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PZ-Away

Man, I gotta get me a can of this stuff:

That would be really useful in June!


Tip o’ the pith helmet to BABloggee Risa Zaleski.

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March 31st, 2008 1:00 PM by Phil Plait in Humor | 16 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

16 Responses to “PZ-Away”

  1. 1.   firemancarl Says:
    March 31st, 2008 at 1:11 pm

    Or it could be useful in November during the elections..

  2. 2.   drbuzz0 Says:
    March 31st, 2008 at 1:48 pm

    Doesn’t just standard pepperspray work on PZ? It works on most people who have eyes. Wait, is he a human? If not that could make it more difficult

  3. 3.   Aerimus Says:
    March 31st, 2008 at 2:13 pm

    I know a few people who might buy a case…

    That’s a pretty amusing site. Then I went back and read the first comic and my brain broke. Still funny though…

  4. 4.   Quiet_Desperation Says:
    March 31st, 2008 at 2:28 pm

    Or just use PZ-Cleaner. It removes the vulgarities and leaves behind the rational thinking.

  5. 5.   Torbjörn Larsson, OM Says:
    March 31st, 2008 at 3:07 pm

    Why wouldn’t squid ink serve to confuse other squids? Fight water with water, I say!

    Btw, you might want to load up with squid repellent:

    The sharp beak of the Humboldt squid is one of the hardest and stiffest organic materials known. Engineers, biologists, and marine scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have joined forces to discover how the soft, gelatinous squid can operate its knife-like beak without tearing itself to pieces. [...]

    The key to the squid beak lies in the gradations of stiffness. The tip is extremely stiff, yet the base is 100 times more compliant, allowing it to blend with surrounding tissue. [...]

    “Squids can be aggressive, whimsical, suddenly mean, and they are always hungry,”

    Yep, that’s PZ to a z.

  6. 6.   Christian X Burnham Says:
    March 31st, 2008 at 3:30 pm

    You could also buy a can of ‘whoop-ass’.

    I’m sticking with Ubik (TM):

    Perk up pouting household surfaces with new miracle Ubik, the easy-to-apply, extra-shiny, non-stick plastic coating. Entirely harmless if used as directed. Saves endless scrubbing, glides you right out of the kitchen.

    But what is Ubik? I hear you ask…

    I am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives and the places they inhabit; I move them here,

    I put them there. They go as I say, they do as I tell them. I am the word and my name is never spoken, the name which no one knows. I am called Ubik, but that is not my name. I am. I shall always be.

  7. 7.   davidlpf Says:
    March 31st, 2008 at 3:48 pm

    Drbuzz0 you have point maybe PZ is highly evolved squid in a human suit. Well I will not in Vegas in June so I do not have to worry.

  8. 8.   Lugosi Says:
    March 31st, 2008 at 5:19 pm

    Hey, don’t laugh. That stuff works. Nothing clears a room of intelligent people faster! In fact, the Bush administration has been using it since 2001.

  9. 9.   davidlpf Says:
    March 31st, 2008 at 5:37 pm

    So that is what they been using, hopefully it wears off after 8 years.

  10. 10.   mona Says:
    March 31st, 2008 at 8:40 pm

    However, it won’t help you recognize Dawkins. Just ask the Expelled crew. Maybe they’ll try to file a lawsuit under these consumer protection laws, if their friends in the WH have left any intact.

  11. 11.   LC Says:
    March 31st, 2008 at 9:21 pm

    Well it does have the disclaimer (in small print) “May not work on their family and friends, or biologists with British accents” so they are covered as far as not repelling Dawkins.

    Which brings up the question – what does the product do if PZ picks up a British accent?

  12. 12.   mona Says:
    March 31st, 2008 at 9:32 pm

    They wouldn’t read a disclaimer! It probably looks too intelligent, or something. It’s more intelligence than is allowed, in any case.

  13. 13.   Torbjörn Larsson, OM Says:
    April 1st, 2008 at 3:23 am

    I am Ubik. [...] They go as I say, they do as I tell them.

    U r Ubik’s Cube, movz laik that?

  14. 14.   Daniel Says:
    April 1st, 2008 at 6:52 am

    Completely unreleated, but I was throwing out a bunch of junk in my room, and came across an old wired magazine where a completely spaced out writer tried to give as much crediblity to Richard Hogland as he did to you.

    Man that was a completley whacked out article.

  15. 15.   almurray1958 Says:
    April 1st, 2008 at 8:07 am

    not sure if you read the notice that link’s today’s edition (please note the date) to a change of authorship! he hee haw

  16. 16.   Blu-Ray-Ven Says:
    April 1st, 2008 at 11:04 am

    now if they can just come out with hoagland away

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