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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Nativity Figures' Exodus to New World






I received many outraged phone calls about the creche creatures trapped forever in a glass case on Hampshire Street. Apparently some fearless freedom fighter must have facilitated an escape for the holy fugitives.They got only as far as Elm Street. The first photo shows them in situ. Sorry to point out that there is blatant evidence of torture. Look at the electrical devices still stuck in their backs. And what's up with Mary's eyebrows? Their new homeland is not very secure, if you ask me, as they are right out in plain view of the dreaded 'House on Hampshire" from whence they fled. Looks like they 'followed the drinking (and eating) gourd as they are quite a bit larger now. The tireless and tenacious modern day Harriet Tubman made sure that the token Black Wiseman made it along with the suspiciously Ayrian Christmas crowd. Hell, even the animals are all white.(is that a duck on the left?) There is much speculation about how the escape was engineered. Some think it was on this bicycle. If so, it only got them to the corner of Hampshire and Elm. After lashing the bike to a post, the nervous nativity group must have jogged a few door down and are standing out in the open. Hope this blog post doesn't give away their location to their former captors.

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Jim Calandrillo said...

I don't want to get enraged at the messenger, and I do commend your investigative reporting, but I am frankly emotionally overwhelmed by this particular spectacle. In fact you may as well call yourself Jeanne Brown, because I think you've uncovered something far greater than the gypsy trampings of these unfortunate Holy people. I refer to the most recent discovery on papyrus of the lost Book of Mary, which is a strange recounting of the encoded messages in her eyebrows. Scholars are claiming that like Nostradamus she forsaw mankind's folly including all the World and Civil Wars and the rise of American Idol.
No wonder this rag tag group has to keep moving. So much is at stake. Please be careful in your further reportings. You'll notice their enemies have already strung up the bicycle. What a world indeed!

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What happened to the camels?
I'm concerned that they were eaten.

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Re the investment advice, I have this question: "What profiteth a man to gain a whole investment portfolio, if he loses a creche?"

(Not to mention the camels.)

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Yes, Tom, what profit anyone from messing with this creche tableau? And where ARE the camels? Perhaps that's why these hallowed people are walking miles?

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