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That is fantastic. I would like to buy them a pasta dinner the next time I'm in Little Rock.

Well, it IS Talk Like A Pirate Day, after all.

Great work, me hearties!

Oh wow...made my day/week/month. Hats off to wonderful people taking a hilarious stand against ignorant hateful fools. A world full of these folks would be...a great improvement!

The did steal my hubby's act...

'They' did.

What's a pirates favorite restaurant?

ARRRRRRRRRRRby's!!

Arrrrrggggggghhhhhh!

Bravo-Zulu Pastafarians! Click

I had no idea that the Phelps scam people were in town today. (Been traveling lately and not keeping up with AT as often)

But my dad always brings up the "Leveticus Abominations" as proof that his 70 years as a Catholic were an embarressment. He says as Catholics you are never pushed to read the Bible but just let the church tell you what you need to know. That is because anyone that really read it would throw their hands up in discust and become a peaceful agnostic.

The reason I call them the Phelps Scam people is because their whole livelyhood is derived from being obnoxious and getting their asses whooped and then suing the individual whoopers and the police departments which failed to protect them as they exercize their freedom of speech.

WELL DONE!!!!
This is seriously about the coolest thing ever! I hope it makes the national news.
Somebody needs to drop off a couple of bottles of rum for these guys.
Well played!

Little kiddies recruited by their parents held up the following signs:

"Thank God For Ike"

"Pray For More Dead Soldiers"

Not that these swine deserve any attention, but the "adults" sure seemed preoccupied on their cell phones the whole time they were "protesting". Wonder what they were talking about...

"Oh, you should just SEE little Bobby. Never been so proud in my life, the way he's dragging that American flag all over the ground. Just like I told him to! And little Marlene... God Bless her, she's only six, but I really think those Jim Jones videotapes we've been watching with them are really starting to sink in. You can just...... see it in their little eyes."

Pirates said:

"We'll let you take our picture and then we'll take your camera, ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

Pirates: 1
Haters: 0

Hey!!!

It's Food Dude!!!

Yo-ho-ho and a bottle (or more) of rum for those clever salty dogs.

Damn it's hard to find real heroes in this day and age, but I'm looking at a picture of authentic Arkansas heroes at the top of this thread. Though you can't see it, I am bowing to you from the left side of the state. You may have just figured out the only way to truly stick it to the Phelps gang. Bravo!

And why didn't I think of this before? The incorrect way to fight the Phelps is to deny them free speech, one of the best things about America-AT&T. The correct way to fight the Phelps is using your right to join them on the same sidewalk with your brand of free speech. Might this same tactic work at abortion clinics? McCain looked pretty stupid and pissed the other day when he visited a Detroit auto plant and was greeted with a mass of workers screaming Obama 08 Obama 08!

Yes yes Lord! My eyes have been opened! If McCain or Palin ever come to Fort Baptist I'll not go try to shout them down....I'll fix a big sign saying Bridge to My Anus! Or God Hates McShrimp! I say forget The Wonder State.....let's put God Hates Shrimp on our car tags and let the world know that we may be backwards, but we're not all idiots down here!

Congratulations to the anti-Phelps Pirates! God Hates Phelps! We are all God Hates Shrimpers today!

Anyone see chasv with the Phelps nuts???

Hats off to the Pirates!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is good stuff.

Pastafarians + Nutty Bigots x Talk Like a Pirate Day=AWESOME.

I'm rendered blissful by this. Best Counter-protest Ever.

Now we're talking "Holy War"! Finally a deity we can all worship ;)

pastafarian: Gravity is only a theory!
nonbeliever: No it isn't!
pastafarian: You spagnostic! We are grounded because of intelligent falling; he pushes us down with his noodly appendages!

Bertrand Russell, Urban Dictionary

Just walked through the area and saw the Phelps bunch and the pirates. Most people are crossing the street to the pirate side. I got behind two ladies coming out The Hop and one asked the other about the fact that one guy was dragging the American Flag all over the ground, the other lady who obviously knew what was going on told her friend the guy was doing it on purpose and to ignore the whole bunch. There were 2 LRPD cars parked on the brick in front of the Chamber of Commerce building keeping an eye on the whole thing. I got the impression that the pirates plan on being where ever the Phelps bunch is today since I heard somebody asking "how much time do they(Phelps) have left here and where do they go next."

Lots of people watching and taking pictures.

Awesome!

I had no idea Central Ark has a pastafarian group.

http://venganza.org

God may hate shrimp and cotton/poly blends, but I'm pretty sure he's a fan of pirates today.
Those Phelps bunch'll be swabbing the poop deck in hell. Yarr.

Arrrr! Avast mateys! These Pastafarians smartly heaved to!

Deliver these fine pirates their grog, lubbers!

Pastafarians got it pegged, shrimp an'all!

Now *that's* freedom of speech!

Can I show up at their protest tomorrow carrying a sign that says "GOD HATES CRABS (and so does my boyfriend)"? or would that be in bad taste?

Good stuff! But the Pastafarians appear to have omitted a sin: Catfish, being scale-free, are also verboten. I suppose these land-lubber pirates have a soft spot in their scurvy hearts for The Flying Fish, as do I. Could it also be that some of them are on staff at the Arkansas Times (whose symbol, most of you realize, is the lowly bottom feeder)? Nah, I doubt that explains it-- the Times staffers wouldn't have any qualms about taunting the wrath of the Levi, would they?

Ya wanta hear something funny? When I first saw the sign equating God's disdain of seafood and "Phelps," my first thought was "MICHAEL Phelps." He IS quite akin to ichthys, no? However, I have no information as to whether or not scales are borne upon his hide....

Oh the hilarity.

Hopefully "Rev" Phelps won't soon forget his trip to ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRkansas.

Well done, Mateys!!!

I love it love it. best thing I've read all day. Wish I had known, I would've joined the party.
Great stuff. Way to go!!

This is just SO cool! I hope that Colbert hears about this and gets some video. Fight hate with humor. The really interesting thing is that both of these groups parody faith. Only one realizes it, though.

Vernal -

"Would that be in bad taste?"

Welcome!

Keep in mind: this is the Arkansas Times Blog, not the Vatican . . . and you'll be fine.

Occasionally, one or two may exceed the limits of good taste here. But, essentially, this is happily and absolutely the most tasteless site in Arkansas.

So, we're touched by your concerns about "bad taste."

Forget about it.

You're home at last.

This is great! Reminds me of an incident about a year ago in Knoxville where clowns disrupted a white supremacist rally: http://asheville.indymedia.org/article/107Clowns

Laughter trumps bigotry!

rAmen, brothers.