Billy Donohue and his merry gang of holy thugs are in full-on outrage mode again:
A planned Holy Week exhibition of a nude, anatomically correct chocolate sculpture of Jesus Christ was canceled Friday after Cardinal Edward Egan and other outraged Roman Catholics complained.
The “My Sweet Lord” display was shut down by the hotel that houses the Lab Gallery in midtown Manhattan. Roger Smith Hotel President James Knowles cited the public outcry for his decision.
Matt Semler, the gallery’s creative director, resigned in protest.
The six-foot sculpture by artist Cosimo Cavallaro was the victim of “a strong-arming from people who haven’t seen the show, seen what we’re doing,” Semler said.
But word of the confectionary Christ infuriated Catholics, including Egan, who described it as “a sickening display.”
Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, fumed, “It’s an all-out war on Christianity. They wouldn’t show a depiction of Martin Luther King Jr. with genitals exposed on Martin Luther King Day, and they wouldn’t show Muhammad depicted this way during Ramadan. It’s always Christians, and the timing is deliberate.”
Good thing the artist doesn’t blog for Edwards- the Donohue might have turned purple and died on the spot.
At any rate, I guess we can safely conclude that what drives Jesus nuts really nuts is Jesus’s nuts.
*** update ***
Andrew
Were Jesus’ balls chocolate and salty?
Duane
I guess we can safely conclude that what drives Jesus nuts really nuts is Jesus’s nuts.
LOL!
Tsulagi
They were just worried some of the Catholic priests wouldn’t have been able to keep themselves from giving the chocolate Jesus a circumcision orally in public.
Zifnab
haha! Keep’m coming John. This blog only gets better with age.
And I’m waiting for a Friday wine-and-food blog detailing what exactly would go well with a giant Chocolate Jesus.
Punchy
I dunno. I saw the pic of Chocolate Jesus. Wasn’t that impressed. I’m pretty sure, seeing that he really had the power to do just about anything, that he would have given himself at least another 6 inches or so. Like a third leg under that robe he wore….
After all, since he had to walk around all day and impress others, it surely wasnt the Birks on his dogs or his hippie hair or six-pack abs. Tube-Snake Savior, bitches. Surely the artist must have overlooked this.
Dulcie
My favorite part of the artice:
Because nothing says christian like death threats.
craigie
I wonder if any – any – of the callers and death-threateners had actually seen it.
It’s confusing, really, because isn’t Easter the Holy Festival of Chocolate?
craigie
And yet, if a woman in El Salvador had seen Jesus’ face in a bar of chocolate, they’d all be rushing to worship it. Funny people, these cultists.
RSA
Jesus and chocolate: two great things that go great together.
cd6
It wouldn’t have been a problem if the artist had used white chocolate.
But showing Jesus as a heathen brown person was way over the line.
Zifnab
Jesus returned to us as an anthropomorphic bunny that lays colored eggs.
grumpy realist
Considering that a good Elizabethan oath was “Christ’s balls!” I don’t know what these people are upset about.
They would rather a chocolate Jesus without any?
grumpy realist
Actually, I just thought if someone wanted to really do a piece of snark they should create an exact copy of the anatomically correct Jesus, snipped, with one of those satellite-dishes-around-the-neck that one sees on dogs….
Darrell, D'Souza, Delay and Strauss
My only problem is why he didn’t use white chocolate…
RSA
Digby quotes Donohue directly:
Militant Christians are so cute around holiday times.
canuckistani
Given the ritual cannibalism that is at the heart of Catholicism, I don’t see the problem with the art, unless the Body of Christ is like spinach – it makes you strong, but you aren’t meant to enjoy it.
Dulcie
And what is with Donahue’s obsession with MLK, Jr. anyway? Didn’t he invoke his name during the John Edwards blogger controversy?
PeterJ
Did the Jesus chocolate goodness (godness?) have bunny ears? Is this a major victory in the war against The Easter Jesus Bunny(tm)?
grumpy realist
So Donahue would be ok with a sculpture of Jesus made out of spinach?
These Christianists are weird…..
cd6
Hell of a sponsorship deal by Cadbury’s
Do you think Chocolate Jesus had a caramel center or peanut butter??
Baby Jane
Louis C.K. vs. Bill Donahue
Baby Jane
…in the clip he, again, expresses his affection for MLK.
Paul L.
chocolate sculpture of Jesus Christ. Yawn.
Let’s see some courageous “art” like
A chocolate sculpture of Mohammed
Here is a good model.
or P*ss Quilt. a piece of the Aids Quilt submerged in urine.
But I guess offensive art to Muslin and gays is forbidden because they are protectecd victim groups.
jake
I guess a Jesus made entirely from Peeps would be unacceptable?
Fixed.
Although I like “The Donohue.” I move we call him La Donohue.
Perry Como
Unacceptably delicious.
Paul L.
Speaking of that cute little cupcake.
Here is a story about chocolate and Amanda Marcotte.
I await John’s condemnation.
John S.
While we all await a serious post from you that warrants a response.
Perry Como
That’s hilarious.
CaseyL
Darndest thing: I can’t find that story on Google, at all; nor can I find anything in Pandagon’s archives about it.
Also? “Chocolate vagina” makes no sense. The vagina is an internal organ; a candy based on it would pretty much be a chocolate tube. If Perugina was going to make a candy based on female genitalia – one that features a large clitoris, no less – it would be a chocolate vulva.
IOW, Dan Collins seems to have made up (or found somewhere) a big old FAKE STORY.
FTR, I seriously doubt Marcotte would be outraged or offended by chocolate vaginas or vulvas. I think she’s think they were a hoot. Especially that bit about the large, easy to find clit.
RSA
Speaking for myself, I don’t condemn Donohue and his minions for raising a stink and organizing a boycott. His implied threats of violence are worth condemning, though. If he’d stuck to saying that he finds the piece offensive and wants people to avoid the place, that would have been perfectly fine, if still funny. Marcotte’s comments are in the same category–fine and silly.
Paul L.
CaseyL
I fell it. Should have guessed it too good to be true.
That and I should have remembered this story.
Vanderbilt students sold chocolate vaginas as a fundraiser for V-Day
jake
Neither will you find anything about it on NOW’s website or by searching Nancy Boyer. But the supposed comments from the supposedly outraged feminists should provide a hint…
If John condemned posters who linked to spoof sites he’d never get anything done. Furthermore, I think Paul L. should get credit for posting about something besides zygotes.
demimondian
Hey, Paul, I thought you over there looking for fake bodies in Qana, or looking to see who changed the data to make it appear that adult stem cells were totipotent, or something like that? Really, guy, that would be a better us of your time.
