[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect]
Welcome to the 1950s, where ignorance and provincialism is funny. Please enjoy your stay.
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It’s still funny, you’ve just grown old and bitter since then 
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect]
Welcome to the 1950s, where ignorance and provincialism is funny. Please enjoy your stay.
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Umm… I could be wrong, but isn’t it just a reference to this?
[QUOTE=Lightray]
Dude. Chuck Norris would totally kick Oprah’s ample ass. Your choice is clear…
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Oprah could hire a dozen ninja killers, a team of savage lawyers, and marine biologists to train sharks to attack you personally should you ever go into the water.
If Oprah wants you dead, you are dead.
Your choice is clear.
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect]
Welcome to the 1950s, where ignorance and provincialism is funny. Please enjoy your stay.
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I don’t imagine they were funny, exactly. More like basic conditions of society.
Now ethnico-sexo-religio-racial stereotypes. Those busted a gut.
[QUOTE=Flander]
I just wanted to point out the Chuck Norris didn’t actually read A New Earth. He just stared at it until it gave him the information.
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LOL. That’s the best Chuck Norris joke I’ve heard in a while!
FYI, Norris’ full article is here: Oprah's new Easter
While “rama lama ding dong” was also used in an old song, that doesn’t make it a less ignorant or provincial comment in that context. I mean, does that guy say “rama lama ding dong” every time someone mentions the Dalai Lama? Because that would be pretty damn disrespectful–I’m one of the most fiercely anti-Catholic people I know (except for the ones who went to Catholic school ) and I don’t crack a racist joke every time someone mentions the Pope.
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim]
Oprah could hire a dozen ninja killers, a team of savage lawyers, and marine biologists to train sharks to attack you personally should you ever go into the water.
If Oprah wants you dead, you are dead.
Your choice is clear.
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Don’t forget that her minge knows how to use a gun, as well. :eek:
Well, thanks to Chuck Norris’ comments, I can ease a coworker’s mind as he’s worried to death that Obama’s the anti-Christ, when it seems pretty clear to Chuck that Oprah’s the anti-Christ. 
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect]
While “rama lama ding dong” was also used in an old song, that doesn’t make it a less ignorant or provincial comment in that context. I mean, does that guy say “rama lama ding dong” every time someone mentions the Dalai Lama? Because that would be pretty damn disrespectful–I’m one of the most fiercely anti-Catholic people I know (except for the ones who went to Catholic school ) and I don’t crack a racist joke every time someone mentions the Pope.
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No one mentioned the Pope. Or the Dalai Lama. We can’t make fun of Steven Segal now? What is the world coming to?
Sorry. We couldn’t get any sharks. But we got some ill tempered sea bass.
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect]
I’m one of the most fiercely anti-Catholic people I know (except for the ones who went to Catholic school ) and I don’t crack a racist joke every time someone mentions the Pope.
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The Pope is a racist joke.
Wow, have you ever missed the point.
Touché.
Hostile Dialect, you must have wanted a fight very badly to be willing to look this foolish trying to start one.* The thread’s a lighthearted look at Chuck Norris and Oprah Winfrey as competing spiritual guides, which is funny because one is best known for a giant pile of wealth and fame and one is best known for kicking people in the head. And being a successful talk-show host.
Lightray, I read your post (without glasses) to say that Seagal is a reincarnated tuna. Which made sense, even on a purely physical level, so I read the entire linked article, only to be disappointed. Oh, well.
- C’mon, HD, you’re too smart for this. “Rama-lama-ding-dong” is not a racist insult against Tibetan and Mongolian buddhists, it’s a lyric from a fifty-year-old song whose syllables were chosen merely to scan and rhyme. They were applied in this thread only to well-known buffoon Steven Seagal, and there’s no evidence at all that anyone ever applied it to the Dalai or any other lama, certainly not with any ill intent. Your anger is not only entirely self-generated, it’s also hypocritical, given your tolerance of anti-Catholic stink-bombs that get tossed even more gratuitously onto the commons. You’re a smart guy and a good guy and you must know no real offense exists here. So tell a Norris-Winfrey joke and regain your balance and your perspective.
[QUOTE=The King of Soup]
“Rama-lama-ding-dong” is not a racist insult against Tibetan and Mongolian buddhists,…
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Even if it was an insult, how would it be racist?
[QUOTE=Otto]
The Pope is a racist joke.
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I guess it would be interesting to hear an explanation of this.
No, wait, it wouldn’t.
I saw the Pope at Mass today preside over prayers in Igbo, Croatian, Tagalog, Spanish. Good for him/them – not sure I buy into the kumbaya mentality, but he’s already presiding over a congregation (and, a College of Cardinals) that may well be more diverse than your personal circle of friends.
My expectation is that within two or three Popes, one will see an African, or South American, or Filipino Pope. And I’ve not yet met a Catholic (outside of political Roman Vatican insiders who want to make sure some Italian guy gets it) who gives a good rat’s ass about that. They’re growing? Good for them.
You may also have heard the Pope give half his homily in Spanish today. God damn anti-Hispanic racist.
Did you hear the one about Chuck Norris and Oprah Winfrey?
I didn’t either, but I bet some fake drug addicts got their veins kicked in.
That’s all I got. Sorry.
[QUOTE=Huerta88]
I guess it would be interesting to hear an explanation of this.
No, wait, it wouldn’t.
I saw the Pope at Mass today preside over prayers in Igbo, Croatian, Tagalog, Spanish. Good for him/them – not sure I buy into the kumbaya mentality, but he’s already presiding over a congregation (and, a College of Cardinals) that may well be more diverse than your personal circle of friends.
My expectation is that within two or three Popes, one will see an African, or South American, or Filipino Pope. And I’ve not yet met a Catholic (outside of political Roman Vatican insiders who want to make sure some Italian guy gets it) who gives a good rat’s ass about that. They’re growing? Good for them.
You may also have heard the Pope give half his homily in Spanish today. God damn anti-Hispanic racist.
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I think they were calling him anti-Semetic, not anti-Hispanic.
Ok, I’m confused now. Since when is “Catholic” a race?
[QUOTE=Daithi Lacha]
Ok, I’m confused now. Since when is “Catholic” a race?
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It’s a creed, which is usually lumped in with race.
You…you…creedist!
-Joe
[QUOTE=Merijeek]
It’s a creed, which is usually lumped in with race.
You…you…creedist!
-Joe
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Oh, so by my marrying a Catholic, I’ve now got a mixed-race marriage? I feel like Lady Lacha & myself are Tom & Helen Willis on The Jeffersons! But we’re both, like, you know, white.
How convenient!