Sunday Night Housekeeping

On a similar topic (as below), here’s Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch — a man, as it seems, often misunderstood:

Sherlock-Holmesian Lefties find the source of the “Obama is an apostate” claim

Jihad Watch reader James sends me this from Digby’s Hullabaloo:

In response to my question about how the new Muslim Apostate meme got started, Gavin at Sadly No emailed with this link to Jihad Watch from David Horowitz’s FrontPage magazine. This makes sense. After all, David Horowitz has made his career out of being an apostate so it figures his project would be behind the propagation of this nonsense. It’s his thing.

We’re dealing with some very, very deep thinkers here.

Things could certainly be worse.

A few observations:

1. I wrote the piece linked at Jihad Watch. David Horowitz did not. JW is a Horowitz Center operation, but I am solely and wholly responsible for its content.

This explains the name on the piece, which was ‘Robert Spencer’ the first time I read it, and was also ‘Robert Spencer’ last week, when I Googled the terms, Robert+Spencer+Obama+Apostasy.

2. In the post in question, I explained that Obama would not be considered an apostate according to Islamic law if he left Islam before puberty, as it appears he did. I have never claimed that Obama was an apostate from Islam — in fact, I have argued just the opposite — and these geniuses keep attributing just the opposite position to me.

Others including Daniel “Crack” Pipes were working the ‘Obama is a Muslim’ meme. Spencer’s innovation was in taking the claim that Obama was a Muslim as a child (which is not true), and coupling it with the observation that Islamic law mandates death for those who abandon Islam. This is a fact similar to the one that mainstream Judaism mandates death for children who curse their parents (Leviticus 20:9): It is widely irrelevant, and would be specifically irrelevant to Barack Obama even if he were a Muslim as a child, which he wasn’t. Juridical mumbo-jumbo follows in a cascade until Spencer achieves this startling deduction:

So is Obama under a death sentence? Probably not.

Well that’s good to hear! First we thought he was, um, not under any kind of death sentence at all, and now we learn that he’s probably not under a Muslim death sentence either.

More good news: Will Robert Spencer die of necrotizing anal fissures? We don’t think so.

We can play this game all day.

Has Spencer been caught giving blowjobs to undercover cops? Probably not.

Comme il faut, if called to account for such statements, we shall point out correctly and accurately that we never said that Robert Spencer had anal fissures or gave a single, solitary blowjob to anyone, and in fact clearly stated that we believe exactly the opposite. We said he didn’t; can’t you read?

3. Can’t Leftists read? Perry Bacon, Washington Post “journalist,” made the same mistake.

This is the notorious Perry Bacon piece where he repeated all the crazy Obama-is-a-Muslim stories. It says much about Spencer that he considers Bacon to be a ‘Leftist,’ but it says more about Spencer’s piece that everyone seems to misunderstand it so much, and to focus unduly on the kill-Obama-Muslim stuff.

Which is really quite a small portion of the total, if you’re going to count words. Can’t Leftists count? Etc.

 

Comments: 82

 
 
 

Don’t know about you people, but I’ve had enough of ‘Hussien’.

This shit is peanuts, wait till the media finally starts reporting the Larry Sinclair story!!!

 
Incontinentia Buttocks
 

I don’t know which I find more aggravating: wingnuts who, in more or less good faith (i.e. they’re deeply crazy and believe their own nonsense), engage in crazy theorizing of Obama’s religion/race/friends/etc. or concern-trolling “liberals” (and slightly less unhinged wingnuts) who suggest that some unnamed others will believe crazy nonsense about Obama’s religion/race/friends/etc.

Bottom line is that any opponent of the right will be hit with tons of b.s. and that some voters who will pull the lever for the GOP this November will do so believing this b.s. (of course most of these voters would be voting for the Republican with or without the b.s.).

Remember, as well, that back in the ’50s the Birchers used to claim that Ike was a Communist.

