…and this is a 
I repeat: Skepticon II was a blast, and I think what really contributed to the fun was that there was a lot of young people organizing it and in the audience, and no stodginess was allowed. Make sure you go next year — it really was one of the more entertaining and enthusiastic meetings I've gone to this year…and it was held in the heart of the Bible Belt, in the city otherwise best known as the capitol of the AssGod church.
I have to answer a couple of questions I was asked repeatedly. I dazzled everyone with my sartorial flamboyance, and on the first night I wore my infamous crocoduck tie. I'm sorry, you can't get it, at least not yet. Josh Timonen had it made, and so far, only Richard Dawkins and I have one. Maybe it will show up in the RDF store someday, or maybe it won't.
On the second day, I was asked about the Creation "Museum", and ripped open my shirt to reveal a portrait of the epic battle that was waged on our visit. People asked where they could get that, too (although one audience member showed me hers — she'd already got one). This one is easy.
PZ Myers, DJ Grothe
Just go to Jen's store, and you can order them right now. You can also get it on a black shirt, too.
You'll have to get your own boy toy, though.
By the way, the photograph is by Ziztur — who has a nice blog.
Comments
Posted by: Shamar
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November 23, 2009 10:17 AM
Very nice. Do they have any without the words on them?
Because I wasn't at the Creation Museum with you guys.
http://escapefromdogma.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Newfie | November 23, 2009 10:18 AM
Trophy Wife and a Boy Toy? You're good.
Posted by: newtron_flux | November 23, 2009 10:18 AM
http://www.zazzle.com/crocoduck_tie_like_richard_dawkins_wears-151604001638644309
Like that one, no?
Posted by: Doc Murray | November 23, 2009 10:20 AM
Excellent. I do think the crocoduck tie would be quite the moneymaking gimmick, seeing as that's all we godless folk care about anyway.
Posted by: otrame
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November 23, 2009 10:25 AM
Why are all the cute ones gay?
Posted by: DGKnipfer | November 23, 2009 10:26 AM
I just want to know what the Trophy Wife thinks of the Boy Toy.
Posted by: Jackal | November 23, 2009 10:26 AM
Check out today's xkcd.
Posted by: PZ Myers
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November 23, 2009 10:29 AM
What are you talking about? I'm not gay!
Posted by: otrame
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November 23, 2009 10:32 AM
Or married to Trophy wives?
Posted by: Andrew Ray Gorman | November 23, 2009 10:36 AM
lol. oh the satire
Posted by: Richard Eis | November 23, 2009 10:50 AM
-What are you talking about? I'm not gay!
I'm afraid you're probably the "other" cute. Cue the kittens.
Posted by: Brownian, Most Vicious & Petty of Pharyngulites
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November 23, 2009 10:53 AM
I never got the point of the shirt. How come Ham gots a squid? He never earned it.
He should be riding a metal chariot: something a deity might balk at, a scientist not so much.
Posted by: Ziztur | November 23, 2009 10:54 AM
Hey! I am the photographer of the picture of D.J. and PZ. Now I get to claim my 2 seconds of fame.
We had lots of fun that night!
Posted by: llewelly | November 23, 2009 11:08 AM
The title of this post is grammatically correct without the last two words.
Posted by: MPG | November 23, 2009 11:09 AM
Shamar - they've got the t-shirts with or without the caption (as well as on mugs, bags and mouse mats).
http://www.zazzle.com/blaghag
Posted by: Em Finn | November 23, 2009 11:10 AM
Anyone commented on IslamOnline.net being served up by the banner adds on the right yet?
Posted by: Glen Davidson
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November 23, 2009 11:13 AM
Just don't get your clothes off on the internet.
I have stomach contents, you know.
Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/mxaa3p
Posted by: Steve LaBonne
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November 23, 2009 11:13 AM
You get all your clothes off on the Internet? Ewwww.
Oh, sorry, misread the title.
