…..and now for something completely different.
MPS showed me this today.
It made me smile.
Well, after I picked my jaw up off the ground, dusted off various crumbs and unidentifiable brown bits (really need to mop that floor) and fought the urge to run screaming out of the room.
Sometimes people take religion a little too far. You know, the bobbly Jesus on the back window of the car, Joseph and Mary salt and pepper shakers, the last supper carved into the bedhead…. that sort of stuff.
But this, this takes the-Shroud-of-Turin-imortalized-in-the-icing-on the cake.
I present you the Jesus Switch.
Um. Yeah. What? What? What was whoever it was that designed, financed, freaking boxed this fucking thing thinking? Bit too much blood-of-Christ on Sunday?
Terrifying young children, shit anyone daring to enter the room around dusk.
‘You turn on the light’
‘No you do it’
‘No YOU! I’m not touching it. You do it’
‘Fuck. Me. Where are the candles………?’
**************
I tried to do some funny captions to it, but we are on water restrictions and I had to keep having to have a shower cause I felt dirty, dirty, dirty every time I thought of one.
So c’mon it’s up to you. Caption away. Try and make me snort latte or my new obsession dark chocolate M&M’s out of my nose. God knows I need the giggle.
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55 Responses to “…..and now for something completely different.”
February 29th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Suffer me to come on for the little children???
February 29th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Suffer me to come onto the little children???
gawdangit Sr Paschall definately wasted all those feather dusters beating the proper responses etc. into me…I can not quote it at all… hehehehe
February 29th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Frog dancer - is that a play on the words ?
OMG - The mind boggles who dreamed this little beauty up - this is weird and kinky looking. I can’t wait to see the captions. Words fail me !
My Little Drummer boys
March 1st, 2008 at 12:53 am
So the switch is off when Jesus touches the children…
March 1st, 2008 at 12:58 am
And that color! I HATE cream colored plates. They always look like they are just dirty.
Go Jesus. Rock my world.
Um, yeah. Right.
March 1st, 2008 at 2:30 am
OMFG! That was a design error, I hope.
March 1st, 2008 at 3:30 am
That’s just creepy. I wonder how many of them sold?
March 1st, 2008 at 3:32 am
Imagine what the rest of the house looks like!! LMAO!
March 1st, 2008 at 3:38 am
I cant possibley tell you what caption came to my mind!!!
March 1st, 2008 at 3:57 am
O.k. Children. Watch carefully. This is called the ‘Lazarus trick’.
March 1st, 2008 at 4:02 am
LOL @ “the Lazarus trick.”
At least the manufacturer tried to put Jesus behind the light switch instead of building it directly into his body…but still!
March 1st, 2008 at 4:46 am
Icee wins.
March 1st, 2008 at 5:20 am
What. The. HELL.
March 1st, 2008 at 6:15 am
oooh, i had a lot coming to my mind, and even though I am not a practicing catholic but was born and raised as such… it being friday and Lent and all…. I don’t know…
March 1st, 2008 at 7:24 am
Sorry, all I’ve got is the oh so corny and trite “Jesus Lights Up Your Life”. Blech.
I did see a Jesus on a cross on a clock once in a souvenir stand here - the arms actually spun round, I kid you not.
March 1st, 2008 at 7:32 am
“When they said Jesus rose on the third day, I don’t think that’s what they had in mind…exactly”
Sorry - it’s early. Haven’t had my coffee yet.
March 1st, 2008 at 10:41 am
Those children look possessed like horror movie children - Children of the Corn type children. Is Jesus now possessing little children? Is that what happens when the light is off?
March 1st, 2008 at 11:10 am
Yeah….it is kinda weird. But maybe it means a lot to some people?
March 1st, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Ha, ha, ha, no caption needed, picture speaks volumes - where do you find this stuff? You are hilarious, keep posting, you never fail to make me smile.
March 1st, 2008 at 1:28 pm
OH MY GOD!!!
Jesus looooooooooooooves the little children
Um… damn.
March 1st, 2008 at 3:00 pm
talk about bad placement options……………….
baahaahaaa
I agree - Icee wins!
March 1st, 2008 at 4:27 pm
“Go towards the light”
“He said let there be light and there was a light switch”
“I am the Light(switch) of the world”
“Flick the switch I dare you!”
March 1st, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Frogponds rock: Ewwww!!!! That was worse than I was thinking! Need to go have another shower.
Trish: I am just shocked that the ‘designer’ didn’t like, SHOW IT TO SOMEONE FIRST!!!
Fi: Ewwwwy! Again!
Absurdist: *gaffaw* And I am with you about the cream. Or was it cream to begin with?
Girl: God I hope so. Look at their faces! *shudder*
Solomon: Lets hope it was just the one.
Jenty: Yeah, wonder which room it is in. Hope it is not a kids bedroom cause it would make them afraid of the light!
Casdok: C’mon we are all dirty little stop outs here. Fess up.
Iceel: The sad thing is I had to track MPS of the good Catholic upbringing to explain that one to me. And then *gaffaw*
Beth: It is wrong both ways, but yes that would have been worse.
Magpie: Yes, after my education, I do believe he does!
Melain: Yes Virgina there is a Hell….. and this the light switch to turn it on.
Ange: LOL, I thought you said that you only give up chocolate and fish on Fridays for Lent. It is Saturday now….
Robin: Oh that would have been the perfect gift for my MIL.
Karen: *snort* good one!
Riayn: *gaffaw* and they are corn coloured too!
Lightening: It is just awful. Surely they could have designed it differently so to not look so, awful!
Joh: Thanks Joh. MPS got it sent to him.
Anja: Damn alright. Oh it seriously creeps me out.
Bettina: Totally bizarre innit?
Jayne: *snort*
March 1st, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Is that a shepherd’s crook in your pocket or are you happy to see me?
March 1st, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Gives a whole new meaning to the actors term “Lights up”, that’s for sure…
March 1st, 2008 at 6:26 pm
I’m pretty slow on the uptake so I had to look at it in my feedreader, then here on the site, then read the comments I didn’t quite get, then look at it again.
Now, all I can see is… phallus.
To get rid of that image I’m going to be extremely irreverant, so don’t read this question if you’ll be offended.
Shouldn’t they have put the screws to attach it to the wall through his hands instead?
March 1st, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Thats just so wrong! I bet they sold like hotcakes in some church institutions.
March 1st, 2008 at 7:24 pm
And the Lord said:Let there be light and behold there was light-with switches.
Seriously, if I moved in to a house that had one of those on the wall it would be removed toot sweet.
March 1st, 2008 at 9:20 pm
ROFLPIMP - I really truly am!!! O.M.F.G!!!!
March 1st, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Deb on the Rocks: *snigger*
A: well yes it does!
Cerebral Mum: OMG! I showed that one too Moo and she looked at me with the most shocked expression. And then wet herself laughing. She agrees with me, ‘Your terrible Muriel’
Ian: You think? I would have thought they would have found it as offensive as I do!!
River: Toot sweet! LMAO, but I am with you on that. But someone else would have to touch it.
Kelly: *gaffaw*
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:00 am
??????????
But,
hahahahaaaaaaaaaa…..
the comments are cracking me up!
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:43 am
“The perfect gift for the priest that has everything”
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:02 am
Now I see where all those priests got started…
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:34 am
OMG!!!!! After reading all the comments,…I’ve got nothing! I’m cracking up over here. I still can’t over the look on the little boys face and his hands in his pockets!
March 2nd, 2008 at 11:30 am
I have no clue, but I’m sure that there’s lightening involved somehow.
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:20 pm
My grandmother’s house is full of stuff like that and even my Uncle the catholic priest makes fun of it.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Ann: But no one has come close to the ‘take my brain out and wash it’ level my head went to.
Goldeebug: *snort*
VE: turning on light switches will only lead to moral destruction.
Sandy: The looks on ALL their faces creep me out. And the way he is pushing the kids um, together…
Ree: And a key to produce electricity so you can ‘turn it on’ baby….
Lisa b: *gaffaw* It’s just so w-r-o-n-g!
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:10 pm
They have dark chocolate M & Ms?
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:29 pm
I haven’t read the other comments yet so sorry if I have said the same as someone else - I will read them after I post this:
I am the lightswitch,the power and the glory
March 2nd, 2008 at 11:56 pm
I am still having trouble with the image of that lecherous lightswitch man looking at the children and licking his fucking lips.. *shudder*
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:53 am
OMG I just read the words on it too - Honour thy Father and Mother - so its not enough to make the kids scared of turning on the light, they will be freaked out even more worrying about honouring their parents. Too weird. Although, I knew a family when I was younger who would have had that sort of thing in the house
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:51 am
Tracey: Oh MY GOD YES!!! They are little orgasms in the mouth I tell ya! I am loving them more than *gasp* Clinkers…..
