@Green Witch,
You want scary? Then look at this!
@CalamityJane,
At least they didn't expose a real child to the cigarette smoke.
Here's one I can live without. It's one of those giant inflatable lawn ornaments:
Don't let gungasnake see the Lego one--he'll take that as proof positive that dinosaurs and humans coexisted, so creationism is right and evolution is wrong.
Back twenty years or so ago, before separation of church and state around Xmas took place, Cambridge, MA, my home, always used to put up an almost-life-size creche on Cambridge Common, where George Washington took command of the Continental Army during the Revolution. There's a semi-circular memorial plaza on the Common, and three vintage cannons around the rim of the plaza, pointing inward. They always put up the creche so that baby Jesus in his manger was at the precise focal point where all the cannons were aimed. Never could figure out if it was some kind of political statement or not, but knowing my town I wouldn't be surprised. "Don't move, Jesus, we've got you surrounded. Crawl out with your hands up."
This must be sitting under the FreeDuck family's Christmas tree
Here's the classic theme of vegetable nativity. Jesus is a carrot:
I MUST HAVE the rubber ducky nativity! NOW!! There's a whole website (naturally) devoted to this, the Cavalcade of Bad Nativities at goingjesus.com. I particularly liked their troll nativity, and the nativity kitchen timer, as they say, "When the baby Jesus points to zero, your cookies are done".
This is an another edible theme, but apparently you really can eat it. It's made from S'mores ingredients and Amazon once sold them for about $20
@MontereyJack,
Oh, the Leprechaun one is a must have too!!
@Green Witch,
I think Freud would have something to say about edible baby Jesuses...
mebbe not.
@MontereyJack,
Great site, MJ. The human imagination, inspired and unleashed, is a powerful thing.
rockhead, isn't that what communion is all about?
@Rockhead,
Sometime a s'more is just a s'more.
@Green Witch,
I s'pose. long as you don't use frilly birch sticks with silly bow ties.
(sorry, back to nativities.)
made one from soap once...
hmm, well, that didn't work too well. Google "pictures of Neapolitan Baroque creche at Metropolitan Museum of Art"
@MontereyJack,
It is the Mother of All Nativity scenes:
and that tree is about twenty feet tall
