# Shodan's Angels **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 21, 2007, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817 "2007-03-21T04:07:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817/101 "2007-03-22T12:05:00Z")
[QUOTE=Princhester] Finally someone who understands me. [/QUOTE] Oh you poor, sad, misunderstood soul. Here you go make this blindingly brilliant observation that there are no angels, which is clearly an insightful and visionary analysis of **Shodan’s** unbelievable temerity in thinking the angel thing was a witty remark and nobody _gets_ you. Except it wasn’t. > [@](#): > > The point is not “angels”. The point is that badchad’s departure doesn’t help the fundamentally childish and silly nature of superstition, be it a belief in a god or angels or pixies or whatever. 1. I doubt anyone thought it would. 2. You entirely missed the point of the title. As in completely. As in if the actual point walked up and stuck its tongue down your throat you still wouldn’t notice it. 3. It’s not that nobody understands what you wanted to say. It’s that nobody understands how anyone with functioning brain cells would think it was a point that had any merit whatsoever. 4. Which is why you have not a scintilla of a case. 5. And all your outrage and frustration is only making it funnier. Please carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817/102 "2007-03-22T15:38:15Z")
I guess the parody’s over. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817/103 "2007-03-22T16:38:17Z")
Must’ve been a parody error. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817/104 "2007-03-22T16:52:51Z")
So this bit is going in the bit bucket? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817/105 "2007-03-22T16:55:56Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] Must’ve been a parody error. [/QUOTE] That’s pretty funny, especially for a Brit! 😃 (Don’t y’all actually pronounce your Ts?) ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817/106 "2007-03-22T17:23:24Z")
**Princhester** , your problem isn’t that people don’t understand you, your problem is that people do understand you. Tris ---
**Author:** ![enigm4tic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@enigm4tic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enigm4tic)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817/107 "2007-03-22T17:31:44Z")
argh, either half the thread is trying to woosh the other half, or half the thread isn’t actually reading the thread! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817/108 "2007-03-22T17:34:56Z")
[QUOTE=enigm4tic] argh, either half the thread is trying to woosh the other half, or half the thread isn’t actually reading the thread! :smack: [/QUOTE] Which half are you a member of? ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817/109 "2007-03-22T17:38:34Z")
[QUOTE=Alessan] I’m sure that if \*\*Badchad \*\* had been, say, a rabid Yankees fan, \*\*Shodan \*\* would have referred to the 2004 World Series. [/QUOTE] That’s the one where Anaheim beat them? 😉 Sailboat ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817/110 "2007-03-22T17:42:38Z")
[QUOTE=Sailboat] That’s the one where Anaheim beat them? 😉 Sailboat [/QUOTE] There’s no such thing as Anaheim. ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817/111 "2007-03-22T17:51:01Z")
[QUOTE=tomndebb] So this bit is going in the bit bucket? [/QUOTE] Certainly lacks byte. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817/112 "2007-03-22T17:54:22Z")
[QUOTE=Happy Lendervedder] There’s no such thing as Anaheim. [/QUOTE] And just for another tangentially related semi-Shakespeare quote, “conspiracy of the cartographers, then?” Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817/113 "2007-03-22T17:56:21Z")
[QUOTE=Sailboat] That’s the one where Anaheim beat them? 😉 Sailboat [/QUOTE] There was no 2004 Word Series. What are you talking about? \*\*Alessan \*\* obviously brought up the year 2004 to keep it abstract. It had nothing to do with the California Los Angelos Angels of Anaheim off route 5 near Disney Land team. Jim {Rabid Yankee Fan} ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817/114 "2007-03-22T18:03:58Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] There was no 2004 Word Series. What are you talking about? \*\*Alessan \*\* obviously brought up the year 2004 to keep it abstract. It had nothing to do with the California Los Angelos Angels of Anaheim off route 5 near Disney Land team. Jim {Rabid Yankee Fan} [/QUOTE] So you believe in “Anaheim” too? Fuckin’ A. I suppose you’re gonna tell me this is some “happy place” where “good little boys and girls” go and hang out with fairies and shit. Fantasyland[sup]TM[/sup], man. Nothing but a fucking Fantasyland[sup]TM[/sup]. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817/115 "2007-03-22T18:04:56Z")
Actually, it’s closer to the 57 than it is to the 5. But otherwise, I agree that there was no World Series in 2004. silenus (rabid Dodgers fan, who would rather watch women’s golf than root for either the Angels or the Giants!) ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817/116 "2007-03-22T18:11:18Z")
All these comments about a fanciful place called “Anaheim” are knott berry funny at all! ---
**Author:** ![enigm4tic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@enigm4tic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enigm4tic)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817/117 "2007-03-22T18:12:25Z")
[QUOTE=Crotalus] Which half are you a member of? [/QUOTE] Well actually, I meant both to be directed at the people who still seem to be genuinely outraged, meaning that either A) they are wooshing us by pretending to be outraged by what at this point seems pretty clearly to be a parody thread, or B) They simply haven’t noticed that it’s a parody thread. I suppose there’s option C) it really is something to be outraged about, and those of us treating it as a parody are missing something ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817/118 "2007-03-22T18:22:01Z")
And that is why non-Americans should never, \*ever \*use baseball analogies. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817/119 "2007-03-22T18:28:03Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Actually, it’s closer to the 57 than it is to the 5. But otherwise, I agree that there was no World Series in 2004. silenus (rabid Dodgers fan, who would rather watch women’s golf than root for either the Angels or the Giants!) [/QUOTE] Good sir, google the 2004 World Series and you will see why it never took place to this Rabid Yankee Fan. You are trying ‘not’ to think of 2002. Jim ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817/120 "2007-03-22T19:40:28Z")
I’m trying hard not to think of World Series’ that don’t involve the Dodgers winning. Unfortunately, this doesn’t occupy much of my tiny brain at all. ☹ In any case, Anaheim is a kind of pepper, not a “real-world” place. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodans-angels/396817.md?page=7)