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That would make us the people who hang out watching the Civil War re-enactors, which is even lamer, no?


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 4:27 PM
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i thought civil war reenactment was the civil war reenactment of the electronic age.

thank goodness pajamatools is stepping up to combat america's biggest problem: insufficient hectoring of the opposition party. GWOT!


Posted by: matty | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 4:29 PM
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Becks, we're main page bloggers! We're totally the Civil War reenactors. Watch me take out this Yankee with my Gatling, suckaz!


Posted by: Tia | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 4:46 PM
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Dude! I researched nuclear weapons by A.D. 1860!

Fredericksburg this!


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 4:50 PM
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I know. There's something about thinking "Wow, cool, I'm blogging" and then thinking "And so is every fourteen-year-old in America."


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 4:51 PM
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Woot! You're right! I'd better go soak my buttons in urine!


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 4:55 PM
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Hey, you're kinky. Wait--you've got more than one?


Posted by: Tia | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 4:57 PM
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Wait, which is supposed to be lame: blogging in se or blogging with Tom Swift jokes?

Also -- and here's the lamer flanking maneuver -- "citizen journalist" really isn't a Tom Swift-type subtitle.


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 5:21 PM
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Dude! I researched nuclear weapons by A.D. 1860!

If this is a Civilization reference, I am totally getting my swoon on.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 5:24 PM
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SB, that totally is, swoon away. reminds me of the glory days of leading Aztec fighter divisions to crush the French Civilization...


Posted by: mike d | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 5:31 PM
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I feel weird accepting swoonal authorization from a third party.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 5:33 PM
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I can reliably conquer the world on Emperor-level in Civilization 2. Y'all'd be pitiful white dots in my vast Spanish empire by 1794. I'd only be letting you live to rack up points and savor my absolute power.


Posted by: Tia | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 5:37 PM
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"Look upon my ill-gotten Time Magazine Blogger of the Year award and tremble, puny Senator!"


Posted by: norbizness | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 6:03 PM
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Look upon the line you meant to evoke, ye norbizness, and despair!


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 6:09 PM
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That was entirely too snitty. Sorry.

I feel like w-lfs-n, only after the gypsies cursed him with a soul.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 6:14 PM
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Unfogged is welcoming to newcomers.

Unfogged is welcoming to newcomers.

Unfogged is welcom


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 6:17 PM
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w-lfs-n, assuming 15 is accurate, whatever you do, don't experience a moment of true happiness. That would be very bad.


Posted by: washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 6:22 PM
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Ben's got sooooul. And he's super-bad.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 6:24 PM
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Assuming 15 is accurate, w-lfs-n can MoTH all he wants.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 6:28 PM
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Nope, you were right, w/d. Now I'm going to go, before I start sharing candid details of Gary's sex life.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 6:31 PM
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Oh, you feel the way w-lfs-n would feel if gypsies cursed him with a soul, but that hasn't actually happened?


Posted by: washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 6:32 PM
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21 written before I read 20, clarity achieved.


Posted by: washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 6:34 PM
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Can I be Faith?


Posted by: ac | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 6:36 PM
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I know that I am Willow, and I don't even watch Buffy. I know that I'm Willow because people always tell me, "You are just like Willow."

Damn, I need to do my stats homework.


Posted by: Tia | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 6:43 PM
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Actually, I think 17 and 21 are both right and wrong in equal measure. My strained metaphor is polysemous.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 6:45 PM
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I read it as SB=Angel, w-lfs-n=Angelus. In which case, I hope that you in your wisdom, SB, can help me contain the monster within.


Posted by: ac | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 6:54 PM
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Most of us guys are pretty much just Xander.

Tia, it's possible your real-life persona is pretty different from your online one, since I don't think you come off all that Willow-like. Maybe Season 5-7 Willow.


Posted by: Matthew Harvey | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 6:59 PM
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I remember when there was actual football talk on the football threads, and no Buffy (it is Buffy?) jokes at all. Curse you, new Unfogged bloggers!


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 7:19 PM
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Also, reenactment is teh hott.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 7:22 PM
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Weiner, I assumed that you, of all people, would have been a Buffy fan.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 7:26 PM
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It may be that I would have been a Buffy fan, if I had a TV. Maybe someday I will watch the DVDs.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 7:33 PM
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Does your computer read DVDs?

ac, successful completion of my monster abatement program would probably land you in the high-security pokey, right? And then how would you comment?


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 7:45 PM
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It does, but it is largely dedicated to goofing around on the internet when I should be grading.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 7:48 PM
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Is this the football thread? Let us talk football!

