"Get a Brain! Morans": Word is out

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This photo appears in B'nai B'rith Magazine, Spring 2006, p.67, as part of an ad for their "Freeze Frame" caption contest. (Sadly, their web-page about the contest does not include that photo.)

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 10 April 2006 12:22 (eighteen years ago) link

http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/8236/moran6dr.jpg

ath (ath), Monday, 10 April 2006 12:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Whenever I view this photo I feel a brief sadness for the dude holding the sign that is pretty much totally and immediately usurped by teh roffles.

RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Monday, 10 April 2006 12:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Didn't see the other two signs before.

Who is that girl trying to free?

mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 10 April 2006 12:54 (eighteen years ago) link

or freeze?

Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link

She is offering Free Ritalin.

StanM (StanM), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link

I was kind of hoping the other half of her sign read:

e Moustache
des

and she was pimping for the other guy.

phil d. (Phil D.), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:06 (eighteen years ago) link

FREEDOM RINGS

cutty (mcutt), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:07 (eighteen years ago) link

"Get a Brain! Morans"
"Freeze Rice!"
"Go USA"

Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Free Cardinals
Riplica Shirts!

StanM (StanM), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Free the
Riddler!

Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link

FREE RIMP C

+++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 13:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Free Ribet

DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link

i would like to read an interview with this man

+++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Morans, it says "Free Your Mind, Ritards."

martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link

"Free Rifles for Kids!"

Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I love how the photo is EVERYTHING bad about America all in one place: icky summer clothes, fat ankles, mirrored pseudo-Vuarnet shades, people wearing flag shit, spelling errors and misplaced patriotism. All worn by what appears to be an off-duty Embers management trainee.

suzy (suzy), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link

i dunno it was missing america's smug expatriate self-hatred of its own working class until now

+++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link

and there is never anything wrong with fat ankles

+++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link

WHERE IS THE PHOTO SET? AN AIR SHOW?

Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:44 (eighteen years ago) link

cf.
http://www.movielowdown.com/reviews/theater/GhostWorld/poster.jpg

++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 13:45 (eighteen years ago) link

WHERE IS THE PHOTO SET? AN AIR SHOW?

thank you wikipedia

"Moran": Misspelling of moron, referring to a well-known picture of a redneck holding two signs saying "Get a brain! Morans" and "Go USA", in response to anti-war activists protesting the US invasion of Iraq. The image was originally taken at a Boeing plant in Saint Charles, Missouri (a suburb of St. Louis), shortly after the war began in March 2003, and was originally posted on the web site of the St. Louis Independent Media Center. (The original article and images have apparently since been archived.) A Google image search for "morans" is a useful way to find the picture.

a.b. (alanbanana), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.random-abstract.com/gm/archives/Morans-2.jpg

a.b. (alanbanana), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Trife, I'm sorry, but you just...suck.

suzy (suzy), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link

lol @ poor ppls bad taste in fashion

+++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link

lol @ assumption that person with sign is "poor".

suzy (suzy), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link

factory workers from a boeing plant

++++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link

youre right tho maybe thats the president of boeing

+++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link

because having a laugh at bad spelling combined with nationalism is equivalent to hating all working class people, ofc

sleep (sleep), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm sure unionized boeing employees are hurting real bad and are looking to move to work in fast food.

Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link

http://members.toast.net/baillod/Ebay/moranwtc.jpg

Bnad, Monday, 10 April 2006 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Can we get back to making fun of rednecks for fuck's sake? Don't make me get out my Sharpie and make a sign.

martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:23 (eighteen years ago) link

why do you hate freedom

sleep (sleep), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link

It's the use of lower-case for the "et" in "Get" which confounds me most.

Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.melroseiowa.com/july4/July42001/morans.jpg

Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link

It's the use of lower-case for the "et" in "Get" which confounds me most.

It's in caps - he's shouting:

"Get A BRAIN! MORANS"

Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link

I love how the photo is EVERYTHING bad about America all in one place: icky summer clothes, fat ankles, mirrored pseudo-Vuarnet shades, people wearing flag shit, spelling errors and misplaced patriotism. All worn by what appears to be an off-duty Embers management trainee.

