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IanDrakeMcGaunn

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    I'm glad you picked up on the social commentary in my original joke, I'm very interested in exploiting this new trend where nerds is cool and jocks is not as powerful as before.

     

    To respond to the floppy dicks angle, I think it's a great observation but it's not as much of a reference as 'floppy disks'. Of course, saying 'dicks' might be another avenue to humor that isn't references. Unless you're always just referencing the first person to say 'dicks', in which case it's a great reference and references are entirely what jokes is.

     

    EDIT:

    Another cool reference: The 'my wife' joke.

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    I never even considered this possibility. Is there a way that I can get him out of my circuits and wires, as you called them?

     

    I really would rather not be dead right now, but I do understand that my mortality is very real in this moment.

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    I understand that I'm new on this forum and I probably don't have as much respect as some of you important bigwigs here in the industry, but if Sean and Hayes have taught me anything it's that I should really try to get out there. Every word I type is my audition, so I'd like to do the piece that I've practiced for you all, my auditioners.

     

    I think that Engineer Cody probably isn't real. Think about it for a second, if he was real, why can't we see him when we turn on the podcast? We know that Sean and Hayes are real because they is the hosts of the show, but Cody is only ever defined in the words of the podcast hosts. When we hear Cody talk, it could just be an electrical signal sent from the podcast headphone wires directly into our brain to cause us to hallucinate his speech patterns. There is absolutely no evidence for his existence, and I at least encourage you to think about whether Engineer Cody is real or not, because it's this sort of thing that Obama is trying to convince us of.

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    I'm not any of the people you specifically requested for feedback, but I do appreciate how difficult it is to overhall your brand. Doing so requires a lot of careful deliberation, and input from your friends, enemies, family and hopefully there are famous people among each of those groups whose opinions really matter. This being said, it is exciting and rewarding to create a new brand that people can really get behind. Even if this 'new brand' is really just using your actual name.

     

    RE those meetings, there are a lot of ways that you can get corporate to support your decision, that might not require so many meetings. Just Fax HR a detailed list of your brands defining qualities now, and a proposal detailing your new brand features and they might be able to expidite the whole process.

     

    "Have faith in bureaucracy" -- the first sentence in my book, the Ironic Anarchist Manifesto.

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    Is floppy disks a reference yet? those kinds of disks is like the old kind that computers used a while ago. I'm trying to make some references, because being able to make jokes has been identified as being very cool and smart, but i'd like to use them effectively.

     

    Here's a test joke:

    Hey geek (I point at a geek) is that a floppy disk you have? (the geek has a regular disk, but I referred to an older kind of disk instead)

     

    When I told this joke to myself, I had a blast and I thought it was really funny, but I just want to see how real jokesters think of it.

     

    EDIT:

    List of References in This Post:

    - Floppy Disks (old computers)

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    I don't want to be out of line here, but it seems like this thread may have gotten *slightly* off-topic. I don't want to be the stickler in this group, but I do want to identify some objective criteria that we can use to decide which of the podcast hosts is gets voted off in real life and doesn't do the podcast anymore.

     

    What would you say is the most important feature of somebody who is doing a podcast? Once we figure that out, we can know who has more of it and then we can really figure who is much worse than the other in the podcast.

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