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We Came Across Your Recent Statement Calling Our Present Activities ‘Unwise And Untimely’
Posted in comments at the Atlantic:
Obviously, I am not nearly as funny as I think I am
We just keep remembering how the Atlantic published ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail’ during the Weeks era, so yeah, I guess we’re missing a punchline here and there.
Posted by Sadly, No! Investor Services September 13, 2007 4:18 PM
Discovered in place of the above (note redirected link):
This comment has been deleted for rampant trolling
Posted by Sadly, No! Investor Services | September 13, 2007 4:18 PM
The great tragedy here is that she probably thinks Letter From Birmingham Jail is that song where the guy shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
mdhatter said,
September 14, 2007 at 3:51
Megan: Obviously, I am not nearly as funny as I think I am
Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Ginger Yellow said,
September 14, 2007 at 3:52
Jeez, about half the comments in the thread have been deleted. Come on Megan, make your mind up. Are you Jonah Goldberg or Ann Althouse? You can’t have it both ways – are you dim or thin skinned?
Jillian said,
September 14, 2007 at 3:54
Why does that have to be a choice?
Can’t she be both a floor wash AND a dessert topping?
a different brad said,
September 14, 2007 at 3:56
I think Ann Althouse is Megan McArdle’s mom.
But a reminder to one and all Fire Megan McArdle stands ready to give your deleted comments a home.
Oh, and Gavin, you can has been shorterized. How’s it feel, punk, huh?
Robert Green said,
September 14, 2007 at 3:58
i can’t…it’s just…she’s so fucking…aaaaaarrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhh
seriously. that post got 1/100000000th the snark it deserved. she’s shamed herself by posting while high at least 5 times in 3 days (and read a whole book).
the atlantic should be ashamed, but you know, michael kelly andy sullivan etc. shame is their setting.
mdhatter said,
September 14, 2007 at 3:59
I wonder how she feels about egg salad sandwiches?
sophie brown said,
September 14, 2007 at 4:04
ooooh! Snap! you have been uninvited to megan’s party.
Helicopter Sniper said,
September 14, 2007 at 4:09
Can we land at that Dairy Queen down there and get a coffee shake before we plug this dude in the Chevette ?
shane's dentist's attorney's bookie said,
September 14, 2007 at 4:10
She just posted that she was wrong to include Mark Warner in her presidential poll.
She corrected it, and it now includes George Allen.
Helicopter Sniper said,
September 14, 2007 at 4:12
Is she, like, the snobby chick on the horse whose dad owns the big scary quarry ?
Billy Belichick said,
September 14, 2007 at 4:13
I’d cheat for a chance at her .
shane's dentist's attorney's bookie said,
September 14, 2007 at 4:13
Isn’t Lucy Lawless also six foot two inches? She could star in the “The Megan McAddled Story: Libertarian, Ch-yeah!”
Kathy said,
September 14, 2007 at 4:17
Does she know what ‘rampant’ means?
InsaneInTheCheneyBrain said,
September 14, 2007 at 4:18
I just want to wake up one morning, and the whole Bush thing was a bad dream. Please. PLEASE.
shane's dentist's attorney's bookie said,
September 14, 2007 at 4:18
Hey, the prez just said in his speech that next summer he’s gonna release 30,000 bloggers from Gitmo! That’s good news, init?
Jillian said,
September 14, 2007 at 4:19
Didn’t “Dallas” already do that storyline?
Perhaps if we attempted to rewrite the last seven years as an extended “Dallas” story arc….well, it wouldn’t change anything, but perhaps we might feel better?
shane's dentist's attorney's bookie said,
September 14, 2007 at 4:20
you put on your rampants to go on rampage, right?
El Cid said,
September 14, 2007 at 4:21
Thank goodness this is another bright shining star of American thinkingism whom I have the grace of encountering only via Sadly, No.
Will said,
September 14, 2007 at 4:21
She’s not really your type, Billy, her being unmarried and all.
InsaneInTheCheneyBrain said,
September 14, 2007 at 4:22
Oh, it’s perfect: the reveal scene can have Bobby opening Ace’s shower door.
Clem said,
September 14, 2007 at 4:30
“The problem with being a 6′2″ troll is finding rampants don’t make my ass look big.”
B said,
September 14, 2007 at 4:31
The poll’s great – you can vote as many times as you like. I’ve personally been helping Mike “Huh?” Gravel out for a few minutes.
some gal said,
September 14, 2007 at 4:37
I can’t believe she deleted that comment. She considers that rampant trolling?
