# Weird Windshield **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 7, 2007, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-windshield/418327 "2007-09-07T01:59:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Pullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pullet)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-windshield/418327/1 "2007-09-07T01:59:35Z")
This truck’s decorations are so strange, I just had to share. [Photo Link](http://www.flickr.com/photos/12842985@N02/1338563319/) I spotted it while driving. For those who don’t like links, the rear windshield reads: > [@](#): > > Why are you looking clueless? > Jesus is the Balm! > Put Him on Today! If you look close enough, you can read the side window, which announces that this king of double entendre belongs to an elderly homecare service. I need to go find the superglue for the shattered pieces of my exploded skull. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-windshield/418327/2 "2007-09-07T02:14:09Z")
[There is a balm in Gilead](http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/t/i/tisabalm.htm), to ease your shattered skull. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-windshield/418327/3 "2007-09-07T02:22:00Z")
[QUOTE=Pullet] This truck’s decorations are so strange, I just had to share. [Photo Link](http://www.flickr.com/photos/12842985@N02/1338563319/) I spotted it while driving. For those who don’t like links, the rear windshield reads: If you look close enough, you can read the side window, which announces that this king of double entendre belongs to an elderly homecare service. I need to go find the superglue for the shattered pieces of my exploded skull. [/QUOTE] The link asks for a password. ---
**Author:** ![brendon\_small](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brendon_small/32/17101_2.png) [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-windshield/418327/4 "2007-09-07T02:25:18Z")
[QUOTE=picunurse] The link asks for a password. [/QUOTE] Then, if you login with your flickr, it says that the page is private, and that I had no permission to view it. Darn it! Brendon Small ---
**Author:** ![Pullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Pullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pullet)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-windshield/418327/5 "2007-09-07T02:30:19Z")
Sorry, that website is being stupid. [Here’s a better one](http://img487.imageshack.us/img487/1446/jesushomecarevk4.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-windshield/418327/6 "2007-09-07T02:39:13Z")
[QUOTE=Pullet] [Here’s a better one](http://img487.imageshack.us/img487/1446/jesushomecarevk4.jpg) [/QUOTE] That _is_ odd. It’s definitely not done in tasteful bumpersticker size. Perhaps the occupants of the vehicle have been forgetting to dilute dilute dilute their Dr. Bronner’s before drinking it? ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-windshield/418327/7 "2007-09-07T04:52:35Z")
I wonder if Jesus would be any better than Crack Cream at soothing my chapped hands and healing my dry cracked heels. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-windshield/418327/8 "2007-09-07T05:21:18Z")
I put some Jesus Balm on my hands the other day. They really ought to put a warning on him: _Warning: May cause stigmata_. My towels are ruined. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-windshield/418327/9 "2007-09-07T13:47:10Z")
I really hope the guy is selling Jesus brand lip balm. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-windshield/418327/10 "2007-09-07T13:55:37Z")
Apply directly to forehead? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-windshield/418327/11 "2007-09-07T14:09:30Z")
It’s clearly a put-on. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-windshield/418327/12 "2007-09-07T14:54:59Z")
That is one stupid saying. I pity the mind that thought it up. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-windshield/418327/13 "2007-09-07T14:55:33Z")
Hmmm… reminds me of those old ads: “Why are you looking clueless? Jesus is the balm put him on today– your beard will be more calm Burma shave” ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-windshield/418327/14 "2007-09-07T15:52:39Z")
My brother used to point to There Is a Balm in Gilead in the hymnal at church and whisper “There is a bomb in Gilead” and then we’d crack up. Yes, there is a subtle difference in pronunciation, or maybe you just had to be there. I’m not sure why the windshield saying would be so skull-shattering? ---
**Author:** ![Pullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Pullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pullet)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-windshield/418327/15 "2007-09-07T18:33:25Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] I’m not sure why the windshield saying would be so skull-shattering? [/QUOTE] It hurts my head to have the spiritual and moral figurehead of millions of people worldwide depicted as a Gansta dollop of camphor-scented lubricant, meant to be applied liberally in order to bring epiphany. The sexual undertones combined with shallow philosophy and a really bad pun are bizarre and insulting to me, and I’m an atheist. And then, to find out that someone who is arrogant enough to billboard this confusion across their car is also responsible for the care of frail elderly folk just leaves me :eek: YMMV ---
**Author:** ![Swampwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Swampwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swampwolf)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-windshield/418327/16 "2007-09-07T21:50:29Z")
A Balm? Whaddya want to give a baby a balm for? It might bite 'im! Very dangerous animal, a balm is. There _is_ an animal called a balm…or did I dream it? ---
**Author:** ![Randy\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-windshield/418327/17 "2007-09-07T21:57:33Z")
I wonder if the first draft read: _Jesus is da Bomb! Drop him today!_