I thought you meant this "Touchdown Jesus":
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| Author: | Rorinthas [ Tue Jun 15, 2010 9:28 pm ] |
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It's a rather large if controversial landmark on the 75 corridor in Monroe, Ohio. Personaly it always struck me as a graven image/false idol kind of thing so it's being struck by lighting is both poetic and eerie at the same time. |
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| Author: | DFK! [ Tue Jun 15, 2010 10:55 pm ] |
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They need to be ticketing all the **** rubberneckers driving by. Gawddammit....! |
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| Author: | Vindicarre [ Wed Jun 16, 2010 1:43 am ] |
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I thought you meant this "Touchdown Jesus":
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| Author: | Hopwin [ Wed Jun 16, 2010 9:19 am ] |
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Vindicarre wrote: I thought you meant this "Touchdown Jesus": Same here. I was confused when they referenced Ohio throughout the story. |
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| Author: | Aethien [ Wed Jun 16, 2010 1:11 pm ] |
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Where's that mural? I'd heard of a Touchdown Jesus, never really thought about it, though. |
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| Author: | Hopwin [ Wed Jun 16, 2010 1:31 pm ] |
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Aethien wrote: Where's that mural? I'd heard of a Touchdown Jesus, never really thought about it, though. Notre Dame in South Bend Indiana. |
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| Author: | Lalaas [ Fri Jun 18, 2010 8:57 am ] |
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Ever since we first saw the one in OH, my wife & I have been calling it the Butter Jesus, because it looks like something on a enormous Thanksgiving table. A couple of years ago, we found out that Haywood Banks has a song about it called "Big Butter Jesus." |
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| Author: | Kaffis Mark V [ Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:37 am ] |
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I want to know whether the artist/architech/whoever who designed it will be held responsible for not integrating a (functional?) lightning rod. This is Ohio, people! It's the tallest damn thing on the plain for miles around, and this State is no stranger to spectacular thunderstorms... |
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| Author: | Aethien [ Fri Jun 18, 2010 1:01 pm ] |
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Hopwin wrote: Aethien wrote: Where's that mural? I'd heard of a Touchdown Jesus, never really thought about it, though. Notre Dame in South Bend Indiana. Oh, cool, thanks. |
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| Author: | Monte [ Thu Jul 15, 2010 5:18 pm ] |
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There is this *massive* cross somewhere in Illinois that I occasionally blow by. I call it the Jesus missile silo. Seems to me to fit the idolatry frame pretty well, too. |
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| Author: | rizla [ Fri Aug 06, 2010 8:39 pm ] |
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I always heard this thing called the butter Jesus. Looks like an over the top butter made centerpiece for a super bowl party. |
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| Author: | Kaffis Mark V [ Sat Aug 07, 2010 12:11 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Statue known as "touchdown Jesus" destroyed by lightning |
rizla wrote: I always heard this thing called the butter Jesus. Looks like an over the top butter made centerpiece for a super bowl party. Yeah, that's the name popularized amongst Bob & Tom listeners by, I think, Haywood Banks? Before I heard him refer to it on the show, though, I'd always heard it locally as Touchdown Jesus. They're both apt, and so my preference for Touchdown Jesus is only a mild one. |
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| Author: | Lonedar [ Sun Aug 08, 2010 1:22 pm ] |
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Could that be seen from the freeway (before it burned down, of course)? |
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| Author: | Rorinthas [ Sun Aug 08, 2010 2:57 pm ] |
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It faced the freeway. It was hard to miss. I heard they want to rebuild. |
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| Author: | Hopwin [ Sun Aug 08, 2010 8:37 pm ] |
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Dude wtf? |
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| Author: | DFK! [ Sun Aug 08, 2010 9:46 pm ] |
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Lonedar wrote: Could that be seen from the freeway (before it burned down, of course)? Not only could it be seen, it was prominent. |
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| Author: | Kaffis Mark V [ Mon Aug 09, 2010 5:47 pm ] |
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Lonedar wrote: Could that be seen from the freeway (before it burned down, of course)? Judge for yourself... The marker in the link is smack dab in the reflecting pool for the statue. The base of the statue is the white roughly square shape immediately to the right of the pool. There's a baseball diamond in the lower right corner of the map for scale. |
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| Author: | DFK! [ Mon Aug 09, 2010 10:52 pm ] |
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Taken from the berm of I-75 northbound: 
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| Author: | Lonedar [ Mon Aug 09, 2010 11:34 pm ] |
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I remember driving by that church...missed my chance to see the eighth wonder by a month. |
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