Bought a cheap Manger from China, and it has FOUR wise men!

[symbolman]

Now I was raised catholic, and while I still suffer from vestigial pangs from those ALTARED BOY days, I try not to get too into it, but since I have a two year old and kids like Action figures I thought I'd grab a cheap manger scene and throw it under the tree, try to let the kid know that there's more to Christmas since the Christians COMMANDEERED the Holiday (as it was originally Solstice, etc), and that BABY JESUS, wasn't such a bad guy..

It's a cute story, no real Blood, and the boy likes little babies, so what the hell.

But when I looked closer I noticed that there were FOUR Wise Men. Maybe they throw an extra one in, in case you bust one, a spare wise man, or maybe they are all Buddists, or doing the whole Govt is GOD there Scene, but I'm pretty goddamned sure that from what I was taught there were THREE..

Moe, Larry and Curly :)

I don't know whether to be outraged or just have a good laugh.. should I take it back to the store and tell them I feel bad, that they included an extra wise man that I didn't pay for?

Kinda funny really.. maybe I should sell anorexic Budda statues to Asia :)

[SpiralHawk]

1. Wow - the New Improved Magi !

Would you consider loaning one to Commander George AWOL Bush?

He is short a whole bunch of wise men...

[madokie]

2. a testament to the times

Peace

[Hubert Flottz]

3. Break it open and smoke some!

If it came from Home Despot!

Edit...A christmas Story!

Drugs Found In Home Depot Vanity

Large Load Of Marijuana And Cocaine Found By Massachusetts Plumber

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/14/national/main1712214.shtml?source=RSS&attr=U.S._1712214

[jmowreader]

32. Can you think of a better way to run drugs?

From what I remember, the vanity was made in Texas and shipped to Massachusetts.

Personally, I think it's a perfect way to run large quantities of dope. You get a guy in at the cabinetry plant that makes these. You get a guy in at The Home Depot on the night crew. The guy in Texas puts the dope into the vanity, marks the box somehow to show which one has special bonus merchandise in it and ships it to Massachusetts. The guy in Mass puts the vanity on the salesfloor and calls his buddy to tell him it's down. The buddy comes to the store, buys the vanity, removes the special bonus merchandise and returns the vanity. We get returned vanities all the time, and if nothing's wrong with them we sell them to someone else. If you didn't do this every week, no one would catch on. You could pull this scheme for years.

Well, you could until an actual contractor buys the vanity you're using to move drugs from Texas to Massachusetts in.

[flyingfysh]

4. China is wiser than we are?

[mcscajun]

5. Is one the twin of another? Or have they included a new character?

Shemp, perhaps? :rofl:

[stansnark]

6. was three - now four ....like gillette ?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. "I still suffer from vestigial pangs from those ALTARED BOY days"

Unable to sit down? (Sorry, I had to. It was stronger than me.)

[Swagman]

8. love ":Altered Boys" quip !..maybe they had an agent/manager

with them ?

[symbolman]

43. Heh

That's what I named my first boombox album, ALTERED BOY, figured catholics would get it..

Luckily our priest was a complete drunk and couldn't consumate, so we were virgins when we left Catholic school, but some were alkies from hitting the holy wine in the basement before mass twice a day :)

[Boomer]

9. Are you sure it isn't Joseph?

Of course, Joseph was far from a wise man. In fact, he was a bit dim if you ask me. That story of Mary's about where little Jesus came from -- yeah, right, I can just imagine if I tried THAT story with any guy.

[OilemFirchen]

10. Perhaps...

It's the three wise men and one wise guy?

[maine_raptor]

11. Well, That's 4 more

than Bush has surrounding him.

[hamerfan]

12. Maybe you got

the "adjusted for inflation" version. Everything has gone up since 3 BC.
Merry Everything to all,
dumpbush

[China_cat]

13. Maybe the Chinese know something

the writers of the bible don't want told? Like one of the wise men brought his partner of 20 years with him?

[DemoTex]

14. Lagniappe

:hi:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

15. Was on a shepherd?

Or were they all bearing gifts?

[symbolman]

44. Nope, not a shepard

all four of them are bearing gifts, and as for the dope thing, take a look at those cheap mangers, I swear they are coated with what I SWEAR looks like you could smoke it and have a pretty good Christmas :)

The fourth guy always gets short shrift, as indicated here, Zeppo, Shemp, etc.. guess that's why Power Bands only have three guys in them :)

[TheCowsCameHome]

16. One must be the import/export agent.

[gratuitous]

17. The Bible doesn't specify the number of magi

Matthew's account lists three gifts that they brought, but doesn't say how many magi there were. From the plural form of the noun, at least two. But there's no upper limit, so four is as good a guess as three, if you're into that whole literal truth of biblical stories thing.

