Neil Gaiman: http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2005/04/hp-sauce-as-coin-cleanser-and-so-on.asp
Ignoring (like those in question) the main thrust of his entry, this sentence made me smile:
“Well, I looked the Slashdot thread over and, like you, felt that many of the posters had an almost world-class ability to miss the point.”