I didn’t recognize it because it was so UNFUNNY!

Today I was driving above the posted speed limit in my car, thus breaking the law. Does that give the so called authorities the right to kick down my door? I won’t say that the American government has to much power per say. What I will say is they are deceitful with it. They say you have a freedom of privacy and other freedoms, yet they find loopholes to take those freedoms away. They in fact have turned a suspicious eye on everyone within and everyone is guilty until proven innocent, even then you are still presumed guilty. It is of my opinion that people in government are so far out of touch with the masses that they do not see the snow job that the lobbyists are handing them. It is all about the financial backing and The MPAA and the RIAA have more money than any one of us alone

Some one here mentioned that the market is sick, (black market) I would absolutely agree and say the reason is because it is being poisoned by greed.

PLEASE SPEL RIGHT! I CAN’T READ!

Allow me to point out just how much of a thick-headed moron you obviously are. Rekrul was making an oblique joke, implying that the word “dispersed” should have been “ridiculed” instead. Now, owing to an incredible lack of imagination on your part, YOU are the one now being ridiculed…

Remember the old days when someone could recognize a joke?

Allow me to explain so there will be no further confusion…

In the story, Jon wrote;

“We wanted to get this online ASAP so it can be as widely dispersed as possible.”

Note the part where he says “widely dispersed”

In my first message, I quoted the line above and said;

“You misspelled “ridiculed”.”

If you look at the line he wrote, you will see that the word “ridiculed” wasn’t used, misspelled or otherwise. In fact, no words even come close enough to the spelling of the word “ridiculed” to be mistaken for it. At this point, most people will then begin to look at the line for a word that could be replaced by “ridiculed”. Only two words in the original sentence end in “ed”, “wanted” and “dispersed”.

Let us first try the word in place of “wanted”;

“We ridiculed to get this online ASAP so it can be as widely dispersed as possible.”

That doesn’t quite make sense. Let’s try it in place of “dispersed”;

“We wanted to get this online ASAP so it can be as widely ridiculed as possible.”

This makes sense and it changes the entire meaning of the sentence.

This makes it funny for the following reason;

Many internet users don’t respect the RIAA. Often the “training” materials they put out are full of mis-information and exaggerated claims. Many people often mock or “ridicule” the RIAA and the things they do.

By saying that Jon mispelled the word “ridiculed”, I was suggesting that by making the video available on the internet, it would be “widely ridiculed” and that saying so would have been a more accurate prediction of what would happen. Of course Jon probably wouldn’t say such a thing himself since it could be seen as unprofessional, so I posted my comment to illustrate what most people are thinking.

Additionally, if Jon HAD written the sentence that way, it wouldn’t have been humorous at all. True, but not funny. The humor comes from the implication that Jon either couldn’t say what was actually on his mind, or that the thought that it would be ridiculed didn’t occur to him. The first implies that he is a savvy author who knows what will happen when most internet users watch the video, but he is too professional to say it. The latter implies that he is naive enough not to understand that people WILL ridicule this video. Both are funny, although it’s up to the reader to decide which they believe and which provides the most laughs.

Personally, I believe the first is the most accurate depiction of events, because he has written anti-RIAA articles in the past. However, first time visitors might not know that and might think that the second explanation is true. In either case, the joke still works.

Also, if you look closely, you will see that at the end of my original comment, there is a small, winking face, like this

In the real world, a wink is often used to indicate that what is being said isn’t being stated in a serious manner, or that the statement could be interpreted in a less than literal manner.

In this case, it means both. I wasn’t being serious about a word being mispelled and never intended for people to take my message literally. It was meant to help people understand that they should insert the word “ridiculed” in the quoted sentence to achieve a humorous result that would hopefully make people laugh.

Hopefully, this explanation has been sufficient to explain my original message, but in case it hasn’t, you might want to read the following pages;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wink

Got it?

Reminds me of this:
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I have a spelling checker It came with my pea see. It plane lee marks four my revue Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
Eye run this poem threw it. Your sure real glad two no. Its very polished in its weigh, My checker tolled me sew.
A checker is a blessing. It freeze yew lodes of thyme. It helps me right awl stiles two reed, And aides me when aye rime.
Each frays comes posed up on my screen Eye trussed too bee a joule. The checker pours o’er every word To cheque sum spelling rule.
Bee fore a veiling checkers Hour spelling mite decline, And if we’re laks oar have a laps, We wood bee maid too wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling Is checked with such grate flare, There are know faults with in my cite, Of nun eye am a wear.
Now spelling does not phase me, It does knot bring a tier. My pay purrs awl due glad den With wrapped words fare as hear.
To rite with care is quite a feet Of witch won should be proud, And wee mussed dew the best wee can, Sew flaws are knot aloud.
Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays Such soft wear four pea seas, And why eye brake in two averse Buy righting want too please.

You flunked reading comprehension, didn’t you?

Oh, and I’ve seen the trehoy taht olny the frsit and lsat ltretes of a wrod mtetar broefe. Taht wkros wtih sthroer wdors, but it flals aarpt wehn unisg legonr, mroe clepmox wdros taht cna’t be eilsay ulbsemncrad. Srue, you can elatlvuney furige out waht tsehe scetennes say, but it’s not nalrey as esay as ppolee calim it is.

Cheers!

That is obvious. There is no need to qualify it

http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/02/riaa-training-v.html

Cheers!

http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4034469/RIAA_Training_Video__Prosecution_of_Music_Piracy

so you are faster done then you first feared

for “us”, there is only a few sentences in the whole thingy (online piracy uploading downloading bla bla bla) nothing really important,

And going after people that sell product is imo legitimate.

P.S: I find it also good that the nice lady stupilated to the fact that big 4 product buyers finance terrorist when they buy it!
Is RIAA headquarter already designated as terrorist hideout to be bombed then?

(I haven’t bought a single CD since I heard about Larry scantlebury the vietnam pilot back then! I don’t fund terrorist!!)

Cheers!

Raed this. Of waht impratonce is one mssplleed wrod? Did you kown taht wehn we raed, we olny raed the first and the last lettre of each word to get it’s maening?

For example: Rekrul = Lurker = Rukrel