I Can Has Re4mation?
by Ted Slater on 11/01/2007 at 12:12 PM
Seems The Scriptorium Daily: Middlebrow's Fred Sanders has been spending a bit too much time on "I Can Has Cheezburger?" LOL.
Seems The Scriptorium Daily: Middlebrow's Fred Sanders has been spending a bit too much time on "I Can Has Cheezburger?" LOL.
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I needed this. I've been writing about some heavy stuff today, so this post is perfect. I love the I'm too sexy for my pope one, I thikn these might need to be t shirts!
This is hilarious! I love the two on Calvin and Henry VIII. I'm with Adam- these should be shirts!
Oh, this is HILARIOUS!!!
I especially love the Thomas Cranmer one, about the Common Prayer book.
EXCELLENT, and the ones on the site itself are brilliant as well.
And they say internet-geek-applied-to-Reformation-leaders-Christian-appropriate humour can be funny...
I LOVE this! I already spend too much time on the Cheezburger site, and this reformation spoof is great. Makes me want to know who all those guys are, although I can figure most of it out by the captions. My favorite is "invisible communion!" I love the Invisible ____ pictures the best! Ok, now everyone knows I'm a HUGE nerd...
Need to also do something on Calvinist Comics. Vol. 1, No. 1 had a '40s noirish cover with a man saying to a pretty woman, "Your name must be Grace, because you're irresistible."
The "I Can Has Cheezburger" humor is amongst the stupidest going around.
How sad that someone would desecrate church fathers with it.
"Middlebrow" is grossly generous. This is even below "lowbrow" humor.
I'm so amused. A delightful anecdote to my far too serious research paper on the Irish patron saints. (I kan haz re4mashun irony nao).
I'm loving this. Not that I like Henry VIII, but his is one of the best :).
Andrew, you're free to not find this funny, but at least let the rest of us get in our chuckles. Nothing worse to kill the humor than a kill joy who hates it when others laugh at something he doesn't find humorous....when the humor isn't inappropriate.
This is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. I almost laughed until I cried. If you don't think this is funny, you need either to learn more church history or lighten up.
Martin Luther called himself a jackass and depicted the Pope as a human ass playing a harp—I think at least one of our revered fathers of the Reformation would laugh along with us.
Didn't catch this before, re: Calvinist Comics:
"...with a man saying to a pretty woman, 'Your name must be Grace, because you're irresistible.'"
To say such a thing, he better be officially courting her! ;)
Can anyone tell me if they find this funny? I felt like being random...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/carrtoondragon/luther.png
Here's a similar site I've gotten a kick out of, though perhaps it's a bit more intent on division.
The images (in the style of the awesome parody site Despair.com) poke fun at the Emergent church movement and its playing loose with theology/sacrament/etc:
http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/posters.htm
thoughts?
Josh, bravo on finding those, man! I loved the last one the best:
"Wonder: Hath God indeed said?" heh heh heh. Great one to send a thinking emergent (oxymoron right there) into apoplexy.
Whoa - here we go!
LOLcat Bible Translation Project
"Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs, but he did not eated dem." Genesis 1:1
etc.
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1. Dan Gill said the following at 12:26 PM on Nov 1:
Is this supposed to be humorous? It fails with me. I'm not offended, just not entertained.
2. Adam Sloope said the following at 12:27 PM on Nov 1:
I needed this. I've been writing about some heavy stuff today, so this post is perfect. I love the I'm too sexy for my pope one, I thikn these might need to be t shirts!
3. Seth M said the following at 12:33 PM on Nov 1:
Notice all but one has an awesome beard... there must be some corellation.
4. John D. said the following at 12:44 PM on Nov 1:
Women go crazy for a sharp-dressed Calvinist.
(For any ZZ Top fans)
5. Kathleen said the following at 12:45 PM on Nov 1:
This is hilarious! I love the two on Calvin and Henry VIII. I'm with Adam- these should be shirts!
6. John D. said the following at 12:46 PM on Nov 1:
I am serious theologian.
This is serious thread.
7. DT said the following at 12:51 PM on Nov 1:
Love it. Anything cheezburger-ish gets a thumbs up from me.
8. Bohan M. said the following at 12:53 PM on Nov 1:
Hahaha, oh, it is funny. I am saving these for future lolz :-P
9. Michele said the following at 1:34 PM on Nov 1:
Oh, this is HILARIOUS!!!
