Friday Ephemera
Secret entrance of note. || We are not related. || I was previously unaware of white strawberries. || This is bigger than yours. || Box of human heads stolen. || That’s close enough, pussycat. || Almost Pong, a game, of sorts. || Those Monday morning blues. || Incoming. || Incoming 2. || Not entirely ideal. || “Non-binary” baby shower. || A brief history of cardboard. || She does this better than you would. || Heardle, like Wordle, but with pop music. || Know your place, peasant. || Where pretentious grievance gets you. || The progressive retail experience, parts 417, 418, 419, and 420. || Know your place, part 2: “Men, don’t speak.” || A situation has arisen. || And finally, futuristically, the world of tomorrow.
Thank you Farnsworth. Saved me from typing that.
Pst314: “Mistakenly calling an SR-71 a U-2 doesn’t really add usefully to the humor,”
This seems to be a prime example of “joke on a joke” from David Zucker’s 15 rules of comedy.
up-post david shared a pic of a rainbow flag with a hammer and sicle. Because communists are so well known for their tolerance of gay/lesbain/trans (Narrator: no, they aren’t)
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Thanks, Ted. Now that I have that chorus stuck in my head, my wife is…experiencing the song as well.
This seems to be a prime example of “joke on a joke” from David Zucker’s 15 rules of comedy.
Excellent link. Thank you very much. And I like how it ends with “15. THERE ARE NO RULES” because a sufficiently talented comedian can successfully break any of the rules…but few of us are capable of doing that.
We got three inches of snow yesterday.
Much the same here, but the snow was a day earlier and a little deeper. A balmy 13 degrees Freedom this morning.
..but few of us are capable of doing that.
Well of course the key to comedy is the one important thing not listed there…
This seems to be a prime example of “joke on a joke” from David Zucker’s 15 rules of comedy.
That, and the guy is just trying too hard, e.g., this dog’s breakfast.
“GIs battle homesickness with Jeep mounted model of Empire State Building”. One juxtaposition instead of four (five counting “Photographed from a Canberra). “1st Battalion of Lancashire Royal Dragoon Fusilier Hussars” (three different types of units) is overkill – compare to Vonnegut’s “Parachute Ski Marines” which sounds silly, but is at least plausible.
This replies to the original are funnier, “That looks more like a mobile transmitter vehicle to me, they had to strengthen the suspension with concrete so it could take the weight.” “I thought they kept moving the Eiffel Tower to confuse the Germans.”
“Defend your whiteness,” they said innocently.
“Defend your whiteness,” they said innocently.
I hope she sues not just the university but each of the individuals responsible. The people who do this need to feel the pain.
“Defend your whiteness,” they said innocently.
Sounds like a hostile work environment.
David Zucker’s 15 rules of comedy.
Great list. I’m especially fond of the That Didn’t Happens, which are very characteristic of US comedy and particularly Zucker’s screwball (or post-screwball, maybe?) style.
And then she and I would move into a big house with my mum, dad, sister and her three teenage children…
Don’t know what to make of that (archive here)
It has the elements of a Nancy Mitford farce – the extended family in a country house, the aristocratic couple who’ve given up having sex with each other and tolerate affairs as long as they’re discreet, the city banker who dresses up in women’s clothes, and English villagers tolerant of such eccentricity as long as they help out during the church fete.
It’s obvious to common sense that a heterosexual couple would be put off having sex with each other if the man castrates himself. Not only because of the physical possibilities it excludes, but because it’s not exactly a gesture to make a wife feel attractive. It’s surprising that it’s admitted to though, because since the sexual revolution the theme has tended to be that sex is the touchstone of intimacy, that marriage is sanctified by sex, that the rebellion of a couple against the world is validated by the great sex they have. “Oh, by the way, our sex life is dead” isn’t something that attractive characters in movies have tended to say since the 60’s.
And then from the admission of no sex, but the wholesome consolation of emotional intimacy and mutual respect, it lurches straight into a passively phrased and chilling admission that external sexual partners will be “part of their world”.
That’s where you blew your credibility
Some days it’s just too easy.
mis-identifying adds nothing
The joke, which I’m personally enjoying immensely, is the vast number of butthurt aviation autists who will reply, screaming “THAT’S NOT A [plane here]”, not realizing or caring that they’re responding to a troll account.
David Zucker’s 15 rules of comedy
Yes, it’s very important to follow T’Hain’s Dictates of Poetics, in which all punchlines must flow inexorably from the established setup.
I’ve just actually finished Scalzis “Interdependency” space opera trilogy (I did pirate download it so.. heh). It was acceptably entertaining despite knowing his dickhead tendencies.
Because name me a modern SF&F author who isn’t one (Correia not included because I just find his stuff pretty bad).
So, like every other normal person I’d pretty much have to give up SF&F if I wasn’t able to disassociate creators and their work.
Because name me a modern SF&F author who isn’t one
Brandon Sanderson
Correia not included because I just find his stuff pretty bad
And I find his writing quite good, but de gustibus.
Oh my! It appears that George Takei really does lust for totalitarianism and child abuse.
Screenshot here in case George decides to delete that tweet or take his account private.
Spiderman, Spiderman
Brandon Sanderson
I must admit I haven’t tried him out. Wasn’t he slated a bit for the way he finished off the Wheel of Time books ?
I’ve read the synopsis for the Mistborne stuff.. not terribly gripping but I’ll have to give it a try.
Having read most everything by Pratchett I could lay my hands on, I can say with all honesty that I haven’t a clue as to what his politics were.
…timing.
Mistborne
I actually really liked that series. Sanderson is a masterful worldbuilder and his characters are not 1-dimensional cartoons.
IMHO there are some “critics” who are less about his books and more “OFFS, not another effing Mormon!”
David Drake used to be acceptable (mainly because he would take historical events and map them to his story). He’s 75ish now and has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s syndrome (or many mini-strokes). I noticed that the quality of his later works weren’t quite up to earlier snuff.
I guess it depends upon your meaning of “modern”.
Fluffs up feathers. Preens a bit. Fluffs up feathers again. Sits on perch looking contented.
Uh-o… Time for a ?
Sorry, that should have shown a [/i] thingy…
David Drake used to be acceptable …I guess it depends upon your meaning of “modern”.
I know him only by name as he co-wrote with S.M. Stirling, who I have read a lot of. Stirling is of course verboten these days because of his Draka series and the robust male toxicity of many of his characters. Mainly the reason I like him (besides being a sucker for alternate history).