Nuns and knobby knees

[auld argonian]

Oh, dear. One of my reasons for going to Chicago is to meet an old and dear friend who is a Franciscan Sister, who served as a missionary in Africa for 25 years. I was going to invite her to join me at the Fest. Now I wonder if it would be an embarrasment.

What's to worry? Maybe she should show up and give the ersatz nun some pointers. I haven't met a Sister in the past twenty years that didn't have a good sense of humor...I think that they've realized that they, like most of us, need it to cope with the modern world. Anyway, tht's not all there is at the festa...in fact, it's usually a pretty small event...there are usually more people in the Uillean Pipe tent listening to the tuneage.

...and isn't English a great language? I never thought that I'd ever have occasion to string the words "ersatz" and "nun" together...

Best

AA

[vmac3205]

Another "choir" member chiming in. Thank you AA for the articulate and passionate thread. You seem to be in the majority. There is a line and you have drawn it. Thanks again.

[Ozman1944]

I suspect Sister will get a kick out of the whole event. Nuns, really do have a great sense of humor.
St. Andrews Priory at Valyermo near Palmdale CA have an Annual Fall Festival. Part of the entertainment is "Nuns for fun" Featuring "Nuns" -mostly Baptists, in habits who with "Monsignor Elvis"(!) sing Hit songs adjusted with Religious content. "The Lion Sleeps tonight" becomes "The Christ-Child sleeps tonight" etc. They are very popular with the crowds, are excellent singers, and the real Nuns are in hysterics for most of the acts. Usually the last weekend in September. The whole place rocks, it is a great time!

[Galician]

I'm sure that my friend would not be the one embarrassed. I was thinking of myself , since this might add to her perception that I'm even more of a kook than she knew, given my new "addiction" to wearing kilts.

[Carolina Kiltman]

I'm sure that my friend would not be the one embarrassed. I was thinking of myself , since this might add to her perception that I'm even more of a kook than she knew, given my new "addiction" to wearing kilts.

It has been my experience also that both Nuns and Monks have great senses of humor. At a church festival there was a food booth selling fish and chips run by the Franciscans. One was asked if he were the "fish fryer (friar) and replied, no, I am the Chip Monk.

[SexyButler]

I suspect Sister will get a kick out of the whole event. Nuns, really do have a great sense of humor.
St. Andrews Priory at Valyermo near Palmdale CA have an Annual Fall Festival. Part of the entertainment is "Nuns for fun" Featuring "Nuns" -mostly Baptists, in habits who with "Monsignor Elvis"(!) sing Hit songs adjusted with Religious content. "The Lion Sleeps tonight" becomes "The Christ-Child sleeps tonight" etc. They are very popular with the crowds, are excellent singers, and the real Nuns are in hysterics for most of the acts. Usually the last weekend in September. The whole place rocks, it is a great time!

Agreed. They helped form my sense of humor and I owe them a debt of gratitude!

[acstoon]

Yes, the nuns at our school taught me much about humor...OR ELSE!!

[Ozman1944]

Ah yes, Acstoon, but of course I was a perfectly behaved child......(I didn't want to die so young!!!)

I do confess my car License plate reads "I survived Catholic School"; (See? Priests have a sense of humior too).

[acstoon]

(See? Priests have a sense of humior too).

Never any doubt... The priests and nuns, in our parish, must have had incredible humor: to put up with the 5 hooligans in my family!

[Nick]

There's a group of nuns from (I believe) Taiwan who are living in MI and they take classes at NMU.

Anyway, when I was at Uni once wearing my UK Workman, walking across campus, one of them stopped me and said I looked very nice.