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Half platinum, half gold.

scalefree — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:05:45 -0800

The most insane letter ever written by a child to a TV weatherman.

By: leotrotsky

leotrotsky — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:10:38 -0800

no way is this real, but still funny.

By: philip-random

philip-random — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:11:20 -0800

That which is funny is always real.

By: CancerMan

CancerMan — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:12:13 -0800

"Marvelis" indeed!

By: codacorolla

codacorolla — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:13:47 -0800

You could fix the handwriting and make the spelling a tad worse and pass it off as a note written by a Redditor instead.

By: Bunny Ultramod

Bunny Ultramod — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:15:59 -0800

The handwriting looks like a kid, the text sounds like an adult. I'm perplexed.

By: griphus

griphus — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:16:33 -0800

Cyborg unicorn? Monkey in a tux? Lightsaber? Bacon? This is either fake, or Flint's parents are forum trolls.

By: Len

Len — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:18:13 -0800

Yeah, that seems a bit too mannered. On the other hand, from the same blog, in "Unintentionally Inappropriate Test Responses From Children" is this, which is just fantastic.

By: Senor Thrusto, King of the Nougat Plains

Senor Thrusto, King of the Nougat Plains — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:18:36 -0800

MetaFilter: More awesome than a monkey wearing a tuxedo made out bacon riding a cyborg unicorn with a lightsaber for the horn on the tip of a space shuttle closing in on mars while ingulfed in flames... and in case you didn't know, that's pretty dang sweet.

By: palidor

palidor — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:19:19 -0800

As much as it delights me to see a [presumably real] child being silly and creative, it troubles me that it reads like it's checking off a list of Things the Internet Likes, including bacon. I just worry that our capacity for liking Awesome Things might be shrinking, and this child is the harbinger of a narrower Cool Stuff Spectrum. But it's also entirely possible there's a big overlap between Things the Internet Likes and Things Silly Children Like.

By: mullacc

mullacc — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:21:14 -0800

Parents need to limit their children's exposure to non sequiturs.

By: Melismata

Melismata — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:23:16 -0800

But...but...bacon is one of the best things on the planet!! :(

By: jeffburdges

jeffburdges — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:23:26 -0800

Ahh, the dreams of youth, how beautiful and wondrous.

By: yerfatma

yerfatma — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:24:45 -0800

Bad enough when parents rite kids book reports.

By: MCMikeNamara

MCMikeNamara — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:24:58 -0800

griphus: " This is either fake, or Flint's parents are forum trolls." I don't think this is necessarily an either/or situation.

By: Pruitt-Igoe

Pruitt-Igoe — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:25:19 -0800

That which is funny is always real. This in particular being funny depends on it being real. It would be funny if a child sent a letter saying these things. Bacon and unicorns are internet cliches, and by themselves not funny.

By: GenjiandProust

GenjiandProust — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:25:47 -0800

Kid, monkeys don't like wearing bacon; it makes their fur greasy.

By: DU

DU — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:28:41 -0800

I can believe this is true, actually. It's a *little* on the meme-y side, but an older kid (say 10-12ish) could definitely come up with that letter.

By: Bulgaroktonos

Bulgaroktonos — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:28:44 -0800

Man, I remember when my Indian Guides group got to help out for a local TV telethon. I was really, really excited to see the local anchor (Charlie Gaddy), and could barely work up the courage to look him in the eye, but if the meterologist (Greg Fishel) had been there? I think I would have lost my little mind.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:28:51 -0800

Parents need to limit their children's exposure to non sequiturs. Whale penis.

By: KingEdRa

KingEdRa — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:29:44 -0800

I do have to admit, unicorns serving donuts off their horns has really grabbed a large chunk of mental real estate in my head.

By: naju

naju — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:29:48 -0800

Do little boys actually consider unicorns to be awesome/badass? I figured they're an acquired taste that grown men only come to discover with the benefit of a little maturity. Really I prefer to picture this being written by a 30-year-old brony attending night classes on meteorology - handwriting and all.

By: jquinby

jquinby — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:32:17 -0800

I'm falling in with the "100% fake" camp. I'll allow for the possibility that parents thought they were funny and dictated it to the kid for lulz.

