'Tebowing' Becomes Latest Internet Trend

[The Straight Story]

'Tebowing' Becomes Latest Internet Trend
Fans Pose On One Knee, Start Praying



ORLANDO, Fla. -- Move over, planking. "Tebowing" is now the biggest internet trend.

As described on the Tumblr blog, Tebowing "is to get down on a knee and start praying, even if everyone else around you is doing something completely different."

Photos on the site show people Tebowing in bookstores, in airports, in the operating room, in the U.S. Capitol and while golfing. There are even photos of toddlers Tebowing and one mimicking the Beatle's "Abbey Road" album cover.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Jared Kleinstein, the founder of the blog, said he first convinced his friends to pose like Tebow after watching the former Gators QB lead a fourth-quarter comeback against the Miami Dolphins.

http://www.clickorlando.com/sports/29608722/detail.html

[ellie]

1. Yes, praying as a fad

Sounds about right.

[meegbear]

5. BWAH-HAHAHAHA!

[OneGrassRoot]

8. LOL +1 n/t

[Logical]

2. Yes, because prayer always works!

[Scuba]

10. Zat's why we have whirled peas.

[MerryBlooms]

3. tebowingbuttcrack.com coming soon. :( n/t

[HughBeaumont]

4. That looks like frustration, not praying.

I imagined if I relied on prayer for guidance and hope and things turned out shitty anyway, I'd probably look like that too . . .

[PassingFair]

6. People thinking that they have magical intercessory powers with supernatural beings.

Wow. You'd think whatever omnipotent invisible
force they are praying to would already have
things figured out, and not need to be reminded
by "mortals".

Especially over sporting events.

:crazy:

[SammyWinstonJack]

20. +1000000!

:thumbsup:



And why is "God" always begging for money from lowly "mortals"


Never have been able to figure that one out?:shrug:

[PassingFair]

25. It is such a CONCEIT!

A friend of mine "prays" for other people's
success at work, and for friends...then she
takes credit for helping them when they DO
succeed!

Really "chaps my ass" for some reason.

I don't see the difference between this and
"witches" casting spells.

Both think they have super powers!

[pipi_k]

27. No kidding...

Like God isn't busy enough watching NASCAR races on Sundays.


Maybe he doesn't even LIKE football.

[They_Live]

7. That particular pose

looks more like a face-palm (face-fist?) version of Rodin's "the Thinker".



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thinker

[Lucian]

9. I like how people think a god would give a shit about football.

Do you think your almighty actually gives two shits if your team scores a touchdown, or wins the football game? Really?

[JoePhilly]

16. God doesn't care until the playoffs.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

23. So, you're not a fan of Notre Dame football?

:rofl:
:hi:

[southernyankeebelle]

11. I got one. How about every one drop off the nearest dock. These things are so silly.

[CurtEastPoint]

12. Hmmm... Jesus said "But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father..."

[Bluenorthwest]

13. He also said only hypocrites pray in public...

And he was right.

[gkhouston]

15. Jesus never had to drive during rush hour.

I find myself more in need of prayer on the freeway than in my room...

[LanternWaste]

31. Do we take that literally

Do we take that literally, without recourse to interpretation as many fundies do?

[hobbit709]

14. Ambrose Bierce has the proper definition

pray, v. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy

[PassingFair]

34. SOMEDAY we'll find out what happened to that...

MAGNIFICENT BASTARD!



From
Wiki:

In October 1913 Bierce, then aged 71, departed Washington, D.C., for a tour of his old Civil War battlefields. By December he had proceeded through Louisiana and Texas, crossing by way of El Paso into Mexico, which was in the throes of revolution. In Ciudad Juárez he joined Pancho Villa's army as an observer, and in that role he witnessed the Battle of Tierra Blanca.

Bierce is known to have accompanied Villa's army as far as the city of Chihuahua. His last known communication with the world was a letter he wrote there to Blanche Partington, a close friend, dated December 26, 1913.<10><11> After closing this letter<12> by saying, "As to me, I leave here tomorrow for an unknown destination," he vanished without a trace, becoming one of the most famous disappearances in American literary history. Skeptic Joe Nickell, however, argued in his book Ambrose Bierce Is Missing and Other Historical Mysteries (1992) that such a letter had never been found. All that existed was Ms. Carrie Christiansen's notebook with a rough summary of a purported letter and her statement that the originals had been destroyed.

Oral tradition in Sierra Mojada, Coahuila, documented by the priest James Lienert, states that Bierce was executed by a firing squad in the town cemetery there.<13> Again, Nickell (1992) finds this story to be rather incredible. He quotes Bierce's friend and biographer Walter Neale as saying that in 1913, Bierce had not ridden for quite some time, was suffering from serious asthma, and had been severely critical of Pancho Villa. Neale concludes that it would have been highly unlikely for Bierce to have gone to Mexico and joined up with Villa.

However, all investigations into his fate have proven fruitless, and Nickell concedes that despite a lack of hard evidence that Bierce had gone to Mexico, there is also none that he had not. Therefore, despite an abundance of theories (including death by suicide), his end remains shrouded in mystery.

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[vets74]

17. That looks like a really fucking bad headache.

Result of banging helmets with other large men....

[Ichingcarpenter]

18. Figures Americans would put a religious shit stain version on planking

It won't catch on except with fundies.

[hootinholler]

19. Are they doing it seriously or in parody?

:shrug:

[snooper2]

21. Dude needs to pray for some socks, STIIIIIINNNNNKKKY!!!

:rofl:

[pipi_k]

28. I know...people without socks

(unless they're wearing sandals) just make me go "eeeewwwwww!!!"

[rurallib]

22. Just the position the 1% want to see us in.

guess what comes next?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

24. Another definition: Pretend to pray ...

... while making yourself the center of attention.
.
.
.
wait, people do this while golfing? I can understand that ...
"Lord, don't let me fuck up this drive on the first tee"

:hi:

[Erose999]

26. I suppose Tebowing is better than Teabagging.

[dkofos]

29. Yes, because teabagging is so last year.

[Rex]

30. Well, looking at the current state of affairs maybe that is a rather good

idea.

[Liberal Veteran]

32. I prefer to do the Professor X telepathic broadcast position when speaking to God.

[TwilightGardener]

33. God, how stupid. I hope God isn't wasting his time responding to "Dear God, please

let me throw a good pass" requests during Bronco games.

[AsahinaKimi]

35. This is named after a quarter back right?

Tim Tebow of the Denver Broncos?

Throws Yellow flag!! Blows whistle! PERSONAL FOUL. EXCESSIVE RELIGOUS DISPLAY AND INFLUENCING A TREND! 15 YARD PENALTY AFTER the kick off! The player has been ejected from the game!
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zVYoxTUDqVg/S8FNxLziOwI/AAAAAAAAAP4/2Bbp5ndI7Os/s320/ref+throwing+flag.jpg

[Johonny]

36. Tebow aborted my Dolphins win

:(

[quinnox]

37. Even when I watched football I always thought this was lame

It just shows the stupidity of these football players, that they think god cares about some idiotic and trivial game.

Either that, or they are doing it for show or for attention, which is even worse.

God, I hate football. I'm ashamed I ever watched it back in the day.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

38. "Tebowing" -- I thought that was...

circumsizing infant boys without a license or medical training. :shrug: