This is the title of a typical incendiary blog post

Posted by Chris Clarke on January 24, 2010

This sentence contains a provocative statement that attracts the readers’ attention, but really only has very little to do with the topic of the blog post. This sentence claims to follow logically from the first sentence, though the connection is actually rather tenuous. This sentence claims that very few people are willing to admit the obvious inference of the last two sentences, with an implication that the reader is not one of those very few people. This sentence expresses the unwillingness of the writer to be silenced despite going against the popular wisdom. This sentence is a sort of drum roll, preparing the reader for the shocking truth to be contained in the next sentence.

This sentence contains the thesis of the blog post, a trite and obvious statement cast as a dazzling and controversial insight.

This sentence claims that there are many people who do not agree with the thesis of the blog post as expressed in the previous sentence. This sentence speculates as to the mental and ethical character of the people mentioned in the previous sentence. This sentence contains a link to the most egregiously ill-argued, intemperate, hateful and ridiculous example of such people the author could find. This sentence is a three-word refutation of the post linked in the previous sentence, the first of which three words is “Um.” This sentence implies that the linked post is in fact typical of those who disagree with the thesis of the blog post. This sentence contains expressions of outrage and disbelief largely expressed in Internet acronyms. This sentence contains a link to an Internet video featuring a cat playing a piano.

This sentence implies that everyone reading has certainly seen the folly of those who disagree with the thesis of the blog post. This sentence reminds the reader that there are a few others who agree. This sentence contains one-word links to other blogs with whom the author seeks to curry favor, offered as examples of those others.

This sentence returns to the people who disagree with the thesis of the blog post. This sentence makes an improbably tenuous connection between those people and a current or former major political figure. This sentence links those people and that political figure to a broad, ill-defined sociodemographic class sharing allegedly similar belief systems. This sentence contains a reference to the teachings of Jesus; its intent may be either ironic or sincere.

This sentence refers to a different historic period, and implies that conditions relevant to the thesis of the blog post were either different or the same. This sentence states that the implications of the previous sentence are a damned shame. This sentence says that the next sentence will explain the previous sentence. This sentence contains a slight rewording of the thesis of the blog post, a trite and obvious statement cast as a dazzling and controversial insight.

This sentence contains an apparent non-sequitur phrased as if it follows logically from the reworded thesis of the blog post. This sentence is a wildly overgeneralized condemnation of one or more entire classes of people phrased in as incendiary a fashion as possible which claims to be an obvious corollary to the thesis and non-sequitur.

This sentence proposes that anyone who might disagree with the wildly overgeneralized condemnation is, by so disagreeing, actually proving the author’s point. This sentence explains that such people disagree primarily because of the author’s courageous and iconoclastic approach. This sentence mentions the additional possibilities that readers who express disagreement with the wildly overgeneralized condemnation are merely following political fashion or trying to ingratiate themselves with interest groups. This sentence is a somewhat-related assertion based in thoughtless privilege and stated as dispassionate objective truth. This sentence explains that if the scales would merely fall from those dissenting readers’ eyes, they would see the wisdom and necessity of the author’s statements.

This sentence invites readers to respond freely and without constraint as long as those responses fall within certain parameters. This sentence consists of an Internet in-joke that doesn’t quite fit the topic.

[This parenthetical sentence was appended some time after posting as an expression of gratitude for the post’s many visitors and an apology that server overload has prompted the owner’s closing of comments, at least for the time being.]

Comments



This is a comment, completely unrelated to the OP in any way whatsoever, complaining about no LAN play in Diablo 3.


Posted by FrikkinLazer on 01/25 at 11:49 PM



This comment relates a rambling anecdote from this distant past of the commenter, sparked by the original post, but only superficially related to it. The anecdote will conclude without supporting or opposing the original thesis, and will sport a two-word addendum:

Good times!


Posted by PJMurphy on 01/25 at 11:51 PM



This comment points out that a previous comment is copied from an 18th century travelogue and wonders why everyone didn’t notice.


Posted by NancyL on 01/25 at 11:54 PM



Emitting a vocal expulsion of air conveying mirth in a manner in which the decibel level of aforementioned expulsions are clearly audible to others.


Posted by Glen on 01/25 at 11:55 PM



This comment is for James and the answer is a resounding yes.


Posted by yolande on 01/26 at 12:04 AM



This comment makes reference to a beverage of some kind exiting an oriface in the reader’s face due to surprise and/or laughter.


Posted by Rachel Shaw on 01/26 at 12:07 AM



This comment recommends that a previous commenter really needs to read Original Blog Topic 101 before annoying the other commenters with newbie comments.


Posted by Rachel Shaw on 01/26 at 12:08 AM



The author of this post beseeches those who will read it to consider that there is no spoon. This post is the first post in reply to the above article.


Posted by j. kinky on 01/26 at 12:10 AM



This comment attempts to defuse a flame war in progress by linking to a site featuring pictures of baby felid mammals with phrases with odd spelling and peculiar grammar superimposed on them.

It includes an exhortation to observe the infant mammals, spelling the name of said mammals in a way meant to hip and humorous.


Posted by Rachel Shaw on 01/26 at 12:11 AM



This comment wishes to appear clever and uses an illustration of ceiling cat followed by grammatical errors written on purpose using phrases such as “I haz” and “OM nom nom”.


