15 Responses to “Another Amendment…”

1. #1 |  Henry Baugh |  March 1st, 2004 at 7:39 pm

   I’m doomed! I had one of those all the shrimp you can eat meals last night and loved every bite.

   The pork roast from the night before was something else and will be again tonight.

2. #2 |  matt |  March 2nd, 2004 at 12:34 am

   I think this, like many religiously inspired prohibitions, may have originated as an attempt to keep members of a particular tribe or sect healthy. One theory is that the Muslim and Jewish disdain pork sprung from an effort by earliest leaders to keep them from succombing to trichinosis, which was a lot more common long long ago than it is today. Similarly, a prohibition of shellfish like tasty shrimp and crawfish could serve to protect people like myself. If I lived in New Orleans, I would likely quickly kill myself by starting one uncontrollable, magnificent, and ultimately fatal crawfish eating binge. Like the proverbial lab rat with a cocaine button, I would self-administer myself to death.

3. #3 |  Joker |  March 2nd, 2004 at 8:33 am

   Oh, baby, I’ll pinch your tail and dip it in melted butter…..oh yeah….

4. #4 |  clay |  March 2nd, 2004 at 9:23 am

   so why is there a crawdad (crayfish) on the sign if “god hates shrimp”?

   maybe he hates all shellfish?

5. #5 |  Garth |  March 2nd, 2004 at 10:05 am

   He hates all shellfish. Really. I heard this great standup routine where God is making all the animals and telling them the “good news” and the “bad news” Paraphrase:

   “O.K. Lobsters! The good news: You’re gonna live in the sea, be pretty high on your food chain. Have big claws and I’m gonna put you in a nice protective shell.

   “Uh, the bad news is, the dominant species on the planet is gonna find you irresistably delicious.”

6. #6 |  Dodgeblogium |  March 2nd, 2004 at 10:22 am

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7. #7 |  Scared Stiff |  March 2nd, 2004 at 11:51 am

   Quote: “I think this, like many religiously inspired prohibitions, may have originated as an attempt to keep members of a particular tribe or sect healthy”

   Couldn’t that be said about any religious prohibition, including the 10 commandments?

8. #8 |  Ms Dani |  March 2nd, 2004 at 12:39 pm

   yeah, God was trying to protect you from yourself, or more accurately us from ourselves.

9. #9 |  Mountain Man |  March 2nd, 2004 at 1:05 pm

   If I lived in New Orleans, I would likely quickly kill myself by starting one uncontrollable, magnificent, and ultimately fatal crawfish eating binge.

   You wouldn’t be the first…

10. #10 |  NarniaBound |  March 2nd, 2004 at 5:28 pm

    Whoever made that .gif hasn’t read much of the New Testament. God sent Peter a vision in which He said to Peter about unclean foods, “Eat.” I think the story is in the book of Acts somewhere. The point was that uncleanliness comes from what’s in the heart, not what you eat.

11. #11 |  triticale |  March 2nd, 2004 at 7:56 pm

    The point was that uncleanliness comes from what’s in the heart, not what you eat.

    So wouldn’t that then apply equally to certain sexual acts?

12. #12 |  Jason |  March 2nd, 2004 at 10:09 pm

    funnist site in a long time.
    write your Congressperson, the institution of dinner must b protected

13. #13 |  Ms. Dani |  March 3rd, 2004 at 8:56 am

    That argument (the sale of shrimp = gay marriage) is ridiculous.

    We who are in Christ are no longer under the law. Jesus now asks us to do one thing: love each other.

    Galatians 5:14, “For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’. ”

    Wouldn’t it be true if we each loved the other as we love ourselves that we wouldn’t need laws, rules or regulations?

    Those who are not in Christ, must still obey the law. If anyone can live his/her entire life and not violate even one commandment, then he/she can goto heaven without the blood of Christ. But I only know of one Man who has ever done that.

14. #14 |  Danno49 |  March 4th, 2004 at 11:28 am

    Well . . . God doesn’t care for shrimping, that’s for sure.

    = ;)

15. #15 |  The Curmudgeonly Clerk |  March 6th, 2004 at 3:38 pm

    This is one of the stupidest arguments that I have seen made in the gay marriage debate. The people who make it are publicly boasting of their ignorance.

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