# Have you seen a little Jesus in your life lately? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 18, 2026, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-seen-a-little-jesus-in-your-life-lately/1031759 "2026-07-18T02:11:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-seen-a-little-jesus-in-your-life-lately/1031759/21 "2026-07-18T17:30:31Z")
A couple of nights ago I drank about 8 pints of Guiness and I saw a little Jesus. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-seen-a-little-jesus-in-your-life-lately/1031759/22 "2026-07-18T18:21:24Z")
Well, yeah, but each one took about a week. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-seen-a-little-jesus-in-your-life-lately/1031759/23 "2026-07-18T20:43:30Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > A couple of nights ago I drank about 8 pints of Guiness and I saw a little Jesus. - snort \* ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-seen-a-little-jesus-in-your-life-lately/1031759/24 "2026-07-18T21:28:20Z")
Who wants try subbing in a little Buddha or Vishnu? ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2026, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-seen-a-little-jesus-in-your-life-lately/1031759/25 "2026-07-19T10:17:07Z")
To me, the most WTF thing in this thread is not the plastic Jesus, but that a water company would have a drive-through payment window. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2026, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-seen-a-little-jesus-in-your-life-lately/1031759/26 "2026-07-19T12:35:30Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I haven’t seen one in the wild, but now I have this going as an earworm Today I learned that the song was not original to the film _Cool Hand Luke_. Blake’s cover version sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole. But yeah, you beat me to posting the song 😀 … @kferr , drive-through utility payments were a thing locally (suburban New Orleans) until 2020 or so. There were even parish-run drive-throughs – the one closest to us looked like a converted bank + drive-through lanes – where you could pay several different utilities at one stop. When I lived in Mississippi, there weren’t drive-through places like that but there were walk-up windows in many grocery stores and pharmacies where you could pay several different utilities. And I don’t mean in the Pleistoscene Era – definitely while the Internet was a fully-functional thing. Anf of course, mailing in a check is still possible today as it was then. But I’d bet in 2026, maybe one in a thousand customers still pay by mail regularly ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2026, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-seen-a-little-jesus-in-your-life-lately/1031759/27 "2026-07-19T12:43:13Z")
Small town utility companies have had drive through windows at their office and also ways to pay in person at ~~a~~ the small town bank or ~~a~~ the small town grocery store since forever. If they haven’t moved offices in 40 years, it’s not surprising the window is still there. Small town operators don’t generally invest in the latest automation and so no, there isn’t an app for that. And small town folks are the canonical late/never adopters of new tech once it does become available. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2026, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-seen-a-little-jesus-in-your-life-lately/1031759/28 "2026-07-19T14:15:20Z")
> [@kferr](#): > > To me, the most WTF thing in this thread is not the plastic Jesus, but that a water company would have a drive-through payment window. You can see the roof of the drive-through extending over the driveway right [here](https://www.google.com/maps/place/34%C2%B034'38.2%22N+82%C2%B033'10.3%22W/@34.5777194,-82.553671,21z/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d34.5772686!4d-82.5528567?g_ep=Eg1tbF8yMDI2MDcxNF8wIJvbDyoASAJQAQ%3D%3D) on Google Maps. Zoom out to see the (relative) isolation on the place. (Though still too crowed for my ideal.) ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2026, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-seen-a-little-jesus-in-your-life-lately/1031759/29 "2026-07-19T14:24:40Z")
I grew up in small towns in Iowa and don’t remember places like that. But then again, I was a kid and not the one paying the bills. I always lived in cities after university and paid bills by mail. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2026, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-seen-a-little-jesus-in-your-life-lately/1031759/30 "2026-07-19T15:28:11Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > Well, yeah, but each one took about a week. Glad to hear it! ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2026, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-seen-a-little-jesus-in-your-life-lately/1031759/31 "2026-07-19T16:57:32Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I haven’t seen one in the wild, but now I have this going as an earworm: I have another earworm, Bob Dylan’s “It’s Alright Ma, I’m Only Bleeding” from 1965: _Disillusioned words like bullets bark_ _As human gods aim for their mark_ _Make everything from toy guns that spark_ _To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark_ _It’s easy to see without looking too far_ _That not much is really sacred_ ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2026, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-seen-a-little-jesus-in-your-life-lately/1031759/32 "2026-07-19T18:07:40Z")
I stick googlie eyes everywhere. I know I know, I am defacing public property or some crap. But I think if I stick googlie eyes over the message “for a good time call 867-5309” I feel like Jenny would appreciate it. I’ve been known to stick tiny smile faces 🙃 upside down as well. But I think that’s kinda passe nowadays. I feel kinda criminal. But I ain’t doing no tiny jesus’. That’s pisses me off about as much as “have a blessed day” does. It just goes allover me when I hear that. I’m not sure I can prove it but I believe Walmart has told checkers not to say it anymore. I really really hate that term. It’s passive aggressive and supposes I believe like you. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2026, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-seen-a-little-jesus-in-your-life-lately/1031759/33 "2026-07-19T18:42:54Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Are you sure you weren’t in a large Jeep? Our niece has a Jeep pickup with the dash covered in this crap. I really don’t think I’d want all that stuff flying around if I hit another vehicle or a deer. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2026, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-seen-a-little-jesus-in-your-life-lately/1031759/34 "2026-07-19T18:56:45Z")
Sticky dots..just saying. But I like the dash clear too. A piece of paper up there bugs me. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2026, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-seen-a-little-jesus-in-your-life-lately/1031759/35 "2026-08-03T14:40:11Z")
I’m visiting an aunt in Mississippi, and there’s a tiny Jesus in all the bedrooms. Fortunately we’re not spending the night. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2026, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-seen-a-little-jesus-in-your-life-lately/1031759/36 "2026-08-03T20:47:28Z")
I think I’ve only seen one of these, and it was in about the least out-of-place location possible: On the windowsill in the kitchen in the church rectory. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2026, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-seen-a-little-jesus-in-your-life-lately/1031759/37 "2026-08-03T22:44:21Z")
I get the idea it’s a fundy / evangelist thing. Unsurprising your Catholic environment is lacking that sort of stuff. Faith and cheerleading are two different phenomenon. ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2026, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-seen-a-little-jesus-in-your-life-lately/1031759/38 "2026-08-03T23:13:36Z")
The thread title was read aloud to me and I answered, without a trace of punnery or irony, “I think there’s still some Brie left…” As for rubber ducks, if I could afford it I’d leave this little guy everywhere > **[The birthplace of Karl Marx released €0 notes to celebrate his 200th birthday...](https://www.businessinsider.com/karl-marx-200th-anniversary-celebrations-in-trier-germany-2018-4)** > > Trier, the German city where the father of communism, Karl Marx, was born is celebrating the 200th anniversary of his birth. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2026, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-seen-a-little-jesus-in-your-life-lately/1031759/39 "2026-08-04T02:40:12Z")
I had to go to my local tax office last week and there was a wee Savior on the receptionist’s desk. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2026, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-seen-a-little-jesus-in-your-life-lately/1031759/40 "2026-08-04T03:06:21Z")
They made their way to our City Hall. I don’t remember if the Mayor bought them or he just had several he’d collected. I got one and he (He?) lives in a pocket in my portfolio I use for city council. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-seen-a-little-jesus-in-your-life-lately/1031759.md?page=1)