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And now my plan is complete. I have been made into a trading card.
The ever-traffic-begging Crispian Jago has created a set of Simspons-style gaming cards based on the most beloved and good-looking of skeptics, and then made an exception in my case.
These cards are really, really funny, and you need to go look at them. He’s got Randi, and Penn & Teller, and PZ, and My Close Personal Friend Adam Savage™, and many more. These are the definition of Made of Win.
Of course, there are some problems with them… I’m a skeptic after all. He included bad words on the card, forcing me to do some COPS-style blurring, and my weapon of choice is the whole Universe, baby. I wield a +∞ ultimate doom there, baby.
But it does really look like me. Though I figured I’d look more like Philip J. Fry. Oh well.
August 25th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
I keep meaning to ask. If I got a deck of these cards, could I use them to tell fortunes?
August 25th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
He just took the Richard Wiseman card, changed the shirt and hair and put cap on.
But then again, one of those two is an evil twin, we just haven’t worked out which one that is yet.
August 25th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
So, it’s official that the PP vs PZ fight is over?
Hmm. That must mean that PZ’s book is going to be titled “Death From The Waters!”
[Me, I'm just glad that there's room for Life From The Earth in between those two egos ... , um, men.]
August 25th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Oh oh oh…I want a card!
August 25th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Overall, it looks like the best stats are given to Penn & Teller, Adam Savage, and Phil Plait while the worst stats are given to Neil Denny, Jack of Kent and Chris French.
August 25th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Yay, collectibles! Which one do any of you suppose are worth the most? ^_^
August 25th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
@Torjörn Larsson, #3:
You’re only allowed use words from the Eldritch List, so that’s “Death From The Deep“.
August 25th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Pointless censorship of words is just as dumb as astrology.
As George Carlin was fond of pointing out, there are no “bad” words. There is only bad context.
Un-blur that card, and set the truth free!
Or stagnate in puritanism. Whatever
August 25th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Hush my potty mouth.
There will be another 26 cards soon to make up a full deck of 52.
August 25th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
@Romeo,
There is a link on the page to his Tarot deck for skeptics. Warning: Some card language NSFW.
August 25th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
BTW I’ll stop traffic begging, anyway I got 4 times more hits from an Adam Savage retweet than this blog. I’ll go pester Adam now instead
August 25th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Guess they couldn’t even afford to put the NASA meatball on your cap!
August 25th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Which card wins out – Phil Plait or PZ Myers?
August 25th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
These remind me quite a bit of New Humanist’s God Trumps.
http://newhumanist.org.uk/1915
August 25th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
They’re both the left twin. It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes both twins are evil.
August 25th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
James Randi’s b***h? Harsh!
August 25th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Phil wrote: “But it does really look like me. Though I figured I’d look more like Philip J. Fry. Oh well.”
Yeah, when I think about it despite everything that’s happened to him, Fry is kind of a lucky guy. I mean just look at his gal-pal, Turanga Leela. I got used to her big cute eye right away.
August 25th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
PZ has one of these cards too. So, which of you wins a game of Top Trumps?
August 25th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
re Crispian Jago
Carefull there. don’t want to have it said that they are not working with a full deck.
I like the art. But phil your hat isn’t normally blank is it. surely you have a JREF logo on it.
August 25th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Does it mean something that Velma Dinkley is included in the cards? If one skeptic is fictional, maybe some of the others are too. I’ve always suspected that either Phil or Richard Wiseman doesn’t really exist and we’re just dealing with a case of multiple personality disorder.
August 25th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Love the cards.
I am similarly puritanical in my use of words. I want parents to feel comfortable having children read my blog. I am not one to use Carlin’s 7 words, other than in telling a joke, or quoting someone. Not because I am a prude. Far from it. I think that the language is rich enough that I can make my point with the rest of the words available.
What is obscene is in the eye of the beholder. I’m pretty sure that Creationists would be much more happy with us using all of the words that ordinarily cause them discomfort, as long as we do not utter that most evil of words – Evolution.
It would be nice to have cards that we could give to little kids to encourage an appreciation of what skeptics do, without the amusing comments that might discourage parents from sharing these with kids.
Our concerns about censorship should be focused on the ideas contained in the message.
August 25th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
The position that censoring words because they are obscene is silly is itself silly since the only reason people use the words in that context is because they’re obscene.
Obscenity is silly. So is agreement in number. English is goofy. Deal with it.
August 25th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Zoinks! Go Velma! Woo!
August 26th, 2009 at 1:09 am
I really apologise in advance if anyone is just left with my card.
I fully appeciate the “Oh dear, I only have the Jack of Kent card, and so I have lost” moment which will come to you all.
On the other hand, it is kinda pleasing that my card will be regularly set against some of the greatest skeptics in the world, even though I will crash-and-burn every time
At least the idea was mine (and so thereby are all the royalties), even if Crispian did not do a bad job in the execution
August 26th, 2009 at 4:24 am
It’s okay, Phil. You’ll always be my Zoidberg.
August 26th, 2009 at 6:12 am
They seem to have forgotten Phil’s +5 Vorpal Occam’s Razor…
Epic win, indeed!
August 26th, 2009 at 9:37 am
Hang on to that Rebecca Watson card – her stats are going to increase exponentially with time!!!