Talk:Desperate Dan

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[edit] Desperately Unfunny Dan

Rodhullandemu removed a reference to Desperate Dan being parodied by Viz magazine as Desperately Unfunny Dan, saying:

The source for Viz (Desperately Unfunny Dan) doesn't look too reliable to me, because by the time it gets to us, it's third-hand hearsay. Can you find a better reference, e.g. Viz' website.

My response to Rodhullandemu is:

(a) The article came from the Sunday edition of The Times, a newspaper generally regarded as responsible and reliable in its reporting

(b) The article was written by the former Viz editor who created Desperately Unfunny Dan, Chris Donald himself (so really we are dealing with a primary source, and not "third person hearsay")

(c) Any person of reasonable intelligence and judgement would consider the reference to be reliable.

Kransky (talk) 13:39, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

• Already sorted. Panic ye not. --Rodhullandemu (Talk) 13:41, 8 January 2008 (UTC)