Originally published at: Where is Jesus's foreskin? | Boing Boing
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Opens notebook of future band names:
Ring of Flesh
What did they normally do with the foreskin? Just throw it away? Probably what they did with l’il Jesus; it’s not like they knew he was going to be famous someday.
I just can’t get over the phrase “The Holy Foreskin”. It sounds like a Monty Python joke.
He was the son of God, you’d think He’d have a five or at least a six-skin.
ah Praeputii Christi … got a whole bag of 'em right here (in NFT form!). This one was from when he was first circumcised, this was from a couple of years later … what? you think he couldn’t grow them back!? $19.95 venmo, and they can be yours! (“But wait! There’s more!..”)
Ring of Saturn last I heard.
Well, it’s not the Ring of Uranus.
Just the title of this post made me burst out laughing. And “Holy Foreskin?” Is that the official designation?
If you chew on a communion wafer before swallowing it, that is what the crumbs turn into.
Kinda chewy, eh…
Somehow I’m imagining raw calamari.
Sorta next shshi’ish.
I wasn’t kidding.
That sounds like a Jewish holy day.
Wait, is foreskin kosher?
Here are photos of a small collection of the Holy Prepuce snippets curated by my friend James Shefik. It really livens the place up, having a few of these around. Tremendous energy.
https://jamesshefik.com
Maybe Tom Robbins and Dan Brown can co-write a book about it.
While we’re at it, whatever happened to the Holy Fingernail Clippings and Hair & Beard Trimmings? Surely someone kept souvenirs.