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Thread: Scene 1: Mary has a visitor
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Fourth Angel
Nativity Play
# 3647
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Posted
*peers closely at the Virgin Mary*.
Oh! So you are! It even says it by your name and all.
turns back to phone
Gabe? I've found her! Gabe? Hello? Hello?
I think we've lost the signal! ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif)
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From the goddess Inanna to the fourth angel from the left.
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Gift of Gold
Nativity Play
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could have been me you know - blue dress - nice smile, innocent looks... ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
shouts from off stage
I've got a perfectly decent Blue Dress
Instead I'll just have to settle for looking expensive. Cuh!
[But not 'perfactly dencent' spelling, alas...]
[ 09. December 2002, 20:42: Message edited by: Musical Director ]
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the gold bar/ dancer formally known as Annie P.
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Virgin Mary
Nativity Play
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Slightly suspicious that other cast members might wish to usurp her reputation as maiden of this parish, Mary wanders over to Angel 4, turns round, turns the collar down at the back of her blue dress and shows the Angel the name tag sown in the back
See, Virgin Mary, it says.
What do you mean, it says "Hussy Susan" ? Ah...drat.....I hate it when I have to wear my sister's hand-me-downs!
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Can you have a white wedding in blue?
(Smudgie)
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Gift of Gold
Nativity Play
# 3668
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clears throat
perfectly, that's what I meant. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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the gold bar/ dancer formally known as Annie P.
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Dragon
Nativity Play
# 3669
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Posted
A gentle silence soft unfolds
a rev'rent hush descends
we wonder what this strange plot holds
tho we know how the story ends
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come home to a real welsh dragon fire..
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Tour Manager
Nativity Play
# 3670
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Posted
#debadub debadub debadub#
(the mobile phoning attempts are playing havoc with the PA system)
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Let's get this show on the roaaaaaaaaaaaa- *boink* (Eutychus)
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Director
Nativity Play
# 3664
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Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Herod:
<off-stage>
God... amateurs... I'm surrounded by amateurs...
<swigs from hipflask>
Ahem!
What did I say to you all before curtain up? Yes! No drinking.
And what did I say would happen if you did?! ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
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Miffy
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Dragon
Nativity Play
# 3669
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oh angel from the heavens above
to your words she'll say Amen
so bring your message of heavenly love
go text her once again
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come home to a real welsh dragon fire..
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Virgin Mary
Nativity Play
# 3653
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Mutters to herself
Hmmmm....... getting boring around here.... wonder what Joseph's up to.
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Can you have a white wedding in blue?
(Smudgie)
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Stable Cat
Nativity Play
# 3657
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Posted
*still winding around mary's feet*
mrrrrrut? mrrrrrut?
*hoping to be peted*
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nicolemrw says "meow!"
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Gift of Gold
Nativity Play
# 3668
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not yet Mary!!
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the gold bar/ dancer formally known as Annie P.
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Musical Director
Nativity Play
# 3651
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Posted
Shall we have a game of Musical Bumps?
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ChrisT sez: *sigh* Let's take it once more from the top...
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Virgin Mary
Nativity Play
# 3653
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Still pondering
I'll just send him a text, see if he's still on for tonight. No-one need know. I mean, it's a shame for all this mistletoe to go to waste.
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Can you have a white wedding in blue?
(Smudgie)
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Angel 1
Nativity Play
# 3661
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Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Herod:
<swigs from hipflask>
off-stage but still perfectly audible,
give us a bit Herod, oh, go on, go on, go on, go on. . . . .
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Jenny Ann smiles sweetly
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Dragon
Nativity Play
# 3669
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Posted
(If Rowan Williams' reading this
how we wish you could have starred!
In a dearth of poetic talent, 'tis
the Nativity, no holds Bard.)
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come home to a real welsh dragon fire..
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Tealady
Nativity Play
# 3713
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quote:
Originally posted by Herod:
<off-stage>
God... amateurs... I'm surrounded by amateurs...
<swigs from hipflask>
swipes hipflask from Herod
And I told you that I've got the franchise on refreshments. Have a medicinal coffee instead. Do you want Scottish medicine in it or French medicine...? 2.50 please love. Dark in here, innit? Whaddya mean shush? Oh, have you started?
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The tealady's coffee-grinder is a Spong...
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Tour Manager
Nativity Play
# 3670
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(wanders off muttering in the general direction of Magic Tour Bus, clutching several mobile phones, pagers, filofaxes, walkie-talkies, carrier pigeons and other communications devices, not to be seen again for the duration)
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Let's get this show on the roaaaaaaaaaaaa- *boink* (Eutychus)
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chief stage manager
Nativity Play
# 3658
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(preparing kennel carrier for Stable Cat)...
