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Please, Not The 'Mother's Basement' Joke AgainPlease, Not The 'Mother's Basement' Joke Again
After reading how a John McCain staff blogger insulted Dungeons & Dragons enthusiasts with a reference to living in their mothers' basements, I'd like to make a plea to mainstream America. This is on behalf of nerds everywhere: Will you <i>please</i> get some new jokes about us?
Mitch Wagner
August 21, 2008
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After reading how a John McCain staff blogger insulted Dungeons & Dragons enthusiasts with a reference to living in their mothers' basements, I'd like to make a plea to mainstream America. This is on behalf of nerds everywhere: Will you please get some new jokes about us?It's been twenty-one years since William Shatner made that wisecrack on Saturday Night Live, and we've had to listen to it over and over, ever since. It's like spending 21 years listening to kindergartners telling the same knock-knock joke.
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