GD TXTS 10 CMNDMNTS (God Texts the Ten Commandments)
6/6/09
Photoshopped by LilatTovCocktail
From McSweeney's Internet Tendency comes:
GOD TEXTS THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
BY JAMIE QUATRO
1. no1 b4 me. srsly.
2. dnt wrshp pix/idols
3. no omg's
4. no wrk on w/end (sat 4 now; sun l8r)
5. pos ok - ur m&d r cool
6. dnt kill ppl
7. :-X only w/ m8
8. dnt steal
9. dnt lie re: bf
10. dnt ogle ur bf's m8. or ox. or dnkey. myob.
M, pls rite on tabs & giv 2 ppl.
ttyl, JHWH.
ps. wwjd?
6 comments:
So is McSweeney's under a Creative Commons license or something?
Um. No, Skye, not that I know of. Point taken.
Normally I'd never repost another's work in its entirety, but this was so funny as a whole -- it being the 10 Commandments and all -- that I couldn't decide how to excerpt it.
I just visited your website, Skye, and read your post How to Use Other People's Words and Pictures On Your Blog (Without Getting Burned or Being a Jerk).
I think twitter and the recent rise of the retweeting ethos -- retweets as the ultimate compliment & a way to promote work you admire (perhaps helping anothers' work go viral) -- may have affected my not-very-good decision to post the whole McSweeney's piece.
It's just that McSweeney's is often so funny and so few people I know ever read it.
I DID contribute my own photoshopped image to this post -- although I readily happily concede that neither the Sistine Chapel nor the idea of making humorous alterations to the famous image are mine.
In all honesty when I had clicked through to McSweeney's, I hadn't seen an explicit copyright notice which surprised me - so I thought I might have been missing something. I know they don't need a notice to have copyright protection, but it's rare to see an online magazine without one. I wonder if they feel like it detracts from their minimalist style?
I enjoy a good McSweeney's now and again. This was funny. I'm taking it viral!
Yes, take it viral. I don't know why McSweeney's isn't part of everyone's weekly diet.
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