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TlalocW

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9. We had a guy who became my Friday afternoon entertainment
Fri Sep 19, 2014, 10:20 AM
Sep 2014

When I only had one early class. He would normally set up on the library lawn and yell at all us sinners.

Things I did to him
After being told that looking at women with lust in your heart turns them into whores, I turned to an attractive woman and said, "I would very much like to apologize from the bottom..." As I faded out, I pretended to be mesmerized by her chest before snapping back. "Oh, yes... Where was I?" Preacher called me a whoremonger.
Once while walking about half a football field length from him, I gave my backpack to a friend walking with me. I then struck a dramatic pose and yelled, "EVANGELIST!" to get him to turn around and look at me. When he did, I start running as fast as I could while screaming, "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" He jumped into the crowd to get away.
Once while going on about the evils of music and dancing, I saw a Latina friend of mine walking to class. I called her over and asked her to walk me through a salsa step she was trying to teach me. So we started dancing in front of the guy, and he started yelling at us. My friend was confused at first then caught on and enjoyed the joke and even yelled at him for a while.

And best of all, due to repeatedly yelling a catchphrase of, "Tell us about the gay monkeys, damn it!" at him, I became known as Gay Monkey Man (it involved wanting him to explain why there's homosexuality in other animals if they don't have souls - he had no good answer). Years later I was the 4th person to arrive at a lecture being given by James Randi. He was setting up, and there were a man and a woman already in the room who looked at me strangely and then asked, "This might sound crazy, but... are you Gay Monkey Man?" That got a quizzical look from Randi, and I said, "It involves mocking a street preacher who didn't like homosexuals very much," which then got a smile from him. That made me happy.

I looked at the online version of the campus newspaper once and saw that after I had left, a grad student had taken to dressing like a wizard and competing against him when he came to preach, claiming he wanted to save student souls and validate their parking.

TlalocW

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my college had a whole slew of recruiters and political activists that targeted new students KurtNYC Sep 2014 #1
"Brother" Jed... JaneFordA Sep 2014 #3
"Brother Jed" sounds familiar. I think he hit Carbondale in the 70's also. Gidney N Cloyd Sep 2014 #13
Ah, Brother Jed. hifiguy Sep 2014 #17
"Sister Cindy" ! KurtNYC Sep 2014 #20
They'll be out there forever, or until they're fitted for toe tags. hifiguy Sep 2014 #21
haven't seen disaster or phukup -- only hersheybar and wastemoreland KurtNYC Sep 2014 #22
Nice. tanyev Sep 2014 #2
Sounds like Holy Hubert. MineralMan Sep 2014 #4
Always had street preachers cruising around the Drag at UT-Austin, yelling about how everybody is blkmusclmachine Sep 2014 #5
I saw a string of 'em there. Good time to practice loud belching. Eleanors38 Sep 2014 #6
About the same thing in San Diego in the early to mid-sixties joshdawg Sep 2014 #7
"Education is the enemy" awoke_in_2003 Sep 2014 #23
This makes me happy! nonoxy9 Sep 2014 #8
We had a guy who became my Friday afternoon entertainment TlalocW Sep 2014 #9
Here's a picture of Randi with my wife (ChickMagic on DU) from 2002 derby378 Sep 2014 #15
That's A Hilarious Story Thom ProfessorGAC Sep 2014 #18
God sure doesn't like his creation much, according to some people. Jester Messiah Sep 2014 #10
Excellent!!! oldandhappy Sep 2014 #11
Lots of those dinky-doos infested THE Ohio State University's open spaces. riqster Sep 2014 #12
Awesome! I'm not a Christian music fan, but this song warmed my heart AllyCat Sep 2014 #14
Great article thanks for posting. William769 Sep 2014 #16
Seems like a good place to insert "You aint got no pancake mix!" Brother Buzz Sep 2014 #19
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