Unintentional irony

Tuesday, January 14th, 2003

I just came across an abuse report from someone who wanted to complain about a post he found in us.military.navy. The post in question read, in part,

“On 9-11, Big Bully America finally got a taste of its own medicine …”

Just your garden-variety mindless Usenet troll. Annoying, but not something I’m going to waste any time with. The complainant requested — nay, demanded — that I terminate the poster’s account, because:

“This message, while not only clearly off-topic and intentionally inflammatory, could also be construed as a terroristic threat.”
The complaint ended with the following quote in the complainant’s .signature file:
“I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend, to the death, your right to say it.” — Voltaire

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Comments

kartoffel
January 14, 2003

Terroristic?

That’s the funniest part of it to me. The only threat this guy needs to worry about is the threat of being seen as an IDIOT when he uses non-words!

kchrist
January 14, 2003

It’s terrorific!

raindrops
January 14, 2003

Heh. Either I’ve just not had enough sleep lately, or that’s too funny.

Between Idealistic and Ironic… there’s idiotic.

kchrist
January 15, 2003

I hate to admit it, but it seems “terroristic” is actually a word.

ter•ror•is•tic /"ter-&r-'is-tik/ adjective

It means the same as terrorist, adj.

I found it on m-w.com. I thought they may have added it recently, but my print dictionary backs them up (Random House Websters College Dictionary, 1995, ISBN 0-679-43886-6). I was curious about that after the LJ spellchecker didn’t try to correct me.

How disappointing.

kartoffel
January 15, 2003

Doh! It seems that I am the idiot!