I took this picture in Thailand a few days ago. Does anyone else thing there is a resemblance between this statue and the FSM? With the many arms, etc. Also, another similarity: both Pastafarianism and Buddhism are peaceful religions. And.. there were a lot of pirates in this area years ago. Coincidences?
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Is this gold on my very first comment post?
Truly I have been touched by His Noodly Appendage!
Silver or bronze?
Silver, great. Now for the pic: Buddhist statue? I thought Shiva was the one with the many arms????
It’s like a religious swiss army knife.
The little spot in the centre of the statue’s forehead is more Hinduish than Buddhistishish…
۞ Nov 18th, 2007 at 10:42 pm: “It’s like a religious swiss army knife.”
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Also about the size of the bigger Swiss army knives, the ones that don’t fit in any trousers’ pocket!
I believe the statue is Durga(sp?), a hindu goddess
Not a coincidence! Before the FSM revealed his Noodly Form to our Prophet Bobby, people who were touched by His Noodly Appendages were left to interpret the holy experience as best they could. Which is why we see Him in such varied forms. Clearly the artist had a full belly of noodles.
@lilwench Nov 18th, 2007 at 10:52 pm: “Clearly the artist had a full belly of noodles.”
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The artist, one Arthur Lzheimer, kept forgetting that he already had put the arms…
@Captain W Nov 18th, 2007 at 10:50 pm: “I believe the statue is Durga(sp?), a hindu goddess”
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Wikipedia says: “Durga is depicted as a warrior woman with 10 arms who rides a lion or a tiger, carries weapons and assumes mudras, or symbolic hand gestures. This form of the Goddess is the embodiment of feminine and creative energy (Shakti)”
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Our goddess here has about twice as much arms!
Mmmm: Shiva turns out to be male:
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva
Coincidence? Methinks not! The two arms at the top could even be mistaken for His eye stalks!
RAmen
Anothe Shiva avatar:
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x38/Nondenonde/ShivaFoot.jpg
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# 13 Jean Bart Nov 18th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
Anothe Shiva avatar:
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x38/Nondenonde/ShivaFoot.jpg”
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I just read about this one, I thought she was younger though.
Also thought the Docs chopped off those extras?
@Jean Bart
Nov 18th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
@lilwench Nov 18th, 2007 at 10:52 pm: “Clearly the artist had a full belly of noodles.”
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The artist, one Arthur Lzheimer, kept forgetting that he already had put the arms…
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Can someone be that drunk or stoned?
Does look like FSM. But it also reminds me of a spider. And that’s creepy….
Spidergetti? That may just be the Lord of the Underworld (where the beer is Macrobrewed, and the strippers much less attractive) *makes squiggily FSM sign over breast*
is that buddhist, or hindu?
We know Him by ingesting His delicious goodness. He is normally drunk and acting oddly. Ergo, if we ingest Him, we get drunk and act oddly. Drunkeness by proxy?
Another FSM influence, this time in road design:
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x38/Nondenonde/MagicRoundaboutSwindon.jpg
@Jean Bart
10 arms or 10 sets of arms?
Sorry. rewind, scratch that last comment.
Avalokitesvara, a thousand armed diety maybe? Putting 1,000 arms on a statue may be difficult
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x38/Nondenonde/ShivaFoot.jpg
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I hope that guy has a good deodorant.
“…a unique race in that they invented the underarm deodorant before inventing the wheel.”
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rAmen
Tee Hee, that’s exactly what I was thinking of:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Races_and_species_in_The_Hitchhiker’s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Jatravartids
Awww…that page is empty Dan :(
Ok found it by searching one of the links there :))
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Races_and_species_in_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Jatravartids
it might look like the FSM if there were meatballs under the pants…
The apostrophe broke the link!
@Acidhouser
“Is this gold on my very first comment post?”
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Welcome to the CoFSM and well done on grabbing this thread first.
How long have you been lurking before posting? I wonder if Bobby should open a ‘Lurkers, come out!’ thread sometime. How long had everyone here been lurking before posting? I wonder how large our quiet audience is. Getting them out might increase the community a good deal.
Platinum, called it!
Is that a meatball - second arm from the top on the right of the photo? Is this a depiction of the FSM self-immolating? The horror!
his noodly influence is clearly everywhere!
