Irreverent Humor: Making fun of Puppygate (seriously how can you not?) and work humor

[shadowkat]

[Italics are from a recent post on GRR Martin's journal. Although I saw the Sad Puppies make these comments on various media sites today. They are attempting to distance themselves from the Rapid Puppies. All claiming they aren't racist, misogynistic, or hateful, and how dare anyone say so! Seriously? You are calling yourselves Sad Puppies and whining about minority and female writers who write about gender issues and racism getting all the awards, and how evil affirmative action is - because you feel it discriminates against white heterosexual men? Oh, and bullying people in social media, calling people names, and making threats. And you can't figure out why folks think you are misogynistic and racist? And are angry at you? Alrighty then. Although I'd go more with clueless, bigoted, entitled, and sexist...but that's just me. Sigh, you are giving traditionalists, libertarians and conservatives a bad name.]

Brad Torgensen has added a post to his blog: "Sad Puppies: We Are Not Rabid Puppies."

LMAO. Okay let's think about this statement. No, but you are both certifiably insane and giving the sci-fi fandom a bad rep. As if it needed the help. I mean people there's a reason science fiction rarely gets an award outside of the science fiction fandom. And why most academics and literary sorts tend to look down their noses at the genre as "pulp". It's basically folks like Brad Torgensen.

They should just call themselves - Sci-Fi Back to Dime Store Pulp! (And hopefully only charge 10 cents for it. Heck, I'd read a book about Captain Blowhard and his Green Boobed Babes for 10 cents. I read 50 Shades of Grey. Same difference. I like pulp.)

Larry Correia has also spoken up on MONSTER HUNTER NATION: "I Am Not Vox Day."

No, apparently they think they are FDR and Churchill who accidentally fell in with Stalin. (I beg differ, sounds more like Beavis and Butthead who fell in with Pinky and the Brain.) You can tell these guys are narcissists.

I commend them both for making the distinction so loudly and clearly. And I accept what they say. The Sad Puppies are not Rabid Puppies.

LOL. Can we just call them Sick Puppies? Or I know the Puppies Who Like Pulp. Notice how they aren't cats? There's a reason for that.

Larry Correia is not Vox Day.

No, he's apparently a Sad Puppy? I thought he was a man? Silly me.

I regret anything I might have done or said that blurred the line, or created a false impression that all Puppies were the same. (Admittedly, having 'Puppies' in the name of both slates does foster confusion). I am glad you set that straight.

Yes, in the future you might want to go by Beavis and Butthead, although that would be copyright infringement. So...hmmm how about... The Sad Knobs. (Actually that one's good - a knob is apparently British slang for well a penis.)

Sounds like we need to save the Sad Puppies from the Rabid Puppies? Maybe we should man a kitty-cat brigade and rescue them from the clutches of the rapid puppies?

This reminds me of work humor.

An email went out yesterday at work:

"Please advise of the whereabouts of my cactus. It went missing from my desk when I was on vacation."

Coworker1: Someone took her cactus?
ME: Why would anyone take a cactus? (Oh just wait, this going viral soon.)
Coworker 2: SMH!!
Coworker 3: Cockroaches ate it. (He provides a picture of cockroaches, named and labeled.)
Coworker 4: We have your cactus, and unless you provide us with a dollar a day, we will take one thorn off at a time. (ME: Well that didn't take long.)
Coworker 5: Wanted dead or alive, a cactus! [Makes a poster with the Cactus] Reward for information on the whereabouts of said cactus!
Person missing cactus: (Sends a photo of the cactus.)
Coworker 5: Oh we can do regression aging and see what it looks like when it was last seen.
Coworker 6: I can give information in return for cookies!
Person with missing Cactus: I Have Cookies, Just let me know if it is alive! [She makes a poster with pictures of the cookies.]
Coworker 7: Maybe someone is sitting on it?
Coworker 4: Maybe it's in the garbage.

It's sad though, this was a special cactus, that she brought with her from another land and raised slowly. I felt for her. They did too. They apologized. But it's also hilariously absurd. And she joined in on the joke.

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Well of course, just because they want the same thing, campaign on the same premises, use the same arguments and consider the same goal a success, doesn't mean they're remotely similar...