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UTUSN

(70,706 posts)
Fri Nov 29, 2013, 10:44 PM Nov 2013

This politically-clueless friend sent me this wingnut chain letter/"joke"

No, really, she doesn't realize I'm ideologically offended. I love her, so I'll just let it pass.

Let me count the inventory/number of where she has offended me (politically/ideogically):


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Linda Burnett, 23, a resident of San Diego, was visiting her in-laws and while there went to a nearby supermarket to pick up some groceries. Later, her husband ...noticed her sitting in her car in the driveway with the windows rolled up and with her eyes closed, with both hands behind the back of her head. He became concerned and walked over to the car. He noticed that Linda's eyes were now open and she looked very strange. He asked her if she was okay, and Linda replied that she had been shot in the back of the head and had been holding her brains in for over an hour.

The husband called the paramedics, who broke into the car because the doors were locked and Linda refused to remove her hands from her head. When they finally got in, they found that Linda had a wad of bread dough on the back of her head.

A Pillsbury biscuit canister had exploded from the heat, making a loud noise that sounded like a gunshot, and the wad of dough hit her in the back of her head. When she reached back to find out what it was, she felt the dough and thought it was her brains. She initially passed out, but quickly recovered.

Linda is a blonde, a Democrat, and an Obama supporter, but that could all be a coincidence.

The defective biscuit canister was analyzed and the expiration date was from 2008, so it was determined to be Bush's fault.

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UTUSN

(70,706 posts)
10. Wow, thanks. I had no idea it had this kind of history. And how did you get a link from SNOPES?
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 09:16 AM
Nov 2013

Once, when I tried to copy a link from Snopes, it was a total no-go, and I assumed that Snopes had some kind of blocking for itself.

Xyzse

(8,217 posts)
6. Agreed. I remember different versions of this.
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 12:28 AM
Nov 2013

It was funny at the time, and yes I've heard this story waaaaaaaay before Obama became president.

So I completely agree with you there.

As for the OP, I would forgive your friend, who probably thought the first part was funny. I'd have excised the last two paragraphs.

CurtEastPoint

(18,650 posts)
4. I would say, 'You know I love you, so let me be open and honest with you...
Fri Nov 29, 2013, 10:58 PM
Nov 2013

that offends me because ______.' Sometimes people are just that dense, I guess.

Baitball Blogger

(46,735 posts)
7. Rightwingers: You will know them by the stupid things they say about Democrats.
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 12:37 AM
Nov 2013

Do the Liberal thing and ask them for a link.

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