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rbnyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 09:54 AM
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Queen Slacker's Morning Random Questions:
I have loads to do, and I'm just not into it. I will get it done. But I'm just not quite ready to start...so here goes:

1. Did you celebrate Christmas?
1a. If yes, do you personally see it as a religious holiday, a secular holiday, or somewhere in between?
1b. If yes, what was your favorite gift you gave? received?
1c. If no, did you/will you celebrate another winter holiday? What and how?

2. Does any part of your body hurt right now? What, how and why?

3. What do you think of Bob Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius?

4. Any movies you're looking forward to?

5. Which one of your relatives makes you the most nervous and why?

6. What are the top 3 benefits of slacking off?

7. When's your next vacation? Have plans?

8. Who's your favorite cartoon character?

9. What's your favorite thing to cook?

10. What question do you wish I'd asked.
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rbnyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 10:03 AM
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1. My own answers:
1. Did you celebrate Christmas? yes
1a. If yes, do you personally see it as a religious holiday, a secular holiday, or somewhere in between? secular, with a spiritual potential, but I am not Christian.
1b. If yes, what was your favorite gift you gave? received? Mandolin Slicer;Charm bracelet
1c. If no, did you/will you celebrate another winter holiday? What and how? n/a

2. Does any part of your body hurt right now? What, how and why? My hip feels like it's made of dry ice--old fractures and cold office.

3. What do you think of Bob Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius? Great fun, very creative, reminds me of old times

4. Any movies you're looking forward to?The next Resident Evil movie

5. Which one of your relatives makes you the most nervous and why? My husband's cousin Rudy. In army officer program, and LOVES his guns. Nuke'em attitude; walking cliche; liked him much better before he had confidence and fake self-esteem. Needs to have total brain melt and start over.

6. What are the top 3 benefits of slacking off? Time with DU friends; reminder that work is not the most important thing in life; that slightly naughty feeling

7. When's your next vacation? Have plans? End of Spring; will go to Chicago to see Dad and then drive up to the Dells

8. Who's your favorite cartoon character? Felix the Cat

9. What's your favorite thing to cook? I prefer when my husband cooks.

10. What question do you wish I'd asked. If I knew, I'd have asked it.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 08:47 PM
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27. From the terminally underemployed one himself...
1. Did you celebrate Christmas? yes
1a. If yes, do you personally see it as a religious holiday, a secular holiday, or somewhere in between? religious, but not explicity Christian; it is an integral part of the season which began with Chanukah and continued through Yule, (yes) Festivus, and now Kwanzaa.
1b. If yes, what was your favorite gift you gave? received? Bag of Hawai'i-grown coffee; New Orleans compliation CD
1c. If no, did you/will you celebrate another winter holiday? Kings' Night (Epiphany), which is a fairly big deal in the place that is the answer to No. 7 below (and 1b above)

2. Does any part of your body hurt right now? What, how and why? Knuckle on right index (clicking) finger swollen and painful; time to get offline?

3. What do you think of Bob Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius? Five tons of flax!

4. Any movies you're looking forward to? The KamaAina Story: That's Slacker, Not Slack-Key :-)

5. Which one of your relatives makes you the most nervous and why? Daddy, who I've not seen since 1971, though we got as far as exchanging birthday and Christmas cards a few years ago.

6. What are the top 3 benefits of slacking off? Not leaving work dog-tired; fewer chances for hair-raising encounter with boss; opportunity to answer this

7. When's your next vacation? Have plans? A week from tonight; New Orleans, for the first time since I moved out in '91 -- hell yeah I got plans!

8. Who's your favorite cartoon character? Lisa Simpson

9. What's your favorite thing to cook? Zatarain's N.O. rice mixes, not available at the local store of late :(

10. What question do you wish I'd asked. What's your favorite KamaAina Lounge post?
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rbnyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-28-06 04:06 PM
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31. Hi!!!
Five tons of flax,indeed.

Thanks for making me smile big!
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 10:10 AM
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2. Slacker here too...
1. Did you celebrate Christmas? Yes
1a. If yes, do you personally see it as a religious holiday, a secular holiday, or somewhere in between? Secular
1b. If yes, what was your favorite gift you gave? received? Gave son a gamecube, received a bush countdown calendar
1c. If no, did you/will you celebrate another winter holiday? What and how? n/a

2. Does any part of your body hurt right now? What, how and why? My left ring finger, in a splint, severe sprain, fell out of bed.

