Some People....................
09-04-2003, 06:38 PM
#12
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Denver, CO
Posts: 4,985
hate to burst the bubble -
Come on, people- you didn't think that this ridiculous organization was real- did you?
Did you?!?!?
People who were paying attention recognized all of these arguments as ones that had been applied to firearms. Those of us who know about firearms realize the stupidity of these arguments, yet some folks continue to fall for them. I wondered (after debating some schmuck named Milt [hence the name] on USENET) if people would lap it up if it was applied to something generally accepted by society, like power tools.
Did you?!?!?
People who were paying attention recognized all of these arguments as ones that had been applied to firearms. Those of us who know about firearms realize the stupidity of these arguments, yet some folks continue to fall for them. I wondered (after debating some schmuck named Milt [hence the name] on USENET) if people would lap it up if it was applied to something generally accepted by society, like power tools.
They did.
I don't know what I found more troubling; that P.T. Barnum was right, or that our society has become such that M.I.L.T. would actually be a conceivable organization. Hell, a few of you (and you know who you are, you dorks) even SUPPORTED the idea! What the hell are you people thinking?
Anyway, the web site has plenty of clues, like the kitchen table tool man having two left hands, spokesmen named "Blaque N. Decker," obviously retouched photographs of tool injuries, and the like. In the words of Todd Rundgren, "If it's stupid enough- it's cool."
I don't know what I found more troubling; that P.T. Barnum was right, or that our society has become such that M.I.L.T. would actually be a conceivable organization. Hell, a few of you (and you know who you are, you dorks) even SUPPORTED the idea! What the hell are you people thinking?
Anyway, the web site has plenty of clues, like the kitchen table tool man having two left hands, spokesmen named "Blaque N. Decker," obviously retouched photographs of tool injuries, and the like. In the words of Todd Rundgren, "If it's stupid enough- it's cool."
09-05-2003, 11:15 AM
#18
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2003
Location: DE
Posts: 401
you want to know what made it even more obvious was the "bible support" section :
Jud 5:26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
Jud 5:27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
Jud 5:26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
Jud 5:27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