By: griphus

griphus — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:32:33 -0800

Unicorns certainly hold the capacity for being badass.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:33:26 -0800

Really I prefer to picture this being written by a 30-year-old brony attending night classes on meteorology - handwriting and all. He tore a page out of his limited edition Twilight Sparkle purple compositional notebook, sharpened his pencil with the whole cast and Derpy Hooves eraser top and began....

By: cmoj

cmoj — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:34:04 -0800

I could well have written this in 5th grade or so. Different memes of course. More dinosaurs, probably some vienna sausages. I won the spelling bee that year.

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:34:20 -0800

The "that's pretty dang sweet" convinces me it's fake.

By: stormpooper

stormpooper — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:37:16 -0800

Meh, fake or not, writing insane letters to others and getting noticed/a response is AWESOME. I do it all the time. Got 5 free burritos out of it from Chipotle. Panda Express wanted to give me a $5 discount coupon after I found a hair in my food. I said no thanks, the price for free, human dental floss was thanks enough.

By: Strange Interlude

Strange Interlude — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:37:30 -0800

The handwriting looks like a kid, the text sounds like an adult. I'm perplexed. I've actually worked alongside more than a couple of otherwise fairly normal grown-ups with oddly childlike handwriting, so this looks like the work of a dysgraphic to me.

By: liza

liza — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:39:28 -0800

i want to meet Flint's parents. they're master trolls :D

By: DbanksDog27

DbanksDog27 — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:43:08 -0800

they probably just told the kid what to write

By: Bwithh

Bwithh — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:43:51 -0800

Ok, so just that one line description in the MeFi link made me laugh out loud. I haven't even read the article linked or any of the comments yet...

By: straight

straight — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:45:09 -0800

Smoking Gun: no kid that age would ever say "dang."

By: naju

naju — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:48:09 -0800

Next up: parents getting their kids to draw rage comics.

By: bondcliff

bondcliff — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:49:27 -0800

Do people win prizes if they're the first to call fake on something joyful? I could totally see my nine year old writing something like this. Then again, his parents are more awesome than a monkey wearing a tuxedo made out of bacon.

By: chococat

chococat — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:49:31 -0800

I have a 10 year-old boy who is obsessed with Adventure Time, Greek mythology and Legend of Zelda and I can totally buy that this letter is real. I guess I've developed an ability to understand that particular dialect. Oh, and: Smoking Gun: no kid that age would ever say "dang." My 8 year old nephew says that ALL THE TIME. I actually laughed about it to my brother. Apparently they told them all to say that at school, instead of swearing.

By: ShutterBun

ShutterBun — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:51:03 -0800

Sheesh, we all played along with the "Thin Wall Challenge" guy. Is that all the cool stuff we can believe is real for this month? This one is fun, too.

By: This, of course, alludes to you

This, of course, alludes to you — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:51:35 -0800

at about the time this started making me mad, was when i realized the problem might be ive spent too much time on the damn internet

By: This, of course, alludes to you

This, of course, alludes to you — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:52:35 -0800

metafilter: weird list of random shit that makes you unaccountably angry

By: Pronoiac

Pronoiac — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:53:16 -0800

griphus: Unicorns certainly hold the capacity for being badass. Did someone say badass unicorn?

By: hot_monster

hot_monster — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:54:25 -0800

I'm in the fake camp. Only barely. When I was in the 5th grade I wrote a letter to an exobiologist. I wrote under the premise that aliens were real and the biologist actually studied them. I did get a nice response. I think a kid would include less memes and more Transformers or dinosaurs.

By: Slap*Happy

Slap*Happy — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:56:07 -0800

Kids watch Adventure Time and Regular Show. Kids these days have got more going on than you'd think. My nephew Henry is teaching himself about logic gates in Minecraft, because he saw it on a lego blog he follows and thought it would be cool to try himself. I can totally see him writing something like this.

By: I Foody

I Foody — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:56:20 -0800

I don't think unicorn comedy is funny, not even when kids do it. What I do think is interesting is the phenomenon of unicorn comedy. There's a certain type of humor that comes from a surprising non-sequitor, and choosing a 'random' detail. At some point, I think relatively recently people happened on the unicorn as an archtypically random thing. Of course the whole notion of something being so archtypically random is absurd, it makes it predictable and consequently unfunny.

