playa hatin' (or, let's get a few things straight)

[rone]

Penny Arcade is not funny.
Dave Barry stopped being funny around the time Reagan left office.
Achewood is not funny.
The Onion was funny until they started repeating themselves sometime around `97.  They'll occasionally have a good zinger, but most of their stuff is telegraphed to hell and back.
Jerk City is not funny.
Sinfest is funny until you realize it's a adolescent ripoff of Bloom County with the main character being two-thirds Milo, one third (Watterson's) Calvin.
Something Positive is not funny.
David Letterman is funny only when compared to Jay Leno.
McSweeney's is not funny.

Comments

HT Sez ...

[(Anonymous)]

A minor addition to every single note of your work is necessary here, mon ami. You need to add the words "to me" after "not funny" in every one.

Why? Because fat, bon bon sucking housewives in Kansas think Hope and Faith is the funniest thing in the world. Because beer-swilling truck drivers in Nebraska think Jay Leno is about the funniest man to ever live.

Also because I think bot Seinfeld and Letterman are freaking hilarious, and if you've got a problem with me saying it, you're well aware of my willingness to make my points heard with a baseball bat. >8^)

That said, I can agree with a lot of what you said, but with humor (like all value judgements) being so idiosyncratic, unless you're _finally_ gonna get off your butt and take over the world with your brother, as you could have done before this "world wide web" thing took off, you really only have this teensy pedestal with which to put forth your views, and ... well, you're better than that, man.

Or you can just toss an "IMNSHO" on it and call it a day. Which would probably take less time.

>8^)

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Oh, for the love of pete, "to me" and "IMNSHO"? This isn't some sissy-pants mailing list, this is MY FRIGGIN' JOURNAL.

And you're talking bats? Bring it, milquetoast. I'll introduce you to Opie.

[mskala.livejournal.com]

I don't know if "funny" is the right adjective, but I think there is a place in the world for something that can give us the line "When I want your opinion I will cut out your brain and eat it and crap your opinion back into your skull".

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

See, that was a funny line, but that cartoon was very poorly paced. It's like listening to 15 seconds of "Friends".

HT points at Ron and laughs

[(Anonymous)]

"This isn't some sissy-pants mailing list, this is MY FRIGGIN' JOURNAL."

So saith the King of Lilliput. All below bow down ...

*Hannibal ruffles Ron's hair playfully*

You also know I promised Paul I would never kill and/or maim you that summer we all shared an apartment in ... Flour? King? One of those buildings.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Ack, it was King. You dredged that memory... pray you do not dredge any further.

And would you just give up this anonymous prancing and just make yourself a LiveJournal account (https://www.livejournal.com/create.bml)? Sheesh!

HT sighs

[(Anonymous)]

Another web/email address? I was mad when I got addicted to the soon-to-be-Fox-owned MySpace. I'll take it under advisement.

Memory filed.

Re: HT Sez ...

[dagbrown.livejournal.com]

Astonishingly enough, using words that denote judgements have an implied "this is my opinion" in them. Saying "I think that X is funny" is merely being redundant. Of course that's what rone thinks: he was the one saying that!

Sheesh.