$17.00 'Passion' pendant-pewter nail on a leather strap selling well

[underpants]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4365788/

‘Passion’ pendant
proves popular

Pewter nail attached to a
leather strap is selling well

SANTA ANA, Calif. - Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” not only has people debating the last hours of Jesus’ life, but also running out to buy such souvenirs as crucifixes, lapel pins and cards tied to the film’s promotion.

The nail pendant costs about $17 and contains scaled-down versions of the nails seen in the film. It was designed by Siemon, himself a Catholic, who said he came up with the idea after seeing a preview of the movie.

“It’s the new symbol of the Christian,” he said. “It’s just a way of identifying and perhaps starting a conversation with someone.”

[Kolesar]

1. and the story is not "The Onion"?

Another stranger-the-the-Onion story is the woman who died of a heart attack while watching the film. She was called to heaven by the Almighty himself.

[BurtWorm]

2. My daughter got one of those in her bowl of Passion Loops cereal

this morning, the one with the communion wafer-y crunch and wine-flavored marshmallows.

[underpants]

8. You serving her Jesus juice?

Sorry I couldn't resist.

[BurtWorm]

11. Only if it isn't dirty.

It sounds dirty! :evilfrown:

[underpants]

13. It's dirty

That is what Micheal Jackson supposedly called the wine in a coke can he gave to kids who were "staying over", if you didn't know already.

[BurtWorm]

16. Oh God no, I didn't know that.

:puke:

I try not to get too close to that story.

[underpants]

17. Of course I didnt' think you did

I apologize for even suggesting or making anyone think I was suggesting that. Yes it is very sick.

[XNASA]

3. Can't wait to hear what happens the first time someone tries ...

to wear one of those on a US commercial flight and has it confiscated by Airport Security.


That's gonna be real ugly.

[underpants]

9. “It’s just a way of identifying......." Is what got me

Uh where is your 'Passion' pendant? Sort of gold stars in reverse. That is what hit me about this story....aside from the capitalization of faith......yet again.

Yeah when some thumper gets stopped all holy hell will break out and Roy Moore will be flown in to protest the loss of the "freedom of religion", I can see that coming too.

[chiburb]

19. Nah, they'll get on board just fine... just don't try a Koran.

.

[supernova]

4. This is unbelievably tasteless

I just can't fathom the mentality of some people. Neither do I want to. :crazy:

I wonder how many people would want to wear little electric chairs around their necks? :think: :}(

[Loonman]

5. Ya know

A person with a minimal amount of crafting knowledge could make their own for less than $5.

[underpants]

10. I hate to say this but it reminds me of pet rocks

Which I believe were available for the do it yourselfers for less than $5.

[Loonman]

24. An old girlfriend of mine

An old girlfriend of mine made her own jewelry with metal scraps she found and tin/metal smithing tools.

Looked so good, it would fool people into thinking she store-bought it.

[madmax]

6. I wonder what Jesus thinks of this.

x(

[xultar]

14. I think God spoke when he struck them with lightening during the filming

They are making money of Jesus. If the Reich wing doesn't see a problem with that they deserve a locked pearly gate.

Have they lost their minds. They want to profit off the Jesus yet, plunge the poor into debt by giving tax cuts to the Rich all while blaming Jews.

IF the US conservatives buy the bullshit racist, sexist, nutbag, Mel Gibson produced as the gospel I'm gonna have to move.

[RebelOne]

7. Unbelievable!!! What a joke!!!!

[Norbert]

12. Did anyone see the young guy in the satan shirt

that was wearing one (I think it was MSNBC News).

He says, "I think I feel a burning sensation in my chest. Is that supposed to happen?"

LOL

[mn9driver]

15. You can get all your official "Passion of the Christ" merchandise

right here:

http://www.sharethepassionofthechrist.com/

This is for real.:crazy:

[Fovea]

18. Why can't you get a matching hammer?

On a kewl chain and everything. That way you can show your true feelings about the movie to its fans.

[DieboldMustDie]

20. The money-changers in the Temple would be proud.

:evilgrin:

[elfwitch]

21. Jon Stewart did a bit on this last night...

It was F-ing funny.

[arwalden]

22. One Cross + Three Nails = 4-Given

[underpants]

25. What for only $17?

What happens when Pat and Jerry find out someone is underselling them?

[Liberal Veteran]

32. 1 cross + 3 nails=man on the ground with lacerated hands.

Duh.

[xultar]

23. Will the TSA let you through with acruxifiction spike? It is a weapon

so says MadMel

[GOPisEvil]

26. This might be a blasphemous remark, but here goes...

...if I were Jesus, and I made my triumphant return to Earth and saw people wearing NAILS, I'd a little freaked out. I figure the last thing I'd want to be reminded of is NAILS...

Pet Rocks sold in the millions, too. What are ya gonna do?

[BurtWorm]

27. You think people will give their nails names?

Like pet nails? Like Sharpy or Pointy?

[underpants]

29. That is a very good point

Many parallels come to mind but I will let that pass.

[Rabbit of Caerbannog]

28. For the ULTIMATE in body piercing accessories!

[Loonman]

30. No, doesn't work too well

I can never get that last nail in.

[Liberal Veteran]

31. Everytime I see this thread I misread it as about a leather strap-on.

Does that say something odd about me or something?

[underpants]

33. Well the lord works in mysterious ways

Whatever gets you in the church and ponying up to the collection plate....oh sorry that is American TV religion.

