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By: It’s ÖBAMA, It’s ÖBAMA « Happy Valley News Hour

It’s ÖBAMA, It’s ÖBAMA « Happy Valley News Hour — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:48:45 +0000

[...] 29, 2008 · No Comments Props to the mad wags at Sadly No! for discovering this Obama campaign song hidden deep within the Motörhead [...]

By: The Constructivist

The Constructivist — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:46:39 +0000

I suggested the Fishbone option for Obama, but yours works a lot better.

By: Gord Locke

Gord Locke — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:05:29 +0000

Well thank goodness. For a second there, I thought you had chosen ‘Ace of Spades’.

By: lonesome1

lonesome1 — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:33:01 +0000

‘I Am Woman’ -Bill Murray version.

By: Mo's Bike Shop

Mo's Bike Shop — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:31:41 +0000

Flick the Booger.

“Look at me! Look at me! I’m not touching you!” is not a protected speach act.

Kevin Tsoriasis Saulburger needs to get laid or medicated. He’s a boring pissant.

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:37:51 +0000

Come to think of it, hasn’t someone already appropriated Bomber in this way? Could have been The Editors over at the Poor Man Institute… could have been Whiskey Fire. Unfortunately I have the long-term memory capacity of a goldfish with ADHD.

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:21:51 +0000

“Really ladies, I’m quite flattered and all, but I have to get up early in the morning. I couldn’t.”
That’s a serious work ethic.

By: Dan Someone

Dan Someone — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:21:17 +0000

There are significant differences between classical Norwegian trolls and Internet trolls, which is central to my point.

By: Dr BLT, Ex-troll-turned-troll-basher

Dr BLT, Ex-troll-turned-troll-basher — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:04:12 +0000

“Look at Dr BLT, everyone. That is how you troll.”

I’m clearly unworthy of such a comment, AshPlant, be it bitter sarcasm or straightforward zeal for the Dr BLT style. I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt, and thanking you wholeheartedly for your graciousness, undeserved though it may be.

By: wordyeti

wordyeti — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:38:30 +0000

Re: Lemmy – he useta live in the same apartment building as a good friend of mine back in the early 90s. One night, at about 2 a.m., we heard loud knocking across the courtyard. We peeked out the window (you never knew in that place, just off Sunset & Doheny, if looking out the window would make you see something that you’d have to recount from the witness chair under cross) and saw a couple of Penthouse Pets, decked out in their best club leather quasi-bondage boob exposure gear, pounding on Lemmy’s door.

Mr. Kilmeister opened his door and the girls slurred something we couldn’t quite make out. But Lemmy grimaced and shook his head “Really ladies, I’m quite flattered and all, but I have to get up early in the morning. I couldn’t.”

The girls slurred some kind of a protest in a higher octave. Lemmy just kept shaking his head and apologizing: “Really, I just couldn’t, thank you, really, but no.” And then he shut his door.

My friend and I turned to each other, aghast that this postnuclear perpetually stoned rocktroll had women pounding on his door at 2 a.m., demanding kinky sex, and he was so used to this that he wasn’t surprised, in fact he turned them down. Where do you sign up for that life?

BTW – I recommend the Motorhead song “Just ‘cos you got the power, that don’t mean you got the right.”

By: mikey

mikey — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:46:46 +0000

Oh, and I’m not sure why but I’m convinced Hillary should use Letters to Cleo’s “Awake” for her campaign theme.

It just works…

mikey

By: mikey

mikey — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:45:38 +0000

The threshold for banning trolls has got to be their entertainment value. Have a post where everybody rates their, er, wisdom on a 1-10 scale. Any averaged value below 5 results in banning, not due to position or even content, merely because they are neither smart nor amusing enough to provide value to the Sadly consumer.

There is no doubt that the saul/booger troll is neither funny nor interesting nor even provocative. Nothing greater than a 1.5. Banning the fucker makes the whole site better. It would be like banning brussels sprouts. Oh sure, a few would miss them, but the overall quality of the food service would be significantly higher…

mikey

By: AshPlant

AshPlant — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:38:29 +0000

Look at Dr BLT, everyone. That is how you troll.

By: Clem

Clem — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:26:32 +0000

Is there any way to rig the thingambob so that flagged trolls’ attempts to post trigger an automatic comment generator, resulting in comments that were diametrically opposed to said trolls’ character? I’m thinking along the lines of Cartman hijacked by aliens, here.
Gary Ruppert’s comments magically become Rupert Everett’s bon mots, Saul spouts Cat Stevens lyrics, etc.

By: Jake H.

Jake H. — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:24:35 +0000

Don’t ban anybody. That would be a pussy Washington Post Online bitch move.

I DO, however, love the idea of clearly displaying that Booger/Gary/Saul are all the same person, if that’s possible. Anyone who’s spent any time here sees it clearly, of course, but it would help out the noobs to see what the score is.

By: r@d@r

r@d@r — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:20:28 +0000

i gotcher campaign song right here.....RIIIGHT HEEERE.

By: Dr BLT, Ex-troll-turned-troll-basher

Dr BLT, Ex-troll-turned-troll-basher — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:12:00 +0000

While openly disavowing all things troll, I have come to appreciate the unique role that trolls play. Without trolls, you would have a stagnant pond subject to the phenomenon known as groupthink.

You would all grow comfortable without being challenged and you would never having to look in the mirror. Trolls may be obnoxious, but they are friends because they disabuse the impetuous blogger of ill-conceived ideas and hackneyed, pseudo-logic.

Also, the term “troll” has become a tool to brand, isolate and discriminate against anyone that doesn’t hold to the prevailing groupthink associated with a given blog community. Trolls are the blogosophere’s leper. But their sickness may be your key to health. To put it in terms introduced by the band, Disturbed, are you “Down with the Sickness”?

By: MzNicky

MzNicky — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:10:00 +0000

J— Thanks. I knew it was something like that.

By: Tara the anti-social social worker

Tara the anti-social social worker — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:46:57 +0000

“You know, we could hold auditions for the role of Troll.”

The casting couch images that come to mind are too horrible to share.

A reality show might work, though. “American I-troll?” Who gets to be Simon?

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:38:42 +0000

Wasn’t ELO’s “Hold On Tight To Your Dreams” used in a commercial jingle a while back? To advertise Metamucil

Boy, you’d have to be one constipated motherfucker if “Hold On Tight To Your Dreams” made the sale!