[Pastafarians stage a counter-protest. Photo cred - Brian Chilson]
It was a victory for Pastafarians everywhere.
Last Friday – Talk Like a Pirate Day – the Central Arkansas Pastafarians interrupted and caused the discontinuation of a Westboro Baptist Church hate-demonstration.
Westboro Baptist Church is best known for picketing funeral processions of soldiers killed in the Iraq War, but they hate everyone who doesn’t share their literal interpretation of the Bible.
From Wikipedia:
The church runs numerous websites such as GodHatesFags.com, GodHatesAmerica.com and others expressing condemnation of homosexuality, Roman Catholics, Muslims and Jews, as well as populations it believes are supporting the aforementioned groups, including Chinese, Swedes, Canadians, Irish, British, Mexicans and Americans.
These guys are intolerant assholes; I am so happy to see our fellow Pastafarians ruin their day.
The Arkansas Times had this to say about the Pastafarian counter-protest:
What do you do to make a bunch of soulless nutcases abandon their post at the Convention Center? Send in the pirates!
Yep, the cuckoo Phelps hate group walked the plank this morning after a happy bunch dressed like pirates and holding signs saying “God hates shrimp — Leviticus” and “God hates cotton-polyester blends” stood opposite them at the corner of Markham and Scott streets. The group, made up of Central Arkansas Pastafarians, waved swords and growled “Arrghh!” in a manner that would have made Abbie Hoffman proud.
With cars honking and waving at the pirates and a TV crew giving them all the attention, the Phelps group — with a child in tow, sadly — picked up their “fag” epithets and went away. Pitiful.
A sincere thank you to the Central Arkansas Pastafarians. You made us all proud.
You can read more at the Arkansas Times website.
Oh man that is heartwarming. Way to go!
I actually had a similar idea – earlier today I stole like 30 Russian tanks I was going to use against Phelps, but I guess I don’t really need to now. Guess I’ll just sell ‘em.
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Brilliant. Just brilliant. Guys like that are the best of us.
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Thanks guys. Good job!
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Congratulations people, superb job.
I could almost wish we had a similar group of intolerant idiots over here so that I could pull the same kind of stunt. Almost.
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Cool, refreshing beer and the choicest of stripers for the lot of them!
I find it quite repulsive when an organisation finances its operations from lawsuits against the people who justifiably beat the crap out of them when they disturb people at funerals.
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way tha go maties!
A plate of pasta to y’ll!
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This has truly made my day. Good job. We are proud of you!
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“God hates cotton-polyester blends”
Simply perfect.
Hooray for the pirates!
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The Coolest and most refreshing beer to them all, and the best and most hot strippers to them! Truly the FSM was with them on that day.
RAmen
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Absolutely beautiful.
These guys prove that the Noodly One is indeed the only way.
May His Noodly Appendage always touch them.
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That’s just awesome.
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I saw that last Friday and spent most of the evening cheering. Way to go, Arkansas Pastafarians! You make us all so proud. Arrrr!
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72 black eyed virgin wenches to each of them! Pesto be on these brave martyrs!
RAmen
Note to Flemish Girl: do you belong to a Flanders Chapter of Pastafarians. Would love to join.
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That is just awesome.
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I have never been prouder of my home state . . . Thank you, Arkansan Pastafarians. You’ve made my day!
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Awesome job guys.
may his noodliness grant you the coldest beer and the finest strippers.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7639090.stm
More good news!!
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Way to stand up to those idiots! A toast of fine, cold beer to thou!
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Awesome! I dance a happy jig in celebration of this victory! Grog all around!
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I think it is safe to say that I’ve never been prouder of Arkansas before in my life!
And Phelps needs to be tied to a cannon.
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Huzzahs all around!
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A better set of spokespersons you could never find. I approve of their actions so much that I’m almost as proud as I’d be if I actually did something myself.
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Wow, that is awesome!
Congrats to them, that was a clever way of disabling those retards.
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Hoisted the Jolly Roger to them Phelps bastards did ye? Way to go, maties.
