Flying Spaghetti Monster

English

Depiction of the Flying Spaghetti Monster giving the 8 "I'd Really Rather You Didn'ts" to Captain Mosey

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

the Flying Spaghetti Monster

1. (humorous) A deity consisting of spaghetti and meatballs, the creator of the universe according to the religion of Pastafarianism.
   • 2005 January, Bobby Henderson, “Open Letter To Kansas School Board”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎:

     I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster.

   • 2005 August 29, Sarah Boxer, “But Is There Intelligent Spaghetti Out There?”, in New York Times‎, →ISSN, retrieved 2011-10-28:

     Is the super-intelligent, super-popular god known as the Flying Spaghetti Monster any match for the prophets of intelligent design?

   • 2006 May 24, Jack Huberman, “#75: Kansas State Board of Education”, in 101 People Who Are Really Screwing America, Nation Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC P95.82.U6 H83 2006, page 76:

     And now, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) is demanding equal teaching time for its theory that the world was created by an FSM.

   • 2006 September 18, Richard Dawkins, “The God Hypothesis”, in The God Delusion, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC BL2775.3.D39 2006, page 76:

     A popular deity on the Internet at present — and as undisprovable as Yahweh or any other — is the Flying Spaghetti Monster, who, many claim, has touched them with his noodly appendage.

   • 2008 April 29, Neil Gaiman with Michael Reeves, InterWorld, 1st edition, New York: HarperCollins, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC PZ7.G1273 Int 2007, page 73:

     Call it what you want — God, Buddha, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Prime Mover Unmoved. The totality of everything. I don't care.

   • 2009 October, Scott Berkun, “How to work a tough room”, in Confessions of a Public Speaker, 1st edition, Sebastapol: O'Reilly, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC PN4129.15.B47 2010, page 51:

     All rooms, no matter how tough, have someone who hates you the least. Even if you're a Flying Spaghetti Monster disciple speaking at the Vatican, someone in that room will hate you less than everyone else.

Synonyms

• FSM

Derived terms

• Flying Spaghetti Monsterism

Translations

spaghetti deity

Afrikaans: Vlieënde Spaghettimonster Arabic: وحش السباجيتي الطائر Catalan: Monstre Volador d'Espagueti m Cebuano: Nagalupad nga Spaghetti nga Mananap Chinese: Mandarin: 飛行麵條怪物／飞行面条怪物 (Fēixíng miàntiáo guàiwù), 飛麵大神／飞面大神 (Fēimiàn Dàshén) Cornish: Euthvil-Neyj an Spaghetti m Czech: Létající špagetové monstrum Danish: flyvende spaghettimonster c Dutch: Vliegend Spaghettimonster Esperanto: Fluganta Spageta Monstro, Fluganta Spagetmonstro Finnish: lentävä spagettihirviö French: Monstre en Spaghettis volant German: Fliegendes Spaghettimonster Greek: Ιπτάμενο Μακαρονοτέρας (Iptámeno Makaronotéras) Icelandic: fljúgandi spagettískrímslið Italian: Mostro di spaghetti volante Korean: 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 (naradanineun seupageti goemul), 비행 스파게티 괴물 (bihaeng seupageti goemul) Latin: Macaronoteras Volatile, Monstrum Spacellinum Volatile Norwegian: Flygende spaghettimonster Polish: Latający Potwór Spaghetti Portuguese: Monstro de Espaguete Voador m Romanian: Monstrul Zburător de Spaghete m Russian: Лета́ющий Макаро́нный Монстр (Letájuščij Makarónnyj Monstr) Serbo-Croatian: Leteće špagetno čudovište m Spanish: Monstruo de Espagueti Volador Swedish: flygande spaghettimonstret Turkish: Uçan Spagetti Canavarı Ukrainian: Літаючий Локши́нний Монстр (Litajučyj Lokšýnnyj Monstr)

See also

• Invisible Pink Unicorn
• Last Thursdayism
• Russell's teapot

Further reading

• Flying Spaghetti Monster on Wikipedia.Wikipedia