# Phelps is coming! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 22, 2002, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phelps-is-coming/125056 "2002-08-22T11:15:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phelps-is-coming/125056/21 "2002-08-24T19:35:21Z")
Phelps’ll be in Fargo? Can I donate the fuel for the wood-chipper? 'nuther picket suggestion: [ul]_Every female who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of Heaven._ -Some fag-enabler, as recorded in the [Gospel of Thomas](http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gosthom.html)[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phelps-is-coming/125056/22 "2002-08-24T20:43:20Z")
\*\*RexDart, \*\* the reason Phred and Co. must be watched and counter-protested is that they are dangerous. On at least two occasions they have physically attacked people, one being a minister and one a jogger that tried to pass by on the sidewalk through them. And we must show that whatever place he shows up, whether it be Fargo or Topeka, that \*he \* does not stand for this town, _we do!_ If we are silent we give implicit aggreement to his message. ---
**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:** [August 25, 2002, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phelps-is-coming/125056/23 "2002-08-25T00:49:36Z")
Of course God hates fags-they cause lung cancer, doncha know? 😉 (First one to get it gets an Oreo cookie) ---
**Author:** ![Mac\_Guffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mac\_Guffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac_Guffin)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phelps-is-coming/125056/24 "2002-08-25T00:50:20Z")
**Baker** , I will try to keep everyone updated. **Tripler** , My wife’s family is from Minot. It is truly hell on earth. More of a Dante-esque frozen hell of boredom and inbreeding, but hell none the less. My original plan was to avoid this thing at all costs, but the United Way headquarters here is right across the street from a rather open park with some nice places for vewing. There is a large open tennis arena that _was_ a swimming pool when I was a kid. It has this high concrete seating area that faces the wrong way, but if you go to the top, affords one a good view/sniping spot (JOKE!). What I have a difficult time understanding is this. You all say he is dangerous, and that he assaults people and such, but still manages to make a living from lawsuits? What court in the country would ever find FOR this raving nutball. It also makes me wonder if the whole thing isn’t so much about religion as it is getting people to assault him so he can take them to court. Perhaps Phelpsy is the worlds worst real-world Troll? Nah, he’s probably just a nut. P.S. We Fargoans really really hate the woodchipper jokes. I mean we REALLY hate them. The goddamned movie didn’t even take place in Fargo, except for the first little bit. The stupid Coen Brothers almost redeamed themselves with “O Brother Where Art Thou”. Almost. We don’t talk like that either. It’s those silly Minnesotans that speak like that. North Dakotans all sound like newscasters. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phelps-is-coming/125056/25 "2002-08-25T01:39:32Z")
I thought everyone in Fargo (the movie) sounded really, _really_ (eastern) Canadian. Not having been anywhere near ND, the name evokes only images of woodchippers and unspeakably cool [old trucks](http://www.oldtrucks.com/readers/bob2/36bob.jpg) & vans for me. (Mostly the vans.) Many apologies. ---
**Author:** ![Haywood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Haywood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haywood)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phelps-is-coming/125056/26 "2002-08-25T01:40:45Z")
“Phelps is coming” Dang and I always thought that only happened when he was around one of his cousins. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phelps-is-coming/125056/27 "2002-08-25T01:59:36Z")
**Guinastasia** , I want the Oreo! You’re talking about cigarettes aren’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Mac\_Guffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mac\_Guffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac_Guffin)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phelps-is-coming/125056/28 "2002-08-25T02:03:07Z")
Eh, Don’t sweat it **Larry.** Having spent time in northern Maine and thus in New Brunswick,(where there was actualy something to do other than molest moose.) I can’t say the accent similarity is that great. Although I do catch myself saying aboot from time to time. Repeated headsmacks to a cement wall seems to have stopped that though. ---
**Author:** ![Mac\_Guffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mac\_Guffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac_Guffin)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phelps-is-coming/125056/29 "2002-08-25T02:04:39Z")
Or caused it. I can’t seem to remember. ---
