Flying Spaghetti Monsterism gets national press attention

Nick Matzke posted Entry 1336 on August 12, 2005 01:54 PM.
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Flying Spaghetti Monsterism has officially hit the bigtime. See “Spaghetti Monster Stringing Us Along,” in the Hartford Courant. This national press attention obviously proves that there is a scientific controversy over His Noodly Appendage, which should be taught in public school science classrooms in Kansas and elsewhere. Really, the views of Pastafarians are just as legitimate as anyone else’s views on origins, so they deserve promotion at state expense also. Or are you against free speech and academic freedom?

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Comment #42466

Posted by Lenny's Pizza Boy on August 12, 2005 5:24 PM (e)

I want equal time.

Comment #42468

Posted by Raisin Cane on August 12, 2005 5:29 PM (e)

Are you sure that wasn’t the Hartford Currant?

Comment #42473

Posted by NoodleAst on August 12, 2005 5:49 PM (e)

For the last time, get it through your thick heads that it’s His Noddle-A Appendage, not “His Noodle-E Appendage” (which your incompetent and corrupt transliteration from Noddle-ese has somehow led you to render in the form of the homophone “Noodly”).

If you Noodle-Es (and, that’s right, all you Noodle-Bs, Cs, and Ds,and all you other defectors from the True Faith ©™) don’t desist from your heresy right now, you’re doomed to burn in–horrors!–bolognese sauce forever.

Comment #42474

Posted by NoodleAst on August 12, 2005 5:55 PM (e)

For the last time, get it through your thick heads that it’s His Noddle-A Appendage, not “His Noodle-E Appendage” (which your corrupt and incompetent transliteration from Noddle-ese has for some reason [homophony?] rendered as “Noodly”).

If you Noodle-Es (and, that’s right, all you Noodle-Bs, Cs, and Ds, and all you other defectors from the True Faith ©™) don’t desist from your heresy right now, you’re doomed–doomed I say!–to burn in [b]bolognese sauce[/b] forever.

Comment #42478

Posted by Steviepinhead on August 12, 2005 6:00 PM (e)

Sheesh, “NoodleAst” number one and “NoodleAst” number two!

You fringe sect members are bad enough without posting your kooky slightly-variant texts on a respectable cold-sober science blog!

Comment #42482

Posted by cereal breath on August 12, 2005 6:04 PM (e)

blasphemers!

the noodly apendages of OUR MONSTER/OUR CREATOR are not formed of spaghetti, but are in fact formed of the most glorious al dente fettucine. OMOC does not look kindly upon those who would mistake his most hearty, scrumptious tendrils for an inferior, weak and spindly pasta such as spaghetti or even GASP! dare i say it? yes i must…angel hair.

you have been warned.

Comment #42483

Posted by 'Rev Dr' Lenny Flank on August 12, 2005 6:05 PM (e)

Posted by Lenny’s Pizza Boy on August 12, 2005 05:24 PM (e) (s)

I want equal time.

Hey, quit wasting time on the computer again and bring my double-cheese with mushrooms. I’m hungry, dammit.

Comment #42487

Posted by Lenny's Pizza Boy on August 12, 2005 6:13 PM (e)

Hey, quit wasting time on the computer again and bring my double-cheese with mushrooms. I’m hungry, dammit.

Sorry, sir! In the future, I’ll defend the ineluctable indubiability of Pizza Shroomism on my own time.

Now, about those measly tips…

Comment #42512

Posted by steve on August 12, 2005 7:00 PM (e)

When devotees of the Flying Linguine Monster start suicide bombing you, maybe then you will learn the evils of your blasphemous ways.

Comment #42529

Posted by kevin dowd on August 12, 2005 8:01 PM (e)

I believe in pasta…not necessaryly the FSM..but in a heretical ziti sect….

but look at this

Such literal interpretation is essential, Sharp said, because “If we lose Genesis as a legitimate scientific and historical explanation for man, then we lose the validity of Christianity. Period.”

at

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002433062_creation11.html

oh god in heaven extend your flour/water/salt appendages and strike down the blasphemers…

Comment #42535

Posted by Pedro Ferrousgate on August 12, 2005 8:09 PM (e)

This post must be intended to confirm this one.

Comment #42545

Posted by tytlal on August 12, 2005 11:07 PM (e)

It’s not that ID is completely about faith but the fact that they can completely ignore the overwhelming evidence of evolution!

Does any ID’er say, “I believe in a Designer despite the overwhelming evidence of evolution. Crazy, is it not?”

Comment #42547

Posted by jay boilswater on August 12, 2005 11:23 PM (e)

Arr, tis plain ye are ALL backsliders! Ken ye not that the brotherhood takes a dim view of yer inability to speak the true language ‘O the gospel?
Tis no wonder that such blasphemy should fear yon black spot!

