Lawrence Tierney and Wil Wheaton

[Steve67]

^ I like Wil Wheaton, and I read all of his brilliant non-fiction books. Heck, I even appreciate Wesley!

Nonetheless, I find the anecdote to be funny, not because I think homophobia is funny, but because Tierney's incredible and over-the-top randomness is.

Wil himself does a side-splitting reading of the anecdote in the audio version of his Just a Geek, so even he could appreciate the humor of the situation.

That's what I was getting at; I don't think anyone was laughing because they agreed with the content of Tierney's remarks, but rather that this dinosaur of a man descended upon this hapless kid and said those things, which were probably typical of Tierney's generation.

Boy, that took the humor right out of the story! I sound like Data!

 

[BillJ]

At 15 I didn't weigh much more than Wheaton and would've thought it the ramblings of a bitter old man.But then again I don't hang on every word a person speaks waiting to be insulted.

Life's too short.