Toward A Post-Shame Society
Posted on December 13th, 2008 by Gavin M.
Shorter Michelle Malkin:
- I have chosen gloating condescension as a response to Rahm Emanuel’s complaints of “death threats,” and that the media has “put [his] home address on national television,” for certainly no one will remember the time in 2006 when, in the wake of one of my more infamous exploits, my address was posted on the Internet, and I abandoned my house in fear, loudly complaining of the extreme and woeful injustice that had been inflicted upon myself.
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard. We are aware of all Internet traditions.™
You’re a tiger! A sexy tiger!
Annnnd, I’m spent!
Where’s that picture from and who’s she talking to?
Er, yelling to.
Michelle Malkin’s “Wicked Witch of the West” impersonation is a sure-fire wingnut crowd pleaser.
Where’s that picture from and who’s she talking to? Er, yelling to.
Graeme Frost
Tried to comment from Google Chrome but it’s not showing up… Let’s see if IE does better, or if the spam blocker got me the first time.
Sadly, No! seems awfully stuck on shorter this and shorter that. Maybe they should call it Sadly, Shorter.
Shorter Sadly, No!:
Man, this posting stuff’s hard work. Gettin in the way of my naps. I know! I’ll just chuck a good ol’ “shorter” up there, take a long, refreshin’ draught of the sqeezins and get back to “The Amazing Race”…
mikey
Wow.
A whole week of Sadly, Posts!, just since I went to the horrible place (aka work), this morning.
🙂
Hmph. Like plumbing, windsurfing, and the baking of pastry, Shorters look easy…
The pic is from the same series as the camera photo — or from the same occasion, anyway. Malkin and Alex Jones were making a spectacle of themselves, each in their own way.
Alternate even shorter Michelle Malkin: It’s all about meeeee!
Holy crap that pic is hot.
Michelle Malkin is pretty on the outside (sometimes) but the ugliness on the inside really shines through in those snarly shots.
she looks like she’s about to sink her fangs into some unfortunate.
Why are no posts earlier than Dec. 7 visible on the front page? (I got here through my google reader.)
yeah more alex jones attacks! thanks guys!
btw i think the work has been solid for the past few months at least, the long deconstruction/pomo readings can’t be easy to compose, and the shorter entries give us a good prep for the wingnut talking points that will be floating around
People who live in Germantown should toughen up, sweetie.
Why are no posts earlier than Dec. 7 visible on the front page? (I got here through my google reader.)
Careful, Sadlynaughts, I smell a wingnut prank on all these “Groundhog Day Front Page” posts….
It smells like defeat, flatulence, aging laundry, yeast, peanut butter, and tuna.
Yep, there’s definitely something about the photos of Michelle where you can only see her two most prominent front teeth that makes Groundhog Day an especially apt moniker.
Why are no posts earlier than Dec. 7 visible on the front page?
I’m using firefox, and the page loads fine.
It is difficult to determine, from the expression on her face, whether MM is about to crap her pants or take a bite out of a nearby human. We are all cannibals now.
The Shorter is like the Blues. It does not take long to learn the basic form, but it can take a lifetime to master it.
WordPress ate my dumb joke about how Michelle Malkin’s “Wicked Witch of the West” impersonation is always a crowd-pleaser.
They don’t even necessarily have to be much shorter than the original text. It’s the impression of brevity that’s important…
Mama’s little baby wants shorters shorters
Mama’s little baby wants shorter posts.
An exercise in tone and pace.
I mean, James Brown is always telling his drummer to “shorten up.” If it’s good enough for JB, it’s good enough for me.
Because you touch yourself at night.
She’s leading her faithful
readerswingnuts on a crusade against corruption (& for semi-literacy) Took ’em eight years to get going, but look out now!. 🙂Boomerang: The Democrat culture of corruption
December 10, 2008 08:42 AM by Michelle Malkin
169 Comments | 37 Trackbacks
Categories: Corruption
On December 12th, 2008 at 4:51 pm, On-my-soap-box said:
“You have NOT heard crying until Obama gets linked in this. Most of the
countryworld is gunna have a hissy. Of course us folks who hate corruption will be gleeful.:)”This Malkin piece could be compressed quite a bit, but would it be better?
I mean, how do you get at the layers of irony in Malkin posting people’s private information so that her crazy followers will issue death threats, then playing up her own suffering when her address was posted (many of the apparent ‘chink’ and ‘ping-pong ball’ emails to her seem to be concocted), and then going after the Frosts, and so on, and so on, and ending up, today, mocking Emanuel apparently with no self-consciousness at all?
That’s a hard one.
