MEET THE PRESS -- Pictured: (l-r) David Brooks, Columnist, The New York Times,, appears on 'Meet the Press' in Washington, D.C., Sunday, Dec. 22, 2013. (Photo by: William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC NewsWire via Getty Images)

New York Times columnist David Brooks set Twitter ablaze with a piece in which he explained why he doesn't smoke pot anymore.

In a piece entitled "Weed: Been There. Done That." on Thursday, Brooks wrote that he and his friends used to smoke pot, but stopped for several reasons. The first reason he gave was an "embarrassing" incident that went as follows:

"I smoked one day during lunch and then had to give a presentation in English class. I stumbled through it, incapable of putting together simple phrases, feeling like a total loser."

The column elicited quite the response online. Vanity Fair's Juli Weiner had this to say: "For a little while in my teenage years, my friends and I read David [Brooks] columns," she began. "It was fun. I have some fond memories of us all being uninformed and feeling superior together."

Then, there was this:

wow did everyone see david brooks op ed in the new york times today pic.twitter.com/mJW5T3tlr7 — leon (@leyawn) January 3, 2014

In fact, jokes about Brooks dominated the Twittersphere. Here were some of the best responses to his column on Twitter:

david brooks comes out in favor of putting david brooks in jail to help nurture the development of a healthy society http://t.co/aavevjub9u — flglmn (@flglmn) January 3, 2014

"We now have a couple states that have gone into the business of effectively encouraging David Brooks." — John Cook (@johnjcook) January 3, 2014

I used to read David Brooks' column because I thought it was cool and everyone else did it...but as we grew up we stopped, one by one... — emily bell (@emilybell) January 3, 2014

Not sure I wanted to know that David Brooks wakes up at 4am thinking about the time he was stoned in English class. http://t.co/0URtaVB7Wl — Amy Davidson Sorkin (@tnyCloseRead) January 3, 2014

David Brooks wants our laws to encourage the finer pleasures like wine tasting and cutting Social Security — Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) January 3, 2014

I don't think David Brooks is cool for smoking weed. I think he's cool for the fresh use of "Been there, done that." — Seth Meyers (@sethmeyers) January 3, 2014

This David Brooks column is so bad that I'll just assume he was stoned when he wrote it: http://t.co/zPJw0Ln42o — Philip Klein (@philipaklein) January 3, 2014

Does David Brooks think that David Brooks should have done jail time for his youthful marijuana smoking? — Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias) January 3, 2014

Shorter David Brooks: ban marijuana because I got bored of smoking it. http://t.co/qUi2lGBSKb — Josh Barro (@jbarro) January 3, 2014

Hahahahahahahahahhaahahahah. Can you imagine someone caring about David Brooks's opinion on pot? http://t.co/CgOl2rXBot — Bobby Big Wheel (@BobbyBigWheel) January 3, 2014