[shadowknows69]

18. Was one of them orange with rocks for skin

One, stretchable, one invisible and one that burst into flames? Because I got a "Fantastic Four" action figure set for my step son and all he got was three old guys with beards and a donkey with a Dr. Doom mask. :shrug:

[gollygee]

19. ROFL

:D

[baldguy]

20. Gaspar, Melchior, Balthasar

and Harpo?

[Pab Sungenis]

31. No, the fourth would be

Zeppo.

[left is right]

21. according to ancient and nearly lost legend

there were 4 wise men--the fourth tried to present the Christ child with FRUITCAKE and was not allowed to stay for the group picture

[peekaloo]

22. Ah you got the prequel version.

He was traded for a Savior to be named later.

[sam sarrha]

23. not only that but the "Wise Men" were seeking the virgin birth of Mithra.. not Jesus.. or..LINK>

http://www.truthbeknown.com/sonsofgod.htm just keep going till you get to ...com/index101.htm then click on the black book with 3 faces on it.. sons of god.. the address gets hijacked by the home page

http://www.truthbeknown.com/sonofgod.htm

scroll down to the red..what else has the church been hiding from you..

and click> the historical Jesus

[Gidney N Cloyd]

24. Shemp always gets overlooked.

[Historic NY]

25. he is the gift toter

someone had to carry the stuff.

[burythehatchet]

26. I ordered a picture of Buddha...and he was wearing an iPod!

[Sabriel]

27. That's what you get for outsourcing wisdom.

Must be the brain drain thing.

Or else they've adjusted wisdom for the declining dollar.

(Speaking of wisdom, edited for missing word.)
Happy holidays, everyone!

[prole_for_peace]

28. its baby jesus' pr agent.

or spinmeister.

[Jack Rabbit]

29. The story of the Wise Men is from Matthew

He doesn't specify the number.

Somehow over time this was altered to three kings. That's has to be silly. Of all the kings in history, there were not three wise men among them.

I read somewhere years ago that St. Francis of Assisi thought 12 should be the proper number.

[Pab Sungenis]

30. One is a government observer.

Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, and Agent Mike!

[opihimoimoi]

33. Merry Christmas to Mikey and Gang...4 wise guys ehhh?

Oh Well could be worse....mighta been 478589 of them...all Publicans who vote R

Its a good year...we got back the 2 houses and set Bush a lesson he still trying to get over with...His approval rating is in the 30's...for the escalation move...11%....Bush is fkd with no where to go...except BOMB BOMB BOMB IRAN

[symbolman]

48. Hey!

Mele Kalikimaka to you and yours too my friend!

I saw a scientist today on CNN saying that Iran has mismanaged it's oil reserves and will most likely RUN OUT of oil by 2015, he said the wisest course of action would be to just SIT TIGHT and let them run out..

Of course scientists will all be place in Gitmo if Bush got his way, but he WON'T, not now, because on Jan 4th the world will get a LOT more interesting, and I'll be glued to the tv set watching the Dems announce all the Investigations, YEAH BABY!

Peace my brother!

[htuttle]

34. I've heard that with six, you get egg roll!

[mitchtv]

35. Simple, a spy

besides China will soon rewrite history

[frylock]

36. the extra one is actually a sub..

you really need to rotate your wise men. Give them a little break by rotating that fourth man into the nativity scene line from time to time.

[karlrschneider]

37. Uh, Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Targnan?

:D

[AngryOldDem]

38. A built-in replacement part....

...should one get lost.

[Deja Q]

40. Or stolen, the media looooooooves reporting the stolen babyJesus story.

:crazy:

[symbolman]

49. I'm actually thinking of yanking the baby jesus

next year and replacing it with a plastic food item, if I can find a cool looking one small enough..

A Hamburger.

For years I've been wanting to find religious themes, like crowds adoring the sky as Christ floats down, light beaming everywhere and paste a Hamburger in there -- you could do a whole art show with that...

Welcome to america, hell, a Walmart might work just as well :)

[rug]

39. But the fourth one is holding a lottle red book.

[lastknowngood]

41. I picked up a snow globe with a menorah in it and it plays

Silent Night. I loved it and got one for my Jewish friends it's a great piece of cultural dichotomy.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

42. Yeah, And?

Don't know whether to be outraged? Are you for real? :rofl:

Maybe it was an extra one. Put one in the drawer or garbage and *voila*, problem solved.

But you actually had considered being outraged? :rofl: Talk about melodrama! LOL

[demobabe]

47. You don't understand satire, do you?

Geesh, and here it is the time of year we're supposed to promote peace towards mankind on top of it all...

Class act there, buddy.

[symbolman]

45. Some hilarous answers here

Enjoyed them all :)

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year - or is there a war on New Year now?

[lonestarnot]

46. Reincarnation of Mao Se Tung? (sp?)