Re: Female 12 Steppers Pewter Figurines

[Guest guest]

wow...the horror...

judith, recoiling

> I had a rather dark chuckle over this site.

>

> http://www.wayoflife.com/steppers/female.htm

>

> Notice how the figure's skirt gets a little longer with each step?

>

> There's male 12 stepper

> pewter figurines too--don't mean to be sexist here, guys.

>

> http://www.wayoflife.com/steppers/male.htm

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>

[Guest guest]

where are the figurines for relapsing, anti-intellectualism, double

speaking, moral fascism and of course the 13th stepping?

> I had a rather dark chuckle over this site.

>

> http://www.wayoflife.com/steppers/female.htm

>

> Notice how the figure's skirt gets a little longer with each step?

>

> There's male 12 stepper

> pewter figurines too--don't mean to be sexist here, guys.

>

> http://www.wayoflife.com/steppers/male.htm

>

>

[Guest guest]

i like the praise they received:

" Quality art does not guarantee quality sobriety,.... "

oh really, but you imply then there is still a chance that quality

art

COULD result in quality sobriety, or perhaps poor sobriety

but these figurines show a respectful attention to detail, a

sensitivity to the realities of human experience.... "

especially desirable if the reality of your experience in 12-steps

didn't quite meet the ideal of this hacks interpretation of

" recovery " .

" that capture the spirit of the 12 Steps. To contemplate one of

these figurines is to meditate on one of the 12 Steps. To have

this invitation to do that is a true gift. "

i thought the true gift was sobriety. why would i need your action

figures?

[Guest guest]

Thanks -- this is real " triple wacky " award winning art (is Stanton

P. still running the wackies?). Unbelievable, thanks -- a pleasant response

combining laughter and head shaking at the sheer high kitsch of this stuff.

I liked the stepette on no 12 addressing the assembled step-zombies at the

thousand year recovery reich rally -- the guy on 12 looks a bit like he's

giving a seig heil salute (and on no 9, it appears that he makes amends by

performing as an Elvis impersonator -- and why not?)

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>Subject: Female 12 Steppers Pewter Figurines

>Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 20:08:26 -0000

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>I had a rather dark chuckle over this site.

>

>http://www.wayoflife.com/steppers/female.htm

>

>Notice how the figure's skirt gets a little longer with each step?

>

>There's male 12 stepper

>pewter figurines too--don't mean to be sexist here, guys.

>

>http://www.wayoflife.com/steppers/male.htm

>

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[Guest guest]

god, he DOES look like elvis! i look at the step one male, and it

looks like hes holding his arm up in defense and saying " stay

way from me you relgious nut jobs!

[Guest guest]

also steps 7 and 8 male are almsot exactly the same. i think the

artist needs to make amends for profiterring off a lack of clarity of

vision.

[Guest guest]

First rate art crit., Dave -- I've just taken the liberty of snipping the

lines and e-mailing them to these people -- maybe they'll have some new

lines soon. I see you can get a " serenity mat " -- looks like a doormat to

me. Makes sense.

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>Subject: Re: Female 12 Steppers Pewter Figurines

>Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 20:28:40 -0000

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>where are the figurines for relapsing, anti-intellectualism, double

>speaking, moral fascism and of course the 13th stepping?

>

>

>

> > I had a rather dark chuckle over this site.

> >

> > http://www.wayoflife.com/steppers/female.htm

> >

> > Notice how the figure's skirt gets a little longer with each step?

> >

> > There's male 12 stepper

> > pewter figurines too--don't mean to be sexist here, guys.

> >

> > http://www.wayoflife.com/steppers/male.htm

> >

> >

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[Guest guest]

Yeh, how does it go, step 9 -- " Performed an Elvis Presley impersonation

where doing so would not hurt the King or others " ?

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>Subject: Re: Female 12 Steppers Pewter Figurines

>Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 20:49:31 -0000

>

>also steps 7 and 8 male are almsot exactly the same. i think the

>artist needs to make amends for profiterring off a lack of clarity of

>vision.

>

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[Guest guest]

That's pretty good .

Do a different movie theme or song for each step.

Step One: Jail House Rock

Step Thirteen: Kissing Cousins

> Re: Re: Female 12 Steppers Pewter Figurines

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> Yeh, how does it go, step 9 -- " Performed an Elvis Presley impersonation

> where doing so would not hurt the King or others " ?

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[Guest guest]

You guys are killing me! :-) I went to the site (funny enough), but now I've

bust a stitch. Stop!! ;-)

You would think they worship " graven images " or something. Or are these just

Saints? (thats cool--

I'm Catlik:-)

Jim da newbie

[Guest guest]

Notice in both sets where you finally make it...meditating

or preaching from a podium.

