Comments on: HOWTO explain the Internet to a Dickensian street urchin http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/howto-explain-the-in.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 22:10:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Boba Fett Diop http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/howto-explain-the-in.html#comment-922921 Boba Fett Diop Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922921 Cool! Now let's explain Chatroulette to an 18th century French courtesan! Cool! Now let’s explain Chatroulette to an 18th century French courtesan!

]]> By: zunjine http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/howto-explain-the-in.html#comment-922671 zunjine Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922671 Dickensian, surely? Dickensian, surely?

]]> By: Jack http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/howto-explain-the-in.html#comment-922677 Jack Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922677 I just cried a tear of laughter. This is awesome! I just cried a tear of laughter. This is awesome!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/howto-explain-the-in.html#comment-922938 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922938 Wonderful flow chart: I have always liked flow charts but you don't often see one that makes you laugh out loud. (Though it seems that this source ... ) And, just to add to all the others, Cory will you please use the spell checker as a favour to the rest of us? This ain't the first time. And I am well aware that many riters ar bad spelers, but there is technology to assist you. (Doesn't always work, which is why you probably need people like me -- proof readers.) Wonderful flow chart: I have always liked flow charts but you don’t often see one that makes you laugh out loud. (Though it seems that this source … )

And, just to add to all the others, Cory will you please use the spell checker as a favour to the rest of us? This ain’t the first time. And I am well aware that many riters ar bad spelers, but there is technology to assist you. (Doesn’t always work, which is why you probably need people like me — proof readers.)

]]> By: sayeth http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/howto-explain-the-in.html#comment-922944 sayeth Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922944 The plague-carrying rat giving you plague should actually be fleas from the plague-carrying rat biting you. He's confused the vector with the reservoir. The plague-carrying rat giving you plague should actually be fleas from the plague-carrying rat biting you. He’s confused the vector with the reservoir.

]]> By: turthalion http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/howto-explain-the-in.html#comment-922947 turthalion Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922947 If it's 1835, the section talking about explaining it as a "series of tubes" with the urchin responding "like the tubes that run under the city", and you responding "yes, but not carrying fecal matter" is wrong. London's sewers were not yet constructed in 1835. Thank you, Seven Wonders of the Industrial World. If it’s 1835, the section talking about explaining it as a “series of tubes” with the urchin responding “like the tubes that run under the city”, and you responding “yes, but not carrying fecal matter” is wrong.

London’s sewers were not yet constructed in 1835.

Thank you, Seven Wonders of the Industrial World.

]]> By: monstrinho_do_biscoito http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/howto-explain-the-in.html#comment-922702 monstrinho_do_biscoito Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922702 i enjoyed that i enjoyed that

]]> By: kateweb http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/howto-explain-the-in.html#comment-922708 kateweb Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922708 this made my cat woke me up before dawn morning. this made my cat woke me up before dawn morning.

]]> By: allium http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/howto-explain-the-in.html#comment-923008 allium Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-923008 But I don't speak French. I suppose I'll have to use the universal language of love...the language that OW SYPHILIS. But I don’t speak French. I suppose I’ll have to use the universal language of love…the language that OW SYPHILIS.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/howto-explain-the-in.html#comment-922760 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922760 Go to 1975 to show the urchen the beginning of the internet. Angry programmer beats you to death for using rectangles instead of diamonds for "decisions" in your flowchart. You Die. Go to 1975 to show the urchen the beginning of the internet.
Angry programmer beats you to death for using rectangles instead of diamonds for “decisions” in your flowchart.
You Die.

]]> By: Boba Fett Diop http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/howto-explain-the-in.html#comment-923019 Boba Fett Diop Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-923019 Also, plague wasn't really an issue for London in the 1830s. Water-borne diseases on the other hand...(cf. <strong>turthalion</strong>, Dr. John Snow, <i>et al.</i>). Also, plague wasn’t really an issue for London in the 1830s. Water-borne diseases on the other hand…(cf. turthalion, Dr. John Snow, et al.).

]]> By: jtegnell http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/howto-explain-the-in.html#comment-922770 jtegnell Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922770 I gotcher dickenian right here I gotcher dickenian right here

]]> By: HealthStudent http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/howto-explain-the-in.html#comment-922773 HealthStudent Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922773 Teddy Ruxpin reference for the win. Teddy Ruxpin reference for the win.

]]> By: wgmleslie http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/howto-explain-the-in.html#comment-922783 wgmleslie Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922783 Yes. Yes.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/howto-explain-the-in.html#comment-922784 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922784 Zunjine is right. It is "Dickensian". Zunjine is right. It is “Dickensian”.

