# Glurge will get your ass kicked **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 22, 2004, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurge-will-get-your-ass-kicked/281215 "2004-12-22T20:48:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurge-will-get-your-ass-kicked/281215/61 "2004-12-30T22:21:32Z")
> [@](#): > > I thought that was when Jesus went out for ice cream. He does love them Klondike bars! What Would Jesus Do For a Klondike Bar? ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2005, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurge-will-get-your-ass-kicked/281215/62 "2005-01-01T09:40:06Z")
Gee, I thought there was only one set of footprints because Jesus likes to boogieboard. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2005, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurge-will-get-your-ass-kicked/281215/63 "2005-01-01T11:12:02Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Hey, **moriah** also forgot the [cherubs](http://community.webshots.com/photo/78670599/78673924IVYKJH)! Oh thanks. It’ll be about two weeks before I can sleep with the lights off now. Or sober, for that matter. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2005, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurge-will-get-your-ass-kicked/281215/64 "2005-01-01T16:01:11Z")
My parents’ church (and well, mine, I guess, but I haven’t gone in years) would do that “candy cane” legend at the Children’s Mass on Xmas Eve. But it was cool-because they passed out actual candy canes. Candy in church, how cool is that? So **Otto** , any update on K? ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2005, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurge-will-get-your-ass-kicked/281215/65 "2005-01-01T16:12:30Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > My parents’ church (and well, mine, I guess, but I haven’t gone in years) would do that “candy cane” legend at the Children’s Mass on Xmas Eve. But it was cool-because they passed out actual candy canes. Candy in church, how cool is that? I dunno, if I were a kid in church and a priest offered me a lick of his candy cane, i’d be a little wary. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2005, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurge-will-get-your-ass-kicked/281215/66 "2005-01-01T16:14:30Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > So **Otto** , any update on K? No update, but I wouldn’t expect one. ---
**Author:** ![Sample\_the\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Sample\_the\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sample_the_Dog)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2005, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurge-will-get-your-ass-kicked/281215/67 "2005-01-01T16:59:52Z")
A hijack here, since the OP concerned a personal email, not the original glurge, but to respond to the “just delete the spam” folks… This kind of thing was a huge problem at my company – now it’s only a big problem. Political spam was finally banned a few months ago, but religious glurge is tacitly sanctioned (the CEO is personal friends w/ nationally syndicated evangelists, if that gives you some idea). Usually, deleting the stuff is the way to go, and replying to sender rather than all is preferable. Sometimes, though, it’s not. For instance, in October, after the polispam ban, a coworker sent a mass mailing containing lies about a Presidential candidate. I was already in a bad mood and behind in my tasks, so I sent a very brief reply stating that the claims were false, and added a link to a site with background information and a request that I not be sent any more mailings on non-work-related topics. I replied to all because there was something larger at stake here. I couldn’t trust the sender to inform the others (only some of whom I knew personally) that she was spreading lies. Over the next couple of days, many other recipients sent re:re:s to all saying essentially “count me out, too”. In that case, I think public shaming was warranted. And because the antis did send to all, everyone could see that there wasn’t just a lone voice out there, which made a difference. I didn’t involve the higher-ups, even though this email violated policy, because I didn’t think one incident warranted it. However, the fact that the OP’s bosses seem to have condoned his actions is sufficient indication that he correctly read his corporation’s culture and therefore did the “right thing” for his situation. On the other hand, sometime before the ban, I got some poliChristian glurge from another coworker containing half-truths and outright falsehoods in support of the notion that the Founding Fathers were evangelical Christians, that the schools were teaching “revisionist history” lies, and that Christian parents should re-educate their kids w/ the “truth”. I just deleted that one, as much as it pained me, because I have to work side-by-side with this guy (who reports to my boss’s boss) and didn’t see any way to respond without poisoning the atmosphere of the office. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurge-will-get-your-ass-kicked/281215.md?page=3)