More properly, "Bush^WObama"

B Obama is technically correct, though.

Soup is, of course, right.

Sort of. If you squint and move your head back and forth real fast.

2 doesn't work so much in context though (the picture shows this)

I was under the impression that you fastidiously avoided boingboing, Ben.

The link was in The Weblog's sidebar. It was too late, once I realized what was happening.

5: True. And 4 was to 2 in recognition of same.

I don't think that was the real Xeni posting, as it lacked a link to Reverse Cowgirl.

When I was in Portland a group of pranksters changed the name of (IIRC) Front Street to Malcolm X Street. Very professional fast moving teams slapped appropriately sized stickers on all the signs along the whole length of the street. One of the ringleaders (I think the instigator, actually), Igor Vamos, went on to co-found the Yes Men.

It was too late, once I realized what was happening.

And by then, I imagine, it felt too delicious to stop. Speaking of which, about half way down this page, (the link is to Journalista, the comics blog. It's safe.) there's a link to a video featuring The Flash fellating a completely motionless Spider-Man strapped to a board. Sort of looks like he's preparing to waterboard him.

11: Well, thanks, Populuxe. I can now say I've seen the strangest thing I'll see for at least a month. (Spiderman does not seem to be conscious, which is a little disturbing. The not-really-erect thing also points to "bashed over the head before the making of this video.")

I don't get it.

Search for "^H" here or looking here. Short answer is that "^H" (the caret represents that it's a chord: control-H) is for historical reasons the canonical textual representation of deleting. It's analogous to the use of strike to simultaneously say something, take it back (insincerely), and say something else instead. "^W" deletes the preceding word, "^H" the preceding character, so you need as many "^H"s as characters you want to delete.

This is one of the things that doesn't really have an analogue in speech, I think.

The idea that hacker culture and Heidegger independently invented this device is highly amusing to me.

"Seyn^H^H^H^H"

14 s/b "Great, start 'em young."

A comment at boingboing, a front page post at Unfogged.

We report you decide.

Did you guys realize that Slashdot still exists, too? I always assume that sites go away when I stop visiting them, but I guess that's not true.

Spiderman does not seem to be conscious, which is a little disturbing.

I'm a little disturbed by the collision of universes, too. They couldn't get Captain America?

And since when is The Flash a "villain," as the video calls him? My comic-book knowledge is extremely limited, but I thought he was a good guy.

Did you guys realize that Slashdot still exists, too?

Might have just been replaced with a script. Is that "exists" ?

You never know, AWB, he could be the Reverse Flash, newly emerged from the Speed Force.

Yeah, I'm not buying it. Remember how surprised the Flash was when the Pied Piper came out?

14: I didn't ask for an explanation.

you can hardly be surprised you got one though, B.

Did she express surprise?

If I hadn't provided one, she'd have complained about that.

I am surprised. Benjamin usually takes statements very literally, and often fails to supply explanations even when they *are* asked for, if one doesn't do it *just so*.

I was surprised too. There are many people here who are overly eager to supply explanations, but ben isn't usually one of them.

29: overly eager to supply explanations

Maybe in this case he was exactly the right amount of eager, and B is just being B. Wouldn't surprise me.

So everyone was behaving exactly as expected? That's a relief.

Maybe in this case he was exactly the right amount of eager

Yeah, *that'll* be the day.

I was surprised too. There are many people here who are overly eager to supply explanations, but ben isn't usually one of them.

Indeed, I had to scroll back up to confirm that 14 was, indeed, ben. When I first read it, I vaguely ascribed it to somebody else.

So much for the old implicit vs. explicit debate.

So much for the old implicit vs. explicit debate.

I hated myself as I was doing it.

They couldn't get Captain America?

I hardly think necrophilia would improve things.

Also, surely I'm not the only person who assumed Spidey's motionlessness indicated that The Flash was using super speed and the film was simply timed to take that into account.

38: That is brilliant. I did not realize were were watching in Flash time.

One of the many things that disturbed me about that video was that the site was free and the uploader was anonymous: this was a labor of love, I guess, and that is so weird. Are there a lot of slash reenactment sites out there?

Oh god, slash fiction. I've been haunted for the last couple weeks realizing that per whoever's law (Apo?) that whenever you imagine a kink or genre of slash fiction, it arrives.

I've been watching too much kid's TV lately, so for all the parents of young kids out there, let me say this: Backpack/Boots slash fiction.

Anything that you might need
I've got inside for you.

Yum yum yum delicioso!

I've been too afraid to look if it's actually out there.

Also, sorry if I scarred anyone.

Consider me scarred.

We did it! We did it! We did it!
Hooray!

41: That's Rule 34.

43: Aren't you married to Apo? And not yet scarred?

Note that she didn't say she was scarred by this specifically. She could have already been scarred.

46: Nah, thick skinned.

(34) to 41.

whenever you imagine a kink or genre of slash fiction, it arrives.

45: My workplace would not look kindly on my checking it from here, but could someone see if wetriffs.com actually has something on it now?

It does.