Ever see the Far Side where there’s a warlord type on a throne, and a soldier in front of him is presenting him with a winch ?
“No, bring me the wench you fool ! The wench !”
Bentonville, AK… the world HQ for Wal*Mart… is there something in the water down there? Will I catch teh xtian if I go there?
When I first heard the following story, I thought it was a joke.
The dude in the OP’s link must’ve been the man in this story. And he still hasn’t gotten over the embarassment!
That’s not the way I heard that joke. You got the PG version.
So the soldier trotted off and brought him a wrench 
Leno picked up on this controversy. He quoted the father as saying that his boys couldn’t get to sleep’
Jay’s comment went something like: “Teenage boys, laying awake thinking of lesbians, imagine that.” It got a good laugh from his audience.
I just checked in a library catalogue, and indeed it should have been around 613.96 with the other sex manuals. I wonder what sort of information on military academies those fine boys were hoping to find in that section of the library. “Honest, Dad – I tried to type ‘military’ in their catalog, but my fingers slipped and typed ‘sex’ instead.”
Lesbians get a manual?!? I had to make do with Playboy Advisor and Penthouse Forum. Kids these days, sheesh.
Of course, after the manual, there are the orals.
Well, how else are they supposed to pass the course?
(Or Shoshana’s joke, which is funnier.)
If the dad really thinks the kids were traumatized by seeing a lesbian sex manual (and there’s no chance that they were, let’s be real), imagine the mock and ridicule those kids are going to get from their peers for claiming to have gotten the vapors about it. If I had found out something like that about a classmate when I was 16, I’d have been stuffing girl-on-girl pages from porno mags in his locker every day.
(emphasis mine)
Typo at the paper, or clever wordplay from the dad?
Typo. I seriously doubt that man would be able to recognize, let alone use clever wordplay.
I don’t want to debate this. This isn’t the right place for it.
I find it funny, though, that people rightly condemn silliness like this, but when someone claims emotional damage from hearing “under God” that case is given a respectful hearing around here.
Strange, isn’t it?
I don’t find it strange actually. If you’re referring to the Newdow case, that involved daily teacher led recitations of the pledge which includes that phrase. I find that to be a different matter than the ‘accidental’ finding of a book.
Nobody claims that. The objections to Establishment Clause violations have nothing to do with any claim of “emotional damage” being done by merely hearing a religious expression. This is a total strawman.
Respectfully, Largo knock it off. I’m sick of it, most Kentuckians are sick of it and if you have learned anything through your membership at Straight Dope, I would hope it’s that people of every level of IQ and education are found everywhere.
It’s Arkansas in any case.
If you think that’s bad, think how awful it must be to be from Mississippi. Then imagine the joke I was about to tell on myself in my previous post, until I relieved the trauma I’d inflict on myself in telling it. I’ll leave that for others, thankyouverymuch.*
*At least we don’t have any lezzzzbians in Mississippi though, or lesbian books, or books . . . . Aw, shucks, I went and did anyway.
I don’t want to debate this here, either. Maybe you should start a new thread instead of plopping what you obviously know is a major hijack down in the middle of this one.
As a kid I scoured the stacks of photography and art books hoping to find the occasional bare nipple or love garden (it was the 70’s)- I can’t recall ever being successful.
In Bentonville, Arkansas, the home of Wal-Mart, I could definitely see the 300’s through 600’s all being on the same shelf, unless the religion section falls in between.
And yes, no knocking Kentucky, you guys grow some great pot there!