Who the hell meditates at a podium anyway?

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>Subject: Re: Re: Female 12 Steppers Pewter Figurines

>Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 15:46:49 -0600

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>You guys are killing me! :-) I went to the site (funny enough), but now

>I've

>bust a stitch. Stop!! ;-)

>

>You would think they worship " graven images " or something. Or are these

>just

>Saints? (thats cool--

>I'm Catlik:-)

>

>Jim da newbie

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[Guest guest]

You ain't nuthin' but a houndog, ! I couldn't think of one more song

(but they get weirder every time you look at them -- step 12 in both cases

seems to involve being bone away with dynamic proseletyzing for thee grate

religion in the name of Fuhrer Any-God-Will-Do,

douglas.

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>To: <12-step-freeegroups>

>Subject: RE: Re: Female 12 Steppers Pewter Figurines

>Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 16:36:39 -0500

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>That's pretty good .

>Do a different movie theme or song for each step.

>

>Step One: Jail House Rock

>Step Thirteen: Kissing Cousins

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> > Re: Re: Female 12 Steppers Pewter Figurines

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> > Yeh, how does it go, step 9 -- " Performed an Elvis Presley impersonation

> > where doing so would not hurt the King or others " ?

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[Guest guest]

I was laughing so hard at the satire I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Jim

and I recently discovered the excellent resources on the web about recovery

that reject the XA cult. Got some great links from this list and thought I

would decloak. Thanks.

Jim

[Guest guest]

> >I had a rather dark chuckle over this site.

> >

> >http://www.wayoflife.com/steppers/female.htm

> >

> >Notice how the figure's skirt gets a little longer with each step?

>

> There is something terribly wrong with female figure no

2, " Believing " .

I know. It's hideously embarrassing isn't it?

It's just, just, just....awful.

>

> I think I may have to get one just to show where I've been...

Don't torture youself, Joe.

[Guest guest]

Hi

This is the funniest URL Ive seen since the penis enlargement and

foreskin redevelopment one I saw a few years ago. I laughed like a

drain at these. my neighbours in this cyber cafe must think I am nuts.

It really is true abt her skirt getting longer! what a pity the

Powerlessness one doesnt show her in full alcoholic depravity! Does

the male one start wearing shorts?

Considering:

" I think that your concept of depicting alcoholism in these figurines

of yours is a superb idea. I think that the visual is always terribly

helpful to our thought. And when I think of the 12 Steps and then look

and see in miniature what I look at and see in people who need

recovery or who are new to recovery, it just enhances my own sobriety,

and I believe it will do this for anyone and everyone else in our

magnificent program. "

- Rev. ph P. , S.S.

I thought they were supposed to depict recovery from alcoholism, not

alcoholism itself - it rather does reveal the dreadful masochism of

steppism those fugure represent. I note this guy is from one of the

Step Nazi's SS Dicisions. ;

P.

> I had a rather dark chuckle over this site.

>

> http://www.wayoflife.com/steppers/female.htm

>

> Notice how the figure's skirt gets a little longer with each step?

>

> There's male 12 stepper

> pewter figurines too--don't mean to be sexist here, guys.

>

> http://www.wayoflife.com/steppers/male.htm

>

>

[Guest guest]

> There is something terribly wrong with female figure no 2,

" Believing " .

>

> I think I may have to get one just to show where I've been...

On this monitor it looks like she has got an arrow sticking through

her heart. Perhaps her spiritual experience resembled St Theresa's

orgasmic fantasies on an angel piercing her heart with an arrow?

a time lapse sequence would be hysterical with her writhing around on

the floor, presumably after Step 1 without the excuse of being drunk.

Note too how the last two show her standing at a lectern, but only

the latter with an AA symbol - in other words, that suggests the first

is a *church* lectern - despite being euphemistically titled

" meditation " . The whole things looks like some kind of bizarre

religious inculcation - which of course it is!

P.

[Guest guest]

> Hi

>

> This is the funniest URL Ive seen since the penis enlargement and

> foreskin redevelopment one I saw a few years ago. I laughed like a

> drain at these. my neighbours in this cyber cafe must think I am

nuts.

> It really is true abt her skirt getting longer! what a pity the

> Powerlessness one doesnt show her in full alcoholic depravity!

I think it does, Pete. See, I think she blacked out and came to her

senses as a contestant in a wet t-shirt contest, that's why her

clothes are so clingy. Plus she is having the bad hair day to end all

bad hair days.

