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@ Reg

Since we’re talking about plays on words, how about:

“Raw puns’ll let your hair down”

turns its adherents into something way less than animals

This is the kind of language anti-semites used in the run up to Naziism. It is no coincidence that Autumn left this website around when some of you started saying shocking dehumanising things that go far beyond simple criticism of religion. I am, at this point, embarrassed to be associated…[Read more]

Or how about one of my own;

Synesthesia is just a pigment of your imagination.

@Unseen – Does this qualify: “Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like bananas”?

If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong.

Oh wait, that is a paraprosdokian sentence, not a lexophile one. 🙂

@Enco – There is no such thing as an “Ex-Marine”. They would wince and grit their teeth to hear that term.

Yes, I could hear them shouting at me as I wrote the words 🙂 Not even a former marine. Once a marine, always a marine. They earn the title.

@Reg

Does this qualify: “Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like bananas”?

Lexophilia: Although not in the dictionary, it is reported that “Lexophile” describes a person who loves sentences such as, “You can tune a piano, but you can’t tuna fish,” and “To write with a broken pencil is pointless.”
An annual competition is held by the New York Times to see who can create the best original lexophile. This year’s…[Read more]

@Enco – I would think that 43% is accurate. Almost all the Americans I know are atheists. I have friends in CA, GA, and NY and I am struggling to think of any that would be religious.  I sometimes work with a guy from rural Alabama who is an ex-marine. He is a militant atheist and said almost all his squad were atheists. That surprised me. I th…[Read more]

Some years ago, I was manning the Atheist Ireland information table with a few colleagues on the main street in Dublin. We would always let people approach us rather than stopping them on the street. Same approach as the Jehovah Witness trinity beside us. On our left a Free Palestine group began setting up their own table. It was soon joined by a…[Read more]

Ugh an utter dog shit video on Palestine-Israel. This topic brings out the nutjobbery, fallacies, brain-farts, bigotry, reverse bigotry and ugliness from both sides all the time. You simply cannot avoid nonsense videos by both Pro-Israeli and Pro-Palestinian people trying to justify the unjustifiable and discredit the other side through utterly…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
re:Life in the Universe: It’s either everywhere or nowhere…. Just wondering if the scientist who bet a bottle of whisky that we will find extraterrestrials in the next 15 years even understands basic probability?

Admittedly, this reply somewhat oblique, but this expert explains how it’s perfectly plausible that we are alone in the…[Read more]