The Shorter is like the Blues. It does not take long to learn the basic form, but it can take a lifetime to master it.
Like Wayne Shorter, for example.
That’s a difficult thing to compress into a few words.
It’s wingnut training, Gavin. After all, these people consider white men to be an underprivileged group in America. And why aren’t the Iraqis more grateful for all that we’ve done
forto them?Looking at those pictures, I cannot help but believe that MM is a deeply unhappy person. Because I am generally a compassionate person, I would care about this, were it not for the fact that I really don’t.
She’s not yelling, she’s feeding.
yeah more alex jones attacks! thanks guys!
Attacks on or against A.J.?
I could get behind attacks on him – he’s a nasty piece of work,
Really he’s a leftover from the 90’s Militia era, so we should be seeing a lot more from him in the next few years. AND he’s a Truther, which fits right in with his and his fan club’s “you’re a rugged independent thinker if you look at the facts we show you and come to exactly the same conclusions we do” philosophy.
Maybe graphically: a snaky Malkin biting her own tail in fury while screeching “OUCH WHICH TRAITOR IS BITING ME” and rolling hoop-snake-like into a pit of whoopie cushions.
I love those candid pics you manage to snag, Gavin.
BTW, are you enjoying your new Lamborghini Gallardo?
I believe that picture was taking when she first arose, freshly formed from the dragon teeth previously sown in that spot.
Hm, goober’s been into the Drano again.
…finished scratching his ass, apparently
goober you be sech an idjit. Gav got hisself a Murcielageo, not a cheesy lil’ Gallardo.
Also, FYWP with an original Hummer.
I’m pretty sure Gavin’s a volvo man.
He SNEERS at lamborghinis n shit.
At least I THINK it’s volvos.
Maybe it’s peugots….
mikey
I’m still seeing the Jackie Gingrich post on the front page in Firefox and Safari. I’ve cleared the cache, history, cookies, etc. for both. Does anyone have a serious explanation. I love coming here, but it’s getting difficult to stay caught up.
Careful, Sadlynaughts, I smell a wingnut prank on all these “Groundhog Day Front Page” posts….
This whole time, the page has been loading just fine for me on Mozilla. I think y’all are making it up just to screw with me, but it won’t work. I’ve eaten peyote, so I can see through all kinds of shit. Either that, or the Page Loading Gods like me.
BTW, are you enjoying your new Lamborghini Gallardo?
With a nice white wine.
Saab.
Still Jackie Gingrich for me–Firefox, Safari, cleared cache, home and work, different providers, blah blah blah.
Layers of irony and lattices of internal contradictions. These the Shorter must convey in both form and subtance.
Hm, goober’s been into the Drano again.
Wait, he’s not Gavin Maloof?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maloof_family
Just trying to help here: if you’re not seeing the current homepage, try this link or possibly this. Apparently they’ve helped some.
Here in the valley of silly-cons, concrete tiltups and faux Pho, our advanced fiber optic networks not only have the most current home page cached for instantaneous access, if you enter sadlyno.com/iknowcrap.php you can actually view pages that have YET to be posted.
Ain’t technology grand?
mikey
Wait, he’s not Gavin Maloof?
Are you George Lindsey?
goober that burning sensation is not normal. Should I call poison control? I’d imagine they’ve probably got your file right on the front desk.
Saab. Yeah, tha’s right.
So tell me, J–, how many blogs are you the semi-official Librarian/Archivist for? ‘Cause m’man, you are ON it…
mikey
If that goober post is real, wow, goober is stupider than I even imagined possible. If not, that has to be the best parody troll in the history of this blog.
You know, that’s really a terrific picture.
Simba B-
Look it’s real simple: Gavin identifies as “Gavin M” –
“Maloof” begins with “M” –
Ergo, “Gavin M.” = Gavin Maloof!!11!
See how simple it is to be LOGICAL?
*rolls eyes*
….oh, “logical”
Have you done a Love Boat joke yet? That’d slay everyone.
mikey: I don’t have the experience/time served to claim such a title (I think I started following Sadly, No! closely in early 2006), but it’s kind of you to use those terms. I find I pay closer attention and retain more bits and pieces of information from the blog content on which I comment, and right now I pretty much only comment on one blog.
goober: Logic would dictate that you are a peanut.
Have you done a Love Boat joke yet? That’d slay everyone.
Nah, Gavin McLeod is waaaay to old to be as snarky and smartypants-y as our Gavin.
I think booger is lonely
Are you kidding? Did you not see his mastery of Ted Knight on the Mary Tyler Moore show?
McLeod in his prime couldn’t hold a candle to the S,N! crew.
