Jimmy Sports a Surplus

[PedalPusher]

OK... I give up.
I know that Sister Aidan (JB's 8th grade teacher) is 102 years of age, but could the English
language have changed so much since then?

Does anyone know what "surplus" means when she says ...
"That’s him (JB) as an altar boy, I can tell by the surplus he was wearing,”

Is a surplus a particular garment, or simply that fact alter boys wear shitloads (surplus)
of robes and other Catholic type gobble-de-goop ?

No clue really

[tikitatas]

OK... I give up.
I know that Sister Aidan (JB's 8th grade teacher) is 102 years of age, but could the English
language have changed so much since then?

Does anyone know what "surplus" means when she says ...
"That’s him (JB) as an altar boy, I can tell by the surplus he was wearing,”

Is a surplus a particular garment, or simply that fact alter boys wear shitloads (surplus)
of robes and other Catholic type gobble-de-goop ?

No clue really

Should be spelled "surplice".

[tikitatas]

One of these things:

[PedalPusher]

WOW ! Thanx Cate

Embroider a big palm tree on the front of that sucker and I bet Jimmy would
wear it in concert one of these days... new craze.

[tikitatas]

WOW ! Thanx Cate

Embroider a big palm tree on the front of that sucker and I bet Jimmy would
wear it in concert one of these days... new craze.

Hahaha! Information on Catholic vestments from a Buddhist.

[Bicycle Bill]

Jimmy's not the only former altar boy around here!
Back in the day, it was worn over a cassock (below left) so the end result looked like this (below right):

    

Priests would sometime wear the combination as well, with the addition of the white Roman collar insert at the neck:


-"BB"-

[tikitatas]

You're scaring me, Bill.

[Snowparrot]

Yup, I noticed that wrong word right away....
We used to wear a surplice as part of a church choir outfit(Anglican). I think the underpart wasn't a real cassock, though, probably just a skirt. I was only in the choir to help fill up the space: "Please don't sing loudly, Barbara!"

[pinacolada lover]

I'm glad that got cleared up for me too.

[Dutch Harbor PH]

Wow......You're both scarrin' the crap outta me.... I just assumed he was wearing some army surplus clothes.....

[Bicycle Bill]

Wow......You're both scarrin' the crap outta me.... I just assumed he was wearing some army surplus clothes.....

Is that "scarring" or "scaring" — either one could be appropriate.

-"BB"-

[tikitatas]

Wow......You're both scarrin' the crap outta me.... I just assumed he was wearing some army surplus clothes.....

Is that "scarring" or "scaring" — either one could be appropriate.

-"BB"-

[LiveandletLiver]

I'm sure the author of the story on Sister Aiden just spell checked and surplice turned into surplus.

As a lapsed Episcopalian I spent a few altar boy years wearing one. Sneaking a few sips of the sacramental wine was a big thrill 48 years ago.

Come to think of it sneaking a sip now would be too.

[ScarletB]

I thought this was going to be a conversation about a pot belly

[Carolinadreamin']

If I can find it, I'll post the picture of Jimmy dressed as an altar(ed) boy. The picture is hanging in the Margaritaville NOLA.

[ScarletB]

If I can find it, I'll post the picture of Jimmy dressed as an altar(ed) boy. The picture is hanging in the Margaritaville NOLA.

Didn't they use it in the childhood pics of him and Mac during "Back where I come from" a few years ago? Or was it just his communion picture? So cute