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December 2nd, 2008
10:41 pm - Keeping Christ in Christmas, days 1-2
For those of you who were here last year, you already know the drill.
For the newcomers: last year I did a countdown of weird Jesus merchandise as a way of registering my disgust with the whole "keep Christ in Christmas - BY BUYING SHIT!" message this entire freakin' country seems to be spouting from every orifice. It went over well, so I figured I'd do it again.
But I'm not limited to Jesus merchandise. Honestly, I love weird random Jesus stuff as well, so anything that's awful and/or downright (unintentionally) blasphemous goes up here as well.
For those of you who are Christians, and I know I have at least two of you - no disrespect intended. I've got nothing against Jebus, and I know that you're not the kind of people who think that your religion = spending a ton of money on Jesus heads emblazoned with SUPPORT OUR TROOPS. Basically, you're not the people I'm expressing disdain for. (Uh, obviously. Or else I wouldn't talk to you.)
Anyway, I try to do this every day, but things have been kind of insane here what with the new cats and my vicious self-loathing, so...I'll do my best. And to make up for missing yesterday, you get two for the price of one.
I wish I could find a picture of "TestaMints," mints that come with scripture on the wrappers, but I don't seem to have one, and, well, I'm too lazy to go Google it. Use your imagination. Or Google it your own self.
PS - all old entries are tagged, so if you missed last year and want to see what was featured, it should prove simple enough.
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HHAAH yesssss...
because damnit, hell no i wont aimlessly "keep the CHRIST IN CHRISTMAS" to be very forward since it was probably just a re-claimed holiday to the pagan "Yule" time. and I like getting together with friends and family for these silly reason, completely devoid of any substance what so ever.
the substance, in this case, would make things a lot less enjoyable.
and omg my 15 year old JEBUS LOVIN ASS would have tore me a new one with Jesus' LOVE and why I should care if I saw me now ...or something.
that totally made sense.
yeah...
If Jesus exists, he almost certainly has a sense of humor. I mean, if he didn't laugh, he'd cry. We as a species have fucked up baaaaad.
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| Date: | December 3rd, 2008 04:27 am (UTC) |
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I found two types of Testamints!  and  Also, I found this! 
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Awesome.
I've seen those coach ones before, but never that one. LOOK HOW HE'S LOOKING AT THE LITTLE BOY. Oh, I'm so posting this. With credit to the finder, of course.
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| Date: | December 3rd, 2008 04:57 am (UTC) |
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haha i use this 
Haha, that's totally on my list of things to post here! It's just so...what the HELL?!, you know?
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| Date: | December 3rd, 2008 06:38 am (UTC) |
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It's kind of hard to see in this picture, but Chels used to have a bag of Testamints that she bought when we were first dating from the Christian Bookstore that my brother used to work at. She paired it with her gay Jebus rainbow license plate and a kazoo I bought her as a joke that goes along with a David Cross skit and we hung it all in the kitchen of the first apartment we shared. We used to call the kazoo our Christian Kazoo and the skit was about fun unique things to do on a date, one of them was to turn on some music and play the kazoo together. Sexy!  Edited at 2008-12-03 06:39 am (UTC)
You guys are the best decorators EVER.
Also, I totally have kazoos that say JESUS LOVES ME on them. I need to send you guys some.
YAY BLASPHEMY! I love these countdowns of yours. :-D
Yay! Glad to know someone out there enjoys them!
You gonna do an Easter one, too? Valentine's Day? St. Patrick's Day? Areyaareyaareyaareyaareyaareya?
Definitely doing a VD countdown because I have so much weird VD stuff on my harddrive, plus I like saying "VD" in my journal so much ;)
Easter, if I find enough stuff...usually I don't find anything good for St Paddy's day...it's an effort to find anything to post on the day itself!
BTW, I have holiday presents for you, but I can't find my little address book. Could you resend it to me? piperrhiannon@yahoo.com
Oooh, presents? Wow! :-D Sure will!
VD countdown, eh? XD
they sell those testamints at joann fabrics. or hobby lobby. one of those kinds of places. they crack me up and i want to buy them, but i don't want to support that kind of stupidity either. something about the "sour fish" thing up there is just...not right. ew. also, you might consider using this fantastic little book for one of your christmas posts: http://www.beawesomeinstead.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/awesome_takes_practice.jpeg
Yeah, maybe it's just a girl-who-likes-girls thing, but the sour fish just puts a weird idea in my head, and it's not a nice one. Bleargh.
HOLY SHIT THAT BOOK IS AMAZING. TOTALLY POSTING THAT. THANK YOU. I'm trying to think if I was ever forced to study that...I know my 8th grade religion class had a similar book that came with it.
i'm pretty sure my church had those stupid pamphlets too...but they weren't nearly as ridiculous. i personally love how it's for teens and yet not one single teen is picture. also, like 4 different races are represented as being awesome together (as opposed to just being cool!) in one picture. nothing says awesome more than that.
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Where I am in Australia, we simply do not have this stuff. There are not as many right-wing Christians, for one (and definitely not as many butthurt over 'X-Mas'), because we don't have as large a population. (Though we did give y'all Ken Ham, lol, no backsies!) Ergo: no demand for this stuff.
This is why I love you, The Americas.
So yeah I am totally planning on reading all of your entries on this, because I watched your Halloween countdown AND WAS NOT DISAPPOINTED.
all old entries are tagged, so if you missed last year and want to see what was featured, it should prove simple enough
really? because i only show 3 entries tagged w/ jesii. :(
It's entirely possible that I meant to go through and tag the old entries and didn't actually do it. I'll go check/do it now, because...well, because I don't have anything to do at the moment.
Sometimes I see this kind of merch and I find it cute because it reminds me of geeky merch for things like Futurama or Buffy. Then I remember that Futurama isn't a religion quite yet so maybe it's a tad different. |
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