The ongoing dispute between different pottery factions in Seagrove, NC has made the international news scene now that Fark.com has picked it up. I’ve always thought that the most dangerous people in the world are pissed off artists.
Well, there’s notoriety and then there’s notoriety. Vernon Robinson has earned the “Dumbass” tag on Fark.com and about 250 comments that include some slams on him, but also veer into interesting and Fark-esque political debate. Not that he should care, but it is interesting since a lot of those folks would normally be considered conservative (i.e. Republican) who take exception to his approach. I think he’ll find a lot of moderate Republican and Democratic voters who feel the same way in the 13th District, which is why I think he’ll dominate the far-right vote and top out at about 30% in November.
Here’s a link to the article that started the discussion and here’s a link to the page with the radio spot they all found a little ridiculous. It’s called “Brad Miller’s Mariachi Party.”
"The term "paddy wagon" is considered insulting by some Irish-Americans. Crazy micks" – Where else but from Fark.com
I found these Farklines pretty funny:
Source: Fark.com
Headline: Supreme Court says no to medical marijuana. Reported cases of glaucoma expected to drop precipitously
Source: Fark.com of course.
My hometown paper, the Winston-Salem Journal, probably saw a nice traffic spike yesterday (Saturday, May 14, 2005). Since there’s a local furniture company named Hooker they were able to run this article with the headline "Hooker expects up to 7% drop in sales."
Of course this caught the attention of my favorite sophomoric-humor-weblog, Fark.com, which linked to the story with its own, somewhat more suggestive headline: "Hooker expects up to seven percent drop in business due to wood shortage."
Links from Fark.com have been known to crash sites due to the traffic crush, so my hat’s off to the webguys at the Journal. (Hi Joe.)
Fark has a couple of good headlines today:
"New York City to end fiscal year with $3.2 billion surplus. Plans to give it all to the Yankees in hopes of buying a decent team"
"Runaway bride offers apology. CNN yet to apologize for deeming this newsworthy"
"Hard-hitting investigative journalists discover recent phenomenon of lawmakers flying on corporate jets" – which links to this story on MSNBC.
There’s more so just go to their website to enjoy them. (Mom, don’t go if you don’t want to see pictures of scantily clad women, etc. The site IS run by a 20- or 30-something year old dude.)
"Warren Buffet buys stake in Anheuser-Busch. Smart investors go long on wife-beater tank tops" – Farkalicious.
"Man films Canadian bigfoot. No word if it’s 20% less hairy than US bigfoot" – Visit Fark.com for more.
"Tired of being taken to them, man decides to screw the cleaners" – A banner day on Fark.com
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