Did you know that god is dog spelled backwards?

[Roger Baker]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14068-2002Jan8.html

BARCELONA, Spain -- Placing statuettes of defecating people in Nativity 
scenes is a Christmastime tradition so old and so strong in Spain's 
Catalonia region that even the Roman Catholic Church here doesn't dare 
try to ban it.

When an exhibit of the figurines in a California museum sparked an angry 
denunciation from a Catholic group in the United States, Catalonians who 
cherish the tradition came ardently to its defense.

"Unfortunately, there are intolerant people who are offended by any 
little thing," Josep Maria Joan, director of the Toy Museum of 
Catalonia, said Monday. His museum has a permanent collection of the 
figurines, known as caganers.

Spanish artist Antoni Miralda's exposition "Poetical Gut" at Copia, a 
food, wine and arts museum in Napa, Calif., features ceramic figurines 
of the pope, nuns and angels with their pants down, squatting over their 
bowel movements...