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AmyStrange

(7,989 posts)
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 02:31 PM Aug 2020

God is a homeless, mad scientist, and...

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SHE LIVES IN MY ATTIC!!

[SNIP]

“Nobody knows,” the Cat said, and then turned to me, “except maybe that homeless, mad scientist woman living in your attic. She’s supposed to know everything, right?”

“Homeless, mad scientist woman?” Randy asked, obviously confused as hell.

Beth, Darryl and I started laughing.

“Amy thinks God is a mad scientist,” Beth explained, “and that she’s living in our attic.”

“Ok... but how?” Randy asked slowly, but then put up his hand and said, “Never mind. I don’t want to know.”

“Rhonda’s mother was thanking Miss Amy and God for finding her daughters,” Darryl added anyway, “and she was looking up, in the direction of their attic.”

“Oh, ok. That actually makes sense,” Randy said, and then shook his head, “and I can’t believe I just said that.”

[SNIP]

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God is a homeless, mad scientist, and... (Original Post) AmyStrange Aug 2020 OP
I wrote a short story for a class in college SCantiGOP Aug 2020 #1
I love it... AmyStrange Aug 2020 #2
Very little has survived from those ancient times SCantiGOP Aug 2020 #4
I call it the ABC... AmyStrange Aug 2020 #5
Life was simpler SCantiGOP Aug 2020 #7
Don't forget the UHF stations... AmyStrange Aug 2020 #8
I'm a little bit older, I think SCantiGOP Aug 2020 #9
Five years ain't that much, but... AmyStrange Aug 2020 #10
I was a big fan of Sagan's invisible heatless fire-breathing dragon in the garage nt Shermann Aug 2020 #3
You're talking about Carl Sagan, right? AmyStrange Aug 2020 #6
What if... Tanuki Aug 2020 #11
I love that song, and... AmyStrange Aug 2020 #12
I heard something completely different in Boston DFW Aug 2020 #13
Waste water canal? AmyStrange Aug 2020 #14
The punch line I heard was SCantiGOP Aug 2020 #15
Playground? AmyStrange Aug 2020 #16
Crap, now I get it, and... AmyStrange Aug 2020 #17
Maybe so, but you are the first person, male or female, in my experience, to feel that way DFW Aug 2020 #20
I'm afraid what that 1% means... AmyStrange Aug 2020 #21
Same story, different version n/t DFW Aug 2020 #19
The origin of the joke was not from an engineer, but a gynecologist DFW Aug 2020 #18
It's about sex... AmyStrange Aug 2020 #22

SCantiGOP

(13,867 posts)
1. I wrote a short story for a class in college
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 03:24 PM
Aug 2020

All of the gods from all of the universes were having one of their regular conventions, and the main topic was what to do about the god who, for the first time in eternity, had obviously gone insane. They were discussing some of the unimaginable things he/she/it had invented and inflicted on his creatures, such as war, racism, rape, childhood diseases, etc.
They had a Prime Directive that no god could interfere with the universe of another god, but this one was causing so much suffering that they were considering removing him.

I guess I should update the story. Where the original ended with the gods preparing to take a vote, this one could end with one saying, "OK, we have to act quickly. Now he has gone and created something called a Trump......"

 

AmyStrange

(7,989 posts)
2. I love it...
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 04:10 PM
Aug 2020

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You don't have a copy somewhere, that I could read?

Maybe this evil God has turned himself into the evil trump, and even the devil is fighting him...

Naw, that would NEVER work.
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SCantiGOP

(13,867 posts)
4. Very little has survived from those ancient times
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 05:17 PM
Aug 2020

The elders speak of those long ago times as “The Sixties,” those it was probably early 70’s.

 

AmyStrange

(7,989 posts)
5. I call it the ABC...
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 05:39 PM
Aug 2020

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the Age Before Cable...

A dark, dark time in American History... NOT!

(I'm also one of those "ancients," because I remember watching first run episodes of I Love Lucy!)
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SCantiGOP

(13,867 posts)
7. Life was simpler
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 09:40 PM
Aug 2020

when we had two stations to choose from. Much better than having 400 stations, and can’t find anything you want to watch.

 

AmyStrange

(7,989 posts)
8. Don't forget the UHF stations...
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 09:53 PM
Aug 2020

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that were on 24/7, showing all kinds of crazy movies like, "My Boyfriend Was a Teenage Werewolf."

They were the A&E of their day.

(the movie I mentioned doesn't exist, but Cowboys Vs Dinosaurs does)
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SCantiGOP

(13,867 posts)
9. I'm a little bit older, I think
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 09:58 PM
Aug 2020

Born 1951, our first TV had an NBC and a CBS station, and that was it. By the time I was 10 or so I think we had a few more choices.

 

AmyStrange

(7,989 posts)
6. You're talking about Carl Sagan, right?
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 05:41 PM
Aug 2020

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I didn't know he had one in his garage, or was he just smoking pot?
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DFW

(54,328 posts)
13. I heard something completely different in Boston
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 11:39 PM
Aug 2020

A painter, a sculptor and a civil engineer, all men, were all in a bar, discussing the true profession of God.

"God is a painter," said the painter.
"How do you figure?" asked the other two.
"Only a divine painter could have imagined the lines of a woman's face to fascinate us throughout the eons," he said.

"No, God is a sculptor," the sculptor said.
"How do you figure?" asked the other two.
"Only a divine sculptor could have invented the exquisite contours of the female body," he said.

"No, God is an incompetent civil engineer, a total failure at his job," said the civil engineer.
Stunned, the other two asked, "how do you figure?"
He answered, "only an idiot civil engineer would have deliberately run a waste water canal right through the middle of an amusement park."

DFW

(54,328 posts)
20. Maybe so, but you are the first person, male or female, in my experience, to feel that way
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 03:43 AM
Aug 2020

On the bright side, it elevates you into the 1%.

 

AmyStrange

(7,989 posts)
22. It's about sex...
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 04:21 AM
Aug 2020

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I figured that part out, but I’m also not a big fan of sex jokes, and I apologize for saying that it was told badly.
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