Humor in Science and Theology

Maybe we should do it more! To quote:

“You’ve no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.”

–C S Lewis, “The Last Battle”

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I wish the Church would convene a council and infallibly declare whether Gremlins, Die Hard or National Lampoons Christmas Vacation is the greatest Christmas movie of all time. I’m so torn by this holy trinity of holiday classics. And Die Hard was on yesterday!

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None of them come close to The Muppet Christmas Carol.

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Having never seen any of them, am I a heretic? :slight_smile:

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Compared to Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny, even Santa Claus Conquers the Martians looks good.

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Anathema!!!

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After hearing a friend say this yesterday, I’m sold on it: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.

Okay, maybe that was a Thanksgiving movie? Even so, … if Die Hard makes the cut as a “Christmas” movie, Planes and Trains … ten times more so. Just informing you all!

I’m certainly willing to allow speculative harmonization as this is another Christmas classic.

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I’d have to agree. That is our favorite around here.

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I watched a few of these, good stuff if tired of the classics.

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Last Christmas Eve I watched the entire Die Hard collection, then Home Alone.

My wife loves Home Alone. I didn’t think it held up as well to be honest the last time we watched it! Maybe I was just in a grinch mood though because I remember loving it as a kid :rofl:

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When my brother and I get together, practically all we do is tell old stories. It’s not that we don’t remember, it’s that we like hearing them.

Awkward moments in Bethlehem.

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And no pants.


And for my medical friends, just discovered my new favorite ICD-10 code: R46.7. I fear my wife has a bad case of it.

To save you googling it:
R46.7 - Verbosity and circumstantial detail obscuring reason for contact

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I believe my patients, and especially my paired medical assistant, would say the same thing about me, especially when I’m falling behind in my schedule. I’m amazed at how specific those codes are. I think I even found one about anxiety about squirrels though maybe that is animals not otherwise specified not including arachnophobia

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I’m certain this one is a repeat. :cowboy_hat_face:

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