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05-02-2010, 02:14 AM
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05-02-2010, 09:34 AM
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Nun driving a piano.
 Nun but the brave by Ron Curtis author's comments: This Royal Air Force veteran was impressed to see a 'Nun' driving a mobile organ :) Gay pride day Blackpool (which probably means the 'Nun' was just a man in drag :( )
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05-02-2010, 04:40 PM
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nun drives a monster truck
 author's comments: I was watching "Top Gear" on the Discovery Channel, and they had this nun put a helmet on and drive a monster truck over a line of cars. Plus, it's all done with a British accent, which is way cool. Kinda funny stuff. The above nun is 'Sister Wendy', and this is the episode's details as well as the visual (which can be seen in the link above anyway): YouTube - Top Gear, A Nun Drives a monster truck
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05-03-2010, 01:14 PM
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having a relaxing dip
 (ah, I just learned a trivial fact of (foreign) amusement: nuns in Spanish are referred to as 'monjas'; true story.)
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05-05-2010, 01:37 PM
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05-05-2010, 04:35 PM
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 Nuns on the Main by zadcat author's comments: There was a group of Missionaries of Charity (Mother Teresa's nuns) in the Plateau for a short time. Their outfit is a white sari with a blue striped edge. But they didn't stay.
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05-06-2010, 10:46 AM
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 (wh-no! I can't believe I actually finally found the source to the above image)... G.B. ENGLAND. Lancashire. Bolton Football fans in costume (a nun and Batman) cheer for their team, the Bolton Wanderers. 1997. Photography by Ian Berry + * trivia! I must've missed something, because, there's quite a bit of nun + batman shtick I was unaware of, including, but not limited to... A drunk guy is stumbling down the street after a long night of drinking, and whilst passing, he manages to spot a nun. He darts quickly across the street running into the nun, and knocks the nun over violently. Then he exclaims "not as great as we claim to be are we, Batman!"
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05-06-2010, 04:21 PM
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05-07-2010, 12:40 PM
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A-nun-me
 from the series, "Yozakura Quartet"...  from the series, "Claymore"... Repent, or Perish (The Nun of Rabona)  from the series, "Chrono Crusade"... random review: Well like my title suggests, this anime has a nun with guns.
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05-07-2010, 04:56 PM
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 Nuns taking tea by Camera Freak { A slightly surreal image of nuns in a teahouse at Ritsurinkoen garden in Shikoku (Japan). }
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05-09-2010, 10:29 AM
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 Nurses waiting on dock for wounded soldiers to be unloaded from British hospital ship. Photographed by Carl Mydans ; November of 1939 ; © Time Inc. / LIFE (darn. I just noticed these are nurses, not nuns. I'll make it up to you...)
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05-09-2010, 10:37 AM
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 A nun from the order of Sisters of Charity loading a hand truck with food for an assistant to deliver to a clinic two blocks away.  Children waiting for the distribution of special rations.  A nun playing a ballgame with city children at a summer vacation colony. { Photography by David E. Scherman ; August of 1946 ; Paris, France ; © Time Inc. / LIFE } [GIS.]
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05-10-2010, 03:10 PM
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A TO Z of SEXUAL HISTORY: N- NUNSPLOITATION
In line with my recent statements elsewhere...
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05-10-2010, 05:03 PM
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  el templo de la perdicion [poringa.] (^^ do not click the above link without realizing first that it is what I was talking about the post before - Nunsploitation. It is depicted p0rngraphy.)
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05-13-2010, 07:10 PM
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 La monja fatal [may 10] by JavierPsilocybin (Like I told you before: 'Monja' in Spanish means nun.) author's comments (translated): I remember one occasion when in a hostel in Florence, a roommate told me a story that had happened to him. He had gone to the Vatican, and during his visit he encounters a passing nun. She asks him for a bit of money, but he tells her has none. Then the nun pulls out a knife and literally assaults him. The guy in question told me that he only had € 5 in his wallet and was all that he could give her. "But I have no regrets," he said, "history is worth more than five euros."