Posted by Thresher on 01/26 at 12:24 AM



This comment expresses annoyance that someone beat the commenter to the irrelevant and deceptive link to Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up.”


Posted by Greta Christina on 01/26 at 12:34 AM



This comment contains the words “Ron Paul” in a large font, bold, center justified and all caps.


Posted by Irwin Allen Smithee on 01/26 at 12:44 AM



This comment is a bland, generalized compliment of the quality of the blog. The commenter name is linked to a website for an ethically-gray product or service.


Posted by MWT on 01/26 at 12:47 AM



This comment indicates there were too many comments to read, but the comment author will read them later. This comment indicates that the comment author only read the post title.

This quote is a quote mine that makes a point irrelevant to the actual blog post.

This comment indicates the comment author believes the above quote is a “take that you dumbasses” quote without realizing it is totally irrelevant and transparently wrong.


Posted by DanDare on 01/26 at 12:50 AM



This spam comment attempts to link people to an ethically-gray product or service with BB code instead of HTML.


Posted by MWT on 01/26 at 12:53 AM



This comment wanders aimlessly for while, both agreeing and disagreeing with the thesis of the OP, before the commenter finally decides that it really doesn’t matter, and who cares anyway? Finally, it is clear that the commenter really just wanted to post so that a few people might click through to the commenter’s own blog. But said commenter wanted to appear to be joining in the conversation, so as not to be rude. Unfortunately, only two people end up clicking through to the commenter’s own blog, and leave after approximately 0.23 seconds when they see that it hasn’t been updated in weeks.


Posted by Tamsin on 01/26 at 01:04 AM



this comment recognizes that what the author was trying to say can be completely summed up by a particular xkcd comic and posts a link [or doesn’t]


Posted by catastrophegirl on 01/26 at 01:05 AM



This comment furiously demands to know why you censored me by deleting my first comment exposing the original poster’s lies, and states that this blog sucks because it doesn’t allow dissenting opinion…

Even though my first comment IS visible, and if I looked a second time I’d clearly see it.


Posted by Capt Clown on 01/26 at 01:06 AM



This comment consists of a highly offended *flounce* from the thread, followed shortly thereafter by a quiet return under a new user name.


Posted by Space Kitty on 01/26 at 01:08 AM



This comment exhorts all the other commenters to please think of the children.


Posted by MWT on 01/26 at 01:17 AM



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Posted by sherwood on 01/26 at 01:21 AM



This comment degrades the entire conversation by comparing the opinions of various posters to the political ideals of the Nazis. The comment is phrased such that it drags the entire blog article into such a low state of repute that any comments following it will be nothing more than hate speech.


Posted by South African on 01/26 at 01:33 AM



This post invokes Godwin’s Law.  Really, it does.


Posted by sherwood on 01/26 at 01:37 AM



This comment was intended to be read immediately after another comment but was submitted 1 second too late and is now placed under another comment that renders it completely ineffectual and confusing to the casual reader.


Posted by Chuckus on 01/26 at 01:38 AM



This comment will insults the inteligance of the either the author or other commenters.  But it will contane spelling and gramaticle errors, showing a 3rd grade education.


Posted by AT on 01/26 at 01:47 AM



This comment takes the very general and broadly aimed critical comments of the post to be a personal attack on the commenter, even though the commenter’s position on the matter at hand is unknown because he is a person of absolutely no importance whatsoever in this or any other field. Having expressed the commenter’s umbrage at length, the comment then talks about how the commenter personally knows some Very Important People from his days attending A Very Well-Known Prep School, and claims both authority-by-association as well as special “insider” knowledge about the topic of the blog post from his association with these Very Important People - which of course is asserted by the commenter to demonstrate the utter wrongness of the blog post, even though the VIPs are wholly irrelevant to the subject of the post - while simultaneously insinuating that these Very Important People can make life uncomfortable for the blogger if he should persist in attacking this commenter (which the blogger did not, but is bound to after this). This comment performs all these bizarre twists with maximum verbosity and pomposity - language which, while phrased in perfectly clear and grammatical English, has a decided air of schizophrenic “word salad” about it when one considers the actual content and context.

In all, the comment is a wide-open invitation to extensive mockery by both other commenters and the blogger. Such mockery will drive the commenter to even great heights of apoplectic umbrage, culminating in threats to sue the blogger for bizarrely unrelated damages.


Posted by G Felis on 01/26 at 01:49 AM



THIS COMMENT IS MISSPELLED, ATTACKS THE AUTHOR’S SEXUAL ORIENTATION, AND IS IN CAPS.


Posted by malackey on 01/26 at 02:01 AM



This comment makes absolutely no sense as the submitter has attempted to type in “leet speak” with absolutely no idea how, and an even greater ignorance of the English language as a whole.


Posted by Valandar on 01/26 at 02:12 AM



Hey I thought your post was fun.


Posted by Olivier H. on 01/26 at 02:15 AM



This post incoherently links to the topic at hand tangentially, is sprinkled with anti-semetic commentary, and ultimately finds a completely non-sequitur excuse to rant about the coming New World Order.


Posted by Thomas Theobald on 01/26 at 02:25 AM


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