# grrrr... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 3, 2001, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grrrr/74716 "2001-08-03T00:57:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grrrr/74716/1 "2001-08-03T00:57:24Z")
**Phone:** RIIIING!!! RIIIING!!! **black455:** Can I help you? **Idjit Old Bag:** I was wondering if you could answer a question for me. **black455:** That’s what we do here. **IOB:** Well, I know about BC and AD for the years, you know… **black455:** Before Christ… **IOB:** …and After Death. **black455:** Anno Domini. Year of Our Lord. **IOB:**??? **black455:** AD. Anno Domini. Not “after death.” **IOB:** Right. Well what’s this CE and BCE I hear talk about? **black455:** They stand for Common Era and Before Common Era. They’re an alternative to BC and AD. **IOB:** Why would they need that? **black455:** Well, for one, the concept of AD and BC isn’t historically accurate. No scholars really think that Christ was born in 1 AD anymore. **IOB:** Well… **black455:** And secondly, CE and BCE are more faith-neutral terms. It’s more sensitive to non-Christians. **IOB:** So they use them for non-believers. **black455:** I said non-Christians. Like me. **IOB:** What do you mean its not accurate? The only other callendatr out there is the Jewish! **black455:** Well, there’s also the Hindu, the Muslim, the Chinese, the Mayan… **IOB:** You’ve answered my question… **black455:** Is Baby Jesus crying? **Phone:** Click. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grrrr/74716/2 "2001-08-03T01:07:59Z")
Do you work in heaven’s IT department or something? ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grrrr/74716/3 "2001-08-03T01:13:12Z")
No, no. He must work at the Vatican Helpdesk. 0800-DIALDAPOPE. ---
**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grrrr/74716/4 "2001-08-03T02:31:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > \*\*Do you work in heaven’s IT department or something? \*\* At the public library… in the Education and Religion department… in Cincinnati. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grrrr/74716/5 "2001-08-03T02:35:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by black455 \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > > \*\*Do you work in heaven’s IT department or something? \*\* > > At the public library… > > in the Education and Religion department… > > in Cincinnati. \*\* Wow, I can’t even begin to count the oxymorons in that post. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grrrr/74716/6 "2001-08-03T02:38:53Z")
I dunno. I kinda like the “After Death” thing. It implies that Jesus was stillborn. ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grrrr/74716/7 "2001-08-03T02:49:20Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Enderw24 \* \*\* > [@](#): > > Wow, I can’t even begin to count the oxymorons in that post.\*\* Yeah, and **Kansas is such a happin place!** [list][list] :eek: 😛 :wally ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grrrr/74716/8 "2001-08-03T04:03:56Z")
Why thems fightin words! We’ve got Toto, tornados, and Creationism! On a good news day, disgruntlement over baseball bumps mass murderers out of the headlines. If there’s a more informed, happening place out there, I haven’t yet seen it. **black455** , at least she didn’t ask you how people could count down to Jesus’s birth before it happened. ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grrrr/74716/9 "2001-08-03T12:42:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > \*\*Do you work in heaven’s IT department or something? \*\* Thank you. That was about the funniest thing I have read for weeks! ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grrrr/74716/10 "2001-08-03T14:37:46Z")
This just got me thinking… why is BC (before christ) in English and AD (anno domini) in Latin? ---
**Author:** ![Sui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@Sui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sui)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grrrr/74716/11 "2001-08-03T14:59:10Z")
Probably so people would have an excuse to piss off **black455**. _dives behind couch_ ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grrrr/74716/12 "2001-08-03T15:38:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cheesesteak \* > \*\*This just got me thinking… why is BC (before christ) in English and AD (anno domini) in Latin? \*\* [The Master Explains.](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a940930.html) ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grrrr/74716/13 "2001-08-03T15:47:21Z")
Does that mean this thread should be moved to Comments on Cecil’s Columns now? ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2001, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grrrr/74716/14 "2001-08-03T18:07:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pezpunk \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > > \*\*Do you work in heaven’s IT department or something? \*\* > > Thank you. That was about the funniest thing I have read for weeks! \*\* I dunno. Coldfire’s 0800-DIALDAPOPE had me laughing too.