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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)¬

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

  6. 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˜‰

  9. @ 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…..

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

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

  16. 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.

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

  19. i like the song and the blinking eyes.

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

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

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

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

  28. 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.

  31. 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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