Conservapedia has deleted the "Pacific Northwest Arboreal Octopus" entry

[struggle4progress]

Daddy Papa and Me had earlier reported the gem:

Unlike most other cephalopods, tree octopuses are Amphibian, spending only their earliest life stages and mating seasons in their aquatic environment. Because of the moistness of the rainforests and their well designed skin adaptations, they are able to keep from becoming dried out for prolonged periods of time.(Citation Needed)

Now, you might have thought this was an act of sabotage. And indeed the entry has been deleted. But Conservapedia reports At the request of its original author, this entry no longer exists . And the discussion is astounding:

... liberal blogs intent on mocking this website failed to get the joke. They fell for it hook, line and sinker ... www.conservapedia.com/Talk:Pacific_Northwest_Arboreal_Octopus

You'll still want to look up the origins of kangaroos.

[Hekate]

1. That's hilarious -- watch for it on the April 1 broadcast of NPR!

It's easily as plausible as their exploding maple-trees story.

BTW -- I tried searching for kangaroos and didn't get anywhere. How do I find the entry you referenced?

Hekate
:hi:

[progdonkey]

5. did you try it in the singular? :-)

http://www.conservapedia.com/Kangaroo

Origins

According to the origins model used by creation scientists, modern kangaroos, like all modern animals, originated in the Middle East<1> and are the descendants of the two founding members of the modern kangaroo baramin that were taken aboard Noah's Ark prior to the Great Flood. It has not yet been determined by baraminologists whether kangaroos form a holobaramin with the wallaby, tree-kangaroo, wallaroo, pademelon and quokka, or if all these species are in fact apobaraminic or polybaraminic.

Also according to creation science, after the Flood, kangaroos bred from the Ark passengers migrated to Australia. There is debate whether this migration happened over land<2> -- as Australia was still for a time connected to the Middle East before the supercontinent of Pangea broke apart<3> -- or if they rafted on mats of vegetation torn up by the receding flood waters<2>.

But if you really want to have a good laugh, you have got to read the contributions by the user OrelP. I so hope that he's a satirist engaged in some subterfuge on the site, but I'm afraid he's for real, as I don't even this entry for "Pagan" could've been made up:

Pagan

A pagan is someone who beleives in false gods. The First Commandment is, Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.

Most pagans are ancient, like the Greeks and Romans, but there are also modern pagans like witches and Muslims, who do not beleive in Jesus.

(Emphasis mine; mis-spellings and batshit insanity in original. ;-) )

http://www.conservapedia.com/Pagan

Or how about his opening entry for Benjamin Franklin:

One of the Founding Fathers. He was never President, but he was ambassador to France, and also he is on the $100 dollar bill. Benjamin Franklin was a prolific inventer, he invented the Franklin stove and the bifocal and also discovered electricity with the kite experiment in a lightning storm. Benjamin Franklin is truly a great American.

This entry was then edited by Andrew Schafly (son of the Eagle Forum's Phyllis Schafly), who runs Conservapedia. He added on a sentence about Franklin being "supposedly" a Deist, but he was really a Christian. He left the "great American" line! :rofl:

Or his entry for the US, which begins with "the United States of America is the country we live in."

I better not go over there anymore tonight/today, or else I'll still be laughing my ass off till the sun comes up!

[Hekate]

8. Ahhhh, I see. LOL. The world is so full of a number of things....

...although apparently not Deists.

:rofl:

Hekate

[jobycom]

14. Wow, they are like barely passing high school students.

Reminds me of those media stories every year about stupid stuff high schoolers wrote on tests. I could use the :rofl: smilie, but I really want a smilie shaking its head in sad bemusement.

[jobycom]

2. I'll admit, I don't get it, if it's supposed to be humor. Aside from PNAC

(which doesn't seem related) and a general dumbness of the entry, I don't see any deliberate mockery of anything. Then again, when I here that a joke has been made at someone's expense, I look for sarcasm, irony, subtlety, allegory, and neat stuff like that. Conservatives look for fart humor. Maybe there was something in the rest of the passage that tied it all together?

[On the Road]

3. It's Like an April Fool's New Story

like the one by the BBC on the Swiss spaghetti harvest.

If you can sound professional and serious, you can persuade people of the ludicrous things, or at least thoroughly confuse them. The result of that can be great mirth.

[jobycom]

4. But the discussion implies that the joke was on liberals. That's what I don't get.

If it's just a ludicrous story, it's kind of cute, but the discussion implies there was some mockery involved.

[Beartracks]

9. It rather reminds me

...of a self-anointed "in crowd" at a grade school that sniggers at everyone else who doesn't "get" their secret codes and stuff that they've made up to amuse themselves.



Oh, wait...


NOW I get it. Ha ha! HA HA ha ha ! The tree octopus! LOL Ha ha ha ha ha ha! ROFLMAO!:eyes:

[On the Road]

11. I Guess the Idea was That it Was Intended to Fool the People

who were mocking the site, but that insiders would figure the joke out. That might have been purely in the editor's imagination -- seems like it would have fooled just as many serious readers.

But if the idea was for the story to get picked up somewhere, it seems to have worked, although maybe not in exactly the way it was intended.

[struggle4progress]

15. My conclusion is simply that they're all just screaming bonkers crazy

[Warren DeMontague]

6. Something had to carry all those fish fossils up to the top of those mountains

you know, since the Earth is 6,000 years old, and Plate Tectonics and Geological Science are just more tools of satan to get our kids to dye their hair and screw before marriage.

[Beartracks]

7. Another interesting analogy

I recall that as the Iraq war loomed in 2003, someone circulated a (phony) story about Iraq purchasing yellowcake uranium. One or all of the major news networks, and several branches of government, fell for the joke.

[cui bono]

10. Their Dinosaur page is still there, but without the pic of Jesus riding sidesaddle

with a huge lizard on his lap. I kid you not. Wish I had saved that pic. Damn.
EDIT: found the cached page with the pic:
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:6TXEJFAPmasJ:www.conservapedia.com/Dinosaur+http://www.conservapedia.com/Dinosaur&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a

The name of the pic is "StockDinosaur.jpg"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:


But this entry is real. :scared:

http://www.conservapedia.com/Dinosaur

Some Christians reject the Theory of Evolution and the current science community consensus of the age of the earth. Of those Christians who reject evolution, the Young Earth Creationists believe, based primarily on Biblical sources, but also drawing on archeological and fossil evidence, that dinosaurs were created on the 6th day of the Creation Week<10>, approximately 6,000 years ago; that they lived in the Garden of Eden in harmony with other animals, eating only plants<11>; that pairs of various dinosaur baramins were taken onto Noah's Ark during the Great Flood and were preserved from drowning<12>; that fossilized dinosaur bones originated during the mass killing of the Flood<13>; and that some descendants of those dinosaurs taken aboard the Ark still roam the earth today<14>.

[cui bono]

12. This reminds me of those Family Circus reviews on Amazon.

Anyone ever see those? They were hilarious! People made stuff up about lecherous uncles and all kinds of things.

[Greyhound]

13. This is just so funny,

until you realize that these idiots vote.:scared: