Fun with schmucks

There are some people in the world utterly incapable of understanding the English language. This is obvious, of course, but must be said. Bear in mind that these people are also reputedly capable of speaking in this tongue, but actual comprehension of, you know, text is beyond them. Take my dire warnings in this post, for example. I simply have to assume that most of you — at least those not from Detroit — have no problem discerning the intent of the LARGE, BOLD TEXT on that page, yes? The implication being that if you link to that precious little dancing banana from your snappy forum signature, it will not work. You may be temporarily fooled into thinking it works since it’s in your browser cache, but everyone else on this lovely orb will see a broken link.

Until today. I figure if I can’t cajole them into not deep-linking my images, I can embarrass them into not deep-linking my images. So instead of getting this excitable fellow as they so desperately desire

Dancing fool

viewers of the page where the illicit deep-link exists will see this:

I am incapable of reading!

I simply love htaccess redirects. Personally, were I to figure out that that image was showing up in my sig, I’d change it quicker than you can say “can so!”. How about you guys?

I mean, new ones pop up damned near every day. Take a look at the referral logs… see all those “bite.html” entries? That was my old redirect. I was sorely tempted to make it link to something truly rude, like a gleaming anus or something. But I think this is a tad more subtle, and quite possibly more effective. Some people may prefer to have a sphincter in their signatures after all.

November 21, 2003 • Posted in: Blogging

6 Responses to “Fun with schmucks”

  1. 1

    i (36 comments) - November 21st, 2003

    words… words… words words words words, words… wordswords…

    funny dancing banana thing! lol! rofl roflol!!!!!!

    words… wordswords… more words…

    but man, that banana. That’s funny stuff.

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    ColdForged (971 comments) - November 21st, 2003

    rofl lmao

    P.S. That’s a week without blogging for the squub. Whattup G?

    /me can’t believe he said that

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    agnOstos (203 comments) - December 1st, 2003

    — at least those not from Detroit —

    SIGH I can’t wait to actually meet you. =P

    I finna come down there and give you a hertz donut!

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    agnOstos (203 comments) - December 1st, 2003

    — at least those not from Detroit —

    SIGH I can’t wait to actually meet you. =P

    I finna come down there and give you a hertz donut!

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    agnOstos (203 comments) - December 1st, 2003

    SIGH I can’t wait to actually meet you. =P

    I finna come down there and give you a hertz donut!

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    db (1 comments) - March 7th, 2004

    It seems you can steal the image with this:

    body { background-image: url(http://coldforged.org/images/bananadance.gif); background-attachment: fixed; }

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