denise: Image: Me, facing away from camera, on top of the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome (Default)
Denise ([staff profile] denise) wrote in [community profile] efw2010-04-01 09:04 pm

"Clever" pun

Allegedly-funny "news" post from site owner trading upon site culture in such a way as to indicate that they almost, but not quite, get it.
tehkittykat: utena is no prince charming (katamari; road sign)

[personal profile] tehkittykat 2010-04-02 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
Demand that site owner implement bugfix or new feature that no one cares about right now.
elf: Computer chip with location dot (You Are Here)

[personal profile] elf 2010-04-02 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Reply ignoring content of post while claiming initial commenter status.

Edit insisting that initial commenter status existed when comment was begun.
azurelunatic: Vivid pink Alaskan wild rose. (Default)

[personal profile] azurelunatic 2010-04-02 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
Incredulity at "funny" claims.

Sudden realization of local date. Annoyance about relative timezones and owner using owner's own timezone without consideration for international users who thought they were through with all date-based silliness for the year.

Huffy signoff.
redbird: closeup of me drinking tea, in a friend's kitchen (Default)

[personal profile] redbird 2010-04-02 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
Muttering about the good old days, consisting mostly of RFC numbers and an obscure mention of pigeons.

(Anonymous) 2010-04-02 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
Very large picture of a small boat sinking under a large load.
quinfirefrorefiddle: Van Gogh's painting of a mulberry tree. (Writing)

[personal profile] quinfirefrorefiddle 2010-04-02 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
Critique of pun. Further critique of pun "humor" in general, and a brief psychological evaluation of the stereotypical pun-employer, completely ignoring content of post and identity of poster.
fairlight: I look kind of wistful and smart.  Wow. (proper villains)

[personal profile] fairlight 2010-04-02 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
Cat macro.

Overused phrase that was funny for fifteen minutes on 4chan sometime last year.
jd: (Default)

[personal profile] jd 2010-04-02 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
Frustration and burnout.
pauamma: EFW Punster - green on blue ("EFW Punster - green on blue")

[personal profile] pauamma 2010-04-03 09:30 am (UTC)(link)
More puns, including some off-color ones.
Edited 2010-04-03 10:12 (UTC)
profit: TV screen with "read instead" on it (try reading a book for once)

[personal profile] profit 2010-04-04 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
Long, boring, rambling dissertation about the many ways in which site security fails and has been compromised by advertising, including references to past site controversies and allegations that site's past attempts to censor user-created content were attempts to make the site more attractive to advertisers, including lengthy discussion of ways in which active users' potentially identifying and/or embarrassing information is being collected and used.

Posted from open ID.