About:
From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclowikipoop:
Sadly, No! is a liberal/progressive humor site based in Germany, originally as a project of founder Seb, but since 2004 operating as a group blog, currently with American contributors. It has daily traffic between 7,000 and 15,000 visits.
Sadly, No! won the European “Satin Pajama Award” for Best Humorous Blog in 2004, was a Koufax Award (the main award of the liberal blogosphere) finalist in 2003 and 2006, and was featured as Cruel Site of the Day by Internet stalwarts Cruel.com in June, 2005. In December, 2005, the site won a Weblog Award in the ‘Best of the Top 251-500 Blogs’ category. In December, 2006, the site won the Weblog Award for Best Humor Blog.
The site’s main running joke is in finding embarrassing slips or untrue statements by conservatives and linking to a refutation, saying, “Sadly, No!” Other running gags include posting pictures of conservative columnists on Internet dating sites, battling with a “singing troll” who sends homemade songs deriding the site’s contributors and commenters, and doing line-by-line putdowns of columns by Christian evangelists and other right-wingers. Sadly, No! also occasionally publishes phony columns at right-wing sites, and engages in other pranks.
Current contributors include site founder Seb, a French-Canadian financial analyst living in Germany [fig. 1]; Brad R., a graduate student in Boston [fig. 2]; Gavin M., a writer and designer in Cambridge [fig. 3]; HTML Mencken (formerly ‘Retardo Montalban’) [fig. 4], Travis G. [fig. 5], and Jillian [fig. 6], all Southern writers; Mister Leonard Pierce [fig. 7], a writer in the Southwest; Tintin [fig. 8], a brave young Belgian reporter drawn to international intrique; and Demogenes Aristophanes [fig. 9], a West Coast writer.
Update: As though to underscore the impermanence of things, an Internet troll group, the Gay Niggers of America, launched a whatsis to delete the S,N! Wikipedia entry. Then their pages got deleted by the Wikipedia management, and one of these days we’ll catch up with that whole thing. Also, we won a Weblog Award again in 2007.
Fig. 1: S,N! Central Command.
Fig. 2 (l-r): Devastatin’ Bradley, the Man From S.A.D.L.Y., Sifu Tweety.
Fig. 3: Gavin M via crapsational phone-cam (who’s still working on these portraits).
I do the graphxXx for the posts (except as noted, or when Tintin does them) and sneak into other people’s stuff to correct typos, and suchforth.
Fig. 4: HTML Mencken
Fig. 5: Travis G.
Fig. 6: Jillian
Fig. 7: Mister Leonard Pierce (trying to find his real father)
Fig 8 (l-r): Tintin and his dog
Fig. 9 (l-r): Tony Blair, Demogenes Aristophanes
Comments are strictly and sweepingly unmoderated. The sole exception to this ancient rule is assholish behavior such as physical threats or ‘outings’ of people who wish to remain anonymous, for which there obtains a zero-tolerance comment-deletion policy.
As of roughly March or April, 2007, when some of our Photoshopped pictures started to be realistic enough to seem genuine, images that might not look phony are watermarked, ‘Teh Sadly.’ The watermark font is Fraulein Hex, from an amazing collection of postpunk-inspired fonts by some dude named Vic Fieger.
