. . . although both of them aptly poked fun at the endless talmudic yammering that usually passes for discussion on Slashdot -- this discussion being a perfect example.
As for those who thought Hashnot was "too childish", I liked it and I'm an S. J. Perelman fan, so there.:)
"Once a solution is found, a compatibility problem becomes indescribably boring because it has only... practical importance"
Its funny how this got posted when an article I submitted about how linux had defeated Microsoft at Comdex Toronto was left to rot on the cutting room floor.
Yeah, apostrophecolon is a true parody (I especially like the acronym-ridden headline) while hassnot is just hte visuals. Moderators, add points to brennanw's post!
Well, there is a way this could be solved actually, and it's not exactly hard to implement either. All CmdrTaco would need to do is take some advice from that insightful fellow whom wrote a feature here recently about the democracy level of sites like Slashdot - that is, make the submissions box accessible for the readers (not without a few strong-worded warnings to click through, mind:) and have them moderate it. Then people could moderate this kind of crap out of existence before it ever reached the main page. True, abuse would be possible, but if the numbers are upped - say, a submission would need at least 10 points out of 20 to be put onto the main page-, it would be quite difficult. If they put in a bottom line at about -5 below wich a post would be blasted out of the submissions box we can get rid of this garbage.
Right. Except for the fact that jokes are supposed to be funny. Maybe if one of the articles were like that it might have been mildly entertaining, but the fact that it's just one joke that's not really that funny doesn't really make it that good of a parody. . .
I think many people are upset about this article because _it_ got posted over others, considering that in the thousands that get submitted there might be "better". But you're right, it's their prerogative. OTOH, this is nothing like KDE v. GNOME.
If you read the page 120 times.. it's not funny. *1st time read = laugh to death. *20 times = He-He, Ho-Ho *50 times = Har Har *snort* *100 times = Te-hehe, "he said penis". *115 times = Te-hehe, "he said penis". *119 times = Te-hehe, "he said penis". ps. -Got Lag? -Love & forever with you. -Lord Lag
<rant> I'm surprised that not one person has commented on the use of the Amish as a subject of the immature jokes on Hashsnot. Calling it racist might be going one step too far, but picking on a religious minority because they hold different beliefs is a step on the slippery path towards such behaviour.
OK, so this sounds pretty intolerant and I'm perhaps taking things too seriously, but ask yourself - if it is acceptable to make jokes about the Amish, then where does it become unacceptable to make jokes about the jews, or racial groups?
Just because people hold a different point of view to yourself doesn't mean they deserve to become the butt of your jokes.
':! Congratulations to the ': editorial staff, sysadmins, reporters, and stockholders. You have produced a parody worthy of being called a, uh, well, parody.
As the only volunteer judge in this contest I had to be even more objective than possible. However, after visiting the ': site, I see no need to go on. Surely the only thing that could be funnier than ': would be a parody of ': -- and that would be a different contest.
So, with these words I turn over the coveted trophy to brennanw, representative of all those at ': who made this day possible. Thank you Ladies and Gentlemen, and good evening.
Hhahah, now this other one is more the style of a good parody. It just needs the whole site around that. I'd love to get ahold of the script that does that.
Ok, you're entitled to your opinion, but what *precisly* is funny about this site ? Feck all I would put as an appropriate term.
I'm sorry, but I did go to the site with an open mind, raised an eyebrow at the Hashsnot logo and then the journey to huge disapointment began.
Is it not fair to say that if you are simply not funny, *please* don't got to the lengths of trying to be... least of all in such a blantent manner.
One final bit of advice - The writer of this 'paordy' seems to realise the values that some of the./ crowd take, for example about clueless newbies... but rather than just stating that, couldn't s/he have done something with it ? I'm hardly a world class comedian, so I'll decline the option to... just like this person should have.
It seems to me that you are not helping make slashdot any better with that post. After reading it I can pretty much agree with you. That last line especially convinces me. Yes, that parody page didn't live up to my expectations, but if you're not willing to post at least constructive criticism, please go start your own "news for nerds" site.
As far as slashdot being dead, I have to contend that you're just plain wrong.
About midnight eastern time last night, I learned that the ATI Rage Pro LT chipset, which comes standard in the laptop I recieve from my college, is not fully supported by XFree86. I had two options, spend $150 on a commercial software from Xi Graphics [xig.com], or live with console only.
After reading the devasting information, I followed a link from this page [unive.it] to a thread on Ask Slashdot. The first post, from theMissingLink, had a link to this page [umich.edu], where I found multiple ways to get XFree86 up and running on my laptop.
Those who only complain without offering solutions may be trying to kill it, but no, slashdot is not dead. It won't be dead any time soon.
Those were good! Perhaps good enough for . ..might I suggest having a Slashdot online store for these gems? Perfect for door prizes and gag gifts for the local LUGs!