Baby Jane
Kinda sucks when the blog you read for news and info is just making shit up and blowing smoke up your ass without even letting you in on the joke. What a way to treat readers. Now you’re the joke.
Sirkowski
Wow, Bill Donohue wants to suck a black dick pretty badly.
demimondian
I’m sorry, Paul — I didn’t see your retraction before I snarked. I shouldn’t have harassed you about the vagina story.
Now, about the P*ss Quilt…in order to have a panel, you have to have died of AIDS. You don’t have to be gay to have a panel, and there are a lot of people who contracted AIDS in some other way that have panels. P*ss Quilt is mocking the dead, not the living. So, on that score, I recommend further research into bodies in Qana, totipotent adult stem cell, etc.
CaseyL
Paul L – thank you for acknowledging that you were had.
As for the Chocolate Easter Jesus… it’s so silly it’s perfect.
I don’t expect nutjobs like Donohue & Co. to understand the wonderful satirical connection between a Chocolate Easter Jesus and all those bunnies and eggs – that Easter is a co-optation of springtime fertility festivals, otherwise whatthehell do bunnies and eggs have to do with Jesus, anyway? – any more than I expect them to realize that if Jesus could see what became of his simple message of love and mercy, he’d’ve stuck to carpentry.
chopper
damn cotton fabrics. when will muslin start acting like it’s cool cousin denim?
ThymeZone
Would a chocolate Jesus be for licking, or just biting off a piece and chewing it?
Does the Food Channel have anything on this?
ThymeZone
Did Mark Foley give his life over to Chocolate Jesus (not my chocolate yard man)?
ThymeZone
Will Darrell get a hard on from looking at Chocolate Jesus?
Is Chocolate Jesus approved by the Boy Scouts?
Baby Jane
Something funny about that particular bit is Donohue specified a “white” guy doing the sucking.
Rome Again
Well, if the model were taken from Revelation, it’s possible that the toes could be peanut butter, the legs caramel, and other parts could be nougat, butter creme maple, and rocky road.
ThymeZone
Jesus is a Taste Sensation!
Rome Again
Gosh, whem you put it that way, maybe I can be converted after all, so what the hell is the problem with those Catholics? I mean, whatever brings people to Jesus, right? Killing is okay, forced confession is okay, but sweet Jesus is not? Hmmmmm.
Dug Jay
I’m not “religious” in the least, but I have to say that this anti-Catholic kind of bashing is just a bit much. It’s likely offensive to other Protestant folks as well. Somehow, I rather suspect that similar comments/writing about gays, muslims and blacks would be found highly offensive by John and others in this thread.
On the other hand, John and this crowd are so clearly over the bend…..
Rome Again
It’s okay Dug Jay, I don’t just have a problem with Catholics, I have a problem with the entire Christian concept.
ThymeZone
“Sweet Jesus!” Wonderful, that’s the essence of it, alright.
I give not a flying ratfuck what anyone finds offensive. “Offensive” is a word that has no meaning outside the realm of bathos and manipulation. “Offensive” means somebody can’t stand the truth. Oh yeah? So, fuck them.
Jesus was hung? He was dark? Great news AFAIC. All my life I have had to look at these fucked up bullshit images of creamy white blonde Jesus, which is sure to be a big fucking lie. That’s what I find offensive …. manipulative lies.
Kudos to the creator(s) of Candy Jesus. Fuck the “offended” manipulators and liars. Fuck them very much.
Dug Jay
The very essence and brilliance of the mind that is ThymeZone:
The world desperately needs such deep thinkers in these troubled times. On the other hand, one wonders if ThymeZone is merely drunk or stoned out of his fucking mind.
Rome Again
Yes, it does, actually.
ThymeZone
Well, mister bigmouth spoof, why don’t you take a poll and see what the trend of thought is on my post?
Go ahead. I have $100 that says I’ll win that little popularity contest.
Money, meet your mouth. Put it up, asshole.
Chad N. Freude
But what would they do if she saw Jesus’s Jenitals?
louisms
As an ex-catholic, I distinctly remember that the body of Christ tasted nothing like chocolate- more like a kind of tasteless bread product.
Baby Jane
Dug Jay
A challenge to John Cole and posters such as ThymeZone: Post something just as snarky and nasty about Muhammad, the prophet and founder of Islam.
Rome Again
LMAO @ Baby Jane – simply priceless!
Rome Again
I’m sure when someone makes a chocolate Mohammed, John will post it.
By the way, why do you think leftists who disagree with Christianity must be muslims?
Chad N. Freude
Oh, come on. I find the Protocols of the Elders of Zion offensive. I find Darrell’s machine-gun epithet attacks offensive (when I’m the target). I find snide (i.e., unwarranted) personal insults offensive. What are the truths that I can’t stand?
I might agree with the idea that “offense” is often taken when the offendee merely feels that his self-righteousness has been attacked, but equating being offended with denying truth is … offensive.
ThymeZone
Mohammad just called and said you should go fuck your spoofy self.
Dug Jay
These days it takes no balls or guts at all to disparage and insult Catholics, Protestants and, to an increasing extent, Jews. However, the PC police on the Left, not to mention the more radical and extreme of the Islamists, will not tolerate such insults to their religion and icons. But, go ahead and prove me wrong and rip a new one for Muhammad.
ThymeZone
Well, that you’re an argumentative spoof asshole, for one.
I made a good rhetorical point. Give it props, or get out of the way.
Which side are you on, anyway? Oh, you’re spoof, so you don’t need a side, you can just shoot your spoofy mouth off.
W’re not talking about the definition of all offense, shit for brains. We’re talking about a fucking CHOCOLATE JESUS.
Baby Jane
That’s sweet. And, certainly a step up from cheap and easy.
ThymeZone
To do what? Step up to a simple $100 bet?
Come on man, show some chocolate balls.
“You” are the target? A phony handle that is new here? I have a real name and real email address and I’ve been eating shit from Darrell for two fucking years.
So suck a rock, whiner.
Rome Again
Well, its my understanding he married a nine-year-old girl. What more could I possibly have to say to disparage him? No nine-year-old girl is ready for marriage. Menses doesn’t normally set in until the age of 12… so it seems to me that Mohammed was nothing but a pervert, but that’s just MY take on the subject.
I might add, this is not new or uncharted territory.