Rampant Bubba said,
September 14, 2007 at 4:39
Graaaarrr!
[gnaws on italics tag]
jnfr said,
September 14, 2007 at 4:40
I’m with . That’s not trolling; it’s a simple statement of fact. Yeesh.
jnfr said,
September 14, 2007 at 4:41
I was with (some gal) but the brackets ate my words.
lobbey said,
September 14, 2007 at 4:44
This comment deleted for sounding like it was written by a second grader
Posted by BillyD | September 13, 2007 5:00 PM
bit rich, coming form her
Herr Doktor Bimler said,
September 14, 2007 at 4:45
“The problem with being a 6?2? troll is finding rampants don’t make my ass look big.”
Hey, you try walking through the mall dressed as a giant donkey.
evilchemistry said,
September 14, 2007 at 4:49
Can’t she be both a floor wash AND a dessert topping?
LOL! But really don’t go putting any of that on my sled, Clark.
julia said,
September 14, 2007 at 4:52
I can’t believe she deleted that comment. She considers that rampant trolling?
It’s hard being a fashionable libertarian/objectivist/whatever the fuck she claims to be this week on the gold coast of Manhattan. There’s a vanishing chance one of the neighbors who didn’t get their co-op from modelling fees and a helping hand from mom and dad will be, you know, dusky.
I think that is at the base of our chattering class’ being pissed off about political correctness – it means that there’s a group of people in the world who are not them who they have to pretend to have a decent level of minimal respect for.
Sometimes I wonder if they would calm the fuck down if we all just told them that being as shallow as a sheet of rice paper was rully cool and we totally admired them.
Then I remember the eighties.
james said,
September 14, 2007 at 4:54
From her latets post:
The catastrophic unknowns are, to my mind, the biggest economic challenge of global warming. As Sir Partha points out, we literally don’t know what we don’t know. And we have no very good economic framework for dealing with catastrophic risks when we cannot evaluate either the extent or the probability of the disaster. We may misunderestimate the probability of thousand year storms, but at least we’ve got a pretty good idea what a hurricane looks like.
Being a libertarian means not being shackled by the rules of grammar.
Steve Balboni said,
September 14, 2007 at 4:55
Did anyone else notice just how many comments had been deleted for “rampant trolling”?
paul said,
September 14, 2007 at 4:56
if she just deleted or disemvowelled them, that would be one thing, but the petty little digs are pathetic. Someone can’t not have the last word, it seems.
some gal said,
September 14, 2007 at 4:57
Being a libertarian means not being shackled by the rules of grammar.
And being Megan McArdle means never having to say you’re sorry. Or so it seems.
And I do mean that in all possible senses of ’sorry’.
some gal said,
September 14, 2007 at 5:00
Someone can’t not have the last word, it seems.
Indeed. Maybe that’s why she’s disabled trackbacking for that one post. No worries then about links to S,N! turning up on it.
stringonastick said,
September 14, 2007 at 5:00
Heh, deleted comments? In the words of Bugs Bunny, this means war!
evilchemistry said,
September 14, 2007 at 5:01
Being a libertarian means not being shackled by the rules of grammar.
And quitting, because studying a problem is hard, it’s hard work. Misunderestimate, that must be another one of those ‘nobody understands how funny I am, obviously, just ask me’ things.
J— said,
September 14, 2007 at 5:09
Rampant trolling. Is that like a lion rampant? Gavin, do you think you could put together an image of a troll standing on one hind foot with forefeet up and tail raised?
Clif said,
September 14, 2007 at 5:17
“Misunderestimate”? Does that mean estimate correctly when you intended to underestimate?
Worse, we can’t underestimate, or even “misunderestimate,” the “probability of a thousand year storm,” because, by definition, the probability of such a storm is once every thousand years. I suppose she means we may misunderestimate whether a particular storm is a thousand-year storm or a ten-year storm, but she’s about a thousand years away from saying that coherently.
FS said,
September 14, 2007 at 5:24
Consider yourselves deleted.
Ramp-ants.
Leonard Pierce said,
September 14, 2007 at 5:28
I hear them trolls a-comin’
They’re trollin’ round the bend
I ain’t oppressed a colored
Since I don’t know when
I’m stuck in the Atlantic
My column’s draggin’ on
Hey, do you like these pumps in amber or celadon?