Gemisht: Bwaaaa haaaaa haaaaa!
Frogpondsrock: I KNOW! It is unbelievably creepy. I can’t believe no one else saw that. Or maybe they are too traumatised by the vision. Like me.
Gemisht: *snort* it just gets creepier the more you look at it doesn’t it?
March 3rd, 2008 at 9:43 pm
“Mummy, the man in the dress tried to touch me”.
March 4th, 2008 at 12:12 am
Have you noticed how the people who take religion too seriously are the ones who appreciate REALLY bad art?
Good taste and a surfeit of religion are not good bedfellows, actually it looks like a large slab of white chocolate to me. Maybe that’s how the Milky Bar kid got his special powers…
I’m not sure whether the switch is positioned by somebody too innocent to notice or the kind of person who came up with the name anusole for pile cream.
Either way, it’s well scary… if I was a kid in that house, I’d keep the light on the whole time so that the switch was um… turned off… if you see what I mean.
Cheers
BC
March 4th, 2008 at 7:22 am
I am a pervert, I am a non believer trapped in a raised catholic chocolate shell, and I’m the most sarcastic sonofabeeeatch I know…. but I can’t come up with anything to summarise that…
Think I’ll join you in the shower (told you I was perverted).
Hideous.
Cool cool blog, I’ll be back
March 4th, 2008 at 11:43 am
I’m just shocked. I did like the idea of screws through the hands.
March 4th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Andrew: *snort* trust you to see the dress!
BC: ‘Maybe that’s how the Milky Bar kid got his special powers…’ NOW THAT made me snort. Pity I wasn’t drinking….
Xbox4NapyRash: What a totally bizarre but fab name! Now are you saying that sharing a shower with me would be hideous? Will have to check out your blog to see if you are a boy or a girl before I get all offended like…
Colin: Bwaaaa haaaaaa haaaaa
March 4th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
While I find the lightswitch weird and inappropriate (is it even genuine?), I do find some of the assumptions about believers in Christ which have been expressed here are offensive. So be it. My faith is not in religion but in a living God.
March 4th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
As you will definitely see from my blog, I’m a ‘bloke’. But leaking testosterone fast so get over there before it’s all gone…
March 4th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Wendy: That is the question isn’t it? I think it may be, but then again who knows.
Actually some of the commenters are Christians and Catholics. It is not a denigration (well my post) of those that believe in God, just the stupidity of some people in general to think that something like that is appropriate, let alone in good taste.
But I am sorry that you were offended babe. That was never my intention.
March 4th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Xbox4NappyRash: haven’t had a chance to pop over yet, or should I say hobble….. I will bring tissues.
March 4th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Wendy,
there are some Christians who are always the first to take offence - yet are keen to give it. Some of the commenters are perhaps reacting out of childhood abuse by Christian clergy, and others out of nearly two thousand years of repression, torture, religious wars and control. There are some of us who find the appropriation of Jesus Christ by literalism to be highly offensive, yet we do not bang on about it. Look behind your pose to the roots of your faith - would even your Jesus mind the laughter?
Best regards, Andrew
March 4th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Hugs, Kelley, I know you weren’t. Andrew, thanks for your measured and thoughtful comment. I don’t think I’m hiding behind a pose. Jesus would laugh at the light switch but not some of the comments…
March 7th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
oh my goodness!! Honour thy mother and thy father!!
Are there a whole series of these light switches with different commandments on them? A different commandment for each room of the house?
“thou shalt not covet another man’s wife” in the bedroom and ‘thou shalt not steal” in the kitchen (next to the cupboard containing the chocolate)
lmao
March 10th, 2008 at 11:22 am
I’m a Christian. I love the creepy lightswitch. I want one. Seriously - talk about a talking point!
Poor Seedy Jesus - I still love you. Even though you’re quite clearly scaring the little corn children.
Wendy - its my experience that you can’t take offence at anything that is not directed at you. If it contradicts your own beliefs, just smile smugly on the inside and know that you are right. You’ll feel better, they won’t get pissed with you, and the world will spin on happily.
I do enjoy a healthy debate though - so take your pick between the two
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