Strange Days that a "dogwhistle" is a guy whose asshole is so tight that when he farts, only dogs can hear him." - Meaning and context.">
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"The Bad Guys,"http://www.bigheadpress.com/lneilsmith/?p=136 28 April 2009.
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Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul will be consigned to eternal torment in the never-ending subterranean barbecue if you fail to follow the whacky edicts of one particular set of puckered dogwhistles or another. You may recall from the great movie Strange Days that a "dogwhistle" is a guy whose asshole is so tight that when he farts, only dogs can hear him.

— L. Neil Smith

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul will be consigned to eternal torment in the never-ending subterranean barbecue if you fail to follow the whacky edicts of one particular set of puckered dogwhistles or another. You may recall from the great movie Strange Days that a "dogwhistle" is a guy whose asshole is so tight that when he farts, only dogs can hear him." in the context of ""The Bad Guys,"http://www.bigheadpress.com/lneilsmith/?p=136 28 April 2009." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About L. Neil Smith

Lester Neil Smith III (12 May 1946 – 27 August 2021), also known by his nickname El Neil, was a libertarian science fiction author and political activist, whose works include the novels Pallas, The Forge of the Elders, and The Probablity Broach, each of which won the Libertarian Futurist Society's annual Prometheus Award for best libertarian novel.