Dug Jay
Oh, come on, ThymeZone. It’s rather widely known that, since your extended stay in that wonderful Phoenix hospital a few years ago, you have no need whatsoever for balls of any color or material.
Rome Again
I call bullshit. Cite specifics or shut the hell up!
Chad N. Freude
You have a point. Ann Coulter certainly has no qualms. But the implication is that the Right is more righteous because they disparage and respect (only?) Western religions.
who, as we all know, share so many of the values of the Left.
Dug Jay
Peyronie’s disease.
Chad N. Freude
TZ, I’m truly sorry that your hemorrhoids are bothering you so much. Addressing your major points:
I have experienced the Wrath of Darrel in the Thank Some Deity Or Other for Chuck Schumer thread.
If by spoof you mean someone who writes stuff they don’t mean or believe for the purpose of stirring up the troops, you’re wrong.
My handle is no phonier than “ThymeZone”.
If the measure of seriousness is exposing one’s real name and e-mail address, then I’m going to be non-serious for a while.
well, not really. Hear anything from Oliver?
Chad N. Freude
Heavens, how could I miss that one? Change your diet for crissake. At least find a more palatable source.
jake
From Baby Jane’ link:
Just one of many posts that would cause La Donahue to blow a gasket.
Jonathan
Dug J:
Mohammed was really impotent and his children were all sired by a supposedly neutered Nubian manservant.
ThymeZone
I have a real email address associated with a real name, known to many here including John Cole.
Do you?
ThymeZone
Yeah, except when somebody dings you. Then you are all serious.
Why? Offended?
ThymeZone
And while you spoofs are dodging reality, I have another 50 bucks that says at least two handles on this thread are being written by the same guy, creating a phony argument with himself.
Who wants some of that action?
ThymeZone
Talk to John Cole. That’s the specialty of the house here.
Rome Again
Dug Jay… prove it, with specifics (plural). That is what I asked for.
You’ve proven you need to just shut the hell up.
ThymeZone
Okay. Kiss my ass.
Rome Again
I would if I could afford it. ;)
Chad N. Freude
If mine is one of the handles, I’ll take the bet.
Regardless of who the spoofers are, how will you determine who wins? Spoofers are not going to raise their hands and shout “Over here!”
Is that correct? I can’t argue about this unless I understand the vocabulary. And what makes you think I’m spoofing? What have I said that sounds like a spoof?
Chad N. Freude
Not that sorry, Dude. But I’ll send flowers.
ThymeZone
What makes you think you aren’t?
Tell us everything about you. That’s what this is all about, right? You?
Please, the floor is yours.
You were, I presume, born in a log cabin ……
ThymeZone
Well, why don’t you argue about something else, then?
Pick a topic that has some relevance to something besides how well your sentences can be diagrammed, and argue something worth talking about.
I know … how about the power of Chocolate Jesus to offend?
What’s your non-thinking on that subject?
Oh, wait, you aren’t being serious. I forgot.
So, what are you being, then?
Chad N. Freude
How many other posters have done this?
No, actually I was born in Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago.
Next presumption?
ThymeZone
Well, since you aren’t serious, what are we to do? Take you unseriously.
That’s what I’m doing. Isn’t that what you wanted?
Rome Again
Damn, you’re on the internet. You just missed the opportunity to come up with something really interesting. Who would have known differently if you made it believable. You aren’t very creative, I guess.
Baby Jane
If anybody still hasn’t gotten their fill off offense today, follow Sirkowski’s website link. Now that’s my kind of offensive – top shelf stuff. It makes chocolate Jesus look like a candy-ass.
ThymeZone
Chad is probably one of the Two Steves (Steve and Other Steve).
Their patented “Oh come now, who’s really on first?” style of nonsense argument is pretty familiar.
To be taken seriously by me, a poster needs to take an identifiable position on a topic, and then stand up for it with facts and logic. Very simple, really, Even an eighth grader can do it.
My position is, calling a chocolate Jesus “offensive” is just bullshit. It’s a work of art. You can say you don’t like it, and don’t think Jesus’ Johnson should be exposed, and maybe argue that point. But you can’t just say “Oh my, I’m offended” and walk away. What is the offensive part? That Jesus had a Johnson? Or that the world should ever see it represented in art?
I guess that statue of David is offensive, then?
Rome Again
Well, no, see, because:
1. David’s religion has been replaced by Jesus’ religion
2. Jesus was born in such a way that he’s not supposed to have a Johnson. ::winks::
ThymeZone
Ah …. good point. Very good point. His daddy apparently had no Johnson … so we can guess that he didn’t necessarily have one either.
NOW I’M OFFENDED! HOW DARE they suggest that Jesus had a Johnson? That flies in the face (ahem, gay reference unintended) of people of faith.
Of some fucking thing.
Chad N. Freude
I’m not being challenged on anything else.
Where did I talk about diagramming sentences?
Actually, I think the Chocolate Jesus thing is about on par with a Will Farrell movie. Is this worth talking about?
Only if serious is defined as real-life identity disclosure.
Interested in discussing the Decline and Fall of the American Empire, the high-jacking of American democracy, the destruction of the freedom of American citizens, the destruction of the middle class for the benefit of a small upper class, the apparently exponential increase in the disparity between the wealthy and the poor in the US, the hypercommercialization of health care, the conflict between the need for immigrant labor to sustain our food supply with the desire not to give taxpayer-provided services to illegal immigrants, the attempt of GeorgeKarl BushRove to channel Mussolini, …
There’s more, but my fingers are tired.
Rome Again
Thanks Baby Jane, great link. It would be cool to check that out when I’m bored at work. It seems that most of the stuff I like to read isn’t blocked, which means I’ll probably be able to access it. :)
ThymeZone
You don’t say? Well, if I detect you actually talking about any of those things, I will be sure to tune in.
Meanwhile, go back to WWF Wrestling or whatever you normally do at this time of day. I posted a position relevant to this thread. I don’t have time for your bullshit.
And let us know when you want to be taken “seriously” again, will ya?
TIA
ThymeZone
Define it any way you like, butthead. Then be sure to tell us whether you are to be taken “seriously” or not at any given time.
Maybe a (S) or (NS) tag on your posts? Just a suggestion.
jake
I see you’ve discovered La Donohue’s favourite wank site.
Chad N. Freude
I’m serious. I just prefer to keep my name, address, telephone number, and primary e-mail address private. If you want correspondence, use [email protected].
Chad N. Freude
Pick any of my postings that appear to you to be non-serious and we can discuss it.
ThymeZone
You are? Well, then point me to your posts on any of those topics you listed earlier as “interested in discussing.”
