{"id":981,"date":"2002-10-04T09:59:36","date_gmt":"2002-10-04T17:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/10\/04\/and-the-theologian-of-the-year-award-goes-to-buffy\/"},"modified":"2009-06-27T23:55:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-28T07:55:53","slug":"and-the-theologian-of-the-year-award-goes-to-buffy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/10\/04\/and-the-theologian-of-the-year-award-goes-to-buffy","title":{"rendered":"And the Theologian of the Year Award Goes to&amp;#8230; Buffy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedoormagazine.com\/\">The Door<\/a> (a religious humor magazine) deems Buffy the Vampire Slayer to be the Theologian of the Year. <i>Our nation\u2019s season of trial influenced The Door\u2019s selection of Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Theologian of the Year. Let\u2019s face it. In perilous times, we need someone who can not only deconstruct the problem of evil, but kick its hiney. And that means Buffy and her Scooby Gang.<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedoormagazine.com\/buffy.html\">Read all about it<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>In an interesting coincidence, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improb.com\/\">Annals of Improbable Research<\/a> (a science humor magazine) has just issued the 2002 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improb.com\/ig\/ig-top.html\">Ig Nobel prizes<\/a> <u style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webdev.entheosweb.com?amityville_horror_the\">amityville horror the divx movie online<\/a><\/u>  to <i>honor people whose achievements \u201ccannot or should not be reproduced.\u201d<\/i> [<b>update: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improb.com\/ig\/2002\/ig-winners-2002.html\">official 2002 list<\/a> is online with references<\/b>]<\/p>\n<p>Among this year\u2019s winners are <i>Karl Kruszelnicki, a Sydney University researcher who wrote the paper on belly-button lint. Dr Kruszelnicki, at his own expense, studied 5000 belly-button lint samples. He concluded the lint was a combination of clothing fibres and skin cells that were led to the navel, via body hair, \u201cas all roads lead to Rome\u201d. \u201cYour typical generator of belly-button lint or fluff is a slightly overweight, middle-aged male with a hairy abdomen,\u201d he said.<\/i> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/articles\/2002\/10\/04\/1033538774048.html\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Door (a religious humor magazine) deems Buffy the Vampire Slayer to be the Theologian of the Year. Our nation\u2019s season of trial influenced The Door\u2019s selection of Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Theologian of the Year. Let\u2019s face it. In perilous times, we need someone who can not only deconstruct the problem of evil, \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/10\/04\/and-the-theologian-of-the-year-award-goes-to-buffy\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cAnd the Theologian of the Year Award Goes to&amp;#8230; Buffy?\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-random-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-fP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1835,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/1835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}