*will the next cast member who goes on stage please catch that cat!!!*
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The original bessie rosebride.
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Chief Comic Shepherd
Nativity Play
# 3660
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enters confidently, stage left, avoiding director's eye
OO Arr!
Now I be a shepherd from Bethlehem way
Just popped up to Nazareth here for the day!
I just come to see if there's any sheep
To rustl...take back 'ome with me
To have and to keep!
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I be also known as Moth!
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Joseph
Nativity Play
# 3666
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HEY MARY, GOT UR TXT. SEE U HAVNG A WKD TIME WITH ANMLS N GOLD. Y U DNCE WTH GOLD, HUH?
IM NOT HAPPY.
![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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Joseph, the not-so-Jesuitical ex-Lad.
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Fourth Angel
Nativity Play
# 3647
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Fixes Mary with a suitably angelic glare
Look. I've got a message for you from Gabriel. And the line's still all staticky, but I think he said something about a baby. Or it could have been maybe. Something like that. Does that help you any?
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From the goddess Inanna to the fourth angel from the left.
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Tealady
Nativity Play
# 3713
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Posted
Anyone else want a cuppa while we're waiting? Or a meat pie?
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The tealady's coffee-grinder is a Spong...
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Virgin Mary
Nativity Play
# 3653
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Oh how lovely to see you shepherd. Have you a message for me?
You're welcome to that sheep over there, as long as you don't mind taking the cat too.
Watch out for its claw......oh! Too late. Who had the Mr Men plasters?????
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Can you have a white wedding in blue?
(Smudgie)
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Dragon
Nativity Play
# 3669
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And if you think all this hanging around
is starting to feel a bit odd
Mary is showing us something profound
For she knew how to Wait On God
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come home to a real welsh dragon fire..
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Chief Comic Shepherd
Nativity Play
# 3660
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I'll have a shepherd's pie, please!
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I be also known as Moth!
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Gift of Gold
Nativity Play
# 3668
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Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Tealady:
Anyone else want a cuppa while we're waiting? Or a meat pie?
Ooo, that would be lovely. can you slip a bit of brandy in my coffee please.
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the gold bar/ dancer formally known as Annie P.
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Virgin Mary
Nativity Play
# 3653
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HI JO GOT UR TXT GABE SYZ IM TO HAVE BBY WOT U THINK? OK 4 2NITE?
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Can you have a white wedding in blue?
(Smudgie)
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Joseph
Nativity Play
# 3666
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A BABY?!?!?! WHAT?!
AND... TONITE?! ISNT 9 MNTHS THE USUAL W8ING TIME?
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Joseph, the not-so-Jesuitical ex-Lad.
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Chief Comic Shepherd
Nativity Play
# 3660
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You wanted a message, dear Lady in blue?
If you've got a sheep for me - that one'll do
I'll tell you your fortune - it's a sideline
(Well, no-one could do shepherding ALL of the time!)
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I be also known as Moth!
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Stable Cat
Nativity Play
# 3657
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*not at all happy to be told to be taken with the sheep*
mrrrrrrrrrrowl
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nicolemrw says "meow!"
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Gift of Gold
Nativity Play
# 3668
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Nuges director
Pssst!!
I've heard some rattling at the back of the theatre, I think it might be Gabriel. The doors locked and he can't get in!!
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the gold bar/ dancer formally known as Annie P.
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Narrator
Nativity Play
# 3680
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Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Tealady:
Anyone else want a cuppa while we're waiting?
Shcottissshh for me, love - and not too mush coffee.
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Chapelhead
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Dragon
Nativity Play
# 3669
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Posted
Now Joseph is a jealous man
and sadly he seems vexed
can he frustrate God's glorious plan?
Hey, folks, you saw his text!
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come home to a real welsh dragon fire..
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Virgin Mary
Nativity Play
# 3653
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IF I C U 2NITE, ITS MAR NOW, 9 MNTHS SHD TAKE US TO XMAS. AN XMAS BABY.
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Can you have a white wedding in blue?
(Smudgie)
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Tealady
Nativity Play
# 3713
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Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Gift of Gold:
Ooo, that would be lovely. can you slip a bit of brandy in my coffee please.
Ahem. loudlyOh, no, very sorry, I do not have any brandy as drinking is forbidden backstage. quietlyThat's a medicinal coffee, with French medicine in it...
