WSJ Trolls Michigan
Today the WSJ ran suggestions on Spooky Sports Costumes, I didn't think any of them were as funny as the editors hoped. Too Soon I say!!
"Halloween came two weeks early in Ann Arbor, Mich., when Michigan punter Blake O’Neill mishandled a punt that cost the Wolverines a game against rival Michigan State. Like other horrifying, unforeseen events that left the townspeople trembling and screaming in disbelief, this one is excellent costume fodder. For added effect, have your child drop every candy bar on the ground, fail to fall on it and then try to pick it up again, only to toss it to a nearby kid dressed as a goblin."
October 30th, 2015 at 10:15 AM ^
WD, this is not good advice. Just in case you were considering it.
October 29th, 2015 at 1:33 PM ^
gotta be big about it and not let it impact anything you say, do or think !
Go Blue!
October 29th, 2015 at 1:33 PM ^
what's the point of posting this?
October 29th, 2015 at 1:35 PM ^
Exactly. I was just getting over this.
October 29th, 2015 at 1:34 PM ^
+0.5 (+1 for not giving troll clicks, -0.5 for having another post about that play)
October 29th, 2015 at 1:35 PM ^
October 29th, 2015 at 1:42 PM ^
Well said, comrade !
Go Blue!
October 29th, 2015 at 1:44 PM ^
Ex KGB
October 29th, 2015 at 1:53 PM ^
I must admit this is the first time I've ever heard WSJ owner Rupert Murdoch called that.
October 29th, 2015 at 2:08 PM ^
Has to be sarcasm, likely referencing the weird fight over the New York Times the other day.
Otherwise, to be able to call the WSJ that means you exist in a really strange version of reality.
October 29th, 2015 at 3:36 PM ^
superfluous /s
October 29th, 2015 at 1:36 PM ^
Michigan alums are probably the most likely to subscribe to the WSJ outside of any Ivy League or NYU student body. Many Wolverines work on Wall Street.
October 29th, 2015 at 1:39 PM ^
The Wolverines of Wall Street?
Don't worry. I high fived myself.
October 29th, 2015 at 2:55 PM ^
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October 29th, 2015 at 5:45 PM ^
New York
October 29th, 2015 at 1:38 PM ^
And fuck the Bancroft's for selling it. It used to be a great paper.
October 29th, 2015 at 1:41 PM ^
Would you mind posting some comments from 11W and RCMB as well?
October 29th, 2015 at 2:03 PM ^
Ha! As long as we are getting pissed off about this again, we might as well get really super pissed off.
October 29th, 2015 at 1:42 PM ^
that whole financial news shtick hides their insidious purpose, to troll Michigan fans.
/s
October 29th, 2015 at 1:44 PM ^
It's time to chill out - it's a funny article if you can learn to relax a bit
October 29th, 2015 at 1:52 PM ^
On the plus side, being talked about means you're relevant...
October 29th, 2015 at 2:43 PM ^
really. We could not have been further from relevant last year at this time and we were talked about, a lot.
October 29th, 2015 at 3:13 PM ^
Granted, we weren't relevant last year wrt our football prowess, but it says something of Michigan's history and general status that people still were talking about us even in the midst of that hot mess.
October 29th, 2015 at 1:55 PM ^
This post gave me chlamydia
October 29th, 2015 at 3:56 PM ^
too soon
October 29th, 2015 at 5:23 PM ^
October 29th, 2015 at 1:56 PM ^
Disrespekt
October 29th, 2015 at 2:00 PM ^
The WSJ's sports editor is a Michigan grad and die-hard Michigan football fan. So I doubt this was intended as trolling -- more likely an attempt at laughter as the best medicine.
October 29th, 2015 at 2:06 PM ^
Thanks for sharing, I thought it was funny(if too soon).
October 29th, 2015 at 2:07 PM ^
For a rocket scientist, this is a pretty crappy post
October 29th, 2015 at 2:20 PM ^
I see a pattern. Next week: Steve Doocy and the gang from Fox and Friends troll Florida State with a another bit of devastating sarcasm.
October 29th, 2015 at 2:29 PM ^
Delete this shitty thread.
October 29th, 2015 at 2:50 PM ^
it is time for some exposure therapy with this. We are going to have to learn how to live with it. Indiana beating State would have been a quick fix that we were all hoping for on a number of levels but it was not to be, and absent a miraculous finish to this season that thing that makes this go away is not going to happen this season. For better or worse, this play is part of our program now so we are going to have live with it, if certainly not embrace it. I am much closer to acceptance than I thought I would be at this point (I was at angry for a while).
October 29th, 2015 at 2:46 PM ^
It's one thing if it's actually original or clever, neither of which this is.
October 29th, 2015 at 2:59 PM ^
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October 29th, 2015 at 7:11 PM ^
Does anyone ready the WSJ anymore???
October 29th, 2015 at 8:57 PM ^
October 29th, 2015 at 8:34 PM ^
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October 29th, 2015 at 10:57 PM ^
This is actually funny, but the costume works better if the kid has a little brother.
October 29th, 2015 at 11:21 PM ^
October 30th, 2015 at 8:54 AM ^
. . . is just too perfect. I totally forgot what this thread was even for by the time I got to this comment, so I read it as backlash against a conversation about WD's tinder life.
[Edit: was supposed to be responsive to #51. Fail.]