• Your Name (unregistered)

    Put Comment in Here

  • Tamas (unregistered)

    TODO: add comment to this story

  • Your Name (unregistered)

    Comment for article should be a relevant text for the article in question. E.G. First!!! etc.

  • Tamas (unregistered)

    Damn Your Name!! You beat me to the obvious joke.

    TODO: insult Your Name

  • Keloran (unregistered)

    is the minimum height for someone in american rugby 6ft or somet

  • Steenbergh (unregistered)

    This just goes to show how often these kind of things actually go right, with such relatively rare sightings.

    CAPTCHA: Appellatio. Don't know, sounds like something I want my wife to do to me...

  • (cs) in reply to Tamas
    Tamas:
    Damn Your Name!! You beat me to the obvious joke.

    TODO: insult Your Name

    Damn your name, and a pox on your house!

  • (cs)

    The weather girl's expression reminds me of Ellen Feiss.

  • (cs)
  • James (unregistered) in reply to Keloran
    Keloran:
    Is the minimum height for someone in american rugby 6ft or something?
    Yes, as you can see, the new players are tall, but either very light, or else have licenses to kill.
  • Milk Mann (unregistered) in reply to Steenbergh
    Steenbergh:
    This just goes to show how often these kind of things actually go right, with such relatively rare sightings.

    CAPTCHA: Appellatio. Don't know, sounds like something I want my wife to do to me...

    Don't bother she's not that good at it.

  • Addison (unregistered)

    This Just In: Local man adds comment, averts text here.

  • (cs)

    NAME LASTNAME? That's no WTF...he's the top pick in my fantasy football league!!!

  • (cs)

    Is that a wind sock icon on the last one? For a second I thought the weather forecast had something to do with people knocking over traffic cones.

  • Lamah (unregistered)

    Note to self: Simply do not display items which are still filled with filler text on actual broadcasts.

  • Tim (unregistered)

    Does anyone else think the 'Comment goes here' type comments that copy the WTF in comment style are lame?

    It's not funny if you do it in every story!

  • (cs)

    This is the main comment box where you can put up to 3 lines of witty remarks for your lower-third blue comments

  • (cs)

    How is Name Lastname doing anyways? My friend has that guy as part of his fantasy football league.

  • Miquel Fire (unregistered)

    I love the fact you got the bad expression shot of the weather girl as well. Adds more humor

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    // TODO: Customer visible text here!!!

    ...

    Helpdesk: How may I help you? Customer: I've found a repeatable error in the software. Helpdesk: What does the error message indicate? Customer: It indicates that you never finished writing it...

  • (cs) in reply to Tim
    Tim:
    It's not funny if you do it in *every* story!

    Amen to that... I mean, it's just SOOO obvious. I don't know if it's the same one or two people, or if every day someone else thinks they're going to be fresh and unique by replacing a few words of the story with "Comment" and posting.

    Or maybe it's new-comers that mistakenly think it's like a right of passage...

    But to answer your question, yes other people think it's lame and contrived.

    edit: Haha! I saw the post right after Tim's....

    Nazca:
    This is the main comment box where you can put up to 3 lines of witty remarks for your lower-third blue comments

    I'm telling you -- it's getting out of hand. Another thought, because it's so contrived -- maybe everyone just has a WTF script to generate those comments?

  • (cs) in reply to Tim
    Tim:
    Does anyone else think the 'Comment goes here' type comments that copy the WTF in comment style are lame?

    It's not funny if you do it in every story!

    You're just supposed to choose one to laugh at.

    1. TEXT_NOT_FOUND
    2. TITLE_NOT_FOUND
    3. NAME_NOT_FOUND
  • chris (unregistered)

    The weather lady is cute

  • Amedee (unregistered) in reply to chris
    chris:
    The weather lady is cute
    Yeah, but is she Irish?
  • (cs) in reply to JPhi
    JPhi:
    I don't know if it's the same one or two people, or if every day someone else thinks they're going to be fresh and unique by replacing a few words of the story with "Comment" and posting.