Please, let’s have that discussion. You go first.
Or, you could amaze us with your wisdom on the subject of Chocolate Jesus and His Amazing Johnson and Its Power To Offend.
What is your thinking? Would a smaller or larger member have incurred less opposition and “offense?”
How do you feel about really big penises, in general?
Whether, say, chocolate, or nougat, or flesh, or ….?
Do you get a hard on when you talk about it?
Can you send me a picture?
ThymeZone
I am not about to go searching through your postings.
I don’t go through garbage cans. Pick your own.
Rome Again
There goes the splash screen.
ThymeZone
At least I am not Dick Cheney. I won’t shoot him in the face.
Rome Again
Oh, come on, haven’t you learned yet that the onus is on the person trying to prove a positive, and not the person trying to prove a negative?
The Easter Bunny
Post proof or retract, moonbat. I was around long before that hippy showed up. Ooooh, I can turn water into wine. BFD. Try squeezing thousands of pastel eggs out of your ass, pal.
All this fuss about the Holy chocolate longjohn is just a distraction from what Easter is really about: brightly colored eggs, laughing children, candy, and wiping the Canuckistani scurge from the face of the Earth.
PeepsPeace, bitches!demimondian
TZ, you’re being an overbearing twit. You make yourself accessible, yes, but as far as I know, you’re the only “regular” who does, and some of us are quite radical about hiding our identities, for whatever our reasons are.
Now, some of us should never be taken seriously, but if having a _nom d’ecrit_ makes one a spoof, then there are very few real people here at all.
ThymeZone
You’ve got to accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
And latch on to the affirmative
Don’t mess with Mister In-Between
You’ve got to spread joy up to the maximum
Bring gloom down to the minimum
Have faith or pandemonium’s
Liable to walk upon the scene
To illustrate my last remark
Jonah in the whale, Noah in the ark
What did they do just when everything looked so dark?
(Man, they said “We’d better accentuate the positive”)
(“Eliminate the negative”)
(“And latch on to the affirmative”)
Don’t mess with Mister In-Between (No!)
Don’t mess with Mister In-Between
(Ya got to spread joy up to the maximum)
(Bring gloom down to the minimum)
(Have faith or pandemonium’s)
(Liable to walk upon the scene)
You got to ac (yes, yes) -cent-tchu-ate the positive
Eliminate (yes, yes) the negative
And latch (yes, yes) on to the affirmative
Don’t mess with Mister In-Between
No, don’t mess with Mister In-Between
Chad N. Freude
Well, there’s this. And this.And this.
Not a lot about the economic issues, though, so I guess you got me.
ThymeZone
Brilliant. Did you just think this up all by yourself?
What is your fucking point? Two years now, I’ve never seen you actually have one. Amaze me.
Chad N. Freude
Then I guess you won’t bother to check the pointers in my last post. Too bad. That makes a dialog kind of tricky.
Chad N. Freude
Just saw that the pointers message I referred to is äwaiting moderation.” This will cause the dialog to become non-sequential and then even sillier and more irrational than it is already.
Chad N. Freude
Omigod! Five by Design.
ThymeZone
Wait … your schtick here is aimed at provoking dialogue?
Who knew?
Okay, dialogue away. I’ve made several posts here concerning the “offense” created by Jesus’ Johnson.
Did I miss your posts on this subject?
Wait, let me take another couple hours and scour the thread for them again ….. give me time. I will need lots of time.
I know they are there somewhere.
Chad Speaks on the subject of Jesus’ Offensive Johnson.
It’s there somewhere, I just know.
Oh, show some mercy. Just tell me what your position is on this. Save my old eyes from this futile search.
Give me a complete sentence that describes your view on this, please. Can you do that? Have you no sense of decency sir, at long last?
For extra credit, and without Google, identify the origin of that last sentence.
Rome Again
Well, if it’s awaiting moderation, that doesn’t actually make it yours, does it? I mean one posted by “Chad N. Freude”
Baby Jane
This thread is gettin’ all bizarro world ob-wings-like. Next thing you know, Gary Farber is gonna pop in and correct somebody’s ebonics or something.
Rome Again
Omigod! Never heard of them, and their website doesn’t exactly draw me in.
ThymeZone
Yes, it’s called the Steve Effect.
jake
Let’s see, what else has gotten Willie D. in a dither of late?
Unless the CL’s site has been hacked, I am not making this shit up.
I don’t think he’d like this song either.
Rome Again
Hey, you helped with that link to misswhatshername.
ThymeZone
Did you possibly do a typo on your email addy or handle?
Did you post from an unrecognized ip address?
Rome Again
Well, you know about those catholics and their idols.
By the way, the Old Testament God approves of this message, so back off.
ThymeZone
That is a GREAT line.
Rome Again
I’d take a high-five, but I can’t… God told me to say it.
ThymeZone
He obviously favors you.
Baby Jane
Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail don’t have a rapsheet. Heh.
Chad N. Freude
I only made one, disagreeing with the way you defined “offensive”.
Clarity ensues: I really don’t care who insults which religious icon. I think Dug Jay’s implication that the Right is somehow better than the Left because (his presumption) the Left thinks that it’s OK to make fun of Christian icons but not OK to to make fun of Muslim icons is either unthinking or disingenuous. The Chocolate Jesus outrage could be better channeled into outrage at the hypocrisy of the self-proclaimed followers of all religions. Oh, yeah, and the outraged Christians are fools who don’t understand that if they ignored the insult, it would fade into the mists of the past, never to be seen again — they keep it alive.
Please put your contribution into the spoof jar.
That’s Joseph Welch at the Army-McCarthy hearings after a vicious political attack on a member of his staff, Fred Something-I-Would-Have-To-Google-Because-I-Don’t-Remember-It. He had been a member of some lefty organization in law school and had no record of any activities that could cause his patriotism to be challenged. Oops, that’s two sentence. Does that invalidate my answer?
Rome Again
He favors anyone who seeks out real truth. The problem is so many people only accept other people’s versions of truth.
Chad N. Freude
Doubt it, but [email protected] should work. At the moment, it says I have no new messages.
ThymeZone
I’ll allow the objection. I could have been clearer by confining my blast to the Jesus Johnson context. In that context, I stand by my remark. Outside of it … not so much.
Well, Dug Jay is total spoof. So, whatever. I agree about the foolish Xtians. I don’t agree that the thing is an insult. It’s just a presentation of a symbol which they have chosen to interpret as an insult. Other than that, agreed.
