# And verily, the Lord of Hosts shalt stick his arm up your ass

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 15, 2003, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-verily-the-lord-of-hosts-shalt-stick-his-arm-up-your-ass/195433 "2003-08-15T17:57:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-verily-the-lord-of-hosts-shalt-stick-his-arm-up-your-ass/195433/81 "2003-08-16T15:34:15Z")

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Blackout victim: It was so dark that night I couldn’t even see the arm up my ass.

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-verily-the-lord-of-hosts-shalt-stick-his-arm-up-your-ass/195433/82 "2003-08-16T15:51:12Z")

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Word of advice: Keep your friends’ arms close, and your enemies’ arms up your ass.

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**Author:** ![Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satisfying_Andy_Licious)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-verily-the-lord-of-hosts-shalt-stick-his-arm-up-your-ass/195433/83 "2003-08-16T16:21:25Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by BrightNShiny \*  
> \*\*Now see? If it wasn’t for me, you wouldn’t have this thread at all. 😛
> 
> Optimist: My ass is half-full with your arm.
> 
> Pessimist: My ass is half-empty with your arm. \*\*

Now that’s the spirit, BrightNShiny!

Episcopalians: While we don’t actually condone you having an arm up your ass, we still minister to those who do.

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**Author:** ![pencilpusher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d6d6ee/32.png) [@pencilpusher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pencilpusher)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-verily-the-lord-of-hosts-shalt-stick-his-arm-up-your-ass/195433/84 "2003-08-16T16:36:46Z")

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Dom/me: You will have my arm up your ass and LIKE it!!

Pain Slut: Is that all the arms you have?

Submissive: May I PLEEEEEASE have your arm up my ass?

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**Author:** ![Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satisfying_Andy_Licious)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-verily-the-lord-of-hosts-shalt-stick-his-arm-up-your-ass/195433/85 "2003-08-16T16:52:34Z")

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H.P. Lovecraft: And in the moment before I mercifully lost consciousness in the depths of stygian forgetfulness, I realized that the hand was coming _from an arm up my ass._

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**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-verily-the-lord-of-hosts-shalt-stick-his-arm-up-your-ass/195433/86 "2003-08-16T17:06:25Z")

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The Rock: It DOESN’T MATTER whose arm is up your ass!

Hulk Hogan: Whatcha going to do, brother, when Hulkmania’s arm is up your ass?

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**Author:** ![XJETGIRLX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9fc29f/32.png) [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-verily-the-lord-of-hosts-shalt-stick-his-arm-up-your-ass/195433/87 "2003-08-16T17:18:44Z")

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Freud: Your fears stem from an arm-up-the-ass envy of your father.

Jung: The arm up your ass symbolizes your feelings of being dominated and the need to be fulfilled.

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**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-verily-the-lord-of-hosts-shalt-stick-his-arm-up-your-ass/195433/88 "2003-08-16T18:33:30Z")

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[pitchforkmedia.com](http://pitchforkmedia.com): The media sticks their arms up the asses of these so-called “garage revival” bands claiming to save rock and roll, which apparently means shitting all over it, putting it in a bag, and setting it aflame on Keith Moon’s grave.

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-verily-the-lord-of-hosts-shalt-stick-his-arm-up-your-ass/195433/89 "2003-08-16T18:51:46Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Waverly \*  
> \*\*Cafe Socialite: Who can fit more arms up their ass, Kirk or Piccard? \*\*

JANEWAY!

really raising the tone of the SDMB here, aren’t we? 😛  
POTC fan: YARR!! There be an ARRmm up me ARRse!

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**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-verily-the-lord-of-hosts-shalt-stick-his-arm-up-your-ass/195433/90 "2003-08-16T19:22:00Z")

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St. Thomas Aquinas: how many arms can fit up the ass of a dancing angel?

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**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-verily-the-lord-of-hosts-shalt-stick-his-arm-up-your-ass/195433/91 "2003-08-16T22:17:30Z")

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**American Pie:** “So, how does it feel?” “Like…an _arm up your ass_.” “_Really_?” “Oh, _yeaaaaah_.”

