Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Logic

Mr. Logic was inspired by Chris Donald's own brother, Keith, who was much later diagnosed with Asperger syndrome.

As somebody not far up that spectrum, my natural mode is less extreme than Mr Logic, but certainly in the same sphere. Now that I've learned by deliberate study what the Neurotypic majority expects, I have the choice, in writing at least, to reflect on my first draft and edit it either in an attempt to pass as "normal" or to turn the Aspie dial up a bit for humorous effect.

In the rubbish 'wish upon a star' joke, my first instinct was to correct the stupidity of using light years in reference to a passage of time. I could have just let it pass, which is what NT people would do, assuming they actually spotted the howler, but instead it became interesting to extend the critique to the magnitude of the error too. I learned something in the process - the most distant individual stars visible to the naked eye are about 1400 light years away, the most distant points of light visible to the naked eye are usually galaxies a few million light years away, but recently an object 7.5 billion light years away blinked into view. That star is not just dead, it was already dead before the Solar system formed.