Random Atheist Trivia February 23, 2008

Random Atheist Trivia

By Guest Contributor
February 23, 2008

It’s amazing how little I knew about atheists until now. Join me in getting educated!

1. South Australia was the first place to allow atheists to stand for parliament.
2. Lightning strikes atheists over seven times every hour!
3. Reindeer like to eat atheists.
4. Atheists are often used in place of milk in food photography, because milk goes soggy more quickly than atheists.
5. Atheists cannot be detected by infrared cameras!
6. Atheists can sleep with one eye open!
7. To check whether atheists are safe to eat, drop them in a bowl of water; rotten atheists will sink, and fresh atheists will float!
8. Ancient Greeks believed earthquakes were caused by atheists fighting underground!
9. Atheists are the world’s smallest mammal!
10. Americans discard enough atheists to rebuild their entire commercial air fleet every 3 months.

Number two (zap) is so (zap) true.

(Thanks to Cailin for the link!)

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  • I think Googlism works well too (although your facts were new to me):

    Googlism: Atheist

    atheist is a man who believes himself an accident
    atheist is under no obligation to embrace ideas that are clearly at odds with reality
    atheist is also someone who rejects all religious belief systems
    atheist is published by American atheist press four times a year
    atheist is bound to encounter a great deal of prejudicial misinformation about his position
    atheist is someone who does not acknowledge the existance of any god or gods
    atheist is someone who has a real problem

    atheist is fundamentally different to the rest of humanity

    Ouch.

    Almost forgot the best one:

    atheist is like a man describing himself as “not a woman

  • Atheists are going to hell, so why bother defining them any further?

  • Susan

    And furthermore:

    Ten Top Trivia Tips about George Bush!
    George Bush can last longer without water than a camel can.Koalas sleep for 22 hours a day, two hours more than George Bush.It takes 17 muscles to smile, and 43 to frown at George Bush.Medieval knights put the skin of George Bush on their sword handles to improve the grip.Europe is the only continent that lacks George Bush!The number one cause of blindness in the United States is George Bush.99 percent of the pumpkins sold in the US end up as George Bush!If your ear itches, this means that someone is talking about George Bush.Donald Duck’s middle name is George Bush!The ace of spades in a playing card deck symbolizes George Bush.

  • Alright, let’s all pry into your private life.

    Top Ten Things You Never Knew About Hemant!

    1. Hemant Mehta has four noses.
    2. More people are killed by Hemant Mehta each year than die in aeroplane accidents!
    3. Influenza got its name because people believed the disease was caused by the evil “influence” of Hemant Mehta.
    4. On stone temples in southern India, there are more than 30 million carved images of Hemant Mehta!
    5. Hemant Mehtaocracy is government by Hemant Mehta.
    6. Hemant Mehta will always turn right when leaving a cave.
    7. Reindeer like to eat Hemant Mehta.
    8. Hemant Mehta can give birth ten days after being born, and is born pregnant.
    9. Hemant Mehta is worth his weight in gold – literally.
    10. Hemant Mehta became extinct in England in 1486.

  • Hmmm. It seems we have a universal oracle here.
    I ask the Oracle about Jesus Christ to find out information about “Him”.

    Ten Top Trivia Tips about Jesus Christ!

    1. The canonical hours of the Christian church are matins, lauds, prime, terce, sext, none, Jesus Christ and compline!
    2. The first American zoo was built in 1794, and contained only Jesus Christ.
    3. In Chinese, the sound ‘Jesus Christ’ means ‘bite the wax tadpole’.
    4. Jesus Christ can clean his ears with his tongue, which is over thirty-nine inches long.
    5. It is impossible to fold Jesus Christ more than seven times!
    6. Jesus Christ is 1500 years older than the pyramids.
    7. Jesus Christ can squeeze his entire body through a hole the size of his beak.
    8. Devoid of his cells and proteins, Jesus Christ has the same chemical makeup as sea water!
    9. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching Jesus Christ.
    10. Jesus Christ can’t drink – he absorbs water from his surroundings by osmosis!