Giant Jesus statue razed by lightning in Ohio
Tuesday, 15 June 2010 17:24 UK
Jesus statue The statue was nicknamed the Touchdown Jesus
A 62ft (19m) tall statue of Jesus outside a church in the US state of Ohio has burned down after being struck by lightning.
The frame is all that remains of the wood, polystyrene and fibreglass statue, which was hit on Monday night.
It had stood at the non-denominational Solid Rock Church in Monroe since 2004, and had been dubbed the Touchdown Jesus and the Quicksand Jesus.
Firefighters said no-one was injured in the blaze, near a major highway.
The monument - which had reportedly cost $250,000 (£170,000) - showed just the upper body of Jesus, with arms raised.
The fire spread to a nearby amphitheatre which suffered minor damage, fire chief Mark Neu said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and ... 321466.stm
Not a good likeness?
Not a good likeness?
God's angry!
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Not a good likeness?
Oddly enough we were talking about that thing last saturday.
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
Re: Not a good likeness?
Caption competition time!!
"I tell you it was this big!!"
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Not a good likeness?
"Fuck you dad! You wouldn't dare!"
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
Re: Not a good likeness?
OUT OF THIS WORLD !
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
Re: Not a good likeness?
What’s wrong dad? You used to let me walk on this stuff.
A sufficiently copious dose of bombast drenched in verbose writing is lethal to the truth.
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Re: Not a good likeness?
Shoot, you beat me to the premise, but I was going to go all Tennessee Williams:loCAtek wrote:Evita! Evita!
"Stella!"
GAH!
Re: Not a good likeness?
Gob wrote:
I'm melting! melting!...Oh, what a world! What a world!
Re: Not a good likeness?
I've washed for supper...
Sometimes it seems as though one has to cross the line just to figger out where it is
Re: Not a good likeness?
Trying to outdo the world air-guitar event, the world Air-Accordion championship got it's own statue.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Not a good likeness?
Should I mention that I'll be driving pat this on saturday?
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
Re: Not a good likeness?
Pictures, we demand pictures!
A bottle of good single malt if you spray this on it!
"You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above"
Exodus 20:3-6
A bottle of good single malt if you spray this on it!
"You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above"
Exodus 20:3-6
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Not a good likeness?
Gob--you need an RC bible (the vulgate of St Jerome), which leaves out that commandment and splits the coveting one into "thy neighbor's wife" and "thy neighbor's goods" to fill the void. Someone had to protect the stone carvers.
Re: Not a good likeness?
Bloody unions I bet!
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Not a good likeness?
Here's a "not in his image" image.
At least I hope it is not in his image.
I love the words. I can just hear the conversation:
"Who's that on your arm, mate?"
"Lord knows?"
At least I hope it is not in his image.
I love the words. I can just hear the conversation:
"Who's that on your arm, mate?"
"Lord knows?"
Bah!
