Do The Kids In Your Neighborhood Refer To Fundies As "Muffinheads?"

After 3 hours with my toddlers at a local park (3 and 4 years of age, both very lively boys that I watch on the weekends while my wife works), I took them downtown to the local ice cream parlor for some cooling off. The place is situated in a kind of plaza, with tables out front where the local high school kids and assorted citizens hang out. After ordering two small chocolates with gummy bears mixed in I grabbed my progeny and headed to an outside table to enjoy a beautiful Southern California November afternoon.

After 15 or so minutes of fishing out gummy bears for my lads, I noticed that across the way a rather bizarre ceremony was taking place. A group of kids had left their chairs and had gone down on their knees while a big and very tattooed kid was placing his hands upon their foreheads and pronouncing them saved, "In the name of Jesus!" At which point each each would leap to their feet and yell, "Praise the Lord I'm a muffinhead!"

Didn't think too much of it, you know how kids are. And besides, the local interest in religion is running pretty high here lately with the Billy Graham Tour coming to the Rose Bowl for 3 nights of fundie frolics and the harvesting of souls for the Lord and all. Went back to fishing out gummy bears.

But since my walk back to the car with my two by now chocolate covered toddlers took me past the group of high school aged kids who had so recently saved themselves from an eternity of suffering the consequences of their sins, I couldn't help but ask them what exactly a "muffinhead" was.

Turns out it is the term used when discussing the outwardly religious kids they go to school with. "You know, they all have big heads and they're soft."

Do the kids in your neighborhood call fundies "Muffinheads?"

...but do you know the Muffin Man?

He lives on Drury Lane.

Egg McMuffin?

Sorry, I couldn't resist!

Frogtutor

Take a look at the audience at one those stadium revival meetings on TV. Row after row of large, shapeless, pasty, starch-fed faces.

and there was a funny line about "No more muffins for you!". But it wasn't about heads. Well, not exactly.

:evilgrin:

but I'm going to spread the word.

Don't forget, those megamuffins are also bad for your health.

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Wow. That's the funniest thing I've heard all week. From the mouthes of babes.

I 've never heard this before, but intend to interview the neighborhood rugrats to find out, as I also live in SoCal.