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I was watching this on an international gossip show called ¨Super Xclusivo¨ and, gods, I still can´t stop laughing.

Apparently, Father Nikolai of the Russian Orthodox Church is outraged for being tricked into sanctifying a cabaret. ROFL!!

Anyway, check the article and discuss.

Sacred stripping
Chelyabinsk
Posted: Apr 21, 2008

According to this news item, a Russian priest was left cursing after he was tricked into giving a sacred blessing to a strip bar.

Father Nickolai blessed the Studio 74 strip club in the city of Chelyabinsk after he was told it was a ballet school.

The Orthodox priest claims he had no idea it was a strip club and that he had been tricked by the owners - who told him it was a hall for training ballet dancers.

Studio 74 spokeswoman Anna Usmanova said: "Ever since we had this sacred act performed on our premises customers say they have experienced an entirely new atmosphere here and more people are coming in. The blessing seems to be working."

Moral of story: Stripping is a spiritual experience, and if the priest blesses your joint, you get more business.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2822435.html?menu=

lol, silly priest.

if the priest blesses your joint, you get more business.
A priest will bless it?

A priest will bless it?

Apparently so. *nod*:)

i am guessing this priest is blind

i am guessing this priest is blind

He alleges he was tricked into blessing the bar because the owners told him it was to be a ballet school.

Lol pwnt.

Lol pwnt.

I swear, I couldn´t stop laughing while the show host read the article.:D

Silly priest, tricks are for strippers. ROFL!!!

Silly priest, tricks are for strippers. ROFL!!!

LMAO!

I would have blessed it willingly. :)

Sure, he was "tricked". Right.

Sure, he was "tricked". Right.

Or so he claims. That he passed by a few weeks after the blessing and saw that it was actually a topless bar.

That's really not a very nice thing to do.

Or so he claims. That he passed by a few weeks after the blessing and saw that it was actually a topless bar.

Hrm.. I wonder what his business in the area was.

Probably tricked into blessing a brothel, dark alleyway, or abortion clinic.

Hrm.. I wonder what his business in the area was.

Probably tricked into blessing a brothel, dark alleyway, or abortion clinic.

Probably business along those lines you just mentioned.

I swear, I couldn´t stop laughing while the show host read the article.:D

You are easily amused (Not that that's a bad thing)

You are easily amused (Not that that's a bad thing)

Is just that the way the article was being read was hilarious.

A priest will bless it?

Remember boys and girls - that joint is a religious sacrament (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_use_of_cannabis).

Or so he claims. That he passed by a few weeks after the blessing and saw that it was actually a topless bar.

This is a dramatisation of what the priest thought when he realised it wasn't a ballet school: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qKcJF4fOPs:p It's a faaaaake!

Well he was gullible enough to believe in religion, so why are we surprised that he was gullible enough to believe a strip club was there to teach ballet?

Anyway, who says a stripper couldn't use ballet in her routine? Might be worth watching.;)

I was watching this on an international gossip show called ¨Super Xclusivo¨ and, gods, I still can´t stop laughing.

Apparently, Father Nikolai of the Russian Orthodox Church is outraged for being tricked into sanctifying a cabaret. ROFL!!

Anyway, check the article and discuss.



http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2822435.html?menu=
Guy i worked with, name of Billy, got his can of Skoal blessed by the pope. Not the current evil POS, the guy before him.
Want to know just how he did it, with what?

Guy i worked with, name of Billy, got his can of Skoal blessed by the pope. Not the current evil POS, the guy before him.
Want to know just how he did it, with what?

Sure, tell me.

Guy i worked with, name of Billy, got his can of Skoal blessed by the pope. Not the current evil POS, the guy before him.
Want to know just how he did it, with what?

Save that tobacky. It'll come in handy if we're invaded by demonic health nuts.

oh, god, this is too funny...

Save that tobacky. It'll come in handy if we're invaded by demonic health nuts.
He gave it to my former boss. Who, at some point, was seriously brained by a 20' piece of drill steel. Not sure of the connection, but it was soon afterwards.
:(

Sure, tell me.
Same way he does with every other public display. As far as i know, actually. Billy never told me if he gave it "special attention" and had to have the Skoal moved to a different diocese or anything. :p

Same way he does with every other public display. As far as i know, actually. Billy never told me if he gave it "special attention" and had to have the Skoal moved to a different diocese or anything. :p

ROLF!

ROLF!
I most certainly would have given him a huge amount of respect if he'd blessed it with his "holy" sceptre right there in front of the masses, flopping it out of the robe, dabbling a little in it with an invocation and the mark of the cross across his face/torso with his free hand. Perhaps people would've scrabbled up whatever flaked off and gave a pinch betwixt their cheek & gum.

I most certainly would have given him a huge amount of respect if he'd blessed it with his "holy" sceptre right there in front of the masses, flopping it out of the robe, dabbling a little in it with an invocation and the mark of the cross across his face/torso with his free hand. Perhaps people would've scrabbled up whatever flaked off and gave a pinch betwixt their cheek & gum.

The Pope and water sports. Amazing!:eek:

The Pope and water sports. Amazing!:eek:

Seemed a natural association ... *peers at borders*

The Pope and water sports. Amazing!:eek:

No no no, Holy watersports!

No no no, Holy watersports!
Moe AND Stewie both got more than they bargained for there.

Moe AND Stewie both got more than they bargained for there.

His Pukeyness, the Pope!:D

His Pukeyness, the Pope!:D

That reminds me ... they still big on leeches and the Four Humors?
http://www.horrordvds.com/reviews/a-m/exorcistbox/exorcistbox_shot2l.jpg

That reminds me ... they still big on leeches and the Four Humors?
http://www.horrordvds.com/reviews/a-m/exorcistbox/exorcistbox_shot2l.jpg

Barbaric. Those sangrías they did almost killed the patients.

Barbaric. Those sangrías they did almost killed the patients.

Very true. Now it would seem the medicinal properties of tobacco are a little more appreciated by the echelon. Perhaps not as much as a few Central/South American tribes, though ... lamentably. :p

Very true. Now it would seem the medicinal properties of tobacco are a little more appreciated by the echelon. Perhaps not as much as a few Central/South American tribes, though ... lamentably. :p

I highly doubt is tobacco. To have all those visions, it has to be teh opium in there.:D

I highly doubt is tobacco. To have all those visions, it has to be teh opium in there.:D

Whichever burns slightly less has my vote. :D

Whichever burns slightly less has my vote. :D

Pass the pipe, pass it.:cool:

Pass the pipe, pass it.:cool:I think he's gonna Bogart it!
Let me wring it out for you! Geez, man, you got no class.
:D

I think he's gonna Bogart it!

:D

LOL!

No idead how a topic about a Orthodox priest turned into drugs...but i like it*sits down*

No idead how a topic about a Orthodox priest turned into drugs...but i like it*sits down*

Hah! You like the thread on account of the drugs, huh?

No idead how a topic about a Orthodox priest turned into drugs...but i like it*sits down*

Probably a good thing ya sat down, really :D
http://www.springerlink.com/content/35n737r161k60h9w/

No idead how a topic about a Orthodox priest turned into drugs...but i like it*sits down*

This is NSG, where we quite recently curbstaomped a troll's post on Tibet, and then turned the thread into a discussion on Japanese poetic forms. Going from the strip-club-blessing-orthodox priest to drugs is not a huge leap here. :)

Now all we need to do is have a segue from drugs to Lithuanian folk music.