it's no hipster puppies
― Mordy, Sunday, 4 December 2011 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
I CAN HAS BALLZ ON MY CHIKEN SANDWICH?
― i already regret not just being 'some dude' again (Mr. Stevenson #2), Sunday, 4 December 2011 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
Do ppl call this out as fake cos they reckon theres no way anyone would talk/think like Bennett? because I can assure you people do (my ex's brother, for starters).
― Leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it. (Trayce), Monday, 5 December 2011 02:32 (twelve years ago) link
oh there totally are -- the fakeness is deeply felt on a completely different level
― i already regret not just being 'some dude' again (Mr. Stevenson #2), Monday, 5 December 2011 02:35 (twelve years ago) link
I dont disagree there.
― Leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it. (Trayce), Monday, 5 December 2011 02:40 (twelve years ago) link
really the give away is the dudes superfake plot furthering responses
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Monday, 5 December 2011 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
hes like the guy in bad science fiction novels that keeps prodding the characters to provide crucial information to the reader that the characters wouldnt normally spell out. 'oh rygel-7 you say? what is that exactly?'
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Monday, 5 December 2011 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
omg you just made me choke on a grain of brown ricewith laughs
― not uplifting (Abbott), Monday, 5 December 2011 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
ack twice
texts from bennett is really the poor man's karen & ellen letters
― Mordy, Monday, 5 December 2011 03:04 (twelve years ago) link
karen & ellen letters so fake too :\
― dayo, Monday, 5 December 2011 03:08 (twelve years ago) link
karen & ellen letters are funny, tho
― Mordy, Monday, 5 December 2011 03:10 (twelve years ago) link
karen and ellen letters are fake and hilarious and not racist
― max max max max, Monday, 5 December 2011 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
texts from bennett is only one of those three things
is the 'racist' part of this just all the uses of the n-word? because ventriloquism of a fictional white person by an actual existing white person that involves the n-word and a lot of 'black slang' is definitely sketchy but i dunno if racist is really the word for it.
― i already regret not just being 'some dude' again (Mr. Stevenson #2), Monday, 5 December 2011 03:25 (twelve years ago) link
there's an whiff of #prettyflyforawhiteguy "white people shouldn't act like this"
― regional pug (dealwithit.gif), Monday, 5 December 2011 04:14 (twelve years ago) link
― dayo, Sunday, December 4, 2011 10:08 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Permalink
Feel like there's a 7% chance k&a are real and they're just fucking w/the landlord
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 5 December 2011 05:17 (twelve years ago) link
k&a are real and they're just fucking w/the landlord
I think they're either real and they're just fucking with the landlord, or they're fake and the landlord (Mark Tarses, who seems to be a real person) created them for laughs a long time ago.
someone (a former ilxor, actually) mentioned the letters in an alt.fan.momus newsgroup posting dating back to 2000:
"The Karen and Ellen Letters, Volumes 1 and 2" by Karent Prescott, Ellen Goldsmith and Mark Tarsus - Purports to be a series of letters between two UC Berkeley students and their long-suffering landlord. I got it from a friend who got it from a friend at a Kinko's in San Francisco, and it's composed entirely of xeroxed pages bound together like university course materials. It's also just about the funniest thing I've ever read. I've had it for years and read it at least ten times. It's got true humor staying power, possibly because it's impossible to tell if it's factual or fictional.
and someone started a blogspot about them (which no one paid any attention to) a few years ago. if they're fake, then someone faked them long before tumblr was a thing.
― unregistered, Monday, 5 December 2011 06:27 (twelve years ago) link
At some point I have a "Karen and Ellen Letters" style thing to scan in and put on Tumblr/ILX: in junior high school, a somewhat odd kid who was a friend of mine would pretend that he was a RCMP named Mr. MacEntire. He would go into character as a Canadian Mountie and wouldn't stop. This was one of a menagerie of characters, each with its own catchphrases (MacEntire's was "Respect Your Elders") and idiosyncrasies, that he felt compelled to go into rather than deal with the social rigors of just, you know, being a person.
Anyway, he would draw pictures of this guy and the characters in his universe and write and tell complex stories about them and integrate me and my classmates into it. They were really odd little sketches, single panel things and he would give me two or three of these a day. He sent me a few christmas cards. The coup de grace was when he wrote a twenty page single space autobiography of Mr. MacEntire and followed that up with a full autobiography of HIS WIFE who he would ALSO go into character as.