Maybe Don Rickles…
It would be pretty cool if he was Gavin Maloof. The Maloof brothers rock. Vegas casino, NBA franchise. It would be awesome to trade places with them for a year. A month would do…
okay a week then.
BJS –
I saw Maloof on a Travel Channel show about Vegas excess. He had a smokin’ hot chick on his arm and went to the dealership to test drive and buy a white Gallardo Roadster.
Hence, the current goof.
Man, I love Peugeots. You’re supposed to get 300,000 miles out of a clutch.
And that getting 35 mpg from a 5700 lb hunk of metal was pretty nice.
…the current goof – very apt
In other words, it’s like a Pho queue.
Getting back to Michelle, hasn’t she ever noticed how many pictures of her show her screaming and grimacing like — well, like the photos I remember from my childhood: women cursing and screaming racial epithets at the little black girl walking into the “white” school in Little Rock?
Djur, thanks. I’ll use the sadlyno.com/page/1 for my bookmark now. That solved the problem
Because you touch yourself at night.
Like all good Americans, I limit my self-abuse to daylight hours.
@djur, thanks, the page 1 link did it for me.
Gavin: The Groundhog page includes
Dynamic Page Served (once) in 0.593 seconds
Cached page generated by WP-Super-Cache on 2008-12-08 04:52:03
super cache
in comments; the normal page does not. So it sounds like it is indeed an issue with the WP caching. For what it’s worth, the 0.593 is always the same.
Also, it appears that while appending ?o at the end of the URL doesn’t serve fresh data, appending ?o=o does. So WP-Super-Cache seems to make its decision partly based on params with values.
Passing If-Modified-Since for a date later than Dec 08 gets me “304 Not Modified”. Still trying to figure out why some browsers fail while some work.
BREAKING
orz% curl –header “Cookie: comment_author_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.itisdancing.com” -q -q http://www.sadlyno.com/ 2>/dev/null | grep “WP-Super”
orz% curl –header “Cookie: ” -q -q http://www.sadlyno.com/ 2>/dev/null | grep “WP-Super”
<!– Cached page generated by WP-Super-Cache on 2008-12-08 04:52:03 –>
That is, it appears that the presence of a comment_author_url cookie will ignore the cache. That explains, I guess, why people were seeing the issue go away after making a comment.
If Gavin or someone else wants any help figuring this out, just email me at mboeh at desperance dot net. Put [sadly] in the subject so I don’t miss it.
This is the obligatory “If I post, maybe the groundhogging will end” post. FWIW, two computers, both running on the same wireless local network, both running OS X 10.5 and Firefox 3, one works and one don’t.
And, that’s obviously Malkin’s O face.
And it worked. Son of a bitch.
I get weak in the knees when people grep.
Hell, babe, I was grepping decades before you could sudo.
Just sayin.
I’ve got Gaslight Anthem on loud. I’m entirely helpless before this kind of brilliance. Almost doesn’t matter where you start, but it’s had to find a bad moment on “Sink or Swim”…
mikey
Y’know, I might just decide to smoke some of that pot tonight.
Hell, the shit’s not gonna smoke itself…
mikey
I think booger is lonely
Gosh, I wonder why.
Getting back to Michelle, hasn’t she ever noticed how many pictures of her show her screaming and grimacing like — well, like the photos I remember from my childhood: women cursing and screaming racial epithets at the little black girl walking into the “white” school in Little Rock?
Tehanu nails it.
The logic is clear: because it would be a great shock and affront to liberals if Obama were involved in Blago’s corruption, it is therefore true.
It does not have to have happened in order to be reliably demonstrated.
I don’t know, it could be the guy behind her is … um … Well, I just hope his shots are up to date, that’s all.
I do have to appreciate Djur’s black-box analysis skills. I don’t have a taste for that much, myself. If I can’t have
root accessthe source code, then I’d better be being paid. Nothing bothers me more than having a problem at hand and not knowing anything.Reverse engineering skills are really a cut above.
Actual Republican strategy memo on the auto bailout, reported by MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann but via Crooks & Liars.
You can tell she’s angry in that photo, as you’d be if some soundman had just stepped on your unhinged jaw….
…and other items
my labor, organized as it is, includes many other items – take your shots: first, last, whatever.
So I just put a chicken pot pie (no, no pot in the pot pie, damn, wish I had thought of it) in the oven.
Got a fire in the ‘place. “Here without you” on the stereo. Friday night. Christmas shopping done (amazon, B n N, thinkgeek) and en route.
They say it’s gonna get COLD tomorrow (40s, yeah, I know, we don’t actually HAVE weather) and I’m gonna bake some bread and make some irish stew. Love cold weather. Makes me wanna go to tahoe next week..
mikey
a side comment: when I come to SadlyNo from home, the front page has the “Shorter Jackie **GINGRICH** Cushman” on the top. I have to click on that article and then manually click through the newer stories using the hyperlinks.
Any idea why this is happening?
Yes. Because you touch yourself.
mikey
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they say you should reach out and touch somebody …why not start close to home?
They are despicable, are they not? Whilst their sad train-wreck lives cycle down through shit to soul deep despair behind them they cannot allow any thought that might challenge their in- built deference to power.
Republicans should stand firm and take their first shot against organized labor, instead of taking their first blow from it.
And if it puts the country into a deep depression the pukes can blame on the Democrats, they’ll call it a win-win.
Disgusting people.
They= Malkin et al
They= Malkin et al
Whew. Thought that was about me.
Hmm. Works now. Praise the bailouts.
Republicans should stand firm and take their first shot against organized labor, instead of taking their first blow from it.
I’m just looking from afar, but I see a minority party holding up legislation in the congress immediately followed by the executive branch (same minority party) saying ‘okay, whatever, we’ll just do it some other far less transparent way’.
Hey, kids, here’s some of that shiny democracy we were telling you about.
“Republicans should stand firm and take their first shot against organized labor, instead of taking their first blow from it.”
Doe the GOP always use porn copy in their PR releases?
Crap, does, does.
Oh deer.
Oh, a deer, a female deer.
Ray, a drop of mechanics shit.
Me, a name, I call your aunt
Joe, a cup of weird thinking……..
mik,ey
This is a precursor to card check and other items. Republicans should stand firm and take their first shot against organized labor, instead of taking their first blow from it.
Yes, because it would be a grave threat to this fragile experiment in democracy if the NLRB had to go back to its policy of 1949 (see the Joy Silk doctrine).
The courts have consistently ruled in favor of card checks, by the way, so I guess the Republicans should start preemptively taking shots at them on this issue too.
Sadly, No! seems awfully stuck on shorter this and shorter that.
Oh fer cryin’ out loud. For days all we hear is “I can’t access the home page! All I’m getting is Mz. Fruit-Hat!” And THEN it’s “All you guys do is shorter stuff!”
Reminds me of the old joke that goes something like
“Oh, the food at this resort is terrible!”
“Yes! And such small portions!”
Don’t you kids realize that children in Uganda and probably China can’t get S,N! at all? No, I didn’t think so. Now eat your Brussels spouts and be grateful we’ve still got Gavin and Brad and Clif, seeing as how D.A. and Mr. Pierce and the rest have apparently got fed up and quit your sorry whining asses. There. Happy now? No, I didn’t think so. Kidz these days! hummph.
My God, that’s moose turd pie!
Simba: Aww, thanks. But I work in a market and in a field where any given project requires close integration with mind-bogglingly shitty remote services designed by highly paid skript kiddie contractors and maintained by “IT managers” who think “defragging” is the swiss-army knife of technical support, usually with the assistance of a half-page Word document in which at least 50% of the sentences are demonstrably false and a further 30% are unintelligible or consist primarily of the word “solution.” Sometimes, if I’m lucky, I’ll be given a zip file with a couple of XSD files, which will obviously be treated as the most documentation could ever need, even though all they describe is data structure and not protocol or behavior (and, usually, are three revisions out of date and misnamed). So I’ve had a lot of practice in figuring things out for myself.
No, I’m not bitter.
Also: I caught Gettelfinger live on teh tube today, totally fucking with the MSM auto bailout meme. He kicked ass, and not just that of Corker (R-The Glorious Border State) who knows not what he does. In this “right to work” area we (= regional Rethug hegemony) don’t cotton to workers actually having a voice and shouting it out besides. Down here we Others take our secret thrills when we see them.
You know, the Malkin reminds me of my stepfather, who was a textbook narcissist. He would commonly behave like this: do something cruel, and if you got upset you should just pull your head in and stop whining. But if it happened to him, oh! the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth!
Sometimes, if confronted, he would just flat out deny that he’d ever done the thing in question, even though it was us he’d done it to; we were there.
This kind of behaviour is so abnormal that it’s baffling. But it can really mess with your head trying to make sense of it. Better to realise that these people are nasty, vicious, and toxic, and to get as far away from them as possible.
And mock them mercilessly, of course.
Posting a comment fixes the Dec 7 problem, but here’s a shortcut for dedicated lurkers.
After I straightened out the problem for Firefox, I opened Opera and went to
Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Cookies > Manage Cookies
Selected sadlyno.com > __utma then clicked “Edit…” Changed the cookie name to “comment_author_a1f4ca914adc30f42e97f04d379f5f71” and supplied an appropriate value.
