English

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

Proper noun

Flying Spaghetti Monster

1. (humorous) A deity consisting of spaghetti and meatballs said to be creator of the universe.
   • 2005 January, Henderson, Bobby, “Open Letter To Kansas School Board”, in (Please provide the title of the work):

     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, Boxer, Sarah, “But Is There Intelligent Spaghetti Out There?”, in New York Times, ISSN 0362-4331, 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, Huberman, Jack, “#75: Kansas State Board of Education”, in 101 People Who Are Really Screwing America, Nation Books, ISBN 978-1560258759, LCCN 2007271768, 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, Dawkins, Richard, “The God Hypothesis”, in The God Delusion, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN 978-0618680009, LCCN 2006015506, 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, Gaiman, Neil; Reeves, Michael, InterWorld, 1st edition, New York: HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0061238987, LCCN 2007008617, 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, Berkun, Scott, “How to work a tough room”, in Confessions of a Public Speaker, 1st edition, Sebastapol: O'Reilly, ISBN 978-0596801991, LCCN 2010291451, 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

See also

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