This is the Thread Where I Say Pt 27: And So We're Told This is the Golden Age

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The reindeer thing was bugging me.

This is the Thread Where I Say Pt 26: And the Reindeer You Rode In On

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Part 26 lasted almost a full month. Good job people.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Well, I cut it off early, too.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Is four weeks early for a Bris?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

I have a saved tab thing in my Firefox which is the start of a Bristol University web address, but it gets abbreviated to Bris. I wish I didn't know what it meant.

I got a payrise today! Yay me!

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

Aren't you the sole arbiter of these things Luna? If you rule them with an iron fist then who is to say it was cut off early?

Speaking of ruling with iron fists, are we making progress on the brothel project?

― Ash (ashbyman), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

the title of this thread made me think of quotes I got from ken macleod's blog "The Early Days of a Better Nation" @ http://www.kenmacleod.blogspot.com/

'Work as if you lived in the early days of a better nation.' - Alasdair Gray.

"If these are the early days of a better nation, there must be hope, and a hope of peace is as good as any, and far better than a hollow hoarding greed or the dry lies of an aweless god." - Graydon Saunders

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

That's true, I am pretty bad ass.

The brothel is coming along slowly - you and I need to get together and figure out how exactly this goon thing is going to work, and what your compensation and benefits package will be.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Well, ok, but really I was just listening to "New Year's Day".

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

I've started pestering the future again. Hey, they started it! But I'm gonna finish it. Finish it with funny. Yeah, you bet.
I've managed to sock away more money this month than every before, and I have a feeling that 2005 is going to be Year of the Huck.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

The Documentary Channel aired an HBO thing about a Nevada brothel last night. That channel is nasty!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

I don't understand these threads.

[It isn't inaugurated until someone says that.]

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

Life feels different this year, this is the first time I've been on ILX after for any length of time in ages. Okay, see ya, bye.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

I should have made this Pt 27: My Pimp Hand is Strong.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

Only I understand these threads.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

Hello hello hello.

I'm 27! = This thread and I are a perfect match!

One of my coworkers has been really snarky to me today. I don't think she knows my time here is almost up, but I don't feel like telling her. She's so out of the loop of the office gossip. Bwah ha ha!

I'm in pain again. I think it's women's troubles but it hasn't been this bad since I was a teenager. I think I'll go take some pills and disappear for a while. AY CARRUMBA. OW!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

I want pills that make me invisible and Spanish, dammit!

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry, I can only offer one or the other, not both.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Well, it's easier to pretend to speak Spanish than to pretend to be invisible, so I guess that decides it.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

Also, no one ever says "I'm running around naked in church because I'm Spanish."

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Don't you put your pickle in my whiskey, pal.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

Sarah is 27 factorial!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

You can't even see the pickle, it's Spanish!

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Tep, we can start calling you Sal Muera.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

Speaking of Golden Ages, and #27:
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/212/200/212_2_27.jpg
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/142/200/142_2_027.jpg

and of course:
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/87/200/87_2_0027.jpg

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

I'm only pretending to speak Spanish, so I assume Sal Muera means "There is a sale on the dead."

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

I should have made this Pt 27: My Pimp Hand is Strong.

or Part 27: ...I was thinking a 75 ft pink neon sign that said BITCHES!

Your pimp hand is undoubtedly strong, that can be part 28, or part 112, you'll get around to it. As far as my hired goon benefits, I'd like my steroids at a discount, and my tuxedos dry cleaned free of charge.

I wonder what appropriate sunglasses are for hired goons these days, 80's Ray-Bans?

― Ash (ashbyman), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

I assume Sal Muera means "There is a sale on the dead."

I am told it means 'pickle'.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

Done, and done. I thought the negotiations would be far more tense.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

i thought the thread title was a Pulp lyric, or at least reminded me of one

― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

Oh man, I totally want to be a gangster named Sal "the Pickle" Muera. AND invisible.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

Luna you need post an ad around town that says "Hookers Unite! Ask me about our dental plan"

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

First Bad Guy (nervously): "Hey, do you smell vinegar or something?"
Second Bad Guy (freaking): "And dill! We better get out here. He's here!"
First Bad Guy: "He? Who's he?"
Second Bad Guy (running off): "Sal! Sal "the Pickle" Muera! He's invisible and when they find your body after he offs you, he leaves pickle slices on your eyes!"

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

And a bread and butter chip under your tongue!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

But that lends itself to getting any old hosebeast off the street, jocelyn - I'm far too picky for that.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

Wait, I don't smell like vinegar!

I want a sidekick named Cornichon McFitch.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Hosebeast is such a rich and lovely term. Luna you should hold multi-event tryouts, a "Holympics" as it were. ESPN would definitely televise it.

I should change my name, mine doesn't have a lot of "goon cache"

Vito?
Seamus?
Biff?
Boutros Boutros?

Once I decide on that I can start thinking of an appropriate honorific:

the LegBreaker
the Sledgehammer

Better would be something absurd, (the Egg Slicer, the Mandolin String, the Crockpot) while your assailant ponders its possible meaning I would crack them over the head and be done with it.

― Ash (ashbyman), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

Hosebeast!?!

I just learned that Boutros is Arabic for Peter.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

What about Dill "The Kosher Kid" Gherkin?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

A big giant no-neck bouncer goon should be named Dogbert.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

Ash, go with Bruno. That was my "Spanish name" in high school Spanish, and I always thought it sounded pretty badass and would go well with a dark suit and brass knuckles.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

My "Spanish name" was always Sara. :-(

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

My Spanish name is Hermano.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

I'll be your first patron, Luna.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

Hermano, COME ON!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

I like the idea of these Ho-lympics, though. When you win, do you get a gold circle condom?

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

Gold garters?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

Chiro vouchers?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

I think since you're talking about high class escorts here they should win something a little more classy - like a fancy birth control implant.

IN other news, My boss said I could get COBRA insurance with the company until I get insurance at my new job, but it's probably not worth the cost, right? I mean, I only have one perscription which isn't that expensive.

Anyway, they're paying me for my unused vacation days after all. And they're combining my last two paychecks. So my check next week will be beary nice. That's right. BEARY.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

Is a female john a jean?

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

Or a jane?

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

Or a joan?

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

The prize will be a gold(en) shower. Duh.

― ()()ps, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Gee, if anyone needs good health insurance it's these guys:
http://www.mccallie.org/tornadoX/ISSUE%201/ent/s5.gif

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

That's the insurance that insures if your plane blows up, you'll parachute out, and that every single gun fired in your presence will be a laser gun incapable of striking a living target.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

http://www.myuselessknowledge.com/joe/bludd.gif

They don't cover optometry.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't there a Cobra Recruit blog somewhere, similar to the Green Arrow and Hulk blogs?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.tfbrasiltoys.hpg.ig.com.br/imagens_cobras/baroness_destro.jpg

They do cover elective surgery and facemectomies.

xpost; Was there? Dude, that would rock.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

Organ donors run the risk of being harvested for Serpentor.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

All the cops in the donut shops say "way-oh-way-ohhh-waaayo-waaaayoooo"

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

facemectomies is my new vocab word of the week. I will try to use it in this saturday's record review (i actually used to do that, pick a word at random and fit into a record review. that was back when I enjoyed writing)

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

hey sarah it depends on when the insurance at your new job kicks in...at my old job you had to wait six months for benefits to start! Cheap-ass radio stations. You might want to talk to your insurance administrator at your new job to make sure that your new insurance will cover your pre-existing condition even if you have an uninsured gap between jobs. Health insurance is so messed up, it's always better to check. If it's only a month or two, I'd skip COBRA, it'll be like $300 a month.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

It's a McSweeney's thing.
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2002/01/02cobra.html

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

If you have had a gap of less than six months, then your health insurance is required to cover your preexisting conditions. (That's my understanding, at least, IANAL.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

Ah, crap, I was gonna crack a Cobra Command joke, but y'all beat me to it.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

Dear God, Destro. I'm going to reproduce that picture for reference:

ihttp://www.tfbrasiltoys.hpg.ig.com.br/imagens_cobras/baroness_destro.jpg

I am having deep and terrifying GI Joe flashbacks now. Cartoon Network re-aired the old GI Joe series recently, maybe a few years ago. It was unbelieveable how...crappy...it was. I remember being a 7 year old kid and being *riveted* by this show, and my memories of it as a young kid lent a vividness to the animation that very clearly was not there.

How far away are we from the GI Joe movie at this point? The uplifitng tale of a rowdy band of ethinic and cultural stereotypes banding together to defeat a terrorist organization known for the exceptionally poor aim of its foot soldiers and led by a goth/fetish couple? It practically writes itself.

― Ash (ashbyman), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

Will that be before or after the He-Man and She-Ra movies?

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

Also, we need to have some events for the Ho-lympics:

The 8-inch stilletto heel 100 meter dash
Spot the Vice Cop
Competitive breath holding

― Ash (ashbyman), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

We had a GI Joe movie! Don Johnson was in it. But I know what you mean.

What the show had going for it compared to its contemporaries was ongoing plots and change -- I mean, its competitors were things like Shirt Tales, Rambo, and Looney Toons reruns, after all. You had five-part "one episode every day for a week" storylines, like with Transformers and, later, Gargoyles; you had an ensemble cast of characters, the lineup of which was constantly changing (rather than the dozen Superfriends episodes that are actually "The Zan and Jayna Show, guest-starring some superheroes); you had recurring plot elements that rewarded the long-term viewer. The proportion of filler episodes to plot advancement wasn't far off from what The X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer have made standard for genre shows.

You also had crappy animation and terrible dialogue, granted, but so did everyone else.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

Ahhh He-Man, nascent gay icon if ever there was one.

My brother and I both watched He-Man, my brother was particular fond of He-Man's stouthearted ally Ram Man:

http://www.cedmagic.com/featured/he-man/ram-man.jpg

Ram Man's power was to slam his head into walls and other solid objects. My brother, applying the monkey-see monkey-do logic common to toddlers, used to slam his head into things too. (I've always felt this explained a great deal, but I digress).

Ram-Man was clearly a gigantic lawsuit waiting to happen. Do you think a character like Ram-Man would ever make it past the legal department of the modern animation studio?

― Ash (ashbyman), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

It explains many of the things you have told me.

Also, please post the Disney story. I will love you forever.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

You had five-part "one episode every day for a week" storylines, like with Transformers and, later, Gargoyles

Man, I *loved* Gargoyles. I watched it throughout college. I still catch reruns from time to time. If a Gargoyles thread were ever to develop I would prove myself to be a far more gigantic dork then anyone would have guessed.

― Ash (ashbyman), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

You love me anyway and the Disney story is still archived on Plastic for all to see. (i.e. I'm too lazy to go to plastic and copy and paste it)

― Ash (ashbyman), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

Gargoyles was the first show I watched with kids that made me go "dammit, you guys get such better shows than we did!" -- and then, as though Japan heard me and had to retort, Power Rangers premiered.

But yeah, the reruns are on Toon Disney a lot. I totally lost the plot of the show somewhere along the line, but it holds up well.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

in response to everyone on the old thread:

yes, i am still winning money. not playing for much though as we need to by a new car.

sarah, yes its all paid time off..short term disability at 85% pre tax

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

sorry, not playing for that much $.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

I remember being a 7 year old kid and being *riveted* by this show, and my memories of it as a young kid lent a vividness to the animation that very clearly was not there.

OTM. I had a similar experience a couple of years ago when I chanced upon a VHS box set of my favourite "giant robot" anime shows from the early 80s (Spaceketeers, Starvengers, etc.) My God, were they terrible. I've watched the set exactly once, and it's been sitting in a storage bin ever since.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I love you anyway, and I am also too lazy to go find it. One day.

For the moment, however, I am going to Tommy's for a chili cheeseburger, and will return directly.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

I have probably that same box set -- is Grandizer in it, too? In New England, five anime shows were packaged together (one on Mondays, one on Tuesdays, etc) as Force Five, my favorite show as a kid.

Grandizer still has good bits, but the dubbing is sub-Speed Racer. (Apparently it's much better in French.)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

I make my return to the airwaves after an extended holiday break. It looks like something of a melancholic theme, with surprise appearances from Biz Markie here and there.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 20 January 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

You just described my dream wedding.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 20 January 2005 00:12 (twenty years ago)

"That peerless distillation of loneliness was the original demo recording Willie Nelson made of 'Crazy' when he was just a beardless Nashville tunesmith looking for grocery bucks, and now let's do the do like Mark Twain on Soul Train with the Bee-Aye-Zee!"

― Huk-L, Thursday, 20 January 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

Regardless, this shit goes live in 13 minutes.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 20 January 2005 01:47 (twenty years ago)

82 posts & what have I missed?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 20 January 2005 10:40 (twenty years ago)

I'm so getting Biz Markie for my wedding.

This is the thread where I say, belatedly as I was in Amsterdam and have only just seen the thread (thanks Mark): sorry you were in an accident Chris! White SUVs are evil. Get better soon x

This is also the thread where I say: The Sicilian is a REALLY boring film. Everyone should read the book instead. Only watched it becase Matt wasn't in the mood for Bill and Ted last night (haha that is not a weird euphemism btw). Maybe because it requires pizza instead of Thai red curry, I don't know. I look forward to watching it at the weekend though.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 20 January 2005 11:18 (twenty years ago)

I read the Sicilian in my short-lived Mario Puzo phase. It was quite fun, but then it didn't have the albatross that is Christophe Lom-bearrr in it.

Archel, can I come round and watch Bill and Ted with you (again, not a euphemism, honest)?

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 20 January 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

OK!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 20 January 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

Incidentally, who is this Ash person and why does he only talk to Luna?

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 20 January 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

Hello. Part 27 has been kind of weird so far. Ok, I just feel out of the loop because I don't know about these superhero names and I never saw GI Joe the movie...

Thanks, teeny, for Cobra advice. I said thanks but no thanks.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 20 January 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

I was wondering that, but I figured I'd just missed something. (Although I would have asked in a more friendly way that Mark!)

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 20 January 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Rock it.
You guys missed a great show last night. I was playing a song by the band Royal City, and I mentioned that they're from Guelph, "a city frequently referred to as The Royal City--well, I guess it's a stretch to say that, since Guelph isn't exactly frequently referred to."

Oh yeah, EAT IT Guelph!

― Huk-L, Thursday, 20 January 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

Incidentally, who is this Ash person and why does he only talk to Luna?

I don't mean to be aloof. I'm new, and Luna and I go way back. I live in NYC. I'm 27. I play guitar. I am a computer nerd. I am also an attorney, for which I apologize profusely. Let us never speak of it again.

So, ummm, hi everyone.

― Ash (ashbyman), Thursday, 20 January 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

Also, please post the Disney story. I will love you forever.

The aforementioned story, from the annals of Plastic, which is nice enough to archive a few diatribes of mine even though I haven't been there in almost two years.

When I was six and my brother was five my parents took us on the obligatory trip to DisneyWorld. One day we were having "Breakfast with the Disney Characters" a cute little photo op for Parents and a thrill for impressionable little toddlers like us, or so you would think...

