How to make serious people unserious

Rob Beschizza 8:19 pm Tue May 1, 2012

On May 1, 2012, at 10:51 PM, Matthew XXXXXX wrote:

Hey. Love your site.

The sentiment of the "Demolish Serious Culture" image appearing on your site is repulsive; it's worse if it's intended to be ironic. I won't ask that it be removed because that would be censorship but I just wanted to say think it represents a nadir for you.

Try harder next time.

Best,

MX

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Rob Beschizza wrote:

Eh?

On May 1, 2012, at 10:55 PM, Matthew XXXXXX wrote:

I think it is an anti-intellectual, silly, stupid thing to put on a tee shirt.

Just saying.

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Rob Beschizza wrote:

Not sure what you're getting at.

On May 1, 2012, at 11:00 PM, Matthew XXXXXX wrote:

I just wanted to weigh in, that's all.

Get better tee shirts.

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Rob Beschizza wrote:

But what you said carries no intellectual weight.

On May 1, 2012, at 11:04 PM, Matthew XXXXXX wrote:

I measure my emails, combined, at 62 grams of intellectual weight.

Perhaps you need to zero out your intellectual scale. There should be a button labeled "tare" press that.

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Rob Beschizza wrote:

That was too easy.

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