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.

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?

Why does that have to be a choice?

Can’t she be both a floor wash AND a dessert topping?

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?

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.

I wonder how she feels about egg salad sandwiches?

ooooh! Snap! you have been uninvited to megan’s party.

Can we land at that Dairy Queen down there and get a coffee shake before we plug this dude in the Chevette ?

She just posted that she was wrong to include Mark Warner in her presidential poll.
She corrected it, and it now includes George Allen.

Is she, like, the snobby chick on the horse whose dad owns the big scary quarry ?

I’d cheat for a chance at her .

Isn’t Lucy Lawless also six foot two inches? She could star in the “The Megan McAddled Story: Libertarian, Ch-yeah!”

Does she know what ‘rampant’ means?

I just want to wake up one morning, and the whole Bush thing was a bad dream. Please. PLEASE.

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?

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?

you put on your rampants to go on rampage, right?

Thank goodness this is another bright shining star of American thinkingism whom I have the grace of encountering only via Sadly, No.

I’d cheat for a chance at her.

She’s not really your type, Billy, her being unmarried and all.

Oh, it’s perfect: the reveal scene can have Bobby opening Ace’s shower door.

“The problem with being a 6’2″ troll is finding rampants don’t make my ass look big.”

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.

I can’t believe she deleted that comment. She considers that rampant trolling?

Graaaarrr!

[gnaws on italics tag]

I’m with . That’s not trolling; it’s a simple statement of fact. Yeesh.

I was with (some gal) but the brackets ate my words.

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

“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.

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.

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.

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.

Did anyone else notice just how many comments had been deleted for “rampant trolling”?

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.

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’.

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.

Heh, deleted comments? In the words of Bugs Bunny, this means war!

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.

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?

We may misunderestimate the probability of thousand year storms. . . .

“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.

Consider yourselves deleted.
Ramp-ants.

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

Look what the internet has preserved for our rampant consideration.

Item 1:

I was looking forward to discussing it, but Megan has deleted the trackbacks for that post. I can’t talk about it in comments there, or trackback to any other blog posts about it.

I wonder why the trackback number vanished like that on the poll post?

Hey Megan, which was that: “typo” or “joke”?

Posted by mark warner | September 13, 2007 10:43 PM

Item 2:

Comment by Megan McArdle —
August 21, 2007 @ 12:30 pm

Link blocking is indeed massively lame, but I’m not engaging in it. There’s something wrong with the permissioning on my site, so that frequently people attempting to access links (but not the front page), get a forbidden message–I get it all the time myself while looking through my archives. I didn’t even know you *could* link block until I was accused of it by Roy’s commenters, but I certainly haven’t done it; the verboten thing will happen just as fast to a fawning reviewer of my mac and cheese recipe. I tried to get the admins to change it, but they said it was necessary to prevent comment spam. If you hit refresh, the page will show up.

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.

Leonard Pierce: you are freakin’ brilliant!

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…

We should put our time, money and effort into benefiting something really grand, like developing galactic travel that gets us from here to there in a reasonable timeframe, for a human.

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.

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.

I’m in!

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

Arg, please change the last 4 lines to something clever in your head.

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!

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

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.

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

I don’t think it is possible to over-berate a Randian.

I don’t think it is possible to over-berate a Randian.

Isn’t “over-berating a Randian” a euphemism for defecation?

if by euphemism you mean, best possible course of action, yes, exactly.

She let my comment stand. But she probably didn’t get it.

I’d hit it.

I’ll blow you a building if you do. The rich, crazy deviant psycho is mine.

Can I get a watercress sandwich and some Tums ?

The question is, does Sarah dumb and tall make Sullivan and the other reformed Atlantic hegemons look better or worse?

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?

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

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

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.

#

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Simba: My apologies. RightWingSpackle™ it is.

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.

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

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!

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

Wow, I thought your comment over there was fantastic, and very on point. That’s pretty lame.

Jillian said,

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.)

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.

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