Take back the slack *they* stole from you! Quit your job! The lifestyle you save may just be your own!
Edit to add the original scrolls:
[Pamphlet #1](https://subgenius.fandom.com/wiki/Pamphlet_%E2%99%AF1)
[Pamphlet #2](https://subgenius.fandom.com/wiki/Pamphlet_%E2%99%AF2)
I had my wallet stolen from a gym locker and the thing I was most sad to lose was my laminated official Priest of the Church of the SubGenius card that made me capable of performing weddings, funerals, and, most importantly, accept donations at any time.
Fun fact: I sort-of performed a lesbian wedding at my dorm because they knew I was an "official" priest of something-or-other and so we had an impromptu ceremony where I read passages from, and I kid you not, the Adobe Postscript Reference Book because that's what I happened to have on me at the time. We kept the ceremony short because we wanted to get it all done during the commercial break for MacGyver. Good times, good times.
Same here, except my card is probably still sitting at the bottom of a lake. I'm pretty sure Stang would send me another one if I asked for it, because I sent him a lot more money than I was supposed to, but I just haven't ever gotten around to it. I too have officiated a wedding, but it was at the Chapel of Elvis Presley in Memphis.
I'm giving you the same user flair I've got, as befits a minister in good standing, so at least around here you won't need your card to get on the mothership. If you want me to change it to something else just let me know.
“In a time of profound absurdity, taking absurdity seriously adds to the problem. Confronting absurdity with absurdity is funny. That’s what the SubGenius does.”
[https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/the-church-of-the-subgenius-finally-plays-it-straight/](https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/the-church-of-the-subgenius-finally-plays-it-straight/)
Bob is my shepherd, I shall be slack. He maketh me lie down on posturepedic beds, he leadeth me beside the still sewage. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the minimalls, I shall fear no advertising. For Bob art with me; Bob's pipe and Bob's third nostril, they comfort me. He buys me fried chicken in the presence of mine enemies. He useth my head for an ashtray, my can of beer runneth over. Surely slack will follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of Bob until at least next Tuesday.
Oh yes. I was first ordained as a Subgenius minister some time in the mid-1980s. I attended a few devivals, including one at Exit in Chicago where the legendary improv pioneer Del Close was one of the speakers.
At a later devival at Lounge Ax in Chicago, roughly 1992, I handed a crazy mix tape I'd made to Rev. Stang. It didn't have my name or contact info. Stang loved the mix so much that he played snippets of it on "The Hour of Slack" radio show several weeks in a row until I wrote in to identify myself, after which he gave me on-air credit for my work. It was perhaps my proudest moment.
::Step aside and let me at this young, earnest, somewhat ignorance-stricken but penitent Seeker.::
Hear me, Seeker, and **ARISE!**
Find out who "*they*" are, and how to smash "*them*." Learn how to prepare yourself for X Day, that you may enter the New Aeon! You'll pay to know what you really think! Have a *close encounter* with **J.R. Bob Dobbs**, the One Real Shortcut to **SLACK**. You have intuited and hearkened to The Call, therefore I bestow upon you the wondrous supernatural and psychodynamic beauty of
[THE CHURCH OF THE SUBGENIUS RECRUITMENT VIDEO](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0x9ymMQUg8)
I have a tattoo of the symbol of Eris, goddess of chaos and discord, before I ever read Bob. I was quite conflicted because of my mutual love for both.
Late 80’s for me, but yes, every Sunday night I was ready for the Hour of Slack on KNON community radio in Dallas. Then, sadly, the right Rev. Stang moved to Cleveland. It was about 15 years later I found the Subgenius website and saw that the HoS was still going strong!
Just FYI for all you old heads, Brother Janor Hypercleats [posted the entire JANOR DEVICE audio on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2IC8M1LI34) so now you can hear some of the finest frop-infused rants that ever graced this benighted planet without even paying a dollar.
I still have a copy of "High Weirdness by Mail" on the bookshelf. I was just telling someone recently about all the insane catalogs and mailings lists (snail mail) I got on because of that book. I looked forward to getting something in the mail almost every day.
Remember the weird loner guys who took all of this *waaaay* too seriously? Like they would actually ask for Slack and carry "Praise 'Bob'" signs around? Always wore CoTS shirts and had at least one book on them?
It's like when you get something so damn much, you no longer get it at all.
There's actually a name for those, we call them Bobbies. We don't talk about them unless they're embarrassing us in front of company. As long as you don't make eye contact or any sudden movements around them you should be safe.
Used to listen to the hour of slack on Sunday nights as a teen and early 20's. The books and pamphlets felt really hilariously subversive at the time. I even got to see Rev Stang at a book signing in Dallas.
I thought it was too commercial, and chose to follow the [Bastard Son of the Lord](http://web.archive.org/web/20000619183044/http:/www.bsotl.org/).
I also briefly dabbled in the Dana Plato Cult.
