# Damn you EWTN!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 2, 2005, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-ewtn/282630 "2005-01-02T02:52:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-ewtn/282630/21 "2005-01-04T16:25:25Z")
Fundamentalist, evalgelical and conservative Baptist Christians are relatively rare in blue-collar cities in the Northeast and Great Lakes region. Very conservative Catholics – those that are almost nostalgic for the pre-Vatican II era – fill the void. They’re common in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Youngstown, and especially Buffalo and Providence, the nation’s two most Catholic cities. On Adelphia Cable in the Buffalo area, EWTN airs on Channel 10; a very prominent slot. EWTN, as others have said, is a cable television and radio network operated by the very conservative Poor Claire order of nuns, based in a monastery in Alabama. In very Catholic northern US cities, the network is the equivalent of TBN and other religious networks. Not much hellfire and damnation, but a lot of ritual, liturgy and promotion of Church doctrine and dogma. Many shows are hosted by a very elderly nun named Mother Angelica (nicknamed “The Pirate Nun” for the eyepatch she used to wear, or “The Brown Nun” because of her engulfing brown habit); she’s something of a meme in the Northeast. One of their most popular shows features the slow recital of the Rosary … over and over and over and over again for an hour. Some people in Buffalo jokingly spell Catholic" as “Katlik”, because it’s the preferred pronunciation among many members of the area’s very large Polish-American population. No association with the KKK is intended. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-ewtn/282630/22 "2005-01-04T16:39:12Z")
Not to post-pad, but [url-=“[http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~uacs/images/carissa/pirate\_nun\_02.jpg](http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~uacs/images/carissa/pirate_nun_02.jpg)”]here’s the Pirate Nun. ---
**Author:** ![chadbadow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cab0a1/32.png) [@chadbadow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chadbadow)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-ewtn/282630/23 "2011-06-15T10:35:21Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > Fuck you. I’ve seen EWTN once at a truckstop in Cleveland a few years back and watched for about 3 minutes. Nothing special and never seen the show you’re referencing. > > But to use “K”'s in your little dig? Fuck you and everyone related to you. > > Fuck off. Why would you even bother to come on here and drop the f-bomb as well as other words? Nobody here cares. Mother Angelica is old and that slow reading is the reading of the Rosary. I live in a town where I get EWTN as well as 5 other channels that try to drain you of your money. EWTN doesn’t do that. Jimmy Swaggert just had a 2 day marathon to raise $1.8 million and he did that 4 weeks ago. These are the people to watch out for. I haven’t seen anything on EWTN where they ask for my money in exchange for a prayer. That is garbage. I give what I can when I can. Those others are thieves. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-ewtn/282630/24 "2011-06-15T10:53:35Z")
> [@chadbadow](#): > > Why would you even bother to come on here and drop the f-bomb as well as other words? He posted in Jan 2005. He’s probably over it now. Zombie outrage. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-ewtn/282630/25 "2011-06-15T11:37:23Z")
Also, there’s a special place in hell for people who use the phrase “drop the F-bomb”. The word is _fuck_. ---
**Author:** ![Dietrich\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@Dietrich\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dietrich_K)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-ewtn/282630/26 "2011-06-15T12:17:35Z")
Well, shit. And here I thought that this was going to be a pitting of [Father Benedict Groeschel](http://wp.patheos.com/community/deaconsbench/files/2011/04/s400.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Dietrich\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@Dietrich\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dietrich_K)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-ewtn/282630/27 "2011-06-15T12:22:37Z")
Also, it sounds like a Katholic (no, fuck _you_, **duffer** ), filmic, Latino version of [this song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2asrRn9QBE4). ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-ewtn/282630/28 "2011-06-15T13:35:14Z")
> [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](#): > > [buy a copy](http://www.talkingblue.com/dvd/504341D1+Marcelino+Pan+Y+Vino+dvd.htm). “Adult content is blocked.” ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-ewtn/282630/29 "2011-06-15T14:05:15Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Also, there’s a special place in hell for people who use the phrase “drop the F-bomb”. The word is _fuck_. You just dropped he fucking f-bomb! Any Youtube link to the kreepy-krist scenes? (No offense meant by the consonant change. F-bomb off if it fucking bothers you. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-ewtn/282630/30 "2011-06-15T14:19:26Z")
Smells like old moldy socks in here. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-ewtn/282630/31 "2011-06-15T15:09:04Z")
I have occasionally encountered EWTN while channel-surfing and I have never been able to account for its existence. There’s an **audience** for clips of elderly nuns praying?! Or priests celebrating Mass?! I can see how a Catholic would want to **do** all that, but who wants to **watch** it?! 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-ewtn/282630/32 "2011-06-15T15:11:55Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > I can see how a Catholic would want to **do** all that, but who wants to **watch** it?! 😕 It’s like televised golf in that respect. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-ewtn/282630/33 "2011-06-15T18:43:17Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > It’s like televised golf in that respect. Soothing background noise while you take a Sunday afternoon nap? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-ewtn/282630/34 "2011-06-15T19:17:47Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > It’s like televised golf in that respect. Televised golf, in all its soporific horror, at least offers something like suspense. But no priest will ever look down into the chalice and say “holy SHIT… this consecrated wine is still just _WINE_!” ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-ewtn/282630/35 "2011-06-15T19:20:38Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > It’s like televised golf in that respect. _golf-crosses self_ ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-ewtn/282630/36 "2011-06-15T19:38:04Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > You just dropped he fucking f-bomb! > Any Youtube link to the kreepy-krist scenes? The full movie (with English subtitles) in it’s infamous glory in the Catholic Gloria tv site: [http://gloria.tv/?media=26881](http://gloria.tv/?media=26881) ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-ewtn/282630/37 "2011-06-15T19:38:30Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > It’s like televised golf in that respect. > [@Frank](#): > > Soothing background noise while you take a Sunday afternoon nap? Ah - so it’s like church in that respect. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-ewtn/282630/38 "2011-06-15T19:43:19Z")
Thank you all you for bringing back the horror of my Catholic upbringing to my memory. I hadn’t seen Marcelino, Pan y Vino mentioned in almost 30 years. I now need therapy. ---
**Author:** ![buckgully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@buckgully](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buckgully)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-ewtn/282630/39 "2011-06-15T20:46:09Z")
Alas, the link GIGOBuster provided doesn’t let you deep link to a specific time in the video, but if you too want your very own emotional wounds that will never heal, fast forward to 62:12. When Scorpions Attack!! is at 44:50 Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go curl up in a corner and weep for a few hours. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-ewtn/282630/40 "2011-06-15T21:38:47Z")
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