Highbeam, I’m absolutely sure you’re not dumb.  I’m going to have to direct you back to Mike about this particular topic.  It’s a little obscure (and, in my mind, both hilarious and right on), but in some contexts could be construed as somewhat personal or sensitive.  Maybe I’m making too much of it, but I’ll defer to Mike for now, I don’t think it’s appropriate for me to explain someone else’s avatar.  (Still burning some here, too).  Rick

Yeah, don’t really want to start a new ash can subject…

but it is the flying spaghetti monster, a religious parody.  If you’re interested in a good laugh, search FSM on google or something.  If you are a devout religious-type person, you probably won’t find it too funny, though, so be forewarned

Definitely ash can material. I’ve heard that Pastafarians are anti-tofu.

BeGreen - 14 May 2008 11:52 AM

Definitely ash can material. I’ve heard that Pastafarians are anti-tofu.

FYI- Coffee burns real bad coming out the nostrils!!!

BG, funniest this I’ve real all week.

BeGreen - 14 May 2008 11:52 AM

Definitely ash can material. I’ve heard that Pastafarians are anti-tofu.

Hmmmmmm...I never heard that one.  I’m a relatively recent convert.  I mean, who would’ve ever thought that global warming is directly related to pirate attacks?  And then, pirate attacks increase, and we have a cooler spring!!!!  I mean, come on!!  What more proof do you need?!

I think the anti-tofu romor was started just to try to debunk the whole religion.

Okay, I’ll take a look just so I don’t feel left out.

Today is the last day of miserable rain and cold before our weather makes a 180 into sunny and 75 for at least a short while. If you’ve never been in the PNW in the Spring when it is sunny and warm then you’re really missing out. Maybe we’re getting closer to being done burning.

Are any of those pirates from Pittsburgh?

The world could use more pirates from wherever they can find them. Just look at the facts, they stand up. However, the recent increase in piracy is hard to correlate to this winter’s global cooling, there are too many confounding factors and we don’t have the computing power yet to come up with the definite model. Could effect of software piracy be contributing to the cooling? Or is it closer to the recent activity off of Madagascar? This is a complex issue.  I’ve read that there’s one sect in South America that is betting on beer volcanoes being the salvation of the earth. We shall see.

The anti-tofu faction really has me roiled. They are way off base. My guess is that they’ve been sneaking in some rigatoni. I mean, cmon’ - how can you close the day with RAmen and not like tofu? Get real dudes.

We already know that the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42.  We simply have to figure out just how to formulate the question.  No doubt pirates are involved somehow.  Rick

Mike from Athens - 14 May 2008 08:08 AM

Yeah, don’t really want to start a new ash can subject…

but it is the flying spaghetti monster, a religious parody.  If you’re interested in a good laugh, search FSM on google or something.  If you are a devout religious-type person, you probably won’t find it too funny, though, so be forewarned

Oh goodie, a new one to add to my list....

Taoism................................................................Really bad stuff happens
Confucianism.......................................................Confucius say,"Really bad stuff happens.”
Calvinism............................................................Bad stuff happens because you don’t work hard enough.
Buddhism...........................................................,If bad stuff happens, it really isn’t bad stuff.
7th Day Adventism...............................................No bad stufft on Saturdays
Zen.....................................................................What is the sound of bad stuff happening?
Hedonism............................................................There’s nothing like a good bad stuff happening.
Hinduism.............................................................This bad stuff happened before.
Mormonism.........................................................This bad stuff is going to happen.
Islam..................................................................If bad stuff happens, it is the will of Allah.
Moonies..............................................................Only happy bad stuff really happens.
Stoicism..............................................................This bad stuff is good for me.
Protestantism......................................................Let the bad stuff happen to someone else.
Catholicism.........................................................Bad stuff happens because you are BAD.
Hare Krishna.......................................................Bad stuff happens rama rama.
Judaism..............................................................Why does this bad stuff always happen to us?
Zoroastrianism....................................................Bad stuff happens half the time.
Christian Science.................................................Bad stuff is in your mind.
Atheism..............................................................I don’t believe this bad stuff.
Existentialism......................................................What is bad stuff anyway?
Rastafarianiam....................................................Let’s smoke this bad stuff?
Televangelilslm....................................................When bad stuff happens, send money.
FSM....................................................................When bad stuff happens, it’s the pirates.

and this all relates to wood burning...It’s what happens when winter exceeds our expectations and an excess of wood molecules begin to penetrate our brains....