Cite on Pullman ever stabbing anyone?
Shit, as long as we’re at it, I’d like a cite - a real cite, not a “Liberal pulling an anecdote out of his ass” cite - for O’Hare stabbing anyone.
Nitpick: Actually, he has been posting a lot more, lately. I clicked his name, and corfirmed what I remembered. An overview of his past posts indicates he " was in the moment, and I posted when I was angry.", almost all the fucking time. Besides an occassional superhero related post, it’s almost always “Why don’t you stupid liberals realize that Bush/Republicans are doing the right thing! You are just too short-sighted!”
I wouldn’t mind a cite that Pullman even stabbed somebody figuratively.
Dude, you’re like, absolutely the very last person on the list of people who should be complaining about the tone of other people’s posts.
I tried Googling with several different phrasings and got no hits. Airman Doors, can you point us to any cites? I’m not saying you’re lying, or even mistaken, just that I can’t find evidence of the phrase being used anywhere other than here at the Dope. I’d expect an anecdote like that, true or not, to make it into the glurge emails, at least, but Snopes comes up empty, too.
Neither did I. In fact, there is no evidence on the internet that Ms. O’Hair ever sneezed in her entire life.
You beat me to that request, ETF. Maybe it was one of those “mandatory oral tradition” phrases that used to crop up in several regions around the country, always delivered with an admonishment to “never write this down.”
But considering that I just made that up (as far as I know), probably not.
But I did find that, at least on one (presumably GB-centric) message board about fihing, the perch (or “stripey” fish) is sometimes known as a “hand-stabber.”
Fuckin’ atheist perch, not believing in God. They deserve to get eaten.
Scott Plaid, I respectfully ask your firgiveness for my earlier impertinent comment. I’ve got a screaming head cold, and posted very rudely.
aw, hell, I can’t play nice, and now I can’t even spell.
I was mildly annoyed by psycho pirate’s post, although I’m not sure that he meant it to seem like as much of an attack on atheists as it may have sounded like. (For what it’s worth, I’m not an atheist, but I have close friends who are.) In any case, the appology is appreciated. (Even though I still get the feeling he thinks Pullman is representive of most atheists, a claim I’d wholeheartedly deny.)
In my experience most atheists don’t have anything against religious folk, they just don’t share their beliefs. Some atheists (not all) find it hard to understand how people could believe those things. Some (not all) feel like society puts too much pressure on them to be religious. Occasionally, there are those who respond to this pressure (or perceived pressure) by holding a grudge against all organized religion, but these people are really just the occasional assholes such as you have in any group. As usual, the assholes are particularly loudmouthed, but one shouldn’t mistake greater volume for greater numbers.
No, I can’t find any cites either. But I can say that here in Central Pennsylvania while it’s not exactly a common turn of phrase I have heard it many times, and it’s always attributed to O’Hair.
Believe me, I’m as surprised as you that it doesn’t show up on a Google search. I thought it was a common turn of phrase.
Holy contradictions, Batman. What I meant was that it’s not a commonly used phrase but in spite of that I thought it was more well-known.
I admit that I am more prone to post a drive-by than actually participate in a thread discussion. I should think more before I post. Most threads (especially political threads and religious threads) I try to stay out of, but some poster will post something that just sends me over the moon with their bias or stupidity and I just can’t help myself.
At any rate, thanks for the advice.
In virus veritas.
Nicely done, Uvula Donor!
::snertle::
Love the title. This is something I would hope to remember if I ever went insane and had to live on the streets. The sheer entertainment value of stumbling up and down the sidewalk screaming, “Fuck You, Psycho Pirate!” to all the well dressed financial folks is staggering.
Just to clarify, the Psycho Pirate is a quasi bad-guy in the DC universe that manipulates people’s emotions: most famously to help bring out the end of the world. So at least some of the well-dressed people might think you are just a crazy comic fan.
Personally, I have to say that as a non-believer, reading either Lewis or Pullman (who strikes me as a sort of god-hating quasi-atheist rather than a plain old non-believer) is sort of like being a Republican reading a novel by a not-so-non-political Democrat. The grating ideology is more apparent given that you see it coming, and it does sometimes spoil the enjoyment of the fiction, perhaps because it helps break the fourth wall or something.