I presume posting about that alleged "pardoy" is one of those 10e12 better ways to spend your time?
Of course, I'm here posting about you posting about that alleged "parody." I wonder how that ranks. It's a good thing I'm not that organized, or I'd probably be productive.
comeon people, it's a joke page, take the joke and move on. We don't want to hear you babble about how humor webpages should have this and that. There are too many inatrue, self-rightous know it alls on slashdot. GROW UP
Well, stuff all of you moaning idiots, I thought it was jolly good...
In any case, the only real problem was it didn't quite attack the real target ie no pages upon pages of lame flames from US-based Linux Bigots...;) No offence, I like Slashdot, but I hardly ever read the comments pages any more, as the attitude displayed is just so shitty.
I've been active on the Atari, Amiga and PC "underground" scenes- I can program on all of these platforms- and I'm now well into Linux, and am employed in a web technology job. (And I'm still keeping in touch with the other scenes.) and I don't think I've ever seen a scene that is so full of bad attitudes as the comments on Slashdot...
No offence, but here is a simple fact- there have been other systems besides Wintel and *nix, and some of them have actually been quite decent! (In the case of the Amiga, very decent indeed!!!) So remove the stick from your ass, learn to smile, grow a sense of humour, etc.,...
Oops, I'm going off topic... Ahem, anyway!! As soon as someone does a parody of the comments, then I expect we'll see some grumbling from/. regulars...
I'm not sure about the technical side of your idea, but I know I like the spirit of it. Send your post to Rob's email address, or he'll probably never read it. If this were structured in a similar manner to the comment moderation system, it would really make slashdot responsive to its readers.
The about [slashdot.org] page says Roblimo is Robin Miller. But a quick search on Google came up with this [primenet.com] page - according to the e-mail address, this page must be made by the same guy...
Now that's a parody worth reading. And not even one gratuitous use of the word "penis", either...
PS: Don't get me wrong; I think toilet humour has its place - for example, The Onion [theonion.com] strikes a pretty good balance between intelligent satire and lowbrow groin kicks. They also know what the HashPenisSnot [rude word inserted to riotous effect] author has yet to learn: jokes are much funnier when they don't contain spelling and grammar mistakes.
And no, "humour" is not a spelling mistake. Unlike "aluminum".:-)
[Apocrypha: I read a story somewhere that the first newspaper in the USA to write an article about this interesting new metal dropped the second "i" by mistake, and everybody just took it from there. Nice story, anyway... anyone know whether it's true?]
-Snorbert, somewhere else in the English speaking world
THis article was a shameless promotion of a horribly juvenile site. It never shoulf have been posted. It wasn't "News for Nerds" and it definitly wasn't "Stuff that Matters"
a parody of slashdot would be good if it was less crude and more 'mature' humor
I agree in that it was a good (though good, of course, is a _very_ relative term) parody of slashdot, and I agree that the creator of it could have made it funnier by making his articles and links more closely related to (i.e., a closer parody of) actual articles and posts on slashdot. Then again, nothing's perfect.....
Yeah, this was pretty funny. I used to live right next to Amish country, and I remember that when Weird Al did "Amish Paradise" they thought it was hilarious.
And here's something that's a little bizarre - I was reading the New Yorker a few months back, and I saw an article on how the Amish boys usually go through a rebellious phase when they reach around 20 years old - they go and buy cars, run around and do what pretty much every other 20 year old would do. The Amish tolerate it pretty well; it seems to be part of how they grow up. After a few years of this, apparently, they settle down to a lifestyle more akin to their parents. The really interesting thing in this article was that two Amish boys about this age were caught trafficking drugs... Huge shock to anyone who's lived near 'em:)
i don't think they're technically amish until 21 or seomthing . (that's why you only see close up pictures of young amish looking people --the adults can't be photographed)
It seems like it was made by a 12 year old with a bit too much time on their hands. I don't think the incessant jokes about snot and penis's are funny, and I'm a normally light guy when it comes to parodies and jokes. This is just childish. Not worth a post.
I keep clicking links and I end up back on the first page! I like slashdot better, but maybe it is a problem with netscape. I know, anyone know how to stir the cache?
Can someone help me?
And if you can get that site to work, can you reflect it, err, mirror? I want to find out about JonDogz's nose.
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Saturday July 17, 1999 @06:20AM (#1797831)
if this is all it takes to get on slashdot (which used to be a cutting-edge highly-respected underground news site), then there is serious problem. and i don't mean for rob or hemos.
the problem is for people who read slashdot. the posts about slashdot going down the crapper are usually from reactionary types, but you can see the slivers of truth in them. slashdot, while gaining readers, is sacraficing jounalistic integrity. it's disappointing, but frankly i don't see it stopping anytime soon.
slashdot is dead.
now if you'll excuse me, i'm off to suck rob's and hemos' dicks just to get a story posted.
