Comments on: detox

By: moonface

moonface — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:55:49 +0000

Don’t take my name in vain.

By: Shoaib

Shoaib — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:04:47 +0000

Tons of books much â€˜worseâ€™ than The Satanic Verses has been published to no reaction

Incidently, which books might those be? Just asking because Rushdie’s book is as bad as it gets when insulting the Quran.

P.S: Not that I feel that it should not be insulted. Heck I’d insult the Faraway Tree too if people started calling Moonface the one true prophet of the one true god.

By: WilliamJansen

WilliamJansen — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:44:16 +0000

As for muslims not getting their panties in a bunch over Jesus&Mo, I think it demonstrates how random this muslim anger can be.

In the 90′ies a Danish painter (Jens-JÃ¸rgen Thorsen) drew a wall-mural, where Muhammed was depicted with a gigantic knob, and nobody reacted. Tons of books much ‘worse’ than The Satanic Verses has been published to no reaction. But then occassionally one story, one book, one cartoon just seems to ignite a certain section of muslims, it gains critical mass and all of a not-so-sudden, stuff starts blowing up.

By: pikeamus

pikeamus — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:42:09 +0000

You all realise you can vote more than once (I think its every 24 hours), right? We are losing pace with day by day and medium large. Dilbert is even catching up and we were a reasonable way ahead a little while ago.

By: Shoaib

Shoaib — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:02:32 +0000

Oh, and I too have wondered why the Muslims havenâ€™t gotten their knickers all in a twist about J&M.

I believe its banned in places like Pakistan and the Middle East. But yes your right about no effigy-buring of the Author taking place till now. Maybe if he was Danish…

I’ve voted for the comic too although the clear favourite seems to be XKCD.

By: Ophelia Benson

Ophelia Benson — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:28:11 +0000

Don’t forget to get J and M a nice detox foot patch. And some detox bath accessories, too. And a detox smoothie.

They need a full set of detox equipment if they’re to be prepared for the difficulties of the year ahead.

The barmaid would like a grapefruit, please.

By: Uncle Roger

Uncle Roger — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:04:48 +0000

Oh, and I too have wondered why the Muslims haven’t gotten their knickers all in a twist about J&M.

By: Uncle Roger

Uncle Roger — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:03:48 +0000

I like xkcd a lot too, so it was a tough choice. In the end, I went for J&M because it almost always makes me laugh and I’m not “in” enough to get all the Cory Doctorow type jokes. I’d heard of G-G and, while it’s an interesting concept, the couple I’ve seen didn’t strike me as that great. The others, I hadn’t heard of.

My favorites (other than J&M & xkcd) are Basic Instructions and Questionable Content. Oh, and Shabot 6000.

By: Teleprompter

Teleprompter — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:32:41 +0000

I already voted for both Pharyngula and Jesus & Mo…and you can vote again every day until the contest is over.

By: JayBee1988

JayBee1988 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:43:21 +0000

@ JoJo
Aren’t you wondering how muslims haven’t gone mad about this website yet?
I know I am…
Well… unless they paid attention that he’s a body double