TLAPD Jumps The Shark*
As everyone is well aware, today is Talk Like A Pirate Day, and the fact that everyone is well aware is, well, distressing.
Just a few minutes ago, the occasion was the focus of a discussion by the motley crew on Fox & Friends. That's a sure signal that the observance has lost its endearing campiness.
We need a new underground holiday that only the kool kidz know about. Something like "Dance Like Britney Day" or "Rant Like OJ Day" or "Jabber Incoherently Like Sally Day."
Arr.
*Does anybody say "Jump the Shark" anymore?
Does it make me amazingly unhip if I didn't know it was TLAPday?
Either way, rather than jumping the shark, shouldn't this particular day "walk the plank"?
Posted by: beth at September 19, 2007 08:02 AMJump Like A Shark Day?
That might work. We could commemorate the hipster doofus cultural meme of our choosing, and eventually the day itself would become a self-referential joke that only we insiders would understand. And we could pretend that others were jealous of our insight.
Does it make me amazingly unhip if I didn't know it was TLAPday?
No, that's not it. ;-)
[In my defense, I was incredibly conflicted about whether or not to post that reply. I decided that adding the smiley might help me get away with it. Did it?]
...shouldn't this particular day "walk the plank"?
Well, of course, that always precedes jumping the shark.
Posted by: Eric at September 19, 2007 08:23 AMA few days back was happy programmer day (day 256, or 255 if you're zero based... I guess there is some contreversy, regardless its F day in Hex, and 11111111 in binary)
For fun look up the delete page on Programmer's Day in Wikipedia...
Posted by: Jon at September 19, 2007 08:54 AMWould the official mascot of JlaS day be Ted McGinley?
Posted by: Jon at September 19, 2007 08:55 AMAnd while we're talking smileys, it's anniversary was just the other day.
okay.. three replies. Maybe I should get my own blog. :)
Posted by: Jon at September 19, 2007 08:56 AMokay.. three replies. Maybe I should get my own blog.
Nah. The more the merrier. I use the comment count to jack up my advertising rates to obscene levels.
Which may explain my lack of advertisers.
Darned free market.
happy programmer day
Now, there's an oxymoron if ever I saw one, at least based on my perspective as a client.
Posted by: Eric at September 19, 2007 09:03 AMSo...you're saying I took Hewey Lewis too seriously when he told me, in my formative years, that it was hip to be square? *sigh*
The smilie did help a little. A very little. ;)
Posted by: beth at September 19, 2007 09:07 AMBeing hip is overrated.
Or so I've heard.
I certainly wouldn't know. I happen to like Huey Lewis and the Newsboys.
Posted by: Eric at September 19, 2007 09:34 AMArrrrgh! Being hip has lept o'er the ole finned toothy fish, mateys.
Posted by: Jim at September 19, 2007 10:26 AMMy ol' lady is fond of the "jumped the shark" expression. So rest easy that there is a 22 year old somewhere who knows the story behind it and is willing to bore anyone with it.
Posted by: AggieGunny at September 21, 2007 10:51 AMAbout the publisher
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