]]> By: knoxblox http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/howto-explain-the-in.html#comment-922806 knoxblox Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922806 Cute, but I would find it very positive thinking to believe that Twitter will still be a primary mode of communication in 3085. Meanwhile, your previous passenger is stuck back in 1835, cursing your name. Cute, but I would find it very positive thinking to believe that Twitter will still be a primary mode of communication in 3085.

Meanwhile, your previous passenger is stuck back in 1835, cursing your name.

]]> By: Pantograph http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/howto-explain-the-in.html#comment-922810 Pantograph Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922810 It even has a maze of twisty passages, all alike. It even has a maze of twisty passages, all alike.

]]> By: SamSam http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/howto-explain-the-in.html#comment-922820 SamSam Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922820 This author would be great at creating old adventure computer games. That's a game I want to play! And yes: "Dickensian." This author would be great at creating old adventure computer games. That’s a game I want to play!

And yes: “Dickensian.”

]]> By: turthalion http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/howto-explain-the-in.html#comment-923847 turthalion Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-923847 > Also, the intertubes actually do, predominantly, carry fecal matter Oh, well played. You sir, win one set of Intertubes. Of course, given what they carry, how do you feel about that? > Also, the intertubes actually do, predominantly, carry fecal matter

Oh, well played. You sir, win one set of Intertubes.

Of course, given what they carry, how do you feel about that?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/howto-explain-the-in.html#comment-923080 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-923080 But your previous passenger is an 1835 native, so it's okay. But your previous passenger is an 1835 native, so it’s okay.

]]> By: Phyrkrakr http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/howto-explain-the-in.html#comment-922829 Phyrkrakr Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922829 WTH is up with the site, the pop window to look at the image full size doesn't have any scroll bars. Annoying site design is annoying. WTH is up with the site, the pop window to look at the image full size doesn’t have any scroll bars. Annoying site design is annoying.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/howto-explain-the-in.html#comment-922843 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922843 1) Explain to urchin that the internet is like the post (mail). All of the post is handled by machines and delivered nearly instantaneously. You can correspond with anyone else using it. Great intellectuals, harlots, libraries, and beggars. Even machines so complicated, they seem to think. 2) Beat him until he understands. (when in Rome...) 1) Explain to urchin that the internet is like the post (mail). All of the post is handled by machines and delivered nearly instantaneously. You can correspond with anyone else using it. Great intellectuals, harlots, libraries, and beggars. Even machines so complicated, they seem to think.

2) Beat him until he understands. (when in Rome…)

]]> By: Karl Jones http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/howto-explain-the-in.html#comment-923867 Karl Jones Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-923867 <blockquote>But I don't speak French. I suppose I'll have to use the universal language of love...the language that OW SYPHILIS.</blockquote> That is the funniest thing I have ever read. Ever. I can't explain it, I can't help it, I'm not proud of myself. Last night I was in a classroom situation where revealing that I had read such a thing during lab time, and found it hysterically funny, would have been a major embarrassment ... it was all I could do to crush my face into some parody of calm, and even then I had to repeatedly turn away from the students (thank God it was late and only a few remained) in order to release a silent shuddering guffaw.

But I don’t speak French. I suppose I’ll have to use the universal language of love…the language that OW SYPHILIS.

That is the funniest thing I have ever read. Ever. I can’t explain it, I can’t help it, I’m not proud of myself.

Last night I was in a classroom situation where revealing that I had read such a thing during lab time, and found it hysterically funny, would have been a major embarrassment … it was all I could do to crush my face into some parody of calm, and even then I had to repeatedly turn away from the students (thank God it was late and only a few remained) in order to release a silent shuddering guffaw.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/howto-explain-the-in.html#comment-923116 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-923116 where's the props to david cross? i'm pretty sure this was inspired by his material where’s the props to david cross? i’m pretty sure this was inspired by his material

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/howto-explain-the-in.html#comment-922862 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922862 If Jack the Ripper is alive and killing in 1835, he/she/ve must have a time machine, too! If Jack the Ripper is alive and killing in 1835, he/she/ve must have a time machine, too!

]]> By: yepmatt http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/howto-explain-the-in.html#comment-928508 yepmatt Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-928508 Funny comments, with lots of tongue-in-cheek and clever humor. Interestingly, though, no one seemed to notice how this flowchart is a perfect way to teach Wittgenstein's theory of how language in general works (language games). Though humorous and evocative, Cory's post is actually quite philosophical -- deeper than it appears! Funny comments, with lots of tongue-in-cheek and clever humor. Interestingly, though, no one seemed to notice how this flowchart is a perfect way to teach Wittgenstein’s theory of how language in general works (language games). Though humorous and evocative, Cory’s post is actually quite philosophical — deeper than it appears!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/howto-explain-the-in.html#comment-923390 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-923390 Also, the intertubes actually do, predominantly, carry fecal matter. Also, the intertubes actually do, predominantly, carry fecal matter.

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