# Moron hillbilly's in bumfuck Virginia **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 18, 2015, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moron-hillbillys-in-bumfuck-virginia/740744 "2015-12-18T00:47:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moron-hillbillys-in-bumfuck-virginia/740744/141 "2015-12-22T18:51:16Z")
I am still enjoying the cultural superiority of a person who uses the term “moron” but thinks that the plural of hillbilly is “hillbilly’s”. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moron-hillbillys-in-bumfuck-virginia/740744/142 "2015-12-22T19:00:39Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > I am still enjoying the cultural superiority of a person who uses the term “moron” but thinks that the plural of hillbilly is “hillbilly’s”. A typo he acknowledged right away and asked for a correction on…which _you_ would know if you had bothered to read the very first post. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moron-hillbillys-in-bumfuck-virginia/740744/143 "2015-12-22T19:42:38Z")
There he is, enjoying his one brief flash of smug superiority, and you got to squash it! **Czarcasm** for Grinch of the Year Award. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moron-hillbillys-in-bumfuck-virginia/740744/144 "2015-12-22T22:22:46Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > A typo he acknowledged right away and asked for a correction on…which _you_ would know if you had bothered to read the very first post. It wasn’t worth reading after the title. Which still makes it more worthwhile than anything **elucidator** has posted for the past decade or so. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moron-hillbillys-in-bumfuck-virginia/740744/145 "2015-12-22T22:39:04Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > It wasn’t worth reading after the title. > > Which still makes it more worthwhile than anything **elucidator** has posted for the past decade or so. Ooooh, snap! No, not snap. What’s that other thing that not snap? Oh, yeah-fail. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moron-hillbillys-in-bumfuck-virginia/740744/146 "2015-12-23T03:54:08Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > A typo he acknowledged right away and asked for a correction on…which _you_ would know if you had bothered to read the very first post. Nobody noticed that he also misspelled “moran”? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moron-hillbillys-in-bumfuck-virginia/740744/147 "2015-12-23T06:15:09Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > There he is, enjoying his one brief flash of smug superiority, and you got to squash it! **Czarcasm** for Grinch of the Year Award. Quash, my hillbilly friend. Quash. It’s from the Arabic: Q’ash. As in the Koranic Phrase: And Allah sent an angel unto the city to q’ash the rebellion… ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moron-hillbillys-in-bumfuck-virginia/740744/148 "2015-12-23T09:30:20Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > If this was supposedly so offensive to Muslims, why are we not hearing about any protests from Muslim groups? Because only an idiot would complain when someone else is promoting your religion for you? ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moron-hillbillys-in-bumfuck-virginia/740744/149 "2015-12-23T13:09:50Z")
**Uzi** is a master of supreme and subtle irony. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moron-hillbillys-in-bumfuck-virginia/740744/150 "2015-12-23T14:08:05Z")
> [@Uzi](#): > > Because only an idiot would complain when someone else is promoting your religion for you? Or, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. I mean, if folks are going to try and debate this, then it’s fair to point out logical fallacies. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moron-hillbillys-in-bumfuck-virginia/740744/151 "2015-12-23T16:13:53Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Ooooh, snap! > No, not snap. What’s that other thing that not snap? > Oh, yeah-fail. Says the guy that can’t even splel. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moron-hillbillys-in-bumfuck-virginia/740744/152 "2015-12-23T16:33:27Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Quash, my hillbilly friend. Quash… Ahem. “Peckerwood”, a subset of the redneck tribes, as are the hillbillies, but far more culturally and intellectually advanced. ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moron-hillbillys-in-bumfuck-virginia/740744/153 "2015-12-23T17:26:45Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > So, it is clear that the lesson was not doing anything resembling trying to convert the kids to Islam. > > If the course included having the kids write the Shema in Hebrew, ‘[symbol]o Cristos [/symbol]’[symbol]o Kurios[/symbol] in Greek and similar statements from other religions in the original alphabets, it might have dampened the objections. Yes, that would have made it into a very interesting and eye-opening exercise for the kids. For the Greek, they could even do the “Kyrie Elieson, Christe Elieson” prayer (“Lord, have mercy, Christ, have mercy”). Going beyond that, they could have a Hindu chant in Sanskrit (a language rather close to Greek, actually), a neo-Druid chant in Gaelic, or a passage from the Book of the Dead in Ancient Egyptian. ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moron-hillbillys-in-bumfuck-virginia/740744/154 "2015-12-23T17:38:55Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > … > A lot of people of my parent’s generation didn’t grow up saying “under God” in the pledge anyway. I have a schoolbook of my mother’s that has the pledge in the front cover, and God isn’t there. I plead alignment to the flakes of the untitled snakes of a merry cow, and to the Republicans for which they scam, one nacho, underpants, divisible, with licorice and jugs of wine for owls. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moron-hillbillys-in-bumfuck-virginia/740744/155 "2015-12-23T20:16:18Z")
> [@Uzi](#): > > Because only an idiot would complain when someone else is promoting your religion for you? Huh? You lost me. Who is promoting what religion here? ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moron-hillbillys-in-bumfuck-virginia/740744/156 "2015-12-23T20:16:55Z")
“Conservative Twits Learn that They DO Want Separation of Church and State After All” Film at 11 ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moron-hillbillys-in-bumfuck-virginia/740744/157 "2015-12-24T01:34:20Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Huh? You lost me. Who is promoting what religion here? A person can’t become part of a religion until they have at least heard about it. So, if I was a cult leader I’d have no objection to anyone introducing someone to my religion as long as it was done in a neutral or positive way. From my pov, that would be a promotion of my religion. What the person doing it thought of what they were doing isn’t relevant to my position. Thus the only ones objecting to this are opposing cult leaders and their worshippers, those who see offense whenever culture is, in their minds, appropriated, and some of us who think religion should be left out of schools. Well, left out unless taught by someone like Richard Dawkins. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moron-hillbillys-in-bumfuck-virginia/740744.md?page=7)