{"id":26,"date":"2010-10-25T09:36:53","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T09:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godscomic\/2010\/10\/whistle-while-i-rant.html"},"modified":"2010-10-25T09:36:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T09:36:53","slug":"whistle-while-i-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godscomic\/2010\/10\/whistle-while-i-rant.html","title":{"rendered":"Whistle while I rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Heard a guy whistling at the airport the other day.<br \/>\nAmericans used to whistle a lot more especially in movies. Humphrey Bogart,<br \/>\nJimmy Cagney, Jimmy Stewart were all whistlers and it even seemed particularly masculine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I don&#8217;t know when whistling stopped or why. Was it custom<br \/>\nthat died out because others grew annoyed at the whistle guy and punched him<br \/>\nperiodically, or was it because of something much more sinister? Remember, in<br \/>\nthe world of PC-eople they must always find &#8220;oppressors&#8221; so they have an enemy<br \/>\nto, well, oppress!<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It&#8217;s easy and it works like this. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;What evil syndicate do you suppose would have <i>cause<\/i> to be behind the prejudice of<br \/>\nwhistle censoring? &#8230;Oh I think I know and if you take a moment it becomes<br \/>\nfairly obvious&#8230;.Ready?&#8230;BATTERY MANUFACTURES!!! <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Before I-pods and portable cd players were invented we HAD<br \/>\nto whistle more because these <b>battery<br \/>\ndriven<\/b> devices made it obsolete to have to entertain ourselves!<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Whistling was the earliest form of music download since you<br \/>\ncould whistle any song you wanted in any order, at any time. You didn&#8217;t have to<br \/>\npay royalties for it <i>and<\/i> <b>you never needed batteries<\/b>! <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Who&#8217;s to say the battery people powers that be, in their<br \/>\nunrestrained lust for profits and likewise fearing the loss of their market<br \/>\nshare monopoly subversively instituted this &#8220;it&#8217;s weird to whistle, &#8220;environment<br \/>\nwe now find ourselves trapped in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Whistling is Gods gift to us. We learned it from the birds.<br \/>\nThey whistle every morning and we love listening to it.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>It&#8217;s a soothing natural sound. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Birds are proud to whistle and do it every day despite the<br \/>\nfact that they have to whistle under <b>the<br \/>\ntremendous handicap of not having<\/b> <b>lips<\/b>!!!<br \/>\nBirds instead have these big hard unforgiving castanet&#8217;s that have to pass for<br \/>\nlips and they whistle <b>anyways<\/b>,<br \/>\nunashamed and undaunted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Not humans. Now we&#8217;ve decided that if something is going to<br \/>\ntake a little effort to become proficient maybe we should just go ahead and<br \/>\ninvent a machine to do it for us. Stinking battery people and their lust for<br \/>\nprofit!<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span>The best thing<br \/>\nabout whistling was it was something you could do even if you couldn&#8217;t sing! Heck<br \/>\nAndy Griffith even made it his theme song. Yes it was a much more innocent age<br \/>\nbefore the battery people decided to instigate their Orwellian ways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span>I suppose they<br \/>\nthought we were too stupid to catch onto their little game? What with all the<br \/>\ndifferent size batteries, some cylinder shaped while others conveniently come<br \/>\nin the shape of a rectangle just so we didn&#8217;t get any crazy ideas of one size<br \/>\nfits all thus instituting the necessity of us having to buy every conceivable<br \/>\nbattery shape they could throw at us!<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It&#8217;s time for open-minded tolerant people to unite and break<br \/>\nthe back of these ruthless tyrants to prove we are slaves to no one but our<br \/>\nideology! This will be our legacy to humanity that we for one will not be tied<br \/>\ndown to technology but will instead honor our uniqueness by whistling whenever<br \/>\nthe mood hits and let I-pods and other mechanical beasts be damned!<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">We are autonomous and plan to stay that way!!! See how easy<br \/>\nit is to become a PC Marxist? I have more but I must run, the battery in my<br \/>\ncomputer is dying.<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heard a guy whistling at the airport the other day. Americans used to whistle a lot more especially in movies. Humphrey Bogart, Jimmy Cagney, Jimmy Stewart were all whistlers and it even seemed particularly masculine. I don&#8217;t know when whistling stopped or why. 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