Glowing praise for "Textbook Disclaimer Stickers"

"You may have a CV from some doinkey commie liberal arts colleges but you are still a loser. When are you moving out of your mother's basement?"

"Just dumb. a failed attempt at humor."

I heard about these on tv but I didn't know they were that dumb."

"Unfortunately don't seem to be a standard Avery label size."

"Mildly amusing."

"OK."

"Funny, but where are the Bible stickers??" Here! (courtesy Muzel Chen)

"Snarky." x7

A little more snark than I'm entirely comfortable with."

"That's stupid."

"I wasted 5 minutes of my life on that [expletive deleted]."

"It's alarming how much of the stuff I post here isn't really humorous."

"Scientific elitism."

"Kinda meanspirited and parts can be construed as anti-religious."

"Don't be dissin' the Cockamamie Theory."

"Trumping up the status of evolution."

"Useless."

"Distasteful."

"What a waste of internet space."

"Why do I keep coming across this stupidity?"

"You've made a wonderful case for home schoolin."

"Putting a disclaimer in a text book isn't going to turn every kid in the class into a Jesus-freak. You people need to spend your time on a worthier cause."

"You have it all figured out don't you?"

"I live about 5 minutes from swarthmore.edu ... picture a small liberal arts college that can't even keep a decent coffee shop in business."

"Not all scientists reject supernatural explainations for life." [sic]

"Be gone with your foul pagan gravity. We ain't haven' it."

"If the designs were just a little bit more inspiring, I would actually consider having one or two of them tattooed on my body." [Just do it! It'll drive the guys crazy!]

"You are the Devil Mr. Purrington!"

"The world isn't flat?"

"First of all the earth is NOT spherical...The mathematical solid which best fits the shape of the earth would be an ellipsoid, but even that isn't perfectly accurate..."

"Oblate spheroid. The Southern hemisphere is larger than the Northern hemisphere."

"You have misspelled "approach." x8

"Hey [sic] misspelled 'approached. Things like that just ruin it for me."

"You have mispelled "should." [sic]

"You have misspelled "studied."

"You have misspelled "carefully."

"You cannot seem to spell correctly."

"If you care to look beyond your own nose, you'll see that your ridiculous "textbook disclaimer stickers" contains one or more words that is spelled incorrectly."

"The spelling's a bit rank on the last one, innit? Ha ha how about disclaimer stickers for teachers, who can't [expletive deleeeted] teach, anymore!?"

"George Bush is dumb, but he couldn't have said something that dumb."

"Did he really say that?" [yup!]

"The Bush quote is actually rather moderate. The stickers would have been much more effective at reaching non-evangelical Republicans if it didn't have the cutesy misspellings." x20 [OK, OK, OK! Here you go: nonpartisandisclaimers.jpg, or *.pdf]

"Good, but click on the bottom right one for real humor."

"That is so retarded."

"Keep on talking and writing. You are becoming more transparent all the time."

"If you're going to argue factually, then you will lose...In truth, facts can neither prove or disprove the unprovable."

"Gotta love the ladies at Swarthmore."

"Stupid, childish, ungodly."

"You know, I am officially sick of running across this."

"Unimaginatively facetious."

"I'm picking up a pretty hostile vibe from this stuff."

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Colin Purrington

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Evolution Outreach Projects | Purrington Lab | Dept of Biology | Swarthmore College