Please Mess With Texas ⇒
15 March 2005, early evening
I used to own a "Don't Mess With Texas" t-shirt. That shirt was awesome. This link was found via A Whole Lotta Nothing.
This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.
How conceited do you have to be to share your own jokes, especially when they are not even funny?
by Sunny on March 16 2005, 1:26 am #
I think he’s free to post whatever he feels like. Blogs are naturally a conceited medium. I mean, in all honesty, who really gives a fuck about half the stuff I post here? My friends—maybe—and that’s probably it. People read blogs not because they are insightful, but because they allow one to satisfy voyeuristic urges without having to crawl into someone’s bushes.
by ramanan on March 16 2005, 10:57 am #
Aren’t jokes meant to be shared?
by mk on March 16 2005, 1:47 pm #
Its only a joke if its funny. And its only funny when others laugh at it.
So really if you are the only one who finds its absolutely hilarious, it doesn’t really qualify as one.
Ram – your point is well made. So does it mean that nothing can ever be criticized because its a blog?
by Sunny on March 16 2005, 7:42 pm #
My point is that it’s a vacuous criticism.
Also some people may read the post and laugh, in which case it was a successful joke. It’s probably more conceited to assume it’s not funny to anyone else because you don’t find it funny.
by ramanan on March 16 2005, 11:04 pm #
Its very conceited of you Ram to think my criticism is vacuous.
Yes, yes I get the point. That “joke” can possibly be entertaining to folks. I am really sorry that I am not part of that “in” crowd.
by Sunny on March 16 2005, 11:49 pm #
One day Chuang-tzu and a friend were walking along a riverbank. “How delightfully the fishes are enjoying themselves in the water!” Chuang-tzu exclaimed.
“You are not a fish,” his friend said. “How do you know whether or not the fishes are enjoying themselves?”
“You are not me,” Chuang-tzu said. “How do you know that I do not know that the fishes are enjoying themselves?”
by mk on March 17 2005, 12:14 am #