Comments on: Exemplary Prose From Our Most Promising Youth

by: pentamom

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

What do I need to do actually to be able to read these? Clicking on the thumbnails only produces a larger, still-unreadable image.

by: Tim Berglund

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Funny, Mrs. Berglund had the same reaction at first.

If we are an IE user, first stop using it and switch to Firefox. Failing that, hover over the bigger-but-unreadable image in IE until an inscrutable square icon appears at the image’s lower right corner. (It happens just after the mini toolbar appears at the upper left. It takes about two seconds total.) Click on this icon, and you will see the image zoomed in all the way. You’ll probably have to scroll around a bit to see the whole thing, but at least you’ll be able to read the text.

If you’re already numbered among the elect/using Firefox, just click anywhere on the bigger-but-unreadable image to zoom in on it. No hovering waiting for a mystery icon to appear anywhere. Plus tabbed browsing!

Let me know if that doesn’t do it. You do need to read these. They’re pretty funny.

by: pentamom

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Bite your tongue! I had Firefox installed LONG before the likes of YOU told me to!

OTOH, I did need you to tell me how to use it… {blush}

by: Tim Berglund

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Ah, good for you! Firefox rulez0rz.

These were pretty good, huh?

by: Moosebugs

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

To see the images, check your Options in Firefox (also IE, too if you still use that old thing) and ensure that under “Advanced” under “Multimedia” there is NO checkmark next to “resize large images to fit in browser window.”

And they are wicked funny. It’s times like these I wish that I worked in a home office (like some people) and could actually laugh out loud.

by: Adeodatus

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

The El Nino piece had us giggling, but we realised by the second piece that this was a one trick pony a la Dave Barry. Funny? You bet. Perchance time will create a more diverse, nuanced humor. You would hate to see another young person suffer the truncated success and cash flow of Dave Barry.

More important than enjoying the humor, though, is to note where these postmodern minds allow for the supernatural and reveal a worldview which does not rule out the importance of satiating spiritual demiurges. We theists would have to shout a hearty Amen! when youth like this make such a metaphysical stand. Flashlight batteries to counter the will of the gods indeed.

by: Byron's sister

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

The images work perfectly with Safari - if you happen to be using a Mac.

Wicked funny indeed.

by: Phisch

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve read these twice and, I must say, they just get funnier with every reading. I shared them with my hubby and he’s convinced someone was faking them, no way could they be that rediculous.

by: Julie

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Oh my! I knew that some kids were a little weird, but this is just off the chart. I laughed so much at El Nino, but the lightening one showed how obsessed this kid is with the old myths and gods. It’s a little disturbing. The sarcasm in the Walt Whitman one was priceless though and I loved it.

by: In That Number

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Our Future: Our Kids

Remember that thought when you go and read this post from Tim Berlund’s blog. Mind his note about the last one. I had my hubby read them and he said “no way are these real.” Sad, but they graduate kids who can’t read so it’s entirely possible. I’…