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Ross Sauer -> All wrote: RS> Expelled! RS> By PZ Myers RS> Posted March 21, 2008 RS> There is a rich, deep kind of irony that must be shared. I'm blogging RS> this from the Apple store in the Mall of America, because I'm too amused RS> to want to wait until I get back to my hotel room. RS> I went to attend a screening of the creationist propaganda movie, RS> Expelled, a few minutes ago. Well, I tried ... but I was Expelled! It RS> was kind of weird -- I was standing in line, hadn't even gotten to the RS> point where I had to sign in and show ID, and a policeman pulled me out RS> of line and told me I could not go in. I asked why, of course, and he RS> said that a producer of the film had specifically instructed him that I RS> was not to be allowed to attend. The officer also told me that if I RS> tried to go in, I would be arrested. I assured him that I wasn't going RS> to cause any trouble. RS> I went back to my family and talked with them for a while, and then the RS> officer came back with a theater manager, and I was told that not only RS> wasn't I allowed in, but I had to leave the premises immediately. Like RS> right that instant. RS> I complied. RS> I'm still laughing though. You don't know how hilarious this is. Not RS> only is it the extreme hypocrisy of being expelled from their Expelled RS> movie, but there's another layer of amusement. Deep, belly laugh funny. RS> Yeah, I'd be rolling around on the floor right now, if I weren't so dang RS> dignified. RS> You see ... well, have you ever heard of a sabot? It's a kind of sleeve RS> or lightweight carrier used to surround a piece of munition fired from a RS> gun. It isn't the actually load intended to strike the target, but may RS> even be discarded as it leaves the barrel. RS> I'm a kind of sabot right now. RS> They singled me out and evicted me, but they didn't notice my guest. RS> They let him go in escorted by my wife and daughter. I guess they didn't RS> recognize him. My guest was ... RS> Richard Dawkins. RS> He's in the theater right now, watching their movie. RS> Tell me, are you laughing as hard as I am? Sounds like a bit of exageration to me. Who he FUCK is "PZ Myers"? Are they someone anyone could pick out of a line? I've never heard of them. This must have been a local thing. If it happened at all. (It looks rather far fetched) http://www.myspace.com/jesusonacidman --- Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213)* Origin: The Eastern Star - Fidonet Via Your Newsreader (1:123/789.0) SEEN-BY: 10/1 3 14/250 300 34/999 90/1 106/1 120/228 123/500 134/10 140/1 SEEN-BY: 222/2 226/0 249/303 261/20 38 100 1381 1404 1406 1417 1418 266/1413 SEEN-BY: 280/1027 320/119 396/45 633/260 267 690/734 712/848 800/432 801/161 SEEN-BY: 801/189 2222/700 2320/100 105 2905/0 @PATH: 123/789 500 261/38 633/260 267 |
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