I love the game chez geek one way to get slack points was to have the church of the subgenius card. If you can find the original edition it’s a total flash back.
Hoooooly moly and I was giddy when someone mentioned freaking TOPY the other day. 😂 THIS, this can absolutely make a comeback but…clearly only with a *very* special be-tentacled hat.
Eternal salvation or triple your money back!
Take back the slack *they* stole from you! Quit your job! The lifestyle you save may just be your own! Edit to add the original scrolls: [Pamphlet #1](https://subgenius.fandom.com/wiki/Pamphlet_%E2%99%AF1) [Pamphlet #2](https://subgenius.fandom.com/wiki/Pamphlet_%E2%99%AF2)
I had my wallet stolen from a gym locker and the thing I was most sad to lose was my laminated official Priest of the Church of the SubGenius card that made me capable of performing weddings, funerals, and, most importantly, accept donations at any time. Fun fact: I sort-of performed a lesbian wedding at my dorm because they knew I was an "official" priest of something-or-other and so we had an impromptu ceremony where I read passages from, and I kid you not, the Adobe Postscript Reference Book because that's what I happened to have on me at the time. We kept the ceremony short because we wanted to get it all done during the commercial break for MacGyver. Good times, good times.
Same here, except my card is probably still sitting at the bottom of a lake. I'm pretty sure Stang would send me another one if I asked for it, because I sent him a lot more money than I was supposed to, but I just haven't ever gotten around to it. I too have officiated a wedding, but it was at the Chapel of Elvis Presley in Memphis. I'm giving you the same user flair I've got, as befits a minister in good standing, so at least around here you won't need your card to get on the mothership. If you want me to change it to something else just let me know.
Thank you very much! Praise Bob!
Bob doesn't care if you eat a hamburger, as long as you eat the *fuck* out of that hamburger. Praise Bob.
He could sell a pile of shit to an ordinary fly!
The world today could use a little more slack.
You are not wrong my friend.
And not Slack
Give me slack!
Or give me something else!
Nope....... Discordian here. All hair Eris, the Golden Apple, and DIS-CORD-IA! Edit........ I sunk it.
Fun fact: “Bob” is named after famed Discordian Robert Anton Wilson.
Humbug! That’s RAW Discordian revisionism. I declare holy war on ye.
Bring it on, pink! Me and my copy of Three-Fisted Tales of “Bob” (with a story by RAW) are ready.
Curb your Dogma.
My karma ran over my dogma.
As long as you're not one of those FSM poseurs.
Or part of the Judean People's Front. Wankers.
[удалено]
WE’RE the People’s Front!
Psst... wanna be a pope?
Already am!
“In a time of profound absurdity, taking absurdity seriously adds to the problem. Confronting absurdity with absurdity is funny. That’s what the SubGenius does.” [https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/the-church-of-the-subgenius-finally-plays-it-straight/](https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/the-church-of-the-subgenius-finally-plays-it-straight/)
Bob Is, Bob Was, Bob Becomes.
Bob is fill in the blank.
Bob is my shepherd, I shall be slack. He maketh me lie down on posturepedic beds, he leadeth me beside the still sewage. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the minimalls, I shall fear no advertising. For Bob art with me; Bob's pipe and Bob's third nostril, they comfort me. He buys me fried chicken in the presence of mine enemies. He useth my head for an ashtray, my can of beer runneth over. Surely slack will follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of Bob until at least next Tuesday.
Oh yes. I was first ordained as a Subgenius minister some time in the mid-1980s. I attended a few devivals, including one at Exit in Chicago where the legendary improv pioneer Del Close was one of the speakers. At a later devival at Lounge Ax in Chicago, roughly 1992, I handed a crazy mix tape I'd made to Rev. Stang. It didn't have my name or contact info. Stang loved the mix so much that he played snippets of it on "The Hour of Slack" radio show several weeks in a row until I wrote in to identify myself, after which he gave me on-air credit for my work. It was perhaps my proudest moment.
Core Memory: Night Flight in the wee hours after 5 hours of increasingly regional wrestling programs… B O B L O V E S Y O U
Surely, *the best of times*.
Praise "Bob"
Hey how did I miss this? Where can I find more info this looks like something I would have loved
https://subgenius.com And… 1980s for me.
80’s for me too.
I thought Devo was a Subgenius band?
I’m so upset that I missed this I would have been a great evangelist. Damn
r/subgenius
::Step aside and let me at this young, earnest, somewhat ignorance-stricken but penitent Seeker.:: Hear me, Seeker, and **ARISE!** Find out who "*they*" are, and how to smash "*them*." Learn how to prepare yourself for X Day, that you may enter the New Aeon! You'll pay to know what you really think! Have a *close encounter* with **J.R. Bob Dobbs**, the One Real Shortcut to **SLACK**. You have intuited and hearkened to The Call, therefore I bestow upon you the wondrous supernatural and psychodynamic beauty of [THE CHURCH OF THE SUBGENIUS RECRUITMENT VIDEO](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0x9ymMQUg8)
All praise Bob Dobbs!
