# The Bowling Green Massacre **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 3, 2017, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895 "2017-02-03T12:08:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/181 "2017-02-06T23:32:07Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > “The Bowling Green Attack on our brave soldiers.” > :smack::smack::smack::smack::smack: > > Holy Fucking Shit!! Worser, “[the Bowling Green massacre of taking innocent soldiers’ lives away](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/06/kellyanne-conways-bowling-green-massacre-wasnt-a-slip-of-the-tongue-shes-said-it-before/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_fix-conway-1145am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.49b490c07207)” . . . I’m still trying to parse it into something that’s vaguely grammatically correct English :smack:. CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/182 "2017-02-06T23:45:17Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > When they came for the celebrities, I said nothing… Since Trump is now the biggest celebrity in the world, can they take him away first? ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2017, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/183 "2017-02-07T01:46:18Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Worser, “[the Bowling Green massacre of taking innocent soldiers’ lives away](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/06/kellyanne-conways-bowling-green-massacre-wasnt-a-slip-of-the-tongue-shes-said-it-before/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_fix-conway-1145am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.49b490c07207)” . . . I’m still trying to parse it into something that’s vaguely grammatically correct English :smack:. > > CMC fnord! What’s scary is she must actually believe this to be true. Let’s ask her opinion on Phrenology. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/184 "2017-02-08T23:11:43Z")
I guess this thread will do… [Sean Spicer cites Atlanta terror attack that never happened](http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/08/politics/spicer-alleged-atlanta-terror-attack-trnd/index.html) Jan 29 on This Week: “What do we say to the family who loses somebody over a terroristic (sic) – to whether it’s Atlanta or San Bernardino or the Boston bomber? Those people, each of whom had gone out to a country and then come back.” Jan 30 on Morning Joe: "What happened if we didn’t act and somebody was killed? … Too many of these cases that have happened – whether you’re talking about San Bernardino, Atlanta … Boston … would you wait until you do? " Jan 30 at a press briefing: “Right, and we’re reviewing the entire process over this period of time to make sure that we do this right. But I don’t think you have to look any further than the families of the Boston Marathon, in Atlanta, in San Bernardino to ask if we can go further.” ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/185 "2017-02-08T23:17:49Z")
And Australia _The parents of two British-born backpackers killed by a mentally disturbed man in the remote outback of Australia have reacted with fury to Donald Trump including their children as victims of a “terror attack” to bolster his phony claim that the media are deliberately “underreporting" terrorism. Their anger and disgust at Trump is just another reflection of this Administration’s sheer incompetence and disregard for the impact of its lies to the lives of ordinary people. Mia Ayliffe-Chung, 21, was backpacking in Australia when she stopped to stay in a remote hostel. There she met Tom Jackson, another backpacker staying there. Unfortunately an emotionally disturbed 29-year old French national named Smail Ayad, another hostel guest, apparently developed an infatuation for her during her brief stay. Despite his “Arabic sounding name" the police ultimately determined Ayad was neither an Islamic fundamentalist or even a practicing Muslim, nor had he ever set foot in a mosque. He was, quite simply, mentally ill with a history of imagining paranoid conspiracies against him._ "My daughter’s death will not be used to further this insane persecution of innocent people,” - Rosie Ayliffe, mother of one victim “Woke up this morning to see you’ve used my son’s murder to further your campaign of hate. How dare you. You are a discrace.” Sandra Jackson, mother of the other victim [https://twitter.com/RosieAyliffe/sta...12495205240832](https://twitter.com/RosieAyliffe/sta...12495205240832) ---
**Author:** ![Ramira](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ramira/32/344_2.png) [@Ramira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ramira)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/186 "2017-02-09T00:03:36Z")
Dezinformatsia stalinienne. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/187 "2017-02-09T00:06:47Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > Since Trump is now the biggest celebrity in the world, can they take him away first? When they came for Trump, I said nothing and there was great rejoicing throughout the land. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/188 "2017-02-09T00:07:05Z")
