Comments on: Uh-Oh

By: N Pepperell

N Pepperell — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:38:24 +0000

Well... I'm not completely sure. But, since it all started with Scott's meme experiment, I'm beginning to suspect that the treatment requires a piercing critique of Scott's methodology (applied liberally, and repeated as necessary). After all, why else would so very many people have lined up to do exactly this? My problem is, last time I tried this, it didn't work! I don't know what I did wrong - should I have been harsher? Should I have criticised different things? I'm at a loss... Perhaps we should design an experiment? No... No... I said I wasn't going to fall for this again...

By: WildlyParenthetical

WildlyParenthetical — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:04:46 +0000

[giggles all over again at the memory of SEK's wedding band story]

You’re afraid of commitment! That’s it! Every since SEK burned you like that… with his hiding of his wedding band on the wrong finger and the lure of his meme and controls! But, N, you can’t just go through life fleeing from commitment… Wait, wait! What am I saying? You’re the one who didn’t tell me about that VTD… Okay, just tell me quickly… what’s the treatment?

[waves hello to N's supervisor] She’s really very deep, you know…

By: N Pepperell

N Pepperell — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:17:24 +0000

But I was young! And fooled by the prestidigitation with which he hides that wedding band! (Sorry Scott – just ignore us…)

But I’m done with controls! No more! (Or, I thought I was – and then you go and bind me with your links and memes…)

(Right about now, I imagine my supervisor choosing to take a look at the blog for the first time – yep, folks, this is the height of my intellectual efforts – you can see it all right here… That dissertation? It’s all exactly like this.)

By: WildlyParenthetical

WildlyParenthetical — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:00:29 +0000

Don’t try to hide it! It’s that Kaufman thing, isn’t it? Isn’t it? You *say* it was impersonal, but we all know how you love proper scientific controls! No! Don’t lie to me! I can see it in your sanserif!

(Heh. Text is so handy. I can’t maintain such melodrama without giggles in real life! And then it’s all over)

By: N Pepperell

N Pepperell — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:09:12 +0000

(Do I look like I have better things to do? ;-P)

By: N Pepperell

N Pepperell — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:03:22 +0000

But! But! But! I got it from googling public swimming pools, I swear!

By: WildlyParenthetical

WildlyParenthetical — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:00:49 +0000

I *knew* it… ’saving yourself for someone special’… and to think… I believed you! Faithless blogger!

(Okay, it looks like I could keep this up for a while, so someone should probably tell me to stop.)

By: N Pepperell

N Pepperell — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 07:57:26 +0000

*looks sheepish* I suppose there’s something I should have mentioned…

By: WildlyParenthetical

WildlyParenthetical — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 06:36:37 +0000

You *are* tawdry, N! Tis the only explanation. Of course, I’m… ‘a right wee slapper, so she is,’ (must be pronounced with thick Irish accent for maximum humour), interacting memeishly with such abandon!

I just hope there’s no VTDs going around (Virtually Transmitted Diseases). Or is the meme precisely such?

By: N Pepperell

N Pepperell — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 03:13:26 +0000

Oh absolutely... But I must confess that I feel rather tawdry, learning that you've done this to me right after your virgin interaction with Lump (shall we create a new meme based on Nate's?).