Timeline for Is Kirk’s comment about “LDS” intended to be a religious joke?
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 9:31 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Apr 17, 2020 at 17:30 | comment | added | Valorum | @CharonME - Not for merely saying it. | |
| Apr 17, 2020 at 17:21 | comment | added | Charon ME | wouldn't they also get in trouble with the censors if they spelled it correctly? | |
| Dec 17, 2019 at 0:23 | comment | added | cardiff space man | "Knowledge is prowess" -- Francis Sausage. But seriously, "'DID' LDS" is not idiomatic for participating in a religion but "'did' LSD" is idiomatic for drug usage. | |
| Dec 16, 2019 at 9:45 | comment | added | Dave Sherohman | @Adamant - As a single data point, the Mormon association was immediately obvious to me when I saw it in the 80s as a teenager. But I was extremely religious myself at the time, so it may not have been as obvious to the average viewer. | |
| Dec 16, 2019 at 6:45 | comment | added | Ulrich Schwarz | Or indeed, calling yourself Ford Prefect… | |
| Dec 16, 2019 at 2:27 | comment | added | Bob Jarvis - Слава Україні | Those for whom pork products are religiously proscribed could always study Sir Francis Turkey Bacon. | |
| Dec 15, 2019 at 4:35 | comment | added | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | @TheGreatDuck Sir Francis Bacon (in case you didn't already figure it out) | |
| Dec 15, 2019 at 3:22 | comment | added | user64742 | @Quasi_Stomach I don't get the joke. Other people won't either. I'll probably google it if I don't forget, but I think other readers would prefer an explanation here in the comments. Thanks! | |
| Dec 13, 2019 at 18:31 | comment | added | Quasi_Stomach | @NKCampbell Thanks...I didn't get the joke until you added the Sir! | |
| Dec 13, 2019 at 18:20 | comment | added | Adamant | That's why I mention double entendre. You see this a ton in childrens movies, where the plain meaning of a joke might be plot-related but the secondary meaning is a popular culture joke. Like in Zootopia where the primary joke is that sloths are slow (plot related and something many children will know) and the secondary one is that DMVs are slow. | |
| Dec 13, 2019 at 18:18 | comment | added | Valorum | @Adamant - It struck me as being a very obvious fish out of temporal water gag | |
| Dec 13, 2019 at 18:17 | comment | added | Adamant | I don't think that a religious joke is out of the question even if this is the "plain" meaning. It could be a double entendre. However, I wonder how likely it would be that most of the audience would associate LDS with Mormons, particularly in the 80s. | |
| Dec 13, 2019 at 18:11 | comment | added | NKCampbell | that's SIR Francis Sausage to you | |
| Dec 13, 2019 at 18:10 | history | answered | Valorum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |