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So much for that Eighth Commandment again.
“I think that the Democrats should reflect on what they themselves do that is corrupt and recognize that they are desperately trying to transfer their evil deeds to the Republican Party.”
From Marie Jon’s new column at PeoplePolitical.org
An old proverb says, “You are not what you think you are, but you are what you think.” The statement is not merely an ancient proverb, but it is also a Bible truth. The Bible states that as a man thinks in his heart, so is he (Proverbs 23:7).
[...]
Satan attacks all of us in many ways, but perhaps his most vigorous assault is brought to bear upon our thoughts. What we think eventually makes us what we are. Our thoughts often lead to actions — and so the battleground is within our thoughts. Each of us is responsible for what we welcome into our mind.
From ‘A Call to Thought Purity,’ by Harold S. Martin (1892-1961)
An older proverb says, “You are not what you think you are, but you are what you think.” The statement is not merely an ancient proverb, but it is also a Bible truth. The Bible states that as a man thinks in his heart, so is he (Proverbs 23:7).
Satan attacks all of us in many ways, but perhaps his most vigorous assault is brought to bear upon our thought lives. Satan knows that what we think, eventually makes us what we are. He knows that our thoughts often lead to actions — and so he works on our thought lives. Each of us is responsible for what he welcomes into his mind.
[See here and keep scrolling up the page for context and further details]
Woodrowfan said,
August 5, 2005 at 14:54
yeah, well, um, CLINTON, CLINTON, CLINTON!
Woodrowfan said,
August 5, 2005 at 14:55
damn, it dropped the (start marie) and the (stop marie tags.) sorry bout that.
a.m.griff said,
August 5, 2005 at 14:58
Reminds me of another proverb, “A fool can use a proverb about as well as a crippled man can use his legs.”
Anonymous said,
August 5, 2005 at 15:23
Doesn’t the fact that MJ put another whole paragraph between those two exonerate her of whatever false charges you’re implying?
What do you think about most of the time? What puts a smile on your face?
Oh, you KNOW what puts a smile on my face, MJ. Don’t you? Don’t you, you little vixen?
… these good and lovely thoughts produce happy endorphins inside the brain …
I try to keep my endorphins happy, too. “C’mon, you crazy polypeptides, let’s us go out, get us some Ouzo, and find some neuroreceptors willing to bind!”
mdhatter said,
August 5, 2005 at 15:30
Wow, she can channel a dead moron.
maybe that’s here secret. Automatic writing.
It might explain the grammar and spelling (though not the ‘).
Karl said,
August 5, 2005 at 15:31
> Each of us is responsible for what we welcome into our mind.
Hence MJ”s obvious desire to play it safe by letting as little into her mind as possible.
Dan Craig said,
August 5, 2005 at 15:32
I just like how MJ’ revised the final sentence to make it grammatically incorrect.
tg said,
August 5, 2005 at 15:40
One’s own personal choice of language tells much about oneself.
Yes, yes it does, MJ. Recognition of this is the first step toward grammatical rehabilitation. Your honesty with yourself has earned the respect of everyone here. We want to help.
salvage said,
August 5, 2005 at 15:41
One can be stupid and one can be a theif, to be both is to invite disaster.
wha? said,
August 5, 2005 at 15:46
Marie Jon’:
Please dear, they won’t let up. Contact me at once and we can get together and gin up some writing of your own over a bottle of wine. If worse comes to worse you can copy your next column from the label.
All that I ask in return is a personal demonstration of the PeePo thong in action.
Karl said,
August 5, 2005 at 15:48
From MJ”s bio tag:
>>Marie Jon’ is the founder of PeoplePolitical.org Marie attends
>>nursing school in her state. [...] Her writing style is down to earth.
“Down to earth” is apparently a highly-compressed euphemism for “her grammar, word choice and punctuation are downright hallucinatory, and she steals.”
Brad R. said,
August 5, 2005 at 15:55
Plagarized wingnuttery. Is there any crime more pathetic?
Gavin M. said,
August 5, 2005 at 16:17
I can’t imagine why she’d do it AGAIN after getting busted for the last column.
It’s not hard to spot, either: You look at her stuff and get to a sentence that has measured cadences, and sure enough, it’s copied from somewhere.
I didn’t even check the rest of the column.
Greg said,
August 5, 2005 at 16:27
So Satan is the one responsible for those nasty feelings I let into my mind? As in, reading MJ columns makes me wanna smoke meth? I was going to blame Marie, but now that I know it’s Satan, I’ll never stop. Off to Freerepublic I go, tra la la.
Vladi G said,
August 5, 2005 at 16:32
Hey, if it’s good enough for Doris Kearns Goodwin, it’s good enough for Marie.
Yosef said,
August 5, 2005 at 16:35
In regards to the faking scandal and wha?, our stance is not to discuss an ongoing investigation.
Marie, I’m glad to see you shaved your mustache.
Ukko said,
August 5, 2005 at 16:35
Let’s try it, Saami poika.
MJ:
An old proverb says, “You are not what you think you are, but you are what you think.” The statement is not merely an ancient proverb, but it is also a Bible truth. The Bible states that as a man thinks in his heart, so is he (Proverbs 23:7).
Anabaptists.org
An older proverb says, “You are not what you think you are, but you are what you think.” The statement is not merely an ancient proverb, but it is also a Bible truth. The Bible states that as a man thinks in his heart, so is he (Proverbs 23:7).
That was the first sentence. That’s enough. Has she no shame? If I were caught plagiarizing, I’d hide myself away and not show my crimson face for a good long time. She blithely trips along, plagiarizing like she doesn’t know any better.
I think I’ve got it. That picture up there isn’t of Marie Jon’. Marie Jon’ is a young child pretending to be an adult. And she fooled you. HaHa.
Gavin M. said,
August 5, 2005 at 16:37
She’s got sisu, eh?
Ukko said,
August 5, 2005 at 16:40
Well, when we Finns think of sisu, it’s usually something worthwhile like kicking Russki butt. No, Marie Jon’ needs another stereotypical Finnish-ism to explain her columns. Not only does she have sisu, she’s pig drunk.
Gavin M. said,
August 5, 2005 at 16:45
Well, my stock of appropriate Finnish expressions is mostly permutations of vittu — and in fact half the spoken language is probably just variations on vittu with other terms thrown in for variety…
Do you know how to inflect vittu in the case that means, ‘out of?’
Gavin M. said,
August 5, 2005 at 16:47
Like, vittun is ‘into.’
Gavin M. said,
August 5, 2005 at 16:49
Vittulta?
Yosef said,
August 5, 2005 at 16:49
I know one Finnish-ism is to dress up like a little girl when you try to go get sundries from someone so that they don’t realize that you’re a runaway little boy trying to take a slave up to the free states on a raft.
Gavin M. said,
August 5, 2005 at 16:55
Not to mention those dudes in Split Enz.
GregH said,
August 5, 2005 at 17:02
I bear an uncanny resemblance to Neil Finn. It was to the point where the ladies would ask for my autograph. Of course this was back during the heady Crowded House era. And of course I never used my resemblance for evil only for good.
GregH said,
August 5, 2005 at 17:03
Any progress on the flashing Marie beacon?
Ukko said,
August 5, 2005 at 17:04
Sorry, I can’t do the Finnish endings or verbs. This page might help: http://www.insultmonger.com/swearing/finnish.htm
GregH said,
August 5, 2005 at 17:15
I was thinking of something quite simple – a animated flashing spinning Virgen de Guadalupe that intones “Marie in da house” every time she enters the site.
Gavin M. said,
August 5, 2005 at 17:19
Ah, but that would be copying — exactly how Marie keeps getting in trouble.
Let’s say paska vitulta. Apparently vittun drops a ‘t’ when going into the whatsitive case…
See, one of the greatest things is how these terms sound when you operatically blurt them out. PAHS-ka!
That’s cursin’, man.
Ukko said,
August 5, 2005 at 17:26
Jumalauta, I’d hate to be born of Marie after what you said!
I also like this one: “?itisi nai poroja” which means your mother copulates with reindeer.
(http://www.insultmonger.com/swearing/finnish.htm)
Gavin M. said,
August 5, 2005 at 17:26
I checked Marie’s IP address during the threats/lawyer thing, and she actually shares an IP and time stamp with two other people who stop by a lot (who live in the same area, apparently). So it’s not 100% certain that it’s her — more like 85%, depending on who else is around.
kiche said,
August 5, 2005 at 17:27
damn, straight cold busted in a blatant act of plagiarism.
apparently she stole from someone who thought we should set up “thought police”. hmmm… ms jon’ is starting to look less like a silly wingnut and like an actual neo-nazi…
Gavin M. said,
August 5, 2005 at 17:34
I also like this one: “?itisi nai poroja” which means your mother copulates with reindeer.
Yeah, I was talking to Marq about that a couple days ago. He was like, “I don’t like when people use the word, ‘fag,’” and I was like, “Yeah, I have sort of a thing about rendeer-fucking jokes when directed personally.” And then I was thinking, “Well that’s silly; how often do reindeer-fucking jokes really come up, honestly?”
But see, there it is! It happened!
Not offended of course, but one might shoot back with suksi porovittun!
Pinko Punko said,
August 5, 2005 at 17:59
The Finnish is flying thick and heavy! That’s when you know the going’s getting rough and the tough are gettin’ goin’!
Nickel Bloom said,
August 5, 2005 at 17:59
Comedic gold!
Ukko said,
August 5, 2005 at 18:16
Thank goodness you don’t take it personally, because I’d be in big trouble if you did. According to this page:
http://www.orkneyjar.com/folklore/selkiefolk/origins/origin3.htm
“the Saami were regarded as great sorcerors with the power to control the weather, travel great distances in magical trances and shapeshift – usually into the form of a sea animal or bear.”
I don’t want to be on the wrong side of your Saami-Fu! :)
More seriously, I also have ancestors who were from the reindeer herding areas where the sun never sets in the summer. Let’s end on two things we can agree on. Porot ovat s?p?j?. Koti ei ole koti ilman saunaa.
And for Marie, I say this: S?isin mieluummin salmiakkia. Mit? hinta on y?lt??
Ukko said,
August 5, 2005 at 18:19
About what you said: I’m afraid my skis are packed away for the summer, and besides, the reindeer don’t trust me anymore.
GregH said,
August 5, 2005 at 18:28
Come on People let?s get Political! The question on the table is who is hotter Kira or Absolutely Sweet Marie
We?re using PeoplePolitical?s latest poll as our proxy voting booth.
Remember a vote for Kira is a vote for Mom, apple pie, America, our troops, and a vote against racial profiling. A ?yes? vote is a vote for Marie, plagiarism and raciacl profiling.
The choice has never been clearer.
wha? said,
August 5, 2005 at 18:43
Stop fanning the flames of division, GregH. Don’t you know it makes us look weak, and gives the enemy aid-and-comfort.
In fact, I would go so far as to say that supporters of Kira and GregH are guilty of TREASON!
Gavin M. said,
August 5, 2005 at 18:46
Porot ovat s?p?j?.
Heh heh. Porot ovat ruoka. Marie on s?p?j? (mutta h?n on ?lyk??pi?).
Where were your relatives from?
Ukko said,
August 5, 2005 at 18:47
Greg, how dare you suggest bringing another woman into our lives? Another woman, who can be seen much better on this page:
http://images.google.com/images?q=Kira%20Zalan&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&sa=N&tab=wi
Another woman… Aaiiiiiiiiiiiiii!
And I was doing to well just a few posts above. Marie said $25.
Gavin M. said,
August 5, 2005 at 18:50
Oh come on guys, Kira’s got a lot, but she doesn’t go mental or plagiarize every few days like clockwork.
Does she? I mean, I’m willing to be schooled here.
Brad R. said,
August 5, 2005 at 18:51
Kira’s just a pretty face, guys. Marie’s got body AND soul.
Realist said,
August 5, 2005 at 18:53
Scroll down to the bottom of the PeePoo homepage and you’ll notice that MJ’ has been Photoshopping again. Or just go here:
http://www.bunnycat.net/crows.jpgLooks like maybe someone’s confusing Casting Crowns with Counting Crows.Next time MJ’ decides to make someone a “featured artist” she might want to spell their name correctly.
Gavin M. said,
August 5, 2005 at 18:55
Looks like she’s here! Everybody look sharp!
Ukko said,
August 5, 2005 at 18:56
Gavin, they were from all over, but the one I was speaking of was from near Kittila. Have you ever had reindeer? I’ve had venison, but I can’t say for sure I’ve had reindeer. Maybe years ago when I was too young to appreciate Marie.
By the way, I sure hope Marie doesn’t know Finnish, because we’d sure be in trouble if she did :)
Gavin M. said,
August 5, 2005 at 18:58
Mattila for mine. Never have had it, no.
Marie’s in the house, btw. Either her or Celticgirl; it’s unclear.
Ukko said,
August 5, 2005 at 19:00
She’s here? Oh Marie, I wasn’t doing anything with Kira. It’s not what it looks like; you’re the only woman for me. Plus, you said $25.
Oh Marie, don’t give Gavin trouble for talking about you being an ?lyk??pi?. He was only trying to compliment you, just like I do when I call you a butterbrain. Your face is so nice, just like Louhi’s daughter.
Brad R. said,
August 5, 2005 at 19:00
Marie’s in the house, btw. Either her or Celticgirl; it’s unclear.
Have we ever seen them together in the same place?
GregH said,
August 5, 2005 at 19:12
What are the people saying about Kira?
wha? said,
August 5, 2005 at 19:21
DAMN YOU GREGH!!! You did it while she was here, too! You run this whole anti-Marie campaign, then make me look like a Kira-supporter when Marie gets here. You’re a cockblocker extraordinaire. You magnificent Bastard!
Marie:
Baby, honey, I was only trying to make gregh feel better when I said that. You can’t listen to him…he’s part of the MSM for God’s sake!
Oh, and have you ever worn the PeePo thong? I gotta know.
Brad R. said,
August 5, 2005 at 19:22
Wha?: When she gets blitzed (and you know she does) and the panties come flying off (and you know they do), I wouldn’t mind being the guy in the room with her.
Jesus, that’s classless.
GregH said,
August 5, 2005 at 19:29
Yes Wha?, that’s just classless like an Ideal Socialist Utopia….wah..wah…wah
(Actually I think the line deserves to be immortalized as a Wha? classic)
Brad R. said,
August 5, 2005 at 19:35
Yeah, Wha? really hit rock boner, er, bottom with that one.
GregH said,
August 5, 2005 at 19:44
I’m sure Kira’s panties just don’t come flying off willie-nilly. I have every confidence that she picks them up and neatly places them on the bedside table.
Greg H said,
August 5, 2005 at 19:47
(I took a peek at the photo link provided by Ukko and I have to admit that Marie is definitely hotter.)
Vestal Vespa said,
August 5, 2005 at 19:48
Satan attacks all of us in many ways, but perhaps his most vigorous assault is brought to bear upon our thoughts. What we think eventually makes us what we are. Our thoughts often lead to actions — and so the battleground is within our thoughts. Each of us is responsible for what we welcome into our mind.
Soo . . . Marie is telling us that Satan tells her to DO things.
I think she needs more help than even S,N! can give.
Dan Someone said,
August 5, 2005 at 19:50
Could one of you Finn sharks please explain to me: Under what circumstances would I want to call someone a “nippleyard’s janitor” (N?nnipihan talonmies)?
Vestal Vespa said,
August 5, 2005 at 19:51
“the Saami were regarded as great sorcerors with the power to control the weather, travel great distances in magical trances and shapeshift – usually into the form of a sea animal or bear.”
Wow, cool. Dang, I guess if you’re only 1/64 Saami you lose the shapeshifting gene. Otherwise I’d spend most of my time as an otter. That looks like a good time.
aaron said,
August 5, 2005 at 19:52
That’s GOLD, Jerry! GOLD!
aaron said,
August 5, 2005 at 19:52
There was supposed to be an “end Banya” tag after that.
GregH said,
August 5, 2005 at 19:52
I’d spend my time as Marie’s turtleneck.
wha? said,
August 5, 2005 at 20:04
I knew you’d come around. Who could resist such an exotic creature?
Frederick said,
August 5, 2005 at 20:27
Great minds think alike — and mediocre minds, too!
Oh, FTLOG said,
August 5, 2005 at 20:35
Surely I’m going to hell for this, but…
I sent Marie a little note: What’d you do with the Sadly, Yes! site? I
thought it was wonderful. They really deserve a good dressing down. Filth!
Utter trash!
BTW, have you gotten a thong from the PP store yet? I’m kinda uneasy
ordering one. Are they comfortable?
And got a very personal response:
We are so sorry that you have the impression that our Website took any credit for Sadly Yes. They came to us and promised their humor would be totally fun and light. Sadly no we looked! However I’m sure you’ll enjoy our new Website that is under construction. This will be affiliated somewhat with People Political Website.
As to your question about thongs being comfortable. Try a pair. You will see no line in jeans. That is a very important thing to be concerned about in a time of war on terror I think about it often as I have my finger nails done. Oh, you are laughing I pray. I know you are laughing! The RIGHT SIDE type babes have a great sense of humor. We also take great care of our good looks and totally like healthy bodies. “God made woman beautiful for man.” “Man shall leave his home and cling unto his wife.” So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him;Male and female He created them. Genesis Chapter 1 v 27.
God bless you dear Ducky.Wear your new pair of thongs in good health. They are less expensive if you by seven pair at once. I guess it ties in with the seven days and creation . I guess that’s why you get a bargain low price by buying seven pair at time, not to mention one changes their dainties every day. If not than truly Sadly no on you!
Love In Him.
Marie Jon’ Biscotti
“Remember the Sabot day to keep it holy.”
Oh, she’s such a card!! Bless ‘er heart.
GregH said,
August 5, 2005 at 20:39
NO WAY!
Oh, FTLOG said,
August 5, 2005 at 20:43
WAY!!
Ukko said,
August 5, 2005 at 20:44
Dan,
i think nipple-yard (n?nnipihan) means aureole. I don’t know for sure what it means to be a janitor or caretaker for an aureole, but I’d sure do it for Marie.
Heads up, FTLOG, you’ve given us an in! Marie doesn’t like the panty-lines and nasty seams. She might like these:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.babyidea.fi/imetys/ovaali5.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.babyidea.fi/imetys/ovaali.html&h=182&w=227&sz=8&tbnid=yC8_aoD4-JEJ:&tbnh=82&tbnw=103&hl=en&start=1&prev=/images%3Fq%3DN%25C3%25A4nnipihan%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26hs%3Dpll%26lr%3D%26c2coff%3D1%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN
The best I can understand, these bra inserts don’t have annoying seams around the edges. (Does that sound right, Gavin? N?nnin tai n?nnipihan kohdalla ei ole Ovaaleissa lainkaan saumoja.)
Oh, FTLOG said,
August 5, 2005 at 20:45
I KNOW I’m going to hell. I just know it!!
Ukko said,
August 5, 2005 at 20:46
Better link:
htt[://www.babyidea.fi/imetys/ovaali.html
I think these are pregnancy bra inserts, so I don’t know that I want to be involved with them and Marie. I chicken out, but that leavers her ALL to you!
Ukko said,
August 5, 2005 at 20:47
My love for Marie is killing me. Try again.
http://www.babyidea.fi/imetys/ovaali.html
Gregh said,
August 5, 2005 at 20:51
Dude, Oh FTLOG, write her back and ask her what size she wears. Tell her that she appears to be about the same size as your companion in Christ.
petercollada said,
August 5, 2005 at 20:51
That is a real response?
Brian said,
August 5, 2005 at 20:52
If, indeed, that picture is really her – she’s hot. Is she single?
Brad R. said,
August 5, 2005 at 20:58
I… oy. Marie, you’re the greatest thing to happen to this website since Amber Pawlik’s barf-inducing pizza.
Ukko said,
August 5, 2005 at 20:59
Marie, honey, can’t you even avoid plagiarizing in your emails? This quote is awful similar from here:
http://en.thinkexist.com/quotation/god_made_woman_beautiful_and_foolish-beautiful/179081.html
“God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her; and foolish, that she might love him.”
Marie, honey, look at me, You’re very, very foolish.
salvage said,
August 5, 2005 at 21:01
I sent her the definition of plagiarism (from dictionary.com) and this was her response and my response to her response:
> You certainly have your nerve.
I certainly do!
> What do you know about who I write for and whom I have to do with?
Er not much, entertainment of smart-asses like myself?
> I think you’ll find it very interesting who will be contributing writers on our new Website
Oh without a doubt but not in the way that you’re thinking I think.
>The caliber of religious writers and their names will be very much be in prominence.
Yeah I’m sure it will be, will you also be stealing material from them as well?
>How about you taking care of yourself.
I do! That’s how I start and finish my day.
>Sadly no, you are found in the balance wanting.
The rules state that if you say “Sadly no” on the web you have to include a link to Sadly, No! or else Brad TPs your house. Aside from that my site is hairyfishnuts and it’s unbalanced yet still wanting.
> http://www.gotquestions.org/sin-God-not-forgive.html
Yes, yes your sky god is very scary, pit of fire, endless poking by devils, I’ve watched enough Buffy the Vampire Slayer to get the gist of it.
So back to the plagiarism thing, you should understand that’s a very serious charge, especially if you’re doing anything like writing, which I assume is what you?re trying to do. Are you denying it?
> Happy Sabbath – Sabot or Lord’s Day.
Meh, I’ll just say TGIF!
> Thank You,
> Marie
No, no thank you! Your site has provided much giggles.
Yosef said,
August 5, 2005 at 21:06
She’s so fly.
GregH said,
August 5, 2005 at 21:06
Supa Fly!
Yosef said,
August 5, 2005 at 21:07
Dammit! Kira’s winning big right now. I think someone’s been throwing the vote.
wha? said,
August 5, 2005 at 21:11
Hey! How do y’all get the personal audience? OH FTLOG, how did she know you were female? Are you female? Did you lie? Somehow, lying to Marie seems especially cruel.
Wait a second…why did she sign Marie Jon’ Biscotti? Her last name is Marsala, unless she got married. Goddamnit, she BETTER not have gotten married!! Maybe it’s the name of her ex-husband.
Can one of you who she deighns to converse with ask her about that? Also, I want more thong-talk..can you arrange more thong-talk? Did you use the prettyproud address?
GregH said,
August 5, 2005 at 21:12
Yosef, don’t you worry your pretty little head. Marie Jon’ Biscotti has ways of fixing these little things. It’s in the bag, so to speak.
Yosef said,
August 5, 2005 at 21:13
Wait, she went from Marsala to Biscotti? What is it with the Italian food?
Ukko said,
August 5, 2005 at 21:14
Marie, darling, I have something for you. No, silly, it isn’t a nursing bra insert; it’s something better. Are you ready? Here it is:
My Present
When you can handle that, Marie, I think we should grab a little something to eat. Talk to you later, honey.
GregH said,
August 5, 2005 at 21:14
All of a sudden I’m hungry.
Brad R. said,
August 5, 2005 at 21:14
Marie Jon’ Linguini.
Brad R. said,
August 5, 2005 at 21:15
Marie Jon’ Bruschetta.
wha? said,
August 5, 2005 at 21:15
Yes, GregH is throwing the vote, hard – did you see his last campaign ad?!? Bastard.
Also, everyone that comes through here and decides they want to check out MJ’s site for a larf probably sees the poll and does their lefty duty by registering their opinion against racial profiling, not realizing that the cost of assuaging their conscience is the humiliating defeat of St. Marie Sexius at the hands of Kira and GregH. In this case the road to hell is indeed paved with good intentions.
Racial Profiling, People: It’s not as bad as that damned GregH!!
Yosef said,
August 5, 2005 at 21:16
Marie Jon’ Meat-a-ball-a Sandwich-a.
Brad R. said,
August 5, 2005 at 21:18
OK this one kinda rhymes: Marie Jon’ Parmasean.
Yosef said,
August 5, 2005 at 21:19
That’s pretty good.
Marie Jon’ Pasghetti.
Yosef said,
August 5, 2005 at 21:21
How about Marie Jon’ Frappacino to wash it down?
Yosef said,
August 5, 2005 at 21:32
They added in a 3rd answer on the poll – “not sure” Who will that one represent?
Ukko said,
August 5, 2005 at 21:33
How about Ayn Clouter?
Brad R. said,
August 5, 2005 at 21:39
OK, I’ve got an even better one:
Marie Lasagn’a
Yosef said,
August 5, 2005 at 21:43
Marie Jon’ Quattro Formaggio Pizza.
wha? said,
August 5, 2005 at 21:46
Hold on to your hats!! This thread is about to bust 100!! S,N record?
Indeed Marie Jon’ is a blessing!
GregH said,
August 5, 2005 at 21:48
Marie Maranthanzola?
wha? said,
August 5, 2005 at 21:49
She put up a third category? Is she even reading this?
Marie Jon’ :
Do you know what is at stake here? Throw the poll for god’s sake! Throw the poll!!
Brad R. said,
August 5, 2005 at 21:50
100, bitchez!!!
Ukko said,
August 5, 2005 at 21:51
That’s it, Brad R! Satanen yksi. Satan has arrived.
wha? said,
August 5, 2005 at 21:52
Ukko –
That was a very weird and scary comment to be #100…
Mal de mer said,
August 5, 2005 at 21:53
OK this one kinda rhymes: Marie Jon’ Parmasean
You mean, it’s Marie-zhon? I’ve been pronouncing it like Mary-John!
I don’t think she noticed, right? Oh, God, I’m so embarrassed.
Brad R. said,
August 5, 2005 at 21:54
Uhm, *I* had the 100th comment, thank you very much.
Ukko said,
August 5, 2005 at 22:04
Right, Brad. I wouldn’t think of taking that honor from you. I was trying to say “the number one hundred one” in Finnish, but I’m not sure I got the grammar right. Anyway, “the number of one hundred” is “satanen” in Finnish.
Oh, FTLOG said,
August 5, 2005 at 22:08
wha?, if you’ll read what I sent her, you’ll see why she thinks I’m a female (which I AM). Here’s what I sent in response to her reply:
Marie:
Thanks for the laugh. Everybody needs to have a sense of humor during these trying times.
I am concerned, however, that things (political) have gotten out of control. Aren’t you afraid that with all the bellicose, fundamentalist communication we’re turning the faith-less away from a spiritual life? Shouldn’t we open our arms and welcome them into the bossom of our family? Isn’t that what “Love thy neighbor” really means?
I am utterly heartbroken by the divisive discourse occurring in this country and want to thank you for attempting to reach out to the poor souls.
Ducky
ps – thanks also for the advice on thongs. My boyfriend has been trying to get me in one (oh, a little play on words there!) for quite a while. We’ll see.
I can’t wait to see if she has a hissy fit over the “boyfriend” comment.
wha? said,
August 5, 2005 at 22:13
Sorry, Brad, my counter said 99, then I went back and saw Ukko’s ‘satan’ comment and natuarally assumed.
So, is Satan really here now with the 100th comment, or is that someone working on a Kaye Grogan peice that I smell?
wha? said,
August 5, 2005 at 22:15
Oh, FTLOG –
I don’t think she’ll say anything about the boyfriend comment. Kerry Marsla printed in one of her columns that her daughter (who may or may not be Marie Jon’ Marsala Biscotti) was a single mother, so I don’t think she’ll throw stones on that one.
Brad R. said,
August 5, 2005 at 22:16
I’m in the middle of working on a Christian Worldview Test, actually. Should be up in the next half hour…
Brad R. said,
August 5, 2005 at 22:17
Kerry is not Marie’s mom. We e-mailed Kerry, and she told us she had no idea who Marie was.
GregH said,
August 5, 2005 at 22:29
At yet strangely Kerry appears as one of the columnists on Marie’s site. You’d think that there’d be some level of knowingness.
wha? said,
August 5, 2005 at 22:36
Brad –
Ummm….what did you expect her to say? I wouldn’t claim the little plagarizing vixen, either (well, not as my daughter).
It seems like a very odd coincidence that Marie Jon’ Marsala is a christian-wingnut web-writer, and Kerry Marsala is a christian-wingnut web-writer, and they link each other, endorse each other, etc. That Kerry M. runs a wingnut site with her Mom that links to MJ Marsala, but the two aren’t related.
I’ll allow that maybe they aren’t.
Lucy said,
August 5, 2005 at 22:37
I can only contribute two random comments here, since this thread has devolved into a hodgepodge of Finnish profanity, plays on Marie’s name, and a bunch of other stuff I don’t even understand, and so I’m not really qualified to play. BUT, (1) “parmesan” is pronounced, oddly enough, “par-me-san,” not “par-me-zhan,” and(2) I would never have guessed that the product of asexual-yet-still-unholy reproduction between Neve Campbell and Janeane Garofalo could turn out to be a PLAGIARIST!
GregH said,
August 5, 2005 at 22:43
Neve and Janeane? Now that does sound hot!
Something has been bothering me about Marie’s picture though. It’s seems so familiar. Like I said earlier she does remind me of an ex-girlfriend but there’s more to it than that. I get the feeling that I’ve seen her on TV. Perhaps as one of Jerry Seinfeld’s girlfriends?
wha? said,
August 5, 2005 at 22:54
If that’s not really Marie, I’m defaulting back to my “covey of contracted Indian web-content providers” theory.
That picture does look familiar, though.
Ukko said,
August 5, 2005 at 23:37
Lucy, not all the Finnish was profanity, it sounded like it :)
Lucy said,
August 5, 2005 at 23:50
Ukko, my apologies to your lovely language. I remembered the disgusting-Finnish-profanity contest from the other day and assumed y’all were comparing swears. May a sampo park itself next to your home and remain there for eternity, pouring out blessings and cash. (that’s a homemade Finnish-style wish by way of southern Europe. I’m not sure what a sampo is, but I saw it in a movie on Mystery Science Theater once, and they couldn’t figure out what it was, either, except it was something very good.)
Gavin M. said,
August 5, 2005 at 23:53
not all the Finnish was profanity
There were some pronouns and articles in there for grammar’s sake, certainly.
Ukko said,
August 5, 2005 at 23:59
Lucy, sorry if you didn’t like the swearing. Gavin and I were having fun.
Your blessing is very nice. The sampo comes from the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala. You can read about it here:
Kalevala extract
It’s basically like a mill that churns out everything you need, a bringer of all good things.
Gavin M. said,
August 6, 2005 at 0:06
Mine’s been broken ever since I asked it to make giant death robots.
Gavin M. said,
August 6, 2005 at 0:07
There’s also the Opmas. You don’t want one of those; nothing good ever comes of it.
Mal de mer said,
August 6, 2005 at 0:14
(1) “parmesan” is pronounced, oddly enough, “par-me-san,” not “par-me-zhan,”
You know, I just realised that I pronounce it par-me-san when I say “parmesan cheese”, but par-me-zhan when use it by itself. But, the English, she is not my mother tongue, eh?
Lucy said,
August 6, 2005 at 0:52
Ukko, I didn’t mind the swearing! My tone may have given you the impression that I did, but I was trying to be funny. :-) Please, go right ahead and enjoy yourselves. I’m just amazed that there are more than a couple of people here at S,N! who speak Finnish! Did you all go to the same Finnishing school, hahhaha!? ~The End~
Lucy said,
August 6, 2005 at 0:54
Gavin: so it’s Sampo good, Opmas bad. Gosh, I hope I don’t get them mixed up in an emergency someday!!
Brad R. said,
August 6, 2005 at 1:06
125, bitchez!!!
Mal de mer said,
August 6, 2005 at 1:44
Did you all go to the same Finnishing school, hahhaha!? ~The End~
*snick*. I’ve never laughed so much in one thread in my life as in this one.
I think, rather ominously, that a few of us are either from, or well-acquainted with, the rich, Finno-North American Empire that stretches from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula through Northern Ontario, where I grew up. I’m not Finnish, but where I lived, we had a street called Tuottelen Avenue. We snickered and called it “the Twat.”…ha ha ha.
We also had Estonians, so like it was a double-mint kind of thing; a combo-flavour of Finno-Ugrians.
Ukko said,
August 6, 2005 at 1:53
There are also Finns in Minnesota, Washington, and Oregon as well as many other areas. The first Finns came in, I think, the 1600s with the Swedes to found New Sweden, which didn’t last long, but brought the traditional log cabin to America. So you could say my ancestors are in part responsible for Abe Lincoln but also the Log Cabin Repiglicans. Many of the Finns in the US were at one time very political and associated with socialist movements. One of the few people to be lynched in Minnesota was a Finn, when Finns weren’t very popular due to their ethnicity and liberal politics.
The Estonians cheat, because they can understand Finn, but a Finn can’t understand Estonian. Estonian is like a shortened Finn.
Just remember, you can always tell a Finn, but you can’t tell him much.
wha? said,
August 6, 2005 at 2:31
Opmas? I saw one once at a chocolate factory. Never trusted the little bastards, what with all the singing and disappearing children.
GregH said,
August 6, 2005 at 3:18
In a shocking development, Marie and racial profiling are currently at 98% of the vote. Quite a turn around from a few hours ago. Christ moves in mysterious ways.
Marantha!
wha? said,
August 6, 2005 at 3:19
Did anyone else notice that MJ took down the masthead with all the pictures of the contributors? I’m not sure what good it did, since she still includes them with the columns.
Geez. If you guys keep this up the poor gal won’t have a site left.
GregH said,
August 6, 2005 at 3:20
Wha?, first thing I thought of was Oompa Loompas too.
wha? said,
August 6, 2005 at 3:21
Whoooooohooooo!! I knew the people would do what was right. I’m sure my message to her re: Throw the Damn Poll didn’t have anything to do with it, either.
In your face, SwiftGregH’s for Truth!
GregH said,
August 6, 2005 at 3:34
It was Rove, I should have never listened to that idiot. Condi! Condi! Bring me Rove’s head on a Pike!
oh, FTLOG said,
August 6, 2005 at 3:38
{sniff, sniff}
{whimper}
Why does she do this to me? I haven’t heard from Marie in, like, 5 hours! I sure hope she hasn’t found out that about…us.
GregH said,
August 6, 2005 at 3:47
Oh my poor Lil’ Ducky. Let’s go have a spa day and forget all about that dumb ole’ Marie Jon’ Biscotti Marsala.
Ukko said,
August 6, 2005 at 5:23
Oh Marie, I have learned something about you that sends me into horrible inner turmoil My pikku puinen poika is standing at full attention, but my larger boy is let down. Marie, you who proclaim yourself a born-again Christian, are loose. That’s it: loose.
I know you tried to keep it hidden, but you couldn’t keep it hidden from me. I sneaked into the hidden parts of your home (page) to see what type of sheets you use and discovered your secret.
Here at Sadly, No, we use Transitional, which is for those who aren’t slutty, but aren’t virgins either. The web daddies tell us we should be strict, but you Marie chose to be loose.
Go to http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd to see that the web daddies tell us, “Authors should use the Strict DTD when possible, but may use the Transitional DTD when support for presentation attribute and elements is required.” That means the daddies want us to be sexually strict, but they will understand if we don’t remain virgins until our wedding night. But under no circumstances do daddies want their little daughters to be loose, to be sluts.
I rebuke you, Marie. Be kind to the web daddies, stop being loose, and live chaste in your hypertext and stylish sheets before the Lord.
Lord Fairfax said,
August 6, 2005 at 6:47
whoa, she is quite a hottie… except for the whole right wing extremist thingy.
Gavin M. said,
August 6, 2005 at 6:49
My pikku puinen poika
Peter Pekka’s got a palli for a peck o’ persett??
God, look what’s happened to us. We’re degenerating into subhuman creatures, only several notches above the Russians…
GregH said,
August 6, 2005 at 7:06
(pssssst, Mr. Marie-is-my-one-and-only [aka Wha?] is posting comments on KIRA’S SITE!)
Ukko said,
August 6, 2005 at 7:26
Well, we all know it takes about six dirty Russki aggresors to equal one Finn. 400k vs 66k casualties in the Winter War.
As far as the persett?, I say persett? tai vittu, I have a pystytt?minen. I’m not sure where exactly the stool comes from, but you might call me a tripod, execept for the pikku part.
Ukko said,
August 6, 2005 at 7:32
Winter War Casualties again
Greg, now that we know Marie is loose, I think we can all share her. And, lo, peace did reign in the house of Peepole, and the woman of the house did verily bring pleasure onto many.
Gavin M. said,
August 6, 2005 at 7:36
Have you ever heard the story about the Finnish Jews and the SS battalion? That’s not a joke, btw. There’s this story I heard — if you know it, you’ll know which one I mean.
Ukko said,
August 6, 2005 at 7:43
I know the Finns didn’t like the Nazis and their anti-Semitism (only accepted German help out of necessity), but I didn’t hear the story you’re talking about. What happened?
Gavin M. said,
August 6, 2005 at 8:03
I haven’t been able to source it, but according to the story, the Finnish authorities ‘hid’ a number of Jews by commissioning them into an SS unit. Berlin was apparently furious.
Marq said,
August 6, 2005 at 8:38
Well, I had to drop in on this little confab–what a relatively astonishing number of comments. It’s practically as though S,N! had turned into, oh, I don’t know, Balloon Juice over night or something. Not that I can add much to discussions about Finnish and the sexual harassment of female wingnuts. *Ahem*. That all said, I can’t stay up too late tonight, ‘cos tomorrow begins Northalsted Market Days, which I’m planning to mill about in. The musical acts this year don’t do too much for me. Last year, my favouritist gay punk band, Pansy Division, was there and fun was had by all.
Gavin M. said,
August 6, 2005 at 9:48
Last year, my favouritist gay punk band, Pansy Division, was there and fun was had by all.
Love ‘em, btw.
But about this ‘sexual harassment’… Now, this is a woman who made a fair bit of hay by accusing certain parties around here of bestiality and other sundry and divers things.
And then popped into comments all like, “You should see me in my hot pink bikini.”
I frankly felt very harassed, and I think I speak for all of us in saying that we need not stand for such threats against our personal safety.
wha? said,
August 6, 2005 at 13:04
That’s right, GregH. I can’t stop myself – I’m cuckoo for winger-gals (except she-who-will-not-be-named-K.). Plus, I didn’t know which way Marie was going to end up pushing the poll, so I wanted to cover all my bases.
GregH said,
August 6, 2005 at 14:15
That’s just classless.
wha? said,
August 6, 2005 at 15:50
Avoids tricky issues of class…
Brad R. said,
August 6, 2005 at 16:10
150, bitchez!!!
GregH said,
August 6, 2005 at 16:24
Wha? Do I have to chase you around the entire interwebs to make sure that you’re not slandering me?
wha? said,
August 6, 2005 at 17:46
GregH –
Yes. But it was all meant in good fun.
I’m kinda bored with it all now, though.
So….what’s the weather like up there?
piotr said,
August 6, 2005 at 18:33
I think that extending copy right beyond 15 years is against God’s will.
I read that substantial parts of Genesis are copied, without attribution, from Mesopotamian sources — the natural law does not recognize unlimited intelectual property, hence copying passages from other peoples, especially if more than 15 years after the original publication, is not a theft.
However, there is still a question of an un-fulfilled promise of photos in a hot pink bikini. Lord frowns upon making unfulfilled promises.
Rumblelizard said,
August 6, 2005 at 20:01
Hee hee! Hey MJ, all it takes is a blockquote tag and an attribution, babe. You could get Gavin off your ass just like *that*. But I’m beginning to suspect you like him there. How else could you so effectively feed your ‘I’m Being Martyred for Christians Everywhere’ jones?
Oh, FTLOG said,
August 6, 2005 at 20:15
I’m afraid I may be busted. I’ve never been good at covering my tracks, so it wouldn’t have been hard.
*sigh*
I’ll let you know if my “friendship” w/ Marie survives.
GregH said,
August 6, 2005 at 20:27
Wha?, I know you was just fooling. Who shall we annoy next?
wha? said,
August 6, 2005 at 21:02
GregH –
I dunno. We’ll have to wait and see who comes along. Kira should be pretty upset about Marie throwing the poll against her, so maybe she’ll want a rematch, or something. That might be fun.
Otherwise, it might be fun to go after Virgin Ben, but he’s probably kind of hard to get to. Does he have an email? Maybe a forum attached to his column?
Gavin M. said,
August 6, 2005 at 22:09
You can always work on the profile at the ConservativeMatch.com. The username is SalLeno, password KayeGrogan…
Gavin M. said,
August 6, 2005 at 22:28
Also, Marie’s back. She was just in the Flat Tax thread.
GregH said,
August 7, 2005 at 1:48
Um, how’s my hair?
Ukko said,
August 7, 2005 at 3:31
wha?, you’re right that the Vee Ben is hard to get into. Have you ever tried penetrating an ass that tight? He’s gotta learn to relaaaax.
Ukko said,
August 7, 2005 at 3:38
In honor of the V-ky-Ben, let’s hear from our misognystic friend Eminem with “Ass Like That”
The way you shake it, I can’t believe it
I ain’t never seen an ass like that
The way you move it, you make my pee pee go
Doing, doing, doing
I don’t believe it, it’s almost too good to be true
I ain’t never seen an ass like that
The way you move it, you make my pee pee go
Doing, doing, doing
Respek, V wit da K an’ Ben wit da Y, grease up, baby!
Chris Moorehead said,
August 7, 2005 at 23:49
“Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it.”
