Talk:Sheeple

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[edit] Coincidencre or ...

Please tell me you got that word off the TV tonight or I shall have a severe belief crisis. (It was defined on a particularly crap supposely humorous prog @ about 2:30GMT) I'd never heard it before and now you come up with it! SusanPurrrrrrr 00:27, 20 January 2008 (EST)

No I have been hanging out at the Ron Paul and HucksArmory forums. They have been tossing it around for months. tmtoulouse persecute 00:28, 20 January 2008 (EST)

[edit] You know...

I think this word has been around a bit longer than Ron Paul's Legion of Shills.. I don't quite know where, but I'm sure I've heard it before. --Star of David.png Radioactive Misanthrope 04:00, 20 January 2008 (EST)

It's been around since at least the early 1990s among the New World Order conspiracy crowd. Secret Squirrel 05:35, 20 January 2008 (EST)
Since 1984, sayeth teh Wiki, and probably earlier if that's when it first appeared in print. --AKjeldsenGodspeed! 07:26, 20 January 2008 (EST)
Yup. I remember the Green Naderites throwing it around in '99. "Everyone" uses it, left, right, etc. - it's a bit like critiquing the "MSM" - it's everyone you don't agree with. ħumanUser talk:Human 18:51, 17 March 2009 (EDT)
(Late to discussion but...) While it doesn't use the term sheeple, Mark Twain's Mysterious Stranger has Satan (not that one) compare humanity to sheep. The Mysterious Stranger was published posthumously in 1916. And I'm sure you'll find negative comparisons between people and sheep far further back (I say negative, simply because the Bible has a comparison, but it's in a quasi-positive light). Perceptron (talk) 20:05, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

[edit] A useful word, but not for the reasons you'd think.

I write off anyone who uses the word "Sheeple" seriously. They just want to feel superior, they don't have any answers. --TheLateGatsby (The end of the dock ) 18:03, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

It's not quite as entertaining a phrase as "lamestream media" but it has the same ring to it. WèàšèìòìďWeaselly.jpgMethinks it is a Weasel 18:36, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

[edit] David Dees' art

Any idea how to work in David Dees' covers of an imaginary "Sheeple" magazine, which are supposed to be some kind of "political art"? Rense has a gallery showing some of them.--ZooGuard (talk) 15:51, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

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