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It’s all fun and games until Althouse pitches a fit
Sigh…
Would the person who created the Ann Althouse profile on Facebook please take it down? I don’t feel like dealing with this crazy woman anymore. Thanks.
Gavin adds: Um, wait, what’s going on?
Bradrocket adds: It’s just not worth fighting about. Ann Althouse is (again) freaking out because an EVIL IMPOSTER!!!!11! is impersonating her on Facebook. And she’s shooting us lots of e-mails threatening us, yadda-yadda-yadda. I have too much of a headache to deal with her over something like this.
Gavin adds: Hmmm. And I think you know what I mean by that.
Above: “Why dearies, it was all a little trick to make you
think I’m craz. . .Graah! Zarg! Fleen! I can sue you!”
I have nothing to do with anything on Facebook, btw. Why does she assume it’s us?
Seb adds: Look at the bright side, at least she called us prominent. Take that “somewhat popular” TBOGG.
Gavin adds: How many times have people threatened to sue us? My folder here says 998375^10.
I say we sue Alhouse for atrociously libelous defamatory frimmin’-in-the-jim-jam — because we’re so offended by this blatantly prejudicial and utterly unjustified public accusation that our life may be forever changed by this outrageous attack on our character. I, personally, am accruing cash damages as we speak.
a different brad said,
August 16, 2007 at 17:56
Oh dear.
I forgot about her google alerts, didn’t i.
*done*
a different brad said,
August 16, 2007 at 17:58
However, check your email in a couple mins, bradrocket.
D. Sidhe said,
August 16, 2007 at 17:59
Why’s she blaming you guys?
TR said,
August 16, 2007 at 17:59
Facebook? That site’s dominated by people in their teens and twenties. Isn’t Althouse much too immature for that place?
Ann Althouse said,
August 16, 2007 at 18:00
They don’t allow drinking on Facebook, except for wine coolers.
a different brad said,
August 16, 2007 at 18:15
Oh boy. She has a post about this. Time to taunt the vortex.
Also, I will make clear no one here has anything to do with it, and if she wants to hunt me down I’d love having the chance to fuck with her further.
tigrismus said,
August 16, 2007 at 18:20
So you’re responsible for the doings of your readers? I guess I should have mentioned that library book I checked out in 12th grade and still have… I’m very sorry for the trouble it’s caused you all these years.
a different brad said,
August 16, 2007 at 18:21
Oh, and I assume you got blamed cause she was a member of the Friends of Sadly, No!
And I assume she got mad cause she doesn’t want people to know she’s actually 70.
marc page said,
August 16, 2007 at 18:27
Wait a minute. Are you trying to tell me there really is an Ann Althouse somewhere? I thought it was a character you guys made up.
FS said,
August 16, 2007 at 18:31
That can’t be her real hair color. Plus, why does she have the shoulders of a weightlifter?
Malkin will soon figure out that you’ve been photoshopping her image. You’re in serious trouble now, bubba.
mdhatter said,
August 16, 2007 at 18:58
I’m just glad someone is responsible for it.
Incontinentia Buttocks said,
August 16, 2007 at 19:00
Seems that Althouse has contacted the mysterious blogger responsible and gotten him to take down the profile. Guess the fun’s over! (Though I was surprised to discover that Garance Franke-Ruta is one of La Althouse’s “friends.”)
On the other hand, on the intertubes, there’s no shortage of possible sources of trouble. And some of them don’t have pesky terms of use to worry about….
(And for the record, no, Ann, I have better things to spend my money on…)
TRex said,
August 16, 2007 at 19:03
“My nipples explode with delight!”
J— said,
August 16, 2007 at 19:03
Althouse asks:
Congratulations, a different brad, you’ve just been confirmed as prominent. At least until Althouse figures out that Brad and a different brad are two different Brads.
Pinko Punko said,
August 16, 2007 at 19:05
What is hilarious is that..oh wait, it was you. I was gonna say for some reason I’m hearing the Benny Hill music, but the volume was way down on my computer.
She thinks it’s you guys because teh l4m3 posts here.
a different brad said,
August 16, 2007 at 19:08
The profile got several friend requests before I shut it down, too. Ann was unwittingly publicizing her own mockery.
