Oh, Wow, This Is Powerful Stupid

The BBQ Pit
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I just got an email from the friend who inspired this rant. Apparently, he spent the weekend hanging with Bart Sibrel and Michael Moore at Sibrel’s place! Now, I don’t care what you think about Moore, but Bart “I Got My Ass Kicked By A 70 Year Old Man” Sibrel? What the fucking fuck?

I mean, my friend is/was a spaceflight fanatic at one point in time, and claimed to hate Sibrel! So why the hell is he hanging out with him? Muchless bragging about it? I don’t understand!

And why the fuck would Moore be hanging out with Sibrel? Is Moore such a media whore that he’ll schmooze with anybody who says the government is an evil entity and has been lying to us all along?

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Perhaps your friend’s pronouncements regarding the company he keeps are as accurate as those about vapour trails…

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Who the fuck is Bart Sibrel?

Oh, hang on, I just looked him up on Google. That Bart Sibrel.

OK, so don’t leave us hanging: is it at all plausible that your apparently slightly deranged friend actually may have ‘hung out’ with this pair, or are you reporting that he seems to have gone delusional?

By the way, when I went over there to look him up, I had a momentary brain fart and typed in ‘Google’ rather than ‘Bart Sibrel’. I am pleased to report that the entire space-time continuum was NOT sucked down into a wormhole due to my accidently asking Google to reference itself.

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He’s pining for the fnords.

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Maybe the party never happened and the gov’ment came in and filmed it all up fakewise?

You know, even on the Dope, I would wager there are a good lot of people who don’t know who the fuck Bart Sibrel is off the top of their heads. Not due to being stupid, just due to having other interests. Since one of my main interests is anything space science related, I knew who he is. If it were some thing he was “famous” for, I may not have a clue. So, do us a favor next time and explain references a little more clearly, okay?

BS believes the Us government faked the Moon missions, y’all.

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I left out other between some and thing. And had between have and a.

;j

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Yes, and I believe the 70 year old ass-kicker who Tuckerefan refers to is Buzz Aldrin, who was being relentlessly hounded by Sibel. I don’t normally approve of punching people but BS had it coming.

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I’m reasonably sure Buzz Aldrin could kick both our asses, Tuckerfan.

–CLiffy

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That’s a possibility, but highly doubtful, because we’ve got mutual friends who know BS, and both BS and Moore gave “lectures” at the same venue this weekend.

Cliffy, no doubt you’re right, but let’s face it, anyone who picks on a 70 year old is an idiot, and if that 70 year old can easily wallop the shit out of them, well, then, all I’ve got to say is, “Go grand pa!”

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Am I the only one who read this thread title and heard an inner, Kung Fu-style voice saying something along the lines of “This stupid is powerful, grasshopper”?

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Tuckerfan, what’s up with the italisized letters? It’s buggin’ me out.

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:Gasp: It really works.

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The bolded letters in his sig spell out fnord

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Oh, I get it.

frond - like a palm frond.

Ok, sure. All makes sense now.

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No, fnord as in
fnord!

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I wish someone would respond–what’s the deal with the italicized letters?

Man, this thread is making me angry! Angry, and suspicious.

Think I’ll go buy something.

Daniel

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Oh, thank Og! I kept staring at my monitor for several minutes, trying to figure out if I was insane, or there really were random italicised letters.

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What italisized letters? :wink:

In the book ***Illuminatus!*** by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, “fnord” is a word which the conscious mind can’t read, but the subconscious picks up on it and feels fear, so to help control folks, the Illuminati work the word into things like newspaper articles.

(BTW, Illuminatus! is a pretty entertaining read, even if it is all BS and has inspired innumerable nutjobs.)

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Fnord.

(or, what Tuckerfan said!)

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Is Illuminatus! a parody, or do the authors really believe that stuff?