Mar 14 2012

Look who else is coming to the Reason Rally

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Atheism

by PZ Myers

It’s Eddie Izzard.

Have you realized that you must come yet?

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lizdamnit

14 March 2012 at 3:58 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I expect detailed reports, postings, tweets, etc – I love me some Eddie!
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nigelTheBold to the power of nigelTheBold

14 March 2012 at 3:59 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Nnnnnoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

I told you to reschedule. I can’t attend that weekend!

Now I am vastly saddened.
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chigau (√-1)

14 March 2012 at 4:06 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

See.
Calgary has interwebs.
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ibyea

14 March 2012 at 4:10 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Wait, who is Eddie Izzard? (Yeah, I know, this question will probably get me crucified).
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'Tis Himself, OM

14 March 2012 at 4:12 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Wait, who is Eddie Izzard?

He’s a comedian who can sometimes be funny.
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Brownian

14 March 2012 at 4:16 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

He’s a comedian who can sometimes be funny.

There’s a shorthand word for referring to a comedian who can sometimes be funny: it’s “comedian.”

Eddie Izzard happens to be a comedian with an outstanding sense of fashion.
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PZ Myers

14 March 2012 at 4:17 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Yay! We’re also going to have the ritual crucifixion of ibyea at the Rally!
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SteveV

14 March 2012 at 4:19 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Eddie Izzard
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PZ Myers

14 March 2012 at 4:19 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I also don’t want to hear any complaints about the timing. You are expected to RESCHEDULE THE REST OF YOUR LIFE to show up.

I had one person tell me they’d love to come, but their wife was expecting a baby then. I told them being born at the Reason Rally would be an awesome way to start their life.
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Beatrice, anormalement indécente

14 March 2012 at 4:21 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Wait, wait, I thought your were going to bring guillotine back into fashion.
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Brownian

14 March 2012 at 4:21 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Yay! We’re also going to have the ritual crucifixion of ibyea at the Rally!

Don’t worry, ibyea. We can do in using Lego®.
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SteveV

14 March 2012 at 4:21 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

PZ & Eddie.
You lucky bastards.
You lucky, lucky bastards.
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Azkyroth

14 March 2012 at 4:26 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Have you realized that you must come yet?

…you paying?
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Mario

14 March 2012 at 4:33 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Thank you Browninan for that link! It never gets old.
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chigau (√-1)

14 March 2012 at 4:36 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Azkyroth

…you paying?

Don’t you have a baby you could sell?
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Brownian

14 March 2012 at 4:45 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Thank you Browninan for that link! It never gets old.

One day some kid is going to ask me what Lego® was. On that day, humanity as we know it will come to an end.
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Randomfactor

14 March 2012 at 4:49 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I’m from California. They don’t serve my kind there, apparently.
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marcus

14 March 2012 at 4:51 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Yeah, well who wants to hang out with Eddie Izzard and PZ , meet many of you fine miscreants, fight off the godbots, drink some really good beer (and possibly other libations), have wonderful amazing conversations and learn lots and lots of really interesting stuff anyway? Not me! Not me by a long shot!
…(sob)
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carlie

14 March 2012 at 4:59 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Dammmmiiiiiitttttt!!!

I’m with you, nigel. I shall be thinking jealously of the people at the rally. For me it’s not the time, but there’s no way I could afford to go. Even if I sell my children.
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carlie

14 March 2012 at 5:01 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I adore Eddie Izzard. He is make me laugh myself sick funny, and manages to not derive any of his humor by bashing groups of people.

The bit about fruit slays me, and I’ve watched it at least a dozen times. “It’s like Das Boot in there!”
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ibyea

14 March 2012 at 5:10 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Hmm… Maybe skipping the rally isn’t such a bad idea now. :)
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robro

14 March 2012 at 5:51 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Off topic…well, it is about eau do cologne (“water from Köln”) — The Guardian reports that the Pope-sy has ordered a custom-blended eau de cologne from an Italian boutique perfume maker, perhaps so you can’t smell the Ratzstinker when gives you the magic cookie.:

He [the Pope] is picky about his robes and his red shoes are tailor-made, but Pope Benedict has taken the meaning of bespoke to a whole new level by ordering a custom-blended eau de cologne just for him.

The fragrance, which mixes hints of lime tree, verbena and grass, was concocted by the Italian boutique perfume maker Silvana Casoli, who has previously created scents for customers including Madonna, Sting and King Juan Carlos of Spain.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/14/pope-commissions-eau-de-cologne

Now isn’t that sweet. And so reasonable. A man in his position needs the best. And those poor women dying of unwanted pregnancies with too many starving children in under-developed Catholic countries…pshaw! God ordains.
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Zeno

14 March 2012 at 5:54 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Oh, I don’t know. It just hasn’t been the same since he stopped wearing dresses.