It might be interesting to have a list of popular parody sites for those times when one wishes to vent agressions toward a particular vendor at that moment.
Too bad the links didn't go anywhere on this one. I thought the humor value of this site was it looked like it was done in a short time and could be done by anyone. Makes me think of what kind of mischef could be had on commercial sites who have no sense of humor. If I didn't have this great big fear of caffeine strung legal departments waiting to send well dressed goons out in Cadillacs and write cease and desist letters...
Aside from having a look like/. there was nothing at all like the type of material that/. has on it. If you're going to do a parody, you should make everyone beleive that it could actually be the sit that you're doing a parody of. (IMO)
Well, this may be an alleged parody, but surely the site in question has to be remotely funny in the first place to be classed as such ? Please don't get me wrong - I cliked on the link ready for a quick chuckle... and about thirty seconds later I relised that it just wasn't going to happend. I eventually read the whole site and felt I had to put down the owner of the site. Please, never ever ever try to be remotely funny again - it just doesn't work...
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Saturday July 17, 1999 @09:32AM (#1797849)
A parody of this site needs 1) a nanotechnology story posted by Hemos, 2) a NASA story posted by CmdrTaco, 3) a Katz story that includes multiple usage of the word geek, 4) a dual posting of the same story, and 5) three *grins* and two *drools*
Definately.
A typical post would be about an essentially meaningless kernel update. (you know the drill)*grin*
The buzzword list would be: RedHat, Debian, FCC, USPTO, DoJ, NSA, NSI, KDE/Gnome, AOL, Apple, RIAA, Beowulf, wearable computers, encryption, FUD, hackers/crackers, Intel, AMD, NSI, Id, 3dfx, furbys, Bill Gates, ESR, RMS, France;-), spam, and finally Star Wars.
A story about furbys will somehow generate a discussion that is focused on guns, Bill Clinton, and Janet Reno.
Hemos writes: "MS in partnership with Intel have introduced a wearable computer that utilizes patented embedded nanotechnology. Individual computers/people form part of a modified beowulf cluster (aka, a collective), with each incredibly fast and stable NT computer communicating with each other using export restricted encrypted signals. Bill Gates, in announcing this new product, said, "Resistance is futile." In reponse to this, Apple immediately sued a totally unknown company for no apparent reason.
Word up, brother. Folks, this guy really know what he's talking about. He is like 40% of the support for Slash in the entire world (the other 40% being Temple Hoff and 20% being random people on Temple's list). Also, lilithfair.org [slashdot.org] is way cool. What do you mean, lame ripoff? It's running the same software, of course it's going to have some UI features in common. At least he did original artwork and color schemes for it. As for better Slashdot parodies, segfault.org actually bothered to mess around with the Slash code (AFAIK) and actually has funny stuff now and then.
I thought Rob Malda and the other guys got to keep control - if there was ever a legal (or any other issue really), ownership is attributed to andover and so Malda has no come back - just thought you might be interested.
I took Sun Tzu's challenge and decided to do my own Slashdot Parody (for the record, I thought HashSnot was pretty amusing -- especially the concept of the Amish having web sites -- but I can't resist challenges like this.
The result is Apostrophecolon [ubersoft.net]. Hope you enjoy it.
After you view that, take a look at my comic strip on the rest of the Ubersoft.net [ubersoft.net] website.
The only parts I found sufficiently funny were the Amish.net stuff. And that's only because I live just outside of Amish country. BTW, our Amish community isn't as bad as the stereotype suggests. It's possible they would get a mild chuckle out of what outsiders think of them. It would make my day if I could say something to Amish folks and get them to crack up. --
Well true, if you go to the section on the limo site where it talks about who Robin Miller is, it talks about how he likes to spend his spare time editing techsightings.com, where this roblimo links to and the previous post's link went to. Looks like ya were right.. woo google!
I know Mrp and he showed me the "parody" of SlashDot a few days before he posted it here. I said he needed to work on it more and add a few more convincing pages; however, he disagreed. I will admit that the page is a little lame, but the posts here have made it sound like Robert is trying to destroy the moral fabric of society!
CBC Radio reports that linux is taking centre stage at the Comdex Computer trade show in Toronto. The link will be modified soon (its latest news, radio transcription) CBC Radio News [radio.cbc.ca] includes an audio report from Comdex: Michael Colton report in Real Audio Here's the article as it appeared: Move over Microsoft and Bill Gates, and make room for Linux. Linux is a computer operating system that's now gaining widespread recognition. And the people behind the company, who were once brushed off as 'geeks', are now standing confidently. They claim Linux systems beat any of the Windows products offered by Microsoft. Typical of the 'overnight success story', Linux seemingly came from nowhere. But in fact, it came from everywhere. Computer programmer volounteers throughout the world over have developed Linux on the Internet. And best of all to its designers, it's open-source software. That means it's free. Linux is one of the hits this week at a giant computer trade show in Toronto, called Comdex. Michael Colton reports.