Everything was fine until Goofy (that loveable scamp) came by our table and took my brother's plate away from him while he was eating. Goofy then made the fatal mistake of turning around and mugging for the crowd. Maybe most kids would let Goofy abscond with their food, not my brother. He climbed on his chair and brought Goofy down with a flying tackle.

Pandemonium ensued of course, laughter, cheers and flashbulbs exploding all over the restaraunt as my brother tried to pound Goofy's head into the carpet. Goofy, recovering from this initial assault, threw my brother off, got up and (unbelievably) turned around again to raise his arms in Victory. My brother took Goofy out at the knees and started to again punch him in and around the head and neck until Goofy struggled free and got the hell out of there. I still wonder how the poor guy in the Goofy suit explained any bruising to his friends.

My parents were mortified of course. (They were also the only family there not to have photographic evidence of the savage beating of Goofy, having forgot their camera, something for which I will never forgive them.)

The Moral, I guess, Don't mess with toddlers.

(ps: My brother is NYPD now)

― Ash (ashbyman), Thursday, 20 January 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Hi Ash!

Ram Man's power was to slam his head into walls and other solid objects.

That would explain his ability to do enormous sums really quickly, I guess.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 20 January 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

Ha! I figure they have a lot of padding in those suits, specifically to avoid lasting damage from toddler attacks.

So, you're an attorney huh? (Oh right, never speak of it again. Sorry.)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 20 January 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

[insert hilarious joke]

― Huk-L, Thursday, 20 January 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

I have tears in my eyes from reading that again. Thank you - you're the best.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 20 January 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

You're welcome, in return you can not tell everyone here about my shadowy past.

― Ash (ashbyman), Thursday, 20 January 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

I know nuhzink.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 20 January 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

Are you the ex-husband?

Incidentally, fuck HG W3lls. He's been dead for almost 60 years and yet he's still making my life a misery. I must have ummed and aahed through about 2 hours worth of phone calls today with me giving LEGAL ADVICE (!!!) on complicated, uncertain matters to do with intellectual property rights. I know fuck all about legal matters!

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 20 January 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

hahahaha - no, he's not. He's my amazing and fantastic friend.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 20 January 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

I must have ummed and aahed through about 2 hours worth of phone calls today with me giving LEGAL ADVICE (!!!) on complicated, uncertain matters to do with intellectual property rights. I know fuck all about legal matters!

Lawyers, doncha just hate em? IP is actually what I do, and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't curious as to what prompted this, but I'll warn you in advance the only advice I ever give on the net is "talk to a lawyer in your city, in person."

― Ash (ashbyman), Thursday, 20 January 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

You can take the boy out of law school...

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 20 January 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

So, the front page headline of today's National Post declares Polygamy coming, Grits fear
OTTAWA - Just weeks before it introduces divisive same-sex marriage legislation, the Martin government has launched an urgent study into the legal and social ramifications of polygamy.

Of course, the article makes very brief mention that the study is actually being conducted by the Status of Women Office in relation to an ongoing investigation into an offshoot sect of Mormons in B.C.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 20 January 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

My problem was a lack of lawyers, Ash. It's all to do with a documentary maker working on a programme about HG Wells, whose film and TV rights I represent, and trying to figure out what they can and can't do without licensing the rights. It has done my head in all day so I won't bore you, myself and everyone else any further.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 20 January 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

divisive same-sex marriage legislation

Surely this means "same-sex divorce legislation"?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Hi and welcome, Ash! Any friend of Luna's, etc. Also, that Disney story is terrific.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

Some of the things I don't get today:

1 - Why do they make cds so fucking hard to get into?

2 - Why do we have to pay to re-inaugurate an incumbent president?

3 - Why do lawmakers care who marries who? Men, women, whatever. Why is love not enough of a reason? It's hard to find in this big, cold world, and more power to those who do. I find this policy ridiculous, and kind of invasive.

4 - What should I have for lunch?

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

I am addicted to Scriptsales.com. It's a depository of bad ideas. That will eventually be turned into Hollywood blockbusters.

Title:       Last One In
Log line: A mediocre male gossip columnist is mistakenly sent to Iraq to cover the war as an embedded reporter. At first he tries to get himself sent home, but after he bonds with the soldiers and shares their experiences, he emerges as a heroic war correspondent.
Writer:    Stephen J. Rivele and Christopher Wilkinson
Agent:     Risa Gertner of CAA
Buyer:     Columbia Pictures
Price:       n/a
Genre:     Drama
Logged:   9/23/04
More:       To be based on the upcoming novel by Nicholas Kulish. Michael De Luca will produce.

Title:       Heckled
Log line: A heckler causes an NBA superstar to get suspended and then finds his own life in chaos when the roles are reversed and the heckler becomes the heckled.
Writer:   Jeremy Haft and Ed Gonzalez
Agent:    Sandy Weinberg of the Summit Agency and mngr. Matt Luber at Nine Yards Entertainment
Buyer:    New Line Cinema
Price:      n/a
Genre:    Comedy
Logged: 9/15/04
More:      Preemptive buy. Karz Entertainment’s Mike Karz will produce. Russell Hollander will executive produce.

Title:        Weirdo
Log Line: An overprotective father drops off his daughter at college. When the dad, whose dream is to become an FBI agent, becomes aware of all the potential temptations awaiting her, he manages to adopt various disguises to protect her virtue.
Writer:     Jake Shapiro
Agent:      n/a
Buyer:      New Line Cinema
Price:        Six-figure
Genre:      Comedy
Logged:    9/13/04
More:        Spec script. ChickFlick's Sara Risher and Rebecca Heller will produce.

Okay, this one sounds awesome, reminds me of a short story I wrote ten years ago about an Art Thief in a Future where everything is digital.

Title:        Delaware McChoad
Log Line: A wealthy but inept archaeologist searches for artifacts nobody wants.
Writer:     Josh Greenberg
Agent:      n/a
Buyer:      Universal Pictures
Price:        n/a
Genre:      Comedy Adventure
Logged:    9/13/04
More:        Pitch. To be based on his treatment. Sommers Company's Stephen Sommers and Bob Ducsay will produce. No director is attached yet.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

"To be based on the upcoming novel?" Well, the book is not written yet, but we've got the film rights for this little gem. It will be right up there with Roberto Begnini's Iraq comedy!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Well, it's probably been written, just not published. Lots of books fasttrack to the $$$$ movie deals.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

Every film pitch should contain the words "When he comes into money, he hires an English butler".

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

Save a table at the Golden Globes for this one!

Title:        Untitled Fox Film
Log line: Being kept under wraps.
Writer:     Dana Fox
Agent:      Cliff Roberts of WMA, mngr. Joy Gorman of Standing Room, and atty. Kimberly Stenton of Myman Abell, Fineman, Greenspan, & Light, LLP
Buyer:      20th Century Fox
Price:        n/a
Genre:      n/a
Logged:    6/30/04
More:        The film will be entirely CGI.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

OH GOD!

Title:        Snakes on a Plane
Log line: An assassin unleashes lethal snakes aboard a packed passenger jet over the Pacific Ocean in order to eliminate a witness in protective custody. The rookie pilot and frightened passengers must band together to survive.
Writer:     John Heffernan and David Loucka
Agent:      Ben Smith of ICM (Heffernan) and Matt Leipzig of Original Artists (Loucka)
Buyer:      New Line Cinema
Price:        n/a
Genre:      Thriller
Logged:    6/28/04
More:        C/W Productions' Don Granger will produce. Ronny Yu will direct. Project was originally set up at MTV Films.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

1 - Why do they make cds so fucking hard to get into?

Use your keys.

2 - Why do we have to pay to re-inaugurate an incumbent president?

It's always been that way, for democratic and rebulican incumbent alike, to stop now would create a new wave of stupid partisan bickering and metal masturbation by vacuous pundits. Oh wait, they do that anyway. OK Luna I'm with you, how do we stop this flagrant waste of money?

Note also that the security bill for the inaugural (at least acording to that bastion of unbiased reporting and fair play towards the Bush administration, the Daily Show) is being left solely at the feet of the residents of Washington D.C. who voted 9 to 1 against our beloved leader. That to me seems especially unfair. Surely some red states would be happy to foot the bill for protecting the status quo?

This will be an overlong rant, I apologize in advance,

Many laws have been passed to enforce a pre-ordained moral ideal. Long ago the government decided it benefitted the country for people to have babies, creating more citizens to fight wars, spend money, work dead end jobs and give their money to the government. They also realized that if people were having babies outisde of marriage, that could lead to paternity questions, fights, general lawlessness and etc. So, rightly or wrongly, they created incentives in the tax system designed to promote the behavior they deemed appropriate: monogamy and child rearing. At this point, being gay was condemned by the Bible and the Bible was a much bigger deal in people's lives than any secular laws so the laws didn't even feel the need to address the concept.

In my opinion, the "man shall not lie with man" anti-gay passages in the Old Testament, are there for the same reason as the tax incentives mentioned above. The cognoscenti of the day realized they were living in very harsh conditions and were constantly in danger of being wiped out by other tribes, excessive heat, lack of water. They realized that it was in their society's best interests that as many people bred as possible, thus insuring that there would be an ample supply of people to provide for the common defense, make the mazzoh and etc. If people were in homosexual relationships, there would be less children and a weaker society. From the perspective of people trying to sustain the early Hebrew society, homosexuality was not much different than murder, in that it decreased the number of viable members of that society, and that's why I think it was condemned as sinful.

From this overlong rant, you can probably guess my take on laws banning gay marriage. Humanity is no longer in any danger of dying off, far from it, overpopulation is more of a problem. It's become clear that homosexuals can offer a great deal to modern society without having any children, and there is, in my opinion, no reason why they shouldn't be entitled to the financial and social advantages afforded by marriage. Clinging to thousand year old words that have lost their meaning as the basis for modern policy decisions is stupid and wrong, and it makes me really sad that so much of America has come out in support of those who do so.

4 - What should I have for lunch?

You should have Thai food, I wanted thai but was voted down by my colleagues...bastards.

― Ash (ashbyman), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

Let's not forget gay couples who want to have children, by artificial insemination or adoption. It's just sad. How can a nation which prides itself on being fair, just and forward thinking be so fucking ass backwards? I stomp my foot in fury.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

On a far lighter note, Luna told me about the Pimp My Ride Thread. I don't know if I have ever read anything quite so brilliant.

― Ash (ashbyman), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

I stomp my foot in fury.

I can think of a few other things you can stomp in me that be hella more fun than your foot. Errrr, wha?

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

I can only reply with this: cooter.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

They should make a hot girl-girl love story out of Dukes of Hazzard starring Je4nne and Luna.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

Since when is the Dukes of Hazzard a love story? There must have been a lot of shit in Hazzard County that went right by me.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/blake/hazpics/boysbg.jpg

― Huk-L, Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

*still laughing*

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

They don't open their doors, and they don't close their shirts. They are complicated men, down in Hazzard.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

I confess that when I was 8, I had a crush on Bo.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

When I was 28, I had a crush on Daisy. So, you probably win.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

When I was 47, I had a crush on Enos.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

Cletus could've kicked his ass, man. Still, it's better than a crush on Coy or Vance.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

Was there some sexual tension between Boss Hogg and Roscoe?

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

The tension was one-sided, vis-a-vis Hogg:pitcher::Roscoe:catcher

― Huk-L, Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

My best friend liked Bo and I liked Luke. We called dibbs on it.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 20 January 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

Oh the second string Duke boys...I will never forget the first Coy/Vance episode I saw. I felt cheated somehow.

The Dukes were on the Nashville Network when I was in undergrad, we watched religiously. We laughed, we cried, we loved saying "Cooter."

― Ash (ashbyman), Thursday, 20 January 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Then did you play games in which you were kidnapped and were waiting for Bo and Luke to penetrate the evil lair of whomever kidnapped you (that was never really clear) and so you had to sit on the patio table with the umbrella down until they got there to rescue you?

Because um, neither did I.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 20 January 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

I don't trust anyone who does not love saying 'cooter.'

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 20 January 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

No luna, I never did that. That's sick.

― I'm a liar (Jocelyn), Thursday, 20 January 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

Who knew one of them would grow up to be Superman's dad?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 20 January 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty sure next season Clark goes back in time and uses his heat vision to solder shut the doors on the General Lee.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 20 January 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone read Middlesex? I'm about 75 pages from the end (NO SPOILERS PLEASE) and I've found it's having a subconscious but profound effect on mt moods and my view on life. I both love it and fear it when stories do that. What did other people think of the book?

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 20 January 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was great. The gf has read twice now, I think.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 20 January 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

I got it from the library today. I'll report back.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 20 January 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

Hi Ash & all of y'all! All I can say is MEET THE FOCKERS! I really cannot wait to see this film. that is all!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 21 January 2005 10:52 (twenty years ago)

I've decided not to take anymore writing work from my usually spot unless I'm actually interested in the subject. I honestly can't bear to listen to anymore bad music and deal with the poor, deluded souls who create such.
Also, I'm going to start applying for jobs in a new field. a-d-v-e-r-t-i-s-i-n-g because if I'm going to be competing for stuff, there might as well be financial rewards.

― Huk-L, Friday, 21 January 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

Hey, guys. Has there been an ILX thread devoted to the f'ed up sex ed books everyone has been talking about (lollipop metaphors, gays have aids, girls should think less, oh my!)??

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 21 January 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

I have probably that same box set -- is Grandizer in it, too? In New England, five anime shows were packaged together (one on Mondays, one on Tuesdays, etc) as Force Five, my favorite show as a kid.

Grandizer still has good bits, but the dubbing is sub-Speed Racer. (Apparently it's much better in French.)

That would be the box set in question. I was a massive Force Five fan as a wee'un, but only got to see the movie-length versions of each show, which I watched and re-watched religiously.

I've heard that Goldorak, the french version of Grandizer, still holds up. If you speak French.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 21 January 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

Middlesex is great, one of the best books I've read in the last five years. (Then again, I haven't read very many books.)

Sarah, I don't know anything about these sex ed books: what are you referring to?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 January 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

Also: I am excited because tonight is FAKE FICTIONS w/NUEVA CATS, and it's gonna be awesome.

Although I got sorta depressed last night: I was having dinner with Nueva Cats singer/bassist Jody, for her birthday, and she said, "hey you know what, you should have lots of fun photos on the Canasta website, just make it fun!" and I realized that based on the way my band works, even if we decided to do that, there's no way we could make it a priority right now, it would be months before it happened, and even then there'd be ten zillion e-mails about it, to work out the tiniest details, and it would no longer be fun at all.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 January 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

I am happy because my friend Dave's art is going to be at Vida starting tonight. After an Indian dinner with my friend Betsy we shall drink and soak up the art.

If you're curious, you can see some of the art here:
http://homepage.mac.com/daramat/PhotoAlbum1.html

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 21 January 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

The windchill is zero. My nipples could cut glass.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 21 January 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Zero, shmero.

― Huk-L, Friday, 21 January 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

*censored comment about weather*

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 21 January 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

Quit rubbing up against the store windows, Je4nne!

