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Parents complain about dirty book
Houston Courier | Submitted by: anonymous
"The book had a bunch of very bad language in it," Diana Verm said. "It shouldn't be in there because it's offending people. ... If they can't find a book that uses clean words, they shouldn't have a book at all." ... "It's just all kinds of filth," said Alton Verm, adding that he had not read Fahrenheit 451. "The words don't need to be brought out in class. I want to get the book taken out of the class." ... "Alton Verm's request to ban Fahrenheit 451 came during the 25th annual Banned Books Week."
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From: lucian [I'm flying.]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 14:22
Simply brilliant. They must be thrilled to have brought this obscene book to the attention of the nation... Hooray democracy!
From: dadio86 [Suck It!]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 14:27
"If they can't find a book that uses clean words, they shouldn't have a book at all." This is how George W. Bush got re-elected. By appealing to these inbreeds.
From: parttimedimigod [of silver ware placement]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 14:30
it's not like anyone reads anymore anyway (aside from harry potter) making sure your kid won't read profane words is just goning to make sure they don't read anything worth wile
From: orwellian
[orwellian]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 14:36
There is just to much irony to this story. "His 15-year-old daughter Diana, a CCHS sophomore, came to him Sept. 21 with her reservations about reading the book because of its language." His daughter must be a real douchebag to be anti-cursing at the age of 15. I can't remember anyone at that age who did not find literature strewn with curses as anything other than cool. If anything, the curses was what kept a majority of the kids in the class reading the book. I do not understand what universe these people are apart of. It sort of frustrates me that their vote counts as much as mine. Sigh.
From: typofaery [TypoFaery]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 14:37
Oh please tell me this is a joke. Come on, this cant be real the irony is just waaay to fucking much. The fates just don't hand out little gems like this. Once again I state that we need some serious chlorine tablets in the gene pool. Before you know it the only books kids are going to be able to read is the autobiography of G.W Bush. Written Dr Seuss style.
From: insineratehymn [Spontaneous Christian Combustion]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 14:40
If they ban Fahrenheit 451, they should ban the christian bible too. All these people who want books banned should be shown films of Hitler Youth rallies...in which forbidden books were burned. Fuck christi(ns)anity
From: aulduron
[Aulduron]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 14:44
It should be banned for being one of the most overrated and mind numbingly boring excuses for literature ever written. Bradbury had cool ideas, he just couldn't write them down in a entertaining way.
From: parttimedimigod [of silver ware placement]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 14:45
it's like logic is on the baned concept list
From: kdp [Calif - Ex Patraite]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 14:48
I haven't read F451 in years and I do have a great deal of Bradbury on my shelf that I read through once in a while. I don't recall any bad language in F451 and know that Bradbury is a great craftsman who really doesn't need to use "bad language". I want to see what words these people find offensive and they should be made to demonstrate what is offensive to these students. Then we can judge how redneck they really are. Until then, they are just mildly redneck.
From: digger [kerry]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 14:52
im thinking maybe they should have a ban the cristian dumbass week
From: rhag6942
[Kewl Han Dluke]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 14:52
The irony of banning F451 is fantastic. They have a Banned Books Week? Next week is Prohibited Unions Week - where they protest against biracial and gay couples, then a turkey shooting match. All my exes live in Texas.
From: iguanac64 [Itchy Carter]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 14:55
Ugh...I guess this isn't the time to mention I live in the same school district as these hillbillies. I just can not believe the irony here...nor the PC bullshit. OMG! PROTECT THE CHILLINS!
From: gargoyle1
Date: 2-Oct-2006 14:56
What a fucktard religious freak, shoot him and all his spawn now before they can reproduce anymore of these ignorant, closed minded hill billys. My god, I read that book before I was 15 and understood the message it sends, I've also read 1984 and Brave New World, not to mention a multitude of others in that genre. Nothing wrong with the message they send or the real way in which it's presented. I guess this assbag would go along nicely in the world of Guy Montag now wouldn't he? Dipshit moron.
From: raygunyouth
[Raygunyouth]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 14:57
While I have no problem labeling these inbred, hillbilly, closed-minded douchebags I do respect their right not to have to read certain material. I also support their right to raise another ignorant, inbred, hillbilly, closed-minded douchebag to the age of 18. If they want to do report in school on alternate material they should be given that opportunity, just as others should have the right to read classic literature without being deprived the right to do so by Billy jo bob and Martha anne sue's church bonfire fuel appropriation board.
From: hawk3 [tritium]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 15:00
Incinerathymn, They are probably believers in revisionist history, doubting hitler did bad, but instead is only a target of zionist devils. Also, whenever a book is banned if I haven't read it , I do so.
From: goldamyass [Drucilla]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 15:10
This area is close to the Texas school in Wednesday's story where the teacher took the kids to a Dallas museum, and one of the pupils tattled to her parents that there was a nude statue. The teacher has been shit-canned since that printing.
From: jenasaurusx
[Awesome!]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 15:20
I posted about Banned Book Week a week ago and then forgot all about it. HAPPY BANNED BOOK WEEK! This is surely a joke. They totally schemed this shit out in their basement to pull one over on the media and the American people. Hahahahahaha SUCKERS. Raygun: Well said! Although, when it comes to education I believe the majority should pretty much rule and if someone has a big problem with the way the public schools do things then theyyou'll need to send them to a private school or home school them. Thems the breaks. Aulduron: Hahaha - I don't necessarily agree with you, but it was funny nonetheless.