 
 

Interesting…
So Barack Obama:

A. is a Muslim serving the interests of the Global IslamoFascist Evildom.
B. is a former Muslim who may or may not be killed by the Global IslamoFascist Evildom, depending on when he hit puberty.
C. belongs to an angry America-hating Black Christian church.
D. is a godless communist

I’d really appreciate if these guys would stick to their Final Answer already, since this is becoming too confusing.

 
 

Oh, and just to be clear, I’m not actually saying Barak Obama got head from a toothless crackhead, Im just posting a link-
http://www.youtube.com/user/larrysinclair0926
-cuz i think its fucking hilarious that people even mention this.
But then, John Kerry did shoot himself. Several times. Just to get out of vietnam and dance naked with Jane Fonda. Everyone knows that.

Cant believe youall would even consider voting for a mooslim.

PS:
Incontinentia Buttocks said,
Remember, as well, that back in the ’50s the Birchers used to claim that Ike was a Communist.

Sweden IS a socialist country, sweetie.

 
 

anything to keep America distracted from the reality of McCain.

 
 

The Minnesota man who claims to have had sex with and taken cocaine with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama voluntarily participated in a series of polygraph tests over the weekend. Whitehouse.com initially offered Larry Sinclair $10,000 to take a polygraph test, and $100,000 if he passed it and was shown to be telling the truth.

Whitehouse.com acquired the services of two expert polygraph examiners, who have examined Mr. Sinclair. The results of the first polygraph examination by Dr. Ed Gelb (Former President of the American Polygraph Association) indicate “deception” in regards to both the drug and sex claims by Sinclair.
http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/4799

Oh well…

 
 

bargal20 said,
May 26, 2008 at 10:09

The Minnesota man who claims to have had sex with and taken cocaine with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama voluntarily participated in a series of polygraph tests over the weekend. Whitehouse.com initially offered Larry Sinclair $10,000 to take a polygraph test, and $100,000 if he passed it and was shown to be telling the truth.

Whitehouse.com acquired the services of two expert polygraph examiners, who have examined Mr. Sinclair. The results of the first polygraph examination by Dr. Ed Gelb (Former President of the American Polygraph Association) indicate “deception” in regards to both the drug and sex claims by Sinclair.
http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/4799

Oh well…

Oh, go ahead and find that info on the whitehouse.com webpage. Its not there is it? Why? Because the ‘expert’ wasn’t an expert or something.
Come on dude, gonna have to do better than that. Larry is suing!

Goddman this is stupid. Hey Bargal, by all means, abort.

 
 

Lesley said,

anything to keep America distracted from the reality of McCain.

You got that right, sister. The dreaminess that is John McCain!
http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=53270

 
 

Lesley said,
anything to keep America distracted from the reality of McCain.

Sad innit?
http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=53270
That anyone would vote for a clinton or a newbie when we have a real bonafide, war tested, hero.

 
 

Um, yeah, Winslow, there’s a reason the info isn’t at Whitehouse.com. The story’s even too bullshitty for them.

 
Rugged in Montana
 

Islamosexuals are in league with both pelicans AND badgers!

 
 

Sweden IS a socialist country, sweetie.

Not exactly, altough I guess you could argue that we’re still trapped in a social-democratic paradigm; the center-right goverment knows that it can’t smash the welfare state outright. Even tinkering with it is met with disapproval by the masses.

No muslims in the cabinet yet, but one openly gay guy and one bi-sexual. Al-Scandinavia remains a Pipes dream.

 
 

bargal20 said,
Um, yeah, Winslow, there’s a reason the info isn’t at Whitehouse.com. The story’s even too bullshitty for them.

Trudat. Say, do you go all obomanout on other blogs? Like, are you easily trolled, say i said “Michelle Obama hates america! ” Would you cut and paste stuff to prove me wrong? Cuz i think that’s funny. Kinda sad, but funny. Do you argue with ‘hillbots’ in other blogs? Cuz i think that’s funny. Kinda sad, but funny.

