Comments on: Iconography of Boing-Boing http://birdhouse.org/blog/2007/11/05/iconography-of-boing-boing/ Like a chicken with a jewel in its beak. Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:23:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: shacker http://birdhouse.org/blog/2007/11/05/iconography-of-boing-boing/comment-page-1/#comment-153572 shacker Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:57:32 +0000 http://birdhouse.org/blog/2007/11/05/iconography-of-boing-boing/#comment-153572 You know, I don't think I ever managed to pick that one up, though I remember it's name floating around in the SubGenii world around then. "The Fringe of Reason" sounds great, thanks for the tip. You know, I don’t think I ever managed to pick that one up, though I remember it’s name floating around in the SubGenii world around then. “The Fringe of Reason” sounds great, thanks for the tip.

]]> By: Larry Auerbach http://birdhouse.org/blog/2007/11/05/iconography-of-boing-boing/comment-page-1/#comment-152591 Larry Auerbach Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:33:15 +0000 http://birdhouse.org/blog/2007/11/05/iconography-of-boing-boing/#comment-152591 Have you ever read Ivan Stang's book "High Weirdness by Mail"? I've got it here at home -- got it in the late '80s, and it's still one of the prizes in my book collection. For that matter, have you ever heard of or read Ted Schultz's "The Fringes of Reason", also from the late '80s? It's a marvel of critical thinking. Have you ever read Ivan Stang’s book “High Weirdness by Mail”?
I’ve got it here at home — got it in the late ’80s, and it’s still one of the prizes in my book collection.

For that matter, have you ever heard of or read Ted Schultz’s “The Fringes of Reason”, also from the late ’80s? It’s a marvel of critical thinking.

]]> By: shacker http://birdhouse.org/blog/2007/11/05/iconography-of-boing-boing/comment-page-1/#comment-151510 shacker Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:30:34 +0000 http://birdhouse.org/blog/2007/11/05/iconography-of-boing-boing/#comment-151510 Larry - Yes! I added the link to High Weirdness to the sidebar here a couple-three months ago... Once upon a time I thought the SubGenius would change my life. Now it just makes me dizzy. In a weird way, SubGenius is like the Flying Spaghetti Monster actually writ large into a "full-on" religion. Larry – Yes! I added the link to High Weirdness to the sidebar here a couple-three months ago…

Once upon a time I thought the SubGenius would change my life. Now it just makes me dizzy. In a weird way, SubGenius is like the Flying Spaghetti Monster actually writ large into a “full-on” religion.

]]> By: Larry Auerbach http://birdhouse.org/blog/2007/11/05/iconography-of-boing-boing/comment-page-1/#comment-147647 Larry Auerbach Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:45:37 +0000 http://birdhouse.org/blog/2007/11/05/iconography-of-boing-boing/#comment-147647 Scot, have you discovered The High Weirdness Project Bulldada Newsblog webpage? Filled with daily amusements it is. http://www.modemac.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/Bulldada_Newsblog And of course, its enveloping website, http://www.modemac.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl Praise the Flying Bob-Monster! Scot, have you discovered The High Weirdness Project Bulldada Newsblog webpage? Filled with daily amusements it is.
http://www.modemac.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/Bulldada_Newsblog

And of course, its enveloping website, http://www.modemac.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl

Praise the Flying Bob-Monster!

]]> By: shacker http://birdhouse.org/blog/2007/11/05/iconography-of-boing-boing/comment-page-1/#comment-147469 shacker Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:05:33 +0000 http://birdhouse.org/blog/2007/11/05/iconography-of-boing-boing/#comment-147469 I love that about the Flying Spaghetti Monster argument -- sounds ridiculous, but it's totally serious (well, the ridiculousness of it is its point...) I love that about the Flying Spaghetti Monster argument — sounds ridiculous, but it’s totally serious (well, the ridiculousness of it is its point…)

]]> By: Larry Auerbach http://birdhouse.org/blog/2007/11/05/iconography-of-boing-boing/comment-page-1/#comment-147466 Larry Auerbach Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:59:30 +0000 http://birdhouse.org/blog/2007/11/05/iconography-of-boing-boing/#comment-147466 Dawkins has made references to the Flying Spaghetti Monster, so he's certainly not averse to good satire. Dawkins has made references to the Flying Spaghetti Monster, so he’s certainly not averse to good satire.

]]> By: shacker http://birdhouse.org/blog/2007/11/05/iconography-of-boing-boing/comment-page-1/#comment-147304 shacker Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:34:16 +0000 http://birdhouse.org/blog/2007/11/05/iconography-of-boing-boing/#comment-147304 Sure! Got a quote? :) Sure! Got a quote? :)

]]> By: baald http://birdhouse.org/blog/2007/11/05/iconography-of-boing-boing/comment-page-1/#comment-147287 baald Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:42:03 +0000 http://birdhouse.org/blog/2007/11/05/iconography-of-boing-boing/#comment-147287 QUOTH Msr Shacquier would love to hear Dawkins or Hitchens comment on the Church of the Subgenius sometime UNQUOTH would you also like to know what alan greenspan thinks about zippy the pinhead? QUOTH Msr Shacquier
would love to hear Dawkins or Hitchens comment on the Church of the Subgenius sometime
UNQUOTH

would you also like to know what alan greenspan thinks about zippy the pinhead?

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