Who are you and why is your name so similar to mine?
Sqrl
> he clearly intended to confuse, mislead
Just like PETA does!
Chimpanzees aren’t vegetarians. From the Britannica online:
Food: males hunt as an organized group; females fish for termites;eat meat rarely…Prey: monkeys and bush pigs…
No, the people of that time were not mostly vegetarians. Peter, Andrew and some of the other disciples were fishermen. What the heck did they do with their catch each day? THROW IT BACK? Not a great way to make a living.
People may not have eaten much beef in that region at that time, but there was lamb, fish, rabbit, birds and other game that were positively yummy-licious and kosher to boot (obviously, the Jews didn’t eat “the other white meat”).
As noted above, citations in the Gospels indicate that Jesus wasn’t a vegetarian. Going further, if you believe Jesus to be God, then he codified the food laws given to Moses, which are pretty specific about the slaughter and preparation of meat.
I won’t get into transubstatiation, but following the logic of the previous paragraph, as the “lamb of God”, blood sacrifice was required. I’m too lazy to look this up, but I think sacrificial laws are given in the Book of Leviticus.
Sorry I’m late getting back to you. Apparently you aren’t a chimpanzee because you don’t know what they eat. Galapagos lizards, eh? If you mean Kimodo dragons they are carnivores. It is more likely you mean Iguanas. Galapagos Iguanas (both land and marine) ARE herbivores. And they don’t chew their cud. Neither do rabbits but if you sit and watch your rabbit it sure spends a lot of time chewing SOMETHING. What’s your point? That you simply don’t get the humor of my original post?
Lighten up. Challenging a humorous statement and flaming me with bad facts doesn’t change the humor, but it makes you look sort of…er…well, ‘uninformed’ is a polite way of saying mentally challenged.
Jesus was not a vegitarian.
Hw was, however, a darn fine rollerskater. Especially when they got out the mirrored ceiling ball & ABBA tapes on Disco Night.
Disco Jesus! YEE-HAH! :eek: 
I think that was the verb form, he preached to the multitude that loafs and fishes. All those guys wathing the Bass Masters show in TNN are the chosen people.
pldennison: (to Danielinthewolvesden):
My official guess is that he was making exactly the same point you were: that it’s stupid to examine one trait in one person and from that impart all or even some of that person’s other unrelated traits to all or even some people with the same first traits. Just a guess; I’ll let him speak for himself.
TampaFlyer:
Thank you so very much for assisting in my campaign to keep GQ free of cheap insults.
tcburnett:
We’ve discussed this before. Perhaps if you didn’t post things like, “If God wanted you to be a vegetarian, he would have given you multiple stomachs and a cud to chew. Who thinks up this shit? People with Cranial Rectomitis,” people would actually pay attention to the substantive things you have to say. Assuming, of course, that there is anything of substance behind the snarky insults and ex-wife jokes.
Now, folks, the OP here has been answered. Is there any way to keep this out of the Pit? Or is it completely impossible for adults to answer a factual question with a controversial background without resorting to flames?
Here, I’ll go first:
Padeye:
So DAVEW0071 was wrong! It is* possible to make a good living with catch and release!"
Sheesh, carrion eaters are SO sensitive!
Peace,
mangeorge
Actually, Hitler was a vegetarian for personal health reasons. For the most part, he enjoyed eating meat (except ham, which reminded him “of a corpse”) but did not do so due to digestive problems. Did he ever eat meat? Yes- but very rarely. Heck, every vegetarian I know has eaten meat at some point.
And I’ll agree with PLD- cybersquatting is for bottom-feeding assholes. (okay, he didn’t say that but I think it was implied). Although PETA does a pretty good job of diluting PETA’s value all by themselves.
Actually, I have it on very good authority (a former rabbit rancher) that rabbits do chew their cud. It’s just that they only do it when there is no other food around to eat. Most rabbit raisers keep their rabbit feeders well stocked, therefore the rabbit never take the time to chew their cud.
Averye0
Uh-oh. Maybe we ought to discuss it again. None of the replies to the thread had anything to do with either of the remarks you mention, so you are punching the wrong bag by alluding to them. They are a non-issue.
Secondly, I thought the ‘snarky’ insult was funny and worked it in as a punchline. I did not refer to any specific person. Accordingly, no one got insulted by it.
I like ex-wife jokes, but the truth is that none of them are true. I have either read them somewhere or got them via email. My ex and I are good friends and still call each other with birthday greetings, even after 12 years.
If you don’t like ex-jokes, I have no problem dropping them. If however, you are flaming me because you do not like my humor, I beg you to reconsider.
As to the question of whether there IS anything substantive in my posts, I refer you to them. I (usually) make every effort to contribute something substantive in every post. But I will not become so anal about being right about everything I say that I will not inject a bit of humor when I can, at my expense if necessary.
Do you care to derogate further? Are you just having a bad day, or are you seriously concerned about this?
Manny: you are wise AND astute.
That’s odd, you reminded me of an anecdote related by Bertrand Russell. He told of an English missionary to the Zulus who tried to translated the Bible into Zulu without knowing it quite well enough. When he translated “God is love,” it came out “God is butter” (because the two words are similar in Zulu). Since the Zulus were fond of butter, he converted them in droves. But he got into trouble later when they challenged him about the Bible saying that the rabbit chews its cud. He answered: if the Bible says it does, then it’s so. They made him sit down and watch a rabbit for a long time, and finally he had to admit it did not chew its cud. He contacted the church back in England that sent him and told them he’d found an error in the Bible. Next thing, he was out of a job!
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Of course Chimps eat meat. They’ve been known to hunt down small animals in groups, kill them, and eat them. They even do it to other small primates from time to time.
Marc
Every Doper should be aware that “wild chimpanzees kill other animals once in a while and eat the meat with relish.” http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_087.html
Yep, I misremembered about the chimps. There are vegetarian primate species, though, so the point stands.
There may be planets out there on which iguanas are not lizards. You are free to live on one, if you’d like.
Well, duh.
Yes, like several other mammals, particularly members of the rodent family, rabbits have to chew continuously or risk allowing their teeth to grow through their lower jaw.
My point is that your post was both unhumorous and uninformed, and added little to the question at hand. “Vegetarians are stupid” threads are far too prominent around here.