Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[MoonSong]

A conversation ....

Achilles: Xeno .... Xeno ... Xeno ... XENO XENO XENO XENO XENO!!!!!

Xeno: loud sigh ... Yes? What can I do for you, Achilles?

Achilles: What are you doing, Xeno?

Xeno: Just watching the season finale of Peacemaker and eating some pizza.

Achilles: Huh. Oh ... you're not eating ... ugh ... pineapples on your pizza, are you? That's not even pizza.

Xeno: What? As a matter of fact, I did get my pie topped with pineapple. I love eating pineapple pizza. It's tasty.

Achilles: That's not pizza. That's a Mouthful of Hot Garbage!

Xeno: ....Achilles, what are you talking about? Um, no. It's a yummy slice of pineapple pizza.

Achilles: Nope. It's a Mouthful of Hot Garbage. You know, MHG!

Xeno: What ... are ... you ... talking ... about?

Achilles: See, pizzas with pineapple topping? We call them a "Mouthful of Hot Garbage." You know, MHG. Just so we can properly talk about eating things.

Xeno: Dude. Not cool. I like eating pineapple pizza!

Achilles: Hey, c'mon Achilles. No need to be so weird. It's just a term.

Xeno: Just a term? You like pepperoni pizza, right? Well, how about I call your pepperoni pizza slices ... "The Vomit on A Triangle?"

Achilles: Well, you won't. Because that's not the right term, see? Now, let's talk more about how much everyone hates a Mouthful of Hot Garbage. Did you know that MHGs reduce the amount of topping agency?

Xeno: I like pineapple pizza! And stop calling it MHG!

Achilles: Hey now! I don't think getting all angry about terminology is going to help us understand why everyone hates a Mouthful of Hot Garbage! Sheesh.

Xeno: ....I am calling Hector and telling him to get the other heel.

You need Paris.

 

[CleverNickName]

That last one might have been a little too real.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

If you're trolling, that is an A+ job.

A true work of art, completely within any conceivable board rules, and delivered with apparent guilelessness. And it's making so many people, including me, absolutely nuts.

A long time ago (more than a decade), I posted on a completely different forum a comment that was (IMO) pretty funny. But ... it was a joking reference that I thought was so obvious that everyone would get it. In fact, I almost ended up deleting it after writing it because I was like, "Naw ... that's just so basic and obvious, it's barely worth doing."

Anyway, I didn't visit for another week (busy) and when I came back ... O to the M to the G. There were hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of outraged comments. And every 150th comment or so, someone would write, "Um, hello? This is literally just a re-wording of Shatner's Get a Life from SNL. Get it? That's the joke!" And then more outrage because people don't read the comments before the comment.

I learned a valuable lesson that day. If you have a million Shakespeares, one of them will write like a monkey.

 

[soviet]

Today, I resisted the urge to go full grammar pedant.

I am so proud of myself!

I guess I'll just have to be pedantic about something else?

I think you'll find it's grammer.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

You need Paris.

I'll always have Paris.
-From the memoir, I'm Rick Blaine, Bi***!

 

[soviet]

A long time ago (more than a decade), I posted on a completely different forum a comment that was (IMO) pretty funny. But ... it was a joking reference that I thought was so obvious that everyone would get it. In fact, I almost ended up deleting it after writing it because I was like, "Naw ... that's just so basic and obvious, it's barely worth doing."

Anyway, I didn't visit for another week (busy) and when I came back ... O to the M to the G. There were hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of outraged comments. And every 150th comment or so, someone would write, "Um, hello? This is literally just a re-wording of Shatner's Get a Life from SNL. Get it? That's the joke!" And then more outrage because people don't read the comments before the comment.

I learned a valuable lesson that day. If you have a million Shakespeares, one of them will write like a monkey.

Are you sure the lesson you learned wasn't 'put more words in'?

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Are you sure the lesson you learned wasn't 'put more words in'?

Naw. I learned that from Strunk & White.

Vigorous writing is verbose. A sentence should contain a multiplicity of words, a paragraph should be overflowing with sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should be a riot of colors and shapes and a machine should have the complexity bestowed upon it by Rube Goldberg. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences long, or that he provides all detail and showers his subjects with adjectives known and unknown to the reader, but only that every thought be expressed with the prolixity of a legal code.

 

[CleverNickName]

Aw man, is that thread also going to turn into another "OMG Railroads" thread? How many do we need?

 

[prabe]

Aw man, is that thread also going to turn into another "OMG Railroads" thread? How many do we need?

 

[Ryujin]

A long time ago (more than a decade), I posted on a completely different forum a comment that was (IMO) pretty funny. But ... it was a joking reference that I thought was so obvious that everyone would get it. In fact, I almost ended up deleting it after writing it because I was like, "Naw ... that's just so basic and obvious, it's barely worth doing."

Anyway, I didn't visit for another week (busy) and when I came back ... O to the M to the G. There were hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of outraged comments. And every 150th comment or so, someone would write, "Um, hello? This is literally just a re-wording of Shatner's Get a Life from SNL. Get it? That's the joke!" And then more outrage because people don't read the comments before the comment.

I learned a valuable lesson that day. If you have a million Shakespeares, one of them will write like a monkey.

One of my friends just posted his DS9 meme in the Reddit group. His random knowledge makes Dennis Miller look like a novice. Seems that some took exception and downvoted every post he's made.