Cake or death, anyone?
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Wren, a Tru Hoppist

14 March 2012 at 6:13 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

PZ, my husband and I were going to come (really, have Amtrak tickets and had a hotel booked) but I just had surgery and my doctor threatened me if I “did that much activity so soon.”

I could have missed it, but will there be a live feed of the rally so I can watch from home?
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cjmitchell

14 March 2012 at 6:17 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

*SOB*

I want, want, want. But I can’t afford it. Next time we have a Reason Rally, can we have it somewhere within driving distance of me? Seattle or Portland would be peachy…
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Brownian

14 March 2012 at 6:21 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Next time we have a Reason Rally, can we have it somewhere within driving distance of me? Seattle or Portland would be peachy…

Seattle or Portland? Don’t you mean within cycling distance?
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Niki M

14 March 2012 at 6:31 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Seconded on the live feed.

Please?

No really, please? For us broke mofos who can’t take the time off?
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michaeld

14 March 2012 at 7:01 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Probably for the best I don’t know who this is, otherwise this might be upsetting.
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carlie

14 March 2012 at 7:17 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

“Mais, la souris est en dessous la table, le chat est sur la chaise et le singe est sur la branche.”
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Caine, Fleur du Mal

14 March 2012 at 7:43 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I don’t have a problem with scheduling, I have a not enough money problem. Seriously sad here.
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Nerd of Redhead, Dances OM Trolls

14 March 2012 at 8:07 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

The Redhead won’t give me permission to come, for some reason ;).
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Rey Fox

14 March 2012 at 8:14 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Woah.

If I see a hawk that day, I’ll name it Eddie.
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Randomfactor

14 March 2012 at 8:31 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I could have missed it, but will there be a live feed of the rally

Nope. And that’s deliberate. If you can’t make it to the rally, screw you.

(Am I bitter? No, not a damned fucking bit.)
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cm's changeable moniker

14 March 2012 at 8:31 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

“le singe est” …

That joke’s been playing depuis longtemps. ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91foy5HWHN0&feature=player_detailpage#t=200s
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'Tis Himself, OM

14 March 2012 at 9:01 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

My wife will be recovering from surgery. She’d get rather annoyed if I disappeared for the weekend. The way it’s going, I might not even get any sailing in.
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Ms. Daisy Cutter, Gynofascist in a Spiffy Hugo Boss Uniform

14 March 2012 at 9:17 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Imagine Izzard addressing the Phelps clan in person…
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christinelaing

14 March 2012 at 9:43 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

@Ms. Daisy Cutter, Gynofascist in a Spiffy Hugo Boss Uniform

The comedic potential of the monologue alone is frightening. An actual confrontation might cause spectators to die laughing.
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Ray, rude-ass yankee

14 March 2012 at 10:49 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I have realized that I must come.
I have rescheduled the rest of my life to show up.

Hell, I am coming! I will be there, with bells on! (maybe literally I’m not sure what I’m wearing yet) I need to make a t-shirt that says:

R___A___Y
u_-__s___a
d____s___n
e________k
_________e
_________e
with a cephalopod picture or something like that on it. Isn’t there a copyright free cuttlefish picture in common use by the Pharyngula horde?
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Caine, Fleur du Mal

14 March 2012 at 10:52 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Ray:

Isn’t there a copyright free cuttlefish picture in common use by the Pharyngula horde?

I got yer cuttlefish, right here.
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McCthulhu - There can be only FHTAGN!!!

15 March 2012 at 1:18 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Fuck. My. Life. My favorite comedian* gets on board the RZNRLY. And here I’m iz facing child abandonment charges if I go.

The complete lack of any broadcast or cable networks advertising coverage of the thing is really trumpeting the complete irrelevance of the TV medium in the future.

*evidence for this is based on most times quoted by multiple household members.
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tomfrog

15 March 2012 at 1:19 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I need to make a t-shirt

Great idea, might be used on a pole if Eddie ever asks you “do you have a flag?”
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chigau (√-1)

15 March 2012 at 1:51 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

‘Tis and Nerd
*hugs* for your™ women-folk.
and y’all
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nmcc

15 March 2012 at 3:31 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

“‘Tis Himself, OM

14 March 2012 at 4:12 pm

“He’s a comedian who can sometimes be funny.”