No, I’ll take your first sentence as your answer. Which is correct. If you knew this without looking it up, then you get the carwash coupon.
Chad N. Freude
Arrrgh! My incompetence has been exposed. Nothing left now but hara-kiri.
Baby Jane
I think this is incorrect. I see it more as a variation of ‘any press is good press’ – any outrage is good outrage.
Rome Again
When did Jesus (not TZ’s yard man) approve of outrage?
Baby Jane
What’s Jesus got to do with it?
Chad N. Freude
Damn! There goes my only reason for posting.
OH! ThankyouThankyouThankyou! This is more meaningful than my SAT score.
I don’t want to appear ungrateful, but could I have round-trip plane fare to Europe instead?
ThymeZone
Good point. And my yard man? He is easily outraged. When he sees a weed, or a frost-damaged shrub …. hoooo boy.
Then the stream of Spanish invectives comes ……
Baby Jane
[/tina turner voice]
ThymeZone
Yes, with this, you can skip American History 101 with credit.
ThymeZone
Yes, if you could forward me your credit card number, three digit security code, and expiration date, I will take care of it for you.
Chad N. Freude
An arguable point. But that would make it mock outrage, which would be hypocrisy, so it can’t be right.
Rome Again
Oh, that’s right, I forgot, Christianity isn’t really about Jesus, it’s about showing off how good a person is because he prays, and goes home and beats his wife, and screws children and is pompous ass to everyone around him, yet he goes to church so he’s “saved”.
Chad N. Freude
Indeed I could. So now you’re committed. Where’s the check?
Baby Jane
It isn’t right, is it? I’m outraged!
Chad N. Freude
J F’ing C! An omitted article. How in hell do you expect to be taken seriously here?
ThymeZone
The …. uh …. what?
Heh heh.
Did you mean “chuck?” That’s over by the sirloin …..
Baby Jane
O’Reilly’s Christianity in a Nutshell.
Chad N. Freude
Could we please stop talking about James Dobson?
ThymeZone
You learn quickly, grasshopper.
Rome Again
Eh?
Chad N. Freude
OMG! I actually laughed out loud at that.
Welsher.
Chad N. Freude
Rome, the “a” was omitted.
Rome Again
No shit Sherlock, and how do you pronounce “eh”?
Chad N. Freude
Dude, I told you, I’ve been here before.
So many lives, so little time.
Baby Jane
So little life, so much time.
Chad N. Freude
Like the “e” in the Spanish “es”. Not like the “ai” in “the rehn in Spehn”.
Chad N. Freude
And that’s how I spend my Saturday nights.
ThymeZone
Now, now. You’re getting $100-a-post lessons here for free.
Think of the long term value.
I don’t give this stuff away that often.
Rome Again
Damn, I’m here because I’m addicted… if I wanted to, I could be so many other places. I must be sick, huh?
ThymeZone
Well, not in Canada. Or Minnesota.
Chad N. Freude
Um, have we gone off-topic? That pitiful chocolate guy being crucified (better him than me) no longer has our attention. He risks being replaced by Sanjaya.
Fruitbat Jones
I cannot believe you linked to digby. Simply cannot believe what I’m seeing.
Johnny…visit a doctor. I’m worried.
Chad N. Freude
And that’s a bad thing?
Rome Again
The Aussies took their language from the Spaniards?
ThymeZone
I think we’ll need to warm up the nails.
I must earn a crust.
Baby Jane
Right. Outrage. Christians.
*yawn*
Baby Jane
apparently surrounding text with asterisks is code for bold.
Rome Again
Yes, yes it is Baby Jane. Now you know :winks:
Chad N. Freude
Why does this make me think of World War II spy thrillers?
Chad N. Freude
Hey, Baby Jane –
Whatever happened to you?
ThymeZone
You just gave me an idea.
What if Darrell is actually a Navajo Code Talker?
ThymeZone
Diet Pepsi alert …
spit over two feet.
Very good. Very very good. Now my expensive laptop is ruined.
Rome Again
Kudos! THAT was good.
Chad N. Freude
… not attacked or insulted by ThymeZone for several minutes now … getting faint … losing consciousness … Oh, God, TZ help me … say something negative about my credibility … (gasp) …
Baby Jane
NSL
Chad N. Freude
Oh dear God I’m doomed.
Chad N. Freude
You joined the National Soccer League?
ThymeZone
I would, if I thought you had any.
Ba-da-boom!
Rome Again
LMAO
ThymeZone
AH-DA-AH-HO-DZAH ?
Baby Jane
What the hell is a national soccer league?
Chad N. Freude
This is late (I’m really slow) but anyway:
Does this qualify me for a position in the Bush administration?
ThymeZone
Yes, as long as you graduated from an Evangelical college.
Chad N. Freude
I have no idea what NSL stands for. Why not this?
Baby Jane
OT: I don’t know if anybody is watching SNL, but some guy from some band just smashed his acoustic guitar after doing their sing-song bit. Instant lame.
Rome Again
Depends, how loyal are you? Do you crack under pressure, or would you enjoy taking the trip under the bus when a scapegoat is needed?
Rome Again
SNL has been lame for almost fifteen years. I can’t believe it’s still on.
Chad N. Freude
OK, Dude, I got your message. The aliens who abducted me speak the same dialect.
Baby Jane
National Security Letter
Baby Jane
Yes. I meant the band. That band just got wedgied by their doofus guitar-smashing frontman.
Rome Again
Did they stick that lazar tool in your head too? I understand they do that to all the alien abductees, at least that’s what I’ve heard. I wouldn’t know, personally.
ThymeZone
Bad news. They are going to eat you.
Hey, keep a stiff upper lip. (That’s where they put the seasoning packet).
Chad N. Freude
Ah. Excuse me for a moment, someone is knocking at my door.
Rome Again
laser… I can’t type… I’m out!
Baby Jane
BJ server response is gettin’ a little flakey. John must be downloading the pr0n.
Chad N. Freude
Perhaps if you used a more primitive device?
ThymeZone
It’s approaching the hour of the nightly Word Press crash.
2007 and they can’t invent a blog server that stays up all night.
Chad N. Freude
No, but the probes were UNBELIEVABLE!
Is “lazar” a really incredibly sophisticated reference to “Fiddler on the Roof”?
Chad N. Freude
BLOG SERVERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!
Rome Again
It’s not Word Press… when BJ goes down, I can still access another Word Press site.
ThymeZone
Really? Hmm. Well I don’t know how PJ-BJ-WP is architected.