3. What do you think of Bob Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius? who?

4. Any movies you're looking forward to? nope

5. Which one of your relatives makes you the most nervous and why? My kids. Because they depend on me...

6. What are the top 3 benefits of slacking off? DU, Sleep, Smoking more...

7. When's your next vacation? Have plans? Anytime after new years. Can't discuss the plans, they are secret.

8. Who's your favorite cartoon character? Bugs Bunny

9. What's your favorite thing to cook? Beef brisquet

10. What question do you wish I'd asked. These will do fine...

:hi:

RL
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rbnyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 10:17 AM
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3. I got the countdown calendar too!
Google number 3 for fun.

:)

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wildhorses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 10:32 AM
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4. sounds fun--
1. Did you celebrate Christmas? yes
1a. If yes, do you personally see it as a religious holiday, a secular holiday, or somewhere in between? yes
1b. If yes, what was your favorite gift you gave? received? plant, ear rings
1c. If no, did you/will you celebrate another winter holiday? What and how?

2. Does any part of your body hurt right now? What, how and why? no, thank goodness!

3. What do you think of Bob Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius? funny way to pass time

4. Any movies you're looking forward to? always, children of men comes to mind

5. Which one of your relatives makes you the most nervous and why? my father cos he's batshit crazy

6. What are the top 3 benefits of slacking off? DU, reading, napping

7. When's your next vacation? Have plans? no plans at this time--that can change at a moment's notice and often does

8. Who's your favorite cartoon character? calvin and hobbes

9. What's your favorite thing to cook? steak

10. What question do you wish I'd asked. too early to be curious :hi:
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rbnyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 11:00 AM
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6. I love a good steak.
Yum!

:hi:
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 10:53 AM
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5. Semi-Random Answers From A Professional Slacker
1. Did you celebrate Christmas?
Yes
1a. If yes, do you personally see it as a religious holiday, a secular holiday, or somewhere in between?
Federal Holiday. No work!

1b. If yes, what was your favorite gift you gave? received?
My wife's dental procedures are finally done. The cost was our gift to one another, because she had implants not a plate, and the insurance only covered so much. We spent ten grand.

1c. If no, did you/will you celebrate another winter holiday? What and how?

2. Does any part of your body hurt right now? What, how and why?
Yes, always. My legs from MS

3. What do you think of Bob Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius?
I don't.

4. Any movies you're looking forward to?
Maybe the new Rocky. Critics i respect really seem to like it. And i still need to see the Tenacious D movie.

5. Which one of your relatives makes you the most nervous and why?
None of them. I make them nervous, though, and i like it that way.

6. What are the top 3 benefits of slacking off?
Easy to jump over a very low bar. The freedom that comes from fooling yourself that you can do anything you want. It keeps me off my legs.

7. When's your next vacation? Have plans?
None. I used to travel a lot on business. Don't really want to go anywhere any more and my wife hates to fly.

8. Who's your favorite cartoon character?
Bugs Bunny, by a mile.

9. What's your favorite thing to cook?
I don't know how to make much. But, i like to grill shiska-bob.

10. What question do you wish I'd asked.
"Why didn't a put a question mark on question #10?"
The Professor
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rbnyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 11:03 AM
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7. Good question.
I was going to go back and edit it in when I noticed I did that, but I decided to skip it. I wondered if anyone would notice.
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 11:04 AM
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8. Seeing Things Like That. . .
. . .comes from finding ways to avoid doing something more useful. We should start a slackers' union, you & me.
The Professor
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 11:21 AM
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9. slacker here too, so i'll play the game :D
Edited on Wed Dec-27-06 11:23 AM by AZDemDist6
1. Did you celebrate Christmas?
1a. a secular holiday
1b. If yes, what was your favorite gift you gave?--me wrapped in red silk :evilgrin:
received?-- see above hehe


2. Does any part of your body hurt right now? What, how and why? painfree this morning, but my feet are cold :(

3. What do you think of Bob Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius? Who??

4. Any movies you're looking forward to? Shrek 3

5. Which one of your relatives makes you the most nervous and why? my MIL, she's never still, always futzing with something

6. What are the top 3 benefits of slacking off? more caffeine and nicotine--D'oh! you said 3 so edit to add, more DU time

7. When's your next vacation? Have plans? Hell, I dunno, I got to get a job before I worry about vacations :rofl:

8. Who's your favorite cartoon character? Puss N Boots (see question 4)

9. What's your favorite thing to cook? Bread

10. What question do you wish I'd asked. I dunno, this is your gig :hi:
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rbnyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 12:14 PM
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12. I thought SubGenius was more well-known...
... :shrug:

Nice answer to 1b.

