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Food Activist's Life Becomes The Life of Brian
krou writes "After food activist and author Raj Patel appeared on The Colbert Report to promote his latest book, things seemed to be going well, until he began to get inundated with emails asking if he was 'the world teacher.' In events ripped straight from The Life of Brian, it would seem that Raj Patel's life story ticks all the boxes necessary to fulfill prophecies made by Benjamin Creme, founder of religious sect Share International. After the volume of emails and inquiries got worse, Patel eventually wrote a message on his website stating categorically that he was not the Messiah. Sure enough, 'his denial merely fanned the flames for some believers. In a twist ripped straight from the script of the comedy classic, they said that this disavowal, too, had been prophesied.'"
I predict a long series of Python quotes incoming. Allow me to post one of my all-time favorites:
Followers: "Only the true Messiah denies his divinity!"
Brian "What?! Well, what sort of chance does that give me? All right, I AM the Messiah!"
Followers: "He is! He is the Messiah!"
Brian: "Now, Fuck off!"
*awkward pause*
Followers: "How shall we fuck off, oh Lord?"
One of the better parts of an overall extremely funny movie.
Also, I predict that this article on Slashdot will make all of his email problems so much better!
psmylie's dictionary: Godzillion (noun) Any number large enough to destroy Tokyo
Shame you started using photos in stories. Never has the foot icon been more appropriate.
# cat
Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
"People are very ready to abdicate responsibility and have it shovelled on to someone else's shoulders," he said. "You saw that with Obama most spectacularly, but whenever there's going to be someone who's just going to fix it for you, it's a very attractive story. It's in every mythological structure."
I'm not tense. I'm just terribly, terribly, alert.
I say you are Lord, and I should know. I've followed a few.
'If Christ had tweeted the sermon on the mount, it might have lasted until nightfall.' - John Perry Barlow
"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of...Each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, I disbelieve them all." -- Thomas Paine
"Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated." -- George Washington
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." -- Thomas Jefferson
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise." -- James Madison
The Treaty of Tripoli -- "The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." Written during the Washington administration, it was sent to the Senate during the Adams administration. This was the 339th time that a recorded vote was required by the Senate, but only the third time a vote was unanimous.
Many ages ago, my ship went around the Horn. Before we left we all chipped in for a vcr player (ages ago, remember) but sadly forgot to get but 2 tapes, Monty Python and the Holy Grail was one, of course, the other was a really bizarre porno called "I like to watch" (which if I remember had the redeeming feature of all the music being done by kazoo's played by the actors and actresses. yes in the nude. awesome...)
As we went through the Straits of Magellan, penguins swam around us, and my crew asked me, "You know everything, are penguins birds or fishes?"
Of course I replied "Do they not float?"
"Burn the Penguins!" They cried and ran about the decks like the heathens they were.
My Division Officer came out to the main deck about that time, looked at my guys, looked at me and asked "Do I even want to know?"
I told him "just be glad we didn't have any kazoos."
no, I didn't, I told him "monty python fans."
"Ah" he said as he went back inside.