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Posted on: January 20, 2007 9:16 PM, by PZ Myers
I have been sent official confirmation that Phil Plait has carried through on his promise, and has testifed to the teeming hordes at The Amazing Meeting to the glory that is Pharyngula.
Hooray!
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Comments
Posted by: Tristram Shandy | January 20, 2007 9:39 PM
However, "cephalopodufascist" is a kick-ass portmanteau.
Posted by: dpitt | January 20, 2007 9:45 PM
Sure squids are more than food, but they are also food. Good food, too.
Posted by: James | January 20, 2007 9:52 PM
Phil's being sneaky here. Dunno if you know the legend, but "E pur si muove" is supposedly what Galileo said under his breath after the Church forced him to recant publicly. It's an astronomer's version of "...not!" :)
Posted by: James | January 20, 2007 9:53 PM
...forgot to mention, for those who aren't familiar with it, "E pur sui muove" is Italian for "And yet, it [the Earth] moves".
Posted by: Markk | January 20, 2007 9:57 PM
Politicians everywhere rejoice: being spineless is OK.
That slide is priceless. Someone needs to start a Cephalopodufascism movement.
Posted by: Paguroidea | January 20, 2007 10:03 PM
Phil's a hoot!
Posted by: quork | January 20, 2007 10:15 PM
He's defaming you!Posted by: Christian Burnham | January 20, 2007 10:37 PM
That's hilarious!
It's only because of your little internecine competition with the BA that I started reading this blog.
If the BA says that evolution may be true, then I'm willing to believe it.
Posted by: Skemono | January 20, 2007 10:46 PM
News to me.
Posted by: John Wilkins | January 20, 2007 11:00 PM
Next time, I'm voting against PZ, because I so want to see his slide...
Posted by: Dan | January 20, 2007 11:25 PM
I... Can't... Stop... Laughing...
It hurts. That's just hilarious. I'd have loved to have seen how he set up that slide.
Posted by: Martin Wagner | January 21, 2007 12:28 AM
I've been blogging TAM 5 pretty solidly over at The Atheist Experience. Haven't written the section about Phil's segment yet...but it's coming. Enjoy!
Posted by: David | January 21, 2007 5:25 AM
Glad you liked the picture. The Amazing Meeting has been awesome so far. I finally got to meet James Randi, Hal Bidlack and the other people from the JREF, as well as many of the people I admire and respect from the JREF forum. Now, on top of the fun and exciting things this week, two of my favorite bloggers, you and GrrlScientist, have some of my pictures on their blogs on the same day.
They have announced that the next TAM will be in Vegas again, this time in June, so I hope you will consider attending as a speaker. I would love to have the chance to meet you and I think you would have a lot to offer the conference.
-David
ps. Thanks for the ID on the baby fish picture I sent you a few days ago. I saw a few more of them, but they all got eaten when they swam away from the glass. For some reason, the other fish would not eat them when they were on the glass.
Posted by: Aaron Baker | January 21, 2007 1:31 PM
Must have been a great presentation . . . but isn't the word "eppur"?
Posted by: Krystalline Apostate | January 21, 2007 4:19 PM
Cephalopodufascist? Is that like, a Cthulhian dominionist? ;)
Posted by: iGollum | January 21, 2007 6:08 PM
Reminds me of the "De Chelonian Mobile" ... ;-)
Posted by: JohnnieCanuck | January 22, 2007 1:25 AM
Both 'E pur' and 'Eppur' are common usages. How funny it would have been if BA's version had not meant what he thought it did.
Seems like it is his way of speaking with more than one tentacle around his mouth.
Great fun.
Posted by: DavidByron | January 22, 2007 12:02 PM
Hmm.
Looks a little like that Stephen Colbert "on notice" list or the one with the church message board you can just edit.
Talking of Colbert, is someone calling you a "factist"? is that what I ma seeing there? "PZ is not a factist"?
Posted by: Sastra | January 22, 2007 3:23 PM
I was also at TAM5, sitting in front just out of range of the camera shot here, and had anticipated Phil's public crow-eating. He set it up very nicely, beginning his talk (which was on the role the media played in encouraging the belief that the moon landing was a hoax) by briefly explaining the nature of the contest, who PZ Myers was, and why he was now going to put up the following visual. It was very funny, though I would have been interested in seeing a show of hands of people who knew in advance about the scienceblogs feud. I would guess less than half (there were a few folk at the convention who had never heard of the Onion or South Park, either, though the writers were there.)
Phil made a big point that he was going to try to get you to attend TAM6. I really hope you do. I voted for you, and I *know* Phil. And had seen his Skepchick calendar picture. And visit his blog. But I come here more often.