:evilgrin:
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 08:02 PM
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25. i wondered if anyone would catch that
:hi:
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Samurai_Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 11:30 AM
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10. My answers
1. Did you celebrate Christmas?

Yes


1a. If yes, do you personally see it as a religious holiday, a secular holiday, or somewhere in between?

Secular


1b. If yes, what was your favorite gift you gave? received?

Gave -- 20 year old stuffed animal that used to belong to my son, which I gave to my 5 year old niece.

Received -- Godiva hot chocolate mix (both milk chocolate and dark chocolate truffle) from my mom


1c. If no, did you/will you celebrate another winter holiday? What and how? N/A

2. Does any part of your body hurt right now? What, how and why?

My left ankle. Have two torn tendons and with wearing heavy snow boots and the cold, it's been hurting for a week.


3. What do you think of Bob Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius?

Funny


4. Any movies you're looking forward to?

I'd like to go see The Good Sheperd and Eragon.


5. Which one of your relatives makes you the most nervous and why?

None actually.


6. What are the top 3 benefits of slacking off?

Get needed rest.
You save stuff to do for later.
You get to go do something fun now.


7. When's your next vacation? Have plans?

No vacation planned anytime soon.


8. Who's your favorite cartoon character?

Shrek


9. What's your favorite thing to cook?

My own Tex-Mex Casserole recipe/creation


10. What question do you wish I'd asked.

I have no idea.
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rbnyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 12:16 PM
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13. My Aunt Martha said Eragon was good.
I'd like to try your casarole.

:yum:
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 11:50 AM
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11. Answers
1. No

1c. Winter Solstice. With the returning light, I give thanks and prowl through the seed and gardening catalogs planning for the summer.

2. Knees - old age arthritis, not so much hurt as annoy.

3. Who?

4. The Queen with Helen Mirren

5. I make them nervous, one of the privileges of matriarch status.

6. a. Less stress. b. Life is too short to burden one's self with things you don't want to do. c. Slacking off enhances one's reputation. "Don't give her the job. It won't get done."

7. I may visit my nephew in Michigan this June

8. Wile E. Coyote or Duckman

9. Omelets. I enjoy putting together different combinations of fixin's.

10. Is Rob a dingbat?
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rbnyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 12:25 PM
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14. Waiting for someone to say Solstice.
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 01:05 PM
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15. Thank you, rbnyc
Sounds like my kind of gang.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 01:14 PM
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16. okay...
1. yes
1a - inbetween
1b - a sexy new torchiere lamp
1c - maybe

2 - lower back, legs. Unsure why (apart from standard entropy), weakness grows.


3 - who?

4- Spiderman III, sequel to Casino Royale

5- unsure

6 - don't do it often

7 - the future

8 - Bender

9 - something succulent

10 - "How do you succeed at business without really trying?"
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seemunkee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 01:14 PM
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17. I'll slack for a while
1. Did you celebrate Christmas? No
1a. If yes, do you personally see it as a religious holiday, a secular holiday, or somewhere in between?
1b. If yes, what was your favorite gift you gave? received? Still got/gave gifts. Got some bike rollers and favorite thing I gave was the complete Kids in the Hall DVDs to my daughter.

1c. If no, did you/will you celebrate another winter holiday? What and how? Chanukha. Latkes and gifts with the family

2. Does any part of your body hurt right now? What, how and why? Yes. Left rotator is probably torn from repetitive stress and rock climbing.

