Nailed It

Nailed It August 13, 2013

David Hayward posted this image on his blog earlier today:

David didn’t seem to have problems with the disconnect between the methods, or the message, of Joel Osteen in comparison with Jesus.

Yet the “Nailed It” meme is all about people trying to do something and missing the mark so badly that it is funny. Here are a couple of geeky examples:

There’s another one with princess Leia in this collection.

I think that a more suitable image, in keeping with the ironic meme, would be one that pictured Jesus carrying his cross, and then had a modern popular preacher with adoring crowds. And the caption, “nailed it.” And of course, the allusion to nailing to the cross would just make the point all the more. Something like this:

 

What other meme images could one make, comparing Jesus to those who call themselves his followers today, where they think they’ve “nailed it” but the results are so far of the mark that they would make a good contribution to this meme?

 

 


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