mGrowOld

May 27th, 2014 at 5:05 PM ^

Man if only i could remember where I'd seen this concept before....

Oh that's right.  On the front freaking page of MgoBlog by BiSB and it actually WAS funny as hell.  Note to author: If you're going to plagiarize someone's work at least try and keep the funny parts in place.

oriental andrew

May 27th, 2014 at 5:20 PM ^

In fact, I first saw it either on Black Heart Gold Pants or Troy Nunes is an Absolute Magician, can't recall which (also, sports blogs have the best names amirite just sayin').

I mean, if you've never read the Octonion saga, then you're missing out.

http://www.nunesmagician.com/2007/06/enter-octonion.html

And if you really want to take a stroll down memory lane, the whole "making fun of one guy in a meeting" was done way way back by Hey Jenny Slater, albeit in irc chat room format.  

http://heyjennyslater.blogspot.com/2006/08/interplanetary-social-chat-4…

Also, you might recognize the author of that very first comment...

RockinLoud

May 27th, 2014 at 5:33 PM ^

Ok, wow. I made it about 1/4 of the way through and well... man, that was terrible. I mean, I was even trying to give it the benefit of the doubt, but dang, it was an exercise in trying way too  hard.  

Should I have continued? Does it get better at all?

Smidgens

May 27th, 2014 at 9:17 PM ^

I really dislike OTE. I remember they were doing a "hate week" for each B1G team or something, for Michigan they wrote a magnum opus on how much they hate us, for OSU it was like 2 sentences. The main guys are an OSU fan and NU fan I think. Yeah it's definitely one of the worst SBNation blogs.

GoWings2008

May 28th, 2014 at 10:03 AM ^

there's several contributing writers, there is one Michigan fan among the creators of the original site.  One good friend of mine writes for them, an OSU fan, who even he says the site has gotten out of control over the last year or two.  IMHO, as a "B1G site" it is a fairly open opportunity to make fun of anyone and everyone, but they do seem to take every opportunity to make fun of Michigan, more than their fair share.  It is what it is...sometimes they write these sort of satires that are actually funny.  I'm going to take everyone elses advice and not read this one.