3. What do you think of Bob Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius? I don't

4. Any movies you're looking forward to? 300

5. Which one of your relatives makes you the most nervous and why? None

6. What are the top 3 benefits of slacking off?More fun, less stress and ummm more fun.

7. When's your next vacation? Have plans? February. My wife is planning a trip to Tulum Mexico for my 50th birthday

8. Who's your favorite cartoon character? in print Krazy Kat, animation Beanie(and Cecil)

9. What's your favorite thing to cook? Anything on the grill

10. What question do you wish I'd asked. These were fun.
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Zavulon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 01:16 PM
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18. Sure, I'll play
1. Did you celebrate Christmas? - No, but I happily took the day off.

1c. If no, did you/will you celebrate another winter holiday? What and how? - No, but I'll happily take the days off.

2. Does any part of your body hurt right now? What, how and why? - Lower back. Slept wrong, I guess.

3. What do you think of Bob Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius? - The same I think of any church; hustlers, crooks, liars, hypocrites and scum.

4. Any movies you're looking forward to? - No. I don't go to movies anymore; I'm sick of hearing people's singing, unwanted commentary, snorting laughter, and their fucking cell phones.

5. Which one of your relatives makes you the most nervous and why? - None of them do. My relatives couldn't scare a sparrow from a bird feeder.

6. What are the top 3 benefits of slacking off? -1.) You essentially force others to pick up your slack. If you work in an office like mine, that just means that what goes around comes around. 2.) You get to catch up on your reading. 3.) If you work with your significant other, you can have a quickie in the boss's office.

7. When's your next vacation? Have plans? - France, probably this spring.

8. Who's your favorite cartoon character? - C. Montgomery Burns

9. What's your favorite thing to cook? - Steak

10. What question do you wish I'd asked. - "Did you smile when you heard the news about Ford? C'mon, be honest..."
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rbnyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 01:22 PM
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19. Give Slack a Chance.
:evilgrin:

ARE YOU ABNORMAL?

Then you are probably BETTER than most people!

IF you suspect that things are much worse than you ever suspected...
IF the only thing you've been able to laugh at for the last 5 years is the fact that NOTHING is funny anymore...
IF you sometimes want to collar people on the street and scream that you're more different than they could possibly imagine...
IF you can possibly help us with a donation...
IF you see the whole universe as one vast morbid sense of sick humor...
IF the current "Age of Progress" seems more like the Dark Ages to you...
IF you are looking for an inherently contradictory religion that will condone megadegeneracy and yet tell you that you are "above" everyone else...
Then...

THE CHURCH OF THE SUBGENIUS could save your sanity!

Your secret wishes can be granted in full once you know what they are!


"You'll PAY to know what you REALLY think."-J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, 1961

NOW, AT LAST! The step-by-step process is revealed! THIS IS IT! The only "faith" that promises ACTION, THRILLS, SUCCESS IN SEX AND BUSINESS!

Feeling like there's just no SLACK?

You may have 'snapped' already from the information disease! ("The sleep of reason begets monsters.") Look to the High Unpredictables of the Church of the SubGenius for pancultural deprogramming and resynchronization!

Perfect your subliminal vision, edit your memory, relive your reincarnality! SYNC UP! THE SUBGENIUS MUST HAVE SLACK!

Using SubGenius secrets of BULLDADA and MOREALISM you can now MIRACULOUSLY ELIMINATE COMPULSIVE URGES such as smoking, eating, sleeping, working; end baldness, constipation, sex-money problems, assouliness, and painful shortage of SLACK!

Become a Doktor of the Forbidden Sciences... Make religion a kick-ass adventure! Indulge in Self-Help through Raising Hell!

The SubGenius:

Patriot or Alien?
Personal Savior or False Prophet?
Nurd or Hero?
Inspired Madman or Complete Jackass?
Thought you'd tried everything? YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET! Learn to THINK BIG! Develop the tricks of Length Extension! Bring your weirdest dreams to rampaging LIFE!

Stand erect for you own abnormality. WISE UP! They are out to get you.

The "different" are being silenced by a global conspiracy. WEIRDOS ARISE!! You probably already knew that the U.S. Government is a SHAM. Something propped up there for you to blame. But did you know that the real "powers that be" are not even people? That they are actually shambling, unbelievable, unmentionable, unthinkable THINGS??

YES! JEHOVAH IS AN ALIEN AND STILL THREATENS THIS PLANET!

Defy the sinister "Star Forces" which mock us all. Evil demons have kept the truth from humanity for thousands of years - God has been misquoted all this time! His actual words may disturb you...but "Bob" Dobbs is a bulwark against the unbearable fear and anxiety tormenting mankind. "There's no 'Prob'...With "Bob"!"

