{"id":2966,"date":"2011-02-14T08:04:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T13:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=2966"},"modified":"2011-02-14T15:42:03","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T20:42:03","slug":"you-cant-explain-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=2966","title":{"rendered":"\"You can't explain that\""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/ORBreadToast.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/ORBreadToast.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>I doubt that it has the staying power of lolcats, but for the moment, people are having a lot of fun mocking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/this-went-well-bill-oreilly-debates-legitimacy-of-religion-with-avowed-atheist\/\">Bill O'Reilly's puzzling argument <\/a>for the existence of God:<\/p>\n<p class=\"audioplayer_container\"><span style=\"display:block;padding:5px;border:1px solid #dddddd;background:#f8f8f8\" id=\"audioplayer_1\">Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&amp;promoid=BIOW\" title=\"Download Adobe Flash Player\">here<\/a>. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">AudioPlayer.embed(\"audioplayer_1\", {soundFile:\"aHR0cDovL2xhbmd1YWdlbG9nLmxkYy51cGVubi5lZHUvbXlsL09SZWlsbHlUaWRlczEubXAzA\"});<\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">I'll tell you why it's not a scam, in my opinion. Right?<br \/>\nTides goes in, tide goes out, never a miscommunication.<br \/>\nYOU can't explain that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Robert Quigley at geekosystem has large selection of examples (\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekosystem.com\/bill-oreilly-cant-explain-that-meme\/\">Bill O\u2019Reilly\u2019s Tidal Skepticism Launches 'You Can\u2019t Explain That' Meme<\/a>\", 2\/10\/2011).<\/p>\n<p>Further theological arguments from Mr. O'Reilly are available here, courtesy of Stephen Colbert (O'Reilly segment starts around 2:30):<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color:#000000;width:520px;\">\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I doubt that it has the staying power of lolcats, but for the moment, people are having a lot of fun mocking Bill O'Reilly's puzzling argument for the existence of God: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] I'll tell you why it's not a scam, in my opinion. Right? Tides goes in, tide goes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-and-culture","category-snowclones"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}