Telling Secrets: More Evidence of Madness

Saturday, September 13, 2008

More Evidence of Madness

Postulants of The Novitiate of the Order of Holy MadPriest, OCICBW.

The first test was to eat flaming Portuguese chorico.
Thankfully, we all passed and no one got hurt.

This was the run up practice to the 'all girl on girl blogger action'.
Doug reported that Holy Brother MadPriest had made it a
mandatory requirement of all female postulants.

As you can tell, I couldn't keep a 'straight face'.
Apparently, everyone but me passed this test.

What a delightful evening. Can't wait to do it again. Soon.

P.S. Thanks to Doug for all the pictures!

6 comments:

Elizabeth Kaeton said...: So, because no one is innocent (in this crowd, at least), here are the names: David, Paul, Bill, Doug, Katherine, Elizabeth, Shelly, Eileen and Allie.

You can guess who's who.; Sat Sep 13, 11:27:00 AM
Katie Schwartz said...: Love these pictures. Madness and chaos don't always suck. The noshies look divine.; Sat Sep 13, 02:37:00 PM
Paul (A.) said...: Do note that "Katherine" is the One who posts as "Catherine (A.)".

In honour of MP, we don't need to spell.; Sat Sep 13, 02:45:00 PM
JCF said...: Heh: pretty easy to tell which member of the Order of Madness is recently back from vacation at the beach. ;-)

Um, could we have more of an ID to people's online handles? I recognize Eileen and Doug and ("the gorgeous") Allie, but others escape me (inc. who's who); Sat Sep 13, 02:56:00 PM
Erika Baker said...: How totally wonderful, thanks for posting the pics.
Now, can we arrange for something like that in the UK too?; Sat Sep 13, 03:59:00 PM
Elizabeth Kaeton said...: Oh, my sincere apologies to Catharine. I must have had her confused with our PB ;~) Seriously, though, from one who takes her name very seriously, I apologize.

David is "Rev Boy"

Paul is "Paul (a.)"

Bill is Bill S with the Celtic Knot as his 'logo'.

Catherine is Paul (a.)'s better half.

Moi is moi.

Shelly is Pseudopiskie

Allie is Conformist Rebel.

You know Eileen and Doug

I think that's it. Hope that helps, jcf.

Hey, Erika - I would loved to travel to UK. I think we'd have to go North, however, to meet MP and Mrs. MP, oh, yes - and have lots and lots of car washes and cookie/candy selling campaigns to raise the funds for such a trip.

In the meantime, why not have an OCICBW/UK gathering, have some wonderful food, laugh uproariously take lots of snaps and show us who you are.; Sat Sep 13, 04:28:00 PM

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