Oprah Winfry.
Pat Buchannan.
His record of racist crap is a testimony to his ignorance. And that of his supporters.
With magic, you can turn a frog into a prince. With science, you can turn a frog into a Ph.D, and you still have the frog you started with.
Way ahead of you, Pundit Lisa. The list is now:
Allred, Gloria
Bailey, F. Lee
Baker, Jim&Tammy Faye
Barr, Bob
Bell, Art
Buchanan, Pat
Bunnell, Sherrif John
Bush, George
Bush, George W.
Case, Steve
Chick, Jack Chick
CIA
Cliff of Cliff’s Notes
Cochran, Johnny
Daley, Richard
Democratic Party
Derida
DoD
Duke, David
Durst, Fred
Dworkin, Andrea
EPA (same story as FDA)
Falwell, Jerry
Farrakhan, Louis
FBI
FDA (well-intentioned, but overly PACed)
Gabler, Mel&Norma
Gates, Bill
Geller, Uri
General Electric
Gifford, Kathie Lee
Gore, Al
Harvey, Paul
Hasselhof , David
Hovind, Kent
Hubbard, L.Ron
Hyatt, Michael
Irving, David
Jackson, Jesse
Jenny Craig
Judge Judy
Kansas State Board of Education
Khomeini, Ayatollah
Knight, Pete
Kuhlman, Kathryn
Landers, Ann
Larouche, Lyndon
Learning Channel
Leuchter, Fred
Limbaugh, Rush
MacKinnon, Catherine
MacLaine, Shirley
McMahon , Ed and Publisher’s Clearinghouse
McMahon, Vince
Melchett, Peter (Greenpeace rep)
Monsanto
MTV (Good One!)
NPR
NRA
O’Neill, Shaquille
PACs
Phelps, Fred
Philbin, Regis
Popoff, Peter
Povich, Maury
Quayle, Dan
Republican Party
Reynolds, RJ Tobacco Company
Rivera, Geraldo (good call!)
Roberts, Oral
Rollins, L.A.
Ross, Natalie-fucking
Schlafly, Phyllis
Schlessinger, Dr. Laura, or however you spell it
Shapiro, uh, First Name, anyone? I’m blanking
Sharpton, Al (can’t believe we missed him before!)
Shore, Pauly
Slim Fast
Somers, Suzanne
Spelling, Aaron
Springer, Jerry Springer
Stern, Howard
Stewart, Martha
Swaggart, Jimmy
Taliban
Turner, Ted
Tyson, Mike
U.S. Congress
Unknown who dreamed up the “infomercial”
Unknown who dreamed up the term “infomercial”
Unz, Ron
VanBuren, Abby (Dear Abby)
Various State Lottery Commissions
vos Savant, Marilyn (for heresy)
Walters, Barbara
Warwick, Dionne and the Psychic Friends
Network
Wildmon (Wildemon?)
That’s right, I put Slim Fast and Jenny Craig BOTH on the list. SO THERE!
I’m going to suggest an EL honorable mention “Untouchables List”. These are people who aren’t exactly suitable to be Doper enemies, but enough people have mentioned them, or mentioned them passionately enough, that we won’t be inviting them to our next Edwardian House Party, either. We can start it of with Jesse Ventura. I turn this list over to anyone who wants to keep it up or start their own thread with it; the EL is enough for me.
Okay, we need a ruling on dead people. I’m inclined to stick to the living, since if we include every idiot in history the list will be too unwieldy. Besides, what’s the point of making an enemy out of someone who’s already dead?
OTOH, we could maybe just limit it, say to 20th century figures whose celebrity centers on events after 1950 (Sorry, Neville Chamberlain!). That way we’d get the historical idiots with the most direct effect on our own environment; AND we could include Tricky Dick and Tailgunner Joe.
I could go either way, so I open the floor to debate.
Winfrey and Buchanan, OTL.
Every time I see George Dubya, I remember what David Letterman had to say about him: “This guy shows every promise of being a colossal boob”. (words to that effect.)
Can someone say something about the benighted state of Oklahoma? I am too inarticulate, but it is such a pathetic spot on the planet, what with the awful cllimate and the meth labs and the highest divorce rate in the country.
I nominate for the list Ted Casablanca, gay gossip guy at E! Every week in his column he drops hints, he includes those maddening blind items, he promises big exposes on Keanu Reeves or Ricky Martin or Matt Damon, or Ben Affleck. It’s a nonstop barrage of “I-know-something-you-don’t, tee hee!” Directly questioned by a justifiably curious public during his live chat, he hems and haws and dodges and puts off answers “until my next column”. The next column, more of the same! When pressed for an answer as to exactly who did what to who, he will cop out and say he will be sued if he should so much as hint, but the name of the miscreant is included in his damn column! Thanks a lot, Ted!
The state of Oklahoma? Where the wind goes rushing down the plains? Come on, that’s a state. How can an entire state be an enemy of the SD? The whole state can’t promote ignorance, can it? There are universities and and smart people and…things in Oklahoma. I think.
