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I grew up in Rhode Island thinking that the Darwin fish was the original, and that people perverted it to make it a Jesus fish. Ahh, innocence. I was surrounded by a LOT of Darwin fish. What can I say ( Read more... )

aka "I Didn't Always Worry About Existential Religious Questions, Don't Worry"

My parents stopped using the Texaco station down the street from our house in Blacksburg, VA because the mechanic screwed up their POS '74 Plymouth Valiant.

Then, after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, they stopped going to all Exxon gas stations, everywhere, for all ( Read more... )

blozor recently presented us with the saga of two cows, as culled from an internet message board. I put in a personal request and he gave me the MORMONISM maxim ( Read more... )

I heard an uplifting tangent related to Jerry Falwell's death on NPR last night. It mentioned that many young evangelicals look up to Bono more than Falwell, and want to focus their political and social action on issues like disease, poverty, and the environment rather than sex-based "morality." I don't think any majority of evangelicals are ( Read more... )

I think that if Larry Flynt can find something nice to say about Jerry Falwell, then we'd all do well to think about finding something positive to say about others.

The Reverend Jerry Falwell and I were arch enemies for fifteen years. We became involved in a lawsuit concerning First Amendment rights and Hustler magazine. Without question, this was ( Read more... )

From the "HOW could I have lived with her for 20 years and not figured this out??" category, I hereby inform you that "Madeleine" is the French form of Magdalene, a name from the English-speaking world ( Read more... )

"tom, why didn't that work order get finished?"
"a unicorn f*cked up my computer"

"tom, why is there a dead body in your trunk?"
"i dunno, i guess a unicorn did it"
-- tt's response to me teasing his entire state because a man is claiming that a unicorn was driving when his car hit a light post in Billings, MTI can assure you that your company's ( Read more... )

I discovered the BEAST's annual Most Loathsome People list last year. Let's see who they list as The BEAST 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2006:

Jesus Christ: May not have existed, and if he did, probably wasn't even American, but more of a dark-hued Jewish dwarf. A hygienically challenged hairball who rarely bathed or brushed his teeth. If ( Read more... )

I already linked to this, but I can never find it when I want it so, I am cutting and pasting this mock_the_stupid post below for safekeeping.

( Well, Satan spits on blackberries that are still on the vine the second Saturday of each month. Those that eat those blackberries get the devil inside them, and turn gay. That's why there's more gays around now instead of one hundred years ago, because we have refrigeration now... )