@phendrick@dave@kidsandliz@taRDy@djslack@jbartus i am having trouble with a few of these: do i star to thank you for posting because it made me laugh a little, or not star because people would think i like the idea actually being expressed and i don’t want that?
T F
"‘Colorless green ideas sleep furiously’ is a statement coined by Noam Chomsky to describe the sleeping habits of colorless green ideas, a topic that Chomsky had been studying excessively in the 1950s. Chomsky stated that if an idea is both white (colorless) and eco-friendly (green), it will be angry while sleeping. The sentence has become widely popular in many different mediums and has been said to originally be “Furiously sleep ideas green colorless.” However, Chomsky later changed the wording due to it not being grammatically correct."
T F
"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously is a sentence composed by Noam Chomsky in his 1957 book Syntactic Structures as an example of a sentence that is grammatically correct, but semantically nonsensical."
I don’t think my girlfriend will appreciate the humor in this one:
Exceedingly inspirational.
I just…don’t think this is good advice.
We’re fucked.
@narfcake here’s my inspirational message to counter that.
For now you’re still the Alpha predator on Earth. Shut up and act like it.
Less inspiring, more of a threat.
Earlier today I sent my wife the url to inspirobot and she immediately sent back this screenshot and the following message:
"…I’m not inspired"
@djslack - Hey, I guess your fiance became your wife? Wish you a lifetime of happiness!
Uh - starting after that email exchange.
@KDemo Yes, just over a month ago. We went to Jamaica and got married in an overwater chapel with a glass floor.
Thanks for the well wishes! She’s used to not being amused by half the shit I pull, it doesn’t seem to bring down the happiness quotient by much.
@djslack - Sounds like you have an ideal formula there. Congratulations!
And remember . . .
@djslack
Well congrats! Hope all is wonderful!
Yep, that pretty much describes my whole life.
@Barney
@Ignorant
Feel reassured now. Thx.
Here are some winners it just made for me:
I think the algorithm for “inspiration” may need a little tweaking.
@djslack
You just go suck lies or die tryin’, now.
First two:
@PocketBrain
The phenomenon:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DracoInLeatherPants
Kiss, the paragons of selfless courage!
@RiotDemon
@2many2no
The Inspirobot spied out my patented methods and handed my secret techniques to the world!
Dammit
The middle one isn’t half bad LOL
You reap what you sow?
@Barney
You sew are reap you what?
Oh. Fuck.
I hope peaches come after the circus! Mmm … peach.
The text along with that picture…
Very first one, couldn’t be more perfect for here.
We can only hope…
@brhfl
I think they got that one backwards?
Don’t forget to chew.
So thank you for putting the seat down.
My first one is less than inspiring…especially for a former smoker.
@narfcake They would be weaponized. Just imagine it. All those legs. All those eyes. You’d be… unstoppable…
Customer Service Slogan:
Happy happy. (That’s just so special.)
@phendrick @dave @kidsandliz @taRDy @djslack @jbartus i am having trouble with a few of these: do i star to thank you for posting because it made me laugh a little, or not star because people would think i like the idea actually being expressed and i don’t want that?
@mollama star for whatever you want! I won’t judge you, at worst, just blame the goat!
Damnit @cranky1950 stop making @mollama have these feelings of uncertainty!
Is this one D E E P ?, or am I just too sleepy:
@phendrick
In Lower East Buttfuck, Texas, you drive past this sign:
The Internet is FULL of videos suggesting otherwise…
We’re all slaves to something.
Meow
@KDemo this:
or this:
Hopefully they both can find some friends?
@jbartus
Based on personal life experience, I would dispute the first part of that assertion.
@RiotDemon there are a few perplexing ones but this has to rule this thread so far.
/giphy perplexing chimpanzee
@RiotDemon
@denboy I’d star your comment, but that gif is so gross. Lol
@KDemo lol, wut
@RiotDemon thanks for explaining. I’d been dying here waiting for even one solitary star.
@denboy Solitary star granted.
@djslack letting deep sleep commence thanks to you
/giphy my hero
I have reservations about posting a sensible quotation, but what the hell -
Maybe the blueberries unmake the point.
The first one I got I liked
Then I got about 10 that I thought were stupid. Ending on a high note.
So I guess I should buy the red shoes?
Oh and this one too…
Time to invest!
Would that be the reptile or the plumber’s tool?
Have two, they’re small.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
T F
"‘Colorless green ideas sleep furiously’ is a statement coined by Noam Chomsky to describe the sleeping habits of colorless green ideas, a topic that Chomsky had been studying excessively in the 1950s. Chomsky stated that if an idea is both white (colorless) and eco-friendly (green), it will be angry while sleeping. The sentence has become widely popular in many different mediums and has been said to originally be “Furiously sleep ideas green colorless.” However, Chomsky later changed the wording due to it not being grammatically correct."
T F
"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously is a sentence composed by Noam Chomsky in his 1957 book Syntactic Structures as an example of a sentence that is grammatically correct, but semantically nonsensical."
@KDemo
Hmmmm.
Chomsky was being more than a bit Western-Hemispherist here.
Why exactly did he favor that expression over
‘Colourless green ideas sleep furiously’???
I ask everyone! Why?
What implicit cultural favoritism,paid for and expressed by poor innocent spelling customs, did he intend to infect us with?
But I see thru Chomsky. He may have fooled MIT, but he will never fool me.
/image “colourless green”
/image “colorless green”
Why must we subtly favor one planetary hemisphere over another? Should not all hemispherical spelling customs be treated as equally worthy?
I leave you with this:
Gangnam style?
Or Chomsky style?
@f00l - Are you having a spelling spell?
I’d probably opt for Strunk & White Style, not Harry Styles.
@KDemo
Examples of my stile:
Um…
Something … logical …
Reminds me of this @bootsboots shirt:
http://shirt.woot.com/offers/pessimism?ref=meh_com
@RiotDemon
Now they tell me.
@RiotDemon
My mantra!
This one is so me
@brhfl - Ha, I doubt I’ll believe that!
Inspirobot said I was its favorite user. I believe that is true.
I smell a lawsuit.
This article has some funny results.
http://www.iflscience.com/technology/ai-trying-to-design-inspirational-posters-goes-horribly-and-hilariously-wrong/
@PlacidPenguin
Humans trying to do it also tends to go horribly wrong.
/giphy "inspire me"
Are these actual words?
Awww yissss.
@RiotDemon Been there, done that; got a whole bunch of T shirts.