Posted by: Antiochus Epiphanes | November 23, 2009 11:14 AM
"I get all my clothes off the internet"
I guess that's why so much of the internet is nude.
Posted by: Romeo Vitelli | November 23, 2009 11:22 AM
"What are you talking about? I'm not gay!"
Says the man with the boy toy.
Posted by: Richard Eis | November 23, 2009 11:24 AM
I read the title wrong too. Pharyngulites have dirty minds. I assumed you were talking about manly ripping your shirt open to show off your squid.
Posted by: Jennifurret | November 23, 2009 11:24 AM
I just flailed a little imagining my shirt being displayed in a Superman like style. Thanks for the photo and the plug!
Posted by: MikeM | November 23, 2009 11:44 AM
Just a slight mis-reading of the title of this post makes you very afraid to scroll down.
Posted by: jeremy | November 23, 2009 11:44 AM
Fashion to one side, at least we have the facts on our side!
Posted by: IaMoL | November 23, 2009 11:52 AM
Actually DJ looks like he might want to consider asking for a paternity test from you PZ. (or do all skeptics look alike?)
Has the TrophyWife&trade inquired yet about knowing Mother Grothe in your distant past?
Posted by: Silič O'Nopolitanopoulos, Färschdbischuf Beesknees aus Ulm und Klein Elguth, Elector Pharynguline.
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November 23, 2009 12:06 PM
Notice that he didn't say anything about he played with the boy toy.
Perhaps he's a gift to the Trophy Wife™ or Skatje. Or one of the boys for that matter.
And if they don't want him, PeeZed can always auction him off to the Pharyngulites.
Hmmm - that might be the better option re crockoduck ties. Auction off one a year - more of a collectors' object then.
Posted by: Lilith | November 23, 2009 12:20 PM
I also misread the title and was expecting pix of PZ in his undies. To be honest, I can't say I'm disappointed.
Posted by: Christinedb85
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November 23, 2009 12:23 PM
I was the audience member who ripped my shirt open to PZ Myers! (my 2 second claim to fame.) I actually did not go on the creation "museum" trip, I got the shirt without the caption on it. When I knew I was going to Skepticon, I wanted something to show my loyalty to PZ so I searched his name on zazzle.com and that's what came up. It's the same as going to Jen's store.
Go buy one!
Posted by: Sally Luxmoore | November 23, 2009 12:28 PM
Am I the only one who read this as I get all my clothes off ON the internet? Had to scroll down quickly to the picture to check...
Shame - just some guy in a t-shirt.
Posted by: Christinedb85
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November 23, 2009 12:30 PM
Ps-I was also wearing jewelry made by Surly Amy, one of the Skepchicks. (Rebecca Watson was wearing one, too.) She has awesome necklaces for girls and guys designed for atheists and skeptics and some that just have cute (and not so cute) designs on them. Mine simply says "think for yourself" and I get a lot of comments on it. You can find her store by going to etsy.com and searching SurlyRamics. They make good gifts, too!
Posted by: Dianne | November 23, 2009 12:48 PM
I also misread the title as "I take my clothes off on the internet." It led me to expect a rather...different picture than the one actually shown.
Posted by: spicersh | November 23, 2009 12:51 PM
While I find the shirt to be utterly fantastic, I am infinitely more interested to know what the dark liquid in your glass is.
Maybe it's just me.
Posted by: Stephen P | November 23, 2009 12:52 PM
Some of us just have overlapping windows. I have to admit that, with the last two words obscured, I did wonder which RSS feed I'd accidentally subscribed to.
Posted by: Dancaban | November 23, 2009 1:04 PM
I get all my clothes off on the internet.
Posted by: Sherry | November 23, 2009 1:08 PM
Gosh, I'd love to make plans to go next year, but at the moment we are having trouble making house payments. I'm unable to find a job.
If I'd been smart, I'd have started learning to speak, read and write Spanish 20 years ago. There are lots of jobs for people who do. I have no resentment whatsoever toward anyone but myself. I'd have a good job now if I'd just faced facts 20 years ago. Hardworking people with green cards who speak and read and write English have those jobs.
