Gamer's nativity

[Shadowdancer]

My wife collects nativity scenes. At the holidays, she puts them all over the house. Last night (Tues.), she asked if I had noticed her new nativity set. I hadn't -- we have so many -- so she was showing it to me. It was actually nice; the figures looked like carved Italian Renaissance marble statues.

So as she is showing me the pieces, and I'm making the appropriate responses ("Yeah, that's nice"), she says that she still wants to get a couple of more nativity scenes. That's when inspiration struck me.

"You know," I said, "I saw a Lord of the Rings nativity set in a catalogue I got the other day. We should get one. It would look great on the Queen Anne table in the living room."

I was struggling not to laugh, or to even smile, and give away the joke. I could tell by the look on her face that my wife (not a gamer, nor does she like LotR) was trying hard to think of something to say without hurting my feelings.

"That's . . . interesting," she finally said. "But who is in the manger, Frodo?"

"No, it's the One Ring," I said, about to burst out laughing. "Isn't that great? It's so perfect."

She couldn't take it any more. "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of." Then I guess she noticed I was struggling not to laugh, because she asked "Are you joking?"

"Yes," I said and started laughing.

She just turned away, shaking her head and saying, "You're sick. You need help."

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

I have the same impulses regarding chessboards. Luckily I keep them fairly well repressed.

 

[Piratecat]

I like to sneak Godzilla into my Mother-in-law's nativity scenes.

 

[Silver Moon]

I like to sneak Godzilla into my Mother-in-law's nativity scenes.

And I like to try to sneak in Batman and a squadron of orcs into Kriskraft's Christmas village. There's nothing like having a group of 19th century carolers singing while an orc with a battleaxe sneaks up on them.

 

[Unseelie]

I like to sneak Godzilla into my Mother-in-law's nativity scenes.

King Ghidorah can be the three wise men.

 

[Henry]

How about a Matrix Nativity scene, with Morpheus and Trinity as Mary and Joseph, The Merovingian, the Oracle, and the Architect and the Three Wise men, and Neo in the manger.

Put a caption under it:

"Whoa."

Says it all, I think.

 

[Psion]

and Neo in the manger.

The manger being a half-eggshell filled you some sort of goo, naturally.

 

[diaglo]

my mother-in-law made a nativity scene for my wife.

i break out pieces from it for huge minis when i'm wargaming.

 

[Buttercup]

And I like to try to sneak in Batman and a squadron of orcs into Kriskraft's Christmas village. There's nothing like having a group of 19th century carolers singing while an orc with a battleaxe sneaks up on them.

This is the first good reason I've ever heard to get a Christmas Village. Wholesale slaughter, baby!

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Growing up I used to put Star Wars figures in Mom's nativity scene. She didn't really mind (or maybe she didn't notice?), but when my Grandmother came over to the house I used to get quite a lecture. Yoda always fit perfectly in the manger.