From: dirtyslut76
[slut]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 15:23
If the girl's dad is SO concerned about the content of the "dirty book" due to their "religious" beliefs, why doesn't the dad shell out the dough to send her to a private Christian school?
From: dirtyslut76
[slut]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 15:28
And just look at these fucktards, the way they are proudly posing with the "offensive" book. It makes them look like hypocrites, too. The dad especially. Actually, I feel sorry for the daughter, her dad has obviously brainwashed her. With all that is going on with the world (waaay worse things that are in the book), yet this is the cause he feels the need to champion?? 
From: lordpakul [Lord Pakul]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 15:39
This is either or both: - a Banned Books Week hoax - another rip in the veil of reality. 
From: dpletedurcranium
[TPFKARN]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 15:46
From: dadio86 [Suck It!] Date: 2-Oct-2006 14:27 "If they can't find a book that uses clean words, they shouldn't have a book at all." This is how George W. Bush got re-elected. By appealing to these inbreeds. .......................................................................... Exactly http://www.patriotsblade.com/mediapage.html Watch the clip "Children Hail Saint George"
From: dinktoucher
[Free Goo!]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 15:59
I read this book in my grade seven english class. I don't remember it using "bad language". I liked the ideas it portrayed. What a bunch of close-minded fucktards.
From: biochem4all [Dr. Bill]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 16:06
Banning books is ridiculous as most people would agree, but I for one am so f#$@% sick of the same trash being forced down the throats of highschoolers for the past 30 years. Fahrenheit 451, any Ann Rand book, 1984, catch 22... Don't CONFORM, the government is BAD, everyone read the same f@#$ books so you can become moron conspiracy nuts. Know what they need to teach in highschool, critical thinking. Teach kids to analyze and think critically of everything that is put in front of them. That way they can read virtually any book and pick out ideas or lessons that reflect reality. This may be a very ironic story but hardly rotten.
From: jacobins [alex]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 16:07
Christian nuts are a plague that have infected our great nation.
From: csi [can't stand idiots]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 16:08
the first 500 copies of Fahrenheit 451 were printed on asbestos paper.
From: unclepeter [Old Poop]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 16:12
Well, I can't add much except to say that I agree with the majority here that these "people" need some serious medical intervention. Say, retroactive abortion? If they don't like Fahrenheit 451 I would shudder to think what would happen if their precious little Christ slut had to read Fear Of Flying. Or maybe something by Shaw or heaven forbid, Shakespeare. Maybe these Bible thumping morons should take a really good look at the Songs of Solomon. Real good jack-off material there for the slow and ugly. This is what you get when you let religious freaks get involved in politics. If they aren't trying to blow you up then their trying to run your life.
From: studgerbil
[Stud]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 16:16
Conroe, Texas proudly calls itself "The World's Biggest Shithole". About and hour up the road from Houston, Conroe has more churches than restaurants and more bars than newsstands. There is a big lake there that people go bass fishing in. You all come on down here, now.
From: conspiracy
[Theory]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 16:19
I kept waiting for the punch line. Has anyone read the bible? Murder , rape , incest , and on and on? Yeah ...... Thats better. MTC
From: krystille [Krystille]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 16:35
Doesn't this asshole realize that the book itself is about assholes burning books? What an asshole.
From: yotan46 [kids today...]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 17:02
THIS IS WHY SO MANY PEOPLE IN OUR COUNTRY ARE ILLITERATE. because of fucked-up wackjob religious morons who object to a book because it violates their 'beliefs' that are spoon-fed to them by a book that at one time upheld slavery, incest, and the sacrificing of ANIMALS to atone for BASIC BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS! gee diana, sounds more like there's a 'bunch of very bad language' coming from your mouth. this book has been wasted on this stupid child. no one else is bitching about the book, are they? what? no? didn't think so.
From: daftmonkeyminion [of Bertrand Russell]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 17:26
I agree with kewl han dluke, the irony is incredible. Best time to be a Bradbury fan is when you're young; his story "Kaleidoscope" was a potential episode missed by the Twilight Zone show. I would like to challenge this Diana Vermin reformer to define the word "bad". The capability to clearly elucidate is beyond the ken of most hillbillies and reformers.
From: mezzogiorno [showtherespect]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 17:39
A religious whackjob trying to ban a book about banning books . . . . another whackjob opening fire on a group known for its strong belief in non-violence. Today should go down in Rotten History for Most Ironic.
From: letsmasturbate [Chronic Wanker]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 18:11
I like books with pictures of naked women in. They are dirty after I've finished reading them. The pages somehow manage to get stuck together.
From: weezuschrist [Personelle Savior - False Profit]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 18:13
banning things just makes them more desirable. and anyway, that girl is fat.
From: wulfgartheblack [Wulfgar the Black]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 18:38
What a sweet looking couple! Wonder what goes on in their prayer closet. There's more blood and semen between the covers of the Bible than any other book I ever read - including that close second, The Koran. [Yeah, yeah! Like Peking, spell it any fucking way you want.]
From: superpants
Date: 2-Oct-2006 19:00
doesn't this website filter posts that contain "objectionable" language?
