My favorite book reviewer, Dana from Glenville, sent me a present. That was very kind of her.
I appreciate that she even included instructions on its use, but, generous as she is, I’m not going to dab mysterious liquids received in the mail on myself. Instead, I’m going to save it close at hand in case there is an outbreak of vampires.
I did consider putting it in an atomizer to see what effect it might have on my spiders, but right now I don’t have any to spare for experimentation.
Speaking of spiders, this image just crossed my desk: https://nowakdraws.tumblr.com/post/168318622824?fbclid=IwAR3C6TcJhSAGsUFXOvupCaRHc2f8g0m9no6oOE-hg3HtTJt4pxH6ch-eWN8
(A spider puts finishing touches on a spider-shaped snowman with eight branches as legs, three big snowballs for the three segments, and lots of stones for the eyes. It works much better that calling three balls with carrots a snow”man”)
Her diagram is priceless.
It looks just like you.
She makes me sad. She seems to really be trying, but… I wish she would use her energy for something more useful.
I believe that holy water is what is needed to flush holy shit.
Has anyone ever tried to do a chemical analysis of holy water to see if there’s anything different in it from ordinary tap water? What about using a mass spectrometer to make sure? :-)
I bet negative results wouldn’t convince the faithful, though. They would just claim ‘religious magic’ can’t be proven by science. That’s whenever they can’t get science to say something they like though.
Once your brood is healthy I think you should try it on the spiders. See if you can create some sort of Christian arachnid chimera. That would be cool.
I suspect one can apply homeopathy to the use of Holy Water™: if it is holy now, wait ’til you dilute it 1000x!
Brilliant! Say, what do you dilute water with?
@ Pierre Le Fou, #5
https://www.medicaldaily.com/86-holy-water-teeming-e-coli-and-other-bacteria-found-fecal-matter-256863
Tests have been done. It is distinctly different from tap water, just not in a good way.
Sending someone a vial of this may count as an attack with a biological weapon.
I wonder how she’d react if you told her you’ve found Jesus (perhaps behind the couch?) but now you are a Baptist.
Sean @7, that’s what my Granny used to do. When the bottle of Lourdes water (given by one of ter daughters) was getting low, she used to top it up from the tap. She sprinkled it on us little ones if we said naughty words. It must have worked, because I’m an atheist, but a Catholic atheist.
That seems nice enough, but look at those instructions: they result in you making the sign of a cross that’s UPSIDE DOWN!
What kind of awful thing would that DO to you?!!?
Dave @9, thanks for the link, the contamination of holy water is appalling (yet not too surprising). I’ll tell some religious people I know to be careful with that stuff.
By the way, I own one of Jon Rosenberg’s “I am the kwisatz haderach” t-shirt; it’s one of my favorite shirt. It’s the fourth t-shirt on this page: https://topatoco.com/collections/goats/apparel
Holy Water is almost homeopathic. The blessedness of it remains just as blessed as it was before it got diluted by new water as long as any quantity of new water added to the font is less than the quantity remaining. How often the font can be blessed, how often it may be refilled and by whom varies by religion.
The Roman Catholic Cathedral of Los Angeles had a font in front of it instead of inside, and it was at ground level accessible to everyone no matter who. Unfortunately the winds of downtown and thoughtless people would toss trash into it, so now it is dry and you have to use the baptismal font if you want any holy water.
I’ve got one already Pierre, but thanks!
Aside from the contamination issue, holy water is simply water that has been blessed by the priest/ess (the pinch of salt is, apparently optional).
If only vampires existed, we could have an experiment where we captured one and poured holy water on one half and regular water on the other, to see which half blistered. Why couldn’t we get to see that scene in Twilight?
Just say this to a priest.
What is with that stuff father? that shit really burns!!!
#13: I have the sugar skull, squid vs. weinermobile, and science is satan spelled backwards shirts myself. There are a couple others on that page I’d like, once my bank account recovers from this year.