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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
A parody of people's objections to teaching evolution. It was Miss Vermont who caught my eye, because a friend who had living in Vermont described the women as dressing like that.
quote: Edited by Admin, : Put YouTube video in the message instead as a link to YouTube.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
I've tried passing that one on to friends. Nobody ever got it.
I get it. Who here gets it and who doesn't?
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
In English (and in other languages, I would assume), there are various terms for collections of various animals along with various terms for their young. On Wikipedia, there is the article, "List of animal names" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animal_names. Such lists come under the subject of "terms of venery", which appear to be derived from late Medieval English hunting terminology.
Best to study such lists, since they inevitably arise in trivia contests and crossword puzzles.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
I interpreted it as requiring 3 birds, for it to be able to go beyond just an attempt. You remind me as myself as a child. Presented with an array of quasi-quantitative terms, I assigned values to them: a couple = 2 a few = 3, maybe 4 some = 4 to 6 several = 7 -- probably because seven and several are so similar. many = more than 7 All so perfectly logical, I could never understand why everybody else paid those distinctions no never mind.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
Reminds me of a Canadian creationist who described himself as being a scientist and he was adamant about it. So I started asking the questions, starting with which field of science. It turned out that he had attended a science class once, so in his mind he was a scientist. I don't remember, but I'm sure that in that class he disagreed with everything the teacher said.
" ... , why are there still monkeys?" That question is so incredibly stupid that when I mentioned it to a creationist he denounced me very strongly for thinking that any creationist would be so stupid as to say that. Yet I have seen creationists use it at least three times in the wild, the first one being a call-in to a radio-show where Duane Gish was the guest (he tried to correct her). Plus in 2002 it made it to Answers in Genesis' list of claims that they wish creationists would stop using (another claim on that list was that men have one fewer ribs than women do). Two other incredibly stupid creationist claims that immediately demonstrate they have no idea what they're talking about:
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
Over the decades, I've casually collected a number of quotes. Here is one such from one John Rogers (as per my father-in-law: "En su propria casa se conoce" -- "In his own home they know who he is"):
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Now this is one that Trump's base can really get behind:
But seriously.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
"He's not a guy who catches much ... "
By Rocky Mountain Mike, who's done other political song parodies like "Money From Russians (And Your Chicks Who Pee)". Share and enjoy! Edited by dwise1, : Added the artist
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This morning on MSNBC Live with Stephanie Ruhle, they were discussing the early stages of the investigation into Trump's inaugural committee. In describing the White House's options to respond, the analyst pointed out that Trump is so exposed on so many fronts that it would be hard to choose a response. Switching to a Star Wars analogy, they'd have to decide whether to attack the Death Star or the base on the planet. Ruhle ended that segment with the comment that she would not want to be chained or handcuffed to Jabba the Hut.
Trump would make a great Jabba the Hut, don't you think?
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2
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I used my phone to take this picture off of a YouTube video. It's hard to see the very top, but the name of the game is "You Don't Believe in God BINGO." The object of the game is stand around a street preacher (eg, Ray Comfort) and listen to him. Every time he uses a bad argument that's on the card, you mark it off. The first one to get Bingo yells "Bingo!" and holds his card up. I would assume that everybody gets a different card with the same bad arguments but in different squares. I just now Google'd it and got these hits: https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=O3WEXMXpD8n_0g...
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
There's also a bingo game using PRATTs: ID Creationist Bingo -- eg, at https://skeptico.blogs.com/...o/2007/09/bingo-creationi.html. Google'ing on creationism bingo will also bring up an image gallery.
The sample card there (not an image) includes:
IRREDUCIBLE COMPLEXITY JUST A THEORY MOLECULAR "MACHINES" "TRUCKS" "BUSSES" DARWIN RESPONSIBLE FOR HITLER / NAZIS 2nd LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS "WATCH" OR "MOUSETRAP" OR "MOUNT RUSHMORE" DARWINISM A "FAITH" OR A "RELIGION" EVOLUTION A "THEORY IN CRISIS" UNIVERSE IS FINE TUNED FOR LIFE TRANSITIONAL FOSSILS / GAPS IN FOSSIL RECORD TEACH THE CONTROVERSY / LET THE CHILDREN DECIDE QUOTE MINE DARWIN OR OTHER SCIENTIST JOKER (ie, a free square; does not refer to any mention of William Dembski, Michael Behe, or Phillip Johnson, etc) MICRO NOT MACRO EVOLUTION RANDOM / CHANCE NEWTON (or other eminent scientist) A CREATONIST / RELIGIOUS CONFUSE EVOLUTION WITH ABIOGENESIS DNA IS "COMPUTER CODE" NO EVIDENCE FOR EVOLUTION COMPARE ID TO SETI / ARCHAEOLOGY CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION NO MORALITY WITHOUT GOD "DARWINISM" "DARWINISTS" MUTATIONS DO NOT ADD INFORMATION REPEATS DEBUNKED ARGUMENTS You could turn these bingo games into drinking games, but your liver would never survive.
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I just came across this one:
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So I'm at the wailing wall, standing there like a moron, with my harpoon." One place I worked had art on all the hallways. One long hallway had paintings of cetaceans. When giving someone directions, we referred to that as "the whaling wall."
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I first encountered this song decades ago in an issue of C/E Newsletter as one that biology and paleontology students would sing on the bus to field work. It's sung to the tune of "It's A Long Way to Tipparary" and was written by Philip H. Pope in 1921.
Amphioxus, AKA "lancelets", is a chordate, but is not quite fully vertebrate having a notocord instead of a spine. I got these lyrics from https://bscd.uchicago.edu/content/long-way-amphioxus:
quote: There are a number of performances of the song on YouTube, such as this one:
Edited by dwise1, : name correction
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