Friday 21 August 2009

Simpsons Top Trumps: Skeptics Edition

This blog was prompted by a text message from Jack of Kent daring me to write it.

So, here’s another batch of top trumps, this time inspired by the Simpsons, but skeptically themed. You probably can’t read the text on the card so click each one to expand them.







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Notes:

Thanks to Twitter, Wikipedia & Simpsonizeme.com


My original list had over 100 great names sceptics, which I whittled down to 52. However, to make the task a tad more manageable I have restricted myself to 26 cards. So apologies for those I’ve missed out, but if it proved popular, there will be no problem in knocking up another batch. Also, I suppose this goes without saying, so regardless of the content of the individual cards, I have massive respect for all the sceptics featured.

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46 comments:

  1. Roy Natian21 August 2009 at 23:24

    I'm kinda disappointed Velma wasn't Simpsonized.

    Nevertheless, awesome!

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  2. elbuho21 August 2009 at 23:25

    Laugh? I nearly shat meself (but at least I've got bum wad)

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  3. Unknown21 August 2009 at 23:26

    What's this about my joke? - Love the cards :)

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  4. Crispian Jago21 August 2009 at 23:48

    Roy, I tried to Simpsonize Velma, but she looked crap, so I went with the regular Velma instead. BTW I did an image google search for Velma to get a good pic (without the google filter on), and I was suprised to see what she gets up to in her spare time.

    Richard, C'mon, we both know that your jokes are shite. But I love them and the show anyway, sorry I didn't feature Dr Rachie, Podblack, :) Singer etc, I did intend to do them too. Nice afternoon session at the Oval today. :)

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  5. OG22 August 2009 at 00:18

    This is awesome - thanks for this post!

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  6. Surly Amy22 August 2009 at 00:28

    Well done! Now my goal in life to be worthy of a Simpson-skeptic-card of myself someday! Thanks for the inspiration!

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  7. NaonTiotami22 August 2009 at 01:20

    Good work! A very nice selection of skeptics...

    I agree with SurlyAmy, it's now my goal in life to get turned into one of these cards. ;p

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  8. Tom Rhoads22 August 2009 at 01:51

    Brilliant.

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  9. Podblack22 August 2009 at 03:14

    Wah! Rachie and me were potentials?? Oh, we love you. Love you more that someone FINALLY spoke out about Richard's jokes!! :D :D

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  10. Unknown22 August 2009 at 09:47

    Love the cards!

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  11. Paul S. Jenkins22 August 2009 at 10:39

    So how many sets of these cards will you be selling at TAM London, so that people can try to get some of them autographed?

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  12. Dr Rachie22 August 2009 at 11:13

    Evidence of Richard Saunders' special power just to hand:

    "Do you know what happened when I got swine flu? They took me to hospital in a hambulane."

    "Do you know what happened when they gave me some medicine? It was oinkment."

    Enough said.

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  13. Theo Clark22 August 2009 at 15:36

    I was "Simpsonized" by some students of mine a few years back. The likeness is scary (as with the skeptics above). Now, if only it could happen for real and I could get a cameo on the show...

    Speaking of that, what skeptics have been on The Simpsons? Only S.J. Gould comes to mind?

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  14. @religionbites22 August 2009 at 17:16

    This is just made of total Booyah!!! Love it. Hope to see more.

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  15. BassBone22 August 2009 at 17:19

    I am disappointed that Velma keeps "loosing" her glasses and she says "jinkys"... Losing and jinkies.

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  16. cresur22 August 2009 at 17:30

    Looking sharp with the new layout!

    And the cards were top notch, as usual.

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  17. Crispian Jago22 August 2009 at 17:35

    Thanks for pointing out my spelling errors. I always spell something wrong. I can't correct it now as I don't have photoshop on this narrow boat, but it will be corrected next week

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  18. Tom22 August 2009 at 17:52

    Shouldn't Phil be Wiseman's *good* twin?

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  19. Skepticality22 August 2009 at 19:29

    I wish I had the time to actually print these up and put them out at the Skeptic Track for Dragon*Con in a few days!

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  20. Saganette23 August 2009 at 00:27

    What, no George Hrab?

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  21. Anonymous23 August 2009 at 00:38

    Dan barker is omited

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  22. ZenMonkey23 August 2009 at 01:56

    These are hilarious! And serve as a great primer on people to look up if you haven't already.