- Isidore-Lucien Ducasse (Comte de Lautr?amont), 1846-1870
Here’s a defence for Marie — given that it comes from a Paris Communard, do you think she’ll use it?
Yosef said,
August 8, 2005 at 14:58
Hey guys, I was out all weekend. Did I miss anything?
Nimi said,
August 8, 2005 at 18:16
Gavin M, the inflection you’re looking for is “vitusta”. When something is “vitusta”, it’s commonly understood to be unsatisfactory. On the other hand, if you’re attempting to get into one – and who isn’t? – you’re going “vittuun”.
Ukko, “101″ translates as “satayksi”. “101st” is, logically enough, “sadasensimm?inen”. “Satanen” means a hundred euro bill or, colloquially, a hundred meter dash.
Finally, the story about hiding Jews from the Germans in an SS batallion sounds highly suspect. Jewish Finns fought in the regular Finnish military.
Yosef said,
August 8, 2005 at 19:26
166 bitchez!
Nimi said,
August 8, 2005 at 19:33
Also, “Tuottelen Avenue” roughly translates as “I’m Doing Some Producing Avenue”.
Marie said,
August 8, 2005 at 22:07
You on this blog assume much as well as make up all sorts of false accusations without full knowledge of what you bring attention as to other’s foibles. There are two sides to all situations. However mean spirited and so far left as you are I’ll not give you any accountabilities. Mr.Ken Wade from VOP.com has not one thing in common with your ilk. You know dip nothing about a lot of things. You have a very long history of attacking and lying about anyone that is not if your kind. But then why should I be shocked . You have no (fears respect) even for a living God. Your remarks fall short from the truth. You people have nothing better to do but blog .PLEASE CONTINUE GIVEING ME MORE WEB TRAFFIC! Some just might start taking http://www.VOP.com Bible studies.Did you enjoy your American greeting card? Goodness, I spoil you way to much.Have a wonderful week.
Kisses & Hugs
Marie
LAUGHING AND PRAYING YOU HOME
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.” (John 3:16)
Ukko said,
August 9, 2005 at 0:03
Hi Marie, will you answer my response to your earlier post about you praying for us? Couldn’t it be said that your proselytizing shows a lack of humility and sense of cultural superiority, even if not intended?
Nimi, thanks for the help with Finnish. Not much Finnish has percolated down from my grandparents to me; just a few words and phrases.
Kenneth Fair said,
August 9, 2005 at 1:40
What I love is the tag line at the bottom of the People Political site:
Any duplication is prohibited by law? Reeeeallly?
D. Sidhe said,
August 9, 2005 at 2:15
“Dip nothing”?
Marie Jon' said,
August 9, 2005 at 6:11
Is the ACLU Bin Laden’s Best Ally?
Friday, August 05, 2005
By Bill O’Reilly
PHOTOS VIDEO
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ARCHIVE SHOW INFO
?Is the ACLU Bin Laden’s Best Ally?
August 05, 2005?Far-Left Crisis?
August 04, 2005?God vs. Science
August 03, 2005?A Tale of Two Terrorists
August 02, 2005?The Senate Slaps the ACLU
July 28, 2005?More Trouble On The Left….
July 27, 2005?Those Who Help the Terrorists…
July 26, 2005?Let’s Talk About Terror in Britain…
July 25, 2005?The Politics of Terror…
July 22, 2005?Why Judge Roberts Will Be Confirmed…
July 21, 2005?Why Do School Officials Hurt Poor Children?
July 20, 2005?Is Karl Rove a Hero?
July 19, 2005?Karl Rove vs. the Liberal Media…
July 18, 2005?It Just Can’t Get Much Hotter In Aruba…
July 15, 2005?Memo to a Judge
July 14, 2005?Investigating Karl Rove
July 13, 2005?Anti-American Danger
July 12, 2005?Media Coverage of the London Bombings
July 10, 2005?Failure To Deal With The Deadly Enemy
July 08, 2005?Reaction to President Bush’s Iraq Speech
June 30, 2005?On the Defensive
June 28, 2005?What you, the folks, think about Gitmo
June 24, 2005?Anti-’Factor’ Folks
June 23, 2005?The Smearing of Dick Durbin
June 22, 2005?The Truth About Hillary Clinton…
June 21, 2005?Losing the Will to Fight Terrorism
June 20, 2005?Senator Dick Durbin Slams His Own Country
June 17, 2005?What Do The New York Times & the Mafia Have In Common?
June 16, 2005?Jesse Jackson Exploiting MJ
June 15, 2005?Not Guilty!
June 14, 2005?Why America Cares About Natalee Holloway
June 10, 2005?Trouble on the Left
June 09, 2005?Giving Money To Poor Africans…
June 08, 2005?The Truth About Guantanamo Bay…
June 07, 2005?The Jackson Verdict
June 06, 2005?Miscarriage of Justice
June 03, 2005?Blowing the Whistle on Powerful People
June 02, 2005?Getting Americans Killed
June 01, 2005?Amnesty International Declares War on the USA
May 26, 2005?Do Captured Terrorists Have Rights?
May 25, 2005
No surprise, a New York chapter of the ACLU (search) is suing the police for searching bags in the subway system. We knew this would happen because the ACLU has opposed nearly every anti-terror measure authorities have come up with since 9/11.
Here’s how nuts this organization is: The ACLU opposes allowing the feds to have floating wiretaps that would monitor cell phone conversations of suspected terrorists. It opposes American civilians assisting the border patrol ? you remember the ACLU went to Arizona to monitor the Minutemen (search). It opposes profiling of suspected terrorists. It opposes military tribunals to try captured terrorists. It opposes coerced interrogations of captured terrorists. It has demanded that more pictures of Americans abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib (search) be released, knowing that would help Al Qaeda (search) recruitment.
The ACLU opposes the sharing of information about suspected terrorists and sued to stop New York state from participating in MATRIX, the Multistate Anti-terrorism Information Exchange.
“Talking Points” could go on and on, but you get the picture. If the ACLU ever wants money, it should contact the Al Qaeda fundraisers. No organization in America enables terrorism as much as the ACLU, period. It is putting your life in danger. And that is no exaggeration.
Unfortunately, there’s nothing we can do about it. No way to stop it. The ACLU operates within the law and uses the legal system to oppose the war on terror. And there are enough loony judges around to give that organization power, especially here in New York City and in San Francisco.
The only thing we can do is hold people who raise and give money to the ACLU accountable. In the weeks to come, “The Factor” will tell you who these people and organizations are, so you can decide whether or not you want to do business with them.
There are many issues I struggle with on this program, trying to decide what’s right and what’s wrong so I can present a cogent analysis to you. But the ACLU’s opposition to all anti-terror measures is not one of those issues. This is a dangerous organization. The evidence of that is overwhelming.
And that’s the Memo.
The Most Ridiculous Item of the Day
The Internet site Worldnet Daily has posted ad letter written by Senator Edward Kennedy (search) way back in 1971. The letter says that Senator Kennedy believed that a fetus was human from, “the very moment of conception.”
Well, since Senator Kennedy is one of the most ardent abortion supporters in the country, many Americans are curious about this letter. We called Senator Kennedy’s office today, and he said there’s no problem. The senator is personally against abortion, but he also wants women to have the right to choose. If this is a contradiction or not, you can decide.
If you want to see the entire text of the letter, and it’s very interesting, you can go to WorldnetDaily.com. Ridiculous? Read the letter and make the call.
?You can watch Bill O’Reilly’s “Talking Points Memo” and “Most Ridiculous Item” weeknights at 8 and 11 p.m. ET on the FOX News Channel. Send your comments to: oreilly@foxnews.com
Marie said,
August 9, 2005 at 6:21
?Over There?, it is more like Over Where?
By Tony Spain
After watching FX?s new drama about an Army Squad in Iraq called ?Over There? I concluded about the only thing they got right were the uniforms.
As someone who has been over there it was easy to see that this new show was nothing more than a well produced, visually stimulating, Steven Bochco, Hollywood creation that takes a sharp left turn from reality.
Now I understand that this is a Hollywood production and some military tactics are changed for a more dramatic effect. Which is why I am not going to mention the mistakes made in dialogue and military tactics used in the show. However, Steven Bochco?s depiction of the war scenarios and the character setups are bias and false.
Let us begin with the scenario. In FX?s ?Over There? an Army squad, lead by Sgt. Scream is dug in and holding their ground around a mosque while officers negotiate with terrorists inside. An Al Jazeera reporter is inside the mosque with terrorists broadcasting live which is the reason for the negotiations. (Al Jazeera has been kicked out of Iraq indefinitely by the Iraqi National Government by the way).
Sgt. Scream, complains that they are stuck holding their ground so some General can look good on TV. So there they are dug in for thirty six hour siege while officers in Baghdad drink their coffee in the green zone, play to the media and negotiate with terrorists.
In the real war, the commanders on the ground would have returned fire, the mosque would have been hit hard and probably destroyed before anyone could figure out what was going on. The following day, the news media would be drilling the military about how they destroyed a mosque and killed an Al Jazeera reporter. The Arab world would scream bloody murder and the anti war left would demand that Sgt. Scream and his squad be investigated for war crimes because they killed a group of surrendering terrorists.
That is what would happen in the real war, as has been shown in places like Fallujah. But showing what really happens and how the media operates in Iraq is not what Hollywood wants. To show that the military made the right decision would make the media and anti- war left look bad.
So, it seems that ?Over There? has created somewhat of a double standard or a catch 22 for the military. This double standard can only be achieved by ignoring reality. ?Over There? takes a sharp left turn from reality by portraying to the viewers an incompetent military that lacks the ability to make strong, swift, aggressive decisions in a combat zone. In reality the military does make quick, aggressive decisions only to be questioned and condemned by the news media as using excessive force. So the media will criticize you for taking action and Hollywood criticizes you for not taking action.
It also appears that Steven Bochco, like his liberal friends, believe that everyone enlists in the military to run away from some problem or ends up in the military as a last resort. Just like the left he tries to depict the military as lower class service.
Private Bo Rider was a high school football star from Texas. He got a partial scholarship to Texas A&M, but his family was too poor to afford the rest of the cost. So he joined the Army for the GI Bill. If Private Rider was good enough to get into one of the biggest powerhouses in college football on a partial scholarship he surely could have gotten a free ride from say the University of Northern Texas. The Army was hardly his last or only option.
Private Frank Dumphy, a graduate of Cornell University ends up in an infantry unit. If a soldier has the brains to graduate from Cornell then he would have scored high enough on the ASVAB test that would have put him anywhere in the Army he wanted to go. The only way that he ends up in this infantry squad is if he specifically volunteered to be there. It is never explained why he is in the infantry unit, he just claims to be stupid. It is not until the next episode that we find out he is stupid because he enlisted because of 9-11.
Private Avery King is an intelligent African American from Arkansas. He joined the Army because he was too embarrassed to go back home after failing to make a choir. It could happen I suppose, but there are hardly any African Americans in infantry units in the Army. Most avoid the infantry picking jobs that require technical training to better themselves when they become civilians again.
Private Maurice Williams is from the streets of Compton. He is in the army fighting the white man. The racist white man seems to be his main enemy in this show. I have been in the Army for 3 years and I have yet too see one problem arise from racism.
Private First Class Esmerlda Del Rio is one of two females on the show. She is in a motor transport unit and somehow always finds herself in the action. There are female soldiers who go outside the wire but most are in civil affair units. Even then females outside of the wire is rare.
Finally we have Private Brenda Mitchell. She is also in a motor transport unit who happens to be there when the action starts. Her background is really not given other than she is from a small town from Kansas. I am willing to bet if we ever find out anything about her background story it will be that she enlisted in the military because there just wasn?t any other alternatives for her.
In reality most of the infantry are white and they come from middle to upper middle class families. Approximately half of them went to college for at least a year and some even have a bachelors degree. Some left establish careers because they saw a greater cause than themselves after 9-11 and decided to do something about it like I did. I didn?t enlist to run from a problem or because I was down on my luck. I took a significant pay cut to help fight the war on terror. I enlisted because I watched our country suffer the worst attack in its history. I enlisted because I wanted to fight the war not because I wanted the college money or because the military was my last resort. Sure there are some that enlisted to get away from hardship but they are definitely not a majority.
Just like the media ?Over There? reminds us that war is hell in an over exaggerated fashion. Just like the news media it seems to me that ?Over There? is the continuous attempt to influence the American people with bad news from Iraq, even if the story line is inaccurate.
I guess I should have realized how bad it was going to be when the New York Times called it ?uncompromising? and the rest of the media followed suit.
If people want to know what it is like over there maybe they should talk to someone who has been over there. Something it appears Steven Bochco has never done and if he did he didn?t pay attention.
?Over There? a negative portrayal of our military, the war itself and it is a slap in the face and a kick in the groin to our military. So many people in our society have a hard time separating fantasy from reality and ?Over There? does nothing to help them.
?Over There?, it is more like Over Where?
I?m Tony Spain and I have been over there.
Good Night.
SADLY NO GOOD COMES OUT OF THE LEFT! OH? Did I say That? I meant The bad LEFTISTS people who need GOD need to wise up! Their minds, words are killing us! SUPPORT YOUR TROOPS!
Karl said,
August 9, 2005 at 16:20
Hey, Marie –
I need to look something up in the phonebook for Seattle, WA. Would you mind copying and pasting that into the comments section here? Thanks. Just the white pages book will be fine. Thanks again
Ukko said,
August 9, 2005 at 18:13
Marie, I really don’t know what you’re trying to do, but you definitely aren’t furthering your effort of evangelizing me.
I can’t figure out what this is supposed to mean, “Private Avery King is an intelligent African American from Arkansas.” As in, we need to qualify this with “intelligent,” because most other black Arkansans are a little slow? wtf?
Marie, if you’re sincere about witnessing for your faith, you should lie low for a year and try to learn a little more about the real message of Jesus. Here are a few hints: 1) He looked more like an Arab than like you 2) He focussed on better things than bombing Mecca and suppressing the gays.
Marie Jon' said,
August 9, 2005 at 23:18
Funds of a Bronx Youth Group Allegedly Lent to Air America
BY DAVID LOMBINO – Special to the Sun
August 1, 2005
The top executive at a Bronx youth organization said yesterday that the former director of Air America Radio received more than $800,000 in loans for himself and the radio network from the nonprofit organization while serving as its development director.
Some of the transfers, according to the president of the Bronx-based Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club organization’s executive committee, Jeannette Graves, occurred when the development director, Evan Montvel Cohen, who for a time served simultaneously as the liberal radio network’s director, appealed to the organization for two loans worth $35,000. Another member of the executive committee said Mr. Cohen told the executive director of the organization that he needed the money to pay for chemotherapy for himself and other medical expenses for his ill father.
Ms. Graves said that Mr. Cohen also received another $213,000 loan for Air America in a check that was approved without her authorization and stamped with an imprint of her signature, and that the club wired more than $400,000 to him without her knowledge.
Mr. Cohen, who no longer is employed by either Air America or Gloria Wise, and who has not been charged with a crime, could not be reached for comment.
Air America Radio, launched with some fanfare on March 31, 2004, is carried on dozens of stations. It probably is best known for its program host Al Franken, the liberal comedian, writer, and political gadfly.
Some of the allegations about Mr. Cohen and Air America have appeared in published reports in the past several weeks, including articles in the New York Post, the Daily News, and the Washington Times, as well as postings on Michelle Malkin’s blog and the Radio Equalizer, but Ms. Graves provided The New York Sun with much more extensive details of the allegations.
In June, the city’s Department of Investigation announced the suspension of city grants and contracts with Gloria Wise, worth millions of dollars, because of allegations, among others, that its officials had approved “significant inappropriate transactions and falsified documents that were submitted to various city agencies.”
The current parent corporation of Air America is Piquant LLC, with offices on Park Avenue. On May 24, 2004, Piquant acquired Air America from Progress Media. Piquant said in a statement last week that Progress was the entity to which the Gloria Wise loans went, and that it has been defunct since May 2004. Piquant said Mr. Cohen has not had any affiliation with the radio network since that point.
“The current owners of Air America Radio have no obligation to Progress Media’s business activities,” the statement read. “We are very disturbed that Air America Radio’s good name could be associated with a reduction in services for young people, which is why we agreed months ago to fully compensate the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club as a result of this transaction.”
Ms. Graves said Air America has agreed in writing to pay back the full amount of more than $800,000 in installments over the next two years. It is unclear whether the funds allegedly obtained from Gloria Wise were ultimately received or spent by Air America.
Ms. Graves said Gloria Wise is fully cooperating with the Department of Investigation. She said that thanks to contracts and funds secured from other entities, it is “business as usual” for all of the organization’s social programs, which serve 20,000 children, elderly residents, and people with disabilities in the Co-op City section of the Bronx.
In 2003, Gloria Wise reported receiving more than $3.7 million in government grants and more than half a million dollars in government contracts. It reported spending a total of more than $4.5 million that year.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Investigations, Emily Gest, said the organization does not comment on continuing investigations.
Mr. Cohen, 39, was co-founder of Progress Media Inc. He left Air America in May 2004 – at which time he remained in the employ of the Boys & Girls Club. In 2003, he was paid more than $74,000 as Gloria Wise’s development director, according to the organization’s filings with the Internal Revenue Service.
In telephone interviews yesterday, several members of the executive committee of Gloria Wise remembered the shock they felt learning last month about the scandal.
One member of the executive committee, Anna Capell, 80, said she feared answering the phone or attending a scheduled meeting of the committee as a result of anxiety that she would be investigated or sued.
“I’m still rocking from the experience,” Ms. Capell said.
Initially, members of the executive committee viewed Mr. Cohen fondly because he had thrown a tremendously successful fund-raising affair for Gloria Wise in Manhattan last year. They recalled being impressed by the wealthy clientele and the large sums of money he raised, according to Ms. Graves.
Because of that confidence in Mr. Cohen, she said, the executive committee approved two loans to Air America, one for $80,000 and another for $87,000.
Ms. Capell said she had met Mr. Cohen several times.
“He was very suave, a very wonderful young man. He left a very favorable impression,” she said in a telephone interview.
After the initial two loans, Ms. Graves said that just before the launch of Air America her organization lent the network another $213,000, authorized with a rubber stamp of her signature on a document she said she never saw. More recently, Ms. Graves said, Gloria Wise made a wire transfer of at least $400,000 to Air America without her knowledge.
In addition, according to Ms. Graves, the longtime executive director of Gloria Wise, Charles Rosen, later told the board he had lent an additional $35,000 of the organization’s funds to Mr. Cohen for medical expenses. According to Ms. Capell, the board member, Mr. Cohen told Mr. Rosen he needed $25,000 to pay for chemotherapy. Mr. Cohen told associates that he recovered from brain cancer, according to Ms. Capell. Later, Mr. Cohen asked for $10,000 – which he was lent – be cause his father, a businessman in Asia, was “gravely ill,” Ms. Capell said.
Ms. Graves said that she knew of the personal loans to Mr. Cohen, but that she thought they were taken from Mr. Rosen’s personal discretionary budget, “not the agency’s.”
Mr. Rosen could not be reached for comment.
Gloria Wise received personal checks in various amounts from Mr. Cohen to pay back some of the loans, but Ms. Graves said the checks did not clear. The executive committee dismissed him when members learned of some of his actions, according to another member of the executive committee, John Rose.
While she spoke critically of Mr. Cohen, Ms. Graves said she thought Mr. Rosen performed exceptionally well as the organization’s executive director. According to Ms. Graves, Mr. Rosen, 62, helped the organization’s annual budget grow from $175,000 into the millions. He recently resigned.
According to IRS filings Mr. Rosen earned nearly $148,000 in 2003 from the Gloria Wise organization for working approximately 23 hours a week as executive director. Previously, Mr. Rosen worked as a typographer for the New York Post and was active in union politics, leading a rent strike in Co-op City in the early 1970s.
August 1, 2005 Edition > Section: New York > Printer-Friendly Version
Ukko said,
August 10, 2005 at 0:33
Seb, Brad, or Gavin, is the poster above really Marie? If so, she has really lost it and is making me consider Turing machines. Her random postings here have nothing more to do with the discussion than the following does:
“When the population is normal the sampling distribution will also be normal, but the use of s to replace s is not that accurate. The smaller the sample size the worse the approximation will be. Hence we can expect that some adjustment will be made based on the sample size. The adjustment we make is that we do not use the normal curve for this approximation. Instead, we use the Student t distribution that is based on the sample size. We proceed as before, but we change the table that we use. This distribution looks like the normal distribution, but as the sample size decreases it spreads out. For large n it nearly matches the normal curve. We say that the distribution has n – 1 degrees of freedom.”
http://www.ltcconline.net/greenl/courses/201/Estimation/confIntMean.htm
Marq said,
August 10, 2005 at 5:54
Marie Jon’ os obviously trying to break the comments here at Sadly, No! by pasting in these huuuuge, gianormous articles from hither and yon. Firstly, Marie, hon’, brevity works in one’s favor in a comments section. Pasting in several-thousand-word-long articles tends to lose the audience. I know you’re reticent to simply use your own words, in fear that you’ll be mocked. but really, we’ll mock you regardless. Do not pass “go,” do not collect $200.
GregH said,
August 10, 2005 at 7:04
Hey Marq, since she won’t post original comments here any more I found this comment posted on a Live8 forum for our mocking pleasure:
God bless all these artist that took their time to help Africa. President G. W. Bush and Tony Blair are up for putting and end to the mayhem going on in Africa.
I’ll really be impressed when all of the artist get their tushes over to Iraq and Afghanistan to give the coalition troops a big extravaganza and raise some money for all of those brave men and woman that are there doing a seller job protecting America, as well as the word from terrorist. Let your politics be damed! Joan Jet plays for the troops.
Marie Jon’
http://www.PeoplePolitical.org
Comment from peoplepolitical1 – 7/5/05 1:19 AM
GregH said,
August 10, 2005 at 7:07
Heh, Marie said “tushes.”
Marq said,
August 10, 2005 at 18:54
Um, a “seller” job? Does she mean “stellar” or “cellar?” Also, while one could interpret that bit about protecting the word from terrorist[s] to mean protecting the world, I have a scary feeling that she means the Word.
GregH said,
August 10, 2005 at 19:23
It’s like every sentence provides a precious little gem ripe for the mocking. Did you notice that she “damed” politics.
Brad R. said,
August 13, 2005 at 6:24
183, bitchez!!!!
GregH said,
August 14, 2005 at 7:43
If Wha?, Ukko and Yosef were still here we’d have this over 200 – no problem.
Marq said,
August 14, 2005 at 23:51
It would only take 15 more….
Ukko said,
August 15, 2005 at 3:57
Here’s to 186. Whoever hits 200 gets a special treat from Marie. You lost out on the poll, GregH, but here’s your chance! Hyva poika. Istu. Hyva tyta.
Pinko Punko said,
August 15, 2005 at 5:47
Marie can’t even post her own bullshit in the comments. It is like she is in essence plagiarizing her comments. She has to post some douchebag thing about Air America- hey did you guys see that “Day by Day” cartoon- that’s the sub-Mallard Fillmore conservo strip. Vodkapundit gave it a triple “Heh-indeedy” the other day. So the Left has a war started on lies to whine about and the Right has smelly homeless people and Air America to whine about. These people. It is sad how cute she is though, I think she wants to date Gavin and “change” him.
Pinko Punko said,
August 15, 2005 at 5:52
Wait! I know, let’s have a Sadly, No! tournament! The winner gets to go out with MJ and undergo her very own personal “ex-Lefty” program. I will seriously stick a shiv in anyone who stands in my way. It will be like “Ultimate Lefty Computer Geek Fighting”
I think we could get:
Gavin M.
Brad R.
Yosef
wha?
Ukko
Pinko Punko
Marq
Who else wants a crack at 50 weeks of church going before you can even brush her unexposed neck with your fingertip?
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 6:20
ahem!
Ukko said,
August 15, 2005 at 6:27
Sentence story time! I’ll start.
Some one else’s turn.
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 7:11
Unfortunately, the Viagra supply for the entire City was bought up by a mysterious doctor on the behalf of a rotund Palm Beach talk show blowhard leaving Jeff-Seb, Gavin, Brad, Pinko Punko, Ukko, Wha?, Yosef and Pastor Swank on the sidelines while GregH was the only one left standing so to speak.
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 7:51
INTERLUDE- Thought that you might like this link link to a Sadly, Yes rerun hosted on Marie Jon’s site. The second entry down may be a little forshadowing as to how this “sentence” story ends. However, it’s not looking good for our hero right now. It’s also strange how this Sadly, Yes HTML ended up on Marie’s site since she had nothing to do with Sadly, Yes. Also if I was devious, I might monkey with the pictures a little bit more and provide a prominent link to them so as to entertain ourselves at the expense of our beloved Marie Jon’ a Biscotti.
Ukko said,
August 15, 2005 at 13:16
As a fluffer, Marie saw those many limp soldiers as a professional challenge.
zuzu said,
August 15, 2005 at 14:09
Ah, a sadly incomplete effort by Marie Jon’. Though she’s tempting you with her picture, the little hussy.
Yosef said,
August 15, 2005 at 15:32
What’s up guys? You hangin’ out? I’ll hang out.
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 15:50
Yeah Yosef, we’re just cold chillin’.
Ukko said,
August 15, 2005 at 15:52
I guess that explains the shrinkage, Greg.
Isn’t it funny that Marie looks better in her picture here than over at Sadly, Yes? She must not have a good body image. Poor thing, we’ll help her, won’t we guys?
Yosef said,
August 15, 2005 at 15:55
oh yeah…
Yosef said,
August 15, 2005 at 15:56
almost forgot
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 15:56
Although Marie’s skill was considerable, one might even say a gift from God, she couldn’t get a rise out of the Viagraless eight; leaving GregH ready, willing and oh so able.
Ukko said,
August 15, 2005 at 15:56
Marie, the little fluffer, and I sneaked out back behind the rectory at the VBS camp. We heard the singing class inside as the instructor intoned, “Breathe IN, breathe OUT, IN, OUT…” Before we quite knew what was happening, Marie and I were following the cadence, IN, OUT, IN, OUT.
Oh Marie, we’re almost there. Keep doing that, a few more comments will push us over. Ooooooh, almost there…
Yosef said,
August 15, 2005 at 15:57
200 BITCHEZ!!!!!
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 15:59
Um Yosef, are you allowed to do that? I thought that only Brad had authorization.
Yosef said,
August 15, 2005 at 15:59
crap, GregH and Ukko. My cpu is runnign slow so y’all beat me. 203 now. And yes, I tried to cheat, but that’s what we do here. I’ll get in on the story after a cigarette.
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 16:03
I think we’re going to have to rewrite Ukko’s last sentence as it has no connection to my previous sentence. Also it’s multiple sentences. For godsakes man, if you’re going to cheat at least have the grace to use a run-on sentence!
Ukko said,
August 15, 2005 at 16:04
Go for it. I didn’t see your post and got caught up in the moment.
Ukko said,
August 15, 2005 at 16:05
Marie, the little fluffer, and GreggH sneaked out back behind the rectory at the VBS camp.
Ukko said,
August 15, 2005 at 16:08
What they didn’t notice was Father Mitchell, peering out of the rectory window in rapt attention.
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 16:10
GregH’s gaze alone sent Marie into wave after wave of ecstasy.
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 16:20
I just consulted my style guide and I’d like to rewrite that last sentence: “GregH’s manly glaze alone sent wave after wave of ecstasy shuddering through Marie’s lithe body.”
GregHg said,
August 15, 2005 at 16:23
Meanwhile, the rest of the gang are playing Yahtzee and thinking lascivious thoughts about Kaye Grogan in a leopard print teddy.
Ukko said,
August 15, 2005 at 16:28
Ah, GregH, Hg means Mercury. According to this page:
“As a god, [Mercury] was the swiftest–nobody could get there faster.”
Poor Marie.
Yosef said,
August 15, 2005 at 16:28
Marie couldn’t be stopped, despite the alluring call of butter cookies and orange drink at the Morning VBS snack time.
Yosef said,
August 15, 2005 at 16:29
Through the windows, a rousing chorus of “Just a closer walk with Thee” could be heard. Yes, rousing.
Ukko said,
August 15, 2005 at 16:36
Followed immediately by an impassioned “Nearer, Still Nearer.”
Yosef said,
August 15, 2005 at 16:40
Shortly thereafter, GregH started singing his own version of “Onward, Christian Swimmers”.
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 16:47
After what seemed like hours, their coupling complete for the time being, GregH rose up with a roar and a pair of peepo thongs clenched in his teeth.
Ukko said,
August 15, 2005 at 16:47
With a radiant smile, Marie looked up at GreggH and said, “You’ll make a great daddy for our children!”
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 16:52
Never much one for pillow talk GregH said: “Marie, there’s something I need to tell you. Let’s take a walk down to the camp bog. You know the filthy lascivious one without any spirit but with plenty of contempt for God and the USA.”
Ukko said,
August 15, 2005 at 16:54
(Interlude: how would you have a _pair_ of thongs? Isn’t the undergarment women wear singular? Who else is in on this action? Grogan or Marsala?)
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 16:56
(Did I forget to mention that Natalie Portman was there too? Silly me.)
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 16:58
(Also, Marie has been known to wear multiple pairs to protect her chastity.)
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 17:00
Meanwhile, back at the cabin the boys were getting ready to turn in for the evening when all of a sudden they realized that there was only one bed in the entire babin.
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 17:01
er…”cabin”
Ukko said,
August 15, 2005 at 17:01
(Sounds like someone’s excited by the thought :) )
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 17:12
On their way to the bog, Marie’s ample bosom heaving beneath her blue chenille turtleneck, they pass the boy’s cabin from which strange guttural noises, much like those of rutting animals, can be heard. “I’m scared,” Marie whispers. “So am I…So am I” GregH says shaking his head with a grim knowing smile on his manly face.
Yosef said,
August 15, 2005 at 17:26
They then heard a voice rise above the strange noises, shouting, “As the hottest young conservative writer on the internets, I shall be the only one to use the bed!”
Marie’s heart skipped a beat at the sound of virility.
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 17:35
Then they heard another one of the boys cry: “Oh Yosef, you’re so sexy when you pretend to be manly.” Peeking in the window Marie could see the boys collapse onto the bed in a giant tickle fight.
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 17:38
Glancing at GregH, Marie realized that she had more manly virility than should could possibly handle right at her side.
Ukko said,
August 15, 2005 at 17:42
Amidst the din of lusty baying, GregH suddenly noticed his little soldier snapping to attention. Bursting in upon the action, he spotted VBen, pinned him to the bed, and began the beautiful process of removing that wretched V.
Ukko said,
August 15, 2005 at 17:43
Woops, DQ’d myself again w/ multiple sentences.
Ukko said,
August 15, 2005 at 17:43
I do that when caught up in the moment.
Ukko said,
August 15, 2005 at 17:46
Amidst the din of lusty baying, GregH suddenly noticed his little soldier snapping to attention; unable to resist, he burst in upon the action, spotted VBen, and began the beautiful process of removing that wretched V.
(There we go. Not multiple sentences.)
Yosef said,
August 15, 2005 at 17:47
Marie, usually never one to change herself based on the opinions of others, started to wonder if perhaps, just this once, she should follow the poll results and take Yosef away with her and Natalie Portman while GregH was distracted by VBen.
(Lot’s of clauses, Ukko. You can write all you want in one sentence.)
Ukko said,
August 15, 2005 at 17:48
As Marie watched this vigorous male bonding, she began to shiver with excitement, leaning into Natalie for support.
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 17:49
Ben’s lifeless form on the floor began to change suddenly transmorgified into a beautiful completely nude young woman.
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 17:50
Greg glanced down at what had been Ben but was now quite clearly Uma Thurmann.
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 17:52
“Oh kind sir, how did you know I was trapped in that hideous form by one of the wicked bog witches?” Uma asked lustily.
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 17:53
“A real man knows these things.” GregH replied.
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 17:55
“Your manly minstrations released me from the spell. I am yours forever.” Uma said with a mishevious look in her eyes.
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 17:57
So then GregH, Natalie, Marie and Uma proceeded hand in hand to the bog, leaving the boys to their strange little pajama party.
Ukko said,
August 15, 2005 at 17:57
As this hedonistic festival reached its fever pitch, Father Mitchell burst in, ripped off his mask, and cried, “I will cure you of your gayness in 7 easy steps!”
http://mariejon.freepolls.com/cgi-bin/polls/004/poll_center.htm
Ukko said,
August 15, 2005 at 18:03
GregH, not understanding, told Father Spongedob Mitchell go fuck himself, but Father replied that he’d rather fuck GregH.
Ukko said,
August 15, 2005 at 18:05
Astonished, GregH looked down to see a heaving bosom attached to his slim chest, with shapely legs below.
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 18:06
“Stand back girls!” Greg H. roared as he felled Father Mitchell with one mighty blow leaving his lifeless homophobic body crumpled on the floor.
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 18:08
With Father Mitchell dead, GregH’s body returned to its normal extremely manly form.
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 18:09
“Let that be a lesson to Homophobes everywhere!” GregH yelled.
Ukko said,
August 15, 2005 at 18:09
But instead of standing back, Greg’s “girls” lurched forward, causing him fall onto the portly Father Mitchell in an “extremely manly way.”
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 18:10
The girls shivered with pleasure and anticipation at the manliness of their man GregH.
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 18:12
GregH sprung back up and he and the girls hightailed it to the bog before anything else could delay them.
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 18:14
Glancing back, GregH noticed that Father Mitchell had been transmorgified into Juli Delpy.
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 18:16
Juli joined the group at the bog.
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 18:17
“What am I to do with you four young women?” GregH said knowingly.
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 18:21
The young women giggled nervously but with great anticipation.
Ukko said,
August 15, 2005 at 18:24
As the girls writhed about GregH, they began to strap him up for some Vandersexxx .
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 18:27
The end.
Yosef said,
August 15, 2005 at 18:38
Postscript:
One day, three years later, GregH finally realized that both the former VBen and Father Mitchell, having transformed into beautiful women, reached that stage through the same process as Ann Coulter.
Anonymous said,
August 15, 2005 at 18:39
Well, I think that was a good time had by all. We passed 250 about 7 posts ago.
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 18:39
Don’t care how they got there as long as they’re there.
Yosef said,
August 15, 2005 at 18:40
GregH then realized that these transexuals, although capable of making him very happy, would become the same wingnutty former men as Ann, quickly causing his manliness to become like that of Bob Dole, leaving Yosef alone to conquer Salma Hayek, as they lived happily ever after in the heathen bogs.
Yosef said,
August 15, 2005 at 18:42
Just got to 260! Wow! I wonder if Jeff, Gorge and the others will publish this on the front page?
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 18:46
(Seems worthy of front page status to me.)
Ukko said,
August 15, 2005 at 19:04
I almost forgot to tell you guys. Since I posted the 200th post, I got the special treat. And it was good. And I’m not sharing.
Yosef said,
August 15, 2005 at 19:12
That settles it, Ukko. You have just become my enemy.
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 19:36
Yosef, don’t be a hater, yo! There’s always 300.
Yosef said,
August 15, 2005 at 19:43
Hey, good point! Okay, Ukko. You have one more chance to not become my enemy for life.
Yosef said,
August 15, 2005 at 20:39
Guys? Guys?
(chirp… chirp…)
Where did everyone go? It’s quiet in here. Too quiet.
Ukko said,
August 15, 2005 at 21:16
Yosef, peace dude. After a treat like that, I’m feeling a little stoned, but happy. Gotta spread the lurv, squelch the hate.
Peace out.
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 21:24
Hey Yosef, what do you think the prize/treat was?
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 21:44
Based on Ukko’s reaction I’m thinking that it was a plate full of corn dogs or something like that.
Yosef said,
August 15, 2005 at 21:51
Probably the ones that have the cheese already inside them.
And ukko, I got to thinking, Judson Cox is my arch-nemesis, so I guess I won’t ever make you my enemy.
Ukko said,
August 15, 2005 at 21:54
Well, I’ve got the munchies (really, not kidding), so I’m off to go eat. It’d be cool if Marie stopped by here again after these 271 love notes.
Marie, you can plagiarize from my comments if you need to in order to comment here. Try this, “I love Ukko with an undying love just as he loves me. And I wanna celebrate physically.”
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 22:12
Yeah Ukko, abstinence always makes me hungry too. Not that I can remember that far back.
Ukko said,
August 15, 2005 at 22:22
What you say if I said I was totally abstinent for over two decades? I grew up in an environment that in many ways would be comparable to the Mennonites, and have only fairly recently left. There’s a load of stuff I’m still trying to figure out, like pop culture references. I’ve gone to all of two movies in my entire lifetime. I’m not too worried, because I figure I’m out now and can live how I think I should, but sometimes I really think I missed out on stuff in my teen years.
GregH said,
August 15, 2005 at 22:31
(I’d say you bring something totally cool and unique to the game. Have fun but be careful!)
Brad R. said,
August 15, 2005 at 23:18
276 slutz!!!!
Capt. Trollypants said,
August 16, 2005 at 0:03
“And then, GregH woke up realizing it had all been a dream, and he was spooning with Ukko and Yosef in the bog, while looking outside he saw Pinko Punko and Marie Jon’ walking to church, and Pinko had a terrible look on his face realizing that he would never ever get to touch the unexposed neck of Ms. Jon’ unless he steadily went to church with her for a whole year. GregH realized that it would be much better to spoon with Ukko and Yosef for eternity than undergo such a hell, at least if Ukko showered occasionally and Yosef brushed his teeth.”
GregH said,
August 16, 2005 at 4:36
And then, Captain Trollypants woke up realizing that he had been dreaming about GregH having a dream. Ashamed, he woke up, turned to Ukko and Yosef and asked them to cuddle with him until he fell back asleep.
Capt. Trollypants said,
August 16, 2005 at 4:57
If this were truly, I, Capt. Trollypants’ dream, while I would be cuddling with Ukko and Yosef, it truly would be their disembowelled carcasses woven into a delightful quilt of Sadly, No! commenters, upon which Marie Jon’ and I would kick back with some nude fondue and Riunite on ice in front of a massive fireplace in our log cabin on Ted Nugent’s property. Since the dream you describe does not have those attributes, I would suggest that it is your wishful thinking of being in an Ukko and Yosef sandwich. The only sandwich of that type that the Capt. would be in would a Faith Hill/Shania Twain one.
GregH said,
August 16, 2005 at 5:23
Gee Cap’n T, do you think we can keep this feud up until we get to 300?
Ukko said,
August 16, 2005 at 6:15
I’ve got a new love: Gabrielle Reilly. She rocks!
GregH said,
August 16, 2005 at 7:52
Geesh, she’s sort of scary. As part of your popular culture education you need to watch the movie Weird Science.
Pinko Punko said,
August 16, 2005 at 8:08
OK googling Gabby R now.
Sweet Kelly Lebrock, my God she was married to Seagal! That makes her even cooler! Ukko, get on it!
Capt. Trollypants said,
August 16, 2005 at 8:09
Where’s that commie Yosef?
I thought he’d at least come up with a sandwich he’d want to be in.
Pinko Punko said,
August 16, 2005 at 8:10
What sandwich would Ukko like to be in? Probably some sort of Kaye Gorgon one.
NAILED!
Pinko Punko said,
August 16, 2005 at 8:15
I would love for some troll to highjack this thread- say something totally douchey about liberal blogs.
Capt. Trollypants said,
August 16, 2005 at 8:17
You mean, “GregH is so liberal he wants to be in a Betty Friedan/Gloria Steinem sandwich, then it would be a feminazi 3-way???”
pwn3d!
Ed Falkner said,
August 16, 2005 at 8:17
You guys are big bunch of whiners!
Pinko Punko said,
August 16, 2005 at 8:18
Thanks, CT, you freak.
I was so sad when I woke up this morning and I saw that you guys had gone to town on this thread. I was laughing my ass off. I don’t abbreviate that, because there is nothing more FREEPER like that LOL! ROTFLMAO!
*shudder*
Ed Falkner said,
August 16, 2005 at 8:20
Especially Brad and Gavin. They’re being mean to me at the thread up top!
Pinko Punko said,
August 16, 2005 at 8:21
I am an eensy bit uncomfortable with the Marie Jon’ fan fiction because it is not nice, however sooper cutie pie MJ’ is, and boy is she that, some on the left would consider that sort of thing a type of assault. But it is all in good fun, I guess. That is why I never go past her unexposed neck, and go straight to the Ukko, GregH and Yosef spooning, because that’s just true.
GregH said,
August 16, 2005 at 8:25
Cap’n T’s momma’s so fat; when you put her in a Jacuzzi she makes her own gravy!
Gavin M. said,
August 16, 2005 at 8:25
Holy crap, this thread is still going! Wah. I’m scared to scroll up and see what everyone’s refering to…
GregH said,
August 16, 2005 at 8:31
Gavin you need to scroll up about 100+ comments and read the whole damn sad mess. You should know better than to leave in here alone and unsupervised.
GregH said,
August 16, 2005 at 8:36
By the way, we’re saving the 300th comment for Yosef. Otherwise we have to take this thing to 400.
Capt. Trollypants said,
August 16, 2005 at 8:37
I saw GregH’s mom kicking a can down the street the other day, I asked her what she was doing, she said “moving.”
