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The Red Walker
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 Posted - 29 Aug 2012 : 16:09:11
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Originally posted by BEAST
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I agree that most fans wouldn't be very confused by such things, but the alternate info won't STAY in the director's cut context. It would find its way into the far corners of cyberspace and cause all manner of continuity arguments.
Haha. Yep.
"But Elaine said . . ." 
Heh. I just thought of this thread in the context of a satirical article in The Onion, in which Todd Akins was "quoted" as saying breast milk is 94% effective in curing gays. (But lesbians, obviously, need to drink something else...) In context, it's obviously a satire. But after it's passed along a time or two, people refer to it in facebook posts as, "OMG can you believe what this moron said now?"
My point--and I do have one--is not to start a political discussion, but to emphasize that anything on the internet will eventually be misread and quoted out of context. 
If I had a dollar for everytime I heard someone say "but I read it on the internet, it has to be true" , I'd had at least a mortgage payment!
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 29 Aug 2012 : 16:34:16
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If I had a dollar for everytime I heard someone say "but I read it on the internet, it has to be true" , I'd had at least a mortgage payment!
My wife has an issue with me using the "but it's on the internet!" argument, of late...
Of course, I think her objection stems from the fact that the statements in question are things I put on the internet, on my own website...  |
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
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Posted - 30 Aug 2012 : 00:28:40
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
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Originally posted by The Red Walker
If I had a dollar for everytime I heard someone say "but I read it on the internet, it has to be true" , I'd had at least a mortgage payment!
My wife has an issue with me using the "but it's on the internet!" argument, of late...
Of course, I think her objection stems from the fact that the statements in question are things I put on the internet, on my own website...
So your work is "published"  |
A little nonsense now and then, relished by the wisest men - Willy Wonka
"We need men who can dream of things that never were." -
John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
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