Monday, April 2, 2007

Google Fart Noise

I was hanging out with some working class friends of mine the other day and I discovered the best editing tool ever devised, which is adding (making a fart noise) after whatever you write. It's like a stage direction that indicates someone in your audience is making a fart noise. After you add the tool, read through your work and ask yourself "Does the fart noise seem completely out of place and look stupid compared to the text? Does it add to the fun of the text? Does it undercut and make the text look retarded?" If it's the formers: PUBLISH! SEND! BREATHE EASY! If it's the latter: get back to work. And as someone who's graduated college and read the beginnings of a lot of books, I gotta say, some people write their whole lives and pride themselves on a body of work that can all be felled by a simple (making a fart noise), which is so sad.
(making a fart noise)
I think Google or Microsoft Word would do the world good if a pre-made (making a fart noise) were added as a feature to the standard editing toolbar. It would have saved me quite a bit of embarrassment.
(making a fart noise)
See, doesn't the phrase "quite a bit" sound unnecessarily gay?
Now I know. Thanks, (making a fart noise).

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