Dude Spends His Saturday Tracing The Connections Between World Famous Author Charles Dickens and Avril Lavigne's Hit "Sk8er Boi"

When the military developed ARPANET  after research into packet switching as a protocol for internetworking by which multiple separate networks could be joined into a network of networks, this is EXACTLY what they had in mind.  A global network where everybody could be instantly connected and information could be shared across the globe at the click of a button.

Information like how Avril Lavinge’s 2002 hit pop single “Sk8er Boi” is loosely related to the famed 19th century literary colossus  Charles Dickens.

He was a punk. She did ballet.  What more can I say?

This dude spending his entire Saturday looking into something like this and outlining it for his Twitter followers may be something you scoff at.  Well, when you believe in something, you pursue it – that’s something to admire.   Stand for something or you’ll fall for anything – Malcolm X.

Also Dickens was, as you probably already know, a writer with a style marked by a profuse linguistic creativity. Satire, flourishing in his gift for caricature, is his forte. An early reviewer compared him to Hogarth for his keen practical sense of the ludicrous side of life, though his acclaimed mastery of varieties of class idiom may in fact mirror the conventions of contemporary popular theatre.

Meanwhile, Avril was considered by Slant Magazine as “ultimately just a handful of watered-down genre tropes trotted out seemingly because they’re on trend.”

So you tell me if it was a waste of time.