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Old 04-17-2004, 09:56 AM
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Blasphemy!!

Never mind Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, or claiming that we're descended from apes. Post something here that will really set the lynch mob after you.

Example: The Star Wars Christmas Special is canon.
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Old 04-17-2004, 10:15 AM
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Wesley Crusher was the best character ever out of all the series and movies of Trek.


Han shot first.


Willow is unattractive to either sex.


Poco is better than Toto.
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Old 04-17-2004, 10:18 AM
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O.J. was innocent.
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Old 04-17-2004, 10:44 AM
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OK.

Muhammed was a warmongering psychotic.

Jesus was gay, and his visions and assertions of godhead were the result of ingesting psychotropic herbs.

St. Paul was a deep cover agent for the Sanhedrin, assigned to distort the Jesus sect from within so that Jews would reject it. He got in a little too deep, and the plan worked a little too well.

There is no magical sky pixie, and those who require such a belief in order to behave decently are morally inferior to those who do so on their own.

Gautama Siddhartha was a libertine con man who deceived his followers into sacrificing their goods to him in hopes of acheiving a mystical state of perfection.
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Old 04-17-2004, 11:00 AM
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Bill Clinton was one of the best Republican presidents we've ever had.
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Old 04-17-2004, 11:49 AM
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Terry Pratchett is the biggest hack in all of literature, and is regularly ghostwritten by Jackie Collins.

Great! Now I feel all dirty! Sorry, PTerry!


"Blasphemy, blasphe-you, blasphe-everybody-in-the-room..."


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Old 04-17-2004, 11:50 AM
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I think fur coats look great.
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Old 04-17-2004, 11:51 AM
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I can top you all, heh heh!

Fred Phelps is right! *










*I am joking, you know!
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Old 04-17-2004, 11:55 AM
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Britney Spears is still, um, intact.
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Old 04-17-2004, 12:05 PM
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George W. Bush is the most intelli. . .



no, I just can't do it.
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Old 04-17-2004, 01:14 PM
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SUVs are the greatest vehicle ever made.

Everybody should always drive the speed limit in the fast lane.

"The Princess Bride" really wasn't that great.
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Old 04-17-2004, 01:21 PM
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This message board sucks.

Cecil isn't real.
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Old 04-17-2004, 01:25 PM
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"I'm sensing some _____, Captain." Need I say more?

Enterprise is canon. Church canon, that is.
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Old 04-17-2004, 01:27 PM
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Bill Clinton was one of the best Republican presidents we've ever had.
Bill Clinton was one of the best DEMOCRATIC presidents we've ever had.

Jimi Hendrix was a hack guitarist who used studio tricks to make his music.
Boston will never win the World Series.
Eating veal is a crime.
Eating red meat at all is a crime.
Bill Gates life and achievements are a good thing.
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Old 04-17-2004, 01:29 PM
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Eminem is the pinacle of music in the western world
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Old 04-17-2004, 01:36 PM
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Jordan's Wheel of Time series is pure genius.
Jordan's Wheel of Time series is nothing more than drivel.

There, now I'll get it from both sides.
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Old 04-17-2004, 01:39 PM
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Left Behind is prophecy.
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Old 04-17-2004, 01:56 PM
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Tolkien made better works than the 'The Lord Of Rings' when he took his morning dump.

Peter Jackson's pinacle was Bad Taste, and his LOTR trilogy was simply encoding pure crap into cinematic crap.
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Old 04-17-2004, 02:13 PM
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Star Wars wasn't very good. Except those prequel things. Those were the best movies ever made. Jar Jar Binks is the funniest character!

SNL is WAY better than that Monty Python crap. Especially these last few years.

Garfield, BC, and Family Circus are funnier than any other cartoon published today.

Piers Anthony is one of the leading writers working today.



I feel so dirty.
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Old 04-17-2004, 02:49 PM
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Lord of the Rings was boring, dorky, and the most overrated movie series I've ever seen.

Vegetarians are overly sensitive hippies.

The Atkins diet is ridiculous.

Sexual harrassment lawsuits are stupid and way out of hand.

Michael Jackson gets a bad rap.

*Ducks and runs for cover*
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Old 04-17-2004, 02:58 PM
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NASCAR is fake.

Oh, and Dale Sr... closet queen.
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Old 04-17-2004, 03:05 PM
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Everything in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code is absolutely true.

I must shower now. I feel dirty.
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Old 04-17-2004, 03:13 PM
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The thing I would say on THIS board to REALLY GET IT:




Fat people are lazy and stupid and shouldn't be allowed to live!











Oh og, I'm scared....
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Old 04-17-2004, 07:58 PM
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"She deserved it because she was wearing a thong under her pants."

I read a court case involving this, and I feel dirty repeating it.
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Old 04-17-2004, 08:25 PM
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"Blasphemy, blasphe-you, blasphe-everybody-in-the-room..."


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Eddie Izzard is overrated.

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Old 04-17-2004, 10:11 PM
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Jesus had it coming.
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"Cars are really cool. And among boys, Hummers are really cool." Overheard on Tom Peters: Re-Imagine Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age on PBS
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Old 04-17-2004, 10:29 PM
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Kevin Smith is a no-talent hack...

