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Religion / Breaking News Oral Roberts
Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:11 PM
Dead at 91 years old. His first name was "Oral."
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Don't worry, as long as Oral Roberts University is around, we'll be able to make fun of the massively repressed homo-eroticism of it all.
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When he gets to hell - he will see the devil is gay and waiting for him.
Welcome Oral ...
And some of these comment show low taste ... but, then the devil fucking Mr. Roberts is not highbrow.
Does a degree from Oral Roberts U. help in ANY job interview?
Welcome Oral ...
And some of these comment show low taste ... but, then the devil fucking Mr. Roberts is not highbrow.
Does a degree from Oral Roberts U. help in ANY job interview?
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I like how the media doesn't touch on his "Give me a million dollars or god will kill me stunt" from the 1980's.....
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@ 13 - Nope, it was Oral.
@ 5 - ORU has actually become a bit of a powerhouse in NCAA basketball.
@ 5 - ORU has actually become a bit of a powerhouse in NCAA basketball.
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@13: It was Moral Oral, all right. In 1987 he told his followers that god had told him that if he didn't raise eight million dollars in the next three months, god was going to "call him home." He got the eight million, too, proving that he didn't have to be all that subtle, because his followers weren't.
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Once when I was in Tulsa, I got a bad ear infection and went to the Oral Roberts hospital. While I was waiting for the doctor, a staff prayer guy came in and prayed for my ear to get better. And it did.
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I was going to make a "can't we swap out Roberts for Lieberman?" joke but decided it was in poor taste and also, I don't want the Secret Service after me and it's bad karma to wish people dead...even if they're evil.
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@7 - Holy shit, that's true! The "Oral's my middle name" jokes... so much good stuff there.
@26 - Ha ha ha.
@26 - Ha ha ha.
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I always referred to him as Blowjob Bob. That $8/mil. stunt really pissed me off, that was lame and sleazy. Still, for all his repulsiveness, he was never as offensive and mean-spirited as Jerry Falwell, and at least he didn't crack my windshield.
(I was driving along the freeway, no one near me, no overpasses, when I heard about Falwell's death on the radio. Suddenly, my windshield went CA-RACK! and there was a softball-sized hole in it, and a big crack radiating across. I figured Falwell hit me on his way to hell after he was spat out from heaven. I'm still pissed at the fat fuck for cracking my windshield. True story.)
(I was driving along the freeway, no one near me, no overpasses, when I heard about Falwell's death on the radio. Suddenly, my windshield went CA-RACK! and there was a softball-sized hole in it, and a big crack radiating across. I figured Falwell hit me on his way to hell after he was spat out from heaven. I'm still pissed at the fat fuck for cracking my windshield. True story.)
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@9- It was a great entre into jobs with the CPA in 2003. Plenty of conservative think tanks are full of ORU graduates.
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i remember Stan Freberg at Bumbershoot mentioning Roberts' "eight million dollar brush with death".
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