    Or maybe it's new-comers that mistakenly think it's like a right of passage...

    But to answer your question, yes other people think it's lame and contrived.

    I think it's mildly amusing. Take the feature's wording and use it in a comment... it requires a bit of participation on the reader's part, a kind of informal competition. I prefer that over "Hah! Good one!", or, "That's not a WTF because [insert reason here]", or "TheDailyWTF is so going downhill, nothing but lame posts any more, yadda yadda yadda."

  • Rambaldi (unregistered) in reply to Amedee
    Amedee:
    chris:
    The weather lady is cute
    Yeah, but is she Irish?

    Nope Kiwi I think although I don't usually watch that channel.

  • Tamas (unregistered) in reply to Tim
    Tim:
    Does anyone else think the 'Comment goes here' type comments that copy the WTF in comment style are lame?

    It's not funny if you do it in every story!

    You don't understand. See, as a daily WTF reader, it is your duty and obligation to do the obvious, article-related comment, if there are not comments yet!

    I'd say it's a lot more amusing than the 'First!!!111'-type comments seen on many other message boards.

  • (cs)

    TRWTF is that the location is supposed to be in small print, and the temperature (or thing happening) in large print.

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    That weather girl looks like she's just put her bong down. Cute but wasted.

  • (cs)

    If you go to the location, USA link above, (or probably anywhere), and then zoom all the way out, the US is repeated twice and Asia three times. Kind of neat.

  • (cs) in reply to JPhi
    JPhi:
    edit: Haha! I saw the post right after Tim's....
    Nazca:
    This is the main comment box where you can put up to 3 lines of witty remarks for your lower-third blue comments

    I'm telling you -- it's getting out of hand. Another thought, because it's so contrived -- maybe everyone just has a WTF script to generate those comments?

    Oi! I'll have you know I devoted some minutes of thought to deciding phrasing that would make sense, be witty, and still match the image text without too much deviation ¬_¬

    I even went to the effort of making the line proportions match the ones in the image.

    Some people are never satisfied shake head

    Code Dependent:
    I think it's mildly amusing. Take the feature's wording and use it in a comment... it requires a bit of participation on the reader's part, a kind of informal competition. I prefer that over "Hah! Good one!", or, "That's not a WTF because [insert reason here]", or "TheDailyWTF is so going downhill, nothing but lame posts any more, yadda yadda yadda."

    Exactly!

    It's an intelligent version of the "First!" nonsense. See who can come up get in a good corruption first.

    And as you say, at least those posts are not whiny :p

    Now hopefully Alex or Jake will blue my witty remark so I can keep my wonderful ratio of blue comments up ^_^ Okie, fine, -that- was a bit lame :p

  • (cs) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    That weather girl looks like she's just put her bong down. Cute but wasted.

    Heck yeah... I'd certainly check her humidity though :p

    Yeah, sorry, that's the best I can come up with on short notice. I thought about making a crack about looking up her wind sock, but figured that could be taken the wrong way :/

    What can I say, she's cute, hopefully got brains, and not obviously taken. I use the excuse of being dazzled by hawtness :p

  • (cs) in reply to DWalker59
    DWalker59:
    If you go to the location, USA link above, (or probably anywhere), and then zoom all the way out, the US is repeated twice and Asia three times. Kind of neat.
    Duh, that's how the Earth looks when viewed from space!
  • (cs) in reply to Nazca
    Nazca:
    This is the main comment box where you can put up to 3 lines of witty remarks for your lower-third blue comments
    The Nazca Lines.

    Sorry, couldn't resist.

  • (cs)

    Okay, okay, I guess the comments could be worse.

    I'll take the advise of the guy who said "You're supposed to choose one to laugh at". That was funny.

  • Todo: register username (unregistered)

    Todo: post a comment

  • David Boissonnault (unregistered)

    Another Good one

    [image]
  • tragomaskhalos (unregistered)

    Hmmm, who does Lorem Ipsum play for ?

