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  8. Richard Harris says

    Jams @ # 5, Lawsuit against God thrown out over lack of address

    This stinks. The law is trying to protect the big shit. Everyone knows its address – it’s The Pearly Gates, Heaven.

    Anyway, as the bugger is claimed to be omniscient, it therefore knows about the writ being served, so it should respond to it. Or at least instruct one of its agents to act on its behalf. I hope this legal action hasn’t run its course.

  10. SoMG says

    I hope everyone saw McCain on Letterman. If you didn’t let’s just say he had to use the lessons he learned in the Navy about how to behave while being berated by his superiors.

    Dave sounded sad as he asked “Suppose you get incapacitated as presidents do and we get another 911. The best person to lead us through it is Sarah Palin?”

    Also “You understand that someone can make the same case about your relationship with G. Gordon Liddy that your campaign is making about Ayers?”

    Dave deserves an award. He should be the moderator at the next Presidential Debate.

  12. Sili says

    I used to know this biologist who had a penchant for whales. Sad story.

    In the end he grew quite mad at the prospect of the critters dying out before long. So he went to an intensive researchproject – part biochem, part dark arts, I think.

    After a coupla years he hit upon a solution (literally) that would allow his beloved cetaceans to live forever.

    Only one snag. He needed the blood of a very rare bird to make his brew – Acridotheres cristatellus. Now this poor fella is endangered too, but my friend didn’t care (he was quite the mammalist even before he went mad).

    So in the middle of the darkest night he went to a zoo where they kept one the few remaining cristatelli. He got into the birdhouse without much trouble and to his great relief he managed to pick up the bird without a squeak. He stuffed it in a bag and went to leave.

    Unfortunately the zoo’s old male lion had escaped its enclosure that self same night and when he tried leaving the birdhouse the old cat had laid down to sleep right in front of the door.

    Now, time was running out and he really wanted to leave fast before the nightwatch caught him, so he threw all caution to the wind and as carefully as possible tried to step over the cat without waking it.

    BAM! The light came on everywhere and my poor (former) friend found himself surrounded by police brandishing guns. “Halt!” they cried, “You’re under arrest for attempt to carry a myna over a staid lion for immortal porpoises!”

  21. Jams says

    “Anyway, as the bugger is claimed to be omniscient, it therefore knows about the writ being served, so it should respond to it.” – Richard Harris

    Hearsay testimony of God’s omniscience isn’t evidentiary. It still needs to be demonstrated that God is physically capable of receiving and understanding the notice. Has God received any other unaddressed notices?

  22. says

    Hearsay testimony of God’s omniscience isn’t evidentiary. It still needs to be demonstrated that God is physically capable of receiving and understanding the notice. Has God received any other unaddressed notices?

    Well my mom’s friend’s sister’s cousin was heal miraculously after being prayed for. So it sounds like he is getting the messages, he just not responding to the vast majority.

  28. says

    A small blue fish–it’s all I wish;
    A crunchy, chewy, tasty dish!
    Each little bite is pure delight–
    I’d nom nom nom all day and night!

    Every day, the inky deep
    Is where a cuttlefish may creep
    That little fish? Today it’s him–
    Tomorrow, children as they swim!

  30. Qwerty says

    I am sure that Bill Donohue of the Catholic League would approve of this picture. After all, it’s Friday and the Cephalopod is eating fish.

  31. uncle noel says

    You’ve got it all wrong: this is clearly a photo of a cuttlefish kissing its pet fish. They’re very affectionate.

  32. says

    Thanks for these pics, P.Z…

    The world is such a fucking amazing place…

    (And my kid is now sleeping through the night! YAY!)

  34. Patricia says

    That’s down right naughty!
    That feller is gazin’ up the lady’s skirt.
    Thunderation! The goins’ on that some biologists approve of.

  35. says

    Does anyone else get just a tiny bit creeped out by scenes where the prey is a closer relative to you than the predator? I’m thinking of snakes eating mice, insect larvae eating fish, etc.

  37. Sven DiMilo says

    At first glance I thought it was labeled Sepia obama.
    Then the fish could be Exsenator mccaini.

  38. says

    Is the fish freshly caught by the cf or was it scavenged? Or if it is being fed, which of those two things would be true in the wild? (I have no explanation for my curiosity to know this. I think my brain is being run by little robots and for some reason they want to know and they are making me find out.)
    I love this site.
    Nothin’ but luv
    from
    Jim and his little robots

  39. Ichthyic says

    Is the fish freshly caught by the cf

    judging by the color of the fish (still bright blue), I’d say it was a fresh capture.

    cuttlefish are excellent hunters, btw.

  40. Kurt says

    I guess the next step is for someone to waterproof a consecrated host and feed it to a Catholic Cephalopod…

  41. Ichthyic says

    Catholic Cephalopod…

    how could you tell?

    do they have a chromataphore pattern that looks like a bishop’s mitre?

    OTOH, that might more likely mean they are a worshiper of Dagon, given the context.

  48. Ragutis says

    So, Cuttlefish, what’s the going rate for your work? Is it scaled? A cardinalfish for a couplet? A hawkfish for a haiku? Basslet for a ballad? Snapper for a sonnet?