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My Fred Phelps Score is 6! How about yours? (Original Post) UrbScotty Feb 2013 OP
I Think 10 hrmjustin Feb 2013 #1
I am a seven Laf.La.Dem. Feb 2013 #2
I think I got an 8, but Chorophyll Feb 2013 #3
I thought it said "flatuent's" at first. GoCubsGo Feb 2013 #17
Okay, that almost me me laugh out loud! kentauros Feb 2013 #42
LMAO! Me too! OriginalGeek Feb 2013 #43
God hates farts??? Chorophyll Feb 2013 #57
Everyone's but his own. GoCubsGo Feb 2013 #62
FOURTEEN! Brickbat Feb 2013 #4
As a grammar nazi, I absolutely HATE the misuse of the apostrophe. MrSlayer Feb 2013 #5
It's obligatory in Freepville. lpbk2713 Feb 2013 #12
I hear you. GoCubsGo Feb 2013 #20
Baha'i religion intaglio Feb 2013 #66
... or Jewish. surrealAmerican Feb 2013 #67
And he doesn't even include Satanists siligut Feb 2013 #68
No kidding. They left out the apostrophe in DRUGGIE'S!!111! DollarBillHines Feb 2013 #55
I got an 11 LadyHawkAZ Feb 2013 #6
And "EMOs"...did they mean "Elmo"?? dixiegrrrrl Feb 2013 #21
No, it was a movement in the 80s and 90s kentauros Feb 2013 #47
I suspect it's not this... DreamGypsy Feb 2013 #61
It is 0 in the grammar department. RebelOne Feb 2013 #7
Closet Zappa fan? riqster Feb 2013 #50
What's with the apostrophes thucythucy Feb 2013 #8
"Sport's Nut's"??? lol Liberal_in_LA Feb 2013 #9
I count 34 misused apostrophes... SidDithers Feb 2013 #10
I think i'm ok with about 20 of those. hobbit709 Feb 2013 #11
WTF is "High Fullutent"? WilliamPitt Feb 2013 #13
They misspelled falutin' frogmarch Feb 2013 #15
The errant apostrophes in "sport's nut's" is what makes it art. WilliamPitt Feb 2013 #16
True! frogmarch Feb 2013 #23
Lol nt octoberlib Feb 2013 #37
So "unsophisticated swine" are ok, I guess. dixiegrrrrl Feb 2013 #30
I hadn't noticed that! frogmarch Feb 2013 #48
I think its "high flatulence". You get that from eating a lot of pork (sophisticated swine) Erose999 Feb 2013 #19
I see 7 that apply to me. frogmarch Feb 2013 #14
15 here. I reckon being pro choice makes me an "abortionist". And I count myself as both atheist and Erose999 Feb 2013 #18
8, I think...I guess I can claim to be a "sophisticated swine" Glorfindel Feb 2013 #22
I was thinking that meant kentauros Feb 2013 #26
About seven, kentauros Feb 2013 #24
I'm a 9 or a 10 get the red out Feb 2013 #25
Woohoo! 17! I pulled off a hat trick by being GliderGuider Feb 2013 #27
I'm a solid 12 OriginalGeek Feb 2013 #28
"Preacher's Kid". Not sure what the Phelpsians have against them, though. GliderGuider Feb 2013 #31
Wow that IS bizarre! OriginalGeek Feb 2013 #38
WTH is a P.K.? Earth_First Feb 2013 #29
I think they meant to say...phukers....but used initials instead? dixiegrrrrl Feb 2013 #33
Preacher's kid? yellerpup Feb 2013 #34
My score is 10 . It includes octoberlib Feb 2013 #32
Between the things I am and the things I either support or do not hate: 25 WilliamPitt Feb 2013 #35
I'm a 1 Politicalboi Feb 2013 #36
Why do they hate the correct use of the apostrophy? nt Guy Whitey Corngood Feb 2013 #39
"Liberal's" Soylent Brice Feb 2013 #40
Perhaps by EMO he means fans of emo rock bands. djean111 Feb 2013 #41
that's how i interpreted it 0rganism Feb 2013 #52
I've never seen such a gross misuse of the apostrophe in my life. Drunken Irishman Feb 2013 #44
Somewhere between 16 and 19. Democracyinkind Feb 2013 #45
Jesus hates sports nuts because they don't spend Sundays in church - kestrel91316 Feb 2013 #59
Ah. Kind of like the people who wanted to close post offices on sundays in the antebellum era. Democracyinkind Feb 2013 #60
22. i think i win! farminator3000 Feb 2013 #46
WTF is with all the apostrophe's? 0rganism Feb 2013 #49
My thought, as well, except shouldn't that be rateyes Feb 2013 #65
I seem to be a 12 by my interpretation tarheelsunc Feb 2013 #51
At least 10 without the apostrophe since I don't own any of them. appleannie1 Feb 2013 #53
I got at least a 12. But some items on the list are incomprehensible. kestrel91316 Feb 2013 #54
Another vote for people who misuse the apostrophe slackmaster Feb 2013 #56
No Gunmen?........... nt Ernesto Feb 2013 #58
I'm a 16. n/t BeeBee Feb 2013 #63
A perfect 10, maybe more if think hard. 4_TN_TITANS Feb 2013 #64
That isn't a Fred Phelps banner. Behind the Aegis Feb 2013 #69
He's hoarded the world's supply of apostrophes! u4ic Feb 2013 #70
Sadly Fred Phelps scored a 0 davidpdx Feb 2013 #71
 