Pinko Punko said,
August 16, 2005 at 8:41
CT, if you have to get your “momma” jokes from “White Men Can’t Jump” you are seriously lamer than I could possibly believe.
Ukko ja Greg H ja Yosef , halaava kotona puu , s-u-u-d-e-l-m-a.
How do you like them apples, Ukko! Two can play the Finnish game!
GregH said,
August 16, 2005 at 8:46
Oh jeebus Pinko Punko you had to start the whole Finnish thing again didn’t you? Next thing you know Ukko and Gavin will be yammering on ad naseum about some sort of soup-related Finnish insult and we’ll have to take this thread to 400 comments.
Pinko Punko said,
August 16, 2005 at 8:51
It had to be done. Yosef is taking to night off, and I wanted to see if people could resist the thread sitting there at 299. We’ll see after this post. I hogtied CT, so he’s out of the equation for now.
Yosef said,
August 16, 2005 at 14:25
Yay!
Marq said,
August 16, 2005 at 14:26
Um…
Kinda play for the other team. And even in the unlikely case that Marie Jon’ turned out to be an exceptionally gifted transvestite, if it even looks like a girl, I’m really not interested. I have, on occasion, found really butch lesbians with crew-cuts & tattoos kinda… interesting. Especially the ones who are kinda muscular and flat chested. In poor bar lighting, I can be like, “Yum! He’s really hot… oh, wait. D’oh!“
Yosef said,
August 16, 2005 at 14:31
Thanks for saving the 300th for me, y’all. And thanks for cuddling with me all night, too!
Yosef said,
August 16, 2005 at 15:53
Too late anyway, Marq. GregH already got her.
Ukko said,
August 16, 2005 at 15:57
Pinko Punko, I hear where you’re coming from and wouldn’t want to be abusive or objectifying of women, but I think MJ has a good sense of humor, having seen what she put up on Sadly, Yes, I don’t think she has a leg to stand on. But if it appears that we’re going overboard, MJ is free to write fan fiction about how hot I am.
Ukko said,
August 16, 2005 at 16:28
Good, here’s a chance for me to use Finnish other than swear words.
Pinko Punko, Marie and I would love to kiss in a tree, but according to you, I’m stuck in a glory-sandwich with Yosef and GregH. Now that’s perfectly fine for those who enjoy that, but please…
G E T M E O U T O F H E R E !
Whew! Kiitos! Hyva paiva, MJ!
Pinko Punko said,
August 16, 2005 at 19:44
this is the best thread evah!
GregH said,
August 17, 2005 at 2:18
Pinko Punko and Marie foevah!
Pinko Punko said,
August 17, 2005 at 5:33
Yeah! Baby! We could do the three-legged race, an tha potato-sack race and tox out on three bean salad at the church picnic and sing hymsies and she could flash the peepo thong (meaning she clicks real fast on her CafePRess shop website) and then I could brush her hair back from her unexposed neck. It would be a total dreamsicle.
*sigh*
Yosef said,
August 17, 2005 at 14:48
Hey Ukko, how were you able to get your prize for the 200th post so quick? I just talked to the prize claim people about the 300th post and they told em to allow 6-8 weeks for mine.
Ukko said,
August 17, 2005 at 16:10
Yosef, Marie lives next door to me. She’s mowing her grass right now. Since you live further away, it will have to be mailed, but just have patience because it will be worth it.
GregH said,
August 17, 2005 at 16:56
I don’t think that corn dogs travel well. You’d better pick them up in person.
Pinko Punko said,
August 17, 2005 at 20:58
Is it the Costco corn dog pack? Like 500 corn dogs, each a little clusterbomb of deliciousness and preservatives, or is that redundant?
GregH said,
August 17, 2005 at 21:22
Apparently they’re cheese-filled corn dogs. Don’t know if they’re available at COSTCO. I also thought the prize may be a super-grab-bag of Funyons. Mmmm, Funyons.
I was at a theme party several months ago where the theme was food on a stick. My friend Greg P was there as was a plate of corn dogs. Greg P claimed he had never been sated on corn dogs before. As this seemed a noble pursuit we encouraged him to give it ago. Apparently, a dozen corn dogs is not enough to sate a person of Greg P’s stature. So that dream remains, alas, unfulfilled.
GregH said,
August 17, 2005 at 21:23
…a go…
GregH said,
August 17, 2005 at 21:25
This thread is like our secret club house now. Nobody knows we’re here and we can do whatever we want!
Ukko said,
August 18, 2005 at 3:15
Famous last words!
Hey, anyone want to play with this firecracker I found?
Pinko Punko said,
August 18, 2005 at 6:52
Seriously. You can be full of corn dogs, but not sated. You will physically be in pain and stop eating, but not sated. Like Chinese Food. I would suggest that corn dogs have shit tons of MSG.
Sweet Greg P. I miss him. I wish he were here. I feel like I know him.
Uh, Ukko, that Firecracker thing is… like a weird woman Cartman honky.
Ukko said,
August 18, 2005 at 7:37
Are you talking about those things that come on a stick? They aren’t really food, but you can still go through the motions with them. The ones I’ve had tend to be too dry.
I prefer a good pig-in-a-blanket.
Pinko Punko said,
August 18, 2005 at 8:08
No no no no Ukko. A freshly battered Corn Dog (called a Pronto Pup in US Scandinavia-Minnesota) that is cooked to order will not be dry. The corn-batter will be like fresh cornbread with a crisp outside, yet moist and perfectly cooked inside. I shit you not. The fact that it, yes, has a hot dog inside, is dicey, but SO GOOD. If you have a chance to ever got to Hot Dog On A Stick at a mall location, they will make them fresh. The ones in California on the piers like in Santa Cruz are too busy and they can be dry. Trust me, you have yet to experience the deliciousness. GregH will back me up, and if he doesn’t he’s dead to me, and I will hound him from this thread!!
GregH said,
August 18, 2005 at 8:27
PP, Word!
GregH said,
August 18, 2005 at 8:30
Ukko, Pinko Punko is indeed correct. While a corn dog seems so wrong a well-prepared on tastes so right.
Ukko said,
August 18, 2005 at 8:32
I guess fresh is the key word. Mine were frozen, reheated, and who know what else.
GregH said,
August 18, 2005 at 8:33
However, cheese on the inside of the Wienie is NEVER right.
GregH said,
August 18, 2005 at 8:56
I tried to google a picture of Greg P but suffice it to say that he’s a big man, a mountain of a man. Not too fat just large. The entry at this blog (which I just found while looking for a photo) is classic Greg P. (Look for the July 25, 2005 entry).
http://www.chezmeowmeow.com/2005_07_01_archive.php?show_id=112232838634826385#bk_112232838634826385
Yosef said,
August 18, 2005 at 17:35
I actually sated myself on corndogs with one of those 500 unit Costco packs. I ate them every night for at least 2 months. The last one I had was about 3 years ago, and I’m not sure if I want another one yet.
And no matter how it gets there or where it is, cheese is always good with a hot dog.
GregH said,
August 18, 2005 at 18:15
Them’s fighting words!
Capt. Trollypants said,
August 18, 2005 at 18:18
Uh, cheeze on a dog is only good for cheezedogs!!!!!!!
Ha ha ha, EAT ME YOSEF!
GregH said,
August 18, 2005 at 18:22
I can’t resist excerpting this from the blog linked above. This is a man that all-you-can-eat places FEAR.
My first awareness of Tucson legend Greg Petix wasn’t as “the half-head guy who works at Bentley’s” (thought it could’ve been, we’re talking the same era), but more “guy with half his head and face shaved that I see on campus eating food out of the garbage.” I remember waiting to see a movie at the Gallagher with my pal Dean in those days, and Petix (and Wolfson! and Cilla!) were standing in line in front of us. “Ooh! I almost forgot!” Petix suddenly exclaimed. “Do you guys want any pie?!?” He reached into the pockets of his jean jacket, and pulled out two half eaten pieces of cherry pie that he’d scavenged from cafeteria trays. Obviously in the couple decades that I’ve known Greg since, I’ve seen worse (drinking cereal milk from a bowl of Fruit Loops that someone else ate) and funnier (eating off a plate left at a Denny’s table only to be interrupted by the person coming back to leave their tip), but that first memory is still the sharpest.
Pinko Punko said,
August 18, 2005 at 18:23
Holy crap. Greg P! He does what I think! I mean a half eaten plate of fries is like wasting so many blastocysts. It is a tragedy.
GregH said,
August 18, 2005 at 18:23
Cap’n T is here! Pinko Punko can’t be far behind.
GregH said,
August 18, 2005 at 18:26
I need to get me one of those alter-ego thingies.
GregH said,
August 18, 2005 at 18:27
……Field Marsahll Asshat?
Pinko Punko said,
August 18, 2005 at 18:56
PERFECT. It seems to me Capt. Trollypants only shows up to be kind of a dick or make obvious troll comments. I think Field Marshall Asshat would probably have a lot to say about Yosef and Ukko. I think FMA is really a total douche, he says what’s on his mind and doesn’t pull punches.
F.M. Asshat said,
August 18, 2005 at 18:59
Test!
Capt. Trollypants said,
August 18, 2005 at 19:05
God, the comments on this thread are so douchey! More MARIE! NOW!
Less Finnish, please. I can’t think of a more liberal country. Ugh.
F.M. Asshat said,
August 18, 2005 at 19:09
Yoinks, couldn’t agree more Captain T! Finland’s full of effete neutrality-loving rancid-fish-eating fools!
F.M. Asshat said,
August 18, 2005 at 19:11
I may have to work on the vitriol a bit before I get it right.
F.M. Asshat said,
August 18, 2005 at 19:20
I seem to be getting the hang of it. Check out my work in the Swift Boats Ahoy comments thread.
Capt. Trollypants said,
August 18, 2005 at 19:24
I’m heading over there now. These guys won’t know what hit them! Sadly, they suck!
Ukko said,
August 18, 2005 at 19:30
I can’t think of a more liberal country.
Sweden.
Sweden’s full of effete neutrality-loving rancid-fish-eating fools!
There, I fixed that for you, and don’t get me started on the Swedes.
(Most likely have Swedish blood in me somewhere. Like my dick. When Marie is mentioned.)
Yosef said,
August 18, 2005 at 19:58
hmmm…
Bulldawg said,
August 18, 2005 at 20:00
…hmmm.
Does this name work?
F.M. Asshat said,
August 18, 2005 at 20:02
Ukko, from the looks of the size of that wee thing there couldn’t be more than an eyedropper full of Swedish blood in there.
Bulldawg said,
August 18, 2005 at 20:04
Dude! FMA, were you lookin’ at that leftwimp‘s dick?!
GregH said,
August 18, 2005 at 20:05
As far as I can tell you need three elements to make a proper alter-ego name: 1) military rank; 2) item of clothing (e.g., hat or pants); 3) it must sound vaguely gay.
But to each his own.
F.M. Asshat said,
August 18, 2005 at 20:07
‘Sup ‘Dawg? Yeah, I found some pictures of him on your computer. What’s up with that, gayboy?
Yosef said,
August 18, 2005 at 20:10
I see…
Major Shortssniffer said,
August 18, 2005 at 20:12
How ’bout this?
GregH said,
August 18, 2005 at 20:14
Nice. You’d better get up there in the Swift Boats Ahoy thread. There’s a beating going on.
Ukko said,
August 18, 2005 at 20:21
FMA, I’ve never thought of eyedroppers in relation to dicks before, but now that you mention it, I’m a little worried about what you’ve been up to with your eyedropper.
Ukko said,
August 18, 2005 at 20:25
Now it’s my turn to get a trolly name.
Private Jockstrap Johnson said,
August 18, 2005 at 20:27
Check me and my eyedropper out.
F.M. Asshat said,
August 18, 2005 at 20:31
Private Johnson, more like a jaw dropper! Arr!
Pvt. Jockstrap Johnson said,
August 18, 2005 at 20:38
That’s nothing. You should see my cousin Chucky Johnson. He got that name after making the girls up-chuck one to many times. Then there were the twins, Hairy and Randy Johnson. The less said about them, the better.
GregH said,
August 18, 2005 at 20:49
Quick, everbody hide! They’re on to us!
Yosef said,
August 18, 2005 at 20:55
Who’s on to us?
Major Shortssniffer said,
August 18, 2005 at 20:56
Y’all are onto each other, leftwimps!
Capt. Trollypants said,
August 18, 2005 at 21:24
Oh man, first of all, how dare you cast aspersions against that fucking SAINT Marie Jon’??? You complete buffoon batallion, yet you completely lack military rank.
Oh, my friend was at Wendy’s the other day, and he ordered a kids size fries. Shocked at how small it was, he said to me “could there be a smaller size than this?” And I said to him “yeah, Ukko’s dick size”
NAILED!!!!11!!!! EAT IT!
F.M. Asshat said,
August 18, 2005 at 21:33
Nice Trollypants, just shot my favorite adult beverage (Coors Lite) through my nose and all over the keyboard. ROTFLMAO!!!!!LOL!!!!
*Hi5*
GregH said,
August 18, 2005 at 21:39
What sort of “man” admits that Coors Lite is his favorite “beer?” What were they out of Zima at the Circle-K??? Freaks!
Capt. Trollypants said,
August 18, 2005 at 21:42
Wow, takes a Zima drinker to know it, GregH- H is for handicapped.
I’m more of a Bush/Busch/bush man myself, if you know what I mean
*Hi5* Asshat!
Major Shortssniffer said,
August 18, 2005 at 21:46
LOL!!!!1!!!11!!!
Pvt. Jockstrap Johnson said,
August 18, 2005 at 21:49
It makes sense now. Capt. Trollypants thought Ukko was from Europe when he asked long his dick is and he said, “Seven.” Trolly didn’t realize that Ukko is actually a Finnish-AMERICAN where dicks are still measured in inches, not cm.
This should help to make it a little less confusing. (17.78 cm for our friends in Europe).
The real question, however, is why Capt. Trolly is so interested in my dick. I’m sensing some troubling vibes here.
Yosef said,
August 18, 2005 at 21:54
Coors light?! That stuff’s nothing but water you dumbass
GregH said,
August 18, 2005 at 21:55
Pvt Johnson, I don’t quite think that you’ve grasped the concept here. You’re troll alter-ego is meant to attack yourself and other non-trolls.
Capt. Trollypants said,
August 18, 2005 at 21:55
Ukko, are you trying to besmirch Pvt. JJ’s reputation by posting under his name?
If so, your Johnson is smaller than I thought.
GregH said,
August 18, 2005 at 21:56
Of course a little troll on troll action might be hott too.
Pvt. Jockstrap Johnson said,
August 18, 2005 at 21:58
That nasty Ukko! He was trying to impersonate me! And he got his measurements wrong to boot! Here’s what he meant. 7 cm = 2.75 in.
Brad R, you’ve got to keep a closer watch on the IP addreses and not let people impersonate others!
Major Shortssniffer said,
August 18, 2005 at 22:07
I didn’t think that was you, Pvt. Johnson.
Hey, I wonder if those losers are setting up a cornhole prize for 400?
Capt. Trollypants said,
August 18, 2005 at 22:15
Where are the admins of this place anyway? God, they never even replenish the complimentary nuts and snacks.
Pinko Punko said,
August 18, 2005 at 22:16
And what kind of nuts would those be, CT, that you are putting in your mouth?
Major Shortssniffer said,
August 18, 2005 at 22:19
Oh! All that Pink guy can think of is putting nuts in his mouth!!
GregH said,
August 18, 2005 at 23:01
Project much shortsniffer?
GregH said,
August 18, 2005 at 23:02
Who should we save the 400th comment for? Gavin? Brad? PinkoPunko?
Pinko Punko said,
August 18, 2005 at 23:19
Where are we now? That is why you need to access it from the archive page, I have no idea where we are.
Save it for Brad R. he hasn’t been on here in awhile and he is doing a tonne of work this week.
Speaking of work, I will soon either swear off this board for the rest of today or be fired so I can play all day. I’m thinking the former would be the financially better move.
mdhatter said,
August 18, 2005 at 23:25
400?
Mars!
GregH said,
August 18, 2005 at 23:38
This is comment 377.
Pinko Punko, Michelle Malkin will probably write your boss and get your ass fired anyway so why not stay and enjoy?!
I actually have to go install an irrigation system at my girlfriend’s house so I probably won’t be back until tonight or tomorrow morning.
PinkoPunko's Boss said,
August 18, 2005 at 23:40
Pinko! Get your sorry little ass in here and get to work!
GregH said,
August 18, 2005 at 23:47
Jeebus, that’s harsh. The man is always trying to keep us down.
Pinko Punko said,
August 19, 2005 at 0:28
LOSERS! Why you gotta hate me??
I gots to push back the frontiers of science and fight off the hordes of stupid, all with one hand tied behind my back, and if you guys had been reading Three Bulls! and its associate Song of the Day, you would know that we have a rodent army invading Chez Punko! I gots ta mad kills with my mad skillz!
Yosef said,
August 19, 2005 at 0:40
Hey Pinko, your site was down just a couple of minutes ago.
Don’t know if I’ll be back tonight. I think one of the admins here should get #400.
No mdhatter, that’s not you.
Capt. Trollypants said,
August 19, 2005 at 9:35
Where is the Private, FM, Major, etc??– f*cking Pinko Punko just outted us on his page!
Pvt. Jockstrap Johnson said,
August 19, 2005 at 13:06
Marie, check me out. I am hot! Way hotter than that lard-ass Ukko, effeminate Yosef, or worst yet, Michael Moorish GregH.
Let’s just face it: some of us (like Marie and me) are just born better than the rest.
GregH said,
August 19, 2005 at 18:10
RE: y_run – I suspect that he is a triple agent – someone in the know that’s goofing on us by pretending to be offended in a nice way by the “trolls.” Of course I could be a quadruple agent………..
Brad R. said,
August 19, 2005 at 21:28
385 slut bagz!!!!
Rear Admiral Tubesock said,
August 19, 2005 at 22:14
I think you guys missed an obvious homosuggestive military rank…
F.M. Asshat said,
August 19, 2005 at 22:39
Brilliant! It takes much practice and the people are testy so use your new-found identity wisely!!!!!!!
GregH said,
August 19, 2005 at 22:44
What’s next you fools? Seamen Stains and Roger the Cabin Boy? You guys are ill!
Capt. Trollypants said,
August 19, 2005 at 22:47
Shut up douchebag GRegH. show some creativity- kill yourself creatively!
Brad R. said,
August 19, 2005 at 23:00
OK, let’s do a race to 400, see who can get there first. 390…
Brad R. said,
August 19, 2005 at 23:00
391…
Brad R. said,
August 19, 2005 at 23:01
392…
Brad R. said,
August 19, 2005 at 23:01
OK, this is no fun since I’m the only one playing, but whatev.
Oh, and 393.
Brad R. said,
August 19, 2005 at 23:03
aaaaaaand 394….
Brad R. said,
August 19, 2005 at 23:03
Threeeeee ninety-fiiiiiiiiiive…
Brad R. said,
August 19, 2005 at 23:05
396
Brad R. said,
August 19, 2005 at 23:05
397
Capt. Trollypants said,
August 19, 2005 at 23:06
EAT IT!!!!!!!!! 396!!!! Sista Souljahs!
Brad R. said,
August 19, 2005 at 23:06
398
Brad R. said,
August 19, 2005 at 23:06
400 ASSMUNCH!!!!
Brad R. said,
August 19, 2005 at 23:07
YES, YES, YES, I TOTALLY WIN!!! 401!!! WHAAAAAAAAT?
Pinko Punko said,
August 19, 2005 at 23:07
Troll control meeting for Ukko, GregH, Yosef and the person hunting down Admiral Tubesock. In July 4th Three bulls post comment thread.
39-sizz-even, cobags!!!!!!!
GregH said,
August 19, 2005 at 23:15
Very mature guys.
My best guess is that Admiral Tubesock is right above you.
This weekend is bad for me. I leave on a trip with the g/f in about 15 minutes and she may not let me play on the internets much. I’ll do my best though.
GregH said,
August 22, 2005 at 8:38
Ah Marie, it is you and I alone at last.
Yosef said,
August 22, 2005 at 16:05
Hey guys. I was out all weekend. I’ll stop by over at 3 bulls and see what i missed. It looks like a lot.
GregH said,
August 22, 2005 at 19:34
Damnit Yosef!! Didn’t anyone ever teach you to knock first?
Yosef said,
August 23, 2005 at 0:58
Sorry, Greg. If it makes you feel any better, I didn’t see her neck.
Greg H said,
August 23, 2005 at 7:08
‘sallright. So you really didn’t see her neck, right?! Next time I’ll tie something around the doorknob so you’ll know.
Pinko Punko said,
August 24, 2005 at 3:51
Yeah and air out the room when you are done. One of you is pretty musky. Sheesh. I smell sex and candy. No, sex and melon? No, sex and beef jerky? No. OH GROSSS, sex and corndogs!! How depraved can you get????
309 ZIBATCHES!
Yosef said,
August 24, 2005 at 5:35
Hey, PP, what’s the count up to on the super double secret thread? I only go via bookmark, so I can’t tell.
221, bizznatchezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!!
GregH said,
August 24, 2005 at 19:05
I knew you two would be here.
Tapio said,
August 25, 2005 at 2:08
Hah, we didn’t get enough trolls on the Whizzard thread to break this record. We laugh at his green weakness.
So, wazzup? Anyone still enjoying the party here?
Pinko Punko said,
August 25, 2005 at 8:56
I love sweet fun. SOmebody just spanked us on the double secret thread. They were sad that we were driving people away from Sadly, No! *sigh*
I sent the trolls to MExico- details in the newest “BRad Insomina” thread
Pinko Punko said,
August 25, 2005 at 9:03
Capt. T just called me from outside TJ- he said “well, some gang is about to go to town on Asshat and the Major ran into the desert high on mescaline and Jock had somehow run off with the gang leaders girlfriend, and I guess we’re goign to pay the price for Jock’s manliness, and it’s been a good run, and even though some chicks got mad, even Mrs. Punko, we can be proud of being in the largest non-atrios threads in Sadly memory and that we entertained and pwn3d and SUCKED IT!1!!!!!!!!!!11 until the very end.”
GregH said,
August 26, 2005 at 7:55
Wait a second here…so Jock is scoring with the ladies, the Major is getting high and Asshat is getting beat up? That doesn’t seem fair at all! I think that a rewrite may be in order!
Pinko Punko said,
August 27, 2005 at 7:00
I think continuing updates are in order- anytime someone is on right at the beginning of the thread, I think the memory of our rapscallion counterparts should be celebrated, you know updating what’s going on.
GregH said,
August 28, 2005 at 3:52
417!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hmmm, In the end does everyone get gunned down by the Bolivian army?
GregH said,
August 30, 2005 at 6:02
Being here again is like walking down memory lane. I guess that it’s mine all mine now! Bwahhahahahah!!!!!!!!!
GregH said,
September 14, 2005 at 8:06
Ukko, you in here????!??!?!?!?!? We miss you!!
Pinko Punko said,
October 7, 2005 at 20:56
420 bitchez!!!!!!!!
Pinko Punko said,
October 24, 2005 at 5:39
421 GLADIOLAZ!!!!!!!!!!!
Gregor Samsa said,
October 25, 2005 at 2:49
I come back here every once in a while to see if some joker has been posting in the long thread. Figures that it would be you! Thbbbbt!
Pinko Punko said,
October 25, 2005 at 4:37
423 DONKEY DONGZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gregor Samsa said,
November 6, 2005 at 7:43
Tsk, tsk, tsk.
Capt. Trollypants said,
November 29, 2005 at 6:47
Has Gregor been whacking off back here, it has a weird smell.
Gregor Samsa said,
November 29, 2005 at 7:06
Oh dude you nailed me but good!
Gregor Samsa said,
December 1, 2005 at 0:18
Finders Keepers Loosers Weepers.
Pinko Punko said,
December 2, 2005 at 10:26
The nazi thread is trying to get longer we got to keep the thread burning.
John Bolton said,
December 24, 2005 at 8:56
Finally, I can be alone with my mustachio
John Stossel said,
January 8, 2006 at 9:58
Mind if I join you sailor?
Marq said,
January 12, 2006 at 23:11
So, Pinko, you’re the om;y one who knows where the “long thread” is, eh?Guess again, COBAG!!1!11!
Marq said,
January 14, 2006 at 23:32
“om;y” being “only,” of course.
Marq said,
January 16, 2006 at 1:43
OK, I’m posting this just to see if Pinko Punko, Yosef, or anybody else is still paying attention; thus, it it mostly said in jest. But I know it’s a vulnerable point, so here goes:
Ugh–what’s that on the bottom of my shoe? Eeew! A Take 5 bar! Disgusting! It’ll take weeks for the smell (and the pretzel-bits) to wear off!
Pinko Punko said,
January 17, 2006 at 5:25
AHA! Like a fly to flypaper! En garde, mein enema!
Marq said,
January 19, 2006 at 9:13
Hey! Leave things i do for pleasure out of this (syrup is a great fluid for some things, ya know?)! Actually–you know what would be the ultimate blogging coupe de grace? If anyone could get Marie Jon’ to post another comment to this thread without, you know, just e-mailing her the URL. Though I’m not really sure as to how to go about that….
Pinko Punko said,
January 21, 2006 at 10:13
I would pay big bucks* to see that. How could we swing that??
Anybody go a count on this page? Hold on….
*big bucks may not be used as american currency.
Pinko Punko said,
January 21, 2006 at 10:15
437 ZIBATCHEZ!
Phill said,
January 27, 2006 at 2:27
Hi guys. Really neat. Nana will get a kick out of it when I show her. http://alprazolam.gottaoh.com
Drop said,
February 2, 2006 at 18:25
Just checking to see if any relation are out here
http://swarovski.searchcar.org/daniel_swarovski/
Marq said,
February 7, 2006 at 6:43
February, bitchez! And, the shortest mont brings us cyberpharmacybots. Yeesh!
Pinko Punko said,
February 12, 2006 at 1:27
No way, is the long thread really being violated by spam? Or is it fake ironic spam?
Gregor Samsa said,
February 23, 2006 at 3:01
Word! What the heck is going on? Marq’s in the long thread?!
Marq said,
February 24, 2006 at 6:41
I’ve been keeping this one marginally active for a few month now, with a minimum of one post per month. It freaked Gavin out. As you can see, Pinko’s been hanging out, too, as well as the pharmabots.
Marq said,
February 24, 2006 at 6:42
Um, “months.”
Gregor Samsa said,
February 24, 2006 at 17:21
Well we’re close enough that it seems that 500 is inevitable.
It’s so relaxing here….zzzzzzz.
Marq said,
February 25, 2006 at 7:37
How does one get a comment count after a post has scrolled off the front page, anyway? I mean, sure, we could go by Pinko Punko’s count above, but how did he arrive at it? Did he count from the top? From the last listed tally upthread? Or did he just pull a Rush and yank it outta his arse?
Pinko Punko said,
February 26, 2006 at 10:18
Marq, Marq, Marq- you go to the arhcive page for the MONTH, not the post…then you get the count. 448 cobags.
Marq said,
February 26, 2006 at 11:32
[right-wing argument technique]
Aha! So–it’s just as I suspected! You do just pull the number outta your arse!
Pinko Punko said,
March 1, 2006 at 9:36
I can’t even respond to that, except do a comical Urkel double-take. they always win.
Marq said,
March 1, 2006 at 18:26
Hey, Gregor, did you see Scott C. used you as a joke in a recent comment thread over at World O’ Crap,,, I’d link, but it’s not right in front of me. Something about “bedhead.” Heh.
Marq said,
March 1, 2006 at 19:40
OK, it’s in this fabulous, abortion-themed comment thread.
Marq said,
March 1, 2006 at 19:43
Err, “abortion-themed” and Reagan’s Children. s.z. found them first.
Gregor Samsa said,
March 4, 2006 at 8:27
I will not rest until I destroy him!!
Marq said,
March 4, 2006 at 10:39
To be fair, I’m not sure I “get” the joke. Blah, blah, blah “…since Gregor Samsa.” Since Gregor Samsa what? There are way better insults to you, higher up this very thread. So, before you destroy Scott C, you’ve got to take out Pinko, Yosef, wha?, and Ukko (if you can find him and wha?). And, maybe others (I know we of the kweer kontigent weren’t competing for Marie’s “affecttions”–or was it her neck?).
Gregor Samsa said,
March 6, 2006 at 21:09
Too late he has already been destroyed, nailed so to speak, as if Digby himself had done it.
Marq said,
March 9, 2006 at 8:37
Hey–has someone been doing site maintenance here or something? Suddenly, Marie Jon”s pic reappears at the top of this thread once again. For the longest time, I was just getting the “dead image” icon. WTF?!
Gregor Samsa said,
March 13, 2006 at 4:53
Yeah that is weird. It’s almost as if somebody cares!
Pinko Punko said,
March 15, 2006 at 9:51
That was funny, boys.
Ukko said,
March 19, 2006 at 17:17
After a prolonged undercover mission, Ukko returns. The question remains: whose covers was he under? And does he have bedhead?
Gregor Samsa said,
March 20, 2006 at 9:06
Holy crap!!!1!! Is that really you?! We missed you!
Gavin M. said,
March 20, 2006 at 9:35
Okay, hold on a sec — who’s here from India at this very moment?
Gregor Samsa said,
March 20, 2006 at 15:24
Wha? How’d you find us again Gavin?
Yosef said,
March 20, 2006 at 18:47
What’s up, Ukko? How did the secret mission go?
Pinko Punko said,
March 20, 2006 at 19:12
Ukko, I’m directing that the sex slaves give you special treatment. Our lives can truly begin again.
What’s Finnish for “how’s it hanging, cobag?”
UKKO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pinko Punko said,
March 20, 2006 at 19:19
Gavmo, I think AIF was clicking over from 3B where Gregor Samsa, who needs to tell Ukko who he REALLY is, posted the clubhouse linky in comments.
Gregor Samsa said,
March 20, 2006 at 19:35
Gregor Samsa = GregH
Come on Ukko, don’t tease us!!!
Ukko said,
March 20, 2006 at 23:29
Ukko got busy with school, got himself a girlfriend, broke up with said girlfriend because she was too conservative (even though she was hotter than our dear Marie), and is generally doing great.
My undercover mission was to discover the attitudes of white Americans to racism. Question for you guys: in your experience, how common are racist jokes when groups of white Americans meet socially? Honest question–because I haven’t been around racist jokes much in my life, but some people have told me racist jokes are common in the average white American social group. The same people say it’s ok for white people to tell racist jokes because black people like Dave Chappelle also tell racist jokes.
Pinko Punko said,
March 20, 2006 at 23:48
Not very common. My experience with people I know in fraternities was that there were perhaps those types of things but more like “look how bad we are being”,and that is a bunch of guys, and I wouldn’t call it say social int he way that a bunch of rick whites might just make offhand racist jokes at a cocktail party.
the worst it truly gets around people I know is people discussing the possible truth behind the “asian women driver” stereotype.
also, there seems to be the whole joke immunity thing- jewish people can make jew jokes etc. catholics, etc.
oh, Ukko, the old girlfriend routine, how could you!
Gregor Samsa said,
March 20, 2006 at 23:54
We figured you got busy with school or a girl. I’m extra glad to hear it was both!!! The flesh and blood ladies are always hotter than the pixelated type.
Regarding racist jokes – I would say that amongst my white peers they’re practically never told.
My Mexican/Asian/African-American friends do tell self deprecating jokes. But I wouldn’t say that gives me or anyone else not of their background license to tell them.
Right here on SadlyNo! there was a discussion several months ago about whether it was OK for a non-gay person to call something or someone “gay.” It was interesting to say the least.
Please keep in touch!!!
mdhatter said,
March 21, 2006 at 1:05
i interrupted a racist joke last week to remind the teller (an older irish gentleman) that the same joke had probably been told 150 years ago, in the same neighborhood where he stood, about Irish people.
he stfu.
mdhatter said,
March 21, 2006 at 1:08
also, as a straight guy, gay is not a word I feel comfortable applying. Queer, homo, and faggy do seem to be fine.
Gavin M. said,
March 21, 2006 at 2:06
i interrupted a racist joke last week to remind the teller (an older irish gentleman) that the same joke had probably been told 150 years ago, in the same neighborhood where he stood, about Irish people.
And wherever those Italians moved to, they’re probably still telling it.
mdhatter said,
March 21, 2006 at 3:09
to the greeks
almostinfamous said,
March 21, 2006 at 3:37
HAI Gaveen!
ME from INDIA!
WHY YOU AKS>!
i have walked into my fair share of racist jokes, only to see the conversation sputter and die.for example, i was once asked to play indian poker, and then the person realized what it was that they were saying and who it was they were saying it to and this one dude was like oh no, let’s play ‘native american poker’ and i almost wanted to punch that [expletive deleted]
and ukko, welcome back although i never knew who you were before and have no clue now and this isn’t even a site i feel worthy to comment on.
(/asskissing)
Yosef said,
March 21, 2006 at 4:39
Actually, pretty common, but I grew up and know some of the reddest necks there are.
But also (and not to excuse anything) but a lot of the racist jokes I hear are in truth making fun of the racist jokes that everyone has heard. Such as, “Cedric Simmons who plays basketball for NC State looks a lot like Antawn Jamison.”
“Why, because they’re black?”
Gregor Samsa said,
March 21, 2006 at 6:16
There is something to be said for being comfortable enough about race to make jokes about it. But it’s a fine line to walk and would definitely depend on the joke and the context.
I guess that I have heard jokes like Yosef’s where the punch line is so stereotypical as to be ironic. But here again the jokes were told by a Mexican-America about a MA stereotype.
Gregor Samsa said,
March 21, 2006 at 6:19
AIF by finding this long lost thread – known as the “long thread” – you have achieved the third level. Congratulations!
Your goals now are to find the secret thread and the newer (not so)secret thread. I’m not sure if I could find them now.
Pinko Punko said,
March 21, 2006 at 7:42
I know where they are- they didn’t get moved over from blogger. stupid blogger kept breaking so we couldn’t get them.
actually, I’m not sure where the newer less secret clubhouse is. I’m gonna go leave a secret comment.
Pinko Punko said,
March 21, 2006 at 7:55
OK, I found the not-so-secret thread and its entrance, and I found the secret thread but cannot tell what post it goes with (thanks Haloscan!)
Also, check this BS out from GregH
This weekend is pretty bad for me. I leave for a trip with the g/f in about 15 minutes. I don’t think she’s going to let me play much on the internets! I’ll try to check back tonight (about 7 hours from now) while she’s visiting her friend. I think that you have to register at LGF to make comments but I’m totally game.
SAD> almost as sad as UKKO taking half a year of from giving it to the munchwagons!
Gregor Samsa said,
March 21, 2006 at 8:31
The worst part about that comment is that I don’t think we ever did that trip because of car troubles. Truly lame. I wish that I was a war hero like you guys. Sigh. *secretly relieved*
I wonder if we could take this thread to 1000?! Would that break haloscan?
Gregor Samsa said,
March 21, 2006 at 8:40
OK I found both “secret” threads. I would never have found the not-so-secret thread if I hadn’t bookmarked it. I thought that I deleted the bookmark a while back due to the sheer ridiculousness of having a bookmark named “SecretThread2.”
almostinfamous said,
March 21, 2006 at 8:46
damnit!
it;s always something with you cliquers!
i’m going back to FW to play with myself!
Pinko Punko said,
March 21, 2006 at 9:47
aif, you should really read the whole thread.
Pinko Punko said,
March 21, 2006 at 11:07
hahahah
it was joooly meat day or thereabouts and king of all pimps.
almostinfamous said,
March 21, 2006 at 14:25
man. i can’t believe i spent 45 minutes reading that.
that was hilarious.!@$1
PS: one secret thread down, one more to go. waiting for PP to drop some more hints…
Gregor Samsa said,
March 21, 2006 at 16:35
Think of Malkin Watch’s nickname.
Gregor Samsa said,
March 21, 2006 at 16:48
And then think royal.
Pinko Punko said,
March 21, 2006 at 17:52
Are you being sarcastic, aif? First of all it is funny even when somebody announces the comment number.
GLADIOLAZ!!! gets me every time.
Yosef said,
March 21, 2006 at 20:14
Think of Malkin Watch’s nickname.
Poopie?
I lost track of the other secret threads so long ago. Although, I think the first one is referenced somewhere in this thread.
Jock Johnson said,
March 21, 2006 at 23:50
“i’m going back to FW to play with myself!” –aif
I would offer to play with you too, but I lack the coordination to play with objects so small.
Gregor Samsa said,
March 22, 2006 at 4:22
Oh Jeebus! Not JOCKSTRAP JOHNSON!!!!!
Gregor Samsa said,
March 22, 2006 at 18:32
493 panzees!
Pinko Punko said,
March 23, 2006 at 8:42
Seriously. Ukko=Tapio=?
AND WHO WAS THE TUBER?
I will reserve 500 for Ukko to reveal his secret identity (but not his secret secret identity)
Major Shortssniffer said,
March 23, 2006 at 15:30
494 biznatches!!!!
Yosef said,
March 23, 2006 at 15:31
Shortssniffer you dumbass. You had post 495. Well I gots me 496!
Jock Johnson said,
March 24, 2006 at 1:32
Well, I can tell you I was married to Akka until I changed identity and married Mielikki.
Gregor Samsa said,
March 24, 2006 at 6:50
Dan Someone = Tubesock
Chester =??!?!
Capt. Trollypants said,
March 24, 2006 at 10:04
I salute the Rear ADmiral!!!! With my FIST!!!
I DON’T KNWO WHAT THAT MEANS
Yosef said,
March 24, 2006 at 16:34
I’m still not convinced that Chester was really on the side of the Good.
Gregor Samsa said,
March 24, 2006 at 17:28
Um Yosef, you’re no. 500!
Re: Chester I agree.
Yosef said,
March 24, 2006 at 20:06
500?! Me?! How many corndogs do I get with that?
Gregor Samsa said,
March 24, 2006 at 23:10
Sweet, delish, cordogs! So corny. So doggy. Sigh.
Marq said,
March 25, 2006 at 10:54
Hey! Fucking hey!! Cripes, I keep this goddamned thread barely breathing, on life support, for months, and then you loaves come in here and start making fag jokes! Keee-fucking-ripes!
Oh, hi, Ukko! Now we just have to track down “wha?”.
Pinko Punko said,
March 26, 2006 at 11:26
Marq- where were you when I made the “OH MY GOD!!!!!! THEY MADE MARQ GAY!!!!!!” joke?
Chester was supposedly a UC Riverside student that got a computer animation job at Universal or Dreamworks and maybe was super conserv. but had an islamic wife I think. His behavior was odd, I will agree. I communicated with him via his real name, and I think he was being truthful, but was also a true believer of some sort. Intense to say the least.
Pinko Punko said,
March 27, 2006 at 9:03
Whew, none of the Atrionis have clicked this far.
Jock Johnson said,
March 27, 2006 at 13:59
Hey guys–do you feel as if someone just turned on the lights?
megisi said,
March 27, 2006 at 14:00
My second cousin knows this guy who fixes cars and he said the ‘ at the end of her name is like a contraction and that her full name is “Marie Jontanamo Bay.”
Honest.
Pinko Punko said,
March 28, 2006 at 8:36
I am in love with the intruder.
John Protevi said,
March 28, 2006 at 15:46
Check out The Corndog Man, a great flick.
Yosef said,
March 28, 2006 at 15:47
re: ches
I was just reading the sacred thread here from when chaz linked when the infiltration got busted. That’s when ches first showed up, and he seemed way too excited and was using some odd phrases to tell us how excited he was.
Yosef said,
March 30, 2006 at 22:25
Is GuinessGuy here?
Gregor Samsa said,
April 4, 2006 at 3:13
GG was over at 3B! today.
Ukko?!
Jock Johnson said,
April 7, 2006 at 4:01
Yeah?
Been busy teaching. In fact, I’m dreaming I’m teaching when I sleep. Too much teaching and grading will drive one crazy.
So I hear CHESTer was sporting a pearl necklace?
Gregor Samsa said,
April 11, 2006 at 6:47
Are you teaching as a TA in college or did they somehow let you through the background check to teach children??!! Either way it’s pretty cool.
You should come over to 3Bulls! (Pinko’s site) and comment. You’d be a hit there. Don’t be shy!
Gregor Samsa said,
April 13, 2006 at 8:23
la dee dah
Jock Johnson said,
April 15, 2006 at 1:52
dee dah, dee dah
Gregor Samsa said,
April 16, 2006 at 0:29
Neener neener?
Jock Johnson said,
April 16, 2006 at 3:07
Peener peener!
Pinko Punko said,
April 16, 2006 at 17:13
With a stinky weiner!
Marq said,
April 16, 2006 at 20:32
Cripes! The Gary Ruppert/annieangel thread is actually threatening the long-standing record held by this thread! Why aren’t you guys talking about pot, or something else guaranteed to generate 50 comments or so? For gawd’s sakes, start a flame war with your troll selves or something! Or, if you did a post at 3B about this poor, beleaguered thread, we’d, possibly, obtain 3-7 more commenters. Gary Ruppert/annieangel must not be victorious!!
Marq said,
April 16, 2006 at 20:34
Of course, I haven’t helped out much by posting like 20 comments on the Gary Ruppert/annieangel thread. I’ve pronanly posted several more on that one than this one. Oops.