 
 

Erik W. said,

Sweden IS a socialist country, sweetie.

Not exactly, altough I guess you could argue that we’re still trapped in a social-democratic paradigm; the center-right goverment knows that it can’t smash the welfare state outright. Even tinkering with it is met with disapproval by the masses.

No muslims in the cabinet yet, but one openly gay guy and one bi-sexual. Al-Scandinavia remains a Pipes dream.

Oh fine, find some bullshit link.
Go ahead commie, stuff yourself in one of these cabinets-
http://www.ikea.com/ru/ru/catalog/categories/rooms/bedroom/10451/

 
 

This may be just a biiiiit off topic, but I had the misfortune of seeing firsthand David Horowitz’s obsession with Muslims. I suspect he’s insane or something to that effect, and the first time I saw his ridiculous ad in UCSB’s student newspaper (the Daily Nexus) I pointed and laughed, and he was rightly denounced. He didn’t go away, however, and wrote an editorial denouncing the Muslim Student Association here as a terrorist cell. Rightly, hell was raised…and so the College Republicans decided to, of all things, invite him to speak on campus. Stupidity ensued:

UCSB Muslim Student Association member Aharon Ahmad Morris attempted to address Horowitz, but the orator immediately interrupted him, calling his headdress into question.

“Why are you wearing a terrorist’s headscarf?” Horowitz said. “That scarf is that of a terrorist, created by a monster named Yasser Arafat.”

It’s one thing when the insane man is shouting things at passers-by on the street. When my university provides the platform for him to harass my fellow students, however, I die a little on the inside. Thankfully Horowitz has appeared to move on (Sorry UC Berkeley!) but he’ll be back, I suspect. He’s pulled this stunt before.

So this concern-trolling about Obama? Weak.

 
 

Sometime this year I need to visit the doctor for an apostate check. Not looking forward to it.

 
 

flavortext said
So this concern-trolling about Obama? Weak

Commie. Your links don’t work.
http://www.dailynexus.com/asset.php?m=16791&a=9316

You smoke the pot, yes?

 
 

Discover the network, as they say.

Spencer is a weekly columnist for Human Events and FrontPage Magazine. He also writes a weekly Qur’an commentary for HotAir.com. His articles on Islam and other topics have appeared in the New York Post, the Washington Times, the Dallas Morning News, Canada’s National Post, Middle East Quarterly, WorldNet Daily, First Things, Insight in the News, National Review Online, and many other journals.

He’s also published with Regnery, wouldn’t you know.

 
 

Like, are you easily trolled, say i said “Michelle Obama hates america! ” Would you cut and paste stuff to prove me wrong? Cuz i think that’s funny. Kinda sad, but funny.

What’s even sadder and funnier is a sixty-year-old unemployed man who tries to pick fights with blog commenters in order to get attention. Sad, but funny.

 
 

I am starting to see the strangest thing online.

Troll pride.

They have gone out and found trolls who can spell and type.

Another crevasse in Troll history.

And, on a side, note, Rik W. said disapproval by the masses like it meant something in his country! Dang, must be nice.

The only moral outrage we get from the masses in this country is orchestrated by their puppet masters.

I mean, we make a great outcry, and it gets downplayed and ignored. But show a nipple during the SuperBowl, and it’s a crisis.

A manufactured crisis, the upshot of which is to torment us further.

 
Necrotizing Anal Fissure
 

Thanks a bunch, shithead. Now when some Islamonutjob whacks Spence, the FBI’s gonna be all up in MY grille…..

 
 

I miss Bruce Mona.

 
 

Sometime this year I need to visit the doctor for an apostate check. Not looking forward to it.

Bend over and think of England.

 
 

Can we start joking about knocking these people off like Liz Trotta talked about Obama? I mean, speculating about their goat blowing and anal fissures is fun and informative, but sometimes you just have to speculate how much nicer a place the world would be if they were to suddenly not be spewing crap into it. Of course we wouldn’t be advocating anything, just pointing out the pros and cons of what would happen if these folks were to suddenly and permanently STFU.

