Attention Crap Bloggers! News Posted by John Hoare on 8th July 2007, 19:25 This is not funny. And even if it was at any point, it severely loses any impact it ever had after reading it for the millionth time. So please stop posting it every-fucking-where so it gets plopped into my inbox every other day through the magic of Google Alerts, and find something original to post instead. Thanks.
I found it funny the first time I saw it, years ago, as part of your garden-variety “send this 2 all of ur frends its soo funny!!1!!!1!” email. The next couple of dozen times, after it had been posted on all sorts of blogs and boards and sometimes misattributed to John Cleese–not so much.
Yeah, this does pop up way too much. I last read it on a forum a year ago and it was overly familiar then. And then we had to talk about political correctness and some Americans would be angry and other Americans would tell them to get a sense of humour and a week passed and the whole thing was very tiresome.
>That actually pre-dates the internet, and there are hudreds of variations and replies to it. Began in 2000, if Snopes is to be believed. http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/revocation.asp
By the way, what was it that made this item merit inclusion as news here? ‘Cos i only saw one brief, offhand reference to Red Dwarf when I looked at the version of this thing to which you linked. Is there something I missed, or is this just something you’re passionate about?