Jock Johnson said,
April 16, 2006 at 22:47
Well, all you pansy-faced liberals–have any of you seen Annapolis? That movie’ll show you what a real man is. None of this touchy feely garbage. You make me sick: why for one fucking minute can’t you stop trashing the war and just show our troops a little respect? Sirs, at long last, have you left no decency?
That movie shows a real man-Huard-and the womb that bore him. His mother bore him at the cost of her own life. If you don’t want to take that risk, squeeze closed your window.
Pinko Punko said,
April 17, 2006 at 0:06
All your corndogs are mine.
We got a huge lead. Those hosers got nothing, plus they’ll eventually get the munchies and come here for corndogs.
Marq said,
April 17, 2006 at 1:36
I never show troops any respect. In fact, I have been known to make them salute me*!
*Think about it carefully, ladies–it’s a cheap, squalid fag joke. Now I bettah hope no one tells teh l4m3 where this thread is.
[looks upthread a bit]
Gaah! I’m probably D00M3D!
“pronanly”!!!11!1!
Marq said,
April 17, 2006 at 1:57
Besides, Pinko et all, do not be so proud of this technological terror you’ve created. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Farce*. And this thread is only ’bout 80 comments ahead at this juncture… um, before I posted the last 3. But, between this morning and now, the other one has gone from 419 to 446 comments, and while I admit its pace is slowing, it IS Easter Sunday, so annie’s probably squeezing orange juice like a dervish or some such, and it might pick up again tomorrow. Unless everybody, and especially the doobie boiz, buys a crapload of half-price chocolate, jelly beans, Peeps and the like, and go into a sugar coma for a few days, it might pick up again. It’s gonna be a couple o’ weeks before it scrolls off the main page, so remain vigilant!
*aka the Garyn’ annie showâ„¢.
Marq said,
April 17, 2006 at 2:00
Myself, I bought a bunch of half-price commas from Kaye Grogan.
Marq said,
April 17, 2006 at 2:06
Plus the two “pick up again”s. They weren’t as cheap as the commas. And Kaye didn’t have any, so I had to look around for some all afternoon.
Jock Johnson said,
April 17, 2006 at 2:51
Farq you Marq! I’m sensitive to gay jokes!!! You can’t tell any jokes around me, EVAR! PC (Ann Bartow)
Jock Johnson said,
April 17, 2006 at 2:53
So, Marq, did you hear the one about the British smoker who liked corndogs?
Works for Anie said,
April 17, 2006 at 3:06
I work for Anie;
So I am really getting a kick out of most of these replies. Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know what you are talking about.
But trust me…. You don’t.
I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you don’t know what you are talking about.
This is how bad info gets passed around.
If you dont know about the topic….Dont make yourself sound like you do.
Cos some liberals believe anything they hear.
Jock Johnson said,
April 17, 2006 at 3:38
Crap… Annie sounds like the flip side of someone we were discussing earlier. Could it be? Annieangel=Ann Bartow?
Jock Johnson said,
April 17, 2006 at 5:14
This is interesting: http://missannieangel.blogspot.com/2006/04/plagiarizing-asshole.html
Suddenly, Annie sounds a whole lot hotter than Marie. Annie doesn’t plagiarize, but she DOES use the NEW YORK LAW FIRM. Ooh, yeah!
Pinko Punko said,
April 17, 2006 at 6:02
Hate to tell ya but I KNOW I have seen that “How To Be a Christian Wife” thing before- but without the over the top OJ whore business. I think it is funny how annie is super mysterious, but somehow we’re not allowed to speculate when there is something obvious going on. Maybe you should just tell us how to act and what to say! We don’t think we’re smart, but we know when someone is being a cobag! Now buy the next round of corndogs, interloper!
Yosef said,
April 17, 2006 at 17:48
Hey, Marq, thanks for dissing me when talking about this thread. Cobag.
So, who is annieangel. Didn’t Brad or Gav say something last week about a new “Stanton Carlisle-esque” plot? And not all of AA’s comments really seem to flow together, but she never complained about someone stealing her handle to post under her name. So I think that AA is more than one person.
Somehow, I believe Pete M. is involved.
Yosef said,
April 17, 2006 at 17:49
BTW, thanks, whoever got the corndogs. They are delish.
Pinko Punko said,
April 17, 2006 at 20:31
I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you don’t know what you are talking about.
This is how bad info gets passed around.
I think this is someone telling us not to spoil the joke.
Anyhoo, if they don’t want us to spoil it, they best let us in on it!
Also, while these corndogs ARE delish, I think that THYCWOTI is working against the interests of the long thread. Our lead is down to 40 somethign!
Pinko Punko said,
April 17, 2006 at 20:33
The thing to do is watcht he Sad,No sitemeter right about the time that Annie comments.
If I only had access to the Sad, No haloscan account! I could nail her! Er, you know what I mean.
Pinko Punko said,
April 17, 2006 at 20:37
She’s a genius. She is gunning for the long thread. She must be someone we know. I say Ukko is annie
Marq said,
April 17, 2006 at 21:09
Or wha?
Well, Jeeze, Yosef, it’s easy to forget you, living up north of the arctic circle in South Carolina the way you do, sheesh. If ya want to be noticed, you should move to more Southerly climes, like Manitoba.
Marq said,
April 17, 2006 at 21:17
The latest score:
The Long Threadâ„¢-541
The Gary.annie thread=515, and rising quickly.
looks like the challenger is gonna best the champion, eventually. Rats. We’ll have to re-christen this thread as “The Second-Longest Threadâ„¢.”
Yosef, BTW, continues to post in the annie thread. Traitor.
Pinko Punko said,
April 17, 2006 at 21:17
Also, notice the genius of aa, using reverse psychology about “killing” the other thread? We don’t have a chance. I screwed up not checking my referred logs when she checked out 3B. She was careful enough not to leave a comment. Curses! She is too good for us!
Desperate times call for desperate actions.
Pinko Punko said,
April 17, 2006 at 21:18
Aaabel, John 555-1234 Chndrmffnvlle
Pinko Punko said,
April 17, 2006 at 21:19
Aager, Sheila, MD 623-9142, 1716 Cobag Ln, Mnchwgn
Pinko Punko said,
April 17, 2006 at 21:19
TIme to post the phone book!
Yosef said,
April 17, 2006 at 21:21
Chill out guys, I was just seeing if there were any corndogs for post# 500 on that thread. There weren’t.
Annie wants to know about the clubhouse. I told her I would have to get authorization to let her know where it was. What do you think?
Yosef said,
April 17, 2006 at 21:22
TIme to post the phone book!
Shipping would cost too much! (bah-dum-bump!)
Yosef said,
April 17, 2006 at 21:24
annie has found us, I believe!
Yosef said,
April 17, 2006 at 21:27
549 biznatches!!!
Is AA actually VV?
celticgirl said,
April 17, 2006 at 21:31
Hey, thought I’d stop by and help the thread out a bit. I’d hate to see *her* win, just ‘cuz it would chap the hell out of my ass.
celticgirl said,
April 17, 2006 at 21:34
Oh, and BTW – when this post was originally done there was a comment way back at the beginning that speculated that Marie had stopped by, or that it might have been me.
I can tell you with certaintly it wasn’t me, because that was the day my family and I flew into Glasgow when we moved over here. I didn’t have access to teh interwebs for about a week, and even when I did get online it was at the local library in Dumfries.
So, it probably was Marie.
Yosef said,
April 17, 2006 at 21:35
Hmm… awfully convenient for you to happen across the thread, cg. And the asterisks around “her” are kind of a give away, don’t you think?
Yosef said,
April 17, 2006 at 21:37
So you aren’t Marie, but…
celticgirl said,
April 17, 2006 at 21:41
Yosef, stop being a cobag, and please don’t confuse me with the Jesus freak. One thing I don’t do is hijack threads. I just happend across this a couple of weeks ago and thought it was amusing that it had kept going for so long.
How does that go again in Saami? “?itisi nai poroja”
Yosef said,
April 17, 2006 at 21:43
Alright, sorry, cg. I’m just trying to guess who AA is before she comes clean.
celticgirl said,
April 17, 2006 at 21:47
I tried to warn y’all about her when she first showed up. I was there on JG when she did her freak out thing, and I mean she totally freaked. I’m surprised her boyfriend hasn’t showed up yet (or, as some speculated on JG, her alter-ego).
I can’t get into a back and forth with her because she makes my blood boil, with all that ‘you’re going to burn in hell’ stuff. One of the reasons I left the U.S. was because of people like her.
celticgirl said,
April 17, 2006 at 21:53
It seems to me when J.C. Christian banned her he said her location was Ontario, Texas. I didn’t bother to check it out, but I remember there being some confusion that she might be Canadian (as you’ve seen from her comments, she has some rather stong feelings about Canada). That’s about all I know. I tried to go back and find it in the JG archive, but couldn’t. If I come across it I’ll post a link for you.
Yosef said,
April 17, 2006 at 22:01
so she’s real?
BTW, now Major Modern General is trying to out post this thread.
Pinko Punko said,
April 17, 2006 at 22:01
cg, she’s just getting your goat. I KNOW she is one of us. Look at the way she throws cobag around.
She is also a super genius and it is KILLING me.
Jillian said,
April 17, 2006 at 22:01
I’m planning on leaving the U.S. right behind you, cg…and for pretty much the same reasons.
This is not a good time to be an American if you’re gay or have a uterus.
And the saddest thing is that this descriptor covers the majority of Americans, too.
How’d you end up in Scotland, if you don’t mind my asking?
Yosef said,
April 17, 2006 at 22:02
I was looking at the site meter and I did see some stuff that said Ontario, but it either said Canada, or I just assumed it was and glanced over that. I’ll check.
Pinko Punko said,
April 17, 2006 at 22:02
Also, Capt. Trollypants just blew up the other thread by reposting the entire thing, twice. No one will be able to figure out what is what.
That is how you troll.
Yosef said,
April 17, 2006 at 22:05
PP, she wants a linky here. Do we dare? Maybe we should send her to the not so secret thread first like with Chesterooni.
Yosef said,
April 17, 2006 at 22:06
That is how you troll.
Yeah but MMG keeps posting after you. Plus, I don’t know how the S,N! crew feels about that, since we aren’t hot like MJ.
Pinko Punko said,
April 17, 2006 at 22:08
She already found it- she just commented about a secret thread comment, where I called he a genius! She is everywhere!
MMG! Curses.
Pinko Punko said,
April 17, 2006 at 22:12
Oh crap, Capt. T. just posted an Atrios comment thread. That is like nuclear war.
Gregor Samsa said,
April 17, 2006 at 22:13
Foiled again! That thread will die this one shall linger in infamy! Eat it COACHWHIPS!!
Yosef said,
April 17, 2006 at 22:17
She foudn the not-so-secret thread? That means she found either this thread or the secret one!
Gregor Samsa said,
April 17, 2006 at 22:23
No I think PP means she found the long thread not the secret thread!
Gregor Samsa said,
April 17, 2006 at 22:24
If one were to eat it and no one was there to witness it would the degradation be constant? Pinkopunkians 43:12
Yosef said,
April 17, 2006 at 22:27
571? I lost count.
COBAGZZZ!!!11!!
celticgirl said,
April 17, 2006 at 22:28
Jillian: I met my second husband in the states. He was born in London and lived for many years in Cornwall. When we decided it was time to bail, he posted for teaching jobs here in the UK, and we weren’t picky about where we would go. Anyway, he was offered a job in Carlisle, and we decided it would be much nicer to live in Scotland – and it was within commuting distance for his job.
Anyway, people seem to be much more laid back about things here. It’s not perfect, but I’m not sorry I left. I only wish I could get my daughter over here (she’s in college in Oregon).
Gregor Samsa said,
April 17, 2006 at 22:30
WOW! CG and Jillian. Noticeable less boy stink in here now.
Marq said,
April 17, 2006 at 22:31
Man, the threads are practically neck-and-neck, with the annie thread in the 545-ish range, and this one at about 568. Damn that Modern Major General! A traitor I call him. I’m actually surprised that more people don’t know where this thread is, since Gavin (I think) linked to it a few weeks ago. Damn, damn, damn. I’d stay and help keep this thread ahead, but I, unfortunately, have an unpleasant medical appointment coming up within the next hour. Fight the good fight!
celticgirl said,
April 17, 2006 at 22:33
Gregor: I’ve been meaning to talk to you boys about that…
Gregor Samsa said,
April 17, 2006 at 22:34
It smells like fresh roses and orange peel and puppies and ham! Sigh!
Gregor Samsa said,
April 17, 2006 at 22:35
After the better part of a year of posting in this thread I finally bookmarked it. Imagine how many more comments I could have made without wasting all that time searching for it?
Yosef said,
April 17, 2006 at 22:37
Good luck with your medical appt, Marq! I’ve got one tomorrow!
Yosef said,
April 17, 2006 at 22:38
After the better part of a year of posting in this thread I finally bookmarked it. Imagine how many more comments I could have made without wasting all that time searching for it?
Especially if you c&p’d a lot? hee.
Yosef said,
April 17, 2006 at 22:42
PP, which thread did you call her a genius on?
celticgirl said,
April 17, 2006 at 22:45
Genius? I think she’s a mimic. She’s trying to play nice so she doesn’t get banned again.
And I don’t think hijacking a thread by getting into a “am not” “am so” “did not” “did too” banter is exactly a hallmark of higher intelligence. Sorry, I have to vote her off the island.
Tapio said,
April 17, 2006 at 22:50
Well, folks… sorry about the boy stink. At least this thread isn’t cootie infested.
This thread is long AND long-lasting, unlike that other squicky-quicky thread.
Gregor Samsa said,
April 17, 2006 at 22:51
That was an accident! I meant to post it here!
Gregor Samsa said,
April 17, 2006 at 22:53
Off to the auto parts store.
Yosef said,
April 17, 2006 at 22:53
Well, folks, I’m done for the day (probably). Keep fighting the good fight.
oh yeah, 584!!1!!!
Tapio said,
April 17, 2006 at 22:54
By the way, I don’t know who Annie is, but I can say she’s not me.
Also, vittu is nice and poroja is nice, as long as I’m eating them.
Tapio said,
April 17, 2006 at 22:57
You’re off to the Autoparts store? What for?
How many of you change your own oil? I’ve heard lots of horror stories about inept 20-min Quicky Change places. At the same time, I’ve made mistakes myself changing oil.
Did you know you probably don’t need to change your oil every three thousand miles? Also, most people won’t get a whole lot of benefit from using synthetic oils.
Tapio said,
April 17, 2006 at 23:05
If you do go to the Quickie Change place, be reeeally leeeeery when they try to convince you to buy a lot more stuff like engine flushes and additives.
Topic for discussion: if you live in a city and change your own oil, where do you do it? On your driveway? How do you avoid oil spills?
Jock Johnson said,
April 17, 2006 at 23:11
Hah! Women can’t change their own oil. They should just go to the Quickie Change place and do what the men there tell them to do. How many women can even tell a crankshaft from a crankbait?
Pinko Punko said,
April 17, 2006 at 23:19
I think I called her a genius HERE, didn’t I, which means she’s reading it!!1!!
celticgirl said,
April 17, 2006 at 23:24
PP: I doubt it. She would have commented by now…she can’t help herself.
Pinko Punko said,
April 17, 2006 at 23:32
She is flirting with us. She probably slipped up. She is being careful now.
Pinko Punko said,
April 17, 2006 at 23:34
”
She’s a genius. She is gunning for the long thread. She must be someone we know. I say Ukko is annie
Posted by: Pinko Punko | April 17, 2006 08:37 PM
“AnnieAngel said…
Pinko just called me a genius!
3:19 PM”
Correcting for the SAdly, No german time….I would say NAIL3D!
Ukko said,
April 17, 2006 at 23:37
“I say Ukko is annie”
Actually, taint me. Since when have you heard of a loquacious Finn? :)
I’ll return to the corner to chew on my poroja.
celticgirl said,
April 17, 2006 at 23:40
PP: whatever you may think, she’s not one of us. I saw her little embroglio a few months back, first checked out her web site, the whole thing WAY before she first posted here.
There’s a definite psychosis going on there, but I’ll be damned if I can put my finger on it.
Ukko said,
April 17, 2006 at 23:55
Heh, she doesn’t know how to find the number of comments in this thread.
She reallly does have problems, and to honest, I’m getting a little bored by her. She reminds me of certain of my cousins who could fun in small doses, but got stupid and boring quickly.
Ukko said,
April 17, 2006 at 23:57
Who thinks this thread will make it to teh mark of the beast?
Ukko said,
April 17, 2006 at 23:59
If it makes to the mark of the beast, maybe it’ll become the worst comment of the thread, surpassing comment #101.
Jocko Johnson said,
April 18, 2006 at 0:01
Whose dah biggest stonah heah? Who wants 600 corndogs? You big cornfed lozers!!!
celticgirl said,
April 18, 2006 at 0:09
Ukko: Mark of the beast it is~Let’s go for it!
Maybe that will finally break teh interwebs!
Pinko Punko said,
April 18, 2006 at 0:12
cg, she is totally flirting. She just said she wasn’t flirting on the other thread, but that means she is watching this one, which means she is totally flirting! I love her.
Also, I think she is well constructed. She had us hooked and now she is reeling us in, slowly revealing herself to be deserving of a Golden Onion Wiener.
Vestal Vespa said,
April 18, 2006 at 0:12
Is AA actually VV?
Posted by: Yosef | April 17, 2006 09:27 PM
Oh, God no!
No, a thousand times, no!
My legs are nicer. And I’m not an attention-whoring psychopath.
celticgirl said,
April 18, 2006 at 0:18
PP: yeah, she busted us, but she still can’t figure out how many comments on on this thread.
Be enamored if you want, but I’m thinking it’s more like enabling…
And I still say we vote her off the island. Who’s with me?
Echidne of the snakes said,
April 18, 2006 at 0:20
Since when have you heard of a loquacious Finn? :)
They exist, old man.
Ukko said,
April 18, 2006 at 0:26
Echidne,
Ja, they do exist. They’re all either Karelian or young city-dwellers.
Pinko Punko said,
April 18, 2006 at 0:26
Everybody must be in on this!
Is this the first time in the world that there have been more girls than boys in the long thread?
EotS! Wowzers!
Pinko Punko said,
April 18, 2006 at 0:31
Who’s in Michigan, who’s in Ontario and who’s in San Diego? Where are you my flirtatious frienemy?
Echidne of the snakes said,
April 18, 2006 at 0:39
Echidne,
Ja, they do exist. They’re all either Karelian or young city-dwellers.
Karelians tend to hug you and other cootie-producing stuff. True.
celticgirl said,
April 18, 2006 at 0:39
Ha! Teh grrlz hijacked the stinky boy thread ;)
Jillian said,
April 18, 2006 at 0:45
That’s the way to do it, cg. I’m looking into getting out of here the other way, which is going to take me a couple of years to finish my master’s degree and save up the dough every other country wants to see before they’ll let you in.
The thought of spending the rest of my life surrounded by Jesus-fellating, fetus-worshipping, homo-hating, Randroid-wannabes is slowly starting to give me a twitch. It’s like someone set of a John Bircher atomic bomb somewhere in the heartland, and the wacko atomic reaction has spread outward to engulf the whole damn country.
Hey…what’s that smell down here?
Ukko said,
April 18, 2006 at 0:49
Honestly, the smell down there is something you get used to.
Where would you move? Australia is always just a few years behind the US. Sweden is cool, but sclerotic. Ditto for France and Germany. The weather in the UK isn’t so hot. Canada… ditto.
My idea is to stay in the US, but just move to a sane part of the US.
Pinko Punko said,
April 18, 2006 at 0:55
Like teh land of teh three Bulls!
Pork Snorkel!!!!!!!!
Jillian said,
April 18, 2006 at 0:58
I’m planning on Canada at the moment. The weather may suck, but at least my fellow citizens will have less of a murderous urge to punish me if I decide to have nasty, sluttish sex with a man.
At this point in time, the future status of legal abortion in this country is pretty damn unpredictable, and that’s just sort of unacceptable to me, I’m afraid. You’d be surprised how hard it can be to actually enjoy sex when you’ve got the fear of the massive health and financial consequences from an unintended pregnancy that you can’t terminate hanging over your head.
So, I figure I can have sunny skies and a chastity belt, or shitty weather and a good fuck every now and then.
Which would you pick?
Jillian said,
April 18, 2006 at 1:12
I just realized that sort of makes it sound like the only reason I’m trying to make arrangements to leave is because of the ever burgeoning cult of the fetus here in America.
To be fair, that’s not all of it. Although, being female, it’s not an insignificant part.
celticgirl said,
April 18, 2006 at 1:16
Jillian: I have something you might be interested in…Scotland is trying to attract skilled professionals from all over because of its declining population numbers, so they are actually trying to attract people to come here to live and work. They have a program called the Fresh Talent Scheme/Initiative through the Scottish Executive. Do a Google search for it to find out more information.
I know you live in Florida, so the weather might be a big shock, but I came here from Oregon and in the south of Scotland it’s really not all that different than what I’m used to weather-wise. Anyway, it might be worth looking into…
Jillian said,
April 18, 2006 at 1:26
Ooh…………bless you, your ancestors, and your descendants, my dear! That’s a lovely idea, and I’ll definitely check it out.
I’m here for at least another three years, because I’ve got to get some experience in my new career field first (education) and finish my master’s degree so that I’m more employable elsewhere, but as soon as that’s done, I’m looking to go wherever they’ll take me, as long as it sucks less than here is shaping up to.
I figure that education experience will put me in a desirable immigrant category for just about anywhere I’d want to live.
And the weather would be different, but I’ve lived a lot of different places by now, and I’ve spent a bit of time in Washington state, so I should be good to go. We’ll just have to wait a bit longer, and then see what happens.
Now, while the boys are all playing somewhere else, whaddaya say we redecorate this place? This retro bachelor feel is sooooo five minutes ago…..
Ukko said,
April 18, 2006 at 1:28
“hard it can be to actually enjoy”
You know, it’s true that being in a hostile environment really does weigh a person down. You may not even think much about it until leaving, but it’s a weight to know that pretty much everyone around you would hate your guts if they knew what you really think about many issues.
Ukko said,
April 18, 2006 at 1:31
Waaah, can’t the guys help redecorate? … As long as Marq supervises? … OK, I’ll hold the picture for you to cast an appraising glance.
Jillian said,
April 18, 2006 at 1:42
I think about it more than I probably should, Ukko.
But it’s sort of hard not to when you’re an atheist in the land of the Jesus freaks, when you’re a socialist in the land of the Invisible Hand-jobbers, and when you’re a reader adrift in an ocean of reality TV.
I’m not starry-eyed about the rest of the world; I don’t think I’ll be leaving America for some worker’s paradise elsewhere…but a single payer healthcare system and mandated paid time off from work isn’t too much to expect, is it? A political climate that has an actual left? Because I swear to God, if I hear one more person call John Kerry or Hillary Clinton “communist”, I won’t be accountable for my actions. I’ve made my peace with the fact that there are perhaps twenty two Americans in total who know there is a difference between a “liberal” and a “leftist”, and maybe perhaps sixteen who could tell you anything about what those differences are….but Hillary. Clinton. Is. Not. A. Communist.
I’m too young to be bitter, single, and celibate. And that just seems to be the path I’m heading down of late. Time for a change.
celticgirl said,
April 18, 2006 at 1:43
Ooh, sorry I can’t stay to help, but it’s WAY past my bedtime here in Greenwich Mean Time.
You kids have fun, and don’t make a mess!
Pinko Punko said,
April 18, 2006 at 2:06
SOmebody is serious-ing up the secret thread. Sigh. What can we do to cheer Jillian up?
Capt. Trollypants said,
April 18, 2006 at 2:11
622 GLADIOLAZ!!!!1!
We got them N41l3dZ
Jillian said,
April 18, 2006 at 3:07
Whiskey, Doritos, really bad movies, and a game of Spin the Bottle wouldn’t hurt.
Ukko said,
April 18, 2006 at 3:13
Ditto
Especially when I’m living in the town I grew up in, and the area is dominated by the religion you left. A place where few people understand why someone would be at all progressive, but extreme “piety” is expected.
The health system in the US sure doesn’t seem ideal.
But didn’t you know that any failing of Bush’s can be shoved under the rug by mentioning Clinton’s blow job? (The Clinton with the penis, I mean)
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto
HOLY SHIT! Over there… It’s a progressive female posting to a blog! And her name is Jillian…
hey Jillian, I feel we’ve got something in common here… how about getting a mocha down at the coffee shop?
Lights fade… curtains close… see ya later, folks.
Pinko Punko said,
April 18, 2006 at 3:40
Jillian, what religion did you leave? Where do you live? Not MoMoville, is it?
Gregor Samsa said,
April 18, 2006 at 3:41
That’s why I move to NZ in September (after a couple of months in Paris). 3 Wks off minimum and SP Health Care and GWB might be a teensy bit easier to ignore!
Ukko said,
April 18, 2006 at 3:49
Actually, that should have said, “Especially when I’m living in the town I grew up in, and the area is dominated by the religion _I_ left.”
I don’t know what religion, if any, Jillian left.
Pinko Punko said,
April 18, 2006 at 3:52
Way to be confusing, stealthy Ukko!
Jillian said,
April 18, 2006 at 3:53
PP, I am one of God’s Chosen People. Poisoner of wells, eater of unbaptized babies, personally responsible for Worldwide Communism.
Yep. I’m a Jew.
But the sad part is that despite being raised in the temple, I’ve been an atheist for about as long as I can remember….I’m just not constitutionally cut out to be religious. It makes it even more difficult to relate to life in Jesusland, because I’ve never thought the way they think.
And I’m living in sunny Miami, which is where you should all come next year for spring break. I’ll show you the sights, and the first round’s on me.
Ukko said,
April 18, 2006 at 4:41
“And I’m living in sunny Miami, which is where you should all come next year for spring break. I’ll show you the sights, and the first round’s on me.”
Serious? I live in the land of the ice and snow, and a little Florida sounds good about that time.
Although right now, we riding high. It’s getting into our nice season while you poor Floridians are starting to get too hot during the day.
Jillian said,
April 18, 2006 at 5:18
Damn straight serious.
Y’all are invited. We’ll do sunset cruises off of Key West and piss off the Republican Cuban population with Che Guevara t-shirts.
Besides, I haven’t been to a decent party since before Clinton started sucking as a president.
Pinko Punko said,
April 18, 2006 at 5:43
But we gotta go the Raskal House at least once.
Sun and fun! Run with the Bulls! ’07!
Miami Eff Ell Ay!
Ukko said,
April 18, 2006 at 5:45
So it’s a plan–Spring Break 07 in Miami!1!
Yosef said,
April 18, 2006 at 14:31
Man, Jillian. If you hate it here so much why don’t you just… uh… Dammit! That argument won’t work on you!
Hee, a couple months before you leave, you should start telling everyone around you what you really think about this stuff, and then when they say “Well, why don’t you just leave?” you can say, “I’m outta here next week!”
Then sit back and enjoy the look on their faces!
How’s this thread doing now?
Jillian said,
April 18, 2006 at 16:08
This thread’s still ahead, but it never hurts to keep the thing going….we must not be defeated by faux poseur trolls.
I’ve always wondered if any of the “love it or leave it” types would be willing to put their money where their mouths are…they could start a fund to help disaffected snot nosed liberal punks leave the country.
Here’s a hypothetical question I’m always curious to see people’s take on – how bad would the eliminationist rhetoric from the right have to get before you’d take it seriously enough to want to leave?
(Sooner or later, we’re going to have to stop with all this serious shit in the secret thread and get back to important stuff, like insulting the French and making fun of goofy Randroids.)
Ukko said,
April 18, 2006 at 16:32
How bad would it have to get? Not too much worse, because I’ve already looked at immigration requirements for different countries and often imagine I’d feel more comfortable in a country like Finland, Sweden, or even Australia. It’d be nice not to feel like a green freak for not driving much and for not going to church every week. But there would be some things I wouldn’t like, however. I love the American individualism and dynamism, even if it can be taken too far.
Randroid Frenchies? Oooh, Sabine Herold can insult me! I’ll bask in the attention.
Gregor Samsa said,
April 18, 2006 at 17:13
She’s hot but the Randy thing is like 5 million demerits on the hotness scale.
Pinko Punko said,
April 18, 2006 at 21:09
Essentially it goes to zero, but since the sex is merely a bartering for the satisfaction of wants and needs, wouldn’t it still be OK? I mean, its just two rational, emotionless automatons generating some pleasurable friction, right?
Jillian said,
April 18, 2006 at 21:49
I see you’ve read the sex scenes in The Fountainhead, Pinko Punko.
Hooooo boy, reading about the first time Howard Roark and Dominique Francon got together left me more humid than a Carolina summer, baby!
(Or not. Whichever. Actually, every Ayn Rand sex scene I’ve ever read reads like a rape. That stuff came from a very diseased mind.)
Pinko Punko said,
April 18, 2006 at 22:23
I was just writing about what I thought they would be like. I haven’t suffered through those turds myself.
Jillian said,
April 18, 2006 at 23:37
Well, if you want to get the experience of an Ayn Rand love scene without reading one, here’s how you do it…..
On a night when you’re home by yourself, get a copy of one of her thicker books, preferably in hardcover. Dim the lights, light a few candles, open a really good bottle of wine, put on your favorite music for making time with your lady friends with, slide into a some soft satin pajamas and curl up in a comfortable chair while picking up the Rand novel….
And then proceed to beat yourself furiously in the crotch with it. Over and over and over. Until the thought of even *thinking* about sex again makes you cry.
Ukko said,
April 18, 2006 at 23:53
Jillian,
Thinking about just that _description_ of sex makes me cry. But I guess it takes all types. I was never really a Randroid, although I was curious about her ideas for a few days when I first heard about her. That stage was pretty short lived once I learned more about her. My flirtation with libertarianism was more in tune with the von Mises folks, which is admittedly pretty Randian itself.
annieangel said,
April 19, 2006 at 0:07
What makes you think that another country will be happy with a new population of American ex-pats who more or less ran away from their homeland because they are whining loosers who can’t actually DO anything?
Why inflict your sorry asses on some other country? You’ll just find something to hate about it, too.
Marq said,
April 19, 2006 at 0:18
Well, I hope all you rats deserting this sinking Titanic of a country remember me after they’ve rounded me up and sent me off to the Halliburton “relocation” camps (which noone ever seems to leave from–strange, that). Face it, even if we turn this thing around, we’re royally fucked, if by nothing else, by the $9 trillion deficit we’ll have to pay off.
Marq said,
April 19, 2006 at 0:20
Yoiks, somebody put on the “Wicked Witch” theme, ‘cos she’s here!
Marq said,
April 19, 2006 at 0:23
BTW, the current counts are 646 here vs. 592 there. Huzzah!
Marq said,
April 19, 2006 at 0:26
That was annie. She still doesn’t know how to spell “loser,” which is ironic, really.
Jillian said,
April 19, 2006 at 0:51
Ukko,
Libertarianism is a fascinating phenomenon, because so many people who have absolutely *nothing* in common all use the “libertarian” label.
My first exposure to Libertarian thought was watching the Lib Party in America try to hammer together a political platform on C-SPAN many years ago. The plank they were working on at the time had something to do with “any weapon the government is allowed to own, each individual citizen will also be allowed to own”. Needless to say, that didn’t make much of an impression on me. (Well, it *did*, just not the one I think they were hoping for)
The difference with the von Mises school of thought and the Randroids is that there’s something so creepily cult-of-personality about Ayn Rand devotees.
As much as I admire libertarians for their devotion to individual liberties (except for the crazy libs who don’t seem to have that devotion, like the homophobe libs you run into online a good bit), they never really seem to have a cogent plan for keeping economic inequality from developing into economic exploitation, and their faith in “the market” to be able to fix any problem that appears, no matter how serious (health care, anyone?), would make the Pope himself proud.
To be fair, I’ve known some bright libertarians who recognize and grapple with this problem, and they almost always impress the hell out of me.
But Randroids are simply too much fun to mock for me to be able to resist…the temptation is just too great. I was originally working on a philosophy degree, and that used to provide me with the best snark opportunity ever, because followers of Ayn Rand are convinced she is the GREATEST PHILOSOPHER EVAR!!!!! Except there aren’t any American universities with decent philosophy programs that actually teach “Objectivism” as a philosophy like they’d teach “Existentialism”. “Rand” is not taught like “Aristotle”.
I’ve found they get really mad when you point that out to them. Not that I’d ever be mean enough to do that just to piss them off.
Jillian said,
April 19, 2006 at 1:11
Marq – come with us! I’m already thinking about marrying at least one of my gay friends to get him on my visa out of the country, so you can be husband #2 if you like. The goal is to get us to a place where we can marry whomever we’d like, gay or straight.
And annie and her friends can keep this place, with its red-sash’d Juinor Anti-Sex League,lack of birth control, lack of health care, and lack of all but the barest restraints upon corporate busines practices – I hope they’re very happy. I am going to take my very valuable set of job skills, high level of education and intelligence, and general bootylicious love of a good time to a country where they’ll pay me what I’m worth and I don’t have to worry about the Sex Police knocking on my door any time I want to have a personal life.
You know, it’s a scary day when a socialist believes more strongly in privacy and individual freedom than a “good American” does.
Marq said,
April 19, 2006 at 1:24
Plus, they probably don’t have anything like this going on in Scotland, ‘cos that’s mad creepy. I am, for a number of horribly unfortunate reasons, stuck here in Christofascist land, so I’ll probably get to be on the Tee Vee when our nutjob overlords introduce the popular “Lets Stone A Eag!” show, hosted by Phred Felps. Oh, well. At least stoning isn’t as painful as being burnt at the stake.
Jillian said,
April 19, 2006 at 1:40
Now my dream of having two husbands will NEVER come true!!!
Gavin M. said,
April 19, 2006 at 1:51
Marq, you’re such a eag.
Ukko said,
April 19, 2006 at 2:58
That link of yours Marq… I’m not feeling well right now. And for lots of reasons.
Jillian, I agree with you. To me, libertarianism is great theoretically but breaks down whenever it gets close practical application. I still like the idea of do whatever you want as long as it hurts no one else, but I also realize that we live in a society. Part of living in a society is caring for those unable to care for themselves, such as children, the elderly, the sick, and the destitute.
Ukko said,
April 19, 2006 at 3:02
About Marq’s link again: the whole idea of no sex before marriage actually does work for a very small subset of the population, I think. This subset consists of extremely religious groups that maintain close supervision of their children while keeping open lines of communication. Not _everyone_ has sex before marriage.
Jillian said,
April 19, 2006 at 3:13
Here’s how I think of it, Ukko….I’d be willing to bet that just about every odious belief that is held by Pat Robertson when it comes to religion is probably also held by any random Amish guy. I’ll bet the Amish don’t like the homos, or the feminazis, or the Muslamonazis any more than Robertson does. They hate nonmarital sex and contraception and abortion and all the same things he does. But nobody hates the Amish, and plenty of people hate Pat Robertson.
The difference is that the Amish don’t expect anybody else to be Amish. The only thing I’ve ever had an Amish person say to me is “would you like to buy some pickled garlic?” But I’ve had the religious fascists tell me I’m a pervert, that I’m going to burn in hell, and pass all sorts of laws telling me what I can and cannot do with my body.
I don’t have anything in general principle against people who are virigins when they get married, or against Christians. I just wish they’d respect my right to live my life in disagreement with them
Pinko Punko said,
April 19, 2006 at 3:21
annie just posted in the long thread. have we come full circle? I think I have gotten the vapors. maybe when Gavin admits he’s annieangel.
J’ACCUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ukko said,
April 19, 2006 at 3:28
Yeah, I understand where you’re coming from, Jillian. If people choose to remain virgins until marriage, that’s fine. It’s irresponsible, however, for parents and society not to teach kids how to be safe.
As far as the Amish and pre-marital sex, search for “bed courtship” or bundling sometime. Here’s one example (5th and 6th paragraphs):
http://www.amishabuse.com/chapter4pg1.htm
Jillian said,
April 19, 2006 at 3:32
If only Bill Clinton had been Amish….
annieangel said,
April 19, 2006 at 3:45
Who’s Gavin?
Ukko said,
April 19, 2006 at 3:48
Suksi vittuun! You don’t know who Gavin is? You are dense.
annieangel said,
April 19, 2006 at 3:58
Don’t put strange voodoo curses on me!!
I should know who Gavin is, or I’m dense? Is he famous or something? Has he been on the West Wing?
Ukko said,
April 19, 2006 at 4:09
Heh, the legends of Saami magic never grow old.
Hint for Gavin’s identity: you’re roaming his hallowed halls.
annieangel said,
April 19, 2006 at 4:10
So he’s some kind of Pope?
Marq said,
April 19, 2006 at 4:49
“eag”?!? Huh?
European Association for Geochemistry? Naah.
Extended Affix Grammar? Hmm. Can’t be.
Enterprise Automation Group? Not even warm, I fear.
European Aeronautical Group? No, no, no.
Environmental Advisory Group? Well, that’d be closer to something I’d be suited for, but I have no requisite degrees and such.
Education at a Glance? No, I…
Hey, wait! it’s a typo! Grr! Love you too, byach!
Marq said,
April 19, 2006 at 4:56
Ukko, regarding pre-marital sexual activity, I never said that I thought everyone did it. It’s right for some people, and not for others, including some who engage in it. But when you get 7-year-old girls reciting this to their fathers:
… it just creeps the hell out of me, in that the little girl probably isn’t really thinking about sex at that age. I think it’s inappropriate.
Pinko Punko said,
April 19, 2006 at 4:56
I’ll take that as a yes.
Pinko Punko said,
April 19, 2006 at 4:57
Yeah, don’t get me started on that “my daddy controls my box o’ fun” stuff. grosss.
Marq said,
April 19, 2006 at 4:58
Damn you, Pinko–you just took post #666! U’d be more jealous if that were the actual number of the beast.
Marq said,
April 19, 2006 at 5:00
It was the “I’ll take that as a yes.” one. You also got the much less coveted post #667.
Marq said,
April 19, 2006 at 5:02
Hmm, it also occurs to me that I got post #669. Mmmm, 69….
Ukko said,
April 19, 2006 at 5:02
Yeah, I agree with you Marq. The pictures and descriptions creeped me out majorly as well. My comment came from reading comments on that thread over there where some people seemed to imply that the abstinence and “security through obscurity” method wouldn’t work for anyone. While it won’t work for the vast majority of people, I’m not convinced it can’t work for a special subset of the population in communities with some uncommon characteristics.
Jillian said,
April 19, 2006 at 5:04
That website is going to really help the Amish stay chaste before marriage.
Oh, wait…..
(Don’t hate me; I couldn’t resist!)
Ukko said,
April 19, 2006 at 5:05
“I’ll take that as a yes.”
Hey Pinko, who are you talking to? Are you hearing ominous voices? Don’t sell your soul, ok? ok? Pinkoooh!!!
Pinko Punko said,
April 19, 2006 at 5:28
WOOOHOOOO! 666 SUXX0rZ!!!!!!!1!!121@13
I was taking annie a’s response as a yes to my j’accuse of annie a being Gavmo.
What I want to know is why 8 months of skullduggery to let the cat out of the bag? Mum’s the word though. What happens in the long thread stays in the long thread. On the internet.
Marq said,
April 19, 2006 at 5:47
Hmm, you know, the pretender thread has slowed a lot, and this, official Long Threadâ„¢ has pulled way ahead. With a little nudging on our parts, it’ll be 100 posts ahead of the other one (it’s currently at 593). We’re less than 20 away from that.
What happened to all the grrlz? I think the only one left is Jillian–though, Jillian, you’re one terrific grrl, so it’s not an utter disaster. BTW, I’m not redecorating squat, ‘cos the place I live looks like a bomb hit it. Maybe two bombs. You’ll thank me later.
Ukko said,
April 19, 2006 at 5:52
Darn… so you’re trying to tell me not all gay men are born with wizardlike skill when it comes to interior decorating? Zap-down goes another stereotype. The only one I have left is that Finns can swear better than anybody else.
Marq said,
April 19, 2006 at 5:52
But, would Gav have gotten his alter-ego banned from Jesus’ General and put up a fake wingnut blog? That’s a lot of effort to go to. I’ve never really seen Gav post on other blogs, whereas I have seen Brad at various places not called Sadly, No! or World O’ Crap. Wait, strike that–I believe I’ve seen Gav materialize at 3B. Unless that was Pinko funnin’ around….
Marq said,
April 19, 2006 at 5:58
Well, there’s a certain truth to that stereotype, and I probably could decorate competently, if I was given money to do it with, and more importantly, if I wasn’t astonishingly lazy. The fact that the first part of that doesn’t apply to the interwebs only reinforces the second point.
Gavin M. said,
April 19, 2006 at 6:12
maybe when Gavin admits he’s annieangel.
J’ACCUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh man. One million, billion times no!
I don’t know how she got here either. It’s very suspicious. Hm, wait a second…
Nope, it’s really her — if she’s really a ‘her.’
annieangel said,
April 19, 2006 at 7:08
Oh wow, Gavin starts the gender smack.
On that note, adios.
celticgirl said,
April 19, 2006 at 8:28
Marq: you’re right, I haven’t come across anything that creepy in Scotland, but there are still a lot of people who are tripped out on that extreme Protestant form of xtianity here. And sectarianism still is a big issue.
