Did readers understand Cone column’s intent?
Regarding Edward Cone’s column, “Is North Carolina ready for its close-up?” (April 27): If you want to increase readership of the News & Record, run a contest over the next few weeks and have readers guess the total number of responses to Cone’s column from people who did not realize or acknowledge that Cone’s column was (1) written in jest, (2) written tongue-in-cheek, or (3) was simply Cone writing as a provocateur. Surely, at least one of those three choices applies.
I have already written down my guess of the number responding, slipped the piece of paper in an old molasses jar, and placed it on the back porch for safekeeping.
Hope the contest prize is a good one!
Joan Dawson Lux
Greensboro
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Forget Cone, do readers understand Joan Dawson Lux's intent?
Posted on May 2, 2008 6:59 AM
Not really Neo, but if you pass by a house with a bunch of old molasses jars on the porch with pieces of paper in them it must be Joan's. Perhaps that's how she decides how to vote as well.
Posted on May 2, 2008 7:40 AM
Joan,
As you can see (above), the level of intelligence is not what one would call extraordinary on these threads, present company excluded. : )
Note: They won't get that humor either!
Posted on May 2, 2008 8:00 AM
"..present company excluded..." Speaking of intelligence, a quote from a North Carolina resident:
THE LIBERAL CONSERVATIVE said:
Oh, and before "little Danny" weighs in with "What about Robert Byrd of West Virginia?", let me say that I didn't vote for him…”
Posted on January 28, 2008 11:12 AM
Posted on May 2, 2008 8:23 AM
Danny---'here's your sign!'
You make yourself look stupid by bringin up your own inadequacies. There's still time---file your suit against UNCG for malpractice!! LOL!
Posted on May 2, 2008 6:38 PM
I see nothing has changed im my absence. TLC is as predictably bullying as ever.
BTW, DD, I do see the humor in your post, although I don't think it is the same humor you do. But then again, sometime unintended humor is the funniest! LOL!!
Posted on May 2, 2008 9:47 PM
One of those three choices covers just about every column ever written. Every time Cone writes about politics it is a joke!
Posted on May 4, 2008 11:52 AM
"Every time Cone writes about politics it is a joke!"
You really didn't need to include "about politics" in that sentence, Tony.
Posted on May 4, 2008 3:55 PM