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Falwell’s Flub: Jerry-Rigged Policy Opens Door For Pagan Proselytizing In Virginia Public School
A group of Pagans in Albemarle County, Va., was recently given permission to advertise their multi-cultural holiday program to public school children – and they have the Rev. Jerry Falwell to thank for it.
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An elaborate spoof on Intelligent Design, The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is neither too elaborate nor too spoofy to succeed in nailing the fallacies of ID. It's even wackier than Jonathan Swift's suggestion that the Irish eat their children as a way to keep them from being a burden, and it may offend just as many people, but Henderson, described elsewhere as a 25-year-old "out-of-work physics major," puts satire to the same serious use that Swift did. Oh, yes, it is very funny. -- Scientific American
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Hahaha. I’m one of the “did I just think that or say it out loud” types.
School chemistry was an absolute laugh. Did you do the ‘turn on all the gas taps and switch the gas off at the mains’ trick. Or plug a burner into the water tap? We used to play “sink chemistry”. Pour whatever you could get your hands on into the sink and see what happens. Magnesium ribbon used to disappear faster than booze at an Oliver Reid party.
Of course, we grew up and more sensible.
Of course, we grew up and more sensible.
Why do I find that hard to believe Alchemist??? ;)
Where the hell were your teachers?
I went to a private school, so I guess they were more concerned with us wasting their precious money!
Alchemist! I e-mailed you a while back - did you get it?
@ booty, Uraninite is uranium and thorium dioxide, the ore of uranium (otherwise known as pitchblende)
I was making an reference to it being radioactive and thus enough of it together makes the house warm through radioactive decay. Awww! now look! I just explained the joke!
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Anyway, they got so much of this stuff out of the mines in the nineteenth century in heaps that would be considered radioactive waste today, not so much in this part of cornwall, but st. austell was well known all kinds of rare radioactive minerals.
Ah! Thank you!
I am not blonde, but I certainly seem to have the attributes on occasion!
My sister is in Lynton in North Devon - we keep meaning to go and visit her, if we do I will let you know and we can se if we can meet up and talk pirates!
@Booty Jan 13th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
“Why do I find that hard to believe Alchemist??? ;)
Where the hell were your teachers?”
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In hospital!
My mistake for using something quite obscure in a joke.
LOL Nikkiee!
How is Sunday going to be? Good I hope!
I think I will have to go to bed in a bit :(
C’mon everybody - get posting a keep me awake!
@ Alchemist
I always thought the iodine snake was great fun, again, easily amused. The gas mains were in a different room to the chemistry lab, big room, split in two, one half was physics, where nothing worked, the other half was chemistry, where volatile chemicals were stored on old wooden shelves right above the radiators, with a crack on the wall behind them, we weren’t really allowed near the chemicals very often…
@Alchemist
Best thing we did in high school chemistry class was mixing Al file dust and grains of I. If you put water on that mix, it will produce thick purple smoke. So we thought up two good gags:
1) put a mixture of the two in the sink on a day when you know the teacher will demonstrate some little test. In the end he pours the water used in the test down the sink and……class laughed for minutes.
2) put a mixture of the two in the plant pots. We were not there unfortunately when they were watered and it was bhefore the time when you would have installed a stealthy wbcam somewhere. But you can imagine.
@Booty Jan 13th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
“How is Sunday going to be? Good I hope!”
Well it’s still a bit early to say. Going to be pretty hot by the feel of it. Unless it is snowing of course :P
OOh- hot! Lovely!
*rummages around looking for bikini*
I hope you are right or I am going to feel a bit daft! ;)
Hahahaha
Whenever we hear a fire siren out at our uni, we make bets on its destination being the chem building and the possible causes for the call out. 9 times out of 10 that’s exactly where it ends up!
@Booty Jan 13th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
OOh- hot! Lovely!
*rummages around looking for bikini*
I hope you are right or I am going to feel a bit daft! ;)
hahahahahahahahahaha
And I don’t want any comments about me poking anyone’s eyes out thank you! ;)
‘Alchemist Jan 13th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
Booty. I was in the dog house,’
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I just sent you some gmail, to ease your pains. :)
@ Peter
Hey, great minds think alike!
Booty. I also attended one of those schools (not a girls one, mores the pity). Our teachers believed in trust. Stupid really :)
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Nikkiee, one of my chemistry teachers did end up in hospital after demonstrating the Thermite Reaction :)
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Clapran. Iodine is fun! Try reacting it with ammonia and drying the crystals? That stuff is a laugh :)
And yes, I have ended up in hospital once. It wasn’t my fault though. The valve on a cylinder of sulphur dioxide has rusted. When I turned it on it broke and I couldn’t shut it off! Spent the night in a chest ward ‘cos my pO2 levels were low (96%).
Alchemist
I always had a problem (when I couldn’t be assed wearing gloves) with Crystal Violet when doing gram stains. (BTW I’m quite well known for my excellent gram stains….true)
Without fail I’d pick up the bottle after someone had sloppily spilt it all down the sides and have to walk around with purple hands (often wiped onto my labcoat as well) for most of the day. When your in a microbio building everyone knows what it is as well.
It was kind of embarrassing.
pb Jan 12th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
Peter
I dont have an eye patch so if I just hold my hand over my eye when I say this will that do?
Noticed you all getting quite embarrassed having been rumbled on the rigging poll business etc…
….very amateurish attempts at clawing back some dignity there Peter…
Any guys, not that it hasnt been fun, I have had a chuckle, but I got other things to do. ”
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Huh? I know I’m slow and all, but you don’t make very much sense to me?
Maybe you can elaborate?
By the way… P B? Is that short for ‘pissing blindly’?