# Apocalypse Sign II: Helms and Bono **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 17, 2001, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypse-sign-ii-helms-and-bono/69115 "2001-06-17T13:36:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2001, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypse-sign-ii-helms-and-bono/69115/1 "2001-06-17T13:36:12Z")
Well, I said I’d continue these when the Holy Ghost struck me. And boy has it. Bono and Jesse Helms? [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10348-2001Jun16.html](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10348-2001Jun16.html) Comments? ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2001, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypse-sign-ii-helms-and-bono/69115/2 "2001-06-17T13:45:22Z")
> [@](#): > > Helms also said he turned down his hearing aids and put his hands over his ears during the concert because it “was the noisiest thing I ever heard. It was so loud I couldn’t really understand what he was saying.” Hehe. Turn dat racket down! Yer meshin’ up my hearin’ aid! That strikes me as funny. ---
**Author:** ![curwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@curwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curwin)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2001, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypse-sign-ii-helms-and-bono/69115/3 "2001-06-17T13:56:04Z")
Maybe Jesse Helms thought he was Sonny Bono? Or that it was the actual U2 planes from the 50s? ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2001, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypse-sign-ii-helms-and-bono/69115/4 "2001-06-17T14:20:19Z")
No, no… If I’m getting the proper feel for it. They genuinely like each other. Maybe we **can** all just get along. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2001, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypse-sign-ii-helms-and-bono/69115/5 "2001-06-17T16:12:55Z")
“Jesse Helms…was invited…by **his friend** Bono…” OK, who activated the Infinite Improbability Drive? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2001, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypse-sign-ii-helms-and-bono/69115/6 "2001-06-17T17:21:11Z")
Apparently Helms and Bono got to be friends when Bono was lobbying for Drop the Debt last year on The Hill. I’m personally mystified. Stranger bedfellows have never been found. ---
**Author:** ![Mercutio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2001, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypse-sign-ii-helms-and-bono/69115/7 "2001-06-17T19:12:03Z")
I agree with this being a sign of the Apocalypse, but what was the first one? ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2001, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypse-sign-ii-helms-and-bono/69115/8 "2001-06-17T22:07:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RTFirefly \* > \*\*OK, who activated the Infinite Improbability Drive? :eek: \*\* Stop whining about the IID already! Just be glad we ditched that shaky Restaurant Mathematics Drive. Oh, and before I forget: you owe me 20 bucks. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Weird\_AL\_Einstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c67d28/32.png) [@Weird\_AL\_Einstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weird_AL_Einstein)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2001, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypse-sign-ii-helms-and-bono/69115/9 "2001-06-17T23:05:56Z")
Bono and Jesse Helms. **Bono**? And **Jesse Helms**? I had to look up in the address box to make sure I wasn’t really at _The Onion_. Wow. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jonathan Chance \* > \*\* > If I’m getting the proper feel for it. They genuinely like each other. > > Maybe we **can** all just get along. \*\* C’mon everybody, join hands and sing along with me: “All we are saaaaaying, is give peace a chance…” > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RTFirefly \* > \*\*OK, who activated the Infinite Improbability Drive? :eek: \*\* That would be me…it was worth it, as I now have a hot tub full of naked supermodels waiting for me. If however, another _Onion_ story comes true, the one about Strom Thurmond changing his mind about homosexuals after a gay one night stand, I will strongly consider shutting it off. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2001, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypse-sign-ii-helms-and-bono/69115/10 "2001-06-17T23:20:53Z")
We have truly moved into some sort of surreal space here. And, for those who asked, here’s the first one: [Apocalypse Sign: Color Changing Cheetos](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=69596) Not as stunning but even grosser. More to follow as I read the AP. What a strange world it is… ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2001, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apocalypse-sign-ii-helms-and-bono/69115/11 "2001-06-24T15:13:37Z")
> [@](#): > > **Bono?** And **Jesse Helms?** I had to look up in the address box to make sure I wasn’t really at The Onion. That’s nuffin. I misread the subject as “Helms and Bong” which I find even more incongruous.