# Fuck the evangelical vandal of the Hello How Are You Frog in Austin! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 22, 2009, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-evangelical-vandal-of-the-hello-how-are-you-frog-in-austin/500609 "2009-06-22T17:00:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-evangelical-vandal-of-the-hello-how-are-you-frog-in-austin/500609/1 "2009-06-22T17:00:32Z")
Someone defaced an Austin landmark with a duct-taped cross. The duct-tape crosses are appearing all over The Drag, and sadly the Hello How Are You frog got hit as well. [http://www.cyburbia.org/gallery/data/6200/austin\_the\_drag\_43.jpg](http://www.cyburbia.org/gallery/data/6200/austin_the_drag_43.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-evangelical-vandal-of-the-hello-how-are-you-frog-in-austin/500609/2 "2009-06-22T17:12:37Z")
Defacing grafitti … how meta. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-evangelical-vandal-of-the-hello-how-are-you-frog-in-austin/500609/3 "2009-06-22T17:14:55Z")
That duct tape is going to be a bitch to remove. ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-evangelical-vandal-of-the-hello-how-are-you-frog-in-austin/500609/4 "2009-06-22T17:21:35Z")
Especially on a brick wall in texas. How ever will they manage. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-evangelical-vandal-of-the-hello-how-are-you-frog-in-austin/500609/5 "2009-06-22T17:23:35Z")
How obnoxious! I’m rather fond of that guy. Still, it should be the work of a few seconds to pull down. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-evangelical-vandal-of-the-hello-how-are-you-frog-in-austin/500609/6 "2009-06-22T17:23:37Z")
Are you kidding me? It’s duct tape on a brick wall. Just pull it off. And you can’t even get the name of your important landmark right. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-evangelical-vandal-of-the-hello-how-are-you-frog-in-austin/500609/7 "2009-06-22T17:24:04Z")
Are you sure Daniel Johnston isn’t just on (or off) his meds? I can’t remember which one results in him being into Satan and which one doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-evangelical-vandal-of-the-hello-how-are-you-frog-in-austin/500609/8 "2009-06-22T17:28:35Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > And you can’t even get the name of your important landmark right. It’s the Tentacle-Breast Beast, right? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-evangelical-vandal-of-the-hello-how-are-you-frog-in-austin/500609/9 "2009-06-22T17:33:07Z")
Maybe Zorro is getting confused in his old age. ---
**Author:** ![Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimmy_Gibbler)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-evangelical-vandal-of-the-hello-how-are-you-frog-in-austin/500609/10 "2009-06-22T17:36:09Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Someone defaced an Austin landmark with a duct-taped cross. The duct-tape crosses are appearing all over The Drag, and sadly the Hello How Are You frog got hit as well. > > [http://www.cyburbia.org/gallery/data/6200/austin\_the\_drag\_43.jpg](http://www.cyburbia.org/gallery/data/6200/austin_the_drag_43.jpg) _That’s_ what Austin looks like?! Ha ha, what a dump! I knew the boosters were always a bit _too_ enthusiastic. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-evangelical-vandal-of-the-hello-how-are-you-frog-in-austin/500609/11 "2009-06-22T17:36:28Z")
Still, you’ve got to appreciate the alliteration of “evangelical vandal”; it has a lovely ring to it. A lovely, ironic, self-nullifying ring. . . ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-evangelical-vandal-of-the-hello-how-are-you-frog-in-austin/500609/12 "2009-06-22T17:50:36Z")
While you’re busy removing the cross, perhaps you can do something about all those weeds. And is that was Texan frogs look like, or did it hop over from Roswell? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-evangelical-vandal-of-the-hello-how-are-you-frog-in-austin/500609/13 "2009-06-22T17:57:50Z")
The church of Duct Tape Christ where we share the communion shot of WD-40. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-evangelical-vandal-of-the-hello-how-are-you-frog-in-austin/500609/14 "2009-06-22T18:18:14Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Defacing grafitti … how meta. It’s actually not graffiti, although it could pass for it. It’s a mural of “Jeremiah the Innocent” done on the old Sound Exchange record store on the Drag by musician Daniel Johnson in return for $100 and all the records he could carry. > **[Hi, How Are You Shop](https://hihowareyou.com/)** > > Daniel Johnston, Daniel Dale Johnston, "Hi, How Are You", Devil Town, True Love Will Find You In the End,1990,Songs of Pain, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Austin Texas, artist, musician, song-writer, indie, lo-fi music. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-evangelical-vandal-of-the-hello-how-are-you-frog-in-austin/500609/15 "2009-06-22T19:10:25Z")
I think Daniel Johnston himself is a pretty religious guy; he probably wouldn’t object to that cross on his painting. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-evangelical-vandal-of-the-hello-how-are-you-frog-in-austin/500609/16 "2009-06-22T19:11:46Z")
If that’s an “Austin landmark”, your town sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-evangelical-vandal-of-the-hello-how-are-you-frog-in-austin/500609/17 "2009-06-22T20:53:43Z")
Is it just me, or did the cross make it look like the Frog’s mouth was a huge vagina? ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-evangelical-vandal-of-the-hello-how-are-you-frog-in-austin/500609/18 "2009-06-22T20:57:44Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Is it just me, or did the cross make it look like the Frog’s mouth was a huge vagina? On behalf of gynecologists everywhere, I’d like to hope it’s just you. ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-evangelical-vandal-of-the-hello-how-are-you-frog-in-austin/500609/19 "2009-06-22T23:49:20Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > If that’s an “Austin landmark”, your town sucks. It’s terrible down there. Bunch of granola eating hippies who don’t know their ass from their elbows and a few whiny Californians who moved in to round out the tax base. You should definitely stay away, far away. Also tell your friends to stay away too. OP: the vandalism is lame but at least it was pretty much non-destructive. It’s hard to get very upset about this. Btw, [The Devil and Daniel Johnston](http://www.amazon.com/Devil-Daniel-Johnston/dp/B000GNOSGS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1245714464&sr=8-1) is an absolutely fascinating documentary about an artist with major mental illness(es). I highly recommend it, and you needn’t know anything about the man before watching it. ---
**Author:** ![Wheeljack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@Wheeljack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheeljack)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-evangelical-vandal-of-the-hello-how-are-you-frog-in-austin/500609/20 "2009-06-23T12:48:49Z")
That thing looks like a Garg from Commander Keen. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-evangelical-vandal-of-the-hello-how-are-you-frog-in-austin/500609.md?page=2)