Jerome Bettis paid the referees with money earned from his child prostitution ring. And he rigged the election for Hamas. And he rigged our election.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 7:49 PM
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the money had to go somewhere, see? or he'd have to pay taxes on it, see? The reason they had to go to commercials so often was that Bettis kept stuffing the pants of the refs with dollar dollar bills, and trolling the stands for more children.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 7:52 PM
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text, you silly billy. Those children were eaten.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 7:53 PM
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it's cowher who eats them with his big nutcracking mandibles.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 7:55 PM
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In olden days, of course, we used to throw the children in the steel pots to make better alloys. Like this, but just for the hell of it.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 7:59 PM
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But it wasn't Jerome Bettis, whose shop full of antique clocks was burned to the ground in a lightning storm. It was Pancho Villa.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 8:00 PM
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when the bells ring with "for thy sake, o my father" it means you have performed correctly.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 8:09 PM
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Oh the reason they shot Pancho Villa

Was he danced on his mother's mantilla

And the message did not reach Garcia

He was out somewhere dancing on hats.

That may not be PC, though any offense pales before the baby-eating depradations of my favorite football team.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 8:09 PM
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It is little known that Pancho Villa had a sixth toe on his left foot. And the sixth toe was actually his twin brother, Rauncho Villa, who Pancho absorbed into his body. At age seven.

Little known, because it is a lie.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 8:12 PM
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Most of us guys are pretty much just Xander.

"Some of us", he said, taking off his glasses and wiping them, "are not."


Posted by: Michael H Schneider | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 8:28 PM
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And then how would you comment?

With my shiv.


Posted by: ac | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 8:32 PM
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Jerome Bettis has a shiv that he uses to cut the hearts out of true and noble unicorns.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 8:44 PM
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Good, no one's claimed Cordelia yet. Dibs!


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 8:45 PM
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I know that I am Willow

Can I be Tara?


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 8:49 PM
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Tara is the sexist. Apos, can you pull it off?


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 8:51 PM
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SEXIST. Gawd! What is wrong with me?!?!?


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 8:52 PM
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I watched Spinal Tap last night. That is my excuse.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 8:52 PM
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Apos, can you pull it off?

No, it's permanently attached. I was going to rely on the magic of acting.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 8:55 PM
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Can you be as sexy as Tara, I meant. B/c if you are as sexy as Tara, I *will* be jealous of you flirting with other girls.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 9:00 PM
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I somehow fathomed that all that true happiness talk had something to do with Faust.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 9:41 PM
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did w-lfs-n offer somebody a bargain?


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 10:00 PM
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Can you be as sexy as Tara

[bats eyelids, smiles slowly]


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 10:05 PM
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But can you pull off that counterpointy bit with Giles in "Under Your Spell / Standing (Reprise)"?


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 10:10 PM
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That must be on The Cheerful Insanity, SB. I only have The Brondesbury Tapes.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 10:13 PM
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The other Giles. Oh yes, I know what you're talking about, Willis.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 10:14 PM
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Since there are three of them in question, make that the other other Giles.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 10:15 PM
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No, there are only two Gileses, Peter (b) and Michael (dr).


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 10:15 PM
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Fripp was actually a Giles, but he denies it.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 10:19 PM
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56: I already said I can't pull off my pointy bits.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 10:20 PM
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The counterpointy bits generally complement the pointy bits, apo.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 10:22 PM
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Everybody compliments my pointy bits.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 10:23 PM
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63 is sexist in at least two different ways.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 02- 6-06 10:26 PM
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No, Tara is the sexist.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 02- 7-06 3:18 AM
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Standpipe Bridgeplate: I'm honored to be in the company of another (presumably) adult who will cop to owning the "Once More With Feeling" soundtrack.

Thought for discussion: would we all think Tara is the sexi(e)st if she weren't Willow's girlfriend?


Posted by: Matthew Harvey | Link to this comment | 02- 7-06 5:38 AM
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Hey T(itan)ia -- it occurred to me on the train this morning that if (a) people think you are like Willow and (b) my memory of your hair color is correct (and I think it is), then you must be... (drum roll please) a Willow-y blonde!


Posted by: Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 02- 7-06 6:39 AM
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Tia, it's possible your real-life persona is pretty different from your online one, since I don't think you come off all that Willow-like. Maybe Season 5-7 Willow.

As someone who's seen about three episodes of Buffy, I'm not sure if this is illuminating, but I'll offer it anyway.

I think people think that my voice and mannerisms are like Alyson Hannigan's, and even if my features aren't just like hers, we have a similar quality. Or something. Also, I can totally hear myself saying "This one time, at band camp..."


Posted by: Tia | Link to this comment | 02- 7-06 6:40 AM
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#67: We own the soundtrack, and even listen to it *as music* not infrequently. And sing along. Fuck your patriarchal music standards, I say.

Also, yes. Tara would still be the sexiest. Amber Benson is just so gorgeous and womanly...


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 7-06 5:55 PM
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BPhd, I think I'm under your spell.


Posted by: Matthew Harvey | Link to this comment | 02- 7-06 6:41 PM
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She turned me into a newt.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02- 7-06 6:42 PM
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"A newt?"


Posted by: Matthew Harvey | Link to this comment | 02- 7-06 6:49 PM
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