From: davidicke
[David Icke]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 19:08
Aw, this here's real cute. I'm right proud of the state I live in, I tell you what. Don't y'all mess with Texas, now. Just because we're bigger'n Alaska don't mean y'all got to get all riled up and start complainin' 'bout how us simple folk don't want our kids readin' Farra-khan Four-Hunert an' Twelve, or whatever it's called. Them books is just profane, an' that's all there is to it. I'd thank ya kindly if you yankees just left us be. We don't need no fancy books what got obscene language in 'em, 'cause that's what Saturday night at the barn's for. Anythin' else 'ud be an affront to the Lord, and y'all all know the Lord ain't to be trifled with. *ahem*
From: spanker [Smoking Joe]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 19:13
The article said Diana was 15. Were they talking about tons or years? Why is this news? I could give a shit what these white trash perpetual poor loosers think.
From: letsmasturbate [Chronic Wanker]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 19:15
From: superpants
Date: 2-Oct-2006 19:00
doesn't this website filter posts that contain "objectionable" language? LOL, are you mistaking Rotten for www.hugs.com? Pretty much anything goes here, unless it is an illegal pic or people start physically threatening each other. If you are already offended, you will prob won't like it here too much.
From: cantab10imfc [nick]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 19:22
does anyone recall someone trying to ban a book who has actually read the bloody thing, I appreciate this numbnut is probably not a reader per se. If he really wants to make his kids life better, maybe he should keep her away from donuts for a few months, get the chick jogging or something?
From: thetsunami [ZeroTolerance]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 19:24
The power of Christ compels you (to be a self-righteous ass)!
From: timmy21
Date: 2-Oct-2006 19:34
They took care of "My Friend Flicka." That was just a disgusting book. Glad it got burned. (Sarcasm at 100%)
From: ikthool
[ikthool]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 19:37
I agree that this is one of the most boring books I ever read(and previous to the advent of the dailyrotten forum,I read a lot of books). The irony of this has been well stated. But what bothers me more is the unfairness.Intelligent students have hated this book for years,and still had to trudge through it. Some inbred fundie gets to ditch it for the smoking and drinking? I couldn't really quote any of this exercise in tedium,but I don't remember particularly foul language,and in seventh grade that might have made it remotely interesting. They'll have the bible in there soon.Them fundies is tricky. LOL, are you mistaking Rotten for www.hugs.com? He's been around here.He's kiddin dude.
From: brainshmain
[Sky]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 19:39
Oh my god, you guys are fucking hilarious. I agree with virtually everything you guys have said here, which is rare for me on the D.R. Anyway, as it's been said, this is ridiculous. I feel sorry for this girl for many reasons: 1. Her parents obviously never taught her how eat a balanced diet. She probably eats a lot of pork or fried beef and very little vegetation or soy protein. Not her fault, just how she was taught. 2. She's obviously been brainwashed by her overprotective parents who try and hide from the society that surrounds her, and no doubt she'll grow up trying to protect her own litter from the same reality. 3. All these idiots who take offense to things like this are bible worshipping retards who tell their children how homosexuals are going to burn in hell as a bedtime stroy but sue the school when a Harry Potter (an obvious satanist child's handbook) is read aloud ina class This isn't a fucking theocratic nation, thank ____.
From: vandal [Buster Hymen]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 19:59
Dont tell me that Hillbilly father doesn't have a copy of WANK inbetween uhis matress.
From: dirtyslut76
[slut]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 20:08
Yeah brainshmain, You have echoed some of my sentiments from earlier, and then some. Seriously, that girl IS a chubbo, maybe the parents should worry more about her diet, maybe ban cookbooks first before Fahrenheit 451, eh?
From: vandal [Buster Hymen]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 20:09
Hey! They list the Email address of the person to contact to contest a book. I'm sending a request to ban the following. A: The Bible B: How to rebuild a 67 Charger to look like the General Lee. (has the word NUTS right before Bolts.) C: Southern Living Home & Garden D: Anything with Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.
From: whitehelljumper [WhiteHelljumper]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 20:22
I just love how these people want to ban a book that's about a society where it's illegal to read.
From: sydvicious [Syd Vicious]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 20:29
I think my favourite part is: "'It's just all kinds of filth,' said Alton Verm, adding that he had not read Fahrenheit 451." Okay, let's talk about the Bible. Doesn't it mention all sorts of good wholesome things like murder, torture, sodomy, incest, etc...? While I agree with Aulduron that the book was (to me) boring and overrated, if they're going to ban it, those hypocritical self-righteous ignorant pieces of shit should also ban their religious filth.
From: bartyboyo
[sean]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 20:29
I read Fahrenheit 451 when I was in 6th grade.I seem to recall that the title refered to the temp that paper ignites.I will have to re-read this book to see what its all about.Censorship in any form in my humble op just seems rather useless.In this day and age anyperson can acsess any information they wish.To ban any form of lititure only incourages people to seek it out.I tend to respect any non violent religion.I lose respect by the actions of those who wish to qwell what they deem offensive.
From: dirtyslut76
[slut]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 20:36
yeah sean, I was thinking of rereading it too. I was about...what 12, 13? So that was 17-18 years ago. Hey, it would be fun is we can look up this ass-clown excuse for a father's address online and we all send him a copy of Farenheit 451, throw in a few Catcher's in the Rye...etc
From: ikthool
[ikthool]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 20:46
If you two are going to reread that book,you must really like reading. I like reading,but damn ,I'd rather watch paint dry than read that again. I gotta agree with Aulduron.
From: hawk3 [tritium]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 20:47
Sally, what's up with the fire obsession? Too much beavis & butthead? Back to the topic. What are public schools supposed to do? Let the local batpist church provide a reading list? That would have to be the world's shortest list. Right next to a list of eyetilian war hero's - mama mia.
