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| "Wassup" Superfriends,
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Jerry Carpenter,
20 January 1999 |
Rating: F5
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I received that spoof Budweiser Ad mpg with Superman, Batman and friends spazzing out in the mail last week and it really banged my can. It’s damned funny and I find myself triggering it off for kicks in the office in the moments when the momentous boredom threatens to start squeezing on my cortex.
It hits me now that it’s probably the first thing I’ve had handed on in absolutely bloody ages, sure the Mahir thing was cute, but the reality that his personal site was crackered and the dumb pigeon-english was the work of some cheeky bugger left the laughs rotting. Add to that the hamsterdance, and that blank-faced dancing baby and it becomes clear that the cross-the–board popular e-mail attachments only come calling once a quarter.
So what rips me up is the amount of humour spam that floods into my inbox in the dry periods inbetween the spread around of something genuinely funny. It break down into a few simple categories...
-‘Funny’ jokes – More often than not your basic puffin joke-book style shaggy dog story, given extra zing with the addition of a good old-fashioned racist or sexist angle. What’s worse than receiving one of these is having to overhear the dumbos on the other desks gobbing their guts out over them, before sending them on to you , so now you have two copies – great.
-‘Funny’ pictures – Always a lovely surprise, because whereas you can scan the text gags and wipe ‘em quietly, a nice hefty file size picture loads up into your image finder to the delight of all around you in an instant. A crappy photo montage of the queen mum’s head stuck on a porn pic, a severed penis on a slice of bread, or a Bill Gates getting it up the arse from Darth Maul – all of these would earn you the respect of your peers (if you were in a remedial home).
-‘Funny’ sounds – If it’s not a fart sound-effect then it’s going to be a comedian doing a ‘funny’ joke (see above) or a Hal 9000 style voice synthesiser croaking ‘You are a C**t’. These babies can get you your P45 on repetition.
-‘Funny’ viruses – Ha! It’s still a wheeze to send someone something that pretends to screw up your hard-drive, or send itself on to everyone on your contacts list. Grimmest of all are the SOBs in ad companies who are harnessing this sort of thing for it’s marketing potential.
These are the prime categories of offence, although I’ve neglected to mention the smaller piss-ants such as the MP3, greeting cards and travel sites who seem to have grabbed my stats out of thin air and give me daily updates on crap I don’t want. And kind of like pubes, the more I make attempts to cut back on them, the faster they keep appearing. I’m just waiting for the period in net development when I can collate all the offending addresses and block send them all a specialised internet PUNCH IN THE FACE !! © 2000 foochacorp.
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