It’s really fun to see someone take a silly experiment and launch it to the next level, a silly experiment with wide recognition. Of course, with Stephen Colbert’s huge popularity these days, is it really any wonder that a Twitter account that was updated with some regularity would get noticed?
As noted in the Fake Stephen’s article, there was already an @stephencolbert when Fake Stephen went to register. However, that person had updated very infrequently, and had stopped updating a very long time ago overall. Even though @stephencolbert had 10,000, without updates it was just another idle account. When I checked earlier tonight, Fake Stephen’s account, @stephentcolbert only had 5,000 followers. Yet it was this account that hit the front page of Digg and got called out by Comedy Central themselves. Proof that one of the keys to recognition within a social environment is to be social! (Duh.)
I kind of hope that Fake Stephen carries on in some way, shape or form. It might be a nice addition to the pantheon of other Fakes out there. Like Fake Steve Jobs.
While The Show (with Ze Frank) has been officially over for some time now, Ze Frank has come out of the woodwork since the Writers’ Strike began to give the writers a few words of encouragement, and provide some of his glorious info-tainment regarding the situation with Pakistan to the presumed-to-be-unwashed masses of the internet.
I for one could do a jig about the situation - Ze Frank’s brief return, not Pakistan - but regrettably I’ve never been much of a dancer.
Who loves the little duckies in the pond? Oh-ho-ho. You bet your ass that I do!
I wanted to embed all 3 Ze Frank Redux (heh heh, “dux”) videos, but all I got was this lousy tee shirt. I mean, post link.
This has to be one of the least intelligent surgical developments I have heard in quite a long time. It’s just another item in a long line of things subtly encouraging people to assume that sex has nothing to do with personal happiness and everything to do with how one’s sexuality will be judged by others. Barring any actual deformities, such as those caused by functionally limiting accidents or birth defects, I can see absolutely no reason for this procedure. Anyone who encourages this be performed on healthy women is - to say the least - very disappointingly short-sighted.
As a part of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, sex ranks directly with food, sleep, and breathing as one of the most important needs for a human being. I myself am in agreement with that sentiment.
Esteem? That which would make one desire a purely cosmetic change in the first place is a much smaller piece of the pyramid. Rightfully so, as the interactivity one elects to have with other humans is as optional as this “designer vagina” surgery. I can’t really picture a scenario in which the likeness of my pubic area to that of one seen in a magazine or film would really be that important. Even for those in the habit of posing for said magazine photographs, there is indeed photoshop and other such techniques which would prevent the necessity of voluntary genital mutilation.
Ladies, the next time you start to feel insecure about the appearace of your genitalia, just remember: “Who really has any business giving a shit besides me?”
I happened to see one of my co-workers campaigning in downtown Dover today, for candidate Ron Paul. My first thought was who? My second thought was: well let’s see what this guy is all about. I went to the campaign site: www.ronpaul2008.com
There I found the most delightful Daily Show interview with the candidate:
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