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neadodsI'd credit, but I've forgotten where I got these.
Creation Museum Report Readers must be fond of science and tolerant of the word "horseshit."
Did you know, for example, that Adam is responsible not only for the fall of man, but also for the creation of venom? It didn’t exist in the Garden of Eden, because, well. Why would it? Weeds? Adam’s fault. Carnivorous animals (and, one assumes, the occasional carnivorous plant)? Adam again. Entropy? You guessed it: Adam. Think about that, won’t you; eat one piece of fruit and suddenly you’re responsible for the inevitable heat death of the universe. God’s kind of mean.
... But seriously, the ability to just come out and put on a placard that the Jurassic era is temporally contiguous with the Fifth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt — well, there’s a word for that, and that word is chutzpah
For those who didn't know about "Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog" - (LJ feed at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
chaucerhathblog), ol' Jeffy's talking about the Televisioun Lyne Up of Galfridus Chaucer, Clerke of the Kinges Werkes, which includes "Sectes in the Borough," "Flight of the Lombardes," "The Privy Seel Offyce," and "Doctor Hwaet." “That ys fanTASTick,” he saith yn the rare tymes whan he ys of good chiere. He fighteth many enemyes, includinge the Cybermonks, the Daneleks, and folk who thinke that “Geats” is pronouncid “geetz.”
Dear "Patriots:" If you really loved America as much as you say you do, maybe you should actually LEARN ITS HISTORY. Kentucky Governer Ernie Fletcher tried to dodge posting a church-donated 10 Commandments in a school by making them part of a display "meant as a tool for teaching children civic literacy." Now, it's bad enough that someone in Government was pushing the "our laws were founded on the 10 Commandments" canard, but to teach "civic literacy" by stating that the Stars and Strips flag and the song "The Star-Spangled Banner" were used in the American Revolution is a bit much. Yeah, the War of 1812 was pretty much "American Revolution II: The British Empire Strikes Back" but in 1781, that tune was still a drinking song. Betcha won't teach that to the kiddies!
The latest salvo in the "War on Christmas" is Bill O'Reilly getting his knickers in a knot over christmas trees with white lights instead of colored ones. It's unChristian, y'see. I wonder what he would make of that bastion of blasphemy, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Atonement, which flanked the alter with two huge trees decorated entirely in white lights and white doves every Christmas when I was growing up.
Dead of adorable.
I find this also adorable, mostly at how matter-of-fact/bored they are when the cameras aren't rolling. Simms looks a little resigned to me; I wonder if this is before or after David dropped him after a take!
Creation Museum Report Readers must be fond of science and tolerant of the word "horseshit."
Did you know, for example, that Adam is responsible not only for the fall of man, but also for the creation of venom? It didn’t exist in the Garden of Eden, because, well. Why would it? Weeds? Adam’s fault. Carnivorous animals (and, one assumes, the occasional carnivorous plant)? Adam again. Entropy? You guessed it: Adam. Think about that, won’t you; eat one piece of fruit and suddenly you’re responsible for the inevitable heat death of the universe. God’s kind of mean.
... But seriously, the ability to just come out and put on a placard that the Jurassic era is temporally contiguous with the Fifth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt — well, there’s a word for that, and that word is chutzpah
For those who didn't know about "Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog" - (LJ feed at
chaucerhathblog), ol' Jeffy's talking about the Televisioun Lyne Up of Galfridus Chaucer, Clerke of the Kinges Werkes, which includes "Sectes in the Borough," "Flight of the Lombardes," "The Privy Seel Offyce," and "Doctor Hwaet." “That ys fanTASTick,” he saith yn the rare tymes whan he ys of good chiere. He fighteth many enemyes, includinge the Cybermonks, the Daneleks, and folk who thinke that “Geats” is pronouncid “geetz.”Dear "Patriots:" If you really loved America as much as you say you do, maybe you should actually LEARN ITS HISTORY. Kentucky Governer Ernie Fletcher tried to dodge posting a church-donated 10 Commandments in a school by making them part of a display "meant as a tool for teaching children civic literacy." Now, it's bad enough that someone in Government was pushing the "our laws were founded on the 10 Commandments" canard, but to teach "civic literacy" by stating that the Stars and Strips flag and the song "The Star-Spangled Banner" were used in the American Revolution is a bit much. Yeah, the War of 1812 was pretty much "American Revolution II: The British Empire Strikes Back" but in 1781, that tune was still a drinking song. Betcha won't teach that to the kiddies!
The latest salvo in the "War on Christmas" is Bill O'Reilly getting his knickers in a knot over christmas trees with white lights instead of colored ones. It's unChristian, y'see. I wonder what he would make of that bastion of blasphemy, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Atonement, which flanked the alter with two huge trees decorated entirely in white lights and white doves every Christmas when I was growing up.
Dead of adorable.
I find this also adorable, mostly at how matter-of-fact/bored they are when the cameras aren't rolling. Simms looks a little resigned to me; I wonder if this is before or after David dropped him after a take!
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Date: 2007-11-12 08:35 pm (UTC)I non-RPF-fully speculate that I too would be bummed if my partner had just given birth to my first daughter days before and I was stuck on a film set doing weird things to the Scissor Sisters, with a revolting cold in the bargain (there are some interview shots of him where he looks like he'd like to topple over and fall asleep right then and there). Though at least he didn't have to don the Peter Pan flying harness like Astro Boy did.
"(And anyway I'm having far more fun fighting off the rabid plotbunny I got this weekend after having finally watching Blackpool -- I assume there's fic out there somewhere about DI Carlisle having a pocket watch somewhere that he's never thought to open, so I won't be tempted to write it myself?)"
Of course, I'm smacking my forehead that this idea never occurred to me, in between feverishly nagging you to write it.
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Date: 2007-11-12 10:52 pm (UTC)The first time I saw that shot - I wondered who the hell that was...
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Date: 2007-11-12 10:13 pm (UTC)And the plotbunny is far worse than you imagine, since it combined with the one I got when someone's suggestion about Romana and Leela turning up in a void ship and someone else's speculation about the odds that Rose really wound up in the Void and Ten is repressing viciously all through TRB and s3 about what really happened to her -- and anyway, I had this idea where the void ship popped out in "Pete's World" and Rose and her partner alt!Ace team up with Romana and Leela to try to send them back to their proper universe, and Ace and Rose wind up sucked through along with them (even though by this point Rose thinks of losing the Doctor as being a lucky escape for herself rather than an unending tragedy of her existence, and Ace doesn't care to go at all because it's not like she's ever met the bloke), and. Anyway. Four women Carlisle has never met show up on his doorstep...
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Date: 2007-11-12 10:15 pm (UTC)