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ON August 7, P Z Myers, creator of the popular religion-crushing blog, Pharyngula, will be touring the multi-million dollar Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky.
Myers has long mocked and ridiculed Ken Ham’s infamous, biblically-literal museum, but so far has not visited this “monument to scientific illiteracy”.
However, the Secular Student Alliance – as part of its 2009 [...]

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Barry Duke on July 2nd, 2009

OH, what a giggle we had trawling through over 80 entries we had for our June caption contest!
But the hard bit was choosing a winner.
In the end, we said sod the accountants, let’s award THREE prizes of a year’s subscription to the Freethinker to:
• Rog – With the tide rising and her feet encased in [...]

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Barry Duke on April 22nd, 2009

AT the beginning of April we invited readers to participate in a caption contest for the photo below:
We had an great giggle at the entries submitted – but a clear winner emerged.
Remigius, take a bow, as your submissions raised the best laugh:
Little kid: Mummy, when I said ‘I want some nutty chews’ I meant nougat!
We [...]

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THE Grand Rebbe Meshulam Feish Lowy of Tosh – or Rebbe Tosh as he is known to his Ultra-Orthodox Jewish followers – has been giving awful earache to residents in the Victoria Park area of Fort Lauderdale.
Tosh, from Montreal, had taken up residence in a vacant Mansion to escape the Canadian winter – and, within [...]

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Barry Duke on October 1st, 2007

“Bugger me,” puffed Mohammed, rapidly running out of rod. “I wish I’d brought more Viagra when I took this job testing models down at the Mecca Outdoor Inflatable Male Emporium!”
THE winner of our August placard contest is Marcus, who suggested the caption above. He wins a year’s free subscription to the Freethinker.
Today, we have a [...]

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Barry Duke on August 31st, 2007

THE winner of our July placard contest is Beaner, who suggested the wording pictured left. He shares the first prize of a year’s free subscription to the Freethinker with Tim Wright, who elicted the same number of votes.
Tim’s suggestion was: Single white male, 70 years old, no sense of humour, seeking similar.
Today, we have a [...]

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