Comment #42549

Posted by Nick (Matzke) on August 13, 2005 12:10 AM (e)

Aye mateys…

Rules? They’re more like guidelines really.

Arr…

Comment #42551

Posted by jay boilswater on August 13, 2005 12:32 AM (e)

Arr! A proper pyrate. Belike methinks tis time to pop in “Yellow Beard”! Now where’s me pyrating outfitt?

Comment #42583

Posted by frank schmidt on August 13, 2005 7:38 AM (e)

Will there be a schism between those who twirl their pasta on a spoon, and those who use the side of the plate? I predict heavy times ahead.

Comment #42590

Posted by lamuella on August 13, 2005 8:33 AM (e)

I abhor how little attention is being paid to the “twice baked” model of spaghetti monsterism (best summed up in Fazolli’s 2004 paper)

Comment #42691

Posted by Bayesian Bouffant, FCD on August 13, 2005 4:53 PM (e)

frank schmidt wrote:

Will there be a schism between those who twirl their pasta on a spoon, and those who use the side of the plate? I predict heavy times ahead.

I understand your relucatance to acknowledge the heretical non-twirling slurpers.

Comment #42785

Posted by Henry J on August 13, 2005 9:30 PM (e)

Re “the heretical non-twirling slurpers.”

I resemble that remark!

Pasta la vista!

Henry

Comment #42942

Posted by Aureola Nominee, FCD on August 14, 2005 7:28 PM (e)

Remember, guys: although houses of worship can be found in every town, the very heart, the Holy See of Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, can only be in Italy (maybe not in Rome, possibly in Naples…)

You should start collecting your dues for the construction of a giant Flying Spaghetti Vatican in the shade of Mt. Vesuvius. For every $1,000 collected you’ll receive a Blessed Box of durum semolina spaghetti…

Comment #42990

Posted by colleen on August 15, 2005 12:23 AM (e)

I’m hungery.

Comment #42996

Posted by KiwiInOz on August 15, 2005 1:05 AM (e)

Didn’t Marco Polo bring the worship of pasta from China to Italy? If so then he must be one of the early evangalists and should be considered for sainthood.

Comment #43055

Posted by zarusoba on August 15, 2005 10:25 AM (e)

Aureola Nominee wrote:
[quote]
Remember, guys: although houses of worship can be found in every town, the very heart, the Holy See of Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, can only be in Italy (maybe not in Rome, possibly in Naples…)
[/quote]

Nonsense! Flying Spaghetti Monsterism first started in China as Flying Mien Monsterism. It spreaded to Asian countries, as Flying Udon Monsterism in Western Japan, Flying Soba Monsterism in Eastern Japan, Flying Pho Monsterism in Vietnam, Flying Pad Thai Monsterism in Thailand, etc.

It’s so typical of some extremists who are uncomfortable with non-Western origin of Flying Spaghetti Monsterism. They want to mislead the public by deceit and propaganda…

Comment #43097

Posted by Robert Leyland on August 15, 2005 12:57 PM (e)

I strenuously object to your requests to include “Flying Spaghetti Monsterism” into the Educational System.

This is clearly a blatant attempt to subvert the education process, and introduce Cthulhu worship by another name.

This is just the way Cthulhu, and he-whose-name-must-not-be-spoken, would sneak the mind bending insanity of Yog-Shoggoth past the innocent eyes of the Kansas Board of Education.

See the nasty tentacles, labelled “noodly appendages”. The tasty meat balls, the alfedro sauce.

It’s a trick, I tell you, a trick!

Robert.

:-) for the humour impaired

Comment #43169

Posted by grphxpro on August 15, 2005 4:46 PM (e)

“burn in—horrors!—bolognese sauce forever.”
No, no, no. Bolognese is reserved for lesser sins such as failing to keep your hook properly polished and sharp or wearing your eye patch on the wrong side. True torment comes in the form of… dare I say it…. pesto for eternity!

Comment #43171

Posted by grphxpro on August 15, 2005 4:53 PM (e)

Robert Leyland,
Although some Pastafarians just so happen to believe in the Old Ones and make sacrifices to the crawling choas, that doesn’t mean that the two are related. We just want kids to hear both sides. We have to teach the pastaversy.

Comment #43172

Posted by Jim Harrison on August 15, 2005 4:54 PM (e)

Fools! Fools! You all think this spaghetti monster business is a joke when it is really a Taoist plot. It is well known that the noodle in the won ton soup traditionally consumed at Chinese New Year is actually a symbol of mystic All, aka the Great Clod.

Comment #44422

Posted by Matt Stone on August 23, 2005 6:42 AM (e)

Heretics!

Bolognese? Pah! Fettucine? Get real! Examination of the Dead Pasta Sheets reveals his so-called “noodly appendages” are actually made of spaghetti marinara. Popular representations of the Spaghetti Monster featuring meatballs are quite erronious.

Regards
Grand Master of the Marinarianite Sect