From: dirtyslut76
[slut]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 21:02
Ikthool, maybe that brat just hated the book too, and knew what buttons to push with her bible-thumping daddy to get out of reading it. She DOES look awful smug in the picture:
From: barbarossa58 [Phallus Maximus]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 21:10
I read 'The Happy Hooker' in ninth grade and did an ORAL book report in class!
From: ikthool
[ikthool]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 21:15
Yeah,they look pretty pleased with themselves. Almost like they have no idea that bitching about a book you haven't even read makes it obvious you're stupid. Good night,6:oo EST comes early.
From: shithead [shithead]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 21:17
Protecting children is one thing & I'm sure most of us agree with this. However, I do wonder about how many children have been tapped up, raped & molested by their friendly, neighbourhood southern baptist pastor... And then it's the soft-cock-of-all-soft-cock-excuses: the voices inside my head made me do it! Why don't you Americans hand Texas over to the Mexicans? I beleive Texas was Mexican at one time...
From: dickhead [I'm just better, than you]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 21:33
Why is it the books that makes people think are the one that gets ban? What are they afraid of?
From: acrimony
[Room Dz-015]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 21:53
I can't believe I'm sharing my air with these fucking people. This, without a doubt, is the most ironic thing EVER. Well, that and the fact that Ft. 451 has an article in The Bathroom Book--you know the passage in Ft. where Beatty is telling Montag about how people read condensed digest-digest-digests of literature instead of the real thing? Yeop.
From: jaydawg [Aspiring Pornographer]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 22:33
I hope father and daughter die in a car fire. Together or separate. I'm easy =)
From: dirtyslut76
[slut]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 22:56
From: dickhead [I'm just better, than you]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 21:33
Why is it the books that makes people think are the one that gets ban?
What are they afraid of? My theory is that parents want their children angelic, sweet, demur, obedient...while THEY have to deal with them. Then these so- called "obedient" kids grow up, are unleashed in the "real" world. They can't handle it. They go nuts...rape, rob, prostitutes themselves, get knocked up, kill. Then you see poor momma crying in the camera, "But he/she was always such a GOOD boy/girl!" The most likely fate of that girl is that she lives with Daddy for the next 30 years, or she is moving into the nearest trailer park. Maybe both.
From: kingnot [Ben]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 23:12
Ok, if Farenheit 451 is a "Dirty" book, how can he even turn on the TV without a flood of feces covering him? I've read that book, and not as a "Classroom assignment to Cliff's Notes out of and forget" and it is in text very easy reading...? There's another story that fits perfectly with this, not just BillBob Hick, but his "Preecher Man" who probably planted in his tiny brain the idea to burn this. From Bradbury's "Martian Chronicles", "A cask of Armaditillo", which is a tip of the hat to the Poe story of said name, but applies to Censors. Won't describe it here, just read it, its a laugh!
From: bugeyedb [BugEyedB]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 23:15
Can we please send this holier than thou family to the Middle East? There are plenty of folks there who don't practice (or can't) the freedom to read, say or do whatever they want. Here in America, if a book offends, then put it down & don't read it, but don't tell me it needs to be banned & no one needs to read it because it offends YOU. Don't like it? Fuck you & get out!
From: kingnot [Ben]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 23:15
Oh, and... Bible has some good smut in it. Won't go to the "Lot and his Daughters" stuff, there's also "Thamara and Juda", recently illustrated by a European erotic artist!  "Go Jerk off to the Bible!" has a NEW meaning!!!
From: dirtyslut76
[slut]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 23:49
Somebody, in all seriousness, who is childless, female, (yet thinks it will be "fun" to have a kid) thought this was a "fun bet" to place. ----------------------------- Date: 2-Oct-2006 22:53 Does anyone want to start a pool as to where the next school shooting will be? I'm guessing it's going to be an elementary school next. In the past two weeks we've had... -Regular school shotting with young kid -Regular school shooting with old guy, AND HE MOLESTS THEM -Then we backslid and had the kid shoot his vice principal (That kid's a loser!) - kind of weak, but... -Now we've got Amish killer! It doesn't get better than that. Or does it...? What's next? Where/ Who? Elementary school in some hick state - the hick states never get much attention and those kind of rednecks get all caught up in trends like that or militias. I'll say... 12 Dead - Arkansas - elementary school - adult killer Anyone else care to play? ----------------------- What is your opinion?
From: weewilly [Wee Willy]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 23:56
Hey America feeling a bit like the Germans when Hitler was the number one there? Hey theyre tapping your phones, your internet, your online gambling, hey has the KGB infiltrated you or what. Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, were jewish. Hey david Duke is one of your own. Doesnt like his jewish herritage, but has studied the jews, and zionism as a political force. Its so wonderfull with WWW. Hey let our young people be able to think their own thoughts, I remember when I was 15, I think when they have contraversial issues it gets them to think deeper, and expand in a way they normally might not have . Free speach is a must if you want to feel free. That father feels insecure. Hes a hillbilly who doesnt know much about much  Keep the breath of freedom in you folks !!!
From: bugeyedb [BugEyedB]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 00:03
Hmmmm, dirtyslut76 [slut].... I'll see your bet & up the ante. I'll say a baptist (or fundamentalist) youth "get together" in Oklahoma. 2 bite the bullet, 9 wounded. Teen killer. NEXT!
