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    Christmas Pageant Kids: Or, Who Gets To Be The Virgin?

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    Image of Stabby McStabberson Stabby McStabberson
    12/23/08

    In reply to Christmas Pageant Kids: Or, Who Gets To Be The Virgin?
    i was the virgin my kindergarten nativity play. suck it!


    i had no lines, but i had the difficult acting decision of whether to clasp my hands together fingers interlaced as i gazed adoringly at the plastic baby jeebus, or to hold them palms together fingers up. i decided to alternate. i'm sure meryl streep or cate blanchett never put as much effort into their choices as i did.

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    Image of ObtuseIntolerant ObtuseIntolerant
    12/23/08

    In reply to Christmas Pageant Kids: Or, Who Gets To Be The Virgin?
    I'm a Unitarian Universalist, you know, a glorified heathen?...at my church they are going to cast the narrated Christmas Eve pageant as they go. I will probably goad my 5 year old to go be a terrified star or something. Yay it's gonna be so great!
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    Image of TurtleSpeak TurtleSpeak
    12/23/08

    In reply to Christmas Pageant Kids: Or, Who Gets To Be The Virgin?
    I played the virgin mary in a nativity play for a church once... I was seven or eight and I wasn't (and I'm still not) even relgious. My teacher asked me if I wanted to do it so I said yes. The worst bit was that the boy who played mary's dude (I've forgotten his name? joseph??) was the boy I had a crush on! And we had to hold hands! I blushed.
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    Image of clevernamehere clevernamehere
    12/23/08

    In reply to Christmas Pageant Kids: Or, Who Gets To Be The Virgin?
    I was the Virgin Mary in the school nativity! I was also 4 (strangely my Catholic school only did a Nativity for pre-k). My best friend was the Baby Jesus.


    Several years later I was St. Elizabeth Seaton in the Saint's pagent. I was eaten alive by jealousy of the girl who got to be St. Bernadette. It was a much cuter costume.

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    Image of ObtuseIntolerant ObtuseIntolerant
    12/23/08

    @clevernamehere: Well, everyone's best friend should be the Baby Jesus!
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    Image of ineffable.me ineffable.me
    12/23/08

    In reply to Christmas Pageant Kids: Or, Who Gets To Be The Virgin?
    it seems to me that pretty much anything brings out the worst in christians
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    Image of e.b. e.b.
    12/23/08

    In reply to Christmas Pageant Kids: Or, Who Gets To Be The Virgin?
    My prolific extended family decided to do it's own christmas pageant one year. Basically the best parts went to the most loved grandchildren. I got to play the part of one of the innkeepers that REJECTS Mary/Joseph/Inthewomb Jesus. And now you know where I lie on the grandchildren hierarchy.
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    Image of Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka
    12/23/08

    @e.b.: Oh dear, I can imagine the looks you got after that.
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    Image of KathrynwithaY loves Joan Collins KathrynwithaY loves Joan Collins
    12/23/08

    In reply to Christmas Pageant Kids: Or, Who Gets To Be The Virgin?
    Ehhh...I never got to be in a Christian Christmas pageant. However, I did snag the amazing role of Christmas Tree #4 in my fourth grade Holiday play. Just had to stand there and wave my branches from time to time. Parents were so proud.


    Jealous?

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    Image of Liz11685 Liz11685
    12/23/08

    @KathrynwithaY loves Joan Collins: I played a bush in my 5th grade play. I was pretty upset about it.


    I also never remember having a role in the Christmas pageant- but wanting to cut the bitch that was Mary. My church used to do cooler things for Christmas Mass as well, like have ballet dancers come in, so it ended up not really being a big deal. (It was a diverse, kind of hippie filled Church in Boston that counted John Kerry as a congregant.)

