“If you think you’ve got nothing to be thankful for…check your pulse” is a one-line inspirational saying that has been printed on many images. The saying has been popular on church signs.
“Don’t have anything to be thankful for? Check your pulse” was published in a 2001 book. “Nothing to be thankful for? Check your pulse” was printed in a 2003 book.
Google Books
Forbidden Fruit Creates Many Jams
By Mary Katherine Compton and David Compton
New York, NY: New American Library
2001
Pg. 66:
Don’t have anything to be thankful for? Check your pulse.
Google Books
Inspirations from Above
By David L Everitt
Xulon Press (XulonPress.com)
2003
Pg. 145:
NOTHING TO BE THANKFUL FOR? CHECK YOUR PULSE
20 November 2003, The Daily Mirror (London, UK), “Mirror M@ilbox,” pg. 59:
-OUTSIDE a church: “Nothing to be thankful for? Check your pulse.”
David Paterson, Arbroath, Angus
29 June 2004, Dayton (OH) Daily News, “Seen & Overheard,” pg. E1:
MESSAGE FROM THE HEART.
Spotted this sign outside a church in Celina: `Nothing to be thankful for? Check your pulse.’
- Bob Batz
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9/28/04
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—Don’t have anything to be thankful for? Check your pulse!
30 June 2005, Austin (TX) American-Statesman, “These signs say it all ; Getting the message across” by Jennifer Barrios,, pg. 1:.
Don’t have anything to be thankful for? Check your pulse.
Google Books
I Read It on a Church Sign
By Jeffery W. Dukes
Published by author
2009
Pg. 57:
DON’T HAVE ANYTHING TO BE THANKFUL FOR? CHECK YOUR PULSE!
Twitter
Lester Wall
@LesWall
THANK YOU!! Don’t have anything to be thankful for? Check your pulse!
6:28 AM - 5 Mar 2009
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Ping Opus - church sign slogans
Kim
11/26/09
(...)
This week our church’s sign says “Got nothing to be thankful for? Check your pulse.”
Twitter
*Grant Barber*
@GrantbBarber
If you think you have nothing to be thankful for…..check your pulse and then think again
12:34 AM - 14 Dec 2013
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bianca martinez
@bjaqueline23
If you have nothing to be thankful for, check your pulse.
3:26 PM - 15 Dec 2013
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ashtyn❋nicolette
@Alwaysashtyn
When you feel like you have nothing to be thankful for, check your pulse💓
6:57 PM - 21 Dec 2013
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Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
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