From: distortedfanatic [Distorted Fanatic]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 00:09
From: jacobins [alex] Date: 2-Oct-2006 16:07 Christian nuts are a plague that have infected our great nation. __________________________ Christian nuts FOUNDED our great nation. BTW: that daughter is a fucking cow. I wonder if Alton Verm reads this forum and gets all pissy. I hope he does because I think he is a self-righteous, sanctimonious, judgemental, Hispanic-man-kissing, cum gurggling, bow-legged, bucktoothed, gapped-assed, Nazi goosestepping, cock-fond moron. This guy is no better than that media-whore Michael Newdow who had "One nation under God" removed from the pledge. It's that same control-freak mentality. And I am so sick of this PC bullshit where everything has to be all homogenized to fit some low-brow opinion of how society is supposed to be. This fuck admitted he never read F451; how can anyone have the unmitigated gall to have a book banned they never even read? If you are offended, please, by all means, read an alternative book. Even voice your concern to anyone who gives enough of a rat's ass to listen. That should be no problem and it seemed like a couple of other kids were cool enough to do just that. But to dare impose his will on the masses? If I had a kid in that school, I would file a civil lawsuit against that Alton Verm so quick he wouldn't know whether to call his lawyer or cry to his beloved preacher man. I would own everthing that asshole has and then give it all away to devil-worshipers and atheists. Maybe I would sell enough of his shit to give free copies of F451 to every kid in that school, as well. The cheek! Growing up in the South is a challenge because you either have to fall into that whole idiot Baptist mind-set or treated like a quasi-pariah. It's weird like that. But I managed to get through my childhood relatively unscathed and open-minded enough to not really sweat the whole God thing. None us really know until we die anyway. Why quibble over silly bullshit like that? I have no real problem with real Christians, my wife is a good, honest , real Christain. I look at porn and so does she once in awhile. we both smoke weed. Maybe she isn't what one would typically define as a "Christian", but oh she is, and is quick to let you know. I'm pagan (this makes for lively debate over drinks, mind you) and I just don't up and decide that because I personally don't like something it should be banned. If that were the case, there would be no:
From: distortedfanatic [Distorted Fanatic]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 00:13
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From: distortedfanatic [Distorted Fanatic]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 00:14
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From: distortedfanatic [Distorted Fanatic]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 00:15
just to name a few. but you don't see me standing on some pedestal all horny to get my picture in paper so I will have something to show a band of sheep who will "ooooo" and "ahhhh" all full of doe-eyed awe and fawn over me. What the fuck is going on with people's egos nowadays? Perhaps I am only marinating in my apathy. The point is, nobody would back my particular platform if I started soap-boxing. Why does this dude think his opinion trumps all others? Aren't Christains supposed to be humble, speak thier minds and simply adhere to thier beliefs in private or congregation? Isn't that what this whole experiment of a "liberal democracy" is supposed to be about? The fact that we all have the inherient birthright to speak out against what we consider an outrage and to have what you have to say protected by the Consititution. Bradbury spoke out against totalitarianism. What exactly is this Alton Verm guy really standing for? I bet this ass-sponge even condsiers himself "American". People like this guy have no place in any sort of progressive society at all. Being a militant moralist is no better than being a militant racist. If you wanna be a moralist or a racist, I have no qualms with that at all. Just keep it to your own and don't impose it onto other people. Sorry, I had to split up that post. That's what so great about the internet: no one can interrupt you!
From: nynmpseudo [Nynm Pseudo]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 00:17
dirtyslut76: Does anyone want to start a pool as to where the next school shooting will be? Anyone else care to play? * * * * * * * * I wanna play! Will you hold the bets? I go for Kalifornika, an outside stalker type inspired by the Aimish shootings.
From: bugeyedb [BugEyedB]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 00:22
distortedfanatic [Distorted Fanatic], you almost had me till you included the German & Japanese scat porn....then you lost me......oh well, we can agree to disagree....lol.....
From: ghalgluahgulag [bob]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 02:01
oh god fucking forbid we expose our children to a valueble cautionary tale at the expense of exposing them to words most of them were familiar with by the age of 4 thanks to their fucking foulmouthed parents....like i was......goddamn motherfucking asshole goat-rapist sumnabitch..................nevermind
From: dadofautism [*****]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 03:20
"We went them to go after God," said Glen Jalowy Jr., Grand Parkway Church youth minister. "We encourage them that what you put in your mind and heart is what comes out." God better go safter her, because if she doesn't lose weight, no one else will.
From: dennisisevil
[Dennis]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 04:02
Can anyone explain to me why not letting The South cecede was such a great idea? Will somebody please A-Bomb these hillbilly fucktards and call it a day?
From: powderedtoastman [Michael]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 04:36
Did these fuckwits ever take a good look at the Bible? The Bible features and/or discusses rather prominently in some sections: - adultery - murder - incest - sodomy - genocide - violence - masturbation To my knowledge, "Fahrenheit" doesn't condone smoking, drinking and other vices, just like the Bible doesn't condone the above points. But hey, it's the Bible, and may God (if there is one) strike me dead for even writing a post like this...
From: peanutslab [68iou1]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 04:55
Fuck it. Let 'em ban it. They banned incest and kiddie fucking in general and we've never had it so good. They banned weed and now we can smoke as much as we want, tax free. Banning anything just takes control away from the corporations and gummint.