Can you tell I read Kristol’s column at the NYT this morning before coming here?

 
 

My above post contains my own grumpy opinions and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of the fine and remarkable proprietors of the Sadly,No! website.

 
 

gbear:

Come on with it.

Cordially
Robert Spencer

 
not even an mba
 

Sometime this year I need to visit the doctor for an apostate check. Not looking forward to it.

Bend over and think of the Church of England.

Fixed.

 
 

“So is Obama under a death sentence? Probably not.”

Seems like a sensible conclusion. After all, he’s not a Muslim…as far as we know.

 
not even an mba
 

Whoah – Robert Spencer calling out gbear.
fight. Fight. Fight! FIGHT!!!
Here’s a Spencer quote from his wiki-page:
“It is amusing to me that some people like to focus on my credentials, when I have never made a secret of the fact that most of what I know about Islam comes from personal study. It is easier for them to talk about degrees than to find any inaccuracy in my work. Yet I present the work not on the basis of my credentials, but on the basis of the evidence I bring forth; evaluate it for yourself.”

Okay, I’ll evaluate this quote.
1. Much of what I say and write comes from “personal study” and is therefore unverifiable in any way.
2. You should judge my work based on the evidence I present, regardless of whether you think I’m pulling it out of my ass or not.
My conclusion:
Reuben sandwiches are undeniably delicious, therefore Robert Spencer is full of shit. QED.

 
 

t Winslow said,

May 26, 2008 at 10:00

PS:
Incontinentia Buttocks said,
Remember, as well, that back in the ’50s the Birchers used to claim that Ike was a Communist.

Sweden IS a socialist country, sweetie.

Who the fuck said anything about Sweden, dumbass? I didn’t realize that Eisenhower used to be the leader of Sweden.

 
 

gbear:

Come on with it.

Cordially
Robert Spencer

Shut the fuck up.

 
 

The fact is, you critics of Spencer and defenders of terrorists (typical liberals) are going to get sued. Here in the heartland, we are careful before we shoot our mouth off about something and not knowing there credentials. You liberals are like a big pile of poo and hate USA.

 
 

aw said,

Like, are you easily trolled, say i said “Michelle Obama hates america! ” Would you cut and paste stuff to prove me wrong? Cuz i think that’s funny. Kinda sad, but funny.

What’s even sadder and funnier is a sixty-year-old unemployed man who tries to pick fights with blog commenters in order to get attention. Sad, but funny.

You know what’s really sad but kinda funny? Sadness.

But who cares about my sense of humour?

You probably don’t realize this aw, being employed and all, but you can post. “Larry Sinclair!” on any number of blogs and someone will immediately provide a cut and paste rebutal. Its kinda impressive. Its like how you can post, “I really think Ms Clinton has gone too far” on blogs and immediately receive a cut and paste response about Obama racism, sexism and media favoritism. Equally impressive. Its like there are an army of people with even more time than me on their hands, just waiting to nail down that cut-n-paste.
Is this a brave new world or what?

 
 

not even an mba:

…therefore unverifiable in any way.

Yeah, I guess if you can’t read, you can’t check references.

Life must be such a mystery for you.

 
 

gbear:

Shut the fuck up.

Oh, I see you’re a typical Leftist debater.

Answer to your request: No.

You’ll have to come kill me to accomplish that.

Come on with it.

 
 

gbear:

You wimpy Leftist tool.

 
 

Robert Spencer has never been arrested for transporting a goat across state lines for immoral purposes. To my knowledge.

 
 

Blue Buddha said,
May 26, 2008 at 16:05

t Winslow said,

May 26, 2008 at 10:00

PS:
Incontinentia Buttocks said,
Remember, as well, that back in the ’50s the Birchers used to claim that Ike was a Communist.

Sweden IS a socialist country, sweetie.

Who the fuck said anything about Sweden, dumbass? I didn’t realize that Eisenhower used to be the leader of Sweden.