... Except for J & SB strike back, that one was killer.

people who ride jap bikes are wannabes and should be drawn and quartered...
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Old 04-17-2004, 11:39 PM
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Cecil lies.
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Old 04-17-2004, 11:49 PM
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A duck's quack doesn't echo. Nobody knows why.
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Old 04-18-2004, 12:21 AM
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Gay people will all burn in hell, those AIDS-spreading abominations to our one Lord and God.

Scylla is boring, and tells really boring stories about his stupid kids and ugly and talentless wife Aquarius82.

Master Wang-Ka's stories are even more boring.
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Old 04-18-2004, 12:25 AM
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Macs rule. PCs suck. (or vice versa)

These newer, "family friendly" movies Eddie Murphy makes are way better than his earlier stuff.

Thank God they cancelled Firefly, Freaks & Geeks and Angel. Nobody was watching that crap.
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Old 04-18-2004, 12:47 AM
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Gay people will all burn in hell, those AIDS-spreading abominations to our one Lord and God.
Um... around here, people tend to agree with that. You'll have a long wait on the lynch mob.
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Old 04-18-2004, 01:55 AM
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"Kaja Goo Goo" were the most visionary, ground-breaking band of the 1980s; indeed, besides having spearheaded New Wave, both Grunge and Gangsta Rap are cleary derivatives of "The Kaj" sound. It's high time the so-called "critics" and self-appointed "musical cognoscenti" owned up to it.
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Old 04-18-2004, 04:54 AM
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Feng Shui really works! I now have more money AND a new boyfriend, all thanks to the dragon luck energy that I got from putting my couch over there instead of over here, where I had it.*

So last night, as I was having a conversation with my dead father/the aliens/an angel/Elvis/my cat/the invisble pink flying unicorn/an invisible 6 foot tall rabbit...

Astrology is always accurate and precise!

As I was typing this, I realized that I know nothing about Feng Shui. So, I made it up
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Old 04-18-2004, 05:03 AM
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A duck's quack doesn't echo. Nobody knows why.
You got me with that one- still laughing.

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Old 04-18-2004, 05:05 AM
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Those SF'ers that keep appearing on the boards make some interesting points.

I need some alcohol and some sandpaper because I'm feeling real dirty.
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Old 04-18-2004, 07:50 AM
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Fat people are lazy and stupid and shouldn't be allowed to live!
You forgot short people.
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Old 04-18-2004, 09:51 AM
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You forgot short people.
...and those of a different ethnicity.
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Old 04-18-2004, 10:22 AM
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Football is such a wussy sport.

Pinstripes make the Yankees look gay.

Metallica's latest album is by far their best.

Seriously, whats so great about boobs??

Gravity? I mean come on, do you believe everything you're told?

(And for the locals) U of Tennessee orange is a nasty hideous color resembling cones on the highway or a hunter trying not to get shot.








Actually it may not be the pinstripes - it may just be that the Yankee's love man juice.
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Old 04-18-2004, 10:33 AM
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The 3 words that end in -gry are?

Where did the dollar go?
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Old 04-18-2004, 11:25 AM
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Heinlein was a hack kid's author in the 50s who wrote nothing of note until the last couple of books such as Job or The twat who walks through walls.
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Old 04-18-2004, 11:59 AM
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Oooh, ooh, I thought of a good one - all ghost, esp, ouija board, witch, demon, telekinesis, precognition, spooky stories are ALL TRUE!!! Every one of them! And there's probably even more spooky stuff that's true too, that we don't even know about yet!
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Old 04-18-2004, 12:06 PM
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Jack Chick's writings are intellectually stimulating and make perfect theological sense.
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Old 04-18-2004, 12:08 PM
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(And for the locals) U of Tennessee orange is a nasty hideous color resembling cones on the highway or a hunter trying not to get shot.
Also for the locals (but likely to get me shot if I said what I really think out loud):

The Vols are the best college football team in the nation, and anyone who doesn't attend every game is guilty of treason. After all, not wearing Vol Orange makes the Baby Jesus cry.
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Old 04-18-2004, 12:21 PM
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Caddyshack is a highly overrated movie.
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Old 04-18-2004, 02:19 PM
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U of Tennessee orange is a nasty hideous color resembling cones on the highway or a hunter trying not to get shot.
Yes, but that's why they chose it -- so UT fans can wear the same outfit to the game on Saturday, hunting on Sunday, and picking up trash by the side of the road the rest of the week.
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Old 04-18-2004, 03:44 PM
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You know what, we really need more smilies. In fact we should have smilies for every occasion.
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Old 04-18-2004, 03:58 PM
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Caddyshack is a highly overrated movie.
I once dated a girl who cried during that movie. She felt really sorry for the gopher
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Old 04-18-2004, 04:58 PM
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SNL is WAY better than that Monty Python crap. Especially these last few years.

Damn Straight! And Benny Hill could produce more genuine hilarity with one smirk than those five no-talents could in their entire careers.

And The Simpsons? Feh! If I want to watch a flimsy, humorless Flintstones rip-off I'll draw it myself.

And, try as I might, I can't recall a single line worth repeating from The Big Lebowski.....

(And one more for the boxing fans...) Man, De LaHoya would have smacked Ray Robinson around like a red-headed stepchild.
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Old 04-18-2004, 05:14 PM
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I'm gonna vote for Nader!
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