**St. Nicholas of Myra:** Who stole the arm up my ass? In any case, I guess I deserved it.

**The Polyphonic Spree** : No, our robes don’t just hide the arms up our asses!

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**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-verily-the-lord-of-hosts-shalt-stick-his-arm-up-your-ass/195433/92 "2003-08-17T00:09:32Z")

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Marx: The arm is the opiate of the asses.

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**Author:** ![SpectBrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@SpectBrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpectBrain)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-verily-the-lord-of-hosts-shalt-stick-his-arm-up-your-ass/195433/93 "2003-08-17T00:18:47Z")

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Saddam Hussein: There are no arms up my ass…really…you can look if you want to!  
(frantically trying to formulate a joke about a large animal veterinarian giving a proctological exam to a 4 legged beast of burden. Ah…having his arm up an ass’s ass)

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**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-verily-the-lord-of-hosts-shalt-stick-his-arm-up-your-ass/195433/94 "2003-08-17T00:48:12Z")

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Monarchy: Only a few select individuals enjoy the privelage of sticking their arms up the asses of the masses.

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**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-verily-the-lord-of-hosts-shalt-stick-his-arm-up-your-ass/195433/95 "2003-08-17T01:26:48Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Waverly \*  
> Cafe Socialite: Who can fit more arms up their ass, Kirk or Piccard?

Alternately, “Batman vs. the Arm up his Ass?”

> [@](#):
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> _Originally posted by Satisfying Andy Licious_  
> H.P. Lovecraft: And in the moment before I mercifully lost consciousness in the depths of stygian forgetfulness, I realized that the hand was coming from an arm up my ass.

Mythos: The eldritch tendrils of the Great Old Ones are up your ass, languorously consuming you from within.

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**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-verily-the-lord-of-hosts-shalt-stick-his-arm-up-your-ass/195433/96 "2003-08-17T02:08:59Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by BrightNShiny \*  
> \*\*Optimist: My ass is half-full with your arm.
> 
> Pessimist: My ass is half-empty with your arm. \*\*

You have these the wrong way round 🙂

BASIC: You shove your arm up your ass slowly and bloatedly.  
Assembler: You shove your arm up your ass quickly but painfully.  
C: You shove your arm up your ass as quickly, but as painfully as with assembler.  
COBOL: You get mediavel on your ass.  
LISP: I’ve got an arm up my ath, thomeone, help!

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**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-verily-the-lord-of-hosts-shalt-stick-his-arm-up-your-ass/195433/97 "2003-08-17T02:24:34Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Shade \*  
> \*\*You have these the wrong way round 🙂
> 
> BASIC: You shove your arm up your ass slowly and bloatedly.  
> Assembler: You shove your arm up your ass quickly but painfully.  
> C: You shove your arm up your ass as quickly, but as painfully as with assembler.  
> COBOL: You get mediavel on your ass.  
> LISP: I’ve got an arm up my ath, thomeone, help! \*\*

C++: The object up your ass has been instantiated as an arm.

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**Author:** ![sperfur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@sperfur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sperfur)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-verily-the-lord-of-hosts-shalt-stick-his-arm-up-your-ass/195433/98 "2003-08-17T02:35:16Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Taran \*  
> \*\*Atheist: Stop relying on the Magical Sky Faerie and put your arm up your OWN ass. \*\*

I _so_ want this for my sig.

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**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-verily-the-lord-of-hosts-shalt-stick-his-arm-up-your-ass/195433/99 "2003-08-17T03:15:28Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Shade \*  
> LISP: I’ve got an arm up my ath, thomeone, help!

LISP: (I’ve got (an arm (up my ath)), thomeone, help (it (is uncomfortable)))!  
😃

Rube:

```auto

     [sub]([/sub]
\----@ 
     [sup]([/sup]

```

("@" is the closest symbol to a fist that I could think of.)

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**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-verily-the-lord-of-hosts-shalt-stick-his-arm-up-your-ass/195433/100 "2003-08-17T03:22:51Z")

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Star Trek: The Next Generation - Can Wesley save the ship again with an arm up his ass?

Orthodox Jewish: Unfortunately, removing your arm from my ass would be work on the Sabbath, so it must remain there until sundown.

Ava

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