# The Volcano god is apparently angry - who are we going to sacrifice?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-volcano-god-is-apparently-angry-who-are-we-going-to-sacrifice/536717
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 20, 2010, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-volcano-god-is-apparently-angry-who-are-we-going-to-sacrifice/536717 "2010-04-20T05:40:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Lars\_Aruns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lars_Aruns)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2010, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-volcano-god-is-apparently-angry-who-are-we-going-to-sacrifice/536717/41 "2010-04-20T16:55:00Z")
> [@Nava](#):
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> Maybe we can just toss the whole gang in?
YEAH, BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! Ahem, so do go ahead at your leisure. š
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### Author:  [@RalfCoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RalfCoder)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2010, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-volcano-god-is-apparently-angry-who-are-we-going-to-sacrifice/536717/42 "2010-04-20T19:17:02Z")
> [@RalfCoder](#):
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> We may need another volcanoā¦
Uhā¦ [Honest, I was being facetious when I said thatā¦](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_iceland_volcano)
Quoting from the article:
"Although seismic activity at the volcano has increased, the ash plume appeared to be shrinking Tuesday. Still, scientists were worried that the activity could trigger an even larger eruption at the nearby Katla volcano, which sits on the massive Myrdalsjokull icecap and has erupted every 80 years or so ā the last time in 1918.
āThe activity of one volcano sometimes triggers the next one, and Katla has been active together with Eyjafjallajokull in the past,ā said Pall Einarsson, professor of geophysics at the Institute of Earth Sciences at the University of Iceland."
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### Author:  [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2010, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-volcano-god-is-apparently-angry-who-are-we-going-to-sacrifice/536717/43 "2010-04-20T19:45:46Z")
Well, at least āKatlaā appears a lot easier to pronounce.
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### Author:  [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2010, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-volcano-god-is-apparently-angry-who-are-we-going-to-sacrifice/536717/44 "2010-04-20T19:58:08Z")
> [@horsetech](#):
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> In breaking with tradition, I think that we should send a team of emissaries, led by **Skald the Rhymer,** to negotiate with the volcano. Perhaps a few crates of wine will be an acceptable substitute for some stringy, bland virgin.
Why me?
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### Author:  [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2010, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-volcano-god-is-apparently-angry-who-are-we-going-to-sacrifice/536717/45 "2010-04-20T20:07:31Z")
> [@Chicken\_Fingers](#):
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> How about Tom Cruise. Maybe he could call on Xenu.
Thereās a nice sort of poetry to tossing Tom Cruise into a volcano. Can we toss in the whole passel of Scientologists?
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### Author:  [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-volcano-god-is-apparently-angry-who-are-we-going-to-sacrifice/536717/46 "2010-04-20T20:20:18Z")
> [@RalfCoder](#):
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> I vote we cover the entire spectrum - Sarah Palin AND Hillary Clinton. Yeah, we might give the volcano a raging case of indigestion, but it would be worth it.
Itād give it a raging something alright.
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### Author:  [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2010, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-volcano-god-is-apparently-angry-who-are-we-going-to-sacrifice/536717/47 "2010-04-20T20:43:42Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#):
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> Why me?
Every evil overlord needs a secret base in a volcano, you can scope it out while youāre there.
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### Author:  [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2010, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-volcano-god-is-apparently-angry-who-are-we-going-to-sacrifice/536717/48 "2010-04-20T20:50:29Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#):
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> Every evil overlord needs a secret base in a volcano, you can scope it out while youāre there.
So you think the Volcano God is angry, and you want to send the one person you know who, as a point of principle, is going to betray your side? :dubious:
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### Author:  [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-volcano-god-is-apparently-angry-who-are-we-going-to-sacrifice/536717/49 "2010-04-20T21:27:08Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#):
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> So you think the Volcano God is angry, and you want to send the one person you know who, as a point of principle, is going to betray your side? :dubious:
Are you telling me that youāre not a trustworthy evil overlord? What is this world coming to? May as well let the angry volcanos have it.
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### Author:  [@SmellMyWort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmellMyWort)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2010, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-volcano-god-is-apparently-angry-who-are-we-going-to-sacrifice/536717/50 "2010-04-20T21:59:44Z")
Justin Beiber
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### Author:  [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2010, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-volcano-god-is-apparently-angry-who-are-we-going-to-sacrifice/536717/51 "2010-04-20T23:21:24Z")
The Norse god of fire, or personification of fire is Logi. All I know about him is that he once had an eating contest with Loki, And managed to beat the trickster by consuming all of his joint of meat, the bone, and the wooden trencher underneath it. However in Norse Mythology lots of other creatures are associated with fire as well, we need to narrow this down. it might be as simple as buying it off with a bottle of mead.