Anyways, there's plenty more to the story but the key is that I kept a thick folder of this stuff, maybe 100 pages or so and I keep meaning to scan it in. It's pretty amazing.
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 December 2011 07:07 (twelve years ago) link
I know people that do as well but this has a real big "texts from last night" vibe where each word seems placed for maximum humor potential. It really sounds like someone writing a character
― Rolo Tony, Monday, 5 December 2011 12:54 (twelve years ago) link
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, December 5, 2011 12:17 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark
yeah if they are real then it's a 100% chance that they are just fucking with the landlord
― dayo, Monday, 5 December 2011 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
Rolo Tony otm. I worked with a kid who could have written all these texts but they're way too intentional to be real.
― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (~curious orange~), Monday, 5 December 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
my biggest problem I don't get what bennett's reason for talking w/ the other dude is, even within the fictional universe
― iatee, Monday, 5 December 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
best one is when he asks for the 1st tupac cd
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 5 December 2011 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
its a good conversational ploy to just start asking for the 1st tupac cd imho
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 5 December 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I might try it out myself.
― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (~curious orange~), Monday, 5 December 2011 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
say a bunch of crazy shit then before anyone has a chance to react ask for the 1st tupac cd, boom youve got yrself a tupac cd
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 5 December 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
hey does anybody have the 1st tupac cd
― dayo, Monday, 5 December 2011 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
brb fetching tupac cd
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 5 December 2011 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
that's the one with "bennett's got a baby" on it, isn't it
― i already regret not just being 'some dude' again (Mr. Stevenson #2), Monday, 5 December 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
I got into a Facebook dialogue with the guy behind the Karen and Ellen Letters. He was claiming that Mark the landlord "exaggerated about 10-15% of what's in there" -- which confused me, because that would suggest that the letters are not original copies. So now I feel like maybe the letters are rooted in events that really happened but that Mark imaginatively "reconstructed" them years later.
― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Monday, 5 December 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
the tumblr with the real IM conversations between a cat and his owner is much better
― dayo, Monday, 5 December 2011 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
link?
― Mordy, Monday, 5 December 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
http://louisvsrick.com/
― dayo, Monday, 5 December 2011 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
Oh man, I love this.
― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (~curious orange~), Monday, 5 December 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
Err, the Louis v. Rick thing obv.
start from the first convo
― dayo, Monday, 5 December 2011 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
that site is just giving me serious flashbacks of the SNL sketches with amy poehler as a little girl constantly bothering her stepdad "rick...rick...riiiiick"
― Mr. Stevensome #dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Monday, 5 December 2011 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
omg
"maybe I don't have time for this"
"you lick your balls all day"
― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (~curious orange~), Monday, 5 December 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
"that's more than a little insensitive and you know why"
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 December 2011 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
yes
― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (~curious orange~), Monday, 5 December 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
seeing this transform from like some funny jpegs posted to a Tumblr to like "MY AGENT IS HELPING ME TURN THIS INTO BOOK DEAL ASPIRATIONAL SITE with WACKY NEW LOGOZ and watermarks on the pictures and CHECK MY FACEBOOK LIKES cheesebruger have has cheebruger" is p disheartening
― miranda lambo (dealwithit.gif), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 05:52 (twelve years ago) link
in b4 "OMGPUPPIESWTFBBQHAHAHSUBWAY"
― miranda lambo (dealwithit.gif), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 05:55 (twelve years ago) link
well tbf it was never funny
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 06:00 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Elr5K2Vuo
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 06:01 (twelve years ago) link
also, if this is "real" how does a 17 year old know what "capn save a ho" is?
― miranda lambo (dealwithit.gif), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 06:03 (twelve years ago) link
texts from benbbag
― my ruffalo-gosling boy (t. silaviver), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 06:04 (twelve years ago) link
xpost = surely is an actual teenager and not the creation of a 31 year old hip-hop geek
― miranda lambo (dealwithit.gif), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 06:05 (twelve years ago) link
Yo son dis breaking bad episode is live from acknickolous land and this text comes from the red, the balck and teh green, sissyyyyy
― miranda lambo (dealwithit.gif), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 06:06 (twelve years ago) link
i'm 17