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Posted on: September 25, 2008 1:02 PM, by PZ Myers
I should be flying through the air right now, on my way to Los Angeles for another long travel weekend. I was also out of town last week, and to my shame was too busy to post a Friday Cephalopod. I will not make that mistake this time: in recompense, tomorrow I will post THREE (3) Friday Cephalopods and recite 10 Hail Cthulhus while lashing myself with a wet tentacle. The latter will, of course, be done in private, but look for my public penance on Friday.
Comments
Posted by: Jams | September 25, 2008 1:40 PM
Slightly OT: Thought you guys might get a laugh out of this...
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tv/story/2008/09/24/russia-tv2x2-renewed.html
Pastor Konstantin Bendas asks "If Christian communion is compared to eating feces, is that funny?" in reference to an Episode of South Park.
Answer: Yes, actually, it is. Especially when South Park compared communion to cannibalism, not feces. But feces is funny too. Good one Pastor Bendas.
Posted by: Parris Hughes | September 25, 2008 1:46 PM
Actually, aren't only 3 Hail Cthulhus all that's required?
Posted by: The Petey | September 25, 2008 1:46 PM
I say take the wet tentacles, dredge them in panko and the LASH them into a deep frying.
Paying homage to the calimari god is always in order. Its like eating the body of Cthulu, WAY better than eating a crappy transfatsubstantiated cracker
Posted by: Alan Chapman | September 25, 2008 1:49 PM
I'm looking forward to meeting PZ and others at the AAI this weekend in Long Beach. I hope some of you can make it. I plan on taking pictures.
Posted by: Sili | September 25, 2008 2:00 PM
So much for private lashings.Hail Dagon! May you and yours be eaten first.
Posted by: Trip the Space Parasite | September 25, 2008 2:07 PM
Parris Hughes @ #2:
No, that's Hail Hasturs that you only say three times.
Posted by: ShadowWalkyr | September 25, 2008 2:12 PM
Not "Hail Cthulhu"; "Cthulhu fhtagn."
If you're going to do it, you might as well do it right.
Posted by: Sili | September 25, 2008 2:16 PM
Phnglui mglw'nafl [...].
Posted by: Jared | September 25, 2008 2:17 PM
For real penance (for me, anyway) you could post a Friday anuran also!
Posted by: Dan B. | September 25, 2008 2:20 PM
In private......but on webcam, right?
Posted by: Jared | September 25, 2008 2:23 PM
http://raincoaster.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/cthulhu-challenge.jpg
Posted by: Glen Davidson | September 25, 2008 2:24 PM
OT, but good:
Not that anything much would change, but it's obviously an anti-atheist charter that has outlived its quaint beginnings.
Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/2kxyc7
Posted by: amon | September 25, 2008 2:29 PM
whilst Chuck Norris, I can't help but think, would need a plane (:Posted by: Tony Sidaway | September 25, 2008 2:33 PM
Don't your arms get tired, with all that flying you do?
Posted by: Nick Gotts | September 25, 2008 2:48 PM
Glen Davidson@12,
While they're at it, it would make sense to remove the "Royal": AFAIK, the last British royal (and probably the only one since Charles II) to show the slightest interest in science was Victoria's husband, Prince Albert. Mostly they prefer killing things for fun.
Posted by: Polyester Mather D.D. | September 25, 2008 2:53 PM
"While lashing myself with a wet tentacle"
This sacrilegious abuse is bound to send Donohue round the bend again.
Only anointed members of the Cthulhic League are allowed to wield the Secular Arm.
Posted by: Richard Harris | September 25, 2008 3:03 PM
Royal Society is considering casting out God 25 September 2008
Considering removing god! What's to consider? Why would an organization that promotes science, especially at such a level as the R S, pay lip service to stupid superstition? They should get rid of the nonsense immediately.
Science & religion, especially the theistic religions, are in fundamental conflict. Science should distance itself from the vestiges of magical thinking.
Posted by: Glen Davidson | September 25, 2008 3:08 PM
Doesn't help that the whole "divine right of kings" stuff isn't believable today, either.
Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/2kxyc7
Posted by: Mike the Englishman | September 25, 2008 3:14 PM
Is everyone else having trouble getting the image of a naked PZ covered in octopuses out of their minds, or is it just me?Posted by: JStein | September 25, 2008 3:16 PM
@19, I was just going to say that.
PZ is the leader of the Opus Dei of squid worship.
Posted by: Randy | September 25, 2008 3:47 PM
Speaking of the Friday Cephalopod, look what I found!
http://scribalterror.blogs.com/scribal_terror/2008/09/egg-brooding-sq.html
It's a squid carrying a great big bag of eggs. Presumably on her way back from the market.
Posted by: John Phillips, FCD | September 25, 2008 4:10 PM
Nick Gotts, not to mention Charlie and his ma's fondness and very public support for things anti-science, homeopathy being just one example. All things considered, I would be ashamed to have the present royals associated with any science based organisation I belonged to. Assuming that is that there ever was a time not to be ashamed of having the crooks royal associated with an organisation, science based or otherwise. With Albert, as you say, being the one possible exception.
