Once, I was the bad guy

[thebitterguy]

You know what I miss? Occasional controversy. I'd write a Bitter Guide, and some Brazilian farmer would go ballistic because of a Mad Cow disease joke, or some Yankee conservative would rage that I was too nice to Al Franken or Mike Moore.

The best? Doing a review of some Shadowrun book (the one that was about magically active places, but was mostly about Australia) and I made a joke. The Dingo joke.

It went like this: "There are also magically active Dingoes, who won't attack adults, but will come into inhabited places and steal unattended children. If you're not careful, dingoes will Eat Your Baby. So you gotta be careful."

Which got me so darned flamed it wasn't funny. I was insensitive (which is just not true, and made me cry), ignorant (also not true; I remember A Cry in the Frickng Dark, for the love of Elvis!), and other falsehoods.

I blame ladyjestyr.

In other words, mr_weasel is playing a character in our Spycraft campaign based on the computer geek played by Alan Cumming in GoldenEye (and for real fun, do a search for Cumming on the IMDB.

HeroClix today! Hopefully, I will win a game or two this time.

Comments

[ladyjestyr.livejournal.com]

Hee :) Not my fault.

"There are also magically active Dingoes, who won't attack adults, but will come into inhabited places and steal unattended children. If you're not careful, dingoes will Eat Your Baby. So you gotta be careful."
Oh, you would not /believe/ the number of times the "Dingoes ate my baby!" line got thrown around during the writing of said bit. :)

[elissa-carey.livejournal.com]

I'd believe it, because you have a firm grasp of The Funny. Those who took inordinate offense obviously have no grasp of The Funny, and in fact would not know The Funny if it squirted them with seltzer water. :)

[zenten.livejournal.com]

Create a new livejournal, that has no connection to you. Make sure you don't do stuff that will get it deleted, but other than that go nuts with the offensiveness :)