Should I turn it back on, now that she knows bradrocket didn’t do it, and wait for facebook to delete it?
a different brad said,
August 16, 2007 at 19:10
Well, I do have a blog, which I’ve never used, called Ann Althouse makes me horny. Maybe she was just returning the compliment, and I’m gonna get some.
Ann Althouse's Sense of Outrage said,
August 16, 2007 at 19:11
I am Outraged that some people are using Facebook to communicate ideas and information! This is Outrageous!
J— said,
August 16, 2007 at 19:13
And watch out for Schlussel. She likes to threaten to sue too.
The Son of Ann Althouse's Sense of Outrage said,
August 16, 2007 at 19:15
I am outraged by the outrageous photograph that you have outrageously posted on your outrageous website.
I do not under any circumstances stick the pointed ends of pencils up my nose. To do so is loathsome and irresponsible and against everything I stand for. Little boogies could adhere to the pencil point and could end up in written documents, potentially exposing me to public ridicule. Moreover, if I were to suddenly bang my chin on the table – which I enjoy doing occasionally – I could give myself a double lobotomy and become too placid to rant effectively.
I demand that I be portrayed with the eraser end up, like any right-thinking citizen.
a different brad said,
August 16, 2007 at 19:20
Ahhhhhh, this is such silly fun. Ann hasn’t replied to my taunt, but has removed the trackback to her post from instaputz.
Ann Winehouse said,
August 16, 2007 at 19:23
I am writing up the law suit as soon as I finish my 14th glass of wine.
blowback said,
August 16, 2007 at 19:26
Brad – just why have you included a picture of a walrus in this post?
a different brad said,
August 16, 2007 at 19:41
After reading her little piece on trex, I turned the profile back on, and made it more offensive. This is the classic bully who can’t take it, n hell if I’m gonna stop just when it’s getting fun.
a different brad said,
August 16, 2007 at 19:44
Oh, man.
I am a dork, but I have good timing. Just as she updated her post crowing about victory, I turned it back on.
I iz such a dork to be giggling like this.
And I’ve told her three times now I’m not you, bradrocket. She better leave you alone or I’ll make her interested in real disgusting stuff.
His Grace said,
August 16, 2007 at 19:48
Uh, I’m late to the party but, is this for real (at the top of her blog template)?
Somehow I would think that having such a reputation wouldn’t be something I would be proud of. But then, I don’t have a PhD in narcissism.
Ann Althouse said,
August 16, 2007 at 19:55
It’s still less nauseating than the Teachout quote.
billy pilgrim said,
August 16, 2007 at 20:08
THAT’S the picture that should be the “Where’s mah Bukkit (of wine)” LOLCon.
Moe Berg said,
August 16, 2007 at 20:13
She’s busted out the [thinly veiled] lawsuit threat, a different brad:
“I do not like to be pushed to do more than simply ask for decent behavior from you.”
[note: tortured use of the passive voice.]
Hugo Z Hogelmeyer said,
August 16, 2007 at 20:15
awesome.
a different brad said,
August 16, 2007 at 20:16
Honestly, I’d find a lawsuit nothing short of funny. It’s too bad it’s not Pam Atlas, and that someone beat me to a fake Malkin, otherwise the discovery process could’ve been worth the trouble.
Ann Althouse's Wine Glass said,
August 16, 2007 at 20:43
oh god, here she comes again! that lipstick smearing the my side, and the constant influx of shitty pinot grigio from trader joe’s…
please someone just drop me so i shatter!
g said,
August 16, 2007 at 21:06
Does Ann use a New York law firm?
RandomObserver said,
August 16, 2007 at 21:41
OH THE HUMANITY!!!
Lesley said,
August 16, 2007 at 21:42
Headline: Ann Althouse impersonates herself to double the attention.
