Rory - Neopoleon : The Flair Affair

Welcome to Neopoleon - Sign in | Join | Help

Navigation: Home | Forums | Galleries

The Flair Affair

I figured my flair heist was going to cause some problems sooner or later, and, sure enough, I received this letter this morning:

Dear Madam,

It was recently brought to our attention here at the International High IQ Society that you have been inflammatorialacious enough to wrongly display our organization's graphicatorial representosityness on your "blog" web site.

This letter will be your singulatonical disrepresentatorial warning to abstify from any further such flagrantocities.

Should you complictatorially fail to comply with our most gratitudinatiously presentated demands, then our lawyers will have no choice but to pound your bollywocks into a fine pancake shape, thentofore to be distrupensated immedatiously to Cerberus, the International High IQ Society's dog, for grotestinal snacking and possible subsequentious barfing.

We eluciously thank you for your unswiveling attention in this disturbilagracious matter.

Sincerely,

Xxxx Xxxxxxxx [Note: name hidden to protect identity]
President, International High IQ Society
IQ 193
Class 5 Orc

P.S.

In the event that your tiny average brain was completely unable to make sense of the letter, we're saying that if you don't take our icon down, we're going to rock you in court.

P.P.S.

I didn't have to use a spell checker for this letter. I'm a perfect speller.

P.P.P.S.

I'm way smarter than you.

Because none of you ever send me money for no reason, the neopoleon.com legal fund isn't really up to the job of getting me out of this higgledy-piggledy mess, so I'm going to comply and take the flair down.

And so it goes.

After Blog Mint [?] :

Another Coding Slave review comes in - this one from Jeff Atwood at Coding Horror.

Published Thursday, July 15, 2004 5:36 AM by Rory

Filed Under: General

Comments

	Julian Kay said: You know what Rory? You are so cool, you don't need any of that flair stuff. :D July 15, 2004 8:20 AM
	matthew said: dude, can't you lose this and keep the other stuff? July 15, 2004 8:27 AM
	John said: They're not that smart dude. They have a tautology there with the "'blog' web site" comment. Besides.. you're probably taller, or have a larger penis or something.. John. July 15, 2004 11:45 AM
	Ken said: I checked out that high IQ society site, and quite frankly it kind of looked like a scam- sort of like the "who's who of American high school students". As in, "Congratulations! you are one of the select few who qualify to give us 20 bucks a year!" I mean, the tests have no time limit, so almost anyone should eventually be able to figure out enough of the answers on at least one of the tests to get a score of 126 or whatever it is. They did have some neat puzzles though. July 15, 2004 12:27 PM
	Matthew Burns said: I'm actually in it. it's basically a big message board where people argue a lot. though they have a neat puzzle and game section and some of the other side forums aren't bad. they also have tournaments for chess and a stock market game and possibly a few other things. There is a one time fee for entering but it's for life and it's not that bad. and most of it's members are not perfect spellers. though I do notice that there are only a few idiots there so it's a little better than other big message boards. but not by much. though I really can't imagine them telling you to take down a free banner ad. that doesn't make a lot of sense. July 15, 2004 3:03 PM
	Brian Kuhn said: I think you should start a "International Average IQ Society". That way most of us who are in the middle of the bell curve can have an organization we can join. The puzzles would not be hard, but still somewhat challenging. Then you could create a replacement flair logo for the blog, and not worry about all the legal troubles. Although I am sure the EFF would start a legal fund if needed. The average must rise up against their high IQ opressors! July 15, 2004 3:18 PM
	Joe Grenier said: Me in Hi Eye Cue socety. Me rite chek. me get logo. Me smart. Rori not right chec. No chek no logo. Heh heh. July 15, 2004 5:06 PM
	Joe Grenier said: Seriously though Rory, if you can read that letter live on .NET Rocks with no mistakes, that alone is reason enough to let you in. July 15, 2004 5:09 PM
	Matthew Burns said: This Blog is reason enough to let him in. It's clear by his insights and his writing ability that he's very intelligent. July 15, 2004 5:24 PM
	Chris Sells said: 193 IQ?!? I'd think so! He'd be a "level 5 orc," not a "class 5 orc." Duh... : ) July 15, 2004 6:27 PM
	bob Reselman said: Rory's back!!!! July 15, 2004 8:07 PM
	Josh said: Apparently, a sense of humor is not a requirement for joining the International High IQ Society. At any rate, it kinda seemed like a scam for $$ to me. July 15, 2004 11:00 PM
	Sam said: They are wrong. You don't need flair, you have a perfectly good readable website. If you start using flair you'll look like CNN.com or espn.com... theres a reason why google and yahoo are so successful... KISS - (KEEP it simple stupid) Sam July 19, 2004 8:13 PM
	Camey said: Maybe the letter should have started with "Dear Madman..." July 21, 2004 5:53 PM
	Richard Callaby said: You mean you are lucky enough to work in a place that does not require flair? Dang I need to find out where you work man! Man you are lucky! July 21, 2004 8:07 PM
	Daniel 193 said: Human intelligence is, after all, auto deduced! December 14, 2005 4:06 AM
	TrackBack said: The Flair Affair (from: Rory) July 16, 2004 4:29 AM
	Dominique said: http://8a26527e29f73fc85451d1fc1e88a55e-t.dh4t5gef.info <a href="http://8a26527e29f73fc85451d1fc1e88a55e-h.dh4t5gef.info">8a26527e29f73fc85451d1fc1e88a55e</a> [url]http://8a26527e29f73fc85451d1fc1e88a55e-b1.dh4t5gef.info[/url] [url=http://8a26527e29f73fc85451d1fc1e88a55e-b2.dh4t5gef.info]8a26527e29f73fc85451d1fc1e88a55e[/url] http://8a26527e29f73fc85451d1fc1e88a55e-b3.dh4t5gef.info[/u] January 17, 2007 8:31 AM

The Flair Affair

Comments

Julian Kay said:

matthew said:

John said:

Ken said:

Matthew Burns said:

Brian Kuhn said:

Joe Grenier said:

Joe Grenier said:

Matthew Burns said:

Chris Sells said:

bob Reselman said:

Josh said:

Sam said:

Camey said:

Richard Callaby said:

Daniel 193 said:

TrackBack said:

Dominique said:

About Rory

This Blog

Post Calendar

Post Categories

Feeds