Ben Stein

shawndavid

Are you wanting making fuck berserker?
Herewith at this happy time of year, a few confessions from my beating heart:

I have no freaking clue who Nick and Jessica are. I see them on the cover of People and Us constantly when I am buying my dog biscuits and kitty litter. I often ask the checkers at the grocery stores. They never know who Nick and Jessica are either. Who are they? Will it change my life if I know who they are and why they have broken up? Why are they so important? I don't know who Lindsay Lohan is, either, and I do not care at all about Tom Cruise's wife.

Am I going to be called before a Senate committee and asked if I am a subversive? Maybe, but I just have no clue who Nick and Jessica are. Is this what it means to be no longer young. It's not so bad.

Next confession: I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are: Christmas trees. It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, "Merry Christmas" to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.

I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him?

I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we knew went to.
 
elpmis said:
you're not a very good jew, you should have a shit load more marklar in your bank
he's got it all in mutual funds, and invested in blockbuster movies.

I like this little blurb, really, who cares if I say merry christmas. If it offends you, respond with a Happy Hannukah or whatever you celebrate, it won't offend me.
 
tre said:
he's got it all in mutual funds, and invested in blockbuster movies.

I like this little blurb, really, who cares if I say merry christmas. If it offends you, respond with a Happy Hannukah or whatever you celebrate, it won't offend me.

Happy Satansday.

I'm just gonna start saying that and see what response I get. :pandora:
 
Celebrity worship is certainly an odd thing. I'm probably more inclined to see a movie if an actor/actress I like is in it. I've purchased 1 whole magazine in my life because of the actress they were featuring. That's as far as I go. But there must be some serious fanatics out there to merit the buzz that goes on in entertainment news over some celebs. All the tabloids and hack news programs that fuss over anorexic actresses. I remember a time when ET use to feature new movies, tv shows, and music...now it's 90% celeb talk and half the time they are talking up their own anchors. I don't understand it. :rolleyes:
 
Pandora said:
Celebrity worship is certainly an odd thing. I'm probably more inclined to see a movie if an actor/actress I like is in it. I've purchased 1 whole magazine in my life because of the actress they were featuring. That's as far as I go. But there must be some serious fanatics out there to merit the buzz that goes on in entertainment news over some celebs. All the tabloids and hack news programs that fuss over anorexic actresses. I remember a time when ET use to feature new movies, tv shows, and music...now it's 90% celeb talk and half the time they are talking up their own anchors. I don't understand it. :rolleyes:
I'm guessing those people have such boring lives that they have to live vicariously through people on TV
 
Pandora said:
Happy Satansday.

I'm just gonna start saying that and see what response I get. :pandora:
When you are really completely rude to strangers they usually just smile and say 'pardon?'. I dont understand either.
 
FlamingGlory said:
When you are really completely rude to strangers they usually just smile and say 'pardon?'. I dont understand either.

Rude? But who is really being rude there?

I have a concert shirt that has a lady dancing blindfolded with the devil. It's basicly a depiction of 'trouble', which is the name of the artists single. Every time I've worn that shirt I've received a sermon from random strangers. I'm minding my own business then all of a sudden, "Why is there a devil on your shirt? Do you know the Lord young lady? blah blah blah". I've actually had a woman gasp at the sight of the shirt. I'm sure they didn't think they were being rude...they just wanted to save my soul....over a concert tshirt. :tard:
 
Pandora said:
Rude? But who is really being rude there?

I have a concert shirt that has a lady dancing blindfolded with the devil. It's basicly a depiction of 'trouble', which is the name of the artists single. Every time I've worn that shirt I've received a sermon from random strangers. I'm minding my own business then all of a sudden, "Why is there a devil on your shirt? Do you know the Lord young lady? blah blah blah". I've actually had a woman gasp at the sight of the shirt. I'm sure they didn't think they were being rude...they just wanted to save my soul....over a concert tshirt. :tard:
Rude as a catch all term for behaviour not of the PC norm. When my company was going out of business and announced we were all layed off I wore a black t shirt with "Fuck You" written in white across it. The customers thought I was just being cute, then I started kicking people out on christmas eve ^__^

It was definitely a once in a lifetime opprotunity.
 
FlamingGlory said:
Rude as a catch all term for behaviour not of the PC norm. When my company was going out of business and announced we were all layed off I wore a black t shirt with "Fuck You" written in white across it. The customers thought I was just being cute, then I started kicking people out on christmas eve ^__^

It was definitely a once in a lifetime opprotunity.

:lol: Good to hear that you made the most of it.
 
Pandora said:
Rude? But who is really being rude there?

I have a concert shirt that has a lady dancing blindfolded with the devil. It's basicly a depiction of 'trouble', which is the name of the artists single. Every time I've worn that shirt I've received a sermon from random strangers. I'm minding my own business then all of a sudden, "Why is there a devil on your shirt? Do you know the Lord young lady? blah blah blah". I've actually had a woman gasp at the sight of the shirt. I'm sure they didn't think they were being rude...they just wanted to save my soul....over a concert tshirt. :tard:


haha! That was awsome when that guy stopped you in Arby's. Then he asked if you "knew" Jesus. God I wish you would have said yes and pointed to me. "Yea, he's over there ordering some jalapeno poppers. Wanna say hi?"
 
I get some funny looks when I wear my More Fun than Skining a Dead Hooker shirt around in public. No comments tho. Maybe they are just to scared to say anything :confused: