Tangled Bank #109

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Greg Laden has created a festival of LOLcats for the latest edition of the Tangled Bank. Should I be appalled or amused? Science is serious business! We never laugh, we're all supposed to be like Mr Spock!

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The latest edition of the Tangled Bank is available at gregladen.com, but don't give Greg any credit for it. It's written by some guy named Derwin Darwin II; Laden is probably slacking off at the lake, fishing.

Damn, my lolspeak has become rusty lately...

By Lord Zero (not verified) on 10 Jul 2008 #permalink

"We never laugh, we're all supposed to be like Mr Spock!"

Spock had a good laugh from time to time, even if it was against his will. Just pretend you're infected with alien spores.

Science is just science until it goes into the lab where the transubstatiation occurs.

By rarus.vir (not verified) on 10 Jul 2008 #permalink

PZ. Did you see this from Dave Scott at Uncommon Descent?

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DaveScot

07/10/2008

12:52 pm
Myers is playing Russian roulette. He just keeps pushing the envelope in seeing how many people he can possibly offend in the worst way. It's just a matter of time before someone with a terminal disease, a month left to live, decides he hasn't got anything to lose by taking out Myers along with him.

Scary.

#6
Now THAT would be a hate crime. See no crackers involved. I will wager that if that ever happens, the guy who tries it will be a christian.
I hate lolcats.

By rarus.vir (not verified) on 10 Jul 2008 #permalink

If this is for real, then Dave Scott is a really nasty bit of work. That is incitement to some nut to commit murder of a valuable, respected, loved, useful person, over a non-existent, bronze-age, pre-philosophical, insane, mental aberration.

I see this incitement as a hate crime.

By Richard Harris (not verified) on 10 Jul 2008 #permalink

Catholics threaten lives, atheists threaten a cookie. Yeah, we're scary.

Now remember, even Spock wasn't immune to the wilting cuteness of cuddly little furballs. Come to think of it, I have yet to see a LOLtribble...

By Jared Lessl (not verified) on 10 Jul 2008 #permalink

two words: meta phor

Stephanie Z, you rock!

By Jared Lessl (not verified) on 10 Jul 2008 #permalink

Greg maded sum LOLcrakrz 2, but he did not eated dem. dey r in his blawg bein teh srsly funneh. iz tellz him 2 sned dem 2 LOLtheist.

kthxbai.

By themadlolscientist (not verified) on 10 Jul 2008 #permalink

@ Greg, #13: You mean like this? Or maybe this?

By themadlolscientist (not verified) on 10 Jul 2008 #permalink