Mike Lacher posted an epic imagined monologue on behalf of comic sans last month at McSweeney’s. In case you missed it, here’s an excerpt and a link to the original.
Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I’m Comic Sans, and I’m the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg.
It drives me bonkers when people write “a lot” as one word, but not as much as it bothers Allie at Hyperbole and a Half. Check our her post.
The Alot Is Better Than You at Everything
As a grammatically conscientious person who frequents internet forums and YouTube, I have found it necessary to develop a few coping mechanisms. When someone types out “u” instead of “you,” instead of getting mad, I imagine them having only one finger on each hand and then their actions seem reasonable. If I only had one finger on each hand, I’d leave out unnecessary letters too!
