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NOTE: This is actually a giant stone head from a statue of the Roman Emperor Marcus Julius Philippus–a.k.a., Philip the Arab–who ruled in the mid 200s. The head dates from his time and was recently (this October) found in a shipwreck off Corsica. Philip had a policy of toleration toward Christians and was said by some (including Eusebius) to have been the first Christian emperor (perhaps secretly? SEE HERE FOR MORE INFO).
Still, that’s no reason we can’t make fun of this picture!
Starting captions:
1) Easter Island’s Realist Phase
2) Stone Man Buried In Sand By Stone Children
3) World’s Biggest Bookend
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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“all I wanted was a shave”
“Why does Medusa have to come down to the beach?”
[camera pans back and left; C. HESTON dismounts horse…]
Aw you beat me to it Clayton.
“YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP!”
Beachhead.
The old stone man and the sea.
This has not been my day. First Medusa turns me into stone and then some kids bury me up to my neck.
Clayton and GregC:
CAMERA PULLS BACK AND PANS LEFT. CARLTONUS HESTONUS DISMOUNTS FROM HORSE AND EXCLAIMS:
“Vos facitis eas! Vos denique facitis eas! Damnamini vos omnium ad inferum!”
Planet of the Non-Romans!
Oh Stonechick, Stonechick, why is your cruise ship so delayed?
My body lies over the ocean – my body lies over the sea. Oh bring back, bring back, bring back my body to me.