Obviously other world religions were constructed by his noodles to accentuate His greatness. Look! A message of His mastery of multi-tasking.
On my knees in awe of Your power,
The PirateHooker
Gotta hand it to her!
What are the things in the statue’s hands?
The waters near Thailand STILL have a large population of pirates (2nd only to the Horn of Africa), except they really don’t dress in traditional garb. Perhaps this accounts for the relative peace in Thailand?
Of course, it could also be that the Thais, besides peaceful Buddhists, are pretty serious bad-asses. It’s the only nation in the area that was never colonized or conquered, and they are famous throughout history for having “big smiles and long knives”.
۞ Sir or madam in response to your first post you are a genius
now to the picture yes there may be some significance in that
I believe in his noodly goodness but the statue doesnt look all that appetizing oh well different tastes
FSM bless you all
R’amen
@Dutch Pasta Guy,
In response to your inquiry, it was almost two years from when I was first introduced the website to the time when I posted first. However, for most of that time I visited the website infrequently. I really only lurked the forums for the last 5 months of that span before I wanted to post as well.
-Avatar of Reason
DPG, I lurked for about 3 months until I started posting :)
About a week of lurking for me DPG, but I started posting as rabbit and then changed my mind, fair while ago now.
I had seen the sight when it didn’t have the comment threads yet. Then visited it very infrequently. Lurked for ~2 months probably before posting, once comment threads were introduced.
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@storm petrel: how’s that email coming along?!
Still procrastinating, I’ve a load of stuff to sort out by the end of November and that’s been taking priority, I will get around to it one of these fine days…
Hmm…I didn’t lurk. Just started posting right away.
“What are the things in the statue’s hands?”
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Well lets see, I think that’s a noodly appendage under the pizza! There seems to be some kind of tomato under the noodles. I’m not sure what the circular saw in her/his right hand is for, but may be related to the drill bit that’s a couple of hands above. There also seems to be a giant golden willy.
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Anyone else have any ideas?
You don’t even have a doooooor! And if you do, you don’t have to go and answer it!!!!
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Arrrrggghhhhhhhhhhh
I see a tambourine and a Cellphone!
I think the satire is funny. The thought that this whole planet could result from a collision of matter, that is also unexplained, is a rather large bsm. I guess I’ll just use my faith to expalin the lack of transitional species.
Visited a couple of years back when I first heard a reference, then prompted to come back out of frustration towards the end of September after meeting an archaeology student of all things who didn’t believe in evolution when I was on site this summer, in combination with reading the latest Christopher Brookmyre book shortly after I got back, in which he has a go at ‘psychics’. The two elements together pushed me to read Richard Dawkins and start lurking here for a couiple of weeks before joining in.
And, while I’m here - @ Jeff - the lack of transitional species is actually a result of zoologists’ use of taxonomy. They have to make a decision on what to call something, and put them into broad groups with most of the same qualities. Therefore everthing that shares a sufficient degree of zebraness is identified as a zebra, rather than 50 separate species. In the same way, if you really wanted to look for transitional species, you could argue that people without wisdom teeth make up a transitional group between everybody with, and nobody with - they’re a current transitional group.
@jeff
Welcome to the church of the FSM.
Astronomers see planets at various stages of formation in many places in the galaxy. Their formation is pretty well understood. Are you not mixing up ‘unexplained’ with ‘unexplained as far as I bothered to immerse myself in the area’? Ditto for the ‘lack of transitional fossils’.
@jeff
btw, your last name would not be ‘Mills’, now would it?
Is the FSM male or female? Or is he/she/it androgynous?
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I’m willing to bet male because of the noodles.
@Momi Pink Shoes
Most refer to the FSM as He/Him. For some the two balls seem to be the reason, rather than the noodles.
we should have an official CoFSM Handsign, i’m thinking about using mime to twirl spaghetti around your fork or something.
@Momi Pink Shoes–the FSM could be a he-she; a hermaphrodite. The combination of male/female could be that of the ultimate creator. Or I could just be talking out of my ass…;-)
@I love eruptions in heaven–is that the same as a secret handshake?
I heard the FSM’s secret handshake is so complex and awesome that your brain would explode if you have seen it.
