Hello Bloggers,

Ham here to answer some questions from the tin hats on the origin of some of our frequently used jokes around here.

First, one of them had a question about what "tin hat means."  That's simple.  You see, in pop culture, a person who is a complete degenerate lunatic who does nothing but sit around all day dreaming up hair-brained, half-baked conspiracies is called a "tin foil hat wearer" or "tin hat."  They often wear hats made out of tin foil with the belief that the layer of tin foil surrounding their heads will prevent the government, space aliens, power elite bastards, whoever they decided to be pissed off at at any given moment from reading their thoughts through brainwave scanners, mind control devices, etc.



A typical rag reader attempts communication with the mothership.

After that, the Sunday tin hat chat turned into a great debate over how the bagel biter jokes got started.

Bobo, who set a world's record for playing his oft-played, well worn-out diabetes card, said that the bagel jokes were really jokes about his diabetes, because he says he wrote a column about how he went to Dunkin Donuts and ordered a bagel instead of a donut because he was a diabetic.

Bobo, quit lying.  You never wrote any column like that. 

So here's the sad part - then the tin hats descended into a conversation about how the bagel biter jokes were somehow an effort to make anti-semitic jokes about Bobo.

All I can say to that is holy shit.  You tin hats need to add another layer of foil.

Two things:

1) Dumbasses, Bobo is not Jewish, so how the hell do you figure these are jokes about a guy's religion that he doesn't even practice?  He has publicly said many times that he's a Catholic.  Personally, I think he acts more like a disciple of Beelzebub, but whatever he is, a member of the Jewish faith he is not.  Ignorant dumbass morons.

2) You people really make me laugh.  You claim to be all politically correct and sensitive, but then you hear the word "bagel" and you automatically think of Judaism.  Really?  You people think that all Jewish people do is sit around and eat bagels and WE'RE the insenstive ones?

I repeat: dumbasses. 


So, the big question then, HOW DID THE BAGEL BITER JOKES START?  Most veteran bloggers already know, but for the newcomers, here it is:

About maybe a year or so ago, Bobo wrote a column about how he overslept on a snow day and didn't get up until mid-afternoon and how pleased he was that he could go play in the snow. 

In that column, he made reference to how he is "not functional until I've had a bagel and some coffee."

From there, the jokes started.  People thought it was funny that this guy claims to work so hard, but was able to sleep half the day away and complain about how he didn't get his bagel and coffee.  Yeah, because uh, loser, most working people are up and out the door early in the morning, aren't able to sleep all day and eat bagels...what do you do, just sit around and eat bagels all day? 

That's how it started.  Veteran bloggers know that "Bobo the bagel biter" is basically a synonym for "Bobo the lazy bastard who has time to sleep till noon and eat bagels all day."

It's funny - you never know exactly what jokes will set him off.  Bagel biter jokes seemed harmless at first, but they pissed him off, so the jokes just came coming.  Same thing with the leather jacket jokes.

There you have it, people.  That's your bagel biting history lesson of the day.

And don't get me wrong - the bagel is truly one of the world's most delicious grain based treats.

Last edited by Hamatron5000 (2010-01-13 16:54:33)