Today's Font Joke; Or, For Once In Our Life We Are Speechless
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Ummm, so, no offense to our dearly beloved Support Team and the various (okay, numerous) other persons to whom we have offered our hand in marriage over the brief course of our blogging career; but the author of what is possibly the best font joke in the entire history of the universe is our new future husband. By author we mean Mr. Berta, not Papyrus. Thanks to Author-friend Shirin Dubbin for the link! You're totes invited to the wedding.
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Poor Papyrus. No one is ever nice to him.
Dear Joseph, it's hard to be nice to someone who makes you want to put out your own eye with a spork.
Brilliant. As is the spork reference, and your rant on PMN. How did we ever enjoy the intrawebz before you blessed us with your mighty awesomeness?
Next you're going to tell me Comic Sans is uncool too. My world is fraying.
Thanks for the lovely, perhaps hyperbolic assessment of my joke. As for us getting married... let me check with my wife first.
I was going to ask if you were registered anywhere, but I guess that has to wait until the obstacles are cleared.
But you're still going to use Papyrus on the wedding invites, right? Right...?
wv: Ranti
Answer to the question "What is The Rejectionist?" ;)
I love this.
Congrats to you both! I expect to be seated at the font nerd table.
Poor Papyrus must hAVATARget on its back.
I couldn't help myself.
Mazel Tav on the maybe-wedding. But if you're going to be husband stealing, you're not invited over for beer 'n' nachos night anymore.
I think I'd just make do with whichever utensil/object/tool made itself most readily available.
Like my 3D glasses or bucket of popcorn.
Sporks are good though.
HA. I've hated Papyrus ever since high school, where it was the font of choice on the outdoor sign and menu of a pretentious bistro where I worked summers.
No font sucks as much as Comic Sans, though, so at least Cameron didn't go there.
Dear Pr*tty Sh*tty. Many wives refuse to share their husbands. But not many wives are offered the chance to be in a joint marriage with the one, the only, THE REJECTIONIST. Some things are about to change.
Even though the Matchmaker Guild called to revoke my license, due to the whole he's married kerfuffle, I'm still thrilled to have brought you two together.
(No need for thanks. I accept small, untraceable donations.)
Good grief! Did you see all the psycho Avatar fans there going nutso because he dared to criticise their beloved movie? It's like, "oh my God! How dare someone disagree with me? I shall SMITE them with NASTY INSULTS in the comment section!"
Sheesh! Sometimes I wish the blogs were more like Roller Coaster Typhoon and I could make pretty little ponds and water rides and use them to drown obnoxious guests. (Though, just for the record, the only person I've ever drowned on purpose on RTC was my sister, and she was asking for it!)
We're all a bunch of font snobs.
And I love it :)
If I ever make a movie I'm going to call it Spork.
It will be a drama.
Maybe he's saving Comic Sans for Avatar 2? :D
Oh man. I think I actually DID use it on my homemade wedding invitations. It looked okay next to all the glitter and peacock feathers. Had trouble fitting them in envelopes though.
So I checked in with my wife. She's willing to share me.
I don't know who is crazier ... you for asking, or your wife for agreeing to it ... or Le R for starting the whole debacle. Either way, I got a good laugh out of it. THANKS.
That settles it--I can barely sit through reading a menu in Papyrus. I can't handle a whole movie.
Sidenote--I used to work at a stationery company and died a little inside when customers requested Papyrus. Which happened about once a day.
I just wish everyone would stop talking about this movie because everytime I see "Avatar" I get a little thrill thinking the subject is about The Last Airbender. Will this movie please now go away so that one can come out! Soka, Ang, Katara-I have not forgotten you.
Middle-aged mom who loves the good cartoons better than her kids do.
@Ink - May I pen your sequel, "The Search for Spork"?
Damn it! Who am I supposed to marry now?
This whole thread is hilarious. Thanks for posting a link to that joke--- I am just starting to learn about font snobbery and I've decided to make Comic Sans my font of choice for all my future queries.
Papyrus,
I have this friend, she's got a great personality and I think you two might hit it off. Her name is Lucida Console
Lucy,
Okay. But I get to write the one after that... Spork 3: The Search for 4.
We're, like, the Henry VIII of spouses.
You have probably seen this, but just in case you haven't:
http://xkcd.com/590/
=)
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