Don't Ya Hate It When A Thread Gets Locked Before You Respond

[orleans]

and you start out reading it and then after reading all the posts you try to post and it gets locked?

yeah, i hate it when that happens.

i wanted to say: GET OVER IT...IT'S CALLED PARODY but i can't say it now because the thread is locked.

we can use this thread to respond to all the locked threads you wanted to respond to but couldn't because they were locked.

(it will be a non controversial thread, no names, no specific topics--just vague general comments. will this thread get locked??)

[beam me up scottie]

1. So THERE!

HA!

[arwalden]

23. Oh Whaaaaah!

[beam me up scottie]

27. SO good to see you!

I've missed you, Brother Wise Ass!

[MercutioATC]

2. Even worse when somebody slams your post and you can't respond.

Ah, well...

:)

[KitchenWitch]

3. Quit whining

[orleans]

37. whining?!?!?! i'll show you! IGNORE IGNORE IGNORE

just kidding.
(can't seem to stop lying tonight!)

[BikeWriter]

4. ...and so's your old man!

[Telly Savalas]

5. There's a huge difference between mocking a religious belief...

and mocking the compulsion some people feel to advertise that belief on their car.

[MuseRider]

6. Like my new avatar?

I had been meaning to resize and get it up but I have been inspired tonight to finally get it done.

[BrklynLiberal]

10. BTW..I am a new convert to Pastafarianism. I am preordering my

car plaque.

[MuseRider]

11. Ordered mine yesterday!

May the sauce be with you. Welcome to Pastamania my friend.

[BrklynLiberal]

12. Thank you so much for your gracious welcome.

[MuseRider]

14. That picture

never fails to make me giggle. I love a religion that makes me feel happy all over.

We Will Not Be Overlooked!

[orleans]

38. overlooked? or over cooked???

hum....saucy little dilemma, wouldn't you say?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

15. My dear MuseRider!

Your new avatar looks interesting....but I can't tell what it is...

:shrug:

[MuseRider]

17. Ahhhh Peggy!

How are you? It is good to see you.

That, my friend, is the Flying Spaghetti Monster. May you be blessed by his noodly appendages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster

[CaliforniaPeggy]

24. I am well, my dear MuseRider!

It's lovely to see you too...long time we haven't talked...

I AM blessed by his noodly appendages! Flying Spaghetti Monster..

:rofl:

[MuseRider]

30. I can't wait

for my FSM chrome sticker to come. Living here in Kansas it will be SO appropriate. Unfortunately it is appropriate in a lot of other places too. :hi:

[BrklynLiberal]

18. Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

http://www.venganza.org/

[CaliforniaPeggy]

25. Thank you so much, my dear BrklynLiberal!

:rofl:

[beam me up scottie]

19. Here he is, smiling down upon us from the heavens:

[BrklynLiberal]

22. oooooooooooooooo That is sooooo inspiring....

[beam me up scottie]

26. I'm so glad god gave us the Hubble Telescope!

:rofl:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

28. WooHoo.....

What an image!

Thanks....

:rofl:

[NMMNG]

36. Very nice indeed

All hail his Noodly Appendages!

[salvorhardin]

7. Spock ears are inappropriately childish!

I will not stand to have my faith in ancient Vulcan mysticism mocked! I demand that vendors stop selling Spock ears at Star Trek conventions! Plastic spock ears are immature and childish and mock something I hold very sacred and I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you! I can't believe any important serious Star Trek convention would allow themselves to be degraded with cheap Chinese made Spock ears. What would Surak do?

[BrklynLiberal]

8. hate it -hate it- hate it....like you have your reply all typed, and ready

... you hit POST MESSAGE, and BOOM...LOCKED THREAD!! DAMN !

My most eloquent replies have never seen the light of day. x(

[orleans]

39. that is exactly what happened to me

only it said: this page cannot be displayed.

i thought: oh no!!!!! shit!

[beam me up scottie]

9. And your mother too!

:rofl:

[onager]

13. I'm leaving this in the hands of a pro...

H.L. Mencken...

One of the most irrational of all the conventions of modern society is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected...

(This) convention protects them, and so they proceed with their blather unwhipped and almost unmolested, to the great damage of common sense and common decency.

That they should have this immunity is an outrage. There is nothing in religious ideas, as a class, to lift them above other ideas.

On the contrary, they are always dubious and often quite silly.

Nor is there any visible intellectual dignity in theologians. Few of them know anything that is worth knowing, and not many of them are even honest.

[beam me up scottie]

16. I love that quote!

:loveya:

[Floogeldy]

20. No.

I hate hate.

[orleans]

40. oh sure....you get me on a technicality

well, i hate to hate hate. so there!

(smile)

[arwalden]

21. So Exactly When Are We To Take The Bible LITERALLY? And...

... when are we to read the words as being merely symbolic or metaphoric? Make up your fucking mind!

[onager]

41. ar, didn't you get the memo?

It's very simple, really:

1. When Jesus is saying and doing good stuff, like feeding the poor or casting demons into Gadarene swine, the Bible is to be taken literally. (Well, I guess that one didn't work out too well for the swine. But they had no business being in a kosher neighborhood anyhow.)

2. However, when Jesus is telling you to hate your family or put out your own left eye, it's all strictly symbolic. No one can figure out what the guy was saying, he was so subtle, philosophical and symbolic.

For myself, and with other religious leaders as a template, I'd guess he was a David Koresh-like megalomaniac who meant exactly what he said (assuming the Jesus quoted in the New Testament existed at all).

[Kali]

29. But she IS one.

How can you not say it?

[beam me up scottie]

31. No, just admit it, it wasn't because the water was cold!

You guys always blame it on the cold water!

[NMMNG]

32. Indeed

:cry:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

33. Should I go "fishing" for this thread or did I find it?

[Name removed]

34. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[strategery blunder]

35. I've posted to threads after they've been locked

The window of oppurtunity is really small though...less than a minute. Maybe even only a few seconds.