Selected sadlyno.com > __utmb then clicked “Edit…” Changed the cookie name to “comment_author_email_a1f4ca914adc30f42e97f04d379f5f71” and supplied an appropriate value.
Now that I’ve done Opera, I just have to fix a couple more browsers on this linux box before starting on the Windows machine (with Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome, IE6, IE7, etc.)
I haz a kweschun!
Why would people want to dedicate their lives to lurking (and complimacated I.T. solutions™), when they could happily join the commentariat instead?
~
That’s a shortcut?
Because we’re not funny, and we can’t think of interesting stuff to say. 🙁
Also, still speaking just for myself, being on the other side of the world and not being able to check in regularly (stupid work) makes it difficult to join in the conversations.
Why would people want to dedicate their lives to lurking (and complimacated I.T. solutions™), when they could happily join the commentariat instead?
Intimidated – (you guys are intimidating sometimes, you know). By sheer volume, if nothing else 🙂
My name is Ben, and I’m a Sadly No! lurker.
FY crappy cinderblock motel wi-fi with low-end, glacier-class routers randomly placed for maximum ineffectiveness.
I was a lurker probably 2 years to 36 months ago, I can’t remember the time when I made my first comment but I just thought of something to say, and said it. Things kind of went from there. Don’t try to think of a comment, just read the posts and the comments and if something comes to mind, say it.
As strange as it sounds it really is that simple. And after a while your wit does sharpen.
Because we’re not funny, and we can’t think of interesting stuff to say.
Practice! The kommentariat here is very friendly to the non-trolls, and if your attempts are brief, the faily ones will be ignored.
Most of what I type here is dumb, but I get the occasional chuckle.
Every now and then a random comment, good or bad, will get attacked by a drunk. Just like in real life, only they can’t swing broken bottles at you online.
wi-fi with low-end, glacier-class routers randomly placed for maximum ineffectiveness.
I see you’ve been to my campus.
…after a while your wit does sharpen.
..ah, if only!
(…but it’s fun to try!)
Most of what I type here is dumb, but I get the occasional chuckle.
Dude, dumb is an art.
Just say whatever comes to the top of your head. Then add cursing.
Well, I shall take your kind advice, thank you all.
However, my lack of time management skillz is also a factor. I find it difficult to juggle all the life stuff, and end up getting to the threads too late, so if I think of a joke one of you has already made it!
While I very much appreciate the dedicated efforts of our computer-geeky commentors to find a solution, please understand that many of us just aren’t into that sort of tinkering. In other words, I just log on and expect the internet to work. I expect this because I pay Comcast around $50 a month for the privilege.
So with all due respect to the site owners, who, after all, owe us nothing, I think the most reasonable solution is for them to fix the problem.
(Fuck it, forgot the cursing)
..getting to the threads too late
You’re never too late (dead(ish) threads can be the best – plus, as mentioned above, it’s good practice).
Hell, the shit’s not gonna smoke itself…
Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes.
And…
“Doe, a deer I shot last month,
Ray, a guy who pumps my gas,
Me and him got in a fight
Far is where he kicked my ass.
I don’t remember where I heard that.
I expect this because I pay Comcast around $50 a month for the privilege.
The ironic thing about this is that this is extremely cheap, as much as you don’t think so, because cable ISPs oversubscribe their networks in the same way those other bastions of consumer satisfaction, the airlines, overbook their flights.
Hence all the bitching about people who actually use the bandwidth that was advertised as unlimited for all those years (my exposure to advertising is extremely minimal these days but I can only imagine they’ve wisened up).
Shorter cable companies: “OHNOZ our profits are slightly smaller! BAWWWW.”
If you’re new to commenting, it helps to add how much you love Creed.
…and broccoli
(sorry, brussels sprouts – I have Bush the elder on the brain – a very sad condition)
Poop!
Is there a S, N! glossary?
shit moat: moat of dog shit and water, used to protect Joh McCain signs from vandalism or theft. See: Alkon, Amy
..getting to the threads too late
and, of course, sometimes (with S,N!), too late may be several days or so!!! – especially if the cookies are misbehaving.
In other words, I just log on and expect the internet to work.
As a computer geek (though not the network/web savvy kind), I understand and respect this. However, to those of us who have been messing with computers for a long time – in my case, 30 years – the idea that a computer would just sit there and work is novel, even startling.
Is there a S, N! glossary?
If there isn’t, there should be. With links! e.g.
Shit Moat, origin of.
Tonguejack my shitbox, origin of.
