Last Minute Christmas Gift Ideas

Dec 24

Having trouble finding last minute that perfect Christmas gift for that special someone in your life? You shouldn’t Christmas is not for another two weeks on January 7. Though if you insist on celebrating this western bacchanalia* of consurmerism, we at Not So Industries have decide to make you lives easier. With our elite cadre of Egyptian trained graphic designers we are proud to introduce Customized Icons. Have yourself or loved ones photoshopped into your favorite icon or take part in various depicted events in the life of Christ.

Be the envy of your friends when your family Christmas card photo has you and your family worshipping the newborn Christ with the shepherds (or if its just 3 of you, you can become the Magi bearing Him gifts)

For that special couple in your life, you put them in the Icon of the Harrowing of Hades and have our Savior pulling them by the hand…and many more ideas when you consult our creative team standing by.

Not only for Christmas but make great birthday gifts. For your daughters sweet sixteen you can have you daughter and her friends photoshopped in a part of the 40 virgins who accompany St. Demiana. Or imagine the joy on son’s face when he sees himself riding on the back of the horse with St. George.

So order you Customizable Icon now (before the visas expire on our elite cadre of Egyptian graphic designers and they get deported)

(thanks to W.S. for idea)

* Yes it should more accurately be a saturnalia but bacchanalia just rolls off the tongue.

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Livin’ Coptic Style

Nov 27

(You knew this was inevitable…)

Livin’ Coptic style
Coptic style

A Copt who fasts two thirds the year
A genius Copt who knows one hundred ways to cook fava beans
A Copt whose drools at macarona bil bechamel
A Copt with that kind of kitchen skill

I’m a Copt
A Copt who looks forward to the fifty days
A Copt who drinks shay bilaban in a clear glass
A Copt whose heart bursts with semna baladi
That kind of Copt

Chaotic, Obstinate
Yes you, hey, yes you, hey
Chaotic, Obstinate
Yes you, hey, yes you, hey
Yet Proud Copt until the end

Livin’ Coptic style, Coptic style
Livin’ Coptic style, Coptic style
Livin’ Coptic style

Ya Tone-deaf Deacon, Livin’ Coptic style
Ya Tone-deaf Deacon oh oh oh oh

A Copt who looks quiet but plays the def like Ibo
A Copt who only kneels when the right time comes
A Copt who can do 400 metonias with ease
A sensible Copt like that

I’m a Copt
A Copt who never loses track during the procession
A Copt who goes completely crazy when the epistle’s read in Coptic
A Copt who knows the hymn but has no voice
That kind of Copt

Chaotic, Obstinate
Yes you, hey, yes you, hey
Chaotic, Obstinate
Yes you, hey, yes you, hey
Yet Proud Copt until the end

Livin’ Coptic style, Coptic style
Livin’ Coptic style, Coptic style
Livin’ Coptic style

Ya Black-clad Teta, Livin’ Coptic style
Ya Black-clad Teta oh oh oh oh

On top of the hegumen is the bishop man, clergy clergy
I’m a Copt who knows a thing or two
On top of the hegumen is the bishop man, clergy clergy
I’m a Copt who knows a thing or two
You know what I’m saying

Livin’ Coptic style

Ya Balding Uncle, Livin’ Coptic style
Ya Balding Uncle oh oh oh oh

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Local Church Bookstore Servant Assaulted

Nov 26

Coptic News Network Brief

Adel Ayman Akram Agaiby, a servant in St. Marina & St. Anthony Coptic Orthodox church’s bookstore, was brutally beaten by what can be described by shocked yet bemused eyewitnesses as extremely irate and belligerent old ladies. The assault occurred after a normal Wednesday liturgy, when the terrorizing tetas descended upon the bookstore. Adel states that typically the bookstore is only open on the weekends but since he he had a day off decided to go in to get caught up on some inventory. Since he was there and the women wanted something from the bookstore, he decided to help them. The women came looking for Pope Tawadros II memorabilia to build their personal shrines to him like they did for the thrice blessed late Pope Shenouda. When Adel replied all he had were a few copies of the official photo of His holiness, what was a group of kindly old ladies turned in to cantakerous hellions.