And please don’t use the terms “BJ” and “goes down” in the same post with me, I am in a really weak state right now ….
{ thud }
Rome Again
No, it’s a mistake, because I’m a lefty lefty… I get a little confused sometimes.
I mean, the entire world IS backwards to me, you know.
One theory of what causes left handedness is birth stress. I’m inclined to think that my mother would be left handed rather than me, since I came out ass first.
Rome Again
Oh, sorry sir, I hadn’t realized! ROTFLMFAO!
Baby Jane
I don’t think he’s on a WordPress server, but rather a host using WordPress software.
Chad N. Freude
Ha, ha, I win. I held out longer than you did on this stupid, obvious, and may I add atrocious, non-joke.
Baby Jane
…a host with lotsa midnight pr0n activity.
ThymeZone
I was being quite serious.
How cruel of you to make fun of a desperate soul such as myself.
Cruel, I say.
Chad N. Freude
I’m sorry to learn of your affliction. Not that you’re afflicted, but that I learned of it.
Anyway, the point of my question was to establish my cred with the classic musical comedy lovers, whose concerns are much more serious than the establishment of a self-perpetuating fascist regime in the US.
Am I in now? Can I get tickets?
Baby Jane
Desperate grandpas are hot.
ThymeZone
Thank you. At least somebody understands.
Chad N. Freude
How did you know? How did I give it away?
You got that right!
Rome Again
Oh, I’m sorry Chad, I laughed a few times since December 2000, I deeply apologize. (No, not really!)
You think that because I like to have fun I have no feelings of outrage towards all the shit this administration has do6+ tne in the last 6+ years? You would be wrong.
Baby Jane
Holy smokes. This is a geriatric center. Rome are you on your way out too?
ThymeZone
Welp, it’s been a blast, but time’s up on this dialysis machine – PC. Gotta give up my bed to the next patient.
Hey, can somebody grab my walker?
HEY, I MEANT GRAB IT FOR ME, asswipe! Not run off with it.
Jeesh. Respect your elders, for cryin out loud.
Rome Again
Well, I do have grey hair (easily covered by haircolor) and a denture (most people think they’re my natural teeth), does that make me qualify?
I can still make a head turn though, ask the guy who stared at me all night long in a bar two weeks ago… and went home without me.
ThymeZone
That was you?
What was it, my bow tie that scared you off?
Rome Again
Yeah, I’m sorry, the Tucker Carlson look doesn’t do anything for me.
ThymeZone
Dang!
Baby Jane
Yup, you’re a sexy beast too, Rome.
Nite all.
I’m outta here. It’s time to head out for some dancing, boozing, floozing and other outrageous shenanigans.
Chad N. Freude
I would hope that by now my friends — OK, the people here with whom I banter and/or exchange inflammatory insults, who are people who do not come to my front door to rip my throat out (that’s friendship, isn’t it?) — realize that the sarcastic dialog does not negate, derogate, or diminish our outrage at the dismantling of every advance of civilization since 1600.
Baby Jane
pssst…Don’t tell anyone, but I’m vintage too.
nite
Rome Again
Well, Chad, I apologize if I mistook this:
for you saying I didn’t care about what’s going in in this insane administration.
Rome Again
pssssst, I won’t.
g’nite Baby Jane
Rome Again
Gosh Chad, I hardly know ya. I make acquaintances first, let me get to know you first before we start being BFF, okay?
Chad N. Freude
Ah, desert me will you? Leave me alone to suffer the slings and arrowsof an on-line geeky non-life? I hate you I hate you I hate you.
But I’ll be back. I’m a friend of Stephen King.
Mwah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!
Rome Again
Actually, I should be honest with you Chad, my BFF belongs to someone else. I’m sorry if this saddens you, really I am.
ThymeZone
We’ll always have Paris.
Daniel DiRito
A number of years back Tom Waits did a song called “Chocolate Jesus”. See a video clip of that song and a satirical attempt to answer the pressing question, “Does Jesus melt in your mouth, not in your hand?…here:
http://www.thoughttheater.com
Nick Kasoff
Digby misses the mark here. The fact that there are great works depicting a nude Christ is irrelevant. Intent is what matters. Was this supposed to be the Sistine Chapel, or Piss Christ? I’m guessing the latter, though it is only a guess.
In any case, it is a bit much to call Donohue a “screaming nutcase.” After all, if this had been a nude statue of Mohammed exhibited during Ramadan, somebody probably would have blown up the hotel. And much of the American left would have said we deserved it.
Nick Kasoff
The Thug Report
Ben
Nick,
Donahue is a “screaming nutcase”, along with the rest of the jesus freaks. The only difference between our religious whackjobs and the Islamist ones are that the ones here have a political system to abuse therefor don’t have to resort to violence… unless you count Matthew Sheppard.
ThymeZone
Are sure that Donohue isn’t a spoof? Because that is really some great material.
A chocolate statue is “an all-out war?” Wow. I’d think if the Jesus concealed plastic explosive and was sent as a Trojan Savior to a Baptist convention …maybe an all-out war. Otherwise, even at its worst, it’s nothing but a spitwad.
Martin Luther King with his genitals exposed? King had genitals? I always thought that he, like Jesus and other really sacrosanct celebrities, had no genitals.
And, “the timing is deliberate?” I dunno, somehow a chocolate Jesus on Veterans Day doesn’t really do anything for me. So, Easter just seems like the right idea to me.
I love chocolate Jesus. He’s the most real Jesus I ever saw.
ThymeZone
As for Veterans Day, I propose a Chocolate John McCain. At least he is real, live hero.
Discuss, ridicule.
Rome Again
I thought Christians WANTED a war, isn’t why they’re called Christian Soldiers? Isn’t that why they’re looking forward to Armageddon and Jesus’ return (which ain’t happenin’) so they can be smug and say “I told you so”?
ThymeZone
Um, yes.
ThymeZone
How about a whole Diorama called Chocolate Apocalypse?
Or, a big mess of broken chocolate pieces called Chocolate Iraq?
Would these offend. I hope so, which is why I am for them.
Rome Again
and don’t forget “You’re going to burn in HELL”
ThymeZone
Heh. I grew up in Phoenix. Hell doesn’t scare me.
Rome Again
Did you ever notice how easily those six words roll off their tongues? How they seem to almost get a woody over the thought “you’re going to burn in Hell?”
The Other Steve
You’re a pretty good spoof, Nick. But rather than American left, you should use a word like moonbat. It makes you sound more credible.
