Comments on: Origin of Noodleous doubleous

Origin of Noodleous doubleous

DevilsAdvocate — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:44:25 -0800

By: StarForce5

StarForce5 — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:53:00 -0800

I'm opposed to embryonic rigatoni research. An uncooked noodle is a life!

By: chunking express

chunking express — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:53:26 -0800

Am I the only one who finds all this Spaghetti Monster stuff lame? The original letter was funny, but making fun of religious people is easy enough without needing to get repetitive.

By: gurple

gurple — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:57:37 -0800

making fun of religious people Come on, don't put words in the guy's (or girl's) mouth. He's making fun of IDIOTs, I see no evidence that he's making fun of all religious folks. This stuff is topical. It's also humorous. I laughed. Does that make me a boring, repetitive rabid left-winger?

By: Turtles all the way down

Turtles all the way down — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:59:47 -0800

Am I the only one who finds all this Spaghetti Monster stuff lame? Heretic! Tread carefully lest you be smote (smited? smitten?) by His Noodly Appendage.

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:02:22 -0800

"Am I the only one who finds all this Spaghetti Monster stuff lame? The original letter was funny, but making fun of religious people is easy enough without needing to get repetitive." No. However, I also find repeated Monty Python quotes and overstretched Simpsons references lame, which is why I'm not allowed on the internet.

By: darren

darren — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:03:07 -0800

C'mon, folks. What's past is past(a).

By: I Love Tacos

I Love Tacos — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:06:33 -0800

making fun of religious people is easy enough without needing to get repetitive. I don't think it's making fun of religious people... It's making fun of people who want to teach magic in science classes.

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:07:37 -0800

Please sauce and desist.

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:09:54 -0800

" '...but making fun of religious people is easy enough without needing to get repetitive.' 'No. However, I also find repeated Monty Python quotes and overstretched Simpsons references lame...' " Like when a clown dies.

By: fire&wings

fire&wings — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:11:18 -0800

Spaghetti Monster, after only a month or so, feels like week 46 of All Your Base.

By: fenriq

fenriq — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:19:06 -0800

Was this witty or funny or worthwhile to read because it kind of seemed tedious in a look-at-me-being-clever-and-funny sort of way and that gets old in about three and a half seconds.

By: bam

bam — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:19:08 -0800

i've never seen this before. i took it seriously. i'm trying it tonight.

By: Divine_Wino

Divine_Wino — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:19:40 -0800

I kiss you. I kiss you all.

By: foot

foot — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:20:36 -0800

^^^ WORD

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:21:20 -0800

"Like when a clown dies." A little song, a little dance, a little selzter down the pants.

By: CynicalKnight

CynicalKnight — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:25:50 -0800

Am I the only one who finds all this Spaghetti Monster stuff lame? Sush. Your pop-meme exposure badge has turned red before the rest of us, is all. I understand. Simply look away.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:27:15 -0800

I never thought it was clever to begin with. I'm with you, chunking.

By: allen.spaulding

allen.spaulding — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:29:00 -0800

This experiment is murder. The scientist is as bad as Chef Boyardee! There, I Godwined the thread, let's move on.

By: Divine_Wino

Divine_Wino — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:29:20 -0800

klang: Gourds!

By: 23skidoo

23skidoo — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:29:46 -0800

Gah, this isn't even about FSM (even though it gets name dropped at the end), it's about showing how ~~stupid~~ unscientific Intelligent Design is.

By: allen.spaulding

allen.spaulding — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:30:06 -0800

and for the record, I thought FSM was lame when it started. I thought the fan club was worse, yet somehow the whole thing has grown on me. If I get more websites like this and less random interjections about appendages, I can love this movement.

By: tsarfan

tsarfan — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:30:07 -0800

im sold! anyone want a golden calf. cheap.

By: zpousman

zpousman — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:30:20 -0800

Looks like there's sure to be a hipster brawl at some Halloween party in Williamsburg. ~~Film~~, er Blogpost / Flickr pics at eleven!!

By: cleardawn

cleardawn — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:38:52 -0800

Spaghetti Monster is a silly joke. But then, the Christians, Jews, and Moslems who believe in Creationism (and/or the equally silly Intelligent Design) are currently killing other people, all over the world for reasons that are far more stupid and laughable than Spaghetti Monster. Ho, ho, ho.

By: Phantomx

Phantomx — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:39:55 -0800

I somehow missed the initial Flying Spaghetti Monster letter and have been very confused for a while now. Thanks for the Wikipedia link. But now I find that the only allure it had to me was in its mysteriousness. Now I will merely chuckle slightly and move on.