MrSlayer

(22,143 posts)
5. As a grammar nazi, I absolutely HATE the misuse of the apostrophe.
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 04:25 PM
Feb 2013

The only people that can answer this dumber than dumb question are druggies, effeminate men, the high fullutent (whatever that is), loud mouth women and the sophisticated swine.

I would have to set this banner on fire.

lpbk2713

(42,763 posts)
12. It's obligatory in Freepville.
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 04:29 PM
Feb 2013



... any time a word ends with an 's' a good Freeper will always throw in the requisite apostrophe.


That's how I weed out the rethugs on Craigslist BTW.


surrealAmerican

(11,362 posts)
67. ... or Jewish.
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 06:40 PM
Feb 2013

It's not often you see a list like this that finds fault with being Baha'i, yet remains silent about being Jewish.

siligut

(12,272 posts)
68. And he doesn't even include Satanists
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 06:49 PM
Feb 2013

And they would be the only ones on that list who know they love the devil.

DollarBillHines

(1,922 posts)
55. No kidding. They left out the apostrophe in DRUGGIE'S!!111!
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 05:23 PM
Feb 2013

Idiots.

(I do not know how to do the 'sarcasm' thingie)

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
47. No, it was a movement in the 80s and 90s
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 05:05 PM
Feb 2013

for expressive, though sometimes depressive, youth. I don't know if Goth spun out of Emo, or the other way around. It's also supposed to be a genre of rock.

DreamGypsy

(2,252 posts)
61. I suspect it's not this...
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 05:43 PM
Feb 2013

From Urban Dictionary:

1. Emo

Genre of softcore punk music that integrates unenthusiastic melodramatic 17 year olds who dont smile, high pitched overwrought lyrics and inaudible guitar rifts with tight wool sweaters, tighter jeans, itchy scarfs (even in the summer), ripped chucks with favorite bands signature, black square rimmed glasses, and ebony greasy unwashed hair that is required to cover at least 3/5 ths of the face at an angle.

"The Demise of the Siberian Traintracks of Our Rusty Forgotten Unblemished Love" sounds like it would make a great emo band name.

thucythucy

(8,081 posts)
8. What's with the apostrophes
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 04:26 PM
Feb 2013

after "Homo's" "Gangster's" Muslim's" Gambler's" etc.?

Bigoted AND ignorant.

Well, I guess now I'm being redundant.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
30. So "unsophisticated swine" are ok, I guess.
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 04:54 PM
Feb 2013

They can't spell HIGHFALUTIN but can spell sophisticated....sheesh.

Erose999

(5,624 posts)
18. 15 here. I reckon being pro choice makes me an "abortionist". And I count myself as both atheist and
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 04:41 PM
Feb 2013

agnostic.

Glorfindel

(9,732 posts)
22. 8, I think...I guess I can claim to be a "sophisticated swine"
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 04:45 PM
Feb 2013

But what on earth are "P.K's"? Pale Kluxers? Posse Klowns?

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
24. About seven,
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 04:48 PM
Feb 2013

though some are borderline, like "Druggie" (I've done drugs, but don't any more.)

Here's my list, and I picked the last one because it's so absurd!

New Ager
Democrat
Environmentalist
Government Recipient (tax refund)
Fornicator
Liberal
High Fullutenter


I have to ask: Why are all of the plurals written as possessives?

get the red out

(13,468 posts)
25. I'm a 9 or a 10
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 04:49 PM
Feb 2013

Is "New Ager" different from "Pagan" or the same?

And there's some things on there I don't understand, like "EMO's" and "P. Ks"? I feel so naive. It's kind of embarrassing.

 

GliderGuider

(21,088 posts)
27. Woohoo! 17! I pulled off a hat trick by being
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 04:52 PM
Feb 2013

An atheist, an agnostic, a new ager, a pagan AND a Buddhist all at the same time. That ought to guarantee me a seat on the Devil's left (sinister) hand, and a gold-plated pitchfork...

Oh, and I am so definitely "High Fullutent" and a Sophisticated Swine.

And all the fornication sure helped...

