Eh, I thought that effort was weak sauce. The original Swift posts were funny precisely because it was not obvious that what you were reading was satire, and that you might actually be reading some mal-informed yokel. I think that was pretty much gone from this post which was a pretty unsubtle satire.
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Eh, I thought that effort was weak sauce. The original Swift posts were funny precisely because it was not obvious that what you were reading was satire, and that you might actually be reading some mal-informed yokel. I think that was pretty much gone from this post which was a pretty unsubtle satire.
Jumped the shark.
Point taken, although I think "jumped the shark" is the wrong cliché. "Below his usual standards," maybe.
But as long as he's back, I'm hopeful.
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