-- suzy (theartskooldisko@hotmail.com

+++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link

here is your handy guide to a non-classist version of that post-

I love how the photo is EVERYTHING bad about America all in one place: icky summer clothes, fat ankles, mirrored pseudo-Vuarnet shades, people wearing flag shit, spelling errors and misplaced patriotism. All worn by what appears to be an off-duty Embers management trainee.

-- suzy (theartskooldisko@hotmail.com

++++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link

haha oops strikethrough didnt work - basically,

I love how the photo is EVERYTHING bad about America all in one place: misplaced patriotism.

-- suzy (theartskooldisko@hotmail.com

++++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.clifdenchamber.com/thumbs2/morans.jpg

mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't back you up on the fat ankles love, dude.

Dan (Cankles = NO) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Ethan, you TRY SO HARD yet you remain POOR MISUNDERSTOOD WIGGA. *Cries*

suzy (suzy), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:36 (eighteen years ago) link

We're not allowed to have preferences for modes of dress?

Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link

embers is a fast food restaurant. she mocked him for looking like a fast food trainee in unfashionable clothes.

+++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 14:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Also Vuarnet shades are some bullshit, surely we can all agree on that?

(xpost: Dude, once you go out of the house with a tragically-misspelled sign that's utterly pig-stupid, everything about you is fair game for ridicule.)

Dan (Faux-Bans = Key) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link

On other cardboard signs in the world...
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41544000/jpg/_41544030_rights_afp_203i.jpg

mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link

"Sauvons Nos DROITS, MORAN!"

Dan (Hahaha) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Of course, it should say:
"obtenez les morans d'un cerveau" xpost.

But it loses something in trans, as it's spelled that way in fr.

mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:45 (eighteen years ago) link

get a plane, moran

brazenly frog (bnw), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link

You guys! I can't believe you've fallen for such an obvious piece of image manipulation! "Get A BRAIN! MORANS" and "Go USA" is not what the guy's signs were originally saying, they've been photoshopped. Here's the original, untouched picture:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/moranis.jpg

The man is actually protesting against the disrespectful parody of Darth Vader in Spaceballs. And "OSA" stands for "Organized Starwarsfans of America".

Tuomas, Thursday, 7 July 2011 07:16 (twelve years ago) link

I thought you all might like to see this:

http://mlb.sbnation.com/2011/7/17/2279239/get-a-brain-morans

Mark C, Monday, 18 July 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link

How do you respond to the criticism of Tony La Russa, that he has a history of enabling steroid users, both in Oakland and St. Louis?

He has a history of enabling your mom. Interview over!

LOL

Josef K-Doe (WmC), Monday, 18 July 2011 15:52 (twelve years ago) link

suggest ban nation

Gary Numan, or Gary Fletcher (ken c), Monday, 18 July 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link

He hates that photo so much (sueing the photographer), he has it as his profile picture on Twitter.

http://twitter.com/#!/BirdsOnBats06

Mark G, Monday, 18 July 2011 16:18 (twelve years ago) link

"enabling your mom" is all-time

What do you mean by "the little things"?

For a perfect example, just look at one of the greatest teams ever assembled: the 2006 World Champion St. Louis Cardinals. That team had David Eckstein, Yadier Molina, So Taguchi, and Aaron Miles. That's a Jew [sic], a Mexican [sic], a Chinaman [sic], and a regular American. It was a variable [sic] "League of Nations" of doing the little things. They hustled like all get out, they bunted all the time, and they weren't afraid to move the runner over. And most important, they got it done in the clubhouse, by which I mean, they created something I refer to as "a winning atmosphere."

this is... this is wau

Spotify, Spotify me (DJP), Monday, 18 July 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link

This can't be real, can it? For one thing isn't the That's a Jew [sic], a Mexican [sic], a Chinaman [sic], and a regular American bit part of an Archie Bunker joke?

The 700 KKKlub (lpz), Monday, 18 July 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link

for some, it is a mantra

a variable (sic) "League of Nations" (DJP), Monday, 18 July 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link

helluva scoop that interviewer got

didn't even have to use my akai (Hurting 2), Monday, 18 July 2011 19:12 (twelve years ago) link

Archie: What’s the matter with this? I call this representative government. You’ve got Salvatori, Feldman, O’Reilly, Nelson–that’s an Italian, a Jew, an Irishman and a regular American there. That’s what I call a balanced ticket.

