Comments on: John Hodgman on the coming apocalpyse http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/john-hodman-on-the-coming-apoc.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 18:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Singularity Utopia http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/john-hodman-on-the-coming-apoc.html#comment-1604920 Singularity Utopia Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:19:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=199433#comment-1604920 Amusingly David Deutsch, other people have often been unintentionally fooled by overly dry humour: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/29/fooled-by-the-onion-8-most-embarrassing-fails.html Deadpan delivery can be funny, especially when people don't detect the irony. Amusingly David Deutsch, other people have often been unintentionally fooled by overly dry humour: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/29/fooled-by-the-onion-8-most-embarrassing-fails.html

Deadpan delivery can be funny, especially when people don’t detect the irony.

]]> By: Singularity Utopia http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/john-hodman-on-the-coming-apoc.html#comment-1604918 Singularity Utopia Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:12:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=199433#comment-1604918 Surely it is very comedic when people don't get the comedy. When Chinese media thought the Onion's article regarding Kim Jong-un was true, that he really is the sexist man alive, it was incredibly funny, and I concur he is incredibly sexy: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20518929 http://www.npr.org/2012/12/01/166293306/the-onion-so-funny-it-makes-us-cry Amid the frustration at being temporarily censored I can tell you I have had many a laugh. Farce has been in the forefront of my mind. Surely it is very comedic when people don’t get the comedy. When Chinese media thought the Onion’s article regarding Kim Jong-un was true, that he really is the sexist man alive, it was incredibly funny, and I concur he is incredibly sexy: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20518929 http://www.npr.org/2012/12/01/166293306/the-onion-so-funny-it-makes-us-cry

Amid the frustration at being temporarily censored I can tell you I have had many a laugh. Farce has been in the forefront of my mind.

]]> By: mocon http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/john-hodman-on-the-coming-apoc.html#comment-1604811 mocon Wed, 12 Dec 2012 02:37:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=199433#comment-1604811 "But surely Mister Hodgman cannot be wrong.  If he is, then why am I sitting on top of this freezing-cold mountain in a white robe?" Because, let's face it, you look great in that white robe. “But surely Mister Hodgman cannot be wrong.  If he is, then why am I sitting on top of this freezing-cold mountain in a white robe?”

Because, let’s face it, you look great in that white robe.

]]> By: Tommy http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/john-hodman-on-the-coming-apoc.html#comment-1604104 Tommy Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:46:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=199433#comment-1604104 "This is the end, the end of the world For five thousand years you must surely have heard Nostradamus and Jesus and Buddah and Me We said it was coming and now wait and see" Bob geldof - The End of the World “This is the end, the end of the world
For five thousand years you must surely have heard
Nostradamus and Jesus and Buddah and Me
We said it was coming and now wait and see”
Bob geldof – The End of the World

]]> By: David Deutsch http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/john-hodman-on-the-coming-apoc.html#comment-1604098 David Deutsch Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:33:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=199433#comment-1604098 No, simply make your sarcasm funnier next time. What you wrote was so infinitely dry, I had lots of trouble deciding it was sarcasm in the first place. No, simply make your sarcasm funnier next time. What you wrote was so infinitely dry, I had lots of trouble deciding it was sarcasm in the first place.

]]> By: David Deutsch http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/john-hodman-on-the-coming-apoc.html#comment-1604097 David Deutsch Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:30:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=199433#comment-1604097 Poe's law is strong with this one. Poe’s law is strong with this one.

]]> By: David Deutsch http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/john-hodman-on-the-coming-apoc.html#comment-1604096 David Deutsch Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:27:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=199433#comment-1604096  Still is for me...  Still is for me…

]]> By: KTUF http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/john-hodman-on-the-coming-apoc.html#comment-1604093 KTUF Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:20:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=199433#comment-1604093 S.U. Please take a short course on comedy. S.U.
Please take a short course on comedy.

]]> By: Singularity Utopia http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/john-hodman-on-the-coming-apoc.html#comment-1604054 Singularity Utopia Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:01:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=199433#comment-1604054 Can't seem to find your email address for complaints, dispute resolution. Disqus says: "Most websites have a contact form or email address listed to get in touch with their moderators or support team." So what is the situation with BoingBoing, is there a valid path for dispute resolution or is it mere blind tyranny? A wall of authoritarian silence? Can’t seem to find your email address for complaints, dispute resolution. Disqus says: “Most websites have a contact form or email address listed to get in touch with their moderators or support team.” So what is the situation with BoingBoing, is there a valid path for dispute resolution or is it mere blind tyranny? A wall of authoritarian silence?

]]> By: Singularity Utopia http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/john-hodman-on-the-coming-apoc.html#comment-1604043 Singularity Utopia Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:27:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=199433#comment-1604043 So are you going to let me have copies of my comments? I will publish an article about it and let the public decide if your censorship was valid. Or you could just reinstate the comments. So are you going to let me have copies of my comments? I will publish an article about it and let the public decide if your censorship was valid. Or you could just reinstate the comments.

]]> By: Singularity Utopia http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/john-hodman-on-the-coming-apoc.html#comment-1604040 Singularity Utopia Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:14:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=199433#comment-1604040 Jesus, do you really think I was serious? The whole article (video) is about sarcasm, thus sarcasm in response was certainly valid but you've now deleted a brilliant piece of my humour. #Buzzkill. I thought BoingBoing was all up for freedom of expression?... the vibrancy of the net etc? What would Cory say? Someone else in comments said I don't get BoingBoing and maybe ironically they are right. Could you at least supply me with copies of my comments you deleted? Jesus, do you really think I was serious? The whole article (video) is about sarcasm, thus sarcasm in response was certainly valid but you’ve now deleted a brilliant piece of my humour. #Buzzkill. I thought BoingBoing was all up for freedom of expression?… the vibrancy of the net etc? What would Cory say?

Someone else in comments said I don’t get BoingBoing and maybe ironically they are right. Could you at least supply me with copies of my comments you deleted?

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/john-hodman-on-the-coming-apoc.html#comment-1604038 Antinous / Moderator Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:09:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=199433#comment-1604038 It certainly looked like hostile trolling to me. It certainly looked like hostile trolling to me.

]]> By: Singularity Utopia http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/john-hodman-on-the-coming-apoc.html#comment-1604034 Singularity Utopia Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:06:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=199433#comment-1604034 [EDIT: Oh my comments are now reinstated, I'll go back to sleep now. Crisis has been downgraded to DEFCON 5.] Boing Boing censored my comment to you last time, which is a shame because I made no back-up copy, so I will be brief. It seems they and you don't get sarcasm, how ironic. [EDIT: Oh my comments are now reinstated, I'll go back to sleep now. Crisis has been downgraded to DEFCON 5.]

Boing Boing censored my comment to you last time, which is a shame because I made no back-up copy, so I will be brief. It seems they and you don’t get sarcasm, how ironic.

]]> By: Singularity Utopia http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/john-hodman-on-the-coming-apoc.html#comment-1604025 Singularity Utopia Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:24:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=199433#comment-1604025 Oh I'm deadly serious. I am certainly not being sarcastic, and what on Earth does "next level" mean? Do you think we are playing a computer game? You may also want to correct your typo where you have written meta instead of meat. Prior to your usage of "meta" I'd never encountered "meta" before but apparently it relates to html coding, ... it is about metadata, which makes no sense in the context of sarcasm thus you must have been trying to type "meat sarcasm," yes? Some meaty sarcasm to go with the mayo? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_element Oh I’m deadly serious. I am certainly not being sarcastic, and what on Earth does “next level” mean? Do you think we are playing a computer game? You may also want to correct your typo where you have written meta instead of meat. Prior to your usage of “meta” I’d never encountered “meta” before but apparently it relates to html coding, … it is about metadata, which makes no sense in the context of sarcasm thus you must have been trying to type “meat sarcasm,” yes? Some meaty sarcasm to go with the mayo? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_element

]]> By: Singularity Utopia http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/john-hodman-on-the-coming-apoc.html#comment-1604022 Singularity Utopia Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:13:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=199433#comment-1604022 Oh I get him alight, he is just another one of the crazies, no different to Harold Camping, in fact he is probably worse.  Oh I get him alight, he is just another one of the crazies, no different to Harold Camping, in fact he is probably worse. 

]]> By: Singularity Utopia http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/john-hodman-on-the-coming-apoc.html#comment-1604021 Singularity Utopia Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:12:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=199433#comment-1604021 I will buy some mayo just to be on the safe side, although I am sure the world will not end, it's just that I do like mayo and John reminded me I am running low. I will buy some mayo just to be on the safe side, although I am sure the world will not end, it’s just that I do like mayo and John reminded me I am running low.

]]> By: Singularity Utopia http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/john-hodman-on-the-coming-apoc.html#comment-1604019 Singularity Utopia Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:08:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=199433#comment-1604019 I doubt I will ever get the BoingBoing nonsense, besides I have more important things to do such as playing sarcastaball. The Singularity can be any colour you want, or no color, just manipulate the hue and saturation. I doubt I will ever get the BoingBoing nonsense, besides I have more important things to do such as playing sarcastaball.

The Singularity can be any colour you want, or no color, just manipulate the hue and saturation.

