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Latest in Making Light's ongoing series of religious inscrutabilia: Custom Jesus KING OF KINGS GI Joe action figure. Mary Kay...

Son o' God -- comment #1 from John M. Ford

Mon, 30 Sep 2002 13:02:29 -0500

>> It went for $325.

This round to Cobra Commander, I think.

Though if I were David McCallum, I should be quite put out by all this.

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Posted September 30, 2002 1:02 PM by John M. Ford

Son o' God -- comment #2 from Alan Bostick

Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:21:55 -0500

I thought that eBay prohibited the sale of human body parts and remains. ("The cryogenic container is what is for auction. It just happens to contain a kidney fresh from a tourist in Las Vegas.")

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Posted September 30, 2002 4:21 PM by Alan Bostick

Son o' God -- comment #3 from Mary Kay

Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:49:27 -0500

I should have mentioned when I sent Teresa the url. I found on Feorag NicBride's Pagan Prattle site. All kinds of good relgious excess of all denominations.

MKK

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Posted September 30, 2002 4:49 PM by Mary Kay

Son o' God -- comment #4 from Mitch Wagner

Mon, 30 Sep 2002 20:37:28 -0500

But does Jesus have a Kung Fu Grip(tm)?

(Hmmmm..... I have a feeling this is the worst possible place on the Internet to be posting obscure one-liners based on TV commercials for toys popular on children's TV in the New York Metropolitan Area ca. 1970.)

(Okay, not the worst possible place. An Amish Web site would be the worst.)

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Posted September 30, 2002 8:37 PM by Mitch Wagner

Son o' God -- comment #5 from Ray

Tue, 01 Oct 2002 02:17:59 -0500

TRUE SALVATION CAN'T BE BOUGHT!
TWELVE APOSTLES, THAT'S A LOT!

Doesn't that make you feel more at home, Mitch?

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Posted October 1, 2002 2:17 AM by Ray

Son o' God -- comment #6 from Robert L

Tue, 01 Oct 2002 04:04:31 -0500

Now of course if it were a fantasy novel it would turn out that our hero, a mild-mannered, unassuminng sort of fellow, would order what he thought was a GI Joe version of the Holy Grail, only it would turn out that...

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Posted October 1, 2002 4:04 AM by Robert L

Son o' God -- comment #7 from Alan Hamilton

Tue, 01 Oct 2002 04:07:16 -0500

Worst, in that no one will know what you're talking about? The Kung-Fu Grip™ was a national ad for GI Joe. I prefered the Steve Austin (Six Million Dollar Man, not Stone Cold) action figure, with the ratcheting bionic arm and fisheye-lens bionic eye.

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Posted October 1, 2002 4:07 AM by Alan Hamilton

Son o' God -- comment #8 from Stefan Jones

Tue, 01 Oct 2002 12:15:58 -0500

So, um, if you buy seven of these figures, can they be joined together to form a giant evil-fighting George W. Bush robot?

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Posted October 1, 2002 12:15 PM by Stefan Jones

Son o' God -- comment #9 from John M. Ford

Tue, 01 Oct 2002 12:18:50 -0500

Signs and Wonders, NYC Division:

The Casting Out of the Dodgers

The Sermon in Bryant Park

The Transfiguration of Frank Perdue

The Walk to Governor's Island

St. Thomas Carvel's "Loaf and Fishie Puss"

Restoring the Roman Soldier's Torn Earlobe

Transforming the Water into Egg Cream

"He among you who is without sin, let him think of parking here."

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Posted October 1, 2002 12:18 PM by John M. Ford

Son o' God -- comment #10 from Kip

Tue, 01 Oct 2002 13:28:02 -0500

Thou art the man, verily, and with gas do you cook.

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Posted October 1, 2002 1:28 PM by Kip

Son o' God -- comment #11 from Stefan Jones

Tue, 01 Oct 2002 14:48:33 -0500

"Fishie Puss?"

Don't you mean Cookie Puss, Brother Ford?

Of course, Cookie Puss's face was made from the body of Fudgy the Whale, who's kind of a fish, Biblically speaking.

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Posted October 1, 2002 2:48 PM by Stefan Jones

Son o' God -- comment #12 from Mitch Wagner

Tue, 01 Oct 2002 15:14:26 -0500

Ray.

TRUE SALVATION CAN'T BE BOUGHT!
TWELVE APOSTLES, THAT'S A LOT!

Doesn't that make you feel more at home, Mitch?

Ray - Burma Shave.

Alan - Yep, a ~~doll~~ action figure where the chief play value was you could look through the back of his head! Whose brainstorm was that?

John M. Ford - The miraculous thing about the St. Thomas Carvel "Loaf and Fishie Puss" is that it would be shaped EXACTLY like the clown, Santa, Cookie Puss, and Fudgie the Whale ice cream cakes. (Did the clown have a name? Was Cookie Puss the clown, was the clown and/or Cookie Puss the same thing as the father's day cake? my memory of these points of theology is fading.)