Although the racist website you link to is a nice touch, kind of makes you sound serious.
ThymeZone
Careful. Darrell will get aroused if you keep talking like that.
Which reminds me …. Darrell still hasn’t sent me his picture.
Rome Again
Just because I don’t wave an American flag or a Bible doesn’t mean I wave a Koran or any other flags either.
I have this bad taste in my mouth about organized patriotism of any sort.
Rome Again
Are you sad?
ThymeZone
Well, more disappointed than sad.
Rome Again
I’d send you my picture to cheer you up, but I know that you would still be disappointed, so I won’t.
ThymeZone
Your picture of Darrell? He sent you his picture, and not me?
That ungrateful bastard.
Rome Again
Your picture of Darrell? He sent you his picture, and not me?
Silly!
Rome Again
Oops, forgot to blockquote, sorry.
Punchy
The prob they have with Chocolate Hey-zeus is that he’s dark-skinned. As someone WAY above said, if they’d done this in white chocolate, Catholic Lickspittle Racist Fuck Donahue doesn’t say shit.
My take. And what p-squared Gaz said above.
Chad N. Freude
Ri-i-ight. Just like most of the American left said we deserved the World Trade Center catastrophe, and most of the American left said we deserved Tim McVeigh’s Oklahoma City bombing … Oh, wait, that was most of the American right.
The sweeping attribution of bad attitudes and vile thoughts to an ill-defined, symbolically named, amorphous but nonetheless uniformly-in-lockstep group is a rhetorical device right up there with “some say …”
Thank you for elevating the level of discourse.
ThymeZone
I think it’s hilarious that Christianity thinks it is hanging by such a slender thread that a chocolate statue represents an “all out war” against it.
If I had known that, I’d have mooned the Xtians a long time ago and learned how to fart the Lord’s Prayer. Christianity would now be a thing of the past.
Whoop, that’s it, lambs of God! We’ve been fart-insulted, it’s all over. Two thousand years of work, in the crapper.
Punchy
OT–
Oh. My. GOD.
Tim, please…PLEASE do a post on this. Hands down the easiest way to lose a keyboard to whatever’s in your mouth.
ThymeZone
You’re just really penis obsessed, aren’t ya?
Um, can you send me a picture?
ThymeZone
Adjusted.
The Other Steve
BTW…
The belief that this is somehow offensive, is pretty moronic.
On the other hand, the belief that this guy is an artist, is similarly moronic.
They can have each other… Donohue and this “artist”. The only thing I can think of more worthless to our society are Realtors.
Chad N. Freude
Dude, you are obsessed. Some say.
Rome Again
Not lawyers?
Rome Again
Or car salesmen?
Chad N. Freude
Or Bush administration appointees?
Rome Again
yeah, that! I change my answer, Chad has it right.
ThymeZone
According to everything I’ve read, you are wrong.
Dug Jay
As requested, here’s a recent picture of ThymeZone.
Zifnab
John McCain? Didn’t he have an illegitimate black baby?
Chad N. Freude
I think you’re confusing him with Thomas Jefferson.
Rome Again
Don’t you mean Strom Thurmond? You don’t have to go all the way back to the 1700’s to find such behavior, ya know.
Rome Again
Of course, if you’re only trying to pin it on Democrats, well, I understand Barak Obama has black babies too!
Tim F.
Punchy,
That video just makes me want to nut-kick the genius who left coevolution and selective breeding out of the public school curriculum.
Punchy
Oh…but Tim…it gets worse. Much, much worse.
If this doesn’t have you rolling on the floor, just remember….some people believe this stuff…
Baby Jane
Do they really? Or do they just want any reason to not believe in other stuff?
Rome Again
Well, he does have a point, I mean, if you take a bunch of heathens and place them on bonfires, Jesus is alive and well.
Chad N. Freude
The Peanut Butter Proof is the strongest argument against evolution I’ve ever heard. I have taken numerous science course at reputable institutions (almost as prestigious as the Discovery Institute), and I have never encountered such a compelling analysis. Just think, if evolution were real, we would all starve, and God would never let that happen. (He only allows people to nail other people to wooden structures, but that’s a topic for another time.)
And if further proof were needed, it’s obvious that if evolution were real, individuals who accept this kind of analysis would have died off because survival requires skills that they clearly don’t possess. Since they are still among us, evolution could not have occurred. QED.
Chad N. Freude
“course”should have been “courses”, of course.
Rome Again
Yeah, well, I’m sure if you took a bunch of women, ripped out their uteri, killed them, chopped them up into little bits, stirred until fully mixed and stuck the end result in jars, you wouldn’t find life there either.
Chad N. Freude
Christian imagery.
Rome, no offense (pace ThymeZone), but it’s not clear to me from your post if you read past the first sentence.
Scruffy McSnufflepuss
At this point, the entire conservative movement is spoof. The spoofers took over the conservative blogosphere, and the politicians and pundits decided to pander to their most vocal audience. The rest is history.
Chocolate sneaks cholesterol into your heart. If your heart is Troy, this analogy is perfect.
Let Jesus into your heart… but not Chocolate Jesus, he’ll kill you.
Rome Again
Why, am I required to read every single word you post? I did, but what is it to you if I didn’t? Do you think your post was clear on your position? It looked like gobbledygook to me.
It’s so easy to spot, isn’t it?
ThymeZone
Uh, no. Cholesterol only exists in the animal kingdom, chocolate is from plants.
Chocolate Jesus is all about heart-healthy.
Now, sweetened chocolate, eaten to excess, may raise triglycerides. But that’s about sugar, not chocolate.
Scruffy McSnufflepuss
God has lots of fun. Sometimes, He lets a guy in a boat save all non-aquatic species of life on Earth.
Other times, He allows one of his prophets to summon giant she-bears from the forest to devour children who taunted him for his baldness.
Then when He’s feeling the need to make a rhetorical point, He’ll allow another prophet to have a child with a prostitute, naming that child “You Are Not My People”, and having another child with a different prostitute, naming that child “No More Mercy”; for that’s how God gets His point across when He wants to kill you, for so shall He say to you that you are not His people and He will show you no mercy, and that’s why He told his prophet to go have sex with these two hookers. Selah.
Scruffy McSnufflepuss
I thought it had dairy in it. Isn’t the cacao bean processed with milk and shit?
Now my whole theological worldview is in turmoil. Get thee behind me, Satan!
ThymeZone
Yeah, as near as I can tell, He is a sociopath.
