Friday Photo Caption

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STARTING CAPTIONS:

1) Uh . . . Is All This Orthodontic Gear Really Necessary?

2) So . . . Like My New Hat?

3) What, This Old Thing? . . . Just Something I Threw On.

4) Red And Gold Are My Favorite Colors. Why Do You Ask?

5) I Know Some Folks Are Into "Noble Simplicity," Put Personally I Prefer Noble Ostentation.

6) What Do You Mean I’m Scaring The Children?

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

15 thoughts on “Friday Photo Caption”

  1. Possible regalia if Anglicans ever institute cardinalesses (or gay cardinals).

  2. 1) “What makeup? I’m not wearing any makeup!”
    2) The winner of the annual Queen Amidala look-alike contest!
    3) Elton John’s wedding gown.
    (I know. I know. I plead Friday.)

  3. Ooohoohoo, Fr. S., that was just wicked. Wickedly funny.
    My caption: And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

  5. Let’s help Pope Benedict XVI in his Petrine Ministry and put our efforts in unifying all cultures, and lead them toward the fullness of the truth and ultimately toward the fullness of the faith.
    Since the blogworld is already so noisy with punditry, musings and the like, let’s try to keep the caricaturing to a minimum. For all you know this lady maybe my Aunt Mei Ling.
    God bless you.

  6. The pilgrim returns from a 5-year journey through the land of Imelda Marcos’ closets, never to be the same.

  7. Lighten up. It’s a Chinese opera costume, and the lady (or possibly guy, depending on casting) is made up to denote that she’s a young, beautiful, and sweet sort of person. If I knew more about costuming conventions, I could probably tell you what kind of part it is. My favorite ones are the Horse General parts — female soldiers — of which Mu Lan is one.
    Now, we would make this exact sort of photo caption comments about a western opera costume, wouldn’t we? And even Cacciaguida wouldn’t take any offense, now would he? So why shouldn’t we make a couple of comments here?
    Especially since Chinese opera has a formidable comedy tradition…and Auntie Mei Ling may well be starring in such a comedy. In which case her lines will be a great deal earthier than anything said here, I guarantee.
    Fun fact: Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung both started out in the same Chinese opera school/company as kids training to play the very acrobatic Monkey King parts. (Their teacher was unfortunately a big one for physical and verbal abuse, and was also infamous for using a stir-crazy turtle to prop up one of his bedposts.)

  8. Note to Cardinals-in-waiting: THIS is what “full choir dress” is SUPPOSED to look like!

  9. Liam, just you wait! Perhaps by the time those wannabe-cardinals no longer have to wait, this will only be PARTIAL choir dress.

  11. Maureen,
    Your comments well taken. It may well be a comedy; however, it is not so much what the photo is all about nor what kind of earthly dialogue/monologue Aunt Mei Ling is delivering but what kind of reaction the posting invites.
    Yes, I am lightened up – by faith. And I am all for a hearty laugh but not at the expense of the faithful forum who may later find themselves regretting what they’ve said.
    Thank you for your candor. God bless you.

  12. G.K. Chesterton had some things to say about being amused by foreigners:
    “…it is perfectly natural to be amused at a Dutchman for being Dutch or a Chinaman for being Chinese. Where they are wrong is that they take their own amusement seriously.
    (… )
    Hence in international relations there is far too little laughing, and far too much sneering.
    People sometimes act in funny ways and dress in funny clothes, and it is perfectly natural to laugh. I would expect that great numbers of people in other lands would find me pretty amusing. I would hope to be able to laugh with them.

  13. Vato! Imelda Marcos is into SHOES. The one who’s into headgear is Queen Elizabeth, Head of the Anglicans (“Habent mamam”).

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