# You Ignorant Slut **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 6, 2003, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-ignorant-slut/159560 "2003-03-06T20:13:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-ignorant-slut/159560/1 "2003-03-06T20:13:47Z")
ok, before I start - let me emphasize that I KNOW that the “You Ignorant Slut” expression was used, if not originated on SNL. It’s being used on this board a lot too. WHAT is supossed to be so funny about that line…and why was it such a memorable line in the first place? ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-ignorant-slut/159560/2 "2003-03-06T20:22:58Z")
The CBS News show **60 Minutes** in the 1970s had a segment called “Point/Counterpoint”, in which token liberal Shana Alexander and token conservative James Kilpatrick would debate some topic. If Alexander went first, Kilpatrick would often begin his reply with something like, “Jane, you misguided bleeding heart,” and continue from there. “News Update” on **Saturday Night Live** satirized that by having Jane Curtin and Dan Aykroyd do the roles, with Dan often starting his replies with, “Jane, you ignorant slut.” ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-ignorant-slut/159560/3 "2003-03-06T20:24:37Z")
Change that to, “Shana, you misguided bleeding heart,” and continue from there. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-ignorant-slut/159560/4 "2003-03-06T20:32:50Z")
I miss Point/Counterpoint. Why the hell did they do away with that, and hire that chattering monkey Andy Rooney? ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-ignorant-slut/159560/5 "2003-03-06T20:38:29Z")
I think in the 1970s, they had both Point/Counterpoint _and_ Andy Rooney. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-ignorant-slut/159560/6 "2003-03-06T21:26:05Z")
They’re bringing back a new version of it with Dole and Clinton. I shit you not. I’m sure it will be different, but the premise will be the same. I’m kind of looking forward to it. For grins, of course. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-ignorant-slut/159560/7 "2003-03-06T21:31:04Z")
Wow – the perfect thread to bring up the fact that 60 Minutes is reviving Point/Counterpoint with [Bill Clinton and Bob Dole](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030306/ap_on_en_tv/tv_clinton_dole_22) as the two participants. No, it’s not an SNL sketch, although I’m sure it will be soon enough. > [@](#): > > Former President Bill Clinton and his 1996 election opponent Bob Dole will debate the wisdom of a tax cut in wartime as “60 Minutes” revives its old “Point-Counterpoint” feature for them on Sunday. The two retired politicians have agreed to 10 mini-debates over the next few months. The first thing I though of when I read the story was the next SNL sketch, in which they bring back Dan Ackroyd (who does a good Dole) just so that he can say, “Bill, you ignorant slut!” I’m already laughing. Sadly, the revival of Point/Counterpoint doesn’t mean the end of Andy Rooney’s commentaries. ---
**Author:** ![troub](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troub/32/14802_2.png) [@troub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/troub)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-ignorant-slut/159560/8 "2003-03-06T21:31:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kalhoun \* > \*\*They’re bringing back a new version of it with Dole and Clinton. \*\* Yep. [http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Entertainment/reuters20030306\_37.html](http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Entertainment/reuters20030306_37.html) ---
**Author:** ![TigoleBitties](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cab0a1/32.png) [@TigoleBitties](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TigoleBitties)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-ignorant-slut/159560/9 "2003-03-06T21:35:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kalhoun \* > \*\*They’re bringing back a new version of it with Dole and Clinton. \*\* “Bill you southern-fried man ho.” “Bob you viagra popping pencil grasper” ---
**Author:** ![Sock\_Munkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Sock\_Munkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_Munkey)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-ignorant-slut/159560/10 "2003-03-07T07:51:46Z")
There was another sketch on SNL with a point-counterpoint debate between Mick Jagger played by Michael Meyers and Steven Tyler played by Mick Jagger where one called the other an ignorant slut. ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-ignorant-slut/159560/11 "2003-03-07T12:55:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TigoleBitties \* > \*\*“Bill you southern-fried man ho.” > > “Bob you viagra popping pencil grasper” \*\* Bwahahaha! ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-ignorant-slut/159560/12 "2003-03-07T15:58:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TigoleBitties \* > \*\*“Bill you southern-fried man ho.” > > “Bob you viagra popping pencil grasper” \*\* LOL! Too damn funny!!! and, by the way, whenever I can get away with it at work (plenty of warnings, easy-going people, etc.) I still use “Jane, you ignorant slut, who did you sleep with to get that information?” ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-ignorant-slut/159560/13 "2003-03-07T17:53:13Z")
Agreed. Funniest thing I’ve read in a long time! 😃 Way to go, **TigoleBitties** * * * Fagjunk Theology: Not just for sodomite propagandists anymore. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2003, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-ignorant-slut/159560/14 "2003-03-09T04:38:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SpoilerVirgin \* > **The first thing I though of when I read the story was the next SNL sketch, in which they bring back Dan Ackroyd (who does a good Dole) just so that he can say, “Bill, you ignorant slut!” I’m already laughing.** Excellent call, **SpoilerVirgin**! That was the opening joke! ---
**Author:** ![soulburnz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@soulburnz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulburnz)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2003, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-ignorant-slut/159560/15 "2003-03-09T06:51:50Z")
That’s hilarious - I saw the thread title and assumed it was about the SNL opening tonite. Nice prediction !!! ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-ignorant-slut/159560/16 "2003-03-11T07:44:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sock Munkey \* > \*\*There was another sketch on SNL with a point-counterpoint debate between Mick Jagger played by Michael Meyers and Steven Tyler played by Mick Jagger where one called the other an ignorant slut. \*\* I remember that, but I’m almost positive that it was Myers as Jagger and Dana Carvey as Keith Richards, and it was Carvey/Richards who said, “Mick, you ignorant slut.” (They’d done those characters in an earlier sketch, and this was a continuation of their impressions of Jagger the stud and Richards the drunk.) ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lodoen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@Jeff\_Lodoen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lodoen)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-ignorant-slut/159560/17 "2003-03-11T09:25:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rilchiam \* > \*\*I remember that, but I’m almost positive that it was Myers as Jagger and Dana Carvey as Keith Richards, and it was Carvey/Richards who said, “Mick, you ignorant slut.” (They’d done those characters in an earlier sketch, and this was a continuation of their impressions of Jagger the stud and Richards the drunk.) \*\* Actually, Mick Jagger was playing Keith Richards! Made it doubly funny. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-ignorant-slut/159560/18 "2003-03-12T00:15:46Z")
Thesis – antithesis – synthesis: On _Saturday Night Live_, Mike Myers usually played a drunken, unintelligble Ron Wood. But on one episode of SNL, Myers played Mick Jagger alongside the _real_ Mick Jagger, who played Keith Richards. You can see it on the SNL DVD _The Best of Mike Myers_. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-ignorant-slut/159560/19 "2003-03-12T00:46:14Z")
I missed the last SNL, but I’ve heard that they lampooned Clinton and Dole, bringing back Dan Aykroyd as Dole, who of course said, “Bill, you ignorant slut!” I **must** catch the rerun! ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-ignorant-slut/159560/20 "2003-03-12T00:48:41Z")
Sorry, brain fart. :smack: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-ignorant-slut/159560.md?page=2)