It would be one thing if there was some trace of wit behind the jokes, but all the guy did was take a static page and change the words and pictures. I don't mind bathroom humor, as long as there is real wit behind it ("hehehe, he said 'Penis'" won't cut it). Any idiot with a text and graphics editor and some spare time could make something at least that good.
If you are making a parody, there should be some satire type humor there, like the onion or the simpsons, that truely pokes fun at the thing it is a parody of. This didn't really poke fun at slashdot at all - now if there was something about the hopeless obsession of us nerds reloading 5-10 times a day (guilty as charged) that would be different.
Well the roblimo link, seems to point back to TechSightings [techsightings.com] which seems to be a part of the Andover network. So I guess that the guy is some Andover guy.
Maybe Roblimo is Robin Miller on this page [techsightings.com] ?
Anyways I think the parody had some fun parts in it. especially the part about "activating" inside your box. lol
An interesting aspect i noticed was that andover.net has released the perl source for Tech Sitings:-)
People like you are WHY I haven't completely stopped reading the comments.:) A great deal of them really ARE a bunch of boring anal retentive geeks with no humor or life, and certainly give the community, a bad name.;D
Perhaps Slashdot is a somewhat accurate reflection of humanity itself? Lots of morons, a moderate amount of really nice people? *shrug*
yep i agree thats it pretty lame. but i think that its worth a post seeing as its a parody.
and i agree that its probably a 12yo... cos one does get sick of the snot and penis jokes, a parody of slashdot would be good if it was less crude and more 'mature' humour...
Can ANYONE do a better Slashdot parody than the legendary Hashsnot? If so, please put your HTML coding where your flaming comments are and do it. It's been done; it's segfault.org --
Jeez, I never expected this to make front page, heh... I made this thing at 3AM when I was bored and stupid... It is childesh, And if i were to make one when I wasn't tired, it would have been better. I don't really care if you think its stupid or if you like it, cause it's not really important... after all it's only one page. Anyway, I'm currently not home so I don't have my/. login password thats why im posting anonymous, but maybe when I get home I'll write a more mature/funny Hashsnot. I don't know,... So anyway, for those of you who liked it... Thanks, i guess. Those of you who you don't like it and think it's childesh, I agree with you.:)
Can ANYONE do a better Slashdot parody than the legendary Hashsnot? If so, please put your HTML coding where your flaming comments are and do it. You all know the standard for entry here -- you have to raise the bar on Hashsnot. This will be difficult for some of you, impossible for others. Consider that the task is made even more difficult by the fact that Hashsnot survived the Slashdot effect and, therefore, must be a solidly designed site running on a massive SMP server.
As one who would stand no chance in such a contest, I volunteer to help judge the entries.
I frown upon this.. I know after all the previous posts mine is redundant but that was simply stupid. The least this guy could've done was thrown a few more pages together to waste my time. That site disgusts me, not entirely due to its content which is just plain stupid, but because the guy had the audacity to submit his own lame site to/., heh. oh well.
[go ahead moderators, flamebait and -1 me. I made sure that to not volunteer as a moderator, so remember that when I don't moderate your stuff.]
If you're going to do a Slashdot parody, do it right, get the less buggy code and the FAQ [lilithfair.org] and actually go through the trouble of making the code work. And I find "buggy code" to be a little harsh on Rob... undocumented and not well written, yes, but it works for the most part. Parodies don't work unless you put some time into them, and this one looks like something that was thought up while on drugs.
And to all you who called LilithFair.org [lilithfair.org] a bad Slashdot ripoff, I'd like to see you get the pre-0.3 release from Slashdot (no, not the -jt releases I made) and make it work without any support. At least my site functions, instead of being a poorly written one-page parody.
I have a few bones to pick with people... don't mind me if you're not one of them.
The thing I said about jokes about reloading is just an example. I wasn't saying that adding that would automatically make it funny - you would have to do it with the right flair, which is something the onion is very good at. If you haven't been there, it's a must. www.theonion.com
I also was not saying that a good parody would have to have that joke. Again, an example. Other ideas for a good/. parody:
*Making fun of the quirks in the personalities. For instance,
CmdrTaco will talk about the latest new geek toy, and then say "I've GOT to have one of those"
Hemos will quote somebody's submission, and almost always add his two cents.
