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Meta-meta-meta-humor
I love watching jokes get stretched further and further until they
take on a life of their own, disconnected from the circumstances of
their birth. Such I hope is the case of the Flying Spaghetti Monster,
the
godhead of a new religion that
came into being as a response to educators in Kansas (a contradiction
in terms, I know) who decided that
Intelligent
Design should be taught in science classes. What's next?
Leeches in medical schools?
Anyway,
Boing
Boing reported on the growth of the joke, including
a
Wikipedia entry for his exaltedness, the FSM. And today
they've
taken it another step, with their attempt to create the FSM
version of the Christians'
holy
mackerel. I so hope some enterprising maker takes this on as a
product. This is getting almost as good as
All Your
Base...
Update 09/11: And the joke keeps growing. The Huffington Post points to an article in the Telegraph about Pastafarianism and its phenomenal growth as a religion. (Hey, if Jedi can make it, why not the FSM?) Good writeup, aside from the boneheaded reference to the Scopes Monkey Trial. That was Tennessee, not Ohio, not that I expect a Brit to know the difference.