I was recently with some fellow church planters and for kicks one night, we turned to www.despair.com for some fantastic laughs. If you have not yet visited this place, what are you waiting for? Despair.com was started as a cynical response to all the “successories” of the 1980s and 1990s (you know, the picture of the crew team working hard together under the name “Teamwork” with a pithy, motivating cliché to boot).
I sometimes wonder (though not very often, to be honest) why the demented and twisted humor is so, well, funny. I have always found The Far Side to be fantastically creative and eccentric. Perhaps it stems from a need to see the world from a strange vantage point, I don’t know. Like I said, I haven’t thought much about this.
Still, grab a friend and work your way through all of the site’s “Demotivator” posters (which you can really buy…I’ve got a few) and enjoy a few laughs at the expense of our pop culture. The best one? Check out the one on blogging (http://despair.com/blogging.htm).
As I read this this morning I was literally sitting in front of one of those motivational posters in a car repair waiting room. It said "OPPORTUNITY: The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong."
These things make me love despair posters even more. My favorite is Dysfunction. My copastor has threatened to put that on the wall behind his counseling seat more than once.
Posted by: Mark Upton | June 10, 2009 at 08:32 AM