This isn’t really a Debate, but some of the people I need to ask only frequent GD.
From whence comes the Chruch of the Invisible Pink Unicorn?
I’ve seen the Church of the IPU envoked in c/e debates here before and was wondering if it was invented here at the SDMB or it was used by someone who heard it somewhere else ? I have a personal reason for needing to know, but I won’t go into it right now.
So, does anybody know?
–John
Every place I’ve checked says it sprung into being based on a random comment on alt.atheism. I saw this quote about a year ago: “The Invisible Pink Unicorns is a being of great spiritual power. We know this because she is capable of being invisible and pink at the same time. Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorn is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that she is pink; we logically know that she is invisible because we can’t see her.” I thought it was hysterical, so I went and poked around on the web and read more about the IPU (pbuh); you can find a fair number of references. This is one of the better links:
www.palmyra.demon.co.uk/humour/ipu.htm
Gaudere, soft-shell atheist, Prophetess of the IPU, Prime Example of Humility of the First Church of David
Oh dear. Oh dear. Hmm. Was it Phil who started that, or George? This comes off the old board, from a theology debate, or maybe an atheism/religion debate where somebody came up with “if I believe in the Great Pink Unicorn” or some such thing. (Unless I’m having a false memory, of course ;).) TubaDiva – do you remember? Phil?
-Melin
Ah, okay, Shannon explains where it originated – I didn’t know that, thought it had been made up by someone on the old board. Sorry!
-Melin
I’ll happily take credit for the work of others, though, given the opportunity. 
“It’s my considered opinion you’re all a bunch of sissies!”–Paul’s Grandfather
Thanks Gaudy. Too bad; I was hoping it was an original expression of the SDMB. An athiest in my Civ class, onthe last day of the semester (the only time she EVER had a sense of humor about herself), made a joke about belong to the Church of the IPU. I was kinda hoping someone right here in my dorm building was a fellow Doper.
Oh well.
–John
Please choose your words carefully lest you offend my sensibilities.
I am an ordained minister of that church and I have the certificate to prove it. I can’t remember the site, but I downloaded the document and printed it.
I don’t have the authority to perform marriages, but I am permitted to condone mopery and listlessness.
I love the power.
A seminar on time travel will be held two weeks ago.
The P–K U------N has always existed. It is just recently, through divine guidance, that the P–kness has entered our hearts. If you wish to see direct evidence of it, just look at a baby’s butt. His divine Son, the Panther, has shown us the path to follow.
P–k 4-ever!
I would like to ask a logical question here.
If the Unicorn is Invisible, how can it be Pink?
Think about it…
The trouble with Sir Launcelot is by the time he comes riding up, you’ve already married King Arthur.
That’s the point, Agisofia…one of the points, anyway.
-David
That is one of the Proofs of the Divinity of the IPU. Her everexpansive Pinkness IS at the same time INVISIBLE, and Her Invisibility is fully Pink at the same time. She Created the Universe last Thursday, complete with memories implanted in the minds of all, just as assuredly She implanted Fossils in the Brand-New Earth.
Yea and Verily, Her wrath is grreat at Scoffersd, and Her followers (who have accepted that mere Human Minds cannot grasp the simultaneous Pinkness and Invisibility of Her, although they realize that an Omnipotent Deity can be anything She wants, including Invisible and a shade of Light Red) will taunt you unto the ends of the Earth (which is not flat, but Crooked, it is a manifestation of her Invisibility that makes it appear ROund to the Nine Old Men of Geneva)…
um, ithinki’lljuststaycatholicthanks.
The trouble with Sir Launcelot is by the time he comes riding up, you’ve already married King Arthur.
If the IPU (Blessed be her hooves!) can be invisible and pink at the same time, can she also create a rock so heavy that she cannot lift it?
Having a high level of Omnipotence, as well as being possessed of Free Will, She can AND HAS created rocks so large that SHE CHOOSES NOT TO LIFT THEM!
Any who scoff will be gored by the Immortal Horn and sent to the Eternal Litterbox…
Eternal “litterbox”?
But horses don’t use … um …
Hey, wait a minute …
I’ve always operated under the assumption that the IPU was shaped like a HORSE with a single horn sticking out of her head. But the name “Invisible Pink Unicorn” says nothing about what kind of critter the single horn is attached to.
Could the IPU be an invisible pink one-horned [B}CAT**??!?!
No, Queen Maeve is the cat. There is some Maevian influence detectable in early IPUanity.
Is it just me, or does the title of this thread bear a disturbing likeness to the title of another thread?