But, at the same time, Scotland was where the second UK same-sex partnership ceremony was celebrated (I think the first was actually in N. Ireland).
And there is a large and healthy pagan population here in the UK, which is very nice.
But you know what, I don’t recall Tony Blair saying anything about a pre-emptive nuke strike on Iran. I have no love for Blair, but I do think he was probably either duped or strong-armed into the whole Iraq debacle.
Capt. Trollypants said,
April 19, 2006 at 9:14
Yeah it is pretty clear someone as cool as “annie” could only be a dude.
Jillian said,
April 19, 2006 at 13:49
Awww, thanks, Marq! Now I’m even more sorry that you won’t be my second husband.
Sorry about falling down on my posting duties around here. I turned in early last night – if I don’t get something approximating a full night’s sleep at least once in a while, I get puffy eyes.
cg, I think Tony Blair’s main problem in politics is that he has a speech impediment.
It’s hard for anyone to understand what your actual position on an issue is when you are always trying to talk around Bush’s dick in your mouth.
Once he gets some therapy to help him overcome that, he’ll be almost tolerable.
Jillian said,
April 19, 2006 at 14:51
Oh, and if you have a uterus – or if anyone you like has a uterus – here’s another reason to think about getting the fuck out of Dodge before too much longer.
How the hell do you criminalize the free movement of adult Americans across state lines? What’s next? Prisoner-style ankle bracelets for women? Radio frequency trackers implanted in our skin? Serial number tattoos?
I know that this particular law can’t possibly pass (at least, not yet), but the fact remains that America has a tendency to elect people to government who are very confused about the difference between people and property. Sooner or later, this confusion is going to result in some bad, bad things happening.
celticgirl said,
April 19, 2006 at 14:55
Jillian: “The Handmaid’s Tale”, coming soon to a state near you…
And what’s next? Those who have had abortions will be tracked down and prosecuted to the full extent of the law? WTF?
Jillian said,
April 19, 2006 at 15:04
How did *their* uterus end up in *my* pelvic cavity, anyway?
Yosef said,
April 19, 2006 at 15:26
Damn! Not Gavin either! Maybe Seb?
celticgirl said,
April 19, 2006 at 15:32
Not only that, but soon they’re going to be telling you that you can’t have any birth control either.
Then what?
This is why I’m trying to get my daughter outta there too. She keeps saying “It’ll never happen here” (i.e. Oregon), but that state is full-up with extremist fundy wingers outside of Portland and Eugene. They’ve already thrown the vote on things like same-sex marriage.
celticgirl said,
April 19, 2006 at 15:34
Yeah, what about Seb, anyway? He’s waaaaaaay too mysterious.
annieangel said,
April 19, 2006 at 16:02
Ok, I can’t pull this off much longer….I’m really celticgirl.
I decided to create an entire identity a few years ago just to screw with you all. I bided my time, waiting for just the right moment to let you know my true identity.
Now you know. I’m really just a great big looser.
Sorry.
Oh, I’m also Gavin and Seb.
Jillian said,
April 19, 2006 at 16:04
Not only that, but soon they’re going to be telling you that you can’t have any birth control either.
Then what?
Why, then American women will be returned to function for which God originally intended them – helpmeet to their lord husbands and baby factory.
But remember, they’re better than the Taliban, because they don’t make their women cover their hair!
Oh, wait…
celticgirl said,
April 19, 2006 at 16:05
If that’s true annie, how do you explain the different IP addresses? Can you really be in Texas and Scotland at the same time?
Sadly, No.
celticgirl said,
April 19, 2006 at 16:08
Hey, how come nobody’s made the Brad-annie connection?
By Neddie Jingo, I think I’ve cracked it!
annieangel said,
April 19, 2006 at 16:18
Sorry, it takes me a while to break character….obviously I’ve been using a proxy.
I’m also Brad.
Jillian said,
April 19, 2006 at 16:32
Brad has nicer legs.
celticgirl said,
April 19, 2006 at 16:37
annie, there’s a name for that: Personality Disorder.
Fortunately, there’s help; but first you have to admit there’s a problem.
annieangel said,
April 19, 2006 at 16:53
I’m not the one with the problem, I’m your creation, Brad, Gavin, Seb and celticgirl….
I think it’s obvious Jillian is the one with the personality disorder, as we are all just her puppets. But then again, she’s really Ukko, so yeah.
Someone has a really fucked up mind.
Jillian said,
April 19, 2006 at 16:58
I have nicer legs, as well.
annieangel said,
April 19, 2006 at 17:04
Someone has a fascination with my legs, Jillian.
Yosef said,
April 19, 2006 at 18:07
I still believe there are only 10 people who blog on teh internets. I’ve figured out that Atrios and Misha are the same person, but it’s still a guessing game for the rest.
Jillian said,
April 19, 2006 at 19:25
So, which one are you, Yosef?
Marq said,
April 19, 2006 at 20:24
Oh, ick! What is it with these Jeebus-freaks and pink?!? OK, nobody answer, “They’re girlz, dum-dum.” And that goes especially for annie. It just makes them creepier, as far as I’m concerned. I don’t know what it is with these people and their control issues?-it’s very odd. I myself have no desire to control other people, and what they do, except when they’re trying to legislate what I can and cannot do. I really don’t like crap like that.
Marq said,
April 19, 2006 at 20:26
My signature move is screwing-up tags beyond all recognition, Drat.
Yosef said,
April 19, 2006 at 22:20
I’m the 10th one. The only person who’s only one person on teh internets.
Capt. Trollypants said,
April 19, 2006 at 22:50
What about THYCWOTI, chumpwagon?
Also, annie a’s rocking my world right now*.
*If not my body.
annieangel said,
April 19, 2006 at 23:36
I hate you, Captain Trollypants. I truly hate you.
Capt. Trollypants said,
April 19, 2006 at 23:42
Self-edited sexist terrible comment filled with lust.
Pinko Punko said,
April 19, 2006 at 23:44
What’s wrong, Cap’n T? Someone told you to “Eat it COBAG?”
Well, I second the motion. Don’t come knockign if the Long Threadâ„¢ is rocking, OK, trollmunch?
I’m sorry aa, allow me to place my coat across the muddy puddle that is CT for you, so you don’t have to besplash those gams with filth.
annieangel said,
April 19, 2006 at 23:47
I’m not sure I like you very much either, pinko.
Pinko Punko said,
April 20, 2006 at 1:02
But do you really know me? Have you taken time to get to know me? All we do is banter and tease all day, but there is no knowing. Just “David!” “Maddie!” “David!” “Maddie!” Have you ever thought about the fact that Miss Depesto has feelings too?
I’m not sure you’ve thought it about it that way.
It gives one pause, I think.
Jillian said,
April 20, 2006 at 1:04
What did you guys do with Ukko and Marq? And celticgirl, for that matter?
Ukko said,
April 20, 2006 at 1:32
Some of us students go to school, Jillian ;)
AA appears to be bipolar–brimming with energy and love one moment, followed by hate and ennui the next.
annieangel said,
April 20, 2006 at 1:38
HA! You’re a bunch of TEENAGERS!
BOOGABOOGA!! Hehehe!
Jillian said,
April 20, 2006 at 1:43
School is awesome! I just graduated, and can’t wait to start up again.
What are you studying?
Ukko said,
April 20, 2006 at 1:53
Engineering.
Jillian said,
April 20, 2006 at 2:19
I went out dancing with an engineer once….we were in a second floor winebar, and the band was rocking loud enough and the dancers were enthusiastic enough that there was a surprising amount of sway in the floor.
The next thing I know, he’s muttering soemthing under his breath about “structural integrity” and leaving.
Although to be fair to him, he was 6’7″ – the sway probably felt worse to him than it did to us normal sized people.
Ukko said,
April 20, 2006 at 2:30
Yeah, that’s me (the engineering part, not the 6’7″ part). I’ve been known to use equations to describe the arc my basketball will make when playing Around the World. I’m not happy until I know how something works.
One difference, though, is that I’m interested in a broad swath of subjects, whereas most engineers tend to be more narrow in their interests. I haven’t met many other engineers who speak intelligently about how sexism pervades society or how hunter-gatherers lived long ago. I’m sure there out there, but I guess I need to keep looking.
Ukko said,
April 20, 2006 at 2:31
Crap–I ran afoul of my own pet peeve. I’m sure *they’re* out there.
Jillian said,
April 20, 2006 at 2:42
I haven’t met many other engineers who speak intelligently about how sexism pervades society or how hunter-gatherers lived long ago. I’m sure there out there, but I guess I need to keep looking.
Quality, intelligent conversation is a lost art, I fear. Not that I’m bitter about it or anything.
I’ve noticed the “narrowness” thing in engineers before…if you look at most of the “scientists” professing to be young-earth creationists, most of them turn out to be some sort of engineer. It’s odd – makes me wonder if there’s some sort of Christian homeschooling program in engineering or something.
Statisticians show up as creationists a lot, too, which just goes to show that smarts in one field don’t necessarily indicate anything about overall intelligence.
Speaking of which…have we given up mocking the French?
Ukko said,
April 20, 2006 at 3:42
A few years ago, several US labs got in hot water for cruelty in animal testing. Apparently they weren’t doing enough to abate their Anglocentrism around the frogs.
Ukko said,
April 20, 2006 at 3:46
And yes, engineers tend to make me embarrassed when the topic turns to creationism. Part of the problem is that engineers need to be very intelligent to succeed in their fields, but they think that their intelligence and success in one field makes them experts in every other field as well. If I hear an intelligent crank, I start suspecting its an engineer, especially an electrical engineer.
Ukko said,
April 20, 2006 at 3:47
*it’s*
My apostrophes are killing me today.
Jillian said,
April 20, 2006 at 4:13
A few years ago, several US labs got in hot water for cruelty in animal testing. Apparently they weren’t doing enough to abate their Anglocentrism around the frogs.
Aha! Ze requisite French joke – now all is right with the world.
*That* is what I come here for. That, and the Finnish cursing, of course.
Marq said,
April 20, 2006 at 6:27
I was off doing my Wednesday “thing,” which, no, isn’t any fun. Anyway, not gonna hang out too long, ‘cos I’m bushed (heh). I’ll probably root around in here more tomorrow, and then comes my Friday “thing.” *sigh* more about that later, perhaps.
celticgirl said,
April 20, 2006 at 11:44
Sorry guys, me and my kid both have some kind of hellish respiratory virus so I’ve been under the weather the past couple of days.
Also, I grow weary of the aa “thing” – I think I’ll call it “annie fatigue”. She’s like the freaking Energizer Bunny- STOP ALREADY!
OK, now my head hurts…
celticgirl said,
April 20, 2006 at 11:51
…and she’ll probably delight that I’m sick and tell me that it’s punishment for pissing on Christ…
*is is just me, or do fundies not realize that most people who turned away from Christianity were brought up in religious families? That we aren’t buying? That no amount of screaming REPENT SINNER! is going to make any difference at all? That most of us can quote the bible with the best of them? Or are they just that fucking clueless?
Oh wait, I see I’ve answered my own question…
celticgirl said,
April 20, 2006 at 11:55
(please excuse typos-too much cold medicine)
Jillian said,
April 20, 2006 at 13:28
That stinks, celticgirl – were I already there, I would have to bring you soup.
Making the best soup on the planet is something that Jews are just born knowing how to do, so I can’t even really take any credit for the fact that I make a damn fine pot of soup…my chicken stock isn’t really noticeably different from ordinary, ironically enough, but I have a beef barley or a potato leek soup that would have you out of bed and dancing the tarantella in a day.
Feel better soon!
Jillian said,
April 20, 2006 at 13:36
Incidentally, the soup thing is an apology from God for the rest of the food he foisted on us – have you ever been to a Passover seder? Nothing says “delish” like horseradish with a side of salt water and a boiled egg!
celticgirl said,
April 20, 2006 at 13:40
Thanks Jillian. Since my animals just arrived from the states (unfortunately they had to go into quarantine ‘cuz we moved so quickly), they have gathered ’round me and are sending me all their furry good energies.
The soup sounds lovely. Maybe it’s just the *idea* of the soup that holds the healing magic! I’ll let you know…
Jillian said,
April 20, 2006 at 13:45
And we need to find Marq some fun “things”.
Not that I know how to find fun things – my things of late are basically work and arguing for some variant of an eliminative reductionist theory of mind.
celticgirl said,
April 20, 2006 at 13:46
Jillian honey, you definitely need to get out more. What is your degree in, anyway?
celticgirl said,
April 20, 2006 at 13:51
If I could just get over to Amsterdam, I’m sure I could find Marq lots of *fun* things…
Jillian said,
April 20, 2006 at 16:30
History degree. I plan on spending the rest of my life smiting people who misuse history to push their political agendas by beating them about the head with hardbound editions of Mein Kampf, Kapital, and Avicenna. I dream of someday challenging both Bernard Lewis and Richard Pipes to duels of steel to defend the honor of Clio, whose good name and reputation they have callously besmirched.
Sorry….this is what comes of a childhood spent reading The Scarlet Pimpernel a bit too much and putting waaaay too much sugar in my coffee this morning. I’ll probably be this silly all day now.
Yosef said,
April 20, 2006 at 17:25
PP-
“Moonlighting strangers/Straight from the heart!”
BTW, new info up in the secret thread.
Pinko Punko said,
April 20, 2006 at 21:08
Toodles, I’m off to the SECRET THREAD
celticgirl said,
April 20, 2006 at 22:23
Jillian: excellent plan, the smiting thing. In my *professional* life, I’m a note-taker for university students that can’t take their own notes, for whatever reason (I’m contracted out of the university Student Support offices), so I get exposed to a wide variety of courses (I also have a 4 year degree in Journalism). Anyhoo, I’m often amazed at the way certain courses are taught. I’m really enjoying the take the Scottish History professor is taking this term, focusing less on the mythos of some of the towering figures of Scottish history and more on their human foibles. MUCH more interesting. Anyway, I love my work because it’s like I get to take university courses by proxy, without those pesky exams/grades/fees/tuition, etc.
Oh, and PP, Yosef: You’re both cobags…have fun in your secret thread with the “No GIrlz aLL0Wd” sign nailed to the masthead.
Capt. Trollypants said,
April 20, 2006 at 22:38
I think that you gals are like two minutes away from talking about Gogurt or YoBaby. Even a trollz can’t handle that.
celticgirl said,
April 20, 2006 at 23:06
Huh,as it turns out, I’m about half a second from telling you to fuck off, trollyboy.
What are the odds?
Jillian said,
April 20, 2006 at 23:07
Don’t even try pinning that girly-girl label on me….I fence, and I can kick any boy-butt around. My old fencing maître used to train Olympians, and us girls used to regularly clean the piste with the boys. You won’t be haw-haw-hawing when you’re dancing on the end of my foil!
And as far as Scottish history goes….three words:
ROBERT THE BRUCE!!!
(Which, I suppose, could be alternately read as “Screw Mel Gibson”, but that’s another story.)
celticgirl said,
April 20, 2006 at 23:23
My town just “commemorated” the 700th anniversary of the Bruce killing the Red Comyn in Dumfries Cathedral. You can’t swing a cat around here without hitting some major historical site – it truly boggles the mind. My husband is a Celtic historian, so we’re very interested in the Iron age, Celtic tribes, ancient monuments, etc. Just down the road from us is the fifth largest stone circle in Britain, built 4000 years ago.
Oh, and fencing rocks. I’m all about the female Celtic warrior thing – Boudica rules!
celticgirl said,
April 20, 2006 at 23:26
Oh, and Screw Mel Gibson indeed! The dude’s psychotic…
Capt. Trollypants said,
April 20, 2006 at 23:55
Gogurt indeed.
I know your codewords.
Jillian said,
April 21, 2006 at 0:03
Awww, does Cap’n Rolypants need some lovin’?
Capt. Trollypants said,
April 21, 2006 at 0:15
Captain trollypants has a head cold, thank you and is entirely degraded by discussions of Yobaby and Gogurt.
Ukko said,
April 21, 2006 at 0:15
Jillian, I’ll bet you love Victor Hanson. Only the white, Western folks have ever been any good at war. The Boers took down many more British than the Zulus could ever dream of: therefore, all non-Western cultures are destined to remain pathetic.
Jillian said,
April 21, 2006 at 0:17
I like my men degraded.
It keeps them from getting uppity.
Jillian said,
April 21, 2006 at 0:36
Ukko, they ALL drive me to drink. Victor Davis Hanson wouldn’t know a Zulu from a Xhosa. Samuel Huntington somehow created an “Islamo-Confucian civilization” that is inevitably going to clash with ours – which just oh so conveniently happens to mesh perfectly with every position paper to come out of the damn PNAC thinktank. Max Boot used to drive me batshit crazy with his “remake the American military to resemble the British Imperial Army” nonsense, until I realized that he actually wasted space in the LA Times worrying about whether or not the Chinese might develop an earthquake ray.
They’re all insane. And people all over listen in rapt delight at their lunatic ravings, and I’m left sitting here wondering to myself when the sane train left the tracks.
I just sort of go with it now…I try to keep the attacks of rage down to a minimum, except for when one of them craps all over any of my favorite areas of history. Thus, Max Boot, despite the flaming moronicness of his “American Imperial Army”, doesn’t piss me off as much as, say, Richard Pipes does, because I love early Soviet history.
The only thing that keeps me from lapsing into gibbering alcoholism is a steadfast faith that one day, the grownups will take control of the country again.
Criminey – celticgirl’s right: I do need to get out more.
Jillian said,
April 21, 2006 at 0:38
But I still have lovin’ for the cap’n!
Pinko Punko said,
April 21, 2006 at 3:03
I don’t love the Capn. He just used strikethrough on the entirety of Three Bulls. The whole site is crossed out.
Jillian said,
April 21, 2006 at 3:48
The cap’n just needs some sweet, sweet lovin’.
And the crossout is very hip, very now. I dig it.
Send him over here, so celticgirl and I can degrade him more!
Jillian said,
April 21, 2006 at 4:19
Oh, have I mentioned how COMPLETELY FUCKING INSANE a person has to be to even for a second seriously consider an “earthquake ray”?
Pinko Punko said,
April 21, 2006 at 5:49
I love the earthquake ray!
I blame boys reading comic books. Seriously, a little too much of the stuff is like having a bad porn habit. Earthquake rays and patriarchy go hand in hand.
celticgirl said,
April 21, 2006 at 8:59
Yes, let’s degrade trollyboy some more…you know he lurves it!
Jillian said,
April 21, 2006 at 15:19
Did you give your cold to the cap’n, Pinko Punko?
That wasn’t very nice.
Ukko said,
April 21, 2006 at 18:48
“Earthquake rays and patriarchy go hand in hand”
Even the cute little pink earthquake rays? I thought they were anti-patriarchal because they supplant the holy phallus.
Kemal Ataturk said,
April 21, 2006 at 19:20
Only if they have the optional miniquake rabbit-ears on top.
Jillian said,
April 21, 2006 at 19:23
D’oh! my secret’s out now.
At least I look good in a fez and a smoking jacket.
celticgirl said,
April 22, 2006 at 9:36
Come on kids, let’s not let this thing die! We could crack 1000 if we put our backs into it.
Who’s with me?
Marq said,
April 22, 2006 at 9:41
annie’s crowing and crowing about your little goof in the Gary Ruppert II thread and elsewhere–as though you were actually trying to seriously deceive people, and pull off some nefarious scheme. You know, as opposed to making a funny or two. She’s so filled with fucking GLEE. It’s really pathetic.
Marq said,
April 22, 2006 at 9:43
Er, that was to Jillian….
Marq said,
April 22, 2006 at 9:52
hey, cg, I’m all up for it–it’s only around 240 posts away at this point. Personally, I think we should aim to double the posts on the pretender longish thread, which currently isn’t expanding very quickly. It’s presently at 602, and double that is 1204, very doable. Of course, it will continue to gain a few comments, but in a couple of days, it should slide right off the front page, and then it’ll be fairly moribund. Then we can throw a victory party in here!
Jillian said,
April 22, 2006 at 13:32
Marq, I’d wager anything it’s simply because she doesn’t really know who Ataturk is.
It’s just a pretty dopey joke that you have to have a bit of an education to get, which is the sort of humor that made me enjoy Sadly, No! so much in the first place. I know the regular reading audience got it, and I figure any non-regs who didn’t would just Wiki the name. I consider it my contribution to “viral education” for the day.
Annie’s basically uneducable, though, so I’m not surprised. I’ve taken to just ignoring her – there’s some serious narcissistic personality disorder going on there, and it’s just gotten tedious at this point.
Incidentally, my first exposure to the good Mustafa Kemal Ataturk came from my favorite college history professor, who was an unreformed old school CPUSA Marxist. He used to defend Ataturk in class. He defended Milosevic, too, although thankfully never in class.
It was sooooo fucking annoying – why does the Left always get saddled with the genocide apologists? I’m just as much a socialist as the next person (as long as the next person is a socialist, I suppose), but I’m pleased as punch that Milosevic is no longer with us. I just don’t understand this knee-jerk defense of anyone who claims to endorse a Left platform by such huge swaths of the Left.
Jillian said,
April 22, 2006 at 13:43
Maybe I can hit Marq up for some advice in here…
One of my dearest friends in the world is gay. He’s younger, and he’s just recently come out, which was a fairly fear-ridden experience for him. (Thank goodness nobody around him freaked out about it!) He’s pretty much gotten over all the initial anxieties that come with identifying as gay in this cockamamie homophobic country, but the problem he’s having now is trying to meet people.
There’s an eighteen-and-older club in the town where he lives, but that’s got all the usual problems associated with trying to meet people in bars. He’s not looking to meet the love of his life, but he really doesn’t want to get caught up in the whole one night stand thing, either.
This is just one of those things I can’t really offer him a lot of advice on, being 1.) a girl, 2.) not gay, and 3.) completely incapable of meeting people my own self.
So, what’s a cute young gay boy to do?
celticgirl said,
April 22, 2006 at 15:22
Marq: I say let’s go for it. We just might break teh interwebs yet.
But to PP and Yosef and their “secret thread” I say feh.
And I have to apologize for being cranky a little earlier, but I’m just freaking tired of the trolls around here. I like S,N! for the witty repartee, not having tools regurtitate made up *facts* or teach me all about the history of religion, or simply add nothing of value to the discourse.
More snark, please.
Jillian said,
April 22, 2006 at 16:08
Awww, cg, don’t apologize! Righteously bitchy women are hawt!!!
As far as the troll thing goes….don’t let it get you down. If you do, then the trolls win! Besides, our most recent iteration of trolldom is going to turn out to have the attention span of a spastic colon, anyway, so I wouldn’t sweat it – just give it a few days. Seems like most people have its number at this point, and have stopped feeding it.
I think I may have to adopt obscure historical personae for posting around here more often….that was actually kind of fun. Any suggestions? Personally, I think I might feel a bit of a Sun Yat Sen coming on…
Ukko said,
April 22, 2006 at 16:49
“why does the Left always get saddled with the genocide apologists?”
Isn’t it usually the older leftists who defend the genocidaires? Maybe the atrocities are not as obvious early on, when the defenders started liking the monsters. As the true nature of the atrocities became apparent, the defenders were already too heavily invested and couldn’t backpedal their support. I don’t personally know anyone who has started to defend monsters after their true natures are manifested. I’m sure there some folks I support now who could end up being nasty, and if I can’t admit a mistake, I will at some point in the future be a defender of those nasties.
Jillian said,
April 22, 2006 at 17:47
I think you’re onto something, Ukko…that’s pretty much the way it happened with Stalin and the American Left. Lots of people don’t know that Stalin had been a Bolshevik from the earliest days, and not too bad of a theoretician, as well. He did a lot to help fund the revolution by organizing a pretty impressive bunch of bank robberies. To which I must add the obligatory “yes, yes, bank robberies are terrible things”, but the fact is that revolutions don’t pay for themselves, and you can always contrast the Soviet method of paying for a revolution with the American way of paying for a revolution, which involves floating a bunch of worthless paper currency and treasury bills and then defaulting on all of it once the war’s over.
Anyway, there were lots of reasons to believe that Stalin would be an effective leader of a revolutionary government at first. Yes, Trotsky was saying bad things about him, but in the early days, it was still possible for a reasonable person to believe that most of that was being caused by traditional Georgian/Great Russian racism and rivalries.
As time went on and Stalin’s utter disregard for human rights became more and more evident, the Left fractured over whether or not to support him…too many people had too much invested in the Soviet system as the hope of the future to speak honestly. They let their need to be right blind them to reality.
It’s a great shame, a huge moral failing, and the failure of the Left to take a strong enough stand against what was happening in the Soviet Union did a lot to leave them the crippled mass they are today.
The only bright spot in this whole analysis is that more and more, this is what Bush’s presidency is starting to look like. With any luck, the American Right in fifty years will look a lot like the American Left of today.
Oh, and btw, my Milosevic-loving prof was indeed an old school Lefty. I was sorta disappointed to see that he hadn’t made D. Ho’s list of dangerous professors.
Pinko Punko said,
April 22, 2006 at 22:24
Bush’s presidency was a failure from day 1. It was always a sham. The entire right wing has been a sham since before Nixon. You could actually make a case that Nixon was astonishlngly better than GWB. I mean he started a “War on Cancer”- these peeps have gone way beyond a Stalinesque code for feigned socialism and totalitarianism, these guys are straight up imaginary world fascists. It seems to me Stalin created a facade, whereas the Right creates an entirely fake world, the difference being the level at which the two sides believe in the truth of their created worlds.
Capt. Trollypants said,
April 22, 2006 at 22:28
770 CHUPWADZ!!!!!!21
Jillian said,
April 22, 2006 at 22:33
Cap’n Rolypants! We missed you!
Come over here and gimme some sugar, sweet thing!
Jillian said,
April 22, 2006 at 22:45
Nixon WAS astonishingly better than GWB. He had a hell of an environmental record for a Republican. When the gold standard imposed by the Bretton Woods accords collapsed, he had the spinal integrity necessary to implement price and wage freezes – could you imagine what they’d do to a Republican president who tried that today?
What’s interesting to me is that people seem to be waking up to the fact that this president is running a sham administration. It’s going to get interesting over the next few months and years as the unwieldy confederacy of thecons, neocons. right libertarians, and paleocons comes apart at the seams and sets upon each other like a pack of feral dogs.
Not that I’m gloating or anything.
Sun Yat-Sen said,
April 22, 2006 at 22:49
Pinko, you really misunderstand political management. An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should absolute freedom. Our Leader realizes this. Our nation has the freedom to conqueror any nation that looks at us funny. Our people have the freedom live in this nation and pay for that freedom with its accompanying responsibility to allow the government to protect that freedom by monitoring those who would disrupt the liberties we hold dear. So it is that wiretapping will stand as Our Decider’s greatest monument to American freedom.
Chiang Kai-Shek said,
April 22, 2006 at 22:55
It’s also important to listen to your generals, too….as long as they haven’t been contaminated with too much freedom.
Bert Russell II said,
April 22, 2006 at 23:20
Jillian, you hope in vain for the dissolution of the Grand Old Party. Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike. The broad instinctive mechanism upon which political edifices have to be built is one of cooperation within the herd and hostility towards other herds. The co-operation within the herd is never perfect. There are members who do not conform, who are, in the etymological sense, «egregious», that is to say, outside the flock. These members are those who have fallen below, or risen above, the ordinary level. They are: Charles Johnsons, Jack Abramoffs, Pat Robertsons, and Karl Roves. A wise herd will learn to tolerate the eccentricity of those who rise above the average, and to treat with a minimum of ferocity those who fall below it.
Jillian said,
April 22, 2006 at 23:33
The problem the Repubs have at this point is that they’ve built a coalition with people who don’t really share a lot of these passions. The Bill Kristols of the world couldn’t care less about evil baby killer abortionists or wretched sodomites if you paid them money to – and money actually IS the only thing they care about. And yet this mythical Republican “base” doesn’t seem to care about much outside of homo nups and womb babies.
If the Republican party doesn’t deliver on those points, they’re going to lose their base. But if they blow up the whole rest of the world thinking that they can skate by on the gay abortionist thing, the rest of the country isn’t going to cut them enough slack to be able to push their no queers, no dirty women agenda through.
They’re caught in a trap of their own making, and I am not even ashamed of the fact that I gloat about it every chance I get.
So, Berty, have you managed to make your peace with quantum mechanics yet? Your troubles in that field made you say some fairly silly things about the composition of mental states, if you don’t mind my saying so. Don’t get me wrong – mad props for your work in analytic logic and all, and you have to give a shoutout to the first philosopher to also be a bit of a swinger – even back when swinging wasn’t cool. Nobody’s perfect, my man. Don’t take it to heart.
Wha? said,
April 22, 2006 at 23:48
WHAT IN THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?!?!!
B. R. said,
April 22, 2006 at 23:50
As far as quantum mechanics and mental health issue goes, that was just an object lesson to teach you not to trust an expert speaking outside their field of expertise. Since the GOP has kept the theocons in their back pocket for a generation without delivering on the abortion issue, I don’t see why the current state of affairs must change now, although obviously I’d be delighted if it did.
The swinging–I’m still available, if you catch my drift ;)
Ukko said,
April 22, 2006 at 23:51
I’m skeptical about the value of price controls. Has their ever been a time where they’ve been demonstrated to work without causing shortages?
Ukko said,
April 22, 2006 at 23:53
Wha?, I guess that once Echidne found the link, she passed it on to all the other big name folks.
Jillian said,
April 23, 2006 at 0:10
Ukko, the one time Nixon did was in 1971, I think – I’ll look it up later when I’m feeling less lazy – and a combination of a number of different factors (the war in Vietnam, the rebounding of the Chinese economy, the destabilization caused to international currency valuations by the gold standard)had the dollar closer to the point of collapse than most people were comfortable with. The controls didn’t last very long, and they really didn’t do much in the end, anyway – the economy was still heading for the crapper when they were released. Double digit inflation sucks, no matter what your economic philosophy is.
I’ve always thought it was a move of desperation more than conviction. But it’s still impressive that a Republican president could have done such a thing without being prompty drummed out of his party for doing so.
Jillian said,
April 23, 2006 at 0:13
So, hey, Berty…or should I call you “Lord Russell”?
You know, if you bought me a drink and read me my favorite passages from “Why I Am Not A Christian”, maybe we could discuss this whole “swinging” thing a little further…if you catch my drift.
Wha? said,
April 23, 2006 at 0:19
I’ve sent Marie ‘Jon an email, hoping to convince her to return and save her thread, before it’s too late. It’s not as fun w/o all the cool fonts and colors that were in the original, though. I have to learn to use those damn tags. Anywho:
Marie!
‘Tis I, your love Wha?! I regret ever leaving your side, but Other People in faraway lands needed me, and I was compelled to become that which I am…you would not have less, would you?
I have returned in this dark hour to once again take up the keyboard in defense of your honour!
As we planned, the Sadly, No! thread dedicated to you and your beauty – the one that proved once and for all that you are the hottest conservative on the internet – has lived on in perpetuity; a timeless shrine to your greatness to be shared from blogfather to blogson. It has currently garnered a glorious 772 POSTS, all in dedicated to your radiance – and a few other things, but mainly your radiance!
However, my rival – the Evil Yousef – still hates you for chosing me over him as your godhead-lover, and conspires with other dark forces (I suspect Marq, or even worse – GregH), to destroy the MJ-temple Thread by creating an evil, paralell Secret Thread!!!
The only way to defeat them is to beat their thread to 1000 posts. While I will stuff empty-post after empty-post into the MJ-Temple Thread, only YOU(My Love! My Love! (together) My..Endless..Loooovvvvveee…Bum, Bum…Bum, Bum, Bum BUM, Bu-hum, Bum….Bo, bum, bum, bum, BUM, bum) ccan call back the faithful!
Please help me defend your honor against the godless Yousef, Marq, and that most vile GregH! I can handle two at once, but three? I lack the weaponry – you, however, have the power to take on the many!
Your Love,
Wha?
Ukko said,
April 23, 2006 at 0:25
Heh, Wha? failed to mention me. I’m going to be a-streaking on by as he fights with all his named protagonists.
Lordie Bert said,
April 23, 2006 at 0:36
Jillian, my sweet, when you hear people in church debasing themselves and saying that they are miserable sinners, and all the rest of it, it seems contemptible and not worthy of self-respecting human beings. We ought to stand up and look the world frankly in the face.
I like Julia Sweeney’s talk on the subject. She presents a balanced and humorous take on not believing. Why, I ask, are women underrepresented in the infidel community?
celticgirl said,
April 23, 2006 at 0:45
Yay! Teh Gary Ruppert II post has slipped off the front page. Now that sucka’s gonna die for sure!
Jillian said,
April 23, 2006 at 0:54
Why, I ask, are women underrepresented in the infidel community?
Because traditional Judaeo-Christian religion makes virtues out of the traits that Western society considers “womanly”, whereas the secular world generally doesn’t consider those “womanly” traits very worthwile. All that stuff about compassion, love, forgiveness – for a long time people have thought that those are somehow the special purview of women. So if you buy into that idea, and you’re a woman, why wouldn’t you want to hang out where those are supposed to be a good thing?
Let’s face it – if I started a religion that taught the path to salvation could only be reached by being an eighty-years dead British philosopher of the analytic school, I’ll bet I could get even you to join up.
So, what did you make of Frege’s response to that correspondence you launched with him? Personally, I think he bit the bullet on it.
Lordie Bert said,
April 23, 2006 at 2:05
“eighty-years dead British philosopher”
My how the time flies! I thought my death was more recent than that.
As far as Frege, I must agree with you. He tried, but wasn’t able to chew what he bit off. This leads to the question: if the US unilaterally uses nuclear weapons on Iran, can we call our nation the world’s police officer who polices every nation that doesn’t police itself?
Jillian said,
April 23, 2006 at 2:17
As long as none of the soldiers try to be the barber who only shaves people who don’t shave themselves, I think it will work!
Wha? said,
April 23, 2006 at 2:43
Sorry, Ukko, my own foolish mistake.
You have been an amazing steward of the temple of Marie Jon’; surely she shall favor you upon her return.
A troll posting as “angryannie” or something like that has informed me that Jillian is now the queen of the temple. Is this true? Perhaps she is a high-priestess?
Does Jillian now wear the thong?
Jillian said,
April 23, 2006 at 2:52
I’m not the queen, merely a keeper of the flame.
But I’m not denying that I sit at the computer in a PP thong writing this stuff either, now.
Wha? said,
April 23, 2006 at 3:00
Jillian –
Now, now, you naughty preistess…that was HOT!
Jillian said,
April 23, 2006 at 5:28
Now, when do you and Ukko put your thongs on?
GregH said,
April 23, 2006 at 5:32
What the hell taco bell? This is getting weirder and weirder.
Quothe Wha?: ‘I lack the weaponry‘
’nuff said
GregH said,
April 23, 2006 at 5:38
795 chrysanthamumz111111!
Marq said,
April 23, 2006 at 6:15
Now, wha?, I was never in the competition for “Dear” Marie–being the fine qu… fella I am, I stood aside, pointing and giggling like a wanton minx…
[now that just isn't right--try it again!]
…like a leather-bound biker…
[that's bettah, biach!]
{giggling like a leather-bound biker…WTF?!?}
…a leather-bound biker who was definitely not giggling, but was, instead, smirking and glowering…
[weak--but a save, nonetheless]
…and, er, ah, what the hell was I talking about?
Marq said,
April 23, 2006 at 6:22
Wow. The circle is now complete. Not only have long-missing commenters wha? and Ukko been relocated (pretty much through sheer, dumb luck), but the fella who started posting in this thread as GregH, but morphed at some point into Gregor Samsa. Now, bada-bing, bada-boom, it’s old school and GregH once more. Mercy, the weirdness never ends!
PupH said,
April 23, 2006 at 6:44
Hi guys what’s going on?
MomH said,
April 23, 2006 at 6:46
Oh Hi PupH! How are you? You lil scamp I love you so much!
Marq said,
April 23, 2006 at 7:09
Jillian, I’m not exactly sure what your young gay friend is looking to obtain–a friend with benefits? A fuckbuddy? But, whatever it is, I am not the expert in how to go about obtaining one.
If you’re a gay person, and you wish to meet other gay people, obviously, just hanging out in a “general public” situation is kinda a non-starter. Though, if it’s a fair-sized group of “normal, straight” people, just through sheer probability and percentages, there are likely a few other gay people in there; depending on the locale and the age range and social situation, they may not be too “out.” Another sad phenomena is the dreaded “straight guy who knows you’re gay, but likes to be flirted with.” Very annoying, but kinda fun at the same time. Beats the “I’m straight, goddamn it, and I’ll beat the crap outta any faggot that even looks funny at me, and did I mention I was STRAIGHT?!?” all to hell. Those fuckers are teh suxxor, and not in a good way.
Plus, in those “reflect the general population”-groups, being the “look–I am teh ghey guy” schtick can get old, fast. Not to say that I don’t go on and on about teh ghey once I feel comfortable about doing so–I’m just saying that it isn’t necessarily a good idea.
All that said, one cannot discount the ol’ “x-factor.” The irritating thing about sheer, dumb luck is that you can’t count on it, unless you’re one of those “so lucky, everyone hates you for your luck” people. Unsurprisingly, I hate them.
So, I guess my best advice is, “Be yourself–within reason!” That is to say, be youself, IF it’s safe to do so. Once you’ve gotten a bit of experience under your belt, you can scope out situations pretty quick, and know almost always when it’s safe to be out and when it isn’t. Larger metropolitan areas are generally better than rual, low-population ones, if only due to the odds (and safety in numbers)! Of course, as long as you don’t have the personality of Rush Limbaugh, you’ll likely cultivate at least a small circle of good friends, whether gay or straight, that you can always count on. That’s not to say that too many gay people haven’t been beaten up, or even murdered, for saying or doing something “gay” at the wrong place at the wrong time. I’ve been lucky enough to have never had that experience, though there’s been the odd close call. So, now I hate ME for my luck!
I don’t know if that was at all helpful, but I hope it was at least a little bit.
Marq said,
April 23, 2006 at 7:12
PupH? MomH?!? Oh, nooooooooz!!!one!!
Marq said,
April 23, 2006 at 7:17
Ooh! Looks like “Marq’s cheap advice for young kweahz” was teh 800.
Marq said,
April 23, 2006 at 7:22
I’m headed back to the main page. ‘cos I wanna read that exposé of a certain someone who will go unmentioned. There’s already a shitload of comments, which is gonna take 4evah for me to read! But, I’ll be backâ„¢, as Gov. Schwarzenwhosis has been known to quip.
Marq said,
April 23, 2006 at 7:27
One last note before I shuffle off–hey, Pinko, what do I get for teh 800? A Golden Onion Wiener? A 42″ Ion Canon? An AABJ (can’t–it’s against my ‘religion’)? A Milkshake Kit Kat? What?
BillyD said,
April 23, 2006 at 7:51
If I start posting in the MJ Temple, do I get hazed or something?
Marq said,
April 23, 2006 at 10:22
Not at all. You just mustn’t say that antuchristangel is more teh hot than our venerated Marie. That would be grounds for excommunication!
Marq said,
April 23, 2006 at 10:25
“antichristangel” Sheesh.
Pinko Punko said,
April 23, 2006 at 11:15
Marq, your prize will be one shot with the Rolo Cannon. A gun that shoots the biggest Rolo ever known to exist. Link forthcoming to your chocolatey, yet caramel-filled ammo tomorrow. You could probably take out the ass half of LGF with one shot. OF course LGF is known as “the ass-faced beast” so it just depends. Alternatively, you may choose the target of your choosing.
Marq said,
April 23, 2006 at 13:20
Well, it’s practically daylight here in Illinois (new state motto: “We Fitzed Our Ex-Gov!”), and, so, high time for we vampire-types to hit the… coffin, and sleep the sleep of the damned, which will probably involve dreams of Yosef’s story about a Time Traveler’s visit… to his ass!!1! Feh. Well, better that than anything involving aa. Laterz, all!
J Johnson said,
April 23, 2006 at 17:08
“I’ve been lucky enough to have never had that experience, though there’s been the odd close call.”
Wow, post 800 makes me realize my hetero-privilege.
By the way, Jillian, I’ve been wearing my thong all along.
Jillian said,
April 24, 2006 at 4:51
Marq, I really appreciate you taking the time to write that up for me.
I worry for my friend a lot sometimes – he lives in a fairly progessive metro area, but even that’s no guarantee that you won’t get assaulted for being gay. And then there’s just the general, day to day nastiness of always having to wonder if an offhand, quasi-flirtatious comment, whether serious or in jest, is going to cause friction between you and some insecure hetero you thought was your friend.
It depresses him. A lot. And that hurts me. Gah, people suck, don’t they?
Marq said,
April 24, 2006 at 6:36
Gee, teh p4c3 has really slowed here in Long Threadvilleâ„¢! I guess, noe that the Gary Ruppert II thread is for all practical intents and purposes dead, we’re no longer feel teh h34t of an upstart thread, so we’re coolin’ it, taking it easy… well, fark that! We’ll never make 1000 at this rate, let alone the 1204 or so doubling of the GRII thread! In a “pouf,” Ukko, Wha?, and GregH/Gregor Samsa are all gone, again. Pinko’s still lurking about, and Jillian’s still here–you are teh high priestess of this thread! And I bet celticgirl’s still around, somewheres. Hmm, a small crew, but a silly one! Huzzah! We’ll limp across the finish line yet! I go now to espy the comment count in the hated GRII thread, damn it, damn it to heck!!
