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Invisible Pink Unicorn
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en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Invisible Pink Unicorn.wav US
Proper noun
s Invisible Pink Unicorn
en Internet slang humorous A unicorn goddess who is simultaneously invisible and pink, used in arguments against faith in an unprovable deity.
en IPU
en 1990-07-17 je kanker moeder Re: 'Proof' of God's Existence alt.atheism 3704@qip.UUCP http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/be8d2b066460dcbc?dmode=source&hl=en 2010-09-30 If you feel it is the duty of others to refute the claim, and not of yourself to support it, then how about refuting the existence of invisible pink unicorns?
en c. 1994 Steve Eley ISCABBS Invisible Pink Unicorns are beings of great spiritual power. We know this because they are capable of being invisible and pink at the same time. Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them.
en 2007 Unicorns Nigel Suckling Facts, Figures, & Fun 9781904332688 94 http://books.google.com/books?id=Rpd2Tk-NwMcC&pg=PA94 From a quite opposite perspective, an interesting departure of the 1990s (largely on the internet, and still flourishing) is the cult of the Invisible Pink Unicorn, which is at least in part a philosophical tool for examining the nature of religious faith from a skeptical point of view.
Translations
unicorn goddess
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 隱形粉紅獨角獸 yǐnxíng fěnhóng dú jiǎo shòu
Danish: da usynlig lyserød enhjørning c
Esperanto: eo nevidebla rozkolora unukornulo
Finnish: fi näkymätön vaaleanpunainen yksisarvinen
French: fr Licorne rose invisible
German: de unsichtbares rosafarbenes Einhorn
Ido: io unikorno rozea nevidebla
Indonesian: id unicorn merah muda tak terlihat
Italian: it Invisibile Unicorno Rosa
Japanese: ja 見えざるピンクのユニコーン
Malay: ms kuda unicorn pink yang tidak kelihatan
Marathi: mr अदृश्य गुलाबी युनिकॉर्न f
Persian: fa اسب تکشاخ صورتی نامرئی
Romanian: ro Unicornul Roz Invizibil m
Russian: ru неви́димый ро́зовый единоро́г m
Spanish: es Unicornio rosa invisible
Swahili: sw Pembemoja Asiyeonekana wa Pinki
Turkish: tr Görünmez Pembe Tekboynuz
See also
en Flying Spaghetti Monster
en God hypothesis
en Last Thursdayism
en Russell's teapot
en oxymorons placeholder terms
en Atheism Fictional characters Gods Horses