[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

"A Seventh-day Adventist pastor from central Florida says he was "just kidding" when he told airport security he had a bomb, reached into his luggage and pulled out a Bible, declaring, "This is my bomb."

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/talla...al/9968800.htm

[CharlesS]

That's always the first thing they tell you not to do in the airport...

[d4nth3m4n]

yo yo religious right check this out-

that is one dumb ass person there, and said stupidity has nothing to do with their religious beliefs.

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

Originally posted by d4nth3m4n:
yo yo religious right check this out-

that is one dumb ass person there, and said stupidity has nothing to do with their religious beliefs.

Exactly. Who said otherwise?

[d4nth3m4n]

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
Exactly. Who said otherwise?

patience.

[phoenixboy70]

sadly enough, if you really think about it (in terms of terrorism), he wasn't too far off.

[sideus]

Thread derail in 3..2..1...

[dcmacdaddy]

<PacHead>
My righteous, loving, merciful God can kick the crap out of your fake terrorism-inspiring god.
</PacHead>

Derailment complete.

[wataru]

[TheBadgerHunter]

That was rather dim. If you want to be an attention whore atleast don't yell something you could get in some deep **** for saying.

[Toutgood]

"He claimed he had used the term 'bomb' as a way of referring to the Bible as having the ability to change one's life," the complaint states.

And then they hugged and made up...la la la la.....

[turtle777]

Originally posted by d4nth3m4n:
yo yo religious right check this out-

that is one dumb ass person there, and said stupidity has nothing to do with their religious beliefs.

Hey, that guy is a Seventh-day Adventist !
This would never happen with a ..... (please insert the denomination of your choice)

-t

[moodymonster]

Originally posted by turtle777:
Hey, that guy is a Seventh-day Adventist !
This would never happen with a ..... Jedi Knight

-t

inserted religion of choice

[Zimphire]

Un-believable.

Airports need to get a small sense of humor.

Morons.

[Toutgood]

Originally posted by Zimphire:
Un-believable.

Airports need to get a small sense of humor.

Morons.

I'm sure people would love it if I jumped up in the middle of a flight and yelled "I'm a terrorist..of love!" or "I'm hijacking this plane to happyland!"

[Landos Mustache]

Makes you wonder what the IQ of this man is. I mean to go into an airport after America is incredibly uptight after 9/11 and fighting 2 wars and to say the word "bomb" I am surprised he was not shot on the spot.

Guess Jesus doesn't have the draw he once had so he had to go to plan B.

[Millennium]

Originally posted by Zimphire:
Un-believable.

Airports need to get a small sense of humor.

Morons.

No, no they don't. Not having a sense of humor is a large part of what security guards are paid for.

[el chupacabra]

Originally posted by Zimphire:
Un-believable.

Airports need to get a small sense of humor.

Morons.

You'd think they'd have one by now, especially considering what a joke airport security really is. The only people it really inconveniences is the innocent.

I really wish they just get rid of it completely I'll take my chances getting blown up. If a terrorist wants to bring down a plane they will find a way regardless.

[Zimphire]

Originally posted by Landos Mustache:

Guess Jesus doesn't have the draw he once had so he had to go to plan B.

Actually his draw has only gotten stronger over the past 2k years. His followers haven't been decreasing.

[Zimphire]

Originally posted by Millennium:
No, no they don't. Not having a sense of humor is a large part of what security guards are paid for.

True, but they made have taken this one a bit too far. I would have checked the Bible. And that would have been the end of it.

Now that I think about it, It was a pretty silly thing for the guy to have done.

I bet he doesn't do it again.

[PacHead]

Originally posted by dcmacdaddy:
<PacHead>
My righteous, loving, merciful God can kick the crap out of your fake terrorism-inspiring god.
</PacHead>

Derailment complete.

What makes you think I'm even religious. I've never posted any religious stuff before on MacNN ever you turd.

May allah curse you and your family. . . . .

