King Of All Londinium

Photoshopmania continues with this entry from a reader who was reflecting on my desire to be King of All Londinium:
Kingofalllondinium

(SHT to the reader who e-mailed!)

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

42 thoughts on “King Of All Londinium”

  6. “All hail, King Jimmy! Let him be given a monument with his ancestors!”
    Exegi monumentum aere perennius!

  9. Jimmy locuta, causa finita est. Now the mystery is gone. I was going to suggest other possibilities:
    Stupid Human Tricks
    Studies in Historical Theology
    Screaming Headless Torso

  11. Thanks SDG for the suggestions, but I think I still like my initial take on SHT! Especially when read “SHT to the reader who e-mailed!” I know it’s pretty puerile but I laughed my head off to the floor!

  12. “Screaming Headless Torso”
    Just saw the new remake of “The Texas Chain Saw Massacres”, didn’t you, SDG?

  15. “Screaming Headless Torsos”
    I’m gonna go out on a limb and take a guess that they don’t play Bluegrass.

  19. Those Screaming Headless Torso’s were just CHARMING. My daughter is looking for a name for her chamber ensemble; I wonder if they could help us with suggestions?

  20. “No offense, but Jimmy looks like Henry VIII with glasses! ;-)”
    Yeah, right, Jimmy – “A Man for All Seasons”!

  21. Is the screaming headless torso the guy behind Jimmy, just behind his (lone) ear? And is he screaming with laughter?

  23. “Does that mean James White will play Thomas More?!!!”
    Talk about a role-reversal!

  26. You can tell Jimmy likes being the King of All Londinium, just look how that costume made him have a big head!

  27. I had to do a double take when I read ‘SHT to the reader who emailed’…and then I thought, ‘no, he can’t mean it to read like it does, perhaps it’s ‘Special’ Hat Tip to the reader who emailed’. I’ll go with the latter 🙂

  28. “I had to do a double take when I read ‘SHT to the reader who emailed’…and then I thought, ‘no, he can’t mean it to read like it does…”
    I’m glad I wasn’t the only one!

  30. The problem is that Mark Shea is still the Holy Roman Emperor … and that beats a king every time.

  34. Boy, I sure missed alla this yesterday!
    I thought it was Swanky Hat Tip. That is, by definition, a very swanky hat!

  35. Shouldn’t the tyrannus civitas Londinium be wearing a golden laurel wreath and a breastplate with the labarum on it?
    –sub-Roman history geek

  36. All right, I have to ask, what is Londinium. I looked it up on Wikipedia recently and I got it being an old Roman word for London and some sci-fi planet. Which is it, or none of the above?

  37. “All right, I have to ask, what is Londinium. I looked it up on Wikipedia recently and I got it being an old Roman word for London and some sci-fi planet. Which is it, or none of the above?”
    Londinium is actually a film starring Colin Firth and Mariel Hemmingway:
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209109/

  39. Mr. Jimmy could be made into a Cardinal-Prince.
    Hey it exists. Or at least it used to.

  41. I want not to be a king of Earth,
    but a knight of Our Lady.
    London is Protestant anyhow.
    For now…

  42. J.R., I had to look it up too. The sci-fi planet seems a much nicer place to be king of than London at the moment.

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