..I just log on and expect the internet to work.
as they say, “bwahahahaha” (and my sympathies)
…after a while your wit does sharpen.
I call my wit: Ol’ Butter Knife.
I must admit that I was almost entirely unaware of the oeuvre of Creed prior to reading this blog.
Sadly, however, I was already aware of the existence of brussels sprouts.
Oh, and don’t take it personally if you make a comment and then nobody posts anything for a really, really long time.
I just luv that Malkin chick. I bet she’s a great dominatrix!!!!!
That face…that face will haunt my nightmares. And those two creepy teeth. And those mad squinty eyes.
OS 10.5 – I get Jackie with Firefox, front page with Opera; go figure. I thought I’d try a comment to see if it would fix Firefox.
Don’t try to think of a comment, just read the posts and the comments and if something comes to mind, say it.
Why, that’s exactly what I do, to devastating effect!
As strange as it sounds it really is that simple. And after a while your wit does sharpen.
Like a bowling ball, I tell ya!!
Dude, dumb is an art.
I am The DaVinci of Dumb™!
Oh, and don’t take it personally if you make a comment and then nobody posts anything for a really, really long time.
Got it!
Heh.
I thought maybe it was the brussels sprouts thing. 😀
The commenting worked. Back to lurkage.
…that face will haunt my nightmares. And those two creepy teeth. And those mad squinty eyes.
Don’t go look at TBogg’s post about this, then.
Brucetta – Re: brussels sprouts, their mention has unpredictable effects, as I’m sure you’ve seen. There may yet be an explosion.
Oh no! Why didn’t anyone warn me?!
. . . Wait. Are explosions good or bad?
. . . Wait. Are explosions good or bad?
Yes!
the idea that a computer would just sit there and work is novel, even startling.
The result of 30 years of very successful propaganda by the computer industry. No other product demands so much of its consumers. If you had to tamper this much with a car, you’d call it a lemon.
Guess I’m just a Luddite. When I buy expensive shit, it’s supposed to do all the work, not me.
Clearing the cookies……
Oh, and Gavin? Pho queue= genius!
I lurked for a month or so before I first posted a comment; back in the summer of 2006 this was. It is intimidating at first, and I didn’t even know who 90% of the wingnuts being mocked were, and I certainly put a few feet wrong. I didn’t know how to make italics or blockquote or any of the other wizardry so casually employed by the regulars, but over time received much gracious help with these things. Back in those days we had some really mean genuine trolls as well, ready to jump all over teh nouveau commentarian, and that was sorta unnerving as well.
I recommend jumping right in. Chances are you’ll swim and not sink. I ain’t the brilliantest commentor around, but I’ve had a lot of fun with these (mostly) adorable folk. Just avoid the badgers and any peculiar water fowl with white foam-frothy beaks, and you’ll be fine. And don’t take any funny shrooms offered by RUGGED unless you have a very strong constitution and a tolerance for odd visions.
Brucetta – Re: brussels sprouts, their mention has unpredictable effects, as I’m sure you’ve seen. There may yet be an explosion.
The results of mentioning cilantro can be unpredictable as well.
Fillerbunny: Clearing cookies is actually counterproductive. You need to have a comment-related cookie to avoid the stale cache. I think the issue is figured out now, it’s just a matter of fixing it.
1)
Well, seeing as how we’re all going to be in soup lines soon…
2)
RE: the groundhog comment above. I tried shooping this onto her face., and it just wasn’t nearly as funny as the original, even being from a nuisance animal removal site didn’t help. The nearest thing I can think of to Teh Malkinmug in full bloom is this, which actually looks remarkably similar.
3)
Where the fuck do these people learn their conflict resolution skills? Aside from the obvious fact that they simply haven’t, that is. Seriously. From what experience in their adult lives have they learned that any behavior that involves screaming and making that sort of face actually moves them closer to any goal? I suppose I still blame Reagan for emptying out the asylums.
4)
Off topic, but on topic,
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
And as to another persistent FYWP issue, I have been trying out adding an “enter” after any links that end posts and it seems to ease WP’s appetite for posts.
Just a preliminary observation, but a hopeful one.
I’d just like to take this opportunity to note that MM’s cheerleader video caused me to lose my faith in God. I now realize that we are all alone in an uncaring universe.
I see. This brussels sprouts thing is obviously complicated, and not for newbies to mess around with.
Down here we call that ‘coriander’. I’m not sure if that makes things better or worse.
On December 12th, 2008 at 8:29 pm, FamilyMan said:
GOD forgive me but I love this.
They’re melting down even before they take office. This is what happens to you when you seek power without values.