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 21 January 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

The alarms might go off

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 21 January 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Diamond nipples = the ultimate accessory.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 21 January 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

Oh man, I'm getting a new computer! At work.
They wanted to set it up today, but I was like, "uh, I kinda need to work today, what about Monday? I don't plan on doing anything on Monday."

― Huk-L, Friday, 21 January 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

See, I'd have let them set it up today, that way you have more time to screw around. 'Sorry, they're setting up my computer. I'm off to Xerox my butt!'

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 21 January 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

It is in fact freezing in lower manhattan this day, and I've just been told we're getting 6+ inches of snow tomorrow. I hate snow...

I don't think I'll see Meet the Fockers, as Barbra Streisand gives me hives, but since I've seen more movies (2) in the past week than in the six months leading up to it, I can say the following:

Hotel Rwanda - Highly recommended. Not lighthearted fare but really well done. Don Cheadle is an amazing actor.

The Life Aquatic - I am not the fawning Wes Andersen apologist that I am supposed to be. I thought the Royal Tennenbaums was just OK, and this wasn't as good as the Royal Tennenbaums. That said, I will almost definitely be buying the soundtrack, featuring solo acoustic guitar renditions of David Bowie's greatest hits...in Portuguese.

― Ash (ashbyman), Friday, 21 January 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, well, that's why I asked if they could do it Monday. Because everything I do all week has to be done by Friday, so Friday's the day I actually work.
And, the sooner I get done on Friday, the sooner I can leave. Today is Friday, isn't it?

― Huk-L, Friday, 21 January 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

No, I'm sorry, it's Wednesday. Joke's on you.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 21 January 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

I've seen more movies lately than I usually do, too - unfortunately, not all of them were good.

My lunatic friend made me go see Phantom of the Opera. I mean REALLY. What. the. fuck. The show was good (I think I liked it anyway) but this was one of the all time most lame movies I have ever been witness to, and in that assessment, I include Punch Drunk Love, which, as some of you may know, I loathed. This chick has one facial expression, and I wanted to beat both she and her lame ass boyfriend in the face with a shovel. Also, the Phantom can cram a stick up his butt. A stick covered in bees.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 21 January 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

her.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 21 January 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

Grr. My boss. Again. I wrote 1200 words about a complex economic issue, which he them reads the first 100 words of and decides it's lacking in details. "Have you read the rest of it?" I ask. He avoids the question. Ok, I'll try a new tack... I'll explain what I wrote. So I do, and he says, "Yeah! Put that in there!" It was hard to keep from yelling at him. "It is in there," I said, "you haven't read it!"

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 21 January 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

I saw the original 'Phantom' w/ Lon Chaney about a month ago and was underwhelmed. Anything Lord Lloyd Webber touches however, including obviously himself, should burned immediately lest it find a way to propagate itself.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 21 January 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

Take the paper away from him, tell him his help was invaluable and hand it back to him in 20 minutes. He will marvel at your "progress".

xpost to keeennnnaaaaannn

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 21 January 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

That reminds me: my friends are visiting from China next week. Where they live, there are no movie theaters, and in the nearest town that has them, they play only the occasional English-language movie, usually some years old. They buy DVDs -- which are dirt-cheap -- but it's hit and miss for quality.

Since their luggage space is at a premium (because of all the expats who want American things brought back to them), the Christmas/anniversary gifts we're buying them are either very small (I bought a bunch of CDs and DVDs, ditched the cases, and put them in a CD wallet that'll fit in carry-on if need be) or expendable stateside (i.e. taking them out to dinner and to the movies).

What would be good movies to take them to? If you weren't going to see another western movie again for a year or more, except for older stuff on DVD, what would you go to see that's out now?

(Bear in mind I live in a small town with only one theater franchise, so independent movies are out.)

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 21 January 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

Kenan, Just move the central argument to the front of the peice and put the beginning at the end. Et VOILA!

Anyway, it's almost the weekend..?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 21 January 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

(Since I've only mentioned it on ILC, my not-actually-reviews blog is here, if you want to know what I've thought of recent movies [and other stuff].)

I'm leaning towards Life Aquatic, since they both like Tenenbaums and I suspect Aquatic won't be fast-tracked for DVD release, the way Lemony Snicket, Sideways, etc., will.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 21 January 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

xpost

Sarah, that might just work.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 21 January 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

Apparently the guy that plays The Phantom in the new The Phantom of the Opera is from my home town - so my mum tells me

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 21 January 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

So ye olde person I really hate at work just asked me to order her some paper clips. Fuck that. I'm not order her paper clips. Spend 25¢ for once in your life, asshole.

― Huk-L, Friday, 21 January 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

Someday, you're all going to read about a certain building burning down in a quiet town on the Cdn Prairies, and you'll be able to tell yr friends you know that guy that did that.

― Huk-L, Friday, 21 January 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

I like how this thread is basically "bitch about things in your daily life that aren't really that big of a deal in the long run, but look, I just need to vent for a second, is that okay?"

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Also: "help me celebrate my small victories!"

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

(This is not a knock, btw, I like this thread very much!)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I'm not really going to burn anything down (just in case HR or FBI is watching). Honest.

― Huk-L, Friday, 21 January 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Huk, you would only be justified in setting the building on fire if they steal your stapler.

http://j-walkblog.com/blog/images2/officespace.jpg

― Ash (ashbyman), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

http://www.mayfairstationers.co.uk/images/products/PAPERCLIPDRWGS.jpg

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

They stole my fucking chair, is what they fucking stole. My chair! I've been standing for three weeks!

― Huk-L, Friday, 21 January 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Have another paperclip. You'll feel better.

http://www.woodenwonders.co.uk/images/products/ww_small/small_0044_img.jpg

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

I'm off home VERY SOON to drink beer, eat Nepalese curry and enjoy the fact that it's a full 64 hours till I have to return here.

I have a bit of a thing for paperclips. I also have a rubber band ball that's only a little bigger than a golf ball, but I love it dearly.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://members.aol.com/rsk31659/images/eric%20behind%20bob%20crush.jpg

ha!

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

The whole thing is fucking stupid. There are a bins and bins all over the office full of paperclips, but she wants NEW paperclips. GROW UP LADY!
Also, she bugs me.
Also, she got a column when one has been denied me (after initially being offered to me) lo these many years.
Also, her column sucks.

― Huk-L, Friday, 21 January 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

I always fill my ballroom
The event is never small
The social pages say I've got
The biggest balls of all

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Also, Tep, I enjoy your blog.

― Huk-L, Friday, 21 January 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

while standing.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

One of our insane clients sent us a *crate* of cookies. I think there's a stick of butter in each one. I can feel my ass stretching the seat of my jeans. This rules.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

There are so many things in Jeanne's post that make me think "yum" ;)

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

The trouble with my article continues. My boss just sent me a link to another article and said "Read this!" Funny thing is, I quoted the exact same article in my piece. Why oh why won't he just read what I wrote? It's not that hard!

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Cookies
butter
ass
jeans

(that should have been the name of G.Stef's album)

― Huk-L, Friday, 21 January 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

I feel like my paperclips are building up their forces to attack me. They are ALL over my desk and in the drawers. Sometimes, I'll take a whole bunch out and move them to someone else's desk or the supply closet, but they magically reappear.

What I really like is binder clips.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

I haven't seen The Office, but this sounds like it could be an episode from it, Pears.

― Huk-L, Friday, 21 January 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

Cookies
butter
ass
jeans

Why is the first thing that pops into my head Last Tango in Paris?

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

xpost... yeah. An editor who won't read his own magazine. That's new.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

Everyone is walking around with cookie crumbs on their shirts. We're such butter-sucking pigs.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

That Really makes me think of Last Tango in Paris.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Maybe this "client" is just fattening all of you up so that you'll be all the more succulent when this "client" eats you.

― Huk-L, Friday, 21 January 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

butter-sucking pigs

what a great phrase!

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

Mmm... Butter... I'm about to go to that tiny diner near my work again to sit alone and drink coffee (and be far far away from the pager system telling me to answer the phone).

Tep, Your reviews are neato. I'm adding your link on my Blog Roller. Why don't you give your entries titles though?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Huck and Sarah -- I never think of doing titles cause I'm just used to opening up the Livejournal client and typing. I don't know, it's not intuitive -- but I'll go back and add them in, it's quick enough to do.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 21 January 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

Maybe this "client" is just fattening all of you up so that you'll be all the more succulent when this "client" eats you.

Once a week the job provides (bad) pizza for those of us working late. I was there one particularly crowded evening and a friend turns to me and says. "Sometimes, when we're in the big conference rooms like these and they're crowded and we're all eating, part of me expects the doors to all slam shut in unison and a voice to come over the intercom saying "FOOLS!! MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"

This is one of the more brilliant things I have ever heard and to this day I can't be anywhere near those conference rooms without thinking of some Bond villian monologue.

― Ash (ashbyman), Friday, 21 January 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

...And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were merry, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire...

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 21 January 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

So we played a show last night. It was our first show after a bit of winter hibernation, and I had low expectations for it. So I didn't push for our friends to come out, and we were mostly playing to new people. And, uh, I guess we played really well? People were all applaudy and buying CDs, far more than usual. I didn't feel like we were partiuclarly "on" or anything, and we didn't play some of the "crowd pleasers", but... well, anyway, it was nice. It made we want to play more shows.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 21 January 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

I'm glad you had a good show. Playing more is always a good thing.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 21 January 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

I want to play a show!
I've got to figure out what my best 3 minutes are for this CBC contest that will change my life forever when I when: http://www.cbc.ca/standanddeliver

― Huk-L, Friday, 21 January 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

er, second "when" should be "win"

― Huk-L, Friday, 21 January 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

Time for an all yuk-yuk episode of Spo-diddley-o-dee.

The other nice this about this last show: We were the second band, and we started around 9:30. Shows need to be earlier, dammit!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 21 January 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

I just got a listing for my community events calendar for Scrabble, every Saturday morning at a seniors centre about 3 blocks from my apt. Such is that state of my social life that this sounds appealing to me.

― Huk-L, Friday, 21 January 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Hey, guys. Has there been an ILX thread devoted to the f'ed up sex ed books everyone has been talking about (lollipop metaphors, gays have aids, girls should think less, oh my!)??

Sarah, is this related to the "you can get AIDS from kissing and tears" nonsense that made its way around a few weeks ago? The latest attempt at forced abstinence through FUD. If not I've heard nothing about it and it certainly sounds like it's worth talking about.

― Ash (ashbyman), Friday, 21 January 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

Shows need to be earlier, dammit!
I would be all for that, Chris. Where do I sign? And congrats on the show!

Huk-L, I've already decided that when I retire I will be in a scrabble league.

Ash, that's it. I found the report on it here.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 21 January 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

I might need to find my Scrabble rant again.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 21 January 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

is it pro-Scrabble or anti-Scrabble?

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 21 January 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

It was about how Scrabble is a harsh mistress.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 21 January 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

so the wife and i bought a new car. enter the 2004 toyota camry with 20000 miles. the ultimate family mobile.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Saturday, 22 January 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

So, yesterday morning I'm at A Popular Coffee Chain for my daily fix, and after I get my coffee I decide to walk behind a Very Old Woman, who's been sorting her change at the counter since before I walked in, to get some brown sugar packets and a lid.

Bad move. She manages to throw her bag on the split second I'm about to pass her, and damned if the thing doesn't connect with my arm. Most of the coffee stays in my cup, but a goodly portion manages to soak my hands (ouch), jacket sleeve cuff, and gloves (which I've been carrying).

My gloves and jacket now reek of stale coffee, and I can't throw them in the wash until tomorrow. Blech.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 22 January 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

I'm baaaaaaaaaack. Also: At 4:56 today the official time (US-wise) will read: 1/23 4:56.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 23 January 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

This thread is running as slow as the last one. That worries me. Is it because you're all snowed in?

I must be a bad person, because I found this description of a feature documentary very funny: "MURDERBALL: Not simply profiling but burrowing into the lives of members of the U.S. Paralympics quadriplegic
rugby team"

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 24 January 2005 10:51 (twenty years ago)

Does it feature actual murder?

I'm not snowed in! I'm just very boring and have nothing to say. Um, still haven't watched Bogus Journey because we are waiting for DRUGS, apparently. Also we have the whole 4th season of The West Wing to get through. Rob Lowe should cut his hair.

Are you bowling on Sat, Mark?

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 24 January 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

Archel, yes, I think so (but am not committing because I am lame). How long are you up for?

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 24 January 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

Lame in the foot or lame in the mind? I have to be at birthday celebrations for Matt's dad on Sunday so heading back Saturday evening at some point.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 24 January 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

THey're installing my new computer today! Hooray!
Except...what will I do once they start? It's not like I can, y'know, do my job without a computer!
Extended coffee break!

Also, I rented a PS2 this weekend and GTA:SA, and got off my ass not at all. Except to go over to my parents last night for my mom's birthday.

― Huk-L, Monday, 24 January 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

I did get off my ass, and ended up walking in sideways blowing snow, not realizing how bad the wind was. Although I'm glad I don't live in NYC right now. All this to walk to the comic book store and ATM. Eventually, the evening wound down by me drinking too much CIIIDERR and listening to country music and singing like Mike from The Streets. Yesterday I tried watching The Exorcist and I really must confess I just don't find it scary.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 24 January 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Huk, Last weekend they updated our database program and we got to take turns doing nothing. It's great!

It's my last Monday at this stupid job and I'm so happy! YAYYYY!Y!Y!Y!!Y!Y!Y!Y!Y

It's really bizarre being snowed in all weekend, but if it wasn't for that I might not have discovered the joys of GARAGEBAND on our powerbook.

x-post - Joce, When I first watched the Exorcist, I was too interested in all the 70s clothes to be scared.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 24 January 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

Have you guys seen The Omen? That's scarier (and fantastic, as is The Omen III. Shame part 2 isn't much cop, but if you ever get the chance to do a marathon it's well worth watching all three in one go.

I got off my arse several times on the weekend! Went to a football match on Saturday afternoon (Barnet vs Exeter City, for those who care), then to a joint b'day party in a Brazilian bar (mmm, caipirinhas, why do you cause so much ruin?) on Saturday night. Both were fun! Sunday was a bit of a right off due to hangovers, but I saw my best mate, who's currently working in Bristol and buying a house so he's not around very much, and I swept my shed. Oh the glamour.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 24 January 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, the Omen is awesome. Is part 2 where Damien is a sexy nightclub manager or something? Or is that Rosemary's Baby 2?

― Huk-L, Monday, 24 January 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

Part 2's Damien at military school -- too much "more of the same," without the excellent cast of the first one.

Avoid Omen IV, the "Next Karate Kid" of the series.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 24 January 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

And I think the Exorcist has lost a lot of its punch partly because it's been scavenged so much since; partly because of the slow build-up; and in no small part because after a few minutes of South Park, Linda Blair swearing and masturbating just doesn't have the shock value it was meant to have.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 24 January 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

The Space Channel (the Cdn Sci-Fi channel) used to have a Space Bar show where they'd play a classic sci-fi/fantasy/horror movie, and then show one of its execrable sequels. The best part was that had these seques where a guy with a Klingon headplate, a sci-fi nerd, and a robot butler who had the same voice as former MuchMusic VJ (and probably the coolest one they ever had) Simon Evans (Space is owned by CHUM broadcasting, as is Much) and--it's wasn't MST3K, it was just, I don't know, basically the robot would just put them all down for knowing too much stuff about the movies.

