Comments on: Spuddy Christ

By: MarlowePI

MarlowePI — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:34:07 +0000

“If you’re sitting on the fence, theologically speaking, would a potato be what pushed you over the edge?”

Depends on how hard it’s thrown.

“After all, like He Himself said, ‘I yam that I yam’.”

I swear to Oz I initially took this as primarily a Popeye reference. You know what? I’d pray to Popeye. Dude gets stuff done.

By: Mark Hansen

Mark Hansen — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:43:51 +0000

Malcolm, if I understand you correctly, you could deliberately produce any amount of these “holy” tubers through bad growing practice? And the only variation would be the internal shape?

Methinks there is a chance to start my own cult in my own backyard…

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:29:13 +0000

” I yam , that I yam,,,”

,,,and I suppose he smokes a pipe and eats lots of spinach???
Hmmm, sounds a bit like me,,,

GAry 7

By: Dedrick

Dedrick — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:58:27 +0000

“I yam that I yam”.

*headdesk*

By: Fil

Fil — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:01:39 +0000

“They prayed over a tuber.” ? I tried it…didn’t help!

By: Subtire

Subtire — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:27:20 +0000

Oh, damn, we all gonna go to hell after this one )

By: Victor Bogado

Victor Bogado — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:14:34 +0000

This is clearly the flying spaghetti monster mocking foolish people carving food and stuff. It is an extra-dimensional joke.

By: Philip B.

Philip B. — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:06:51 +0000

“And thou wilt knowest him by his tubers?”

By: Crux Australis

Crux Australis — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:11:54 +0000

Oh great, another cartoon website to while away my time without classes when I should be preparing lessons…

By: Torbjörn Larsson, OM

Torbjörn Larsson, OM — Thu, 08 May 2008 00:10:52 +0000

“Hole-y” spuds? I would think religion would use fruit. (Unless that is forbidden. Not sure how they handled that.)

Specifically I’m thinking they usually go bananas.

By: Levi

Levi — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:57:33 +0000

What would they have done if the potato had contained a Star of David, an Islamic crescent or (FSM forbid) a pentagram?

By: Radwaste

Radwaste — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:52:45 +0000

“Seriously, if God wanted to appear to people, would He really pick a starchy root for His sign?”

Of course not. He would appear as pasta and meatballs. You know.

By: Jess Tauber

Jess Tauber — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:48:12 +0000

If we’re going to larger issues of plant and plant part nomenclature, then I point all of you to the (e)pistils of the apostles. Do you have the stamen, huh? And what about Christ’s Anthem- hmmm? And they call Him the Prince of Peanuts…

Jess (if it weren’t for ‘u’ I’D be Jesus) T(a)uber

By: davidlpf

davidlpf — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:38:07 +0000

in gourd we trust, you shall not have any other gourd but me and from battlestar the gourds of Cobalt, thanks penny.

By: davidlpf

davidlpf — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:25:02 +0000

scratch the last post it suppose to root of good, since monet root of evil.

By: davidlpf

davidlpf — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:23:02 +0000

I guess that this is now the root of evil.

By: Gnat

Gnat — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:34:41 +0000

I cut into a potato that had the same thing, but all I wanted to do was throw up!

By: Penny Morris

Penny Morris — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:33:29 +0000

Potatoes? Ha! Everyone knows we should worship the gourd. Or shoe perhaps… bit of a theological moot-point at the moment, that.

By: Malcolm Crawford

Malcolm Crawford — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:18:25 +0000

I used to be a potato farmer. This is a manifestation of a condition called hollow-heart which is commonly seen. It is caused by irregular watering or hot growing days which cause voids at the heart of the tuber. These voids are an attractive site for bacterial growth and cause the tuber to rot from the inside out. The cross is just a random shape resulting from this common condition. For example, suppose the potato had been chopped in half on another axis – The cross-section would not have any resemblence to a cross. Some of the great religions of the world have been built on some goofy misaprehension as silly as this! Good luck with the prayers.

By: Michael Lonergan

Michael Lonergan — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:14:41 +0000

“If you’re sitting on the fence, theologically speaking, would a potato be what pushed you over the edge?”

Well, yes, it would push me over the edge, but the opposite way…

Jesus also said, “I Yam the way, the tuber and the loaf.”

By: Matt Garrett

Matt Garrett — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:02:55 +0000

Don’t quit your day job, Phil.

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:49:48 +0000

That was a great pun….but I believe the quote is actually “I Yam What I Yam….”, not “I Yam That I am….”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popeye

From a person who never grew up.

By: Todd W.

Todd W. — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:39:26 +0000

So, if you plugged two wires into it, would you have a holy battery?

By: Sarcastro

Sarcastro — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:29:50 +0000

As a pantheist I must point out that the potato IS god. Well, part of it. The potato part.

Mmmmm. Numinous and nutritious.

By: Douglas

Douglas — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:18:55 +0000

It must be some sort of tie-in with the International Year of the Potato 2008: http://www.potato2008.org/