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Tacky Religious Ornaments And Stuff
Topic Started: Sunday, 3. February 2008, 02:07 (639 Views)
Rose of York
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Do you like ticky tacky tasteless religious tack?
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How about this for tasteless religious tack? I think it is rather comical.

Should I laugh, grit my teeth or cry? I'll opt for laughing.

http://www.threatalertjesus.com/

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I myself am the proud owner of a Lourdes cigarette lighter with built in torch, so I couldn't possibly comment! :wh:
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Feb 3 2008, 01:33 AM
I myself am the proud owner of a Lourdes cigarette lighter with built in torch, so I couldn't possibly comment! :wh:

Cor, go strike a light.

If you lived near me, Pat, I would ask you to name your price, and I would use that lighter whenever "good people" told me to stop smoking. Hey' you gave up smoking for Lent a few years ago, didn't you?

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I'll pass, thank you - on both. :nw:
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How about a talking tombstone? Pre record your message in good time. Lets hope the free batteries are long life.

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The ultimate stocking chiller! This State-side (oh, really?) invention features a standard stone memorial with the bizarre addition of a built-in speaker. A recorded announcement is triggered by invisible beam, so that every time a visitor comes near the grave a metallic voice declares from the headstone...

Hi! I was Jane Smith. I died at 10.15am, Thursday, November 25th 1994. Thanks for coming to see me. Have a nice day.

Shown above is the version with added video, which displays pages of text, photographs, family trees and all the other things you'd just love to browse through while sitting on your loved-one's grave. The price for this tasteful granite-and-bronze memorial? Just $4995.00 (batteries included).


http://www.shipoffools.com/Gadgets/Death/001.html

If that does not appeal, how about this one:

The electronic Glow Grave, with revisable epitaph.

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That is the Glow Grave, all stainless steel, microchips and light pollution..

Best of all, your epitaph, instead of being carved on stone, will be on a LED display. The makers boast that the text can be always modified over a PC interface and be adapted to a certain extent to the needs of the dead one. How exactly the dead are supposed to communicate their changing needs is left to the imagination. Just don't forget to take your personal computer with you.
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Rose of York
Feb 2 2008, 06:43 PM
How about a talking tombstone? 


There really is no limit to the tackiness, is there?

When I die, I do NOT want my offspring to blow a wad on stuff like that. I want payers . . . Masses . . . the more the better. :sotc:
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That "Ship of Fools" is quite the website - for people who prefer disorganized religion to the organized kind.

http://shipoffools.com/Gadgets/Musical/071.html

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Arrrrgh! People actually buy this stuff?

Maybe we should have put this URL as an answer to the "What's wrong with the world?" thread.



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I sometimes get a bit queasy about this stuff and mentioned this on a thread last year. However, it is all part of the glorious excruciating taste that surrounds Catholicism. I've mentioned Gregorian chant and gaudy vestments before and you could add in most of the statues found in our churches and shrines. And yet these same statues inspire devotion and prayer so in the end they become a good thing.

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Feb 3 2008, 12:17 PM
I sometimes get a bit queasy about this stuff and mentioned this on a thread last year. However, it is all part of the glorious excruciating taste that surrounds Catholicism. I've mentioned Gregorian chant and gaudy vestments before and you could add in most of the statues found in our churches and shrines. And yet these same statues inspire devotion and prayer so in the end they become a good thing.

John

Bravo John! :D

Catholicism has a rich vein of gaudiness and tackiness reflecting the great devotion of the common people for Our Lord and Our Blessed Mother! Let us have more of it!

In England of course where gruel is eaten in unheated rooms and folk pore over Country Life by flickering candlelight there is sometimes a tendency for the nose to be slightly elevated when such matters are referred to.


Twas ever thus!


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sorry Rose, I failed miserably on the smoking front! Also, it accidentally got blessed with my other souvenirs! :angel:
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Feb 4 2008, 12:30 AM
Also, it accidentally got blessed with my other souvenirs! :angel:

:D That happened to me - except it was a bar of chocolate. I'm afraid I ate it anyway :huh:

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Feb 4 2008, 12:30 AM
sorry Rose, I failed miserably on the smoking front! Also, it accidentally got blessed with my other souvenirs! :angel:

Hang on, you had us lot praying that you would give up smoking, and you have a cigarette lighter shaped like Our Lady of Lourdes. Somebody is telling you something.

Somebody gave me a plastic bottle full of Lourdes water. It was also a statue of Our Lady of Lourdes. To get at the water, one had to remove the head. I thought that was a bit too tacky.

Helping out at an SVP jumble sale, I found a beautiful Victorian brass crucifix. It was black, it had been painted with Japanese laquer, someone had tried to restore it and failed. An antique restorer advised me to put it outside in a plastic container, cover it with power loo cleaner, boil some vinegar, approach with my fingers gripping my nose, add the vinegar quickly and dash away, fast. The fumes would be poisonous. It worked! The crucifix is shining. I have had it on my wall for about 20 years.
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These are cool. They leave the message all over the beach.

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Somebody gave me a plastic bottle full of Lourdes water. It was also a statue of Our Lady of Lourdes. To get at the water, one had to remove the head. I thought that was a bit too tacky.


I have one of those. (pause while I find it) ..... No, it can't be identical - you don't have to remove her head, only her crown - a blus plastic screw on crown.

Shucks! :blink:

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