"Bob" is a way of life to millions - yet half of them don't even KNOW it! He is the one true LIVING SLACK MASTER with the spiritual know-how to help you BASH THROUGH the locked doorway to FINANCIAL HEAVEN. He is the only real Short-Cut to Slack.

SEE ANOTHER DIMENSION ON YOUR TV

"Bob's" promise is to widen the scope and nature of abnormal behavior... to explore NEW WAYS of going over the edge and coming back. PLUS to bring back those who couldn't on their own... to help you create the HIGHEST POSSIBLE EARNINGS from the PSYCHODYMANICS of ABNORMALITY... to turn Conspiracy-implanted personality disorders AROUND and channel them into an ILLUSION OF CREATIVITY that will fool normals and GET YOU SEX!

As you learn more and more reliable, safe methods of Time Control, you will find your I.Q. increasing - your very cranium will seem to pulsate from within, barely able to contain the turmoil of glorious new concepts and mental skills. Soon you'll be able to withstand COMMUNICATION WITH THE XISTS, our mentors in space; you will be ready for TRANSFIGURATION into a new physical body, a more powerful one, built to contain the surging mental and material mutations that your brain now generates. YES - become and OVERHUMAN, a dangerous and feared superhuman of the future! Yet - because your SubGenius roots can never be forgotten - you won't be able to abuse your powers, but instead make them an unstoppable force for GOOD and JUSTICE, choosing always to defend the oppressed SubGenius wherever they may be!

The world is a turkey, and "Bob" gives you the carving knife.
Fear THE STARK FIST OF REMOVAL no longer!
Become PHYSICALLY ATTRACTIVE- overnight!
Attain STATUS-LUCK-PROSPERITY by blowing them off!
When you join this "Order of the Knights of Wotan," you get a mastery of fighting skills... good health, an attractive personality, and a WEIRD ABILITY TO INFLUENCE OTHERS! To BEND THEM to your WILL!
You'll learn INCANTATIONS that lead to MASTERY over FISCAL PLANES... the OCCULT TECHNOLOGY of FINANCE POWER...E-Z ways to borrow money - from other people who don't have it either!
Achieve SHEER GUT BLOWOUT. Our "ascetism" consists solely of the abstinence from abstinence. Give up the not giving into of temptation! Think thoughts that no human has ever dared think before. You CAN learn to recall memories from the past that you had forgotten, or that never existed at all.
CONTACT ALIENS BOTH BENEVOLENT AND EVIL!
The Church of the SubGenius the first and last stand against a crumbling world filled with Pinks and Glorps."SURVIVE THE GREAT CATACLYSMS THROUGH UFO TRANSPORT!"

THE CONSPIRACY!

The idea that America (or any country) values individuality as the highest ideal is a myth. Perhaps in simpler times it was true, but no MODERN industrial society can really afford a population of unpredictables. This is not surprising -- the long history of our cult's persecution by the Conspiracy goes back for generations untold, and indeed there are signs of their hoary repression of prehuman SubGenii dating from BEFORE "man's" appearance on Earth. All of civilization's painful and misguided climb up from the primeval slime, and its subsequent loss of Slack AND OF ANY CLASS AT ALL, has been indelibly marked, nay, ENTIRELY MOTIVATED, by the aeons- bridging conflict between the Conspiracy's mindlessly chickenshit Witless Principals and the Jehovah-spawned, grandiose depravity of the superior yet ethnically all-encompassing race of latent SubGeniuses. (You should know this -- YOU WERE/WILL BE THERE IN THE BEFORELIFE!) The fact that only in recent years has "our kind" begun to recognize our own sovereignty demonstrates both how vicious have been Their efforts at further denying us Slack and yet now near is our race to TRIUMPH.

All this is ULTIMATE PROOF that Jehovah 1 has not only promoted the SubGenius as His Special Tool, but has SIMULTANEOUSLY pulled the strings which make THEM endarken Themselves with their hereditary ignorance AND US with their cubistic witch-hunt superstitions. His "reason" for this two-faced obedience-school programming, this fissioning of history into binary "war equations," unfortunately, or, perhaps, thankfully, remains at total mystery.

But Jehovah 1 is not alone in His cosmic meddling, for Earth has been periodically visited for thousands of years by BENEVOLENT ALIENS of such technical and psychic superiority that their powers, while no match for Jehovah's, are nonetheless nothing short of "Godlike" to we roaches, the Human Race. These BENIGN SPACE MONSTERS, the "X-ists," have walked among us throughout history, investigating and sometimes resisting the subatomically-pervading presence of Jehovah 1. We are not, then, alone in our battle/subservience. The rise and "fall" of Atlantis, the erection of the Pyramids and other monuments which NO SLOPEHEADS ALONE COULD BUILD, the miracles of the Old Testament, all these and more are events so inextricably interwoven with the invisible background war between Jehovah and the Xists that all the "Ancient Astronaut" fossils in the world furnish only the barest of clues. (The movie rights ALONE to these gut-splitting tales of reincarnancient history are worth MILLIONS!) Yea, it has even been suggested that the Carpenter of Nazareth himself, God Jr., Jesus 'What, Me Worry?' Christ, was in actuality a 'space detective' of the Xists, walking the Earth in human form with the mission of extricating us from the Monster God's grip.

The black shadow of the Conspiracy, unfortunately, has seen to it that even His teachings were diluted and distorted until human attempts to follow them were fully as misguided as the carving of the heads of Easter Island or the 'runways' of Nazca.

And so the true history of the SubGenius has been kept secret from Man. For Jehovah 1 is to the Xists and Us what a hungry fisherman is to a prize fish and his favorite pet worm - the last in the can. How many million other races were used before us in these ghastly galactic water-sports?

UNTIL NOW!!

For YOU are lucky enough to "live" in the End Times when the Word of Jehovah's Prime Ordinance has been made known to "Man"kind by the Primanimal SubGenius, the High Epopt of the Church!

In the early Fifties an industrious young American drilling equipment salesman, while watching late-night TV, was abruptly REMOVED and transported astrally to the 'IDGE' of JEHOVAH 1 HIMSELF! In this seizure-like trance he took the brunt of the first brain-buffeting communications of countless to come from the alien Jehovah: awesome pronouncements which form the sacred PRESCRIPTURES of the SubGenius (available for $19.98 at most bookstores!)

This milestone in Man's mined path to Slack was:

THE DIVINE EMACULATION OF J.R. "BOB" DOBBS!!

Who IS "Bob"?

While yet the least approachable or scrutable of the vast SubGenius membership, he is the preeminent and most frequently invoked of the godzillion PERSONAL SAVIORS of the SubGenius. While he remains an anonymous executive shunning publicity or recognition at a faceless multinational corporation, he is nevertheless The Most Ascended Master, the original Retriever of Jehovah's Message on Earth and basic model of the Archetype SubGenius. He set the "anti-pattern" of random conduct among all those who are now practicing SubGeniuses. His are the defects and peccadilloes that we 'analize,' his the SLONGS and the JESTS which we devotedly twist and distort for future generations according to our unexplored whims. -- AND YET the only photos of him that exist are grainy frame blow-ups from Grade Z movie thrillers in which he played bit parts!

Dobbs is, of course, the ultimate symbol of SubGeniusness, but despite/because of his infra-human mediumship he possesses one single failing above and beyond all other shortcomings: his omninclusive FOLLIES. Yet where they would be crippling stumbling-blocks for another person, in Dobbs they loom stranger-than-life. His ten billion all-too-human quasimodalities embody, in some cheaply symbolic way, all the Foibles of the Primate Race. Dobbs is a miacrocosm encapsulating the imperfektions of the so-called
'human condition;' his Blunders and Idiocies, errors and inadvertencies are perhaps more sacrosanct, more deserving of analization than even his hallowed salesmanship. None of "Bob's" words or deeds are particularly spectacular; their holiness lies IN their nondescript but inviolate triviality.

