i thoughted that he is a good persun and his name telling that he is shiney persun. All pepuls are spradening baddy things about him. No oned talkied about shakeete kapeur and guldshand geiver. Why?

I absolutely took the comment at face value but went down a little further and found another one by the same user:

how i killing you with simpule engleesh? are you goned maddy ? to killed you need guned, kniefe, hamur, stoned. howe simpule engleesh killed you?

As soon as I read this it clicked. Poes Law. Its an old internet rule that states:

Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won’t mistake for the real thing.

I think we need to have a rediff commenter specific version of this law. On reading rediff comments I think we can simplify the law as well:

It is IMPOSSIBLE to recognize whether or not rediff comments are parody.

I think we should name it the Bala law in honor of Ajit Balakrishnan without whom we would not be blessed.

And for anyone who is willing to try and figure out if the above commenter is for real check out Halakus Comment Page.

Heres a picture of what I got from them today:

Im pretty sure there is a claim for False Advertising here.

I’ve been reading blogs for years, corresponding every now and than with a number of bloggers, but have finally decided to start on my own. Lets see how it goes. I’m going to primarily write about Technology and Books, which are the 2 things I am most interested in.

Hopefully over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be able to have the blog take shape, figure out what I want to do for a posting schedule, and come up with some ideas for interesting posts.