Famous quote of 2010, earthquakes caused by women dressing immodestly .

[SW VandeCarr]

Famous quote of 2010, earthquakes caused by women dressing "immodestly".

It was even published in the Iranian press. An Iranian cleric blamed earthquakes on women who dress "immodestly" and lead young men "astray". Can it be true? After all, these guys are smart enough to build a nuclear bomb.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/20/world/middleeast/20briefs-Iran.html

 

[Evo]

We had a thread on it when it came out.

 

[lisab]

It was even published in the Iranian press. An Iranian cleric blamed earthquakes on women who dress "immodestly" and lead young men "astray". Can it be true? After all, these guys are smart enough to build a nuclear bomb.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/20/world/middleeast/20briefs-Iran.html

Americans have the bomb too, but we still have lots of fundies around...!

 

[SW VandeCarr]

Americans have the bomb too, but we still have lots of fundies around...!

Yes, but this guy is a seismologist if this source is to be believed.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Hojatoleslam_Kazem_Sedighi

 

[leroyjenkens]

If dressing immodestly causes Earthquakes, then what would happen if people started walking around naked?

 

[SW VandeCarr]

If dressing immodestly causes Earthquakes, then what would happen if people started walking around naked?

Well we did at one time. It would seem that our ancestors survived any earthquakes that might have been caused, or perhaps the Earth wasn't that impressed with the human body at that time and therefore didn't quake.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Yes, but this guy is a seismologist if this source is to be believed.

That's tongue in cheek. He is a "seismologist" only in the sense that he is stating a cause to earthquakes.

If dressing immodestly causes Earthquakes, then what would happen if people started walking around naked?

The dinosaurs were naked. Look what happened to them. I'm just sayin'.

 

[Proton Soup]

Pat Robertson said something similar about the Haitian earthquate

 

[Shaun_W]

This is hardly newsworthy, let alone "famous"!

 

[NobodySpecial]

Over festivus I did wear the same T-shirt several days running, I hope this didn't offend any major deities and won't lead to any cataclysmic geological events in the coming month

 

[DevilsAvocado]

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[billiards]

Yeah it's true. If you look at the distribution of earthquakes you will see they all line up along the beaches, is it just a coincidence that this is where women can occasionally be found in bikinis and sometimes even topless?

 

[DevilsAvocado]

No no no, that’s the usual Boobquakes you’re talking about – this Iranian-cleric-stuff is controlled by a much higher spirit!

 

[lisab]

Yeah it's true. If you look at the distribution of earthquakes you will see they all line up along the beaches, is it just a coincidence that this is where women can occasionally be found in bikinis and sometimes even topless?

omg you're right!

 

[DevilsAvocado]

Boobquakes!

 

[Vanadium 50]

Yeah it's true. If you look at the distribution of earthquakes you will see they all line up along the beaches?

And not just earthquakes! Tsunamis too!

 

[DevilsAvocado]

And not just earthquakes! Tsunamis too!

Yeah, but this is of course a perfectly natural consequence of Archimedes' Principle, when those very fine ladies and their "equipment" jumps into the water:

Boobtsunamis!

 

[JaredJames]

And not just earthquakes! Tsunamis too!

Dammit, looks like you're onto something here...

I wonder if there's a correlation between volcanic eruptions and mountain climbers?