One of my many worries is that some morning I will wake up with the urge to build a rosary of bowling balls in my front yard.
Laugh, clowns, it happened to a guy in Tennessee. Thirty-three AMF Black Beauties. Drilled. Seventy-pound-test dog chain between them.
“Jesus Christ,” said his neighbors. Exactly the reaction he was seeking. They’re lucky he didn’t do the gasoline stations of the cross. [Source]
Well that is one way to both slow down praying the rosary and to build forearm strength at the same time. Though if he drops a bead I hope he says "Hail Mary" instead of something else.
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Ha! It’s already been done! One of my late great teachers told us about her old convent having a rosary made from bowling balls around the statue of Our Lady. One night some hooligans (had to be more than one) picked up some of the “beads” and threw them over the other side of the statue, taking her head off (the statue’s, not the nun’s).
How do you make a complete rosary out of 33 bowling balls? Don’t you need at least 58?
58 is what I was thinking too…..
It’s really 59
Dale, I think you’re really right…
Thirty-three beads? Oh well THAT explains everything. Thirty three is the number of beads in an _Anglican_ rosary. Unless Jeff is planning to swim the Thames, he need not worry about waking up with the urge to say it with bowling balls.
Them Piskies. Always up to something…
Shari (former piskie, now safe accross the Tiber).