{"id":18653,"date":"2013-01-18T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T17:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=18653"},"modified":"2013-01-18T12:00:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T17:00:25","slug":"when-sarcasm-goes-right-over-their-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/01\/18\/when-sarcasm-goes-right-over-their-heads\/","title":{"rendered":"When sarcasm goes right over their heads&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Coyne parodied Toronto attitudes to winter in a Twitter update earlier this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\">\n<p>MY GOD IT\u2019S -10 IN TORONTO HOLY MOTHER NO PLACE HAS EVER BEEN THIS COLD EVER EVER<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/acoyne\/status\/292264484872003585\" data-datetime=\"2013-01-18T13:37:37+00:00\">January 18, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As often happens, the sarcasm went right past some folks:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\">\n<p>Ummm\u2026 @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/norlaine\">norlaine<\/a>: @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/acoyne\">acoyne<\/a> Hahahahahaha! Ever spent the winter in Winnipeg?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/acoyne\/status\/292270984373882880\" data-datetime=\"2013-01-18T14:03:27+00:00\">January 18, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\">\n<p>Ummm\u2026 @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/norlaine\">norlaine<\/a>: @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/acoyne\">acoyne<\/a> Hahahahahaha! Ever spent the winter in Winnipeg?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/acoyne\/status\/292270984373882880\" data-datetime=\"2013-01-18T14:03:27+00:00\">January 18, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\">\n<p>Ummmm\u2026. @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/altonabusiness\">altonabusiness<\/a>: @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/acoyne\">acoyne<\/a> Suck it up Princess! Come to MB, we&#8217;ll toughen you up!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/acoyne\/status\/292271151147782144\" data-datetime=\"2013-01-18T14:04:07+00:00\">January 18, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\">\n<p>Ummmmmmmmmm\u2026.@<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cupedoll_500\">cupedoll_500<\/a>: So cute. -30 Winnipeg pats yer li&#8217;l heads. R@acoyne: MY GOD IT\u2019S -10 IN TORONTO HOLY MOTHER NO..<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/acoyne\/status\/292271355347488770\" data-datetime=\"2013-01-18T14:04:55+00:00\">January 18, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\">\n<p>I\u2019m from Winnipeg, morons.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/acoyne\/status\/292271837352718337\" data-datetime=\"2013-01-18T14:06:50+00:00\">January 18, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\">\n<p>There is no joke so obvious that two-thirds of Twitter won\u2019t get it.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/acoyne\/status\/292272054839959552\" data-datetime=\"2013-01-18T14:07:42+00:00\">January 18, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Coyne parodied Toronto attitudes to winter in a Twitter update earlier this morning: MY GOD IT\u2019S -10 IN TORONTO HOLY MOTHER NO PLACE HAS EVER BEEN THIS COLD EVER EVER &mdash; Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) January 18, 2013 As often happens, the sarcasm went right past some folks: Ummm\u2026 @norlaine: @acoyne Hahahahahaha! Ever spent the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,57,28],"tags":[207,310],"class_list":["post-18653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-humour","category-media","tag-toronto","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4QR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18655,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18653\/revisions\/18655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}