Can you still get these dark chocolate M&Ms? I’d like to try them.
StG
Wouldn’t he be correct or did they just come from an explosion in a sugar factory?
And if so, where did the sugar factory come from, HMMMM?
Last time I saw them, they were a promotion with the latest Star Wars movie – Dark Side : dark chocolate (har har).
They were fabulous, and I haven’t seen them since, damn them. Although I’ve been taunted by friend-of-a-friend rumors that they’re supposed to come back.
I totally have to go to Florence, KY, in 2007.
I can imagine few things more enjoyable than a jaunt through a creation museum.
But, if Creationism was so obvious, why would you need special effects? I’m surprised you didn’t say “The God I believe in doesn’t need a lightsaber, mister…!”
:dubious:
So, they serve ‘special’ M&Ms there, eh? Guess that tears it about which hors doeuvres to turn down while there, if you want to keep from induction into the cult. But really, the spiked M&Ms are just the gateway drug:
[RobinWilliams]Go for the M&Ms…stay for the KOOL-AID® ! [/RobinWilliams]
But…what…does…God…need…with…a…lightsaber! 
(y’know, for a nonexistent movie, we sure get a lot of mileage out of that old gag, after all, it’s really funny, they should use it in a Star Trek movie or something, it’d fit right in…)
jsgoddess: The clerk noticed your shirt and made a relevant comment without resorting to rudeness, so you were right to be polite without lying about your beliefs concerning the matter at hand. Had he said something like “you know that evolution crap is all Satanic bullshit, right?”, however, you’d have been justified in disabusing him of that notion.
Here is an article about the museum scheduled to open in Florence next year. Included are a few photos of portions of the slated exhibits.
If God needs a lightsaber, he’d have the wrong guy running his museum then. Since Universal turned down Star Wars, the executive He’s got running His Creation Museum wouldn’t have been able to do that special effect, anyway.
Maybe God needed a phaser.
I’m a bit of an idiot about self-censorship, at times. I pictured the scenario as described, with myself in it, and realized that the first words out of my mouth probably would have been,
“Wait, you’re telling me enough nutjobs out there believe in that crap to build a museum about it?!”
Perhaps it’s a good thing I don’t get talked to much by clerks…?
(My wife says I tend to look like I’m brooding most of the time, and two of my best friends have independently described me by saying, “You look like a rapist!” So, I, uh, don’t get much in the way of casual conversation with strangers/checkout clerks/small children. Heh.)
–sofaspud
Would that be Satan, or just one of his televangelist minions?
Also, I can’t say if God needs a phaser. But, based on the people who keep preaching at me in his name, however, he certainly needs an enema. :eek:
- last post should reflect that the people preaching at me are not on the SMDB.
I would have asked if he’s been to Bedrock City - which is another place which depicts man and dinosaurs living together.
I would have said
“Oh, so it’s like one of those Ripley’s ‘Believe it or Not’ museums.”
Indeed. When my (now ex) wife visited Philly for her first and only time, she didn’t give a rat’s ass about the Liberty Bell or anything else the city had to offer. Mütter was the only thing on her mind; she was practically obsessed. It certainly didn’t let her down, either.
I loved it, too, even though I’m not at all interested in medicine. I had a blast pawing through all of those drawers of bizarre objects that people had swallowed.
Politely ignoring it is totally fine, and you shouldn’t feel bad about it.
If I’m in a similar spot, though, I hope I’ll say something like “Sorry, I like my museums to be about real things.” Or maybe I’ll be wearing my DAMNED ATHEIST shirt that day. I’d love to see the face of a guy like that when he read it.
He might call you a heathen. If he’s a follower of Robert Tilton, he might start speaking in tongues and try to heal you then and there.
I’d have asked him if they had an exhibit showing God (that sly prankster) planting dinosaur bones to test our faith.
“Thanks, but I believe in science. It’s what separates us from the lower animals.”
I would have said “it sounds interesting.”
Really, it does. After going to the two links provided in this thread, I think that if and when this place does open, it will be like a 3D walkthrough Chick Tract. With animatronic dinosaurs.
Unfortunately, I’m not one of the 170 million Americans who can drive to Cincinnati in one day, so I guess I’ll never get to go.
On the other hand, I’ll never have to see children learn that Adam had to hide from a T. Rex, so maybe I’ll be better off not going.
From the website walkthrough:
“#12 Bible Authority Room.
The Bible is true. No doubt about it! Paul explains God’s authoritative Word, and everyone who rejects His history-including six-day creation and Noah’s Flood-is ‘willfully’ ignorant.”
Tee-hee.
They really need the Fire and Brimstone Cafe.