Comments on: We Came Across Your Recent Statement Calling Our Present Activities ‘Unwise And Untimely’

By: mikey

mikey — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:10:39 +0000

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

By: ahem

ahem — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:23:38 +0000

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.

By: Batocchio

Batocchio — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:31:47 +0000

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.)

By: Megan McArdle

Megan McArdle — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:36:44 +0000

This comment has been deleted because that’s not what I meant at all.

By: Fishbone McGonigle

Fishbone McGonigle — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:28:11 +0000

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!

By: whetstone

whetstone — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:53:14 +0000

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

By: Klein's Tiny Left Nut

Klein's Tiny Left Nut — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:02:50 +0000

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.

By: MzNicky

MzNicky — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:44:12 +0000

Simba: My apologies. RightWingSpackle™ it is.

By: Marita

Marita — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:38:24 +0000

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.

By: Steve Kelso

Steve Kelso — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:33:39 +0000

Re “bridge”. She’s probably imagining it as a “drawbridge”, with her safely behind the moat.

By: Steve Kelso

Steve Kelso — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:32:28 +0000

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.

By: Simba B.

Simba B. — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:54:55 +0000

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.

Knowing McAddled, though, I suspect it’s another episode of Trying to Impress People With Big Words.

By: other county heard from

other county heard from — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:31:15 +0000

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.

By: Singularity

Singularity — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:25:49 +0000

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.

By: Sarcastro

Sarcastro — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:01:06 +0000

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!

By: MzNicky

MzNicky — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:49:09 +0000

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.

By: other county heard from

other county heard from — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:45:21 +0000

#

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.

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.

By: Fishbone McGonigle

Fishbone McGonigle — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:22:55 +0000

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.

By: other county heard from

other county heard from — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:12:41 +0000

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

By: Jillian

Jillian — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:03:50 +0000

Could someone explain why Gavin M is paying so much attention to this person? Did she dump him or something?

Nobody asked that when my unhealthy fascination was with Mark Noonan.

Sheesh, you guys. It’ll be something else soon enough.

OMG, Gavin. You used to date Mark Noonan?