I wish I could have been there—Kristine Harley was in the Galapagos and got to break the news to Richard Dawkins that Jerry Falwell had died. It's hilarious.
It's also true that Kristine is not a very nice girl. She's probably a witch.
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If she's a witch, what's she doing in a boat on the water!!!!???
Oh, now you're going to tell us Dorothy and the Wicked Witch of the West lied to us?
What a world, what a world!
The secret (until now) truth is that The Wicked Witch of the West was really an alien from the planet, um, well I don't know what planet, but it was the same one that was the home of those aliens from Signs. Why those aliens decided to invade a watery planet like Earth, I'll never know.
Bad women are hot.
Witches are bad women.
Kristine is hot.
Therefore.., er..., Falwell needs an enema?
Also, just wanted to say that I am probably one of the last people on the planet to learn about PYGMIES and DWARVES! And I nearly wet myself.
As everyone knows, witches float. They must be water repellent. I have never seen Kristine get wet, and obviously she didn't sink on her trip...therefore, she must be a witch.
As everyone knows, witches float.
That is because they weigh the same as a duck. However, the, umm, burning question is whether she weighs the same as a blue-footed booby?
I for one, am looking forward to Kristine's pictures of boobies.
I'm melting with jealousy.
Falwell is being buried this morning!
Quick! Mount another insultathon.
Falwell's funeral to be held next week
Associated Press - May 16, 2007 7:33 AM ET
The Reverend Jerry Falwell's funeral is set for next Tuesday at Thomas Road Baptist Church, the 24,000 member church he founded in Lynchburg, Virginia.
I thought about turning Falwell into a toad, but decided that would have been redundant. ;-) Thanks, Hitch.
Incidentally - haven't you ever heard of a water witch? (There's another funny story about this.)
On Friday, the Falwell family announced he will be buried on the Liberty University campus on the lawn of the Carter Glass mansion, where his office was located. The Falwell's also announced the Reverend's grave will include an eternal flame.
http://caribjournal.com/2007/05/19/rev-jerry-falwell-funeral-tuesday-to…
Eternal flame? Well, I'll be damned!
Suddenly I feel seasick!
Well! So much for Sean Hannity ripping into Hitchens for "attacking the man's family," which he didn't. Now Falwell's family (probably working under Falwell's written directions) is turning his funeral into a vulgar, bloated display, to be televised and re-televised for all of time on Fox Spews. Yuck.
Chaucerian frauds. Shelley's poem "Ozymandias" also comes to mind.
There are also ditch witches. With a little reaching, I might be able to see the resemblance.
"Now Falwell's family... is turning his funeral into a vulgar, bloated display"
Well, "vulgar and bloated" does seem rather appropriate in this case.
Uh, where was Mrs. Dawkins?
I'm confused, which witches are we talking about now?
All I know was that Lalla couldn't make the trip. I was disappointed not to be able to meet her, and by the fact that Paul Kurtz also couldn't come. However, I also met Eddie Tabash, who I missed when he was here in Minneapolis in December, and Josh Timonen, who manages Richard's website, and of course, the CFI staff, who were so helpful in finding me roommates so that I could afford to go at all!
(In fact, several other people cancelled, so I ended up with only one roommate, a woman in her 70s. In fact, I was one of the younger people on that ship and I'm no spring chicken, and there were people more spry than I am. One man was in his 80s. My goodness, 73 is young to have a heart attack - the people around Falwell who cared about him should have said something about how much weight he gained!)
So he can carry on spouting hot air after death.
Zimmerman on "Jerry Falwell's God."
"He turned the Oreos to Hydrox."
http://www.youtube.com/p.swf?video_id=MyE5wjc4XOw&eurl=http%3A//www.goo…
Dr. Myers, in the future, when you post a link to a site which features an item called a Vibratory Plow, please mark it NSFW? Thanks.
I hear that Jerry Faldwell
has died,
I say, 'Oh well.'
With hatred's creed,
and bigot's screed,
he's still living, now in hell.
With askance
and perchance
a plea to those on high,
his plight is such a grievous one,
for a man to die.
So he ascends to heaven,
the choir does upswell.
We shake our heads in wonderment,
Bent pearly gates, a sad lament,
hosts scattered through the firmament,
At His left hand doth Jerry dwell,
Returned to earth as heaven fell.
I wonder if that eternal flame will be fueled with the gasses from his decomposition? There will be a lot of methane there, and if it's scented with putrescein and hydrogen sulfide, it'll be all the more appropriate. The man will stink up the place long after his departure.
If she gets off the boat onto the beach, does she become a sand witch?
"The Falwell's also announced the Reverend's grave will include an eternal flame."
Not content with damning us when he was alive he now wants to make sure we are damned with global warming. One thing a dead man does not need is an eternal flame. In his case expecially, as should the myth turn out to be reality, I think he will will be no stranger to flames.