From: powderedtoastman [Michael]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 05:01
I don't think it's that easy. Banning books (and art, by the way!) is a form of cultural mind control. These people aren't just worried about the ideas that a novel like this will instill in the minds of their young - their objective is to declare war on anything that is against their narrow-minded beliefs, in an effort to reeducate everybody else. It's the next best thing to totalitarianism.
From: maidenmaiden
[whatever]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 06:05
Jen- it will be Biily Bob in Texas, one dead (the perp)- 7 kids shoot him when he pulls his weapon.. . DS- get over it, whiner. Most all here love our kids.
From: kwijibo
[A fat, balding north-american ape]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 06:17
Why on earth do these people send their daughter off to government schools every morning if they don't want her to be exposed to these sorts of things? There must be plenty of Christian schools they could send her to. Not only are they cheapskates for taking the easy way out on their daughter's education but then they want to pull something like this. I see this as an excellent reason for school voucher programs, so nutty parents like this can just get the hell away from everyone else and form up into their own nutty schools. If people like this all want to self-segregate into their own communities with such prudish standards, that's certainly their right. Kind of like gay people self-segregating in West Hollywood so that they can set their own community standards. Kind of like Amish forming up into their own communities, too. That's why we have states instead of one big polyglot of one-size-fits-all government. (At least in the USA -- for now)
From: unclepeter [Old Poop]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 06:37
What amazes me about assholes like these and the media that prints this shit is that they think I give a damn. If it wasn't for the fact that numb nuts like these are trying to take over the country I would just laugh and ignore them. After all, it is their God/Allah/Jehovah/Yawah? given right to be a complete fucking moron if they want. But it is *not* their right to shove their hate filled bullshit down other peoples throats. As far as the kid's weight is concerned, have you ever seen "buff" trailer trash before? This poor cow is destined to drop and spread for some other dumb fuck besides her father and breed more fucktards. Why when I look at the picture do I think of brood sow? Oh well, even if they blew Texas off the map some other state would bless us with complete fucking idiots. It seems to be the in thing these days. Let's dumb down everything to meet the lowest common denominator. Which is usually a Born Again Christian freak.
From: chinnuts [Got Three For Ya]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 07:41
Alton Verm / Berm or whatever your name is - I award you the title of The Second Stupidest Person in America.
From: iguanac64 [Itchy Carter]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 07:42
I dunno...I'm glad they wrote this article. I wonder if the writer wrote it because of the overwhelming article or if there was just nothing else really going on in Conroe. Either motive is equally suspect in this backwater. Whoever said you're either a god-fearing Baptist or a pariah hit the nail on the head. I would add one category, tho. You're either a god-fearing Baptist, a pariah, or a methhead...or a combination of the three. Me...I'm squarely in the pariah camp because I want little to do with the other two.
From: annidez [annidez]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 07:47
This story is probably fake - it's far too perfectly rotten. Well, I just hope it's fake. Either way, it strikes a chord. I just got back from visiting my mom and stepdad in Northern Florida. They live in a tiny town, closest big(?) city is Gainesville. I couldn't believe how many people there make racist and sexist remarks. I'm white, from San Francisco & I tend to be attracted to 'non-white' guys. I went out for dinner one night with the parents' friends and I heard 'nigger' far too many times. My current partner is Japanese and I was waiting to hear 'nip.' If any of the folks at that table knew I've loved two black men, they would have shit. I imagine if they met my boyfriend, they'd have lumped him in as a 'chink'. I don't know why, at 40 years old, I continue to be surprised by peoples' ugliness. If this F451 story is true, I really pity this so-called country.
From: conpassage [petit con]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 08:09
That you may nurse and be satisfied with her comforting breasts,That you may suck and be delighted with her bountiful bosom." Isaiah 66:10-12 "I made you numerous like plants of the field. Then you grew up, became tall and reached the age for fine ornaments; your breasts were formed and your hair had grown. Yet you were naked and bare. Ezekiel 16:6-8 and they played the harlot in Egypt. They played the harlot in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and there their virgin bosom was handled. Ezekiel 23:2-4 Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom because of the breasts of your youth. Ezekiel 23:20-22 As a loving hind and a graceful doe,Let her breasts satisfy you at all times;Be exhilarated always with her love. Proverbs 5:18-20 Your stature is like that of the palm, and your breasts like clusters of fruit. Song of Solomon 7:6-8 I said, "I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit." May your breasts be like the clusters of the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples, Song of Solomon 7:7-9 Anybody else getting wood here?
From: whogivesafuck [i don't]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 08:29
In Lexington they're going to burn The Library of Congress for charity Round it's funeral pyre the flames will churn As night and winter's darkness spurn And threaten with their clarity See the flames they're burning up Burning so bright, Fahrenheit Fahrenheit 451 Fahrenheit 451 The fun has just begun, Fahrenheit 451 Oh see the pages all catching fire See the building shimmering now It was like this when witches reared Against the stake, we stood and peered At such Aladin's caves of air Oh I wish you could have seen us there Spreading all around that funeral pyre Watching the flames burn higher and higher Fahrenheit 451, Fahrenheit 451 The fun has just begun, Fahrenheit 451 Fahrenheit 451, Fahrenheit 451 The burning has just begun It's like a mushroom cloud on a sun Fahrenheit 451 The fire's fierce theatre draws herds of folk All willing to be hypnotised Anemones of flames and smoke Enchant us so we gladly choke Fahrenheit 451, Fahrenheit 451 The fun has just begun, Fahrenheit 451 HAWKWIND 1992 JUST LOVE THE IRONY
From: aeon
[aeon]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 09:41
i don't think i can say anything that hasn't already been said, but i'll just say that this is why we need to either euthanize our pathetic public school system, or tell all these fucking idiot bitches to shut the fuck up once and for all and never take their complaints seriously ever again. one or the other. can't have both.