May allah also curse your sandals. . . . .

[lil'babykitten]

Originally posted by PacHead:
What makes you think I'm even religious. I've never posted any religious stuff before on MacNN ever you turd.

May allah curse you and your family. . . . .

May allah also curse your sandals. . . . .

You're, like, sooooo going to hell!

[PacHead]

Originally posted by lil'babykitten:
You're, like, sooooo going to hell!

Probably. . . . .

[Landos Mustache]

Originally posted by PacHead:
Probably. . . . .

Hotter then Jesus!

[ironknee]

Originally posted by phoenixboy70:
sadly enough, if you really think about it (in terms of terrorism), he wasn't too far off.

[MacNStein]

Originally posted by PacHead:
What makes you think I'm even religious. I've never posted any religious stuff before on MacNN ever you turd.

May allah curse you and your family. . . . .

May allah also curse your sandals. . . . .

Not the sandals!!!

[turtle777]

Originally posted by Zimphire:
True, but they made have taken this one a bit too far. I would have checked the Bible. And that would have been the end of it.

He also made a false statement about his laptop. Connected with his stupid bomb comment, I understand them checking him in...

-t

[CharlesS]

Originally posted by Zimphire:
True, but they made have taken this one a bit too far. I would have checked the Bible. And that would have been the end of it.

And you probably wouldn't have a job anymore for very long.

Joking about this kind of crap is a serious thing.

[Landos Mustache]

Originally posted by CharlesS:
And you probably wouldn't have a job anymore for very long.

Joking about this kind of crap is a serious thing.

I think he would have given him a harder time based on what type of bible it was.

[Splinter]

Originally posted by Millennium:
No, no they don't. Not having a sense of humor is a large part of what security guards are paid for.

Is that something that is looked for over there in the job applications of security gaurds? your security gaurds cant be humerous on the job? I would kill somthing if I couldnt joke around with the security gaurd over here at the bus stops at the malls at the grochery centers at the movie theaters you name it they love a good laugh.

They always ask you "do you have a weapon?" you answer with "I wish" or "No. Why? Are you interested?"... guess its slightly diffrent.

Originally posted by el chupacabra:
especially considering what a joke airport security really is.

Thats a slight generalization that cannot be applied to ALL nations airport security. And US airport security isn't THAT bad. They have realaxed a bit and i'm saying that even though I got pulled over at every stop for "random" inspections... random my ass .

[CharlesS]

Originally posted by Splinter:
Is that something that is looked for over there in the job applications of security gaurds? your security gaurds cant be humerous on the job? I would kill somthing if I couldnt joke around with the security gaurd over here at the bus stops at the malls at the grochery centers at the movie theaters you name it they love a good laugh.

They always ask you "do you have a weapon?" you answer with "I wish" or "No. Why? Are you interested?"... guess its slightly diffrent.

Yeah, you know, because that joke is so funny and so original! No one has ever thought of telling that joke before, and those security guards at the bus stop surely have never heard it in their lives! I'm sure those security guards really get a hoot out of something that clever.

[GoGoReggieXPowars]

CharlesS kind of stole my answer: people who joke about bombs and other weapons have always been idiots, no matter what year it is.

Also, I love the irony of saying this while reading his signature.

[CharlesS]

Originally posted by GoGoReggieXPowars:
Also, I love the irony of saying this while reading his signature.

Heh, good one.

I think we can agree that MacNN and airport security are two completely different situations.

[Splinter]

Originally posted by CharlesS:
Yeah, you know, because that joke is so funny and so original! No one has ever thought of telling that joke before, and those security guards at the bus stop surely have never heard it in their lives! I'm sure those security guards really get a hoot out of something that clever.

wtf?

You have a problem with me stating a simple example off the top of my head (which is bound to be the most commonly heard and known "joke" in these situations)?
Did I somehow offend you?
Did I claim that it was an original and very funny joke of mine?
Did I claim racial superiority because my statement obviously implies that no other races are smart enough to think up a joke as sophisticated as those?
Or perhaps you just enjoy using sarcasm in sentences of failed degradation?