Funny really, he had a friendly relationship with Larry Flynt (via Orac). Not really surprising, they were both peddlers of types of sleaze, and both utterly tasteless as this eternal flame proves. They got together and found out how to benefit eash other - go round schools and debate religilon vs free speech.
If this eternal flame thing holds up, it will make Falwell the fourth individual American so honored, following JFK, MLK, and Elvis.
They should have made it an eternal fart memorial.
Pffffffffffffrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrttttttttttttt....
[repeat for all time]
It could have a motion sensor that triggers the sound every time someone walks by.
Student A: What class are you off to?
Jerry: Pffffffffffffrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrttttttttttttt.....
Student B: My favorite class! Fundamentals of Fundamentalist Religion.
Jerry: Pffffffffffffrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrttttttttttttt.....
Student A: Hace a nice day!
Don't forget tomato witches: here
Is the eternal flame not in danger of just reminding people to where a lot of us hope he has gone?
It's just my mildly sociopathic attitude, I know, but I find myself wanting to believe in god(s) a hell of a lot more when I find people who really really could do with a spell in the fire.
That "eternal flame" is just as much a misnomer as the "eternal life" that he peddled.
By the way Kristine your "he had an attack where his heart should have been" was wonderful!
PZ you're not a very nice boy, are you? :-D
EBISS unite!
You all are ignoring the potential fun pranksters can have with this eternal flame... I know the first thing I thought was that it would be hilarious to sneak into the cemetary and put it out! And, CalGeorge, it CAN be an eternal fart memorial too! Fart into the eternal flame and see who makes the biggest fireball :)
I'm loving how the first response to any news of Falwell's death is "thank God that old gasbag finally kicked it."
And the eternal flame? Considering his idea of hell, that's a very interesting choice!
The Falwell's also announced the Reverend's grave will include an eternal flame.
Did he convert to Zoroastrianism on his deathbed?
Hitchens was on Radio Open Source yesterday!
http://www.radioopensource.org/hitchens-v-god/
Were I still a liberal Christian I would offer the following as an epitaph:
As it stands, I still like it. ^.^
Oh man, Kristine is a total witch. She weighs only very slightly more than a very athletic and fit Bible. Also, once, she yelled at me because I was trying to teach John A. Davison how to write a blog post rather than putting all of his new dreck in the comments.
I can't figure out why she did that. Not a nice girl at all.
I hope not. I hear the sacred vultures are having a bad enough time as it is without needing to feed on Falwell's bloated corpse.
An understandable sense of schadenfreude, under the circumstances, does not qualify one as a witch.
However, Kristine, given the circumstances, I repeat: we need pictures. Perhaps one of you and Dr. Dawkins, suitably crestfallen?
(PS I remain envious)....SH
Over at Making Light, it was suggested that Falwell be referred to as a "fundamentalist cleric". Combined with Kristine's witchy witticism, that gives the following epitaph:
"Fundamentalist cleric Jerry Falwell, died age 73. He had an attack where his heart should have been."
"Fundamentalist cleric" could probably be expanded...
"Fundamentalist sectarian cleric Jerry Falwell, famous for issuing many fatwas against women's rights, human rights, civil rights, science education, and entertainment for toddlers, died age 73. He had an attack where his heart should have been."
See? The eternal flame is entirely appropriate.
I yelled at Dustin? Was that when I was doing my Yoda impression? Sorry - but you promised a deluge, did you not?
Perhaps one of you and Dr. Dawkins, suitably crestfallen?
Well, you could turn this one of both of us upside-down, I guess.
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PS. KRISTINE IS A WITCH.
No, I just threatened one. Besides, that thread was groaning under its own weight already.
And furthermore, when I read posts and imagine Frank Oz's voice in my head, it really hurts. Nobody likes being rebuked by a cute green puppet.
I loved that line "He had an attack where his should have been."
That should be chiseled on the corpulent bigot's headstone.
The eternal flame will presumably be powered by good muslim Saudi gas. Explain that at the pearly gates. Epitaph: 'Rev Falwell has gas.'
I gotta channel Napoleon Dynamite here:
LUCKY!
OK, everybody....
GET OVER THERE AND DIGG HER POST!!!!
(and/or Stumble on it or whatever)
That made me smile seeing as the collective noun for Kangaroos is a mob.
Now, how do I get to go to the Gallapogas and do some scientific study with the likes of Dr. Dawkins? I have no biological knowledge above first year Uni paleobiology, etc. Surely that's enough for me to poke the local fauna and listen to real scientific types talk....no????
The Pastafarians should claim him for a deathbed conversion story...lifted from this earth by his noodly appendage. Ramen!
Hey! You say witch like its a bad thing. Now apologize.
(Ribbit...Ribbit)
Apology accepted.
We can be quite sure he's in hell - we have it on the authority of WBC and godhatesamerica.com.
Jim Roberts
That could be the most appropriate COD I've ever read. I wonder if it's on the death certificate.
Also, I can verify that she is a witch. She turned me into a newt.
/dork
See? The eternal flame is entirely appropriate.