Talk:Sheeple

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! Susan^Purrrrrrr 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 ^annoy 00:28, 20 January 2008 (EST)

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 afikomen ^{Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.} 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. --AKjeldsen^Godspeed! 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)

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. Wèàšèìòìď^{Methinks it is a Weasel} 18:36, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

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)

Actually

... it is the sheeple who are running the conspiracy - which is why they ignore the conspiracy theorists.

And the sheeple know that Sir H's response in the first entry under "The Whisky Priest" in [1] applies to most doomsayers and other theorists. 82.44.143.26 (talk) 15:44, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

More lulz

"A surprising number of folks who brand their opponents as "sheeple" [believe in literal truth of a holy text that] encourages the followers of Christ to behave like 'sheep' in the care of their 'shepherd.'"

By "sheeple", I guess fundies are trying to say "Your shepherd is misleading you. Get a better shepherd." Does this make fundies' use of "sheeple" any clearer? How can this be incorporated? --Damian Yerrick (talk) 20:23, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

"it's amusing to note that everyone who uses the word 'sheeple' learned it from someone else"

I fail to see what's noteworthy about this. Most people learn words in their native language from other speakers. --Damian Yerrick (talk) 20:23, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

Beware

... the vampire sheeple.

And the sheeple who listen politely are actually 'taking the mickey' out of you. Anna Livia (talk) 10:09, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

Popeye

@Cosmikdebris, I looked at volumes 4 and 5 of the Popeye collection. The closest that I could find, was Popeye's use of the word 'sheep' and 'sheeps', not 'sheeple', to refer to his followers in volume 5 (pages 12, 14-15. I think that the person who suggested this as a source was mistaken, so unless you can cite a specific page, I think it should be deleted as a source. Bongolian (talk) 16:55, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

@Bongolian I have at least three of the Popeye "daily" collections, too, but I cannot find them (I know they're here someplace). I was waiting to check them before I removed this reference. I do not remember seeing the sheeple reference anyplace, but it's been quite a while since I read them. —cosmikdebris ^talk stalk 18:43, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

OK, we can wait till you check before removing. In the meantime, I'll insert some less definitive text. Bongolian (talk) 19:06, 21 September 2021 (UTC) The story that has sheep and sheeps does not match the storyline that was described, since it has Popeye as king. It could have benn a different story or just misremembering. There are multiple stories of kings in the Segar dailies from what I've seen. Bongolian (talk) 19:09, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

@Bongolian I finally managed to get ahold of the early Popeye archives, and the term "sheeple" is not used. There's a long sequence where Popeye becomes king of an isolated island and continuously refers to his subjects as "my sheeps" and never uses "sheelpe". —cosmikdebris ^talk stalk 16:55, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank, Cosmik! Bongolian (talk) 17:45, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Am I a sheeple?

Why is there a link to my user page? Is this normal? Koafox (talk) 17:49, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

That is a joke link that someone had inserted. It shows the name of whomever is logged in and looking at the page. Bongolian (talk) 18:54, 16 November 2023 (UTC)