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Reason #1 to vote for Pharyngula
Category: Humor • Weblogs
Posted on: December 7, 2006 9:01 PM, by PZ Myers
Really, I wasn't going to make a big deal of this award, but then Phil had to go and mock the noble name of Pharyngula, and make it all a challenge. Now as a matter of honor I have to try and defeat the Bad Astronomy blog.
I have to do this. If you read that post, it is revealed that Phil has posed nude for the SkepDude calendar. This is a troubling precedent, I'm sure you'll all agree that we shouldn't encourage bloggers to let it all hang out in public like that.
Vote for Pharyngula. Unless you want me to pose nekkid.
Comments
Posted by: Caledonian | December 7, 2006 9:10 PM
Wait - I'm confused. Is this supposed to dissuade us or encourage us to vote for Pharyngula?
Posted by: Ryan | December 7, 2006 9:19 PM
I just voted. But he's got you by 16 at the moment.
Posted by: Ryan | December 7, 2006 9:25 PM
Actually, sorry. I didn't realize you can revisit the results page and it updates the votes. I guess everyone knows the vote count. Sorry! LMAO.
Posted by: A Teapot | December 7, 2006 9:26 PM
James Randi nude? Does not compute...Overload overload!
Posted by: Caledonian | December 7, 2006 9:27 PM
Fifteen, now - I voted for Pharyngula.
It occurred to me that, if PZ posed in the nude, he'd probably drape his nether bits with a cephalopod of some kind, and that's a risk I'm not willing to take.
Posted by: Phil Plait | December 7, 2006 9:27 PM
I was almost double your vote count, then went back and saw you catching up. Assuming you were up to no good, I came back here to see you have indeed posted about this.
As far as my calendar shot goes, I was young and needed the money. And have you ever tried saying no to Rebecca, Queen of Skepchicks?
And anyway, I think you're jealous of the size of my... telescope.
Posted by: Caledonian | December 7, 2006 9:29 PM
"What, did you think the tentacles were just for decoration?" - Londo Mollari, Babylon 5
Posted by: chezjake | December 7, 2006 9:33 PM
While you're over there voting, make sure to vote in the Best of the Top 250 category, where Stop the ACLU is currently in the lead. 'Nuf said.
Posted by: Shwn Shltn | December 7, 2006 10:03 PM
'm vtng fr Phl Plt bcs h dsnt dsmvwl m.
;)
(Love the blog, PZ, ever since I read about it on BA's blog. We disagree on many politican issues, you and I, but I'm with on the important science stuff, and anti-Bush stuff...heehee)
-Godless Moderate Libertarian who failed to get out of xmas this year... I tried, but my family is too nice to let me out of it.
*sigh*
Merry festmas/xmas/chaunukah/kwanza/ramadan/solstice/just-the-usual-work-week-for-me-thank-you-very-much.
(I AM sending Haunukah/Kwanza/Ramadan type cards to all my relatives this year, though...heehee. And maybe one Get Well Soon to someone who isn't sick in my family.)
Posted by: robin andrea | December 7, 2006 10:05 PM
I just voted and you were up by two. I don't think the choice should be mutually exclusive, PZ. Can't we vote for you and see you nekkid?
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | December 7, 2006 10:43 PM
I know he's already done it, but is there a way I can vote that will guarantee I don't have to see either of you naked?
Posted by: Nerull | December 7, 2006 11:03 PM
So hard to choose! I like both.
In the end, I had to vote for Pharyngula. The posing nekkid threat was too much for me. ;)
Posted by: coturnix | December 7, 2006 11:08 PM
149:149 dead heat right now!
Posted by: Phil Plait | December 7, 2006 11:33 PM
Curse you! You've pulled ahead!
Posted by: Saint Gasoline | December 8, 2006 12:15 AM
You're leading by about 13 as of my vote for you. Thanks for directing me to this site. I've been looking for some good blogs to read.
Posted by: Marc Buhler | December 8, 2006 12:47 AM
It's working... your threat has you ahead 246 - 219 as of my vote a moment ago.
(signed) marc
Posted by: Tyler DiPietro | December 8, 2006 1:53 AM
I voted for PZ because PZ is the bomb and better than everyone!
It's always good to top off a threat to post nude with borderline fellatio.
Posted by: Teri | December 8, 2006 3:41 AM
Sorry, dude...I love you but have YOU posed NUDE in a calendar? Phil wins.
Posted by: JohnnieCanuck | December 8, 2006 4:15 AM
Now that's tough love, Teri
Posted by: Mark UK | December 8, 2006 6:02 AM
Can I just speak up a little bit here for Sciguy? An excellent science writer and a blog in need of some good skeptics and scientists to counter some of the woowoo of some of those who post there...
http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2006/11/a_science_v_rel.html
Looking at the scores so far it looks like Sciguy is no threat to PZ, so I feel I can make this post without too much of a risk...
Posted by: The Science Pundit | December 8, 2006 6:41 AM
You don't have to pose nekkid, PZ. (But my erotic cephalart calendar had better be in the mail!)
Posted by: nat | December 8, 2006 7:15 AM
I just voted for you but Pz is still loosing !!
wake up guys !!
Posted by: Toivo | December 8, 2006 7:37 AM
I voted for PZ too (I wasn't going to, but when I saw the post about Phil, I changed my mind). It's weird how that post affected me: I usually don't vote for anything...
Posted by: A lemur | December 8, 2006 7:49 AM
mmmmm - PZ nekked, spread out on a cephapod skin rug. Lusty fire roaring in the background, an enticing 'come-hither' look in his eyes...
now THAT would be a calander worth plunking down change for. Might doom science blogging as we know it, but...
Posted by: Rebecca | December 8, 2006 8:44 AM
OH, it is on. It is SO ON.
http://skepchick.org/blog/?p=272
Posted by: George | December 8, 2006 9:03 AM
Oh no... Bad Astronomy Blog has pulled ahead. Go vote for PZ!
Posted by: PZ Myers | December 8, 2006 9:10 AM
Man, you better. If exposing his nude body works so well for Phil, I might just have to do the same. Do you really want me to post a picture of my hairy butt front and center?
Do you think it would get me more votes?
I think there's a reason no one has ever asked me to pose for the SkepDudes calendar.
Posted by: Zed | December 8, 2006 10:09 AM
I never vote for people I haven't seen naked.
Have you not noticed that all the politicians who wear clothes are hiding something?
Posted by: umilik | December 8, 2006 11:06 AM
I think there's a reason no one has ever asked me to pose for the SkepDudes calendar...
Sounds like sour testicles, I mean grapes, to me.
Posted by: aiabx | December 8, 2006 2:25 PM
I don't think a naked appearance would get more votes, but it might convince creationists that there is no God.
Posted by: seedmagfan | December 9, 2006 2:23 AM
Well, Phil - you started it with your comment. Can't blame PZ for reacting. If you can't handle it, don't start competing. Although I'd pass on the offer of PZ nude - we have enough distractions from making a difference in science as it is!
One vote and more on the way for PZ!! :D
Posted by: Steven | December 11, 2006 5:49 PM
Yea noone wants that lol. You have my vote.