we should remember that the real reason for the season on is the birth of our savior. The focus should not be on things, on the getting of gifts, or the boasting of our material possessions. This season, many people are getting little or nothing, due to high unemployment and a recession. So, let's focus on being together with our families, doing service for those in need, and giving thanks for our chance at redemption.
I'm sure Kevin Barney would totally agree with me.
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That's a cheap shot! KB is totally into service and spiritual crap, as long as it doesn't interfere with football and reading important books and stuff.
And sex. Don't forget the sex.
(http://bycommonconsent.com/2009/12/28/celibacy-in-new-york-city/)
Mister Correlation, make with the funny already. These posts arent mildly amusing, they arent even trying. If you cannot find something snarky or funny, then dont post.
Whoa! Really Snarkimus? Maybe you should let us be the judge of what's funny. Like you for example. You're not.
Anonymous, if you think Mister Borelation is funny, then that says more about you than anything I can.
Shiz and Dazz, please check your private e-mails.
Anonymous2 -
oh my stars and garters. I should have waited a day or two. But I have a strict no snarking the same person twice in a row rule.
Snarky primal dude -
Hey, you guys invited me. This is the type of snarky thing I was doing over on my own blog. If you don't like it, I can always go back there. As I exist only on the internet anyway, it's all the same to me.
Unless this is some sort of meta-joke I'm totally missing. Us non-corporeal types have a hard time with meta stuff.
Its not a meta joke. I didnt invite you. Please feel free to resign your blog membership here and go back to your own blog.
Whoa, and no one even mentioned the WofW being a crock of merde to set this exchange off. Andropause?
Steve EM, please shut up.
Wow.
I resent that last remark. I am far from content.
In fact, I will never be content until the entire 'Nacle voluntarily shuts down.
No he not so funny. Who invite this guy? Snarkimus Prime not do it? Spazz and Dazz? Maybe next time they invite someone who make me laugh! Maybe sometime snarkimus prime start snarking again. Steve Evans stop at trashcalls. Need good snarking. I laugh.
I always felt that I blow more than I suck.
Having just spent a few moments looking at what Mr. Correlation has said about me in particular, and noting the mean-spiritedness which seems rather pervasive in his comments about many people, I am truly sad that this blog will continue with such a director.
We need mercy and compassion, all of us--expecially from each other. Certainly if we claim to be "earnestly striving" to be Latter-day Saints. I believe the person who sits behind "Mr. Correlation" has been somewhat acquainted with grief. I cannot understand why he would so easily insult others who may be carrying burdens he has no concept of. Why add to ANYONE'S store of pain when we have the power to lighten it? The bloggernacle has so many good, caring people--and all of them are flawed, of course. Though I am no longer a part of the bloggernacle, I do love those who caringly participate. There are so many good friends. I cannot imagine celebrating mockery and insult.
I miss the wit of Trashcalls, and I think KN was often fun, though I told him honestly when I felt he went over the line.
In my own life, the "line" has become much more defined. I find myself in such need of charity, compassion and help right now--and suspect I am not alone in the need--that I am saddened when any of us chooses to produce a dagger rather than a balm.
Perhaps I should quote the disclaimer on my original blog:
"I mean everything on this site, except when I don't. None of should be taken seriously, except when it is meant that way. It's all supposed to be funny, except when it isn't. I make no claims about being clever or witty, except when I am."
[Also - if I believed mjby actually had compassion or charity for others, I might take her comment more seriously - Ah, the 'Nacl - How I love thee: The hypocrisy, the cries for "compassion" and "tolerance" from those who possess it least and wouldn't hesitate to destroy you if you disagreed with them. Which, of course, means I'm a racist.] ;-)
In fact, here's my disclaimer in full:
"Your first mistake is believing I mean everything I write on this blog. Your second one is assuming I don't mean any of it. Your third mistake is trying to find humor. Your fourth is taking it all seriously.
But your real mistake was coming here in the first place (either that, or it's the smartest thing you've ever done).
I mean everything on this site, except when I don't. None of should be taken seriously, except when it is meant that way. It's all supposed to be funny, except when it isn't. I make no claims about being clever or witty, except when I am.
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MY MISSION STATEMENT:
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming.
Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.
All art is at once surface and symbol.
Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.
When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.
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Those who have eyes to see and ears to hear should follow the examples of Oedipus and Van Gogh. The rest shall keep as they are.
Those who get it will get it. Those who don't, won't. I'm a poet and I know it."
Dear Snarkernacle: You used to be very funny, until you made fun of something I like/popped my overinflated ego/pointed out the sheer ridiculousness of one of my pet theopolitical hobby horses. I now believe you are not funny, and never were.
Yours truly,
The bloggernacle.
It's all supposed to be funny, except when it isn't. I make no claims about being clever or witty, except when I am.
Didn't you put up that disclaimer after I counter-snarked you?
bjm: Yes and no. Yes in a temporal sense, no in the sense of a reaction against you (I had the disclaimer ready for weeks beforehand, but even us non-coporeal types get lazy about updating blog templates). Look up the fallacy of "post hoc ergo propter hoc."
[General comment: Man, I didn't plan this, but I should have. The entire 'Nacle, coming out and letting it all show. Even the snarkers aren't immune to a little ego poking and knicker twisting. Jolly good fun all around. I haven't had this much fun since Adam Greenwood was excommunicated from Tea and Crackers].
Anyway, that's what I heard.
Was he exed? I thought he told you losers to go screw yourselves and exited stage left while giving you the finger.
Different terminology for different types. I say potatoe, you say asteroid. Or whatever.
If not andropause, what’s up w/ SP letting things go on? Too busy being the man from Nantucket?
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