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From a member of a cyber-running club ....
the "Modern Cyber-Netizen’s Song"
Netizen: I am the very model of a modern cyber-netizen All logic I dispense with, and all taste and manners jettison; I come in every stripe, from the conservative to radical, And know it all except for how to spell, or write grammatical. I haven’t got a clue about the use of logicality And drivel on with made-up-factoid bargain-bin banality. I’m found on TV, radio, and many other "medias" But cyberspace is where I’m most particularly tedious.
Geek Chorus: He’s found on TV, radio, and many other "medias" But cyberspace is where he’s most particularly tedious. Yes, cyberspace is where he’s most particularly tedious.
Netizen: I flame opponents hairless from a dozen different pseudonyms Each one a ruder, lewder pun on Anglo-Saxon crudonyms -- And where I find civility and hot debate have been at ease I break it up with spamming, flaming, scrolling, and obscenities.
Geek Chorus: And where he finds civility and hot debate have been at ease He breaks it up with spamming, flaming, scrolling, and obscenities.
Netizen: I’m known for disputatiousness and other sorts of knavery >From purposeful mendacity to things yet more unsavory. I’m ignorant in every field, poetic to statistical Which only makes my points of view more thoroughly sophistical; My posts are pure unparagraphed expressions of my vanity Impossible to parse except perhaps for the profanity. My attitude’s aggressive and my tone is sanctimonious, My facts are bad, conclusions wrong, and arguments erroneous;
Geek Chorus: His attitude’s aggressive and his tone is sanctimonious, His facts are bad, conclusions wrong, and arguments erroneous!
Netizen: In short when I can tell you why I’m such a dull vulgarian And why my selfish egocentric views are libertarian And why my sense of humor roots about in prepubescency As if I don’t quite understand the cause of my tumescency Or why my only mode with love is jokery and jestering While fear of being hurt leaves all my real emotions festering, You’ll know why I’m at home alone abusing my puerility, Compulsively exhibiting my manual facility.
Geek Chorus: You’ll know why he’s alone at home abusing his puerility, Compulsively exhibiting his manual facility!
Netizen: Wherever civil reason is accounted most iniquitous You’ll find me absolutely inescapably ubiquitous. In short, all logic I reject, all taste and manners jettison, Because I am the model of a modern cyber-netizen!
Geek Chorus: In short, all logic we reject, all taste and manners jettison, Because we too are models of the modern cyber-netizen!
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