I especially love the Thomas Cranmer one, about the Common Prayer book.
EXCELLENT, and the ones on the site itself are brilliant as well.
10. Andrew R. (aka Canadian Boy) said the following at 1:37 PM on Nov 1:
And they say internet-geek-applied-to-Reformation-leaders-Christian-appropriate humour can be funny...
11. Matthew said the following at 2:23 PM on Nov 1:
John D., your comment is the best. You should make that into a cheezburger picture.
12. Loris said the following at 2:24 PM on Nov 1:
I'm absolutely DYING! This is classic.
13. nikki said the following at 2:31 PM on Nov 1:
I LOVE this! I already spend too much time on the Cheezburger site, and this reformation spoof is great. Makes me want to know who all those guys are, although I can figure most of it out by the captions. My favorite is "invisible communion!" I love the Invisible ____ pictures the best! Ok, now everyone knows I'm a HUGE nerd...
14. tom said the following at 2:49 PM on Nov 1:
Need to also do something on Calvinist Comics. Vol. 1, No. 1 had a '40s noirish cover with a man saying to a pretty woman, "Your name must be Grace, because you're irresistible."
15. Tami said the following at 2:49 PM on Nov 1:
I like the Cranmer one, and teh William Farel (up on the original site).
16. Andrew R. (aka Canadian Boy) said the following at 3:18 PM on Nov 1:
I wasn't clear enough:
This isn't even close to funny.
17. Bill said the following at 3:56 PM on Nov 1:
The "I Can Has Cheezburger" humor is amongst the stupidest going around.
How sad that someone would desecrate church fathers with it.
"Middlebrow" is grossly generous. This is even below "lowbrow" humor.
18. Josh B said the following at 5:24 PM on Nov 1:
Dour, humorless commentz.
We has them!
19. kaarina said the following at 5:38 PM on Nov 1:
I'm so amused. A delightful anecdote to my far too serious research paper on the Irish patron saints. (I kan haz re4mashun irony nao).
20. James said the following at 1:20 AM on Nov 2:
I'm loving this. Not that I like Henry VIII, but his is one of the best :).
Andrew, you're free to not find this funny, but at least let the rest of us get in our chuckles. Nothing worse to kill the humor than a kill joy who hates it when others laugh at something he doesn't find humorous....when the humor isn't inappropriate.
21. Marie said the following at 5:13 AM on Nov 2:
Ha!! This is hilarious. ^_^
Is it can be T-shirts tiem now plees?
22. Molly said the following at 6:02 AM on Nov 2:
This is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. I almost laughed until I cried. If you don't think this is funny, you need either to learn more church history or lighten up.
23. Jeffrey J. Stables said the following at 1:48 PM on Nov 2:
Martin Luther called himself a jackass and depicted the Pope as a human ass playing a harp—I think at least one of our revered fathers of the Reformation would laugh along with us.
24. Tami said the following at 2:48 PM on Nov 2:
Didn't catch this before, re: Calvinist Comics:
"...with a man saying to a pretty woman, 'Your name must be Grace, because you're irresistible.'"
To say such a thing, he better be officially courting her! ;)
25. Jorden said the following at 12:06 AM on Nov 3:
Can anyone tell me if they find this funny? I felt like being random...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/carrtoondragon/luther.png
26. Becca said the following at 5:53 PM on Nov 3:
More: (note: I made none of these)
Luther
Lewis and Chesterton
Aristotle and Aquinas
Mary Wollstonecraft
Voltaire
Jean-Paul Marat
27. Leah said the following at 7:21 PM on Nov 3:
bwahahahaha... i'd totally wear a shirt with one of these on :D
28. joshMshep said the following at 10:23 PM on Nov 4:
Here's a similar site I've gotten a kick out of, though perhaps it's a bit more intent on division.
The images (in the style of the awesome parody site Despair.com) poke fun at the Emergent church movement and its playing loose with theology/sacrament/etc:
http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/posters.htm
thoughts?
29. James said the following at 6:56 AM on Nov 6:
Josh, bravo on finding those, man! I loved the last one the best:
"Wonder: Hath God indeed said?" heh heh heh. Great one to send a thinking emergent (oxymoron right there) into apoplexy.
30. Becca said the following at 5:39 PM on Nov 27:
Whoa - here we go!
LOLcat Bible Translation Project
"Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs, but he did not eated dem." Genesis 1:1
etc.