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> The dingo has truly eaten our baby. It is so strange that people still say this. A family lost their child.

tptacek 2mo ago
On this one point, if you really pin us down, you can get me to feel bad, but you know that this is a reference to a Seinfeld bit.
- steerpike 2mo ago
  That seems a very strange claim that it's a reference to one minor use of a vastly larger tragic cultural phenomenon [1] without any other contextual indications that's the case? [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo_ate_my_baby https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo_ate_my_baby
  - tptacek 2mo ago
    I'm not dying on this hill. I punched up this post and that paragraph is mostly mine, and I'm telling you it's a random Seinfeld reference and not a joke about an actual tragedy, any more than me joking about the Andrea Doria would be. I'm not arguing with you about whether the actual event is something worth making fun of.
    - holden_nelson 2mo ago
      > it's a random Seinfeld reference and not a joke about an actual tragedy, lol ok so I wasn’t deeply offended by the dingo reference for what it’s worth, but this attempt to distance yourself from it is weird. Both this post and Seinfeld are referencing the event directly. And that’s fine with me, to be clear! I’m not clutching my pearls, I tend to have fairly edgy humor, not trying to put you on blast or die on this hill either, etc - I mostly just find it odd. Most companies, on their corporate blog, wouldn’t feel comfortable joking about most tragedies - would you make a similar quip about 9/11? Charlie Kirk? Casey Anthony? I’m guessing not. But the dingo thing is fair game. People say it without even considering it. What’s different? Genuinely asking
      - tptacek 2mo ago
        I don't have edgy humor, like at all, so I take notice when people call this stuff out, is all.
- its-summertime 2mo ago
  Filter bubbles and what not, but, googling the term only had Seinfeld show up on the bottom of the fourth page. Bottom of page 2 in a private tab.
- kasey_junk 2mo ago
  It’s a Buffy the vampire slayer reference and you know it.
  - tptacek 2mo ago
    I have never watched a single episode of Buffy (or of Star Trek The Next Generation, if Picard also said this.)

On this one point, if you really pin us down, you can get me to feel bad, but you know that this is a reference to a Seinfeld bit.

steerpike 2mo ago
That seems a very strange claim that it's a reference to one minor use of a vastly larger tragic cultural phenomenon [1] without any other contextual indications that's the case? [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo_ate_my_baby https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo_ate_my_baby
- tptacek 2mo ago
  I'm not dying on this hill. I punched up this post and that paragraph is mostly mine, and I'm telling you it's a random Seinfeld reference and not a joke about an actual tragedy, any more than me joking about the Andrea Doria would be. I'm not arguing with you about whether the actual event is something worth making fun of.
  - holden_nelson 2mo ago
    > it's a random Seinfeld reference and not a joke about an actual tragedy, lol ok so I wasn’t deeply offended by the dingo reference for what it’s worth, but this attempt to distance yourself from it is weird. Both this post and Seinfeld are referencing the event directly. And that’s fine with me, to be clear! I’m not clutching my pearls, I tend to have fairly edgy humor, not trying to put you on blast or die on this hill either, etc - I mostly just find it odd. Most companies, on their corporate blog, wouldn’t feel comfortable joking about most tragedies - would you make a similar quip about 9/11? Charlie Kirk? Casey Anthony? I’m guessing not. But the dingo thing is fair game. People say it without even considering it. What’s different? Genuinely asking
    - tptacek 2mo ago
      I don't have edgy humor, like at all, so I take notice when people call this stuff out, is all.
its-summertime 2mo ago
Filter bubbles and what not, but, googling the term only had Seinfeld show up on the bottom of the fourth page. Bottom of page 2 in a private tab.
kasey_junk 2mo ago
It’s a Buffy the vampire slayer reference and you know it.
- tptacek 2mo ago
  I have never watched a single episode of Buffy (or of Star Trek The Next Generation, if Picard also said this.)