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2007-03-14 10:27:09 · 3 answers · asked by Jack H 1 in Education & Reference Trivia

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Moonbat is a term often used as a political epithet. The term was used in a newspaper hoax perpetrated by the New York Sun in 1835, claiming that a British scientist, Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell, using a new fangled type of telescope, The Batscope, had discovered a race of bat-type creatures living on the moon.

The term came into popular use in blogs in February, 2004 with the Barking Moonbat Early Warning System blog in which blogger Allan Kelly humorously describes a moonbat as "a human whose cerebral cortex has turned to silly putty causing him or her to mentally slide down the evolutionary ladder to the level of a winged rat who is influenced by the moon and who wants to eat your brain. These creatures have broken brains and since the brain is the organ that tells us all when we're broken, their broken detection mechanism is unable to tell them that they are barking mad."

2007-03-14 10:34:19 · answer #1 · answered by •LIGHTS• 4 · 1 0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonbat

so cool, I had no idea, but you made me look it up
thanks man

2007-03-14 17:47:46 · answer #2 · answered by Lucas 3 · 1 0

let me know

2007-03-14 17:33:57 · answer #3 · answered by Princess AJ 3 · 0 0

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