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
28. I'm a solid 12
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 04:53 PM
Feb 2013

and a sympathizer/ally with 3 or 4 others.

Hey, at least me and Phelps both hate racists! Excuse me: Racist's.

Not sure what a PK is though.

 

GliderGuider

(21,088 posts)
31. "Preacher's Kid". Not sure what the Phelpsians have against them, though.
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 04:54 PM
Feb 2013

Most of them are one, after all.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
38. Wow that IS bizarre!
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 04:58 PM
Feb 2013

although, having grown up in a fundamentalist church, I can attest to the Preacher's Kid syndrome. lol, some of my best friends were PKs - they knew all the most fun stuff to do!

I guess ya gotta hand to the Phelps for consistency - even their own kids don't escape. (Except for that one who did escape and is outspoken against them....heyyyyyyyyy waitaminnit.....maybe THAT's the PK to which they refer?)

 

WilliamPitt

(58,179 posts)
35. Between the things I am and the things I either support or do not hate: 25
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 04:57 PM
Feb 2013

The apostrophes have me giggling like a titmouse.

 

djean111

(14,255 posts)
41. Perhaps by EMO he means fans of emo rock bands.
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 04:59 PM
Feb 2013

I'm thinking the higher I can score, the better off I am.
And they forgot a category - "people who know when to just back away from that possessive apostrophe thingy".

Democracyinkind

(4,015 posts)
45. Somewhere between 16 and 19.
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 05:05 PM
Feb 2013

It's hard to know if I qualify as a "sophisticated swine". I've been called a swine, and I consider myself rather sophisticated - but I do not fancy myself an expert on such delicate theological questions.
That's probably why I'm so surpised to learn that the devil was responsible for racists (I thought Jesus, even as a middle eastern Jew himself, is generally conceived of as being ok with racism). And EMO's. Also, I have no idea what Jesus' beef with "sports nut's" is.

Thinking about this a little more, I'm also totally clueless as to what P.K's are - and "high fullutent" sounds like something that I'm afraid to even google.
 

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)
59. Jesus hates sports nuts because they don't spend Sundays in church -
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 05:33 PM
Feb 2013

too busy watching the game on the tube. BIG sin to the Phelps clan.

Democracyinkind

(4,015 posts)
60. Ah. Kind of like the people who wanted to close post offices on sundays in the antebellum era.
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 05:35 PM
Feb 2013

Come to think of it, it's quite apparent. Thanks for pointing that out.

farminator3000

(2,117 posts)
46. 22. i think i win!
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 05:05 PM
Feb 2013

i'm willing to go 2-3 higher, but there are a few "WTF is that"s!

not telling of course.

yes pagans, no scientology.

fullutent is not technically a word!

yet they spell sophisticated right?

no apostrophe in that one?

edit #2:YES. i f'ed up an apostrophe! it was typos' , i swear!

0rganism

(23,959 posts)
49. WTF is with all the apostrophe's?
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 05:16 PM
Feb 2013

scoring a 5, btw, assuming i qualify as "high fullutent sophisticated swine" whatever that means -- and really, who among us doesn't?

tarheelsunc

(2,117 posts)
51. I seem to be a 12 by my interpretation
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 05:17 PM
Feb 2013

Feminist - I am a male who believes in equal rights for both men and women, so I guess this label applies to me.
Democrat - obviously
Environmentalist - people who care about the sustainability of our habitat obviously worship the devil...
Abortionist - if they mean someone who supports the right of women to make their own choices about their own body, then yes
Government recipients - no way would I be able to attend a university without it
Fornicator - well I've had intercourse outside of wedlock (with my girlfriend)
Gambler - I've bought lottery tickets
Agnostic - this is actually pretty much the opposite of devil-worshipper
Liar - no one always tells the truth
Freeloader - I have no job (I am a student) and I rely on financial aid and assistance from parents
Liberal - Oh what a devil-worshipper that makes me...
Sports nut - I do love sports

 

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)
54. I got at least a 12. But some items on the list are incomprehensible.
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 05:22 PM
Feb 2013

P.K.'s? High fullutent?? EMO's??? Bahi's???

I'm definitely that loud mouthed woman he loves to hate, at least on the internet.

 

slackmaster

(60,567 posts)
56. Another vote for people who misuse the apostrophe
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 05:24 PM
Feb 2013

And they misspelled "flatulent."

I don't like highly flatulent people.

Behind the Aegis

(53,965 posts)
69. That isn't a Fred Phelps banner.
Tue Feb 5, 2013, 01:24 AM
Feb 2013

I have seen most of his banners, this isn't one of them. This is the work of those crazy preacher "people" that travel to various events (Mardi Gras, Southern Decadence, the Superbowl, pride parades, etc.) and are usually made up knuckle-dragging inbreeds, most of whom can't put together a coherent sentence, which is why the banner is such a mess.

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