Well, fast forward to this afternoon. I couldn’t find the link to the newspaper story so I Googled myself. The first link to the story lead me to Wonkette, a website that specializes in satire. Wonkette spoofed the Times story under the headline: “In A Troubled Economy, Scooter Manufacturing Is The Only Successful Industry.”
Reading the comments on this site made me realize that satire and empathy are often mutually exclusive.
I e-mailed the Wonkette link to a co-worker.
She emailed back: I love how out of that entire, long article, it was your name that got picked up. Personally, I’d take offense at the morons who are confusing “moran” with “moron.”
I don’t care too much about that. These people are idiots. But if this is my 15 minutes of fame I’m going to be pissed
GET A BRAIN, SCOOTER MORAN. LEARN YOURSELF TO SPELL.
This is a declaration of war against the scooter-trade-magazine industry. [HME News]
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And that's how the fight started.
Ha ha, "I couldn’t find the link to the newspaper story so I Googled myself"…for the seventeenth time in as many minutes.
It's really irritating how the word "satire" is getting debased. Gulliver's Travels is satire, as is Animal Farm. What happens here is wise-assed impolite commentary on news, better known as "snark." Snark is great fun, but it ain't satire and doesn't aspire to be.
V, other than Kardashians, Teen Mom stars, Mr. Moran and Bristol Palin before him (not to mention the Princessing of America), there sure seems to be a lot of "I" strain these days. It's like we stopped pledging allegiance to the flag because it didn't pledge to us first, or something.
How 'bout "cruel sarcasm"?
In our finest moments, yes.
Sweeeet!
Michael Bolton, Office Space. Inside joke, suck it up.
And since you crossed that Rubicon, you're an executive in charge of selling wheelchairs to jello. If you were expecting your 15 minutes, you picked the wrong major.
Can we have jousting?
Wonkette specializes in snark, not satire, you moran.
He was born a moran and he'll die a moran.
Wasn't the article written to point out that he – scooterman – will have fifteen more minutes of fame because U.S. Americans are getting fatter and older, and older and fatter?
I used to do some environmental cleanup at one of our airbases in Spain where they messed up the spelling of "moran" and called it Moron Air Base. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mor%C3%B3n_Air_Base
Moran's a moron. Satireday isn't for another four days.
He doesn't show much empathy for idiots.
Also, is his co-worker implying that he is a "moron"?
Like he hasn't been getting shit with that last name all his life. Hell, I bet even a tough bastard like Harry "Breaker" Morant got plenty of grief for his last name and its closeness to "moron." Then they executed him.
An Aussie, right? Like that treasonous bastard Julian Assange. They're all like that.
Didja see over at TPM that Lieberman can't figure out why Assange hasn't been charged w/treason? Holy crap, he'll say any fucking thing.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/wikileak...
Oops, wrong linky-link, although Assange's op-ed is pretty good.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/12...
And rightly so. Imagine! An Officer who actually does the job he's commissioned to do. Can't have that, old boy.
OMG, they've conquered the google.
This is not good for AOL!
oh mr. scooter executive moran man, poor mr. scooter executive moran man:
there are times when discretion is the better part of valor. this was one of those times.
but yeah, this is is your 15 minutes.
[rubs hands with glee]
I think by just the virtue of one being a "scooter expert", one could make the automatic assumption that one is indeed, a moran.
But sometimes, the Morans get the last laugh, living well, like former Green Bay Packer offensive lineman Rich Moran.
Scooter Driving with the Stars, the exciting new show!
Hey, they have comment section at the end of the article!
I'm disturbed to learn from a scooter manufacturer that the Wonkette is satire. I thought that honor belonged to the Washington Post stable of columnists.
I don't know what they're spewing at the WaPo but it aint satire.
I can see a whole Bette Midler production number done with "dancers" in scooters, a la the June Taylor Dancers on Jackie Gleason, which my fellow Olds may recall.