> [@Lance\_Turbo](#): > > I guess this thread will do… > > [Sean Spicer cites Atlanta terror attack that never happened](http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/08/politics/spicer-alleged-atlanta-terror-attack-trnd/index.html) > > … Is he talking about the Olympic bombing?? ETA: Committed by American, White guy Eric Rudolpf. Wikipedia: **Eric Robert Rudolph** (born September 19, 1966), also known as the **Olympic Park Bomber** , is an American [domestic terrorist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_terrorist) convicted for a series of [anti-abortion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-abortion_violence) and [anti-gay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_opposition)-motivated [bombings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_bomb) across the [southern United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States) between 1996 and 1998, which killed two people and injured over 120 others. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/189 "2017-02-09T00:08:29Z")
> [@Lance\_Turbo](#): > > I guess this thread will do… > > [Sean Spicer cites Atlanta terror attack that never happened](http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/08/politics/spicer-alleged-atlanta-terror-attack-trnd/index.html) Maybe he was thinking of General Sherman? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/190 "2017-02-09T01:50:05Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Maybe he was thinking of General Sherman? General Muhammad Tecumseh Sherman? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/191 "2017-02-09T06:21:52Z")
Obviously the Atlanta terror attack occurred in Houston and was carried out by Saeed al Tombrady. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/192 "2017-02-09T08:30:35Z")
There totally **was** a Bowling Green Massacre! Sidney Poitier massacred the song “Bowling Green” in _The Defiant Ones_ ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/193 "2017-02-09T09:08:19Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > So, how was Obama able to cleverly cover up this massacre? That’s pretty impressive really. Well it’s the same dead people they got out to vote for Hillary. They prop the corpses up, wheel them around, and not even their families can tell the difference. Of course the MSM will never report this. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/194 "2017-02-09T10:01:46Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > Well it’s the same dead people they got out to vote for Hillary. > They prop the corpses up, wheel them around, and not even their families can tell the difference. > Of course the MSM will never report this. Of course not. They’re afraid the Clintons will kill them like they killed some of their staffers and associates. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/195 "2017-02-09T10:09:52Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Of course not. They’re afraid the Clintons will kill them like they killed some of their staffers and associates. It’s a proven fact that the Clintons killed the dead people who voted illegally _against_ them, hence the reason that all illegal votes are for Democrats. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/196 "2017-02-09T10:11:53Z")
p.s. to post #194: Yes, I know the Clintons did no such thing. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/197 "2017-02-09T11:39:14Z")
There was plenty of press coverage of the Bowling Green Massacre - who could forget Hillary Clinton landing under fire while Brian Williams and Bill O’Reilly continued to report from the battlefield? Dramatic stuff. > [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > "Why don’t the press report on the Swimming Orange massacre, or the Jumping Beige massacre, and Skating Chartreuse massacre? > > I bet you never heard of those either." > > Read somewhere. I remember the Annoying Orange Massacre - it’s so sad, given that there was advance intelligence indicating the presence of a knife. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/198 "2017-02-09T21:17:29Z")
> [@Lance\_Turbo](#): > > I guess this thread will do… > > [Sean Spicer cites Atlanta terror attack that never happened](http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/08/politics/spicer-alleged-atlanta-terror-attack-trnd/index.html) > > Jan 29 on This Week: “What do we say to the family who loses somebody over a terroristic (sic) – to whether it’s Atlanta or San Bernardino or the Boston bomber? Those people, each of whom had gone out to a country and then come back.” > > Jan 30 on Morning Joe: "What happened if we didn’t act and somebody was killed? … Too many of these cases that have happened – whether you’re talking about San Bernardino, Atlanta … Boston … would you wait until you do? " > > Jan 30 at a press briefing: “Right, and we’re reviewing the entire process over this period of time to make sure that we do this right. But I don’t think you have to look any further than the families of the Boston Marathon, in Atlanta, in San Bernardino to ask if we can go further.” He’s submitted a correction. He meant to say Orlando. Not that that’s much better. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/199 "2017-02-09T21:23:19Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > He’s submitted a correction. He meant to say Orlando. > > Not that that’s much better. That’s what he says _now._ I’m not convinced that this was an innocent mistake. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895/200 "2017-02-09T21:34:10Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > He’s submitted a correction. He meant to say Orlando. > > Not that that’s much better. Does he have a brain tumour? It’s a tumour, isn’t it? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bowling-green-massacre/778895.md?page=11)