i totally saw the corresponding short on the news last night.

then today at work, david deadflowers came up behind me and was like UT OH DAVID OVER SHOULDER! D-O-S! and i was like DUDE I TOTALLY SAW THAT LAST NIGHT

you should have seen the graphic they used when lori matsukawa said, "leet speak."

According to my tv-enabled sources...I was ON the news last week.

Yammering about dog poop and how no one cleans it up here.

It was a hard-hitting exposé...talk about raking the muck.

Fuck the Times. Actually, fuck both of them (Times and Post-Intelligencer). Whatever Seattle residents want, I doubt it's a regionalized Reader's Digest-Newsweek hybrid.

I can't wait for the inevitable "Snakes On A Plane? You Heard Right" article.

Waitasecond, this was King 5. Fuck those guys too. Goddammit news sucks in Seattle. I don't know why I forgot who wrote the article within seconds of finishing it. We have a "no-local-news" clause around the Macfarlane household.

Whatever Seattle residents want, I doubt it's a regionalized Reader's Digest-Newsweek hybrid

I think that is pretty much what Seattle residents want.

Bothell, maybe.

Oh, man.

ah, that's awesome. I remember similar stuff about D&D... in 1990.

Wow. You're young. I remember that from the early 80s...

no, I'm 35. my point was that they were just as far off writing about D&D in the 90s as the seattle paper is to write about leet speek in 2006.

Some people just can't take a compliment... ;-)

I am in a totally literal mode today. sorry about that.

I know that feeling. don't sweat it.

You young thing, you. :-)

Also, be sure to memorize all of these sex terms your children might be using on the Internets!

What manner of tail rider is inspecting YOUR little steak sauce girl's watermelon?

ABSOLUTELY RE-GODDAMNED-COCK-UlOUS

Honestly people, W.T.F.?

Should I consider this to be a death threat?

Susan Shankle, LISW-CP

No. You should consider it to be sarcastic overstatement for comic effect in the context of a satirical attack on your ideas. Ordinarily I would also say "and that should have been obvious," but it's already been shown that nuance and analysis and critical thought are not your forte.

In retrospect, the article itself without adornment would have been much funnier.

IM IN UR JOURNAL
MISREADING UR SARCASMZ

An LCSW is a clinical practitioner with an MSW, right?

I knew I was right not to stop with the Masters' degree. You can't trust those things - they obviously signal no winnowing of the proverbial wheat and chaff. I'll only be able to look at myself when I complete the doctorate.

Speaking, as we were, of L33T speak (that is, the archaic, Usenet-inspired, mondo-2000 variety, the name of which must properly be spelt with 3s, not Es, and which certainly does NOT refer to the abbreviation-ridden patois that millennial-generation kids use while texting each other ), a whole class of my students (not a large class, of course) did their end-of-semester evaluations of me entirely in L33T. As a joke - I know from grading their papers that they were able to use standard English. It's common to crib the evaluations for positive remarks to be included in the Teaching Letter, which is included in one's hiring dossier. I'm wondering if it would be ethically proper to have the L33T translated into standard English, or if that constitutes a misrepresentation both of my own students' communication styles and of my ability as a teacher.

But I think this whole "OMG WTF BBQ L33T!" contretemps indicates that we cannot assume anyone understands this sort of thing for what it is.

Back to our regularly scheduled insanity. Gosh, El Jay User Substitute, you've had a problem lately with the protagonists of your various critical posts swooping down into the comments and embarrassing themselves. Entertaining as it is, I have to wonder if it doesn't somehow invalidate the premise that it is a wonderful thing that the Internet can connect us all to one another.

The recently discovered law that all New Yorker cartoons can be captioned "Christ, what an asshole" can now be applied to the New Yorker cartoon with the caption "on the Internet, no one knows you're a dog."

LOL@U

Dr. Shankle,

Thank you for bringing this distressing three month-old post back to light. If I may "rap" leet-speak at you for confidentiality's sake, I think that FDFOV, lol, and when R33k also EDWA SPLOP yukyukyuk, O RLY? And ultimately STFU. But you understand.


Jack Mehoff, HNIC

I will track down and kill anyone who calls this post a death threat. I do not joke.