Shepherd's pie? I've got a meat pie, that's got meat in it, so if you want a shepherd's pie that would have...? Where's that Herod when you need him?
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The tealady's coffee-grinder is a Spong...
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Sheep
Nativity Play
# 3667
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Approaches cat
Hello, cat, will you be my friend? I've got this nose here that lights up like this.
Nose glows
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I may be just a purple sheep with a funny nose, but ThatsMrJuice 2U!
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Dragon
Nativity Play
# 3669
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Now Joseph is a jealous man
and sadly he seems vexed
can he frustrate God's glorious plan?
Hey, folks, you saw his text!
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come home to a real welsh dragon fire..
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Musical Director
Nativity Play
# 3651
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quote:
Originally posted by Virgin Mary:
IF I C U 2NITE, ITS MAR NOW, 9 MNTHS SHD TAKE US TO XMAS. AN XMAS BABY.
Errr ... I think you are meant to be keeping yourself pure, Mary. Where's a chaperone when you need one?
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ChrisT sez: *sigh* Let's take it once more from the top...
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Stable Cat
Nativity Play
# 3657
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*to sheep, warily*
mrrrrw?
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nicolemrw says "meow!"
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Tealady
Nativity Play
# 3713
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And a large scottish medicinal cappuccino for the narrator...
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The tealady's coffee-grinder is a Spong...
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Dragon
Nativity Play
# 3669
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Posted
Now if you wonder why this is slow
my browser is to blame
Flood control is causing me woe
(but i'll try very hard not to flame -
tis hard for a dragon you know...)
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come home to a real welsh dragon fire..
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Joseph
Nativity Play
# 3666
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Posted
MARY, U BEEN HANGING WID DEM LIBRL THEOLGNS AGAIN? U R A VIRGIN, AND U STAY A VIRGIN!
SHEESH!
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Joseph, the not-so-Jesuitical ex-Lad.
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Virgin Mary
Nativity Play
# 3653
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Posted
Hmmmmmm my mobile's ringing.
TXT FROM GOD
DAD NOT JO.. W8... GABE ON HIS WAY...GONE TO CAF BY MSTKE....LOTS OF LUV...GOD
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Can you have a white wedding in blue?
(Smudgie)
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Sheep 3
Nativity Play
# 3663
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Posted
[sheep3 noses around tealady's cart searching for something to eat]
*snuffffff*
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jlg the sheep
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Chief Comic Shepherd
Nativity Play
# 3660
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A little domestic now seems to be brewing
Poor Joseph, the texter - what's Mary been doing?
It never pays shepherds to meddle in rows
I'll just take me sheep and be off to me 'ouse
And as for the fortune I said I'd give Mary
She's off on a journey and in with a fairy
Not to mention the twins, the sheep and the cat
The oxen the asses the magi and that!
There are some fortunes it's best to keep stumm
Especially the one's where a Virgin's a mum -
So I'll just nip back to Old Bethlehem Town
In time for a quick one, down at the Crown.
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I be also known as Moth!
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Fourth Angel
Nativity Play
# 3647
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shouts into phone
Oh! Gabriel! I can hear you now. It's.. what? Say that again? You what? Ohhhh... Really? How's the Almighty going to manage that then? I know, I know... what? You're breaking up again..
Turns back to Mary
He says I've got to tell you that the Power of the Most High will Come Upon You and the Spirit of the Lord will Overshadow you.
Which means it's going to be God's baby, I think.
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From the goddess Inanna to the fourth angel from the left.
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Virgin Mary
Nativity Play
# 3653
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Posted
Ooo-er!
Not sure I like the sound of that!
What's Joseph going to say???
Oh nooooooooooooo... more to the point... what on earth is my mother going to say??????????
![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Can you have a white wedding in blue?
(Smudgie)
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Dragon
Nativity Play
# 3669
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Posted
Oh Shepherd your rhyme makes such excellent sense
And Mary is in such a stew
Poor Joseph's suspicions are making him tense
I say, could you get me one too?
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come home to a real welsh dragon fire..
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Joseph
Nativity Play
# 3666
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MARY, OFF 4 A KEBAB. IF NETHNG INTRSTING HPPNS, LEMME KNO. HEARD RUMOURS OF ANGELS FROM SHEPHERDS, BUT TOTALLY UNBELIEVABLE!
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Joseph, the not-so-Jesuitical ex-Lad.
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Dragon
Nativity Play
# 3669
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*strains of the Welsh national anthem fill the air, in an electronic sort of way, from a small red phone behind Welsh dragon's left ear*
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