I've solved it! - Now the Jesusland watch thread.

[Firefox]

Friday night I was sat in a serious pub in the peak district - the sort of pub that hasn't been refurbished for twenty years. Any trendy people who mistakenly wander in crinkle up and turn into a pile of smoking ash.

Anyway, I'm sat in this pub with three of my hard biker mates. They look sort of like ZZ Top, except not the sort of ZZ Top you'd want to meet in a dark alley. Or indeed a well-lit one.

Me: "Have you seen that Jesusland map?"

Biker: "What, the one with 'United States of Canada' around the top?"

[sty]

Only fitting that the map is now featured on the Jesusland.com home page


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and they have a forum that seems to allow anonymous posting

[TiltedKitty]

Only fitting that the map is now featured on the Jesusland.com home page


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and they have a forum that seems to allow anonymous posting

Surprised KB didn't register the domain...

[~D4T45H4T~]

Wow, this is getting BIG!

KB, seriously dude you should get some credit for your stroke of genius, are you not tempted to contact Wikipedia or Jesusland.com and tell them who you are?

Are you worried that our beloved YakYak could become full of trolls?

[skab]

Are you worried that our beloved YakYak could become full of trolls?

Seems so, and after a second of thinking this is probably a wise move...

[dcpar]

Howdy!

Wow, I finally found you! I feel like Neo from the Matrix when he finally finds the Source in the Matrix. Cool... Anyway, I'm the webmaster of Jesusland.com. I'm not out to steal your idea, but just to propogate the meme... If you'd like credit for the image (seems you may not based on reading the thread here), I'll post it on the site.

Kemper, I use your image on one of our cafepress mousepads (trying to pay for some bandwidth costs), so if we end up selling one, I'll be sure to give you a hefty comission on the $2 markup we earn . If you'd like me to remove it, I can do that too. I haven't sold anything yet actually, but there are loads of people using your image for merchandise.. Just google "jesusland" and click on any of the sponsored links.. You might wanna have a chat with them.

Anyway, if anyone here is interested in participating in Jesusland.com, please do! I need help in any and all ways. You folks here are obviously the forefathers of Jesusland, so it would be great to join forces. I don't want to be presumptuous about your feelings about the whole thing, but the Jesusland meme is here to stay for the next 4 years thanks to Kemper, and we hope to provoke some controversy and discussion with the site.

Oh, and don't worry, I'll keep "the source" secret.

Cheers,

Dave

[Sir_LANs-a-lot]

Hello there, welcome to yakyak.

Here's your standard issue fluffy sheepie:

[Elizian]

Howdy!

Howdy & Welcome, dcpar, to the fluffiest forum in town

Hmmm ... secrecy, aaah ... nope, there's nobody here but us chickens, erm, I mean, sheep (and the occasional llama )

[Harlequin]

Howdy!
Wow, I finally found you! I feel like Neo from the Matrix when he finally finds the Source in the Matrix. Cool... Anyway, I'm the webmaster of Jesusland.com. I'm not out to steal your idea, but just to propogate the meme... If you'd like credit for the image (seems you may not based on reading the thread here), I'll post it on the site.

You seem like a fairly fluffy person. Have a sheepie.

The privacy concerns stated so far relate to potential forum problems, so I can see no problem with crediting the image to Kemper without mentioning YakYak (perhaps using the latest version of his image). That's up to KP, though.

[...] Just google "jesusland" and click on any of the sponsored links.. You might wanna have a chat with them.

Eek! I knew that merchandise was being sold but... the only frequent sponsored link I get (possibly due to being in the UK) is one for Jesusland Gear, from where, for a mere $9, one can purchase a 'US of Canada / Jesusland Classic Thong'!

Oh, and judging from the forum, you (perhaps with KP) could probably make a little cash by renting out jesusland.com addresses and sub-domains .

H.
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[Dave]

Dave

Not to be confused with, well, you know.

Welcome to the furoms dcpar!!!

[Kemper_Boyd]

Oooh Salon.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/20 ... index.html

[Kemper_Boyd]

103,000 hits on Google now.
http://www.google.com/search?q=jesusland

[Wolf2010]

Ahhh, it is not a real word till you get rid of the:

Did you mean: jesus land

Which I am given to understand is a game some optimisers play.

[Harlequin]

Heheh... From the bottom of http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/0 ... 04485.html:

Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash.com

From further up the page:

A BuzzFlash reader says, "The graphic presented ... is from a recent issue of NZZ - the German Newspaper from Zurich (http://www.nzz.ch)."

H.
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they kill you in a new way."
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[ravuya]

Editorial, my local paper, credits picture to "Dave Ruderman". Editorial basically says, "Jesus was a nice chap. If only the US really were Jesusland, liberals mean to insult countries by saying they are Jesus-obsessed".

Will scan in eventually.