@Deelawn–so, is that because our minds are too puny to handle the awesomeness of his handshake, or because of the number noodly appendages (vs. just two hands)?
@DutchPastaGuy - And those couldn’t be ovaries?
They can if you want them to.
Hey, you can make out anything you want to. This article proves it:
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=75960&in_page_id=2
@Momi Pink Shoes
“@DutchPastaGuy - And those couldn’t be ovaries?”
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Uhm, yeah, I guess so.
I was following the words of wisdom of the FSM this Saturday!
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Liters and liters and liters of beer (for free because my friends kinda like me a lot) and Stippers dancing on my lap…I felt in heaven.
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I even drunk-wrote to Pluto (equivalent of drunk calling). Not nearly as fun but still worth it.
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No hangover for this lady as I had a lot of water before I went to bed.
I am such a good FSMian? jhahahahahaha that sounds like simian
Correction - Pastafarian
First of all, this is why I like FSMism–we discuss the genitals of our creator. That’s a whole lot more fun than getting out of bed early on Sunday morning to be told you’re gonna burn in hell.
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@PacificPam–You have shown purity of soul by communing with our one true creator by way of alcohol. Thou art a true believer. RAmen.
@rmw - don’t you think the FSM feels blushed abuot us discussing his genitals? I would…
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Thanks I do my best at being drunk on days I don’t have to work…
@PacificPam–hmm…well, if he created genitals, then I don’t think he’d be embarassed. But, if he created embarassment, then maybe so.
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Anyway, I’m off for the night. See you all tomorrow.
@PPam
“don’t you think the FSM feels blushed abuot us discussing his genitals? I would…”
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I don’t think so, judging from the 8 ‘I’d really rather you didn’t’s. He doesn’t listen to much we say, He doesn’t think we’re that interesting. So discuss as you like.
Oh…I have to get the gospel!
@PPam - Huzzah for being drunk!
@Momi Pink Shoes - I try to go by the rules of our creator…I think that if we all lived close to each other, weekends would be quite interesting!
@ ☠DutchPastaGuy☠
Thanks for the welcome, have been lurking for several months, as I usually visit while at work, as a result of which I only have time to read before the boss comes in for a check up. I do intend to find time to visit more often while at home, so hopefully in future I shall be posting as well.
@PPam - Hahaha, oh yeah! The weekends would be full of drunken hazes and lots of pasta.
@AcidHouser - Yay! A new person! Welcome!
Looks to me like she is holding pizza,pasta and a big bottle of grog.
I think I converted one!
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Horray, I lured him into the site while under a state of pot-in-lungs-and-body.
@Momi Pink Shoes - Fun community!
@ Momi Pink Shoes- do you imagine how fat we will get with all those carbs?
Uhh, thailand…
@PPam - We’ll just work out to Richard Simmons tapes once the hangovers are gone.
Yeah, really need someone to go to the gym with me, otherwise I get bored and don’t do shit.
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Let’s work out.
Thailand! Didn’t they invent butterfly knives? Our prophet is well traveled I see.
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@ PacificPam- I never work out. I would be endangering the slight pudge that protects my six-pack.
@Momi Pink Shoes
Thank you, I’m feeling right at home already.
@Acidhouser - “for he is a jolly god fellow….blah, blah, blah..” welcome
Who be the saucy wench to the left worshiping our Noodly Master? Tis a fine sight to be seen by any pirate long at sea. Cap’n Henderson has long had his eyes on booty and it be a blessing to be in the presence of our lord with such an example.
Hi nogre! Way to talk (type) like a pirate. Aaarrrggghhhh! And RAmen.
@PacificPam (Cool-Aid)
Many thanks
@ Acidhouser- Hands off my Cool-Aid!
(I love saying that)
@Pluto - guess what? I got the web cam thingy working!
Hi everyone!
The FSM has touched me with his noodly appendage! I am a recent convert on the advice and tutelage of DutchPastaGuy!
(and a special hi to anyone from the BBC will and testament blog)
Ramen and peace to all!
DD
Yay…welcome!
Hi Dylan Dog
Great to hear from you and more than happy to have you aboard. :))
Speaking of the BBC, how is our little Pea Brain? Still got his head stuck up his a*se?
