There are millions of quips, japes and jests that I could insert here but since 99.9999999999% of them are obscene, discretion is the better part of valor and all that. I guess I could say something about how
THOSE COLORS CLASH LIKE A SON OF A...get a grip, Johnson!! Deep breaths, buddy!! Now
do you see what running a site like this can do to a person?
UPDATE: Several commenters have stated that this photograph is apparently a fake. So I guess it says something about the awful state of vestments these days that my reaction to that news is that I would find such a disgraceful ensemble to be totally plausible.
27 comments:
Synod must have been off the chain this year.
It's a fake. In the original photo, the Bishop (Michael Bird of the Anglican Church in Canada) is wearing a white mitre.
It's obviously a fake - turn it upside down. Not even a good fake!
Seems like more of a truism than a fake to me.
That can't be a mitre! It's a pair of panties, and if you turned it around you might even find out the day of the week it's intended to be worn.
But thanks for the laugh!
I got nuttin'.
Except sadness.
Ditto what Susan said. It's a fake. Trust me. I've made a few professional fakes in my time.
The long lost Mitre of the Lower Slobvolian Patriarch, St. Knestorius of the Knickers.
We sorted this one in a discussion group over in the facebook universe. Beneath this photoshoppery, there lies an understated green Mitre accented in white.
Still, this one can't top the Oven Mitt that shall not be named...
At first I thought he'd been rooting around in Katie's Mitre Closet, but on closer inspection I agree it's a faked pic.
Forget about granny's Depends on the wrong end (why would anybody do this?), that chasuble looks about as cheesy and chintzy as they come.
The original, un-diapered, photo can be found here: http://www.stdandp.com/photos/862_215
Now I'm starting to wonder what other photos here have been faked.
The source seems to be David ?'s blog, Anglican Samizat dedicated to ridiculing religion in general rather than just its vestments in particular. Other photoshopped pictures of Bishop Bird show the bishop in sunglasses or with $$ on his miter. Don't know what David has against +Bird but it may be connected with ANIC, whatever splinter group that may be.
I thought it was a really bad tea cosy. It iis consoling that it is a fake. Otherwise my comment would be, Oh! CENSORED.
Fr. Mike Forbes
Rochester, MN
Just lookedat the original. Not muchetter. Reminds me of granny's on basket. Mike_ri
I guess the heading for this post is correct in ways none of us would have imagined: "I Got Nothin'" (so I'll just make something up!).
It's hard to imagine a blog about vestments that have 'jumped the shark' would jump the shark itself but it looks like that is what's happened.
Chris, Could you start posting sources w future postings? Pleeeeze? Tnx, Bill
I'm wondering how they stayed up so well? Also, I find myself simultaneously saddened and relieved that this is a fake.
Sorry, but I thought the guy in the mitre was a San Francisco Episcopal Bishop.
It's embarrassing when you get took by a photoshop prank...I'm feeling your pain.
Here, hope this helps:
A Bright Chausable:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2ogB_Df2ARk/SzLGSP3flXI/AAAAAAAABP4/Gi0-Pxi5_sU/s400/bad+vestments.jpg
and Striped Stole
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2ogB_Df2ARk/SzLG6QhsVkI/AAAAAAAABQg/xpr9Wr7Gxjw/s1600-h/what+the.jpg
and Womyn vestments
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2ogB_Df2ARk/SyBymc8oAnI/AAAAAAAABO4/Fp4Mq14rEuc/s1600-h/swedish+bishops.jpg
a vegetable nativity:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2ogB_Df2ARk/Sy2ZzFDLgFI/AAAAAAAABPo/Dy652qIH1zE/s1600-h/jesus-nativity-car_1546544c.jpg
All from www.actsoftheapostasy.blogspot.com
The blog Anglican Samizat where this originally appeared is a very nasty piece of goods, the author connected with a 'Network' parish that has left the diocese of Niagara. The bishop has suffered much personal harassment from them. Fakes have no place on 'bad vestments'
The real mitre isn't exactly a winner either; it makes the bishop look somewhat like Belloc getting ready to open the ark.
As a matter of policy, I do not think you should put fake photos on Bad Vestments. Once you discover they are fake, you should remove them. Otherwise, the site will become the focus of much hatred as people send in fake photos of the clerics they despise. And you will subject people to ridicule who do not deserve it, such as the Bishop of Niagara.
(Voice of the truck driver in Raising Arizona): "Son, yew got a panty on yer head."
And yeah, the fact that this fake photo doesn't look as ludicrous as some of the real ones says something.
As someone noted above, the image is my creation.
I am convinced, though, that although the image is a concoction, the truth of its underlying metaphor more than compensates for the apparent falseness revealed by a shallow literalistic interpretation.
Had I known it would be subject to such scrutiny, I would have spent more time on it.
@tmb Not as much as the ANiC parishes have suffered at the hands of Bishop Bird, although I grant you that this pic is a bit over the top.
Kate,
I grant you that this pic is a bit over the top.
Only a bit? I will redouble my efforts.
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