From the Brow of Zeus

This is the kind of thing I am faced with every time I check my Yahoo email account.

Friends List of the Ring. So not-funny it hurts.

First Gandalf asks, "R U there Frodo?"
To which Frodo responds, "What up, G?"

Get it? G....as in Gandalf! HAHAHAAHAHAHA!

Then Gandalf emails directions to Frodo. But they're bad directions, and we cut to a clip of a car plunging off a cliff, followed by a closeup of a cell phone with the text message, "Worst Directions EVER!"

I'm surprised Frodo can text after all the spinal damage from the car accident. Why not just go all out and use "EVAR"?

My mind reeled. How something like this legal? Then I remembered parody laws protect major corporations as well as the little guy. But come on, couldn't anyone at Something Awful have done a better job than this? Even the automatic spambot protection? I think I could write a QBasic program with a better sense of humor. Who does Yahoo hire for this stuff, the writers at SNL? (ooh diss.)

This is why I am switching to Gmail. Not just the free POP access. It's their gentle lack of "humor".

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