Poe’s Law
You know all the times we’ve been punked by a parody website because we believe that Louie Gohmert, Michelle Bachman, or Ted Cruz are capable of doing something unbelievably crazy and we believe that because they are?
There’s Poe’s Law. Thanks to Deb for finding it. Yes, it’s the law..
Without a blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of extremism or fundamentalism that someone won’t mistake for the real thing.
Yes! It’s not just me.
Poe’s Law says that a smiley face should be a requirement for parody.
Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won’t mistake for the genuine article.
So, next time I believe something not true just because it could be true, everybody holler “Poe’s Law” and we’ll move on from there.
If you want to find out what other internet rules there are, this is kinda interesting.
I agree with #10. If you have to use more than one exclamation point, you’re drinking too much coffee.
So, if you do one of these 🙂 The world ends……or what????
1This is the latest one that suckered me in. I totally believed it, and it’s not the first one (probably won’t be the last).
http://nationalreport.net/george-zimmerman-arrested-visiting-ferguson/comment-page-1/#comment-478690
2Darn! And I thought wearing my underwear outside was trendy! I’VE BEEN LIVING IN A FOOL’S PARADISE!!!!
3Which begs the question, what if Bachman, Gohmert, Palin, etal make me drink too much coffee?
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57) Pommer’s LawL
“A person’s mind can be changed by reading information on the internet. The nature of this change will be from having no opinion to having a wrong opinion.”
My addendum: And they will insist they must be right because they learned it from the Internet. And Wikipedia is ALWAYS right.
6You mean wikipedia isn’t always right? What about when it’s left? harharhar.
7“And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.”
― Terry Pratchett
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