Are is such a thing as stereotypes because...

From Chuck Shepard’s News Of The Weird:

A 30-year-old man was sentenced to probation for entering a funeral home’s living nativity scene last Christmas and having sex with one of the sheep (Charleston, W.Va.). [Charleston Daily Mail, 7-22-03]

WTH is up with the title? Is that supposed to actually MEAN something?

LOVE the OP… got a cite? :wink:

I checked the Charleston Daily Mail website, and there is an article about this. Unfortunately, it in the archives, which is a pay-per-article area. Here’s all you can see for free:

In regard to the title, I think the OP is suggesting that sometimes stereotypes turn out to be true – in this case that the man is from West Virginia and therefore a hill-billy/redneck and therefore the type that would have sex with a sheep.

There was no malicious harm meant by my OP (although apathetic harm might have been subliminally intended). I laughed out loud and wanted to share the article. It seemed like a stereotype coming to life.

Count to think of it, no matter what group, association, or walk of life you come from, everyone subscribes to some sort of stereotype.

Maybe I was hoping that others would post other real life examples of stereotypes coming true, like a blonde staring at a carton of orange juice because it says “concentrate”.

For some reason, I can get the article at this link.

pencilpusher. Are is this not qualify as a cite? :confused:

What’s up with the random, inappropriate use of the word “Are”? Based on the rest of the syntax, it doesn’t seem to be an ESL sort of thing, so what’s the deal?

As for stereotypes come true, there’s a stereotype that people from the Northeast are rude folks who talk badly and think we’re all a bunch of ignorant sheepfuckers. See OP for followup.

Thanks for the link, Kal. From the article:

Must have been doing something wrong.

[sub]Straight to Hell, I know[/sub]

I am curious about the handle “Chicago Faucet”. I guess I have a weird stereotype in mind. Crouching down, and jeans getting very low. And eating some Polish Saahsich.

But seriously, I used to work at a company called “Chicago Faucet” in Des Plaines IL. Do you have any connection to that company?