by snarly | Jul 3, 2015 | Funny-on-Purpose Apologies
A snippet of the dramatic tale: The crowd parted. “Say you’re sorry right now,”she hissed into my ear. Absolutely not. You howled like a wolf at the moon and clung to your mother like the baboon-faced marsupial that you are. Large tears fell...
by snarly | Jun 5, 2015 | Funny-on-Purpose Apologies
There are times to apologize. And there are times not to apologize. In this video which we are sadly forbidden to embed, comedian Amy Schumer offers a look at gendered, excessively self-negating, unnecessary, reflexive ladypologies. Given that research indicates that...
by snarly | May 27, 2015 | Bropology, Celebrity Apologies, Corporate Apologies, Funny-on-Purpose Apologies
When Equinox does it, it’s douchey. When Chris Pratt does it, it is adorable! What is it? Pre-Apology! Pratt is funny (this scene of him as Andy on Parks and Rec, acting out the movie Roadhouse when the cable feed doesn’t work, is all improv, or so my...
by snarly | Apr 11, 2015 | Funny-on-Purpose Apologies, Youth apologizes
…you could take a lesson in apologizing from a boy named Jack. Jack was visiting an outpost of Powell’s Bookstore in Portland when he had an unfortunate regurgitory incident. Employees cleaned up. “It was gigantic in diameter,” Bookstore manager...
by sumac | Oct 27, 2014 | Funny-on-Purpose Apologies, Religious Apologies
SorryWatch seeks to understand and illuminate the apology traditions of many cultures and faiths. We were tipped off to a clear and beautiful example from Archdruid Eileen of the Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley. The Archdruid takes on the tricky rhetoric of a “sorry...
by snarly | Jul 11, 2014 | Funny-on-Purpose Apologies, Musical Apologies
Nerf Herder is best known as the band that did the Buffy the Vampire Slayer theme, among the greatest tv show themes in history. (Click that link to be hypnotized by the opening sequence from all seven seasons.) But writer Meg Nesterov just pointed me to the...
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