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Is “Nullity” the “Truthiness” of mathematics?
December 12, 2006
AND NOW A WORD FROM SOMEBODY WHO MAY HAVE NEVER HEARD OF ME...
Strongest. Baddest. Ever.
I must admit that I am less of a fan of Homestar Runner than most internet-obsessed geeks. The combination of made-up words, semi-indecipherable voices, rapidly-aging running jokes, aggressive cuteness and weird animation (was it originally intended as a demo of the more annoying features of Flash?), usually drowns out the frequently imaginative concepts as well as its best funnies. Example: the highlight of the Halloween (or Hallow-Day) bit was the characters’ semi-obscure-pop-culture-reference costumes.
For the record… First row: Father Guido Sarducci, Gizmo from “Gremlins”, Teen Wolf, Frida Kahlo. Second row: Queen Latifah, Coach McGuirk from “Home Movies”, Necron 99 from Ralph Bakshi’s “Wizards” (the only one I didn’t know), Andy Kaufman’s Tony Clifton. Back row: Sam Keith’s The Maxx, the Gorton’s fisherman and Mario Batali.
But the current edition of StrongBad’s Email: “What I Want” was better than a laugh-a-minute*. Specifically it was 15 laughs in 3:30 (I keep track) starting with “Where’d you get that name? George Lucas?” and finishing with “I returned an omelette to a hardware store” with only one “Get on with it!” moment (the ‘Dancing Nobot’ bit).
On the other hand, their made-up holiday name “Decemberween” was the first solid evidence that somebody really is declaring “War on Christmas.”
* If “a laugh a minute” is your minimum requirement for humor, your standards are too low. It’s the humor equivalent of “zero to sixty in under a minute”, “finding a dead bug in your food less than once a week”, “two orgasms per year” and “Windows ME works fine”.