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### Author:  [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2010, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-volcano-god-is-apparently-angry-who-are-we-going-to-sacrifice/536717/52 "2010-04-20T23:26:44Z")
Meh, Iāll go, I have a paper that I donāt want to do so win/win. BRING IT ON!
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### Author:  [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2010, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-volcano-god-is-apparently-angry-who-are-we-going-to-sacrifice/536717/53 "2010-04-20T23:58:47Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#):
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> On the news this morning, then mentioned that further clouds and ash are expected from the volcano whose name cannot be said. \
The volcano is named Voldemort? š
We should throw in televangelists, politicians, telemarketers, Middle Management Executives and Telephone Sanitizers, we should look at this volcanic eruption as Natureās Garbage Disposal, weāre turning the unwanted into _heat_, itās recycling š
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### Author:  [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2010, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-volcano-god-is-apparently-angry-who-are-we-going-to-sacrifice/536717/54 "2010-04-21T00:46:58Z")
> [@Jragon](#):
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> Meh, Iāll go, I have a paper that I donāt want to do so win/win. BRING IT ON!
Save me a spot. Chaucerian satire on Medieval gender roles can go burn.
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### Author:  [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2010, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-volcano-god-is-apparently-angry-who-are-we-going-to-sacrifice/536717/55 "2010-04-21T02:11:47Z")
> [@Surly\_Chick](#):
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> How 'bout Dakota Fanning?
Oh hell no. She was the best thing about the last Twilight movie, and she was only in it for a minute or so. If she has a more prominent role in the next one(s), and I donāt know because I havenāt read the books, then Iāll actually be looking forward to them.
> [@](#):
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> Sheās probably still pure.
Donāt know about real life, but as Cherie Currie, her hot lesbian love scene with Joan Jett (Kristen Stewart) in **The Runaways** might disqualify her.
> [@Sr\_Siete](#):
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> How about that Hannah Montana girl?
Nah, she publicly voiced support for gay marriage, sending a great message to all her impressionable fans and pissing off teabagger types. She gets points for that, enough to keep her from being sacrificed. Come to think of it, why donāt we give the volcano all the teabaggers? And Scientologists.
> [@VunderBob](#):
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> How about the current administration, and all members of both houses of Congress?
Your teabags are showing. You might want to tuck them in.
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### Author:  [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2010, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-volcano-god-is-apparently-angry-who-are-we-going-to-sacrifice/536717/56 "2010-04-21T02:15:07Z")
Maybe all these volcanic rumblings are because Craig Ferguson put Geoff Petersen in charge of building their secret volcano headquarters.
Iām sure Geoff isnāt the most handy handyman.
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### Author:  [@horsetech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/horsetech)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2010, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-volcano-god-is-apparently-angry-who-are-we-going-to-sacrifice/536717/57 "2010-04-21T03:17:01Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#):
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> Are you telling me that youāre not a trustworthy evil overlord? What is this world coming to? May as well let the angry volcanos have it.
I figured that the best way to communicate with an evil lord of the underworld was to send the evil overlord.
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### Author:  [@SeaCanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaCanary)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2010, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-volcano-god-is-apparently-angry-who-are-we-going-to-sacrifice/536717/58 "2010-04-21T15:48:35Z")
Just chuck in a trillion dollars. Lord knows weāve pissed it away on more worser stupider stuff.
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### Author:  [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2010, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-volcano-god-is-apparently-angry-who-are-we-going-to-sacrifice/536717/59 "2010-04-21T17:11:40Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#):
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> So you think the Volcano God is angry, and you want to send the one person you know who, as a point of principle, is going to betray your side? :dubious:
Weāve already proposed Palin, Berlusconi and ZPā¦
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### Author:  [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-volcano-god-is-apparently-angry-who-are-we-going-to-sacrifice/536717/60 "2010-04-21T20:16:38Z")
> [@Nava](#):
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> Weāve already proposed Palin, Berlusconi and ZPā¦
Yes, but theyāre not OPEN super-villains. They donāt believe in evil from a philosophical point of view, as the version of Skald in the universe in which there are angry volcano gods probably does. Palin, assuming she doesnāt get outwitted by the VG, may well say, āYeah, I canāt really betray America to you, Loki. I mean, all my stuff is there, and a lot of white people too.ā Berlusconiās gonna be hard to outwit, and moreover has limits. But Skald of the Evil Volcano God world is betray humanity for yuks so long as he has time to get his family and maybe a couple dozen Tolkien geeks to safety.
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