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05-14-2010, 05:23 PM
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They look like they're standing in a TV intro waiting to do something bad ass charlie's angels style! |
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05-18-2010, 10:01 AM
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Apparently, the above image is from : a calendar of Nuns. Having Fun. Product Description: Glory hallelujah—the nuns are back! Truly “habit-forming” (Maxim), the NUNS HAVING FUN CALENDAR is on a roll, with 2006 sales up 27% for a total of 96,000 copies. Who can resist these sweet, nostalgic images depicting the lighter side of convent life? In black-and-white and sepia, the photographs are from the 1950s and ’60s. Here are nuns frolicking through the waves (yes, in full habits). Nuns at the bowling alley. Nuns on a roller coaster, nuns singing, nuns in a chorus line, nuns playing jump rope, nuns on a road trip, nuns in bumper cars. Oh, and what fun they’re having! From Maureen Kelly and Jeffrey Stone, co-authors of the New York Times bestseller Growing Up Catholic, it’s a wonderfully fresh, entertaining look at the stern-looking sisters many of us remember from our childhoods.About the Author: Maureen Kelly and Jeffrey Stone are the authors of Growing Up Catholic, the New York Times bestseller with over a million copies in print. They also write the bestselling Nuns Having Fun calendar. They are, collectively, the product of 24 years of parochial school. Ms. Kelly lives in Pittsburgh. There's also the back catalog, (as the above is an excerpt image, as well as the cover, for the 2007 calendar) seen here: (the cover for this calendar is ring's image) I'll post the covers in my next post, and see if I can't also see what else is found within these "calendar books".
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05-19-2010, 03:21 AM
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comfortably numb...
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05-19-2010, 12:00 PM
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No matter how semi-serious I am in this endeavor, I'm still quite amazed at how often I can make myself feel bad/mad over nothing. I'm sorry.
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05-20-2010, 12:37 PM
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05-20-2010, 05:13 PM
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi |
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05-21-2010, 01:41 PM
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05-23-2010, 10:49 AM
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 Nun with binoculars during Pope John Paul II 's visit in Reims. { Photo: © Philippe Lissac/dpa/Corbis ; taken in Reims, France. }
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05-24-2010, 09:04 PM
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A ha(bi)t ; does one not make (self) a Nun
 EL HÁBITO NO HACE A LA MONJA by zorrillo producciones author's comments: Monjas paseando en la calle Virgen de Los Peligros, esquina con Alcalá, en Madrid.
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05-26-2010, 04:39 PM
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05-27-2010, 02:39 PM
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 Nuns being instructed on how to wear gas masks during the London Blitz, 1940 [vintagephoto.] - - - + bonus portrayal  Nurses and Nuns Wearing Gas Masks in Air Raid Shelter in France, 1940 (photo taken: March 30, 1940) © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS
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06-05-2010, 10:29 PM
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news article:
NEWSWEEK: At a time when the Catholic Church most needs women, it has launched a frontal attack on its nuns.
excerpt: Earlier this month, in something of a surprise, a nun at a Catholic hospital in Phoenix was excommunicated for approving a first-trimester abortion last year at that hospital to save the life of a critically ill patient.
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06-08-2010, 04:39 AM
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06-10-2010, 04:28 AM
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06-11-2010, 06:30 AM
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Literary Sisters
 Group of nuns sailing aboard the SS Manhattan in 1940. Photograph by Thomas D. Mcavoy  Nun using card catalogue in the New York Public Library, 1944. Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt  Nuns waiting in line in polling station in Milan, Italy. 1948. Photograph by Yale Joel  A nun reading the diary of Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton. Emmitsburg, MD. 1959. Photograph by Hank Walker  Nuns reading about Pope Pius XII's death in Rome. 1958. Photograph by Mark Kauffman [seattlepi.] + [google.]
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06-14-2010, 06:00 AM
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 Pittsburgh -- Sister Mary Ellen bites her lip as she makes her first try at bowling. The sister's form looked good even though she whispers that the ball went down the gutter to Sister Damian, right. Some sixty nuns of the Vincentian Sisters of Charity bowled for several hours as guests of a bowling alley in Pittsburgh's North Hills. { Taken on June 27, 1961 ; (c) Bettman/CORBIS } [tsutpen.] + [CorbisImages.]
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06-18-2010, 11:47 AM
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06-18-2010, 12:36 PM
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 Sister Luc Gabriel (Jeanine Deckers) was best known as the Singing Nun. This nun was so badass that her song Dominque became such a hit that it knocked Elvis Presley off the charts! Overnight, the Dominican nun was an international celebrity with the stage name of Soeur Sourire (Sister Smile). She gave concerts and appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964. Her fame went to her head and she eventually left the convent to spend more time on her musical career. ---------- Post added at 03:36 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:33 PM ---------- [/COLOR] Last edited by ring; 06-18-2010 at 12:41 PM.. Reason: Clumsy attempt to beat the clock. |
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06-22-2010, 02:15 PM
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 Nuns Clamming on Long Island, (c) 1957 ; photo by Toni Frissell
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06-25-2010, 11:21 AM
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06-28-2010, 12:10 PM
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 It Is Becoming A Habit by rycordell | Taken in Seoul, (south) Korea one of these in not the like the others ; one of these is different - can you tell?
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06-30-2010, 12:59 PM
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