― Huk-L, Monday, 24 January 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Chris, you're a Scrabbler? Are you mentioned in Word Freak? I guess I could look you up in the index, but I don't own a copy, never having read it.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 24 January 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

I got of my ass this w/e to paint my dining room, how's that for dedication?!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 24 January 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

After the vadge horror thread, CHUM broadcasting sounds like an attack from the hentai version of Mortal Kombat.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 24 January 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

I braved the blizzard on Saturday night to go see the Detr0it C0bras. I had a better time *getting* to the show than actually *at* the show.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 24 January 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

http://mifshow01.free.fr/Jeux/SNK/Mai.gif

Hel-lo

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 24 January 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

Good job, Pink!

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 24 January 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Cheers orbit! Also, Jeanne's little lady beats my efforts hand down!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

I am so skipping my Japanese class tonight. All too much at the moment. Besides, I can already say 'may I be so awfully rude as to invade on your space to the enormous extent of daring to sit down, if that's ok with you and I'm not in your way or anything' so what more can they teach me, really?

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Woo-hoo!
I'm on OSX now, and my new keyboard is cushioned or something, which actually, kinda sucks. It makes my work less noisy. I like work-noise. It's, I dunno, meaningful.
Also, I can now get my Gmail and stuff at work, which is cool.
But I did NOTHING all morning. I just sorta wandered around the building. I felt like the invisible man, except that people could see me.

― Huk-L, Monday, 24 January 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

Get all Glenn Gould on your keyboard.

Chris, you're a Scrabbler? Are you mentioned in Word Freak?

Oh, heavens no. Word Freak just confirmed my rant -- the gist of which is that you can be a total beginner Scrabbler and have fun, but when you start deciding to "take it seriously" and learning the two and three letter words and so forth, then you're stuck. Because the people who really know what they're doing will cream you until you've memorized the wordlists, and most people will play with you and then go "No way is QAT a word! Fuck you, I'm not playing if you get to make up words and have them count." So you end up with no one to play with.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 24 January 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

and most people will play with you and then go "No way is QAT a word! Fuck you, I'm not playing if you get to make up words and have them count."

Don't ever play Scrabble with me, Chris. I once played Scrabble with a friend of mine who learned the two- and three-letter words, and I went on a long harangue, drunk on red wine, about how "that's not what games are about," etc. I think the Official Scrabble Dictionary is one of the worst books ever written.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 January 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Isn't pretty much everything like that though?

Like, say, music. If you're sort of a casual music fan, and don't invest a whole lot of time to it, you could show up on ILM, and be all, "I, too, love music! Isn't that new DMB album wonderful?"
Likewise, you could be giant music nerd, and wind up at some family function where somebody says "So, you like music, huh? Well, if you ask me, there's nobody better than that Rueben Stoddard cat. Boy can sing."

― Huk-L, Monday, 24 January 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, they seem to have stripped anything that might have been potentially FUN from the system on the upgrade.

― Huk-L, Monday, 24 January 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but Huk, you're forgetting that music is cool, enjoyable by most anyone, and has some degree of cultural cache even if you're a geek about it. Being a Scrabble geek is just fucking stupid.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 24 January 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

Which reminds me... I'm still scheduled to play D+D this weekend. God help me. I can't decide if my charachter will be a foolish dandy fop who will die quickly so I can go home, or if I should be a meatheaded half-orc and kill people a lot and make the other players listen to Led Zeppelin all day.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 24 January 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Scrabble geeks are much, much, much cooler than music geeks. For pretty much exactly those reasons.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 24 January 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

I just used "likewise" twice (once above, once in an email), which is about 2 more times than I've ever used it before, I think. I should google my name + likewise (#4!) and see if that's true.

― Huk-L, Monday, 24 January 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

God do I even not want to play D+D. Why in hell did I agree to this? It's like if somebody asked me, "Hey, you wanna go on a hayride with me? You like the smell of horseshit and hay?" and I said "DO I EVER!"

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 24 January 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Dude, going to a D&D game when you don't want to is like being the guy who "goes out dancing" and just stands against the wall being uncomfortable and snide about the people actually dancing. Don't be that guy. They'll all see it, and you'll bring everyone down.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 24 January 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

hey!

though i'm not sure that i qualify as quite that level of scrabble geek. the thing is, if you play a lot, you just pick up on the two and three letter words, and get good at spotting seven letter words and such. but i still hate the people who play competitively to the extent that the game is a competition rather than a game...playing to win and screw over your opponent, rather than simply to have fun.

xp times whatever

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 24 January 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

Your search - "Morthog Gundevar" likewise - did not match any documents.

― Huk-L, Monday, 24 January 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

Julia OTM

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 January 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

"Morthog Gundevar" is not my real name, btw.

― Huk-L, Monday, 24 January 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

It's like my friend who taught me to play chess. His dad taught him and beat him all the time, so he taught me so he could beat me all the time. Eventually, I had to just say, "Look, dude, this between you and your dad. Quit dragging me into this. Also, losing all the time sucks the big one."

― Huk-L, Monday, 24 January 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

Jaymc pretty much has the idea of my rant down. With a game like, say, chess, you can also go up the no-fun road and memorize a book full of openings and what to do with them, but there are easy ways to level the playing field (like, say, by randomizing the order of the back row of pieces). I'm fine with games that require learning strategies and figuring out systems -- even if they're some unfairness there, it's at least fun (well, for me) to figure out what's going on and what the strategies are. But rote memorization of meanings combinations of letters is not fun at all.

And that's the other thing about Scrabble -- it pretends to be a word game, but it's really a math game. It's a list of acceptable numbers in base 26, so to speak, and to excel at the game requires deep familiarity with those acceptable numbers, or the ability to bluff your way through.

All that said, I still play it every once in a while, but there are other games I'd rather play. (Anyone up for a game of Puerto Rico?)

(multixpost)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 24 January 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

And that's the other thing about Scrabble -- it pretends to be a word game, but it's really a math game.

Which is why you hear of those Scrabble champs from -- where is it? Thailand? -- who don't speak a word of English but have simply memorized the combinations.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

chess seems more strategically competitive though...you're playing to kill the other player, rather than just for points. though my chess strategy is kinda shit, so i may not know what i'm talking about. when you're playing for points in scrabble, you can play in a way that you're just trying to get cool words or whatever, or you can play so the board gets all blocked up and you're trying to prevent the other player from getting cool words.

xp but i'm good at scrabble and can't even balance my checkbook!

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

also, chris, what's puerto rico?

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

oh god puerto rico! not a fan.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, half the fun of Scrabble is, "OMG if I had another 'A' I could totally play TARANTULA!!!"

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

I'm very picky with board games, though, others love it. The little brown pieces made me feel weird.

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/viewitem.php3?gameid=3076

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Puerto Rico, which last I checked was still the favorite game among German-style-game geeks.

Aw, Teeny! I like PR a lot, even though I'm not all that good at it.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

xpost!

Yeah, we tend to camp up the "slave" aspect. Give them little voices, especially when you take them from the pile next to the boat (which we call "the ocean", so it's as if you're saving the little brown slave from drowning so they'll work on your tobacco plantation -- it's dark humor, perhaps).

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

All those crazy German (/German-style) board games are worth playing at least once -- it's like checking out anime for the first time if we still lived in a society that hadn't been influenced by it and internalized it into its own subculture; they're made for a totally different audience than American board games, with different expectations, different wants. Our board games tend to be designed around small children or shot glasses.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

Mounties looking for thief with apparent fondness for sex toys
VANCOUVER (CP) — The Mounties are on the hunt for a man who made off with three vibrators from a suburban adult entertainment store.
Police say late Thursday night the man was browsing the aisles of the store when a clerk saw him stuff the vibrators into his clothing.
“The clerk clearly witnessed the male fumbling and stuffing three expensive battery operated male appendages in his clothing and decided to intercept this shoplifter,” the RCMP said in a news release on Friday.
“The employee asked the male if he was going to need batteries for these objects. The male calmly stated ‘No,’ and then panicked and fled, running out of the store with the three objects, minus batteries.”
Police described the suspect as about 22-years-old, standing five-foot-six and weighing 150 pounds, with a thin moustache and short sandy blond hair.

― Huk-L, Monday, 24 January 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

What games do you like, Teeny? (I'm fairly unpicky with board games, or at least I'll generally play anything, but I have my preferences.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

I'm trying to remember the name of the last board game I played, which was really hardly a game at all but surprisingly fun, esp when drunk. I think it was a french game, and it involved flicking counters along a racetrack. That's it. Really stupid.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

also classic: "I'VE GOT WOOD FOR SHEEP!"

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

er, that would be settlers of cataan.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

Carabande? I haven't played that one yet, but everyone says it's fun.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

That's it! It looks way too stupid to be enjoyable, but man, it's fun.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

My roommate always ends up getting fistfuls of sheep during Catan. We have pretty much exhausted the "I don't know what you're going to do with those 6 sheep, but you seem to want to trade them away pretty quickly" line of jokes, and yet who can resist?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

I always wanted to try out Elchfest, which seems similar but involves, you know, elk.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

Or perhaps moose.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

also I did not play it, but Memoir '44 was a big hit at the last gathering. It looked kind of boring but mr teeny played it for like four hours at least. Games take about an hour. I have no patience for games that take more than an hour.

hmm, elk?

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

My absolute favorite games are from Cheapass Games, they're quick and fun. http://www.cheapass.com/

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

Have you played "Falling"? That one looks awesome.

Every once in a while my roommate will try to get us to play Empire Builder, which is at least a three hour game and which, really, has no game play whatsoever, but which is strictly fun for the sandbox railroad thrills -- drawing the track across the map, carrying the supplies around. It's pretty great, but it's three hours! So we don't play it that often.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

Settlers of Cataan is great! I always end up with the unfarmable tundra or whatever it is though. Also, you guys have just ruined Scrabble for me by revealing that it is really a MATH game. Sometimes when I play with my mom we decide to allow latin words which makes it much easier to get rid of the Q. Scrabble rebels that we are. I like games that take forever to play and you get to be sneaky, like Risk and Diplomacy.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Nick and I played Scrabble this weekend. I won (by only 7 points!).

I started to get into Scrabble a while back and learned some crazy words, but no one ever lets me use them, the bastards. I got the "What the f is that supposed to mean?" a lot. So now I just play and don't even try some words. It's annoying to have to keep looking them up in the scrabble dictionary (which I agree totally sucks) just to prove a point.

I played on the chess team in elementary school. I knew so many strategies and would play in tournaments all the time. But guess what?! I forgot every single one of them. I blame it all on the hot guys on my team who kept distracting me.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Although to be honest some days I think "Pass the Pigs" is the greatest game ever created.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

Settlers of Catan is the new Risk. I love it.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

huk, turn yourself in and return the double donger

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes life is strange. I find myself steered towards Promo Goddess-hood again. I can't seem to stay in a "straight" profession. I'm talking it over with a friend this Sat and may well end up doing promo and booking bands again. Who do I have to sleep with to get OUT of this business??!!!!!

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

Me. I'll get you out, baby, I promise.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

Apples to Apples is the best game ever.

Oh man, I have Diplomacy, but I've never played it -- we've sort of been waiting for a day when we'd get everyone together and be evil. But it's such a committment... I'm looking into getting Intrige, which allegedly has the same backstabbing flavor but is much, much shorter.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

Oh, we have the Apple Crate edition! Same game, more cards.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, avoid the 3rd and 4th expansion packs, which are lame. At some point their quality assurance took a nose dive. (Didn't anyone notice that "In The Doghouse" is not a noun?!)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

i need to learn to play cataan...you can play it online, right?

sarah, we should play chess sometime (though i kinda suck). i play online at gameknot.com...

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

Haha

Keeeennnaaannnn! RRRRescue meeeeee!

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

Let's go in this back room here and talk about it.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

whisper whisper whisper

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

Is there a good place to play Catan online? Other than Brettspeilwelt or whatever it's called, which never had the gumption to get into. I saw a sucky version online at some point. There is a DOS version which doesn't quite get the rules right but which is nevertheless fun, but it's really better to play it live before playing that, since the interface isn't all that clear if you don't already know the game.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

whisper whisper whisper

shh.
More than words is all I ever need you to show.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

i think that's the place i'd heard of...i keep meaning to play it and not getting around to it. i'd heard that it was best to learn it live.

i am moving in a little over a month...it's exciting and stressful and stressful.

(oh, kenan, you're evil)

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

it's just a mood.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

other games I have played recently: Modern Art, kind of funny in a Cheapass Games way, if you pretend you actually are snooty art dealers and big up your artists.

there was also some time travel card game I played (right before I got married!) but I can't remember the name.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

oh, Chrononauts.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

I like Chrononauts, too. I hear good things about the expansion pack. We should so get together and play games.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't Nick talking about having a game night sometime? I think that's a great idea, while it's still winter and all. I'll bring Apples to Apples if someone else supplies Cranium.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

So um yeah, hi.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

HI!

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

How's tricks?

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I like the idea of game night. I have Upwords, old-and-falling-apart Trivial Pursuit, and (I think) Guesstures.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

Modern Art looks kinda like this game that I played a few months ago where you have to invent a product and market it. You just match "description" cards in your hand to "product" cards to make an exiting new thing. Like, one description could be "Mexican" and a product could be "pants," so then you get to tell all the other players how great your new Mexican pants are, and why they should invest in them.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

it would be geektastic to have game night! we do it here in the lou every few weeks.

Another fun game (good for solitare too) is Sets: http://www.setgame.com/

you can play it online!

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

Modern Art is different from that game, I believe; it's more auction-based. And oh boy do I want it. I really love Knizia's games.

You all should come over, I have a bunch of games. (Although the Teeny household probably does too.) Including Set!

Hi Luna!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

Oooh... Set Games makes Quiddler. Quiddler is kind of the default rainy day game for us. And Five Crowns, too, which is Quiddler with numbers.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

Fluxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

hi luna

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

Yes, we have Flux as well. I did not know before now that all of ILX was playing the same stupid games as me.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

I have never heard of any of these games, except Trivial Pursuit and Cranium, and I've never played Cranium. I'm board game deficient.

Over the holiday I played Monopoly with my brother and his fiance's seven year old. I will never understand why that game became popular and why it remains popular, short of the thrill of shaking down your friends and relatives for money, which I will admit is entertaining.

― Ash (ashbyman), Monday, 24 January 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

Like many things in this country, Monopoly is popular because it is popular.

I don't have Flux.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 24 January 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

It's kind of annoying.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 24 January 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

So I've heard.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 24 January 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

there is a thread where someone said they ate a "football field pie". I can't find it any more. Anyway, does anyone know what this is.
/stupid American

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 24 January 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

Are you assuming it's a non-American phrase? Because I've never heard it either.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 24 January 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

The person wasn't American, so I'm assuming.

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 24 January 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

Anybody want to tell me where I can download a version of Settlers of Catan? Like, a free one? That isn't the crummy one on the msn games site? Plz?

― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)

I got mine from Suprnova back in the day. There's a crummy one on the MSN games site?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)

So... hey. I've actually read through the whole of this thread! I have nothing to add as far as games go (because I, um, don't really play games), but I do wish to express how deeply sorry I am that Chris V has gone through all that he's gone through, and that I wish I could've expressed that at the actual time. And welcome aboard, Ash! And Orbit, I think your friend Dave's got some good artwork going. And I'm really, really exhausted, so that's it, which is good because I'm saving you all this inner drama currently playing out in my head.

Um, that's it. I think.

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 06:20 (twenty years ago)

Thank you Samantha. That's good recappin' right there.

― Ash (ashbyman), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 06:30 (twenty years ago)

How is that deadline coming?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 06:49 (twenty years ago)

(I was kinda hoping you'd forgotten all about that, Chris.)

Ash, hey hon! There's one True Samantha on this forum, and she's not really as "around the place" as much as she's been in the past. But you may call me Dee all you'd like. (Or Deanna, if you're, for some reason, uncomfortable with nicknames.)

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 07:04 (twenty years ago)

Dee works. Every Dee/Dei I have ever met has been exceedingly cool.

― Ash (ashbyman), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 07:06 (twenty years ago)

How awesome! We are SO going to get along famously (or at least, that's my hope and wish)!

Ooh, I want to hug luna for bringing you into the fold. Thanks, luna hon!

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 07:08 (twenty years ago)

Ahem.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 07:56 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone spoken to Sam recently? I haven't seen her around here for a while! I hope you are ok & life is looking up hon, wherever you are!

Hey Dee sweetheart, how is life?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)

Koff koff.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

Hey Huk my sexy canadian friend, how the devil are you?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

I am insane. How are you, my gorgeous British amigo?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Insane huh? Aren't we all to a certain extent? I am good thanks, but I do have cold fingers & toes!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

Hey dudes. I am finally able to walk without crutches! what a treat. picked up my new car yesterday, its pretty damn nice to have a nice car in the family now. hows everyone doing? one more week off from work i think.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

Y'know what you can do with crutches? Break stuff, like go into a store and break stuff. And then people will be like "Hey, man, what the hell?"
And you can go "I'm on crutches here people...COME ON!"

I'm sadly not really insane. But I'm in a pretty good mood this morning. Having sat on my ass all weekend (and most of last night) playing GTA:SA has been very relaxing, sort of the giant dork version of going to a spa.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

Hey Chris, good to see you (you know what i mean) up & about again!

x-post

Ahh, me either, but don't tell anyone!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

can you guys tell me if this is working?

http://www.jetaudio.com/jetcast_directory/StreamFile/1382346.pls

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

yeah, it works. or it did for a minute and then my dialup got all annoyed...i can't really listen to radio stations.

hi.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Are you just moving somewhere nearby, Julia?

Guess what everyone?? I HATE MY COWORKERS!!! AND WHY THE FUCK DOES EVERYONE KEEP GIVING ME CRAP TO DO?!!

Sorry for the shouting.

I'm so glad you can walk, Chris!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

This cheeky fucker is trying to get ca$$$h for bagging a certain domain name, and is discussing it online!

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

i'm definitely moving...hopefully to the city (chicago), which will be great, but everything in my life is ridiculously uncertain right now. i just want it to be done done done!

do you finish on friday, sarah?

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

THursday is my last day here, Julia!

WOO HOO!

Fuck this shit (work, not ILX). I'm playing BOUNCE OUT.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

That guy seems like a dick, Mark. I hope the publisher sees his comments and withdraws their offer (which seemed like a pretty fair offer).

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

They have seen his comments, actually - they're the ones who sent me them! He's certainly not going to get any more, and yeah, I suspect the offer will be withdrawn pretty quickly if he doesn't accept it.

I don't think he's the kind to use the site to negatively portray the person in question - he's just after cash - but it's still a pretty ugly form of commerce. Which isn't to say that I didn't spend a fair part of the mid-late nineties seeing what juicy domain names were available.

(though when I did finally decide to buy one, I checked that the one I liked and knew was free was still free, and it had been snapped up like 2 weeks earlier! And the crappy thing is that the owner just uses it to redirect to another site, which is a decent, personal site - but why does it need two totally different names?!?!)

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

so debbie gibson is posing naked for playboy.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

It's about time!

You mean DEBORAH, right, teeny?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

Hi everyone. REmember me?

Julia, when are you planning to move? Are you going to move into our building so we can have crazy Friends-style adventures?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

I am a seething colander of linguine.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

I am a simmering pot of basmati rice.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

I just called my slightly 80's obsessed friend and told him Debbie/Deborah Gibson is posing. I don't think I have ever heard him quite so happy (yes, I made the obvious "Only in his dreams" joke). I'm going to call and apologize to his wife now.

― Ash (ashbyman), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

As criminals are a cowardly and superstitious type...I shall become...

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

Teeny, that post was so OUT OF TEH BLUE.

― *shoots self in face* (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

I don't really see any problem with what the domain jacker is doing. (Since when do we have problems with discussing things on message boards?) But £200 is a pittance and he shouldn't sell for that much; Penguin clearly doesn't really care whether they have the domain or not, which is fair, and shouldn't offer more. Penguin should just keep monitoring the site and see when the guy gives up, and snatch it then (or the guy should sell it to professional domain squatters, perhaps).

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

Batman, Huk?

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

Who was demanding this? The DebGibNude thing, that is.

I was thinking of something a little more culinary than a Bat, but Spoon's been taken (by the Tick) and kitchen jokes, well, they ain't what they used to be.

I was sort of just typing those things to busy myself because The One Who Is My Enemy Though She Knows Nothing Of My Animosity was bla-bla-bla-ing about how awesome she is and I never talk about how awesome I am, even though 9 out of 10 respondents indicate I am awesome or somewhat awesome.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

You can't use the family feud
You can't run it on a cuckoooo!!!!

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

Am I alone in not having the slightest desire to see Debbie Gibson naked?

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

YES

― *i mean, what?* (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

The Tick, god I miss the Tick.

I am mighty! I have a glow you cannot see! I have a heart
as big as the moon! As warm as bathwater! We are superheroes,
man! We don't have time to be charming! The boots of evil
were made for walkin'! We're watching the big picture,
friend! We know the score! We are a public service, not
glamour boys! Not captains of industry! Keep your vulgar
moneys! We are a justice sandwich. No toppings necessary.
Living rooms of America, do you catch my drift? Do you...dig?

― Ash (ashbyman), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Don't go here, then.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Surely I am not alone in ALWAYS clicking on things that people say don't click on?

(PS, I hate you, Remy)

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

Debbie Gibson had to do playboy Luna. Tiffany did Playboy years ago. We have to see who looks better.

The two of them are locked in eternal combat throughout time. Crisscrossing each others path on mall tours in the 80s...duelling nude pictorials at the turn of the century...each will lead an army of mutant soldiers in a postapocalyptic war zone in the year 3026.

― Ash (ashbyman), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

Who's next? Stacey Q? Neneh Cherry? Martika? Cathy Dennis?*

(They could have already done this and I would never know)

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

Did anybody see that MTV facejob show where the Elvis Impersonator got his face done and then posed for Playgirl? That was fucking creepy.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

"C'mon Luna, I know you wanna see my cooter."

http://www.chariho.k12.ri.us/chs/studentwork/barbaraf/deb6c.jpg

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

Hey, so I already told Sarah M. about this, but some of you may know I have a blog where I post my high-school journal entries. Anyway, last night I came home to find the following e-mail:

Hi I have no clue who you are that was ages ago, or that you had a crush on me in Spanish class I thought no one noticed me always my sister got the attention. haaaaa. Why are you putting my name on stuff how funny. Nice though.
Hope all is well
[NAME DELETED]

!!!

I usually Googleproof people's names but didn't this time because I only used her first name. But then I checked Google and her first name by itself (which is fairly unusual) only gets like 5 hits, and the top one is my blog.

Crazy, huh?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

I have no clue who you are

My heart deflated in sympathy.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

I don't blame her, though. We only had one class together, and it was OVER TWELVE YEARS AGO, and she probably just thought I was some dorky white kid.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

Having now seen a picture of Debbie Gibson and the word 'cooter' (as much as I love it, and I do) in such close proximity, I am now going to to the back office to scoop out my brain.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

It must be nice to have a unique name, only John Smith is more googleproof me.

Jay, in going back through the "what do people look like" threads I came across a "Jaymc tells you what celebrity you look like" thread, some links are dead, but the ones that survive are eerily well matched. Nice job.

― Ash (ashbyman), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

NOW I AM THINKING ABOUT DEBBIE GIBSON NAKED AND I HATE YOU.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

What celebrity do I look like?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

I've been having too much fun on the "historical babes" thread today. People at work are probably wondering why I'm image searching Salome if they've seen anything.
John, I'm curious as to what celebrity I look like.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

I don't blame her, though. We only had one class together, and it was OVER TWELVE YEARS AGO, and she probably just thought I was some dorky white kid.

That's kind of cool, though (the incident, not the not knowing who you are) -- and the blog is too. It made me realize, man, I have nothing from high school. I mean, I didn't go very much, and yearbooks &c. would certainly be out of the question -- but there are no photographs of me from the time, very little of what I wrote is anywhere I have access to, next to nothing that I owned at the time is around anywhere, and the two houses I lived in have been sold, remade, and remodeled.

What I do have, weirdly, is a pair of 1989 Converse canvas sneakers with the Joker on them, from the Burton movie. They nearly fit, but have been through a hurricane. And I think I still have my Ziggy Stardust cassette.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

I hate my new keyboard. It's not just the lack of clickety-clack, it's, um, the keys aren't well defined. It really screws up my touch typing.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

Hey Luna...

Cooter.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v304/ashbyman/Debbie_Gibson.jpg

Coooooooooterrrrrrrrrr.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v304/ashbyman/ithinkwerealonenow.jpg

― Ash (ashbyman), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

Tiffany didn't look bad in Playboy, but made the Jennifer Grey mistake of not actually looking much like Tiffany, so she was just another dorky naked chick.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

Oh, 1989, what a cruel year. My birthday was right around when the Batman movie came out, and I got a bunch of Bat-Movie stuff, and I was like, "This is lame, I wanted the badass Killing Joke style Batman stuff, not this PG-13 crap!" (I turned 12)

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

Debbie Gibson looks alarmingly like Britney Spears in that photo.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, so I'm supposed to make up mailboxes for the new interns and the new real employee, but I haven't been introduced to them, so I don't even know their names.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

Ash, I am so kicking your ass.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it was proximate to my birthday, too, and my friend Matt and I stood in line for the movie behind an entire bus load of younger-than-us (we were 14) girls driven in from some summer camp. The first thing I heard when the movie ended was a voice behind me saying, "I hope they get married!" re: Ms Vale & Mr Batman.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Ash!

Jocelyn: I will see if I can think of a celebrity match for you.

And thanks Tep, too. I have a lot of stuff from high school that I'm not sure I actually need -- somewhere in my parents' basement there's a large canister full of cards, invitations, and notes passed in class.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't there some cryptic reference to Ms. Vale in Batman Returns--like maybe Alfred killed her?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

Ash, I am so kicking your ass.

Bring it on. I'll even come to Cali.

Jay, part of me wants to see what celeb you'd come up with for me. Most of me does not.

Tep, I have a whole drawer full of pictures from high school (note a drawer, not an album or any useful organized device) its cool to see them now and again, but mostly they make me feel old.

― Ash (ashbyman), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

(I was going to say 'I'll cooter you, pal', but that sounded wrong)

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

I was thinking it was Batman Forever, but maybe it was BR ... oh, wait, it was something about "you're the one who let Vicky Vale into the Batcave," or something. Right? Sadly, I've seen Batman and Robin more recently than the middle two.

xpost; I can barely remember high school except in the form of two or three anecdotes that add up to a couple hours of my life. I wonder if it's because I just don't have anything tangible from it.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

The great majority of my current circle of close friends. I went to high school with. We all recognize how lame that is.

― Ash (ashbyman), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I have much left from high school (save for two of my best friends, and a couple others here and there) - maybe a graduation announcement, and a prom glass or two... I think all the notes/letters I'd saved got tossed when my dad and my stepmom moved, along with my old prom dress.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

I don't think it's lame, though - I think it's important to have friends who knew you when you were young, so that when you become rich and powerful, they can give you endless shit about your flock of seagulls haircut.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

I just told a caller to email their request to my replacement.
BWAH HA HA!!!!
ACtually, first I said, Please FAX that to me and I'll go over it with my replacement and I'm very busy... And she was like, "Yes, see, I need this tomorrow..." So I said, "HEre, just email it to this address..."

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

I loved your Flock of Seagulls haircut, but not as much as I loved your Haircut 100 haircut.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Of all the '80s pop women, I'd most like to see all the Go-Go's in a naked pile-on. But I actually think that would be kinda twee.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

I have one friend from high school I see whenever I visit my mother, two friends I have occasionally talked to in email -- one of whom I only sort of knew in high school, because she didn't hang out the places I did (i.e. Denny's) -- and I still talk to the woman I was sleeping with back then. And the friend who's trying to get me a book deal is a high school friend, but we were out of touch for ten or eleven years until she saw my name in a magazine and googled my one-in-a-billion name to get hold of me.

My reasons for this are probably so no one can give me shit about my flock of seagulls haircut, though.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

I have two friends from ages 12-14 that I'm still in touch with. I still see people from high school sometimes, but I don't actually like any of the ones who are still in town. I'm still pretty tight with one person who I met the year after high school, and that's going on 10 years now, fuck, I was supposed to have done something with my life by now!

But I've got very little in the way of mementoes. I do have my senior yearbook, and the Poetry Anthology thing from when I was in Gr. 9 and had something published in it (the guy who edited it is now a pretty acclaimed writer, I interviewed him once and he didn't remember me...and I mentioned that in the article).

Xpost,

Sarah's Bwa ha ha, reminded me that even though I don't have any friends left from when I was young, I do still have a shitload of comic books from those days. Coincidence?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

That's okay, I'm still friends with a ton of people from when I was 12, and I wish they'd focus on my bad hair choices instead of the fact I used to watch Newsies. A lot. But then again, so did they.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

Dude, my best friend would sing songs from Newsies all the frickin time. That I'm the King of New York song... christ.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

Reading Jaymc's journals makes me feel old. In so many ways.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

Okay, ILX was down for a few hours, right?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

I mean, it wasn't just me?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

Not just you, no

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

It was down. Can we go back to discussing the naken go-go pile on now? It's a subject that should not be given short shrift.

― Ash (ashbyman), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

naken=naked...if I could type...or proofread.

I am concerned that wee little Jane Wiedlin will be mashed flat by Belinda Carlisle.