Comment 105 at the House of Malkintent.
Thoughts, booger?
Did somebody spray with Troll-Away?
Didn’t work on me.
being on the other side of the world … makes it difficult to join in the conversations.
There are conversations here? A conversation is a waste of two perfectly good monologues.
‘Cos on this side of the world we converse with our fists, damn straight.
There’s someone from the antipodes who doesn’t let geographic challenges hold him back.
Two of ’em.
Where is the Troll-B-Gon?
The imagined visual of that pair of monologues is stunning.
Troll-B-Gon, cripes I thought that the Cheez Whiz pizza tasted a tad odd. Labels people, labels!!!
My God, that’s moose turd pie!
Meh, I’ve had it. It’s not all it’s cracked up to be.
Well I’m Australian. Those Kiwis are much closer to the date line, so time goes all funny there.
And if there is to be a Sadly No! dictionary, I volunteer to do the entry for Skunk Aficianado…
Shitbox: That which is to be tonguejacked.
The result of 30 years of very successful propaganda by the computer industry. No other product demands so much of its consumers. If you had to tamper this much with a car, you’d call it a lemon.
That is one way of looking at it, and not wrong. My way of expressing the same thing is that even now the computer isn’t ready to be treated like a product for general use, but the industry figured out how to get people to live with the bugginess because there was a pile of money to be made by doing so.
Commercial computer-related industry is a very weird scene – with products of sufficient complexity, like modern hardware and software, it’s difficult to assure decent quality, and impossible to do so on marketing-driven corporate deadlines. This is why I’ve wandered out of that segment into the research business, where the work I do will ultimately (I hope) be very beneficial to people, but things that I personally create don’t have any expectation on them to measure up to what should be commercial quality.
The result of 30 years of very successful propaganda by the computer industry. No other product demands so much of its consumers. If you had to tamper this much with a car, you’d call it a lemon.
That is one way of looking at it, and not wrong. My way of expressing the same thing is that even now the computer isn’t ready to be treated like a product for general use, but the industry figured out how to get people to live with the bugginess because there was a pile of money to be made by doing so.
Commercial computer-related industry is a very weird scene – with products of sufficient complexity, like modern hardware and software, it’s difficult to assure decent quality, and impossible to do so on marketing-driven corporate deadlines. This is why I’ve wandered out of that segment into the research business, where the work I do will ultimately (I hope) be very beneficial to people, but things that I personally create don’t have any expectation on them to measure up to what should be commercial quality.
In my experience, all you need to become involved in a S,N! thread without standing out is the following repertoire of tactics:
(1) Is that what the kids are calling it?
(2) Band-name of the thread!
[An acceptable variant is to claim “I saw {lapidary phrase ripped from its context in some earlier comment} in 1993 when they toured with _____”.]
(3) Anything about Islay malts.
(4) Any suggestion that WordPress software should be subjected to painful or degrading actions.
(5) Anything using the words ‘aiglet’, ‘brachiate’, ‘fritillary’ or ‘ululate’.
OK, I made up #5.
It’s a Foo-dog, baby!
Way back when I studied computimating under IBM, the mantra was, “Business computers are for saving time. Home computers are for using it up again.”
I believed that until my S/34 swallowed all our backup disks and we had to recreate 4 months of records. Good times.
…the mantra was, “Business computers are for saving time. Home computers are for using it up again.”
Interesting. Was the implication that the time spent on the home computer was stuff that you wanted to do, or fixing the computer?
Aww, that’s the one I was going to use!
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
It helps to be aware of all internet traditions, of course. (Though I do still bolt like a startled jackrabbit when someone mentions the name of *shudder* Mickey Kaus.)
We used to call it “swinging” when we were kids.
Perfect caption for the picture in this post:
“I’m melting!”
“Was the implication that the time spent on the home computer was stuff that you wanted to do, or fixing the computer?”
All kinds of implications, including those two, plus the idea that any *work* you did on a home computer would take way more time than on Big Blue. It was true enough at the time but it didn’t last. Mainframes are now the niche that PCs used to be.
Ha!
Well if I’m not funny, at least I can set some jokes up for you guys.
–“Just say whatever comes to the top of your head. Then add cursing.–”
I’d be happy if I could figure out how to do the block-quoting and italics stuff. I’m not comfortable cursing online. Oh, I can freely use the term “shit” when it is called for, and “damn” occsionally escapes my lips. But I still remember my absolute shock when I heard my mother say “damn”, and my dad only cursed when he was in the company of some old army buddies, and that really rang hollow. I think he was trying to fit in.
