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."
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“No wonder ex cathedra definitions are so rare!”
Tuesday, a peasent wearing short pants inspected the Giant’s cottage in his search for Trogdor, The Burninator.
“Stunt man who argued with Peter Jackson on the set of his latest movie.”
Common sense tells a person that this chair should have been made ladder-back.
After years of dreaming of the day he’d get to sit at the “big table” at Thanksgiving, Johnny finally learned the true meaning of the phrase “be careful what you with for”.
Oops. Meant to type “be careful what you wish for”.
***nothing funny to add alert***
But this photo caption reminds me of ‘Land of the Giants’. They don’t make ’em like that anymore, unfortunately.
God Bless.
A novice member of the Flying Karamazov Brothers contemplates the juggling stunt which ultimately causes his demise.
Hm…I wonder if it’s also…yep, here it is: “Made in China”.
[Steve Martin voice] Let’s get small! [/Steve Martin voice]
” Stupid Genie !
I said one Huge Hearty CHEER for….”
Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party attempts to increase his stature.
Like ukok, I’ve nothing funny to add here, either. But this reminds me of a story I can’t resist sharing!
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr, the silent film actor, was fond of big parties. He also liked practical jokes. He had one room in the mansion (I’m not sure if it was in Pickfair or not) designed (by studio folks, apparently) to look like it was upside down: lighting fixtures on the floor, furniture on the ceiling, doors out of reach on 14 foot walls, etc. If someone got so drunk that they passed out, Doug would put them in the *upside-down* room until they woke up, quite literally, on the ceiling! I’ve always found that very funny.
Americanism inculturates the Church.
1. REMOVE the Tabernacle and HIDE it.
2. Put a chair in its place.
3. Get a bigger chair.
4. Get a Bigger Chair.
5. Get a BIGGER CHAIR.
“Speaking SUB CATHEDRA.”
“Speaking SUB CATHEDRA” . . . isn’t that simply “a posteriori”?
The chair designer reallizes too late that inches are represented by [“] and not [‘].
(shoutout to the “Stonehenge” gag in Spinal Tap, except it’s in reverse?)
“Shakerism almost extinct, decides to go out with a bang.”