{"id":139,"date":"2006-05-25T09:43:28","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T16:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/25\/message-boardsgenius\/"},"modified":"2006-05-25T09:43:28","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T16:43:28","slug":"message-boardsgenius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Message Boards=GENIUS."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while, there&#8217;s something I read on teh intarwheb that just plants itself in my brain and won&#8217;t leave. I think of it every couple hours, and just chuckle to myself. Thankfully, I don&#8217;t chuckle to my wife, my cow-orkers, or strangers on the street&#8211;they would think I was a weirdo.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of the very great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressiveruin.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Sterling&#8217;s Progressive Ruin<\/a> (I&#8217;ve got it bookmarked&#8211;why don&#8217;t you?!?!), this gem from the DC Comics message boards:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dcboards.warnerbros.com\/web\/thread.jspa?threadID=2000077017&#038;tstart=0\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Bill Clinton, Lex Luthor, and Adolph Hitler&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Which do you think was a better leader?<\/p>\n<p>I think Lex would be the best, followed by Hitler, and then Clinton taking up the rear.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just one of those sublime things&#8211;a handful of words so elegantly designed to be stupid, divisive, insulting, satiric, brilliant, and hilarious, all at the EXACT SAME TIME.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while, there&#8217;s something I read on teh intarwheb that just plants itself in my brain and won&#8217;t leave. I think of it every couple hours, and just chuckle to myself. Thankfully, I don&#8217;t chuckle to my wife, my cow-orkers, or strangers on the street&#8211;they would think I was a weirdo. Courtesy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-teh-intarweb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}