# For the Doper Parents - "Go the F@%k to sleep" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 3, 2011, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-doper-parents-go-the-f-k-to-sleep/580551 "2011-05-03T06:08:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-doper-parents-go-the-f-k-to-sleep/580551/41 "2011-06-21T13:26:06Z")
And here’s a reading by Werner Herzog: [Werner Herzog reads Adam Mansbach & Ricardo Cortes book "Go the F\*\*k to Sleep" - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3xFZ0A15Bg) (link broken because, obviously, NSFW) ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-doper-parents-go-the-f-k-to-sleep/580551/42 "2011-06-28T17:48:10Z")
> [@](#): > > Karen Spears Zacharias is the author of the forthcoming memoir, “The Shelter of Mockingbirds: The Murder of 3-Year-Old Karly Sheehan.” She is also a [humorless shithead](http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/06/27/zacharias.kid.book/index.html) (although not nearly as much of an idiot as one of her sources, Dr. David Arredondo). ---
**Author:** ![Haunted\_Pasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/94ad74/32.png) [@Haunted\_Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haunted_Pasta)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-doper-parents-go-the-f-k-to-sleep/580551/43 "2011-06-28T18:09:07Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > She is also a [humorless shithead](http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/06/27/zacharias.kid.book/index.html) (although not nearly as much of an idiot as one of her sources, Dr. David Arredondo). I read this last night and almost decided to make my first Pit post ever. Executive summary: Some children are abused or neglected, therefore this book isn’t funny. Presumably the part about her idiot source that merits his singling out as the greater shithead is where he actually trots out the old “Imagine this was written about Jews, blacks, Muslims, or Latinos.” Yep, apparently this satire is right on par with outright hatred for persecuted minorities. _Blacks and Latinos are lazy Jews are all stingy and cheap Muslims, of course, are all terrorists Now please go the fuck to sleep._ I’d say this is only marginally less enlightened than Ms. Zacharias and Dr. Arredondo. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-doper-parents-go-the-f-k-to-sleep/580551/44 "2011-06-28T19:58:49Z")
> [@Haunted\_Pasta](#): > > I _Blacks and Latinos are lazy > …_ Hey! I take exception to this! I know lots of Latinos, and they are very hard workers. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-doper-parents-go-the-f-k-to-sleep/580551/45 "2011-06-28T20:35:01Z")
I’d take exception to the Muslim line as well. I knew one once, and he said he wasn’t a terrorist. I mean, his skin was darker than mine, so there’s a good chance he was lying, but still… ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-doper-parents-go-the-f-k-to-sleep/580551/46 "2011-06-28T20:35:59Z")
Ah, yes, the “somebody has it worse than you do, so how dare you feel angry or frustrated” school of thought. Fuck that. Sometimes you just gotta laugh. ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-doper-parents-go-the-f-k-to-sleep/580551/47 "2011-06-28T21:03:07Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > She is also a [humorless shithead](http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/06/27/zacharias.kid.book/index.html) (although not nearly as much of an idiot as one of her sources, Dr. David Arredondo). She seems like the type who if was ever called or referred to as Karen Spears, or Karen Zacharias instead of Karen Spears Zacharias, would have good ol’ Gloria Allred and a discrimination lawsuit on your ass in a New York second… ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-doper-parents-go-the-f-k-to-sleep/580551/48 "2011-06-30T14:08:20Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > I’d take exception to the Muslim line as well. I knew one once, and he said he wasn’t a terrorist. I mean, his skin was darker than mine, so there’s a good chance he was lying, but still… This comment is going to haunt your Presidential campaign. . . 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-doper-parents-go-the-f-k-to-sleep/580551/49 "2011-06-30T23:09:01Z")
Would this qualify as a limerick? If not, could it be re-written as one? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2011, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-doper-parents-go-the-f-k-to-sleep/580551/50 "2011-07-01T03:18:54Z")
There is always this [classic from Shel Silverstein.](http://www.amazon.com/Uncle-Shelbys-ABZ-Book-Primer/dp/067121148X) ---
**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:** [July 1, 2011, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-doper-parents-go-the-f-k-to-sleep/580551/51 "2011-07-01T12:28:35Z")
I love Uncle Shelby’s A-B-Z Book. Want to play Hop Scotch? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-doper-parents-go-the-f-k-to-sleep/580551.md?page=2)