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:53:49 -0800

"I thought FSM was lame when it started." I thought it was lame way before that. I was the first one that thought it was lame. Everyone else is just copying off me. "hipster brawl" Thanks, zpousman, now I'm picturing hipsters from every age fighting. (Beatniks clashing with the 2nd hand Emo shirt clad etc, set to say some Coltrain, etc. add music/hipster concepts, set to frappe', continue joke at your own pace)

By: Happy Monkey

Happy Monkey — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:59:25 -0800

Am I the only one who finds all this Spaghetti Monster stuff lame? The original letter was funny, but making fun of religious people is easy enough without needing to get repetitive. What does the FSM have to do with religious people? It's about ID, and the ID proponents assure us that ID is not about religion!

By: quadog

quadog — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:02:05 -0800

Intelligent Al Dente!

By: gurple

gurple — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:06:50 -0800

What does the FSM have to do with religious people? It's about ID, and the ID proponents assure us that ID is not about religion! Ramen

By: davejay

davejay — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:14:51 -0800

Here's the deal (for me) with FSM and whether it's a lame joke. I do not believe in God. I was on the fence for a while, and I was raised lutheran, but I am now certain I do not believe in God. I am a secular humanist. So, when I see someone swearing up and down their fealty to (what is to me) a nonexistent entity, I think "That's ridiculous -- there is no God! It's just a work of fiction that a bunch of folks made up as a means to an end." Nevertheless, the person in question BELIEVES, and because they believe, they are convinced that God exists, and demand that we respect their right to believe. They demand that we respect their beliefs, even if we think them ridiculous. And so it is for the FSM. For religious folks, the FSM is satire, a con, pure BS, written by a human as a purely fictional work as a means to an end. In short, exactly the way I view God and the Bible. So I shall swear up and down my fealty to the FSM, for I am a true believer, and should those same religious folks look at me and think "That's ridiculous -- there is no FSM! It's just a work of fiction that a bunch of folks made up as a means to an end" then I say to them "at last, we have common ground, for as I view your beliefs, you now view mine, and as you ask for respect and tolerance, so do I." Ramen.

By: basicchannel

basicchannel — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:19:27 -0800

Ramen.

By: brownpau

brownpau — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:20:03 -0800

Pastafarians: "We stuff our straw men with angel hair."

By: gwint

gwint — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:26:39 -0800

Conflating pasta with religion is a bit of a starch.

By: alteredcarbon

alteredcarbon — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:53:36 -0800

I'm the anti-pasta.

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:03:44 -0800

"They demand that we respect their beliefs, even if we think them ridiculous." Insofar as that argument goes davejay , the FSM is just another version of the Church of the SubGenius (and it's counterparts & predecessors). I would argue though there are ideals and concepts of worth in many religions that cannot be casually dismissed. Unfortunately many people are as attached to the dogma as they are the useful concepts. I would assert any successful attempt to get people to distill and absorb that which is useful and dump the dogma would not be accomplished through the use of catma. It merely starts another front on the religious war.

By: wah

wah — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:30:12 -0800

The joy of FSM is what happens when two people attempt to define his infinite appendage by both starting to eat it from opposite ends. /ramen.

By: breath

breath — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:31:37 -0800

The article is brilliant because it captures exactly the sort of looks-like-science-but-really-isn't feel of ID. Does anyone have a working hypothesis for why the noodles double up like that? That shit be crazy.

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:54:49 -0800

It isn't even spaghetti. It's PENNE. Sheesh! Back on topic, I'm glad that the IDers have finally embraced the scientifici theory. More evidence, please.

By: Mental Wimp

Mental Wimp — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:07:17 -0800

Smedleyman The concept that religion has delivered ideals and concepts of worth is getting the cart before the horse. Soothsayers, wisemen, and "prophets" have constructed morality and ethical principles and have used religious concepts to promote them. This is how the religion starts, but they quicly devolve to self-perpetuating institutions that require fealty and dogma to sustain themselves against the onslaught of the next big thing. I wouldn't credit the religion (at least not the organized variety) for the cool concepts and principles, but rather the cool concepts and principles for the religion.

By: Mental Wimp

Mental Wimp — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:07:46 -0800

"quicly" is the old English spelling.

By: MarvinTheCat

MarvinTheCat — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:21:22 -0800

Gourds! Alright, this just caused a pang of nostalgia. I cannot remember precisely why, but I know it has to do with the internets and probably f*c*.com. I had the same pang when I walked past a photographer visiting in our office and he smelled exactly my dad did when I was a kid. Retro taste in cologne I guess. Anyway, a little help?