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Posted October 1, 2002 3:14 PM by Mitch Wagner

Son o' God -- comment #13 from Stefan Jones

Tue, 01 Oct 2002 15:31:54 -0500

Mitch: Cookie Puss was an winsome _alien_. Designed to cash in on the popularity of E.T.

I'm pretty sure that Fudgie the Whale was the first; the primal being of which the others are avatars. Cetacean with a Thousand Frosting Schemes.

I miss flying saucers myself.

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Posted October 1, 2002 3:31 PM by Stefan Jones

Son o' God -- comment #14 from John M. Ford

Tue, 01 Oct 2002 21:12:21 -0500

Oh, and almost forgot:

KING TO CITY: RISE UP AND WALK
WHIPSWINGING NAZARENE IN SHEKELFLINGING TEMPLE

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Posted October 1, 2002 9:12 PM by John M. Ford

Son o' God -- comment #15 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Wed, 02 Oct 2002 17:23:38 -0500

I can see it now. There's going to be a whole new round of those stories about the curious object found in a quaint old shop; only now it's going to be bought on eBay.

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Posted October 2, 2002 5:23 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Son o' God -- comment #16 from Mitch Wagner

Wed, 02 Oct 2002 18:03:25 -0500

Of course, if the curious object is found on eBay, rather than the quaint old shop, then you miss out on the musty smell of the shop, the other knicknacks (some of which seem to MOVE strangely when glimpsed out of the corner of the eye), the musty elderly proprietor who mutters to himself in an eldritch tongue, and the fact that, when the protagnoist tries to return to the shop, he finds that it's an empty lot--been empty for years.

But you have the possibility of the following exchange:

WIZARD: "How didst thou find the Sacred Spatula of Sham-Ru? I was unable to acquire it, though I did engage in mortal combat with its dragon guardian and the Eight-Headed Soltort of Shomvath!"

PERKY GIRL APPRENTICE: "Bought it on eBay! And, look, they threw in a set of 'N Sync Bobble-head dolls free!"

(Actually, I think they used a gag like that on the TV show "Angel.")

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Posted October 2, 2002 6:03 PM by Mitch Wagner

Son o' God -- comment #17 from Lenny Bailes

Wed, 02 Oct 2002 20:14:03 -0500

Protagnoist
protagnosis
protagnost(i)
protagnuist
protagnu

....Don't mind me. I usually tape over my recorded episodes of Angel, but I saved the one where Wesley summoned Baron Samedi into an animated BigBoy hamburger sign.

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Posted October 2, 2002 8:14 PM by Lenny Bailes

Son o' God -- comment #18 from Mitch Wagner

Thu, 03 Oct 2002 03:01:26 -0500

"Protagnoist." It's how all the cool kids are spelling it this year.

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Posted October 3, 2002 3:01 AM by Mitch Wagner

Son o' God -- comment #19 from cd skogsberg

Thu, 03 Oct 2002 08:13:06 -0500

Ken Hite wrote about eBay in America's Online Goblin Market, a Suppressed Transmissions essay. Pyramid is well worth the $15 annual subscription cost just for the ST, in my opinion.

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Posted October 3, 2002 8:13 AM by cd skogsberg

Son o' God -- comment #20 from Stefan Jones

Thu, 03 Oct 2002 12:18:10 -0500

I keep waiting for my Amazon Gold Box to offer me something legendary or unusual, such as a Golem, or a pane of slow glass, or 150 frozen sapient coyote zygotes*.

So far it's just had power tools, childrens' clothing, and gourmet cookware.

* For my personal Army of Darkness.

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Posted October 3, 2002 12:18 PM by Stefan Jones

Son o' God -- comment #21 from Christopher Hatton

Thu, 03 Oct 2002 12:36:10 -0500

I wonder if Ebay has a copy of the Protagnostic Gospels?

Who was it who posted a while back about how lawyers are now using Ebay for evidence? Some lawyer bought an unopened pack of [some cigarette brand] from [some important year] so that he could show a jury how it was labeled.

Or was that something I heard on the radio? Memory...rolled trouser bottoms.

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Posted October 3, 2002 12:36 PM by Christopher Hatton

Son o' God -- comment #22 from Dorothy Rothschild

Sat, 05 Oct 2002 03:05:40 -0500

*LOL* That reminds me of a conversation my parents had a few years back:

DAD: I grow old...I grow old....
MOM: Oh god, he's going to cuff his pants again.

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Posted October 5, 2002 3:05 AM by Dorothy Rothschild

Son o' God -- comment #23 from Christopher Hatton

Sat, 05 Oct 2002 09:48:44 -0500

I once wrote a poem that had the following lines in the middle:

I eat peaches, I'm not afraid.
The mermaids sing to me. I try not to listen;
They want me to drown.

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Posted October 5, 2002 9:48 AM by Christopher Hatton

Son o' God -- comment #24 from Kip

Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:10:23 -0500

Behold! He is resin.

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Posted October 30, 2002 12:10 PM by Kip