From The Babylon Bee.
BETHLEHEM — According to sources close to Mary, the Mother of Jesus, the young Jewish mom was touched by the gifts brought to her by the wise men: gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Still, she was a bit disappointed that none of them had brought an air fryer.
“Oh, cool. Such great gifts. Thanks, guys!” she said, trying to mask her disappointment that she didn’t get the slick kitchen appliance all her friends constantly brag about while hanging out by the well or at the Nazareth Mall. “So, there’s like, just three of you? No biggie, was just making sure there weren’t others on the way or anything. Cool, cool.”
After the wise men had departed, Joseph reportedly caught Mary wistfully looking out the stable door toward the East, thinking she heard camel hooves. “Oh, guess it wasn’t another wise man. That’s fine. I’m really happy with the gifts I got and everything. Really, if I got more, it’d be too much. Like how would we lug home an air fryer anyway? I didn’t really need one. It’s kind of impractical.”
At publishing time, Joseph had caught an envious Mary watching a Facebook story of Elizabeth opening her new air fryer and showing off some low-carb fried pickle spear recipes.
bluebird of bitterness 
🤦 lol
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[…] of Bitterness which was a re-post, I guess you could call it, from The Babylon Bee, titled “Mary holding out hope for 4th wise man bearing an air fryer” […]
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Thank you for the link. 🙂
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Don’t feel bad, Mary, I didn’t get one either. lol
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I don’t even know what one is.
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My roommate has one and I don’t care for them but she uses it all the time. I can’t even explain what it is. lol
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To me “air fryer” sounds like a contradiction in terms.
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Haha!! Happy New Year!
Air fryer’s are really nice. 🙂
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🤣
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I wonder how many will be stored away in cupboards in a year’s time?
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Mary and I are birds of a different feather. She wants them and doesn’t get them, I don’t want them but my husband keeps giving them to me.
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lol Let him use it then.
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He does, but I still didn’t want a microwave and a toaster for Christmas.
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Maybe a list would help next time or does he ignore that too? lol
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I’ve told him appliances are not appropriate Xmas gifts for almost four decades. It doesn’t seem to work.
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Yup, kinda like getting clothes and underwear and socks for Christmas…
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Even a mediocre sweater beats a toaster.
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Mary was lucky to get three Wise Men… look around, that is in short supply nowadays.
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Not sure it was any different back then….
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You’d think Elizabeth would be air-frying up some locusts for her son John.
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😀 😀 😀
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I thought that since they were staying in a stable with a newborn baby some clean swaddling clothes and a casserole might have come in handy.
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🤣 I love the Bee
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Haha!!
Reminds me of the old watch commercial. A young woman is opening up a gift, while her husband is sitting next to her with a “…she’s really gonna love what I got her” expression. She opens the box, turns to the guy with a disappointed expression and says, “But I wanted a Longines…”
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😀
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Obviously the three men who visited were not as wise as they claimed to be. Otherwise they would have known that Mary really hoped for an air fryer.
Visiting from Grace’s blog.
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Or maybe they were wise enough to know they couldn’t read a woman’s mind, so they brought gold (first century equivalent of a gift card)… which Mary could take to the Bethlehem equivalent of Bed Bath and Beyond and exchange for something practical. 🙂
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I like the way your mind thinks…lol
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Tried to reblog this to my WordPress but it didn’t seem to work so I sent it to Facebook instead. Just so very funny and clever too.
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WP can be glitchy sometimes…
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Yes and to add insult to injury, I now have to fill in my name, blog address and web page every time I try to like or comment AND it won’t let my just like either!
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That happens to me too. I get signed out of my own account with alarming frequency, for no apparent reason.
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