Circle Setup
- Bill the Cat altar in the center of the circle or near fire pit.
- At the west place a partially full bottle or can of beer (the worst you can find, enough
to anoint your initiates).
- At the north place an ashtray filled with sand.
- Near the altar place a spittoon (optional).
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Altar Setup
- Bill the Cat icon, statue or image
- Cigarettes and lighter
- Lit candles
- Several unopened bottles or cans of beer, Mountain Dew, Jolt cola, Pepsi Free, or purple
flavorored anything, or diet chocolate fudge soda
- Mayonnaise mixed with tuna juice or peanut butter (optional)
- Brazier with charcoal
- Catnip (for incense)
- Plate of Goldfish Crackers in cat food bowl
- Kitty Litter or Pet Fresh Carpet Deodorizer
HP
| Folks, this is a ritual which is offensive. If you are easily offended,
then leave now. If you are certain that you will be offended by it then you really need
this ritual. If, however, at the end of the ritual you aren't sufficiently offended, come
up and see me and I'll offend you personally.
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Gather coveners together and teach them this chant: Ack, Ack, Ack,
Plbb, Plbb, Plbb.
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Repeat as a group until you get tired of it.
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Put a pinch of incense on the charcoal.
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Cast Circle
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The HP takes a can of Pet Fresh Carpet Deodorizer, and walk around the
perimeter of the circle spaying Pet Fresh. If outside, throw kitty litter.
| HP
| We are gathered in a sandbox that is not a sandbox.
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Repeat as necessary.
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Call the Quarters
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The HPS takes the cigarettes and lighter from altar
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Walk to the south. Light cigarette. Wave cigarette at the south.
| HPS
| Hi!
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Cross from south to east. Take deep puff from cigarette and blow smoke
out ostentatiously. Wave cigarette at the east.
| HPS
| Hi!
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Cross from east to west. Pour beer on cigarette. Wave cigarette at the
west.
| HPS
| Hi!
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Cross from west to north and stub cigarette in ashtray. Wave cigarette
at the north.
| HPS
| Hi!
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Invoke Bill the Cat
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The HPS stands before Bill the Cat icon and holds hands out in
invoking manner.
| HPS
| I invoke you and call upon you, O Might Ruler of Degeneracy, Bringer of
Fun and Good Times! I invoke thee by Pun and Limerick, Cartoon and Quip, by Herb and Brew
and All Other Manner of Consciousness-Changing Substances, to Descend into this Figure of
This thy Servant and Priest: Hallucinate with His Eyes - Lick with His Tongue, Ingest with
His Mouth - Grope with His Paws so that thy Servants may be Fulfilled."
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Pour some beer or other noxious substance over Bill's head as an
anointing (if indoors, and you object to kitty litter and beer being poured all over your
carpets, use Pet Fresh instead of litter and put the beer in a bowl into which you dip
your fingers and lightly sprinkle the icon or petitioners). Walk to the center of the
circle, raise arms, and call ...
| HPS
| Here kitty, kitty, kitty!
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Repeat as needed.
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Statement of Purpose
| HP
| We are here to night to initiate new friends into the worship of Bill the
Cat. Let the good times roll! Petitioners, step forward.
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Wait for them to do so.
| HP
| Is it your will to join the Cult of Bill the Cat?
| Petitioners
| Yeah, Sure, why Not?, ..., What?, etc.
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Oath Taking
| HP
| Repeat after me |
HP and Petitioners
| I, (state your name), of my won free will and accord, do hereby swear to
honor the discordian deity, Bill the Cat, Lord of Humor, Perversity and Disgusting Noises.
I promise to go for the Cheap Jokes, indulge in Excessive Behavior and always maintain my
sense of the Ridiculous. I wear never to take my religion so seriously that I forget to
laugh and in token thereof do I give fourth of my bodily fluids.
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Spit into fire or spittoon.
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Anoint and Cleanse Initiates
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HP takes beer or soda from altar and anoints forehead of each initiate
with the cough of "Ack." Mayo mixed with tuna juice, or peanut butter,
may be substituted for those with a kinkier mindset. Replace anointing fluid on altar. HPS
censes each initiate with catnip incense.
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Charge of Bill the Cat
| HP
| Hear now the charge of Bill the Cat! Whenever you have needs, once in a
while and better it be when your mouth is full, then shall you spew forth in some public
house or private place or anywhere that persons may be gathered, and adore me, Bill the
Cat, prince of all vulgarity. You who would fain indulge in lewd or disgusting acts but
have not yet reached true depravity, these will I teach true excess and the art of making
rude bodily noises, for I am come to tell you if it looketh gross and/or feeleth good, if
others need to turn away in embarrassment or disgust, if it causeth others to burst forth
in uncontrolled laughter, and if none be truly harmed, then have you stumbled into true
oneness with the great spirit of Bill: and as a sign that you are truly free, you should
be naked in your rites for then shall there shall be no fumbling with clothing in your
drunken quest for the naughty bits. And spread humor, good will and anything else that
needs spreading. All in my name, crying: Ack! Ack! Ack! Plbb! Plbb! Plbb! Hail Bill!
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Libations and Toasting
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HPS burns a pinch of incense and opens beer. Takes a swig of beer and
spits into the fire (or altar or spittoon). Passes beer to the initiate/covener on the
left who repeats the process. After everyone has toasted Bill, beer is poured over his
head and the bottle or can is replaced on the altar. Pass the cat dish of Goldfish shaped
crackers.
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Inner Mystery
| HP
| Hear now the inner mystery of Bill the Cat as told to us by Orenda,
co-founding High Priestess of Bill the Cat: Why do you wrap hamsters in electrical tape?
So they don't explode when you fuck them!
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Conclusion
| HPS
| Initiates, you are now full empowered priests and priestesses of Bill the
Cat, entitled to set up your own shrines and to initiate others. Go forth and spread the
word (and anything else that needs spreading). Bill the Cat: he's hot, he's hip and he's
hairy. Hail Bill!
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| Ack! Ack! Ack! Plbb! Plbb! Plbb!
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Closing
| HPS
| Thanks, Bill. Y'all come on back now, hear?
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HP walks to the west and waves, intoning ...
| HP
| Bye-bye!
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Repeats to east, then south, then north, or in any random order.
| HP
| Th-th-that's all, folks! It's Miller time!
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