Comments on: Dancing, Idleness, And Anal Sex

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 09:55:00 +0000

You know, someone ought to stick up for the puritans… I believe it was Garrison Keillor who once said that to really enjy sex, you need to have been repressed at some point.

OK, it’s an exaggeration, but I know some of my most exciting moments were when I was breaking out of the prisons of my upbringing.

By: Brett

Brett — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 12:39:00 +0000

Thanks for the link, Bacchus! The worst thing is when work interferes with sex (overwork, stress, etc.) .. someone out there’s probably depserate enough to call in a bomb-threat for their spouse just to get laid.

By: Bacchus

Bacchus — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 05:12:00 +0000

Ah, but the joke is probably much much older than Southern Baptists or even the USA. I first heard it in the movie Rob Roy as applied to Calvinists; I can’t reliably source the joke to that historical era, but the Calvinists surely did disapprove of dancing.

Very few dirty jokes are less than five hundred years old, in some version or other.

By: the_quark

the_quark — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:37:00 +0000

I grew up in the south, and the joke I heard was *specifically*:

“Why don’t Baptists have sex standing up? Because people might think they’re dancing.” This was jab specifically at the Southern Baptist Church, which prohibits dancing by its members (presumably because it might lead to sex, although from 5 minutes of Google research nobody seems to know for sure).

If you’ve never run into Southern Baptists, you probably didn’t know they prohibit dancing, which is probably how the joke got watered down to be comprehensible to most people.

By: moondog

moondog — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 06:56:00 +0000

I must say that’s a very accurate description of people in Austin.

By: Reverend Brother VT

Reverend Brother VT — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 05:33:00 +0000

REPENT! Quit your job! SLACK OFF!

A central theme in the Church of the SubGenius. We replace the Corperate CON mindwashing with your own.

Pull the wool over your OWN EYES! You are your best brainwasher!

Praise “Bob”

Here are some informative web articles:

http://my.execpc.com/~geezer/misc/copypage.htm

http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/answers/articles/X0046_Quitting_Your_Job_4_.html

“SubGenius, is it a joke masquerading as a religion, or a religion masquerading as a joke?”