They started to jab and poke him with their fingers and canes accusing him of disloyalty to the church. How could he not stock a wide array memoribilia with His holiness’ face on it. They were wanted such things which they had with Pope Shenouda’s face like key chains, mugs, t-shirts, sun visors, stickers, baseball caps, commemorative plates, medallions, candles, candlesticks, kerchiefs, glass cubes and lampshades among other knick-knacks. Adel at this point – in what could be described as the turning point where things crossed the line into tragedy – stated that such things were in poor taste and really did not honor the man.

At this point the pugnacious grannies started to swing their canes in earnest, while others started to pray to God that He strike Adel dead and punish him eternally for this and not hold his sin of disrespect against the patriarch against the church, while a few others cursed him as only a grandmother can with baldness, infertility, failure at all he touched, dwarfism and other things that no one thought could possibly come out of the mouths of sweet old ladies. Adel suffered several contusions, a concussion, and broken ribs since he could not defend himself since he felt it was dishonorable to raise his hands against elderly women. The beating stopped when the person giving the old ladies a ride home was leaving. Though the worst part Adel stated was seeing his grandmother take part in the assault.

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  1. Sherry says:

    Lol this is just great. Although I kind of just wasted time reading this I just wanna say I serve our bookshop too lol now I’m scared :s bahahaha!

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Anthem for Sunday Mornings

Oct 23

This song actually makes me not want to go to church. Ever!

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Choosing Between Good & Evil

Oct 22

“You girls who wear crosses, you know who you are, you wear the cross and have it nestle there in your cleavage. That’s not fair making me choose like that. You know I’m going to end up choosing the devil every time.”

-Brian Posehn

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On Prayer

Aug 29

“When I was a child I used to pray fervently to God for a bicycle, but realized in God in His infinite wisdom did not work that way. So I stole one and prayed for forgiveness.”

– Emo Philips

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Happy Greek Easter

Apr 15

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Latest Android Exclusive App

Apr 05

Are you finding it hard to fast. Praying the Agpeya 7 times a day, 8 times too many? With a single prostration you risk a cardiac episode? That holy oil burns when it touches your skin? Or that korban cause you all sorts of gastric issues?

Its not your fault. It could be your parents. They could have stack the deck against you by making you a sin baby. Whats a sin baby, you ask? A child that was conceived during a fast, when married couples are supposed to refrain from conjugal relations.

How can you tell if you are the demonic spawn of an illicit tryst? With NotSo Industries Sin Baby Calculator App!! New and improved version 2.0 has an offset you can manually enter for premature births. Just enter your birth date and it calculates whether you were conceived in the clear or screwed for eternity. It takes into account all the vagrities of the Coptic calendar and its correlation to the Gregorian calendar, so rest assured of its accuracy.

(as an aside, you’ll see a statistically non-random distribution of birthdays of Copts correlating to periods 9 months after inter-fast periods)

Thanks to F.H.W. for the idea

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  1. Christine says:

    ROFL I would actually pay to download this!

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Lesson 22

Apr 04

A fun game to play during any fasting period is Siyam Russian Roulette. At a gathering of friends or any pot luck prepare a food that resembles a non-fasting food item like soy kofta or other such culinary mockeries. In the midst of them hide a full on non-fasting version in the midst. Watch as your hapless victims eats it and has the recognition of something is not quite right has just happened. Even better is watching them deal the sudden gastric distress that occurs with the sudden ingestion of animal fat and protein.

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Lesson 22

Apr 04

A fun game to play during any fasting period is Siyam Russian Roulette. At a gathering of friends or any pot luck prepare a food that resembles a non-fasting food item like soy kofta or other such culinary mockeries. In the midst of them hide a full on non-fasting version in the midst. Watch as your hapless victims eats it and has the recognition of something is not quite right has just happened. Even better is watching them deal the sudden gastric distress that occurs with the sudden ingestion of animal fat and protein.

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