You have something good to say? Out with it. You want to stand there and spout $hit at me over ideas that YOU projected (what was it again? something about being Original and Funny?)...

[Splinter]

Originally posted by GoGoReggieXPowars:
CharlesS kind of stole my answer: people who joke about bombs and other weapons have always been idiots, no matter what year it is.

CharlesS did not imply that people are stupid for making jokes he implied that the jokes I wrote down were unfunny and unoriginal (not that I claim either to be true of them) but to go out of his way and point them out for the sake of perhaps making someone else look just a bit more stupid... sigh really great dude.


You however have an actual reply in that you think that people who joke about these things are stupid anyway. I can understand how that would look to someone on the outside... someone not living under the same conditions. Many people look at things in America... like people walking into and eating at a fast food restaurant and thinking those people are stupid for doing so (mind you that is not my opinion but those of some cultures around the world). But its part of life there. As is a more evolved relationship between the guard and guarded is here.

[CharlesS]

Originally posted by Splinter:
wtf?

You have a problem with me stating a simple example off the top of my head (which is bound to be the most commonly heard and known "joke" in these situations)?
Did I somehow offend you?
Did I claim that it was an original and very funny joke of mine?
Did I claim racial superiority because my statement obviously implies that no other races are smart enough to think up a joke as sophisticated as those?
Or perhaps you just enjoy using sarcasm in sentences of failed degradation?

You have something good to say? Out with it. You want to stand there and spout $hit at me over ideas that YOU projected (what was it again? something about being Original and Funny?)...

Oh, my.

No, what I was trying to say was far simpler than that. It's basically that jokes like this are old and not funny. What's more, they are in poor taste considering the serious consequences that would result if someone actually had a bomb and said something about it, and the guard thought they were joking.

Even without the latter point, though, what the hell is the point of telling a joke if it's not even remotely close to being funny?

BTW, I really love how you played the race card here. Pretty hard for me to discriminate against you in terms of race when I have absolutely no idea what race you are in the first place. As far as I am able to tell, you are a bunch of 1's and 0's which are being displayed in my web browser as HTML text. Jeez...

edit: by the way, what does "sentences of failed degradation" mean, anyway?

[cold_reality]

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
Exactly. Who said otherwise?

I think you'll be needin this to finish your paint job...

[Superchicken]

Need I point out again, who started this thread. Cough flame bait.

That said, yah some pastors are dumb. Not everyone who's in the pastorate was called... that's how I explain... that said he might simply be a weird guy who's not always to bright. God does after all choose all kinds of goofs.

[Sir_Wrinkles]

Originally posted by Superchicken:
Need I point out again, who started this thread. Cough flame bait.

But you can not deny how good it feels to start your week with a big steaming cup of "Anti-religious Trolling"

mmmmmm....goes down smooooth.

[Splinter]

Originally posted by CharlesS:
Oh, my.

No, what I was trying to say was far simpler than that. It's basically that jokes like this are old and not funny. What's more, they are in poor taste considering the serious consequences that would result if someone actually had a bomb and said something about it, and the guard thought they were joking.

The point of the jokes being in poor taste was not conveyed clearly all I could comprehend was you taking the instance of the small part of my post with the little joke I wrote down and centering in on it and saying how stupid it was. Which made your post, to me, look really pointless. It was still pointless of you to point out whether the joke I wrote was original and or funny or not. The only thing that accomplished was conveying a message on your behalf that seemed to say "that’s so stupid and so are you for writing it".

But to your "hidden" point. Maybe the message I wrote wasn't clear either. No one goes around saying "I have a bomb" and "I have a weapon" nothing direct like that. It's hard to explain it’s more of something that just comes naturally. The local public appreciates the guards enough and doesn’t alienate them on some pedestal above themselves to be feared in awe or something. People stop and talk to them as they would anyone else on the street. Going into a cafe the metal detector beeped as it went over the iPod in my pocket. The guard and I started talking about it and other mp3 players and Apple... for 10 minuets standing there talking as he checked other people who came in and out.

