Do you know the article says this is "false"?

I was talking about this with Weird Al's parents just before they... you know.

bingethinker: I was talking about this with Weird Al's parents just before they... you know.

What? Did something happen to Weird Al's parents?

The ACLU pushed Jeff Goldblum off a cliff in New Zealand because he was about to expose their activities on the Colbert Report.

Bathia_Mapes: Do you know the article says this is "false"?

Oh man, I remember going through with the crazy side of my family. They assumed Snopes quoting something meant that they were agreeing with it. Nor did they realize that they had to scroll down to see Snopes' verdict.

"WE WENT TO THAT SNOOPS WEBSITE U TOLD US ABOUT, AND THEY HAVE THE EXACT SAME EMAIL WE GOT! BILL GATES WILL!!! GIVE US $2 MILLION DOLLARS IF WE FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE! I'M NOT SURE WHAT YOUR UP TO BY TRYING TO TRICK US!"

Sgt Otter: Oh man, I remember going through with the crazy side of my family. They assumed Snopes quoting something meant that they were agreeing with it. Nor did they realize that they had to scroll down to see Snopes' verdict.

"WE WENT TO THAT SNOOPS WEBSITE U TOLD US ABOUT, AND THEY HAVE THE EXACT SAME EMAIL WE GOT! BILL GATES WILL!!! GIVE US $2 MILLION DOLLARS IF WE FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE! I'M NOT SURE WHAT YOUR UP TO BY TRYING TO TRICK US!"

I've got a co-worker like that. If it's online or printed in a tabloid then IT HAS TO BE TRUE since they aren't allowed to print falsehoods. Any day now I have expect to hear she's fallen victim to a 419 scam. I can't stop her from replying to obvious spam that lands in her inbox, so of course she gets tons per day since she clicks on them.

Last One Left: The ACLU pushed Jeff Goldblum off a cliff in New Zealand because he was about to expose their activities on the Colbert Report.

I heard he was eaten by a T-Rex.

There are no Navy chaplains in foxholes.

Bathia_Mapes: I heard he was eaten by a T-Rex.

Now you're being ridiculous.

Last One Left: Now you're being ridiculous.

Of course he is. If he were eaten by a T-rex, he couldn't have single-handedly stopped an alien invasion with a computer virus.

Thorak: Of course he is. If he were eaten by a T-rex, he couldn't have single-handedly stopped an alien invasion with a computer virus.

Ex-farking-actly. Thank you. Finally, logic and reason prevail in this thread.

Go Dino-troll somewhere else, Bathia.

Thorak: Of course he is. If he were eaten by a T-rex, he couldn't have single-handedly stopped an alien invasion with a computer virus.

Or invented a machine which would make him put his penis in a bottle in his medicine cabinet.

Did I tell you about the time ACLU gave me hangnails and farted in my bedroom

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how exactly did this get greenlit?

Kredal: how exactly did this get greenlit?

It's storm warning for all pseudo patriot nutjob stuff people will post on Fark for the next 5 days.

Bathia_Mapes: bingethinker: I was talking about this with Weird Al's parents just before they... you know.

What? Did something happen to Weird Al's parents?

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Bathia_Mapes: Do you know the article says this is "false"?

Subby has discovered Fark's fondness for religious flamewars.

False rumors about the ACLU hating christians? NEVER!

I work for the ACLU, so I'm getting a kick out of some of your replies.

The truth of the matter is that we simply want all Americans to whore their daughters to Mohammed (PBUH), or at least His servants on Earth.

Now stop your complaining, and whining about your "Christian" this and that, and accept the True Faith. Or be a Communist. We don't really care. We're just in it for the girls.

Kredal: how exactly did this get greenlit?

Pokemon links get greenlit as Pelosi bashing, so anything's possible. LOL

If you're a cemetery, kind of a bummer if you have to pay Google twice for good search results under both "cemetaries" and "cemeteries"

I'm a member of the ACLU.

/that's right
//no one cares

Sgt Otter:

Hey- Happy 4th of July. Hopefully, you don't see any fireworks today!!
:D

Thank freaking christ the ACLU is around. 200+ years of living in civil society, and we apparently still can't quite wrap our heads around the concept of people we don't like having rights.

Hey, I'm having a memorial for Ace Frehley at my house later today, everyone's invited.

Now if someone can just tell my dumb arse brother in law that. He still insistent that the French dug up all the US servicemen from WW1 and WW2 and sent them back to the US and goes on to paranoid rants about the government going to take his guns, eradicate religion and make him marry a gay man I guess. Every.. single.. time. Thank he who has noodley goodness that the guy left.

I've submitted shiat-tons of links to this little freakshow, and I've had exactly one get the green light. How the fark did this get through?

Hey, Total Farkers, what are you guys doing behind the curtain today, snorting coke off of Drew's treasure trail?

People who believe in and/or forward chain e-mails need to be sterilized.

