Taking a break from our travel blog postings to San Diego. I thought I'd re-post what I thought was a clever little piece. (But then again I think I am a clever little..er big, man, at times - so you be the judge.)
A week or so back, this was posted, but few got to see it. I'm leaving it on, to just chuckle...Sorry in advance if my humor seems somewhat semi-edgey during this Christmas season. That's how we chuckle around our house....or re-chuckle when I'm on the road. Hope you enjoy (or re-enjoy it today)
Den
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So...many years ago our oldest child had this fascination with the Christmas Stable scene that was placed on the coffee table or near the fireplace each early-December.
Probably too much of a fascination...
At one point, during a typical post-Christmas re-packing death march, I noticed that Baby Jesus seemed to not be "together"...his arm was missing.
No one fessed up. No one. Not Dr. Richard Kimble, not The One-Armed Man, not my oldest child.
So we kept Jesus that way...and year after year the One-Armed Babe came out to be with us. So this year, as we placed him in his straw-filled basket, my bride tried to cover up his "ghost arm". Not cool. So I placed him here in the blog to remind us all (especially my kids) that some traditions at Christmas time are just not right....tee hee...and they tend to annually reappear, nonetheless.
~ Dennis the Christmas Menace
PS: So that I don't mess-up your Christmas theology, I am including pictures of the One Armed Man from TV and the from the movie version of The Fugitive. I hope it helps....
Not baby Jesus.
Do not place this guy in the manger scene on your coffee table or over your fireplace. He will not like it and he may let you know that. In the TV show he was a drifter who had this sort-of psycho-thing about "beatin' up dames"....and he deserved what he got when Dr. Richard Kimble (ok, Lt. Gerard) killed him at the end of the "Special Last Show" of The Fugitive.
Not baby Jesus, either.
In the film version this guy was a former bad-cop turned PI who worked for a Doctor (booo, hiss). They had to shift the negative emphasis away from psycho handicapped dame-killer dudes - onto rich doctors who we ALL can hate...they even gave him a fake arm, so we wouldn't see his baby Jesus stump...
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