Bill Maher's role adds an extra layer of surreality to this whole O'Donnell thing.
Just to be totally up-front, I made fun of you behind your back, in the bear hug thread.
I hadn't seen this one before:
"American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains."
Yes, Christine, they are.
That could explain why mice seem so eager to run into my garage this year. Or maybe it doesn't since the way I know they ran into my garage is two of them died there. One time was not my fault.
2: It took a little digging (no way am I going to wade through every comment in that thread), but I found that comment, and it doesn't bother me at all. All in good fun.
So, who here has had a first date ending with a midnight picnic on a satanic altar? She's making me feel horribly conventional, though that may just be my identity disorder talking.
That was my thought, too! I kept thinking I'd gone out with a pretty cool share of oddballs, and she has to go and be all "Oh my first date was at a Satanic altar, so..."
I don't think the full phrase "has to go and be all" was mentioned in the other thread about "like" and "go" and "be all," so consider 6 submitted.
In my experience, satanic alters are a better second-date thing.
I wonder what she brought to the picnic. "It's my mom's special chicken salad recipe!"
As I've mentioned, a friend of mine had a date that ended with them breaking into a church and fucking on the altar while tripping. From what I've heard of O'Donnell she'd consider that worse than any satanic rituals. But it wasn't a first date.
I think I have a problem with that one.
12: I hope it was at least a catholic or orthodox church, since the incense would at least cover up the smell for the next service. Some poor revivalists or something would just be stuck with sex stink hitting all the front pews.
Not to mention that forcing someone else to take on re-upholstering costs is always quite rude.
Or, for that matter, churches? My impression is that they mostly operate out of tents.
Yes, running a revival is a tough way to make a living. Some of the larger ones don't fit a single tent and those preachers have a hard job. Everyone also says, "Your two tents."
I'm working late. My brain isn't right.
I think I did the punchline wrong. Maybe he can fix it.
My brain isn't right.
Those damned scientists probably stole it and put it in a mouse.
Usurping Stanley's niche, I see.
Sigh.
Night has fallen on the republic.
That is all.
neb's niche, on the other hand, remains securely his own.
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I realized why "Secor laxatives" sounds vaguely familiar: I'm associating it with Setec Astronomy from Sneakers.
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27: It's an anagram for "select ax savior"!
"My secor laxatives" -> "Sexy creol' atavism"
For want of an 'e' -> A wanton offer
Apparently there's a place called Lorcé, so I'll stop there. I need sleep.
So is it reasonable to assume that when O'Donnell talks about this to the faithful, she means Satanism as the Jack Chick, "Satanic ritual abuse" boogeyman, rather than the Wiccanism dabbling it probably was - if it's not a complete lie?
Could somebody educate me on the meaning and use of 'pwned'? Please.
3: So we've gone from Republicans thinking "24" is a documentary to Republicans thinking "Pinky and the Brain" is a documentary. This is progress, right?
rather than the Wiccanism dabbling it probably was
She did say there was blood on the altar, which sounds a bit adventurous for most of the Wiccan dabblers I've come across. Probably one of them cut their finger putting the thing up.
She should certainly be exorcised. On YouTube.
Not all Wiccans are dabblers, and if she had stayed a Wiccan, she wouldn't have switched to being an anti-masturbation activist, which was her first real problem.
Maybe Robust can help us identify what sect or movement she was likely involved with
#41. You were thinking what I was thinking!
I hadn't realised when I wrote 43 that Grumpy Granny Momma Grizzly actually has been exorcised on YouTube. Perhaps we can make this a right of passage for all Republicans, so that when their next presidential candidate is selected they're immediately set upon with bell, book and candle in mid-convention.
It would send a message to the electorate.
Rob, I know not all Wiccans are dabblers, but it's hard to imagine herself knowing the serious ones.
Somewhat OT: NPR's further decline: http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2010/09/21/130013681/bristol-palin-makes-her-dancing-debut-with-mama-told-me-not-to-come
This would be more appropriate for CO.
45: Really? Then where is Stanley going to find that many ocelots?
My guess is she went out with one of those guys who wears a trenchcoat and a hat all the time, and she was like "Oooh, this is risky business. What kind of wizard are you? What are your ceremonies like?" and he was like "Wow, a girl who's actually impressed by my accoutrements. Um, yeah, we definitely do black masses. Yeah, we spit on the host, do blood oaths, all that stuff. Check out the lyrics to this Christian Death album."
"hat" s/b "top hat". In #49 as in life.
Maybe it was just Magic The Gathering and she got confused.
Bill Maher's role adds an extra layer of surreality to this whole O'Donnell thing.
As preface to one of the clips he showed of her (maybe it was this one; I can't listen to it at the moment), he said that he has 22 of them and that he'll keep playing them until she agrees to come on his current show. I hope she never agrees to appear.
In truth, though, I can't watch any of them for very long, because I can't stand that stupid, shouty format -- definitely not the good kind of interrupting. I got a little way into the abstinence-only sex ed one with Al Franken and Ricky Schroder (poor lamb, he was trying to say the right things but wasn't very good at it). The other guest said that welfare recipients shouldn't be allowed to have sex outside of marriage. Not exactly sure how she planned to enforce that.
52: Watching that show was always like teaching an introduction to philosophy class with unusually weird an opinionated students. I couldn't watch it--it felt too much like work.
Chris--sorry, I shouldn't have implied that you thought all Wiccans were dabblers.
