Old trusty soda machine. I push you for root beer, you give me Coke.

Willow ,'End of Days'


Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Theodosia - May 21, 2009 8:56:14 am PDT #20543 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Since this quote seems apt -- from Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish blog last week:

And as history slowly accepts that this man disgraced his office more profoundly than any before him, as it sinks in that this man did not merely make mistakes, as all flawed politicians do, but committed war crimes, with pre-meditation and elaborate subterfuge, he slowly realizes what's happening to him. He can feel it. And so he resists the way he always resists - by lashing out, attacking, smearing, snearing, and grabbing every inch of the limelight he can.


tommyrot - May 21, 2009 9:04:38 am PDT #20544 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Creation Astronomy

Hah, I knew it had to happen. Phil Plait is now obsolete — he hasn't been keeping up with Creation Astronomy!

We live in a Universe of breathtaking size and grandeur-but where did it come from?

Secular astronomers tell us it formed without a Creator about 14 billion years ago. The Bible tells us it was created by God only thousands of years ago. Which model does the evidence support?

The answer to this question might surprise you!

Recent discoveries have plunged the evolutionary model into a crisis. This site is dedicated to documenting this unfolding drama, and exposing the bankrupt evolutionist model for what it truly is.

That's right: astronomy is a theory in crisis! Go ahead, watch the videos that will make Phil tremble in fear and doubt. And he thought the moon-landing-was-fake loons were crazy enough.

Yep. God created stars millions of light-years away - when he created the universe five thousand years ago. He then created the light from those stars in transit all the way to Earth, in order to trick us into thinking the stars are millions or billions of years old.

eta: Yeah, the "God is Fucking With Us" theory makes more sense than established astronomy. Right.


Jessica - May 21, 2009 9:17:06 am PDT #20545 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

eta: Yeah, the "God is Fucking With Us" theory makes more sense than established astronomy. Right.

However, I am sorely tempted right now to found a religion based on the premise that God exists solely to fuck with Phil Plait. Think of the hilarity that would ensue!


Gudanov - May 21, 2009 9:20:24 am PDT #20546 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping

God exists solely to fuck with Phil Plait.

So that's why God faked the moon landings.


lisah - May 21, 2009 9:23:03 am PDT #20547 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate

This is kind of cool

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A project to have people "fill in" a vacant lot in B'more.


Ginger - May 21, 2009 9:31:08 am PDT #20548 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Yeah, the "God is Fucking With Us" theory makes more sense than established astronomy. Right.

After all, he put fossils in the ground to tempt us to unbelief.

I've never understood the appeal of a god who built the equivalent of whoopie cushions and hand buzzers into the universe.


Trudy Booth - May 21, 2009 9:34:54 am PDT #20549 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

I've never understood the appeal of a god who built the equivalent of whoopie cushions and hand buzzers into the universe.

I like the idea of an Almighty who's messing with us for the fun of it better than one who is installing "tests of faith" in the earth's crust.


Connie Neil - May 21, 2009 9:53:36 am PDT #20550 of 30000
brillig

RunPee.com Suggests the Best Movie Bathroom Breaks

With Lord of the Rings movies, anytime Arwen is on the screen, except when she's rescuing Frodo. This plan has made all my theatre viewings of the trilogy very comfortable.


Gudanov - May 21, 2009 9:56:44 am PDT #20551 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping

With Lord of the Rings movies, anytime Arwen is on the screen, except when she's rescuing Frodo.

Genius, you increase comfort and improve the movies at the same time.


Connie Neil - May 21, 2009 10:08:33 am PDT #20552 of 30000
brillig

Genius, you increase comfort and improve the movies at the same time.

Plus her scenes are very conveniently spaced. I can generally get back to Two Towers just as Aragon is kissing his horse.