By: Slap*Happy

Slap*Happy — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:01:05 -0800

Also, kids have parents. If the adults in a kid's life are amused by unicorns and bacon, a bright kid will catch onto this, and try to get a laugh with it.

By: nutate

nutate — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:01:39 -0800

100% real. Metafilter peeps are just cool enough to think they know what kids are into these days, while kids are actually into and creating that stuff at a faster rate.

By: aloiv2

aloiv2 — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:03:52 -0800

Pronoiac, that made my afternoon. It was pretty good, and then the rainbow came out of its ass and I lost it.

By: griphus

griphus — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:03:55 -0800

Did someone say badass unicorn? You know, I stopped watching Supernatural when they debuted the big bad for S7. I should watch it again.

By: koeselitz

koeselitz — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:03:57 -0800

nutate: “100% real. Metafilter peeps are just cool enough to think they know what kids are into these days, while kids are actually into and creating that stuff at a faster rate.” Man, when I was that age – which is eons ago – my dad would have thought my grandpa was an oldster for using the phrase "pretty dang sweet." So you're saying kids are into new things whilst using terminology from long, long ago?

By: Celsius1414

Celsius1414 — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:04:17 -0800

Metafilter: Things the Internet Likes and Things Silly Children Like.

By: karathrace

karathrace — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:08:54 -0800

Fake. Sure the writing/misspellings makes it look "authentic" in coming from a child, but the complex sentences give it away. Reminds me of a mefite who never got his chance because his 'novel' was rejected by all known publishers, but at least he got this up on the blue.

By: Slap*Happy

Slap*Happy — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:08:59 -0800

Man, when I was that age – which is eons ago – my dad would have thought my grandpa was an oldster for using the phrase "pretty dang sweet." So you're saying kids are into new things whilst using terminology from long, long ago? You want to know how I know you don't watch Cartoon Network?

By: spicynuts

spicynuts — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:10:37 -0800

Flint's got my vote for President.

By: nutate

nutate — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:12:17 -0800

koeseliz: don't have a cow man!

By: beagle

beagle — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:18:09 -0800

The weatherman in question is Albert Ramon, KVUE, Austin TX.

By: nutate

nutate — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:18:13 -0800

Weatherman in question. This all happened in Austin, and I've seen Whip-it. Kid's grow up fast around there.

By: teekat

teekat — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:18:53 -0800

Kids are capable of this stuff, but the likelihood of trolling is probably higher. My friend did write a story, "Rambo Invades My Little Pony-Land" for a school competition in either fourth or fifth grade. It was the only entry not read aloud to the class.

By: nutate

nutate — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:19:04 -0800

beagle what in sam hill? also I spelled kids wrong.

By: KingEdRa

KingEdRa — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:25:57 -0800

Excuse me, Spicy Nuts, but I believe "Supreme Ultra-Lord of The Universe" is the office our man Flint is aiming for. Prseident sounds like one of those slave meteorologist positions where you sit around on jewel encrusted platinum and gold thrones all day eating donuts off a unicorn's horn. BORING!

By: Jehan

Jehan — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:27:15 -0800

Ignore the handwriting, spelling, word choice and phrasing, but look at the punctuation. Apostrophes, full stops, commas, and an ellipsis all the right place. Grownups don't even write so well most of the time.

By: Bulgaroktonos

Bulgaroktonos — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:36:46 -0800

My friend did write a story, "Rambo Invades My Little Pony-Land" for a school competition in either fourth or fifth grade. It was the only entry not read aloud to the class. I had a friend* who spent fifth grade exclusively writing about alien cows invading the Earth. If were asked to write a funny story, his story was funny, but also about alien cows invading the Earth. If we were asked to write an argumentative piece, he wrote about why we should support the alien cows when they invaded Earth. It was very forwarding thinking in the way it predicts the internet's tendency to beat a meme to death so hard that you wish it had never become a thing in the first place. *Sadly we had the same first name, which meant that I briefly got in trouble when he sat on his desk barking like a dog and a sub left an ambiguous note. He also claimed to believe he was psych in fifth grade, which was better than when he claimed we were all holograms and started kicking us in fourth grade.

