What a freaking joke

[vanillafluffy]

If you're in need of a laugh, may I recommend the RPF lists at yuletide?! If you know ANYTHING about history, anything at all, you will laugh your ass off.

Hint: Elizabeth Bathory was NOT Canadian. Last I heard, neither was Butch Cassidy. Srsly.

ETA: Clive Cussler under German literature? Neither German, nor IMO, literature. OMG, ditto Herman Melville, German lit? Lord Byron? Absurd.

And I'll bet you didn't know Isaac Newton was a historical American criminal, either.

Look at the list under RPF - Modern Physics. Crack, I tell you!

Dean Koontz as a WWI poet? Where will it end?! My brain is bleeding!

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Comments

[tsita.livejournal.com]

Wait. What? Elizabeth Bathory? Why do I get a mental picture of her bathing in the blood of virgins? Google-Fu don't fail me in this.

And Butch? I wanna say he was born somewhere on the East Coast. I could so very be wrong on that, though.

ETA: way WAY off of ol' Butch. Utah. Whoops.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's our Lizzie. And either way, Butch was a Yank. And I'm still reading my way through it and cackling like a fiend. Their lists must've gotten shuffled somehow, that's the only semi-reasonable explanation---nobody is THAT dumb. (Are they?)

[tsita.livejournal.com]

Uh, do you really want me to answer that? 'Cause my fellow college student? They don't know what a Boolean search is or how to do one.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Nah, I've worked in customer service long enough to know better than to underestimate the stupitiy of the average person, because I know half the people out there are BELOW average.

[tsita.livejournal.com]

Dean Koontz is a what? o.O Granted I like his books, Ticktock made me giggle!snort like made, but poet he is not.

Oh, and never underestimate the power of stupid people in packs or something like that. Which is why I am a loner, thankyewverymuch.

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

Any way it's possible those individuals were submitted that way as a prank?

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Either that, or the coding got shuffled somehow. Some of the lists don't seem to be affected as badly---granted, I don't know sports that well, but I didn't see...oh, Heather Locklear or Golda Maier as figure skaters, for instance. But the literature and historical lists? Are riddled with ludicrous selections---wrong country, wrong century, wrong specialty---it's mind-boggling.

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

I noticed some of those, as well as the repetition in various lists of Pop Singers, American Singers, British Singers etc, but I was mostly to busy being whiny and outraged by the omission of RPF Pundits to get into the fights over the others.