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03-06-2007, 06:35 PM
lizbud

Only In California

Surely They must be kidding :rolleyes:

Man Peddles 'Holy' Bottled Water

POSTED: 12:47 pm EST March 6, 2007
UPDATED: 1:03 pm EST March 6, 2007

LINDEN, Calif. -- A Stockton, Calif.-area businessman is peddling blessed bottled water.

The half-liter bottles of Holy Drinking Water are being distributed by Wayne Enterprises. They only carry the blessings of Catholic and Anglican priests, but company President Brian Germann plans to expand to other faiths.

He said he thought of the concept last year and has sold about 3,000 bottles since January at a Linden market and on the Internet.

He claimed the idea came to him on June 6, 2006, believed by some to be an ill-fated day because of the three sixes in 6/6/06, a Christian symbol of evil.

The bottles of plain purified water carry a label that warns sinners who drink the water that they may experience burning, intense heat, sweating and skin irritations.
03-06-2007, 07:30 PM
elizabethann

LOL. Yep, only in California. :D
03-06-2007, 07:59 PM
Marigold2

You know there is a sucker born every minute.
03-06-2007, 08:17 PM
slick

Hey Richard.....you gotta new job eh???? ;) :D
03-06-2007, 08:32 PM
Karen

I know the kind of person who would buy it, let me tell you a little story:

In high school, we did the musical South Pacific. As I was just in 9th grade, i didn't try out for any parts, but sang in the choruses, and got cast as one of two nuns, whose only job is to lead a row of girls across the stage.

Before the first night of the show, there I was, in the nun costume back stage. The female lead, Lisa, came up to me and said "Bless me, Sister!"

I said, "Lisa, I'm not even Catholic, you know that!"

She said, "I don't care, just make the hand motions and stuff, and I'll feel better!"

So I did, and she did.

I bet she'd buy the water!
03-06-2007, 08:46 PM
Marigold2

Poor thing. Sounds like she really needed something to believe in, perhaps she needed more then anything to believe in herself.
03-06-2007, 09:07 PM
caseysmom

Hey whats wrong with that :D
03-06-2007, 09:27 PM
Catty1

...no wonder that Evian spelled backwards is "NAIVE" :D
03-07-2007, 12:02 AM
Sophist

Lol... I'd be willing to bet that a lot of the bottles were bought as novelty items, for humor value.

Then there are the staunchly religious... (shrugs). Don't know the Catholic or Anglican faiths well enough to mock them for wanting blessed water. I don't even know what they use it for.
03-07-2007, 03:57 AM
wombat2u2004

Another snake oil salesman. The old west was full of them....seems like the new west is to !!!!
Wombat
03-07-2007, 04:00 AM
wombat2u2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sophist

Lol... I'd be willing to bet that a lot of the bottles were bought as novelty items, for humor value.

Then there are the staunchly religious... (shrugs). Don't know the Catholic or Anglican faiths well enough to mock them for wanting blessed water. I don't even know what they use it for.

Blessed water ??? Well....you could pour it over your head. For all the good it would do for anything, you may as well do that.
Wombat
03-07-2007, 11:37 AM
gini

Hey, you just leave us Californian's alone..............we will sell what we want to and buy what we want to.............:D :D
03-07-2007, 11:53 AM
Killearn Kitties

So did you buy a bottle, Gini? Did you get it for a good price? :D
03-07-2007, 11:59 AM
gini

Quote:

Originally Posted by Killearn Kitties

So did you buy a bottle, Gini? Did you get it for a good price? :D

Go in peace my child........and sin no more!;)
03-07-2007, 06:36 PM
wombat2u2004

Ahhhhhhhhh.....it would be so nice to have enough water in ones country to do things like bottle it. LOL
Wom
03-07-2007, 06:41 PM
lizbud

Quote:

Originally Posted by wombat2u2004

Ahhhhhhhhh.....it would be so nice to have enough water in ones country to do things like bottle it. LOL
Wom

Or bathe in it?
03-07-2007, 06:45 PM
lizbud

I don't know one priest in town who would bless holy water to sell.

I think the guy made up the "blessed" part. :D Some gimmick.
03-07-2007, 07:45 PM
Sophist

Quote:

Originally Posted by wombat2u2004

Blessed water ??? Well....you could pour it over your head. For all the good it would do for anything, you may as well do that.
Wombat

:p :rolleyes: I meant what religious function it serves. Obviously, not being of their faith, it is no different to me than any other bottle of water. But I am not going to shrug it off so quickly if it is something that would technically serve a function in their belief system.

Honestly, I wouldn't laugh at a Jewish person for paying more for a kosher food product just because the OTHER, cheaper product was just as good to me. Dunno.

(shrugs)
03-07-2007, 07:46 PM
Sophist

Quote:

Originally Posted by lizbud

Or bathe in it?

Buuuuuuuuurn.

Thumbs up on that one, lol. Funny stuff.
03-07-2007, 08:14 PM
mike001

I would call that going way too far. Hard to believe people would actually fall for that. If they want holy water they can get it at their church. Kind of a sick thing to do.

But thanks Cathy for pointing out that Evian is really Naive....never noticed that before. Can't wait to tell my friends.
03-08-2007, 04:34 AM
wombat2u2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by lizbud

Or bathe in it?

Bathe ??? That's a new word.
What does it mean ????
Wom
03-08-2007, 04:37 AM
wombat2u2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sophist

:p :rolleyes: I meant what religious function it serves. Obviously, not being of their faith, it is no different to me than any other bottle of water. But I am not going to shrug it off so quickly if it is something that would technically serve a function in their belief system.

Honestly, I wouldn't laugh at a Jewish person for paying more for a kosher food product just because the OTHER, cheaper product was just as good to me. Dunno.

(shrugs)

Well I suppose if the weather is hot, like it is here....you could pour it over your head and say "God that feels good !!!".
Thats kind of a religious function.....in a way.........er...I think.
Wom