Walking through DFW the other day this backlit advertisement caught my eye. Um. Is it just me or does this sploogy thing…
…look like it spells out “Jesus”? I swear to God that I thought it said “Jesus” as I walked on by. I stopped, took in the whole backlit thing for a second and thought, “What on earth does that cowboy have to do with Jesus?” A split second later I realized that what it said was “Texas.” Am I an idiot? Was I having a mini-stroke? Or did they do it on purpose?
Wow. You are a hero for finding that.
I can’t believe that’s a real font.
I read it as “Jexus” first, so I’d say there’s clearly some ambiguity there.
Seconding @51, you’ve done some brilliant research there, tehjakers. I did not know there was a font based on the handwriting of a Republic of Texas brigadier general/secretary of war/supreme court chief justice/university founder/cancer victim/suicide. But I guess a Texas tourist ad would be the place to see it first. Huh.
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if you morons read @9 you would have found your own enlightenment and not looked like boobs
What #54 said.
For everyone trying to see Jesus, the trick is to unexpectedly jerk your head around to where you were not looking. You might catch a glimpse before His captors can hide Him.
My first thought was, “Why is Dan posting a picture of sign saying Jesus?” Reading the post further, when I realized it wasn’t supposed to say Jesus, I stopped and looked at it again and couldn’t make out any other word. Upon learning it was supposed to say Texas, I was surprised. I think it’s intentional.
No. But every time I see ‘seattleblues’ I read it as ‘witless dishonest ignorant drivel’.
I can definitely see that the word might easily be mistaken for Jesus.
I suspect, though, that they’re taken the word Texas from an old document (19th-century, maybe) and turned it into a graphic. The handwriting looks very much like handwriting from that period.
Saw Jesus initially. Took some time to figure out that it was actually Texas. You’re not crazy at all.
Your brain must be undamaged because your punctuation is wonderful.
You can’t complain that Texans are in-your-face about Jesus and then accuse them of using some kind of subliminal advertising.
It’s one or the other. Pick one.
I saw Tejas.
Yippee Kii Yay, mother foxers!
I also saw “Feces” – and I’ve spent all 26 of my years in Texas, so make what you will of that.
More importantly, why were you in DFW? (I had to double-check the facebook events list to make sure I hadn’t missed something.) Or, by “DFW,” did you mean that you just came through our airport?
I’m sure these questions will go forever unanswered, but I had to wonder out loud.
I am suitably chastised and shall hereafter devote myself full-time to reading comment blather on Slog. Especially the usually creepy and/or racist unregistered stuff.
@67 I wouldn’t have worded so impolitely as they did, but yeah, sometimes it helps to browse through the unregistered ones.
@59: I can unequivocally state that skipping the unregistered comments is being retarded. There are tons of registered trolls, and most of the unregistered comments are real ones. When significant discussion is going on in the unregistered comments, and you don’t read them and just jump in the thread ignorant of part of the conversation, yes, it is the act of an idiot.