Byline: Ann Althouse
lawnguylander said,
August 16, 2007 at 21:51
Virtual impersonation can be funny but the real thing would be even funnier so whenever the first annual Yearly Sadly takes place can it be a costume party? Everyone come as your favorite wingnut with a giant sangwich (and yes, it’s a sangwich, not a sammich you want to fight about it?) as the first place prize. What a party It’ll be with some great beer, music, weed and some of the funniest fuckers to ever walk the earth in attendance talking politics, baseball, sci fi, Vonnegut, etc. Probably lots of hooking up going on too. It will be in NYC naturally.
owlbear1 said,
August 16, 2007 at 22:04
Waitaminnit, I thought this all supposed to be Performance Art?
Herr Doktor Bimler said,
August 16, 2007 at 22:10
If things get messy, a different brad, I recommend the “psychic projection” defense:
“It was not me. It was one of my thoughts what did it — materialised into physical form by force of will-power. Mea tulpa.”
inquisitor said,
August 16, 2007 at 22:16
Thanks a lot. You made me actually go to her site to see if she really uses this quote.
How any alleged woman can have posted her weirdo musings and spats over public breasts and then quote a statement calling her the “go-to blogger for breasts”…
I don’t even know what to say about such a person.
Off the charts.
Mona said,
August 16, 2007 at 22:29
Why do you fellas bother Ann so much? Unless one of you is undergoing therapy for a sex change operation, you don’t have breasts (to speak of). Women who don’t hide their boobies drive her to frothing fits of garment rending (always, of course, as a true feminist keeping her own mammary glands still covered). I guess she has issues with the Penis People to, eh? Who knew?
Larv said,
August 16, 2007 at 22:44
I think it’s funny that Ann finds it absolutely beyond the pale that anyone would create a mock facebook entry about her, but it doesn’t seem to bother her that she’s more or less falsely, and apparently with no evidence, accused Bradrocket of doing so. It’s been pointed out to her several times that he’s not to blame, and A Different Brad has copped to it in her comments, but even after she’s updated it’s still the “prominent blogger” who she refused to name or link to. Given that she’s used this construction in previous spats with S,N!, it’s not like nobody knows who she’s accusing. Seriously, what the hell goes on in her head?
Larv said,
August 16, 2007 at 22:47
Oh Christ, now she’s added a comment (not an update) acknowledging the possibility of a mistaken identity, but manages to blame it on…Bradrocket!
inquisitor said,
August 16, 2007 at 22:50
There’s a little alt-mouse, madly peddling a tiny, squeaky bicycle, connected by a pulley to a dimly-flickering battery of some sort.
a different brad said,
August 16, 2007 at 23:00
My only real point in doing this, Mona, was to have Ann, and others, listed in the Friends of Sadly, No! group. I hadn’t been doing anything with the profile, nor did I make it, at first, especially insulting.
Then she found out about it.
Simba B. said,
August 16, 2007 at 23:04
You know, it’s funny. I was thinking about the last major spat we had with Althouse (that was the whole comment-impersonation thing, before my time, but still a hilarious thread) on the seven-hour drive I had to do today. I get in and turn on the laptop, open up Sadly, No!, and what do I find?
Oh, and it’s awesome to know where TBogg gets his tagline. I always suspected that had something to do with Althouse, given her tendency to think that if she does not speak it’s name it somehow doesn’t exist, but I never knew for sure. That’s gotta really burn her up that he uses that as his tagline.
Perhaps we need start calling ourselves The Prominent Sadly, No!…
Simba B. said,
August 16, 2007 at 23:06
Oh, God, diffbrad. She’s going to go through the roof over that one.
And you have my gratitude for that. This should be hilarious.
RandomObserver said,
August 16, 2007 at 23:16
You kids really need to clean up your mess of a blog over here!
By demanding that everyone use unique first names.
Hugo Z Hogelmeyer said,
August 16, 2007 at 23:16
WHy can’t I see the profile?
J— said,
August 16, 2007 at 23:18
Simba B.: I don’t know if you saw this one, but back in March Althouse called Sadly, No! “popular”—straight up without the adverb.
a different brad said,
August 16, 2007 at 23:19
Tbogg’s tag wasn’t from Althouse, Simba, but I won’t pretend to have been there to know who it was.
That Ann isn’t flirting with me is the clearest sign she’s genuinely annoyed.
Which is, of course, why I keep commenting over there. She’s really not good at this kind of thing for a 70 year old…..
ice weasel said,
August 16, 2007 at 23:19
I took the plunge, I stopped into ann’s little house of never ending fun and made two observations.