Marq said,
April 24, 2006 at 6:39
Ah, you see, typo correction–it’s how I swell any thread to Olympian proportions! “now that the GRII thread….” grr. L8rz!
Marq said,
April 24, 2006 at 6:53
Ha! The GRII, aka antichristangel thread’s count hasn’t budged in days, not since before it dropped off the main page! Again, I say ‘HA!’ It is to larf!!1!one Wait… what if its seeming deadness is merely a ploy, a mere bit of playacting designed to lull us poor, simple Long Threadersâ„¢ into a false sense of security? A ruse? Only to roar back to life when we’re not looking, and go zipping past us while we snooze! Damn! It’s fiendishly clever, I tells ya!1!! *grumble, mutter, snarfle* Aauugghhh! It’s the suspense that’s killing me! plus, I just realized that it’s too damned late to go see “Silent Hill” tonight! AAaarrrgghhh!! Oh, poo–now I’m in a snit!
celticgirl said,
April 24, 2006 at 7:23
Marq: oh we WILL push past 1000, don’t you worry about it. As long as I have breath, I will see this thing through to the bitter end!
We few, we happy few…
Pinko Punko said,
April 24, 2006 at 11:33
We need some corndogs.
Jillian said,
April 24, 2006 at 16:57
There are these really yummy vegetarian tofu corndogs that I am especially fond of….if wer’re going to have corndogs, I’m going to make a request for these.
celticgirl said,
April 24, 2006 at 17:29
Wait…wouldn’t they be called cornfudogs?
Yosef said,
April 24, 2006 at 18:13
wha?, there’s no ‘u’ in my name dammit.
So I don’t understand how people found out that AA was AB (or something.)
J Johnson said,
April 25, 2006 at 0:23
Is a high kick in swing dancing too lascivious for y’all?
Pinko Punko said,
April 25, 2006 at 0:30
NO VEGGIE CORNDOGS EVAR!
/mommie dearest
anywho, when does Marq wake up because I made him a special thingy at 3B, which cg deigns to visit once and awhile but not Jillypants.
Jillian said,
April 25, 2006 at 0:50
I come to visit sometimes….but y’all are just so much cooler than me that I am too much in awe of teh kewl to say anything.
I’m in love with your doggies, though.
Jillian said,
April 25, 2006 at 1:00
I am going to be officially (but temporarily) unemployed come this Friday…what shall we do to celebrate?
If you bring the corndogs, I’ll bring the thongs!
Pinko Punko said,
April 25, 2006 at 1:38
THing is some people think they need to “get” it, but we decided long ago that ti wasn’t about getting it, it’s about playing along!
Think fafblog, only a lot less genius, but more cobags, rolos, take5s, and the delightfulness of GregH who never posts, but when he does it is always good. Oh hey, MomH!
Unemployed? That calls for PeePo thongs and COstco size case o’ corndogs!
Remember Fridays are Secret Raining Chundermuffin Days at 3B!
Plus HNT on THursday featuring the delightful stylings of Smokey Dog and Puglsey/
Jillian said,
April 25, 2006 at 3:14
I’m also in love with anyone who has such cute doggies, too!
Doggies rule my world. Cats are good, too – but there’s nothing like the love of a good dog.
I think that I will wear nothing but my PeePo thong until I start work again, in celebration of my newfound freedom!
But I may have to hold off on the corndogs, if I can’t have cornfudogs.
I just found this new stuff called quorn that I’m going to try for dinner tonight…I’ll have to let you know how that works out.
BillyD said,
April 25, 2006 at 4:46
Hey Pinko Punko – I read up thread you made a reference to the Morg. Are you an exmo, too?
Pinko Punko said,
April 25, 2006 at 5:20
Just lived in Ootah for a loooong time, BillyD.
Jillian that’s a LOT of feedom, you might want to ration it. The PeePo thong is powerful stuff.
I already have VegBoy Gregor Samsa constantly degrading me, now Jillypants too.
Marq said,
April 25, 2006 at 5:24
I caught the special, request appearance of the chundermuffinz o’ doom. Sweet! I just have one question, which I refuse to ask over at 3B, ‘cos I don’t want to look like a maroon: what the hell does “HNT” stand for?
BillyD said,
April 25, 2006 at 5:41
When I was 20 (roughly 5 years ago) I did the Keruoac thing and ended up living in Provo for a year. Crazy, crazy place. I dated a girl from Manti. Holy crap – southern Utah is another planet.
PupH said,
April 25, 2006 at 7:04
*wag wag wag*
Jillian said,
April 25, 2006 at 12:47
I’m not even a vegetarian anymore…just a (mostly)health-concsious eater. I eat chicken and tuna, but only in really small quantities.
Although that’s probably even more annoying.
Like – for dinner tonight, I’m having grilled curried tofu. On brown rice.
It’s really good. I swear it is – stop laughing.
But your cute doggies still rock my world. I would feed them corndogs all day.
Yosef said,
April 25, 2006 at 15:15
Marq, HNT=Half Naked Thursday.
celticgirl said,
April 26, 2006 at 15:54
Come on people, we’ll never crack 1000 at this rate. I swear, it’s like you don’t even care anymore!
Jillian said,
April 26, 2006 at 16:38
Marq’s not feeling well, so we’re going to have to carry his share for a while.
I swear, with all the sickness going around here, I’m going to have to start posting some of my soup recipes!
Hey….today is my last day of work, so y’all have to help me celebrate! I want everybody in their PeePo thongs sitting at their keyboards at 9 PM, GMT for the party!!!
J Johnson said,
April 26, 2006 at 19:34
I’ll bring the corndogs.
celticgirl said,
April 26, 2006 at 22:37
Thong….check
Hey, where is everybody?
(Jillian: I was only givin’ you guys a hard time. I hope Marq and PP are feeling better. I’m finally feeling like a human being after 10 days of it).
Ummm…Happy Unemployment?! Let’s party!
Jillian said,
April 26, 2006 at 23:39
I’m only unemployed until my teaching gig starts this fall. I’m incredibly nervous and incredibly excited all at once!
And I’m home from work now, so that’s it. No job for me.
Now, where’s that thong?
Marq said,
April 27, 2006 at 1:28
Actually, I’m feeling remarkably improved today, that is to say, “Shitty,” as opposed to “Super-ultra-mega-oh,gawd,takemeNOW-shitty,” which is how I was feeling yesterday. My slight fever broke, and certain other, Imodium-related symptoms stopped. Unfortunately, I still have a fair amount of bodyaches/headache going, and I’m still fairly nauseous.
And, in reality, this thread is still doing fairly well as far as comments/day goes. There were many months where there were between 0-2 comments posted to it. The current total is 838.
Jillian said,
April 27, 2006 at 1:42
Glad to see you feeling better, Marq! Make sure you stay hydrated…it’s amazing how fast you can dehydrate when you’re sick.
Marq said,
April 27, 2006 at 1:42
BTW, aside from Jillian getting to ditch her job, today (4-26, in spite of Seb’s monkeywork) marks the 1000 days of Shrub left point. Huzzah! It’ll be good riddance to bad trash to that jerk come January of ’09.
BillyD said,
April 27, 2006 at 1:44
Welcome (back?) to the unemployment world Jill! What level will you be teaching?
BillyD said,
April 27, 2006 at 1:47
As long as people are willing to post recipes to build up the comments – any cheap college recipes that aren’t ramen?
Jillian said,
April 27, 2006 at 4:08
You can’t go wrong with beans and rice – it’s incredibly easy and filling, and oh, so cheap. And it’s absolutely delicious, too.
All you need is a can of black beans, onion, green pepper, and some spices…saute the onions and pepper, throw the beans in, season, and put on top of rice.
The trick to making it really tasty is a splash of rice wine vinegar, but even without that, it’s damn good.
If you want to go really, really, really cheap, you can even use dried beans – but those are substantially more work.
I’m going to be teaching elementary school as part of a program to put highly motivated teachers into high-needs classrooms around the country. I’m going to get some of the most underprivileged kids in the country, and my goal is to get them reading on or above grade level – which, considering that they’re going to come into my classroom several grade levels behind, will be quite a challenge.
I’ve never been so excited about anything before, I don’t think. It’s a fabulous opportunity, and I’m thrilled to be a part of it.
J Johnson said,
April 27, 2006 at 5:57
Oooh… that was one wild party. I don’t know whether that was so smart, considering I’m not QUITE on the unemployed list yet.
Pinko Punko said,
April 27, 2006 at 9:46
Hey ho-hos, new HNT up at 3B!
MArq, there are real HNTs all over the internets, but at 3B! we defy the concept.
Also read the “My Children” post- you missed an extra apecial thingy- it was your 800 ocmment prize.
BillyD said,
April 27, 2006 at 17:15
I’ll give this a try tonight – maybe even nnvest in the rice wine vinegar. Good luck teaching. It sounds difficult, but you also sound prepared for it.
Yosef said,
April 27, 2006 at 18:49
Wow, Jillian! That’s a great thing you’ll be doing! It’s so nice that W and his NCLB will be able to help you out so much!
Or, well… nevermind.
Good luck!
But until then, Concha y Toro is a pretty decent wine and you can get 1.5 liters for around $8-9. That’ll help you enjoy your unemployment!
celticgirl said,
April 28, 2006 at 20:43
People? Hellooooooo? We’re not getting anywhere. I mean, sure aa could stink the place up and post another 20 “did not” “did so” posts here, but I think she’s given up on us. We must forge ahead. How amazing would it feel to post that #1000? I know I want it – I’ll bet you do too.
I’m done with teh sick, and back in fine form – Come on back and let’s get this thing done! This means you, Jillian. After all, you are the high priestess of this thread.
*roots around* Now where did that thong go?
Jillian said,
April 29, 2006 at 2:08
Sorry to fall down on the job, but I had technical difficulties yesterday, which meant I had to find other stuff to do with my time than sit on the computer and read snark.
Did you know they make these things called books? They’re like analog webpages – they have actual “pages” that you “turn”! It’s incredible!
I will have to explore this new “book” phenomenon in greater detail and report back.
(My internet crashed last night, and only came back tonight, so I’ve been going through major withdrawal. I don’t know what I’m going to do when I have to go back to work!!)
J Johnson said,
April 29, 2006 at 2:53
Analog webpages, you say? How can you stand not seeing the text flicker gently before you? I’ll have to experience this “book” phenomenon through my A/D converter.
Gary Ruppert said,
April 29, 2006 at 5:54
Anyone want to cyber?
BillyD said,
April 29, 2006 at 7:52
Yosef – fine work at 3bulls. The ol’ Atrios switcheroo got a chuckle out of me.
Jillian said,
April 29, 2006 at 16:30
Mmmmmm…………cheap wine………..
The one thing I miss the most about living on the west coast was being able to get really nice Sonoma chardonnays for under ten dollars a bottle.
Pinko Punko said,
April 30, 2006 at 6:59
we just drove through like a million sonoma wineries. but we were searching for a Sonic, so we didn’t stop.
hee.
Jillian said,
April 30, 2006 at 15:59
Waaaah!
I have no Sonoma wine and no White Castle.
I am going back to bed.
J Johnson said,
May 2, 2006 at 3:17
Happy May Day!
Jillian said,
May 2, 2006 at 4:08
A May Day present for y’all.
annieangel said,
May 2, 2006 at 4:14
Happy Loyalty Day!
BillyD said,
May 2, 2006 at 17:13
Happy May 2nd!
BillyD said,
May 2, 2006 at 17:19
860, I think
J Johnson said,
May 2, 2006 at 21:30
Yeah, it was still May Day where I live. Damn Chermann time zones.
BillyD said,
May 3, 2006 at 3:00
I figured it was either that or you had just got back from a may-day drinking binge.
J Johnson said,
May 3, 2006 at 6:38
No reason it couldn’t be both.
Pinko Punko said,
May 4, 2006 at 10:17
Sweet alcoholic oblivion. Sigh.
Yosef said,
May 4, 2006 at 19:40
BillyD – thanks, I had fun doing that one. Only took me about an hour to get all the posts written, links embedded and published. That Atrios guy has us all snowed.
Marq said,
May 5, 2006 at 10:26
Tea, goddamn it! Green, motherfucking tea!!1!
J Johnson said,
May 6, 2006 at 1:32
Teabagging, Vittujen kevät! Kokematon, vitun teabagging!1!
Anonymous said,
May 8, 2006 at 3:04
Sheesh…I have an excuse for falling down on the job around here; I’m on vacation.
What’s yours?
Jillian said,
May 8, 2006 at 3:08
That was me.
BillyD said,
May 8, 2006 at 7:56
Finals week in full swing…. God damnit, I hate all-nighters.
shingles said,
May 8, 2006 at 18:18
As long as people are willing to post recipes to build up the comments – any cheap college recipes that aren’t ramen?
1. pint bottle of scotch or Irish Whiskey (any kind will do)
2. bottle of beer (preferably something large but decent, like Sheaf)
3. take one tub of cottage cheese and stir in 1/2 jar of salsa. Mix well.
4. use tortilla chips to scoop out yummy goodness and eat.
5. enjoy
Items #3 & #4 are optional.
Marq said,
May 8, 2006 at 22:19
Thank goodness that some of you have posted after J Johnson–I never know what to say in response to the Finnish swearing. It was Finnish, wasn’t it? Well, whatever that was….
J Johnson said,
May 9, 2006 at 7:42
It was an attempt at Finnish. I’m not a native speaker. All you really need to say is some variation on vittu.
Marq said,
May 11, 2006 at 11:32
BTW, that’s the bestest recipe evah!!1!
Gregor Samsa said,
May 18, 2006 at 16:07
Hmm, a lull in the conversation.
Marq said,
May 21, 2006 at 4:16
Yeah. It’s quiet in here. Too quiet….
Jillian said,
May 21, 2006 at 20:30
Don’t look at me….I spent all night having cute gay guys with charming southern accents buy me shots. I mean, I love you guys and all, but these were young, cute gay boys. And they kept buying me drinks. And they liked my shoes.
So I’ve been busy lately.
Two conclusions can be drawn from this:
1.) I am rapidly on my way to becoming the biggest fag hag in this quadrant of the galaxy, and
2.) If I keep hanging out in gay bars, there’s a good chance I will remain single for the rest of my life.
You’ll have to pardon me if this doesn’t make too much sense….I’m not quite sure what was in the shots I had last night, and I’m still feeling a bit woozy this morning.
Anonymous said,
May 22, 2006 at 17:02
Speaking of feeling woozy… Jillian, you’ve inspired a wake and bake.
~whoa~
BillyD said,
May 22, 2006 at 17:04
That was me. I think.
Marq said,
May 23, 2006 at 7:42
[jealousy so hot it could burn the sun, regardless of the sense in being jealous in the first place]
Katoey said,
May 24, 2006 at 0:54
The proverb “You are not what you think you are, but you are what you think.”
Does not make any logical sense, especially to me as I am ladyboy, and I think myself of a girl. So how cn you explain that
Pinko Punko said,
May 25, 2006 at 5:38
AHA!
Caught you with your various pants down.
Marq said,
May 25, 2006 at 9:39
That’s only those hottie queer boiz that Jillian is hanging out with, Pinko. And, my jealousy has just about dissipated, ‘cos tomorrow is the official beginning of IML (NOT NECESSARILY WORK SAFE!)! At last!
My, how the staff at the Palmer House must look forward to this time of year! I hope those leatherboiz tip their maids and such well, ‘cos besides the Shriners, those IML dudes have gotta have the greatest mess potential….
Pinko Punko said,
May 25, 2006 at 19:30
Whew. eveyone made it, didn’t they?
celticgirl said,
May 25, 2006 at 20:15
Still going…like the Energizer Bunny, the thread that would not die!
Marq said,
May 26, 2006 at 4:43
How come this thread isn’t in the August, ’05 archives anymore (or, at least seemingly–the pix seem different there)? Oh, and 886, bitchez!
BillyD said,
May 26, 2006 at 23:55
Is this where I go to find out Gavin M’s secret identity?
Shaggy Dog said,
May 27, 2006 at 0:10
Hey, this thread isn’t so long.
J Johnson said,
May 28, 2006 at 23:26
Yeah, you would say that, Shaggy. Guys insecure over their length always put down others.
Marq said,
June 2, 2006 at 4:47
June.
June June June.
Moon.
Soon.
‘Toon.
Rune.
Coon.
Boone.
Dune.
‘Shrooms….
Jillian said,
June 4, 2006 at 3:06
goodness gracious, Marq! Isn’t he yummy enough to eat with a spoon, whoever he is.
I’m so, so tired. Just got back from tallahassee a day ago and I leave for Atlanta next week.
I think I’m having too much fun. Someone wake me when it’s over.
Marq said,
June 5, 2006 at 10:28
That’s Ian Somerhalder, best know from being on season one of “Lost,” “The Rules Of Attraction” (in which he plays a queer boy who’s obsessed with the straight James Van Der Beek–he fantasizes a sex scene, which is amusing ‘cos it’s lots hotter than the sex scene James has in the movie’s ‘real life’), and from crappy, low-budget horror movies like the recent “Pulse.” Out of all that stuff, while “Rules” is amusing, if you see someone carting about the DVD box of “Lost,” borrow it, it’s great fun. Leaves off at an extremely annoying point, though.
Gregor Samsa said,
June 6, 2006 at 0:28
107 to go astronutz!!!
celticgirl said,
June 6, 2006 at 14:39
*sniff* nobody even missed me! I’ve been gone like for two weeks, but do you lot care? Huh?
Whatevs.
Gregor Samsa said,
June 7, 2006 at 22:34
Oh so that’s what that heaviness in my heart was all about. Glad that you’re back.
Jillian said,
June 10, 2006 at 6:22
I missed you, cg. a LOT.
You left me alone with a bunch of smelly boys. I’ve been burning incense all over the place, to no avail.
Now I’m off to Hotlanta for a month, which should be all kinds of awesome.
The only thing depressing me at the moment is that the new science teacher in my town’s high school is convinced that pterodactyls are dinosaurs. You have no idea how this depresses me. I need someone to say something clever and science-y to cheer me up, stat!
celticgirl said,
June 10, 2006 at 9:12
Jillian-please don’t leave me alone with teh stinky! (You will be checking in from Hotlanta, right? Please say yes!)
I don’t have anything very science-y to cheer you up except an interesting article I ran across about how crows have humanlike intelligence:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/060606-crows.html
Crows are cool.
(Oh, and 895 BITCHEZ!)
celticgirl said,
June 10, 2006 at 9:16
Oops! That was actually 896, and this one is 897 BITCHEZ!!!11!!one!
Gregor: thanks. Nice to be back. Sometime I’ll tell you guys why I was gone so long…..
Marq said,
June 10, 2006 at 11:28
Well, it could be worse. He could lump ‘em in with birds, the way the Bible does bats. And the Bible, being the WORD of Gawd can’t be wrong, can it?
Hmm. That probably didn’t help much.
Hey, look! The next comment is #900!!1!
celticgirl said,
June 10, 2006 at 23:56
Only 100 to go til we break teh interwebs!!!!111one!
Whooo hooooo!!1!!
Marq said,
June 16, 2006 at 8:55
At some time between now and comment #1000, I swear that I shall Godwin this thread.
Why?
Because I’m evil, of course!
Marq said,
June 18, 2006 at 11:58
OK, kids, it’s “cliché post” time once again, the fun, fun, FUN game that you play at home, too!
“Say! It’s quiet in here tonight… Too quiet!!”
Marq said,
June 18, 2006 at 12:00
Gawd, that was just too much fun! Now I gotta go hose myself off, inside and out.
Marq said,
June 18, 2006 at 12:02
Ah, shit! I’ve doomed the rest of this thread to italics!!! Damn, damn, damn!!!
Jillian said,
June 18, 2006 at 12:37
We’re going to have to think up a suitable punishment for you because of this, Marq.
Gregor Samsa said,
June 18, 2006 at 14:06
There I fixed it for you. Just don’t let it happen again.
Jillian said,
June 18, 2006 at 16:38
You let him off way too easy, Gregor.
I think this calls for a spanking.
Gregor Samsa said,
June 18, 2006 at 23:48
If you must but just make sure you close the spanking tag!
Marq said,
June 19, 2006 at 6:30
I say we try and get the bold, strike-thru, and link tags all stuck on, too*.
*I have appealed to Gavin for help, so we’re probably doomed.
Gregor Samsa said,
June 19, 2006 at 11:00
To fix open tags all you have to do is close the tag at the start of the next comment. Anyone can do it.
Jillian said,
June 20, 2006 at 4:14
Why would I want to close the spanking tag? That would end all my fun.
You need a spanking for even suggesting it.
On a less whimsical note, I am in the middle of my summer training institute for this teaching-in-low-income-communities project I signed up for, and I am learning things about the nature of exhaustion that even going to school full time while working full time could not teach me. They’re basically putting us through the equivalent of an M.Ed. program while we teach summer school at the same time. I imagine this must be much like what a medical ER residency is like – there really is no way that you can actually complete all the work they assign you, so you prioritize by figuring out which work you can skip without seriously screwing up the rest of someone’s life.
Despite the exhaustion and the occasional tears, I love it. Everyone always bitches about the quality of education in America today – I’m excited to be privileged enough to be in a position to do something besides just bitch.
And you’ll have to excuse the grammar atrocities I’m sure are lurking in here – I got maybe four hours of sleep last night and I’m looking to do the same tonight.
I miss you crazy kids.
Marq said,
June 20, 2006 at 8:26
Hmm… let’s see…
Marq said,
June 20, 2006 at 8:28
Um, Mr. Samsa? Methinks thou art wrong in regards to tag closure. Or, to put it another way, let’s see you close the damned tag ifyou’resosmart!
Gregor Samsa said,
June 20, 2006 at 13:01
I already closed the italics tag above. But we’ll try it again I’m leaving the italics tag open.
F. M. Asshat said,
June 20, 2006 at 13:02
Hey who was the nincompoop who left the italics tag open!!! What a cobag!!!1
Gregor Samsa said,
June 20, 2006 at 13:03
There all better.
Gregor Samsa said,
June 20, 2006 at 13:05
And I think that you already closed your own bold tag. Force of habit!! Hee Hee
Gregor Samsa said,
June 20, 2006 at 13:07
Jillian, that’s great! Is it Teach for America?
Jillian said,
June 21, 2006 at 1:48
Gregor, I am indeed doing Teach for America.
It’s exciting as hell, despite the massive frustration and exhaustion. I’m teaching World history in summer school right now, and get to deliver a lesson plan on Adam Smith and Karl Marx tomorrow – as soon as I finish writing the lesson plan for the third time. There’s something especially thrilling about the idea of trying to find a way to get a bunch of urban Atlanta youth to get hooked by some of the most influential words and ideas ever put down on paper by humanity.
I should hit you guys up for ideas about cool educational devices to use in my lesson plans. If you have any thoughts or clever handouts or graphics in mind that are appropriate for seventeen year olds who are reading several grade levels below standard, let me know. I’ll trade recipes for ‘em – I’ve got a mushroom risotto that is to die for, and a coconut-lime-banana-rum bread that will rock your world. I’ve also got a vegetarian shepherd’s pie that’s better than the real thing.
Pinko Punko said,
June 21, 2006 at 9:37
Jilly Pants, there is some puppy love oer at 3B, plus you missed PupH, the 3rd cutest dog on the internets.
Marq said,
June 22, 2006 at 7:37
Speaking of cutie pooches, I finally got around to putting up a Flickr page with pix of my dorg, whose name I *really* didn’t steal from Pinko-he came with name already attached. I’ll be putting up more occasionally-I want to avoid any where dad or I am in them clearly. Or, the house from the outside.
Marq said,
June 24, 2006 at 7:49
Italics?
Marq said,
June 24, 2006 at 7:50
Bupkis!
Jillian said,
June 26, 2006 at 1:39
More doggie pictures, please!
The amount of work I have to do right now – and the sheer stupidity of a lot of it – is proving to be a real downer. So I need extra cuteness.
Marq’s doggie scores a 5 on the cuteness rubric (which only goes from 1-4, btw). I’m getting two years’ worth of educational pedagogy shoved into my head in a month, so everything nowadays seems to come out in teacher-speak – my apologies.
Whoever wrote the history standards for the state of Georgia has some pretty serious cobag issues, I fear. I can’t believe some of the stuff I have to teach.
I can’t wait to get back to Miami. I’m pooped.
PupH said,
June 26, 2006 at 22:38
Jillian true cuteness revealed here . Although, Marq’s pup is cute enough for a big guy!
Marq said,
June 30, 2006 at 6:33
I’ll put up more pup pix in July–evidently, I reached my limit this month already, though for the life of me, I can’t find what that limit is on Flickr’s site. Does anybody know if there’s a faq or anything? I mean, I uploaded 19 pix, which is a very strange number to be a maximum. I was actually trying to send up another 16, so I kinda think the monthly total is 20 and the 19 + the 16 would have been over the limit, so it rejected all of ‘em rather than take one. Feh!
Gregor Samsa said,
July 1, 2006 at 20:01
The 3Bulls! account has a 20Mb/month limit so it’s not the number of pictures but the size. You can try saving the pictures in a lower quality format in order to upload more.
Jillian said,
July 4, 2006 at 4:57
I am sooo loving all the doggie pics – I check ‘em frequently, and they always make me smile! You guys are all kinds of awesome!
I have to work on the Fourth, so I’m stuck home alone the night before with nothing but a new biography of Stalin to keep me company, so if anybody’s around, say hi to me here – it will be way more congenial company than Comrade Stalin is.
Marq said,
July 4, 2006 at 7:39
Yeah, I finally found Flickr’s TAQ, and you’re absolutely right. Still, I updated Smokey’s pics full-size again, put up 12 more which used about 2/3rds of my allotment for July. Handily, the export plug-in I use in iPhoto shows me remaining bandwidth, so I don’t have to sign in to Flickr to find that out. Up to the version I’m using, it was free. Now, the developer has released version 2.0, and it’s shareware. Grr.
Marq said,
July 4, 2006 at 7:41
Hey! Dead, sociopathic commie dictators need company too!
Pinko Punko said,
July 8, 2006 at 20:27
Don’t they eva1!
Gregor Samsa said,
July 11, 2006 at 0:49
Well it’s almost the one year anniversary of this here thread…
Jillian said,
July 12, 2006 at 0:47
Oh, man!
Everybody HAS to post on the threadiversary! It’ll be a big ol’ party!
I’ll bring the two tone CDs and the chartreuse.
See, this is why I never get invited to parties – that sounds like a lot of fun to me, and I know that to everybody else, it sounds like a Vogon poetry recital.
But everyone still has to post, regardless.
Marq said,
July 14, 2006 at 5:23
For the threadiversary, should we link from a post on the front page, or should we keep this little clubhouse a “secret?”
BillyD said,
July 17, 2006 at 1:39
The bestest threadiversary present ever would be 1,000 posts
Marq said,
July 17, 2006 at 3:35
Well. BillyD, only 64 to go. ‘Course, we only have ’til August 5th, so get typing!
Jillian said,
July 19, 2006 at 17:05
If you had a friend who was feeling down and lonely, what would you do to cheer him up?
celticgirl said,
July 20, 2006 at 12:37
Well, I’m feeling down and lonely. Any suggestions? (P.S. I’ve had just about the worst week of my life, so be gentle)
celticgirl said,
July 20, 2006 at 12:40
…and you know, I just realized the reason I got to this thread so late was that it is also the 1 year anniversary of when I left the states to move “across the pond” – and I was without my beloved broadband for a couple of months.
So, another thing to celebrate! Yay! (seriously, I love y’all, but I’m much happier here than I was in the states).
Jillian said,
July 20, 2006 at 16:29
Awww, I’m sorry you’re having a crummy week, cg!
I think a summer weekend getaway is in order. Preferably to some place that serves drinks in little coconut shells.
Just keep telling yourself that you could be having all of the same problems – only Bush could still be your president. That would be worse. Much worse.
I’m envious.
celticgirl said,
July 20, 2006 at 22:39
Actually, my sweetie and I are heading out with our little caravan to Whitby on the east coast of Northern Engand (the ruined abbey on the cliff was part of the inspiration for Bram Stoker when he was writing ‘Dracula’). So, while not tropical, it will just be the two of us (well, and the dog) on a camping adventure.
It is a much needed break from caring for my son, who has severe autism (he will be at a respite facility).
Thanks for the kind words…although in fairness, I’ve traded in Bush for the poodle that is Blair. And I once jokingly said to my partner “The Queen is not the boss of me” and he patiently reminded me that actually, as long as I want to live here, she is. So, I lost a king wannabe and gained a poodle and a queen…
Marq said,
July 21, 2006 at 17:30
In all fairness, world leaders often leave something to be desired. They’re often venal and stupid and corrupt and hypocritical, etc., etc. But then, you compare ‘em to Shrub, and all of a sudden they start looking like Lincoln and Roosevelt and Churchill and Gandhi. It’s not really fair that he makes such a collection of malcontents, ingrates, and anacephalus morons look good by contrast, the bastard. Why, oh why do we always wind up grading on a curve? I hated that back in school, where a handful of idiots could drag *my* grade down some, and I hate it in the body politic now. Feh!
Oh, and cg, hope you week improves. If we’re not in the midst of WWIII by next week, consider yourself ahead!
Jillian said,
July 22, 2006 at 3:27
Celticgirl, just so you know…
People like you, who take care of those who need it and generally just get their business done while still smiling – you guys are the real heroes of the world.
Never forget that.
celticgirl said,
July 23, 2006 at 12:55
Jillian-
Thanks for that. It means a lot…
Marq said,
July 25, 2006 at 6:55
Yowza! I had to be out for about four hours, and in that time the “For Mal de Mer” thread went from 68 comments to 175. Jeebus! And, the bulk of them were from about 4 people. BTW, Jillian, I think a certain somebody was unduly harsh to you, because what you thought in that situation was completely understandable, and trying to shame you for what you *already* felt bad about was uncalled for.
Jillian said,
July 26, 2006 at 5:08
I really appreciate that, Marq. Thanks.
It’s why I bowed out. I’m not going to sink to that level. I don’t control anybody else or tell anybody else what to do, but I also try damn hard not to fall to the lowest common denominator, either.
People are so weird sometimes – not just in this, but in general, you know? I don’t get people most of the time. It’s why I stay home and read a lot.
BillyD said,
July 26, 2006 at 6:02
How’s the heat treatin’ everyone?
Jillian said,
July 26, 2006 at 18:40
The heat has driven me to negative values on the motivation scale.
Not only do I not do anything, but merely being in my presence makes it impossible for anyone else to do anything, either.
BillyD said,
July 27, 2006 at 4:56
I know what you mean Jill – I’m really backed up on research I should be doing, but I just can’t get myself to do it. Maybe more beer will solve this dilemma…
Jillian said,
July 27, 2006 at 12:14
What dilemma wouldn’t it solve?
Gregor Samsa said,
July 27, 2006 at 18:50
Glorious rain for us today after a week of temperatures over 105. Generally that’s life for us in the desert but it’s brutal nonetheless.
We’d better get cranking if we want 999 comments by the threadaversary. I think we should take it to 999 and see how long we can resist the temptation of the 1000th comment.
BiilyD said,
July 27, 2006 at 20:17
You’re playing with fire Gregor – there’s no way I could resist the siren’s song of the 1,000th comment for long. Just think…. soon the internets will crumble!!! Maybe we should use this to get some ransom cash out of someone, a la Dr. Evil.
Jillian said,
July 28, 2006 at 4:58
The 1000th comment is MINE, bitchez!!!
Try and stop me.
Marq said,
July 29, 2006 at 11:09
I think I had one of the x00ths waaaaaaaay upthread, so I’ll drop out once it gets within, say, 10. Did we ever decide whether we want to keep this a “secret clubhouse,” or if we wanted to link to it on a thread still up on the main page? My suggestion: after we attain at least 1000 comments, then we link, allowing the hoi polloi to experience the sheer hugeosity of Teh Long Threadâ„¢. Some o’ those scalawags will shit themselves. Others will just point at us and laugh. Good times.
Marq said,
July 29, 2006 at 11:11
Oh, yeah… 45, bitchez!!!1
celticgirl said,
July 29, 2006 at 13:53
44 now – and I’m feeling much better since my little break. If it makes you guys feel any better we are gettng a freaking heat wave here in SCOTLAND!!!one11!! Do you realize how far north that is of y’all? I mean, we’re practically into the land of the midnight sun here – when the solstice came round in June our sunset was happening like at 11:00pm. Seriously, this is NOT ok.
I’ve got a tropical passion flower growing in front of my house and man is it hap-hap-happy…um, global warming, anybody?
Jillian said,
July 30, 2006 at 2:17
Global Warming is a liberal myth – everybody knows that. ;-)
So my new job starts tomorrow, and I’m all nervous now. Excited, but nervous.
It’s going to be a long night.
Gregor Samsa said,
July 30, 2006 at 7:20
We do love to talk about the weather don’t we? Two inches of rain here today and temps in the middle 80s – a respite for desert dwellers.
Jillian – Good luck with the job. You’ll do fine.
Marq – I don’t think we’ll have any say whether this thread is made public again…Big Brother is always watching.
celticgirl said,
July 30, 2006 at 22:28
Jillian: Good luck with the new job. I’m sure you’ll do great – and I really admire what you’re doing.
Whether or not the thread is made public again, we have to keep keeping on til we reach that magical 1000 and break teh interwebs.
So, what do you think will happen? Will the tubes all explode, or will computer screens across the world spew bytes all over their users? Could be interesting…
Gregor Samsa said,
July 31, 2006 at 19:44
Are the SadNo! superCray3600 mainframes able to handle that fourth digit? Time will tell…time will tell…however I fear that it’ll be something akin to Y2K (perhaps Comment1K). Personally, I’m buying a generator, a rifle, a years supply of food, a kit that allows me to drink my own pee, and gasoline, plenty of gasoline.
Gregor Samsa said,
July 31, 2006 at 19:45
Oh and duct tape and bailing wire.
BillyD said,
August 1, 2006 at 4:32
We’re going to have to average about 8 comments a day to hit C1K by the threadiversary.
38!!
Marq said,
August 1, 2006 at 8:59
We might have to blather on about nonsense.
[crickets]
Oh, wait.
I’ve been doing that all along!
Gregor Samsa said,
August 1, 2006 at 16:50
I made an oblique reference to the C1K and the threadiversary in a post at 3B! I expect the comments to start pouring in….hee hee!
NO BLATHERING THIS IS SERIOUS!!!1
BillyD said,
August 1, 2006 at 18:01
It’s my firm belief that at comment 999 all posters on this thread will be raptured.
tigrismus said,
August 1, 2006 at 18:09
Jillian, how’s the job?
BillyD, raptured to where and by whom? I hope to be touched by an Angelhair…
BillyD said,
August 1, 2006 at 18:34
Tigrismus – that kind of questioning of beliefs is what will keep you from being raptured.
Pinko Punko said,
August 1, 2006 at 19:44
Sign me up for the rapturewagon!
Chickety Check! I hope the G-d man doesn’t fling me into the non-briar patch that is hell a la Jack Chick says.
celticgirl said,
August 1, 2006 at 23:34
Come on people, get cracking! It looks like it’s up to us – we few, we happy few – to get this thing done.
Oh, if we could only get Marie herownbadself to post here just.one.more.time….
That would seal the Rapture deal!!!!one!!1eleven!!
celticgirl said,
August 1, 2006 at 23:37
Hey Marq/PP-could you lure Marie here with a linky? What do you think?
celticgirl said,
August 1, 2006 at 23:46
Oh – and 30 BITCHEZ!!! C1K w00t!!!
Marq said,
August 2, 2006 at 2:14
You know what would really suck? If we got to comment #999 and all held back, waiting for Jillian to post #1000. But she’s busy with the nouveaux job and doesn’t log on to here for most of the day. Then, in swoops annieangel (she knows where this thread is, let us not forget), who posts comments #1000-1005. Everything is ruined!!1 Well, this calls for a preemptive strike, if anything ever did!
Darn you, annieangel! Darn you to HECK!!1!
Though, it’d almost be OK if Marie Jon’ did it.
29…
Jillian said,
August 2, 2006 at 3:12
First day at work…no kids yet. They come next week, so I have a few days to try to get my classroom set up, maybe write a few lesson plans, see if I can possibly score a few desks for my kids to sit at or something. You know – the usual.
Yeah, I have almost no desks in my room. It’s pretty crazy.
But so far, it’s awesome. The faculty at my school are just the most friendly, supportive, funny people I’ve ever had the privilege to work with, and I’m really optimistic about the possibilities for this year. At least, I will be if I can find time to write some lesson plans before Monday.
And the best part of all? I’m teaching American government.
I can’t think of anything that could possibly be more fun. I think I’ll be all Socratic about it, and try telling the kids that our government is, structurally speaking, not democratic at all, and make them try to defend the principle that it is.
I have incredible amounts of work to do in the next few days, but I’m also incredibly excited about it. If only I can get my kids to read on something approximating grade level, I can die a happy woman….I’ve heard from other teachers at my school that incoming freshmen usually read on a third to sixth grade level – with some at what’s called “pre-reading” level (they know their letters, but don’t know how to put them together to make sounds).
It’s heartbreaking to think about….why do we let our young people end up in this situation? Why is it that we’re the richest country in the industrialized world, yet have the lowest adult literacy rate in the industrialized world? It’s criminal.
I’m going to bed…I’m pooped. Y’all play nice, and save me some cake from the Breaking Teh Intarwebs Party if I miss it!
Pinko Punko said,
August 2, 2006 at 3:21
IF anyone wants to get MJ, link her column from a comment here and we’ll all click over 500 times. If she watches her site-meter, she might come over.
I am being besquelched by a total cobwad at 3B. I may be dead before the rapture.
tigrismus said,
August 2, 2006 at 3:33
Oh, Pinko, I didn’t mean it when I called everyone a lumpgeyser! And then I tempted fish to create the mecha-Cheney… Forgive! Forgive!
BillyD said,
August 2, 2006 at 18:38
I’m assuming this joke has already been made, but isn’t mecha-cheney redundant?
976!
tigrismus said,
August 2, 2006 at 18:55
NO! It’s perfectly true that he couldn’t possibly be any more evil than he already is, but consider what will result when you add that infinite capacity for evil to a deathless being with super-smiting-strength, the ability to be constantly active(instead of having to sleep in his coffin during the day as he now does), and who is perhaps unconquerable by modern technology, and I think you see why I’m a little worried. Hopefully fish will build him with a tragic, Shakespearean flaw, and when mecha-Cheney finally succumbs we will rejoice, but with a bittersweet rejoicing.
BillyD said,
August 2, 2006 at 19:40
I just hope we have Will Smith around to take out mecha-Cheney.
Yosef said,
August 2, 2006 at 19:40
Maybe C1K will get THYCWOTI re-energized in Tha Wurld o’ Blogs.
Damn you Gregor Samsa! I had to check out the secret thread, the super-duper secret thread, and something else before I thought to check here.
BTW, 3B! is broken right now. I can’t even get started on Fantasy Football and getting things in order for the grape harvest without y’all blowing up my (Pinko’s) own site?
celticgirl said,
August 2, 2006 at 19:41
Marq – you can’t drop out at the last! You’ve pulled a lot of weight here dude, and you deserve a shot (sorry Jillian-I love you honey, but, fair dues). I expect you both to slug it out for the magical 1000!
Me, I’ll be happy to land somewhere between 995 and 999…and then BOOM!!!
978 and counting (just 22 more – LET’S DO THIS, PEOPLE!)
celticgirl said,
August 2, 2006 at 19:41
Whoa – jumped the count! That’s more like it!
Yosef said,
August 2, 2006 at 20:14
What happened to my comment?
Yosef said,
August 2, 2006 at 20:14
Never mind, it’s there.
Gregor Samsa said,
August 3, 2006 at 0:56
Gavin’s post – a subtle shout out to the C1K?
Yosef, now that you’ve had to figure it out for yourself you’ll remember next time…
BiilyD said,
August 3, 2006 at 17:44
Atrios is going to be so jealous when he sees we reached C1K and it only took a year!
celticgirl said,
August 3, 2006 at 23:16
Guys, I don’t think they’re getting the hint over on the main thread…though I do think Gav was trying. We need to be less subtle, I think.
Anyway, 986 BITCHEZ! Only 14 to go – whooo hoooo!!!
Marq said,
August 3, 2006 at 23:28
cg, I haven’t dropped out. It’s just that I have no desire to nab #1000, and we’re *really* close (14 to go, bitchez!1!). And just because Atrios can whip up 1000 comments in two hours on an open thread isn’t any reason not to be proud of our little accomplishment here. After all, in two days, we will have more-or-less kept this thread alive and active for 1 whole year! Huzzah!
Marq said,
August 3, 2006 at 23:30
Damn! *12* to go–988, bitchez!!
BiilyD said,
August 4, 2006 at 0:06
We don’t have an army of 20 million posting “Frist!” either – which is a good thing.
