Right on cue after yesterday’s post on how to cook up your own Voynich Theory, up pops a exemplary (if perhaps not entirely serious) Voynich Theory…
Pastafarian “Guilherme” points out the hitherto-unnoticed resemblance between the drawing on page f33v of the Voynich Manuscript [above] and His Noodleness the Flying Spaghetti Monster. (He erroneously calls it f34r, but it’s f33v really). So now you know – those three bobbly round things aren’t rootballs, they’re meatballs.
Of course, if you’ve yet to be introduced to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and the whole associated quasi-legal quest by “millions” to get His Noodly Teachings taught in parallel with Intelligent Design in schools (particularly in Kansas), this may all come as a bit of a surprise. Also, note that teachers would have to wear “full pirate regalia” to do this without being disrespectful to the CFSM: I’m not quite sure of the precise reasoning, but it’s somehow because global warming since the 1800’s has (apparently) been inversely dependent on the number of pirates in the world. Just so you know!
Applying the DIY Voynich Theory checklist:
- Doesn’t care about facts? √
- Could be made into a T-shirt? √
- Major historic figure roped in? √
- Personal psychodrama projected on subject? √ (Probably)
- Asking (and answering) all the wrong questions? √ (Sort of)
- Having fun? √√√√√
So, what’s it to be: sauce or butter? The eternal question (apparently). 🙂
Many thanks, Nick, for introducing the FSM into the discussion of the VMs! Being a native of Kansas, I always enjoy this. The ID controversy is a rare example of my native state’s briefly outstupiding my adopted state – and that really takes some stupid!
It does seem to me that the resemblance is loose. His Noodliness’ eyes appear to have problems, and there are three meatballs rather than two. Perhaps he was thought to be somewhat more masculine?
The people of the time of the VMs would have been even less amused by the FSM than those nowdays, so yes, the use of cipher is entirely plausible!
I vote for sauce.
Sauce it is, then. 🙂