Intelligent Design analogy

[tahnan]

I think Jon Carroll's metaphor about ping-pong balls is much better, as metaphors go, than the Great Flying Spaghetti Monster or whatever it is.

Comments

[lilisonna.livejournal.com]

Sure. But you can't have a tee-shirt with "noodlely appendage" if you're talking about ping-pong balls.

[drastic.livejournal.com]

I think there's tee-shirt potential in the Ping-Pong Parenting & Pedagogy Process. I'm imagining a bemused--but grateful!--cherub standing astride the net on a ping-pong table, fifties-clip-art-style mom and dad at the business ends of the table (father with a pipe in his grin, newspaper in his free hand; mother aproned with a tray of cookies in her free hand), with a sort of stylized time-lapse vector-distribution of dozens of ping-pong balls ricocheting off the kid. A motto something like "Ping-Pong Parenting: Making America Strong!"

[marith.livejournal.com]

I like the ping-pong ball metaphor a lot too.

But on a completely unrelated subject, my friend only_seimei wants something to sharpen her brain. Any chance you could point us to a good puzzle archive/link list?

Also, I remember a fabulous online book puzzle thing from years ago, the kind with an intricate painting or picture on each page and text that completely baffled me. Is anything like that still around, do you know?

[jmjoyce.livejournal.com]

This is pretty good too. Well, it's funnier, at least. :)