Too bad he didn't know why we were laughing, but of course we can't tell him, for as we all know, the first rule of Get A Brain Moran Club is you don't talk about Get A Brain Moran Club.
Let's hope he doesn't think to google "Get a Brain Moran" when he's done googling himself. Or, on the other hand, that his mom doesn't walk in while he's googling himself, cuz that's really embarrassing.
"No mom I wasn't googling myself – I, uh, I was just masturbating!"
good thing his last name isn't dipshet.
He should count himself lucky that his last name isn't Retard.
I always suspected I was an idiot, I just needed the head of a scooter store named Moran to validate it for me.
Now excuse me while I go "Google Myself".
Hey, Moran, we weren't the one who was bragging about making a profit off of the obesity crisis in America.
Or his real 15 minutes will start when one of his crappy wheelchairs crashes, kills someone adorable (Betty White ?) . Subsequent investigation implicates Moran putting profits ahead of safety ( like all the other greedy monsters who rule the world ).
I gave you a clicky for your pee. Man, your pee went to fucking hell, dude!
Is that anything like a "sympathy fuck"?
Thankyou ever so much. I do have p envy.
I see he didn't read my comment where I praised his writing skills.
I TAKE IT ALL BACK MORAN. YOU SUCK.
It was Kruse that wrote the awesomely snarky article. This Moran is just a scooter-industry fatcat getting rich on the fatties rolling down the sidewalk in their Hummer H3 Rascal
Oh man, your'e right. Reading comprehension disaster.
I guess I'm the Moran, now.
I imagine that Moran and Liz "don't call me Liz" Becton both have Google News Alerts on their names for the times when teh Wonkett mentions them.
This is your 15 minutes of fame.
Get over it.
satire and empathy are often mutually exclusive.
What a Moran.
i knew someday one of my comments would really make it
Satire is apparently only fine if Mark Williams is writing an open letter praising slavery.
"Googled myself." Is that what they're calling it these days?
Easy. He can change his last name to Weiner or Hyman or even Dick. All good.
His first name is Mike, so naturally his last name should be changed to Hunt.
I think he's a Moran…or is that Maroon? Or maybe just moron? Or Mormon? I'm so confused? Wait isn't Glen Beck the Mormon Moran?
That's what you get when your scooter isn't charged up and you are late to the party…all the good snark was posted before I got here.
Personally, I'd take offense at the dipshit who "Googles Himself" and doesn't come up with the moran meme.
I suppose I can cut him a break. it is easy to get distracted, what with all the jizz flying everywhere.
HEY MORAN: THAT SENTENCE RIGHT UP THERE IMPLIES YOU WERE MASTURBATING!
BAM, SATIRE'D
At least he had the good taste not to refer to my posting about cannibalizing his heavier clients (i.e., Post Apocalyptic Food Sources). I guess he didn't want to get any savory juices on his 15 minutes…
Jack. . . It was all fun and games until somebody's scooter feelings got hurt. It's like running with scissors man, sooner or later. . .
Next thing you know, Moran will have started a petition to have the gubbermint build scooter lanes on the freeway.
Important takeaway here is that teh Wonkette was the first article that popped up on his google machine. Way to meta-data, Wonkette!
May be a moron, but not stupid. Selling a product which costs the consumer nothing, at a 3,000 per cent mark up and the Government is writing the checks for them like they were in a fucking race.
From Wikipedia:
“In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement.[1] Although satire is usually meant to be funny, its greater purpose is constructive social criticism, using wit as a weapon.”
That sounds like Wonkette when it’s at its best.
Last I left the thread, only a handful of posters (if even that many) had made mention of "moran" seeing as how it's low-hanging fruit. There is only so much you can do with that.
"Moran is skin deep/thin-skinned, but scooter humor is forever" is what I always say.
They hadn't heard of Wonkette before? What's wrong with those morans?
I hope he doesn't end up like his distant cousin, Breaker Moran.
We say moran to avoid insulting the intelligence of morons.
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