Pastafarians Represented at Sanity/Fear Rally

A smorgasbord of signs that resembled T-shirt slogans popped up at the Stewart/Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity/Fear. Buzzfeed assembled a top 100 list from Flickr, many of which involve mild visual jokes, such as "Spelling C(o)unts," and "Obama Is Not the Devil, I Am" (carried by a man in a devil suit). Our lord and pasta, the great noodly appendaged one, had his followers present. I wonder how many signs were paraphrased from BustedTees, and how many will wind up on such shirts in the next few days?

Image by Rick Webb, used with permission.

• [C White]

  Also I don’t see how anyone selecting photos looking through the same photostream could not choose this photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kimberlyfaye/5131418466/in/set-72157625149476599/ By far the best typography I’ve seen on any signs thus far.

• [Anonymous]

  haven’t smiled at the FSM rhetoric for some time.

  great post, made me smile :) (obviously)

• [RHK]

  #67 made me snort coffee out of my nose.

• [Lis Riba]

  Best typography seen was “Graphic Designers for Bipartisanship”

  I also spotted “God Hates Times New Roman”
  http://s-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal01/2010/10/30/17/enhanced-buzz-3269-1288475911-23.jpg

• [ADavies]

  I still think the pastafarian gag is funny – along with “Charles Darwin has a posse”. They’ll be funny as long as it takes to restore some sanity.

• [Morrigan]

  I spotted this FSM: http://www.flickr.com/photos/morrigansylvan/5129647732/ in front of the National Archive on Saturday.

  • [Lis Riba]

    I don’t think I saw that one, either. A LOT of spaghetti flying around Washington this weekend.

    FWIW, here’s a photo (someone else took) of me and my sign: http://plixi.com/p/53949904

• [vwzzz]

  Heh wasnt it divisive rhetoric like this that essentially ridicules religion that the Rally was supposed to be against?

  • [nemryn]

    No, the rally’s against divisive over-reactions to fun rhetoric like this.

    Pastafarianism isn’t ‘ridicul[ing] religion’, either; it ridicules the political/educational movement of creationism. Creationists claim that it isn’t religiously-motivated at all, but the only hypothesis they offer just happens to match up perfectly with the Christian god.

    • [vwzzz]

      Heh I guess the FSM just seems like a tired old joke to me that has lasted way too long..and been adopted by way too many.

      It may have initially been to ridicule the teaching of creationism in school, but has been rallied behind by atheists to poke fun at Christian belief.

      • [Gregory Goldmacher]

        It’s become the snarky version of Russell’s teapot.

        • [Jonathan Badger]

          Well, I suppose. But the FSM always seemed to me to simply be the latest replacement for the Invisible Pink Unicorn or the Church of the SubGenius — would kids even recognize J. R. “Bob” Dobbs these days?

      • [Antinous / Moderator]

        I’m unclear on the problem.

• [Lis Riba]

  We were there and saw 2 people independently wearing fullsize FSM costumes, plus a woman in a knit-or-crocheted FSM hat.

  • [Anonymous]

    Here’s a picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/collina/5129522525/in/set-72157625275632390/

    • [Lis Riba]

      Okay, make that at least THREE full-size FSM costumes in attendance, because that’s one I didn’t see.

• [Lis Riba]

  I also saw signs of many other internet memes among the crowds: Several Antoine Dodson -ish messages, two xkcd/Wikipedia [citation needed] signs, a Mooninite with “1/31/07 Never Forget”, LOLspeak,
  “Repeal Rule 34!”, several signs honoring the hypnotoad…

  • [Anonymous]

    I had the Mooninite “Never Forget” sign! :-D

• [ackpht]

  Most of these signs are great, but I didn’t LOL until I hit #40.

• [C White]

  Photo #13 was my favorite in that series. I actually was a little disappointed with much of their ‘top 100 list.’

  Here’s a great Father Ted reference not in the top 100: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kimberlyfaye/5129125061/