Random Silly Grins

nimelennar · April 18, 2019, 1:05pm

Because that’s exactly the kind of mnemonic people use to help remember phrases like that?

kxkvi · April 18, 2019, 1:06pm

You’re right! I’d forgotten that.

Nonentity · April 18, 2019, 7:06pm

And that’s probably because “BTETKOMPUTHRPLT” makes a really bad mnemonic.

nimelennar · April 18, 2019, 7:19pm

Unless you speak Taz.

Nonentity · April 18, 2019, 7:22pm

Or Bill the Cat, I suppose.

kxkvi · April 18, 2019, 8:19pm

KOMPUTHR is in there. It’s a sign.

MalevolentPixy · April 18, 2019, 9:20pm

Two of my favourite authors:

LearnedCoward · April 18, 2019, 11:02pm

Paranormal investigators from some TV show went to my office about 15 years ago. We had a ghost infestation, apparently.

MalevolentPixy · April 20, 2019, 10:17pm

More like random silly eyeroll, but yeah

RAvery · April 20, 2019, 10:46pm

I’m surprised they can show Missing Link.

LearnedCoward · April 21, 2019, 3:05am

The movie theater owners want to show whatever they want to show. They are just trying to avoid controversy. They’re claiming the sign says “Heckboy” because they’re within sight of an elementary school.

gadgetgirl · April 21, 2019, 3:17am

I’ll never get “magical word thinking”. Like if a Sunday school teacher told kids “The Devil presides over Hell”, surely kids would know that’s not swearing.

It’s the same thing with Hellboy – it’s actually proper use of the term (er, leaving aside he’s technically a demon and all).

Oh well, judging by the reviews they won’t have to censor it for long.

RAvery · April 21, 2019, 3:26am

Indeed. But my witty observation was based upon the term “missing link” being closely associated with “evil-lution.”

I was also going to point out that “Shazam” should be surpressed because it promoted a false religion.

Crashproof · April 21, 2019, 12:08pm

Daveb · April 21, 2019, 12:32pm

Pet semetery would be witch craft so also gone.

kxkvi · April 21, 2019, 12:53pm

Years ago in Salt Lake City I recall someone switching the letters of “Life Of Brian” to “I Of Elf Brain.”

RAvery · April 21, 2019, 1:13pm

Exactly.

nimelennar · April 21, 2019, 1:20pm

“I sure as Hell can’t talk about Hell without saying ‘Hell,’ can I?” - Bart Simpson

RAvery · April 21, 2019, 1:24pm

I remember being in the fourth grade when we discovered the dictionary had the word “h - e - double toothpicks.”

LearnedCoward · April 21, 2019, 2:15pm

It’s like someone took Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and dressed it up in religious vestments. If you don’t grow up with it, you don’t understand it.

It didn’t have it “that badly” growing up, so I can’t really explain it from experience.

I’m not even sure what the local religion says about the existence of Hell. It is most likely one of these:

There’s a Hell, but only nonbelievers go there.
There’s a Hell, but only bad people go there.
There’s A Hell, but only those who aren’t “saved” go there. (God plays eeny meeny miney moe with everybody’s souls and chooses some of them to be “saved”. If you’re saved it doesn’t matter what you do or believe, you are going to Heaven, end of story. Otherwise, it doesn’t matter what you do or believe, you’re going to Hell, end of story.)
Of course there’s a Hell. Even Jesus went to Hell.
There is no Hell.

My guess is it’s one of the first three. If so, it’s easy to gloss over Hell as something exclusively for the out group and nothing the in group has to worry about. 3 (Calvinist traditions) can be glossed over by saying yeah sure kid, your mommy daddy grandma grandpa sister and dog are all saved, go away now.

2 is theoretically easier but they wield Hell as a weapon to stop people from stepping the slightest bit out of line. Talk about Hell? You might go there. Ask questions about talking about Hell? You better believe you’re going there.

Believers in 4 know the truth. Hell is Catholic school.