Comments on: Evolution? Not in OUR School!

By: Randolf St. Cosmo

Randolf St. Cosmo — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:11:43 +0000

On the one hand, the guy’s letter looks a little bit like an example of a Poe, but on the other hand, I have personally heard people say even sillier things. On the same subject, too.

I still remember the day a guy told me, in all seriousness (he was an extreme religious crazy guy) that Greek mythology was satanic and it was polluting the education I got at school.

By: Engineer-Poet

Engineer-Poet — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:39:46 +0000

Hopper: Nobody owns the Internet. St. Gasoline owns this site. If you don’t care for that, I suggest you do the anatomically difficult.

By: hopper3011

hopper3011 — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:50:15 +0000

“Then go away.”
Since when do you own the internet? I can go where I like and coment where I like, the only way for Saint Gasoline to stop me is to ban me - which would be deliciously ironic, given his stance on the intolerance to free speech of the religious.
“Forced to wander the web in search of comments sections where you can scrawl “First” or “Not funny. Amuse me better least I decide to mock this free entertainment you provide me.” ”
I was responding to a direct question, but it is interesting that you feel the need to jump in - how dare anybody criticise your bum-chum - but are you suggesting that he is incapable of responding for himself? Just because the entertainment is free, doesn’t mean it is above criticism (note that I was criticising the writing not the person, which I notice you can’t manage). To quote me: “Why don’t you fuck off?”

By: Miss Lu

Miss Lu — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:25:26 +0000

“No, I don’t think you are very good at either”

Then go away.
Nothing is holding you here. So SG is not the writer for you; don’t read his blog. The internet is such a vast place. I am sure you can find a home for yourself elsewhere.

Or……..

is there no other place for you. Are you one of the lost ones? Forced to wander the web in search of comments sections where you can scrawl “First” or “Not funny. Amuse me better least I decide to mock this free entertainment you provide me.” Ahhhh, poor socially maladjusted child of the web, incapable of creating anything of his own. You must destroy everyone else’s efforts just feel like you have had an effect on the world.

I’d continue you ranting at you but the abuse you took from the previous blogs you tried to troll is much more amusing than anything I could ever write. To quote your running ‘buddies’: “Damn, dude. Don’t you ever quit crying? “

By: hopper3011

hopper3011 — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:25:51 +0000

“So you think I don’t have the ability to write well or be humorous, eh? Well, there’s no accounting for taste!”

No, I don’t think you are very good at either. Whilst it is true that there is no accounting for taste, a lack of ability is universally recognisable. Your feeble ranting tone is almost as mind-bendingly dull as that of the idiots you write about.

By: Saint Gasoline

Saint Gasoline — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:26:50 +0000

How is the name a clue, hopper? Is there an anagram in there somewhere? Or is it “Kraft”, as in “craft a story”? That’s not a very compelling clue, if you ask me, as Kraft is a common enough last name. It seems just as likely there’s a real guy named Bob Kraft in Sedalia.

Like I said, you can’t know something is fake merely because it is incredibly stupid. Otherwise we’d be forced to think the entire Answers in Genesis website is fake, when empirical evidence (i.e., the creation museum) shows the opposite.

The only advice I can offer to fakers is to at least make the Poe somewhat funny so that, if the parody is overlooked at least it will serve some purpose in making someone laugh.

“Lack of ability hasn’t stopped you, so why should it stop him?”
So you think I don’t have the ability to write well or be humorous, eh? Well, there’s no accounting for taste!

By: hopper3011

hopper3011 — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:03:49 +0000

“If it is a fake, then the guy needs to learn how to write better fakes!”
Lack of ability hasn’t stopped you, so why should it stop him?
BTW, the clue might be in the name?

By: Miss Lu

Miss Lu — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:03:44 +0000

That is the problem with a good Poe.
There really isn’t anything so absurd that somebody doesn’t believe it.

By: rdbhcx

rdbhcx — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:18:13 +0000

“If it is a fake, then the guy needs to learn how to write better fakes!”

It’s hard! So many fundamentalists are serious about these sorts of things.

By: Saint Gasoline

Saint Gasoline — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:43:09 +0000

Why is it so obviously clear that the editorial is not serious? Garic, you point to him talking about book burnings, but I’ve heard sentiments like this expressed by people who are totally in earnest and quite serious. And why would that be an obvious clue to a facetious remark, when equally stupid and ridiculous comments, like the superintendent comparing the shirt to one depicting Jesus Christ, are taken as serious. If you ask me, that remark by the superintendent is clearly more likely to be fake given its much bigger outrageousness, and yet it is apparently true!

If it is a fake, then the guy needs to learn how to write better fakes! It should at least be somewhat funny before you attempt such a thing!