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I wish I was there. I say make ‘em walk the plank and keelhaul the right to free speech.
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note to VinZ: no, i don’t belong to a flemish group of pastafarians. I even don’t know of that exists. Must be cool, though. Maybe the other flemish pastafarians on the site will know more of it? check the discussion forum…we’re with 4 belgian pastafarians. damn, our country is small :-p
pasta 2 ya vinz
RAmen
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I am so proud to be a Pastafarian.
Praise the Noodly One.
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Yes! Yes! This put the greatest and longest-lasting smile on my face that I’ve had all week. Thank you, my brethren, for helping to keep the world a saner, friendlier place. Beer and strippers all around.
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wonderful, wonderful, wonderful
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The only thing that trumps stupidity?
His/Her/Its Noodly Apendages!
Fan-freakin-tastic. It isn’t flag-waving pseudo-patriotism that makes me proud to be American…it is the Boston tea Party strain of rebellion hat runs deep in our veins. Hats off, and eyepatches on to this group of intelligent sign-ers!
PC
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This is just beautiful. I suggest we nominate these guys for Pastafarian sainthood.
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I am so proud of you guys, keep up the good work!
RAmen
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Awesome :)
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Excellant job indeed Arkansas Pastafarians…..very well done!!!
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Arrrgh, it be a fine day to be a Pastafarian. And Arkansas has just rose in my estimation.
May these Pirates enjoy the finest grog & pasta for making those arsehat hate jerks shut up (at least temporarily).
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was wondering when I’d see this piece of fabulous news on this website. ;)
Congrats guys… consider Phelps pwn’d.
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snif, snif. Makes me proud to be a Pastafarian. May His Noodly Appendage touch us all. Grog and strippers all around.
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Amazing job guys, fight their disgusting bigotry with piracy! YARRRRR!!!
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A proud day for Pastafarians everywhere, and I expect the FSM will be showing his approval of Arkansas pirate activity by cooling area over the next the few months.
RAmen!
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This is exactly why I am proud to be a pastafarian. Thanks guys, and keep spreading the good word!
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Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I was ecstatic when I heard of this news! Fantastic work boys! You’ve made us all very very proud!
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I think those guys just earned their place right by one of the biggest beer volcanoes.
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Incredible! The world has just become a better place. Pastafarians everywhere; raise your Arrrrrrrms and cheer! With beer!
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Ramen!
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Check out the church’s website, there’s a whole protest schedule, if we can follow them around, maybe we can convince them to stop being hateful ass-clowns. They are just calling everyone else gay because they’re afraid that we’ll find out that they are actually gay.
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*sniff* I am so proud of you guys! Way to go:)) Extra stripper points and a preferred seat at the beervolcano for you!
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Arrrrrgh!!!
I be so happy to hear the delightful and funny thing that me fellow pastafarian mateys have done to those hateful biggots!!!!
His noodly apendages were surely guiding you on that day :-)
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Arrrg! ‘Tis a fine thing ye have done, mates. Makes me proud ta be a Pastafarian! Grog and pasta all around.
RAmen
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Can someone put this on digg.com i would like to know what sarah palin would make of this, Aaaaarh me hartys you done well.
Blessed be his noodely extentions
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Even better news — piratical activity is on the rise. I cite the ongoing crisis regarding the Ukrainian vessel.
And we all know what this means. HE is truly with us. Now more than ever he asserts both his power and noodly benevolence.
All believers should say 20 Lo Meins.
RAmen.
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These guys will not only get their own tap at the beer volcano, they won’t have to tip the strippers. RAmen!
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So… Proud… Tears… Welling… ARRRRR!!!
Brilliant work, I’m also impressed by the timing and organisation, and the signs. Absolutely wonderful.
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I’m so proud of you guys!
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You guys rock so many socks.
This is one of the best things I’ve read in a good long while. I tip my pirate hat to you awesome pirates and pirate wenches.
May his noodley appendages guide good luck and fortune in your direction for many moons to come.
RAmen.
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Yarrrrrr, it be a good day for common sense, aye.