― Ash (ashbyman), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)

I have no interest in seeing Belinda, Charlotte, Cathy or Gina naked. Jane I could handle.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

Well, all of them together...that would be something. I mean, for the completists out there.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 04:20 (twenty years ago)

I went shopping after work today. I got a few gift certificates for Christmas, and hadn't used any of them yet, so...
I got one for the big chain music store in the mall. I went in and looked around. Almost bought the new ODB record, then I noticed they had a Spike Jones collection, but it was on Naxos, and I kinda would rather have the Rhino edition, because I trust Rhino more than I trust Naxos. And I got burned (sort of) on the last Spike Jones CD I bought.
I thought about putting it toward a DVD set, like the Marx Bros Silver Screen box, but I still haven't watched any of my Warners Marx Bros set (though those are the lesser films). Also thought about the Looney Tunes Collection Vol. 2, or the Spongebob Season 2, or maybe get started on the Homicide sets. So, I left the mall empty-handed.

Then I went over to my neighbourhood record store and bought Sympathetic Sounds of Montreal and the new (how new, I'm not sure) Elevator album. And stood around chatting with the owner, who I'm pretty sure is my friend, but it's a friendship that's hard to trust, since our social interactions almost always end with me giving him money.
Then it was off to my neighbourhood book store, which has been much neglected in recent months as I've drifted into reading comics all the freakin' time. I wound up with the newish Will Ferguson book, still in h/c, but on the 30% off table (so a cheapo trade is imminent) and The John Fante Reader (because a long time ago Ad@m recommended it, and I'm all about doing what people tell me to do way after the fact). Then I bought a few groceries and came home.
I realized I have been playing too many violent videogames, because as I loped through the anemic downtown, I kept casing out good sniper's nests.
I haven't really bought anything (and have only made one trip to the comic shop) for myself (like, non-groceries) since the new year, and it felt a little weird to be doing it, even with the gift certificates. But it's payday this week, and I managed to not spend all my money, and in fact, even after my big shopping trip, I still have a solid chunk of cashola to sock away for my escape plan (this year I mean it!) so there's no need to deprive myself of mental stimulation.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

What's wrong with Naxos? I ♥ Naxos.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 06:00 (twenty years ago)

I know Naxos C's on the T's of Classical music, but I don't know what their non-Classical stuff is, w/r/t sound quality, esp. A lot of these things are often radio transcripts and sort of sound like crap. I have a Groucho Marx CD, not Naxos, but in a very Naxos-esque package, and soundwise, it's pretty brutal, which may be as much the fault of the source material as anything. It's hard to say...is what I'm saying. I do know that Rhino is pretty together with their reissue collections, that's what I'm saying.

(how did you make the heart? not that I would ever be so precious, but just out of curiosity)

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 06:20 (twenty years ago)

Of all the '80s pop women, I'd most like to see all the Go-Go's in a naked pile-on. But I actually think that would be kinda twee.

"Twee"?? Ha. We're talking about a band consisting of a bunch of girls who, back in the late '70s - early '80s, would do things like take Polaroids of their hoo-hoos and pass them down to their tour manager so that he could identify the Go-Go member by their hoo-hoo. Shockingly, the tour manager would end up with a nervous breakdown.

Of course, now that they're all off cocaine, they might've calmed down.

Ahem.

Someone got a throat lozenge for Chris?? I think his throat's all sticky.

Hey Dee sweetheart, how is life?

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 06:22 (twenty years ago)

&hearts; is the code for ♥.

"C's of the T's"?

I downloaded a bunch of Marx Bros movies during my recent sickness, and even watched a few of them! They're... problematic!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 06:24 (twenty years ago)

Cums on the Tits (I'm using in a complimentary sense, which might not be proper usage)

The movies are problematic or the Marx Bros are problematic?
The quality of the movies varies significantly, and even the best ones (Duck Soup, Night at the Opera) have fill-in-the-blank love stories and plots. But even in the worst (so far Night in Casablanca, though I haven't been able to bring myself to watch Go West or the Big Store) have the odd moment of pure anarchic jubilation that makes the rest of the movie, if not bearable, easily forgettable.

I have a feeling you would like You Bet Your Life better than any of the movies.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 06:41 (twenty years ago)

Well, I do, yes. Though it's been a while since I've watched it.

The Marx Bros' humor, especially in the early (pre-Opera) ones, comes from them being "outside of the world" in a rather stronger way than I'm used to -- normally I like the free associative punnish world of humor (I've been listening to "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" lately) but something about the relationship between the Marx Bros, who are pranking and disconnected to the "reality" of the situations they're thrown in, and the "straight men" of their world, who never get any good lines and are forced to try to deal with these insane and disconnected people -- it makes the Marx Bros' characters come off as obnoxious and mean. And what can I say, I find it hard to like mean people! But later on, when they are better integrated with the plot (even if it's a fill-in-the-blank plot) and they aren't so disconnected, then it isn't so stressy to watch them.

I liked Horse Feathers more than Duck Soup, although I can understand why Duck Soup is considered "the one".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 06:57 (twenty years ago)

PIIIIIIIIIIIINK! MY DAAAAAAARLING! I'm doing okay, thanks. Just really, really, really burned out and tired. But I *have* discovered a new sort of "guilty pleasure" in terms of TV shows -- "Holiday Showdown"! I love this show. It's so cool seeing both families act all fish-out-of-water and end up sniping at each other. So I have another TV show to diffuse the stress in my life. How about you, honey?
Sorry to hear you're burned out & tired, make sure you take care of yourself properly! As for me, well I am pretty peachy to be honest. I am a bit fed up of having no cash, or at least having cash but having to use it to pay bills, debts etc etc, but everything is good. We are gradually decorating the house, which believe it or not is quite fun! The kitties are now cats too!! They are still little cuties though!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 09:52 (twenty years ago)

My brain just isn't working today, and my job uncertainty isn't helping, nevermind that they haven't paid me (or several of the artists I work with) for my last 2 invoices...GUH.

Help me decide what to get for lunch that will help me relax and take a break from this shit.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

I might be misremembering this, but I think Belinda Carlisle might have been in Playboy already.

I love the Marx Brothers. I see the point about their meanness, but since the non-brothers cast are such pointless cyphers I can't really worry about their being treated badly or unfairly. The trouble is I did read a very good biography of them (by Joe Adamson I think), and they were pretty fucking horrible at times in real life too - there's a light-hearted account of their gang-raping Margaret Dumont for a laugh one night, for instance.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

Oh no Sarah, that sucks! When will you find out about your job for definite? Now then lunch: what about a ciabatta with some mozzarella, basil, cherry tomatoes & olive oil?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

God I have eaten so much shit this week. Today alone I've had stollen and chocolate cake as well as my breakfast and lunch. The only hot food I've had since Sunday has been pizzas and chips. Must stop it. Lucky I'm (probably) going salsa dancing tomorrow really.

suggs - refuse to work until they get up to date with paying you! V unprofessional. (Do you put due dates on your invoices?)

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

¢¾

Why does everyone keep giving me new projects when it's my NEXT TO LAST DAY IN THIS HELL HOLE??!?!?!?!?!?

Hi, guys. I'm happy, really.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

&hearts

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

WTF? How do you do the heart?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

this?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

:-(

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

I just tried to make my words into a heart and couldn't. I feel like Matos' mom's incredibly lame ex-husband.

Thanks for the lunch suggestion Pink--much healthier than what I ended up having (BBQ and chips and mayo and coca-cola).

I do indeed put dates on all my invoices here, as do we all, but this will probably be my last week of work for them so unfortunately the threat of withholding services won't work I don't think. My job's not that important--admin stuff. Getting a straight answer from anyone in the production company is like pulling teeth. From across the US continent and Atlantic ocean. With a dissolving piece of string. I keep getting vague emails and requests for things I've sent to them like 5 times already. The time difference doesn't help. I'm ready for this annoyance to be gone out of my life, and compensated by sweet sweet income.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

How can you make a heart? Your lunch sounds nice though SGS!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

Is Horse Feathers the college movie? I've only seen that once, very long ago, but remember it being very good. Particularly the climactic football game.

I liked Groucho's books...I wonder if I still have any of them? I used to pass them on to my brothers. And they lead me to James Thurber and S.J. Perelman, who may ultimately lead me to Steve Martin (as book writer--as a book writer beyond Cruel Shoes).

All of which reminds me that the Marx Bros (and mother Minnie) appear as characters in Glen David Gold's absolutely wonderful Carter Beats the Devil but not (as the impulse first directed me) in Ted (son of Joseph) Heller's also great Funny Men.

All of which makes me feel like I wasted my gift certificate by not taking a chance on a book I knew nothing about (as I had with the two prev. mentioned books). I think I need to read more books. And also write one.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

I go for days where I don't speak a single word between the hours of 6:30 p.m. and 9:30 a.m. Is this strange?

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

Not at all! If you live alone then it's the norm, surely?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

I have done this even when I wasn't living alone!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

In fact, I even do it during business hours! I am the outcast of my office.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Do you talk to Enzo?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

Enzo lives with mom and dad in Jersey. :(

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

But to answer your question, yes, I talk to him constantly when I'm there.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

I used to go for days without speaking to anyone when I lived alone. I've forgotten what my record for this was--it would last until I needed food and then I'd say "thanks" or something and politeness would blow the silent streak.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

So remember last week, there was this ordeal with a woman who wanted her Christian Learning Course thing listed in the Secular section of my community events calendar? Well, she's back, and she not only submitted her listings a day late, so I'm perfectly within my whatever to not run them, only then I'd have to deal with her more, but she also invited me to a Christian Learning Course. There's a free dinner, and I like the food.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

You so have to go.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

I think the free dinners are basically a sales pitch for the not-free Weekend Retreats. But we had a fairly lengthy discussion about whether or not these should be listed in the Church section, and here in the pamphlet it's ALL ABOUT JESUS! Yo, Jesus belongs in the Church, barefoot and pregnant.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

I have only this to say at the moment: fuck you, rain.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Somebody better tell me how to make a heart or I'll... I'll... I'lll screaaammmm!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

I think I just might start tearing my hair out. Fuck the LA office.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

&heart

&hearts

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

Aha. You type what I did above with an s on the end.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

&hearts

Do you have to put brackets around that or something?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

&club

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

&clubs

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

&diamonds

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

&diamonds

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

Huh. That's a shame.

So, an hour of work to go, then home and Chelsea vs Manchester United to keep me occupied. I am becoming psyched up about my diet which will start on Monday, though before then I have posh Oxo Tower dinner and boss's leaving do to attend, which will be fun!

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

&heartss

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

This is the Thread Where I Say that leaving your WHIPS! yogurt out on your desk is not a good idea - it gets all melty and it totally un-WHIPS!-like.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Sarah, you made a heart above! Put a semicolon after it, type "&hearts;". I wrong a song called "2♣" so I memorized these things.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

So much love on this thread.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

♠♥&diamonds;♣◊!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

Oops, ♦. &diams;.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

;&clubs

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

♥

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

Hells, yeah!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

&club; sandwich

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

So to make sure I have this "heart" technique right:

I ♥ Cooter

― Ash (ashbyman), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

♣ sandwich

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

THis thread is stupid.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

&cooter;

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

Damn.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

I was hoping for a tiny little portrait of him fixing the General Lee.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

There are no shortcuts to cooter.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

&totaleclipseoftheheart;

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

&cthulhu;

― Ash (ashbyman), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

Dang.

I ♥ Cthulhu

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v304/ashbyman/CTHULHUPLXG.jpg

― Ash (ashbyman), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

Dorks.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

&dork;

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

I ♥ dorks.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

I FUCK DORKS

― made ya look (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, me too.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Any of you ladies wanna come over and check out my complete run of Keith Giffen's 1989 Legion of Superheroes reboot? They're all bagged and boarded, if you catch my drift...

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

I do too, jeanne & luna - ha ha.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

So anyway, I had to call to make a hotel (okay motel, whatever) reservation for my best friend's wedding back home in Maine, and I got to talking to the proprietor of the hotel and mentioned that my boyfriend had worked there in high school, so he asked me who he was and said 'wow, I haven't seen him in years', and then said how he remembered him from high school, how he was all excited to go to the prom, and how he was going to take his date out to the lake to see the sunrise, and was that you? And I started giggling and said yes.

I GIGGLED AT THIS MAN. God help me.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

haha dorkfuckers!

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

Y'know who bugs me?
That co-worker who I always bitch about, that's who. So the printer wasn't printing something and she suggested, "Sometimes if you open the paper tray and close it again, that makes things work."
So I said, "Sometimes my uncle wears a dress, but that doesn't make him my aunt!"

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

In all seriousness, every non-dork I ever dated was an utter disaster.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

Huk, I hate her and I hope she dies.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

And it's been the same for me, Jeanne.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

Dorkfuckers are the best fuckers.

I especially like it when Huck tries out the new material on us. That one's pretty good. Later in the set, be sure to callback your uncle.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

Oh hey, I've been meaning to post about this for a week. On an earlier TITWIS thread, we were talking about getting milk delivered to your house, and on my way to work there's a billboard for it!

Here's their website!
http://www.morethanmilk.ca/

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

Wtf! They don't deliver Skim Milk??? I guess healthy people can get off their asses and go to the store.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

But they do deliver a full line of Soy products!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

Fascinating.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

I know. This probably deserves its own thread.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

As so many things that get posted here do.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

I'm finding I have a craving for a glass of milk now, though.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

What's the deal with people who get SoyMilk delivered to their home? Are they like "I'd like to be healthy...but I'm too lazy to go to the store!"

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

If you can afford soy milk, you don't have time to go to the store!

I like the idea of things being delivered. I want to start a bread delivery service. But it's financially implausible.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

Make it bakery delivery, and I bet people would go for it. I know I would. Especially for same day service (charge extra for rush).

"I need a loaf of sourdough, one of marble rye, and two blueberry danish, STAT!!"

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

If there was a donut delivery service, I'd be a moose.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

Mmmm, driving around all day in a van filled with freshly baked bread.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

I can't make nearly enough bread to make any money at it, alas.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

well no one expects you to do it in your kitchen and with no help!

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

So who wants to be the venture capitalist?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

I have demanded donuts for my last day at work. If someone doesn't bring them, I'm treking out in the snow until I find some - and then just buying some for myself!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

Oh man. My radio show tonight (only two or three weeks left of two-hour-long shows) is gonna be all about jesus and making out. But not at the same time.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

What, because you didn't want to play any of our songs?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 27 January 2005 05:33 (twenty years ago)

I actually did play "Moose Jaw"!

― Huk-L, Thursday, 27 January 2005 05:42 (twenty years ago)

Oh, well, yay! We have several songs that intersect "Jesus" and "making out" in various ways, but I don't think we've released any of them yet.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 27 January 2005 05:49 (twenty years ago)

Well, how can you be upset that I don't play them, then?

― Huk-L, Thursday, 27 January 2005 05:58 (twenty years ago)

We played one at our recent radio show, and so I guess I just assumed there'd be a bootleg floating about the internet or something.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 27 January 2005 06:30 (twenty years ago)

That reminds me...

