Comments on: Boing is boring?

Boing is boring?

dabitch — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 03:12:51 -0800

BoringBoring a directory of dull things. [not via BoingBoing]

By: Pigpen

Pigpen — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 03:22:51 -0800

LOL

By: tpl1212

tpl1212 — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 03:28:08 -0800

"Click Here FARM" This is excellent.

By: taz

taz — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 03:29:41 -0800

This is so well done... I love how the sidebar info and ads are carried through as part of the whole parody (this "HOWTO: Get a link posted to Boring Boring" page, for example). *Dear person who made this site: Please do MeFi next time? Please? Pretty please?*

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 03:30:04 -0800

Studious Girls!

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 03:35:38 -0800

"Jesus helps me bore people." I laughed.

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 03:36:15 -0800

Grrrr

By: ph00dz

ph00dz — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 03:47:26 -0800

Haha... that's rad. The amount of work that must've taken is... disturbing. Even the links are awesome.

By: dabitch

dabitch — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 03:52:04 -0800

oops, sorry seanyboy I honestly didn't see that you posted in it the thread there. Here go make an FPP out of this: googlegulp. :)

By: dabitch

dabitch — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 04:06:20 -0800

(do'h! even that is linked in the FPP to which you point. dang, more coffee for me.) By the way, the boringboring.org url is a dud now.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 04:35:54 -0800

I was determined to think this was lame, but it's so well executed. It made me laugh repeatedly.

By: mokey

mokey — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 04:38:23 -0800

seanyboy, chill out dude. you're being obnoxious.

By: monaco

monaco — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 04:39:58 -0800

*giggle*

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 05:03:00 -0800

mokey: Everything I say is with a completely straight face. When I said Grrrr to dabitch in BIG LETTERS, I was being completely serious. I consider the fact that he posted one of my comments as a FPP one of the most serious Internet transgressions I have ever seen. I'm appalled. I'd phone 911, but for some reason, they're busy dealing with Burger King Managers.

By: taz

taz — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 05:16:15 -0800

"Grrrr" is just shorthand for "Grrrreat Post!", right? btw, seanyboy, dabitch is a girly type

By: rusty

rusty — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 05:16:34 -0800

seanyboy: As an unbelievably earnest denizen of metafilter, I totally believe you. I have never heard of sarcasm. I don't even have any idea what I just said.

By: NickDouglas

NickDouglas — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 05:17:12 -0800

Even when Boing Boing takes the joke well, I feel like they're really grinding their teeth. Maybe Xeni and Cory just use too many exclamation marks. seanyboy: I assume you meant that seriously as well and I will blog this and report you to your professor.

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 05:30:28 -0800

dabitch: sorry! No, please God no! Not the professor! /spends futile minutes searching for non-Simpsons related "professor of sarcasm". Fails.

By: nthdegx

nthdegx — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 05:36:46 -0800

Even when Boing Boing takes the joke well, I feel like they're really grinding their teeth. I see no evidence of that.

By: jacquilynne

jacquilynne — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 05:48:32 -0800

I love the link for 'Cory's DRM talk translated back into English.'

By: cell

cell — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 05:50:45 -0800

Ahahaha.. The wallmod. Gorgeous.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 05:52:56 -0800

it's funny because it's true!

By: merlinmann

merlinmann — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 06:17:18 -0800

The Hipster PDA has been well and truly parodied, and I couldn't be happier or more honored by the accuracy and earnestness. Very funny stuff, although I think the fake ads are even better.

By: 327.ca

327.ca — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 06:30:00 -0800

The Hipster PDA has been well and truly parodied, and I couldn't be happier or more honored by the accuracy and earnestness. It's the earnestness that makes this one a killer, Merlin. ;-)

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 06:51:48 -0800

Very good post, very good parody. I loved the DRM talk into English best. It's funny how easy it is to come up with a typical front page for BB, which may be why I don't really read it much anymore. I was disappointed there wasn't some (moderately) sexy thing like many of Xeni's posts.

By: runkelfinker

runkelfinker — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 07:04:56 -0800

Sitting at work with boingboing on my left screen and boringboring on my right screen - it's uncanny...

By: NickDouglas

NickDouglas — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 07:20:11 -0800

Damn, I hope they keep this up. They could easily keep this clever for another two weeks at least.

By: pmurray63

pmurray63 — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 07:23:24 -0800

Our first five years' worth of posts in one file — without line breaks. Yep, the attention to detail is great.

By: everichon

everichon — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 07:44:44 -0800

"TiReD: Lessig On Why Your Whole Life Sucks" Ha! This is awesome.

By: tomharpel

tomharpel — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 07:47:00 -0800

The parody missed using rather as an adverb, e.g., I rather think that one who writes sentences quite like this one sounds a bit like a blowhard.

By: fungible

fungible — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 08:11:01 -0800

"Bang the DRM slowly" haha.

By: cillit bang

cillit bang — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 08:24:46 -0800

I love how the Boing Boing people don't seem to get that this is actually rather vicious and wouldn't be worth doing if the original didn't suck. (although the real BB is beyond parody, especially if you have an RSS reader that shows deleted posts - they often post incredulous ravings about things that obviously aren't true and then delete them when someone smarter points out how easily their goat is got)

By: Robot Johnny

Robot Johnny — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 10:01:02 -0800

Surprisingly Awesome.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 10:15:13 -0800

there's another parody ... gakker. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, what does it mean if both of these imitations extoll the tediousness of the source? Wake up call for Cory & the gang, I think.

By: steef

steef — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 12:42:11 -0800

BoingBoing gets DMCA takedown notice?

By: wendell

wendell — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 14:53:02 -0800

Big scoop on an animation blog: "Passion High".

By: Iax

Iax — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 18:36:10 -0800

i liked the newest entry "...use of search and replace (which we just learned about last week over at Sony's Lifehacker) " I think they probably thought of doing lifehacker, but it would have just been too easy.

By: Bugbread

Bugbread — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 21:13:11 -0800

Can you parody lifehacker?

By: dabitch

dabitch — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 01:43:51 -0800

Personally I love the ads, "Eh - plain white shirts" is genius. / hugs mokey, dances with taz and whacks seanyboy on the behind with a wet towel.