I just want to say whoever made Cal Poly Memes is my new internet hero. Then everyone who jumped on the bandwagon are my other heroes. (Read As: Reddit had the memes first but I didn’t notice until it was on Facebook and I’m sorry, don’t hurt me!)
I was on Tumblr around 1 a.m. and found a Cal Poly student posted a link to them. There’s a Reddit page and a Facebook page. I’m sure you lovely readers can post other sources in the comments.
I just needed to spread the word immediately.
Because I just can’t contain myself, here are some memes. I’m not posting credit, because these are MEMES. If you want to claim credit in the comments, go ahead. Better yet, LINK TO MORE!
NOTE: Before you go making memes, kindly educate yourself on the proper construction of memes.You will be ridiculed for improper form. I linked to the specific meme’s page in each image, so just click on it to further your knowledge on all things internet. Also, there are a few jokes that cross the line. I know this is the internet and many people have a “who cares?” attitude, but c’mon. You know them when you spot them on the pages.
- It’s okay, we understand, Most Interesting Man in the World.
All right, that’s it, no more. Link them in the comments or visit the pages linked above. Any wise cracks about quality journalism will be met with a snort of amusement. That said, love you guys.
Ma’am,
I am not sure if this is the right venue for saying so, but there seems to be a pattern for the last couple of weeks of not posting the opinion columns on line until the week after paper publication. I suppose there is some benefit to having one’s seething indignation settle down before putting anything in writing, but I am not sure that quite so much nannying is required.
Best Wishes,
Mole
P.S. Has the English department no shame? Apparently they managed to let Mr. Pringle avoid any literature that might have dented any of his fixed attitudes, and were very weak on rhetoric, leaving his prose mediocre at best. But Mr. Bloom apparently was protected from any mention of how stomach-churningly awful his writing is, and will be unleashed on an unsuspecting public, more than likely to teach, before the year is out. Did no one bother to mention that “synonymous” does NOT mean “interchangeable”? Calling Ann Coulter a “fountainhead”, a word far too freighted with Ayn Rand’s personal baggage to be of any use to a liberal commentator, was the last straw. Why use that word for a fluid dispenser when “douche nozzle” was available?
Our methods of posting print content to the web is so interlinked that I’m very surprised it happens. I wasn’t even aware of it.
Generally, we have the entire story up on the website for editing, and then it gets transferred to the paper layout. Then the web version is scheduled to come out sometime during the next day—the same day the paper is released. The release of stories is staggered during the day in order to keep content circulating, but usually no later than 1 p.m. will any story be released. Contrary to what my position as web editor suggests, I do not put the stories up on the web; that is for individual section editors.
I’ll double check the print article release dates and the posting time to see which columns were affected this way. I had no knowledge of this happening and appreciate that you have brought this to our attention.
-Katelyn Sweigart, web editor
P.S.: It’s all their own opinion, and if any columnist cannot succinctly and accurately express their opinion, then the readers are free to engage in discourse within the comments section. To deny them their column because of poorly constructed or perceived to be poorly constructed would be to censor them. You as a reader are free to express your own views of their argument and we will give you the same courtesy as the columnist. I find that some commentators bring up extremely valid and possibly more factual points in their discourse and hope to continue to see the holes in our columnists’ arguments get filled in or exposed by our readership. Especially since I make a point of not commenting on columns, even if I have very strong feelings on the subject…but someone always manages to make the comments I cannot. I appreciate and applaud our readers for continuing discussion on controversial subjects, even those commentators with opinions I do not share.
I have often posted comments on the liberal and conservative opinion articles to find that they remain in some kind of moderation limbo indefinitely, or at least longer than the week I’m willing to keep popping back in to check on the status of the comment. I’m guessing this is because I make a claim or dispute something in the article and then immediately follow it with a link to a source backing up my claim, and your spam filter assumes that all links are spam until somebody approves the comment.
Who is responsible for approving moderated comments like this? I’ve suspected that the article writer is responsible, which means that an unscrupulous writer might simply leave comments that provide proof of inaccuracy in the queue or delete them outright. It’s either that or nobody is checking the moderated queue and in that case conversations are mostly limited to “he said, she said, I think” arguments that don’t really go anywhere.
We only just recently discovered that Wordpress by default puts comments with links into a pending status. But before that we had been having issues with duplicate comments, which caused a lot of frustration in both the staff and the readership in terms of comment approval turn around.
We have since fixed this bug and have actively been clearing the Pending comments on a daily basis. If you do not see your comment appear within a day, please contact us.
The liberal and conservative columnists do not have access to comment moderation nor do they actively log in. Deleting comments without explanation is against our comment policy and I apologize if any of your comments have been accidentally filtered as spam.
I appreciate you bringing your concerns up, because it helps us fix our mistakes and give you an all-around better experience with the Mustang Daily. Thank you!
-Katelyn Sweigart, web editor
Mz. Sweigart,
Thank you for attending to the problem so promptly, even though it was not your responsibility to do so. I would appreciate it if you might direct me to whoever it is that I ought to address if any such problems crop up in future.
I apologize if I expressed myself so crudely that you thought I was being critical of the journalism department in general or yourself in particular in the P.S. (okay, it was a rant) portion of my message. Clearly journalists have standards even if English professors do not, and I applaud your considerable self-restraint in refraining from comment, and revulsion at the idea of censorship.
Actually, I’m the right person to contact about this, since it is a website issue. Thanks again for being attentive and have the courtesy to point things out!
Apparently I spoke too soon … Mr. Pringle’s Thursday column doesn’t appear in the “Opinion” tab, but does appear as “News” on the home page.
“News” is the default category of all posts. The person in charge of posting the columns just forgot to check the appropriate box. Fixed it!
Mz. Sweigart,
Sorry to bother you again, but Mr. Bloom’s opinion piece seems to have gone AWOL, along with Mr. Pringle’s letter to the editor. I was so looking forward to excoriating Mr. Bloom, who seems intent on making all liberals look like pompous dweebs.
Best wishes,
Mole
Bloom’s should be up now (minor error in 12-hr to 24-hr clock scheduling.) As for Pringle, we do not run Letters to the Editor online.
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