"THE STUPIDER IT LOOKS, THE MORE IMPORTANT IT PROBABLY IS."
-- J.R. "Bob" Dobbs
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And that's only The SubGenius Foundation Inc. Our publications are merely the TIP of a ROGUE ICEBERG of real-world activism by thousands of uncontrollable "Zombies for 'Bob.'" IT'S WAY TOO LATE FOR US TO STOP THEM NOW...the World SubGenius Church relentlessly replicates itself in loathsome tenements, in basements and attics, in mansions and igloos, everywhere, but grows like a cancer BEST right in the wholesome breadbasket of America (and the REST of the world, too!). Packs of untamed SubGenii run amok in sick "Gut Blowout" party/rituals; "Bob" rises leering over a lurid post-1984 landscape like a transcendent, mutated Alfred E. Newman, the "New Man," his Face stenciled on overpasses, the nameless cry of the rebel forces -- "SLACK!" -- scrawled across abandoned 7-11s...

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Tikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 01:56 PM
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20. Answers....
HI Rene :hi:

1. yes....the little guy got lots and lots of dinosaurs.
2. I’m OK
3. fine ‘em
4. some movie I TIVOed from LTM...yeah, I’m sure I’ve never seen it before... :)
5. very few realtives....
6. sleep, rest, relaxation
7. April in Vegas
8. Raven...(Teen Titans)
9. beef roast
10. “How’s your bippy”?





Tikki
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rbnyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 02:20 PM
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23. Bippy!
Bwahahahahaha!
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fudge stripe cookays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 02:03 PM
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21. The WISH I could slack today edition...
1. Did you celebrate Christmas?

Sort of.

1a. If yes, do you personally see it as a religious holiday, a secular holiday, or somewhere in between?

Just something to get me off work.

1b. If yes, what was your favorite gift you gave? received?

A gift basket from Central Market. A Kitchen Aid food processor.

1c. If no, did you/will you celebrate another winter holiday? What and how?

2. Does any part of your body hurt right now? What, how and why?

Yes. For some reason, my sciatic nerve has decided to start aching, so it's impossible for me to get comfortable.

3. What do you think of Bob Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius?

Funny.

4. Any movies you're looking forward to?

Not really, until I see a funny preview that catches my eye.

5. Which one of your relatives makes you the most nervous and why?

My mother because she's nuts. My brother because he has written both of us off, and for some reason she's leaving all her money to him. Go figure.

6. What are the top 3 benefits of slacking off?

Rest, writing more on my book, and scrapbooking.

7. When's your next vacation? Have plans?

Planning a genealogy research trip in the spring to Western PA, Western Maryland, and possibly the Finger Lakes if I can squeeze it all in.

8. Who's your favorite cartoon character?

Pepe Le Pew!

9. What's your favorite thing to cook?

Pasta. Coincidentally enough, also my favorite thing to eat!

10. What question do you wish I'd asked.

Erm....I refuse to answer on the grounds I might incriminate myself.
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femmocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 02:20 PM
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22. Thanks for the fun questions! Here goes...
Edited on Wed Dec-27-06 02:23 PM by femmocrat
1. Did you celebrate Christmas? yes
If yes, do you personally see it as a religious holiday, a secular holiday, or somewhere in between? We consider it a religious holiday and a celebration of family and friends.

2. Does any part of your body hurt right now? What, how and why? No, I feel great! I have the entire week off to R&R!

3. What do you think of Bob Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius? Never heard of them.

4. Any movies you're looking forward to? I would like to see "Dreamgirls".

5. Which one of your relatives makes you the most nervous and why? The ones who did that have all passed away.

6. What are the top 3 benefits of slacking off? I'm not sure about the "benefits" as I so rarely get to do it...but maybe a chance to unwind a little?

7. When's your next vacation? Have plans? I hope to go to Chicago for YearlyKos.

8. Who's your favorite cartoon character? Garfield

9. What's your favorite thing to cook? soup

10. What question do you wish I'd asked. Has your opinion of Gerald Ford changed since he was president? If so, how?
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fortyfeetunder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 02:28 PM
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24. My contribution
1. Did you celebrate Christmas?yes

1a. If yes, do you personally see it as a religious holiday, a secular holiday, or somewhere in between?in between

1b. If yes, what was your favorite gift you gave? received?gave:a virginia ham, received: smoked roast beef

1c. If no, did you/will you celebrate another winter holiday? What and how? Hibernation!

