# Pat Boone is a fucking asshole **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 31, 2009, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-is-a-fucking-asshole/498216 "2009-05-31T01:00:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Junior\_Spaceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Junior\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junior_Spaceman)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-is-a-fucking-asshole/498216/21 "2009-05-31T02:26:11Z")
This is funny for so many reasons, but I wonder … does Pat have another album of heavy metal covers coming out that he’s trying to drum up publicity for? ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-is-a-fucking-asshole/498216/22 "2009-05-31T02:26:47Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Extra irony: he claims to speak for a religion that claims love as a central tenet. Can I get an AAAAMMMMEEEENNNN! Preach it brother Bryan! ---
**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:** [May 31, 2009, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-is-a-fucking-asshole/498216/23 "2009-05-31T02:56:17Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Can I get an AAAAMMMMEEEENNNN! Preach it brother Bryan! It’s not my fault Christianity is mostly lip-service. Any ideology is quick to reduce its core beliefs from practice to theory when power’s involved. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-is-a-fucking-asshole/498216/24 "2009-05-31T03:05:53Z")
A good time to dust off my favorite Gandhi: _ **"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."** _ ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-is-a-fucking-asshole/498216/25 "2009-05-31T03:14:54Z")
You can check out his tour schedule for performance dates, if you like. 06.14.09 - Ontario, Canada - Greater Napanee Summerfest 09.25.09 - Shipshewana, IN - Shipshewana Town Center Says it all. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-is-a-fucking-asshole/498216/26 "2009-05-31T03:54:25Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > 09.25.09 - Shipshewana, IN - Shipshewana Town Center That town is 20 miles away from here. They have one stoplight, and honestly I think they could get by with a 4 way stop. > **[Shipshewana, Indiana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipshewana,_Indiana)** > > Shipshewana is a town in Newbury Township, LaGrange County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, Shipshewana had a population of 839. It is the location of the Menno-Hof Amish & Mennonite Museum, which showcases the history of the Amish and Mennonite peoples. > Shipshewana was named after a local Potawatomi Indian. The Shipshewana post office was established in 1889. > According to the 2010 census, Shipshewana has a total area of 1.18 square miles (3.06 km2), all land. > [@](#): > > Shipshewana is a town in Newbury Township, LaGrange County, Indiana, United States. The population was 536 at the 2000 census ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-is-a-fucking-asshole/498216/27 "2009-05-31T04:09:28Z")
> [@Junior\_Spaceman](#): > > This is funny for so many reasons, but I wonder … does Pat have another album of heavy metal covers coming out that he’s trying to drum up publicity for? _Sideshow Bob shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-is-a-fucking-asshole/498216/28 "2009-05-31T05:46:40Z")
Wow, what a coincidence! Just [yesterday morning I nominated Pat Boone for assassination](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11193871&postcount=18) by a time travelling terminator, without even knowing about this. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-is-a-fucking-asshole/498216/29 "2009-05-31T05:53:49Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > It’s not my fault Christianity is mostly lip-service. Any ideology is quick to reduce its core beliefs from practice to theory when power’s involved. Hey Christ said that the bar is set pretty high. I’ve always found Christianity pretty hokey myself. A lot of equivocation. Either you are part of Jesus’s gang or you aren’t, you can either hang, or you can’t, walk the walk and talk the talk or stumble and babble. Either way, all religious systems would be ‘worldly constructs’ as far as I can tell. True morality does not seem to be constrained by semiotics, or the ability to legislate, and therein lies the tragedy of the human condition. At least, that is the lesson I take away from Christ’s teachings, but I may be as way off base as any redneck who thinks that God is telling him to fight the holy war against the queers. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-is-a-fucking-asshole/498216/30 "2009-05-31T15:14:08Z")
Wherever the rational mind encounters spiritual life, theology ensues. Penis or hilarity would be better, perhaps, but such is not our way. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-is-a-fucking-asshole/498216/31 "2009-05-31T16:28:45Z")
> [@Mr Bus Guy](#): > > A good time to dust off my favorite Gandhi: > > _ **“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”** _ Yeah but you could just as easily stick Buddhists and Buddha in there and it would work just as well. Snark cuts both ways. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-is-a-fucking-asshole/498216/32 "2009-05-31T16:46:56Z")
Yeah, Buddhists are always running around doing evil in the name of Buddha. Fuckers! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-is-a-fucking-asshole/498216/33 "2009-05-31T17:07:07Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Yeah, Buddhists are always running around doing evil in the name of Buddha. Fuckers! Hitler, Stalin, and the entire rebel army in the American civil war, and even the Borg on Star Trek were Buddhists! True story. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-is-a-fucking-asshole/498216/34 "2009-05-31T19:39:11Z")
Ah, who can forget Pat Boone? The singer who showed Little Richard how Rip It Up _should_ be sung! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-is-a-fucking-asshole/498216/35 "2009-05-31T19:48:44Z")
And those scurrilous stories about the two of them are not, repeat, not true! I felt it was important to clear that up. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-is-a-fucking-asshole/498216/36 "2009-05-31T20:13:27Z")
This seems as good a time as any to link to Pat’s oughta-be-famous dick-in-a-box picture. [http://www.que](http://www.que) [erty.com/wp/docs/2007/11/patboonedick.jpg](http://erty.com/wp/docs/2007/11/patboonedick.jpg) (remove space) ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-is-a-fucking-asshole/498216/37 "2009-05-31T20:14:54Z")
The FLF is shooting people in the streets! My God don’t any of you even care!?!?!!? ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-is-a-fucking-asshole/498216/38 "2009-05-31T20:41:22Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > The FLF is shooting people in the streets! My God don’t any of you even care!?!?!!? Out of curiosity, do they use Nikon or Canon? ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-is-a-fucking-asshole/498216/39 "2009-05-31T21:02:28Z")
> [@](#): > > The FLF is shooting people in the streets! My God don’t any of you even care!?!?!!? Doesn’t bother me … reminds me of Bumbai actually. ---
**Author:** ![Pazu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pazu/32/15522_2.png) [@Pazu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pazu)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-is-a-fucking-asshole/498216/40 "2009-05-31T21:33:46Z")
> [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#): > > Hitler, Stalin, and the entire rebel army in the American civil war, and even the Borg on Star Trek were Buddhists! > > True story. Yeah, well, a Taoist _would_ say that. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-is-a-fucking-asshole/498216.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-boone-is-a-fucking-asshole/498216.md?page=3)