    I think Michio Kaku (@mkaku2050) would have made a great card.

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  23. Rev. Ouabache23 August 2009 at 08:46

    Love these cards. My only nitpick is that Adam Savage's Special Power should have been "Blowing Stuff Up".

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  24. Dr Aust23 August 2009 at 16:27

    Nice job... but Ben Goldacre could do with bigger hair (think 70s-era Art Garfunkel variety, or Sean Penn in Carlito's Way), and David Colquhoun really needs his utterly characteristic pipe included.

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  25. njd23 August 2009 at 18:52

    Male - female ratio? I've no complaint about the people included, but a few more women would be nice. Does anyone really think that skeptical males outnumber females by such a large margin?

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  26. Anonymous24 August 2009 at 02:34

    @Theo:

    "Speaking of that, what skeptics have been on The Simpsons? Only S.J. Gould comes to mind?"

    Penn and Teller have done the show; Stephen Hawking (I assume he counts as a skeptic? ;) ) has done it several times. Can't think of anyone else, but then I've missed the show for the last year or so--I have a lot of catching up to do!

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  27. elbuho24 August 2009 at 11:16

    Ricky Gervais has been on the Simpsons

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  28. Rachel24 August 2009 at 21:52

    Hey, check out some godless cartoons here!

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  29. Carlos Grohmann24 August 2009 at 22:29

    Where's Dr. Kiki Sanford? (@drkiki)

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  30. Zarquon25 August 2009 at 00:54

    No Richard Dawkins??!!!

    wv: mungiest as without RD this is the mungiest list of skeptics ever

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  31. RedFerret25 August 2009 at 18:17

    Ace! Good work fella!

    TRF

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  32. Anonymous25 August 2009 at 20:46

    Penn's twitter account is misspelled. (It should have two t's.)

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  33. Rogue Medic26 August 2009 at 01:54

    Excellent work.

    @Theo:

    "Speaking of that, what skeptics have been on The Simpsons? Only S.J. Gould comes to mind?"

    One of my favorite skeptics is Lisa Simpson, but I am pretty sure there have been other real skeptics on, although (other than the already mentioned P&T and SH) none come to mind.

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  34. Neil Davies26 August 2009 at 14:37

    Brilliant idea, great work! Could include the Four Horsemen (Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens and Harris) and Derren Brown maybe? :)

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  35. Keiron26 August 2009 at 20:09

    No Richard Dawkins?

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  36. Anonymous26 August 2009 at 22:01

    Can't believe you spelled "losing" wrong. "Loosing her glasses & saying "jinkys."" lol

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  37. Anonymous27 August 2009 at 11:43

    I miss Derren Brown and Richard Dawkins! ?

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  38. Anonymous1 September 2009 at 11:13

    So cute - If you do another set please do Karen Stollznow (and Richard Dawkins)

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  39. Michael Kingsford Gray2 September 2009 at 04:23

    Lisa Simpson may be a skeptic, but her voice is played by a total woo-woo actor who is the antithesis of a skeptic.

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  40. Rogue Medic2 September 2009 at 08:46

    Michael Kingsford Gray,

    Lisa Simpson may be a skeptic, but her voice is played by a total woo-woo actor who is the antithesis of a skeptic.


    That's just depressing. One of the reasons I rarely pay any attention to the personal lives of entertainers.

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  41. Crispian Jago2 September 2009 at 13:22

    Michael,

    You got any links to back up your woo-woo claims on Yeardley Smith.

    Just in case Lisa is featuring in part 2

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  42. Sid Rodrigues5 September 2009 at 13:30

    Ha ha! Finally got to a real computer so I can thank Crispian for giving me more hair than I deserve.
    ;)

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  43. Chris Guest11 December 2009 at 03:06

    Have you thought of producing physical cards?


    This site lets you print customised cards:
    http://www.customdropshipper.com/diy/Card/Playing-Cards-54-Designs-313

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  44. DM12 December 2009 at 06:40

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  45. Hamish9 January 2011 at 21:41

    Just discovered this researching some Top Trumps for deceased UK atheists. Thanks for the inspiration!
    http://humanistheritage.ning.com/group/gamesplay?xg_source=activity

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  46. ali naqvi21 February 2013 at 07:56

    Great work....thanks for sharing these awesome idea's...Plastic cards printing

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