  • Douglas (unregistered) in reply to TGV
    TGV:

    Following on in this vein, Insert Name Here shows a remarkable concentration of hits. Only pi**9.6 hits.

    Less than two (2) months of yank-bashing left! What are the rest of the world going to do until 2013 when Sarah Palin becomes president?

    I suppose there is always the French. Not as much fun. But there are tough times, you have to do with what you got.

    Then again, Obama could be the same old Yanqui a-hole that we always expect.

  • (cs) in reply to David Boissonnault
    David Boissonnault:
    Another Good one

    [image]

    yes it is due to it's impossibility.

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to David Boissonnault
    David Boissonnault:
    Another Good one

    [image]

    Which leaves me wondering what they meant to say. Did the headline writer really think the shuttle was travelling that fast? Was it simply some kind of brain freeze, like he meant to say "18 times the speed of sound" or some such?

    News reports about subjects that I actually know something about are routinely amusing. Whether they're stories about computers, science, or events where I happen to have been present, they are often completely wrong on important facts. Sometimes it may be due to bias, but often there is no explanation other than clumsiness or laziness or incompetence. Which makes me wonder: Why do I consistently believe them when they talk about things where I have no personal knowledge? And how much of what I think I know about the world, based on newspapers and television, is, in fact, completely false?

  • Montoya (unregistered)

    This just shows that there are too many developers out there who think that putting "EDIT THIS TEXT" in a text box somehow makes for a fool-proof system.

    Captcha: eros (NSFW!)

  • (cs) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    Nazca:
    This is the main comment box where you can put up to 3 lines of witty remarks for your lower-third blue comments
    The Nazca Lines.

    Sorry, couldn't resist.

    I see what you did there.

    :p

  • Weps (unregistered) in reply to David Boissonnault

    If we're quick we can catch it in 1972!

  • Calli Arcale (unregistered) in reply to Jay
    Jay:
    Which leaves me wondering what they meant to say. Did the headline writer really think the shuttle was travelling that fast? Was it simply some kind of brain freeze, like he meant to say "18 times the speed of sound" or some such?

    Presumably, they meant to say 18 times the speed of sound, as that is close to the Shuttle's typical orbital velocity. (Note: "speed of sound" is pretty meaningless at that altitude. In space, no one can hear your sonic boom! What is usually really meant is "18 times the speed that sound travels at sea level, or basically what you average laypeople will be sorta used to".) But as it turns out, that's actually not correct either, because Columbia had decelerated quite a bit before abruptly disintegrating. And since NASA TV had been calling out the velocity during the entire reentry, and replayed the reentry later in the day, and has huge amounts of Shuttle tidbits specifically written for use by the media that would've cleared things up, the news media really has no excuse.

    Mind you, that did lead to a bit of a joke among space nerds. If it was doing 18C, then clearly it disintegrated because you should never engage your warp engines within a gravity well!

  • Harrow (unregistered) in reply to tragomaskhalos
    tragomaskhalos:
    Hmmm, who does Lorem Ipsum play for ?
    Etaoin Shrdl U.

    -Harrow.

  • (cs)
  • Harrow (unregistered) in reply to Tamas
    Tamas:
    TODO: insult Your Name
    Steenbergh:
    CAPTCHA: Appellatio.
    Appellatio = "Your name sucks."

    Universal harmony is restored.

    -Harrow.

  • 008 (unregistered) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    Tim:
    Does anyone else think the 'Comment goes here' type comments that copy the WTF in comment style are lame?

    It's not funny if you do it in every story!

    You're just supposed to choose one to laugh at.

    1. TEXT_NOT_FOUND
    2. TITLE_NOT_FOUND
    3. NAME_NOT_FOUND

    What about FILE_NOT_FOUND?

  • Daedalus (unregistered) in reply to David Boissonnault

    So if the Columbia tragedy just happened now... ...it must have exploded in 2003 while traveling back in time! It's possible after all!

    Let's go back in time and save them, hmmm?

    CAPTCHA: captcha_word

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