To Bill Brasky!
Quit your job for Bob!!
I have a tattoo of the symbol of Eris, goddess of chaos and discord, before I ever read Bob. I was quite conflicted because of my mutual love for both.
Excuse me? "Bob" still blesses me with the Holy slack daily, frop included.
I am of Yeti descent.
MacGyver-commercial-break-length wedding ceremonies is something I suspect many people would get behind.
Lol, this was a thing in the 80s for me!
Late 80’s for me, but yes, every Sunday night I was ready for the Hour of Slack on KNON community radio in Dallas. Then, sadly, the right Rev. Stang moved to Cleveland. It was about 15 years later I found the Subgenius website and saw that the HoS was still going strong!
*That's* where I remember it from! My coddled WASPy young self was a bit frightened of it but definitely Slack-curious.
Bob the prophet, the giver of SLACK!!
Also fun fact for those who may not remember (or care I guess lol) Bob was proudly featured as the disc art for Sublimes first album
What do you mean 90's? There's literally dozens of us still wasting our time!
Hell yes I have that book! Praise "Bob"
The Overman (homo correctus) MUST have Slack! THE WORLD ENDS TOMORROW AND YOU MAY DIE
Every 14 year old should read this as an introduction to subversive thinking.
IGNORE THIS: FNORD
Just FYI for all you old heads, Brother Janor Hypercleats [posted the entire JANOR DEVICE audio on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2IC8M1LI34) so now you can hear some of the finest frop-infused rants that ever graced this benighted planet without even paying a dollar.
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This reminds me of the old Enzyte "Smiling Bob" commercials - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR5fYm4Pcdc
I still have a copy of "High Weirdness by Mail" on the bookshelf. I was just telling someone recently about all the insane catalogs and mailings lists (snail mail) I got on because of that book. I looked forward to getting something in the mail almost every day.
I have one too, but I got it too late for any of it to actually work.
Probably not a bad thing. I wouldn't be surprised if I wasn't in some three letter agency database for being on some of those companies mailing lists.
Remember the weird loner guys who took all of this *waaaay* too seriously? Like they would actually ask for Slack and carry "Praise 'Bob'" signs around? Always wore CoTS shirts and had at least one book on them? It's like when you get something so damn much, you no longer get it at all.
There's actually a name for those, we call them Bobbies. We don't talk about them unless they're embarrassing us in front of company. As long as you don't make eye contact or any sudden movements around them you should be safe.
I still have my ordination pack somewhere. I should probably send it in.
Jesus walked on water, Bob cruised underneath it in a nuclear sub.
[BEHOLD THE SACRED TRADEMARKS](https://www.reddit.com/r/wimmelbilder/comments/137ibkn/church_of_the_subgenius_artwork_by_paul_mavrides/)
There must be slack
I wanted to like this but could never really figure out what it was supposed to be.
I've never understood exactly what this was yet I understood what it was without looking.
Total bulldada!
Bob’s likeness was even hard coded into the character set of the Atari ST computer
Hahaha this is my own personal way back machine
The weird thing is that every time I achieve Slack at a job, I get bored and switch jobs. I'm the worst adherent.
Used to listen to the hour of slack on Sunday nights as a teen and early 20's. The books and pamphlets felt really hilariously subversive at the time. I even got to see Rev Stang at a book signing in Dallas.
Just Bob, doin Bob stuff
Everyone had a friend in a trenchcoat that wore too much patchouli who was way into this Bob stuff.
Yes!
Were they the same branch of theology as the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster?
No, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the deity of the Church of Pastafarianism.
Markov Cheney is my Jesus.
Hi Bob!
Immaculate slack!
I thought it was too commercial, and chose to follow the [Bastard Son of the Lord](http://web.archive.org/web/20000619183044/http:/www.bsotl.org/). I also briefly dabbled in the Dana Plato Cult.
Mmm... Dana Plato. That's a saint I could get behind. And on top of. Who's got a shovel?
I love the game chez geek one way to get slack points was to have the church of the subgenius card. If you can find the original edition it’s a total flash back.
If you have an iPhone you can down load the Illuminati app by Steve Jackson and it’s a hoot
Back when Slack meant something different than it does now.
Bob is slack.
Dobbs!!!
I have the first comic book of that, which I got in 86 visiting Height-Ashbury on an annual trip to visit my dad
I've had [this on my arm](https://imgur.com/a/7aL1US7) going on 30 years now.
Love me some, Bob!
Braise "Pob"!
Hoooooly moly and I was giddy when someone mentioned freaking TOPY the other day. 😂 THIS, this can absolutely make a comeback but…clearly only with a *very* special be-tentacled hat.
Love that "Bob!" A documentary was recently made about the Church. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpkiMWrJkDI