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 frustrate 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. --
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. ħuman
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)
- 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. ħuman
- Since 1984, sayeth teh Wiki, and probably earlier if that's when it first appeared in print. --AKjeldsenGodspeed! 07:26, 20 January 2008 (EST)