From: majyka [Rosy]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 09:49
When I was in high school, my AP literature class ran into this sort of blockade with some books. My teacher got around it in a most clever fashion: we read a lot of Thomas Hardy, and when we got home our parents saw the blurb about Hardy, "One of the most prolific poets and authors of Victorian England...." and delved no further. Has anyone else here actually read any Hardy? Still my favorite author - Tess of the d'Urbervilles, where Tess gets raped (or maybe is willing, we will never know), has a stillborn baby, all before she turns 14, and that's only the first chapter; Mayor of Casterbridge, where this guy gets piss-ass drunk and sells (or bets away, I can't remember, it's been quite a while) his wife and infant daughter (again, this happens in the first few pages); or Jude the Obscure, which was viciously reviewed by all those Victorians for its exquisitely explicit sexual scenes, and the degree to which the antagonist used sex as a weapon against Jude. We also read quite a bit of Shakespeare "How now do you speak of country (cunt-ry) matters, Ophelia?" Fahrenheit 451 was one of the tamer selections, I recall. The ideas and the concept of such a type of fear were quite graphic, but that's not something that's going to give anyone a hard on, not even that fucking cow of a cunt. Fuck that. Freedom of speech, it must be defended, to the death (as Voltaire would say - speaking of graphic novels...)! NO art should be censored, NO novel should be censored or banned - this isn't kazakhstan, where pamphlets on "Voting and Democracy" are burned, and this isn't Nazi Germany! These fucking saggy-ass bags are free to think and read as they choose, but they have no right to ban or call for a ban on ANYTHING. It's small town syndrome - everybody in town thinks the exact same way, so probably everybody in the world thinks the same way too. They probably think that they are doing the world a great favor, and jesus will reward them once they get to heaven. Although I would be down for a ban on cops, and on student loan debt too.
From: vastarien202 [Simon]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 10:04
Yes, I too am in shock due to the large mass of irony displayed here. The above poster was spot on about the Martian Chronicles story, but I do believe it is titled "Usher 2". " We had our little libraries,a few private citizens, until you sent your men around with torches and burned them...Just as you put a stake through the heart of Halloween and told your film makers that if they made anything at all they would have to make and re-make Earnest Hemingway. Oh realism! Oh, here, oh how, oh Hell!" And another of my favories for good measure "Something Wicked this way Comes" " And so you make hay, till soil, coil rope, until the day when your'e the worst fool of all and shout "HELP!" That's when the carnival comes for you, with an easy smile and an answer to all your woes. Shake any tree, it rains jackasses! A rich harvest of ninnies to fuel the fires. They tempt you with your petty desires in one hand and SCARE you into obedience with Nothing in the other hand, the END on display. They can smell sorrow boys, the hunger of men at 3 am,the night-sweats of despair.Beware the Autumn People."
From: flossy666
[Flossy]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 10:29
I agree that it might be better to use books that are "PG-rated," but the parents are totally overreacting. It's only a book, people! Should we still have them reading Dr. Seuss? Holy crap. My parents never questioned my reading material, they were just glad to see me with a book in my hand, & not in front of the idiot box.
From: udontknow [Jack]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 10:30
I predict the Pacific Northwest. Lots of loonies there, especially Northern Idaho.
From: deepcreek
[enjoy the experience]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 10:49
Hmmm if they ban all the books that describe the effects of book burning like Fahrenheit 451 than all the Diana Verms and Alton Verms will never be slandered by ...wait a minute what makes me think they could ever make a connection? Here's to you Ray Bradbury with a cup of dandelion wine.
From: majyka [Rosy]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 11:04
Maybe someone should send these here folks a bottle of hemlock wine to "toast" their victory over this modern evil. They'll probably think it's expensive because "hemlock" sounds so French. Mmm, wine.
From: mrgrey [Neil.A]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 11:26
America is living in a dreamy state of unreality , half of the news here prove that. The American Economical Empire is probably going to implode due to STUPIDITY. Socially they are devolving: remember that in the middle ages everone used to be cristian because they were *cough* stupid *cough*. If you go to europe or any other place you will find mostly atheists.Infact the catholic church is dieing and would have been already dead, would in not have been supported by colonialy catholic latin america ,and the US.The only reason because america hasnt become worse is because of the HATED and DISCRIMINATED immigrants.Hace a nice day hope you enjoyed my rant.
From: uppitynegro
[Uppity Negro]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 11:47
Dr. Phill told him the book was a 'how to grill' with a certain brand's specialty sauce: Fahrenheinz 451 both the ideal temperature for well done and the name of the flavor! Yum. No the guy is pissed? UN
From: fivefortheroad [Fiver]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 11:52
Send your kid to a private Christian school where your kid can be kept in a box with all the other retarded people until real society gets to smack them in the face like a ton of bricks when they realize that EVERYBODY IN THE DAMN WORLD CURSES. It's a good, solid classic peice of literature. But, on the other hand, this kid is most likely not going on to college (where she would be exposed to worse horrors, like more required reading with curse words and...gasp...logic...), so yeah....let her skip the book. After all, I'll need somebody to cook up my fries at McDonalds or mop up the puke at my future kids' schools and I'm sure an idiot that won't read a book because they're offended by a written four letter word will fit the job description perfectly. Oh yeah. The bible says "ass", "harlot", "bitch", and discusses prostitution and the selling of extremely underage girls to older rich men for pleasure and profit. Wholesome reading there. I think I'm offended. I don't want that crap in my schools.
