well here's a bit of a suprise bonus for you guys... a pretty good demonstration of how sarcastic i get when it's the right time of the month - if you screw your brain in the other way (®) and then look carefully you should be able to see at least 14 different types of sarcasm :) following are excerpts from my irc logs for the evening of 9-10/2/000000002001. nympho is me, the other people are other people, in general. i haven't corrected the glaring errors in spelling and grammar, because that's not really in the spirit of logs. also it makes it a far more realistic parody of a rant, or flame... i think i might send this to 'el reg' and see if they like it... probably not angry enough though ;)

23:50:10 <nympho> oh for a sarcometer.
23:50:39 * nympho thinks there should be compulary sarcasm detector tests.
23:50:46 <nympho> like lie detector tests
23:51:19 <nympho> i'm sure it will help reduce spying at los alamos
23:51:34 <nympho> because lie dectector tests work so well.
23:51:47 <nympho> sarcasm dectector tests are bound to help.
23:52:16 <nympho> in fact with rigourous logic like that they should hire me to route out all these evil spys.
23:52:24 <murb> nympho: it wound't work, cos you coudl sarcastially fail it
23:52:43 <nympho> but the detector would notice.
23:53:22 <nympho> that's the great thing because a lie detector would fail if you told the truth, but a sarcasm detector would just be witty.
23:53:44 <nympho> and that'd be an immense help in the fight against crime.
23:54:02 <nympho> because lets face it sarcasm *causes* crime.
23:54:13 <nympho> you can see it in their eyes.
23:54:44 <nympho> so with a sarcasm detector all the worlds problems would be solved.
23:55:10 <nympho> and we'd be able to have affordable space travel.
23:55:48 <nympho> yes because the sarcasm detector is like the greatest invention ever, which hasn't been invented yet.
23:56:02 <nympho> and it'd help the fbi too.
23:57:05 * nympho thinks he should go to get some venture capital for this, and buy at least ten .com domains, because this idea is *so* big.
23:57:25 <nympho> yes in fact i should remorgage that house i don't have an move to the gobi.
23:57:42 <nympho> that way the future of the sarcasm detector would secured.
23:58:15 <nympho> and our childrens' futures would be full of fluffy kittens and stuff.
23:58:58 <nympho> um ok that's enough :)
23:59:17 * nympho thinks someone somewhere might have got the point a few hundred lines ago.
00:23:09 * nympho adds sarcasm to his website.
00:23:46 <nympho> that'd be a another great tool... the sarcastic webpage editor.
00:24:09 <quidity> Adds? Shouldn't all good communication be crafted in sarcasm
00:24:10 <nympho> that'd save *minutes* of frustrating thought
00:24:21 <nympho> quidity: yes.
00:24:32 <nympho> but some people weren't brought up proper.
00:24:45 <nympho> although with sarcometer we could change all that.
00:25:20 <nympho> what we need is a platform of progressive sarcastic reform of the very fabric of this society.
00:27:09 <nympho> in fact we all need sarcastic diplomas
00:28:12 <nympho> that way when you come up against a big scary monster you can have sarcasm on tap in order to facilite your special powers.

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