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I like how you replaced the title with `fnord`. I'm not young but I found out about the meaning of fnord just an hour ago by randomly clicking through to its W
by yreg 5y ago
I like how you replaced the title with `fnord`.
I'm not young but I found out about the meaning of fnord just an hour ago by randomly clicking through to its Wikipedia article from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation
Undoubtedly I'm about to experience more Baader-Meinhof related to this soon.
- jerrysievert 5y agobeyond having one of the best extended fight scenes in a movie, I think that "they live" is as close to Hollywood acknowledging fnords as you're bound to get.
- Arnt 5y agoNow you made me wonder whether any logfile analysis SEOware is ever going to acknowledge the fnords I use to shorten overlong links.
- jerrysievert 5y agothey probably don't see them ...
- mxmilkiib 5y agoA favourite hobby of mine in the last has been watching They Live with a friend without telling them the plot.
- jerrysievert 5y agothat's genius. I'm going to have to give that a try - I think the hard part is finding someone who hasn't seen the movie.
- Ruthalas 5y agoI haven't seen it. What pitch would you give me as a possibly-interested viewer?
- jerrysievert 5y agoI don't have an answer, but I do have an anecdote. some friends and I had been having spurious movie nights over the years, and decided to give Vampire's Kiss a go. we scoured the horror section of blockbuster and were unable to find it, so we asked. "oh, that's in the comedy section." Buffeted by this knowledge, we told the movie night host that we found it, and were ready to go, and left it at that. Later, the host, perplexed, stopped the movie and said, "either this is the stupidest vampire movie I've ever seen, or it's supposed to be a comedy." once our laughter stopped, we explained, and continued the movie in peace. so, I'm not sure I have a pitch, but drop all expectations and just enjoy a classic John Carpenter movie.
- NKosmatos 5y agoJust putting the links for other fellow HN users and spare them a few seconds while searching for the terms :-) fnord, a word to indicate irony/humor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fnord https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fnord Baader–Meinhof phenomenon or frequency illusion - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
- Arnt 5y agoUhm, that's not what it indicates. The fnords aren't funny or anything at all, they little things that go unnoticed. They're around you but you never see them, even though they (may) have meaning or effect on you. Like parts of links that you click on but don't really see.
- yreg 5y agoSeems legit, since when I read that article I thought to myself – weird, I have spent a lot of time on the internet and I don't think I ever encountered this word.
- Arnt 5y agoIts heyday was before the web. The book is from the seventies. I expect many, perhaps most people who were on usenet in the late eighties knew the word.
- disgruntledphd2 5y agoOr any Robert Anton Wilson fans (there are dozens of us, etc).