Mar 17 2008
This is the one about nuns.
When I posted the 101 reasons to love Mike Lawson, there was one that was a little odd and included no explanation: “He has a nun fetish.”
And Monique rightly asked a WTF? in the comments of the post. I said that the nun thing probably required a post of its own…so here it is.
It all started back in my senior year of high school when I was in a group of high-school aged kids that wrote and staged plays. We thought we were cooler than we actually were.
Well one evening we were putting the finishing touches on a one-act comedy (that took place on a pirate’s ship if I recall correctly) and we were brainstorming on ways to add some humor to the play.
“Why don’t we add a nun,” I joked. I went on to explain that the any situation is automatically funnier if a nun is one of the players. Think about it:
Man mowing the lawn. Not funny.
A nun mowing the lawn. Funny.
Mike doing the Rubik’s cube. Not funny
A nun doing the Rubik’s cube. LOL.
Well we didn’t add a nun to the scene we were working on…but “add a nun” became part of our groups vernacular. Whenever a scene was laking the funny we would say that “it needs a nun.”
And toward the end of that year a couple of friends bought me a large ceramic nun that they found at a garage sale. And another friend bought a little wind-up toy nun that walks and sparks out of her mouth. And I started getting a bunch of nun figurines.
And it became a collection:
Nunzilla’s my favorite.
I never thought of a guy collecting nun figurines. :P It’s a good thing that you explained why a nun is included in your list. It really needed an explanation *lol*
LOL!! See, that all made sense and now you don’t seem like some crazy pervert.
Hm… is it bad that I’m disappointed you’re not some crazy nun pervert? hehehehe j/k
I used to live near a convent and you have more nuns in your collection. I like the “bug-eyed” one, she looks like she just caught the priest with the alterboy.
I am definitely a fan of the wind-up Nun.
After years in the metaphorical dark, I’ve suddenly seen the absolute truth of this: “any situation is automatically funnier if a nun is one of the players” - thanks! And that’s a great picture of the nun collection, too. An equivalent picture of my cat collection would be nowhere near as amusing…
When I was in my teens, I became quite a good friend of my French and Ethics teacher -as I was going to carry on studying Philosophy, at the same university as he did, and as we shared the same sense of humour, we had good laughs and kept in touch for years until he moved away from Spain.At our french classes there were very few of us, so we had a relaxed atmosphere and nicknames for each student. Besides, we had a series of “private jokes”, one of which was threatening me that “The fat nun shall come and get you!!!” any time I made an awkard question or managed to change subject when I was bored with the tasks. He’d have other threats for other students -he was real fun!The first class after Christmas that year, my teacher was trying nort to laugh, and you could tell he’d been up to something. We were anxious to see what was going to happen, and the first time I corrected someone he went up to a cupboard and opend the door. Stuk to the inner side of the door was this waterpaint of a hideous fat nun :)When I left Highschool to go to university he gave me the waterpaint, and it survived 4 different bedsits and shared apartments until it finally got lost :/