Poor thing :p
Anyway pull up a barrel and grab yerself some rum.
RAmen
Yes, it is not a coincidence. I had not planned to reveal this until nearer the winter solstice, but I think that now all things should be revealed.
I had a vision earlier this year of a holy man who would reveal with golden tablets his divine virgin birth and the fact that he is god’s son on earth, or should I say, the son of the FSM.
Here’s his website, http://www.indiadivine.org/audarya/devi-mandir/61484-meditation-divine-weapons-18-armed-goddess.html
Oh, and he also sells precious and most holy religious icons and medicines… for a price.
Praise the Lord Most Holy Devine FSM for his wisdom and grace in forgiving our sins and saving us from eternam damnation!! : )
Brother Timotheus the Loyal, Deacon and Baptised Member
First Church of Common Sense of our Blessed FSM
Hi Pacific Pam and Wench Nickee!
I am afraid that PB has got his head stuck even further up his ass than ever!
He has been trying to say that Quantum mechanics invalidates evolution and science in general! and coming off with other gems like Judge Jones at Dover did not say that ID is not science *even* when I showed him what Judge Jones actually said-he still repeats it! I have been fascinated by his cognitive dissonance in the sense how can he continually tell lies in the cause of preaching the truth of the Bible!
I never get an answer to that one!
Dutch Pasta Guy has been great as PB cannot say to him one of his favourite canards “you are speaking about areas that are outside of your expertise”.
One strange side effect of debating people like PB is that my own knowledge increases I have found out that Quantum mechanics is the the refuge of a lot of whacko’s and not only creationists but new agers and what not as so few people understand it!
Thanks for the rum!
Rum!
Dylan_Dog Nov 21st, 2007 at 8:36 pm
“I have found out that Quantum mechanics is the the refuge of a lot of whacko’s and not only creationists but new agers and what not as so few people understand it!”
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Been seeing a fair bit of that over at the following blog….along with the “Information Theory/Thermodynamics Theory refutes evolution” crap….more evolutionary evidence of transitional forms :p)
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Darwinism: The Imperialism of Biology?
http://expelledthemovie.com/blog/2007/10/31/darwinism-the-imperialism-of-biology/
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Check it out if you get bored. Plenty of classic, frothing at the mouth, “cdesign proponentsists” verbal diarrhoea. I reckon you’d love it. I haven’t really jumped in there much yet….just put in a toe in here and there. ;) Been enjoying sitting back watching the IDiots weave their own nooses.
Probably will soon though…missing out on too much of the fun.
Cheers
Dylan_Dog Nov 21st, 2007 at 8:36 pm
“I am afraid that PB has got his head stuck even further up his ass than ever!”
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I’ve got a pic of him for you :)
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Coming to an orifice near you soon!!!
http://www.rabid-squirrel.com/
Isn’t that a hindu god/goddess?? But yes it DOES look a lot like our noodly one!!!
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RAmen!!!!
HI Wench Nikkiee,
Had a look at the link and comments and it’s the same old damn fallacies again and again-do they not know that telling lies for Jesus is still telling lies!
If your good self(or indeed anyone else) have any time it would be good to see you on Will and Testament to help refute the guff spouted by PB
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2007/09/the_evolution_of_a_debate_at_s_1.html
He has actually started to stalk me on the net! he found out (well I did tell him) that sometimes I post on the TalkOrigins usenet and poor old PB got very upset at the “SNIDE COMMENTS” that posted about his remarks!
Liked the link to the stunning likeness of PB-it made me :-)
RAmen
@ Wench Nikkiee - I wandered over - by way of your hyperlink - to the site, and perused the article. At the top, this guy indicates: “No Intelligence Allowed”.
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For my money, it ought to read: “No Intelligence” - full stop.
Dylan_Dog Nov 24th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
“Had a look at the link and comments and it’s the same old damn fallacies again and again”
Yep :)
“do they not know that telling lies for Jesus is still telling lies!”
Apparently not…hahahaha…makes their arguments about the morality coming via the bible more than a little hypocritical and fake!