~Harborina
“This is my sandbox. I’m not allowed to go in the deep end. That’s where I saw the leprechauns.”
evilbeth: Are you having an anti-Fox problem?
No more than usual.
jab1: That’s an interesting UserName. What does it mean?
Baraqiyal is an angelic being. It’s either from the Apocrypha or Paradise Lost, not sure which. I just thought it would be real slick to have a username I couldn’t pronounce.
jab1: Voyager is on UPN.
Oops, so is Dilbert.
WallyM7: you are out of your farking mind. This is the Straight Dope. We fight ignorance here. Don’t be a yutz.
No sig yet.
Judy! Your Pirate-ness! You’re here!
Stay! Stay! Stay!!!
Damn it’s good to see you!
-Melin
They’re making fun of their “quiet little whitebread, redneck mountain town” as they call it. But you’re just too culturally refined for that, eh? Go read a sonnet if you don’t like it, but don’t say it promotes ignorance based on the half an episode you probably saw.
Oh, to be sure. “She’s perfect”…if you happen to admire plastic, facile, tasteless plagarists. La Martha plagarizes recipes, ignores even basic research and food safety rules, lacks even the basics of aesthetic taste and–worst of all–violates every implulse of genuine hospitality.
Oh, to be sure. “She’s perfect”…if you happen to admire plastic, facile, tasteless plagarists. La Martha plagarizes recipes, ignores even basic research and food safety rules, lacks even the basics of aesthetic taste and–worst of all–violates every tenet of breeding and hospitality.
A Brit/PBS version of a mystery classic put it perfectly. A guest went gaga over the flatware, etc. and the wife/hostess huffed, “Well!, all that about things.”
Exactly. La Martha is a pretentious, pathetic wannabe pusher of ignorance because her conception of taste and hospitality is based on rude, inhospitable, tasteless self-glory.
Home and genuine hospitality are based on honor and comfort given, not sniffy, show-offy homage demanded for the hostess.
BTW, Wally was right. You’re out of your farkin’ mind. And that’s a charitable take on matters.
Veb
L. Ron Hubbard, dead since 1986, made the OP. That’s why I thought William Jennings Bryan qualified. If you want to exclude the dead, fine, but we might first consider the extension of their influence beyond their deaths. How about just those who died in the last 100 years?
While it doesn’t specifically mention Mel & Norma Gabler, this article on the selection of school textbooks in Texas might be interesting: http://www.austin360.com/statesman/editions/today/metro_state_5.html
“If you’re so pro-life, do me a favor: don’t block medical clinics, lock arms and block cemeteries.” – Bill Hicks
Perhaps in other boards, it’s NOT considered bad ettiquette to bitch out everyone in a thread on your FIRST post.
That is my only theory as to why so damn many people come here and feel it’s acceptable. And then when they’re called on it, they ALWAYS talk about how many other boards they’ve been on.
So other boards feel that’s ok. Well. Maybe we should add something to the FAQ. “By the way, if no one knows who you are or anything about you, they won’t like it if you come out of the woodwork just to bitch.” Maybe that’ll solve a few problems.
–John
You can take the tongue out of the cheek. MOS had a great deal of fun with the Monty Hall problem, as a lot of the people who objected to her answer seemed to be professional mathematicians. However, she then declared that Fermat’s last theorem could not possibly have been solved. She felt so strongly about the issue that she wrote a whole book about it. The American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America produced official replies asking her to recant. She hasn’t, as far as I know. I read the book. It was incredibly bad. Her contention is along the lines of, if we’re not allowed to use elliptical geometry to trisect an angle, then we shouldn’t allow the mention of elliptical functions when proving Fermat’s last theorem.
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I’ll have to take your word for that, RM. 
George W. Bush is really Alfred E. Neuman.
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With magic, you can turn a frog into a prince. With science, you can turn a frog into a Ph.D, and you still have the frog you started with.
Archer Daniels Midland (The huge food conglomerate)
Tony Robbins (self-help guru. He certainly helps himself)
OTL:
Ted Casablanca
Tony Robbins
William Jennings Bryan
And, official announcement: we will take anyone from the last 100 years.
However, JR, I feel compelled to point out that L.Ron Hubbard is not dead; he was taken aboard the Thetan’s spacecraft and will return one day to lead us all to a new, higher plane of being.
Who’s James Van Praagh?
Why, specifically, Archer Daniels Midland?
Mr. Popeil - inventor of the pocket fisherman and many other useless gadgets.
Whoever invented silicon breast implants.
Joan Rivers - she’s so damn fake.
Whoever came up with the “Who Wants To Marry a Millionaire” show on Fox. That show makes me want to…do something violent, preferably to said person (must be a man).
~Harborina
“This is my sandbox. I’m not allowed to go in the deep end. That’s where I saw the leprechauns.”