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HalfMooner
Dingaling

Philippines
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Posted - 11/16/2006 :  20:34:24  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message
Seculars burn rubber for no godly reason

Charlotte, NC, November 17, 2006 (RP) -- No longer willing to concede a single "NASCAR Dad" to what they call "the cult of Sectarian Inhumanism," secular humanists have taken to auto racing circuits to promote their beliefs. Afraid to be left behind, other groups are hurriedly fielding racing teams, too.


The American Atheist team's Ford leads, as the Amalgam-
ated Woo-Woo team's driver tries to slip past on the inside,
followed closely by Team Evolve's Ford. On the outside, the
Wicca car is being drafted by the ID Creationism Lite Dodge.

"After the drubbing theocratic forces have taken across the nation in the November 2006 elections, we have an opportunity to press home our advantage," says George Sohnsheim of the Secular Humanist Influence Team. "NASCAR fans are a critical demographic. They're typically male, working class high school graduates from the South and farming states. In the past, we secular humanists have ignored these people."

Selling NASCAR fans short was a huge strategic mistake, said Sohnsheim. "The NeoCons sure as hell didn't ignore them, and they came close to making America a theocracy. We secular humanists have frankly been elitist toward NASCAR fans. But all that's crap's gonna change right now. If we don't get our message to NASCAR fans, the Fundies will, and we'll be up shit creek without a paddle again in 2008."

Sohnsheim gestured to indicate the four secular racing teams his group is promoting. "We've got some of America's best scientists and engineers in our crews. Even some of our mechanics are rocket scientists. So we're taking our message to the common folks in great big letters right across the hoods of our cars. And we're going to kick some ass on the track while doing it!"


Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Dave W.
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USA
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Posted - 11/16/2006 :  21:02:46   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message
Did you do the Photoshopping, Half?

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Why not question something for a change?
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pleco
SFN Addict

USA
2998 Posts

Posted - 11/16/2006 :  21:03:34   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit pleco's Homepage Send pleco a Private Message
LOL!

by Filthy
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HalfMooner
Dingaling

Philippines
15831 Posts

Posted - 11/16/2006 :  21:09:33   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.

Did you do the Photoshopping, Half?

Yes, I did. With actual Photoshop, even. Started with a Wiki photo.


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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard

USA
4574 Posts

Posted - 11/16/2006 :  21:17:16   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send H. Humbert a Private Message
Good work, Mooner. The photo came out expecially nice.


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Valiant Dancer
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USA
4826 Posts

Posted - 11/16/2006 :  21:21:09   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Valiant Dancer's Homepage Send Valiant Dancer a Private Message
OK, this has gotta be about that mope who doesn't make all the races, Kirk Shelmerdine who drives the "Racin for Jesus" car.

Lessee.

99 - Atheism - Carl Edwards, Rousch Racing
21 - Wicca - Kenny Schrader, Woods Brothers Racing
38 - WooWoo - Gilland, loser rookie, in a car Eliot Sadler got out of for the Evernham #19 Dodge.
40 - Creationism Lite - Casey Mears, he's sometimes the scene of the accident
88 - Evolve - Dale "race the truck" Jarrett

Edwards and Schrader are good drivers. Gilland and Mears suck. Jarrett used to be a good racer, now he's just angry.


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McQ
Skeptic Friend

USA
258 Posts

Posted - 11/16/2006 :  21:21:16   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send McQ a Private Message
Excellent work HalfMooner! I can barely open PhotoShop, let alone use it constructively. I'm impressed. Funny as hell too!

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HalfMooner
Dingaling

Philippines
15831 Posts

Posted - 11/16/2006 :  21:23:54   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Valiant Dancer

OK, this has gotta be about that mope who doesn't make all the races, Kirk Shelmerdine who drives the "Racin for Jesus" car.

Lessee.

99 - Atheism - Carl Edwards, Rousch Racing
21 - Wicca - Kenny Schrader, Woods Brothers Racing
38 - WooWoo - Gilland, loser rookie, in a car Eliot Sadler got out of for the Evernham #19 Dodge.
40 - Creationism Lite - Casey Mears, he's sometimes the scene of the accident
88 - Evolve - Dale "race the truck" Jarrett

Edwards and Schrader are good drivers. Gilland and Mears suck. Jarrett used to be a good racer, now he's just angry.



Jeeze! Now, too late, I know who I should have consulted!


Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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HalfMooner
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Posted - 11/16/2006 :  21:25:06   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by McQ

Excellent work HalfMooner! I can barely open PhotoShop, let alone use it constructively. I'm impressed. Funny as hell too!

Thank you!


Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Valiant Dancer
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USA
4826 Posts

Posted - 11/16/2006 :  21:39:46   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Valiant Dancer's Homepage Send Valiant Dancer a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by HalfMooner

quote:
Originally posted by Valiant Dancer

OK, this has gotta be about that mope who doesn't make all the races, Kirk Shelmerdine who drives the "Racin for Jesus" car.

Lessee.

99 - Atheism - Carl Edwards, Rousch Racing
21 - Wicca - Kenny Schrader, Woods Brothers Racing
38 - WooWoo - Gilland, loser rookie, in a car Eliot Sadler got out of for the Evernham #19 Dodge.
40 - Creationism Lite - Casey Mears, he's sometimes the scene of the accident
88 - Evolve - Dale "race the truck" Jarrett

Edwards and Schrader are good drivers. Gilland and Mears suck. Jarrett used to be a good racer, now he's just angry.



Jeeze! Now, too late, I know who I should have consulted!





One correction to my own post. Morgan Shepard drives the "Racin for Jesus" car.

I am available for consults on race car drivers. Although, don't ask me about fantasy race teams. Mine sucks this year.

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Ghost_Skeptic
SFN Regular

Canada
510 Posts

Posted - 11/18/2006 :  03:32:06   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Ghost_Skeptic a Private Message
The Woo-Woo Team will be channeling the late Peter Brock

quote:
Brock began to consult health practitioner Eric Dowker. Brock gave up alcohol and cigarettes, and became a vegan[7]. Brock began publicly supporting and, eventually, began to fit to all Holden Dealer Team specials a device called the "Energy Polarizer" containing crystals and magnets that, it was claimed, improved the performance and handling of vehicles through "aligning the molecules

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"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism." - William Osler

"Religion is the natural home of the psychopath" - Pat Condell

"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter" - Thomas Jefferson
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Chippewa
SFN Regular

USA
1496 Posts

Posted - 11/18/2006 :  11:54:28   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Chippewa's Homepage Send Chippewa a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by HalfMooner

quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.

Did you do the Photoshopping, Half?

Yes, I did. With actual Photoshop, even. Started with a Wiki photo.

Very nice work! A tip of the hat...er..um...I mean...a tip of the easel to you. You're a master! (I sometimes get paid for the graphic art work I do, and I often struggle with Photoshop's eccentricities.) It's a very clever image!
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HalfMooner
Dingaling

Philippines
15831 Posts

Posted - 11/18/2006 :  12:16:37   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Chippewa

quote:
Originally posted by HalfMooner

quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.

Did you do the Photoshopping, Half?

Yes, I did. With actual Photoshop, even. Started with a Wiki photo.

Very nice work! A tip of the hat...er..um...I mean...a tip of the easel to you. You're a master! (I sometimes get paid for the graphic art work I do, and I often struggle with Photoshop's eccentricities.) It's a very clever image!


Thanks much, Chip! I've been playing with paint programs since before there was a PC, using an Atari 800. I don't think I'm especially skilled, and never had formal training. I don't really understand half of Photoshop's tools. I'm especially rusty right now. But I've done this stuff a time or two in the past. Sometimes, brute force employing time, and shameless, repeated use of "undo," can trump a basic lack of skill.

BTW, I'm working on a photo meant to show the SFN car in the pit right now. I'll only post it if it works, though.


Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 11/18/2006 12:17:42
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HalfMooner
Dingaling

Philippines
15831 Posts

Posted - 11/18/2006 :  15:28:38   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message
Okay, fixed the "pit" images. Here's the forum-sized version of the SFN NASCAR pit. (I had to keep it smallish, as it would otherwise mess up the forum's formatting.)



For those of you who might like to see greater detail, try this link for a BIG (1,787 pixels wide) image.


Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 11/19/2006 01:21:34
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Orwellingly Yurz
SFN Regular

USA
529 Posts

Posted - 11/18/2006 :  16:56:41   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Orwellingly Yurz a Private Message
YO, 2-Quarters Moon of Man: I love your pictorial automotivations to counteract the NASCARELIGIOVADERS.

OY!!

"The modern conservative...is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
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If dogs run free
Then what must be,
Must be...
And that is all
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HalfMooner
Dingaling

Philippines
15831 Posts

Posted - 11/18/2006 :  17:21:23   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message
Thanks, OY!


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