When I was just a baby
My mama told me “Meg,
Don’t be a libertarian
Or your face will fill with egg”
But I made a poll on Thursday
Just to fill some space
Now the only red in my state
Is the red on my face
I love them rich folks eatin’
In a fancy dinin’ car
I love that bottled water and Dominican cigars
I hate that regulation
I like my market free
But it won’t support my dress size
I’m almost six foot three
Well, if I was the mayor
If I wrote them zoning laws
I bet I’d gerrymander
And I’d answer just because
Far from all them coloreds
That’s where I want to stay
Hey, have you seen my monogrammed sweater?
I had it yesterday
J— said,
September 14, 2007 at 5:28
Look what the internet has preserved for our rampant consideration.
Item 1:
Item 2:
Clem said,
September 14, 2007 at 5:37
I hope that Althouse will deconstruct the psycho-sexual implications of the word, “Polldaddy.”
Didn’t “misunderestimate” pass Bush’s lips, once? Taking grammar cues from the chimp constitues a prima facie case for firing McArdle, but I worry that it signals a comparable level of derangement. Next thing you know she’ll be launching a preventive flame war against National Geographic and giving unsolicted shoulder massages to Andrew Sullivan.
some gal said,
September 14, 2007 at 5:40
Leonard Pierce: you are freakin’ brilliant!
Snorghagen said,
September 14, 2007 at 6:10
McArdle may actually be trying to say something rational in her global warming thread – it’s hard to tell when she burbles out stuff like ‘misunderestimate’ and ‘we literally don’t know what we don’t know’ – but one of the commenters comes up with a gem of high quality.
Falkoyn writes that rather than waste money on all that global warming silliness…
Or we could develop some really good hallucinogens, so we can imagine that we’re engaging in intergalactic travel. That’d probably be more cost effective.
stickler said,
September 14, 2007 at 6:18
Yeah, Leonard Pierce wins a gold star for that one. I can hear The Man In Black’s gravelly voice just by reading it.
And he rhymed a line using “celadon” … that’s some mean Internet skills, there.
owlbear1 said,
September 14, 2007 at 6:19
I’m in!
agrippa_cash said,
September 14, 2007 at 6:27
A pale imitation offering:
Yeah, I like it
Ugh! Ugh! Ugh!
Well I’m six foot two
I got a pain in and it’s you
I wish I were Sully
But you make fun of him too
I pound at the the keyboard
With nothing to say
I try to be funny
You keep trolling away
But I’m doing the things
A six foot two girl can do
So I’m six foot two
I got a pain in my head
Cause I’m trying to refute
What Jonny Chait said
With a bottle of greygoose
A Coach bag of jokes
I still can’t trade mots juste
With all the smart folks
And I wish life could be
Randroid fantasies
I wish life could be
Randroid fantasies
I wish life could be
IT IS!
Ugh! Ayn! Ayn! Ayn!
Ugh!
So I’m six foot two
and I can’t find shoes
I can’t sew worth a damn
Worth a damn damn damn damn
I’m wishing for sweatshops
makin’ giant clothes cheap
If stitches were misconstrus
I’d have clothes knee deep
And I’m doing the things a six foot two girl can do
I wish life could be Randroid fantasies
I wish life could be
Yeah, I wish life could be
Oooooooooohhh
I wish life could be
I wish life could be Randroid fantasies
I wish life could be Randroid fantasies
I wish life could be
I won’t grow anymore(x3)
Anymore, anymore, anymore, anymore, anymore
I’m only five foot one(x3)
I’m five foot one
agrippa_cash said,
September 14, 2007 at 6:28
Arg, please change the last 4 lines to something clever in your head.
Mo's Bike Shop said,
September 14, 2007 at 6:37
Does she know what ‘rampant’ means?
Pathetic, isn’t it?
Can’t she be both a floor wash AND a dessert topping?
You haven’t seen my floors!
jim said,
September 14, 2007 at 6:45
Could someone explain why Gavin M is paying so much attention to this person? Did she dump him or something?
Gavin M. said,
September 14, 2007 at 7:22
Nobody asked that when my unhealthy fascination was with Mark Noonan.
Sheesh, you guys. It’ll be something else soon enough.
mdhatter said,
September 14, 2007 at 7:50
Sheesh, you guys. It’ll be something else soon enough.
I don’t think it is possible to over-berate a Randian.
