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Ariong
Jun 25, 2012



It's pronounced V-A-P-E, though, so make sure to listen for that slight different in pronunciation!

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Ariong
Jun 25, 2012



Man, this went from hate thread to great thread in a hurry! Asterios, I don't read your articles anymore. I used to, even though I found them hit or miss. One day, I read an article that was about wrestlers, I think. I got to this sentence...

Ariong posted:

It's pronounced V-A-P-E, though, so make sure to listen for that slight different in pronunciation!

...and I could not parse it. No matter how many times I read it, I could not derive any sort of meaning from that sentence. I still can't, in fact. It's one thing to overlook a grammar error or spelling mistake, I thought, it's another to print a line of actual gibberish. It was then I decided that if Asterios can't be bothered to proofread his articles, then I can't be bothered to read them.

I felt pretty confident in that decision back when you were just deflecting criticism, but now that you're opening up and responding earnestly, I'm not so sure. Now I think that that article was the result of high pressure and low time, a forgivable offense. I'm going to start reading again.

I'm not a comedy writer or anything, but I hope this was helpful somehow.

Ariong
Jun 25, 2012



I went to the front page and clicked on your name to find an example of an article I did like, and I had no idea that you made The Dad Jones Index. I really liked that one.

Ariong fucked around with this message at 03:40 on Dec 19, 2016

Ariong
Jun 25, 2012



The last one pretty much only had one joke to tell and tried to tell it about 17 times. Probably didn't help that I have never heard of the guy who Asterios was lampooning.

Meanwhile, I like this shark one. It would have been very easy to overextend (again) on this one, but instead he kept it short and simple.

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