Just stop it now
Category: Humor • Pirates • Weirdness
Posted on: July 20, 2007 8:35 AM, by PZ Myers
Look at this: now the Intelligent Design creationists are branching out into pirate fashion. They're everywhere!
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Oh, yeah. No question, that guy is intelligently designed.
Posted by: Alison | July 20, 2007 8:40 AM
I'm a little skeptical of the "beautiful" claim on the cover, but that could just be me.
He's not smooth of cheek, though, is he?
Posted by: Zeno | July 20, 2007 8:42 AM
I thought a designer would include two eyes. Hope he's not been designed a gay pirate. Baby jesus wouldn't like that
Posted by: Billy Sands | July 20, 2007 8:53 AM
So I.D. has gone International? ;) Good one PZ!
Posted by: severalspeciesof | July 20, 2007 9:12 AM
And cover price is over $12 an issue, if my math is worth anything. No thanks.
Posted by: ladyvonkulp | July 20, 2007 9:23 AM
It would be much more appropriate if that was the official magazine of Pastafarianism. May His Noodly Appendage be with all of you!
Posted by: Tom @Thoughtsic.com | July 20, 2007 9:28 AM
For about $1000 they could've retained a relatively decent and competent trademark attorney and realized what a mistake it would be to brand their periodical as they chose.
Posted by: blader | July 20, 2007 9:41 AM
ARR! Be careful, me mateys. IDists be the worst quote scavengers on the high seas!
Posted by: Shawn Wilkinson | July 20, 2007 9:45 AM
Just so everyone is clear, that's International Design magazine--a fashion magazine that has nothing to do with creationism or the IDiots.
Posted by: redstripe | July 20, 2007 10:16 AM
I bet the publishers of International Freebooter magazine are pissed!
Posted by: mojojojo | July 20, 2007 10:22 AM
Why does God hate one eyed people?
You knew this was coming.
Posted by: wildcardjack | July 20, 2007 10:59 AM
Um, I don't think that that magazine is I.D. as in "Intelligent Design" - it's "International Design." My neighbor, a professor of art, architecture and design is subscribed to that.
Just check out the magazine's current issue:
http://www.idonline.com/currentissue.asp
Please, PZ - you rock, but you dropped the ball on this one.
Posted by: Dan | July 20, 2007 11:15 AM
Take a better look at the tags Dan.
Posted by: D | July 20, 2007 11:18 AM
Dan, it was a joke from PZ. He knows that the ID crowd doesn't have any magazines. Heck their online "peer-reviewed" (i.e. not peer reviewed) journal has not been "published" for quite a while.
Posted by: Kristjan Wager | July 20, 2007 11:43 AM
Yes, I see the humor and weirdness tags. Perhaps I just have a different sense of humor. I'm personally of the opinion that there's plenty of material with which to get a laugh out of intelligent design than simply putting odd pictures up that happen to be associated with the letters "ID."
The fact that it's NOT an intelligent design-related pic kinda kills the joke.
Posted by: Dan | July 20, 2007 11:46 AM
How appropriate. ID is renowned as being the magazine for idiotic twats.
Posted by: Ginger Yellow | July 20, 2007 11:49 AM
If you doubt that this is an ID magazine, how is it there are PIRATES + PARROTS?
Posted by: Torbjörn Larsson, OM | July 20, 2007 2:16 PM
silly boy!
Posted by: The Physicist | July 20, 2007 10:11 PM
Luckily it's "International Design" and not Intelligent Design. You can't trademark a couple of letters of the alphabet, can you? (You can't copyright a title.) Otherwise Consolidated Edison would be suing AC-DC.
Posted by: Monado | July 20, 2007 11:19 PM
PZ - Hilarious! That post cracked me up!
Posted by: LisaS | July 20, 2007 11:27 PM
So the IDers are finally admitting they're really closet pastafarians - about bloody time! ;)
Posted by: Richard Rosalion | July 21, 2007 4:19 AM
No, that IS the joke.
We could teach you, but we'd have to charge...
Posted by: windy | July 21, 2007 8:51 AM
"No, that IS the joke."
Okay - how is it funny then? I clearly don't get the joke.
Posted by: Dan | July 21, 2007 11:18 AM
Clearly.
Posted by: Reinis | July 22, 2007 12:44 PM
and I sez the budgie's dead. it's and ex-parrot!
oh, wait... that's not the joke either is it.
Posted by: dusty59 | July 24, 2007 8:45 PM
well, good to see the christians doing some good by fighting global warming
ramen!
Posted by: tus | February 22, 2008 11:15 AM