From: simonjester [Bill Vojtech]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 12:29
Well that does it... now I have to read it.
From: gypsydances
[gypsy]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 12:56
From: simonjester [Bill Vojtech] Date: 3-Oct-2006 12:29 Well that does it... now I have to read it. ~~~~~~~~~~ of course! best way to advertise a book is to ban it. or purpose a ban, to ban the ban, that ban's the book. Either way, I bet the book gets read by lots of people now, who hadn't given it a second glance before.
From: teratomarty
[Self-made man]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 13:13
fucking cow of a cunt That's a good insult... would it be better to call her the cunt of a fucking cow? Then she is implicitly covered in bull spooge, also. I remember in high school we put on the play Carousel. Sugar-sweet little Rogers and Hammerstein musical: broke-ass boy meets naive girl, girl marries boy before confronting harsh realities of life, boy knocks girl up, boy slaps girl around, boy dies in commision of crime, angel returns from the dead to slap kid around. A local religious group wrote in to protest the play. Not about the spousal abuse, not even about the dubious theology behind an abusive angel, but because one of the characters says "Hell." Once. The snake-handlers complained that "teachers should not be putting that kind of words in our children's mouths." Eesh.
From: brainspore [Brainspore]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 13:19
From: aulduron [Aulduron]
Date: 2-Oct-2006 14:44
It should be banned for being one of the most overrated and mind numbingly boring excuses for literature ever written. Bradbury had cool ideas, he just couldn't write them down in a entertaining way. Bradbury's quality aside, he's actually still alive and writing. In fact his latest novel, "Farewell Summer," is due to be published later this month.
From: brainspore [Brainspore]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 13:30
Anybody have a copy of the book handy? It's been a while since I read it, but I can't remember any "dirty language." I'm curious to see what this guy considers "filth."
From: whogivesafuck [i don't]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 13:37
BTW Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature point at which paper will combust,or burst into flames.
From: whogivesafuck [i don't]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 13:40
"Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us."—Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas," The One Un-American Act." Nieman Reports, vol. 7, no. 1 (Jan. 1953): p. 20.
From: whogivesafuck [i don't]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 13:42
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bannedbooksweek.htm
From: brainshmain
[Sky]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 18:29
I read recently in the book 'The United States of Walmart', that in the first week of Jon Stewart's 'America: The Book' being sold in Walmart stores, it was pulled from shelves because one page featured depictions of the chief justices nude, while they still feature a Christian novel in which it graphically describes non Christian's entering hell. i.e. their feet suddenly melting to the thousand degree floor, their limbs being ripped off by demons, etc. Basically, discriminating a group of people and subjecting them to horrific violence is more acceptable than a nude body. Walmart also only recently pulled 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion', an extremist anti-semetic propoganda book. Walmart said they kept the book because "If what it says is true, it makes you re-evaluate society." This isn't completely on topic, but you can see the connection, beign that these fat retards trying to ban F. 451 and the fat cats at Walmart and virtually the same people, just with salary differences.
From: bugeyedb [BugEyedB]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 20:21
From: dirtyslut76 [slut] Date: 3-Oct-2006 00:46 Jesus, I was just posting another's post from a diffreent thread. I didn' think it was funny... Ya Rotten Fuckers, *********************************************** dirtyslut76, You are correct, we are Rotten Fuckers.....lol.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallows_humor
From: lilgrimreapergrl [Sometimes, Death really is a BITCH!]
Date: 3-Oct-2006 22:41
How many wants to bet this bitch get prom canceled due to offensive music and inappropriate dancing? LoL I hope she get her ass kicked. XD
From: melvin69
[John Bong]
Date: 4-Oct-2006 01:32
Here's my thought, the girl convinced her dad and hoped it would get her pic in the paper. She's a bit overweight, and probably picked on, she need some attention and she got it. Now that she's in the paper, she considers herself famous and goes around asking the boys if they wanna fuck someone famous. It's just a way for her to get laid. I'm still thinking that they were going for the irony and not actually serious about getting the booked banned. They might be serious though, in that case, they're so uptight that they'll crack soon. Probably see her on 2blackmenonfatwhitechick.com in 3 years gagging down huge black cocks because her daddy is a racist asswipe too and that's how she'll get back at him.
From: engineer2323 [Mike]
Date: 4-Oct-2006 05:03
"From: melvin69 [John Bong] Date: 4-Oct-2006 01:32 "Probably see her on 2blackmenonfatwhitechick.com in 3 years gagging down huge black cocks because her daddy is a racist asswipe too and that's how she'll get back at him." __________________________________________ Priceless!
From: insineratehymn [Spontaneous Christian Combustion]
Date: 4-Oct-2006 11:09
If you shop or work at Wal*Mart, then you're the real loser.
From: abomonog [Nog]
Date: 5-Oct-2006 10:10
Isn't ironic that parents wants to ban a book about the downfall of a government that started by banning books? It's not about language. It's the fact that 451 stands there with other works like 1984 and Animal Farm. The books being thrown out of the school libraries are the exact same ones that were origonally banned back in the 50's and 60's. All of them have something to do with human rights issues.
Updated: 9-Oct-2006 13:32
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