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Here's a post that won't die. Getting all these e-mails and comments from people who wouldn't know satire if it hit them on the ass with a concrete paddle used to amuse me. Now the dingbats are actually beginning to frighten me.
I've heard of people with iron deficiencies, but it seems that this country has a bigger problem with widespread shortfalls of irony.
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Jon Swift has the same problem on almost all of his posts.
It's not just the death of irony, it's the death of intelligence.
Sad.
Posted by: Howlin' Hobbit | Monday, January 28, 2008 at 02:46 PM
Draughn's Rule of Internet Sarcasm:
No matter how obviously sarcastic or ironic your post seems to you, someone somewhere will have witnessed that very thing stated in all sincerity and with great earnestness...and that person will flame you for it.
(Adopted from Draughn's Rule of Usenet Sarcasm.)
Posted by: Windypundit | Monday, January 28, 2008 at 03:00 PM
Best part about the earnest posts was that after blasting away, they made sure to add in that sponge bob HAS a girlfriend!
Posted by: Dakota | Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at 11:07 AM