First, the only more pathetic than althouse herself are her commenters. No sense of humor. No real writing skills. Just close ranks and defend mommy althouse. althouse’s commenters flaccid flailings in the name of their deity just make me shake my head.
You naughty, naughty boys.
And then there’s this from la althouse herself…
Ann Althouse said…
Brad, I have a sense of humor but I don’t accept impersonation. Even if it is done with excellent humor — and I certainly doubt yours is — but i have no idea what you’ve written and I don’t intend to read it.
1:23 PM
Is she really this fucking stupid or is she just drunk all the time now?
a different brad said,
August 16, 2007 at 23:22
You can’t? Uhoh. Might be a sign deletion is coming. Still working fine on my end, saw your poke.
I think I have the privacy settings as public as possible.
Simba B. said,
August 16, 2007 at 23:29
I don’t think you do, diffbrad, because while it’s listed, you can’t open the profile—you can friend it, view friends, send message, or poke it. Those are actually the default settings if I remember right, only your friends can see your profile.
I don’t think that has anything to do with deletion, FWIW. You just don’t have the privacy settings all the way open.
a different brad said,
August 16, 2007 at 23:31
How do I make it more public, then? I’m looking around the privacy menu and don’t see what there is for me to do.
bjacques said,
August 16, 2007 at 23:33
Oh God. Deja vu. Anyone remember Doctress Neutopia?
Hugo Z Hogelmeyer said,
August 16, 2007 at 23:40
I can’t enter the friendship vortex? I like whine!
Hugo Z Hogelmeyer said,
August 16, 2007 at 23:43
AH, I see. I joined the Madison, WI network.
Duros62 said,
August 16, 2007 at 23:58
so whenever the first annual Yearly Sadly takes place
I move to call it Yearly, No!
Seriously, I had to read that 4 times before I could decipher it. This woman is a lawyer?
She spent 4 years in college and 4 years in law school, so we can assume that she is at least 8.
And yet, completely incoherent.
a different brad said,
August 16, 2007 at 23:59
I think facebook just keeps the profile private in general. Anyone who feels a need to see can poke the ann althouse with a lolcon picture, tho who knows when it’ll be deleted, plus I’m putting on inland empire soon and closing the laptop.
Ann Winehouse said,
August 17, 2007 at 0:06
Is she really this fucking stupid or is she just drunk all the time now?
Yesh!
Sadly, No! said,
August 17, 2007 at 0:06
So there’s only one of us here?!?
Duros62 said,
August 17, 2007 at 0:08
I don’t have to see it to know I won’t like it! BLARADFAGEAGHHH!
a different brad said,
August 17, 2007 at 0:09
all ur posts are belong 2 me
a different brad said,
August 17, 2007 at 0:20
Ok, time to pretend I have a life.
….
This woman was a featured guest columnist for the NYTimes editorial page.
Chreebus.
Ann Althouse™ said,
August 17, 2007 at 0:23
…on that blog where people are encouraged to impersonate me…
I must add that I, Ann Althouse, have never been encouraged to impersonate me, Ann Althouse, by anyone on this blog. This is doubly defamatory, because I know you want to encourage people to impersonate me, Ann Althouse, yet you have singled out me, Ann Althouse, for non-encouragement.
How dare you not pay more attention to me, Ann Althouse‽‽‽
P.S. Oh noz! Iv lost ma bukkit!
D. Sidhe said,
August 17, 2007 at 0:25
Herr Doktor, that was beautiful. I’m stealing it the next time I have to blame broken plates on the hallucinated zombies.
AkaDad said,
August 17, 2007 at 0:32
This thread would be better with onion rings and breasts…
marc page said,
August 17, 2007 at 0:40
Don’t forget the Play-doh and Bacon
mikey said,
August 17, 2007 at 0:43
This thread would be better with onion rings
andon breasts…Fixed!
mikey
Herr Doktor Bimler's evil tulpa said,
August 17, 2007 at 1:09
No-one seems to be manufacturing a Friedrich Nietzsche Action Figure (with hammer and fully twirlable mustache). This is a pity, since ADB deserves some sort of prize.
