column: EUOLogy #5

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

How to write a column.

Are you basking now?

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I have to say, I was laughing out loud the whole way through reading this one. Even when the apostrophes rebelled.

By the way, something is still rebelling. What's that just under the header? "nbsp;"

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Oh, and I think it's hilarious that "He's Just Not That Into You" is number one. Have you guys heard about this book? A little common sense for all of us women who hope that mixed signals = interest.

[House of Mustard]

Dr Phil is up to number 2 now.  Kinda ruins everything, doesn't it?

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

yeah. Yeah it does.

[fuzzyoctopus]

And do it coolly. Remember to pour lots of salt on it. Salt--a preservative used by the Egyptians to make their mummified bodies taste better--will make you invulnerable to attacks by giant slugs. As you can understand, this is a vital attribute for all columnists to have.

chortles

[EUOL]

By the way, I did write 'N00bs' wrong on purpose.  I'm not sure why--I was feeling silly at the time or something.  

Oddly, this column came out after I tried (and failed) to write a lengthy discourse on how my university education taught me how to do 'nothing' too well.  It was post-modern and stuff, and it bored even me, so I started screwing around--and boom, this popped out.  Fully-formed, from my head, wearing armor.  Convenient, that.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

wow. You're like, the exact opposite of Zeus then. The anti-Zeus, if you will.

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How is that opposite?

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Because Athena represents WISDOM.

[J_Locke]

So that means this article mean MODSIW???

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Either that or EUOL has to change his name to SUEZ and become a canal.

[Fellfrosch]

I like how he had to use a cute fake name instead of his real name, so he went with Copernicus...instead of EUOL.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

You know what. I'm absolutely confused by this column and everything everyone is talking about here. Why are you referring to EUOL as an anti-Zeus? That bit is the least understandable to me. And the article made me wonder, "has EUOL gotten to the point where he can write about anything he wants, even if it is just THAT pointless?" (Even though I did find it to be humorous too. Don't get me wrong. EUOL's fine and dandy, but man, am I confused. ;

[Archon]

Gemm, EUOL was called the Anti Zeus because he said that this article popped out of his head fully formed and armored from his head. Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, was born out of Zeus' head the same way. Calling him the Anti-Zeus is the same thing as calling the article the opposite of wisdom. As for the rest, I think that everyone still has enough of a sense of humor to take a joke, they just dont want newbies spamming all over, trying to be funny. Since it was from EUOL and it was funny it was fine.