Yahoo Comments

Often, when I’m bored, I go to the yahoo website and see what’s in the news.

Over time though, I found that the yahoo users leaving comments after an article, are almost always more entertaining than the article itself.  

And often they have absolutely nothing to do with the article. 

Here’s a fictional exchange that I made up with fictional users, but which illustrates the sort of thing I’m talking about that’s very common:

Example of a Yahoo Article:  A Dog Had Ten Puppies.

COMMENTS:

Obsessed w/ Politics: That dog is a liberal!

Frequently-off-topic: the yahoo homepage is loading too slowly

Controversial just for the sake of it: that’s not a dog! that’s a photo of a cat!

Clueless_I_Am: I didn’t read the article……I just felt like leaving a woof-woof, I mean a comment. Dog.

                      Frequently-off-topic: Is your name really Dog? Shouldn’t be it be spelled

                      DoUg?

                      Obsessed w/ Politics: D for Democrat! Ha! I knew it!

                      Controversial just for the sake of it: When I was ten, I found a female mate

                      for my dog. I let them sleep together. Then I found out my dog was female

                      too.

                      Enthusiastic for no apparent reason: OMG!!!!

Clueless_I_Am:  I still didn’t read the article!

                      Voice of Reason11: No one cares.

Spammer:     Meet and Mingle with other idiots at idiotsmingle.com

                      Enthusiastic for no apparent reason: OMG!!!!

                      Voice of Reason11: No need for that. Just look around.

Serious Reader: What does any of this have to do with the article?

                      Obsessed w/ Politics: What does Obamacare have to do w/ America?

                      That’s right.  NOTHING.

               

------Written by A. L. Salt © .