1. The God Delusion's cameo in season premiere of 'Family Guy'

Comment #257141 by Oolon Colluphid on September 30, 2008 at 5:28 am

Perhaps Brian thought it said 'The Dog Delusion'

2. 'The Genius of Charles Darwin' DVD (PAL Region 2) Available Now

Comment #234204 by Oolon Colluphid on August 21, 2008 at 1:52 am

Do we know what the "exclusive special features" will be yet?

3. On TV: The Genius of Charles Darwin: Presented by Richard Dawkins

Comment #223846 by Oolon Colluphid on August 3, 2008 at 2:10 pm

Ref the first comments: I expect the RDF will find a way of releasing this on DVD. Meanwhile, I'll be recording them, and it's no problem to run off some more DVDs when I do my own 'keep' disc.

I say, this stuff is too important to fuck around about copyrights. Email me your details, I'll send you a DVD (I take Paypal, and promise: cost (about a quid) plus p&p only), and you can promise to give any more than the five 'bucks' or so you feel appropriate to the RDF. Deal?

4. Nine face stoning death in Iran

Comment #214979 by Oolon Colluphid on July 21, 2008 at 6:16 am

Okay, I may be a little behind the comments (if not the times) pointing this out, but I'll say it now anyway...

Kraut: look up the logical fallacy known as tu quoque.
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/tuquoque.html

So the US -- or any other randomly-picked bunch -- are nasty too.

Note the "too" there.

So we should not be pissed off at one bunch of vicious bastards, just because there are other vicious bastards in our midst?

Pillock.

5. Host Desecration is Old Anti-Semitic Nonsense

Comment #210156 by Oolon Colluphid on July 14, 2008 at 3:10 am

Border Collie said:

"So, if we could get enough consecrated crackers and wine together in one place and mix it all together, we could make a new Jesus?"

Nonono, that's not how it works. Your 'tornado in a junkyard' analogy is flawed. You need to get the bits of cracker together, sure, but as a breeding population, then select the most Son-of-God-like descendants over a multitude of generations. You can't make a new Jesus, but we might be able to selectively breed one.

Or something.

6. 10 cc of atheism

Comment #141109 by Oolon Colluphid on March 10, 2008 at 3:32 am

Coming a bit late to this, but what the hey...

Ref Laurie's accent, I gather that he got the part when the producer, unaware of his background, heard his rushed audition tape and said something like "now that's how an American should sound!"

With the range of accents across the continent, I guess one person's 'spot on' is another's weird caricature... I mean, when someone thinks of an 'English accent', I'll bet they're not thinking Yorkshire Dales, Devon or Birkenhead, let alone Geordie. I expect the US is just as disparate, especially to American ears.

Meanwhile, a fave House quote:

"Isn't it interesting... religious behavior is so close to being crazy that we can't tell them apart."