That’s the secret to how a grandpa like Tony Hawk can keep rolling in that phat video game loot. As stated by the venerable Urban Dictionary (your indispensable resource on funky fresh lingo), you’re probably better off if you just say it’s unexpected humor … but then teenagers everywhere will dismiss you as an anal-retentive killjoy and there’s nothing I want more than the praise and adulation of today’s youth. Hell, John Allison made a shirt about it (which I would order, if the value of the dollar was much stronger against the British pound). And if it were really, truly random, then there’s very little chance it would actually be funny, since you wouldn’t have established any expectations in the first place. In reality, it’s actually more of a shock cut than random. So RANDOM! Even if it means everyone else is doing it. This is an especially egrarious faux-pas since “random humor” almost always means that, at the end, someone’s head explodes, or the world blows up, or ninjas pop up out of nowhere. Sexy Canadian librarians and urbane, well-dressed sequential art afficianados - who, in the deep recesses of my fertile imagination, make up the bulk of readers on this site - are no doubt glaring angrily from behind their pince-nez glasses and/or spitting out their Chamomile. In saying the above phrase, I understand that I’ve invited a modicum of invites backlash. LOL! Humor on the internet is sooooo random! Posted at ComixTALK on 27 July 2009 at 9:07pm
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