Outta the Side Window 2

In which Doris discovers the original Tweet Of The Day.Everywhere you go here there are marquee boards by the side of the road.  With a fixed format of 3-5 rows of around 20 ONLY CAPITAL LETTERS they are perhaps the original inspiration behind the 80 character Twitter limit.  Some are more convincing than others (NOW H RING RELI BLE STAFF) and many seem to be constrained by the letter frequency that was in the original package.

They are particularly popular with churches, (of which there are a startling number, see previous post for comment on population density) and so the Church Slogan Of The Day competition begins.

Some radiate positivity:
EVERYTHING
WILL BE OK

Some are written from the heart:
KNEEL BEFORE JESUS
AND YOU CAN STAND
BEFORE ANYONE

IF GOD SEEMS FAR AWAY
HE’S NOT THE ONE
THAT’S MOVED

THE BEST VIEW
COMES AFTER
THE HARDEST CLIMB

Some may be a bit tongue in cheek:
MEDITATION
MAKES DOING NOTHING
SEEM NORMAL

While others are written by the faithful, for the faithful:
1 PETER 4:17

But the original inspiration for this competition is proving to be hard to beat:
GIVE SATAN AN INCH
AND HE WILL BECOME
YOUR RULER

The boredom induced in children by long roadtrips is legendary, and so unsurprisingly other people have discovered this form of mild entertainment before me.  Typing in “us church sign pictures” into Mr Google should brighten up your day, with a wide variety of offerings including:
WE ASKED GOD
FOR A SIGN
AND HE GAVE US
THIS 1
which gains extra points because the sign-person seems to have run out of “N”s but is determined to finish the message.

 

 

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