Gregor Samsa said,
August 4, 2006 at 9:04
Has the brain trust considered the German time change? Perhaps we don’t have a full day left after all?
celticgirl said,
August 4, 2006 at 10:15
ARRRRGH! Gregor, dammit, I think you’re right. We need to get this thing done ASAP! I’m afraid the Patterico/Deb/Mario thread is distracting people from the truly important business of getting this thread to 1000!
991- 9 to go now!
celticgirl said,
August 4, 2006 at 10:17
Yep, you’re right…my time stamp in Britain is reflecting German time – i.e. an hour ahead of me. So today is the day comrades!
992! w00t!
Marq said,
August 4, 2006 at 11:16
We’ve got roughly 24hrs to work with here–no prob. Though I admit it takes a while to wade through the clinical insanity in those Pattycakes threads. 993!
Jillian said,
August 4, 2006 at 11:51
What did I miss?
Jillian said,
August 4, 2006 at 11:53
sheesh…….I wish I could go back to being unemployed. I miss all the fun parties nowadays. I can’t wait for summer vacation!
I just found out that at my school, we don’t even know how long the class periods are going to be on the first few days. I’m a new teacher, sitting down trying to write lesson plans, and I have no idea how long to write them for.
You have no idea the massive, gut wrenching anxiety this is causing me. I’ll be here crying in my beer by the end of next week.
Marq said,
August 4, 2006 at 14:34
Well, Jillian, we’re now… 4 comments away from C1K!!(!!!!!!) It’s practically up to you–I’m not posting again until post C1K. However, celticgirl might be competing for that magic #1000, so I don’t know if it’s safe to sit back and wait at this point.
Gee, it’s like everything happens all at once, eh?
996, biyotchez!11!2
BillyD said,
August 4, 2006 at 16:11
Damn – experiencing history first hand!
997!!
Yosef said,
August 4, 2006 at 18:59
Frist!
Gavin M. said,
August 4, 2006 at 19:01
[Should I post an announcement, or keep the thread secret?]
Yosef said,
August 4, 2006 at 19:01
999 feel the excitement!
tigrismus said,
August 4, 2006 at 19:08
And it’s Yosef for the win! Gavin, keep it secret, but if you have any sock puppet info you wish to share…
Gregor Samsa said,
August 4, 2006 at 19:09
Classic! I knew it would come to this…two comments passing in the ether – both thinking they were 999! Congratulations to Yosef!!!!!!
1001 Daffodillzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
Gavin Broadcast it loud and proud!!1
Gavin M. said,
August 4, 2006 at 19:30
Sock puppet info… Well, there’s a fair chance that Patty has been using one, but I honestly wouldn’t bet the farm on it at this point.
On the other hand, there’s a total mob with torches formed re: the TBogg thing. Patty seems not to realize the, you know, unanimity of sentiment. Me & Retardo are on IM now trying to figure out what to do.
tigrismus said,
August 4, 2006 at 19:43
Well, I won’t dig for details, I was just curious. Good luck figuring out a good response to Patterico on TBogg. P occasionally almost seems to realize just how badly what he did reflects on him, then he gets defensive and digs in further. He’s tenaciously wrong-headed, that one.
Oh, and I stumbled onto a photo you might have some use for, if you haven’t seen it already: Google pat-boone shoebox
Gavin M. said,
August 4, 2006 at 19:53
I don’t mean to be vague, but we do a lot of behind-the-scenes work when someone gets threatened or ‘outed’ by a right-blogger… We can’t really post on that stuff, most of the time. The ideal is just to make the problem go away quietly.
But it’s been a giant blizzard of emails all over the place, these past couple days. TBogg was sort of the wrong guy of pick on.
tigrismus said,
August 4, 2006 at 20:03
No, I think you should be vague; quietly and behind the scenes is the best way. I wish you all luck.
BillyD said,
August 4, 2006 at 20:30
Yeah – of all people to pick on…. Hasn’t Patty ever read TBogg?
BillyD said,
August 4, 2006 at 20:32
Happy C1K to everyone, btw
celticgirl said,
August 4, 2006 at 22:29
I missed it! Yosef was the win? Then he must resurrect THYWCOTI as promised!
I can’t believe teh internets still work…
Happy C1K!!!
Yosef said,
August 4, 2006 at 22:57
I didn’t even want the win. But can you imagine how many corndogs I’ll get this time? I’m almost completely out of my last supply!
Jillian said,
August 4, 2006 at 23:11
PAAAAAAAAAAAAAARTY!
mikey said,
August 4, 2006 at 23:33
C1K? Yeah, I was confused. It was begining to sound like a Saatchi & Saatchi auto campaign. “Only three more days ’til C1K”. But once it was identified as “The Long Thread” it was pretty simple to Gizzoogle, gnome sayin?
So – Should I bother to read the hole thing, or would that be a pointless exercise at this point.
Congrats on this. You have now accomplished your goal and may have a bowl of ice cream on the good couch…
mikey
Jillian said,
August 5, 2006 at 4:01
Oh, the whole thing is definitely worth a read.
It’s quite the exercise in meta-self-referentiality.
You’ll be smarter if you do.
(ok, maybe not.)
Gregor Samsa said,
August 5, 2006 at 6:53
So this is heavan? What a freaking let down! Where are my dancing girls. Where is my ice cream? Why is it so hot?!
Gregor Samsa said,
August 5, 2006 at 7:14
er…heaven….
And let me be the first to wish everyone happy threadiversary!!!!
Marq said,
August 5, 2006 at 7:58
Ohhhh! Our little thread is one year old… and so cute! Cootchie-cootchie!
Ow!!
The little shit *bit* me!1! Sonofa—!!!1
FWIW, mikey, there’s some stuff in the thread that’s well worth reading. There’s a bit (up toward #300? maybe) where Gregor Samsa (posting as GregH), wha?, Pinko, Yosef, and Ukko are all adding to a story about Marie Jon’, one sentence at a time… all while trying to one-up each other. That’s classic. Then, things get really odd for a time. I declare war on Pinko, just to see if he’s still paying attention. Eventually, annieangel finds her way in (ca. the time she was active on the front page). Etc., etc. So, there’s good stuff, but yeah, it is gawdawfully long.
Marq said,
August 5, 2006 at 8:00
On to C2K for the second threadiversary!!!1one! 1017, sporkwaffles!!
Jillian said,
August 5, 2006 at 14:27
celticgirl and I could dance for you, Gregor, if it would make you feel better.
As for me, I’m having a bit of a crummy week, and so I am looking for things to make me feel better. I’m thinking funnel cakes at the IHOP are a good place to start.
Mary Jones said,
August 5, 2006 at 17:21
Hey look! A bandwagon! I think I’ll jump on it!
ifthethunderdontgetya said,
August 6, 2006 at 2:46
Did Marie Jon’ ever show up and post? She never answered my question about Noah getting the dinosaurs on the ark.
Kathleen said,
August 6, 2006 at 9:55
wow I finally amde it here. and after all the excitement is over…
celticgirl said,
August 6, 2006 at 12:03
Hey Kathleen (and Mikey, Mary, ifthethunder(sic): Welcome, and better late then never! We can have our own little balcony party over here for as loooooooooong as we like. And the excitement’s not over til we say it is!!!!one1!
Glad ya made it!
Yosef said,
August 7, 2006 at 22:16
I’ll see y’all next August 5th!
Mary Jones said,
August 7, 2006 at 22:23
Glad ya made it!
I was so happy when someone finally mentioned the date of this post, because I was having a hell of a time finding.
Retardo Montalban said,
August 7, 2006 at 23:06
Ahhh so this is what the whispers were about. I’m here to crash the party!
Jillian said,
August 8, 2006 at 0:32
OMG!!! Look at all the new people to come play with us!!! Whee!!!! Boiled peanuts for everyone!
Kathleen said,
August 8, 2006 at 2:15
um, ick? can I have Cheetos? JUST KIDDING. Actually, I am so starving from my tiny lunch of lentil soup, that I would eat anything including boiled peanuts.
Kathleen said,
August 8, 2006 at 2:16
I was so happy when someone finally mentioned the date of this post, because I was having a hell of a time finding.
me too! I wouldn’t be much of a detective….
Yosef said,
August 8, 2006 at 16:01
Boiled peanuts are awesome-o! I will share my prize corndogs with everyone here, too. You can’t beat that, boiled p-nuts and corndogs!
Gregor Samsa said,
August 8, 2006 at 17:21
Boiled peanuts when still warm are the best! But cold they’re not so good.
mmmVeganCornDogs!!
mikey said,
August 9, 2006 at 2:29
Boiled peanuts, corn dogs and funnel cakes. Is this The Long Thread ™ or a summer carnival? Actually, I love all that carny food, but I think my docs gonna kick my ass for eating it. Ah well, in for a penny, in for ten thousand calories. Bring it on!
mikey
Jillian said,
August 9, 2006 at 3:34
I once dated a boy from Georgia, which explains why this Yankee girl knows how to eat boiled peanuts *and* grits.
It also helps to explain why I’m single….I have terrible taste in men. I’m always picking really nice guys who are also just COMPLETELY incompatible with me. What the hell was a left wing Yankee socialist doing dating a good ol boy from Valdosta, Georgia, anyway? Somebody remind me not to do that anymore.
Marq said,
August 9, 2006 at 15:36
That would be me, of course.
Oh, hey, since Retardo’s in here, dude, could you fix the effing italics tag? It was broken quite a ways upthread by… someone. OK, it was me. Eh. Nobody’s perfect.
Gregor Samsa said,
August 9, 2006 at 17:27
Uh oh! Do we have to have the italics tag discussion again?
Yosef said,
August 9, 2006 at 17:44
What the hell was a left wing Yankee socialist doing dating a good ol boy from Valdosta, Georgia, anyway?
I’ve actually got a few left winger friends from Valdosta. They’re good ol boys and gals, too.
Kathleen said,
August 10, 2006 at 2:10
mmmmmm. corn dogs.
Kathleen said,
August 10, 2006 at 2:11
I’m always picking really nice guys who are also just COMPLETELY incompatible with me.
better than picking assholes. anyways, how can you know is they are incompatible until you try? That’s my theory.
Pinko Punko said,
August 12, 2006 at 18:08
Did I miss something?
Everyone here is equally the best.
Jillian said,
August 13, 2006 at 1:27
The man with some of the cutest dogs on the whole intarwebs is back! YAY!
Jillian said,
August 13, 2006 at 15:18
btw, the website that http://www.hotlesbiansheepaction.com takes you to has changed again. It’s worth a click – worksafe, and a quick chuckle, too.
J Johnson said,
August 14, 2006 at 7:44
Ahhh, just look at how fast they grow up. One year old and this little threadlet has become a big strong thread already.
I heard that hotlesbiansheep being interviewed on a fundamentalist Christian radio show once, and it’s a hoot hearing the callers grill her for her immodest dress. One caller said he wouldn’t be comfortable having her books on his table if his pastor were visiting. She said his pastor was a pervert. People should grill her more on why her lifestyle doesn’t resemble that of ofJimBob Duggar.
By the way, I have the taste of the ol’ dogs in my craw.
Kathleen said,
August 15, 2006 at 3:31
Things I like: ice cream, novels, Adrian Monk
Things I don’t like: hangnails, spider bites, broken remote
Gregor Samsa said,
August 15, 2006 at 7:47
Hey Ukko!!!
I Love little baby ducks,
Old pickup trucks,
Slow movin’ trains – and rain.
I Love little country streams,
Sleep without dreams,
Sunday school in May – and hay.
And I love you too.
I Love – leaves in the wind,
Pictures of my friends,
Birds of the world – and squirrels.
I Love – coffee in a cup,
Little fuzzy pups,
Bourbon in a glass – and grass
And I love you too.
I Love honest open smiles,
Kisses from a child,
Tomatoes on the vine – and onions.
I Love winners when they cry,
Losers when they try,
Music when it’s good – and life.
And I love you too.
Need to average approximately 3 comments per day to make C2k!
Marq said,
August 16, 2006 at 2:49
My problem is nearly completely the opposite. I am *hugely* attracted to guys who look like psychopaths. If they’ve got that deranged gleam in their eyes, it’s like twelve bonus charisma points. Only problem is, the ones that *look* like psychopaths…. often *are* psychopaths. And I’m not even necessarily incompatible with them. It’s just that, well, they’re *psychopaths*! It rarely ends well. One of these days, Mr. Not-Right is gonna be yet another gay serial killer (there’s something about Illinois and gay serial killers–go figure), and that’ll be the end of me. Feh.
Jillian said,
August 16, 2006 at 3:02
Gee, Marq, if only you were living a little further south, I could hook you up with a brilliant, wickedly evil, adorable little twink who’s got just the right touch of bitch in him. I could see you two hitting it off.
So to speak. ;-)
Incidentally, does playing yentl for all my gay friends mean that I’m *not* ready to start dating again, or that I *am* ready to start dating again?
J Johnson said,
August 16, 2006 at 3:41
Kathleen, have you been bitten by a spider?
I dislike good-ol’-boy bullies, pretentiousness, and smarminess. In other words, I dislike George Allen.
I like learning things that fundamentally change how I perceive the world. And dogs.
PupH said,
August 16, 2006 at 7:27
Oh and we love you too Ukko.
Kathleen said,
August 16, 2006 at 23:23
Kathleen, have you been bitten by a spider?
I was, actually. I was really awful. Super swollen and red and itchy for over a week. I actually considered going to the hospital, just because I have never had a reaction like that. Of course, the last time I went to the hospital because I thought I broke my foot, my insurance got billed $1700. Yep, that’s right. $1700. For about 10 minutes of doctor time, about 15 minutes of nurse time, and an xray.
I just can’t believe that we don’t have walk-in health clinics in this country, where someone can go in and be like “I have this bite on my leg, is there something wrong?”
(/rant on health care so everyone can wake up now.)
Jillian said,
August 17, 2006 at 0:26
The American health care system could win awards for “stupidity in design” or something. It really is a global embarrassment that we’re as rich as we are and we can’t find an efficient way to get basic health care needs met for all of our citizens.
Hell, Cuba can do that.
Jillian said,
August 17, 2006 at 1:04
Hey, who wants one of these?
Which of the epistles was it that praises the godliness of short term equity funds? Was it Galatians?
Marq said,
August 18, 2006 at 6:27
Jillian, you’re probably as ready for dating as any of us are*.
*read into this what you will.
Jillian said,
August 20, 2006 at 2:26
On the up side, I get to sleep in tomorrow.
On the down side, if one more person I love attempts suicide this month, I don’t know what I’ll do.
I think I hate this year.
Marq said,
August 22, 2006 at 19:54
Well, that can’t be good, and wouldn’t be even if it were just one.
Kathleen said,
August 25, 2006 at 1:59
hope things are going better Jillian.
Jillian said,
August 25, 2006 at 11:12
Thanks, guys.
It’s getting better.
Once I come home from work this afternoon and go directly to bed (do not pass Go, do not collect $200), I should hopefully feel even better.
Kathleen said,
August 29, 2006 at 3:35
I love the idea of just going home and going to sleep. I am so exhausted right now, and the work week just started!
If only there were a pop song to properly express how I am feeling……
mikey said,
September 2, 2006 at 23:31
I thought it was time to check in on you guys.
To combine 2 topics, I like LOUD Rock n Roll (Right now I’m stuck on Meatloaf and Blondie), books on cosmology and…
wait for it…
Tall Southern Trailer-Park type girls. I know, it’s just that I find them irresistably hot, and then in no time I’m utterly bored becaus they aren’t interested in anything I’m interested in. It’s stupid. I like spending time with smart, classy women but I always feel like I’m out of my league. So I find joy and comfort with dumb trashy women and the relationship is doomed. Gee, wonder why I live alone?
mikey
Jillian said,
September 4, 2006 at 3:45
I’ve been listening to a fair bit of Tom Waits lately.
Although he’s a bit more upbeat than I happen to be feeling these days.
Jillian said,
September 7, 2006 at 10:44
Ha….now THIS put a smile on my face today!
There’s a Sitemeter link at the bottom of S,N! that our hosts are generous enough to let us play with.
One of the top twenty referring searches to get people to this website is “Why does my son crossdress”?
Kathleen said,
September 8, 2006 at 2:04
Jillian. That is awesome.
Mikey. Your post made me laugh. Except that you don’t seem out of your league to me. I used to only go for drama. If someone didn’t have some drama, I was SO not interested.
Marq said,
September 11, 2006 at 6:30
Ugh. Our recent infestation of nazis and Dominionist assholes is driving me nuts. I really hate those shitstains.
Jillian said,
September 12, 2006 at 2:19
Jello Biafra said it best.
Or maybe it was Indiana Jones.
Take your pick.
Marq said,
September 15, 2006 at 1:18
My “cute” doggie just killed another 13-lined ground squirrel. This makes 2 (that I know of–there could be more). He’s becoming quite the Ed Gein of the ground squirrel set. Also, he’s attempting to massacre every single bee in a 1-killometer radius. Those are a little less heartbreaking when he spits their shattered bodies out on the lawn.
Jillian said,
September 20, 2006 at 2:27
Why, when you put your music player on “shuffle”, would it play the same Nick Cave song twice in a row?
mikey said,
September 20, 2006 at 4:08
2 possibilities. One, it has become sentient and it hates you. Or two, you need to reset the damn thing – it’s play history has become corrupt. My sister had two thousand songs on her ipod but it decided that the only one she would ever want to hear was “Piece of my Heart” by Janis. Good song, but not the only song. Turned out there was a corrupt file in there. Easy fix…
mikeey
Pinko Punko said,
September 26, 2006 at 10:26
I never thought it would come to this. Mikey frolicking in the long thread and no one ever, ever visting 3B.
Does Jillian comment on the doogie/doggie pics we have up? Oh woops! One was after the jump, and Jillypants jumpy finger don’t work.
And mikey, shame!
We still love everyone, Kathleen more equally I think these days.
Sigh.
Jillian said,
September 27, 2006 at 11:14
I did SO comment.
And I barely get to even visit my own bed anymore. :(
Kathleen said,
September 29, 2006 at 23:45
Jillian – your last sentence could be read in several ways! hee hee
Kathleen said,
October 1, 2006 at 4:10
as George Orwell once said, some Kathleens are more equal than others.
Jillian said,
October 1, 2006 at 16:46
I’m always chock full o’ double entendres.
It whiles away the time.
mikey said,
October 2, 2006 at 2:27
Ok, now I feel bad. I’m gonna put 3B into my regular rotation. Although I may require some explanations. I still don’t get the emu thing…
mikey
Jillian said,
October 4, 2006 at 3:56
An emu is a large, flightless bird.
It is easily offended.
Do not offend the emu.
mikey said,
October 6, 2006 at 3:18
Ok, that’s a start. But what is the significance of the emu here? As opposed to, say, a mountain goat. Mountain goats are cool. I spent a wonderful spring and summer some years ago on the front range of the rockies watching mountain goats and eagles, and they’re both better than people, mostly….
mikey
Kathleen said,
October 7, 2006 at 9:55
my beers gave me a headache but didn’t make me drunk. BAH!
Marq said,
October 7, 2006 at 10:49
Jeeze, Pinko! I commented over at 3B, I dunno, a week or so ago? ‘Course, if I recall correctly, it was on a non-Pinko-authored post (dun-dun-DUNNNN!!!).
Jillian said,
October 8, 2006 at 3:24
PP just needs more bloglovin’.
I totally heart Pinko Punko.
Jillian said,
October 9, 2006 at 2:48
Not enough weirdness around here anymore.
Thus, I bring you a recipe for ammonite chowder…..yum!
1/2 c canned tomatoes; peeled
3 md onions; diced
6 ea carrots; peeled, sliced
4 md potatoes; peeled, sliced
3 ea jalapeno peppers; peeled,
-deveined, sliced
2 tb beef bouillon
5 lb ammonites*
1 c butter; melted
3 1/4 c canned corn
1 ts salt; or to taste
13 c water
1 ds tabasco; or to taste
*If ammonites are unavailable or extinct in your area, squid or conch will
make an excellent substitute.
In a large pot, break up the tomatoes and add the onion, carrots, potatoes,
jalapeno peppers and beef bouillon. Cook until tender.
mikey said,
October 14, 2006 at 20:04
Ummm, are ammonites similar to mennonites?
mikey
Jillian said,
October 14, 2006 at 20:29
nope
Betcha I screwed this tag up, too.
I suck.
Jillian said,
October 15, 2006 at 18:56
For your viewing pleasure…
Oedipus Rex, performed by a different kingdom than is usual…
http://www.oedipusthemovie.com/
Marq said,
October 16, 2006 at 0:39
You know who you never see around here anymore (besides those pesky ammonites)? Yosef. Did Pinko go, “Pork snorkel, pork snorkel… hmm… long-pig snorkel!” and, um, eat him?
Pinko Punko said,
October 27, 2006 at 6:57
Yo yo is campaigning int he homestretch of Yo!06.
Also, I thought someone posted my super secret jerk recipe above, but I see they didn’t. Whew.
Also, Gregor Samsa is AWOL.
Also. Everything sucks.
Also, GC dressed the boys up in Halloween costumes today.
Also, Jillian just wet herself.
Jillian said,
October 27, 2006 at 23:45
If I get pictures of that, PP, I will squee! so loudly you’ll be able to hear me on the other coast.
Which would be good, because I have a cold.
And one of my students is probably going to get kicked out of his house because he’s gay. His parents have already kicked out his fourteen year old brother for being gay.
On the bright side, my student trusts me so much that I am the first person he’s actually told that he’s gay. Don’t know if you know what a huge thing that is for a teenager – but it’s pretty huge.
Quite an emotional roller coaster of an afternoon. I’m crying, and I’m not even sure which emotion is behind it.
BillyD said,
November 12, 2006 at 22:25
First post election post on the secret thread!
mikey said,
November 13, 2006 at 4:09
And one of my students is probably going to get kicked out of his house because he’s gay.
The greater part of my admiration is offered to you, Jillian. How you can refrain from physical violence is admirable, and not within my makeup. You make your world a better place just for your being there, in a way most of us can only imagine. Thank you…..
mikey
Kathleen said,
November 16, 2006 at 1:26
I don’t have anything constructive to add.
Kathleen said,
November 17, 2006 at 2:44
after much reflection, how about: The Roaring Twenties were neither roaring, nor the twenties. Discuss.
Jillian said,
November 20, 2006 at 5:00
Thanks, Mikey.
What makes it doable is the knowledge that if I didn’t keep my temper under control, I wouldn’t be able to be in the position I am, doing what I do. There’d be someone else here doing it, and they might turn out to be a homophobe, or a creep, or something worse.
You can’t fix everything, but sometimes you can fix something. And that’s nothing to sneer at.
How the hell do you kick out a fourteen year old? He’s staying with relatives now, but still…how do you do it?
If you could read the stuff my kids write….they’ve all lost loved ones to violence, or have family members in jail, or are hungry most of the time. I can never get in touch with their parents when I need to because the phones are always shut off. It’s just not right.
Kathleen said,
November 20, 2006 at 23:39
It seems like those kids are lucky to have you Jillian.
mikey said,
November 21, 2006 at 3:55
And here in this incredible nation, this vibrant economy sqanders it’s wealth on B2 bombers and nuclear submarines and wars and subsidies and bases in kyrgizstan and bridges to nowhere and… Ah, fuckit. But y’know, a couple o’billion spent here at home could make a real difference. Just not to the folks with the billions. Fuckers…
mikey
Gregor Samsa said,
November 30, 2006 at 8:43
Wow it’s sloow going here in the Long Thread. Will we make 2k by the 2nd threadaversary?
Jillian said,
December 2, 2006 at 23:50
Well, Gregor, you haven’t been pulling your fair share lately. Nor have the rest of the gang of miscreants. I’m somewhat disappointed in you.
Tsk! For shame.
J Johnson said,
December 10, 2006 at 6:47
Much love to all!
Keep kicking nutheads balls. Here’s a little weight I’m pulling.
Marq said,
December 13, 2006 at 17:29
OK. After December 15th (and, yes, I know we’re not quite there yet), this thread belongs to ME through the end of the year, as it is my Sooper-special Birfday Fortnightâ„¢. And, no, that two weeks timespan isn’t centered around my birthday or anything. It’s just a fairly neat n’ tidy span o’ daze. My birthday is on a Thursday, which is about as “blah” a day as there is in a week. One of my (straight) buddies is coming over (hopefully–knock wood), so it should be pretty keul. This year is a little special to me ‘cos, in one of my few superstitions, it’s a multiple of eleven birthday, and I always find those to be x-tra special. Go fig.
Hey–who had the 100th comment anyway? I think I wondered this before, but I’m feeling too lazy to scroll back up the comments to find out either thing. There is no “back” in a Long Threadâ„¢!! Only FORWARD!!!11! On into the breech
es! Cry “chaos” and set free the dogz of poo!!!1!Marq said,
December 13, 2006 at 17:31
“1000th comment” not 100th. Damnit.
Jillian said,
December 16, 2006 at 20:44
Many, many happy returns for your birthday, Marq. In honor of your special day, this is all about YOU!!! I’d bake you a birthday cake were I in your neck of the woods, and make you my completely sinful mushroom risotto for dinner.
It’s good to see you around again! You should put up some more pics of your awesome doggie when you get a chance.
And you better have more fun for your birthday than I’m having for mine (which is in a couple of weeks). I’m not doing anything, though – I’ll probably just work.
mikey said,
December 24, 2006 at 2:50
Wanted to wish you all the happiest of holidays and a safe, peaceful and successful new year. The commentariat here is probably the only thing that keeps my total pessimism about the future at bay.
Blood pressure be damned, I’m gonna righteously southern-fry a chicken tonight, thaw out the last of the summer corn and do a batch of bisquits. The doc would kick my ass, but know what? It’s christmas. Thanks for everything, you guys…
mikey
Gregor Samsa said,
January 1, 2007 at 10:56
Mikey, hope that you had a great holiday and a fantastic heap of fried chicken. S,N does have about the best commenters ever!
Ann Althouse said,
January 8, 2007 at 13:06
Man I’m even in here!! I’m everywhere! Ain’t life grand! Look tinfoil! That might make a pretty hat!
Kathleen said,
January 25, 2007 at 7:52
1100 is mine!!!!
Pinko Punko said,
February 3, 2007 at 11:15
February, my old nemesis. We meet again.
Capt. Trollypants said,
February 11, 2007 at 9:48
Damn it, Kathleen.
Marq said,
February 11, 2007 at 14:38
Cripes! We’re never gonna hit 2K comments by August 5th at this rate!
Marq said,
February 11, 2007 at 14:41
Hey–when were the stinkin’ italics (that I caused) cured? Wheeeeeeeee!!1!
Marq said,
February 15, 2007 at 11:41
‘Course, since there’s no “Preview” button, it could happen again.
Jillian said,
February 23, 2007 at 3:30
Just thought I’d share my good news story of the day down here….
Today at work, I kept one of my most vulnerable students from running away from home.
I can’t really do anything to improve her crappy home life or the tremendous difficulties she has to face every day, but tonight she has a roof over her head, and no matter how bad it might be, it’s still better than the street corner (or the much [much much much] older boyfriend) she would have been with tonight otherwise.
Little victories. Some days, they’re the best kind.
Mr. Roarke's Brand Salad Dressing's Poops said,
February 25, 2007 at 0:20
Jillian, for crying out loud, that sounds so terrible, even though it is a good thing amidst the terrible.
Jillian said,
February 25, 2007 at 3:33
She’s a great kid, Pinko.
Her mom’s in jail, and her dad is wherever he happens to be when the crack wears off. She’s stayed with twenty or thirty different relatives in the last few years since her mom went to jail. Her mom is in for life. I don’t know what her mom did – my student didn’t offer to share, and I didn’t ask.
My student is fifteen and a freshman, and works two or three after school jobs to be able to take care of the six half brothers and sisters that are staying with her and her guardian right now. Her guardian is happy to take the foster money from the state to have the little ones under her roof, but refuses to do anything to take care of my students’ siblings, so my student has to take care of them herself. This includes paying her guardian to babysit the kids for her when she wants an afternoon for herself.
She’s bright and articulate and intellectually gifted, and it doesn’t even seem likely that she’ll get her high school diploma at this point.
But at least she didn’t run away this time.
I can’t change the world, but I can do my part to take care of the child in front of me. If only we could get everybody to do that, this world wouldn’t be such a crappy place.
(Some of the details in the above are changed to protect my student’s identity, but the story is a true one.)
Jillian said,
February 25, 2007 at 3:49
Suddenly, I am depressed and miserable.
Hope somebody brings either the funny or some words of encouragement soon.
mikey said,
February 28, 2007 at 4:27
Damn.
Hard goddam world.
Whoever said we make of it what we will never had to start with a ruck fulla rocks.
Shit, darlin, you’re doing good things.
Small things count more than big things.
Keep yourself well, if you break you’re no good to the tribe…
I have neither the patience nor the room in my soul for the shit you deal with almost without effort.
Oh, I hear the cost..
It’s just…Goddam it, we need more of you and less of them…
Shit…
mikey
L.G. Fucktard said,
March 4, 2007 at 10:55
Sorry, I was looking for the ‘Prussian Blue’ thread.
Jillian said,
March 4, 2007 at 17:36
Mikey, you really are awesome.
I like to come down here sometimes and just sort of vent about some of the crazy stuff I see most days. It’s not shouting it from the rooftops (which isn’t my style),but it’s also not keeping it all bottled up inside me (which, unfortunately, is my style, but isn’t always very good for me).
The world is a very weird place, and I don’t understand any of it at all most days.
Marq said,
March 5, 2007 at 3:27
Huzzah! The Long Thread®™ is still here!
Waaaaayyy up, in the “Eek, Nazis!” thread (or whatevah it’s called), * is trying to get all old threads sealed off–read the comment HERE! This evil must be opposed!
Marq said,
March 5, 2007 at 3:28
Er… “*” was supposed to read “Doctor Memory.” [blush]
mikey said,
March 5, 2007 at 3:31
The world is indeed, a very weird place. And frustrating to the point of infuriation. They made me go ten thousand miles to kill people I liked. And they won’t let me go a dozen miles to kill the truly evil assholes. Our world is broken, and it’s people who can fix it one piece at a time that provide hope. The only contribution folks like me can make is if it totally goes to hell in a bucket. Thank you…
mikey
Kathleen said,
March 5, 2007 at 9:43
hey guys. I am not helping kids like Jillian, but I got a new job! I quit my old one which was horrible. Yay me.
Jillian said,
March 6, 2007 at 2:40
Kathleen, quitting a job you hate is helping to make the world a better place, because it makes you happier. And this world needs more happy people. Yay you!
mikey, don’t discount all the good you do – it’s just not fair to you. I’ll drop you a line when I get a chance.
Yay! Marq’s back! You’ve been missed.
Yosef said,
March 7, 2007 at 1:30
To Whom It May Concern:
Re: Corn Dogs as Awards for Commenting Milestones
I would like to register a complaint as I have not yet received my corndogs. These were to be delivered within 6-8 weeks of my winning comment. Please rectify this situation immediately or I shall be forced to ask Jay Z to start a boycott of this thread.
Sincerely,
Thycwoti
Gregor Samsa said,
March 7, 2007 at 19:44
We’ve got your corndogs for you little mister!!1
mikey said,
March 10, 2007 at 4:01
Corn dogs? Ah c’mon, that’s just silly. Dog needs a hot saute with garlic, peppers and herbs, over rice. Delish….
mikey
Marq said,
March 13, 2007 at 17:54
mikey, I’m as multicultural-friendly as anyone on any liberal blog, but that Asian dog-consumption just *cannot* be tolerated! No, no, no. Ick. Furthermore, if I catch anybody hanging around with a meat cleaver, eyeing my labrador, there’s gonna be trouble.
Marq said,
March 13, 2007 at 18:00
Besides, everyone knows that Soylant Green is people!
Marq said,
March 13, 2007 at 18:04
Hey–we gotta get it in gear down here. There are only 1122 comments, and we’ve only got until August to attain… Victory!
mikey said,
March 16, 2007 at 2:39
The key here, Marq, is just like your cow, pig and chicken, you never want to actually meat – er, meet anything that’s going to end up on your plate. If you never saw it happily gamboling, or whatever, eating it is NOT a problem…
mikey
PupH said,
March 17, 2007 at 9:00
What the hell?
Jillian said,
March 24, 2007 at 16:59
First post on the new server!
What do I win?
Gregor Samsa said,
April 7, 2007 at 10:30
Jillian, All the prizes are at 3bulls!
Marq said,
April 12, 2007 at 9:18
I’d have been down here more, ‘cept the evil server had things going at a standstill. Half of the time, i couldn’t get the front page to load. Personally, I blame teh nazis.
Them, and the eight days I recently spent in the hospital. Wheeeeee!!!
mikey said,
April 13, 2007 at 3:38
Jeez, Marq, next time SAY something. I’ll bring whiskey, beer, pot and potato chips. Or help you bust out if its a cuckoos nest kinda deal. Or Terminator 2. Wha? Oh, never mind…
mikey
Marq said,
April 14, 2007 at 7:33
It would not have been necessary, mikey–they were giving me dilaudid. Ah, dilaudid! Sweet opiate! If ya wanna read the true horror of it all, scroll toward the bottom of the comments of this WOC thread, ‘cos I don’t feel like typing it all out again.
Marq said,
April 19, 2007 at 13:44
Well, it’s been a nice, wintery April here in Chicagoland, which sucks, but isn’t untypical. We’ve often gotten a spot o’ snow well into May in these parts. The icky thing is, this means that there won’t really be any spring. The cold and dank will hang around for a few more days/weeks, and then, WHOOMF, mid-summer weather will arrive, fully-formed. It’s really rather unsettling. When the weather goes through these insane gyrations, I tend to get significantly ill. And, in teh so-called fall, too. And, man, while I never really need that, right now I dread even the common cold.
Marq said,
April 24, 2007 at 7:29
Agh! Now, it was , like, 80. Feh!
Marq said,
April 27, 2007 at 11:26
Uh, 80º, that is.
Kathleen said,
April 28, 2007 at 0:08
eek, Marq what a horror story. I hope you are still better. no more getting sick!
mikey said,
April 29, 2007 at 19:49
Well it’s springtime in the mountains and I’m fulla mountain dew
Cain’t even read them catalogs, like I used to do
I’m a-sittin in that little shed that’s right back of the house
Now here comes jake with alla them hounds, well he’s gonna hear me shout
I won’t go huntin with ya Jake, but I’ll go chasin wimmin
Just put them hounds back in them pens and quit yer silly grinnin
The moon is risin I’m half tight and life is just beginnin
I won’t go huntin with ya Jake, but I’ll go chasin wimmin.
Thank yew, thank yew very much…
mikey
Jillian said,
April 30, 2007 at 2:50
Glad you’re feeling better, Marq.
Ever feel like going to bed for about six months and not getting up the whole time?
Jillian said,
April 30, 2007 at 2:54
Incidentally, here’s a game I’ve been playing with myself lately:
Think of an album that could be the soundtrack if a movie were ever made of your life. Not a collection of individual songs, but one complete album, without editing or alteration. What comes closest?
mikey said,
May 1, 2007 at 3:53
Tesla. Mechanical Resonance. No question. No doubt. No hesitation.
From Little Suzi to Modern Day Cowboy and everything in between. It’s perfect….
mikey
Marq said,
May 6, 2007 at 9:25
Hell, I always feel like that!
I’ve been having some trouble walking since my most recent hospitalization, and it’s unclear to me if it’s because of the eight days in bed thing weakening me–’cos it did–or ‘cos of my degenerative condition. A toss-up! So, naturally, the State slapped some more driving restrictions on me, and I’m feeling kinda depressed (haven’t mentally adjusted to the situation yet, have that trapped feeling).
It’s so incredibly easy to feel sorry for onesself, isn’t it? That’s a mental trap I’m trying to avoid. It helps to remember that there are always some people worse off than I am–in fact, I know a few–and, I can more readily understand what they’re going through due to my own problems. The down side of that is that I don’t have very much time/energy/money to try and help them out.
Well, enough doom & gloom. Today is my dad’s 79th birthday, and I must obtain a cake! Well, half-a-cake, anyway–it’s not very good for either of us.
Jillian said,
May 6, 2007 at 15:55
Happy Birthday to your daddums, Marq!
I’m galloping toward the finish line of my first year of teaching – school’s out in one more month. Four weeks of insane amounts of work, and I get a few weeks’ respite.
It should be interesting – I don’t always do well with too much spare time. We’ll see how it goes.
Bodies betray us in so many ways….aging on us seemingly overnight, slowing down and creaking and seizing up when we don’t expect it. I think I’m going to take to ignoring bodies whenever possible; it sort of goes along with this whole celibacy thing I’ve taken up with lately. I hope yours starts treating you better, Marq.
Pinko Punko said,
June 14, 2007 at 9:09
Hello June, my old nemesis.
OK, here it goes, unvarnished and complete honesty…in 5-4-3-2
GoatBoy said,
June 14, 2007 at 20:12
So, what’d I miss?
mikey said,
June 15, 2007 at 3:41
Nuthin much, just some drinkin and singin and fuckin. But hey, it’s never too late….
mikey
GoatBoy said,
June 15, 2007 at 3:56
Well it’ll take a lot o’ drinkin and you’d better sing like an angel but OK, cowboy!
Jillian said,
June 18, 2007 at 4:57
I don’t have to get up and go to work tomorrow.
Or the day after.
This is gonna be sweet.
GoatBoy said,
June 21, 2007 at 19:26
It’s supposed to be summer. Maybe that means it won’t rain onto the already soaked ground for a day or two now.
I’m already going to have to make two passes mowing the backyard as is. Once I get a 24-hour period with no precipitation, that is. The weather, huh? Amirite? Waddaya gonna do?
Jillian said,
June 24, 2007 at 7:52
Alas, the motherboard on my computer…….is toast.
Sigh.
Marq said,
June 28, 2007 at 9:43
[does spit take]
Holy merde!?!
Willya look at that date!
And that comment count?!?!
We are so never going to hit 2000 comments by August 5th.
Marq said,
June 28, 2007 at 9:44
Unless….
Marq said,
June 28, 2007 at 9:46
“Marco!”
Jillian said,
June 28, 2007 at 15:33
Polo!
Jillian said,
June 29, 2007 at 18:53
Gah……..according to the standardized testing the state of Florida administers, about 13% of my school’s students can read on grade level. A majority of them read at least two years below grade level.
It’s just not okay. It’s unfair and depressing.
Gregor Samsa said,
July 9, 2007 at 11:58
1152!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Plover has a thing for spiders. Pass it on!
Giant Sammich said,
July 14, 2007 at 2:56
Clover is a ring of lighters. Pass it on!
mikey said,
July 22, 2007 at 0:25
Grover ate a plate of sliders?
Wow. You oughta tell somebody….
mikey
BillyD said,
July 25, 2007 at 0:38
Wow – this post is still alive…
Pinko Punko said,
July 25, 2007 at 0:51
Is this thread secret enough where I can bag on _____?
Hmmm.
BillyD said,
July 25, 2007 at 23:00
hey pinko – i’ve been out of the blog loop for a while. Did you ever do that king take 5 post?
Marq said,
July 29, 2007 at 16:01
Feh. I woulda been down in here mucking about more, but I was in teh hospital again last week. It was only a couple o’ daze, but that always really takes it out of me. Have I mentioned that I really *hate* teh hospital? Well, surprise–I really *hate* teh hospital. I was there from an evening to an evening, so it was spread out over three calendar days. Oh, yeah – I was pretty much awake the entire time I was there. I think I got maybe an hour to 90 minutes of sleep in the 45 hours that I was there. My doctor prescribed sleeping pills for me for the second night there, except that he forgot to tell the pharmacy, so they wouldn’t give them to me. D’oh! And I’m not even gonna go into what a tragic farce it is when they need to draw any quantity of blood above what can be gained with a fingerstick. Let’s just say it ain’t pretty. Have I mentioned that I *hate* teh hospital?
mikey said,
August 1, 2007 at 4:11
Marq. Hang with ‘em, m’man. They can diddle with your shit, but they can’t fuck with YOU unless you let ‘em.
I’ve been pretty lucky. Never spent a lot of time in hospitals. Usually it’s a few stitches and roll out, motherfucker. I’ve been under care for blood pressure for a few years now, but that’s nothing but a pile o’pills. Which could also describe a good weekend a few years ago.
But jail. Fuck. Lights on all the time. Noise. Nobody give a shit if you can’t sleep. Rats in sacramento county. Running right over you. Sheesh. Fighting over ice cream. Hell, fighting over the lyrics to a song. And don’t think the uniforms are gonna come break it up. Trying to decide when it’s safest to take a shit.
Actually, to be fair, some are better than others. And if it’s west of denver, I could tell ya which was which. But that’s not the point.
Hey Marq. You like Dio? “Rainbow in the Dark” just came on my stereo. Listen to that. It sounds like Katrina to me, and always will, but it will put some steel back in your shorts.
Don’t back up, my friend…
mikey
mikey said,
August 6, 2007 at 0:16
Actually, now that I’m sober I’m thinking you probably aren’t a real big Dio fan. Ah well. I was having a moment. Aren’t you glad I was having it alone?
mikey
Gregor Samsa said,
August 6, 2007 at 11:40
Two years and this threads still breathing. Granted it ain’t looking too good but it’s still alive.