By: ethnomethodologist

ethnomethodologist — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:41:46 -0800

My 8 year old nephew says that ALL THE TIME. I actually laughed about it to my brother. Apparently they told them all to say that at school, instead of swearing. Exactly- they say it AS AN INTERJECTION. Not in the phrase "pretty dang sweet." Never. Not a kid.

By: chococat

chococat — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:50:14 -0800

NO KID EVER SAID THAT EVER.

By: KingEdRa

KingEdRa — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:50:30 -0800

When did we all become Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons? I MUST DESTROY THE TINY JOY THAT SOMEONE FOUND ON THE INTERNET!

By: cmoj

cmoj — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:54:40 -0800

I really thought that there'd be more MeFites who were the weird, smart kid in elementary school. Or at least have known that kid. There's no reason other than personal cynicism/contrarianism to doubt this is real.

By: adamdschneider

adamdschneider — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:58:00 -0800

Never fails. I look at this and immediately think, "That sounds fake. Too bad," and of course I am GRAUTHAR, DESTROYER OF JOY. WHY MUST YOU THINK, GRAUTHAR, WHY MUST YOU DESTROY THE JOY OF PUNY MORTALS????? LET PUNY MORTALS JOY IN PEACE!!!!!!

By: PapaLobo

PapaLobo — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:58:09 -0800

Like the weatherman's gonna get a solid GOB from this kid. COME ON!

By: Navelgazer

Navelgazer — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:00:26 -0800

By: Ayn Rand and God

Ayn Rand and God — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:03:27 -0800

You know how the website letters of note only publishes letters written by exceptional people or under exceptional circumstances? Do you go there and say that that letter by Churchill must be fake because all the prime ministers you know are illiterate assholes? There are exceptional kids who can write way better than you did at their age, because you were not exceptional. Most of you would call fake on the letters I wrote to NASA when I was eight. I used to read Scientific American and took English classes at a very strict British school. I would write, revise, edit and rewrite many times before posting, and would ask my teachers to check spelling and punctuation. My best one was where I made the case for sending me into space. Eight year olds are easy to train, don't eat much, and weight half as much as the smallest astronaut, Imagine the fuel savings. The letter had footnotes and citations.

By: FatherDagon

FatherDagon — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:07:42 -0800

No child has ever said 'DANG'. It's an impossible phenomenon. The only exclamation children can make is 'Tubular jinkies, yo!' No child can deviate from this norm. I know this is true, because I believe it is true, and that's all I need.

By: Pater Aletheias

Pater Aletheias — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:11:02 -0800

You guys do not know enough deeply weird, severely gifted children. Yes, this could be a fake, but I can name three different children who could have written this letter. Bright, weird kids do bright, weird things. And some of them, especially the socially awkward ones most likely to write this kind of letter, spent more time with adults than other kids and pick up idioms that are long out of currency.

By: scalefree

scalefree — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:23:43 -0800

There are exceptional kids who can write way better than you did at their age, because you were not exceptional. I had a 9th grade English teacher flunk a book report I wrote because I used the word "aficionado" in the opening paragraph. At first she didn't believe it was a real word & then after we looked it up together she said I had to have help writing the report. I wasn't quite as precocious as this kid but I recognize the style as something I could've written by 7th grade or so, when I was first getting into things like sarcasm, irony, parody & surrealism in my writing. I don't see anything in the text that excludes it being written by a real kid.

By: Squee

Squee — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:47:16 -0800

Ignore the handwriting, spelling, word choice and phrasing, but look at the punctuation. Apostrophes, full stops, commas, and an ellipsis all the right place. Grownups don't even write so well most of the time. I would think that part of the reason some grownups don't use proper punctuation very often is because they're not in school anymore and not being quizzed daily on all the rules of grammar. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if a 5th grader was better attuned to proper grammar than an adult. However, I went back and read the letter again, paying attention specifically to the punctuation. I'm pretty sure the kid used a comma twice where he should've used a period! Or perhaps a semi-colon ((but I'm a grownup who hasn't been quizzed on that topic in a while, sadly, so I probably shouldn't be correcting him)). I got the fake vibe too. I'm surprised at people saying "don't you guys know any weird kids?!" in response to this, because I thought the main reason it seemed fake to me was that it wasn't weird/random enough.

