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Family Sees Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus in a Tortilla

It's the immaculate comestible. While heating up some tortillas Tuesday afternoon, a mother in Starr County, Texas, says she was surprised when some unexpected visitors turned up in her kitchen -- the Virgin Mary and the Baby Jesus. Melinda Solis told ValleyCentral.com she was warming up flour tortillas for her sons...

Hilarious Irreverence: Fark's Headline of the Year Winners

One thing you find out pretty fast working at Fark is that any news story -- no matter how grim -- can be turned into a joke. For those of you not familiar with Fark.com, it's a deeply irreverent social-media news site run by Drew Curtis, where even the most dreary headlines are churned into comedy. Each day, members of...

Weird Christmas Custom: Spot the Pooping Peasant

Holiday traditions such as wrapping gifts and eating fruitcake may suck, but nothing is crappier than a bizarre Christmas custom practiced in Spain. While a typical Nativity scene in most parts of the world usually includes figurines of baby Jesus, Joseph, Mary and their entourage of Wise Men and farm animals, folks in...

'Tis The Season For Tacky Christmas Lights

(Dec. 15) – As Clark Griswold taught us in the 1989 comedy "Christmas Vacation," the holidays wouldn't be the holidays without a few eyesores – namely in the form of really tacky Christmas lights. In the memorable Christmas movie, Chevy Chase's overzealous character puts up so many lights, the whole...

Christmas Caroling Tradition Pioneered by Drunks

(Nov. 28) -- Christmas caroling has long been a favorite tradition of church groups, elderly choirs and children, but did you know that the first groups of carolers were nothing but a bunch of rowdy drunks? That's the tune from David McKillop, senior vice president of programming for the History Channel, who recently...

Background on baby jesus

The Child Jesus (Divine Infant, Baby Jesus, Infant Jesus, Christ Child) represents Jesus from his Nativity to age 12. At 13 he was considered to be adult, in accordance with the Jewish custom of his time, and that of most Christian cultures until recent centuries.

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