{"id":16321,"date":"2017-03-09T12:20:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T18:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16321"},"modified":"2017-03-09T07:36:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T13:36:54","slug":"footnoting-my-humor-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/09\/footnoting-my-humor-again-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Footnoting My Humor, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A guy I know said this on Twitter:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Don&#39;t trust any -archy<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Marc Brooks (@IDisposable) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IDisposable\/status\/839697850472726528\">March 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I responded:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Archy wouldn&#8217;t use a capital letter or an apostrophe. Nice try at making us think a cockroach had hacked your computer, though.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was, of course, referring to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Archy_and_Mehitabel\" target=\"_new\">Archy<\/a>, a piece of schtick by <em>The Evening Sun<\/em> (NY) columnist Dan Marquis.  The gist was that a cockroach would jump on the keys of Marquis&#8217; keyboard overnight, generating different poems and bon mots and whatnots, and he would sign it -archy.  Because he was hopping on the keys, he couldn&#8217;t use capital letters or punctuation that used shift keys (depending upon your model and typewriter, the apostrophe was probably a shift piece of punctuation, not like your modern keyboards).<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m not sure anyone else in the world would get that.  That trivia is so old it does not appear in trivia nights and games any more.<\/p>\n<p>Being this is the Internet, I have put this post into a form many Internet readers will understand.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/archy.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A guy I know said this on Twitter: Don&#39;t trust any -archy &mdash; Marc Brooks (@IDisposable) March 9, 2017 I responded: Archy wouldn&#8217;t use a capital letter or an apostrophe. Nice try at making us think a cockroach had hacked your computer, though. I was, of course, referring to Archy, a piece of schtick by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16324,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16321\/revisions\/16324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}