The 700 KKKlub (lpz), Monday, 18 July 2011 19:19 (twelve years ago) link

one month passes...
one year passes...

http://i.imgur.com/2igdf.jpg

Alba, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link

that is perfect

wtf where's my chapbook (DJP), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 23:18 (eleven years ago) link

missing IT'S idiot, jeez.

Psy Psperling (get bent), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 23:25 (eleven years ago) link

I think she forgot the comma:

A Village Somewhere in Kenia Is Missing There, Idiot!!

look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 23:26 (eleven years ago) link

You know, to raise awareness about how a whole village is missing while idiots just go about their business.

look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 23:27 (eleven years ago) link

a toilet somewhere down the hall is missing its frightful turd

free-range chicken pox (Matt P), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 23:28 (eleven years ago) link

a toilet somewhere down the hall is missing its frightful turd

― free-range chicken pox (Matt P), Tuesday, September 18, 2012 7:28 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol otm

look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 23:29 (eleven years ago) link

So much about that photo is gross. The room is a pigsty, she looks like she shat herself, and just... WTF, sign.

frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 23:30 (eleven years ago) link

speaking of which, from today:

BFIB ‏@BirdsOnBats06
Hey @TonyLaRussa will you're new book be available on audio cassette? If not, are their lots of pictures?

look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 23:31 (eleven years ago) link

BFIB ‏@BirdsOnBats06
During WWII their where chicks playing baseball #neverforget

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is he doing this on purpose?

look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 23:32 (eleven years ago) link

btw Alba I stole a link to that picture and put it on Facebook

wtf where's my chapbook (DJP), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 00:18 (eleven years ago) link

that dodge challenger is pretty sweet.

sriracha bishop (get bent), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 00:30 (eleven years ago) link

otm

call all destroyer, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 00:32 (eleven years ago) link

So much about that photo is gross. The room is a pigsty, she looks like she shat herself, and just... WTF, sign.

Gross but perfect.

controversial cabaret roommate (Nicole), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 00:56 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.lynchnet.com/tp/tpcards/tpsp11.jpg

Broney, Pt. 1 (Pillbox), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 01:51 (eleven years ago) link

Let me save you some trouble:

Adolfo Moran, Spanish famous architect
Bill Moran (disambiguation)
Brad Moran, Canadian hockey player
Brad Moran, Australian rules footballer
Brendan Moran, American television personality
Bugs Moran, Chicago prohibition-era gangster
Caitlin Moran, British journalist
Charley Moran, baseball player, football coach
Chris Moran, Royal Air Force officer
Chris Moran (ice hockey), American ice hockey player
Colin Moran, Dublin Gaelic footballer
Crissy Moran, American former pornographic actress & model
Daniel Keys Moran, science fiction writer
Denis Moran, Irish Gaelic footballer
Dennis Moran, American computer hacker
Dennis Moran, British rugby league footballer
Diana Moran, British model
Dylan Moran, Irish comedian, star of Black Books
Edward Moran, American artist
Edward C. Moran, Jr., American politician
Erin Moran, American actress
Frank Moran, Heavyweight boxer, actor
Hap Moran (Francis Dayle), professional football player
Hugh Moran, Manitoban politician
Ian Moran, professional hockey player
James Moran, British screenwriter
Jason Moran, Australian criminal, 1967–2003
Jason Moran, jazz pianist
Jerry Moran, United States Representative from Kansas, b. 1954
Jim Moran, American automotive entrepreneur/philanthropist
Jim Moran, United States Representative from Virginia, b. 1945
Jim Moran, publicist
Joe Moran (social historian)
John Moran, American composer, b. 1965
John Moran, American musician and musicologist
John E. Moran (soldier), 1856–1930
Judy Moran (mother)
Julie Moran, United States television personality
Kenneth Moran, New Zealand boxer
Kevin Moran, Irish footballer, b. 1956
Kevin Moran (hurler)
Lewis Moran, Australian criminal, 1941–2004
Lindsay Moran, former Central Intelligence Agency officer
Lois Moran, American actress
Lord Moran, Winston Churchill's physician
Malcolm Moran, American sportswriter
Margaret Moran, British politician, b. 1955
Maria Margarita Moran-Floirendo, former Miss Universe
Mark Moran, Australian criminal, 1964–2000
Matt Moran, Australian Chef
Mayo Moran, dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Toronto
Michael P. Moran, American actor and playwright
Michelle Moran, American author
Mike Moran, English keyboard musician and producer, b. 1948
Nancy Moran, American singer/songwriter
Nick Moran, British actor, b. 1968
Paddy Moran, Canadian hockey goaltender
Pat Moran, American baseball player and manager, 1876–1924
Pat Moran (statistician), 1917–1988
Patrick Moran (disambiguation)
Paul Moran (American soccer), b.1983
Paul Moran, photojournalist, 1963–2003
Paul Moran, English footballer, b. 1968
Pauline Moran, English actress
Polly Moran, American actress and comedian
Robert Moran, American composer, b. 1937
Robert Moran, American shipbuilder, 1857–1943
Rocky Moran (race car driver), b. 1950
Roger Moran, British hillclimb driver
Ronnie Moran, British football coach
Sam Moran (entertainer), b. 1978
Shawn Moran (speedway rider), b. 1961
Shlomo Moran, Israeli computer scientist
Steve Moran, English football player
Terry Moran, television news correspondent
Terry Moran, Australian senior public servant
Thomas Moran (1837–1926), artist of the Hudson River School
Thomas Moran (author)
Thomas P. Moran, engineer
Tommy Moran, British Fascist
Tony Moran, remixer/producer
William Joseph Moran, American Roman Catholic bishop
William L. Moran, Assyriologist (1921–2000)
"Mr. Moran", alias used by Salvatore Gravano, underboss of the Gambino crime family

