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Can someone please explain jokes #2232 and #2233.
I don't get either of them.
I don't get 2233 either but 2232 isn't really a joke so much as pointing out the commercial opportunism of a particular church, renting out sign space to a commercial enterprise. As to the cell phone tower, here in the US at least, churches and schools are often approached by cellular operators to lease roof space for them. In fact it's a source of some minor controversy among the electromagnetically sensitive to put them on school buildings. At any rate, given the low utilization rates of church buildings (they are often shuttered except during services and the occasional special event) it's understandable that they would leap at the chance for some steady residual income such as from a cell phone tower. Another tactic is to rent some or all of the facility out as a meeting space for (sufficiently tame) secular events, weddings, etc.
I don't really have that much of a malfunction with the bank sign, although it has some ironic value I guess.
I thought #2232 was ironic as well, but it is the state of the things as far as organized religion goes anyways. Also, I guess any extra income they receive from commercialization would be tax-exempt also?
I don't get 2233 either but 2232 isn't really a joke so much as pointing out the commercial opportunism of a particular church, renting out sign space to a commercial enterprise. As to the cell phone tower, here in the US at least, churches and schools are often approached by cellular operators to lease roof space for them. In fact it's a source of some minor controversy among the electromagnetically sensitive to put them on school buildings. At any rate, given the low utilization rates of church buildings (they are often shuttered except during services and the occasional special event) it's understandable that they would leap at the chance for some steady residual income such as from a cell phone tower. Another tactic is to rent some or all of the facility out as a meeting space for (sufficiently tame) secular events, weddings, etc.
I don't really have that much of a malfunction with the bank sign, although it has some ironic value I guess.
Thanks. I didn't recognise the building as a church until you pointed it out, then I noticed the cross (almost obscured). Even then I wouldn't have got the cell phone tower reference.
The wine glass joke - I guess yes - water into wine. What's the significance of the little buildings drawn on the glass?
Jesus at the Temple
Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers (banks) and the benches of those selling doves. “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’[a] but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’[b]”
The church pictured in the post has a billboard for a bank - i.e. "money changers". Therefore they are "defiling" the purpose of the church, which is for praying, by allowing the "money changers" to rent space from them. Does that help?
Jesus at the Temple
Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers (banks) and the benches of those selling doves. “It is written,†he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’[a] but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’[b]â€
The church pictured in the post has a billboard for a bank - i.e. "money changers". Therefore they are "defiling" the purpose of the church, which is for praying, by allowing the "money changers" to rent space from them. Does that help?
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and cute.