Katz will post a very long article, where everyone else keeps it short (I know, he's a writer, and this is his forum for articles) and it's usually about his ongoing fascination: geeks. Sometimes he will imply he's not a geek, sometimes he'll imply he is (sometimes both in the same article), and people always get mad saying he is inaccurately stereotyping.
*Certain kinds of posts will always appear, such as:
First post! (though the moderation system has really helped that). It's always amusing that more often than not, the "Frist posts" aren't even first. Sometimes nowhere close.
"But will it run linux?" These used to be serious, but now they are in a more joking nature to make fun of those who say it seriously.
Trolls - Rob Sux, Hemos Sux, Grapefruits are a tool of the Borg in Redmond. I like how Rob recognized this universal constant and so included such responses in the poll choices.
Long essays written to get moderated up - I bet that after the moderation system was added, the mean post length (MPL) went waaaaaaaaaaayyy up. (I know what you're thinking. And I don't care)
"Top Ten" (Or Top X) posts. This is a fairly new animal, which has been sighted a lot more after "funny" was added to the moderation options (which was a Good Thing btw).
In short, any of these would be much more clever than things like changing "News for Nerds, Stuff that matters" to "News for Turds, Stuff that doesn't matter". *Cringe*
Oh, one more unrelated side note. Anyone seen "Eyes Wide Shut" yet? Awesome movie. If you've seen the recent quickies, and recall the CAP movie review site, imagine what that reviewer would think of it! BWAHAHAHAHAHA
All you people here are saying that you don't like it, but I think it's pretty good. This person here made a really nice parody and I appreciate his efforts.
NAK (Score:2)
Hey, yerz is even better than Hashnot . . . (Score:1)
. . . although both of them aptly poked fun at the endless talmudic yammering that usually passes for discussion on Slashdot -- this discussion being a perfect example.
As for those who thought Hashnot was "too childish", I liked it and I'm an S. J. Perelman fan, so there.
"Once a solution is found, a compatibility problem becomes indescribably boring because it has only... practical importance"
Re:absolute garbage (Score:1)
Re:Ok, I accept the challenge (Score:2)
Re:absolute garbage (Score:2)
just my $.02
Re:Betelgeuse you just don't get it do you? (Score:1)
Re:Parody? (Score:1)
WHAT???? (Score:1)
Yes, it's mildly amusing I suppose, but it's got nothing to do with slashdot's important news.
Thank you very myuch, I trust such a thing as this won't appear again.
Re:Ok, I accept the challenge (Score:1)
All of the "___ is not Linux" articles reminded me of this [sock-monkey.com].
-ElJefe
Hashsnot (Score:1)
Re:Flame (Score:1)
I think many people are upset about this article because _it_ got posted over others, considering that in the thousands that get submitted there might be "better". But you're right, it's their prerogative. OTOH, this is nothing like KDE v. GNOME.
--bdj
Lord Lag's rating. (Score:1)
120 times.. it's not funny.
*1st time read = laugh to death.
*20 times = He-He, Ho-Ho
*50 times = Har Har *snort*
*100 times = Te-hehe, "he said penis".
*115 times = Te-hehe, "he said penis".
*119 times = Te-hehe, "he said penis".
ps. -Got Lag?
-Love & forever with you.
-Lord Lag
Immature & Racist? (Score:1)
I'm surprised that not one person has commented on the use of the Amish as a subject of the immature jokes on Hashsnot. Calling it racist might be going one step too far, but picking on a religious minority because they hold different beliefs is a step on the slippery path towards such behaviour.
OK, so this sounds pretty intolerant and I'm perhaps taking things too seriously, but ask yourself - if it is acceptable to make jokes about the Amish, then where does it become unacceptable to make jokes about the jews, or racial groups?
Just because people hold a different point of view to yourself doesn't mean they deserve to become the butt of your jokes.
</rant>
Re:calling it "pretty good" is far fetched (Score:1)
keep up the good work kids!
Re:Ok, I accept the challenge - and the winner is! (Score:2)
As the only volunteer judge in this contest I had to be even more objective than possible. However, after visiting the ': site, I see no need to go on. Surely the only thing that could be funnier than ': would be a parody of ': -- and that would be a different contest.
So, with these words I turn over the coveted trophy to brennanw, representative of all those at ': who made this day possible. Thank you Ladies and Gentlemen, and good evening.
Re:absolute garbage (Score:1)
Re:Here is a better one (Score:2)
Re: (Score:1)
Re:who cares about this site (Score:1)
Its JFK jr, not JFK....
And JFK sr. died 36 years ago anyways.
More importantly its the 30th anniversary of the moon walk - but only mildly.
Re:Come on people! (Score:1)
I'm sorry, but I did go to the site with an open mind, raised an eyebrow at the Hashsnot logo and then the journey to huge disapointment began.
Is it not fair to say that if you are simply not funny, *please* don't got to the lengths of trying to be... least of all in such a blantent manner.