By: Sidhedevil

Sidhedevil — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:02:52 -0800

Sure the writing/misspellings makes it look "authentic" in coming from a child, but the complex sentences give it away. Nonsense. When I was that child's age, I had already mastered the semi-colon, thanks to all the Dickens I read. (I am neither joking nor bragging here, because HOLY FUCK HYPERLEXIA WAS THE LEAST OF MY BRAIN PROBLEMS AT THAT AGE.) Also at that age, I was obsessed with Firesign Theatre and Beyond the Fringe albums, and like many a crazy little hyperlexic kid could quote vast swathes of their shtick. It seems just as likely that this is a little kid like me who doesn't quite understand how to be funny, but who understand how to regurgitate things said by people who are generally considered to be funny.

By: bumpkin

bumpkin — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:03:11 -0800

I may not have been that kid, but I wrote as well or better than he did in grade 5. Ellipses and all. I wouldn't rule it out based on punctuation.

By: Ayn Rand and God

Ayn Rand and God — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:03:23 -0800

Pater Aletheias: It just hit me after reading your comment that being socially awkward I spent more time with adults than was normal for other kids, and I picked up vocabulary that must have made me insufferable to other kids. First time I am aware of this vicious circle. Scalefree: The same thing happened to me when I mentioned the suicide of the Teuton matrons in a 6th grade homework on the second world war. The teacher failed me and I called her "a textbook Etruscan". I had been reading late roman empire history. She did not get offended, she thought I was calling her a Spartan. Re-reading the letter, as far as I can tell it could be fake or it could be true. I have no idea how popular bacon and unicorns are with kids right now. When I was a kid "flying cars are cool" was a grownup trying to pass as a kid thing, while dinosaurs and deep sea secrets were the real deal.

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:04:18 -0800

You guys do not know enough deeply weird, severely gifted children. Which is strange because I get the feeling that a lot of you WERE that kid.

By: overglow

overglow — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:12:10 -0800

I bet you all a castle full of unicorn serpents that this is actually real.

By: adamdschneider

adamdschneider — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:23:03 -0800

If this letter is real, this kid's parents should stop letting him read Reddit.

By: 4ster

4ster — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:31:36 -0800

And that little boy grew up to be none other than Newt Gingrich.

By: chavenet

chavenet — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:33:29 -0800

How odd; Metafilters argue over obviously fake thing in hopes it isn't fake because you could be ... that kid.

By: Rustmouth Snakedrill

Rustmouth Snakedrill — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:13:21 -0800

Precocious children learn about humor by parroting adult humor to appear sophisticated. I did it with Dave Barry and Life in Hell for years until I got too sullen and adolescent to go on amusing my parents' friends. I teach an art class in the afternoons for 5-8 yr. olds, and they're all products of Phineas & Ferb and Adventure Time and the Shrek franchise (all admittedly kids' stuff, but with the same sort of dual-audience appeal as, say, Ren & Stimpy or the Simpsons), and this is actually what they're like. This is absolutely real, and I'm shocked that there's any speculation.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:34:18 -0800

It's probably international, ancient and apocryphal, but back in my Dutch high school everybody knew the story about a kid who, when the class was given a sheet of paper and asked to write an essay on the topic "What is bravery?", got an A for simply writing "This."

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:35:16 -0800

Then again, I know a website where people get favourites for simply writing "The.", so.

By: fiercecupcake

fiercecupcake — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:53:34 -0800

goodnewsfortheinsane, "The Bart The"? It's German.

By: teekat

teekat — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:55:45 -0800

And for the record, I said "dang" all the dang time when I was a kid. Also "frick," "fricking," "gosh-dangit," and "Sssssshhhhhhhooooot." I have yet to graduate to big boy pants on some of these.

By: Pruitt-Igoe

Pruitt-Igoe — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:29:39 -0800

I'm Interested in what Metafilter thinks of this, a rage-novel purportedly written by an 86 year old. He talks about his life, mentions being moved by the film Metropolis, recounts moments in history every high schooler would know, and ends up marrying a Japanese gamer lady his own age. He tells his inane feel-good story in a rage comic, and uses all the faces correctly. 90% of Reddit claimed to cry manly tears over it. Of course it's possible that an 86 year old rage comic aficionado exists, would want to tell this story, took the time to write it with the ragemaker, and created an account specifically to post it, but it's just so unbelievable to me.

