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I Am a Terrorist
Or
“How I Threatened To Burn My Professor At The Stake”
This is a rundown of what happened when a college student at Baylor University sent out an email satirizing another student's email. Let's call him Satire-Guy Cody. (Baylor is in Waco, Texas, and is the largest Baptist college in the world.)
The other student, let's call him Zealot Chris, got freaked out in Intro to Neuroscience, because the professor basically said that the Bible is not a science textbook, and so it wouldn't be the focus of the neuroscience discussion in the neuroscience class.
Zealot Chris decided to protest this blasphemy by walking out of class, boycotting that professor, standing outside of class every time that professor taught that class, and emailing everybody about this plan, so that they could choose to join in the boycott. Or, perhaps they could ask him questions so that they could be guided by him, and thus gain entrance to Heaven. Either way.
Satire-Guy Cody found this ridiculous enough that he was compelled to ridicule it. Hey, it was ridiculous. Ridiculable. Right?
He ridiculed it, all right, in an amusing email that was a line-by-line copy of the Zealot Chris email, but went further, saying things like the professor was a heretic, and the Bible states that you can't suffer witches to live, so... He called on his fellow Christians to bring rope and kindling, and on Wednesday before the lecture, they would burn him at the stake. Good plan!
Not a wise email to send, for several reasons.
Firstly. Zealot Chris had sent his email to all of the students in the class, but not the professors. Satire-Guy Cody didn't realize this. It turns out that some people received the email that had NOT received the Zealot Chris email. Some of these people thought it was serious.
Next. Satire-Guy Cody's email appeared above Zealot Chris' email in people's inboxes. Some read his first, and some of these people thought it was serious.
Next. Some people read the Zealot Chris email before Cody's... but just didn't get the joke. Some of these people thought it was serious.
Basically, there were a few people who read Cody's email who just didn't understand that it was a satire, and only a satire. They thought a student was actually planning to burn a professor at the stake. Naturally, they couldn't just reread the email to determine whether or not this was really happening, since they couldn't read well enough to locate the satire in the first place.
And, after the campus police were done messing up Cody's next couple of days, and the professor had laughed off the attempt on his life, things got back to normal, and we were all older but wiser.
Well, older, at least.
Or
“How I Threatened To Burn My Professor At The Stake”
This is a rundown of what happened when a college student at Baylor University sent out an email satirizing another student's email. Let's call him Satire-Guy Cody. (Baylor is in Waco, Texas, and is the largest Baptist college in the world.)
The other student, let's call him Zealot Chris, got freaked out in Intro to Neuroscience, because the professor basically said that the Bible is not a science textbook, and so it wouldn't be the focus of the neuroscience discussion in the neuroscience class.
Zealot Chris decided to protest this blasphemy by walking out of class, boycotting that professor, standing outside of class every time that professor taught that class, and emailing everybody about this plan, so that they could choose to join in the boycott. Or, perhaps they could ask him questions so that they could be guided by him, and thus gain entrance to Heaven. Either way.
Satire-Guy Cody found this ridiculous enough that he was compelled to ridicule it. Hey, it was ridiculous. Ridiculable. Right?
He ridiculed it, all right, in an amusing email that was a line-by-line copy of the Zealot Chris email, but went further, saying things like the professor was a heretic, and the Bible states that you can't suffer witches to live, so... He called on his fellow Christians to bring rope and kindling, and on Wednesday before the lecture, they would burn him at the stake. Good plan!
Not a wise email to send, for several reasons.
Firstly. Zealot Chris had sent his email to all of the students in the class, but not the professors. Satire-Guy Cody didn't realize this. It turns out that some people received the email that had NOT received the Zealot Chris email. Some of these people thought it was serious.
Next. Satire-Guy Cody's email appeared above Zealot Chris' email in people's inboxes. Some read his first, and some of these people thought it was serious.
Next. Some people read the Zealot Chris email before Cody's... but just didn't get the joke. Some of these people thought it was serious.
Basically, there were a few people who read Cody's email who just didn't understand that it was a satire, and only a satire. They thought a student was actually planning to burn a professor at the stake. Naturally, they couldn't just reread the email to determine whether or not this was really happening, since they couldn't read well enough to locate the satire in the first place.
And, after the campus police were done messing up Cody's next couple of days, and the professor had laughed off the attempt on his life, things got back to normal, and we were all older but wiser.
Well, older, at least.
posted by annekat at
11:07 AM
4 Comments:
This is the best and most accurate retelling of my story I've seen thus far.
You get 10 brownie points.
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Anonymous, at 12:01 AM
Yee! The guy who the post is ABOUT read my blog! Wow! And he liked it, which is teh awesome!
Hey, these internets thingy is really starting to catch on these days!
Well, heck, I'm just going to have to blog this. That's all there is to it.
(Also, I have always liked brownies, and anything to do with brownies, including points.)
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annekat, at 6:23 AM
I find you stange, Anonymous, but my charter requires me to support oddness of all sorts.
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annekat, at 9:48 PM
You find me strange NOW, do you? After all the time I've been reading your blog and once in a great while posting comments? Why have you never remarked on this before, until AFTER I've invested all my time and energy to your site????
/kidding
No, seriously, brownies are not only little chocolate desserts used to hide THC, but legend goes that they were tiny elvish-like creatures that would repair shoes if you left milk out for them. Something that most people would consider merely tiny elves, or possibly the keebler type. Yes, BROWNIES, not simply elves, make your crackers! I think.
At any rate, these little bastages are used in everquest as a type of npc.
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Anonymous, at 10:07 AM
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