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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-11 12:05 AM
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Bill O’Reilly’s Tidal Skepticism Launches “You Can’t Explain That” Meme
Last month, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly stepped into instant Internet infamy when, in a debate with American Atheists president David Silverman, O’Reilly attempted to prove the existence of God by citing the mystery of the tides: “I’ll tell you why not a scam, in my opinion. Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can’t explain that. You can’t explain why the tide goes in.” Only one problem: There’s this thing called the Moon which might have a little to do with tides.

More recently, O’Reilly attempted to clarify his remarks (sort of) by asking, “where’d the Moon come from?” But this too opened O’Reilly’s flank to any number of scientific counters, and anyway, the damage had been done. Fairly or not, O’Reilly had been pegged as an ignoramus who blindly defended faith not with reasoned arguments, but with questions that could be answered with a quick Wikipedia lookup.

Thanks to a spirited Reddit thread last night, O’Reilly’s gaffe is well on its way towards becoming a meme. An image macro in the Advice Dog vein, the O’Reilly meme features Papa Bear’s head on a red-and-blue backdrop. In the top half of the image, he asks about conundrums which are more Seinfeld than metaphysics: How does bread turn into toast? Why does water come back when you flush the toilet? And why would Chewbacca, a seven-and-a-half foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor with the runty Ewoks? You can’t explain that.



LOTS more at link

http://www.geekosystem.com/bill-oreilly-cant-explain-that-meme/
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Hosnon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-11 12:08 AM
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1. Elicited the rare (actual) lol.
Bread goes in, toast comes out!
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gristy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-11 12:31 AM
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4. Me too!
:D
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Ramulux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-11 12:10 AM
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2. O'Reilly has essentially assured that...
no one under the age of 30 will want anything to do with his show ever.
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gristy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-11 12:30 AM
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3. Link is great. I was laughing out loud. Hilarious.
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Wilms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-11 01:47 AM
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5. He got one right.


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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-11 08:14 PM
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11. Yeah, that's a puzzle to me, too
Never could understand his appeal.
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tblue37 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-11 02:08 AM
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6. From that same page, 50 amusing pictures of
things that look like faces:
http://www.geekosystem.com/things-that-look-like-faces-pareidolia/
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ladjf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-11 11:57 AM
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7. O'Reilly continues to show a profound ignorance of Earth Science
and Astronomy. nt
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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-11 04:57 PM
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8. Facts go into O'Reilly, Bullshit comes out. You can't explain that.
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StarsInHerHair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-11 02:24 AM
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12. good one yellowcanine
too true
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Cali_Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-11 05:21 PM
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9. ROFL
Awesome website!
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-11 07:27 PM
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10. Those nuggets can be used EVERY day here....
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chemenger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-11 08:11 AM
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13. I'm an arrogant idiot, yet people listen to me.
You can't explain that!
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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-11 02:08 PM
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14. The shortest day of the year is Dec. 21. After that the days get longer but also colder.
And then the longest day of the year is June 21. After that the days get shorter but hotter. You can't explain that.
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uncle ray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-11 02:24 AM
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15. i went to Reddit and all i got was a computer virus.
Edited on Tue Feb-15-11 02:25 AM by uncle ray
those youtube comments were no joke.
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