OK, WHOSE great idea was THIS?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

"No, I thing the henhouse should be located in the middle of Colonel Sander's fox cage."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4304658

[beam me up scottie]

1. I think they thought the woo woos

would stand a better chance in Madam Fufu's forum.
Can you icture the massacre that would have taken place in the lounge?
There would have been woo woo fur and feathers flying everywhere!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

2. Heh. They know better.

No woo-woos in sight, Cap'n. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3837132

[beam me up scottie]

3. You make an Evil

Atheist proud, Commie, *sniff* :cry:

[onager]

4. That thread was too funny.

I'd like to take a run at some of those responses, but I'm back at work (unfortunately). Too funny! And the guy who has a bizarre obsession with Michael Shermer also used exactly the same language to describe Randi. Figures.

Loved this bit, quoted below. Just before I left Alexandria last week, the local paper had a long interview with a prominent Egyptian archeologist.

Jebus, he was LIVID about all the Woo-Woo nonsense over the Pyramids.

His research has uncovered letters from prominent Egyptian families who sent their children to work on the Pyramids. It was considered an honor to work on them. And far from being slaves, the people who built the Pyramids received a pretty big honor themselves--they were buried right beside the Pyramids, along with the Pharoah's senior advisers and the queens of Egypt:

In the blurbs, we're promised that The Great Pyramid of Egypt, "the ultimate riddle and enigma" that "has confounded scientists and archeologists ," will be explained to us in detail. Gee, that was done just a couple of weeks back, on TV, by legitimate scientists. So why do we need a mystic to put his twist on it? There's no riddle, enigma, nor confusion involved here. It's a matter of a lot of guys, over a long period of time, working with total religious zeal and great ingenuity.

[beam me up scottie]

5. I've seen someone on DU argue that

humans couldn't have built the pyramids.:mad:

[salvorhardin]

8. I've seen that too!

And yet Norm Abrams (from PBS's This Old House), of all people, showed us exactly how the Egyptians built the pyramids like 15 years ago.

[beam me up scottie]

9. The worst part was

the poster that made that claim is supposed to be a *cough*scientist*cough*.

How can a person who uses woo woo reasoning be a scientist?

[immoderate]

6. thanks for that.

I correspond with Randi occasionally and he is a hero to me.

Here's a recent exchange:

-----Original Message-----
From: Me
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 7:49 PM
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Heh heh heh (2)


Hi Randi et al.


Wendi Friesen is a "clinical hypnotherapist" whose ads I have heard on the radio. She offers to end drug abuse, overeating, shyness, smoking, etc., through her hypnotherapies.

On her website she now offers hypnotic breast enlargement! I saw this and immediately wondered if this feat was eligible for the JREF prize.

Just curious what you thought.
(And could I help judge the trials?)


http://www.wendi.com/html/breast_enlargement.html


As always, I enjoy your web site and commentaries. Keep up the good work.

*************************************************************

From: "James Randi" <[e-mail]> Add to Address Book
To: Me
Subject: RE: Heh heh heh (2)
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 09:56:43 -0400


Oh yes, it’s eligible.
No volunteers needed; I’ll handle it….

James Randi.

--IMM

[beam me up scottie]

7. ROFL!!!

:rofl:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. HA!!!!!!!!

How come the best dry-witted, fast-reaction humor always comes from liberal skeptics? No, no need to answer, that was rhetorical.

[immoderate]

11. I wonder....

Can you be a conservative skeptic?

--IMM

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

12. I know of one RW blogger who claims to be an atheist.

Steven Den Beste. Pretty fucked-up individual.

[onager]

13. I've met quite a few Repub atheists

Heck, I even work with one. We got into a giant argument over the Pledge Of Allegiance lawsuit. Even though he's a committed atheist, he thought the lawsuit was silly and the "tradition" is ok to keep.

I told him it had only been a tradition since 1954, but he started ranting about how it was money that could be spent better elsewhere. As opposed to the small change we're blowing in Iraq, I guess.

Also, I used to hang out on an atheist chat site that closed long ago. It attracted quite a few non-liberal atheists. We generally got along, as long as we didn't start arguing politics. But even when we did, any Fundies who wandered in proselytizing tended to bring us all together again in Attack Mode.

My favorite Weird Pyramid theory is a drawing from some Woo-Woo book that shows the REAL use of the Great Pyramid: it's really a spaceship Powered By Aliens, and the stone cladding on top is a heat shield!

I think he even got the basic terminology confused. IIRC, the "Great Pyramid" is the one Cheops built--the first one. The pyramid that looks like it has a heat shield was built by his son, Chephren. It looks taller than Cheops' pyramid, but actually is not--it just sits on a slight rise in the ground and appears to be taller. That's obvious when you visit Giza. Building a taller pyramid than Dad would have been an insult, etc.

The "heat shield" is nothing but the remains of the smooth stone that originally covered all 3 Giza pyramids.

[beam me up scottie]

14. ARGH !!!

It's LOCKED !!!
Dammit.

[rexcat]

15. There seems to be a couple of fruit cups responding...

on that thread. Anyone who believes homeopathic preparations (a small amount of a molecule diluted in enough water to render most samples absent of any molecules of the "substance" need professional help and possibly psychotropic drugs to counter their delusions.

[beam me up scottie]

16. One of those is also an

overzealous proponent of ID.

[immoderate]

17. All water...

has at one time had every type of solute dissolved in it. So, using its "memory" for these things, its "logical" that any water can cure everything. (q.e.d.):woohoo:

--IMM

[onager]

18. I drank Magic Water once!

I guess "Holy Water" would be a better term. When I was working in Saudi Arabia, during Ramadan once I had dinner with some Muslims at a hotel. This was during Eid al-Fitr, the last week of Ramadan with massive feasting.

One of the Big Deals at these festivities is drinking water from the Zamzam Well in Mecca. For those of you who don't keep up with the various mythologies, this is the well where the HANDMAID (shudder) Hagar and her baby son Ishmael were mir-a-cu-lously saved from dying of thirst by God/Allah/Max or whoever. For further details and the usual scholarly, well-founded historical account, see your local Buy-bull.

Since every pilgrim to Mecca is expected to drink from the well, for years various experts claimed that the real "miracle" was thousands of people NOT dying from its polluted water.

The Muslims got tired of hearing that, so the Saudis hired some whiz-bang scientific types to analyze the well and its water.

(You can see the irony coming, can't you?}

Turns out the source of the well is an underground desert spring that percolates up thru the sand. As I understand it, this acts as a sort of natural filter, so the water is allegedly perfectly safe to drink and cleaner than a lot of the water in any modern city.