Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for February 16, 2020

Guadalupe, huh?

Reminds me of the time a U.S. Army helicopter landed in the Vatican plaza and got sprinkled with holy water by whichever pope it was then. I wondered at the time if that was supposed to improve the helicopter’s performance.

If it wasn’t for one nincompoop driving a driving Garbage Truck recklessly, I wouldn’t have found God.

I never had one of those for my dashboard … guess that’s why I wasn’t delivered from all those road nincompoops?!?

And we’re going to have more nincompoops out there on our roadways if they don’t stop drinking, dozing, doping or looking at texting their phones when driving.

Wasn’t their mom killed by a drunk driver ?

I don’t care if it rains or freezes, ‘long as I got my plastic Jesus, settin’’ on the dashboard of my car…

“I don’t care if things get hairy, long as I have my plastic Mary, sitting on the dashboard of my car!”

Perfect

I thought the car was blue

“I don’t care if it rains or freezes … " :-)

Used to be St. Christopher, but I think the Catholic Church fired him.

I’ll take a dozen, please. Or a hundred if I can give them to nincompoops. No, I won’t throw them at the nincompoopps.

wish that is all it took!

Tia Carmen could have added Knuckleheads to Nincompoops!

Pete Seeger said it best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBtSFhbxBTg

Give me that old time religionGive me that old time religionGive me that old time religionAnd that’s good enough for me

We will pray to AphroditeEven though she’s rather flightyAnd they say she wears no nightieAnd that’s good enough for me

We will pray with those EgyptiansBuild pyramids to put our crypts our inCover subways with inscriptionsAnd that’s…

O-old Odin we will followAnd in fighting we will wallowTil we wind up in Valhalla…

Let me follow dear old BuddhaFor there is nobody cuterHe comes in plaster, wood or pewter…

We will pray with ZarathustraPray just like we usetaI’m a Zarathustra booster…

We will pray with those old druidsThey drink fermented fluidsWaltz naked through the woo-ids…

Hare Krishna gets a laugh onWhen he sees me dressed in saffronWith my hair that’s only half on…

I’ll arise at early morningWhen my Lord [the sun] gives me the warningThat the solar age is dawning…

https://youtu.be/NkDFT5BxnxY

My mother used to have one of those in her K-car, so I started referring to it as the Jesus Chrysler.

After all the time he has had his dream cars where is the progress? A tarp? Tires?

Better still, she should get him enrolled in the Brown Scapular. But a Mary sacramental statue is a good start.

I don’t care if it Rains or freezes

As long as I’ve got my Plastic Jesus

…

I don’t care if it’s dark or scary

Long as I got magnetic Mary

Ridin’ on the dashboard of my car

— Billy Idol

Sorry – I have just have to tell this story (and please do not think it is sacrilegious).

My husband and I are 18th century reenactors. Among the most common comments we get from people or people tell their children is “people were shorter then”. The military records from then and now when compared show about 1/2" difference in height – not really a difference to comment on. When we tell people this some are surprised to find out, but others insist that they are right and we are wrong. (And when doing first person this is even harder to tell them as we know nothing past the matching in the year of the event we are at.

One of the other reenactors got so annoyed with someone who kept pushing on this that finally he said “if people were shorter then – have people continually become taller over the centuries” The person said that this was true – the further back one goes in time the shorter people were. The reenactor said to the person “That would mean that the religious statutes on car dashboards are life sized.”