Jillian said,
August 6, 2007 at 16:59
I have to go back to work this week. :-(
Kathleen said,
August 9, 2007 at 5:57
hope you are doing ok Jillian!
Jillian said,
August 13, 2007 at 4:11
Thanks, Kathleen – you are just full of awesome!
It’s just some work-related drama. Hopefully, it won’t turn into anything too serious, but until it’s resolved, I’m finding myself too stressed to eat or sleep properly.
I just want a nice, quiet, boring life….guess it’s too much to hope for.
Righteous Bubba said,
August 13, 2007 at 4:45
Dio by Tenacious D.
Jillian said,
August 13, 2007 at 4:45
Totally apropos of nothing….I was just browsing through the page of recipes that riverbend (of Baghdad Burning fame) posted a few years ago. Shit like that leaves me this close to tears.
Recipes. Shit….*I* share recipes with people, you know? She was just a regular girl, living a regular life that didn’t look all that different from mine. And now she’s a refugee somewhere.
This is her life. She doesn’t get a do-over. She doesn’t get back all the years she has lost to this stupid violence, or the years she will be losing as time goes on and this war doesn’t end. It was her life, and cowardly peabrains from one coast to the other in this wretched, stupid country took it away from her.
It’s not right.
Jillian said,
August 13, 2007 at 4:46
Hey, Bubba…fancy meeting you here!
So I’m maudlin and morose tonight. I’ll get over it eventually.
Righteous Bubba said,
August 13, 2007 at 4:57
Hey, Bubba…fancy meeting you here!
My spies are everywhere. Good luck, and there’s power in a union I hope.
Jillian said,
August 13, 2007 at 4:59
My union rep and I are pretty close, Bubba. And that’s all I’m gonna say about that.
Jillian said,
August 13, 2007 at 5:01
Everyone should know the words and music to this.
Righteous Bubba said,
August 13, 2007 at 5:10
I walked the line a couple of years ago during a cold snap. It was a nice experience. I hung out with an Ismaili muslim woman who told me some of the ins and outs of that strain while we trudged through the snow.
Jillian said,
August 13, 2007 at 5:18
Alas, Florida is a “right to work” state. The way it’s set up, we have no legal right to strike.
Frankly, there’s something that just doesn’t sit right with me about legal recognition of unions in the first place – it really pulls their teeth. But it’s a long, roundabout ways to the dictatorship of the proletariat anyways, and who’s to say that this route won’t get us there just as quick as another?
Alas, for the time being, I’m too wrapped up in my own personal stressors to have much energy left over for such grandiose ambitions. A pisspoor excuse for cadre am I. And I don’t feel like I’m much good for anything at all at this point.
Righteous Bubba said,
August 13, 2007 at 5:35
And I don’t feel like I’m much good for anything at all at this point.
Nonsense. One of the few benefits of the Great Dumbening is that people who can write a sentence are actually valuable.
Apart from that you’re here and funny. And I gave up my shop-steward gig for selfish reasons, so THAT for your cadre, comrade!
mikey said,
August 16, 2007 at 3:16
Why do I find myself jealous of the fucking Union Rep. Dood better have shoulders you can land a 747 on, is all I’m saying.
There are no do-overs. Riverbend’s story brings that home. But it’s true for all of us. Once you do something, or something happens to you, you can cry in your bed at night, but it’s a cold, uncaring universe.
I told a lot of kids back then, sobbing with snot bubbles, asking only to please don’t let me die, I told them “The world doesn’t give a shit. YOU have to give a shit. ‘Cause nobody’s gonna carry your ruck, and nobody’s gonna give you their water, and nobody’s gonna cover for you if you fall asleep on watch. You have to KNOW you might not win, but you WILL NOT FUCKING LOSE.
And that’s the place you’re in now. Walk or die. It sucks, but he who made kittens put snakes in the grass. One foot in front of the other, darlin…
mikey
Kathleen said,
August 18, 2007 at 2:29
word, Jillian. Just finished a novel about Iraqi-Americans in 1999-2000. (Cresent) Themes about Iraq and being in exile, and missing the people, and the hurt inflicted by the US embargo on Saddam, and by Saddam on the people, and the whole time I am like “just wait til you see the horror we rain down on you next”. It was surreal.
Jillian said,
August 18, 2007 at 12:18
Well, it seems as though the work stress has dissolved, the Friday before the school year starts. Now all I have to do is catch up on all the stuff I have to do to start the school year that I couldn’t do because of the stress.
And on a totally unrelated note, I was scanning my spam today, which I do sometimes for fun. I’ve gotten a lot of those “you have received an e-card” mails lately – which I’m sure you all know you should never open because they link you to viruses and trojan horses and all kinds of evil stuff. But one of them has just the best “re:” lines I’ve ever gotten on an email:
“Animated postcard: Good day. Your worshipper has sent you an animated postcard….”
Heehee – maybe things are looking up after all.
Kathleen said,
August 23, 2007 at 23:24
good luck with the start of school Jillian!
and that re: line is teh awesome.
Jillian said,
September 6, 2007 at 2:10
Thanks, Kathleen.
It took my school two weeks from the opening of school to find me a classroom in which to teach, and I got told to basically not try to do any content instruction for that time. Now, I’m trying to catch up with a tremendous amount of work I wasn’t able to do for that time – and without basic things like a computer, or a printer, or access to a photocopier. I have one class in which not a single student speaks enough English to successfully watch an episode of Sesame Street. They’re great kids, but there’s no way they can handle the textbook. And, considering I’m not certified to teach bilingual classes, the whole situation is not just frustrating, it’s illegal.
But such is life in the schools that the rest of the community forgets about and writes off as full of “unteachables” – it’s awfully unfair, and I’m already pulling my hair out with frustration, so I took the night off to surf Youtube instead of organizing supplemental Spanish language material like I need to.
Check this out, because it’s just too darn cool. Starts off as an episode of The Wild, Wild West and morphs into an episode of Miami Vice before the end. All in Tamil. And a traditional Indian film dance number to boot. If possible, I think this sums up what the inside of my head sounds like at this point.
Jillian said,
September 6, 2007 at 2:34
Okay, I think at this point my somewhat unusual fascination with Hindi language Bollywood films is about to be outpaced by a somewhat unusual fascination with Tamil language Kollywood films.
mikey said,
September 10, 2007 at 2:28
I’m pretty sure this isn’t gonna make you feel better, Jillian, but I’m reminded of something that happened fifteen or so years ago.
I was serving a hundred day sentence for simple battery and probation violation, and there was this really smart kid, maybe 20, serving in my barracks. His parents were illegals, but he was born and raised in california. He was serving half a bullet for being in the wrong place at the wrong time with a gang enhancement. But he didn’t care.
Thing is, he couldn’t read or write but he was really sharp. But his world was the only world he knew. I talked to him every night. I said “Isaiah, you’ve got lots of things you can do. You don’t have to spend the rest of your life in prison.” Kid looked at me, and his eyes absolutely sparkled. He told me “three of my uncles are doing life stretches – two in Pelican Bay, one in Q. My brother was killed in a drive-by, but he had a murder charge pending. My cousins are all NF, and are all doing long stretches except for one, he’s out now. He’ll be back inside before christmas”. I said, don’t you have a problem with that? I mean, I don’t WANT to be here.
And this bright kid, this kid who spoke really well, who had brains and courage and charisma and could have been anything, he shrugged and told me “it is my destiny”.
He didn’t come up with that shit on his own. But that’s what you’re up against….
mikey
Jillian said,
September 10, 2007 at 3:53
Here’s the thing, mikey. This is corny as hell, and people who have been to the places we have been usually aren’t corny, but I don’t care.
The world is fucked up for sure. But all of us, as we go through our regular lives, are going to encounter messes that we have the skills to clean up. We’ll encounter plenty that we can’t clean up, sure. But we’ll also encounter some that we can.
If everyone would just clean up the messes in their immediate path that they have the skills to clean up, this world would be a paradise. Not perfect, but pretty damn close.
And we’ll get there, one day. Or we’ll all die trying. Not because there’s a god above who gives a shit about what happens to us, but just because that’s the way things work. Despite everything, I’m ultimately pretty optimistic. We’ll get there….if we don’t blow ourselves up first.
And if we do, a far more interesting species will come along to fill our niche, anyway.
Love you guys.
mikey said,
September 11, 2007 at 2:25
I’m with you on that. After they get me, if somebody says, “y’know, that mikey? On balance he left the world better than he found it”, I’ll be satisfied…
mikey
Pinko Punko said,
September 19, 2007 at 8:39
BillyD! We sure did pimp that Take 5. But I just looked for the post and I think I never posted it. I just found the pics. I will do it soon. You guys deserve a massive Take 5.
Hi everyone!
Gregor Samsa said,
September 23, 2007 at 22:11
That’s a likely story!
Jillian said,
October 12, 2007 at 11:27
Is anybody still playing in here? This place looks lonely.
Gregor Samsa said,
October 14, 2007 at 2:56
Sweet sweet long thread, you will live forever, never lost but seldom found.
Righteous Bubba said,
October 14, 2007 at 3:09
The thread is long
With many a winding turn
That leads us to who knows where
Who knows where
Jillian said,
October 15, 2007 at 4:12
Sigh….I’m lonely in Florida. I wanna go live someplace else.
Righteous Bubba said,
October 15, 2007 at 4:38
Why not try overseas somehow? Got a degree? It could be worth some adventure.
Righteous Bubba said,
October 15, 2007 at 21:20
Korea, for instance, is in the midst of a national mania about degree frauds and are expelling bunches of English teachers and tutors.
Jillian said,
October 18, 2007 at 0:51
I have a history degree, and after next year, I’ll have a permanent teaching certificate.
It’s a real history degree, too. Graduated from Rutgers university with a 3.93 GPA and everything.
I am Queen Nerd! Hear me roar.
I’d love to go to Canada. I want the fuck out of this wack country.
Man, this Chardonnay is tasty……!hic
Righteous Bubba said,
October 18, 2007 at 1:06
Some info:
http://cicic.ca/en/professions.aspx?sortcode=2.19.21&prof=4141
http://cicic.ca/en/professions.aspx?sortcode=2.19.21&prof=4142
Regulated professions in Canada are in the provincial domain, so you have to figure out where you want to go before you can start getting any research or paperwork going.
Kathleen said,
October 19, 2007 at 1:49
this thread is never getting to 2000.
Kathleen said,
October 19, 2007 at 1:50
never
Kathleen said,
October 19, 2007 at 1:51
I was a US history major, Jillian! I sometimes wonder what my life would’ve been like if I had pursued it post grad.
Righteous Bubba said,
October 20, 2007 at 18:34
Maybe
Righteous Bubba said,
October 20, 2007 at 18:34
a
Righteous Bubba said,
October 20, 2007 at 18:35
word
Righteous Bubba said,
October 20, 2007 at 18:35
per
Righteous Bubba said,
October 20, 2007 at 18:35
post
Righteous Bubba said,
October 20, 2007 at 18:36
would
Righteous Bubba said,
October 20, 2007 at 18:36
help.
Kathleen said,
October 23, 2007 at 0:48
that
Kathleen said,
October 23, 2007 at 0:48
seems
Kathleen said,
October 23, 2007 at 0:51
like
Kathleen said,
October 23, 2007 at 1:03
a
Kathleen said,
October 23, 2007 at 1:30
goood
Kathleen said,
October 23, 2007 at 1:36
plan
Kathleen said,
October 26, 2007 at 19:03
word
Kathleen said,
October 26, 2007 at 19:22
press
Kathleen said,
October 26, 2007 at 19:23
makes
Kathleen said,
October 26, 2007 at 19:25
this
Kathleen said,
October 26, 2007 at 19:26
very
Kathleen said,
October 26, 2007 at 19:28
difficult
Jillian said,
October 30, 2007 at 0:44
Sigh…….two students shot after the homecoming dance this weekend, and one of our students arrested for the crime.
Some days, teaching history in this climate just seems pointless, y’know?
Righteous Bubba said,
October 30, 2007 at 1:23
Jeezis. We have a leftover crossbow murder here, but little recent action.
mikey said,
November 2, 2007 at 4:38
Killing is what we do. The emotions are the same, the weapons have improved.
And, tellingly, the value of a human life has declined to virtually nothing.
We need to resist, sure.
But we need to recognize that resistance matters very little. The actual experience of life in an immigrant community, any attempt at understanding the isolation and futility, the warped goals and the twisted ethics cannot be evaluated in regular terms.
Here’s what I think. And I know you might not agree. That’s good. But the deal is, we’re gonna lose some. And nobody is gonna mourn. Noboby cares. Life is cheap, and the whole idea of gang culture is life is cheap. The odd kicker is that the penalty is worth paying. These guys know their future is a life sentence, and they are at peace with that. We cannot deal with that. When uncles and dads and brothers are doing life, life is what you have to look forward to.
We have to figure out how to rescue a few. Find a couple that have something to offer their community, and save them. We need to educate a few, sacrifice the rest, and try to find a path to a future. Because you cannot out-shout the culture that says “prison is your future, do your time upright, as a man, and come out to do what you can for the organization, until you must go back inside”.
If you don’t get it, you just don’t get it.
It cannot be negotiated with. When you’re ready to fight, I’ll join you.
In the meantime, if we can save one kid from a future of hate and incarceration, we did ok.
I’m gonna keep trying.
One life counts….
mikey
Jillian said,
November 7, 2007 at 2:28
heh……….just found out the A&E show “The First 48″ tends to be filmed pretty frequently in my school’s neighborhood.
Guess I’ll have to start watching.
And mikey, I’m a socialist: I’m ready to fight tomorrow if the call comes. The culture that allows kids to be thrown away from the moment they’re born will not provide us with the tools necessary to save those same kids. It’s rotten at its heart, and needs to be done over.
But people aren’t ready to change yet. So, we educate until they are. When enough people are ready to do the hard work of redefining our shared priorities so that shitting all over six year old kids is no longer a viable option, I’ll be there for that fight, as well. We’re just not ready for it yet – as a society, we still think it’s okay to use babies as our national toilets.
There are days I fucking hate this culture.
I do what I can to help these kids out every chance I get. I’m trying to get them to read on something above a fourth grade level, I buy ‘em lunch when I can, give ‘em bus money, I listen when they need someone to talk to. I’m trying – there’s just only so much that can be done.
Snowwy said,
November 13, 2007 at 1:34
I have heard Jillian’s story more times than I can count. Even before I got to know a bunch of primary school teachers, I’ve felt that the resources we give our schools are woefully inadequate.
But yes, our culture is such that overweening selfishness is praised as virture. There hasn’t been a day for me that I have not hated the mainstream culture in two decades.
So I volunteer when I can, and build computers to donate to schools (usually better machines than the crap that gets bought), and vote every chance I get to raise my taxes. Because until teachers make what I make, they’re bloody well underpaid.
Kathleen said,
November 13, 2007 at 4:56
I just had a bunch of tequila and am glad there are other s out there working for the future.
g said,
November 13, 2007 at 5:46
Oh, it’s this thread. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. It’s going to be bookmarked.
Is this thread kind of like a confessional, where you get to voice all your deepest thoughts and no one will ever read it?
Cause I wouldn’t mind a place to complain about work. My spouse is fucking sick of hearing me.
Kathleen said,
November 14, 2007 at 22:05
Indeed, g.
Yosef said,
November 21, 2007 at 23:57
Are y’all really still commenting here? I thought blogs died long ago…
Pinko Punko said,
November 22, 2007 at 23:14
A THANKSGIVING MIRACLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Righteous Bubba said,
November 22, 2007 at 23:34
Oh my god!!! THANKSGIVING CLAM IRE!!!
almostinfamous said,
November 23, 2007 at 5:20
UNHOLY CHTULU!
is that really yo-yo?
Yosef said,
November 23, 2007 at 6:18
maybe so…
Pinko Punko said,
November 23, 2007 at 8:20
Holy crap, I really hope Yo’s 29 kids gave him a 100 dollar laptoppy for Turkey day. He can get some wifi from the starbuckys!
Pinko Punko said,
November 27, 2007 at 5:01
1229 Munchabunchas!
there is NO chance of 2000 unless BLT, the Nazis, party sub and Ann Bartow all appear magically in this thread.
mikey said,
November 29, 2007 at 3:44
Hell PP, hook me up with a case o’Laphroaig, a couple packs of slim jims and a pork snorkle and we’ll have 2000 by wednesday!
mikey
almostinfamous said,
November 30, 2007 at 18:34
did we scare him awayz?
Jillian said,
December 2, 2007 at 20:18
One of my kids got Naomi Klein’s autograph last night. How awesome is that?
Jillian said,
December 5, 2007 at 4:43
But Pinko never gave us Take 5 pictures.
We are all Pinko’s suckers.
Kathleen said,
December 5, 2007 at 22:24
my candy bar goes to 11.
GaotBoy said,
December 10, 2007 at 22:43
I’m procrastinating both schoolwork and rehearsing for a gig Saturday night.
Shame.
GoatBoy said,
December 10, 2007 at 22:43
So ashamed that I apparently can’t spell my own handle properly. Now that’s shame!
Jillian said,
December 14, 2007 at 3:06
Got the funniest thing from one of my students the other day.
He was talking about another teacher at the school, who is black. Specifically, she’s Afro-Carribean (it’s funny; I almost never use the term “African-American” anymore, because it doesn’t apply to about a third of the black people I know), so her English has a definite accent – she comes from a former British colony, so her English is very crisp and precise.
My student was complaining that the way she talks means she’s “trying to be white”. This instantly stopped class for me, because I never let that kind of comment go unchallenged. My kids have such HUGE reservoirs of internalized racism that I know I’m just pissing in the ocean when I try to challenge it, but I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t. So, this leads to a long conversation about how there are different ways of speaking that are appropriate at different times, that the technical term for it is code switching, and that no one race has a monopoly on speaking standard American English. There’s nothing phony about using SAE on anybody’s part, and even teachers don’t talk on their own time the way they talk at school.
The whole class listened, we had a really interesting discussion about it, and at the end of it, my student’s final comment to me was “But miss, you’re more black than you are white, anyway” (If you don’t know what I look like, I am about two shades darker than vanilla ice cream – you don’t get much whiter than me).
At which point I surrendered, accepted it as the compliment it was intended to be, and waited for class to be dismissed before laughing my ass off over the whole thing.
How did everything get to be such a mess, anyway?
g said,
December 18, 2007 at 8:27
So, this leads to a long conversation about how there are different ways of speaking that are appropriate at different times, that the technical term for it is code switching, and that no one race has a monopoly on speaking standard American English.
Oh, hell, Jillian, it happens all the time in situations that involve CLASS instead of race or culture, too. I do it myself all the time, actually, having morphed from blue-collar labor to management. Actually, having morphed from being raised by Ph.D’s and working as a blue-collar laborer, and then having morphed yet again into management.
Jillian said,
December 19, 2007 at 12:23
But my kids think that Standard American English is “trying to be white”, instead of “acting like a boring, mindless dork in order to fit in at the modern American workplace”. Causes them all sorts of confusion.
Morgan Freeman did a GREAT interview with one of the NPR shows a while ago where he talks about being from Mississippi and the code switching he does when he goes back and forth from LA to his home. I’ve been looking for it, but to no avail. It’s too bad – I’d love to play it for my kids.
I just love that I’m now apparently a black woman!
almostinfamous said,
January 2, 2008 at 19:12
yikes @ jillian.
this is almost as bad as the 3 white guys in our black media class back in 2005 who claimed that they needed white TAs because they couldn’t understand the existing ones, who were from Ghana and had thick, yet beautiful accents.
Righteous Bubba said,
January 2, 2008 at 19:17
“trying to be white”
Could it play better as “succeeding at tricking dumbasses?”
Jillian said,
January 7, 2008 at 2:58
Nooooooo! Christmas break is over and I have to work again!
There is no god!
I didn’t even get any Christmas pressies!
g said,
January 10, 2008 at 7:54
Maybe we should start commenting here while we wait for the trolls to go away.
It’s kind of our storm-cellar thread.
celticgirl said,
January 11, 2008 at 10:05
I don’t believe it! You guyz are still at it – awesome! What’s the comment count now? (I came here via linky…)
celticgirl said,
January 11, 2008 at 10:27
d’oh-1244 when I checked in. Nice!
Yosef said,
January 16, 2008 at 3:17
Gross! Jillian pisses in the ocean!
Gregor Samsa said,
January 17, 2008 at 9:02
Egads Yosef’s is everywhere!!!!1
And Jillian that is just disgusting!
Gregor Samsa said,
January 22, 2008 at 8:14
BTW, I own this thread now. I’m taking it to heights never before seen.
Gregor Samsa said,
January 23, 2008 at 20:52
My ownage continues unabated!!!!!
mikey said,
January 25, 2008 at 4:23
I watch the campaigns, the debates, FISA, the lies, the dance, and I get angrier. I don’t honestly what I want. Y’know?
I want John Edwards to be my president, but if you look at it with honest eyes?
He’ll get blocked, shut down, ridiculed and destroyed. And we’ll get nowhere and have an even more bloodthirsty lunatic in the white house in 2012.
And we’re still not allowed to even talk about anything that matters, anything about sustainability, or what the lives of americans will be like in 2030.
Do I want a violent revolution? A place where I could thrive? And maybe a whole new deal at the end of the bloodletting? No. Don’t think so.
But here’s the question. What is the best path? What should we hope for? What path ultimately leads to the fewest deaths, the least suffering, the least disease and refugees and government crackdowns and sadness and loss and horror?
And the most confusing, most utterly fucked up thing about it is I can’t just easily answer that question….
mikey
Kitty Kattwood said,
January 29, 2008 at 11:03
On the prowl, sniffing out life’s mysteries……..
“Hi e,
I saw your question. No children. That was a stranger walking next to me. I want you to know that you are a such a talent. I admire you and your faith in the Lord. may God continue to bless you and your wonderful family. Sadly No is looking in on our GoFellowship. Keep an eye out for their mischief. They are looking to get into the blog. Heads up , my friend.
Your friend,
Marie”
Pinko Punko said,
January 30, 2008 at 18:12
Oh, Jillypants. That is not quite true. Giant Take 5 made an appearance in the last Monday Goldberg Theatre, but as you and Dr. Squid have mentioned Gigantic Take 5, I think it is only fair that I post it very soon. I’ve been too busy making battle raps making fun of John Aravosis, and the more nobody comments about those the more I want to keep making them and hiding Take 5 from the cruel world. Giant Take 5 is sensitive and insecure.
Also, Gregor does not own this thread. This thread and all its attendant marketing and trademarks are registered the Three B in collaboration with Sadly, No Silver, a company that specializes in the aging Sadly, No commentariat.
Gregor Samsa said,
January 30, 2008 at 20:23
Ownage!!!!111
Top secret clues in the Kitty Kattwood comment!
Pinko Punko said,
January 31, 2008 at 2:02
I denounce your claim to the common property, unless you can specifically identify the source of your pwn particles.
Gregor Samsa said,
January 31, 2008 at 11:12
I denounce your denouncement and ownounce my ownage!
Kitty Kattwood said,
January 31, 2008 at 11:15
I wonder what’s going on at gofellowship with a certain biscotti? Inquiring minds, well, you know…..
Gregor Samsa said,
January 31, 2008 at 11:17
Hi Kitty Kattwood!!!!
I wonder if we should make the Americablog thread a new secret thread?
Pinko Punko said,
February 4, 2008 at 9:20
No WAYS!!!!!!!!!!!
I think we should consider a secret Aravosis thread, so Jillypants cant see out plannage!!!!!!
Kathleen said,
February 6, 2008 at 2:03
a secret thread from the secret thread! DELICIOUS.
where is Jillian anyways? How ya doing girl?
Jillian said,
February 6, 2008 at 4:39
I’m on the wrong side of tired all the time lately. State mandated testing begins soon, so we’re all going mildly crazy with all the classroom inspections and stuff. It should calm down in a couple of weeks, thank goodness. I’m propping my lids open with toothpicks at this point, and I’m embarrassed to admit it, but my doctor has actually had to put me on medication for my blood pressure, too. I’m only 35 and I don’t have any other risk factors except the bucketload of stress I’m under all the time. I’m working on chilling out some. Wish me luck on that.
Spam Spalthouse said,
March 6, 2008 at 10:36
I denounce this thread.
Gregor Samsa said,
March 9, 2008 at 7:42
I denounce your denouncement!
Yosef said,
March 19, 2008 at 3:22
THYCWOTI actually has won a lawsuit against this thread for nonpayment of promised corndogs and therefore now owns this thread. I want to thank NY Law Firm for their services in this legal action. Our next step is to sue Paul McCartney for alienation of affection for a sum of $250 million. If the soon-to-be defendant happens to be on this secret thread ((R)thycwoti enterprises, llc.), we would be willing to settle for $50 million, as that precedent has already been set.
Please forward all communications to NYLawFirm.
Pinko Punko said,
March 19, 2008 at 3:40
Ha! Gregor is a cob logger. Also, pw0gn0gg3d!
Gregor Samsa said,
April 3, 2008 at 10:41
Rich, that’s just rich! FAFBLOG IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tranzor Z said,
April 3, 2008 at 23:05
Man, fuck Voltron!
J Johnson said,
April 4, 2008 at 10:03
Beep.
Wheeeee!
J Johnson said,
April 6, 2008 at 9:05
Daylight savings time would have started today back when I had a crush on MJ.
Gregor Samsa said,
April 11, 2008 at 14:07
Daylight savings is reversed here. When you gain we loose. Can’t we all just get along?
Sean Astin said,
April 11, 2008 at 22:11
GOONIES
Mr. Roarke's Brand Salad Dressing's Poops said,
April 13, 2008 at 11:35
I’d like to point out that the Pharygula assholes got a thread to over 2000, and they did it in like a week. How much do we suck?
Kathleen said,
April 13, 2008 at 21:45
we suck so much….
Kathleen said,
April 13, 2008 at 21:46
that we get to the center of a tootsie pop in less time than it take Pharyngula to get a thread to over 2000.
GoatBoy said,
April 14, 2008 at 6:27
GoatBoy’s birthday = A 360 + Rawk Band. \m/
(seven year old daughter is already clearing easy drums without needing to be rescued. *snif* so proud.)
J Johnson said,
April 19, 2008 at 6:46
Kathleen, I think the very center of the sphere that makes up a tootsie pop is actually the stick. Who cares about getting a piece of white cardboard? We’re still in the TOOTSIEEE!!!
Pinko Punko said,
April 22, 2008 at 21:59
PePo thong!
Gregor Samsa said,
April 24, 2008 at 11:52
Naughty!
mikey said,
April 27, 2008 at 2:54
Um, Ok.
Hey, look, I’m the LAST motherfucker to try to insist that this thing make any sense.
Non Sequiters and random ejaculations (heh heh) are fine.
But here’s a crazy thought.
If there was, oh, I dunno, some kind of reason or direction to this thing, wouldn’t peeps be more likely to suit up, show up, saddle up and DO something? Even if it was wrong?
Or maybe not. Maybe I just wanted to say “suit up, show up, saddle up” ’cause it sounds kinda neato, y’know?
Just remember one very important thing, going forward.
Sure, there are known knowns. And there are known UNknowns.
But those nasty fuckin unknown unknowns will jump up and bite you in the ass every time, right Donny boy?
mikey
Gregor Samsa said,
April 27, 2008 at 9:55
Tis art. Future cyber archaeologists will attempt to decipher it in an attempt to understand our culture….. a sect that worships a thong and a crazy lady in a periwinkle sweater.
Gregor Samsa said,
April 27, 2008 at 10:23
You know what I meant.
M.J. said,
May 7, 2008 at 19:03
This is a very important time for America. God is willing to support those who fight for God. This is why I have decided to ask you all to Vote for Barack Obama!
Obama is not a republican but he represents everything I hold dear to my heart as a Christian American.
Thank you all and God bless you and God Bless America.
Senator Hussein X said,
May 9, 2008 at 0:51
I circumcised Hillary Clinton in the mall with a Prussian Blue CD. Don’t hate, that’s how Barry O rolls. You trick-ass marks.
Pinko Punko said,
May 9, 2008 at 8:54
I DEMAND THAT YOUR COMMENTS FEED THIS THREAD TO LONGEST THREAD GLORY, COMMENT SLAVES.
Hey did someone suggest miscegenation in respect to Prussian Blue? I hope the Prussian Blue fankkklubs don’t get wind of that comment- this thread might never end! Whatever you do, don’t mention Prussian Blue or tiny cocked skinheads!
Kathleen said,
May 9, 2008 at 23:43
FACK
Gregor Samsa said,
May 11, 2008 at 2:49
This thread will always be number 1 longest thread to me….
Righteous Bubba said,
May 11, 2008 at 2:57
If Obama wasn’t Jesus this thread would still be the longest.
Yosef said,
May 15, 2008 at 3:45
Greg H, I believe you meant to say “this thread ((R)thycwoti enterprises, llc.) will always be number 1 longest thread ((R)thycwoti enterprises, llc.) to me…”
Pinko Punko said,
May 15, 2008 at 5:19
Seriously, how far are we behind? I suggest that one should have proof of citizenship to comment in the other long thread.
Righteous Bubba said,
May 15, 2008 at 5:26
There’s riff-raff from all over the world in that other thread!
Kathleen said,
May 30, 2008 at 20:54
June is going to be the REAL Longest Thread’s month, I can feel it!!!!
Gregor Samsa said,
June 16, 2008 at 21:03
Kathleen, correct as usual!
mikey said,
June 17, 2008 at 5:18
I’m walkin’
Oooh oh lord
I’m talkin’
Goddam it
I’m Lockin
‘Cause I’m fuckin hell
I’m Cockin
‘Cause it’s my shit
I’m Dokken
Metal’s too grate
I’m stalkin
In outer space
I’m Falkin
Don’t know what it means
I’m grokkin
Bustin at the seams..
mikey
Yosef said,
June 18, 2008 at 3:55
Take that PP!!
Yosef said,
June 18, 2008 at 3:56
I meant take THAT!
Yosef said,
June 18, 2008 at 3:57
maybe that?
Gavin M. said,
June 19, 2008 at 20:35
Yosef, you never come around anymore!
[sobbing]
Doctor Missus Marita said,
June 19, 2008 at 20:35
Well geez, if anyone had ever thought to include me in this long thread, I would have helped out.
D.N. Nation said,
June 19, 2008 at 20:37
Because I make it a point to post on ancient threads…
Shalom, gentlemen.
81,261 Unread Emails™²³®© said,
June 20, 2008 at 1:15
This thread is a mere piker!
Gregor Samsa said,
June 20, 2008 at 23:19
1300 COBWEBS!!!!!!!!111!!!!!
melpomene said,
June 23, 2008 at 0:22
frist
melpomene said,
June 23, 2008 at 0:23
awww so close
Gregor Samsa said,
June 26, 2008 at 9:47
maybe next time mel.
Gregor Samsa said,
July 22, 2008 at 11:54
Or the time after.
Gregor Samsa said,
August 14, 2008 at 6:35
Does the spam filter hate me or this thread? Stick a fork in it!!!!! NO WAYZ!!!
J Johnson said,
August 24, 2008 at 4:33
I just checked out the ole Peepoh, and it looks as if the domain parking spammers have got it now. On the sidebar, it says, “This site is a public tool for all the people who wants to expess their thoughts. Feel free to become our author.” Who is man or woman enough to become Author and “expess” themselves where MJ once wielded the cheeto?
Gregor Samsa said,
August 25, 2008 at 10:24
Can you believe this is the three year threadiversarry!???
Gregor Samsa said,
September 25, 2008 at 9:54
There’s no economic crisis in here! No sirebob!
Gregor Samsa said,
October 15, 2008 at 10:14
Mine all mine!
Kathleen said,
October 20, 2008 at 20:57
I am hiding in this thread ’til the election is over!!
Pinko Punko said,
October 27, 2008 at 5:10
Just don’t have a baby in here. Yosef might walk in on a mess and throw up. He might call 911 thinking there had been a crime.
King Pinko Punko said,
October 31, 2008 at 9:04
Alas, I look over my domain, and verily, it becomes empty with devastation.
Yosef farted.
Gregor Samsa said,
November 3, 2008 at 10:20
Is it over yet????
Hey what stinks?
Gregor Samsa said,
November 9, 2008 at 1:13
I am the champions!
Inspiral Carpets said,
November 25, 2008 at 11:49
Suck it monkeys! Now dance with a smiley face.
Gregor Samsa said,
December 9, 2008 at 8:33
Frist!
Gavin M. said,
December 9, 2008 at 8:46
Viorst!
Cousin Noclundauntedly Talmudizations said,
December 17, 2008 at 6:19
Wurst!
Yosef said,
January 2, 2009 at 23:33
Please clean up after yourselves.
Gregor Samsa said,
January 9, 2009 at 10:57
I wish I knew how to quit you long thread. NOT REALLY!
Gregor Samsa said,
January 21, 2009 at 3:33
Long thread is approaching 3.5 years now. Sigh, where has the time gone? We were all so young.
Gregor Samsa said,
February 5, 2009 at 11:05
Larst? NO WAY!
GoatBoy said,
March 5, 2009 at 6:18
I made shepherd’s pie tonight with ground turkey and chopped steak. Some carrots and celery and zucchini, It was yum.
PupH said,
March 17, 2009 at 9:22
Sounds delightful.
PupH said,
April 25, 2009 at 21:29
What the hell taco bell?
Pinko Punko said,
May 11, 2009 at 4:47
Get a room, Judy Blume!
PupH said,
May 11, 2009 at 12:11
oh no you didn!
Kathleen said,
June 9, 2009 at 4:07
knock knock
Righteous Bubba said,
June 9, 2009 at 4:08
Who’s there?
PupH said,
June 9, 2009 at 9:09
Marvin
PupH said,
July 28, 2009 at 9:02
Come on peoples!!!!!!!
PupH said,
August 19, 2009 at 10:51
Anybody have any snacks??!!!
Cheez It said,
September 3, 2009 at 7:35
I think I can be safe in here.
PupH said,
September 11, 2009 at 19:07
YUM!!!!!!!!!!!
GregH said,
September 11, 2009 at 19:08
Long thread you are my one and only!
J Johnson said,
September 14, 2009 at 0:34
Hi long thread!
Pinko Punko said,
December 5, 2009 at 19:59
Well that is that. I’m going to lounge in the long thread.
Capt. Trollypants said,
December 5, 2009 at 20:00
I’m going to touch myself while noone else is here.
Pinko Punko said,
December 5, 2009 at 20:00
Uh…
Goobie Smalltime Beef Mcgriddles Legume sans Muffin de Chunder said,
December 21, 2009 at 6:42
Coo.
GregH said,
January 2, 2010 at 12:34
STB, we love you!
GregH said,
January 27, 2010 at 7:52
Back to the future.
Kathleen in Oakland said,
February 4, 2010 at 23:50
marvin who?
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
February 12, 2010 at 6:14
Are we ready to Zardoz this joint?
At long last??
~
commie atheist said,
February 12, 2010 at 9:44
I got this email forwarded to me today from my right wing dad-in-law, and this looks like as good a place as any to park it. Perhaps future generations of Sadly, Nosians will read these words, sit back, and think: Good Times.
Subject: Canadian press on Obama
Barack Hussein Obama: I Told You So, Yes I Did
By Howard Galganov
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
When Obama won the presidency with the help of the leftist media, Hollywood and entertainment liberals, ethnic socialists (ACORN), stupid non-business professionals and Bush haters, I wrote: It won’t take six months until the people figure this guy out and realize how horrible a mistake they’ve made. And when they come to that realization, the damage to the United States of America will be so great it will take a generation or more to repair – IF EVER.
The IDIOTS who not only voted for the messiah, but also worked hard to promote his lordship, are now left holding the bag.
Here are two things they will NEVER do: they will NEVER admit to making a blunder out of all proportion by electing a snake-oil salesman with no positive social history or management experience of any kind. They will NEVER take responsibility for the curse they’ve imposed upon the immediate and long-term future of their country.
In essence, the people responsible for putting this horror show in power are themselves responsible for every cataclysmic decision he makes and the consequences thereof.
In just six months, the messiah’s polls are showing the following: on Healthcare Reform, he’s going under for the third time with polling well under 50 percent, even within his own party. Even though he might be able to muscle a Healthcare Reform Bill by using Chicago bully tactics against his fellow Democrats, it will just make things worse.
On Cap and Trade (Cap and Tax), the fat lady is already singing. On the Stimulus Package (Tax and Spend), his popularity is in free fall. On the TARP package he took and ran with from President Bush, it’s all but Good-Night Irene. On the closing of GITMO and “his” war on what he no longer wants called the War On Terrorism, he’s standing in quicksand with his head just about to go under. On a comparison between himself and George W. Bush at the same six months into their respective first term presidencies, Bush is ahead of him in the polls. On a comparison between “he who walks on water” and the 12 preceding Presidents between WW II and now, Obama ranks 10th. On a poll just conducted, that asks who would you vote for today between Obama and Mitt Romney, it’s a dead heat. Between Obama and Palin, Obama’s only ahead by 8 points and she hasn’t even begun to campaign!
It seems to me that Obama wants to be everywhere he shouldn’t be. He’s personally invested in totally insulting America ‘s only real Middle Eastern ally ( Israel ) in favor of Palestinian despots and murderers. He’s traveling the world apologizing for the USA while lecturing others on how to do it right, when in fact and truth he has no experience at doing anything other than getting elected.
He went to the muslem world in Egypt to declare that America “is not a christian nation” while he heaped praises on Islam, where he compared the “plight” of the Palestinians to the Holocaust.
The Russians think he’s a putz. The French think he’s rude. The Germans want him to stop spending. The Indians want him to get his nose out of their environmental business. The North Koreans think he’s a joke. The Iranians won’t acknowledge his calls. And the British can’t even come up with a comprehensive opinion of him. As for the Chinese, he’s too frightened to even glance their way. (After all, China now owns a large portion of the United States .)
Maybe if America ‘s first emperor would stay home more, travel less, and work a little bit instead of being on television just about everyday (or forget about his Wednesday date nights with his amazon wife) or stop running to “papered” Town Hall Meetings, perhaps he would have a little bit of time to do the work of the nation.
In all fairness, it wasn’t hard to be right in my prediction concerning Obama’s presidency, even in its first six months, so I’m going to make yet another prediction: OBAMA WILL PROBABLY NOT FINISH HIS 4-YEAR TERM, at least not in a conventional way.
He is such a political horror show, and so detrimental to the USA and his own Democratic Party, that the Democrats themselves will either force him to resign or figure out a way to have him thrown out. Who knows, maybe he really isn’t a born US Citizen and that’s a way the Democrats will be able to get rid of him.
Or, more likely than not, the Democrats will make Obama THEIR OWN LAME DUCK PRESIDENT.
I don’t believe the Democrats have nearly as much love for their country as they do for their own political fortunes. And with Obama, their fortunes are rapidly becoming toast.
The Democrats can keep on blaming Bush for everything, but that game’s already begun to wear real thin.
Their mantra was “WE DON’T WANT 4 MORE YEARS,” which the STUPID people bought, since McCain was nothing at all like George W. Bush. The new mantra will soon become: “WE DON’T WANT 6 MORE MONTHS.”
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
February 12, 2010 at 14:30
The Democrats can keep on blaming Bush for everything, but that game’s already begun to wear real thin.
Because we know it’s all Bill Clinton’s fault. Or else Jimmy Carter’s.
~
GregH said,
March 11, 2010 at 10:03
It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to.
Gregor Samsa said,
May 29, 2010 at 10:22
Still commenting here. If it will let me…
Pinko Punko said,
May 31, 2010 at 5:15
Ooooooh it is neck and neck!!!!!!!
Pinko Punko said,
May 31, 2010 at 16:06
I am a stinka.
gregor samsa said,
June 1, 2010 at 7:20
no hinting!
Pinko Punko said,
June 1, 2010 at 7:46
What about about stinting?
Stinka+hinting
Pinko Punko said,
September 5, 2010 at 6:20
Sigh
Substance McGravitas said,
September 5, 2010 at 6:32
Indeed.
Substance McGravitas said,
October 5, 2010 at 5:12
Poke.
A random passerby said,
October 6, 2010 at 7:54
Hey!
Pinko Punko said,
October 7, 2010 at 2:01
Ouch!
Pinko Punko said,
October 7, 2010 at 2:02
The Goob dominates.
A random passerby said,
October 7, 2010 at 6:22
Well, you must admit all the recent
hintingstinting has pretty much swung the crib door wide. The Creed defense squad is right behind me. I passed them on the way down around C1k.But after investing two days in the Zombie and then following the trail here to the Long (or one of the Longs in the best Neil Gaiman sense), even an Internet tradition abstainer like me going to be moved to sign the Long’s
PeakThread summit registry.Now I’m almost certain there’s proof I exist.
Substance McGravitas said,
October 7, 2010 at 7:06
There is also proof that Gary Ruppert exists.
Substance McGravitas said,
January 28, 2011 at 20:59
This is just a run-of-the-mill comment total these days. AND IT USED TO BE SO COOL.
Pinko Punko said,
February 19, 2011 at 7:19
When we passed this with 10 people at 3B, I knew either the world was different or maybe life just became a little emptier, or both.
Huzzah, long thread nostalgia.
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Pinko Punko said,
December 28, 2011 at 20:15
SPAM, in the LONG THREAD?
NEVER