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March 8th, 2011

J&M’s entry for the Templeton Prize.

I can haz millian pounz now?

(Did I do that right?)

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Discussion (31)¬

  1. Yasha says:
    March 8, 2011 at 10:45 am

    Quite. Author, you just made Newton’s ghost very angry.

  2. Dave N says:
    March 8, 2011 at 10:50 am

    Nice one, author! If you recite that in a drawn out old man’s Shakespearian voice, it works even better.

  3. ronmurp says:
    March 8, 2011 at 11:11 am

    How fitting for the quote from Karl Giberson (above right) which links to this shite; sorry, site:
    http://www.biologos.org/about

  4. ROLFE says:
    March 8, 2011 at 11:22 am

    Well, it made me laugh.

  5. archbish says:
    March 8, 2011 at 11:53 am

    Made me laugh out loud. Thanks author

  6. Intelligent Designer says:
    March 8, 2011 at 12:09 pm

    Encore!

    Having listened to a program about George Formby last night, I’ve now got J & M singing a duet in broad Lancastrian whilst getting a banjo-uke sound out of the acoustic guitar.

    I think it adds, rather than takes away πŸ˜‰

  7. Tim McGregor says:
    March 8, 2011 at 12:11 pm

    How long have J&M been blinking? I thought I was going mad at first.

  8. Darwin Harmless says:
    March 8, 2011 at 12:12 pm

    Now you’ve got me trying to work out the melody. I think we need a few more verses.

  9. Unruly Simian says:
    March 8, 2011 at 1:17 pm

    @ Tim – Author has done this a few times and like you the first time I saw it I began questioning my sanity. Not that this proves me sane, mind you…..

  10. kev_s says:
    March 8, 2011 at 3:58 pm

    Haha! You deserve a million Author!

  11. Ophelia Benson says:
    March 8, 2011 at 4:44 pm

    Brilliant!

    You should see what Paula Kirby said about this one on Facebook.

    Ok I’ll tell you. She said “I do not have the words to describe how brilliant this is!”

  12. the beagle says:
    March 8, 2011 at 4:53 pm

    Tim, perhaps if one stares long enough and hard enough J&M might shed tears – anyone got the pope’s number?

  13. Joel says:
    March 8, 2011 at 6:09 pm

    “Rectal provenance” = best lyric EVAH.

  14. David B says:
    March 8, 2011 at 6:11 pm

    I am so going to steal ‘rectal provenance’

    David B

  15. James says:
    March 8, 2011 at 6:36 pm

    This is wonderful; succinct and brutally honest. The “hypotheses of rectal providence” line had me laughing out loud! πŸ™‚

  16. Stephen Turner says:
    March 8, 2011 at 7:01 pm

    Hahaha. For some reason I have the feeling this isn’t going to win.

    With some more verses, maybe J&M could make it big in the Hit Parade.

  17. Dan says:
    March 8, 2011 at 9:34 pm

    Magnificent. Eurovision anyone?

  18. Neuseline says:
    March 8, 2011 at 9:52 pm

    It scanned very well with the tune I just composed in my head. A truly scatalogical ditty.

  19. Ketil W.Grevstad says:
    March 8, 2011 at 9:55 pm

    i like the song and the blinking eyes.

    hehe maybe this is a new song to the Eurovisjon πŸ™‚

  20. MrGronk says:
    March 9, 2011 at 1:53 am

    Magnificent!
    @Yasha: sad but true; Newton expended most of his unequalled intellect on theology.

  21. Nassar Ben Houdja says:
    March 9, 2011 at 3:32 am

    Making noise akin to a goat
    Or a frog exhaling a bloat
    The proselytizing atheist
    Or inflated physical scientist
    Sound like a “Johnny one note”.

  22. Mansur al-Japan says:
    March 9, 2011 at 4:32 am

    I know asking this is totally uncool, but where does “rectal provenance” come from? Has it something to do with prostate cancer check?

  23. Gab says:
    March 9, 2011 at 8:25 am

    @ Mansur al-Japan: I think ‘rectal provenance’ is just a proof of J&M’s poetic talent, so that the word ‘common sense’ can rhyme with ‘utter bullshit’.

  24. Joe Fogey says:
    March 9, 2011 at 9:17 am

    Works well to a slightly adapted “My old man’s a dustman” with an extra final couplet, sung slowly to emphasize the true beauty of the words.

  25. PhilJo says:
    March 9, 2011 at 11:38 am

    @Mansur “Hypotheses of rectal provenance” could be translated to “Theories I pulled out of my ass”.

  26. jerry w says:
    March 9, 2011 at 2:19 pm

    In panel 3, did Mo intend to say “And still believe in -all of this- Shite”?

  27. beechnut says:
    March 9, 2011 at 4:05 pm

    Spot on, and very funny. Well done, Author.

  28. Philip says:
    March 9, 2011 at 4:19 pm

    If you repeat the last line of each panel, it fits nicely to the tune of the Gilligans Island theme song. I particularly like the repetition of the “rectal provenance” line this requires.

  29. kiyaroru says:
    March 10, 2011 at 1:00 am

    There must be enough material for an album now.

  30. Don says:
    March 10, 2011 at 7:54 pm

    The blinking is freaking me out.

  31. Aj says:
    March 11, 2011 at 8:47 am

    Sadly, I doubt the boys are ever likely to win a Templeton.

    Now, if the Barmaid can bring herself to declare that their arguments are really quite reasonable and interesting (and maybe calls Richard Dawkins a poopie-head for good measure) then she’ll be a shoe-in.

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