Nay_Sayer
I say nay!
Who John Edward?
Still on the gorilla kick
It's sad at this stage, really really sad.
There are some unanswered questions in that thread, Don't suppose you'd care to answer them.
StopSylvia email: "What you resists persists"
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Still on the gorilla kick
It's sad at this stage, really really sad.
There are some unanswered questions in that thread, Don't suppose you'd care to answer them.
RSLancastr
www.StopSylvia.com
It was a joke.
When I announced my intentions at TAM 5.5 to expand the Stop ______ "franchise", I brought up the mock-up graphics on the projection screen behind me, to the following audience reaction:
Screen image: Stop John Edward
Audience: (cheers and applause)
Screen image: Stop James VanPraagh
Audience: (cheers and applause)
Screen image: Stop Peter Popoff
Audience: (cheers and applause)
Screen image: Stop Benny Hinn
Audience: (cheers and applause)
Screen image: Stop Kevin Trudeau
Audience: (wild cheers and applause)
Screen image: Stop Phil Plait
Audience: (pause, then laughter, mixed with scattered cheers and applause).
Me: (to Phil, seated in the front row) Sorry, that was a typo!
I consider Phil a friend. He was sitting in the front row, having introduced me(IIRC).
That was the end of my presentation (which had been all about Stop Sylvia Browne). Phil got up to announce the next speaker, and began with...
Phil: Well, there goes my Stop Hal Bidlack joke! (they had a long-standing faux "battle of insults" at TAMs).
I had already registered all of the other domain names, but someone in the audience that day registered StopPhilPlait.com while I was still onstage! I don't think anything ever came of it, though.
John Jones
Penultimate Amazing
I guess you had to be there.
RSLancastr
www.StopSylvia.com
Or you could purchase the TAM 5.5 DVD set, and see it on there (although I don't think the projection screen is shown).
People were just excited about my plans (which all fell through, mostly because of my stroke), and were cheering when they saw a "Stop ________" graphic for someone they too felt needed stopping.
The "Stop Phil Plait" graphic was just my way of wrapping up the segment on a humorous note, and it worked, in the spirit of Phil and Hal's epic insult-hurling TAM faux feud.
Rincewind
Philosopher
For me this bring into focus the fact that most of the denier and fundamentalist fraternity seem to have a sense of humour failure.
Still, if you will go over to the dark side....
Still, if you will go over to the dark side....
RSLancastr
www.StopSylvia.com
For me this bring into focus the fact that most of the denier and fundamentalist fraternity seem to have a sense of humour failure.
Still, if you will go over to the dark side....
Not sure I follow. Are you saying that John Jones is one of "the denier and fundamentalist fraternity"?
Rincewind
Philosopher
Not at all.
There's no direct connection.
It followed from your funny comment - and I recalled how often denier, etc posters can't seem to appreciate humour.
And I'm not referring to you in this way either...
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A word of joke advice I once received from Resume... If people do not get your joke, it is best not to draw even more attention to it by going back and trying to explain it.Not at all.
There's no direct connection.
It followed from your funny comment - and I recalled how often denier, etc posters can't seem to appreciate humour.
And I'm not referring to you in this way either...
Thankfully, for me, I have never experienced any of my jokes fail.
Brown
Penultimate Amazing
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I smell a Nobel Prize here. Giving "energy" to a remote object merely by talking about it. How many joules? (Or, how many Btus, ergs, foot-pounds, horsepower, calories, kilowatt-hours, electron volts? I'm flexible with units.) If the number of joules is non-negligible, then the result is significant. If the number of joules imparted exceeds the number of joules expended in doing the talking, then THE ENERGY CRISIS IS SOLVED!!!
Unfortunately, I suspect the speaker uses the word "energy" as a synonym for "advertising" or "publicity" or "notoriety." If so, NO NOBEL PRIZE FOR YOU!!!
John Jones
Penultimate Amazing
A word of joke advice I once received from Resume... If people do not get your joke, it is best not to draw even more attention to it by going back and trying to explain it.
Thankfully, for me, I have never experienced any of my jokes fail.
We know. The above is no doubt another example. Kind of like a joke, but not funny.
RSLancastr
www.StopSylvia.com
A word of joke advice I once received from Resume... If people do not get your joke, it is best not to draw even more attention to it by going back and trying to explain it.
Thankfully, for me, I have never experienced any of my jokes fail.
I am very familiar with the "if you have to explain a joke, it wasn't funny to begin with" theory.
And, when I "told" the joke at TAM 5.5, it was properly set up for the audience, and needed no explanation to get the laugh.
My mentioning it offhand here, particularly in a text-only medium (pun intended), required all of the explanation, which was NOT particularly funny - sorry.
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What if you have to explain a non-joke? Does it become funny?
RSLancastr
www.StopSylvia.com
It can if you do it right!