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In 2005 the Church of Ignatius, patron Saint of men suffering a midlife crisis, was founded after the Saint miraculously survived crucifixion at the hands of bored TV viewers.
Devotees of Saint Ignatius, or as they call him, St Ig, frequently display signs of the St Ig Martyr.
Polkageists have obvious terpsichorean interests but clairvoyants love crystal ballroom dancing, vulpinethropes are adept at foxtrots, nagas lithely perform a mamba & zombies are expert at limbo dancing, yet the most macabre dancers are those who perform the quick & the deadstep.
In 1967 doctors advised the public to beware the effects of ultraviolet light on delicate optical nerves.
Especially prone to UV rays are therianthropic species with high levels of photosensitivity, notably including werespiders, who are advised to wear sunglasses in the summer.
Valentine's Day is often an occasion for sudden, spontaneous marriage proposals.
In our contemporary age if such a romantic gesture turns out to have regretfully been a bit of a mistake, divorce is always an option.
In the past
Until Death Do Us Part
led to more extreme measures.
In 1884 young Master Theobald Whimsey (then aged 6) set off from Crawley to begin his attempt to become the first boy in recorded history to circumnavigate the globe while riding on a giant tortoise.
Thankfully, he has had wind assistance on his journey & is now almost half way.
In 1907 the minds of the population of the picturesque Hempshire village of Spudlington became half-baked then
fully mashed when Pod, God of Bodysnatchers sent its podoppelgängers to plant the surrounding fields with cantankerously cankerous brain-tubers disguised as potatoes.
There are many antipodean therianthropes, such as the werecrocodile Human Dundee, Skipper the werekangaroo, the caped crusading Wombatman & champion campanologist Ding O’Dong.
Sadly numerous werekoalas have abandoned eucalyptus in favour of coca leaves, becoming crazed cocakoalas
1957 saw the unveiling of the first pigkini.
Designed to simultaneously protect a weresow’s modesty while allowing her to show her fashionable curves when wallowing on the beach, the scanty homoporcine costume was a welcome relief from the trotter-length swimwear of former years.
In 1887 Samson McAtlas developed an innovative method of cleaning stonework.
This involved him rubbing stones vigorously with his thumbs while wearing only boots & a leather posing pouch, whilst under constant supervision from his employer.
Within 5 years he became a millionaire.
While the Cult of Clod, God of Clowns, has its bloody origin in the greasepainted depths of prehistory, the worldwide spread of both the Faith of Fools & gluten intolerance is largely due to Emperor Clodius I, who instigated a policy of
“Bread & Circuses”
across the Roman Empire.