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RE: Yahoo answers: Spell to become a vampire?
December 29, 2012 at 4:41 pm
That's depressingly brilliant. I also like some of the related questions at the bottom there - "I saw a mermaid in the bath...?" and "How can i invite a vampire in my house? Or do i need to send them a letter?? If i need to,how can i do it?"
Given the 'proper' definition of Yahoo, à la Wikipedia...
A Yahoo is a legendary being in the novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift.
Swift describes the Yahoos as vile and savage creatures, filthy and with unpleasant habits, resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist Lemuel Gulliver, who finds the calm and rational society of intelligent horses, the Houyhnhnms, far preferable. The Yahoos are primitive creatures obsessed with "pretty stones" they find by digging in mud, thus representing the distasteful materialism and ignorant elitism Swift encountered in Britain. Hence the term "Yahoo" has become synonymous with "cretin," "dinosaur," and/or "Neanderthal."
... Yahoo Answers and its user base, assuming they're not taking the piss, fits perfectly.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'