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Fandom Meme!

By bushwells on August 24, 2007.

So you've got your Harry Potter fandom, your Buffy the Vampire Slayer fandom, your Pirates of the Caribbean fandom and your Star Trek fandom.* Isn't it about time for an Evolutionist/Rationalist fandom? Well, isn't it? Check out my answers to the meme** that's sweeping the fan-i-verse!

Note added in proof: The responses to this meme may readily be extended to any scientist-fandom, e.g., see comment #1. Have at it!

01. The first character I first fell in love with.
Charles Darwin. Sweeeeeet!

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02. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now.
Thomas Huxley - Darwin's bulldog. Woof! (It's the sideburns.)

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03. The character everyone else loves that I don't.
Sam Harris: the sweetheart of all rationalist fangurls. I mean, c'mon. . . this guy is the Orlando Bloom of atheism.

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04. The character I love that everyone else hates.
Richard Lewontin just 'cause of those spunky spandrels.

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05. The character I used to love but don't any longer.
Richard Dawkins - the man sounds like a crazy cat lady at times.

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06. The character I would shag anytime.
Richard Dawkins - love him or hate him, he's still highly shaggable.

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07. The character I'd want to be like. (except for the dead part)
The late Carl Sagan - the reasons for my admiration number in the billll-yuns!

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08. The character I'd slap.
Daniel Dennett - Dawkins' Rottweiler needs to stop humping his master's leg.

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09. A pairing that I love.
Neil deGrasse Tyson/Lawrence Krauss - physicist slash at its best. Oh, baby!
(Psssst. I think Lawrence Krauss might be a fan of some kind of pop cultural icon.)
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10. A pairing that I despise.
Pat Robertson/Ted Haggard. Truly unholy.
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*For the non-cognoscenti, i.e., normal people, examples of fannishness may be found here: Science Fiction and Fantasy Fandom.

**My head almost exploded from having to use that...that meme word.

Hat tip to...well, you know who you are.

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