If you like your puns visual…
Category: Humor • Weirdness
Posted on: August 3, 2007 10:00 AM, by PZ Myers
…you'll find this site amusing: Churches ad hoc: a divine comedy.
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Great site with a ton of hilarious pictures! Thanks for the resource, PZ!
Posted by: Tom @Thoughtsic.com | August 3, 2007 10:05 AM
Woah... I think I've seen the sign in chapter 6 "A Point of View" used as kitsch in a local burger restuarant.
I now have an excuse to go to lunch there. Thanks.
Posted by: wildcardjack | August 3, 2007 10:14 AM
Not only is the content quite clever, the photography is technically top-notch.
I'm ordering a copy of the book. This is also a very clever way to promote a photography book; right now the market for photography books is pretty much stunned into a death-spiral, so photographers have to get creative. Good for him!
Posted by: Marcus Ranum | August 3, 2007 10:23 AM
Interesting pictures. Especially the Indian Baptist one with the caption "Half Creed." How nice - brings back the halcion days of 1876.
Posted by: Todd | August 3, 2007 11:13 AM
whoops - I'm also reminded to double-check my spelling. I meant halcyon. Halcion is a sleeping pill.
I hope it doesn't sedate the sarcasm. :)
Posted by: Todd | August 3, 2007 11:46 AM
Didn't have a camera, but once walked past a church in Santa Fe, NM that was on the corner of a side street with no outlet. They'd named the side street Faith Way.
So the street sign read: FAITH WAY - DEAD END.
Posted by: another | August 3, 2007 12:16 PM
I thought them mildly amusing but the church/state one made laugh out loud. Very clever. See http://www.efn.org/~hkrieger/chap3.htm
Posted by: Tom | August 3, 2007 1:32 PM
Does the Auto-da-fe pic display as a small black rectangle for everyone, or is it just me?
Posted by: Reality Czech | August 3, 2007 3:24 PM
RC:
The Auto da Fe pic shows the right rear of a 1980's Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz complete with Jesus fish and christian clergy sticker.
Posted by: another | August 3, 2007 4:10 PM
agree: technically really really good photography. Laughed at some. groaned at others. bemused by some.
For anyone who's tried to take photographs that go beyond 'snapshots' -- the compositional aspect of these photos were truly great... It takes a realy good 'eye' to see such possibilities - and to do so in so many cases...
I need to see more of this guy's work (Mall-aise was technically good, but a more documentary and the 'humor' seemed more forced)
Posted by: tony | August 3, 2007 4:25 PM
The sign above the door of my sister's church reminded exiting parishioners: "You are now entering the mission field."
It reminded me a little bit of Douglas' Adam's "asylum" in So Long...
Posted by: inkadu | August 3, 2007 4:49 PM
Douglas Adams', rather. That was quite a train wreck of possessive apostrophes.
Posted by: inkadu | August 3, 2007 4:51 PM
Perhaps this is too much professional interest...
In the Amazon marketplace you can pick up the book for a $1 new +$3.99 S&H.
cheapskate, marketplace dealer, a little cruel... Send the guy a few bucks in the mail.
Posted by: wildcardjack | August 3, 2007 5:04 PM
I suppose that this is as good a place as anywhere to note that if you forget the real Pharyngula's address, and go to pharyngula.blogspot.com, you're taken to an amazing place. Truly amazing.
Posted by: mjfgates | August 3, 2007 6:12 PM
ah, still not as good as JesusOfTheWeek.com
Posted by: dorid | August 3, 2007 11:41 PM
If you want something really classy for your next event, or disaster, here is a company that makes inflatable things, including churches.
http://www.inflatablechurch.com/InflatableChurchPictures.htm
Check out their movies too.
http://www.innovationsxtreme.com/Movies.htm
PZ should scroll down to the Octopus playground.
Posted by: bernarda | August 4, 2007 7:01 AM
Hey, that Christian Deaf Church is less than two blocks from my house!
Posted by: Glenn Peters | August 4, 2007 9:54 PM
If you like your puns visual...
... but not too abysmal?
I was expecting an old Steve Reeves movie!
Posted by: Sarcastro | August 6, 2007 10:33 AM
(.)(.)
Posted by: wÒÓ†| August 7, 2007 11:20 AM