Candorville teases forum users

[Doctor Q]

Darrin Bell, who writes the Candorville comic strip, seems to know a bit about us forum users.

Here is yesterday's strip (original here).

Other than our minimum forum age being 13 (excluding 12-year-olds from Reseda), some of our members probably do spend time planning how to use their "sarcasm and erudite wit" for maximum effect, so perhaps we deserve some teasing about it.

 

[Blue Velvet]

Oooo, that hurts. Mind you: research, schmesearch.

Shoot from the lip, worry later.

 

[yellow]

how to use their "sarcasm and erudite wit" for maximum effect

How do you turn that on in Safari?

 

[Doctor Q]

How do you turn that on in Safari?

Sorry, but only Firefox has a SAEW (sarcasm and erudite wit) plug-in.

 

[yellow]

<Stamps Foot>

But I hate Firefox. It's like Netscape Lite.

Bah.. sarcasm and wit is overrated anyway.

 

[MacsRgr8]

<Stamps Foot>

But I hate Firefox. It's like Netscape Lite.

Bah.. sarcasm and wit is overrated anyway.

Or Internet Explorer Pro

 

[yellow]

I heard that IE7 has the newest in witty-rejoinder-technology.

 

[jsw]

I spent a lot of time writing my first 100 posts. All of the others since have just been repeats, including this one. I've got a little app with all of them in various clipboards. Sometimes, I'll edit them enough to change member names, but that's about it. You'll notice that all of my posts have a small, white-texted two-digit number at the end - that's the post number of the original post.86

 

[yellow]

We know all about you and your Emacs LISP post-response program.

 

[jsw]

We know all about you and your Emacs LISP post-response program.

I'm pleased to hear that you know about me and my Emacs LISP post-response program. How are you feeling today?36

 

[IJ Reilly]

I spent a lut ooff teeme-a vreeting my furst 100 pusts. Ell ooff zee oozeers seence-a hefe-a joost beee repeets, incloodeeng thees oone-a. I'fe-a gut a leettle-a epp veet ell ooff zeem in fereeuoos cleepbuerds. Sumeteemes, I'll ideet zeem inuoogh tu chunge-a member nemes, boot thet's ebuoot it. Yuoo'll nuteece-a thet ell ooff my pusts hefe-a a smell, vheete-a-texted tvu-deegit noomber et zee ind - thet's zee pust noomber ooff zee ooreeginel pust.86

Mee tu!

 

[yellow]

I'm pleased to hear that you know about me and my Emacs LISP post-response program. How are you feeling today?36

Would you like to play a game?

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[Doctor Q]

I spent a lot of time writing my first 100 posts. All of the others since have just been repeats, including this one. I've got a little app with all of them in various clipboards. Sometimes, I'll edit them enough to change member names, but that's about it. You'll notice that all of my posts have a small, white-texted two-digit number at the end - that's the post number of the original post.86

That's a great joke, jsw. Of course, I liked it better when I made it up in 2003. See post.

As you'll see in that thread, my bot soon broke, so I'm impressed that yours has been working so reliably.

It would certainly be embarrassing if we were actually taking the time to invent all these posts ourselves.

This reply was generated automatically.

 

[jsw]

That's a great joke, jsw. Of course, I liked it better when I made it up in 2003. See post.

Of course, the true joke was to see if I could make Doctor Q spend the time to look up an ancient post of his. 42

 

[yellow]

That's a great joke, jsw. Of course, I liked it better when I made it up in 2003. See post.

Obligatory Commiseration:

n00b moderators.

 

[MacNut]

You can't stump the Q.

 

[Doctor Q]

For ease of reference, I keep bookmarks to all of my previous posts. Doesn't everyone do that?

 

[wmmk]

For ease of reference, I keep bookmarks to all of my previous posts. Doesn't everyone do that?

Really? You should see a psychiatrist. Type menu to exit. Thank you.

 

[Allotriophagy]

Hey, you look hot in your avatar! You single? Any more pics? Pvt msg?

(I just summed up the entire corpus of MR erudition, right there.)