{"id":34839,"date":"2025-10-18T18:39:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T23:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34839"},"modified":"2025-10-19T08:41:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T13:41:00","slug":"the-miracles-of-st-tibulus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34839","title":{"rendered":"The Miracles of St. Tibulus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was today years old when I discovered there&#8217;s a <i>Father Ted<\/i> fan film!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"St Tibulus &amp; The Bog Water (the film)\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hpPDkZejrHE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today saw the nationwide &#8220;No Kings&#8221; protests against the Trump regime&#8217;s growing autocracy, and skimming through BlueSky I saw a number of photos of signs from the protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I did <i>not<\/i> see were &#8220;Careful Now&#8221; and &#8220;Down With This Sort of Thing&#8221; signs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the <i>Father Ted<\/i> episode, &#8220;The Passion of St. Tibulus,&#8221; Ted and Dougal are tasked by Bishop Brennan with protesting a &#8220;blastphemous,&#8221; sexually explicit film about St. Tibulus.  And so to the theater they go, with signs that read &#8220;Careful Now&#8221; and &#8220;Down With This Sort of Thing.&#8221;  This being <i>Father Ted<\/i>, things spiral badly out of control for the priests on Craggy Isle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thinking about Dougal and Ted&#8217;s signs, I did a web search for St. Tibulus &#8212; he wasn&#8217;t a real Catholic saint, I already knew that &#8212; and that was how I discovered a fan film from 2014 about one of St. Tibulus&#8217; miracles, an 18th-century apparation on Craggy Isle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will say no more, just that the fan film, &#8220;St. Tibulus &amp; the Bog Water,&#8221; is charming.  I enjoyed it.  I hope you will, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of the &#8220;No Kings&#8221; protests, I for one welcome our new inflatable amphibious overloards.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"434\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot_20251016_182038-434x640.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of a meme on Facebook. Three inflatable frogs in Portland and the caption Exodus 8:2-6 But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on your and on your people and on all your officials.\" class=\"wp-image-34840\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was today years old when I discovered there&#8217;s a Father Ted fan film! Today saw the nationwide &#8220;No Kings&#8221; protests against the Trump regime&#8217;s growing autocracy, and skimming through BlueSky I saw a number of photos of signs from the protests. What I did not see were &#8220;Careful Now&#8221; and &#8220;Down With This Sort<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34839\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The Miracles of St. Tibulus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[4886,5325],"class_list":["post-34839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-father-ted-2","tag-tibulus","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}