Dan Someone said,
September 14, 2007 at 7:58
I don’t think it is possible to over-berate a Randian.
Isn’t “over-berating a Randian” a euphemism for defecation?
mdhatter said,
September 14, 2007 at 8:00
if by euphemism you mean, best possible course of action, yes, exactly.
g said,
September 14, 2007 at 8:04
She let my comment stand. But she probably didn’t get it.
Gary Ruppert said,
September 14, 2007 at 9:16
I’d hit it.
Howard Roark said,
September 14, 2007 at 9:18
I’ll blow you a building if you do. The rich, crazy deviant psycho is mine.
Peter Keating said,
September 14, 2007 at 9:19
Can I get a watercress sandwich and some Tums ?
alphie said,
September 14, 2007 at 10:47
The question is, does Sarah dumb and tall make Sullivan and the other reformed Atlantic hegemons look better or worse?
Jillian said,
September 14, 2007 at 11:03
OMG, Gavin. You used to date Mark Noonan?
other county heard from said,
September 14, 2007 at 13:12
Hey Gavin,
Not only did she edit the link, not only did she delete the trackback number…she’s also disabled linking within comments. I wasn’t able to link direct to Sadly No under the word “others”, but I got around it by popping in a straight link.
I so totally believe you that the Warner thing was just a joke. I guess others don\’t have the same highly developed sense of humor as you.
http://tinyurl.com/2z5lgx
That explains why you took Warner off the poll and added your update. But what explains why you oddly left off Biden, Dodd, Gravel, Kucinich, Hunter and Tancredo? I see you\’ve magically added them without explanation after the second comment pointed out their absence. http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/09/thursday_polling_fun.php#comment-534471
Was leaving them off part of your joke too? Maybe you could explain how that was a joke? I\’m not smart enough to get your nuances. People like me might think that maybe you put Warner on because you were stupid enough to think he is a presidential candidate, and you left these others off because you were stupid enough to not know they actually are candidates.
Come to think of it, your embarrassment over being busted for rampant ignorance in the very first two comments on this post might explain why you\’re deleting comments and why you\’ve even deleted the trackback number for this post. Could that be the explanation? That you\’re ashamed and too cowardly to admit an error?
Or maybe deleting the trackback number is part of the joke. Or a typo. Hmmm, what excuse have you not used this week?
Nah. I\’m sure it\’s all part of your subtle and witty joke and the only thing rampant around here are stupid trolls.
I\’m looking forward to your explanation. I believe you. I\’m pretty sure that there truly is a really funny joke here. I think it\’s you. I know I\’m laughing.
http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/09/thursday_polling_fun.php#comment-537739
Fishbone McGonigle said,
September 14, 2007 at 14:22
Holy shit – here’s what she did to my comment:
This comment has been deleted for rampant trolling, and the IP address of its author’s bridge has been banned.
This is the second time I’ve left an unflattering comment on her site (hardly “rampant trolling,” if you ask me). This one was in direct response to Karl Steel’s post immediately above mine that read:
How could the Warner thing possibly be a joke? Bizarre.
My response went something like this:
“It’s obviously a joke, if by ‘joke’ you mean ‘embarrassing episode that is the direct result of the author’s unwillingness to do any, you know, actual research or anything.”
And that gets my IP address banned? Oh, the humanity.
other county heard from said,
September 14, 2007 at 15:45
Don’t feel bad. Here’s what she did to my comment. I also left it here at
http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/7101.html#comment-272399
This comment has been deleted because “I hate you” is not a very productive line of inquiry. Also, there is something madly wrong with the commenter’s system of punctuation, which seems to deploy back slashes in rather surprising ways.
Posted by hugh janus | September 14, 2007 7:06 AM
Funny. I didn’t say I hated her, and it’s pretty common for back slashes to get inserted when you use an apostrophe, especially when you’re using a proxy.
I guess she has no problem lying to make herself look better. But then we already knew that.
MzNicky said,
September 14, 2007 at 15:49
Fishbone McGonigle: Hah! You should post at RightWingSpackle sometime. She rewrites comments. I once invited her to blow my ass, and she changed it to “blow me a kiss.”
Then again, I don’t think Spackle is letting “mean!!!!1!!!” comments through anymore. Guess that’s why she gets maybe three comments instead of the literally tens per thread she used to.
