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'Pilgrims' to recreate British bishop's murky meander

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071120/od_afp/britainreligionoffbeat_071120104737;_ylt=AnM.B5KsN4BtQi4glPlPymcFO7gF

LONDON (AFP) - A group of "pilgrims" is planning to stage a charity pub crawl next month to mark the anniversary of a mysterious London meander by a senior English clergyman, who denies he was drunk.

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The Bishop of Southwark made headlines last December when he wandered home from a pre-Christmas party at the Irish embassy, ending up with a black eye, lost possessions and colourful reported tales of his antics en route.

The clergyman, Tom Butler, claimed to have no memory of what happened to him on the night, but witnesses recorded how at one point he was found sitting in someone's car, throwing toys out of the window.

When asked to explain himself he uttered a line which has since come back to haunt him: "I'm the bishop of Southwark, it's what I do."

Butler, who suffered a bump on the head and lost his briefcase, crucifix and mobile phone, said his travel pass records show that he used public transport that night from the city centre to his home in south London.

Now the Ship of Fools, dubbed "the magazine of Christian unrest," is organising a "pilgrimage" involving pub-hopping along the bishop's alleged route home on December 8.

Referring to Butler as "Bishop 'it's what I do' Tom," organisers said the walk will begin near Park Lane before heading via Hyde Park Corner and London Bridge to Crucifix Lane in Southwark -- scene of the toy-throwing incident.

"Only 30 pilgrims -- for the sharp-eyed among you, the number which assembled in Southwark at the start of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales -- will be able to make the trip," said the organisers.

"Fancy dress is optional."

The event, publicised on the magazine's website at www.shipoffools.com, will raise money for Kids for Kids, a Sudan children's charity supported by the bishop in an appeal last year.

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1. At least no one drew

a penis on his face, or did they? (see YouTube if you don't know of what I speak)