Since this is a semi-political thread, I'll report here this potentially awful news: Is Wisconsin Still Feingold Country? Dem Sen Trails Heading Into November:
he's trailing in the polls against Republican businessman Ron Johnson -- the TPM Poll Average gives Johnson a healthy lead of 51.6%-44.8%.
Although:
With that said, Holbrook also made it clear that Feingold could potentially win. Holbrook explained that as of now, the race still has not heated up -- and people still don't really know Johnson: "Right now people don't know much about him, other than he's the guy running against Feingold."
I keep forgetting that real things can happen in Wisconsin.
And not just when you drop a rennet in some milk.
Britain got lucky in their election. Not only are the conservatives now being discredited by having the bad luck to preside over horrible economic catastrophes, but the conservatives are actually not pure evil. I would definitely have voted for them.
49: Yep. Add to that a dash of what we sober Baptists call "charismatic" Christianity, in which people testimonialize on the ways they've battled actual real demons in the form of a homosexual or a Harry Potter movie. When asked to explain how, exactly, they knew demons were involved, this kind of Christian can give you plenty of details about the presence they sensed of demonic powers and hell. Did she literally see blood and a Satanic altar, or was she hanging out with a few potheads in black T-shirts and sensed the presence of blood and a Satanic altar?
I would definitely have voted for them.
Um, you think not being pure evil is a reason to vote for somebody? Just 90% evil?
Given the choices we have in this country, that sounds about right.
58: A friend of mine from Kansas would tell stories like that all the time. There was a church in his town that routinely exorcised things. Like, car broke down? Demon. Do an exorcism. His friend from HS who belonged to this church saw and spoke with angels on a regular basis. He was a tennis player, and the angles would offer advice. "Backhand down the line!" etc. (His parents were the ones who performed an exorcism on their car. It "worked"; they weren't late for church.)
He told me that later his friend was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and, after getting medicated, declared himself to be an atheist, causing his parents serious heartbreak. Not sure how it turned out in the end, but one can hope for a least-painful-for-all outcome.
Mostly this just makes me think about the prevalence of binary thinking in this country, and all the pain it causes. Is it higher than in other countries? It seems like it, right? Why would that be?
(That Kansas friend also has a whole bunch of anecdotes about the Fre/d Phel/ps schmucks. They're really litigious! People would have to cover their license plates before egging their houses.)
Calling themselves "Team Ballin," the Dancing With The Stars duo of Bristol Palin and Mark Ballas are cutting out the middlemen and skipping directly to the porn parodies.
(That Kansas friend also has a whole bunch of anecdotes about the Fre/d Phel/ps schmucks. They're really litigious! People would have to cover their license plates before egging their houses.)
That's their entire goal in life. Irritate normal people relentlessly and hope for some sort of assault or threat that can lead to a lawsuit.
62: Now if they'd only announce themselves to be teabaggers.
Ned at 49- The one missing detail there is where they bond over Tolkien.
Most of the Teabaggers are on Team Ballin already.
61: my favorite favorite story of my partner's mom (by adoption; biologically her paternal grandmother and quie old at the time of this story) is when Lee was driving her past a park where the Phe/lp/s gang made an early stand, complete with their standard signage. Lee's mom shook her head, sucked her teeth, and said, "Well, I don't know what a fags is, but I can't believe God would do THAT!"
Me, I think she was sort of letting on that Lee didn't need to be closeted anymore, but I wasn't around in those days. Lee took it as one more reason to stay closrtrd around family. But I know Ph/elps picketed Lee's brother's (straight) wedding because he was a church musician and as such automatically suspect. Both Lee and her brother seem to believe they protected their parents from seeing the picketers, but I think the family was skilled at unseeing and not talking about things, which is certainly true in my family too.
68: Ha. The "but you're family is really good at pretending stuff isn't there!" thing was a main argument against the ex's freak out. Didn't work, obviously, and equally obviously a terrible argument, but, you know. Had to try. (My family is way good at it, too.)
72 -- Ding ding ding. That has to be the winner. Nice work.
71: *YOUR. God I've been doing that a lot lately. For no raison. Wierd.
72: That was a WHILE ago. Amazing.
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Who could have seen this coming?
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75: I guess they'll have to use the Public Option. Easy-peasy!
Children can learn to cope with illness the way the rest of us do: Try not to get sick.
re: the OP, I can't imagine anyone who was dating O'Donnell in high school was involved with any recognizable Wiccan tradition in any serious way; Wiccan spirituality tends to be pretty eclectic, and around that time (late '80's) detailed information probably wasn't terribly easy to come by in suburban New Jersey.
This whole episode is about as amusing to me as when wingnuts get outed. Sure, I laugh...but it makes me a bit queasy.
This will make you more than queasy.
I think we need to promulgate the idea that, once someone has had a picnic on a Satanic altar, said person belongs to Satan forever - hence, said person would be a closet Satanist, trying to get into the Senate in order to take over the USA for Satan. All of that abstinence/anti-masturbation/homophobic/young earth droning is simply to attract voters; in reality, said person probably engages in Satanic lesbian orgies with dinosaur-bone strap-ons.
78: I'm confident the entire date was a figment of her imagination. Just like Joe Biden tapping her phones, people hiding in the bushes outside her house, and the mice with fully functioning human brains. She's a fucking lunatic who was blessed with a pretty face and good hair, and has managed to leverage those two assets (and best I can tell, nothing much else) into a major-party nomination for a Senate run. Which says more to me about the intellectual state of the Republican Party than it does about Christine O'Donnell.