TRex said,
August 17, 2007 at 1:14
After reading her little piece on trex, I turned the profile back on, and made it more offensive.
Awwwwww, Brad. You’re the Sweetest Boy in School.
I’m a big boy, though. I can take care of myself.
I don’t suppose you saw my Althouse vlog?
http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/08/14/late-late-nite-fdl-lol-thouse/
Spokane Moderate said,
August 17, 2007 at 1:44
TRex,
Thanks for that; I had missed it the first time around. Well played, sir.
TRex said,
August 17, 2007 at 1:47
Thanks for that; I had missed it the first time around. Well played, sir.
Thanks!!
I don’t know why I waited so long to dive into this vlogging thing. It’s fun!
a different brad said,
August 17, 2007 at 1:57
Well, it wasn’t so much in your defense as it made me realize the chance to tweak her had been handed to me on a silver platter. I didn’t even have to do much, her own reserves of crazy and chardonnay deserve the real credit here.
Instead of a prize, give HTML a little something (more).
a different brad said,
August 17, 2007 at 2:23
Oh, wow.
You know you got em pissed when they delete your comments.
Awesome.
Marita said,
August 17, 2007 at 2:31
You know you got em pissed when they delete your comments.
No kidding. I like her lead post now that says she’ll delete any comment she thinks is “crap”. Which actually seems to mean anything she thinks “doesn’t adequately kiss her ass”.
I left her a comment politely explaining the existence of two Brads (and also the S,N! Brad’s use of “Bradrocket”), and she axed that. How dare I point out that she was incorrect! Not agreeing with her is crap!
Too funny. We should have a contest to leave the best sycophantic comment. If she, as she claims, refuses to read this site, she’ll never catch on.
Simba B. said,
August 17, 2007 at 2:34
I guarantee you she’s reading every comment here. She is, after all, a preening narcissist.
Put that on her site and watch her delete it. :P
a different brad said,
August 17, 2007 at 2:46
Mhm. It’s naturally confusing that two people both named Brad would ever be in the same place at once, or speak to each other.
Tho if she doesn’t read what we say here, how does she know what anyone named Brad was doing here?
And why is she in Brooklyn? I’m in Brooklyn. No.
TRex said,
August 17, 2007 at 2:48
“Take less crap” should be pretty far down on her list of priorities, methinks. How about “start less crap” or “write less crap”. Jeebus, lady, talk about mis-identification.
Marita said,
August 17, 2007 at 3:00
I guarantee you she’s reading every comment here. She is, after all, a preening narcissist.
Oh, absolutely. But then, if she deletes the comments on her site that are posted for the contest here, she’s busted on her claim that she won’t read this site. Either way, we win!
metamucil said,
August 17, 2007 at 3:20
Take less crap??!!??
Thats crazy talk.
I mean, the woman’s like seventy!
Well, I never….
Qetesh the Abyssinian said,
August 17, 2007 at 4:19
It’s naturally confusing that two people both named Brad would ever be in the same place at once, or speak to each other.
When I was at university, in the heady days of mah yoof, our little group of friends included no less than three Martins. Alas for simple nicknames, all three were tall, thin, and blondish.
Thus we ended up with Elder Martin, Younger Martin, and Martin Who Is Humorous. Problem solved.
Qetesh the Abyssinian said,
August 17, 2007 at 4:22
This thread would be better with onion rings and on breasts…
Sorry, Mikey, but they just slide off, and leave a greasy trail behind.
Unless you’re treating it kind of like quoits, where the breasts are reclining, nipples iced, and probably containing some large metal jewelry to create an adequate spindle.
But then, if you’ve got all that, why bother with onion rings?
Qetesh the Abyssinian said,
August 17, 2007 at 4:23
I must say, she’s really going for the burn with the delete button. The air over there is fair smoking with the speed at which comments are being deleted.
Doc Washboard said,
August 17, 2007 at 4:26
WTF???!!!interrobang??!!
Can she even follow this?
Oh, and I think the “idiot” thing is actionable, right? I’ll contribute to the legal fund.