[ladjf]

35. There might be a connection.

You might be subconsciously realizing certain psychiatric connections between the two objects. (Had to alter my wording to keep the censor from zapping it.)

[underpants]

39. Welcome to DU

We censor ourselves around here. Just keep it clean (mostly) and you will be fine.

:hi:

[ladjf]

45. My dirty word

All I tried to say was to use the word "sad oh mas a chism". Apparently the database thinks that's vulgar.

[ladjf]

34. This is sick!

It seems to me that there is an almost pathological level of curiosity about the gruesome scenes of the movie. Could this be uncovering the true nature of certain religious zealots? Who knows, it might spawn a new genre of "Chainsaw" movies.

[Elidor]

36. Jesus better run for the fucking hills

'Cause they've got more nails and they'll do it again.

[MidwestMomma]

48. So true...they probably would do it again

Because I don't think Jesus' message of love and tolerance would go over too well with some of the people rushing out to buy their Passion nails. They'd probably call him a tree-hugging liberal freak and then cut down a 100 year oak and do it it again.

Bah...people should spend their money helping the poor if they love Jesus so much.

[Liberal Veteran]

37. For those moments when you need to perform an emergency crucifixion?

LOL

[underpants]

38. Always be prepared

'cause you never know.

that is funny....problem is you need more than one sorta like an Army tent.

[Rabrrrrrr]

40. Wow, that's offensive.

But then, for the most part, I'm bothred by any "fancied up" kind of cross.

If this was an iron nail in leather, I wouldn't mind quite so much, except for it's obvious tie-in as a movie marketing synergy, which is totally offensive in itself.

I have a cross made of nails, but it's quite tasteful, and handmade by a fellow Christian out of real bona fide cheap nails.

But a pewter nail? I know pewter isn't quite precious metal realm, but it's far more expensive than iron, and it's not a genuine nail material, either.

Disgusting.

[underpants]

41. Yeah it high on the malleable side huh?

Listen when the first person impales themselves with one of these....well I would say that we would have a controversy like the "Iron Maiden made my kid kill himself" type thing but actually that person will probably be portrayed as a martyr, a true believer.

[Rabrrrrrr]

42. Though, if I were gonna crucified, maybe pewter ain't so bad...

I wouldn't mind a nail that would deform utterly at every stroke.

Might still really hurt, but might never go through, either.

well, no, it probably would, but I wanted to make the joke anyway. It's the boring engineer in me that felt the need to offer the truth that even though pliant, it's still enough to go through the hand, even if the head doesw deform badly on the first hit.

Perhaps nails made from mercury.

[underpants]

43. I guess it would take ........longer then

yikes!!!!!

Since we are going around on this I want to bury what I really think about what I have heard about this movie.

Having gone to church and seen images and recreations of the crucufixion (psst they killed people like this regularly as an engineer you can appreciate that it is not very efficient) I think we all block out that very first moment when there was no going back. I think we all anethesthitize that but after seeing this everyone will having THAT image in there head pretty much forever.

Oh and I expect a huge amount of wild Christianity breaking out all over and calls about THE END and the rapture. Last thought (is this buried enough to say this?) the Republicans are trying to paint the Democratic party as the fag party, now and forever. Okay there I said it.

[Rabrrrrrr]

46. Wild Christianity - yeah, I would be willing to expect that

and being openly "Christian" will all of a sudden be a big fad (as we can see with all the crucifixes and these pewter nails being are snapping up), and we'll be bombarded with idiocy for a while. And then, in a couple years, these crucifixes adn pewter nails and The Passion lunchboxes and other tie-in gimmickry will be consigned to the recycle bins and the dollar tables.

I haven't seen the movie, so I won't say anything about what's on screen, but I am VERY offended that it's being marketed in such inappropriate ways. Americans like fads, since they seem to prefer not to think (on average), and I hate seeing a religion turned into a fad.

And I'm sure we'll see some real bizarro right wing Christian gruops pop up out of nowhere; or, more likely, they've always been there, but now their radical loopy cries will become interesting to the media, and they'll finally get their time in the public voice (such as it is, since it's manipulated so much by a couple media companies) in this country.

And no, crucifixion isn't very efficient, but it's pretty damn dramatic and nasty. Whether it was an effective crime control measure, though, I don't know; much in the same way that capital punishment now doesn't seem to be much of a deterrent to crime. Though as a friend of mine often rightly says, "Capital punishment might stop others from committing a crime, but it stops THAT son of a bitch from committing another." :-)

And yes, the Repubs are trying to paint the dems as the fag party. Though they've been doing that for quite some time, they now really have the public ammunition to go after the dems with it. And the dem candidates aren't helping by waffling so much over the gay marriage issue. And what we have to do is say, yeah, we are the fag party - because we're the party who believes in freedoms for everyone in America, without some bullshit litmus test, and then we should paint the repubs as the litmus test party: they used to be against blacks; then they had to be against women; then welfare queens; and now homosexuals are about their last minority group to hate, because I think they've realuized that the other gruops they hate: poor people, intellectuals, intelligent people, artists, are groups that the rest of the country isn't willing to hate publicly any more. Though I could be slightly wrong on one or two minor points there, I think I'm overall accurate.

[KamaAina]

44. They're not fooling anyone. They just want the leather strap.

Amazing how much leather appears in every single Mel Gibson flick, n'est-ce-pas?

[Wapsie B]

47. At first I thought

this commercialism aspect of Gibson's slasher flick tacky to say the least. But on second thought, why not get together a company like this and take the $$$ of the right wingers? Sell them the idols they want and put the $$ to use for the greater good.