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FSM in the MSM

Jesse Walker | 3.22.2006 12:27 PM

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The New Jersey Record profiles the inventors of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, surely the most promising development in American religion since the rise of Festivus.

For more on DIY religions, go here. To mock me for using the phrase "MSM" non-ironically, go here.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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  1. Don't kill this bird   20 years ago

    Mock, Mock, Mock.

  2. linguist   20 years ago

    Grin.

    Since the FSM is a dig on intelligent design, isn't wondering about it's origins somewhat ironic, and recursive?

  3. Ian   20 years ago

    Um. What's an MSM?

  4. linguist   20 years ago

    Can I play off the double post as an ironic comment on recursiveness?

  5. Jennifer   20 years ago

    Threadjack: the "comments" link for "Pot Smokers Demand to be treated like murderers" does not work.

  6. Evan   20 years ago

    Jennifer:

    Well, to use ChicagoTom's logical-looptedoo from yesterday's "financial abortion" discussion, any punishment is justified by the fact that the person who broke the law knew beforehand what the punishment was, and anything after that was his responsibility.

    These little bastards knew, prior to firing up their "water pipe", that the penalties included losing financial aid. Therefore, it is a just and fair penalty.

  7. Evan   20 years ago

    cunning lignuist:

    hehehehe...your attempt at irony was thwarted by Ian. You sucketh!

  8. lunchstealer   20 years ago

    Gotta say, I've got new a Hero of Internet Memes (tm).

    Still wonder if they're going to co-opt International Talk Like a Pirate Day a la the Yule/Christmas co-opting of the mideval Christian expansion.

  9. Pro Libertate   20 years ago

    lunchstealer,

    All your base are belong to us.

  10. Mike Laursen   20 years ago

    re: "Um. What's an MSM?"

    Ooh, ooh, I can answer that, 'cause I asked the same question a few days ago: MSM = mainstream media

    And I still hate acronyms intensely!

  11. independent worm   20 years ago

    Ooh, ooh, I can answer that, 'cause I asked the same question a few days ago: MSM = mainstream media. And I still hate acronyms intensely!

    Well you're in luck then, because MSM isn't an acronym, it's an initialism! 🙂

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym

  12. Mike Laursen   20 years ago

    And here I was restraining myself from being all pedantic and pointing out that "MSM" isn't a phrase.

  13. lunchstealer   20 years ago

    Pro:

    OMG u r so 2001

    There's a great discussion of the Flying Spaghetti Monster on SciAm's website:

    http://blog.sciam.com/index.php?title=the_pastafarians_speak&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

  14. Eric the .5b   20 years ago

    Well you're in luck then, because MSM isn't an acronym, it's an initialism! 🙂

    So, it really should be TLI, not TLA?

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