{"id":599,"date":"2013-04-04T10:41:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T14:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/?p=599"},"modified":"2013-04-04T10:41:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T14:41:02","slug":"how-metafilter-brought-a-deceased-fathers-jokes-back-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/how-metafilter-brought-a-deceased-fathers-jokes-back-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"How Metafilter Brought a Deceased Father’s Jokes Back to Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a wonderful story. I love how the community quickly banded together to help this grieving son.<\/p>\n

Reading the article, my writer’s brain went crazy. First of all, the fact that the Dad had a text file with the name jokes.txt and it contained only the punchlines. Why? What did he have planned for this? <\/p>\n

Then there is the last line of the article: “your dad inadvertently arranging for your friends to tell you jokes all day long on the day he dies”. What if the file contained something other than jokes? What would that story be?<\/p>\n

Two weeks ago Daniel Drucker went to Metafilter with a request.<\/p>\n

“My father passed away this morning,” he wrote. “I’m going through his file, and I came across JOKES.TXT … which contains only the punchlines.” Could the Metafilter hivemind work backward and supply the missing the jokes?<\/p>\n

via How Metafilter Brought a Deceased Father’s Jokes Back to Life – Rebecca J. Rosen – The Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What a wonderful story. I love how the community quickly banded together to help this grieving son. Reading the article, my writer’s brain went crazy. First of all, the fact that the Dad had a text file with the name jokes.txt and it contained only the punchlines. Why? What did he have planned for this? Then there is the last line of the article: “your dad inadvertently arranging for your friends to tell you jokes all day long on the…<\/p>\n

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