**Author:** ![Osip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4491bb/32.png) [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phelps-is-coming/125056/30 "2002-08-25T02:07:33Z")
> [@](#): > > haywood: > \*\*“Phelps is coming” Dang and I always thought that only happened when he was around one of his cousins. > \*\* Did you not read the OP well enough? > [@](#): > > particlewill: > \*\*Of course the local media here got wind of this and ran with it. The local news opened their broadcasts last night with the story. To their credit, they did mention that the Westbourogh Baptist church is comprised almost enterly of Freddie’s own family. > \*\* 🙂 ---
**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:** [August 25, 2002, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phelps-is-coming/125056/31 "2002-08-25T02:09:21Z")
DING DING DING! **Baker** , you got it! _hands him the Oreo package_ knock yourself out-they were buy one, get one free for 2.50 at Kmart this week.l ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phelps-is-coming/125056/32 "2002-08-25T02:27:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Osip \* > **Did you not read the OP well enough?** Are people not allowed to make fun of a guy in a thread making fun of that guy? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phelps-is-coming/125056/33 "2002-08-25T02:32:37Z")
Uh, \*\*Guinastasia, \*\* I’m a “her”, not a “him”. But I will \*still \* take the cookies! ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phelps-is-coming/125056/34 "2002-08-25T08:12:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by matt\_mcl \* > \*\*I know! It’s so irritating? What about faggot, fairy, fruit, homo, cocksucker, asslicker, shitstabber, uphill gardener, fudgepacker, invert, pervert, queerbait, bitchboy, gaylord, flit, froufrou, sissy, pansy, mo, girlyboy, battyboy, bumboy, dicklicker, butt pirate, boywhore, and miss molly? > \*\* Uphill gardener? ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phelps-is-coming/125056/35 "2002-08-25T12:08:19Z")
What about shirtlifter, ass bandit, rump ranger, sodomite (pitcher), catamite (catcher), knob gobbler, tutti fruitti, lavener boy, and ocnfirmed bachelor? And to be fair to the ladies, what about bull dyke, lezzie, bull dagger, muffdiver, clamsnapper, hard sister, and cuntsniffer? Phelps’s insane literature would be snappier and more interesting if he learned to use other derogatory names than “fag.” ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phelps-is-coming/125056/36 "2002-08-25T12:39:39Z")
To \*\*gobear \*\* and others, Phred has used many of these in his faxes. As I said earlier, its just that shorter words fit better on signs. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phelps-is-coming/125056/37 "2002-08-25T17:05:58Z")
> [@](#): > > When he came to Madison, WI and organized several pickets, local LGBT/Ally groups organized ‘per minute’ protests as well. Then he was going to come back and burn a Wisconsin flag on the steps of the Capitol, until the Capitol police let it be known that they probably wouldn’t be all that eager to stop patriotic Wisconsinites from kicking his ass. At which time Phelps cancelled. Besides, we have our own resident whack job, Ralph Ovadal. Ralphie boy just got hisself convicted of disorderly conduct for attacking a fully-clothed woman in the vicinity of a nude beach. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phelps-is-coming/125056/38 "2002-08-25T17:06:00Z")
Plus they are the ones he knows how to spell. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Mac\_Guffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mac\_Guffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac_Guffin)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2002, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phelps-is-coming/125056/39 "2002-08-30T06:54:02Z")
Sorry for the bump, but here is a quick update. Phelps has decided to postpne his apperance here in Fargo untill early November. Apparently he wants to picket not only the United Way, but also a college football game because North Dakota State University and Nothern Colorado (who will be playing) both participate in “Safe Zone” in which college staff and faculty put a sticker on their office doors signaling that they are willing to talk to students about gay issues. For some reason he will also be protesting at Luthern, Episcopalian and Methodist churches. According to a phone intherview with the local paper, he decided to potpone so as to consolidate these protests. He says that he has 20 members of his church signed up for these protests. The article also mentioned that N.D. and Alaska are the only states that have thus far avoided his protests. So a repreve for now… ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2002, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phelps-is-coming/125056/40 "2002-08-31T02:30:03Z")
\*\*particlewill, \*\* I am glad to hear the news. With any luck he won’t actually arrive at all. It’s happened before, he gets people all worked up and then has some limp excuse for being a no-show. By the way, I wrote a letter to the Fargo paper and what do you know? It got printed. Vanity, thy name is Baker(aka Denise) [http://new.in-forum.com/articles/?id=16986](http://new.in-forum.com/articles/?id=16986) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phelps-is-coming/125056.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phelps-is-coming/125056.md?page=3)