Strike Throughs/Cross Outs

It is incredible to me that this comedic convention still persists. It goes a little something like this. You write down the truth that you're hiding or the truth that you actually want to say, but can't, and then cross it out. And just like that, comedy!

So, for example, if I wanted to do a strike through version of the opening paragraph, I'd say something like:

Last week, when someone asked me to read something they wrote, I was busy streaming Doctor Who in my boxers snorting cocaine off the asses of several super models. Ya get it? See the truth was in the struck out part. It's as if my computer doesn't have a delete button and I was forced to cross out the horrible truth I was compelled to write for some reason.

And then you have the version where the strike through is used like a hidden insult or slander. Something like "Ke$ha is a

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dirty, no-talent skank

bold, new performing sensation."

It's like I want to call her a skank, and yet, for some reason, I can't call her a skank, but then I call her a skank anyway, but then I cross it out because suddenly I'm not that bold.

Look, I'm not being holier than thou. I used a strikethrough joke in one of my very first Cracked blog posts. Y'know, back in the days when this site had a blog and we were bloggers. Back before that young rapscallion Daniel O'Brien raised the bar on all of us by writing full-blown, funny columns. (I still haven't forgiven him). But that was in 2007, and to be quite honest, I was just stoked that I actually knew how to work the HTML code to make the strike through happen.