One final bit of advice - The writer of this 'paordy' seems to realise the values that some of the
Re:absolute garbage (Score:1)
As far as slashdot being dead, I have to contend that you're just plain wrong.
About midnight eastern time last night, I learned that the ATI Rage Pro LT chipset, which comes standard in the laptop I recieve from my college, is not fully supported by XFree86. I had two options, spend $150 on a commercial software from Xi Graphics [xig.com], or live with console only.
After reading the devasting information, I followed a link from this page [unive.it] to a thread on Ask Slashdot. The first post, from theMissingLink, had a link to this page [umich.edu], where I found multiple ways to get XFree86 up and running on my laptop.
Those who only complain without offering solutions may be trying to kill it, but no, slashdot is not dead. It won't be dead any time soon.
"Capital letters are a good thing." -- anonymous
Re:NAK (Score:2)
Re:I can think of 10e12 better ways to spend my ti (Score:1)
Of course, I'm here posting about you posting about that alleged "parody." I wonder how that ranks. It's a good thing I'm not that organized, or I'd probably be productive.
slashdot comment posters are imature (Score:1)
Re:I took the challenge, here's my parody (Score:2)
No- it was REALLY good!!! ;) (Score:1)
In any case, the only real problem was it didn't quite attack the real target ie no pages upon pages of lame flames from US-based Linux Bigots... ;) No offence, I like Slashdot, but I hardly ever read the comments pages any more, as the attitude displayed is just so shitty.
I've been active on the Atari, Amiga and PC "underground" scenes- I can program on all of these platforms- and I'm now well into Linux, and am employed in a web technology job. (And I'm still keeping in touch with the other scenes.) and I don't think I've ever seen a scene that is so full of bad attitudes as the comments on Slashdot...
No offence, but here is a simple fact- there have been other systems besides Wintel and *nix, and some of them have actually been quite decent! (In the case of the Amiga, very decent indeed!!!) So remove the stick from your ass, learn to smile, grow a sense of humour, etc., ...
Oops, I'm going off topic... Ahem, anyway!! As soon as someone does a parody of the comments, then I expect we'll see some grumbling from /. regulars...
===
Old Fart!!! Of tha SENIOR DADS!!!!!
Re:I took the challenge, here's my parody (Score:1)
http://i-want-a-website.com/about-linux/index.s
Still I think that flames aren't really required when a joke falls flat. Lack of laughter is usually painful enough.
Jim
Send this request to Rob (Score:1)
Re:Who... (Score:1)
Shouldn't that have been... (Score:2)
And can someone supply a link to the site of which Slashdot is a parody?
Re:I took the challenge, here's my parody (Score:1)
PS: Don't get me wrong; I think toilet humour has its place - for example, The Onion [theonion.com] strikes a pretty good balance between intelligent satire and lowbrow groin kicks. They also know what the HashPenisSnot [rude word inserted to riotous effect] author has yet to learn: jokes are much funnier when they don't contain spelling and grammar mistakes.
And no, "humour" is not a spelling mistake. Unlike "aluminum". :-)
[Apocrypha: I read a story somewhere that the first newspaper in the USA to write an article about this interesting new metal dropped the second "i" by mistake, and everybody just took it from there. Nice story, anyway... anyone know whether it's true?]
-Snorbert, somewhere else in the English speaking world
Re:calling it "pretty good" is far fetched (Score:1)
Missing from site parodies and hacks... (Score:1)
A good parody should not be stupid. A good parody should mimic the original voice, accentuating the humorous aspects of the subject.
Sophomoric humor makes for poor satire. Case in point: South Park, the movie.
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Re:Who... (Score:1)
more 'mature' humor (Score:1)
I agree in that it was a good (though good, of course, is a _very_ relative term) parody of slashdot, and I agree that the creator of it could have made it funnier by making his articles and links more closely related to (i.e., a closer parody of) actual articles and posts on slashdot. Then again, nothing's perfect.....
Re:absolute garbage (Score:1)
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Jeezus it's a joke people! (Score:1)
Over all I didn't think it was too great but the CmdrDorito thing cracked me up.
I think it's cool that the guy sat
I didn't think that tha "parody" site was all that great, but hell if you don't like it don't read it and quit yer bitchin.
LK
Re:Amish (Score:1)
And here's something that's a little bizarre - I was reading the New Yorker a few months back, and I saw an article on how the Amish boys usually go through a rebellious phase when they reach around 20 years old - they go and buy cars, run around and do what pretty much every other 20 year old would do. The Amish tolerate it pretty well; it seems to be part of how they grow up. After a few years of this, apparently, they settle down to a lifestyle more akin to their parents. The really interesting thing in this article was that two Amish boys about this age were caught trafficking drugs... Huge shock to anyone who's lived near 'em
Re:Amish (Score:1)
Re:who cares about this site (Score:1)
why?
he's not the president, he's a magazine publisher for god's sake!
calling it "pretty good" is far fetched (Score:3)
Nicodemus
This site confuses me (Score:1)
Can someone help me?