― Huk-L, Thursday, 27 January 2005 06:40 (twenty years ago)

Of...?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 27 January 2005 06:58 (twenty years ago)

Archel, if you're around - can you get on AIM? I need to ask you some stuff.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 27 January 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)

Hummm, no I don't have it at work. Can you email?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 27 January 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

Can you ask it here, so we can all see?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 27 January 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

Nosey! ;)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 27 January 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

Archie, does AIM Express work on your computer?
http://www.aim.com/get_aim/express/aim_expr.adp?aolp=

(the reason I'm not discussing it on here is its dullness, not is scurrilousness :))

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 27 January 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

Hey Sarah McLusky! Today is my last day of work too! *high-fives*

No donuts here, but I bought my co-worker some almond pocky and he shared it with me.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 27 January 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

Nosey! ;)

I was just bored is all! :-(

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 27 January 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Sarahs, will your new jobs be ILX-friendly?

― Huk-L, Thursday, 27 January 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Morning yins. It's too early. Sarah have your donuts arrived yet?
Oh. My. God. (completely safe for work)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0003069V6/ref=pd_sim_toys_1/002-0986841-5080837?v=glance&s=toys

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 27 January 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

And that's why Barbie dumped him for that Australian surfer. Babes don't dig cosplay.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 27 January 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

hahaha, Jocelyn that's awful!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 27 January 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

hi jocelyn. just wondering, where are you from?

i had a zombie dream last night in the mall and i went for nordstrom (where i used to work), but some guy locked the door, and i was running around in the parking lot trying to get away from, you know, death. i think this means that i need to watch shaun of the dead, which i have but somehow haven't gotten around to watching yet.

congrats mclusky on YOUR LAST DAY! gmorning (or afternoon, or whatever) everyone else...

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 27 January 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

Hey Julia, how did that thing go the other night?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 27 January 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

I'm from Indiana but my mom's from PA.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 27 January 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, guys! yAY!
Secret handshake with sgs too!

My coworker brought in donuts as promised! MMMMM....

I've taken to just forwarding my new email requests to a coworker and CCing the sales rep by saying, "I am not taking on any new projects at this time. Please send all requests to..."

HA HA!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 27 January 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Hope you enjoy your last day Sarahs!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 27 January 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

pink, it was fine, and of course i was worrying too much as i expected. i'm on msn when you're not busy...

my whole family (except for me) is from pittsburgh, jocelyn, though they don't say yins, they just have the accent (which is why i've mostly gone by a nickname rather than my given name with family, i hate hate hate the 'burgh-accented pronunciation of julia). i kinda love hearing 'yins' used though.

i had a dream about donuts too, actually. there were all these different kinds and they were all really really good and i was being a total glutton but i couldn't stop eating them. i usually don't remember my dreams this well, funny. but donut and zombie dreams are memorable, i guess.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 27 January 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

I'm going on msn now!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 27 January 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

Ok so I am totally on AIM. From work. This is novel! Come and chat so I can literally do no more work today...

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 27 January 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

Huk-L, until I find another job I'll be at home working on my thesis on a computer with a broadband connection, so yes.

However, should I become employed in my chosen field I see little reason why they'd have me use a computer.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 27 January 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

PS Archel ONE OF US, ONE OF US...

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 27 January 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

Hehe.

You mean they don't have you bind books using a sophisticated microcomputer these days? I'm shocked.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 27 January 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

I'm in a quit my job to chase my dreams kind of mood today.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 27 January 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

Can I come?

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 27 January 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

I'm in a 'hm, if I chased my dreams I might not have as much opportunity to sit around on my ass pretending to work' kind of mood.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 27 January 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

I've been sitting around on my ass pretending to work for nearly 4 years. I was talking about some local band, and the new intern was "Oh, I love them. I've been going to see them for four years."
And I stopped, squirelled my eyebrows, and said, "I've been going to see them for 12 years! Holy cow, does my life suck!"

― Huk-L, Thursday, 27 January 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

So is that a yes or a no? I kinda need to plan here.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 27 January 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

Okay, you can come. Bring food, cuz I'm not planning on making any money for a while.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 27 January 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

I'll drive the getaway car, too.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 27 January 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

DDDUUUDDDEEESSSSS!

It's 11:11 and all is well.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 27 January 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but where were you at 11:10 when it was all falling to shit?

― Huk-L, Thursday, 27 January 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

I just helped an old lady across the street. She was so sweet. She called me "young man."

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

How much did she tip?

― Huk-L, Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Moan Tones

Another milestone in the decline and fall of western civilization?

A brilliant idea whose time has come?

What say you folks? Personally, I can only picture the hallways of junior high schools around the country as these things take hold. Scary.

― Ash (ashbyman), Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

Dear lord, JJ looks awful!

― Huk-L, Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

One would think a pornstar would have a better publicity photo its true.

She looks molded out of wax.

― Ash (ashbyman), Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Maybe all of her "good" publicity photos are too risque for CNN. The C don't stand for cooter, kids.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps we should hook her up with Waxl Rose?

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 27 January 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

She looks like that lady who wants to be a cat.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 27 January 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

Jenna's disturbingly inanimate appearance aside, would you want sex noises announcing your phone calls? If you have kids, would you let your kids have them? What is the market for these things? Poorly supervised 13 year old boys, idiot frat guys and perverts? Actually I think the number one use for these is going to be:

"Hey! Let's swipe Frank from accounting's cel phone and change his ringtone from "Theme from a Summer Place" to "Jenna Cums #4" His wife will kill him!! Haw Haw Haw!!!!"

I am all for free speech and civil liberties, and technological innovation, but I am surprisingly curmudgeonly about the cel phones. When my phone rings it sounds like...a phone ringing, and I had to *seek this out* on the internet. Side rant, why can't they have a pleasant, low key ringing phone sound come with a cel phone? It is my theory that the ringtones included with cel phones are chosen because they are irritating and strident. This will force users to pay extra for others.

Music ringtones annoy the living hell out of me, I can't even get my mind around porn tones.

― Ash (ashbyman), Thursday, 27 January 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

I've had to defend this before, but the main reason I use ringtones is because traditional phone ringers were designed with the natural assumption that you would be at home, around no other phones, when the call came in; with a cell phone, you're probably one of twenty phones in earshot. I don't need to relive the 1990s pager shuffle wherein twenty guys all grab their pager at once to see which one of them it was.

Working at home now, the benefit is that I have different ringtones set up for different people, so I know whether or not to bother answering.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 27 January 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

That's just creepy.
Mine plays In the Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt. It scares all of my friends, but it scares them more that I know what it is and that's it not that sample from "Cry Me a River." My phone has some really awful ring tones with names like "Networking Woman" and "Nananeena" I can't imagine anyone would ever put these on their phone.

Does JJ have one blue eye and one brown eye?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 27 January 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

I usually really loathe ringers set as music, but honestly, I don't hear them otherwise. My phone currently plays Sweet Home Alabama (a song I really like) in all but certain cases (and you know you're one of those, Ash), and as obnoxious as it is (and oh, is it ever), I ALWAYS hear it.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 27 January 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

Last fall, I got a one-month subscription to mbuzzy.com, which sends mp3s to your phone after you've uploaded them -- most of my ringtones now are from the Red Sox remix of "Lean Back" or MC Chris's "Fett's Vette." There's never any doubt whether or not it's my pocket that's ringing.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 27 January 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

"Lean Back" is genius. Why did no one think of an anti-dance song before?

Luna, you desperately want to tell everyone what song you use when I call don't you?

― Ash (ashbyman), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

I always thought JJ's "Brown Eye" was, um, her ass.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

That's because I don't think people are usually looking at her face too carefully.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

I have no particular need, really.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

Is anyone else seeing the page text centred?

I'm going to the comic store, and I have a John Fante book to read and Busta Rhymes When Disaster Strikes to listen to. But I'd rather just go home, so I might do that.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

That reminds me, dude, I haven't mailed your CDs yet, which means I'm not sure I'll be able to before I leave -- sorry :/ I got all crunched with work and it completely slipped my mind.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

Of...?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 27 January 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

Sean C. reminded me of the existence of the sit-com "Corner Gas", which is about small-town Sask life, and so I downloaded the first few episodes. Good god, Sask is photogenic.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

So you know what I wonder? Why does this thread get so much shit, but the sheepfucker ones don't, the glasgow one doesn't, the chicago ones don't, the san francisco ones don't, the london ones don't... when they're all largely the same shit?

Not that it matters.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 28 January 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

Well, this one was first. Also, those have the obvious geography thing going on. Also, they're jealous of our sexiness.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 28 January 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, the first season of CG was shot during a drought, yet the fields are so freakin' green and lush.
Hey, Ryan (Van Wilder) Reynolds is in town making a Romantic Comedy. The 'Gi is standing in for New Jersey (and it recently stood in for, um, Texas I think [sorry, Sam] in the next Terry Gilliam movie, and also in the Preacher movie.

Ryan Reynolds is rumoured to be the frontrunner to play the lead in the upcoming film adaptation of the Flash...which segues into...

Tep, don't worry about it. I'm just happy to get them whenever. I still haven't read the first Queen & Country trade I bought two weeks ago.

― Huk-L, Friday, 28 January 2005 05:09 (twenty years ago)

I just kinda gorged myself and watched the first 7 episodes. (Which was all I downloaded; I've found a few more recent episodes, but the 2nd half of season 1 doesn't seem to be online yet.) I can't tell if it's actually funny or if I'm just biased.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 28 January 2005 05:28 (twenty years ago)

The Parents and the Cops are my favourites, everyone else, I guess they're just there to make sure the really absurd stuff doesn't get overplayed.

― Huk-L, Friday, 28 January 2005 05:33 (twenty years ago)

After two or three seasons we should know the entire town, like in the Simpsons, but I bet that doesn't happen (live action vs. animation, I suppose).

Also, wow, I still do really enjoy the accents. I want to visit again.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 28 January 2005 05:41 (twenty years ago)

Well, a lot of the townsfolk a recurring (there are only so many ACTRA members in Regina).
Have you seen the on with Kevin MacDonald in it yet? "I'm not THE taxman, I'm A taxman."

― Huk-L, Friday, 28 January 2005 05:47 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that was nice. Maybe I should start a thread.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 28 January 2005 05:49 (twenty years ago)

Maybe I should be hassling them for a writing job.

― Huk-L, Friday, 28 January 2005 05:53 (twenty years ago)

They're not that far away after all. Once again, the map of Sask above my bed has proved handy.

Also, the main guy looks like Franklin Bruno's Canadian cousin.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 28 January 2005 06:02 (twenty years ago)

So I have to write a story based on memory today. Because I left all my interview notes at home! Oh shit.

― Huk-L, Friday, 28 January 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Oh crap.
I get a lot of calls from people who are actually looking for another dept., but I don't know what they're extension is, so I usually just dial a random number and hope that whoever they get can direct them accordingly. I just did that and (we have digital phones with full display) and by happenstance directed the obnoxious caller to the BOSS of BOSSES, and he'll be able to see my name on his phone.

― Huk-L, Friday, 28 January 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

I'm obsessed with the new episodes of the O.C. I'm making my friend tape it next week because I won't be able to see it. Wow.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 28 January 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

Gee, I wonder why.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 January 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

My only news for today thus far is that I look like Adam Duritz.

I hate Adam Duritz so very...very much. He has committed musical atrocities for so many years. I do not know what to do with the information that I resemble him. I'm contemplating setting myself on fire, or, alternatively, setting Adam Duritz on fire.

― Ash (ashbyman), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

I don't think you do, Ash.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

Although I will now use this thread to once again prove that Adam Duritz = Heavy D:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38205000/jpg/_38205816_crows_pa_150.jpg ihttp://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGPORTRAITS/music/portrait200/drp000/p014/p01479o6a7f

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

I don't think you do, Ash.

Thank you Jaymc...you may have just prevented the immolation of Adam Duritz.

― Ash (ashbyman), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

What did Heavy D ever do to you?

http://www.fonkadelica.com/Heavy%20D%20and%20the%20boyz.jpg

That's a stylin' ensemble he has there.

― Ash (ashbyman), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

You look exactly like him! Just like him! Here, have my lighter!

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Another one:

http://image.com.com/mp3/images/artist/pic200/drp000/p014/p01479o6a7f.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Tep, I'm going to hope you want me to immolate Duritz rather than myself?

Over on the jaymc thread, now I look like Scott Stapp. I don't like him or his music either, but I'm less depressed at the thought of resembling him.

Oh my frail ego...

― Ash (ashbyman), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

Ash, I'm sorry to have caused you so much pain. I thought of George Eads first, if it's any consolation. And I did say that it was a cross between the two, not that you looked like Adam Duritz per se... I'll get my coat.

Or, you can do me in revenge if you like:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/biondino/markshoe.jpg

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

Tep, I'm going to hope you want me to immolate Duritz rather than myself?

Whoops, yes -- it seemed a crime to allow the cockblocking of Duritz-burning.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

No blood no foul Markleby, no revenge is necessary, and those are some pimpin' loafers.

― Ash (ashbyman), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

also, I am on the phone right now with my friend discussing whether, if one only had one match, would it be better for society to light Adam Duritz or Scott Stapp on fire. I'm arguing that Duritz is the clear choice because Creed broke up, but he argues that the possibility that Creed could some day reform, or that Stapp could produce a solo album of pseudo-christian Pearl Jamesque rock is enough to warrant that he be the one to die. Also, Stapp toured with the Doors last year which is blasphemy of the first order.

It's an interesting debate. Maybe I should start whoshouldweimmolate.com.

― Ash (ashbyman), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

so the black keys had a song on the oc last night and matt pond the week before. here comes the teeny boppers.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

I can totally see Matt Pond fitting in. I haven't heard very much of them, but I really like "The Hollows" or whatever it's called.

Meanwhile on the Iraq Election thread: ay carumba.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

(Sorry, "ay carumba" might be ethnically insensitive. I take it back.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

i bet you'd like them jay. chamber pop.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

Ash, The first person I thought of that you may resemble is Jason Schwartzman, a bit.
I have never seen the OC.
I just wasted valuable time at lunch reading (er, skimming) something about Conor Oberst in the paper, but I spent most of the time looking at the picture and thinking how I could totally take him out in a fight.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

They're actually golf shoes, Ash. Has my cred plummeted faster than anyone ever thought possible?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

What Black Keys song was it?

I listened to their first album the other day, which totally blew me away when I first heard it, and maintained its greatness (perhaps even grew in my esteem) when Thickfreakness came out, but I hadn't listened to it a long time, and post-Rubber Factory, it doesn't sound so good. Which, I think, is a good thing for a band, to make a record that makes their other records sound like crap.

xxxxxxpost

― Huk-L, Friday, 28 January 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

Conor is a cutie.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Ash, the solution if you only have one match is to tie them together before striking it.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

10 am automatic, marissa was hitting the booze while listening to it at 7am before school.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

I always pretend that song is about dating a werewolf.

― Huk-L, Friday, 28 January 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

i always pretend its about my morning erection.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

I feel totally out of touch with ILX. What's the haps?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

Chris has a boner, but only until noon.

― Huk-L, Friday, 28 January 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

So I haven't been missing much, then?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

Another day, another dust-up.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 January 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

I need a time machine.

― Huk-L, Friday, 28 January 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

hstencil in being a total cock SHOCKA.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

Ash, The first person I thought of that you may resemble is Jason Schwartzman, a bit.

http://www.fluctuat.net/cinema/chroniques/images/RUSHMORE.jpg

"Maybe I'm spending too much of my time starting up clubs and putting on plays. I should probably be trying harder to score chicks."