Anyway, it is not in my DNA to use the –ahem– F word, at least in a way that it can be preserved forever in cyberspace or whatever it is that will now accept my modest typings (using all my fingers, I’ll have you know).
But I must say that the right-wing crazies are going to outdo themselves in the next 4 years. I think the only website I have the stomach to visit might very well be this one. I will live in an alternate universe, where the crazies dwell in caves or garbage cans outside our little safe place, where we mock them endlessly and hope that THAT ONE knows how to deal with the controversy.
What more can we do??
Good ol’ Hulkin, keepin’ it classy … because after all, comedy is when someone else gets death threats.
I can hardly wait until she starts her own round of earnest blegging, just to see how her iguana-like brain rationalizes the metamorphosis into overt parasitism.
“After all the hate & paranoia I’ve given you for free, year in & year out, it’s the LEAST you can do …”
Why do lurkers stay silent?
Funny – that never stopped me.
Extemporare – fuck yeah!!!
* * * * *
Meanwhile, a cryogenic chamber deep within a mountainside in the Rockies opens, &
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Pat:
Blockquotes you get by putting the text within <blockquote>Quoted text</blockquote>
Italics you get by putting the text in <i>Italics text here</i>
And use ‘b’ in place of ‘i’ for bold.
I’m not sure what works for strikethrough here, though.
Brucetta—
You may be the only other person here whom I’ve seen use the escape codes for HTML tags. <strike> works for strikethrough.
Dough, with which I buy my beer
Ray, the guy I buy beer from
Me, the guy I buy beer for
Far, a long way to the store
So… I think I’ll leave right now
La, la la la la la la!
Tea? No thanks, I’ll have a beer
And that brings us back to dough!
(relurks)
Is there a better way to do it? I just do what I’ve picked up around the place. I learned those trying to put logic symbols up on a class website.
testingCool, thanks!
Heck no, that’s the best way to do it. Most people use different characters (such as [], or ()) and tell people to manually substitute when actually inputting the code.
Then yay!
Pat, having been through the beginner rounds lately myself, I suggest you practice on a blog that’ll give you a full preview so you can see your formatting before you post. WP (via Firefox) lets me peek at some of it, not all.
I found a list of how to do stuff here
Scroll down the page to the catchily named Visual Versus HTML Editor paragraph, it’s near the bottom. Then it’s all just cut and paste.
“It is fun and easy. For example, every prominent person of both parties in Illinois government is hopelessly mired in corruption – except Obama!”
Well that makes sense. Obama is hardly a typical Illinois politician. How many other Illinois politicians are socialist, fascist, black nationalist, Manchurian Wahhabist, terrorist-palling-around-with non-citizens?
Don’t show up here thinking you can just run your fool mouth about Exalted Chairman Hussein X with impunity. It’s a good way to punch your ticket for reparations camp, bitch. And the ramen will be served late and cold. Don’t step to cultists, punk ass mark.
thanks, guys
am I doing it rite
btw, there must be a shorthand way. maybe the next lesson
oooo, I’ve got preview! Eudora.
yes, truth. they are all corrupt. can we expect the impeachment proceedings to begin on January 21?
Just so there is no misunderstanding, my comment to Truth about all of them being corrupt was delivered dripping with sarcasm.
Also thanks to our wingnut friends, who give us so very much stupid to work with.
October 28, 2008 at 15:17
Various liberal posters proclaim
Jesus, imagine having a President who actually talks like this.
Give me a week.
It is not going to happen, liberals. Your echo chamber is reverberating now with your shouts of victory before you’ve won a single state. I almost feel badly for you, because when McCain wins, your astonishment will be overwhelming. I say “almost” because your ideology is nasty, anti-free speech, and absolutist, and every decent person will sigh in relief when it goes down to defeat once more.
Here is how it will go down next week. First, the results from Virginia and North Carolina will come in, and they’ll be declared for McCain. You’ll be disappointed, but “no big deal, change can’t come overnight” will be your comment. Florida will go red, and a little nervousness will creep in. The usual suspects will fall into the usual categories. As the night drags on, Ohio, Colorado, and (much to your horror) Pennsylvania will be too close to call.
My advice at this point to you will be to go to bed. You will wake up to a McCain presidency and the Great Liberal Freakout will be on.
Bookmark this, liberals, as this is exactly how it is going to go down. You will be wonder how the hell I was able to call this.
Read Frank Rich in today’s NY Times for some perspective on corruption.
I try to avoid misogynistic comments about Malkin, but my God, that photo looks like she’s taking a monster up the pooper during an attempt to set a gang bang record.
I try to avoid misogynistic comments about Malkin
No you don’t.
She looks like she’s about to go all Akira in that picture…
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