Homer Simpson meets the Cerne Abbas Giant
I'm not much of one to jump on the bandwagon when Pagans get their loincloths in a bunch. But if this is the new wave in marketing, I think we need to expand it into larger markets, and what larger market than the Catholic Church? Let's put a statue of Homer in St. Stanislaus; he can stand right next to St. Maximilian Kolbe.
Really...what were they thinking?
Comments
Posted by: jbennetsmith@hotmail.com
Posted on: July 18, 2007 11:31 PM
And where, every Monday evening, he would be heard to be singing, B-I=N=G=O...
And of couse blue haired Marge would be a good match for blue robed Virgin Mary, don't you think?
Quite seriously, the RC church closest to me has St. Max as its patron saint. (And they apparently do refer to him, and it, as "St. Max.") Why they chose a Polack for an area that is overwhelmingly Hispanic, I don't know. It's not close to Century Village--where one could at least theorize one or two of the residents there had met him, in Auschwitz or before. Although walking by there one Easter Sunday as the main mass let out, I overheard two women talking in Hebrew as they went to their car.
Posted by: Jeffrey Quick
Posted on: July 19, 2007 05:46 PM
I dunno why Fr. Kolbe...maybe the Hispanics are afraid they'll be next. At St. Stan's (Stanislaus), there's a whole row of various toga-wearing saints, and then at the end, this nerd with thick glasses: St. Max Kolbe. Nothing so much fun at the Mac.