It came out of a Kent Stater editorial rant aimed at a six-week long op-ed debate between PETA and...everyone else...about whether boiling lobsters alive was humane or not.
Kind of an idiotic question, I thought, for something with a brain the size of a BB. Plus, as those familiar with "godhatesshrimp.com" know, YHWH considers lobsters an abomination anyway.
Besides, my girlfriend had just dumped me, and I was...crabby. (Ha)
So, having an office next to Campus Crusade for Christ (yes, Kent has the kind of Student Union that puts the Neo Pagan Coalition next to Campus Crusade) I borrowed their lessons on what's known as systematic theology, used language from Chick Tracts and a couple cookbooks, and handed in to the Stater (along with a handy dandy piece of lobster clipart) what I thought was a joke editorial that would make my friends laugh and shorten the debate. Plus, it contained great words like "blasphemer", "heathen", and "infidel".
By noon the next day, I had four "converts".
By the end of the week, "Hail Bobo" was appearing in chalk graffiti, and the op-ed debate had crashed and burned in its own silliness.
By the end of that month, we had a website, complete with a graphic of a lobster being crucified upside down over a boiling cauldron.
That Halloween, we had a processional, with someone dressed as Bobo, a string of "devotees", and someone passing out tracts.
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Bobo Saves, He Shoots, He Scores!
Date: 2007-02-23 04:20 am (UTC)It came out of a Kent Stater editorial rant aimed at a six-week long op-ed debate between PETA and...everyone else...about whether boiling lobsters alive was humane or not.
Kind of an idiotic question, I thought, for something with a brain the size of a BB. Plus, as those familiar with "godhatesshrimp.com" know, YHWH considers lobsters an abomination anyway.
Besides, my girlfriend had just dumped me, and I was...crabby. (Ha)
So, having an office next to Campus Crusade for Christ (yes, Kent has the kind of Student Union that puts the Neo Pagan Coalition next to Campus Crusade) I borrowed their lessons on what's known as systematic theology, used language from Chick Tracts and a couple cookbooks, and handed in to the Stater (along with a handy dandy piece of lobster clipart) what I thought was a joke editorial that would make my friends laugh and shorten the debate. Plus, it contained great words like "blasphemer", "heathen", and "infidel".
By noon the next day, I had four "converts".
By the end of the week, "Hail Bobo" was appearing in chalk graffiti, and the op-ed debate had crashed and burned in its own silliness.
By the end of that month, we had a website, complete with a graphic of a lobster being crucified upside down over a boiling cauldron.
That Halloween, we had a processional, with someone dressed as Bobo, a string of "devotees", and someone passing out tracts.
And 10 years later, it continues...