I beg to differ. He’s a permanent fixture (as in there’s never a time when one of his shows is not available to listen to) on BBC Radio 4 and I can assure you that he has NEVER said ANYTHING even remotely funny, not once.
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Nemo

15 March 2012 at 3:33 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

The complete lack of any broadcast or cable networks advertising coverage of the thing is really trumpeting the complete irrelevance of the TV medium in the future.

I imagine there’ll be some coverage on C-SPAN.
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pentatomid

15 March 2012 at 4:31 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Awesome! Eddie Izzard! Now, if only I wasn’t on the wrong continent…
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salahhesali

15 March 2012 at 6:36 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I am now officially accepting donations for Rally and plane tickets. Although I am not sure if it is “officially” or “desperately”, English isn’t my first language.
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salahhesali

15 March 2012 at 6:41 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Now all there is left is Sarah Silverman attending and I am going to kill myself.
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Tony

15 March 2012 at 6:51 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Brownian:

That link was awesome. I’d never seen that. I wonder how long ‘death by tray’ would take…
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Ogvorbis: Now With 98% Less Intellectual Curiousity!

15 March 2012 at 7:20 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Have you realized that you must come yet?

Sorry. Though I am only 4 hours away, I cannot come. Though I must. But I can’t. Must but can’t. Mustcant. Muscatel? Descant? Decanted?

Coffee.
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Conor Sans Pantaloons

15 March 2012 at 9:29 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I was already excited about attending, but this newer news has excited my pants into a kerfuffle. Help?
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McCthulhu - There can be only FHTAGN!!!

15 March 2012 at 9:53 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Whose turn was it to say “Keep your pants on!”?

I’m not saying it.

My kingdom for a keepyerpantsonner!
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carbonbasedlifeform

15 March 2012 at 2:08 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Oh, I have heard Eddie Izzard being funny. Once or twice. Sort of.
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nmcc

15 March 2012 at 4:20 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Yeah, in a sort of completely unfunny way.

His material is too stupid to be funny.

He’s like that other massively overrated atheist comedian, Ricky something or other. He did a mildly humourous take on office life and has been living on it ever since. Even his attempts at ridiculing the Bible during his stand-up routine were so lame that they barely has the energy to hobble out of his mouth. But then, just like Izzard, he’s an atheist, so, for some, that makes him the funniest bloke who’s ever lived.
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chigau (√-1)

15 March 2012 at 4:29 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

nmcc
If you want real yuks, you should read the bible!
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Brownian

15 March 2012 at 4:29 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Who do you find funny, nmcc?
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salahhesali

16 March 2012 at 1:27 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

mmcc I could say that you can’t see the funny because of the penis in your mouth, but I am a lady, so I won’t.
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chigau (√-1)

16 March 2012 at 1:37 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

nmcc:
pffft
—–
salahhesali:
you, too
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pentatomid

16 March 2012 at 4:30 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

nmcc
Sorry to hear you don’t think Eddie Izzard is funny. That’s just your opinion. I don’t have any problem with that. De gustibus et coloribus and all that jazz. A lot of us, however, do think he’s funny and it’s not just ‘because he’s an atheist’. Stop acting like your sense of humor is somehow superior to the rest of us.
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carbonbasedlifeform

16 March 2012 at 5:16 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Oh, we don’t believe that our sense of humor is superior. We just believe that Eddie Izzard is not funny.
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opposablethumbs, que le pouce enragé mette les pouces

16 March 2012 at 5:26 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

We just believe that Eddie Izzard is not funny.

Ah, but you’d be mistaken then. Has his off-moments like any comedian, but bloody hilarious when he’s on form. You just don’t get it, which is fair enough – you can go and listen to something more your taste (and what would that be?) while we enjoy Izzard being brilliant.
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AshPlant

16 March 2012 at 6:13 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

We just believe that Eddie Izzard is not funny

That’s a hell of a blanket statement. What was I doing wrong all those times his material made me laugh, then?

Sorry, pet peeve, bee in bonnet, berserk button ect. when discussing comedians. What you meant to say was that you don’t find him funny.
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pentatomid

16 March 2012 at 7:09 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Oh, we don’t believe that our sense of humor is superior. We just believe that Eddie Izzard is not funny.

As I said before, I don’t mind if you think Eddie Izzard isn’t funny. When I said that about nmcc thinking his sense of humor is superior, I was specifically adressing these statements:

His material is too stupid to be funny.

and

But then, just like Izzard, he’s an atheist, so, for some, that makes him the funniest bloke who’s ever lived.
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McCthulhu - There can be only FHTAGN!!!

17 March 2012 at 11:25 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Debating personal tastes. That’s useful. We should now discuss what is the proper colour for bathroom towels.