# Ideas as wise as ground zero mosque **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 25, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349 "2010-08-25T00:58:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/61 "2010-08-25T21:58:39Z")
How about an eternal flame marking Joan of Arc’s tomb? ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/62 "2010-08-25T22:00:36Z")
Or, more to the point, the American University of Hiroshima? ---
**Author:** ![FE3O4ENAIL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba9def/32.png) [@FE3O4ENAIL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FE3O4ENAIL)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/63 "2010-08-25T22:06:27Z")
The BATF school of successful conflict resolution in Waco. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/64 "2010-08-25T22:07:06Z")
> [@dhkendall](#): > > Holding the NRA convention in Denver 11 days after Columbine? > > Oh wait, [that already happened](http://www.thelandofthefree.net/historicdocs/charltonhestonnra1999.html). > [@Biggirl](#): > > [A Shinto Shrine at Pearl Harbor.](http://www.flickr.com/photos/40295335@N00/343736478/) > [A mosque at the Pentagon.](http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/08/05/muslims_infiltrate_pentagon) Now that’s the stuff! ---
**Author:** ![heatmiserfl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@heatmiserfl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heatmiserfl)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/65 "2010-08-25T22:22:52Z")
> [@Quercus](#): > > > [@jjimm](#): > > > > How about public exhibition of intolerance and bigotry in a country whose ground-breaking constitution codifies precisely the opposite? > > Even better if the display of intolerance is supported by ‘The Tolerance Museum’ [museum\_of\_tolerance\_director\_opposes\_mosque](http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/museum_of_tolerance_director_opposes_mosque_but_bu.php) Could this be real? Incredible! From your link: > [@](#): > > ‘Museum Of Tolerance’ Director Opposes Mosque But Built Museum On Muslim Cemetery > > … > “Religious freedom does not mean being insensitive…or an idiot,” Rabbi Meyer May, the Wiesenthal Center’s executive director, told Crain’s New York. > > “Religion is supposed to be beautiful,” he said. “Why create pain in the name of religion?” > > It’s a topic he knows something about. The Wiesenthal Center caused an uproar in for building one of its Museums of Tolerance on top of an old Muslim burial ground in Jerusalem. > > The building of that museum has “resulted in digging up the remains of people who had been buried in a Muslim cemetery for generations,” according to City University professor Marnia Lazreg. Indeed, in 2006, workers dug up bones, and an Arab group sued to stop the project from going forward. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/66 "2010-08-25T22:35:09Z")
Honeymoon suite for same sex couples in the Marriott down the street from the Temple in Salt Lake City - or even better one in the hotel across the street from the Temple. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/67 "2010-08-25T22:51:53Z")
The Edward Moore Kennedy Bridge to Chappaquiddick. ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/68 "2010-08-25T22:53:45Z")
jokes by **magellan** ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/69 "2010-08-25T22:57:23Z")
George W. Bush Library in Baghdad. Dick Cheney statue in Geneva. Donald Rumsfeld Medal honoring Excellence in Military Planning. An actual News station Near Rupert Murdoch’s house. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/70 "2010-08-25T23:58:06Z")
> [@ITR\_champion](#): > > > [@FE3O4ENAIL](#): > > > > Step one: Take a horrific moment in history were many died at the hand of a deluded few. > > I choose the Middle East during the years 2001-2008, when the United States of America killed hundreds of thousands of people. > > > [@](#): > > > > Step two: Name something that could be erected at the site that should be acceptable, but strikes a nerve. > > I name a U.S. military base. > Is this an acceptably fun contribution to the game? Possibly but the Islamic International Flight School would have a higher chuckle factor within the parameters of this thread. 😉 > [@PlainJain](#): > > > [@Smeghead](#): > > > > An anvil factory next to a coyote sanctuary. > > For the win. Agreed! > [@twickster](#): > > Moved MPSIMS –\> Pit. > > **twickster** , MPSIMS moderator Easiest prediction I ever made. > [@magellan01](#): > > The Edward Moore Kennedy Bridge to Chappaquiddick. More like a Ted Kennedy Driving School in Kingston/Forty Fort PA. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/71 "2010-08-26T00:06:56Z")
The Marlee Matlin School for the Blind. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/72 "2010-08-26T00:10:48Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Moved MPSIMS –\> Pit. > > **twickster** , MPSIMS moderator So THIS is the Pit? I wondered why it was suddenly darker here…I just figure the restaurant had dimmed the lights for am-b-ance ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/73 "2010-08-26T00:19:37Z")
_Presidential Quotations_, by **december** ---
**Author:** ![FE3O4ENAIL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba9def/32.png) [@FE3O4ENAIL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FE3O4ENAIL)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/74 "2010-08-26T00:20:55Z")
Neanderthal… I am trying to do something with their ass getting kicked by homo sap…flint knapping for dummies… spears and their construction…anyone? ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/75 "2010-08-26T00:25:40Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > George W. Bush Library . . . You had me at library. _The Helen Keller School of MicroSurgery and Elocution_. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/76 "2010-08-26T00:26:20Z")
_101 Fun and Easy Jokes_, by FE3O4ENAIL ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/77 "2010-08-26T00:39:15Z")
> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > So THIS is the Pit? I wondered why it was suddenly darker here…I just figure the restaurant had dimmed the lights for am-b-ance It’s actually to hide the stains. You may want to ask “from what” but you are better off not knowing. Its an OK place to visit but don’t make eye contact with any of the locals. 😃 OK - one more and then I’m going on vacation. A recycling center operated by the Klan (white trash only) ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/78 "2010-08-26T00:46:49Z")
This thread, on a site dedicated to “fighting ignorance.” ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/79 "2010-08-26T00:52:42Z")
> [@FE3O4ENAIL](#): > > > [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > > > The NewsCorp Integrity in Journalism Award. > > As to the OP, jokes have be plausible at some basic level, i.e. start with a normal premise that leads to an unexpected punchline. If your premise is stupid from the start (and the whole “ground zero mosque” hysteria is as thorough as stupidity gets, and in fact is getting well past tiresome at this point) then your intended punchline, no matter what it is, has no punch. > > Oh great, now I am a dipshit and my joke has a stupid premise. > :eek:… At last, you’re not wrong. ---
**Author:** ![FE3O4ENAIL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba9def/32.png) [@FE3O4ENAIL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FE3O4ENAIL)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/80 "2010-08-26T01:00:15Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > _101 Fun and Easy Jokes_, by FE3O4ENAIL oww! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349.md?page=5)