Quickies
Skepchick Quickies 12.30
- Not CAM but CAA – How to definitely not kill someone with a gun.
- How to profit from the coming RaptureÂ
- Teens don’t keep virginity pledges and pledgers don’t use birth control – Â I know this has been said before but it bears repeating.
- Mmm, miracle sweetener – Made by a miracle of nature, not chemistry! Thanks LOLkate.
Quickes? Vot is dis “Quickes” ov vich you speaks?
@QuestionAuthority: Why yes, it’s uh, German. That’s what I intended. I was channeling my ancient race-memory of the German language.
It’s bad enough had the entry-writing window open for an hour before realizing that I hadn’t hit “post.” Duhhh.
That rapture thing reminded me of this service. For the low, low fee of $40 per year, they’ll store “sensitive” documents to be sent to your “left behind” loved ones. I’m guessing that subscribers are loading up the servers with bank account numbers, passwords and lock box combinations. What could possibly go wrong? O_0
It seems like “marketing Jesus-approved birth control” would neatly combine items 2 and 3.
Also, if we’re getting picky about spelling, “sweetner” needs another “e.” As is, it sounds like something William Shatner would say to his mirror.
@Oskar Kennedy (LBB): Oh for the love of Darwin, somebody take away my keyboard.
I had tried that sweetner, stelvia? in a natural foods store. It was just nasty.
@Amanda: You have a demanding audience…and some of us have degrees in writing! ;-)
(We love you, anyway!)
And you can count on proponents to take the hint the very same day creationists deign to understand what a theory is.
By the way, which of you young’uns will be kind enough to bring me a parka to Hell when that day comes?
@QuestionAuthority: And I love the demanding audience. :) Awwww, hugs all around.
Maybe I’ve just been reading too much of the Twilight throwdown and the lolspeek dizeeez is catching? Eep!
Bristol Palin + abstinence only education = baby
But, but, GabrielBrawley, It MUST work because they believe in it! It’s “faith-based,” so it can’t be wrong…can it? ;-) Or are you just being judgmental!?! How DARE you?!?! LOL
@Amanda: I’ll take a few accidental misspellings of intelligent content over intentional (and, so often, vapid) l33tspeak any day.
Oh, and thanks for the link. =)
@Oskar Kennedy (LBB): Speaking of accidental vs. intentional misspellings, I have to ask: Is that spelling of “complementary” as “complimentary” in your comic intentional?
@Andrés Diplotti: Huh. Look at that. Stabbed in the back by a previously unnoticed homophone. I never realized there were two different spellings.
Uh, I mean, YES! It was a subtle joke on how self-congratulatory CAM proponents tend to be. I’m glad somebody finally noticed that I slipped that in there.
No I didn’t.
@QuestionAuthority: I know, I know, there I go again think about things for myself and then reaching a judgement all by myself. How freaking elitist.
@QuestionAuthority: It’s not creepy or wrong because GOD LOVES YOU!!!!
Amanda: My irony meter doesn’t work so well at this time of the morning so I might be missing something, but how is a plant not a product of chemistry? Its not made out of photons.
Having said that, I’ve heard this stuff is pretty good, and it doesn’t fall apart when heated like aspartame does, so it can be used for cooking.
@Andres_Diplotti: Oh, no! Not an unnoticed Homophone! Quick, call James Dobson! EVERYONE PANIC!
;-)
@Oskar Kennedy (LBB): Last time I was Catholic,
“Jesus-approved birth control” was the Rhythm Method. There might be some True Christians out there who don’t hold with counting, though.
Then again, the Rhythm Method is biologically-informed selective abstinence, so it’s about as likely to work among horny teenagers as absolute abstinence.
About a week ago I sent a letter to Cargill regarding their “miracle of nature, not chemistry ” product. As of yet I have not received a form letter in return, but I look forward to it.
@fmitchell: I think use of the Rhythm method by teenagers would probably be rendered sort of useless by the sex-hormone brain fog that Cassie talked about recently. “Can’t count, too horny,” and all that.