Re:Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name Is 'Butts'
by maxerickson on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @02:54PM
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Was it Leonard Nimoy?
Re:Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name Is 'Butts'
by qume on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @03:22PM
(#17870957)
Wow that was downvoted. I guess these people aren't aware of Nimoys extensive practical jokes with Shatner.
But even so, why would anyone downvote this?
Re:Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name Is 'Butts'
by driverdan on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @03:32PM
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Because jokes are generally frowned upon.
Re:Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name Is 'Butts'
by maxerickson on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @03:38PM
(#17871121)
Yep, this thread is meant for substantive discussion of Butts and I ruined it.
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Re:Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name Is 'Butts'
by dang on Saturday September 01, 2018 @01:17AM
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People have been complaining about HN turning into Reddit for at least 10 years. In fact, the HN guidelines used to ask people not to complain about HN turning into Reddit ("it's a semi-noob illusion"). But when we augmented the guidelines a year or so ago, we took out that one to preserve brevity.
Re:Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name Is 'Butts'
by davidw on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @03:40PM
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Unoriginal or not funny ones; if they're unique and not some lame meme, they'll often get upvoted
Re:Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name Is 'Butts'
by maxerickson on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @04:26PM
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The mods discourage humor because it tends to metastasize into tedious offtopic threads, which I guess is true enough.
Readers think they punish bad jokes and reward good ones, but the stupid Butts pun is doing great while the absurdist gem about Leonard Nimoy secretly wanting to be Kirk and living it out for a year in the white pages (and then someone working with him forgetting his name!) was nuked from orbit.
Re:Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name Is 'Butts'
by xkcd-sucks on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @04:47PM
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The humor just has to be dry enough to maintain plausible deniability. Kind of like flirting in a corporate setting
In the early 80s I worked with a guy who wanted an unlisted phone number (back in the days of paper telephone directories). He was really miffed at the idea that the phone company would charge him an extra $10 (or similar) per year for this "service". ("Ten dollars to NOT do something?!? That's extortion!") He couldn't believe this so he asked for a list of service charges which they mailed to his home. Apparently changing your name was free. So, for several years you could call "Kirk, James T., Capt." I guess he showed them. Bonus: saved $10 per year. Extra bonus: frequent crank calls at all hours, for free.
Funny thing is I can't remember his real name.