My friend Joe loved his chickens, though a fox did them in this last fall. He’d planned to leave the coop empty for the winter and start fresh in the spring, but his surfing lead him to mail order chickens (adoption card pictured above).

So…what better a gift for a friend than a chicken by mail? And what better a gift to the world than trade justice?

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While following the story about bad teachers, found the Mathcaddy blog. The only relation Mathcaddy has to the other story is that Steve, the unfortunate student runs his blog on a subdomain there. The post that got me interested at Mathcaddy was I Walked on Water… I Think I Can Walk to the Door:

In one of his forty-eight dozen interviews about The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson said there have been more than a hundred films made about the life of Jesus. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that these didn’t crack the top ten.

Voicing over the original dialogue, Klauss Vlaudenhoover (not his real name… okay, it is) took some pretty poor Jesus films and turned them into comedy gold! At least bronze.

For those of you about to be mildly offended, take note that a church used these in a series on the life of Jesus to portray classic stereotypes about him. And for those of you who are dissuaded because they were used in church, take note that my sides hurt.

In case you missed the link above, the videos are here (direct links to vids one, two, three, and four). And, yes, they are funny.

Update: these sites have been seriously changed/updated. The story at Mathcaddy is moved, and Vintage21, where the films are hosted, has been… Well, it’s just not what it was. All that remains are some directory indexes. The video can be found, here are some new direct links:

• One
• Two
• Three
• Four

Enjoy!

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