Posted by: Richard Harris | September 25, 2008 4:28 PM
OT, but I thought that we should do our best to save a word from extinction.
Apodeictic: Unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration. (Collins)
Apodictic: Clearly demonstrated or established.
(Oxford Canadian)
We know just the application!
Posted by: Richard Harris | September 25, 2008 4:44 PM
John, in my village is a cousin, (according to my wife), of the Queen. The first time that I saw him, my daughter & I thought it was Charlie walking towards us.
Anyway, he's a successful (gentleman) farmer, & none of that organic nonsense. Unfortunately, all the heavy plant used in his fields tracks out enormous quantities of mud onto the lane. Unless it hasn't rained for a week, it makes cycling down the lane very unpleasant. I don't know how he gets away with obstructing the highway. Ohhhh, yes, I guess I do.
Posted by: Strider | September 25, 2008 4:50 PM
With who's tentacle will you lash yourself? As anyone knows, there are differences among tentacles. If you lash yourself with a tentacle from Taningia danae we'll know you're truly repentant; Octopus vulgaris not so much.
Posted by: Jared | September 25, 2008 5:09 PM
Strider @25, Taningia? Are you nuts? That would do some serious damage... Will he be chanting "mea culpa" also?
Posted by: Naked Bunny with a Whip | September 25, 2008 5:57 PM
should be flying through the air right now
Can you please spin the Earth forward a day so it can be Friday night instead of Thursday? K thx bai.
Posted by: Patricia | September 25, 2008 6:19 PM
He should have to sit through two hours of Vogon poetry and the national anthem as sung by the Klingon Gay Men's Choir...er, perhaps that is a bit harsh... OK, one hour.
Posted by: Janine ID AKA The Lone Drinker | September 25, 2008 6:27 PM
Here's hoping that his large intestine will save him from this fate.
Posted by: Mena | September 25, 2008 6:38 PM
These people will probably be the last ones eaten when the great one returns.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-NOZU2iPA8
Posted by: Nerd of Redhead | September 25, 2008 7:12 PM
Patricia, given PZ's woes last week you should see it in your heart to half the penalty. After all, nothing is sacred, not the Friday cephal......(ducks and runs for cover). ;-)
Posted by: Janine ID AKA The Lone Drinker | September 25, 2008 7:19 PM
Nerd! Be careful! Those tentacles can slip into the deepest covers.
Mena, may you and yours be the first devoured!
Posted by: Mena | September 25, 2008 7:34 PM
Thanks Janine, you and yours as well.
Posted by: Patricia | September 25, 2008 7:45 PM
Sorry Nerd - the mighty one suggested he had to do penance. A cosmic cockup like forgetting cephlopod Friday calls for stern measures. ;o)
Posted by: Kel | September 25, 2008 7:56 PM
Aren't you the sadistic one? Though two hours of Vogon poetry would be more tolerable than 30 seconds of Ken Ham talking science.Posted by: Ichthyic | September 25, 2008 8:28 PM
Ken Ham talking science.
aha! that was a trick, right?
Ken Ham NEVER talks science, only bullshit.
Posted by: themadlolscientist, FCD | September 25, 2008 8:49 PM
"Uprightness of character and piety"? swearing "upon the holy Gospels of God"? How'd Dick to the Dawk to the Ph.D. ever get in?
Just askin'. :-)
Posted by: Nerd of Redhead | September 25, 2008 9:09 PM
(raises white flag.....waves white flag....sticks up head)
Isn't the Klingon choir enough? But Vogon poetry? There are millions of people in the LA area. Think of the collateral damage.
Posted by: Kel | September 25, 2008 9:24 PM
Not a trick, but that was the point. He *tries* to talk science, the people who he preaches to thinks it's science, to us it's worse than a vogon poetry recital and on a par with "ode to my flatulance".Posted by: Nerd of Redhead | September 25, 2008 9:30 PM
No need to be polite on our account.Posted by: Kel | September 25, 2008 9:45 PM
Actually there is a need. Turns out you yanks have a bid aversion to the use of profanity, so when I'm on a group with a lot of aussies I can be very profane and no-one will bat an eyelid. On here, I've got to at least be somewhat civil for while it's a progressive crowd and an informal situation, there's still going to be those would get uneasy if I laced my posts with explicit profanity.On an aussie forum my current signature is: "There are things far more offensive than the word cunt. Try watching your average commercial", and that doesn't make anyone there even slightly uncomfortable.
Posted by: Jared | September 25, 2008 10:34 PM
Kel, that's not too bad, actually; at least it doesn't bother me. Then again, I've been saturated in profanity since birth...
Posted by: dean cameron | September 25, 2008 11:46 PM
Looking forward to meeting many of you fine folks this weekend. I'll be at a table pimping my Bill of Rights cards and other swag.
Rock on!
Posted by: Sili | September 26, 2008 7:24 AM
Personally, I'd love to see the Klingon gay men's choir. I'm honestly surprised they can muster more than a barbershop - particularly with those Klingons for Jebus gaining ground.
Posted by: SEF | September 26, 2008 8:25 AM
@ Jared #9:
I have some - eg this one. I never finished uploading all my (best) pictures to that set though.