Saying it is in poor taste is mostly a matter of culture... what is the norm? The standard? I find it odd that some of the people wouldn't joke around with security guards. You find it odd that they would. Same diff.

Originally posted by CharlesS:
Even without the latter point, though, what the hell is the point of telling a joke if it's not even remotely close to being funny?

Whether it’s funny or not is very much, in this case, to do with the situation and or audience. I don't claim that what I wrote was something funny. Simply an example of an "ice breaker" if you will: something that lightens the mood and creates more of a relaxed feel around you.

Originally posted by CharlesS:
BTW, I really love how you played the race card here. Pretty hard for me to discriminate against you in terms of race when I have absolutely no idea what race you are in the first place. As far as I am able to tell, you are a bunch of 1's and 0's which are being displayed in my web browser as HTML text. Jeez...

I didn’t say you were discriminating against my race. I was listing off possible explanations in my mind that would have warranted what looked like a very off topic and rude post.

Originally posted by CharlesS:
edit: by the way, what does "sentences of failed degradation" mean, anyway?

http://www.m-w.com

[Zimphire]

Originally posted by Landos Mustache:
I think he would have given him a harder time based on what type of bible it was.

Type of Bible? Whaaa?

Do you make up stuff just to be doing it fanboy?

[spatterson]

Originally posted by wataru:

Lol, thats awesome

[Zimphire]

Yes I got a chuckle out of it myself.

I had to save it to my desktop.

[CharlesS]

Originally posted by Splinter:
The point of the jokes being in poor taste was not conveyed clearly all I could comprehend was you taking the instance of the small part of my post with the little joke I wrote down and centering in on it and saying how stupid it was. Which made your post, to me, look really pointless. It was still pointless of you to point out whether the joke I wrote was original and or funny or not. The only thing that accomplished was conveying a message on your behalf that seemed to say "that’s so stupid and so are you for writing it".

I never said that you were stupid. You are, however, pushing me further and further towards that conclusion with each one of these posts that you make.

Not sure what's ambiguous about this:

Originally posted by CharlesS:
And you probably wouldn't have a job anymore for very long.

Joking about this kind of crap is a serious thing.

But hey, who am I to stop you. If joking about bombs in airport security is what you want to do, then hey, whatever floats your boat. Be sure to tell your cellmate about it afterward - I'm sure he'll get a kick out of it too.

I know that if I were getting on a plane and some guy came up to airport security and said he had a bomb, I'd sure as hell want that guy to get investigated pretty damned thoroughly, because frankly I don't want to get blown up in a plane, thanks.

[Splinter]

Originally posted by CharlesS:
I never said that you were stupid. You are, however, pushing me further and further towards that conclusion with each one of these posts that you make.

Not sure what's ambiguous about this:

It came across as implied.

Originally posted by CharlesS:
But hey, who am I to stop you. If joking about bombs in airport security is what you want to do, then hey, whatever floats your boat. Be sure to tell your cellmate about it afterward - I'm sure he'll get a kick out of it too.

I know that if I were getting on a plane and some guy came up to airport security and said he had a bomb, I'd sure as hell want that guy to get investigated pretty damned thoroughly, because frankly I don't want to get blown up in a plane, thanks.

God Zimph you were right all along. Some people here simply refuse to read what you write instead they insist that you meant something else so they can bug you about it. It’s the "p" word.

Charles for the last time: I didn’t say I joked about bombs and I didn’t say it was with airport security specifically. Ok? Can we stop putting words in my mouth now? I will agree with you that if some idiot like the one you keep posting about was to say, "I have a bomb" in the airport, yeah, he would be taken down pretty quick.

[MilkmanDan]

The bomb? Some people never learn. Maybe a strip search will show him the light.