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    Image of Aesop's Foibles. YES. Aesop's Foibles. YES.
    12/23/08

    In reply to Christmas Pageant Kids: Or, Who Gets To Be The Virgin?
    Jeeze! This makes sense, though, given the rise of the rabid sideline parent. You know, the one that loudly berates their own kid and/or other peoples' kids for not playing hard enough or whatever. Not surprising, then, that supermoms/dads would get all up in arms over a frigging Christmas pageant. Way to take all the fun out of everything, alpha-parents.
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    Image of emilyanne emilyanne
    12/23/08

    In reply to Christmas Pageant Kids: Or, Who Gets To Be The Virgin?
    good god. I was always the narrator at my catholic school pageant but that was only cos I was good at memorising lines.
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    Image of Khrushchev Khrushchev
    12/23/08

    In reply to Christmas Pageant Kids: Or, Who Gets To Be The Virgin?
    Also, it's all fun and games until you have to say your only line and you accidentally say "Hockey stick!"
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    12/23/08

    @Khrushchev: Better than saying "GOD ISN'T REAL!"
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    Image of Plum-Pie Plum-Pie
    12/23/08

    @morninggloria: I once saw a 14 year old boy say 'bloody cock' instead of 'body clock' in a play. He looked mortified, poor soul, but it was quite early on and the show ended very well.
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    12/23/08

    In reply to Christmas Pageant Kids: Or, Who Gets To Be The Virgin?
    In my preschool play, I was The Grinch.


    I got to sing this song:
    [www.hulu.com]


    in front of everyone.

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    Image of NefariousNewt NefariousNewt
    12/23/08

    In reply to Christmas Pageant Kids: Or, Who Gets To Be The Virgin?
    Often, one of the biggest struggles of the pageant season is fierce, parent-driven competition over parts. It doesn't help when roles like the Virgin Mary and the angel Gabriel are thought to be valuable padding for a college résumé...


    "I believe I would be a good fit for Harvard, because I played the Baby Jesus at Our Lady of Perpetual Angst..."

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    Image of badmutha badmutha
    12/23/08

    @NefariousNewt: Having had the qualifications to successfully play the Mother of God at the age of 10, I am certain that those skills will allow me to excel here at MIT.
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    Image of Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
    12/24/08

    @NefariousNewt: "There was more than one lobster present at the birth of Jesus?"
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    12/23/08

    In reply to Christmas Pageant Kids: Or, Who Gets To Be The Virgin?
    If you're that serious about your child's future, why not move to a small town? Nothing gets a kid into a top 20 university like having them be a freaking massive whale shark in a teensy pond.
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    Image of Mkp-hearts-NYC Mkp-hearts-NYC
    12/23/08

    @morninggloria: Especially if they eat the smaller fish. Then they can brag about their diverse tastes!
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    Image of Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka
    12/23/08

    @Mkp-hearts-NYC:


    Exactly. Then you get to have both the


    My kid an honor student


    and


    My kid beat up your honor student


    bumper stickers! Win win!

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    12/23/08

    @Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka: My personal fave is "My kid got your honor student pregnant"


    Resume translation: Responsible for others!

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    Image of Eleanor Ramilly Eleanor Ramilly
    12/23/08

    In reply to Christmas Pageant Kids: Or, Who Gets To Be The Virgin?
    "One minister describes the classic casting-call strategy of showing up dressed for the part you want - a practice that led to 16 hopeful Virgins one year."


    Sometimes I show up at work dressed as a hopeful virgin. I've been slowly turning back into my early highschool self. Black hair, black eyeliner, big boots, big sweaters.

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    Image of Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka
    12/23/08

    @Shannon: Hmmm, what exactly would a hopeful virgin wear nowadays?
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    Image of Stabby McStabberson Stabby McStabberson
    12/23/08

    @Shannon: i tried that fashion scene at work and just got laid instead. virginity is overrated.
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    Image of exelizabeth exelizabeth
    12/23/08

    In reply to Christmas Pageant Kids: Or, Who Gets To Be The Virgin?
    Imogene Herdman gets to be the Virgin Mary, duh.
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