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:21:31 -0800

Does anyone have a working hypothesis for why the noodles double up like that? That shit be crazy. Off the top of my head, there are lots of possible directions for boiling noodles to move, but only one where they will stick semi-permanently (inside each other). To be honest, I'd need to see the noodles first-hand.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:57:25 -0800

H2O is also known as Dihydrogen Monoxide, an extremely dangerous substance. It was responsible for the destruction of the city of New Orleans in 2005. See careful research of the Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division, www.dhmo.org, for further information. Hah!

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:24:38 -0800

"I had the same pang when I walked past a photographer visiting in our office and he smelled exactly my dad did when I was a kid." Drunk?

By: MrMoonPie

MrMoonPie — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:29:33 -0800

I want one of these.

By: notmydesk

notmydesk — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 19:10:08 -0800

Enough of the Flying Spaghetti Monster already. And while we're at it, no more calling the internet "the internets".

By: joe lisboa

joe lisboa — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 19:10:33 -0800

Spaghetti Monster, after only a month or so, feels like week 46 of All Your Base. Life on the internets is, like, so hard!

By: joe lisboa

joe lisboa — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 19:11:02 -0800

That's for you, too, notmydesk.

By: fungible

fungible — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 19:13:09 -0800

I vote funny.

By: washburn

washburn — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 19:16:01 -0800

Better get used to the internets.

By: darukaru

darukaru — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 19:54:37 -0800

EU: We've passed a law that says it's ours. US: No. EU: It's ours now. US: No. EU: Give it over. US: No.

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 19:55:38 -0800

I can vouch for the fact that this does, indeed, happen. So you see, it's funny because it's true. And I laughed out loud at the "dissection" photo. Enough of the Flying Spaghetti Monster already. And while we're at it, no more calling the internet "the internets". Yeah, and what's up with all this posting comments on weblogs? Cut it out, will y'all?

By: daHIFI

daHIFI — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 19:58:05 -0800

The hydrogen dioxide page made me think of this: Oxygen Oxygen is a very toxic gas and an extreme fire hazard. It is fatal in concentrations of as little as 0.000001 p.p.m. Humans exposed to the oxygen concentrations die within a few minutes. Symptoms resemble very much those of cyanide poisoning (blue face, etc.). In higher concentrations, e.g. 20%, the toxic effect is somewhat delayed and it takes about 2.5 billion inhalations before death takes place. The reason for the delay is the difference in the mechanism of the toxic effect of oxygen in 20% concentration. It apparently contributes to a complex process called aging, of which very little is known, except that it is always fatal. However, the main disadvantage of the 20% oxygen concentration is in the fact it is habit forming. The first inhalation (occurring at birth) is sufficient to make oxygen addiction permanent. After that, any considerable decrease in the daily oxygen doses results in death with symptoms resembling those of cyanide poisoning. Oxygen is an extreme fire hazard. All of the fires that were reported in the continental U.S. for the period of the past 25 years were found to be due to the presence of this gas in the atmosphere surrounding the buildings in question. Oxygen is especially dangerous because it is odorless, colorless and tasteless, so that its presence can not be readily detected until it is too late. --- Other than that, I think the picture of the FSM touching Adam with his noodly appendage was the funniest thing I ever saw on the internets.

By: mcsweetie

mcsweetie — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:50:21 -0800

this link is funny, but chunking express is not.

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 21:17:32 -0800

I have to say, wherever you stand on the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it's irrelevant because this link is not related. Save your anti-FSM stuff (I'm not for or against it) for a link to that subject.

By: Mr Bluesky

Mr Bluesky — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 21:59:56 -0800

So does that make the Old Spaghetti Factory eligible for tax breaks as a place of worship?

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:21:00 -0800

Chunking Express is hilarious. Especially when the cop saves all of the pinapple tins.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 23:31:07 -0800

Praise the noodle, for it is wholesome and filling. The noodle takes all shapes and sizes, from tubes and tunnels representing our passage and journey through life to the strings, straps and bows symbolizing our nourishing and wholesome bonds to one another. Even the spirals and other weird wibbly shapes symbolize Nature's laws and our frequent confusion in the face of them, for they branch and curve as all living things do. And then there are the circles and wheels representing the eternal life possible when one accepts the warm, wet loving slap of His noodly appendage. Blessed is the pasta, fresh or dry, for it watches over us and accepts the meaty, cheesy red sauce unconditionally - even if the sauce is not particularly red, nor particularly meaty or cheesy, and may instead be simply a hearty sprinkling of chunks of grilled zucchini, peppers, garlic and tomatoes with crumbles of feta splashed together with EVOO and fresh oregano and rosemary. Even then. Even then His Noodleness watches over us steamingly and patiently, waiting for each of us to find Al Dente in our own time. Blessed and filled are we, in his Noodly name, Ramen.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 23:41:33 -0800

Anyways, this Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D fellow has it completely and totally wrong. The Rigatoni is obviously female, and the Penne Rigate is obviously male. If this so-called scientist had bothered to finish his observations of this ridiculously obvious mating sequence in a less intrusive fashion he would have undoubtably observed the gestation and birthing of hundreds and thousands of larval Spaghetti-Os shortly after the frenzied group mating was complete. These Spaghetti-Os would obviously be the unmatured or pre-pubescent stage before they themselves would grow to become Rigatoni and Penne Rigate.

