tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27807460.post849495874596825080..comments2024-03-22T13:57:42.835-04:00Comments on Wishydig: A bigger fish is FryWishydighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06141057866370676641noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27807460.post-36629227418378713732007-10-13T20:28:00.000-04:002007-10-13T20:28:00.000-04:00I recognize that I was the relay between Fry's hum...I recognize that I was the relay between Fry's humor and Casey's downfall. I apologize to anyone that was hurt by my actions.Wishydighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06141057866370676641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27807460.post-35826138331477162722007-10-13T17:12:00.000-04:002007-10-13T17:12:00.000-04:00We all need to take more responsibility for what o...We all need to take more responsibility for what our ideas are doing to Casey.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05679548761291138494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27807460.post-4815186378604559362007-10-12T14:55:00.000-04:002007-10-12T14:55:00.000-04:00I forgot everything I had read above when it flash...I forgot everything I had read above when it flashed across the billboard of my brain that I could now begin calling my big research project "my blissertation."<BR/><BR/>YES!Caseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03820693522030084335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27807460.post-91167076157967585502007-10-12T12:38:00.000-04:002007-10-12T12:38:00.000-04:00Ah. Yes. The influence if "bless" contaminated my ...Ah. Yes. The influence if "bless" contaminated my view of "blisquisitions" and threw a similar form in there.<BR/><BR/>I wondered if he was purposefully playing with the ridiculousness of the weB Log ESSAY frankenword in order to create a more hideous monster.<BR/><BR/>My guess was that he did that then he saw bless and 'bliss' in there (loosely) and he liked the layering so much that it made it into his header.Wishydighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06141057866370676641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27807460.post-10340018645638794062007-10-12T08:10:00.000-04:002007-10-12T08:10:00.000-04:00Oh yeah - so the simple point was, blisquisition =...Oh yeah - so the simple point was, <BR/><BR/><I>blisquisition</I> = blog + disquisition<BR/><I>blessay</I> = blog + essay<BR/><BR/>Or was that apparent and the way you wrote the post, talking about bless/bliss, just obscured it??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27807460.post-76987103103814459012007-10-12T08:07:00.000-04:002007-10-12T08:07:00.000-04:00Oh see, I read all the bl- formations as just anot...Oh see, I read all the <I>bl-</I> formations as just another clever Stephen Fry bit, taking what he perhaps sees as the ridiculousness of the portmanteau "blog" (I think you can loosely apply "portmantau" to this case, if you count "web" and "log" as two separate words instead of an already-compound) and creating a set of second-order portmanteaus just to show us how ridiculous it is. And the other stuff...just follows suit. I think he's simply poking fun at the medium (why wouldn't he?).<BR/><BR/>You know, often when people (including me) start blogs they're like, "OK ok, I've started one of <I>these</I> things. I know it's weird/dumb/stupid/silly. It's just an experiment, to see how it goes," like with all these disclaimers. Maybe his wordplay reflects similar hyperanalytically self-aware (I know Fry is hyperanalytically self-aware!) hesitation.<BR/><BR/>And THAT, my friends, was FAR too much text for the situation at hand. My first mini-blessay?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com