# Ask The Patriotic American Intellectual Conservative Christian **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 9, 2010, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-patriotic-american-intellectual-conservative-christian/528234 "2010-02-09T03:41:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-patriotic-american-intellectual-conservative-christian/528234/21 "2010-02-09T14:04:36Z")
What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow? ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-patriotic-american-intellectual-conservative-christian/528234/22 "2010-02-09T14:05:40Z")
Who’d win in a fight? Lemmy or God? ---
**Author:** ![statsman1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@statsman1982](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/statsman1982)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-patriotic-american-intellectual-conservative-christian/528234/23 "2010-02-09T14:15:48Z")
You used the phrase, “in lieu of” in the OP. I do not think it means what you think it means 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-patriotic-american-intellectual-conservative-christian/528234/24 "2010-02-09T14:44:21Z")
What’s the essential difference between you and a non-patriotic American Intellectual Conservative Christian? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-patriotic-american-intellectual-conservative-christian/528234/25 "2010-02-09T14:59:58Z")
By what standard do you think a person should be considered “intellectual”? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-patriotic-american-intellectual-conservative-christian/528234/26 "2010-02-09T15:00:10Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Gaudere’s Law strikes again, oh intellectual. > > Regards, > Shodan Hey, I never claimed to be the intellect! But yeh… That was typed from my iPhone. Fat-fingered typo, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-patriotic-american-intellectual-conservative-christian/528234/27 "2010-02-09T16:18:26Z")
Would you still be patriotic if you happened to live in a really shit country that had a really crap government that did terrible things? That is: do you think patriotism needs to be objective, or is it a good thing to support your nation regardless? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-patriotic-american-intellectual-conservative-christian/528234/28 "2010-02-09T16:30:10Z")
> [@Curtis Lemay](#): > > In lieu of all the “Ask the…” threads… 'in lieu of" means “instead of.” ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-patriotic-american-intellectual-conservative-christian/528234/29 "2010-02-09T16:34:20Z")
How does one at 13 come to the belief that he is intellectually superior to the majority of posters at this site? What is the source of your news? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-patriotic-american-intellectual-conservative-christian/528234/30 "2010-02-09T16:53:51Z")
Curtis better get back here soon. The questions are piling up. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-patriotic-american-intellectual-conservative-christian/528234/31 "2010-02-09T16:55:11Z")
I think you’ll have to wait for the school day to finish and for him to complete his homework first. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-patriotic-american-intellectual-conservative-christian/528234/32 "2010-02-09T17:04:46Z")
If the OP is indeed 13, he isn’t even an American yet, much less the rest of it. He’s an American child. He isn’t a patriot, because he can’t serve in the armed forces yet, he isn’t an intellectual because he hasn’t finished growing a brain yet, he isn’t conservative because he isn’t old enough to vote yet; I’ll give him Christian. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-patriotic-american-intellectual-conservative-christian/528234/33 "2010-02-09T17:05:30Z")
Given a line passing through (6,3) and (4,4) write it’s equation in slope-intercept form. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-patriotic-american-intellectual-conservative-christian/528234/34 "2010-02-09T17:30:37Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Who’d win in a fight? Lemmy or God? Trick question… ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-patriotic-american-intellectual-conservative-christian/528234/35 "2010-02-09T17:33:03Z")
… shhh … I want to see if he’s a cop … ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-patriotic-american-intellectual-conservative-christian/528234/36 "2010-02-09T17:34:55Z")
Why do you not hate America? One follow-up: George Bush: Great President, or _The Greatest_ President? ---
**Author:** ![otternell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecc23a/32.png) [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-patriotic-american-intellectual-conservative-christian/528234/37 "2010-02-09T17:37:46Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > If the OP is indeed 13, he isn’t even an American yet, much less the rest of it. He’s an American child. He isn’t a patriot, because he can’t serve in the armed forces yet, he isn’t an intellectual because he hasn’t finished growing a brain yet, he isn’t conservative because he isn’t old enough to vote yet; I’ll give him Christian. Thank you - I could not think of a way to say this without being a complete ass about it. ---
**Author:** ![Slypork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@Slypork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slypork)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-patriotic-american-intellectual-conservative-christian/528234/38 "2010-02-09T17:41:39Z")
If you think **Curtis** is such an idiot, then Pit him. What is the first rule here? [“Don’t be a jerk”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7697084&postcount=2) (paraphrased) Sorry about the junior modding, but this pisses me off. You don’t like the OP, fine. Think he’s pretentious, pompous, posing, puerile or a pain in the ass? Terrific. Then don’t respond to his posting and let it fade away. Rip him up to your heart’s content in the Pit. However, jumping in here just to say, “I don’t like you, nyah, nyah,” is pathetic. While I may not agree with him for everything, I think that this behavior is pathetic. How about if someone starts an anti-thread? “Ask The Disloyal non-American Ignorant Liberal Atheist.” How many people would insult the OP then? I stand by for the inevitable Mod admonishment and the resulting pile-on. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-patriotic-american-intellectual-conservative-christian/528234/39 "2010-02-09T17:42:04Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > By what standard do you think a person should be considered “intellectual”? Best definition for ‘intellectual’ I’ve heard is “someone who has discovered that there are things more interesting than sex”. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-patriotic-american-intellectual-conservative-christian/528234/40 "2010-02-09T17:48:34Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > Best definition for ‘intellectual’ I’ve heard is “someone who has discovered that there are things more interesting than sex”. But does it apply if you haven’t yet discovered sex? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-patriotic-american-intellectual-conservative-christian/528234.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-patriotic-american-intellectual-conservative-christian/528234.md?page=3)