# Kirk Cameron's 150th Anniversary ORIGIN OF SPECIES (expurgated, the one without the gannet) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 22, 2009, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirk-camerons-150th-anniversary-origin-of-species-expurgated-the-one-without-the-gannet/511147 "2009-09-22T21:52:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2009, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirk-camerons-150th-anniversary-origin-of-species-expurgated-the-one-without-the-gannet/511147/101 "2009-11-18T19:21:21Z")
> [@pythonzzz](#): > > “Honest” Ray Comfort lied. Gee, never saw that coming… It’s not lying if it’s for Baby Jesus. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2009, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirk-camerons-150th-anniversary-origin-of-species-expurgated-the-one-without-the-gannet/511147/102 "2009-11-18T20:28:57Z")
No success to report. They’re gone. I have had a chance to briefly scan a copy, however. Several of the Biology professors have one. I don’t know what has been expurgated, but the God-bothering, proselytizing Introduction looks to be about 1/10 of the entire book. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2009, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirk-camerons-150th-anniversary-origin-of-species-expurgated-the-one-without-the-gannet/511147/103 "2009-11-18T21:39:39Z")
The worst part is the earnestness. They spend a lot of time and money and distribute however many thousands of these and do they think they’re going to make so much as one convert who wouldn’t have been converted by the first Chick tract he or she picked up? The biology students who are already devout Christians are probably rolling their eyes harder than the ones who are atheists at the nincompoopery of the assertions. The same money and time could have been used to do something worthwhile or at least fun. In one of the Ask the Former Mormon threads a former missionary said that while the Mormon missionaries make extremely few converts- especially few who last more than a flirtation period with the church- the biggest advantage to the Mormon church is that the youth who participate feel so much more vested in the church. I can only assume this is the same sort of deal- it’s to make the Comfort/Cameron enthusiasts feel they did something. I’m wondering if Comfort and Cameron know this or are really that benighted. ---
**Author:** ![MerryMagdalen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@MerryMagdalen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MerryMagdalen)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2009, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirk-camerons-150th-anniversary-origin-of-species-expurgated-the-one-without-the-gannet/511147/104 "2009-11-18T21:58:38Z")
I got one! (At UW Seattle.) ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2009, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirk-camerons-150th-anniversary-origin-of-species-expurgated-the-one-without-the-gannet/511147/105 "2009-11-18T23:46:24Z")
“Banana” isn’t Arabic, it’s Wo… > [@Kimstu](#): > > Huh? [Etymology of “banana”](http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=banana): > > The standard Arabic word for banana is “mawz”, موز . There is an Arabic word “banaan” meaning “fingertips”, but I don’t know of any link between that and Wolof “banana”. Damnit, **Kimstu**! Just when I think I know something that no one else (reading the thread) knows, you’ve gotta come in and drop some obscure knowledge. My knowledge of Wolof is how I impress girls at parties! Now what am I gonna do? :: puts away 20pg paper from college on Wolof:: Stupid Dopers…always stealing my thunder…:mumble mumble sulk: ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2009, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirk-camerons-150th-anniversary-origin-of-species-expurgated-the-one-without-the-gannet/511147/106 "2009-11-19T00:33:17Z")
> [@MerryMagdalen](#): > > I got one! (At UW Seattle.) Does the centerfold show Kirk’s nipples? ---
**Author:** ![MerryMagdalen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@MerryMagdalen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MerryMagdalen)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2009, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirk-camerons-150th-anniversary-origin-of-species-expurgated-the-one-without-the-gannet/511147/107 "2009-11-19T00:45:39Z")
No, but there’s a photograph of the Garden of Eden. And 16 different words for banana. Maybe Kirk Cameron’s nipples are shaped like bananas? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirk-camerons-150th-anniversary-origin-of-species-expurgated-the-one-without-the-gannet/511147.md?page=5)