And let’s be honest; a girl named “Pepper Strode” absolutely HAS to become an athlete, because it would give sports editors ten years’ worth of horrible headline puns:
STRODE PEPPERS SMITH WITH PUNCHES
PEPPER STRODE BRINGS SPICE TO UNDERCARD
PEPPER LOOKS SALTY IN VICTORY
There was a short thread on this subject back in October of 2001. As several posters above noted, it was stated there that Pepper became a boxer. So, apparently, did one of her brothers.
There was no word on the activities of Duffey, who, I gather, gave the impression of being the loudest and most offensive of the little jerks.
As an aside, I think of cases such as the Strodes whenever I hear someone whine that “religion” (that is to say, Evangelical Christianity) does not get sufficient attention and respect from mainstream American culture. In fact, it seems that all sorts of hateful and bigotted behavior gets tolerated in the U. S. precisely because it is undertaken in the name of Christ. If the Strode children had behaved in any way similar and not had their Bibles to hide behind, I expect they would have been carted off promptly to a publicly financed clinic to be evaluated for Tourette, and it would have gotten very little attention in the local media, let alone become a national story.
I worked in a before-and-after school program sponsored by the YMCA at one time. A girl in my group, about age ten, belonged to a church which practices baptism by immersion. About two weeks before she was scheduled for such a ceremony, she began telling other, younger children in the group–some as young as four and five–that they were going to burn in hell forever because they weren’t baptized. While not of her denomination, I suspect this was bad theology.
The hell of it was that I felt my hands were tied; I worried that I and my superiors would be accused by her fanatical parents of interfering with the free exercise of religion if we told her to stop terrorizing preschoolers. Luckily a coworker of mine was of the same religious and ethnic background as this girl, and felt he was in a safe position to tell her to shut up.
For my part, I felt a temptation–which I resisted–to tell the little girl to be extra careful about crossing the street for the next couple of weeks; it would be an awful shame if her loving and merciful God sent her to eternal damnation for getting run over by a drunk driver before she got dunked in her minister’s swimming pool.
There was a short thread on this subject back in October of 2001. As several posters above noted, it was stated there that Pepper became a boxer. So, apparently, did one of her brothers.
There was no word on the activities of Duffey, who, I gather, gave the impression of being the loudest and most offensive of the little jerks.
As an aside, I think of cases such as the Strodes whenever I hear someone whine that “religion” (that is to say, Evangelical Christianity) does not get sufficient attention and respect from mainstream American culture. In fact, it seems that all sorts of hateful and bigotted behavior gets tolerated in the U. S. precisely because it is undertaken in the name of Christ. If the Strode children had behaved in any way similar and not had their Bibles to hide behind, I expect they would have been carted off promptly to a publicly financed clinic to be evaluated for Tourette, and it would have gotten very little attention in the local media, let alone become a national story.
I worked in a before-and-after school program sponsored by the YMCA at one time. A girl in my group, about age ten, belonged to a church which practices baptism by immersion. About two weeks before she was scheduled for such a ceremony, she began telling other, younger children in the group–some as young as four and five–that they were going to burn in hell forever because they weren’t baptized. While not of her denomination, I suspect this was bad theology.
The hell of it was that I felt my hands were tied; I worried that I and my superiors would be accused by her fanatical parents of interfering with the free exercise of religion if we told her to stop terrorizing preschoolers. Luckily a coworker of mine was of the same religious and ethnic background as this girl, and felt he was in a safe position to tell her to shut up.
For my part, I felt a temptation–which I resisted–to tell the little girl to be extra careful about crossing the street for the next couple of weeks; it would be an awful shame if her loving and merciful God sent her to eternal damnation for getting run over by a drunk driver before she got dunked in her minister’s swimming pool. :eek:
The Strode family is alive and well in Marion, NC The children, all grownup now, are all involved in boxing. They do not “preach” anymore and seem to live a normal life. The youngest boy, Matt, is getting married in July. I happened to run across this thread, and it reminded me of them and all the excitment they caused in our small town. As it turns out, the family leads a quiet, normal life and according to people who know them, don’t attend any church. But who can really say what all the “Bible brainwashing” did to the children?
I would have guessed drill instructor. That’s the one job where yelling is absolutely mandatory.
Wow, an update on an 8 year old thread, cool.
Gilligan: What’s a Zombie?
Mr Howell: A Zombie, well you take two jiggers of Rum, a couple tall glasses…
I was hoping for recent pics, or maybe even a video.
How 'bout it, Heart.
Thank you, Heart!
May I request that the Mods allow the revival of this zombie, as it does carry relevant news?
Thanks a lot. I’m glad to hear that things normalized. Actually, when they were in the news, they didn’t attend church either, as they stopped going when their pastor told the parents to take things down a few notches.
I’d really like to know what the kids (Duffy & Pepper) remember & think about their brush with fame.
I think that’s exactly the board policy: an ancient thread, at least in GQ, may be revived if new information comes to light that answers the OP.
Indeed.
As to the Zombie drink joke above, it should have been
Q: How do you make a Zombie?
A: First, you get her drunk.
By the way, wouldn’t a male be a zomby?
I’m not sure just what a female zombie would be called.
And, quit f-ing up my joke. 
You know;
Sammy - Sammie
Johnny - Johnnie
Bobby - Bobbie
etc
All with little hearts over the “i”.
BTW; wasn’t little Duffey on 60 Minutes?
Can I dibsie Screaming Boy Preacher as a screen name?
Awww, mmaannn! I always miss the good ones.
Crap.
Kind of OT but does anyone know the dividing line between Christian Idenity and superfundie old school Baptist? (ie the type that thinks that Bob Jones is too libral and that interracial marriage is teh evil!)
That would be me.
With some Identity vs. Fundie, it’s a matter of degrees. A hard difference is that many CI tie their salvation into actually being white Adamic Israelites. Ultra-Fundies may think darker peoples & Jews are degraded accursed strains of humanity, but they still think they’re fully human in capable of salvation through Christ.
CI believes that white people are Adamites & Israelites while being more liable to believe darker people are subhuman and Jews are “Serpent-seed” (descendants of Cain who was really the son of the Serpent.) They may also believe that whites are the pre-existent Spirit children of God and that all will eventually be saved even if they have to be purged in Hell, while non-whites may or may not have any afterlife. Yeah, there are strains which get into UFOs as angel ships, psychic phenomena & advanced ancient civilizations- even New Age & occultic stuff. Also,
they’ll tend to keeping Old Testament laws such as Sabbath, kosher & the festivals and condemn “Romanist” Sunday-keeping & holidays.