# Banish one person from your country, forever. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 29, 2009, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banish-one-person-from-your-country-forever/498093 "2009-05-29T21:43:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banish-one-person-from-your-country-forever/498093/1 "2009-05-29T21:43:32Z")
You may banish one person to remote regions of Earth never to be allowed back into your home country again. You may only use this power once, so think carefully: who would you exile? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banish-one-person-from-your-country-forever/498093/2 "2009-05-29T21:46:48Z")
No point. They’d just turn up on my TV screen from another country. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banish-one-person-from-your-country-forever/498093/3 "2009-05-29T22:07:27Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > No point. They’d just turn up on my TV screen from another country. Exactly. it’s a much smaller world than the one Napoleon bot banished from. Now if I could simply guarantee that I would never have to know of someone’s existence ever again? Rush. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banish-one-person-from-your-country-forever/498093/4 "2009-05-29T22:19:53Z")
I like the idea of Rush. The band, not the flaming Nazi gasbag. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banish-one-person-from-your-country-forever/498093/5 "2009-05-29T22:21:44Z")
If I can banish someone from my various-forms-of-media then I choose Jordan/Katie Price. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banish-one-person-from-your-country-forever/498093/6 "2009-05-29T22:42:55Z")
I always heard that this was how the US got Alan Thicke. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banish-one-person-from-your-country-forever/498093/7 "2009-05-29T23:19:49Z")
I know I should be all political and choose some commentator or a Supreme Court Justice, but there’s two women on the edges of my social circle I’d like to be rid of. Do I need to kill a chicken or just make a wish? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banish-one-person-from-your-country-forever/498093/8 "2009-05-29T23:40:24Z")
We don’t use chickens here. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banish-one-person-from-your-country-forever/498093/9 "2009-05-29T23:47:17Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > No point. They’d just turn up on my TV screen from another country. Doesn’t have to be a public figure. It can be someone from your workplace, your social life, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banish-one-person-from-your-country-forever/498093/10 "2009-05-29T23:56:30Z")
Fred Phelps. I’d even pay to send him out of the US forever. I know his church would be left behind, and the rest of the family/cult members. But I figure without Phred the whole setup would disintegrate in family in-fighting. ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banish-one-person-from-your-country-forever/498093/11 "2009-05-30T00:21:27Z")
I’d say Bush, be can’t really do too much harm anymore. So, it’s between Cheney and Octomom. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banish-one-person-from-your-country-forever/498093/12 "2009-05-30T00:24:58Z")
Al Gore. No contest. Even if he is right he is just insufferable. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banish-one-person-from-your-country-forever/498093/13 "2009-05-30T01:03:06Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Fred Phelps. I’d even pay to send him out of the US forever. I know his church would be left behind, and the rest of the family/cult members. But I figure without Phred the whole setup would disintegrate in family in-fighting. Id kick in on that … ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banish-one-person-from-your-country-forever/498093/14 "2009-05-30T01:16:17Z")
Bush. There’s no other way to see him punished. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banish-one-person-from-your-country-forever/498093/15 "2009-05-30T01:16:25Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Fred Phelps. I’d even pay to send him out of the US forever. I know his church would be left behind, and the rest of the family/cult members. But I figure without Phred the whole setup would disintegrate in family in-fighting. You’re [not sending him here](http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=707624). ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banish-one-person-from-your-country-forever/498093/16 "2009-05-30T01:39:49Z")
Either Oprah or a guy I work with who is, without question, the spawn of Satan. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banish-one-person-from-your-country-forever/498093/17 "2009-05-30T01:41:30Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > Doesn’t have to be a public figure. It can be someone from your workplace, your social life, etc. Well in that case, my boss. I think my place of work would (and did) work better with that post unfilled. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2009, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banish-one-person-from-your-country-forever/498093/18 "2009-05-30T01:44:00Z")
I’m thinking Karla Homolka, just 'cause she’s still…out there…somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banish-one-person-from-your-country-forever/498093/19 "2009-05-30T01:45:20Z")
> [@ParentalAdvisory](#): > > I’d say Bush, be can’t really do too much harm anymore. So, it’s between Cheney and Octomom. I’ll say this much for Bush–at least he has publicly promised not to comment on the current administration, which I wasn’t aware of until today. But it appears he’s sticking to it. Cheney not so much. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banish-one-person-from-your-country-forever/498093/20 "2009-05-30T01:48:11Z")
Ann Coulter. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banish-one-person-from-your-country-forever/498093.md?page=2)