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Ye be makin us all proud mateys, a big RAmen to the lot of ye!
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I’m an italian guy…and studing an exam of history of religion I knew your religion…you’re genious!!you’re just genious!
respect!!!
Damiano from Rome.
Ramaen!!
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ramen!!
I’m sorry…I’m drunk…
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Very nice :P Great job, I love it when the crazies get pissed because someone else gets more attention than them :P
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Here in NYC we don’t have many such groups that anyone would notice. We had some black Isrealites for a while and they were pretty obnoxious, but NYers don’t put up for that too much.
I’ve seen crowds start yelling at preachers like that. (lots of violent homosexuals here) and I often have to yell at the preacher who makes my ferry ride less happy.
that all said, I weep with joy that you’all are so blessed and carressed by his noodliness that you would take the effort. And of course you were so successful because you had his sauce in your blood.
congrats.
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Good work! I shall drink to you all week! (Fortunately these nutjobs have been banned from Canada)
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I am so proud of you all, wonderful job!!!!!
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Brilliant!!
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Great job, everyone!
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“God Hates Shrimp – Leviticus.” What a perfect way to respond! Whoever thought of it should consider running for office. Isn’t the Phelps crew and their ilk one of the reasons many of us have turned to His Noodliness? Viva Pastafarianism. Shrimp fettuccine to celebrate!
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Truley worthy of a full throttle YARRRR! ! ! ! ! ! !
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Central Arkansas Pastafarians rock! Fight hate with satire; let the world cleansing begin!
RAmen
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So we beat a hate group, therefore, we are the opposite of a hate group, a “love group”……*looks at beautiful wenches* i like where this is going…..
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Does the presence of pirates in Somalia mean that Global Warming is on a downturn?
Notice that the pirates are demanding Spaghetti, as well as being environmentalists.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/30/africa/pirates.php?pass=true
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In a 45-minute interview, Sugule expounded on everything from what the pirates wanted – “just money” – to why they were doing this – “to stop illegal fishing and dumping in our waters” – to what they ate – rice, meat, bread, *spaghetti*, “you know, normal human-being food.”
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Fine job. WBC -vs- FSM and FSM won.
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Ramen 2 u, guys!!!!
A proud day to be a pastafarian!
BTW. Remember FSM does not hate anyone.
Sometimes he just interferes. Just for fun. =)
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I don’t think God hates cotton-polyester blends. It’s only cotton-linen blends He has a problem with if I read Leviticus 19:19 correctly. Got that?!
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I too shall drink to you. More and more action like this will make the world a saner place. Ironically.
Also it confirms that not all Americans are fundamentalist morons, which is a stereotype we seem to get here in Blighty!
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Geez, now why can’t I hear about these things BEFORE they happen?? I wanted to be there. :(
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Fianlly, a disorganized religion I can believe in. And I live in a town already densely populated by Pirates, Greenville NC is the home to the Eact Carolina University Pirates, there are pirares on almost every corner, no one looks askance if you go into a store on Saturday wearing an eye patch, who knew they were Pastafarians!
Aargh, now when we say the Pastafarian blessing (you all know it, Good food, good eats, good grief, let’s eat) I can now end it with….(wait for it) Ramen!
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*Clenched fist salute*
Right on, brothers!
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That’s bloody hilarious. I’m glad you messed up those Westboro motherlickers.
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Thank you very much! I hope that more of the Westboro protests can be broken up!
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Awesome. No other word describes it. Well done.
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Oddly, I had just nuked a Boston Market Chicken Parmesan w/ Sketti dinner for my eats, right before I discovered this site via a linky from NoScript: http://noscript.net/faq#qa1_1 .
Having been an ECU Marching Pirate way back in the day, I can only rue the fact that we weren’t outfitted with groovy pirate togs and eye patches, brandishing our instruments and shouting en masse “Ar-r-gh!” as our team cheer!
Have you seen this: http://arrgh.com/ ? XD Go Central Ar-r-gh-ensas Pastafarians!