Step 3 seems to me to be saying, why have I been cursed with

grotesquely oversized hands?

judith

[Guest guest]

Hello Jim,

If you like XA satire you may find a couple of my pages to your liking --

try

http://www.geocities.com/bouglaf/aa.html

-- the next two pages are on similar themes, including a poke at the

regrettable pope JimK of " church of god anamolous " (though we don't talk

about him round here no more . . ). I don't think there's anything funny

about atom bombs or XA, but humour is a way of stating . . .

Best wishes,

.

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>To: <12-step-freeegroups>

>Subject: Re: Re: Female 12 Steppers Pewter Figurines

>Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 16:43:02 -0600

>

>I was laughing so hard at the satire I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Jim

>and I recently discovered the excellent resources on the web about recovery

>that reject the XA cult. Got some great links from this list and thought I

>would decloak. Thanks.

>Jim

>

>

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[Guest guest]

Check out the male ones.

http://www.wayoflife.com/steppers/male.htm

A couple of them look like he's trying to pee in a cup and Step 9

looks like he is staggering to stay on his feet. This is disgusting.

This is presenting subliminal messages that youre still shitfaced

until youve done all that religious stuff. I note also that

apparently they themselves call themselves " steppers " .

P.

[Guest guest]

> I thought they were supposed to depict recovery from alcoholism,

not

> alcoholism itself - it rather does reveal the dreadful masochism of

> steppism those fugure represent. I note this guy is from one of

the

> Step Nazi's SS Dicisions. ;

Yes, during continuing research and investigation I stumbled upon

him. I suspect he and his ragged band of step Nazis may be part of

one of the Big Book cults I was once part of.

Best,

[Guest guest]

> I was laughing so hard at the satire I forgot to introduce myself.

I'm Jim

> and I recently discovered the excellent resources on the web about

recovery

> that reject the XA cult. Got some great links from this list and

thought I

> would decloak. Thanks.

Welcome Jim. It's nice to be able to start in 12-step free with a

laugh.

[Guest guest]

>

> I think it does, Pete. See, I think she blacked out and came to her

> senses as a contestant in a wet t-shirt contest, that's why her

> clothes are so clingy. Plus she is having the bad hair day to end

all

> bad hair days.

" The powerful moments of recovery are artfully depicted in these high

quality, fine pewter figurines sculpted carefully and beautifully

detailed through the latest method of pewter casting...... "

All the better to depict her boobs, which I noticed were quite

prominent too. I guess they have a nude one called " More Revealed " .

> Step 3 seems to me to be saying, why have I been cursed with

> grotesquely oversized hands?

The man has the same problem. The Step 12 male is either waving a

fist or covering his face in shame. These folks arent alcoholics,

they have acromegaly.

P.

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

I don't see anything of the " happy, joyous and free " that

AA promises folks in these figurines. Looks to me like a

whole lot of misery and then you get to stand at a podium.

Great goal. Quit drinking so that you can stand at podiums

and talk about behaviors you no longer do. Then give

credit to a bunch of folks who are doing the same damn thing.

Sue

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>To: 12-step-freeegroups

>Subject: Re: Female 12 Steppers Pewter Figurines

>Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 23:37:59 -0000

>

>

> > Hi

> >

> > This is the funniest URL Ive seen since the penis enlargement and

> > foreskin redevelopment one I saw a few years ago. I laughed like a

> > drain at these. my neighbours in this cyber cafe must think I am

>nuts.

> > It really is true abt her skirt getting longer! what a pity the

> > Powerlessness one doesnt show her in full alcoholic depravity!

>

>I think it does, Pete. See, I think she blacked out and came to her

>senses as a contestant in a wet t-shirt contest, that's why her

>clothes are so clingy. Plus she is having the bad hair day to end all

>bad hair days.

>

>Step 3 seems to me to be saying, why have I been cursed with

>grotesquely oversized hands?

>

>judith

>

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[Guest guest]

Oh, hey!

I'm so grateful......

Today I didn't drink. I didn't beat my kid silly. I didn't let the

postman screw me....

Wow! I got the answer to everybodys problem.

The STEPS!

[Guest guest]

> > > Hi

> > >

> > > This is the funniest URL Ive seen since the penis enlargement

and

> > > foreskin redevelopment one I saw a few years ago. I laughed

like a

> > > drain at these. my neighbours in this cyber cafe must think I am

> >nuts.

> > > It really is true abt her skirt getting longer! what a pity the

> > > Powerlessness one doesnt show her in full alcoholic depravity!

> >

> >I think it does, Pete. See, I think she blacked out and came to her

> >senses as a contestant in a wet t-shirt contest, that's why her

> >clothes are so clingy. Plus she is having the bad hair day to end

all

> >bad hair days.

> >

> >Step 3 seems to me to be saying, why have I been cursed with

> >grotesquely oversized hands?

> >

> >judith

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

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