The Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford, and pompous ASS (as in Atheist Supremacist Spokesperson), proved to be rather "less than scientific" in his two Tweets responding to a Tweet that I had posted calling his attention to my parody version of Gilbert & Sullivan's 'The Major General's Song' known as 'The Atheist Supremacist's Song'. . .
Richard Dawkins had posted a Tweet urging his Twitter followers to follow Daniel Dennett, who he described as "unpretentious" and someone who "works hard to be understood". Unlike Richard Dawkins himself of course, who is often quite pretentious, and who quite often goes out of his way to be offensive towards God believing people. . . I responded to this Tweet by graciously providing a link to 'The Atheist Supremacist's Song'. Richard responded to that Tweet by quite pretentiously and "less than clearly" saying -
"Learn to scan. If you even know the meaning of the word."
Of course the word "scan" has a variety of different meanings and I wasn't *quite* sure which meaning Richard Dawkins meant since, in his all too typical arrogance and pompousness and pretentiousness he had not worked very hard to be understood. . .
Without further ado here are the initial Tweets in question. . .
I will deal with Richard Dawkins' second pretentious, and indeed rather stupid, Tweet to me in a separate blog post entitled -
'The Magic Of The Reality That Evolutionary Biologist Richard Dawkins Is A "Less Than Bright" Bright Who Does Not *Appreciate* Parody & Satire'. . .
Enjoy!
- Follow
@DanielDennett. One of the world's premier intellectuals, but unpretentious and he works hard to be understood. @RichardDawkins@danieldennett Do enjoy my#parody version of a famous Gilbert & Sullivan song Richard.http:// emersonavenger.blogspot.ca/2008/07/is-richard-dawkins-very-model-of.html …#Atheist#music
Richard Dawkins
Robin Edgar 
@RichardDawkins@robinedgar I do like the term Atheist Supremacist though, regardless of how impossible it is to read that blog.@RichardDawkins Well, like a good number of words, scan has several different meaning Richard. I'm not sure how any apply to my parody song.@jbrouder85 You can thank@RichardDawkins, and some of his partners in crime such as P. Z. Myers, for inspiring the term Atheist Supremacist@RichardDawkins Richard, thanks for so thoughtlessly providing evidence supporting my contention that you're anything but unpretentious. :-)@jbrouder85@RichardDawkins This web page with 'The#Atheist#Supremacist's Song'#lyrics might be easier on your eyes http://www.amiright.com/parody/2000s/gilbertsullivan0.shtml …@RichardDawkins Richard old boy. Is *this* what you meant in saying "learn to scan"? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI3NoBeNwfk …It's not really my style actually.@RichardDawkins I *did* say "I am open to suggestions for improvements." Here http://www.amiright.com/parody/2000s/gilbertsullivan0.shtml … If you can make it scan better go for it.
Guiseppe
"'cause you know sometimes words have two meanings. . ."
Led Zeppelin - 'Stairway To Heaven' ;-)
This Scantastic video clip showing someone who learned to scan courtesy of famous Canadian film director David Cronenberg. ;-)
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