Mike Pulls Blog Post: Claims “Too Highbrow”
isos blog contributor Mike pulled a post he had written earlier today, he told fellow isos contributor Santa.
“It was simple too high brow”, Mike claimed, in a conversation with Santa he had assumed would stay private.
Quizzed about the idea further, Mike claimed it was a wicked piece of satire that made fun of the need to name names.
“I was all about naming names something else. As in ‘isos have decided to respond to claims we are weak kneed wimps afraid to name names, and have decided to get tough and actually name a name. As our first move, we are officially naming Mark Fred. We have named Fred (spelt m-a-r-k) Fred, as this is the name we want Fred to be officially known as. And we won’t stop there. Oh no. We will be naming other names blah blah blah…’ From there, I totally wrote this whole bit about naming other names, and how this clearly made as the pre-eminent SEM Blog, and so morally superior it wasn’t funny. The piece was well funny Dude, trust me.”
Mike further claimed it was “fully ironic”, and was a brilliantly funny idea that was pulled not because it lacked the usually cutting edge qualities that isos are somewhat known for, but because it exceeded the capacity of the readership to “get it”.
“Sure, isos readers are smart, good looking, funny, and generally intelligent people, but come on, that idea was just too off the wall, far out and, yes, too high brow for many readers to get.”
When Santa suggested that the post was really pulled because it wasn’t ironic, was hardly satire and, quite frankly, the idea wasn’t even funny, the conversation took a turn for the worse.
Mike became irate and screamed a barrage of insults at Santa. “Not funny? Not funny? What are you, stupid? Thank you very much for proving my point you lowest common denominator fictional creation of the capitalist Pig Dogs designed to hoodwink innocent children.
“Santa indeed. What have you ever done? Hey? What? Except have your Elves infringe upon the patents of millions of companies by making everything from Consumer electronics to Puppies, and the last bit I think had to have involved illegal stem cell research. I bet you do it in a hollowed out Volcano, right? You make me sick, you, you, you… idiot!”
As of the time of press, Santa was unperturbed by Mike’s rant, and claimed that the decision to pull the original post was both “sensible” and “the right decision”, and that his faith in the high editorial standards of isos has left him encouraged to continue as a member of staff, with Santa already preparing a piece he hoped to have ready by “the first day of Christmas 2006”. Stay tuned.
5 comments January 18th, 2006