And if you can get that site to work, can you reflect it, err, mirror? I want to find out about JonDogz's nose.
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absolute garbage (Score:3)
the problem is for people who read slashdot. the posts about slashdot going down the crapper are usually from reactionary types, but you can see the slivers of truth in them. slashdot, while gaining readers, is sacraficing jounalistic integrity. it's disappointing, but frankly i don't see it stopping anytime soon.
slashdot is dead.
now if you'll excuse me, i'm off to suck rob's and hemos' dicks just to get a story posted.
Re:calling it "pretty good" is far fetched (Score:1)
I can think of 10e12 better ways to spend my time (Score:2)
Re:This site confuses me (Score:1)
The problem isnt with nutscrape.
Re:calling it "pretty good" is far fetched (Score:2)
Too bad the links didn't go anywhere on this one. I thought the humor value of this site was it looked like it was done in a short time and could be done by anyone. Makes me think of what kind of mischef could be had on commercial sites who have no sense of humor. If I didn't have this great big fear of caffeine strung legal departments waiting to send well dressed goons out in Cadillacs and write cease and desist letters...
"Pretty Good" might be going a little far (Score:1)
Snot and penis humor can only go so far.
Hashnot (Score:2)
Wall Street investors are watching ... (Score:1)
What a pile of (Score:3)
Well, this may be an alleged parody, but surely the site in question has to be remotely funny in the first place to be classed as such ? Please don't get me wrong - I cliked on the link ready for a quick chuckle... and about thirty seconds later I relised that it just wasn't going to happend. I eventually read the whole site and felt I had to put down the owner of the site. Please, never ever ever try to be remotely funny again - it just doesn't work...
Who... (Score:1)
Re:who cares about this site (Score:1)
Doesn't have much to do with computers, does it? (Score:1)
Parody? (Score:3)
Definately.
A typical post would be about an essentially meaningless kernel update. (you know the drill)*grin*
The buzzword list would be: RedHat, Debian, FCC, USPTO, DoJ, NSA, NSI, KDE/Gnome, AOL, Apple, RIAA, Beowulf, wearable computers, encryption, FUD, hackers/crackers, Intel, AMD, NSI, Id, 3dfx, furbys, Bill Gates, ESR, RMS, France
A story about furbys will somehow generate a discussion that is focused on guns, Bill Clinton, and Janet Reno.
Hemos writes: "MS in partnership with Intel have introduced a wearable computer that utilizes patented embedded nanotechnology. Individual computers/people form part of a modified beowulf cluster (aka, a collective), with each incredibly fast and stable NT computer communicating with each other using export restricted encrypted signals. Bill Gates, in announcing this new product, said, "Resistance is futile." In reponse to this, Apple immediately sued a totally unknown company for no apparent reason.
Re:Ok, I accept the challenge (Score:1)
Well done!
Re:That's a really sad job at parody... (Score:2)
Ownership of comments (Score:1)
Have you noticed how "the rest" used to be copyrighted to "Rob Malda" but now the bottom of every page says "The Rest © 1997-99 Andover.Net."
I thought Rob Malda and the other guys got to keep control - if there was ever a legal (or any other issue really), ownership is attributed to andover and so Malda has no come back - just thought you might be interested.
I took the challenge, here's my parody (Score:5)
The result is Apostrophecolon [ubersoft.net]. Hope you enjoy it.
After you view that, take a look at my comic strip on the rest of the Ubersoft.net [ubersoft.net] website.
lighten the F*ck up, people!!! (Score:1)
Cmdr Dorito, now why didn't I think of that? I wonder, are CmdrBurrito or CmdrChimichanga taken? Or am I stuck with CmdrFlan?
Re:O COME ON!!! (Score:1)
It would make my day if I could say something to Amish folks and get them to crack up.
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Re:Speaking of the Amish (Score:1)
Re:Who... (Score:1)
Mrp' Site (Score:1)
Here: rejected article (Score:1)
Here's the article as it appeared:
Move over Microsoft and Bill Gates, and make room for Linux. Linux is a computer operating system that's now gaining widespread recognition. And the people behind the company, who were once brushed off as 'geeks', are now standing confidently. They claim Linux systems beat any of the Windows products offered by Microsoft. Typical of the 'overnight success story', Linux seemingly came from nowhere. But in fact, it came from everywhere. Computer programmer volounteers throughout the world over have developed Linux on the Internet. And best of all to its designers, it's open-source software. That means it's free. Linux is one of the hits this week at a giant computer trade show in Toronto, called Comdex. Michael Colton reports.
