Tuesday, February 17, 2004

I usually shy away from pimping links, gentle reader, because the Interweb has a tendency to dampen childlike wonderment. Sharing a link is almost like performing a magic trick: you forward a link to friends and expect them to gasp in awe, Laugh Their Asses Off, Roll on the Floor Laughing, or any combination thereof.

More often than not, though, your intended audience has already seen the link, causing the LTAO, LOL, or ROTFL to fall dismally flat. You feel like you’ve pissed away all your funny points. To wit:

“Are you ready for a neat trick?” you ask someone in the audience. “Are you ready?”

“Yeah,” says some guy. “Hit me.”

“Okay, there,” you say, “Aren’t you amazed?”

“About what?” asks the bewildered audience member.

“Well, I just pulled a rabbit out of a hat,” you explain.

“Oh,” comes the reply. “A rabbit?”

“Yeah, a rabbit,” you say.

“The kind that hops around?” says the guy rather despondently.

“Yeah, the kind that hops around,” you clarify.

“Out of a hat?”

“Yeah, out of a hat. Like the kind you wear.”

And this relates to linking because i–actually, I don’t remember how it relates to linking. No matter. Why don’t you just click on this link and leave me alone?