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Started by Kai, January 31, 2012, 08:54:43 PM

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The Good Reverend Roger

#30
February 02, 2012, 09:09:11 PM
Interesting note:  The CotSG is also pretty much extinct, at least as any form of organized asshattery.  Stang now refers to himself as a "public figure", and Philo Drummond and the rest are sort of coasting on Facebook. 

The reason why, I think, is because they were so traumatized by usenet bullshit that they withdrew into a set of "secret forums" and closed Facebook clubs, and developed this weird idea that they were in fact as large as their egos (Mostly Stang, here.  Nenslo disappeared for the most part, and the other 5 major writers haven't been producing, as Subgenii).

I've met more than a few of them, and I predicted this back in 1999.  Hellpope Huey and Nenslo were the only people willing to engage (read:  scream at, HST-style) anyone that wasn't in their own little circle (this was at a devival in Cleveland).  I didn't bother trying...Nenslo and Huey were the two people I came to see.

But it was amusing watching Stang running people off with his Bob Dylan-esque hatred of his fans.
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Cramulus

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February 02, 2012, 09:19:06 PM
hey, random question ---

Do you think the mad scientist character "Philo" from Weird Al's movie UHF is supposed to be Philo Drummond?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ld-twoeg2s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkLLpiCpqQ0

The Good Reverend Roger

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February 02, 2012, 09:21:30 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on February 02, 2012, 09:19:06 PM
hey, random question ---

Do you think the mad scientist character "Philo" from Weird Al's movie UHF is supposed to be Philo Drummond?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ld-twoeg2s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkLLpiCpqQ0

I don't know, but I don't think so.  Philo was never the Mad Doktor type.  He mostly wrote the OVERMAN stuff.

Philo just SOUNDS like a crazed scientist's name.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Kai

#34
February 04, 2012, 01:17:48 AM
Quote from: Cramulus on February 03, 2012, 08:17:04 PM
related:

http://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/2012/02/03/essi-makela-finding-religiosity-within-a-parody/ (podcast)

http://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/2012/01/30/podcast-carole-cusack-on-invented-religions/

I thought those articles were very interesting, yet, I kept getting caught up in the language implying that 'traditional' religions are not as made up as irreligions. Because, of course, they are.
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February 04, 2012, 01:23:06 AM
Quote from: ZL 'Kai' Burington, M.S. on February 04, 2012, 01:17:48 AM
Quote from: Cramulus on February 03, 2012, 08:17:04 PM
related:

http://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/2012/02/03/essi-makela-finding-religiosity-within-a-parody/ (podcast)

http://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/2012/01/30/podcast-carole-cusack-on-invented-religions/

I thought those articles were very interesting, yet, I kept getting caught up in the language implying that 'traditional' religions are not as made up as irreligions. Because, of course, they are.

The second one I thought took pains to express that. Have yet to hear the first.
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