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echo: holysmoke
to: Ross Sauer
from: Steve Kemp
date: 2008-03-27 04:38:04
subject: Creationist morons

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

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