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May 15, 2006

Proof That God Designed Bananas

Wow. That’s told me…

Does that mean that artichokes were designed by Satan?

Category: Religious Whackos, Video

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14 Responses

  1. underblog says:
    May 15, 2006 at 2:06 pm

    Heh, the thing I love about this is that he has just unwittingly argued that oral sex is divine.

  2. Adam says:
    May 15, 2006 at 2:33 pm

    Speaking as a Christian, I’d just like to say

    (a) What a nutjob
    (b) Oral sex is divine. :)

  3. giagia says:
    May 15, 2006 at 2:35 pm

    **edit*** heh

    (he’s going to make me delete this, I know)

  4. R.J. says:
    May 15, 2006 at 6:23 pm

    Who is this plonker? No, on second thoughts don’t tell me – I don’t want to know.

  5. Jonathan says:
    May 15, 2006 at 7:01 pm

    Do you think we should tell him that chimps – who clearly know a thing or two about bananas – open them from the opposite end? (They do – watch them sometime) Or would that be absolute and incontrovertible proof that we can’t possibly be related species?

  6. underblog says:
    May 15, 2006 at 7:58 pm

    Am I extremely childish, or is there something amusing about the way he says “the contents don’t squirt in your face”? Or perhaps both.

    Oh God(!), and it’s just perfect that he looks exactly like Ned Flanders

  7. jas says:
    May 16, 2006 at 10:30 am

    wait a minute, is he seriously arguing from the point of “LOOKS LIKE == MUST BE”? What a retard.

  8. Rachel says:
    May 17, 2006 at 3:38 pm

    In any case, you could still argue that the hand and the banana fit because a process of evolution made it that way. Millions of years of humans – and before us apes and monkeys – preferring the bananas that fit well in the hand…

  9. underblog says:
    May 17, 2006 at 5:07 pm

    Actually, wild bananas aren’t necessarily as convenient as the Cavendish, which is what you get in supermarkets. For one thing, they are full of seeds. Cultivated varieties of banana do not really evolve. They are all clones which can only be propagated by taking cuttings. I wrote a post about it if you’re interested.

  10. jas says:
    May 18, 2006 at 12:48 pm

    Is it just me, or does this look exactly like something Chris Morris would make?

  11. giagia says:
    May 18, 2006 at 4:09 pm

    If it was Chris Morris, it would involve bonobos…

  12. jas says:
    May 19, 2006 at 5:00 am

    I just kept expecting him to say, “There’s no evidence for it, but it is a scientific fact”.

  13. razorhead says:
    May 23, 2006 at 2:30 pm

    I see where I’ve been going wrong – I’ve been eating them pointing *away* from my face.

  14. giagia says:
    May 23, 2006 at 3:38 pm

    You must be a child of the Devil then… obviously.

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