Damn. I thought this was a humor blog? I know, it wasn’t that funny, but still…

 
 

Robert Spencer does not have necrotizing anal fissures. To my knowledge.

 
 

I know that is not the real Robert Spencer, because the real Robert Spencer… well, I probably shouldn’t say…

 
 

It appears that Robert Spencer has never been a midget pimp.

 
Necrotizing Anal Fissure
 

atheist,

Will you lay the fuck off? Please stop trying to associate me with slimy wingnuts. I’ve got my reputation, y’know.

 
 

Spence, it is a beautiful sunny day in St. Paul and I have a garden to tend to. I’ve only been in the house this long to get some laundry done. There are 800 things that I want to do that will make me feel good about life this morning. You are not one of them. STFU and have a nice day.

Cordially,
gbear

 
 

The fact is, the right-wing is licking its lips over the possibility of JFK’ing Obama, just as the evil protestant heathens of texas openly prayed for kennedy’s death because he was the double whammy of irish and catholic. Today’s Klansmen-in-Neckties of the Beltway relish the thought of President Obama being felled by a “Muslim” terrorist, to get to the big finale started in ’93, climaxed in 9/11, and to be finished in the next four years: nuclear strikes in the middle east, conquest and colonization of Lebanon and Syria by Israel (international eminent domain in effect), AND the greatest hope for this nation since JFK/RFK brought down by one of their own. The wingers are in a frenzy over such a scenario already, as evidenced by how frantically they are trying to project it onto the left.

 
 

Robert Spencer channels Lord Spatula.

 
not even an mba
 

Yeah, I guess if you can’t read, you can’t check references.
Whether or not I kin haz reedinks is not the point, the point is that Reubens are teh 1337. You can not deny teh Reuben. Man that’s such an awesomest argumentatron that I gonna go and check the references for it, if you know what I mean, and I think you do.

 
Libertarius ShadowLord
 

Not being visited by the real Robert Spencer.
Know how you can tell? Its the WorldNet Daily in his resume. Its monday morning and the real writers of WorldNet Daily are still swaying and speaking in tongues.
Robert, do you mind if I call you Bob, Bob, when you say you’ve done “personal study” on a topic, that means actually leaving the basement (unless you’re studying basements). And Bob, since you’re fighting to the death on the intertoobs field of battle, how is Pat Robertson’s campaign to pray Ruth Bader Ginsburg to _____ going? Casting any more spells our way, Bob?

 
 

On the fence, off the fence!!
Why so fucking tense, Spence?

ME bo BE bo a doooo.

yeah!

 
 

Life must be such a mystery for you.

Indeed it is.

How did we get here? What is our ultimate fate? Is there a purpose to our existence? Does David Horowitz brush his teeth? Does Robert Spencer brush David Horowitz’s teeth? How do they really feel about goats?

So many questions…

 
 

“It is amusing to me that some people like to focus on my credentials, when I have never made a secret of the fact that most of what I know about Islam comes from personal study.

shorter Robert Spencer – “I blatantly make shit up and don’t care if you know it.”

what a douche.

 
not even an mba
 

I don’t know why Robert Spencer’s being so mean to me. As an anti-credentialist I’d have thought he’d be sympathetic to my name. Life is such a mystery to me that I can’t possibly understand it!!!!
On the other hand, mmmmm Reuben sandwich.

 
 

Damn. I thought this was a humor blog? I know, it wasn’t that funny, but still…

It was just like humor, only without all that funny junk!

 
 

Golly, what more could I wish for of a Monday morn, than a couple of microcephalic trollborgs shaking their tiny e-peens in my face & telling me how much the “Left” – that keeps trying to raise humanity above the Visigoth denominator – hates America. Ain’t it a tad strange how keyboard-ninja man-boys like YOU twirps are so quick with the cheap wit, yet so seldom seem able to catch your own monumental screwups?

