{"id":1624,"date":"2010-02-17T13:15:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T20:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:32:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:32:58","slug":"novelty-items-arouse-curiosity-wednesday-february-17th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/novelty-items-arouse-curiosity-wednesday-february-17th\/","title":{"rendered":"Novelty Items Arouse Curiosity &#8211; Wednesday February 17th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/36_157b.jpg\" alt=\"36_157b\" title=\"36_157b\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1625\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/36_157b.jpg 250w, http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/36_157b-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 85vw, 250px\" \/>Dear Poor Lucky Me,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve recently discovered that there is a robust market for religious themed novelty items such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orientaltrading.com\/ui\/search\/processRequest.do?Ntt=qe-5%2F1345&amp;x=0&amp;y=0&amp;requestURI=searchMain&amp;Ntk=all&amp;Ntx=mode%2Bmatchallpartial&amp;N=0\" target=\"_blank\">Cross-Shaped Swirl Pops<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orientaltrading.com\/ui\/search\/processRequest.do?Ntt=qe-36%2F1123&amp;x=0&amp;y=0&amp;requestURI=searchMain&amp;Ntk=all&amp;Ntx=mode%2Bmatchallpartial&amp;N=0\" target=\"_blank\">Bible Tins with cross-shaped mints<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orientaltrading.com\/ui\/search\/processRequest.do?Ntt=walking+with+jesus+gummy&amp;x=0&amp;y=0&amp;requestURI=searchMain&amp;Ntk=all&amp;Ntx=mode%2Bmatchallpartial&amp;N=0\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Walking With Jesus&#8221; Gummy Treat Packs<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>What do you think Jesus Would Do with these products?  Do you think he should get a cut, or at least a wholesale discount?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Signed,<br \/>\nPraying we meet our sales numbers<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Dear Praying,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat a great discovery, whether you&#8217;re seriously religious or just into mocking religious people.  It&#8217;s hard to say what Jesus would do, although I certainly consider myself in a position to answer with authority.  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nHe would keep the novelty religious items&#8217; production in a country with fair labor practices, which he wouldn&#8217;t have to justify to greedy shareholders because he would keep the company private.  I think Jesus would be at least as annoyed as I am that publicly traded companies have to show profits every quarter.  It&#8217;s just not realistic!  He&#8217;d probably rather run the place as a not-for-profit, but if there were profits I think he&#8217;d try to build revolutionary social programs.  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nReally though, I think if Jesus could he&#8217;d come back and bust up the company that makes this stuff.  He&#8217;s go all crazy like he did on the money changers asses.  He&#8217;d also probably smote Pat Robinson, while he was down here.  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nSincerely,<br \/>\nPoor Lucky Me<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me, &nbsp; I&#8217;ve recently discovered that there is a robust market for religious themed novelty items such as Cross-Shaped Swirl Pops, Bible Tins with cross-shaped mints, and &#8220;Walking With Jesus&#8221; Gummy Treat Packs . &nbsp; What do you think Jesus Would Do with these products? Do you think he should get a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/novelty-items-arouse-curiosity-wednesday-february-17th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Novelty Items Arouse Curiosity &#8211; Wednesday February 17th&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3597,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions\/3597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}