“If your good self(or indeed anyone else) have any time it would be good to see you on Will and Testament to help refute the guff spouted by PB”
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2007/09/the_evolution_of_a_debate_at_s_1.html
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I might have some time pop over closer to the weekend :) Groan! :p
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“He has actually started to stalk me on the net! he found out (well I did tell him) that sometimes I post on the TalkOrigins usenet and poor old PB got very upset at the “SNIDE COMMENTS” that posted about his remarks!”
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Doesn’t surprise me :) He got all paranoid about me having imaginary friends last xmas on the TSLoT threads. Of course we were already onto him and left a bit of bait lying around :p
Hahahahahahaha..
@Old Grouch Nov 24th, 2007 at 11:41 pm
“At the top, this guy indicates: “No Intelligence Allowed”. For my money, it ought to read: “No Intelligence” - full stop.”
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Yep I agree! Have you seen this..
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Sternberg peer review controversy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sternberg_peer_review_controversy
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“Critics describe Sternberg’s explanation of events, that a pro-intelligent design paper just happened to find its way to a publication with a sympathetic editor ultimately responsible for ensuring proper peer review and editing of his last issue, and that he decided it was appropriate to deal with the review process in person on a subject in which he has a personal interest, as improbable and that “people who want us to believe that the publication process outlined [by Sternberg and his defenders] was transparent and only had to do with science” are “disingenuous.”[14] “
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I believe the movie places a fair bit of weight on that as support for their take on the “big science conspiracy”
Hehehehe….pretty obvious who the conspirators were. Just goes to show, once again, the level of deceitfull manipulation the Discovery ID salesmen will sink to in an effort to sell their snake oil ID propaganda!
Thing is that the sheeple are really lapping it all up, or more like gulping it all down! They simply thrive on delusional paranoia…after all the bible says Gods children would be…. blah blah blah….doesn’t it!
@Nikkiee
“after all the bible says Gods children would be…. blah blah blah….doesn’t it!”
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And of course all those christians know that THEY are gods children and have it right, and all the others are wrong. Just like all the others think of them. And none of them are worried by that.
@Nikkiee
DD has now declared himself in love with peabrain too on the BBC blog! He is shamelessly trying to steal him away from me :(!! See posts around #209 of the bbc link above.
Had a quick peek just before your posts and saw those. :))) If you can’t manage to keep him DPG, what can I say….
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I’m wondering if PB might be getting some of his ideas from Expelled.
His query “Incidentally, can you show how evolution can be falsified? If not, why is it a science theory?”
was just very recently discussed there as well. Then again they all read the same garbage at AiG and the Disco Institution then just blindly repeat.
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I’m enjoying expelled as there are so many different posters there and the cdesign proponentsists do tend to move on (i.e. quickly change the subject to another well worn fallacy) when they are outed. Some good posters supporting evolution there too :))
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PB just goes round and round and round in the same circle! I had to double check the dates on the BBC blog coz I thought they may have been his posts from months and months ago. Seriously..groooaaaaan!!
@Nikkiee
“PB just goes round and round and round in the same circle! I had to double check the dates on the BBC blog coz I thought they may have been his posts from months and months ago. Seriously..groooaaaaan!!”
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Yep! I think the blog moderator is getting tired of him too. He allows me and DD to say just about anything to him. And then my sweet peabrain gets upset about ad hominems. Oh well.
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ps: how’s Skype doing, any chance of a small chat (we could invite Sylvia etc too) this weekend?
Stop nagging! :p
I’ll get onto it :) Must go eat now so I’ll catch up soon.
Ok, enjoy your (I would imagine pasta?) dinner :)
DPG: way to go :) What an IDiot that PB, lying, cheating etc etc. He is in clear violation of his own religions commandments, he’ll go straight to hell. Fun to read though how he keeps accusing you and DD of lying, being dishonest (when you are not) and then turns arounds and does it himself. Enjoy :))
@RDPW
Thanks, I don’t think you would have read the last of it yet. As Nikkiee said, peabrain goes round and round and round. Although he was seriously embarressed when I pretended to be his boy friend last time. Now he has two ’suitors’ fighting over him. Hehehehe.
fsm my holy savior planted that…
ramin
A duel at dawn for the hand of PB? What do you sat Peter?
bless him(really!) he is doing such a fine job of showing all of us what dishonest crap creationism is!