Sarcastro said,
September 14, 2007 at 16:01
Naw, Fishbone, she just blocked the IP of your bridge… like London Bridge or the Golden Gate I assume since the bit of networking equipment by that name deals with physical addresses not IPs
What I find most impressive though is the boilerplate part. “Deleted for rampant trolling” means “restrained for unrestrained trolling”… brilliant!
Singularity said,
September 14, 2007 at 16:25
Hilarious.
She’s sitting there deleting comments as they come in. I posted this:
How very, very sad to fear someone’s words so much that you have to hide them away from the eyes of anyone who might see them.
Like 15 minutes ago. It was posted on her blog. Now I have been deleted because “I hate you or its variants snorfle *pop* bing plotz”.
I used to think it was sad to delete the comments of your critics. But a thousand times sadder still is sitting at your lonely little desk in rapid response mode, instantly deleting and responding to the comments of your critics. And the repsonses are so lame, to boot. I really just kind of pity her now.
other county heard from said,
September 14, 2007 at 16:31
Singularity,
But-but (sputter) you disagreed with her! You were so very rude. The only possible explanation for your comment is that you hate her snorfle *pop* bing plotz.
A comment like that just needs to be deleted. Shame on you.
Simba B. said,
September 14, 2007 at 16:54
I would just like to take this opportunity to be a narcissistic son of a bitch and claim “RightWingSpackle” as my own. You all, of course, are granted perpetual and irrevocable license to my trademark.
As someone familiar with computer networks, I find her use of the term “bridge” peculiar. I don’t know, it could be technically correct usage, I’ve just never seen an Internet user’s public IP referred to as belonging to a “bridge”.
Knowing McAddled, though, I suspect it’s another episode of Trying to Impress People With Big Words.
Steve Kelso said,
September 14, 2007 at 17:32
One narcissi to another, (hey, how do I look today?) I want to claim McAddle and McAddled as mine, and as posted in her comments. But you can use it.
Steve Kelso said,
September 14, 2007 at 17:33
Re “bridge”. She’s probably imagining it as a “drawbridge”, with her safely behind the moat.
Marita said,
September 14, 2007 at 17:38
I’m guessing it’s “bridge” as in the thing that a troll would live under.
Poor Megan, no one ever gets her jokes. It’s such a fine line between clever and stupid.
MzNicky said,
September 14, 2007 at 17:44
Simba: My apologies. RightWingSpackle™ it is.
Klein's Tiny Left Nut said,
September 14, 2007 at 18:02
Agrippa C –
I salute you for this –
With a bottle of greygoose
A Coach bag of jokes
I still can’t trade mots juste
With all the smart folks
Iggy would by shepping naches.
whetstone said,
September 14, 2007 at 18:53
No time for a full parody, but I can bother to switch some words
And I stood standing
Five foot one
Instead of six feet two
And I loved my blog
And I hated you
Fishbone McGonigle said,
September 14, 2007 at 20:28
Poor Megan, no one ever gets her jokes. It’s such a fine line between clever and stupid.
Ohhhhh, it’s a joke! I get jokes!
Megan McArdle said,
September 14, 2007 at 20:36
This comment has been deleted because that’s not what I meant at all.
Batocchio said,
September 14, 2007 at 22:31
Wow, I thought your comment over there was fantastic, and very on point. That’s pretty lame.
Jillian said,
September 14, 2007 at 3:54
Why does that have to be a choice?
Can’t she be both a floor wash AND a dessert topping?
Jillian, as always, you score serious style points with me! (That’s one of my younger brother’s favorite sketches.)
ahem said,
September 14, 2007 at 23:23
As someone familiar with computer networks, I find her use of the term “bridge” peculiar. I don’t know, it could be technically correct usage, I’ve just never seen an Internet user’s public IP referred to as belonging to a “bridge”.
I think she’s going with ‘troll:bridge::user:IP’ — that is, your IP is your ‘bridge’, since you’re a troll and trolls live under bridges. The McArdle wit at work.
mikey said,
September 15, 2007 at 3:10
Hmmm. Thing is, a long time ago, during the earliest adoption of TCP/IP as a networking protocol outside the UNIX/POSIX community, in addition to routers they had what they called “Bridges”. Hell, at one point they were even selling a hybrid of the two called, and I’m NOT bullshitting you, “Brouters”. That was good for about a year, whereupon they all dug a hole, laid down in it and Cisco killed them all with a bullet to the head.
Kinda had to be there…
mikey