Bryan Killian, a high school student in North Buncombe, North Carolina was suspended for coming to school dressed as a pirate.
But the disciplinary action has provoked controversy – because the student says that the ban violates his rights, as the pirate costume is part of his religion.
Read about it in the Metro or the Citizen-Times.
This story is blowing up and I’ve been having a lot of problems keeping the server running. It’s currently #1 on Digg and Reddit.
I’ll have some updates and more information about all this soon.
@ Pixel
Hahaha, I know you’re email. Prepare to be spammed mate ;)
RAmen
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HAHAHAHAHA - not a chance my friend - I have more email accs than fingers and toes :)
Spam away :) - drop me a line! Really! Love to chat to you - feel the lulz :)
Grrrrr… I just found a thread on the forum handling this, animated by people who obviously don’t know (unless, of course, I’ve been going through that thread to quickly…) it’s been discussed largely HERE. I posted a link, but I’m still not used to the fact that there is so little cross-over between the forum and the main page: sometimes, it’s like two different worlds… Like I said: Grrrr!
@ Jean
I posted the link to it at disciples yesterday.
The thread from the main site.
@Peter Popoff Mar 31st, 2007 at 4:37 pm “@ Jean I posted the link to it at disciples yesterday. The thread from the main site.”
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Re-Grrrr! Not the Disciples… I mean the F-O-R-U-M, you know, that thingy where main page posters get told off because they’re too loudmouthed… There REALLY is a cross-over problem here… or did that excellent Geuze eat too mutch of my brain cells tonight?
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr !!!
Jean Bart Mar 31st, 2007 at 4:42 pm
@Peter Popoff Mar 31st, 2007 at 4:37 pm “@ Jean I posted the link to it at disciples yesterday. The thread from the main site.â€
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Re-Grrrr! Not the Disciples… I mean the F-O-R-U-M, you know, that thingy where main page posters get told off because they’re too loudmouthed… There REALLY is a cross-over problem here… or did that excellent Geuze eat too mutch of my brain cells tonight?
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr !!!
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Hahahaha,
Yes I know. I posted the thread that is going on at the FSM Discussion Forum.
Into the Disciples group.
MPT should be shot or run over or just discarded or something, he’s a joke.
@PP
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Oh my FSM, it’s even more complicated: I went back a brazillion of Disciples’ post to finf your link, and mine is different, and more recent: the kid himself is not in it: someone else who, heard it over the radio, started the thread I saw… the mods over there were looking elsewhere, I suppose… now, I’ll go back and “interlink” both forum threads…
Pffff, to find both threads…: they’re in two completely different sections, and animated by quite different people, and going off-topic quite a different way… I posted a “linking link” in both (text: “Related thread?”), but now I’m thinking: why bother? Those people are blabbing along, blabbing along. And NOW for some sleep!
bitchin’! way to go Killian.
I can honestly say, with His Noodly Greatness as my witness, that I had no idea there were any non-christians in the state of North Carolina.
http://bryankillian.blogspot.com/
Cute stuff ;)
@ DPG and Peter - I just want to set the record straight - I blatantly “borrowed” my horse’s name to post here (OK, just the “Rowdy” part, the “Wench” is all me!) but I promise that I am not the spy!!!! :) Just wanted you to know…
Thumper
Myspace message:
“Error: You must be someone’s friend to make comments about them.”
:(((
Your ears look short?
Did you have them trimmed especially?
@Wenchy
“Your ears look short?”…like I’m gonna make you my myspace friend when you say such hurtfull things…my ears may not be pretty but they work just fine…*insert sensitive wabbit*
freespeech………..yeah right!
Hi Thumper :)
Well I just kinda expected them to be a bit longer is all :))
Nice tatt too :)
On another note I was just Googling April Fools stuff and came up with (on the first results page):
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“In praise of an alternate creation theory at Church of the Flying …
But nothing beats the April Fools day gag, perpetuated a couple of thousand … shown this display of the damage to crops by the destructive spaghetti worm. …
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www.venganza.org/2007/01/07/in-praise-of-an-alternate-creation-theory.htm - 211k - Cached - Similar pages”
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And then saw a link DPG provided on that same thread that led to some good April Fools Day stories
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http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/
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I remember we had a similar Spaghetti worm crop infection story one year in Aust?
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/
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#10: Planetary Alignment Decreases Gravity
“In 1976 the British astronomer Patrick Moore announced on BBC Radio 2 that at 9:47 AM a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event was going to occur that listeners could experience in their very own homes. The planet Pluto would pass behind Jupiter, temporarily causing a gravitational alignment that would counteract and lessen the Earth’s own gravity. Moore told his listeners that if they jumped in the air at the exact moment that this planetary alignment occurred, they would experience a strange floating sensation. When 9:47 AM arrived, BBC2 began to receive hundreds of phone calls from listeners claiming to have felt the sensation. One woman even reported that she and her eleven friends had risen from their chairs and floated around the room.”
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Hahahahahahahaha
@ Peter
“MPT should be shot or run over or just discarded or something, he’s a joke.”
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I asked JB if he could tempt old Troopsie onto the main page - he didn’t think it was likely though :(
I think he’d be fun for a few hours without the safety net of moderators. I know damned well I’d have fun!
A loud spammer indeed - Humf :)
And Pixel - The anarchism thing. I know this will be difficult for people to swallow (tehehehe) but I do believe in laws. It’s just that I also believe they don’t apply to me. Or if they do then they’re more ‘guidelines’ and, therefore, optional :)
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(only me about yet - is everyone else at Church?)
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For anyone who hasn’t seen this -
http://www.comedycorner.org/
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check out (well, all of them but esp.)
50 fun things to do at church
50 Fun Things for Professors to Do on the First Day of Class
Gender Specific College Courses
etc
Funny :)
@Nikkiee
It was ages ago that I read that decreasing gravity thing. Thanks for posting the full quote, nice to reread it. Although it does unfortunately underscore that people will indeed believe anything and attest to having experienced anything. Anyone here with a pair of paralysed legs who wants to go to Lourdes?