# Bush Nixes Gay Pride—SURPRISE! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 4, 2001, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-nixes-gay-pride-surprise/67568 "2001-06-04T20:33:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sterra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Sterra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterra)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2001, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-nixes-gay-pride-surprise/67568/41 "2001-06-07T00:46:11Z")
Maybe people have a hard time reading poor grammar? If your post makes my head hurt trying to comprehend it I will likely skip over it.(anyone remember mr.bunnyhurt?) Nobody reads posts **with poo grammar** ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2001, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-nixes-gay-pride-surprise/67568/42 "2001-06-07T00:56:47Z")
Oh, please. What’s the matter? You didn’t get enough ego strokes from everybody else you feel it necessary to attack me because I wasn’t amused? > [@](#): > > Obviously a **guy** who refers to Bush as `Shrub’ knows from funny. At least know who you’re attacking. I am definately not a guy. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2001, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-nixes-gay-pride-surprise/67568/43 "2001-06-07T01:30:43Z")
**Sterra** wrote: > [@](#): > > Maybe people have a hard time reading poor grammar? If your post makes my head hurt trying to comprehend it I will likely skip over it. As I said in the original post about not reading posts, which I’m guessing you didn’t read, the problem is that people _respond_ to posts they haven’t read. Merely skipping them is not such a high crime, but responding to posts you don’t read just cranks up the noise level for everybody. **Arden Ranger** wrote: > [@](#): > > What’s the matter? You didn’t get enough ego strokes from everybody else you feel it necessary to attack me because I wasn’t amused? That by you was an attack? Hey your shoelaces are untied. See? I never let up with the attacks. How many **Arden Ranger** s does it take to screw in a lightbulb? None, because it’s just not funny. Maybe it’s me. > [@](#): > > At least know who you’re attacking. I am definately not a guy. You got me there. Zing! ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2001, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-nixes-gay-pride-surprise/67568/44 "2001-06-07T01:47:13Z")
Oh. Woe is me. I have been struck down by your rapier wit. However shall I go on? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2001, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-nixes-gay-pride-surprise/67568/45 "2001-06-07T02:43:42Z")
**Arden Ranger** wrote: > [@](#): > > Oh. > > Woe is me. > > I have been struck down by your rapier wit. > > However shall I go on? Come on, now. This is just naked sarcasm. I mean, if you had written _A Modest Proposal_ it would read, “Hey, why don’t we eat babies while we’re at it? Yeah, that’d be real good.” Relax, I’m just giving you the haircut. But that’s where I’ve gone astray, because this thread is about giving George W. Bush the haircut. But my heart’s not in it. I actually think he’s fairly progressive. Just the other day, he announced he would do away with _sin tax_. From the way he talked, I think he meant it. That guy doesn’t even know the meaning of _prevarication_. ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2001, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-nixes-gay-pride-surprise/67568/46 "2001-06-07T08:03:34Z")
Johnny, you had me at “legistration.” I also happen to agree with what caught my eye in that long post of yours that I skimmed (note to thread participants: we call the preceding “deadpan” ;)). But hey, I’m an MPSIMS ho, so what do I know? Back to the lovely and talented OP’s lovely and talented OP: This is not surprising, as has been mentioned. As Esprix (also, and this cannot be coincidence, lovely and talented) brought up, the lack of the pseudo-presidential stamp of approval should affect the celebration not a whit. “What if they didn’t officially declare Gay Pride Month and everybody came?” or something. In a few years, when the entire border of the U.S. is lined with razor wire and the skies are criss-crossed with the contrails of National Missile Defense missiles racing to catch that seagull before it levels New York, we’ll look back on the time Bush didn’t proclaim Gay Pride month with a certain whimsical nostalgia, I think. (Note: the preceding was “hyperbole.”) ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2001, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-nixes-gay-pride-surprise/67568/47 "2001-06-07T09:32:25Z")
**Johnny Angel** and **Arden Ranger** : knock it off. Now. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2001, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-nixes-gay-pride-surprise/67568/48 "2001-06-07T13:12:39Z")
Hmmmm . . . I think I’ve been both complimented and insulted . . . So I’ll consider it a wash. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2001, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-nixes-gay-pride-surprise/67568/49 "2001-06-07T18:32:15Z")
**Eve** , I apologize for hijacking? infecting? everything I wrote after my first post. ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2001, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-nixes-gay-pride-surprise/67568/50 "2001-06-07T20:11:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > Hmmmm . . . I think I’ve been both complimented and insulted . . . So I’ll consider it a wash. By whom? Only the former from me, I assure you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-nixes-gay-pride-surprise/67568.md?page=2)