For the Love of God! What a Sense of Humor FAIL

By now many of you know about the humorous infinitely recursive loop that occurred in the last 24 hours on Twitter involving the phrase "No God."

Seems some celebrity Twittster asked his followers to RT (retweet) the bumper sticker saw "No God No Peace / Know God Know Peace." Except what was intended as a Yay God! tweet backfired when it resulted in "No God" becoming a Twitter trending topic.

The fun began when various religious types began frantically tweeting to their friends "Stop the No God Twitter trend. Do not RT "No God" tweets!" .... which of course only added to the trend.

So today I posted what I thought was a fun little jokey tweet about this minor exercise in unintended self-perpetuation:

"Stop the No God top trend! Don't tweet No God! Please retweet this."

Several people got it and gleefully RTed it, many appending LMAO or its equivalent.

Until @Nitroslippers.

"You realize by saying "No God" your contributing. So by retweeting yourselves you keep perpetuating the Trend."

No, really? OMG how could I have not seen that!?! This is what I love about Twitter, so many helpful people just ready to explain the obvious to perfect strangers.

Of course, @Nitroslippers (where do you buy nitroslippers, btw, I want me some!) was truly concerned that someone as clueless as your host might not have understood his philosophically dense first tweet, so two minutes later:

"..And you wonder why people keep say Christians are morons. Is it sinking in yet, fellas?"

...obviously anticipating that after his first message all I could do was sit around confounded by why people call Christians morons. Or why someone on Twitter who doesn't know me assumes that I am a Christian. Maybe I'm just a moron. Or a Mormon maybe even.

I have always relied on the kindness of strangers.

UPDATE!!

A check of @Nitroslippers' Twitter stream shows that he has deleted the Tweets I posted above. I think he may have felt led by the Lord to do so.

However, he did leave in place this little gem:

"I'm following this "No God" trending topic, and I've notice that God fearing people have real bad grammar. Theres more then one book to read"

Well, at least in his second tweet above he knew the difference between "your" and "you're." Oh....wait....

Artsy Cake Makes an Impression(ism)

Now I understand what you tried to say to me,

How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now.

"Vincent" - Don McLean

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4. Make a cake resembling Michelangelo's "Creation." Hang it upside down from the ceiling. Run for cover.

Ingenious But Simple Anti-Pollution Device

What with Global Warming and all, emissions from automobiles are a big concern, nearly as large as flatulent cows.

This guy, though, is sure to pass even California's strict standards. And far better than any catalytic converter--his device leaves the environment smelling piney fresh!


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Google Earth...Circa 1657

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Ah the early days of the World Wide Web. WebCrawler was the #1 search engine. McDonalds, Pepsi and Coke were all early adopters, with sites that went nowhere and did nothing. Blog was a monster in a low-budget movie.

No wait. Apparently those were all late-comers.

Above you see Google's earliest experiment with providing a business guide superimposed on a realistic view of the region being searched. It's just as well that modems were slower back then. Each "hilltop view" had to be hand etched with quill on parchment when the request hit the Google servers.

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Church Sign: No Sumo Wrestling Today

No caption needed....or even possible.

(Photo credit: @albertmohler)

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Everything I Know About American History I Learned at the Mall

Our local shopping mall was carefully crafted to recreate a typical 19th century "Main Street USA" that you would have typically found in any "Our Town USA" anywhere in the "Good Ol' USA" of that time.

Being an astute and careful student of history, I decided to avail myself of this unique opportunity to study the past of "Our Great Land*" up close and personal. Oh, sorry, I meant "Up Close and Personal."

After a relaxing afternoon of strolling through this meticulous recreation of a bygone day in the life of "Our Noble Experiment*,"  I was able to form several firm conclusions about life in 19th Century "Our Shining Land*."

1. Paint of that time was of very poor quality; advertisements painted on buildings looked instantly faded
2. Victorian Americans wore lots of clothes because they were afraid of the weather. I deduced this from the fact that they built transparent domed ceilings over their city streets.
3. 19th century American towns had police forces, but they were not highly trained and often overweight.
4. America in those days had much stricter zoning laws than we do today. All the eating establishments were confined to one part of town.
5. Victorian streets were terrorized by large bands of very loud teenagers.
6. I was at a bit of a loss to interpret what the numerous kiosks hawking cell phones represented. My theory is that in early small town America, they probably sold wire and telegraph poles.

This has been such an enjoyable way to learn history. Next week I want to learn more about the Middle Ages. I've booked a table at Medieval Times.

*It just occurred to me that I'm channeling titles of elementary school history textbooks of my childhood. One more evidence that I am an eminently qualified historan.

This Is the Way We Roll...Or Not

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You know those Demotivation posters, the ones from Despair.comhttp://despair.com/? I keep thinking this photo would make a good one.

"PREDESTINATION: Someone had to be the last one. Looks like it was the person before you."

"PREPAREDNESS: Always, always, check that the roll is full before you sit down."

"RESOURCEFULNESS: Toilet paper has only been around since the sixth century. What did people do before then?"

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