]]> By: Michael Crumpton http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/john-hodman-on-the-coming-apoc.html#comment-1603813 Michael Crumpton Tue, 11 Dec 2012 01:07:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=199433#comment-1603813 Oddly, as John started to speak, I was imagining him as Higgins in a vastly improved remake of Magnum PI, where Higgins is the main character and Magnum the amusing sidekick. Oddly, as John started to speak, I was imagining him as Higgins in a vastly improved remake of Magnum PI, where Higgins is the main character and Magnum the amusing sidekick.

]]> By: teapot http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/john-hodman-on-the-coming-apoc.html#comment-1603788 teapot Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:26:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=199433#comment-1603788 Even the Australian PM got in on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ebtj3gDaE64 Oh, and Singularity Utopia: welcome to BoingBoing. Stick around and you might get it eventually. PS: Does the singularity have to be so colourful? Even the Australian PM got in on this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ebtj3gDaE64

Oh, and Singularity Utopia: welcome to BoingBoing. Stick around and you might get it eventually.

PS: Does the singularity have to be so colourful?

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/john-hodman-on-the-coming-apoc.html#comment-1603727 Antinous / Moderator Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:15:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=199433#comment-1603727 Not anymore. Not anymore.

]]> By: BarBarSeven http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/john-hodman-on-the-coming-apoc.html#comment-1603613 BarBarSeven Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:54:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=199433#comment-1603613 Hodman? Hodman?

]]> By: jimh http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/john-hodman-on-the-coming-apoc.html#comment-1603594 jimh Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:40:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=199433#comment-1603594 "Hodgman" is misspelled in the post title. “Hodgman” is misspelled in the post title.

]]> By: jimh http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/john-hodman-on-the-coming-apoc.html#comment-1603587 jimh Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:30:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=199433#comment-1603587 I'm actually trying to figure out if this is some meta sarcasm/next level shit, or if you might possibly be serious. I’m actually trying to figure out if this is some meta sarcasm/next level shit, or if you might possibly be serious.

]]> By: Art http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/john-hodman-on-the-coming-apoc.html#comment-1603523 Art Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:38:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=199433#comment-1603523 How to survive?  Duck and Cover!  And bring plenty of Ritz Crackers and peanut butter. How to survive? 
Duck and Cover! 
And bring plenty of Ritz Crackers and peanut butter.

]]> By: Boundegar http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/john-hodman-on-the-coming-apoc.html#comment-1603470 Boundegar Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:06:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=199433#comment-1603470 I find it telling that he omitted the part about the daikon radishes.  If you didn't subscribe, that alone could seal your fate. I find it telling that he omitted the part about the daikon radishes.  If you didn’t subscribe, that alone could seal your fate.

]]> By: atteSmythe http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/john-hodman-on-the-coming-apoc.html#comment-1603459 atteSmythe Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:55:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=199433#comment-1603459 dat kerning dat kerning

]]> By: PaulDavisTheFirst http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/john-hodman-on-the-coming-apoc.html#comment-1603448 PaulDavisTheFirst Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:50:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=199433#comment-1603448 <blockquote> reasonably articulate people such as John Hodgman are seriously considering the end of the world on 21st Dec 2012</blockquote>somehow, i'm just not getting the sense that you get hodgman at all. am i right?

reasonably articulate people such as John Hodgman are seriously considering the end of the world on 21st Dec 2012

somehow, i’m just not getting the sense that you get hodgman at all. am i right?

]]> By: Lurking_Grue http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/john-hodman-on-the-coming-apoc.html#comment-1603415 Lurking_Grue Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:32:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=199433#comment-1603415 Dude, the unspeakable ones are real and will wake soon.   You are going to look rather silly when you are caught without jars of mayo and urine. Dude, the unspeakable ones are real and will wake soon.   You are going to look rather silly when you are caught without jars of mayo and urine.

]]> By: Ashen Victor http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/john-hodman-on-the-coming-apoc.html#comment-1603400 Ashen Victor Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:21:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=199433#comment-1603400 "Mayonnaise is really good to get rid of urine stains... and you gonna need THAT!"  “Mayonnaise is really good to get rid of urine stains… and you gonna need THAT!” 

]]> By: coiled embrace http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/john-hodman-on-the-coming-apoc.html#comment-1603349 coiled embrace Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:37:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=199433#comment-1603349 Yes... John needs to be reading more science and assimilating more FACTS as to how the world really runs.  The world needs more humorless materialistic fundamentalists like you to legislate reality for poor schmucks like Hodgman. Yes… John needs to be reading more science and assimilating more FACTS as to how the world really runs. 

The world needs more humorless materialistic fundamentalists like you to legislate reality for poor schmucks like Hodgman.

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