Big Butter Jesus Melted!!
Jun 15th 2010, 3:51 pm
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Big Butter Jesus Melted!!
We used to live right down the road from this statue, and it was definitely a monstrosity to behold. First time I saw it, I almost drove off the road.
MONROE, Ohio - A six-story-tall statue of Jesus Christ with his arms raised along a highway was struck by lightning in a thunderstorm Monday night and burned to the ground, police said.
The "King of Kings" statue, one of southwest Ohio's most familiar landmarks, had stood since 2004 at the evangelical Solid Rock Church along Interstate 75 in Monroe, just north of Cincinnati.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37703784...ws-weird_news/
MONROE, Ohio - A six-story-tall statue of Jesus Christ with his arms raised along a highway was struck by lightning in a thunderstorm Monday night and burned to the ground, police said.
The "King of Kings" statue, one of southwest Ohio's most familiar landmarks, had stood since 2004 at the evangelical Solid Rock Church along Interstate 75 in Monroe, just north of Cincinnati.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37703784...ws-weird_news/
Jun 15th 2010, 3:57 pm
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Re: Big Butter Jesus Melted!!
We were talking about this in the Lounge. Tamms called it Touchdown Jesus. Struck by lightning. If that isn't poetic ...
Jun 15th 2010, 4:07 pm
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Re: Big Butter Jesus Melted!!
Darn, guess I should have looked in The Lounge before posting. Touchdown Jesus is the other nickname.
Jun 16th 2010, 12:55 am
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Re: Big Butter Jesus Melted!!
Heywood Banks will need a new song....
Jun 16th 2010, 2:11 am
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I was going to drive past it in a couple of weeks, oh well. I guess there was a flag on the play.
Jun 16th 2010, 4:01 am
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Re: Big Butter Jesus Melted!!
I was glad to see the Hustler bongo mag store next door was left completely untouched. Zeus must like to crack one off from time to time...
Jun 16th 2010, 12:02 pm
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Re: Big Butter Jesus Melted!!
This incident has been reported on in the BBC news bulletins and described as an Act of God. Apparently either God or the Devil or perhaps both didn't care much for the statue either, and lightning bolts have often been regarded as synonymous with some kind of diabolical act of vengeance. Be afraid, be very afraid in Ohio USA......
Jun 16th 2010, 3:01 pm
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I did a quick google to see what our friend Pat Robertson may be saying about this, since he attributed Hurricane Katrina and the recent earthquake in Haiti to God's vengeance ... this is all I could find " ... To find some modern-day meaning in Touchdown Jesus, we turned to Pat Robertson, host of "The 700 Club," who has divined meaning from Hurricane Katrina (abortionists?) and the Haitian earthquake (historic pact with the Devil?). Alas, he declined through a publicist to interpret the significance of the lightning strike. "
