# Both timely, and antagonistic

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/both-timely-and-antagonistic/3674>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [January 7, 2000, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/both-timely-and-antagonistic/3674 "2000-01-07T03:15:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![hansel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6bbea6/32.png) [@hansel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hansel)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2000, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/both-timely-and-antagonistic/3674/1 "2000-01-07T03:15:00Z")

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This [article](http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/01/001gross.htm) in the Atlantic monthly is about the Left Behind books. It’s an interesting read on the series, and apocolyptic behaviour in general.

Since posting this link could be construed as an attack on the Left Behinders, I’ve put it here. I don’t intend to offend any, and I’m glad some have stayed.

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**Author:** ![coosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@coosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coosa)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2000, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/both-timely-and-antagonistic/3674/2 "2000-01-07T06:28:00Z")

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hansel, do you realize how hilarious this is? This is the review that the LBBB administrator denied existed! Some poor soul tried to start a discussion about it on the LBBB and got one response before the admin made a post stating it was a hoax and closed the thread!

I know all of the LBBBers over here are really nice people who wouldn’t do anything like this, but it would be nice to see one of them cut&paste this to the LBBB book reviews forum!

Sorry, LBBBers, a lot of you are really nice, intelligent folk and I’m really enjoying your participation on this board. But that admin ain’t one of you!

Unless he’s bothered to investigate this and post a retraction, and apologize to the poor LBBB board member that he shut down so rudely. (_sigh_ and who probably got banned immediately)

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**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2000, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/both-timely-and-antagonistic/3674/3 "2000-01-07T17:52:00Z")

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Nothing real constructive to add; I just couldn’t help, when reading this passage:

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> Breathless, Hattie tells Rayford that dozens of passengers have disappeared from the cabin, leaving behind only piles of clothing and – depending on vanity and physical health – “eyeglasses, contact lenses, hairpieces, hearing aids, fillings, jewelry, shoes, even pacemakers and surgical pins.”

but recall Stephen King’s, “The Langoliers.” I wonder if the people who weren’t raptured up were asleep?

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