pasta strainer as "religious headgear"

[#1]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14135523
So very funny, but how long until France outlaws pasta strainers? 

[#2]

Just had to check the calendar to make sure it wasn't April

[#3]

pastafarianism

[#4]

The reporter certainly had fun with this (he'd make a good contribution to one of our topics).

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The idea came into Mr Alm's noodle three years ago as a way of making a serious, if ironic, point.

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The licence took three years to come through and, according to Mr Alm, he was asked to submit to a medical interview to check on his mental fitness to drive but - straining credulity - his efforts have finally paid off.

[#5]

The effect is just not the same without the tin foil.

[#6]

don't knock it.  pastafarianism is a growing entity.  it's rapidly overtaking the jedi in numbers of adherents and may soon catch up with all the other cults, overtaking them too.  it's certainly no dafter than any other religion..

[#7]

If he was fined for wearing a pasta strainer would it be penne pinching