Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. This post totally lifted my spirits (that had been crushed by the seven-hour meeting that just ended).
That's brilliant. Please say you didn't delete it.
A rather brilliant way of reducing the number of messages left asking for your help with a technical matter, I'd say.
Now that's what I call Becks-style!
So how many messages did you have?
There's an extra 'to' in 7, SCMT.
Fuck to oboe. "I want to be Becks when I grow up."
We all know that's not the verb you intended.
Could someone explain the meaning of "fuck to oboe." A google search reveals that this appears to be an unfoggedtariat neologism.
And speaking of unfogged phrases, I think taht we need to revive the use of "wizard cocksucker."
Let me begin by saying that Becks, your voicemail message is truly awesome; no, it is beyond awesome, it is wizard cocksucker.
The inexplicability of the first occurrence is the explanation.
Also: I want to have Becks' babies.
I thought we all agreed to drive off the old men.
Pretty well succeeded. Emerson posts maybe twice a week, Farber has all but disappeared.
Emerson seems to have been driven off the intarweb completely. That takes dedication.
I thought I saw him over at Bitch's place, saying that he'd been travelling a lot lately and had intermittent internet access.
Meh. Anyway, in case it wasn't clear, I was kidding in 22. Idealist is totally first, then IDP.
Standpipe can have my spider babies any day of the week.
The spam comment at the end of the original fuck to oboe thread is top notch.
Hey look, "ovipositor".
27: That comment spam approaches abstract noir. It's hard for me to make fun of it because I want to steal whatever algorithm it's using.
It's getting to the point where I read spam on purpose, just for the Dadaist beauty. Yesterday I got a Viagra ad with text mixed in from an old pulp magazine story featuring The Shadow. Apparently The Shadow knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men, and where to get cheap pharmaceuticals.
Standpipe can have my spider babies any day of the week.
I told you when you adopted those spider babies Becks that, sure they were cute, but they'd be a lot of work too. I knew you weren't ready for that much responsibility. I only hope Standpipe can give them the care and attention they deserve.
32 was me (as given away by the proper use of quoting technique).
33: When there are fewer than, say, 100 comments, I think the quote convention I'm using suffices. But I especially dislike it when a comment in the 200s refers by number to a comment in the teens.
. . . I think the quote convention I'm using suffices.
Yep, that's precisely the problem. You think wrong.
M/lls is using the classic, proper quoting method. The number-reference method is the product of a debased age, that cares only about cranking otu comments as fast as possible, and probably ages its wine over oak chips.
I find it less burdensome to scroll up to a numbered comment -- guaranteed to be at a particular location! -- than to search for the quoted text to find out where it came from. Thus, the quoted text method is superior when there is a great distance between comments and the context of the discussion is not important or when it is necessary to emphasize a particular piece of text, as in 35; the number convention is better when one wishes to emphasize the flow of the conversation or to refer to a passage that it would be unwieldy to qotue.
Wouldn't an age that ages its wine over oak chips be less concerned with efficiency?
36,37: I would think a possible solution, when the relevant comment is many comments back, would be to link to the specific comment you are referencing.
Sure, quoting was fine when it was just Ogged (pbuh) and Magic in the comments.
Re: 37, I'm not as much of a stickler as I make myself out to be, and your (and 'smasher's) method is actually fine and reasonable and receives my esteemed endorsement. I just want people to be conscious of the issue, is all.
Wouldn't an age that ages its wine over oak chips be less concerned with efficiency?
Not in comparison to aging it in oak barrels. The oak chips method is done in, IIRC, big steel tanks and is faster and cheaper than the tradition barrel aging method.
The standard against which all commenting conventions should be measured: scrolling is wizard nutsack!
The number method is a great way to organize the flow of a conversation currently in progress, especially when there are multiple threads going on at once, or multiple responses to a single comment. However, the quoted text method is more likely to help me recall a particular comment than a number. That is, I rarely find myself, like Wiener, scrambling upthread to find the context.
Not in comparison to aging it in oak barrels.
Oh, yes, I see.
If we were really concerned with efficiency we'd just pour Everclear in the grape juice.
46: If we were really concerned with efficeincy, we'd let Taiwanese orphans do it for us.
It's unclear to me what comment 42 is referring to. No quotes, no comment number reference, nuthin'.
Seriously though, it's become crystal clear that Armsmasher is one of those "bi-partisan is just another name for date rape" types, interested only in gaining the advantage, not in actually solving the important issues before us today.
46: He speaks the truth.
The full recipe, in case anyone was wondering, is 6-8 liters of Gatorade (depending on taste), one full handle of grain alcohol, and for an optional added kick, 6-8 Red Bulls. Goes down surprisingly smooth.
Fuck Everclear. Stroh 80 will do you just as good and it's tasty besides.
What is the measurement "one full handle"? I am unfamiliar with bartending lingo.
I'm a commenter for a new century, M/lls, with the centrist, consensus-building policies to court old hands and lurkers alike and the hardball tactics to see them through. If you'd read my pamphlet, Language, A Key Mechanism of Commenting, you'd probably recognize words from the approved list for describing l/berals like yourself: fl/p-flopper, /neffect/ve, coddl/ng, appeas/ng, pol/t/cal. . . .
31: Speaking of oddly captivating spam, I just got an 'online pharmacy' spam message, the sole text of which was a poem from The Hobbit.
The moon is far whiter
Than silver in treasure:
The fire is more shining
On hearth in the gloaming
Than gold won by mining
Indeed.
"Farber has all but disappeared."
It's remarkable how a combination of unapologized assertions to someone that "I hope you die," and expressing the wish to come back if it were clear that one was wanted, but having only about four people bother to say that one is so desired might tend to make one feel unwelcome.
But, to be sure, I can be a bit sensitive about that sort of thing. In certain contexts. Like those in which my death is wished for.
But it's possible it's not that I didn't write enough about it, making my POV clear enough. I should think. Although I am an "asshole," as another site-owner made clear.
For what it's worth, when I saw this in the recent comments sidebar I thought, "Cool! Gary's back!" The person who said "I hope you die" doesn't speak for me or, I suspect, for any of the frequent commenters here. I didn't comment at that post because I didn't want to out my super-secret Blogger profile.
Welcome back, Gary. I second Matt's sentiments.
Hi, Gary. Since you asked, seeing your name on the sidebar sometimes makes me wish that &slap; were meaningful, but just as often I'm tempted to buy you another one of those nutty ice cream bars.
Gary,
I only skimmed your post, "I suck." I skipped many of the addenda, and I didn't read any of the comments. I just want to say that I know a lot about screwy families--though mine may not be quite as screwy as yours (it's still pretty bad), and I understand how raw they can make you emotionally. (Is thus too earnest for unfogged?)
Anyway, it's good to see you back here. I don't really know why you left, and, like you, I don't always read every comment, so I haven't followed the whole saga. But pull up a vitual chair and stay a while anyway.