There is no one to blame but myself.
So, I'll just live vicariously through PZ and write my letters to the editor and keep talking to all the young people I know through my kids.
Posted by: MrFire
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November 23, 2009 1:39 PM
Follow the clues, people.
- Freudian slip 1: almost admits to wanting to strip on the internet
- Freudian slip 2: says "AssGod" in the above post
- 'Ironically' admits to a boy-toy
- Displays subconscious fear of the vagina
- and finally, the clincher:
I predict that somtime in the next few days, PZ is going to sit the family down for a 'nice, long chat'.
Posted by: Brownian, Most Vicious & Petty of Pharyngulites
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November 23, 2009 1:52 PM
I got all my clothes off the internet too. I'm not proud of it, but he came to a party and got all drunk and obnoxious before passing out while wearing some sweet kicks in my size.
Posted by: Craig | November 23, 2009 1:52 PM
I don't know, PZ, seems like a bear and cub vibe to me. ;)
Posted by: philosoraptor | November 23, 2009 2:18 PM
...I think what really contributed to the fun was that there was a lot of young people organizing it and in the audience...
AAAAAAAAAaaaaaaa! Grammar pet peeve!
Let's re-arrange the sentence:
...I think what really contributed to the fun was that a lot of young people was there organizing it...
Blech.
Sorry...I know I'm a dick. It just hurts my ears.
Posted by: hank | November 23, 2009 2:38 PM
Oh, please, can we have some Pharyngula customized US Postage Stamps? Zazzle says they can create them to your request.
Posted by: Squigit | November 23, 2009 3:05 PM
philosoraptor @ #39:
The *was* in your re-arrangement should actually be *were*.
Posted by: Draken
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November 23, 2009 3:08 PM
I get all my clothes off on the internet.
I get off on the internet. Hah!
Posted by: philosoraptor | November 23, 2009 3:46 PM
Squigit:
It definitely *should* be...that was the point of my post. When I rewrote the phrase I was just re-arranging the original to show how ugly it sounds with the singular rather than the plural form. Thus the 'Blech' comment following, expressing disgust.
Posted by: 'Tis Himself, Quel Dommage
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November 23, 2009 4:01 PM
That leaves me out.
Posted by: A$KE | November 23, 2009 4:52 PM
will we be able to see youre talk on utube.com?????
Posted by: DLC
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November 23, 2009 5:00 PM
I'm somewhat sedate, most of the time, but Stodgy ?
no.
Posted by: Squigit | November 23, 2009 5:44 PM
philosoraptor @ #43
Oooohhhh. Sorry. I didn't realize that; all I saw was really bad grammer. Mea culpa. :)
Posted by: Jonathan of Springfield | November 23, 2009 6:09 PM
Skepticon II was the best weekend of my life so far. Only, I was so star struck that I kept saying stupid things like "OMG I am standing next to PZ!" that I am sure PZ thinks I am a retard.
Thank you for coming to Springfield again.
Posted by: Empion | November 23, 2009 9:41 PM
For everyone who wants the youtube videos they're... not quite up yet.
The video teaser is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4-sQF9rWv4 Go check it out! The rest of the videos will be posted to that channel. You can also watch Skepticon I stuff there, too.
Posted by: Stephen P | November 24, 2009 3:09 PM
So? Get stuck in now. It's never too late to learn. You might never reach complete fluency, but if you really work at it you can probably reach a level good enough to hold down a job within a year. Some really dumb people manage to speak Spanish.
(I should probably point out that I've nothing against the Spanish - that statement is true for every language.)
Posted by: Jmarkus | November 24, 2009 3:57 PM
Hey, i was one of those young people in the audience, and i am going to point out that most of us in the audience had about as much fun as you. Although you really seamed to enjoy ripping your shirt open to reveal the T underneath.