Comments on: Skeptology blog

By: John B. Sandlin

John B. Sandlin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:50:24 +0000

Not that Phil can’t pull off wearing a pink shirt… but that looks like a nice red shirt and the photo has been desaturated (look at the photos in the Gallery to see the shirt at full bloom).

Meanwhile, not like I have a life any more, or can put off any more than I already have, but, I’m gonna find a way to incorporate this new blog into my schedule – somewhere, somehow – even if I have to clone myself.

This is wonderful news and I look forward to my assimilation.

John B. Sandlin

By: Don't Panic

Don't Panic — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:40:13 +0000

You know Phil this comes at a great time for me. I just spent the weekend trying my darndest not to slap one of my husband’s friends up-side the head for all the nonsense that was coming out of his mouth. The guy believes some gravitational fluctuation is going to cause the northern and southern hemispheres to switch places in the year 2012….this of course will be the end of the world, to which my response was “I will give you a call on January 1st, 2013 and see if your predictions have come to pass”. This wasn’t the first time I had to deal with this stuff, my Mother seems to believe that every time there is a light in the sky (she recently set up her hot tub, so is out there every night) that it is moving far to fast to be anything but a UFO (the alien type). My scalp is killing me from all the hair pulling I’ve been doing. So many times over the last two weeks I’ve been hoping that your show would be coming out soon so instead of watching ghost hunters, UFO shows, and End of the World documentaries, maybe, just maybe some people will see some sense on T.V.

For now it is comforting to know there are others with a skeptical mind.

By: FrankZA

FrankZA — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:25:25 +0000

Ah crap, I won’t get any work done now…

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:24:10 +0000

Well, great. Phil, don’t you know I have 2 small children and I barely have time to read all the other blogs I want to read. I guess going the bed at 1:30 am can now be put off til 2:00 am so I can fit in the new blog. Thanks for the added pressure of keeping up with you people…who knew skeptics were so busy?

By: Jewel

Jewel — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:19:48 +0000

Oh goody! Another blog to read!

By: IVAN3MAN

IVAN3MAN — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:52:30 +0000

@ The Chemist

I checked out your blog — nice — and I see that you live in Atlanta, Georgia. Well, I live in London, UK, so I have an advantage over you in that the clocks here (GMT) are currently 4 hours’ ahead of yours.

That bloke who commented on your blog about your stomach ulcer is right — stomach ulcers are caused by Helicobacter pylori.

Click on my name for the Wikipedia article link.

By: dan2

dan2 — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:50:42 +0000

You’re on SGU this week, schweeeet.

By: The Chemist

The Chemist — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:44:36 +0000

“Stark Raving Dad”

Damn you IVAN3MAN! You beat me to it!

By: Tim Miller - Raleigh, NC

Tim Miller - Raleigh, NC — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:24:17 +0000

Bouncing through the links, I saw one, ummm, leader who stated that we need chant the 5 magic words to harmonize ourselves with the earth and each other so that the ships encircling the earth will leave.

I don’t know about you, but I am a busy man, and have pared those down to 3 words..

Owa – The Beginning

Tagoo – Our Being

Siam – Mythical plain (similarity to the old name of an Asian country is purely coincidental. Much as Douglas Adams pointed out that every society has a drink called “Ginandtonic”, all uneartly organizations have an exotic location called “Siam”)

Repeat the three words repeatedly (that’s a lot of repeatin’), and feel better about yourself (or at least try to feel less foul)

By: miller

miller — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:45:42 +0000

This is a *very* impressive blog. I’ve thrown it on my reader already.

By: IVAN3MAN

IVAN3MAN — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:17:13 +0000

Phil Plait, I would advise you not to wear a pink shirt — we all know what happened to Homer J. Simpson in The Simpsons episode “Stark Raving Dad”.

By: peteG

peteG — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:06:02 +0000

Damnit, another blog to read when procrastinating! Congrats though, and I really hope to see The Skeptologists aired.

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:45:59 +0000

[tease]Almost all the skeptics are wearing black … but what is Phil wearing? Pink. Way-to-go! [/tease]
(I am of coarse referring to the banner image on the new blog page)

By: shane

shane — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:34:02 +0000

Oh, and I forgot to mention. I, for one, welcome our new sceptical overlords.

Congratulations on being part of a very elite group. But you already knew that.

By: shane

shane — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:26:21 +0000

Phil, the repost has the same spelling mistake in link with Galileo’s name as the original – Galilei, not Galilee.

By: IVAN3MAN

IVAN3MAN — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:13:13 +0000

There is no such thing as too much skepticism.

By: shane

shane — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:12:54 +0000

Oh gee thanks Phil. I have a life you know. Well I did. Just when I thought I had enough blogs to read you go and add another and a little more of the aforementioned life gets chipped away one blog post at a time.

BTW, Dr Steve is winning in the comments stakes. Not that it is a popularity contest right?