/totally serious

I heard the ACLU is on a secret mission to rid us of all popular American performers by the end of the year. So far they have killed David Carradine, Ed MacMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Karl Malden and Jeff Goldblum.

If you read about it on the intenets, it's probably false.

If you read about it being false on the internets, it's probably true.

But it's probably false.

/head asplodes

I was on a mailing list that the list moderator would regularly spam with forwarded gang-initiation warnings or health scares. I'd reply to the list with the snopes article refuting his email and told him to check snopes before forwarding. His response was, "I don't trust information from strangers on the internet".

Fortunately he's no longer the list mod.

skinink: I heard the ACLU is on a secret mission to rid us of all popular American performers by the end of the year. So far they have killed David Carradine, Ed MacMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Karl Malden and Jeff Goldblum Billy Mays.

I saw Bigfoot shaving all his face fur off except for a Hitler 'stache.

Yes, it's a Bigfoot Godwin!

/and slashies!

Oh oh, I can has establishment clause flamewar!

Sun God: There are no Navy chaplains in foxholes.

actually, there are Navy Chaplains in foxes. Maybe not at this exact moment, but they can be found there.

Why would the ACLU care about private gravestones in a public cemetary? The story reeked of internet hoax from the beginning.

The ACLU is far too busy making sure criminals more rights than I do then to worry about gravestones.

I don't think the ACLU would be that retarded; Richard Dawkins or, the Freedom from Religion maybe.

nikknaack1: Oh oh, I can has establishment clause flamewar!

Like I just posted in the Jefferson thread, I invite anyone who thinks the Founding Fathers intended this to be a fundamentalist Christian county to go buy a copy of the Jefferson Bible and see what he did there.

Am I seriously the only one that gets the joke of the headline? Seriously?

limeyfellow: Now if someone can just tell my dumb arse brother in law that. He still insistent that the French dug up all the US servicemen from WW1 and WW2 and sent them back to the US and goes on to paranoid rants about the government going to take his guns, eradicate religion and make him marry a gay man I guess. Every.. single.. time. Thank he who has noodley goodness that the guy left.

That's even funnier considering when France pulled out of NATO - they insisted on all American servicemen to leave France. Johnsons reply "Does your order include the bodies of American soldiers in France's cemeteries?"

/johnson did have his moments

radioman_: Why would the ACLU care about private gravestones in a public cemetary? The story reeked of internet hoax from the beginning.

The ACLU is far too busy making sure criminals more rights than I do then to worry about gravestones.

You're right, they DID defend the pedophile drug addict Rush Limbaugh.

Bathia_Mapes: Sgt Otter: Oh man, I remember going through with the crazy side of my family. They assumed Snopes quoting something meant that they were agreeing with it. Nor did they realize that they had to scroll down to see Snopes' verdict.

"WE WENT TO THAT SNOOPS WEBSITE U TOLD US ABOUT, AND THEY HAVE THE EXACT SAME EMAIL WE GOT! BILL GATES WILL!!! GIVE US $2 MILLION DOLLARS IF WE FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE! I'M NOT SURE WHAT YOUR UP TO BY TRYING TO TRICK US!"

LOL. My mom calls it Snoops, but I'm so lucky that she checks it before she sends out stupid-arse forwards.

nicksteel 2009-07-03 11:31:03 AM

skinink: I heard the ACLU is on a secret mission to rid us of all popular American performers by the end of the year. So far they have killed David Carradine, Ed MacMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Karl Malden and Jeff Goldblum Billy Mays, and Fred Travolina.

InfernalCatfish: Am I seriously the only one that gets the joke of the headline? Seriously?

No. Read the thread, it's clear others do. Most of us are just too bored to reply to the durr.

skinink: I heard the ACLU is on a secret mission to rid us of all popular American performers by the end of the year. So far they have killed David Carradine, Ed MacMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Karl Malden and Jeff Goldblum.

You forgot Billy Mays and Harrison Ford

They're not trying to remove them...yet. I'm sure we will come to a day eventually where it's a slow day at the ACLU, and they'll look at those cross gravestones on federal land and say "You know what? That offends me."

I wouldn't be so annoyed by the ACLU if they didn't so frequently use the justification of "so-and-so is offended by this".

InfernalCatfish: Am I seriously the only one that gets the joke of the headline? Seriously?

secret muslin!!!!!

Veloxus: They're not trying to remove them...yet. I'm sure we will come to a day eventually where it's a slow day at the ACLU, and they'll look at those cross gravestones on federal land and say "You know what? That offends me."

I wouldn't be so annoyed by the ACLU if they didn't so frequently use the justification of "so-and-so is offended by this".

Cite?

I'm sure that for verisimilitude they sometimes mention that their chosen plaintiffs in Establishment Clause cases are offended by whatever. But can you please cite an instance where they said that was the justification for the order they were seeking?

Wait....Michael Jackson is dead?!