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San Fran:2, Phred Felps:0

Submitted by d2 on Sun, 01/31/2010 - 2:45pm.

Apparently the Westboro Babblist Church went to San Francisco to protest Twitter, and was pwned. Counterprotestors showed up with Lady Gaga on the boombox and a dada-licious variety of signs that:

  • blended Twitter and Westboro themes ('God hates #Tags', 'These Rails don't Scale'),

  • protested the absurd ("God Hates Ponies"),
  • went tautological ("I have a sign"),
  • preached love ("God Loves the delicious taste of Kraft macaroni and cheese"),
  • asked 'How could got hate this cute little face'
  • or just mumbled to the side ("I was promised donuts").

The donut sign was confiscated by police -- well, actually it just handed over upon request so an officer could prank her Sargeant with it. The imagination and variety is remarkable; someone even showed up with a campaign sign from Patrick McGoohan's Prisoner -- "Vote for No 6". (Side bonus: one Kossack linked to AMC's Prisoner site, where you can watch all the original episodes.)

A planned second protest (at a theater performing Fiddler On the Roof) was cancelled by WBC, but the counterprotesters stuck around, paraded their signs and Rick-Rolled confused theater-goers. Bravo! Encore!

(more links):
Asylum (one of the best, most-detailed writeups),
DailyKos,
Photobucket,
a rick-rolling set.

When asked why "Why Twitter? Does God hate Twitter?", one Felps feep bleated:

"We have not quarrels with Twitter. Twitter is a great platform," stated a gray-haired WBC woman juggling several signs that could be interpreted as funny and ironic if they were actually funny and ironic. Gesturing to one of the younger WBC women, she added, "Meagan, she's Twittering right now."

But she explained the reason behind the protest: "Twitter should be used to tell the punks of doomed America that God hates you!"

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And thank you ...

Submitted by untamedshrew on Mon, 02/01/2010 - 8:34am.

... for these links. "God hates ponies!"

What does "pwned" mean?

Why would Fred Phelps et al protest Fiddler on the Roof? Because it's about Jews? OMG. Or maybe it's because the fiddler fiddles every night and fiddles every noon and needs to be stopped.

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"Pwned"

Submitted by Serephin on Mon, 02/01/2010 - 8:48am.

From Wikipedia:

Pwn (below: Various pronunciations) is a leetspeak slang term derived from the verb "own",[1][2][3] as meaning to appropriate or to conquer to gain ownership. The term implies domination or humiliation of a rival,[4] used primarily in the Internet-based video game culture to taunt an opponent who has just been soundly defeated (e.g., "You just got pwned!").[5] It was popular among Counter-Strike gamers before spreading through the more general Internet world.[6] The past tense and past participle, pwned, may also be spelled: pwnd, pwn'd, pwn3d, pwnt, poned, pawned, or powned.[citation needed]

In hacker jargon, pwn means to compromise or control, specifically another computer (server or PC), web site, gateway device, or application. It is synonymous with one of the definitions of hacking or cracking. The Pwnie Awards are awarded by a group of security researchers.[4]

Popularity of the term among teenagers rose in the mid-2000s, with the spread from the Internet written form to use in spoken language.[7]

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Well, of course that's what it means!

Submitted by untamedshrew on Mon, 02/01/2010 - 12:16pm.

Duh. Don't know why I didn't think about referring to my leetspeak dictionary for the definition.

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AMERICA IS DOMED

Submitted by fortboise on Mon, 02/01/2010 - 5:00pm.

Thank you. I don't know why the obvious response to Phred Felps--ridicule--was not previously obvious, but there it is.

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Monday poem for your reading pleasure

Submitted by untamedshrew on Mon, 02/01/2010 - 9:00pm.

There once was a man named Phred Felps
Whose ideas resulted in yelps
It’s not phags that god hates
They’ll get through the gates
But old phred, he'll be needing some helps

Sorry.

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Ooooh goody, limericks.

Submitted by Sisyphus on Mon, 02/01/2010 - 11:12pm.

Insecurity plagues Fred Phelps church
for fear to be left in the lurch
when God comes a judgin',
the beastly curmudgeons,
no conscience she'll find in the search.

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