Tag: imao

So, apparently we *did* think about nuking the moon.

Assuming that you believe the source: no, not Cracked.com.  Those guys are pretty reliable, for given values of ‘reliable.’  But they got this one off of a Commondreams reprint of a Guardian article, so you have to wonder how much is true, and how much is ‘betcha I can make ’em believe it.’

I should also note that the likelihood of it not working is perhaps lower than people might think; the arguments for it are persuasive.

The Onion and IMAO: parallel evolution, or rip-off?

I still haven’t made up my mind on this. Compare:


Obama To Enter Diplomatic Talks With Raging Wildfire

…with this (Via @IMAO_):

Obama Signals Willingness to Negotiate With Wildfires

WASHINGTON (AP) – In response to reports of deaths and widespread property damage allegedly caused by so-called “wildfires” in California, President Obama said that he wanted to the let the more moderate and peace-loving flames know that “America is willing to negotiate without pre-conditions”.

It is a very close match in basic theme – if not in tone – but balancing that is that the joke is obvious. I’m going to give the benefit of the doubt on this one, but I can see why others won’t.

Moe Lane

PS: “Nothing funny about this Presidency” my eye.

IMAO made Snopes!

Like Jim Treacher, I’m jealous: hate mail is all very well (and I retain some hope of getting my own hate site some day, or at least one for RedState that can meet our actually fairly demanding criteria), but having to have to have…

Yes, I think that’s grammatical.

…anyway, when Snopes has to put out an advisory on your site’s satire piece, You Have Officially Arrived On The Internet.  Although, personally?  I’m always going to think that Nuke the Moon was robbed.

Robbed!

Crossposted to RedState.

Well, that certainly qualifies as a distraction.

Don’t watch this if you’re prone to epileptic fits.

Via Frank J. of IMAO, who notes: “It was weird to watch, because I kept waiting for Mount Rushmore to morph into a 3-headed Hitler who sends his eagle-morphing-into-a-vulture flying into the ghetto to devour screaming, helpless minorities or something.” I’d likewise make a sardonic anti-hippie comment in response, except that my eyes are still trying to decide whether they’re going to start bleeding.

The depressing thing is that this is a necessary award.

(Via @IMAO_) Liber Ex Machina is quite right when it notes that “the pinnacle of internet literature is writing something more-or-less free of typos or bad punctuation.” For a given value of ‘quite right,’ at least. For a given value of ‘not even remotely right,’ check out… this.

I can’t make myself post to it directly.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

Iowahawk publishes the second Journolist thread.

Not to indulge in pop psychology – HA! This is the Internet, baby; the bad psychology is only matched by the bad sociology, with the bad cultural analysis batting cleanup – but you do have to wonder whether this particular parody might be just a little too biting for the recipients’ comfort (H/T IMAO). They’d totally deny it, of course – they would* – but every blogger that I’ve heard of so far that’s been linked to the Journolist has also had an inferiority complex that you could bounce rocks off of (thank you, Terry Pratchett. I think).

I’m not entirely certain what they’re feeling inferior to; possibly neither are they. The mainstream media, for having travel budgets and instant access; us Right-Wing Death Beasts, for daring to laugh and have fun instead of curling up and dying in the face of their superior daily traffic; their looming twentieth year high school reunions, for all I know.Whatever it is, it’s a doozy; it caused them to do one heck of a regress. Such a shame, really.

OK… no, its not. But you’re supposed to say things like that in these situations.

Moe Lane

*The paradox in that would be both more interesting and kind of tragic, if only I cared.

Crossposted to RedState.