My Favorites Are The Zodiac Killer Jokes

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Got someone else at work today all WE GOT MOVIE SIGN over the news that the Zodiac is broken.

For me, this is just one of those surreal moments when the media starts reporting something I thought everyone knew as stunning news. Dude, I learned about the way the Earth wobbles and how the constellations shifted back in eighth grade science class. I thought we all knew this already—but then, I also have to keep reminding myself that people believe the Zodiac tangibly affects their lives.

Actually, come to think of it, a lot of the morning show science news could be filed under Things I Thought Everyone Already Knew. I suppose the real question is why I continue to be surprised by this.

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[van.livejournal.com]

Sounds like me and pop culture, but in reverse.

Them: "OMG look at that crying baby in that car, Ke$ha must be playing!"
Me: "What's a . . kessha?"
Them: *STARES AT ME IN HORROR*

etc.

[fenmere.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear lord. I found out that I have a problem during that whole episode: Whenever someone reports that "news" about the zodiac, I have to correct them. It's not so much a compulsion as an unconscious reflex.

[sphynxle.livejournal.com]

My "knowledgable" Zodiac believing co-worker freaked the fuck OUT about the zodiac change. I felt the same as you. Really, this isn't the first time the zodiac changed. Or the last. It's called science.

I'm highly amused that I'm the only one out of the group of people I know that didn't change.

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

You know, 8th grade was when I learned it, too. And that was way back in the 60s. I remember a couple of the girls were all OMG that means I'm really a (insert zodiac sign)!! and were quite serious. Well, it *was* the 60s and astrology was all the rage; I'm not sure what people use as an excuse these days for still believing in it...

[stormteller.livejournal.com]

I haven't even heard of this, but it doesn't surprise me. What surprises me is that a large number of people seem to find it significant. The persistence of superstition, I suppose.

[beccastareyes]

The ancient Greeks knew this shit. Which always impresses me -- screw arguing over geocentrism versus heliocentrism, I like hearing how the Greeks figured out the size of the Earth-Sun-Moon system*, modeling orbits, and measuring that the Earth wobbles like a top.

But it ruins my joke that I'm an Ophiuchus, the sign that thinks astrology is bullshit.

* Granted, with errors given they were working naked eye, but Aristarchus of Samos knew the Sun was bigger than the Earth.

[fenmere.livejournal.com]

Funny. Whenever I've told a beleiver that I think astrology is bullshit, I've always gotten the response, "Oh, that's so Virgo."

[beccastareyes]

I've heard that happening to a friend.

It's a good thing I was born in February.

[shadesofmauve]

Doesn't it make you want to smack them?

Er, astrally, I mean... :P

And now I TOTALLY want someone to say that to me, so I can tell 'em I was born in march and I think they're full of it.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

I say drop all that crap and go with the comics zodiac.

I'm a Dracula.

[marsdejahthoris.livejournal.com]

I love astrology, not because I believe in any of it, exactly, but because it's... er... Well, one of my Aspergers' traits seems to be an utter love and fascination with patterns and correspondences and stuff. So Ruby is the gem of Aries which is the sign of spring, and hey, the astrological zodiac corresponds to different stations of the sun which is kind of like the eight sun holidays of the pagan calendar and contrasts neatly to the Celtic lunar zodiac and... er... meaning? Why does it have to mean anything? It's a big beautiful spiderweb, isn't that enough? It doesn't have to be factual.

My mother, on the other hand, always says "I'm a Capricorn. Capricorns don't believe in astrology."

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Oh, sure--I love symbols and myths and patterns. And I find it fascinating to see just how in-depth the system gets. But it's all meaning humans assign it. It's great as comparative mythology, or as a big beautiful spiderweb.

[marsdejahthoris.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I figured you'd understand. :)

[kittikattie.livejournal.com]

I also have to keep reminding myself that people believe the Zodiac tangibly affects their lives.

*is one of those people who believes that planets and signs affect our lives*

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I stand reminded!

[kittikattie.livejournal.com]

Paganism: I CAN MAKE IT WORK SOMEHOW.

[shadesofmauve]

I feel your science-related pain. I keep running into things that I thought were common knowledge that others consider esoteric or new. A signifigcant number around animals, for some reason -- did none of these people ever visit the zoo?

F'rinstance, my Dad, boyfriend and I named our trio Pinniped. We all knew what it meant, and kind of assumed others did. At best, 1 in 4 people has a clue what we're talking about...

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

I know what a pinniped is, but what sort of trio are you talking about? String trio?

[shadesofmauve]

Fiddle, guitar, and bodhran -- music 'flowing from the celtic tradition' being our current (over-schmaltzy) line, because it's vague enough to encompass the fact that we occasionaly flow all the way into, er...Sonny Rollins calypso peices. Just occasionally.

The name is fairly random, but no more so than most bands. Band name game notwithstanding, picking a band name is HARD! We decided since we live by the puget sound, we all love the water, and most of our songs are maritime, it worked. Also, it's fun to say! And there are three of us, and three types of pinniped.. which naturally makes Dad the Walrus.

My coworker thinks I am in a band called "Pin-up head."

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

At least they don't think you're really, really into Hellraiser.