# The AntiDope thread: Creating ignorance since October 5th, 2006 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 5, 2006, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-antidope-thread-creating-ignorance-since-october-5th-2006/375386 "2006-10-05T15:27:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-antidope-thread-creating-ignorance-since-october-5th-2006/375386/21 "2006-10-06T02:54:50Z")
Cecil Adams is an anagram for “CIA led scam.” We’re all just pawns. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2006, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-antidope-thread-creating-ignorance-since-october-5th-2006/375386/22 "2006-10-06T02:56:57Z")
Sugar and salt are the same thing, we only taste what we ‘expect’ to taste. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-antidope-thread-creating-ignorance-since-october-5th-2006/375386/23 "2006-10-06T02:58:37Z")
[QUOTE=LonesomePolecat] Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance. [/QUOTE] Christianity is a religion of peace and tolerance. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-antidope-thread-creating-ignorance-since-october-5th-2006/375386/24 "2006-10-06T03:03:24Z")
Oktoberfest is named for the Old German month of Oktober, which fell between May and June. We hold it in October in this Gregorian world because calling it “Junefest” would be totally inappropriate. A war once started when a Spaniard put Irish cream in an Italian soda in the 1970s. The chaos and bloodshed resulted in Franco’s fall from power as the Spanish dictator. Tensions mounted again when a Frenchman ordered an English-toffee-flavored Italian soda in 1982, but the war was averted when Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five released “The Message”, an album pleading for peace in the world (among other things). New Mexico is secretly both new and Mexican. > [@Mindfield](#): > > Emperor Nero did not fiddle while Rome burned. He played air guitar. It’s a little-known fact that Emperor Nero was also burning ROM while Rome burned. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-antidope-thread-creating-ignorance-since-october-5th-2006/375386/25 "2006-10-06T03:06:35Z")
Gay people are really just in it for the cake. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-antidope-thread-creating-ignorance-since-october-5th-2006/375386/26 "2006-10-06T03:10:41Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Hardly anyone knows this, but _Skype_ is actually pronouced Skee-ipp-ay. [/QUOTE] As was revealed in ancient petroglyphs in the American west, which have been transcribed by scholars as: Skype hete gyta lng lytl dge ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-antidope-thread-creating-ignorance-since-october-5th-2006/375386/27 "2006-10-06T03:15:10Z")
[QUOTE=matt\_mcl] Gay people are really just in it for the cake. [/QUOTE] Maybe the gay guys, but the lesbians are of course in it for the pie. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-antidope-thread-creating-ignorance-since-october-5th-2006/375386/28 "2006-10-06T04:39:55Z")
Are the bi people in it for the souffle? ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-antidope-thread-creating-ignorance-since-october-5th-2006/375386/29 "2006-10-06T04:43:22Z")
And straights are in it for the bon bons. ---
**Author:** ![Foldup\_Rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Foldup\_Rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foldup_Rabbit)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-antidope-thread-creating-ignorance-since-october-5th-2006/375386/30 "2006-10-06T07:36:28Z")
You guys get _pie_? ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-antidope-thread-creating-ignorance-since-october-5th-2006/375386/31 "2006-10-06T08:14:18Z")
People in Latin America speak Latin as their native tongue. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-antidope-thread-creating-ignorance-since-october-5th-2006/375386/32 "2006-10-06T08:25:24Z")
Residents of Tuskegee are most famous for their enlarged upper canines. ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-antidope-thread-creating-ignorance-since-october-5th-2006/375386/33 "2006-10-06T08:54:58Z")
In _Casablanca_, Humphrey Bogart never said “Play it again, Sam.” What he _actually_ said was, “That’s one small step for a man; one giant leap for mankind.” ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-antidope-thread-creating-ignorance-since-october-5th-2006/375386/34 "2006-10-06T09:03:13Z")
FACT: in the wild some oragutans have been known to operate a rudimentary Geisha system. ---
**Author:** ![Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alive_At_Both_Ends)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-antidope-thread-creating-ignorance-since-october-5th-2006/375386/35 "2006-10-06T10:43:36Z")
There is a species of bat native to the Island of Spitzbergen which subsists entirely on Peach Melba. The knowledge of its existence is suppressed by the Illuminati. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-antidope-thread-creating-ignorance-since-october-5th-2006/375386/36 "2006-10-06T10:46:15Z")
a ducks echo doesn’t quack \*Inversion intended. ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-antidope-thread-creating-ignorance-since-october-5th-2006/375386/37 "2006-10-06T11:33:48Z")
An airplane which is attempting to take off from a treadmill will never become airborne. mm ---
**Author:** ![notthatagain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@notthatagain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notthatagain)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-antidope-thread-creating-ignorance-since-october-5th-2006/375386/38 "2006-10-06T11:41:07Z")
There are tens of thousands of high paying, no experience necessary manufacturing jobs available here in Detroit, Michigan. The mayor doesn’t understand why more people aren’t moving here. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-antidope-thread-creating-ignorance-since-october-5th-2006/375386/39 "2006-10-06T11:51:56Z")
Up until sometime near the end of 1997, the official motto of the American Atheists Society was “There is no God, and also, we hate him” ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-antidope-thread-creating-ignorance-since-october-5th-2006/375386/40 "2006-10-06T11:53:01Z")
Wait a minnit! LonesomePolecat gets a moderator warning (and a pretty strongly worded one at that) for a sarcastic take on Islam, but betenoir says the exact same thing about Christianity and … nothin’. What gives? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-antidope-thread-creating-ignorance-since-october-5th-2006/375386.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-antidope-thread-creating-ignorance-since-october-5th-2006/375386.md?page=3)