By: mai

mai — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:01:43 -0800

My kids say "dang" all the time - it's pretty common slang among african-american kids even though it sounds dated to white people. One of my kids could totally have written this. Around age 11 the smart ones think that randomness and nonsequitors are the height of humor.

By: peagood

peagood — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:36:23 -0800

This is a note that I confiscated from a First grade kid the day before yesterday. Her friend wrote it, and she passed it to her Third grade brother at lunch recess. They were mad because he wasn't letting them play with him and his friends. After giving the little girls a straight-faced talking-to, I pocketed it, came home and told mrgood about it, and now he and I leave it for each other all around the house. One of my favourite things to do is to read the Kindergarden's writers' workshop sheets - they're chock FULL of information like "The plcemon gav dady a tkt for not waring hs seet balt" and "my brthr fell off a bed n got stches cas i pshd him". This one is a masterpiece, whether it's from a real boy or a brony.

By: Jehan

Jehan — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:23:19 -0800

I would think that part of the reason some grownups don't use proper punctuation very often is because they're not in school anymore and not being quizzed daily on all the rules of grammar. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if a 5th grader was better attuned to proper grammar than an adult. Your...taking the fun, like,...out of my joke.

By: Sidhedevil

Sidhedevil — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:28:40 -0800

How odd; Metafilters argue over obviously fake thing It doesn't seem obviously fake to me. Who do you think faked it? The weatherman? Someone who thought it would be funny to send a memey fake note from a kid to a weatherman?

By: Sidhedevil

Sidhedevil — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:30:58 -0800

The weatherman in question, who maintains that the child is real.

By: signal

signal — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:41:58 -0800

By: codacorolla

codacorolla — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:59:37 -0800

Everything I read/see online gets assigned an undefined truth-value. It's online, you can read it. Why do you need to postulate the existence or non-existence of an 'author'? What value does that add or subtract from it? I think this thing is stupid either way, but there's a difference between childlike naivety and a manchild's desire for publicity (even if they never get direct credit for it) or upvotes.

By: This, of course, alludes to you

This, of course, alludes to you — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:12:01 -0800

now this has got me wondering what future intolerable aggravating shit people are gonna do in large numbers and without caring what i think irrelevancy, resentment, alienation. it's like high school all over again

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:33:30 -0800

It's got to be so werid to read an entire thread of people debating if you exist.

By: MCMikeNamara

MCMikeNamara — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:43:01 -0800

Especially when you're "Kaycee Nicole" reading the ongoing debate

By: peagood

peagood — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:53:19 -0800

Update! I believe!

By: chococat

chococat — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 20:57:25 -0800

Update! I believe! Fake! A grown-up stood beside him and told him what to write, but he tweeted it so it would sound like a weatherman.

By: AndrewKemendo

AndrewKemendo — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:10:40 -0800

How every weather update would be if Flint ran the show.

By: alphanerd

alphanerd — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:23:02 -0800

Very awesome. The thing that initially made me think it was real was that the kid wrote it on the wrong side of the loose leaf, with the holes on the right.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:39:37 -0800

Actually the thing that made me think it was real was the drawing on the back with the slight misspelling. Adults don't draw like kids. That was a kid drawing.

By: Samizdata

Samizdata — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 22:24:16 -0800

ThePinkSuperhero: "You guys do not know enough deeply weird, severely gifted children. Which is strange because I get the feeling that a lot of you WERE that kid." looks around frantically Who? Me? shuffles off nervously

By: HyperBlue

HyperBlue — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:37:43 -0800

real, or not I had to wipe nose-coffee off of my keyboard.

By: doyouknowwhoIam?

doyouknowwhoIam? — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:19:09 -0800

I don't care if it's real, it's awesome. Please, please, please let my kids write stuff like this. I'd be so proud.

By: Shit Parade

Shit Parade — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:58:01 -0800

I'm OK with believing it is real -- I don't feel especially duped if I am wrong, however believing it is fake and having it turn out real, well I think I'd feel lousy. but all this is beside the point, will the internet please draw a depiction of before mentioned monkey in bacon tux riding cyborg unicorn atop spaceship on fire with mars imminent? please?