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So, the MsScribe wank hits metafilter. Out of the post responses comes two of my favorite comments on the whole thing:

Holy fucking shit. I bookmarked this. So when I feel like things aren't going optimally in my life, I can remind myself that I'm not writing softcore porn with children's characters and then fighting with strangers about it.

Can you imagine how ashamed you'd feel if you did this? You'd go back and look at the page delineating the whole conflict, say "what exactly are we arguing about and how did I spend my time leading up to it to get to caring enough to get involved?"

Then your third eye would open and you'd have no choice but to go Walgreens, buy a shitload of Tylenol PMs and write a note to your mom apologizing and asking her to please take good care of Dumbledore the cat.

(if anyone involved in the Harry Potter fanfiction controversy is reading this, don't actually do that. Overdosing will wreck your organs, and that's selfish. Blow your brains out, but don't wreck your eyes and don't do it where you won't be discovered until you're putrid. K THX BYE.)

And:

Whoah, Holy Shit. I read that link and then I fell down and hit my head and went into one of those shimmery sitcom style dreams.

In the dream I was having an email conversation with Osama. A passionate, heated back and fourth where I was making my strongest case that the complete annihilation of western civilization was a bad idea. In my last email to him I pointed out all the scientific advances, all the works of humanism, all the freethinkers who respected the right of all to self-determination, I acknowledged all the failings of the west as well, but in my moral calculus I triumphed. It was the best appeal to reason anyone had ever made, and I ended it thus:

So tell me Sheik, can you give me one reason to rebut the many that I offered that the west is utterly corrupt and must be destroyed and rebuilt under Sharia Law? I think not!
Hell, I'll sign up if you can.

his reply:

From: Osamayomama@gmail.com
Subject: re:re:re:re: All must bathe in rivers of blood...
Date: June 30, 2006 12:11:33 PM EDT
To: divinewino@gmail.com

http://www.journalfen.net/community/bad_penny/1074.html

Sorry, someone will be around to record your martyrdom video, wear something summery.
best,
OBL

Yup.