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Fuddnik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 02:40 PM
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Death to Schweddy Balls!!!
The bluenoses at the American Fascist Association are at it again!


http://bites.today.com/_news/2011/09/21/7876625-parents-call-for-boycott-of-ben-jerrys-schweddy-balls-flavor


Parents call for boycott of Ben & Jerry's Schweddy Balls flavor.
By Vidya Rao


Schweddy Balls ice cream is the latest in frozen threats facing your children, at least according to One Million Moms. The conservative organization, an offshoot of American Family Association, has called for a boycott of the newest Ben & Jerry’s flavor because they find it offensive.

“The vulgar new flavor has turned something as innocent as ice cream into something repulsive,” the group posted on its website. “Not exactly what you want a child asking for at the supermarket.”

The flavor is named after the classic Alec Baldwin sketch on “Saturday Night Live,” in which he plays a bakery owner named Pete Schweddy. The most famous line (and the one most often repeated by drunk frat boys) is his end note: “No one can resist my Schweddy Balls.”

Clearly there is a double entendre here, but is it really worth protesting vanilla ice cream with rum and fudge-covered malt balls? After all, Trix may be for kids, but rum ice cream is for the rest of us.

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Get a grip already.
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 02:44 PM
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1. Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke....
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COLGATE4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 02:50 PM
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4. Fuck 'em even if they can!
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alarimer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 03:00 PM
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10. No thanks, they are too gross. n/t
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 02:45 PM
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2. I hate other people telling my what I can and can do or eat.
unless it is for medical reasons.

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Myrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 02:47 PM
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3. The repulsion is only in their own minds ...
A word is a word is a word. How one assigns meaning to it, is on the individual.
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sixmile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 02:53 PM
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5. Freedom is the ability to put Schweddy Balls in your mouth
without some goodnik judging you for it!
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yodermon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 02:53 PM
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6. tricks are for kids??
AFA has some up-fucked priorities i think
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 02:54 PM
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7. How will little kids see it unless Mom or Dad buys it for them?
Or are they in the habit of letting their fat little darlings run up and down the aisles of the local supermarket, pulling out flavors of ice cream to fill the family food cart willy-nilly?

I mean, come on, PLEASE.

Not every fucking thing has to be a "Think of the CHILDREN" moment.

It's assholes like that who foment the "Child Free Facilities" movements we see of late.
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 02:55 PM
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8. The AFA, focused on the real problems confronting America.

:crazy:


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deutsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 02:55 PM
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9. What about the children?!
:eyes:
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freethought Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 03:08 PM
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11. Watch B&Js sales of "Shweddy Balls" ice cream
go through the f#$##%g roof. Classic backfire. Someone pipes up saying this or that is vulgar or offensive, and then truckloads rush in to see what the big deal is. It's kind of like reading "Catcher in the Rye"-it's on banned books lists all over the place, but that only encourages people to read it. And when you do read it you wonder what the big fuss is all about.

Hmmm. Vanilla ice cream with rum & fudge-covered malt balls? Actually sounds good to me. I doubt I would like it better than peanut butter cup though.



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hifiguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 03:47 PM
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14. Yep,
and the marketing people at Ben & Jerry's have got to be laughing their asses off at getting this much free pub. They're gonna sell a LOT of ice cream with Schweddy Balls in it.
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KT2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 03:08 PM
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12. Those people have NO
sense of humor. They resort to being offended when they don't get the joke and we are all supposed to bow down - screw 'em.
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Happyhippychick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 03:24 PM
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13. Don't teabaggers love schweddy balls?
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Firebrand Gary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 04:26 PM
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15. Conservative mom's are trying to take away my rights and tell me what to eat.
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VenusRising Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 04:29 PM
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16. I guess they figure that the ice cream is a slippery slope.
If they put one Schweddy Ball in their mouth, well...

:hide:
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madamesilverspurs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 05:17 PM
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17. Well, where there's Schweddy Balls there's bound to be
Edited on Wed Sep-21-11 05:23 PM by madamesilverspurs




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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 05:26 PM
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18. Hmmm...
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 05:27 PM
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19. First they came for the ice cream, but I didn't eat ice cream, so I said nothing.
By the time they came for the Bugles, there was no one left to speak up for me (or at least no one who could get up off the couch fast enough to speak up for me).
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libodem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-11 05:40 PM
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20. Fer gadsake don't buy it then
For people who claim they don't want government interfering in their business sure want to inflict boundaries on others. Same as.if you hate abortion don't have one.
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