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Re:XKCD Explained, One Strip at a Time by KirinDave on Thursday October 29, 2009 @02:47PM (#910568)
Re:XKCD Explained, One Strip at a Time by mquander on Thursday October 29, 2009 @02:57PM (#910604)
Not really. I hope I'm not being overly critical, but "a weary customer" is pretty purple prose, and "intelligent enough to be aware of its affect" -- "affect?" C'mon. "Effect."

If this were some other kind of writing, like a forum post or a blog entry, no problem, stuff like that wouldn't faze me. But I think you have to clear a high bar in quality if you're writing some sarcastic & condescending criticism of something else... especially when the "something else" is already aiming at a (relatively) highbrow audience. Otherwise it's not credible to me and not funny.

Re:XKCD Explained, One Strip at a Time by jeffcoat on Thursday October 29, 2009 @03:42PM (#910697)
Not deliberately purple, I suspect: substituting "weary" for "wary" is a pretty common mistake.
Re:XKCD Explained, One Strip at a Time by jacobolus on Thursday October 29, 2009 @03:21PM (#910651)
In that particular case, you missed the joke, so no.