Points To Ponder.
Here’s the drill, kids: GOP screws country within inches of its life, then slithers away & pouts while Dems try to get it to Intensive Care, GOP waits until it’s up on crutches, then steals it back, repeat. Or didn’t you notice your own history? You guys been in a whisky-&-blow fog for the past 40 years, or what? Between Tee Winslow Whatzit’s magical Swedish Eisenhower & Robert “Kill Me” Spencer, I don’t even know which of you is the more hilarious.

Ah, the depraved whimpers of an evil & obsolete cult as it nears its death.
Seldom does one ever hear anything quite so beautiful.

 
 

We would like to apologize for the way in which Robert Spencer has been represented in this blog.

It was never our intention to imply that Robert Spencer is a weak kneed political time-server who is concerned more with his personal vendettas and private power struggles than the problems of government.

Nor to suggest at any point that he sacrifices his credibility by denying free debate on vital matter in the mistaken impression that party unity comes before the well being of the people he supposedly represents.

Nor to imply at any stage that he is a squabbling little toady without an ounce of concern for the vital social problems of today.

Nor indeed do we intend that viewers should consider him as crabby, ulcerous, little self-seeking vermin with furry legs and an excessive addiction to alchohol and certain explicit sexual practices which some people might find offensive.

We are sorry if this impression has come across.

 
not even an mba
 

Introducing the new Jihad-watch version 2.0
A beautifully designed timepiece it tracks both local time and the time in Mecca with built in alarms for all your daily prayers. Comes with these four different alarm sounds “Allah Akbar!” “Death to America!” “Vote Obama in November!” and “There is No Backbone Cabal!”. Order now and get the Glorious Martyr upgrade free – ten pounds of C-4 that plugs right into the watch for the greater glory of Islam!

 
not even an mba
 

What? No Reuben love from you sandwich philistines? Don’t make me get out the homemade sauerkraut.

 
 

not even an mba said,

May 26, 2008 at 18:14

Introducing the new Jihad-watch version 2.0
A beautifully designed timepiece it tracks both local time and the time in Mecca with built in alarms for all your daily prayers. Comes with these four different alarm sounds “Allah Akbar!” “Death to America!” “Vote Obama in November!” and “There is No Backbone Cabal!”. Order now and get the Glorious Martyr upgrade free – ten pounds five kilos of C-4 that plugs right into the watch for the greater glory of Islam!

Fixed. Remember, the rest of the world has succumbed to the eeeevil komyooniss metric system.

 
 

corned beef or pastrami?

 
not even an mba
 

I like corned beef, marbled rye, provolone, russian dressing. Kosher dill on the side, with my kettle cooked potato chips.

 
 

Well, I know what I’m having for lunch now…

 
 

Is Robert Spencer eating a turd sandwich so chock full of juicy turds that the turds drip down his chest? Probably not.

 
 

Well, I know I’m not having lunch now…

 
 

Is Robert Spencer eating a turd sandwich so chock full of juicy turds that the turds drip down his chest? Probably not.

Probably not, but it would be irresponsible not to speculate.

 
 

Is it ia common usage to call the sandwich made with corned beef a “Reuben” and the one with Pastrami a “Rachel?”

Because that is the way I learned it.

 
 

So Barack Obama:

A. is a Muslim serving the interests of the Global IslamoFascist Evildom.
B. is a former Muslim who may or may not be killed by the Global IslamoFascist Evildom, depending on when he hit puberty.
C. belongs to an angry America-hating Black Christian church.
D. is a godless communist

I’d really appreciate if these guys would stick to their Final Answer already, since this is becoming too confusing.

You aren’t using the logic of the Religious Right. ALL of those would make Obama a pawn of Satan. Since there are at least FOUR ways that he may potentially be working for Satan, chances are pretty high that at least one of those is true. Of course, he might not be, but odds are four to one.

 
 

t Whiney Hole wrote this drivel:

Damn. I thought this was a humor blog? I know, it wasn’t that funny, but still…

Wait, was the joke that you conflated Ike and Ikea? And thus, Sweden?

