# The trashiest thing you have ever seen **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 26, 2011, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038 "2011-03-26T05:06:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/181 "2011-04-01T19:34:55Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I’m not sure why you quoted me there, but I’m aware of the difference, despite my Protestant upbringing. But yeah, glow in the dark crucifixes. I had to follow the quotes back… You said “…sparkly Jesus Crucifixes…” He said "“Are there any other kind” You said “…glow in the dark…” He said (and quoted your glow-in-the-dark comment) “Crucifixes by definition have Jesus on them…” to clarify why he said “any other kind” I think. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/182 "2011-04-01T19:37:13Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > I had to follow the quotes back… > > You said “…sparkly Jesus Crucifixes…” > He said "“Are there any other kind” > You said “…glow in the dark…” > He said (and quoted your glow-in-the-dark comment) “Crucifixes by definition have Jesus on them…” to clarify why he said “any other kind” > > I think. The “Jesus crucifix” comment was me. I thought (oh noes) that a cross without Jesus on it could also be called a crucifix. Actually I didn’t think, I just assumed. And we all know what that means! ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/183 "2011-04-01T19:38:02Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > The “Jesus crucifix” comment was me. I thought (oh noes) that a cross without Jesus on it could also be called a crucifix. > > Actually I didn’t think, I just assumed. And we all know what that means! Well there you go, never mind then! Maybe Skald made the same mistake I made! ---
**Author:** ![jonesj2205](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecc23a/32.png) [@jonesj2205](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jonesj2205)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/184 "2011-04-01T19:48:46Z")
Screamed in my neighbor’s driveway by high school age son to his mother on the porch: “There’s no f’ing money for my beer but there’s always money for your drugs.” ---
**Author:** ![beartato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@beartato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beartato)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/185 "2011-04-01T19:59:38Z")
See, I just thought that **Skald the Rhymer** was making a joking about the magenta glittery loinclothed Jesus, like, “Is there any other kind?”. Like that was the only kind he’d even seen. And I thought it was hilarious. So, thanks for the unintentional set-up and punchline, **Skald** and **Anaamika**! ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/186 "2011-04-01T20:02:23Z")
> [@beartato](#): > > See, I just thought that **Skald the Rhymer** was making a joking about the magenta glittery loinclothed Jesus, like, “Is there any other kind?”. Like that was the only kind he’d even seen. And I thought it was hilarious. So, thanks for the unintentional set-up and punchline, **Skald** and **Anaamika**! Rhymers do not make jokes. Not now; not in the past; not ever. We are as humorless and somber as fossilized trilobites. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/187 "2011-04-01T20:04:42Z")
> [@beartato](#): > > See, I just thought that **Skald the Rhymer** was making a joking about the magenta glittery loinclothed Jesus, like, “Is there any other kind?”. Like that was the only kind he’d even seen. And I thought it was hilarious. So, thanks for the unintentional set-up and punchline, **Skald** and **Anaamika**! I thought the same thing, and had to read it twice to figure out it was the crucifix he was referring to and not the loincloth. Also, what is a beartato, please? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/188 "2011-04-01T20:04:59Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Well there you go, never mind then! > > Maybe Skald made the same mistake I made! When he asked about any other kind, I was not pointing out Jesusy vs non-Jesusy, I was pointing out sparkly vs glow in the darky. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/189 "2011-04-01T20:07:41Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > And we all know what that means! And knowing’s half the battle! ---
**Author:** ![beartato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@beartato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beartato)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/190 "2011-04-01T20:13:36Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Also, what is a beartato, please? A vaguely potato-shaped bear from the [brilliant webcomic here](http://nedroid.com/2010/05/guess-what/). And [here](http://nedroid.com/2008/11/beartato-132/). And oh so many more. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/191 "2011-04-01T20:23:40Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > When he asked about any other kind, I was not pointing out Jesusy vs non-Jesusy, I was pointing out sparkly vs glow in the darky. Right- but I think when he asked about “the other kind” he was making the point that all crucifixes are Jesus Crucifixes. So when you came in with the glowy kind, he felt compelled to explain the difference between a cross and crucifix. Again, I think. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/192 "2011-04-01T20:36:53Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Right- but I think when he asked about “the other kind” he was making the point that all crucifixes are Jesus Crucifixes. So when you came in with the glowy kind, he felt compelled to explain the difference between a cross and crucifix. I won’t presume to speak for him, but generally when someone says “Is there any other kind?”, it’s meant as a joke about how the adjective is the best way experience the noun. (Or best adverb to describe the verb.) I assumed that this was the joke he was making. Man, I hate explaining jokes. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/193 "2011-04-01T20:44:15Z")
Me too. And it’s not even my joke! It’s the only explanation why he explained the definition of a crucifix, after quoting you, that I could figure out. Oy. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/194 "2011-04-01T20:56:34Z")
OK, I think I see where we went off track here. **Anaamika** mentioned a Jesus crucifix that was glittery. **Skald** was serious about the Jesus part. I thought he was joking about the glittery part. I guess when I mentioned the glow in the dark ones, he assumed that I assumed that there are two kinds of crucifixes – those that have Jesus on them, and those that glow in the dark. Personally, my favorite kind of crucifix has no Jesus, glows in the dark, is shaped like a Star of David, and is grape flavored. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/195 "2011-04-01T21:04:48Z")
We’re both Jewish. :smack: Too funny! ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/196 "2011-04-01T21:05:41Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > OK, I think I see where we went off track here. **Anaamika** mentioned a Jesus crucifix that was glittery. **Skald** was serious about the Jesus part. I thought he was joking about the glittery part. I guess when I mentioned the glow in the dark ones, he assumed that I assumed that there are two kinds of crucifixes – those that have Jesus on them, and those that glow in the dark. > > Personally, my favorite kind of crucifix has no Jesus, glows in the dark, is shaped like a Star of David, and is grape flavored. You’ll pay for this, Batman. You and the rest of Star City! I quoted you on the crucifix thing because I was careless. Distracted by work. I meant to be quoting somebody else. I blame the Welsh. Returning to the thread topic: I was at a wedding a few years back in which the bride wore a normal wedding dress, the groom wore a tuxedo jacket and pants, but _no shirt_, and the best man wore a baseball cap. When it came time to say the vows, the groom stopped chewing his gum, removed it from his mouth, and stuck it on the paper he had written his vows on. Also, as I recall, he walked down the aisle to the Dark theme, and at the wedding reception, they danced to the song “[Because of You](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra-Om7UMSJc),” having clearly listend to nothing but the lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/197 "2011-04-01T21:11:18Z")
There’s at least 4 kinds of crucifixes. I’ve seen both Jesus and non-Jesus bearing crosses, and presumably there would be glowing and non-glowing versions of both. As a child I had a glowing Jesus cross. Actually it was one piece of molded plastic – Jesus was actually a part of the cross rather than attached to it. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/198 "2011-04-01T21:13:04Z")
NM ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/199 "2011-04-01T21:15:48Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > NM I saw what you did there. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038/200 "2011-04-01T21:18:52Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I saw what you did there. Decided that I had misinterpreted you and deleted an misguided post? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trashiest-thing-you-have-ever-seen/576038.md?page=11)