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Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :

...the heaters are ALWAYS broken in baptismal fonts? What's up with that?

Posted by Mr.Funny (Member # 4467) on :

Huh? [Confused]

Posted by Trogdor the Burninator (Member # 4894) on :

**wonders how Taalcon developed an opinion on this**

Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :

Congratulations, Dave! Were you the baptizer or the baptizee?

Posted by slacker (Member # 2559) on :

Every baptism I've been to so far has worked. One even worked too well (fogged up the mirror).

Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :

I've been in several baptismal fonts with ice-cold water, but in each case it was because there was no heater at all. Water heaters are very rare in Central America.

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

Actually, I've always been impressed with their warmness.

Posted by Lissande (Member # 350) on :

You have heaters in your baptistries? *blink* Oh, the luxury that is America. [Smile]

Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

I remember at my baptism people boiling water and then dumping it in the font to try to bring up the temperature a little bit. I don't think ours had a heater at all.

Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :

My baptism was nice and warm. My bigger concern was the fact that they only had chones for old people down at the Church of Christ. You can imagine how well those things stay up when they're wet. *shudder*

Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :

We had one lady, bless her heart, who somehow missed that there was a font involved. She was 92 years old and determined as heck to do this, but she kept saying things like "If I don't return." about after the baptism. It wasn't until after that we figured out she thought she was going to be dunked in Lake Huron. In February. She's 92!

The fact that the heater on the font actually worked was almost unbelievable.

That is sort of touching to me. She really thought that was going to be curtains for her, but she wanted to do it anyway. [Smile]

Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :

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Actually, I've always been impressed with their warmness.

Heh. Did that remind anyone else of Strange Brew?

Posted by Dobbie (Member # 3881) on :

When babies start putting money in the collection plate then we'll worry about heating the baptismal font.

Posted by Slash the Berzerker (Member # 556) on :

If religion is comfortable, it negates the whole purpose of it.

Posted by Trogdor the Burninator (Member # 4894) on :

I didn't notice anything, eh.

Posted by UTAH (Member # 5032) on :

What are chones?

Posted by Lady Jane (Member # 7249) on :

ALMOST A YEAR LATER...

Today is the one year anniversary of Taalcon's baptism. If it feels like less, that's because he didn't announce it until months later, thus enabling the best secret keeping ever.

Happy one year birthday/anniversary/baptism day, David. [Smile]

Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :

I appreciate this line by Slash. . .

"If religion is comfortable, it negates the whole purpose of it."

Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :

I love the fact that a google ad at the bottom of this page is for "Baptistery Heaters"

[ February 28, 2005, 02:34 PM: Message edited by: Taalcon ]

Posted by Lady Jane (Member # 7249) on :

[ROFL]

I didn't notice that!

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

It's for "The National Jewish Book" for me. [Dont Know]

But happy anni-bapti-versary! [Wink]

Have you ever seen the portable, solar-heatable baptismal fonts someone invented?

Posted by Chupacabras (Member # 6840) on :

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What are chones?

That reminds me of the one time my friend Pancho Villa took a bath. Some hombre stole Pancho's chones while he wasn't looking. Pancho, he had a hard time getting his zipper up after that.

Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :

[Smile]

Posted by Intelligence3 (Member # 6944) on :

LOL, I never noticed that there were Google ads at the bottom of the pages before.

Posted by Jay (Member # 5786) on :

Wow…. That is impressive. Must use some kind of subject thing to figure out what is being talked about. Could be interesting to look at this from thread to thread!

Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :

When I got baptised the water was very cold and it got up my nose.

Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :

chones = underwear? [Confused]

Posted by Amka (Member # 690) on :

Hi Dave,

How was your vacation?

Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :

chones

Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :

I have Baptismal Pools & Chromalox Heating.

Congrats, Taalcon!

Posted by Mabus (Member # 6320) on :

That's right...we don't have chones at the Church of Christ. Hmmm....why did that sound odd?

And the...um....font...had a working heater, but it wasn't turned on at the time. (Hadn't been used recently.)