(03-10-2015, 06:22 PM)Unnamed Mercenary Wrote:(03-10-2015, 06:20 PM)Gegenji Wrote: That's, like, a high school chemistry joke. Do people still fall for that? IT EVEN SAYS IT'S H[sub]2[/sub]O IN THE HASHTAG.
Oh believe me. They do. and it's hilarious.
http://dhmo.org/facts.html
Yes, they do. I can vouch. I pulled this on my class when I was a Composition/Persuasive Writing teacher, as a demonstration of how tone, style and word choice work in an argument.
50% of the classes needed me to let them in on the joke after 30 minutes. The other half still took a while to figure it out, save for a few slick ones who understood that it would be funnier to play along.
"But in the laugh there was another voice. A clearer laugh, an ironic laugh. A laugh which laughs because it chooses not to weep."