2. Does any part of your body hurt right now? What, how and why?yes, recuperating from sleeping in the cold, I ache all over

3. What do you think of Bob Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius? who?

4. Any movies you're looking forward to?
The Pursuit of Happyness

5. Which one of your relatives makes you the most nervous and why? the monster-in-law, I do not enjoy her company

6. What are the top 3 benefits of slacking off?
1) relieves stress 2)I forget the other two

7. When's your next vacation? Have plans?
Someone's destination wedding

8. Who's your favorite cartoon character?
Bugs Bunny

9. What's your favorite thing to cook?
barbecued turkey

10. What question do you wish I'd asked.
why did you post this?
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 08:33 PM
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26. Slacktacular answers for you...
1. Did you celebrate Christmas?
Yes.
1a. If yes, do you personally see it as a religious holiday, a secular holiday, or somewhere in between?
Somewhere in between, I guess. It's a fun holiday, which is why heathens like myself embrace it, haha.
1b. If yes, what was your favorite gift you gave? received?
Gave: I still haven't given it yet but I made a mixed cd for a friend of mine which I put a lot of work into that I'm pretty happy about.\
Recieved: A new monitor.

2. Does any part of your body hurt right now? What, how and why?
Nope.

3. What do you think of Bob Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius?
Nothing against him.

4. Any movies you're looking forward to?
Inland Empire.

5. Which one of your relatives makes you the most nervous and why?
I've got a few crazies.

6. What are the top 3 benefits of slacking off?
I can't think of any...yet I've made it a ay of life anyway.

7. When's your next vacation? Have plans?
I don't know.

8. Who's your favorite cartoon character?
Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force or JFK from Clone High.

9. What's your favorite thing to cook?
Chicken quesadillas.

10. What question do you wish I'd asked.
I wish you had asked "What question do you wish I'd asked?" rather than just stating it.
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rbnyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-28-06 04:04 PM
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30. lol
truly slacktacular!
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idgiehkt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 09:01 PM
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28. let's see
1. x-mas: only so much as I was forced to participate. I think it's all just kind of what it is, but most of it is bogus. Honestly the favorite thing I gave was dog treats, because they love them, and what I received that was cool was a gift certificate to the grocery store.
2. I apparently have a really bad headache. I figured it out when I went to the library to return videos and couldn't figure out why everyone seemed to have their high-beams on.
3. I think "Who are Bobb Dobbs and the church of whoosie whatsit?"
4. movie: I'd like to see Brokeback Mountain one day.
5. relative: My Dad. I can never, ever relax around him. When he comes near me my whole body tenses up, which is every day for the past 3 years.
6. slacker perks: Poverty, no health insurance, lack of college degree. I speak from experience.
7. vacation: I just got my car legal again, so I could go out of town if I wanted to. I don't really do vacations because it costs me so much to kennel my animals but I do like to take day trips and stuff like that
8. cartoon character: I used to love Mr. Maggoo and Droopy
9. favorite thing to cook: nothing elaborate, probably tortellini
10. extra question: are we grateful to rbnyc for these surveys? yes we are because they are alot of fun. Thanks :hi:
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 09:11 PM
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29. From one slacker to another -
1. Did you celebrate Christmas? Yes and no - I sent gifts to family but didn't do anything at home.

1a. If yes, do you personally see it as a religious holiday, a secular holiday, or somewhere in between? For me, a secular holiday.

1b. If yes, what was your favorite gift you gave? received? I gave my son a digital camera and he called to thank me on Christmas Eve - his call was my favorite gift.

1c. If no, did you/will you celebrate another winter holiday? What and how? No.

2. Does any part of your body hurt right now? What, how and why? My neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hands, hips, knees and ankles hurt. Oh, and my lower back. Why? Because I have arthritis in virtually every joint and it's raining. :(

3. What do you think of Bob Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius? Never heard of 'em.

4. Any movies you're looking forward to? I can't think of any.

5. Which one of your relatives makes you the most nervous and why? None of them make me nervous anymore, probably because they're all blessedly far away.

6. What are the top 3 benefits of slacking off? It gives me more time for napping, it provides something to do for those around me who can't stand living in chaos and it allows me to indulge in DU.

7. When's your next vacation? Have plans? President's Day weekend, camping. :bounce:

8. Who's your favorite cartoon character? Probably Bugs Bunny.

9. What's your favorite thing to cook? Spaghetti and meatballs.

10. What question do you wish I'd asked. What isn't getting done because I'm on DU?
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