By: Ethereal Bligh

Ethereal Bligh — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 01:16:41 -0800

"The hydrogen dioxide page made me think of this..." That hydrogen dioxide is some dangerous shit. I think it maybe even killed Marilyn Monroe.

By: acrobat

acrobat — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 02:36:04 -0800

I am for it. Well cooked pasta is DIVINE!

By: yoz420

yoz420 — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 03:17:23 -0800

loquacious : awesome!

By: funambulist

funambulist — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 03:56:57 -0800

Does anyone have a working hypothesis for why the noodles double up like that? Yes: not enough water, not enough stirring. And that's fact, not a theory!

By: snarfodox

snarfodox — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 05:00:57 -0800

Spaghetti Monster, after only a month or so, feels like week 46 of All Your Base. The 'god' thing has been done to death too.

By: rxrfrx

rxrfrx — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 06:05:20 -0800

Hydrogen dioxide You mean dihydrogen monoxide.

By: sonofsamiam

sonofsamiam — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 07:38:42 -0800

You heartless killjoys probably that pridefully think you're too good for the infininite joys of FSM (Sauce Be Unto Him) are egoistically denying the divine Truth of the Holy Recipe, which calls for but a paltry few ingredients, why-ah stiffneck wan deny Pastafari? The prayers go into the pot and the blessings come out! And that is why you will die alone, futiley attempting to summon an ironic laugh as you reflect back upon your equally futile and empty lives. And I'll be in noodle-related-pun heaven.

By: Decani

Decani — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 07:46:07 -0800

This is great. What's more, I've seen this phenomenon myself when I made the mistake of cooking small and large ziti together. I couldn't believe how many "doubles" I ended up with. And the really weird thing is the way they all doubled precisely, rather than with lengths of the smaller pasta hanging out of the larger. Clearly this sort of ordered event could not have happened without the intervention of an intelligent force. And in spite of all the blasphemers here only a fool would think the FSM wasn't behind it. I mean come on. The FSM clearly created these doubles in His own image, kinda. Let's be rational here.

By: ObscureReferenceMan

ObscureReferenceMan — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 08:36:28 -0800

daveyjay and 23skidoo - well said!!

By: GhostintheMachine

GhostintheMachine — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:13:44 -0800

Isn't it sad to think there's more of an effort to represent the scientific method in this joke than in all of the ID effort?

By: darren

darren — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:22:40 -0800

Hydrogen Dioxide didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, but it sure took out Natalie Wood.

By: Baby_Balrog

Baby_Balrog — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:08:45 -0800

I get it. I get it! Ok. I just wish you'd all come up with a religion that was slightly less ridiculous. I know, I know, walking on water, money from a fish, cursing a fig tree, coming back from the dead. These are all silly and deserving of you ridicule. But "Flying Spaghetti Monster?" That doesn't even make any sense at all. The smart thing to do would have been to create a novel religion the way all the other religions were created - by mishmashing up a bunch of really old mythology and centering it around some sort of hero-figure and saying, "Look - you have to teach this in you classroom." FSM isn't even funny. It's stupid. It is stupidly un-funny. It's like what the retarded kid in your class keeps harping on, over and over again, because somebody laughed once. "I worship Ronald McDonald! AH ha haaa haahaha! I'm silly! I worship the giant goat squid! I'm funny! I'm like a Christian!" Good lord. The only people who can possibly find this stuff humorous are IT geeks who've never seen an hour of Comedy Central in their lives. Get off it. It's lame. Like, "Dad's telling knock-knock jokes again" lame.

By: Ethereal Bligh

Ethereal Bligh — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:18:16 -0800

"Hydrogen Dioxide didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, but it sure took out Natalie Wood." I'm just too damn subtle, aren't I? See rxrfx's comment. Hydrogen peroxide is also known as hydrogen dioxide (even though is has two hydrogens).

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 15:36:59 -0800

So invent a religion already, Balrog, and quit whinging about the FSM.

By: Decani

Decani — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 06:07:03 -0800

Balrog, repent, you BLASPHEMER! Look at the evidence! The world is 4,000 years old! Behold the Adam of noodles! All praise the mighty FSM!