Rome Again
Back in the early 1980’s my father had the highest triglyceride count ever recorded. He hid candy in one cupboard, while mom hid the booze in another. I was privvy to watching both of them sneak their treats on a constant basis. Of course my father was a bit more open about it – “Shhh, don’t tell mom, I’m not supposed to have this”; while my mother would just talk to me while reaching for the booze and think I never noticed at all.
Scruffy McSnufflepuss
Which is more offensive, the idea of Jesus cast in all-chocolate, or the idea of Jesus as an Aryan with no genitals?
The truth, as usual, lies somewhere in the middle. There will undoubtedly be some controversy over this contentious issue, but I have no doubt that in about six months, cooler heads will prevail and we’ll all have this matter in its proper perspective.
This has been my weekly edition of centrist spoof-talk. I thank you for your time.
Rome Again
Yeah, processing is done by humans. Does Baker’s Chocolate have that processing? Not as far as I can see.
Scruffy McSnufflepuss
Yet when Clinton had giant she-bears released out of the forest to devour the schoolchildren who were taunting him over Lewinsky-gate, you were all for it, you moonbat hypocrite!
ThymeZone
Are you talking about milk chocolate? Not all chocolate contains butterfat or dairy products.
Scruffy McSnufflepuss
Chocolate Christ is human, too, though. Well, part-human. The evil, sinful part, that makes us fat and gives us acne.
Rome Again
re: processing… I see no milk in dark chocolate processing, nor do I see where they add “shit”.
Chad N. Freude
No, of course not, but if the intent is satire or sarcasm, the meaning evolves (That Word again) from a self-contradiction or movement to the ludicrous between the beginning and the end. On the other hand, maybe it’s just not very amusing to anyone but me.
True of everything I write.
Scruffy McSnufflepuss
Damn. Now I can see how false prophets have led me astray.
My sins are ever before me. Can they ever be forgiven? If I accept Chocolate Jesus into my heart, may I yet hope for salvation? Or, failing that, salivation?
ThymeZone
Scruffy McSnufflepuss
Plants grow from shit. Humans don’t have to add it, God already put it there. God don’t make no junk, you know.
ThymeZone
If I were you, I would start with accepting Him into your gall bladder.
Baby steps, dude. Baby steps.
Scruffy McSnufflepuss
POTD.
ThymeZone
That concludes Lesson One from Earl Hickey’s School of Botany, An Introduction to Photosynthesis.
Scruffy McSnufflepuss
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Chad N. Freude
Except the dinosaurs that roamed the land before the flood buried their bones where atheistic fanatics could find them and construct false anti-Christian theories.
Scruffy McSnufflepuss
Plants grow from shit. Some of them bear tasty fruit, which birds and humans and other varmints are supposed to gobble up and digest, later shitting out the seeds. The seeds grow into other plants.
Shit is an integral part of the process, although some plants cheat and spread their seeds around by other methods, like those fucking annoying hitchhiker thingies you get on your socks after you’ve been out walking in the woods.
Scruffy McSnufflepuss
The Lord moves in mysterious ways. He probably just wanted to sucker some of those secularists and liberals out, so that He could damn them.
Rome Again
Well, yeah, because, otherwise, the very first chapter of Genesis would be a lie.
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–verb (used with object)
1. to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one’s stock of food.
2. to supply (a fire, stove, etc.) with fresh fuel.
3. to fill again or anew.
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Rome Again
Earth is the integral process, shit is only a fertilizer making the process MORE probable.
So are you telling me that the first plant was created ONLY AFTER an animal shit in the area where it grew?
ThymeZone
From the Creationist School of Life Origins …. Scruffy destroys the whole idea of hydroponic gardening.
Scruffy McSnufflepuss
Earth and shit are one and the same. All life is Earth. Earth to Earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Shit to shit.
Not if you believe that moonbat science crap. But if you put your trust in the Book of Genesis, the chronology’s only off by a couple days or so.
Scruffy McSnufflepuss
Hydroponics is only for growing marijuana. That’s the Devil’s plant. That one may grow differently. I’m unfamiliar with the details of Infernal horticulture. In fact, I’m not good at much of anything, other than finding random snippets of weirdness in the Bible. But, today’s my birthday and I haven’t slept in two days, so bear with me here.
Rome Again
was on April Fool’s Day? No, say it ain’t so.
Rome Again
Really? So, where did all that shit come from?
Rome Again
*born*
sorry Scruffy… I should be banned from keyboards everywhere.
Scruffy McSnufflepuss
It was. Life, for me, is one cruel joke after another.
Scruffy McSnufflepuss
Gaia’s asshole.
Rome Again
So Scruffy, is Gaia totally anatomically correct? (getting back on topic here – LMAO)
Baby Jane
Easter Bunny
Rome Again
I thought that’s where EGGS were supposed to come from. ::snickers::
ThymeZone
We prefer the funny jokes.
Chad N. Freude
Snickers come from Mars.
Rome Again
and women are from Venus.
Scruffy McSnufflepuss
The less said about volcanoes, the better.
Well, I’ll cancel the she-bears, then.
Rome Again
Touche`
The Other Steve
Realtors are by far the lowest piece of shit lifeform on the planet. Think about it. They provide absolutely no value.
Lawyers, every once in a while you need one. Used car salesman, similarly.
Even bush administration officials are worthwhile, say if you were starving in the desert and needed firewood real bad.
Anybody who has ever known Realtors, knows that it’s a job people get into so that they don’t have to hold a job.
They get a 5% commission of a sale that they do nothing for. Doesn’t matter if your house is 50,000 or 5 million, they still expect 5%.
I say the model changes. Flat rate processing fees. No more commissions, unless they’re going to come in and clean your house for you.
Rome Again
ROFL
Agreed the pay structure sucks. And if you have a good lawyer (if there are some, Real Estate Law might probably be one of the best places to find them) than FSBO would be the best way to go… but, tradition (and I am one who doesn’t really stand on tradition much) says you need those sorts of people to pull together a sale. As someone who once held a Real Estate License and went to work in the most dog eat dog towns in the US
ThymeZone
I have no dog in the fight over realtors, but …
Here’s a different perspective, for what it’s worth.
Rome Again
premature posting ::penalty::
Finishing my thought… as someone who went to work in one of the most dog eat dog Real Estate environments around (and it truly is/was then) I can say I don’t know many good ones, but there are a few.
canuckistani
Stole this line from Pharyngula:
Well, it made me laugh.
r€nato
I just can’t believe the stupid shit some people get worked up over.
Dreggas
Ahhh the Origin Of the Feces…