The Ominous Comma has been reviewed by the dedicated humor inspectors of Humor-Blogs.com and has survived scrutiny.
Unfortunately, I simply don’t have enough time right now to address this momentous achievement in the depth that it deserves, so I will leave you with this link to the review itself and the promise of a follow-up report soon to follow.
Which is exactly what a follow-up should do.
Just think of how confusing it would be if the follow-up didn’t follow this preliminary report. What if it raced on ahead of this post and arrived yesterday? That would even confuse me, since I haven’t written it yet.
But then again, if I could convince posts to appear, in some Bill and Ted fashion, on just the promise of writing them sometime in the future, writing would be a lot less labor intensive.
Hmmmm.
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Haha! they called you “highbrow”. A pair of tweezers can fix that. It worked for my uni-brow problem.
Congrats on the great review.
Waxing could take care of your “highbrow” more quickly than tweezers.
While I congratulate the Ominous Comma on being the second highest rated blog on Humor-Blogs.com, I found myself asking, “What’s the point?” Who cares what other readers think. If it’s funny, it’s funny. If someone doesn’t think it’s funny, they don’t have to read it.
Maybe Dr. T should do a session with the reviewers on the need to rank, rate and categorize for a sense of purpose.
One time my posts came back from the future and tried to kill my mom before I was born.
Chris,
Thank you
Jenn,
I frequently wonder about the point of many things I do. I question the amount of time I put in on this blog and ask myself if I shouldn’t be doing something more worthwhile to educate people, to preserve the environment, to bring spiritual healing, or any of a dozen more worthwhile endeavorers.
But what I keep coming back to, is that this is what I’m good at. And while providing the temporary happiness of entertainment ranks low on my own personal top ten list, it is what I have chosen to do for now.
So if my goal is entertainment, then an impartial review of my peers lets me know if I am doing as good as my wife and my friends say that I am. Like a good communicator, I am always looking for feedback, so matter how subtle, to know if I am getting through. In that capacity, a review is a good thing.
Also, since one of the goals of this blog is to gain an audience for my work, positive exposure is good. The reviewers may not have come to the site if they had not be assigned to do so, and hopefully their reviews will encourage more to come and visit.
Diesel,
What you need is an inside man. Freeze a post from the 80’s in orbit around the earth, so it can be defrosted in the future where it will kick butt on your enemies while sporting spandex, gold medallions, and lots of hairy chest.
Congratulations, Mr. Brent.
I doff my hat to you. And my trousers, which is never an easy task.
You deserve it. Great job on your review :)
It is always good to have people not in your social circle review your writing. They are much less likely to pull punches because they don’t have the worry of hurting your feelings.
Like you, I thought being reviewed was a positive thing. Sure, some of the comments are roasts, but they are funny as well.
As I have said many times, we are humorists reviewing each other. There is bound to be some making fun of-ness going on. :)
Congrats, you deserve it!!
Very good job, very good job. I just wonder what the good doctor would have to say to the reviewers…
You Lordship,
I pray you to remain clothed. What ever will the servants think? But thank you for your sentiments.
Chris C,
It’s always good to get feedback from strangers, and there are few stranger than the Humor-Blogs Bunch.
CrummyJoel,
Thank you very much, I have decided to donate my prize money to charity. It seems that there are a few churches in the area that want to upgrade to LED readerboards.
RJ,
Thank you. I’m sure the doctor will have quite a bit to say eventually.
On that topic, do you or your family require therapy after the move? I’m sure you could take out a second mortgage to cover the bill
Congrats on your 94. You´ll always be a 100 in my book!
Hey Brent, I hope I didn’t offend you. I know the review is good for your traffic. And your blog is great, and you are great at being funny. You don’t have to worry that we’re all just being nice to you.
I wasn’t trying to be really ugly about the review, maybe I was secretly peeved on your behalf by the people who responded negatively – like “so what? don’t read it then”. Anyway, you’re still the second highest rated so, congrats!
No offense taken. I thought you had an excellent question, one that I had already been wondering about.
But thanks anyway.
There will always be people who don’t like the Comma or care for my sense of humor, these people are simply known as “wrong.”
Life calls for a certain amount of “wrong” people, without them we wouldn’t have a two party political system, or pork rinds, or reality TV.
Can you imagine it?
hi i enjoyed the read