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Drahthaardogs

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15. I often wonder why they put belt buckles on their heads.
Fri Dec 27, 2013, 02:12 PM
Dec 2013

It reminds me of

So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say.

Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

Also say nowhere in the constitution does it say we are a Christian nation. hrmjustin Dec 2013 #1
did you see the Smithsonian article about evidence of cannibalism in Jamestown? CatWoman Dec 2013 #2
That would make a heck of a bumper sticker! progressoid Dec 2013 #16
To me it's more important how YankeyMCC Dec 2013 #3
I thought Georgia was founded by criminals. I'm tsuki Dec 2013 #4
well it's being run by them .. still bench scientist Dec 2013 #5
lol CatWoman Dec 2013 #28
This continent was settled by non-Christians, long before Leif Ericson spotted it. onehandle Dec 2013 #6
Right! Like the Puritans were any better than the religous system they left. L0oniX Dec 2013 #7
Isn't this another way of saying that Christians are responsibe for genocide? Sanity Claws Dec 2013 #8
Well put! hrmjustin Dec 2013 #11
Let's not forget that many of the Founding Fathers were deists chungking34 Dec 2013 #9
This country was founded by people living in bands and tribes who walked over from the Bering Strait Vashta Nerada Dec 2013 #10
+1 hrmjustin Dec 2013 #12
The reasons the Puritans banned Christmas has absolutely nothing to do with secularism Drahthaardogs Dec 2013 #13
They were like the Taliban, but with belt buckles on their hats. Scootaloo Dec 2013 #14
I often wonder why they put belt buckles on their heads. Drahthaardogs Dec 2013 #15
They didn't. dawg Dec 2013 #21
You guys (and gals) don't get it, do you? mikehiggins Dec 2013 #17
The USA was founded by fu@#ing genocidalist slavers! Coyotl Dec 2013 #18
I wouldn't say our corporate masters are incompetent indie9197 Dec 2013 #19
Errr...the reality "This country was FUNDED by Christians" Sheepshank Dec 2013 #20
It was 'found' by natives. The 'founded by' Europeans is just a fictional construct. n/t freshwest Dec 2013 #22
even if it was. so fucking what? KG Dec 2013 #23
Let's ask these founders what they think we should do. nyquil_man Dec 2013 #24
The 'Religious Right" genuninely do believe that the American Revolution was the creation of "Bible Douglas Carpenter Dec 2013 #25
Well said !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t RKP5637 Dec 2013 #26
"Founded by Christians?" Brigid Dec 2013 #27
founded by people who FLED christian nations is more like it. unblock Dec 2013 #29
no, but turned christian... Marblehead Dec 2013 #30
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