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clayhornikIt all comes back to Nixon. Everything wrong with society can be blamed on him.
Or maybe Woodward and Bernstein. It's all the *gate scandals. Watergate. OK. That's the beginning.
That's where the media at large somehow got the idea that sticking a suffix on something was a good idea. And for a while it managed to contain itself.
Then came the internet. And Napster.
The internet is the Typhoid Mary of memetic dissemination. Now, every clever program out there has a -ster after it. Friendster. Linkster. Feedster. Blogster. Sexster. Monster.
Wait. Strike that last one.
What started as a program named after it's programmer's nickname has become an evil, evil trend.
It must stop now. Or I'll have to release the ferrets. And nobody wants that. Trust me.
Or maybe Woodward and Bernstein. It's all the *gate scandals. Watergate. OK. That's the beginning.
That's where the media at large somehow got the idea that sticking a suffix on something was a good idea. And for a while it managed to contain itself.
Then came the internet. And Napster.
The internet is the Typhoid Mary of memetic dissemination. Now, every clever program out there has a -ster after it. Friendster. Linkster. Feedster. Blogster. Sexster. Monster.
Wait. Strike that last one.
What started as a program named after it's programmer's nickname has become an evil, evil trend.
It must stop now. Or I'll have to release the ferrets. And nobody wants that. Trust me.
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Date: 2004-05-15 03:58 am (UTC)well, i mean, TRY to. go ahead. i challenge you.
--(q, who can't remember her PW at the moment...)