I AM PERSONALLY OFFENDED!
Every week, Marilyn vos Savant - the woman with the Guiness Record of having the world's highest IQ - does a fun, little Q&A column for the Sunday paper's Parade magazine (also known for comic strips like Howard Huge, which make Marmaduke look like Clowes), and readers try to stump the so called "smartest woman in the world". Before I go any further: consider that title. Of all the six billion people in the world do you - YOU - think you could potentially be better than everyone at anything?! This woman is better than all of us at being smart*! Now what would you ask to a person of such high intellectual stature? Here's what Morgan Mackenzie of Boston Massachusetts wonders this week:
Do you think pets go to Heaven when they die
WHAT THE FUCK!?! I almost shat my pants when I read this, and believe me; I would have wiped my ass with the Parade had I done so. Do you think pets go to Heaven when they die?! Are you fucking kidding me? It's not even that I can't believe somebody would ask this, but that somebody allowed this of all questions to be published. I could see the staff meeting right now...
"Okay, we have questions here about astro physics, the evolution of man, some nifty brain teasers...Oh shit, we gotta send this one to Marilyn! If she can figure this out I'll be able to sleep at night!
"What is the question?"
"Dear Marilyn: What do you think the Tooth Fairy does with all my lost teeth?"
"Duh, she builds her kingdom out of it."
"Oh, well, shit - what about that one about whether pets go to heaven?"
"Yeah, toss that one in. I've been wondering about that too."
I don't get offended easily. You wont find too many people who are more supportive to civil rights than I am, but a good racist/gay/handicapped joke will make me laugh every time. Tsunami Jokes? I was the first to look em 'up. Hell, if you could find a good joke about autistic polack's with heart murmurs, I'd probably laugh. I don't get offended when people force their beliefs on me, but when their imagination is forced on me, that's when I get offended. If Pat Robertson wants to tell the US to kill the Venezualian president on his 700 Club show, that's cool, but somehow it just flew under the radar that he was able to get away with saying that feminism promotes abortion and lesbianism, among other things? Or the assholes out there who wont lets food service specialists touch anything because they actually believe AIDS can be spread through skin contact!? OR FUCKING PeTA - FUCK PeTA AND THEIR TERRORIST, HYPOCRITE DOGMAS!
So how does Marilyn handle this bullshit?
"...ask a clergymen..."
What is this country coming to?
Alex
(*IQ tests are only used as indicators of potential, not neccesarily how "smart" a person is.)
Do you think pets go to Heaven when they die
WHAT THE FUCK!?! I almost shat my pants when I read this, and believe me; I would have wiped my ass with the Parade had I done so. Do you think pets go to Heaven when they die?! Are you fucking kidding me? It's not even that I can't believe somebody would ask this, but that somebody allowed this of all questions to be published. I could see the staff meeting right now...
"Okay, we have questions here about astro physics, the evolution of man, some nifty brain teasers...Oh shit, we gotta send this one to Marilyn! If she can figure this out I'll be able to sleep at night!
"What is the question?"
"Dear Marilyn: What do you think the Tooth Fairy does with all my lost teeth?"
"Duh, she builds her kingdom out of it."
"Oh, well, shit - what about that one about whether pets go to heaven?"
"Yeah, toss that one in. I've been wondering about that too."
I don't get offended easily. You wont find too many people who are more supportive to civil rights than I am, but a good racist/gay/handicapped joke will make me laugh every time. Tsunami Jokes? I was the first to look em 'up. Hell, if you could find a good joke about autistic polack's with heart murmurs, I'd probably laugh. I don't get offended when people force their beliefs on me, but when their imagination is forced on me, that's when I get offended. If Pat Robertson wants to tell the US to kill the Venezualian president on his 700 Club show, that's cool, but somehow it just flew under the radar that he was able to get away with saying that feminism promotes abortion and lesbianism, among other things? Or the assholes out there who wont lets food service specialists touch anything because they actually believe AIDS can be spread through skin contact!? OR FUCKING PeTA - FUCK PeTA AND THEIR TERRORIST, HYPOCRITE DOGMAS!
So how does Marilyn handle this bullshit?
"...ask a clergymen..."
What is this country coming to?
Alex
(*IQ tests are only used as indicators of potential, not neccesarily how "smart" a person is.)