I really hope it was, ‘cuz that would win the coveted “Most Fucking Stupid Joke I’ve Ever Heard” award… it comes complete with a cash prize of all the coins in my sofa, plus a heaping cup of STFU. If they’re feeling extra-special generous today, perhaps my fellow commenters will toss in the giant bag of dicks…

 
not even an mba
 

It’s my personal experience that people like Robert Spencer loves them some juicy turd sandwiches. I’m not saying that Robert Spencer is currently in the process of re-digesting someone elses lunch, but the evidence is there for you to judge.

 
 

Don’t make me get out the homemade sauerkraut.

My grandmother tricked me into eating sauerkraut cake once. She claimed it was a German thing. I think she’s full of shit.

 
 

There is No Backbone Cabal!

Damn. I bet you remember email with bang-paths and everything.

World has changed a bit since the days of The Great Renaming, ne?

 
 

Yeah, I guess if you can’t read, you can’t check references.

Yeah, Bob, glad to see you using the “it’s the readers job to figure out if I’m full of shit” defense. That one has been a favorite of cranks since time immemorial. Actually, it’s your job as the writer to convince the reader that you’re not just another know-nothing blowhard talking out his ass.

Anyway, my conclusion is that your writing is hackish and intentionally misleading. Your worldview is delusional and deeply paranoid. The political philosophy you support is antiquated, weak, and doomed to failure.

So, yeah, basically I wish you the best of luck with that. However, in the meantime I do wish you’d stop infecting your fellow travelers with your mental issues and inane writings about what are actually complex and serious problems.

 
not even an mba
 

Don’t google TINC. Kids these days (actually, I’m one of them) have no sense of history. Where have you gone unrelated kibo, a nation turns it’s lonely feeds to you. 404.

 
not even an mba
 

I meant one of the snot nosed kids these days. Well maybe not quite “kid” but certainly not old enough to remember USENET. And I most certainly did not mean that I was one of the cabal. There is no backbone cabal.

 
 

The Backbone Cabal was waaaay before my time. I first learned of them years later when I read about their attempts, up to about 1988, to keep sexual content from appearing online.

They were not entirely successful. [giggle]

 
 

pedestrian: Your grandmother hated you.

 
 

Uncle Mike said,
Damn. I thought this was a humor blog? I know, it wasn’t that funny, but still…

It was just like humor, only without all that funny junk!

I know, shoulda gone with the ‘turd sandwiches’ references.
Gotta know your audience.

 
t Winslow Howell
 

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a lesser imp said,

May 26, 2008 at 18:53

t Whiney Hole wrote this drivel:

Damn. I thought this was a humor blog? I know, it wasn’t that funny, but still…

Wait, was the joke that you conflated Ike and Ikea? And thus, Sweden?

I really hope it was, ‘cuz that would win the coveted “Most Fucking Stupid Joke I’ve Ever Heard” award… it comes complete with a cash prize of all the coins in my sofa, plus a heaping cup of STFU. If they’re feeling extra-special generous today, perhaps my fellow commenters will toss in the giant bag of dicks…

Congrats for getting the joke. Dear god it took you all long enough. Maybe you should stop tossing the bag o dicks and, ah, nevermind.

 
 

Maybe you should start telling jokes that are funny. Then they might recognised as jokes.

Never mind.

 
 

aw and Robert Spencer walk into a bar.

That’s pretty much it, the audience chuckles at their humourlessness. Fade to black.

 
t Winslow Howell
 

’57 Beatnik said,
May 26, 2008 at 17:22

On the fence, off the fence!!
Why so fucking tense, Spence?

ME bo BE bo a doooo.

Bonobo!

yeah!

 
 

HA HA! Brilliant. You win.

 
 

pedestrian: Your grandmother hated you.

It’s possible. She hated most things. I think that she was mostly just bored.

 
 

I love corned beef!

 
 

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