see our clergy, dressed
In rich brocaded vestments
as slowly they process;
Yet saints [...]

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Yes, parents really used to dress their children this way.? This is why those of us who grew up in the ’70s are the way we are.? Note the references to the Sears Put-On Shop.? How I grew to loathe that “Put-On Shop” logo.? And lest you think it was just Sears that was hawking [...]

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You need to see this.
You can also follow the links to previous bad nativities and other goodies.
HT to Andy.

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It’s been a long, long time since I’d seen this.
Embedding has been turned off, so you’ll have to follow the link.

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Especially to all the brass players who read this blog. And to those who have any sense of pitch whatsoever. And pretty much everyone else. It is like driving by a really gruesome car wreck. You know you really shouldn’t look, but you do anyway.

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Because the Harry Haters and Chick Tract distributors seem to be working overtime these days, here’s a blast from the past for you:
Seasonal “Favorites” from CBD.
Enjoy.? In a strange, unenjoyable way.

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It all started today at lunch. (We have a covered dish meal every Sunday after worship.) At one point, Brad leaned over from the next table and asked me, “Why does Velveeta not mold?”
My first reaction was to look at my plate and ascertain (when I get tired of using “ascertain,” I’ll find [...]

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Courtesy of Kurt Kilpatrick. (Dates corrected for you art history sticklers!)
“Monet died at 86, Degas died at 83, Renoir at 78, Gauguin at 55, Van Gogh at 37 and Seurat at 32, which proves that First Impressionists last the longest.”

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