Join the Straight Dope Mockery Brigade!

[Skald_the_Rhymer]

The application process is simple.

One poster names a real person of sufficient fame to be reasonably known to the Teeming Millions (but no other board members, 'cause that would be tacky). A link to info on that person is courteous, but not necessary.

The next poster mocks that person and nominates a victim for *someone else * to savage.

Posters may, if they choose, grade previous entries on a scale of 1 to 10 for wit, charm, verve, vocabulary, class, and style.

You may NOT mock other members of the SDMB, whether they are current members, former members, guest members, or banned members. This includes Jerry, admins and moderators, as we are not in the Pit.

You may NOT mock a person you have nominated yourself, even if someone else nominates him later. That’s cheating.

So, for example, if hypothetical poster 0 wrote “Cary Tennis,” I could respond,

“Reading Cary Tennis’s writing convinces me that he is in need of more drugs. Or fewer drugs. Or different drugs. Or no drugs at all. I don’t know which, but clearly he is under some sort of psychopharmocological influence, and just as clearly it’s not working as advertised.”

My nominee: Piers Anthony.

[Silver_Tyger]

Does Piers Anthony still count as a writer? Isn’t he now letting his fans write his novels with absolutely no regard for humor, continuity, cleverness, or quality? Oh, wait, he has to add in the uncomfortable attraction to young girls. Well, that’s got to take 30 minutes (doubled to add in the time delay from typing one-handed)

Nominated: Grant Morrison

[Cat_Whisperer]

I don’t know if this is what’s blocking this thread, but I went and Wiki’ed Grant Morrison, and I still have no idea who he is. Maybe you need someone a little better-known, Silver. I could mock him (maybe for being an unknown), but it would be empty.

[Silver_Tyger]

Well, he’s well known in comics coughBatman 663 cough Batman 676 cough step away from the clown, you freaky little man cough. Of course, what Skald said about Cary Tennis can easily be adapted for Mr. Morrison.

Frank Miller?
Stephen King?

[Shagnasty]

@featherlou

I don’t know if this is what’s blocking this thread, but I went and Wiki’ed Grant Morrison, and I still have no idea who he is. Maybe you need someone a little better-known, Silver. I could mock him (maybe for being an unknown), but it would be empty.

I am not very well-versed in pop culture but I am technically not slow according to some old elementary school tests. I agree that the obscurity knob needs to turned way, way down for the unwashed masses to be able to participate in this thread.

[Skald_the_Rhymer]

@Silver Tyger Girl

Well, he’s well known in comics coughBatman 663 cough Batman 676 cough step away from the clown, you freaky little man cough. Of course, what Skald said about Cary Tennis can easily be adapted for Mr. Morrison.

Frank Miller?
Stephen King?

Silver, I’ve give you a 7.8, easy. (My own OP only gets a 7.2).

I was trying not to bump my own thread, as that was something Frank Miller would. Except that he would do more than bump it. He would wait until the thread had run its course and died a natural, happy death, surrounded by its child threads and grandchild threads and so forth, and then he would dig up its rotting corpse, putrefying and as noisome as a three-days-rotting heap of elephant dung, and violently rape the corpse–and yes, Mr. Miller, I AM talking about 'The Dark Knight Strikes Back," you formerly visionary but now deranged hack!!!

And another nomination: Harrison Ford.

[Silver_Tyger]

@Skald the Rhymer

Silver, I’ve give you a 7.8, easy. (My own OP only gets a 7.2).

I was trying not to bump my own thread, as that was something Frank Miller would. Except that he would do more than bump it. He would wait until the thread had run its course and died a natural, happy death, surrounded by its child threads and grandchild threads and so forth, and then he would dig up its rotting corpse, putrefying and as noisome as a three-days-rotting heap of elephant dung, and violently rape the corpse–and yes, Mr. Miller, I AM talking about 'The Dark Knight Strikes Back," you formerly visionary but now deranged hack!!!

And another nomination: Harrison Ford.

You forgot the whores. And the repetition. And the goddamn whores.

… I like Harrison Ford…

So I suppose William Overgard is right out? (as Thundercats fans across the net cringe in horror)