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A unique style of headwear was present during newly-seated Pomfret Town Council member Christopher Schaeffer's oath of office Thursday afternoon, but it wasn't intended to keep his head warm.
Schaeffer wore a colander (a strainer typically used to drain water from spaghetti) while Town Clerk Allison Dispense administered the oath of office to him before the board's reorganizational meeting. When the OBSERVER asked afterward why he wore a colander on his head, Schaeffer said he was a minister with an even more unique organization - the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
"It's just a statement about religious freedom," he said. "It's a religion without any dogma."
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More:http://www.observertoday.com/page/content.detail/id/592593/-Strainer--things-have-happened.html
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
My hero!
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Everyone noodled exactly what he was up to.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Flying Spaghetti Monster, on Wikipedia, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster
and
Website of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster: http://www.venganza.org/
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Is Pomfret anywhere near Portland?
Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)If I wanted to look at bizarre foreign pornography then, by golly, I'll go look at it on my own instead of having someone fool me with a link at DU entitled "something interesting over here at some other site".
Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)And just why would you think I would do that?
I have posted for years and never linked to such a site. I wouldn't be here if that was my modis operandi.
Jeez....
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)So first you lull everyone into a false sense of security and then, bam! - you hit them with the Slovakian elbow fetish stuff.
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Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)edhopper
(33,579 posts)link please.
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)Don't judge me!
valerief
(53,235 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)In this case the link reveals it to be in the state of NY.
Sometimes, the link still doesn't tell you! It's a local rag with no ID as to what state it's in as of course as a local, you know.
I end up googling the name of the town. Which sometimes works.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)It's on Lake Eerie! A Pastafarian stronghold!
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Love this.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)...look like their taking this all in!
Maybe they knew this day would come?
KG
(28,751 posts)idwiyo
(5,113 posts)giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)Fantastic
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)on top some grated Parmesan. Give us this day, our garlic bread,
and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trample on our lawns. And lead us not into vegetarianism, but deliver us some pizza, for thine is the meatball, the noodle, and the sauce, forever and ever. RA-men
edhopper
(33,579 posts)the FSM is a much more universal God than that of most religions. He is just filtered through the various cultures.
From Udon to Sopa to Spaetzle he is everlasting and yummy.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)Even those poor souls that have yet to understand the universally tasty range of his starchiness are not to be injured in any way. Oh sure, we have all experienced the inadvertent saucy splash and the slightly-too-crusty garlic accompaniment, but none has ever been maliciously injured for failing to recognize the true meaning of Parmesan.
edhopper
(33,579 posts)Salt your water.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)klook
(12,155 posts)Al Dente.
klook
(12,155 posts)all dented.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)klook
(12,155 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)klook
(12,155 posts)How did she keep from getting all gigli?
Heywood J
(2,515 posts)Never been off the thruway down there, but it seems like a place that accepts all kinds of things.