# How about them Moslems? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 24, 2004, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-them-moslems/270837 "2004-10-24T01:32:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-them-moslems/270837/81 "2004-10-25T14:31:38Z")
> [@gobear](#): > > Yours, > > Lt. Admiral Vivyan Smythe-Smythe Gravy Boat F’tang! (Mrs.) Is that pronounced “Throatwarbler Mangrove”? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-them-moslems/270837/82 "2004-10-25T14:45:40Z")
> [@Sample\_the\_Dog](#): > > Fresh from too many espressos, I have to admit that I have never met a human being who was a subscribing Doper that I did not like, or was attracted to. (When I was still pursuing my undersgraduate degree, I had a huge crush on a girl named tequila\_mockingbird [sp?] in Cafe Society!) That being said, there seems to be no discussion of what is going on in SDMB that is affecting the overuse of Monty Python quotes on these boards. Instead, we (posters) seem to be attacking each other over who is responsible for abstract humor. Might we examine Cecil a bit, to see what makes some of his adherents quote British absurdist comedians? It is entirely due to the parent culture of these people. There is absolutely NOTHING in the _All the Words_, Vols. 1 or 2, which prescribes that this is the only humor that may be quoted. However, a culture which enables late nights watching PBS stoned in the 70s has only itself to blame when its young generation grows up to be avid quoters (and mis-quoters) of Monty Python. And get some perspective, people! All this commentary is completely ignoring the very real and most pressing problem today: the larch. ---
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-them-moslems/270837/83 "2004-10-25T15:02:48Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > However, a culture which enables late nights watching PBS stoned in the 70s has only itself to blame when its young generation grows up to be avid quoters (and mis-quoters) of Monty Python. I hadn’t hit the double digit ages in the seventies, but watched MP. There was no stoning going on. Just permission to stay up late (10:30p) during summer vacation. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-them-moslems/270837/84 "2004-10-25T15:35:15Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > This thread has not started going awry. It started awry and has been going wry ever since. I prefer pumpernickel, myself. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-them-moslems/270837/85 "2004-10-25T15:45:57Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > I prefer pumpernickel, myself. Yeah, but with inflation a 'nickel, pumper- or otherwise, doesn’t buy what it used to! ::: expertly dodges airborne rotten tomatoes and leaves abruptly :::: ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-them-moslems/270837/86 "2004-10-25T16:27:16Z")
:: snerk :: So abruptly he steps onto the network of vines covered with leaves concealing the cobra pit. :: snerk :: ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-them-moslems/270837/87 "2004-10-25T16:29:54Z")
::Calls for GI Joe:: If anyone can stop Cobra, he can. GI Joe is there! ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-them-moslems/270837/88 "2004-10-26T01:45:21Z")
> [@SimonX](#): > > I hadn’t hit the double digit ages in the seventies, but watched MP. There was no stoning going on. Just permission to stay up late (10:30p) during summer vacation. Of course there was stoning going on! He said, “Jehovah!” ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-them-moslems/270837/89 "2004-10-26T01:49:00Z")
OOOOOOOH!! \ Aaaah! He said it again!! \ ---
**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:** [October 26, 2004, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-them-moslems/270837/90 "2004-10-26T01:58:57Z")
Never let it be said that humor, laughter, and a good dose of ridicule aren’t powerful forces in the fight against crackpot ideology. So put down that pointy stick. And the herring. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-them-moslems/270837/91 "2004-10-26T03:21:59Z")
It wasn’t herring. It was a piece of halibut. Now stop it, or you’ll just make things worse on yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-them-moslems/270837/92 "2004-10-26T03:59:18Z")
> [@SimonX](#): > > I hadn’t hit the double digit ages in the seventies, but watched MP. There was no stoning going on. Just permission to stay up late (10:30p) during summer vacation. Then you never watched “Life of Brian.” ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-them-moslems/270837/93 "2004-10-26T04:00:58Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > It wasn’t herring. It was a piece of halibut. > > Now stop it, or you’ll just make things worse on yourself. Halibut? Have you no sole? There’s a time and a plaice for everything, but posting that just for the halibut was surely beyond the pail. Cod will get you for that! ---
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-them-moslems/270837/94 "2004-10-26T04:35:01Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > Then you never watched “Life of Brian.” I waited til the seventies were over before there were any stonings in my MP. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-them-moslems/270837/95 "2004-10-26T05:46:38Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > Halibut? Have you no sole? There’s a time and a plaice for everything, but posting that just for the halibut was surely beyond the pail. Cod will get you for that! Clam down **Polycarp**! You’ll overexert your heart mussels and I’ll have to call you a sturgeon. Take a minnow, sit down and listen to the raydio. Here’s a tuna you’ll like- Salmon Chanted Evening, and it’s Tommy Dorsal. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-them-moslems/270837/96 "2004-10-26T10:02:22Z")
Oh no, not again… What is it with pittings degrading (or in this case, upgrading) into bad animal puns? ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-them-moslems/270837/97 "2004-10-26T11:14:13Z")
We don’t know any _good_ animal puns? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-them-moslems/270837/98 "2004-10-26T13:08:14Z")
> [@Lok](#): > > We don’t know any _good_ animal puns? 😃 😃 That could explain it, yes. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-them-moslems/270837/99 "2004-10-26T13:20:06Z")
Could be worse. Could be raining. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-them-moslems/270837/100 "2004-10-26T13:20:48Z")
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