Re:Hashnot (Score:1)
O COME ON!!! (Score:2)
Re:This site confuses me (Score:1)
Re:Hashnot (Score:1)
Not Funny (Score:5)
If you are making a parody, there should be some satire type humor there, like the onion or the simpsons, that truely pokes fun at the thing it is a parody of. This didn't really poke fun at slashdot at all - now if there was something about the hopeless obsession of us nerds reloading 5-10 times a day (guilty as charged) that would be different.
Just my $0.000002
The humor, it seems, (Score:1)
Re:Who... (Score:2)
Well the roblimo link, seems to point back to TechSightings [techsightings.com] which seems to be a part of the Andover network. So I guess that the guy is some Andover guy.
Maybe Roblimo is Robin Miller on this page [techsightings.com] ?
Anyways I think the parody had some fun parts in it. especially the part about "activating" inside your box. lol
An interesting aspect i noticed was that andover.net has released the perl source for Tech Sitings :-)
Re:No- it was REALLY good!!! ;) (Score:2)
reading the comments.
ARE a bunch of boring anal retentive geeks with no
humor or life, and certainly give the community,
a bad name.
Perhaps Slashdot is a somewhat accurate reflection of
humanity itself? Lots of morons, a moderate amount of
really nice people? *shrug*
Re:calling it "pretty good" is far fetched (Score:1)
and i agree that its probably a 12yo... cos one does get sick of the snot and penis jokes, a parody of slashdot would be good if it was less crude and more 'mature' humour...
Re:A modest proposal... (Score:1)
are and do it.
It's been done; it's segfault.org
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Ok, I accept the challenge (Score:5)
About Hashsnot.... this is MrP- (Score:1)
- MrP
Re:Conspiracy Theory? (Score:1)
Re:Ok, I accept the challenge (Score:2)
Nice work! (Score:1)
A modest proposal... (Score:2)
As one who would stand no chance in such a contest, I volunteer to help judge the entries.
Damn sad (Score:1)
That's a really sad job at parody... (Score:2)
If you're going to do a Slashdot parody, do it right, get the less buggy code and the FAQ [lilithfair.org] and actually go through the trouble of making the code work. And I find "buggy code" to be a little harsh on Rob... undocumented and not well written, yes, but it works for the most part. Parodies don't work unless you put some time into them, and this one looks like something that was thought up while on drugs.
And to all you who called LilithFair.org [lilithfair.org] a bad Slashdot ripoff, I'd like to see you get the pre-0.3 release from Slashdot (no, not the -jt releases I made) and make it work without any support. At least my site functions, instead of being a poorly written one-page parody.
I have a few bones to pick with people... don't mind me if you're not one of them.
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James Turinsky
Owner/Admin, LilithFair.org
Re:calling it "pretty good" is far fetched (Score:1)
And who can't find a good jab at Jon Katz humorous.
A couple more things to add (Score:3)
I also was not saying that a good parody would have to have that joke. Again, an example. Other ideas for a good
*Making fun of the quirks in the personalities. For instance,
CmdrTaco will talk about the latest new geek toy, and then say "I've GOT to have one of those"
Hemos will quote somebody's submission, and almost always add his two cents.
Katz will post a very long article, where everyone else keeps it short (I know, he's a writer, and this is his forum for articles) and it's usually about his ongoing fascination: geeks. Sometimes he will imply he's not a geek, sometimes he'll imply he is (sometimes both in the same article), and people always get mad saying he is inaccurately stereotyping.
*Certain kinds of posts will always appear, such as:
First post! (though the moderation system has really helped that). It's always amusing that more often than not, the "Frist posts" aren't even first. Sometimes nowhere close.
"But will it run linux?" These used to be serious, but now they are in a more joking nature to make fun of those who say it seriously.
Trolls - Rob Sux, Hemos Sux, Grapefruits are a tool of the Borg in Redmond. I like how Rob recognized this universal constant and so included such responses in the poll choices.
Long essays written to get moderated up - I bet that after the moderation system was added, the mean post length (MPL) went waaaaaaaaaaayyy up. (I know what you're thinking. And I don't care)
"Top Ten" (Or Top X) posts. This is a fairly new animal, which has been sighted a lot more after "funny" was added to the moderation options (which was a Good Thing btw).
In short, any of these would be much more clever than things like changing "News for Nerds, Stuff that matters" to "News for Turds, Stuff that doesn't matter". *Cringe*
Oh, one more unrelated side note. Anyone seen "Eyes Wide Shut" yet? Awesome movie. If you've seen the recent quickies, and recall the CAP movie review site, imagine what that reviewer would think of it! BWAHAHAHAHAHA
Come on people! (Score:1)