Fictional characters

Jacques Moran, second narrator and seeker of the eponymous Molloy in the novel by Samuel Beckett
Lucy Moran, character in Twin Peaks
Michael Moran, the central character in John McGahern's novel Amongst Women
Moran, a female Irish Quidditch player in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Sebastian Moran, the villain from the Sherlock Holmes short story "The Adventure of the Empty House"
Summer Moran, a recurring character in Clive Cussler's novels featuring Dirk Pitt
Mullin Shetland, a character in the anime series Last Exile, whose original Japanese name is Moran Shetorando

Traicy Moran

look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 02:10 (eleven years ago) link

Get a brain, Morans!

Broney, Pt. 1 (Pillbox), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 02:11 (eleven years ago) link

Get a brian, Morans!

look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 04:52 (eleven years ago) link

Get bran, Moranis!

Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 05:12 (eleven years ago) link

Lyndsey de Paul and Mike Moran

Mark G, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 06:21 (eleven years ago) link

Get Dylan, Moran!

Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 06:28 (eleven years ago) link

Get a disambiguation, Patrick Moran

Mark G, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 06:43 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pargon/sets/72157623594187379/

barthes simpson, Thursday, 27 September 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link

Get a Mraz, Jasan!

look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Thursday, 27 September 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link

What did the tea partier say to the aquatic superhero who was running around with livestock?

Get a Barn, Merman!

look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Thursday, 27 September 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link

^ zings so deep bcz there's no superhero called Merman

┐(´ー`)┌ (sic), Thursday, 27 September 2012 23:42 (eleven years ago) link

pwn pwn pwn

look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Thursday, 27 September 2012 23:45 (eleven years ago) link

one year passes...
two months pass...

Lost on the road to Seville, I took a picture of my husband beside the road sign when we came to Moron for the second time.
Mary Milne-Day, London

http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2014/apr/18/moron-near-seville

Guardian endorsing sexism shocker.

mohel hell (Bob Six), Saturday, 19 April 2014 12:15 (ten years ago) link

two months pass...

From Weird Al's "Word Crimes" video:

http://oi57.tinypic.com/nqy7ls.jpg

jaymc, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/kGXEluc.jpg

, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 11:14 (nine years ago) link

RIP Christopher Hitchens

Barry Gordy (Neil S), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 11:41 (nine years ago) link

one month passes...

http://i.imgur.com/Fj8bAFP.jpg

Phone numbers in the United States, even 1-800 numbers, only have 11 numbers total, idoit

, Monday, 25 August 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link

does it offend you, yeah?

clouds, Monday, 25 August 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link

hmph, the number doesn't work when i call it - probably because of obama's phone care cuts

Karl Malone, Monday, 25 August 2014 21:25 (nine years ago) link


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