Pullman’s Drive-Thru Nativity Scene

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  Digger on December 11 at 2:11 p.m.

  I’ve heard when you get to the end the baby Jesus asks “Do you want fries with that?”

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  JeanC on December 11 at 2:14 p.m.

  Am I the only one who thinks a drive thru Nativity is rather tacky?

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  nic on December 11 at 2:33 p.m.

  And the magi present their gifts: Cup holders, key chains, and tree shaped air fresheners.

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  nic on December 11 at 2:37 p.m.

  Side note: colored garments is historically inaccurate. The pigments used to dye wool and other fabrics were prohibitively expensive during the first century, and common folk like Mary & Joseph would not be able to afford clothes other than that containing the natural untreated fabric colors.

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  Fixer on December 11 at 2:47 p.m.

  “Am I the only one who thinks a drive thru Nativity is rather tacky?”

  No, it’s tacky.

  In my hometown in Florida we had a whole drive-in church. That was even more tacky.

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  marmitetoasty on December 11 at 2:49 p.m.

  I remember being excited in the infants school aged about 6 when I was asked to play the coconuts in the navitity, when the donkey walked on stage I had to clink the half coconuts together to make the sound of the donkey walking, but I remember thinking it was funny to clink them to fast so the two people playing the donkey came running on stage and crashed straight into the crib with baby jebus in which in turn tipped over and the poor baby shot off the stage into the front row of the audience……. I then dropped the coconuts where I was laffing so hard and they rolled under the school piano where I scrambled under trying to retrieve……. I was never asked to play in the infant school play again…..

  Then when I was about 8 had gone up to the junior school we did a modern (for then) take on the navitiy and it was suppose to be the christians taking religion to the red indians…… I remember this as if it was yesterday…….. you see, I sooooooo desperately wanted to be a red indian cos you got to dance around a fake fire on stage and wear a cool outfit…… I almost begged my teacher to let me be a part of the play, especially an indian………. in the end she agreed, cos, I pulled the trump card…….. I actually had a black doll, I was the only one in our little school that owned a black doll (something my grandfather had bought back from overseas) which was VERY VERY unusual for those days…… but that doll was my trump card cos they needed it for one of the red indians to carry around on her back in a papoose made from a cereal box LOL…… yep, that was me…… as proud as punch I was in me little outfit dancing around the fake fire…….. I even to this day remember the line I had to say to Mary……I had to say, and I know this aint politically right nowadays….. I stood in front of Mary (actually it was my friend Janet Pond lol) and said ‘YOU SQUAW LIKE ME’ that was it just 4 words and with that I then had to dance an indian dance up and down around the fire making that hoo hoo sound with my hand on my mouth……..

  but..

  what I didnt bank on was when I bent down doing a sort of war dance that me little black doll would fly out of the papoose (cereal box) into about the 4th row of the parents smacking Ann Beaumonts mother in the forehead……… HAHAHAHAHa….. sorry but when I think of it now it still makes me laff….. it was such an up roar cos Mrs Beaumont was crying and the doll was lobbed back on stage which hit Mary (Janet Pond) who got up and kicked the fake fire in temper LMFAO….it was just like something out of Monty Python……

  But do you know, I still HAVE that little black doll all these years later, and I have a really old black and white photo of me when I was about 4 holding the doll that my grandfather had given me 2 years previous just before he died in a head on collision in a train crash (he was the driver)……. so I didnt know me grandfather, but the doll is the most precious think I have, and the only thing from my past……a connection to where I came from..

  anyways, sorry for waffling LOL

  x

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  Cindy_H on December 11 at 2:59 p.m.

  I was Mary and froze my tush off!

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  DFO on December 11 at 3:22 p.m.

  Marmie; thanx for the coffee spitter re: you experience with the coconuts. Now, for a confession. I once played a donkey in a Christmas play at a small church in Post Falls that no longer exists. My wife has a photo to prove it. I had to wear fake ears — and was ridden by Junior into the manger scene. I’m thinking it was Christmas 1984 because we lived in Post Falls for a short while, after I moved from Lewiston. I’d post the photo. But I’m afraid that the Internet being what it is … the photo would come back to haunt me.

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  marmitetoasty on December 11 at 3:31 p.m.

  Davieboy - Double dare you to show it LOL

  See, I aint changed……. I still had a sick sense of humour right back then :)

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  Bubblehead on December 11 at 3:42 p.m.

  My son’s playing Joseph tonight in a live Nativity here in Meridian; we’ve even got a live camel! Personally, I agree with Dave Barry that the role of “Three King” is the best.

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  Cabbage Boy on December 11 at 3:53 p.m.

  Marmie, that is two great stories.

  Thanks for sharin with us doodles.

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  JohnA on December 11 at 5:35 p.m.

  I understand nativity scenes in the south feature the three wise men wearing fireman’s helmets, because as they explain it “the good book says the three wise men came from afar”. :)

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  mia on December 11 at 6:53 p.m.

  Once again, John A. Thank you! You’ve made my evening!

  I portrayed Mary once, as part of the Christmas Eve service at the Lutheran church I grew up in.

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  spokelooneh on December 11 at 10:23 p.m.

  GREAT story, Marmite. Thank you for the laughs.

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  marmitetoasty on December 12 at 1:59 a.m.

  When my Ben was at the infants 20 years ago they did the navitity in the evening, and my Ben, as the evening progressed got sicker and sicker and was known as the swaying shepherd LOL until it all got to much and he threw up all over the stage and just missed Mary, projectile vomit and 5 year olds slipping on it makes …for the most funniest of navitity scenes LOL - I think I was the only one that found it hilarious, just wish I had had a video camera with me back then…. the photos just dont do it justice :)

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