my fave tee shirt design from Woot.com has a giant squid/octopus attacking Noah’s Ark and grabbing one of the two llamas with Noah on the fore deck waving his staff, and the dove of peace flying away.
Salt water fish too since the level of salinity in the new giant ocean wouldn’t have suited either, not that anything could have surveyed in an environment with currents strong enough to scour out the Grand Canyon and the Rift Valley in a few minutes and splash up enough water to crater the moon (the Bible doesn’t claim those last two, but they just like to dig themselves in deeper and deeper).
That last one is a re-working of a favourite joke told many years ago by Tommy Cooper (a strange British comedian, bad magician, and one-time boxer).
“Man walks into a bar…” [pause] “Says ‘Ouch!’: it was an iron bar”
Chris Rodda is the author of Liars For Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History and Debunking David Barton's Jefferson Lies: #2 - Jefferson Founded a Secular University. Since the release of Liars For Jesus in 2006, Chris has been blogging at Talk2Action.org, Huffington Post, and elsewhere about the use of historical revisionism in everything from education to legislation. Chris's blog on Freethoughtblogs.com will eventually accompany a weekly podcast, "This Week in Christian Nationalism," if Chris can ever find the time to launch it. In the meantime, the name of her blog will continue to make no sense.
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grumpyoldfart
March 4, 2012 at 10:23 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The first cartoon reminded me of another joke about Noah’s Ark – Did he takes the whales on board with him, or did they have to swim along behind?
'Tis Himself, OM
March 4, 2012 at 10:44 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
If you’re a grocery store buyer buying from a fruit wholesaler you could easily buy 60 cantaloupes at one time.
wholething
March 4, 2012 at 11:48 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Watermelons have formal weddings because they cantaloupe.
den1s
March 4, 2012 at 2:55 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
my fave tee shirt design from Woot.com has a giant squid/octopus attacking Noah’s Ark and grabbing one of the two llamas with Noah on the fore deck waving his staff, and the dove of peace flying away.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/wootsaleimages/You_Shall_Not_OctopassvnbDetail.png
Randomfactor
March 4, 2012 at 4:47 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Den1s, I proudly own that shirt.
It just recently was pointed out to me how much of the ark’s cargo capacity was taken up by huge aquarium tanks full of fresh-water fish.
helenaconstantine
March 4, 2012 at 7:08 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Salt water fish too since the level of salinity in the new giant ocean wouldn’t have suited either, not that anything could have surveyed in an environment with currents strong enough to scour out the Grand Canyon and the Rift Valley in a few minutes and splash up enough water to crater the moon (the Bible doesn’t claim those last two, but they just like to dig themselves in deeper and deeper).
timberwoof
March 5, 2012 at 2:01 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The flood cratered the moon? Facepaw
I’m gong to stop by the Donut Wheel on the way to work. I expect that some idiot will claim that this morning’s M4.0 over in Berkeley is my fault.
richardelguru
March 5, 2012 at 3:58 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
That last one is a re-working of a favourite joke told many years ago by Tommy Cooper (a strange British comedian, bad magician, and one-time boxer).
“Man walks into a bar…” [pause] “Says ‘Ouch!’: it was an iron bar”