Ann Alt-Del-House said,
August 17, 2007 at 5:17
Hey! Look at me. Hey, you!
Yes, YOU!
Here! I’m over heeeeere!
Clem said,
August 17, 2007 at 5:27
Ann scrambooched from Madison to New York City. Upon arrival, she made the mistake so many new arrivals make: she equated “Being A New Yorker” with “Drunk Yankees Fan From Connecticut Picking A Fight.”
Lesley said,
August 17, 2007 at 5:33
She deleted my comment and all it said was “Brad et al at SadlyNo are not the culprits.” I regret not posting something worthy of being deleted like “the best AA impersonator ever”.
mdhatter said,
August 17, 2007 at 5:41
bjacques, I met Doctress Neutopia.
In fact, I know where she lives.
That is one weird weird woman, but she is awesome in her own way.
jane_jericho said,
August 17, 2007 at 6:57
bjacques, more importantly: Do you remember the Monster Truck Neutopians? The Sadly, No! of usenet.
Good times.
Ferris said,
August 17, 2007 at 7:54
Ann,
Satire is protected first ammendment speech. Call off the idle legal threats.
Your tender narcissism cannot handle the mirror pointed at you.
Pick on someone more damaged than yourself.
TRex you rock.
Ferris
M. Bouffant said,
August 17, 2007 at 9:35
Zippy the Pinhead™ (& I) take on Anns vortex. Alas, no reaction from Her Divine Majesty.
¡El Gato Negro! said,
August 17, 2007 at 12:10
l@lthouse.
so.
wordyeti said,
August 17, 2007 at 13:57
Oh plee-yuz, let this dingbat impersonating a law perfesser file some kind of a suit. It’ll be up there in the news with the $58 million pants judge.
This whole issue got resolved way, way back when in the People v. Larry Flynt. Go on Ann, I know you’re incapable to checking Westlaw, so just put the Woody Harrelson movie on your Netflix queue and sit back with a methuselah of two-buck chuck and wait for the little floppy red envelope to cascade through your mail slot.
inquisitor said,
August 17, 2007 at 15:48
http://www.brooklaw.edu/faculty/visitors/
Geez, Brooklyn Law School. What happened? Did all your professors get offed in a freakish paper-cut incident?
Woodrowfan said,
August 17, 2007 at 16:41
Maybe she should see a mental health professional. I mean, seriously.
Mona said,
August 17, 2007 at 19:06
Brad, I wish the thin-skinned and deranged bitch WOULD sue you. It isn’t like you don’t have plenty of lawyer friends who would not be DEEEELIGHTED to have at Ann. I’ve seen Glenn Greenwald take depositions, and he is unmerciful as well as brilliant. Scott Lemieux and a few others could be part of the legal team as well.
The thought of Greenwald reducing Ann to a drooling puddle of trears — which is exactly what would happen — is too much fun to think about.
And as noted above, satire is constitutionally protected speech, per SCOTUS.
Simba B. said,
August 17, 2007 at 19:49
I woke up this morning, and I found that Ann Althouse had poked me! I think I’ll sue her.
Boy, it’s gotta burn her up that that profile hasn’t been deleted. I mean, seriously, that’s the best she coulda hoped for and…nothing.
Fail!
Duros62 said,
August 17, 2007 at 21:16
Ya, she poked me too. But I like it.
With pie.
And wine.
And whine.
a different brad said,
August 17, 2007 at 21:24
Ann is more popular on facebook than I am. Every time I refresh the page there’s new pokes and friend requests.
I wonder if the fakereal Ann gave up, or was too incoherent in her emails demanding it be taken down to have effect.
Now if only Pam Atlas would notice…..
Duros62 said,
August 17, 2007 at 21:38
Dude, i joined facebook just so I could see what u did thar.
but I won’t join Myspace. Everytime you log on to Myspace, Rupert Murdoch puts a little piece of your soul in a box on his desk.
Not AnnAlthouse said,
August 17, 2007 at 22:25
Why is AnnAlthouse into bukkake?
Oh, I see…ewww.
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mythago said,
August 18, 2007 at 6:37
Plus, why does she have the shoulders of a weightlifter?
Those are shoulder pads left over from her vintage 1980s suits.