Open Thread
pharyngula | July 4, 2010
Just in case you crazy people were so busy scribbling in the perennially distracting thread, here are some 4th of July fireworks.
Blow up in the comments, if you'd like.
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pharyngula | July 2, 2010I have allowed the amazing thread to go on a little too long, but my excuse is that I'm distracted. When I'm not trying to get some work done in my hotel room, I'm out among the milling hordes at Convergence. I warn you, the video below may horrify some…but these motley nerds, geeks, weirdos, freaks, and strangely imaginative and gentle partiers are my people.
It's going to be interesting tonight. The Trophy Wife™, who is actually a normal person and has never been to a con before, arrives to find out what goes on at these things, and there may be a little culture shock. It could unlock her…
pharyngula | June 30, 2010The thread is dead, long live the thread! Now party on, dudes.
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pharyngula | June 25, 2010Gathering comments in the amaranthine thread is a bit like this:
Discuss.
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(via Dr Gen)
pharyngula | June 24, 2010The insatiable thread briefly flirted with zombies, of which I approve, and then lapsed back into the World Cup obsession. We can't have that. Too normal. Must instigate deeper weirdness.
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pharyngula | June 22, 2010In our last installment of the entropic thread, I had a video of an attractive young anti-Catholic woman; at the end, people were asking about a vaguely-recalled American religious conservative who confessed to sex with a mule.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Neal Horsley, anti-abortion crusader, fanatical zealot of the religious right, and admitted mule-boinker.
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pharyngula | June 20, 2010We'll be on a plane leaving for America soon enough, so don't fill up the unslakeable thread too quickly this time.
Maybe some melodic anti-Catholic imagery will distract you all for a bit.
(There is some nudity in this movie. I f you don't like that, don't watch it!)
Youtube censored the video, the whiny little cowards. Fresh version now on Vimeo.
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pharyngula | June 18, 2010While you're trapped in the inescapable thread, I'm here in Copenhagen.
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pharyngula | June 15, 2010I have closed the previous edition of the undead thread, and now with great pomp and ceremony, inaugurate a new one.
Hint to any theists reading this: yes, this is exactly what your rituals look like to us godless folk.
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pharyngula | June 13, 2010Please use the following video as an aid for diagnosing your condition if you are one of the contributors to the unending font of madness.
I think most of you are afflicted with number 3, "Causing a hullabaloo".
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pharyngula | June 10, 2010I also believe in dinosaurs, but this video is mainly an opportunity to sight-see a bit of New Zealand. Otherwise, you all know how the ad infinitum thread works — just talk about whatever you feel like.
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pharyngula | June 8, 2010Sven seemed to think it a fine idea to launch everyone into space in the last iteration of the cosmic thread, and who am I to argue? Zoooooom!
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pharyngula | June 6, 2010Somehow, this video reminds me of the party that never ends.
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pharyngula | June 3, 2010I knew it would come to this. Now the indefatiguable thread is about porn stars. Let's see how long you can keep it up (she said).
You can talk about other things, too, you know.
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pharyngula | May 31, 2010Forget all this endless chatter, just watch the video. It's Douglas Adams in fine form.
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pharyngula | May 28, 2010Resetting old thread, resume conversation here.
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pharyngula | May 25, 2010We have a wicked, psychotic cat who went insane during a time when we were fostering other cats for the humane society — some cats just don't tolerate novelty and company — and ever since he's been plotting to kill me. The only reason we're keeping him around is that I'm pretty sure he's the feline anti-christ, and confining him to our house in Morris means he won't be conquering the world any time soon.
He attempted a prison break today, though, and ran loose in the yard for a while. And what happened? He found a baby bunny, killed it, and brought it back into the house. Then he gave me that…
pharyngula | May 22, 2010The ancient, wizened thread might be 2,300 years old, or 21,700 or 27,000 years.
Isn't it nice to begin a quiet Saturday morning with a stomping of an old jailbird and fraud?