Screaming Fanboys At The Historical Society
I’m doing some work for my mom, making a blog for her museum. It’s a great project, although I’m not exactly knowledgable about history or art in the last 2000 years, so she has to keep me from writing things like “Come to an old house and look at stuff!” and “Some famous guy is going to talk about the pretty things here.”
We were talking about the tone for the blog, and how I won’t be saying “This wasn’t made by Romans, but it’s still old.” and about the colors my mom wants to use, and how even a small typo in a good article lowers the whole feeling of the site. Like teh for the, my mom says.
“Teh is so common it’s a joke in games journalism.” I agree.
“A joke? How can a typo be a joke?”
“If you really like something, you might use teh and a bunch of superlatives and a couple ones instead of exclamation points.” This is not the most intuitive description ever. In my mom’s terms, teh coolest historically accurate arts-and-crafts movement furniture evah!!!1!1!1!
“That’s not particularly funny.” My mom says. I’m kind of with her there, internet jokes rarely translate well to actual verbal communication.
“It’s sarcastic.”
“How is that sarcastic?”
“It’s making fun of screaming fanboy game reviews.”
“Screaming fanboy?”
At least we agree on a deep dislike for anything that pops up, blinks or flashes.
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1Bill
wrote on 14 August 2008 at 21:46
Making fun of people who are stupider than you is fun and easy.
2flotsam
wrote on 14 August 2008 at 22:07
“her museum” – you mean a place for old artefacts? You have old things in the USA? The buildings in the centre of the place where I live are several hundred years older than the USA.
3Kevin
wrote on 15 August 2008 at 3:31
@Bill You mean people who think pop-ups and auto-music add to the site?
4Steve (formerly of Hangzhou)
wrote on 15 August 2008 at 5:29
“This wasn’t made by Romans, but it’s still old.”
teh best line evah111!!111 MEG!!111one!!!111
5Steve (formerly of Hangzhou)
wrote on 15 August 2008 at 5:36
Did you know that every time you said “American” it’s autotagged as “Eric”?
6Germaine
wrote on 16 August 2008 at 0:36
The museum blog looks great!
7Stuart
wrote on 17 August 2008 at 16:44
Meg~
Unrelated comment:
As a loyal HP fan, you should check out this.
8Karen
wrote on 19 August 2008 at 11:50
Your mom is funny! And Germaine is right, nice new blog!
9Meg
wrote on 19 August 2008 at 13:17
@Bill!!! I didn’t know you read my blog!!! hi!!!
@ Flotsam shouldn’t you be off somewhere adding U to words, and calling Z’s “Zed”?
@ Germaine + Karen Thank you! I’m proud!
@ Stuart Thanks so much for the tip! I’m becoming increasingly disappointed in the HP movies, actually, but my love for the books remains unchanged!
10flotsam
wrote on 21 August 2008 at 23:36
@Ms Stivison – and I’m still mad at you for lowering the tone of this blog
11Meg
wrote on 22 August 2008 at 0:12
Haha! That was a classy photo of lovely eating establishment in a foreign culture! (Plus we got milkshakes)
12flotsam
wrote on 23 August 2008 at 3:17
When someone uses my family name [as you have done in your b-title] I expect it to be treated with respect not dragged down to such depths.
13john
wrote on 26 August 2008 at 16:15
Real nice post. Many bloggers write same old things on how and why to comment. This post talks something different in dept. Definitely a post from a professional blogger who has done the homework pretty well.