The Bananas Of Creation: A Retrospective
I have now been making fun of this video for four days and roughly 2,000 words, and it’s still not enough.
It can never be enough.
I have now been making fun of this video for four days and roughly 2,000 words, and it’s still not enough.
It can never be enough.
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April 23rd, 2008 at 4:43 pm
One lousy comments, and now all of this…
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:55 pm
actually I think it’s possible the peanut butter video is even stupider, but I don’t have it in me to begin again
April 24th, 2008 at 2:12 am
I’m just waiting for you to provide commentary for the “Two Girls, One Cup” video…
April 24th, 2008 at 9:10 am
no, no, I couldn’t possibly, it’s your idea and I wouldn’t want to steal it
why don’t you do it on your blog?
i dare you
April 24th, 2008 at 11:42 am
When Peter and I went to Australia, someone there actually gave us the “Atheist Test” in tract form (with the banana on the cover, etc.) … you don’t supposed it was actually this same guy, do you? Quite frankly, I remember nothing of his face.
April 24th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
You realize that if I were to do that, my blog stats would go off the charts. You sure that I’m ready for the “big time” by analyzing such a classic video as that? :O
April 24th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
do it
do it
do it
i double-dare you
April 24th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Is this about to get to double dog dare me territory?
April 24th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
i hope it won’t have to come to that
April 25th, 2008 at 12:45 am
Maybe tomorrow then. I don’t want to flood post now. But first I’ll have to think of a way to work that into the peanut butter/banana discussion, to make a taut metanarrative. If I can accomplish this, I shall be more than full of win. I might even feel brave enough to take on a rabid rodent. But first things first. I might need to watch some Zombie Strippers to “get in the mood” for all this.
April 25th, 2008 at 7:11 am
wait, wait, are we joking here or not?
don’t do anything that’s going to get yourself fired
(I’m pretty sure if I actually linked to that video on my blog I would get fired)
April 25th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Oh, I wouldn’t get fired over this (besides, who besides the few people I’ve told so far knows my last name? :P), plus I have something in mind that would be hilarious rather than disgusting…more later.
April 29th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Every time I see this video I am reminded of this one time in college when a practicing Muslim explained why *ahem* handling bananas must be okay.
The hand is perfectly placed as it falls upon the human lap. The shapes and sizes of hands and bananas all match up. Etc. Etc.
Hm. Sorry if this post is a bit on the gross, but it’s a far more logical argument than the early bioengineering marvel that is the Cavendish banana, so carefully bred and cultivated that it cannot breed without human help.
April 29th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
yes — one of the things that makes this video so satisfying is that the banana is very probably the absolute worst possible example of natural design — they might as well have gone with the socket wrench or the telephone
April 30th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
I actually think both the socket wrench and the telephone are proof of the existence of god.
Plumbing and non-drum/non-smoke telecommunications are really what separate Christians from heathen infidels, after all.
Oh, and trousers.
April 30th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
too true
have you ever seen an atheist try to work a telephone?
Without JESUS to remember the numbers for them they are lost, and are reduced to mashing the keypad randomly with their foreheads hoping DARWINIAN MECHANISMS OF BLIND CHANCE will somehow cause them to dial the right number
never gonna happen, atheists, never gonna happen
April 30th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
And here I was, thinking that the duck-billed platypus had to be proof of God’s existence…guess I should have remembered the humble socket wrench.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:49 am
I once saw an atheist try to use a socket wrench
without JESUS to steady his grip he fumbled so badly he not only stripped the bolt he also BROKE HIS WRIST in SEVEN places
this is a true story email it to 10 of your friends or you will be CURSED
May 15th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Using a socket wrench is an abomination in God’s eyes. You must simply pray and have faith that the bolt will loosen.