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I love I love I love my calendar skeptic

So, you’re a skeptic, eh?

Think you’re hot stuff? Think you have a keen sense of humor, a critical mind, and you look dynamite in black-and-white?

Then maybe you should apply to be a calendar model over at Skepchick.

All the cool kids have done it: Randi, Shermer, Wiseman… me. Yeah, me.

If you have what it takes (basically, a complete lack of shame) then apply! Besides, who wouldn’t want to pose in the altogether for someone like this?

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February 19th, 2008 5:00 PM by Phil Plait in Skepticism | 9 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

9 Responses to “I love I love I love my calendar skeptic”

  1. 1.   Ibeechu Says:
    February 19th, 2008 at 9:34 pm

    I wish I were sexier and more clever. I would totally win.

  2. 2.   Halcyon Dayz Says:
    February 19th, 2008 at 9:54 pm

    BA, could you add a little XHTML refresher to this page someday.

    I keep screwing things up.

    Much obliged. :)

  3. 3.   vbloke Says:
    February 19th, 2008 at 11:56 pm

    Looks like you’ve got competition, Phil, I’m in this years calendar…

  4. 4.   a.real.girl Says:
    February 20th, 2008 at 12:23 am

    I love I love I love the Bad Astronomer!

  5. 5.   Quiet Desperation Says:
    February 20th, 2008 at 2:18 am

    So, you’re a skeptic, eh?

    Yep. I’m even skeptical of other skeptics at times (I take the whole self-policing concept very seriously).

    Think you’re hot stuff?

    Flaming! No, wait, bad choice of words…

    I’m a hunka hunka burning stud muffin… of science!

    Think you have a keen sense of humor

    I’ve have been know to dabble in geology humor, and once made a joke involving the Planck distance. You can’t get any keener than that! ;-) (get it?)

    a critical mind

    And a beautiful one, but without the whole schizophrenia thing.

    and you look dynamite in black-and-white?

    Dynamite? Dah-ling, my looks in the realm of the noir are only realistically measured in megatons.

    Then maybe you should apply to be a calendar model over at Skepchick.

    Not a good idea. My artistically taken and unclad image would cause spontaneous, soul wrenching orgasms in any women (and in anywhere from 3 to 10 percent of the men) who were fortunate enough to gaze upon it, thus bringing civilization to a screeching halt and making everything really sticky. You’d have to call in FEMA, and we don’t want that, do we?

    Thus in the interests of humanity and my own powerful modesty, I must decline. Sorry, ladies.

  6. 6.   Chris Hughes Says:
    February 20th, 2008 at 9:13 am

    I’m having trouble getting over the description of the Amazing James as a ‘cool kid’….

  7. 7.   The Bad Astronomer Says:
    February 20th, 2008 at 10:38 am

    vbloke, I’m not going to be in this year’s calendar… in fact, I don’t plan on doing it again. Why not? Not to be immodest — HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! — but neither I nor anyone else will ever top the shot I did for 2007, so there’s no point in trying.

  8. 8.   Overstroming Says:
    February 20th, 2008 at 11:59 am

    Heh, until someone comes along with a bigger instrument than yours. Don’t believe what you’ve heard – size IS important ;-)

  9. 9.   DenverAstro Says:
    February 20th, 2008 at 4:13 pm

    Listen, I go out in shorts and a t-shirt in the summer time and I frighten the hell out of children, small animals, and of course all my neighbors. If I were to pose for that calendar, it would cause an international outcry. People would have Skepchick Calendar burning parties. All women would go lesbian…they would consider it a moral imperative. No sir, in my case, it’s a Very bad idea :o )

    D_Astro

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