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Barack Obama: A clearly perturbed Obama said he didn't appreciate being lectured about Christianity by Keyes. 'That's why I have a pastor,' he said. 'That's why I have a Bible. That's why I have my own prayer. And I don't think any of you are particularly interested in having Mr. Keyes lecture you about your faith. What you're interested in is solving problems like jobs and health care and education. I'm not running to be the minister of Illinois. I'm running to be its United States senator.'" -- Salon
Yahtzee: "A coworker who writes music on the side has the Upright Citizens Brigade performing a Halloween musical of his, 'Killjoy.' It's supposed to be very gory, very obscene, very politically incorrect. Naturally, I want to go. Coworker keeps saying, quite carefully, 'Now, it's really raw. It's not for everybody.' I keep saying, 'Oh, I bet it would be fun!' This is English. The Fanspeak translation, which I cannot share at the office, is: 'In my spare time I have written sadomasochistic gay vampire porn and distributed it to minors. Your puny attempts to shock me make me laugh.'"
Yahtzee: "A coworker who writes music on the side has the Upright Citizens Brigade performing a Halloween musical of his, 'Killjoy.' It's supposed to be very gory, very obscene, very politically incorrect. Naturally, I want to go. Coworker keeps saying, quite carefully, 'Now, it's really raw. It's not for everybody.' I keep saying, 'Oh, I bet it would be fun!' This is English. The Fanspeak translation, which I cannot share at the office, is: 'In my spare time I have written sadomasochistic gay vampire porn and distributed it to minors. Your puny attempts to shock me make me laugh.'"
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Well, that made me laugh. Sounds like a great sig line, too.
By the way, you're being quoted, in all your academic/advocate glory, over at the NaNoWriMo message boards under a Fanfic thread. Where several posters howled, "Fanfic! Teh Theft!!" and rational people posted in reply; plus Diane Duane posted like an adult with checks from publishers who's also a big fangirl herself (because I recall The Romulan Way>.
Just so you know. You're listened to and quoted with respect.
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Yes, don't we all have our Normal Human translation for this speech? Mine is something like "Oh, I'm fairly open-minded about these things."
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Dude. Yes. I have always bristled under the insinuation by Republicans that because I am going to vote for Kerry/am registered Democrat/am liberal that I am less of a Christian or that I need "guidance" cause "real Christians" support Bush or whatever. I think it is the most pathetic type of avoidance of the issues that need to be dealt with. It pisses me off to no end.
So, yeah, I like his answer. :D
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That Yahtzee story reminds me of a recent visit home. My sister is a theatre major and appearing in a small play done OUTSIDE school called, "Sexual Perversion in Chicago," by a-fairly-well-reputed-playwright-whose-name-I-forget. But she cautioned the parents and me with almost those exact same words, but once I got her alone, she confessed, "Yeah, Mom and Dad probably won't like it, but knowing the kind of fanfic you read, you'll probably love it!"
She was right on both counts. Good thing the 'rents didn't come, but I laughed my head off--that thing was tame compared to some of the stuff I've read!
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