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Wonderful to see fellow pastafarians standing up against that bigoted, funeral-desecrating church of nutcases.
I celebrated by eating noodles as breakfast.
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@Flemish Girl,
His Noodlyness has touched people all over the world as I’m sure you know. Interested in meeting with some Dutch pirates? PastaPiraten@hotmail.com
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Can someone let me know if there’s some on-call Pastafarian group that I could join to counter-protest groups like WBC. It could be like the minute-men. Whenever these lunatics pop up, we grab our swords and parrots, and head over to enlighten them.
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:D
Good to see these ass hats put in their place. I hope the whole WBC like get on a bus together, then the, almighty, *angelic choir* Flying Spaghetti Monster, picks it up with his noodly appendage and throws them into the middle of the Grand Cannon, then they die and explode.
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WOW! I was definitely there leading a counter-protest as well! The protest was the center spread in my school’s newspaper and everything. The WBC actually didn’t come back the next day.
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I propose these wonderful Pastafarians be Sainted by the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
They are truly carrying out His good work.
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up here in Canada we all really enjoyed pirate day.. sorry it has been so long to place in my 2 cents.. but it was fun.. i personally don’t need a special day to be a pirate.. but look on the upper hand..
at least the only call you crazy or assholes.. i am not a believer but a lot of my friends are .. Im a devout satanist think on how the hicks and close minded treat me here.. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
AND HAVE A GREAT HALLOWEEN
CPTN. SCALLYWAG
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If you guys want to see something funny check out what Charles Firth from The Chaser’s War on Everything did to these WBC nutters at a picket of a Marine’s funeral in 2006
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/chaser/war/
Anyone know of any other fellow Pastafarians in Australia? I’ve been trying to get a following started to protest our Federal Governments plan to censor the Internet but Aussies already have beer volcanos and strippers all over the place.
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Makes me proud. I vow to do this should those WBC assholes show up here in the Tampa Area.
Arrrrr!
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AWESOME!
I am so, so proud of my fellow Pastafarians.
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Arrrr! I wish there were some groups like this in Calgary, but alas, I have only ever met one other Pastafarian in the whole city! I don’t suppose there are already groups in Calgary I am unaware of? If so, stop hiding from me!
Jolly well done to you Arkansas Pirates, you’re an inspiration to all! RAmen to you all!
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Hooray for pastafarians finally someone’s doing something about the WBC i live in britain and dont know any other pastafarians im so alone
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holy crap they are getting federal and local police to help “stop” any interruptions…….. dammit
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HOORRAAAAAYY!
And, I might add, YAArrr…
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I know this might seem kinda pointless with all the other comments saying the same thing. But i feel i need to say it.
Im very proud of you guys.
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Hola pastafarianos!
I’m so proud of my fellow pastafarians, I hope they follow the FSM advice: eat to go after those hateful bitches!
Saludos desde Ecuador!
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This was awful! You guys went and protested the Westboro Baptist Church!?
Without ME!?!?!?
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I want an eyepatch, too. . . and a big bowl of linguini. . .
You guys pwn. Down with all haters!
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Brilliant! I love the cotton/poly blends line. It has always been one of my favorites. Whenever someone says something stupid like, “It’s in the bible…,” I always point out that mixed thread clothing is also an abomination in the bible.
“I hope you aren’t wearing poly/cotton. It is a sin, you know.”
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For one day only I will cast aside the difference between my church ( http://reformed-pastafarianism.org/ ) and you orthodox pastafarians. I congratulate you all and would like to off up a bowl of penne to the FSM marking this wonderful day.
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Theatre of the absurd at its very finest! Give it to the WBC every chance you get.
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The video from this day last year is coming soon!
Just in time to promote this year’s Talk Like A Pirate Day.
Thanks for all the kind words and support.
Pontius Pirate
http://www.facebook.com/inbox/?ref=mb#/group.php?gid=53922640762
http://www.myspace.com/centralarkansaspastafarians
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But, as inflation proceeds, people begin to real- ize that prices are going up perpetually as a result of per- petual inflation. ,
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