Junkyard Psycho and Sgt. Hammerclaw both hit home with "It's funny because it is true" type remarks.
Britt_Pollack Oh man, this got me laughing. I'm so, so glad that Sponsored by V8 promoted this.
ReverseApeChemist Continuing my unofficial inadvertent theme of highlighting unstarred folks today, RAC's contribution here was just ridiculous enough to make me smile out loud.
BronzeHammer As someone who excitedly read Dean Koontz books in middle school, I winced and then laughed at this random zap.
BronzeHammer This is just a funny straightforward comment on what anyone who has ever played fantasy anything has experienced.
Gamboa Constrictor made me laugh with this re-imagining of Brian Cashman as this rogue horndog writing random reference letters, sort of like the gimmick a while back of Bob Costas blurbing everything, no matter how bad.
Sponsored by V8 This comment made me laugh out loud. Not the first time I read it - I was like "blah blah, A-Rod likes 'em burly, whatever" but I read it again, and found myself imagining actually finding a Hustler in an airplane seat pocket, and having it scribbled up with weird shit, like 6-pack abs and "bulging lats" (an inherently funny turn of phrase), and feeling confusion, annoyance and amusement; I don't know if that was exactly what SBV8 was going for, but it had that effect on me, and I loved it.
More SBV8 That's freaking great.
Scientific Mapp Any joke that can make me go "Oh Man!" out loud gets my attention. +1
MantisTobogganM.D. This took me a second to get. Subtle. Love it.
The Bad:
You know, maybe I just got hit in the head too many times, but there weren't many comments that made silently yell "OH, COME ON!" Sure, some were less great than others, but, in keeping with the Ice Cube-iness of the week, today was a good day.
Take it easy.
Apropos of nothing, I like this thing you have here.
ReplyDeleteFondly,
Mantis Toboggan, M.D.
As a big fan of Mantis, I'm pained to say this, but that's no less than the third time someone has made the One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish joke in the comments for one of these Varsity Letters posts. Steve U did the first, and Delonte Interrupted did the second.
ReplyDeleteNot saying Mr. Toboggan cribbed it on purpose, but that leapt right out at me when I saw his joke today.
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@Concerned Citizen:
ReplyDeleteWell, I'll be damned. I don't recall seeing those earlier jokes; that's an excellent memory you have. Thank you for pointing them out.
Huh. Appears I'm not the only one with a mastery of the French language. Sorry about that Steve and Delonte. Totally unintentional, and you guys both did it better than I did anyway.
ReplyDeleteConcerned Citizen, hope you'll forgive this instance of hackery and continue buying Mantis Toboggan.