Comments on: Missing title

Missing title

cellphone — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 10:15:07 -0800

You forgot to include a title, please correct this.

Does it really take that much work to think of a pyramid-related lame joke?

By: Gator

Gator — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 10:28:04 -0800

I am OUTRAGED.

No, wait. The other thing.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 10:48:26 -0800

Tut tut.

By: keijo

keijo — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 10:49:07 -0800

*yawn*

By: nthdegx

nthdegx — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 10:57:41 -0800

What's the objection? The title isn't descriptive or relevant enough? Alas there aren't enough vexillologists in the world to flag the posts that criticism applies to.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 10:58:59 -0800

A monumental mistake amid his peers.

By: interrobang

interrobang — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 10:59:44 -0800

I have just thrown my computer across the room in impotent fury over this.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 11:15:27 -0800

thirteenkiller is a girl. This joke will work exactly once.

By: cortex

cortex — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 11:29:56 -0800

I'm so goddam confused.

By: grouse

grouse — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 11:46:13 -0800

I don't get it.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 11:57:01 -0800

A monumental mistake amid my peers.
See? It works twice.

By: keijo

keijo — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 12:03:25 -0800

These pyramids... they vibrate?

By: found missing

found missing — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 12:08:05 -0800

I'm quoting SCIENCE (pyramid edition)

By: Stauf

Stauf — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 12:21:50 -0800

thirteenkiller, you have failed us.

Now let us decide the fate of the accused.

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 12:29:26 -0800

Could someone tell me what the joke is? Is there a joke? I don't understand any of this.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 12:46:59 -0800

the main joke is: thirteenkiller, instead of finding a snappy title for her post, instead placed the boilerplate text in the title field. It is, as I said, a joke that is funny once because if everyone does it it's lame and sucks. I happened to say that, less clearly, next to a sentence about thirteenkiller being a girl which may have been confusing to some people.

By: fleacircus

fleacircus — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 12:47:15 -0800

Contents: One (1) Joke, trace amounts of Reference. Use, then discard packaging.

By: grouse

grouse — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 12:56:52 -0800

Oh, it's like the "freeform, go nuts" joke. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha.

By: team lowkey

team lowkey — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:11:02 -0800

I was considering calling this out, too. It's kind of rare, but I've seen this style of "joke" a few times. Things along the lines of "aren't titles silly?" or "pointless title". Happens more in AskMe than in the blue. I could kind of understand if it only showed up in the title bar, but not so much now that it is embiggened above the post.

It's not an outrageous transgression, but I think that people who do it aren't considering those of us who read the site via rss. When I see MeFi, I see a list of titles, not the posts themselves. So as a matter of etiquette... yeah, it would be nice if he title was at least tangentially related to the topic of the post.

I brought this up once before on AskMe, but it was (rightly) deleted. I thought some spammer had managed to hijack the rss feed when I saw "Short titless - Paris Hilton". The title isn't as much of a throw away field as you think. Maybe the form should have a few words to reflect that.

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:11:50 -0800

Oh, ok. I get it. I'm not sure how people could find the default title funny, but there you go. I thought it was some pyramid-related joke that you'd have to know alot about pyramids to get.

By: nthdegx

nthdegx — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:12:58 -0800

jessamyn is a girl. This joke will work exactly once.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:57:57 -0800

Your mother is a girl. Zing!

By: Stauf

Stauf — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:59:37 -0800

Your girl is a zing. Mother!

By: nthdegx

nthdegx — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 15:18:45 -0800

Clearly I overestimated by a factor of infinity percent.

By: nthdegx

nthdegx — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 15:20:40 -0800

Wait! So it works in *other* threads? This thread will self destruct in three... two...

By: delmoi

delmoi — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 17:24:42 -0800

thirteenkiller is a girl!?

Seriously?

Wow.

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 17:42:47 -0800

that title certainly didn't give me much to chew on

By: thirteenkiller

thirteenkiller — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 18:06:38 -0800

Haha, pyramid termite, your name came up a lot when I searched for prior posts about Bosnian pyramids.

By: blacklite

blacklite — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 19:17:37 -0800

I am not a girl. This joke will not work. ... Shit.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 19:34:21 -0800

i still have the first thirteen year old girl i killed.

By: shnoz-gobblin

shnoz-gobblin — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 19:53:56 -0800

I still have the second thirteen year old girl quonsar killed.

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 20:21:15 -0800

couldn't you guys afford a doll?

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 20:40:21 -0800

I'm still scared by all of you. This will continue to work throughout the duration of my life.

By: exlotuseater

exlotuseater — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 21:16:20 -0800

i heart thirteenkiller.

tie similar bow

By: Acey

Acey — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 10:05:00 -0800

This thread is awash with jokes I don't quite understand. Strangely, this still makes me laugh.

By: squirrel

squirrel — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 14:57:58 -0800

*Continues to laugh while furtively glancing around*

By: scarabic

scarabic — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 15:38:04 -0800

Omigodz afemale!!

*polishes toy lightsaber*