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Or a pair of laboratory mice, whose genes have been spliced.
Downvoted. This is a serious post and this comment adds absolutely nothing to the discussion. Funny references belong on reddit.
--Supreme Court Justice Stevens, WIDMAR v. VINCENT, concurring opinion.
Some people believe that humor belongs even in serious things, like supreme court legal opinions. Some people believe there is value in cartoons.
I have nothing against humor. In fact, if you look at my reply to OP, you'll see I even have a joke in there. The point I was making is that your post didn't have any substance aside from humor.
1) I reject the implication that there is no amount of humor that could justify a comment regardless of its other substance (given its length and the context). I accept for consideration the criticism that my comment wasn't funny enough, but not that it was categorically wrong to have a comment that is nothing but humorous.
2) To say that the comment had no substance aside from humor is a fine enough thing to say, because and only because the reader will interpret it as meaning that you didn't see any other substance. It is a fine enough thing to say if one thinks the probability of other substance is sufficiently low...but how close to zero did you think it was? "World domination" really did make me think of Pinky and the Brain, FWIW.
3) The value of a comment with no substance aside from humor here was to somewhat mitigate what I saw as an impending avalanche of critical comments and downvotes.
Heh, I appreciate the mitigation.
Reversed. I liked the comment. You underestimate the relevance.
Seconded. I actually found this very relevant, and quite a good point.
Well I don't get it... What's Pinkie and the Brain got to do with this?