― Ash (ashbyman), Friday, 28 January 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

I got three hours of sleep last night and then woke up early to go record kids singing songs at a pre-school and now I'm at work and the coffee my god the coffee why will it not kick in argh and I am hungry and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.........

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

Nick, I think you refer to people as "cocks" (rather than "dicks" or "jerks" or "assholes") more than anyone else I know. I find it endearing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

OH god, I'll never understand so many things and I'm better not trying to.

― Huk-L, Friday, 28 January 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

Seriously, I am fading and you best entertain me or I will be starting a million Canadiaphilic threads.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

MPs MacKay and Stronach confirm they are a couple “getting along famously”
VANCOUVER (CP) — Conservative MPs Peter MacKay and Belinda Stronach have started spending time together and are “getting along famously.”
“Suffice it to say I’m very happy and quite smitten,“ MacKay, 39, the party’s deputy leader, told the Vancouver Sun in a phone interview from Vancouver Island, where the Conservative caucus held a winter retreat this week.
“Belinda is just a terrific person and we’re getting along famously,” said the Nova Scotia MP.
Stronach, 38, an Ontario MP, said the pair have known each other for a few years “and have always had a lot of respect for one another and of late we’ve started dating.
“Maybe I should say, spending time together; dating is more of a teenaged word.”
MP James Moore, who counts the pair among his group of friends, said it’s not a secret to the group that the two are a couple.
“I don’t think many people care,” says Moore, though he did add with a chuckle that it would be interesting to see how the relationship plays out if both — on the same occasion — opt to pursue their respective ambitions to lead the Conservative party.

― Huk-L, Friday, 28 January 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

I like the word cock. It's fun to say.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

Amen, n/a. Amen.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 28 January 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

I like the word cock. It's fun to say.

Also bosom. The old words are often best.

― Ash (ashbyman), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

Really anything involving cock and mouth at the same time is pretty good.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

MMM, now I'm craving KFC.

― Huk-L, Friday, 28 January 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

Ash, you do not look like Adam Duritz. Also, I think Martin has the best idea - tie them together and THEN light them on fire. If it's a big enough match, please also include Nicole Kidman.

Thanks.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 28 January 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

MONDAY!

― Huk-L, Monday, 31 January 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.bikerfox.com/foxphotos/images/13.jpg

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 31 January 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

WOO!

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 31 January 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

I've just had an emailed from a lady whose surnemae is "Y0kel". That's ace.

Hi everyone. Should I assume you all had dull weekends*, or has the fire gone out of our friendship(s)?

*for details of my weekend, see the bowling thread. I also bought a PS2 and complete Los Santos, GAMING GOD THAT I AM

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 31 January 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

I went to my grandfather's 90th birthday party in another city. Old people are hilarious. My great-uncle, upon seeing my aunt snapping away with her digital camera: "Why don't we go into a darkroom and see what develops?"
Later: "Save your burnt-out light bulbs, we're building a darkroom."
"You know the problem with copy machines? They never do anything original."

Clearly, I need to spend more time with this guy.

― Huk-L, Monday, 31 January 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Haha Huck, it's obviously in the genes...

Why oh freaking why can I not just get married without being encouraged to turn every aspect of planning into a massive ISSUE? I love my mum and I even love Matt's parents but god give me strength...

Anyway, apart from stressful wedding talk, my weekend was cool. I am still rubbish at bowling (and my arms still hurt) but do I care? No, for it is the taking part that mattereth, forsooth.

I can't find anywhere to have salsa lessons that doesn't involve sleazy men or scary glamorous gays. Possibly this is a Brighton thing. Maybe I will destroy my bulges through badminton instead, which at least doesn't involve strangers' knees between your thighs. Hopefully.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 31 January 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Do you ever just want to curl up in bed & hide from everyone & everything?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

Daily.

― Huk-L, Monday, 31 January 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

far too often.

it really was a dull weekend, but in an okay way.

i have to fight with creditors today, but i have good stuff to eat, so maybe it comes out even...

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Archel, don't let them talk you into anything you don't want to do! My friend has asked me to do a reading at her wedding this Saturday, which is a very nice gesture. She wants me to read from The Song of Solomon, and I got really excited and asked her if I got to compare Randy's thighs to the cedars of Lebanon and shock the Episcopalians. "No, you get to tell me that many waters cannot quench love." "Oh, that's okay too, I guess." It was that or 1st Corinthians. I'm glad I got the SOS, it's sexier, and I'm not Christian so I'd feel weird doing anything more overtly Jesus-y. We're taking bets on who's going to take communion. There's odds and everything.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

Ugh. So I finally heard back from "my" union, and they presented my case to the HR about me getting paid at a higher rate when I do other people's jobs, and the HR dept. said that doing other people's jobs is part of my job description. WTF, I didn't even know I had a job description!
Then the Union rep asked me if I wanted to sit on the bargaining committee and was all, "I hope you don't feel like you're not a part of the workplace..."
Y'know, even though for the last four years I've been either outright ignored or thoroughly disregarded by my coworkers, yeah, don't worry, I feel a strong sense of fellowship with my workmates. Sorry, did I say "fellowship"? I meant, fuck you buddy!

― Huk-L, Monday, 31 January 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

Why are you so worried about losing your job, Huck?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 31 January 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

I'm not. I'm worried about losing my INCOME (such as it is).

― Huk-L, Monday, 31 January 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

Your sub-intern income?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 31 January 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

I need a backbone, don't I?

― Huk-L, Monday, 31 January 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Or you need to admit that you've found your place.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 31 January 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

You know how there's a point where you're like "ha ha, my job sucks, they totally exploit me and don't give me anything in return, ha ha, isn't life hilarious" and then there's a point where you realize your youth and your hairline are just out-of-focus backgrounds in someone else's biopic. Like once you were the young turk, and now you're the cautionary tale.
I just had a long talk with my brother, and he kept refering to my potential, and I almost came clean about how that whole potential thing of mine has just been a put-on since first grade when I noticed the smart kids got less severe punishments. Which makes me kind of smart for recognizing that, but not as smart as I passed myself off as. (I haven't read the "squander yr potential" thread)
I mean, a rock has potential, but it also has inertia. Some rocks, if you lick them, they taste like salt. Those rocks are called potash, and they're pretty.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 05:58 (twenty years ago)

Yay, finally January is over! February is THE birthday month. *high fives SGS*

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 09:46 (twenty years ago)

HUK THE MOST OTM ANYONE HAS EVER BEEN about potash. No, haha, about the potential thing, his first paragraph especially.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

I mean, seriously, you must have spent the last 40 years in the Himalayas devoting yourself exclusively to the study of OTM.

On a different note, does anyone know how to treat a bath towel to stop it shedding enormous amounts of dark blue fluff? I have just found like a ball of wool's worth in my undergarments.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

It just happens with new towels mark.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

I've had these towels three years, pink. I've washed them over and over again, but every time I use them they shed. Literally, it's not getting any better - I thought it would but it hasn't.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

Oh I see, well no idea then Mark!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

More activity please.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

Is it just irresponsible for me to continue trying to be a music journalist when I don't have a computer that can play the songs?
I'm interviewing a band tonight, and their publicist is all, "Instead of sending you a CD, I'll just give you a link to some MP3s" and so I don't get to know what's going on with this band.
Buying a new computer is very low on my priority list, and what with my exponentially waning interest in music in general, is this the perfect opportunity for me to bid adieu to a filthy profession that killed my soul (melodrama)?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

what else might you be interested in doing, huck?

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Landscaping.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

I don't think that being able to play MP3s is a requirement for a music journalist. But then I am a filthy Luddite so what do I know?

Follow the dream, not the technology.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

by which you mean people's lawns rather than...uh. ?

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

It's an inside joke with myself. A friend of mine, an old childhood friend who I didn't see all through adolescence, and then ran into nearly by chance two provinces away when we were 18/19 and had both independently decided that writing was what we wanted to do in life, met one of my favourite Cdn writers a while ago (a guy who's written at least two books that I could/should/would have) and asked him for advice about how to get started as a writer, as in how to make a living while you're writing.
The writer told him about how when he decided to become a writer, he got a job at a newspaper (hmmmm, familiar?) and assumed the writing would flow naturally from there. Only he found that after a day of writing for other people, or performing physical acts that approach writing, he had no writing energy left at the end of the day for the projects that actually meant something to him. So when he made the decision to write the book that established him, he went back to the job he'd had before, landscaping. Thus, he spent the day actively NOT-WRITING, and not only had the desire to write after that, but also THE OLD COMPULSION, so that he could get out of his shitty job.

I think I need to make a similar lifestyle-change, lest I languish here in perpetuity. (here at my job, not here on ILX)

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Well, yeah. You've probably learned a lot from writing from your journo years, and you're probably not going to learn anything more. Move on!

The great thing about writing is that people don't really get good at it until they're in their 30s or 40s.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

tomorrow's show will be dedicated to optimism.

― huk--l, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

Some turd merchant is blasting "More Than Words" on his iTunes and it's making me insanely hostile.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

Clearly you must kick him in the face. This behavior cannot be allowed to continue.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

I know!! Why doesn't anyone ever randomly play "I Wanna Have Some Fun" by Samantha F0xx? It's always shit like Extreme that pops up out of nowhere.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

If you don't respond with swift, unambiguous violence, he'll only try it again.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

my itunes started playing remember you're a womble the other morning on random play. it was possibly the single best moment of this year so far (i'm thinking this will be lost on north american ppl, but...)

― stelfox, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

WOMBLE TILL I DIE

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

Just remember we're so lucky,
To be Wombling Free.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

sarahsonnic: ok weird--every time I try to open the TITTWIS thread, it shuts my iexplorer down
sarahsonnic: ok it did it again
sarahsonnic: stops at huk-l's message of jan 26th that is like 3 paragraphs his day events
sarahsonnic: sigh
sarahsonnic: oh well
sarahsonnic: you can tell them all I'm suddenly unable to write any more drivel on that thread but that I say whatup.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

It's probably the hearts and stuff that did. Iexplorer hates twee symbolism.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

wombling free was nice, but remember you're a womble was a cracking shuffly glamrock stomper with added fur

― stelfox, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

Keep your furry womble under wraps, young man.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/biondino/sponsors.jpg

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Now that's something. Wow.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

In futher manners of jackassery -- I went to the sandwich shoppe for their little mini pizzas and I asked for extra sauce on the side. I get back to my desk, open the little cuppy of sauce...and it's salsa. Fucking mother of shite.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Salsa is Spanish for sauce.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

The dude was as Irish as Malachy O'Toole.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Maybe if she'd ordered the pizza in Spanish, that'd make sense.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Since this thread has become rather tepid lately, I'm going to use it to bitch about everything that bothers me. And that's a lot of stuff. Or, I'll use it to trick all of you into talking about cooters and cleav.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

COOTER!

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

we'd need to be tricked?

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

yeah, really... have you read any of the other threads lately? This is where I come to cool off.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

I like how the man in the fedora looks like he time-traveled into the picture from Weimar Germany.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

Am I a wuss for not posting a picture of myself in my underwear?

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

i would like to reiterate my stance that people who prattle on about positive-attitude-to-the-point-of-delusional-denial should just be kicked in the nads. hard.

i am so bored.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, why is everyone in such a snit? Except for on the underwear thread, that's quite jolly. And who is this Miles Finch? He's obviously a long-term UK ILXor but I can't figure it out for the life of me. And showing details does nothing to help.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

luna: no. am i a freak for posting a pic of myself in my underwear? i keep debating about that.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

Julia is correct. Luna, I'm going to stay far far away from your question otherwise I'll wind up on top of it.

I just purchased a green foam Statue of Liberty crown and am considering wearing if for the duration of the day....on my cooter.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

Fuck, "julia is correct" is a total xpost.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

Is it just me or has anyone noticed that ILX seems to be suffering from a combo of sand in the cooter and some mad bout of dare-induced exhibitionism?

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

cabin fever.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

No Julia, that was (and is) a great picture.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

I have never thought of crowning my cooter.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

I don't think it's at all a 'wuss' issue - there is no moral obligation on anyone to post pics of themselves at all, still less in their underwear. I admire people who do even more (plus lust, etc.), but I don't at all admire anyone less for not doing so. On the other hand, the more hot people I know in their underwear on that thread, the happier I'll be.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

Isn't there a Sonic Youth song called "Cooter Crown"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Actually, wait, isn't there a (real) Devin the Dude song called "Kooter Brown"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

I'm so confused. More crowns on cooters, though, please.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Someone tell me how to make it a clickable link, and I'll probably do it.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure what you need to know, Luna -- just use the regular "a href" tag?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

PUT THE WITTY WORD STUFF HERE

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

Yeah hi, I'm a total ass hat. Luna, I'll email the thing to you. Jesus H, I r dumb.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

I am a techno turnip, you see.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

So remember when I told you guys about how my arch-rival was telling people that the trick to do when the printer wasn't responding was to open the paper tray and then close it, despite the fact that what was actually delaying the printing job had to do with the network connecting people's computers to the printer, and how busy it was and what the nature of the document is and stuff like that?
Well, people fucking keep opening and closing the paper tray, hoping that's the magical fix! And the thing is, that sort of keeps them occupied while the document maneouvres through the ether, so after they've opened and closed the tray a few times, WOW, there's their printout!
These are educated people! These are fucking morons!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

Why don't you tell them that it doesn't actually work and that they have to just be patient?

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

Luna, we're discussing you in your underwear. Pay attention, damnit.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Today I am wearing blue lace.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

I've told them. They don't trust me. They think that my knowledge of office machines makes me some sort of witch.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

BURN HIM!

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

You could be all condescending and say, 'you don't REALLY think that works, do you? XXXX just told you that because she thinks you're dumb enough to try it.'

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

I should make some Vincent Price Brand Shrunken Heads and leave them inside the paper tray (there's a little space between the actual paper and the side panel--y'know, in case you need to use 8.5 x 17" sheets). That would fuck with them. Then I'll make the sun disappear at 4:30 in the afternoon! (next December).

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

I just love it when people who have been misusing office equipment for years think you're being impertinent when you try to correct their time-wasting, money-costing behavior. This is why the entire labor force WILL and bloody well SHOULD be entirely replaced by young people. You know, like in that new Dennis Quaid movie. "Fuck you, old man, I'm your boss now. How could this happen, you say? Well, for one thing, YOU NEVER LEARNED TO USE A FUCKING COPY MACHINE."

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

As my great uncle always says (or at least he said it the one time I've ever talked to him), "You know the problem with copy machines? They never do anything original."

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

I just tried to get the green foam crown around my butt and it didn't fit. :(

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

I never thought I would see the day when office equipment was more interesting than underwear.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Yeah hi, it isn't.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

Cooter crowns, on the other hand...

Why, pray tell, did you purchase said green foam crown?

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Luna, you fiend!! You just bitch slapped the underwear thread into stunned submission.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

As I said, I admire someone even more for that. If I could admire Luna any more, that is.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

I bought the crown for my cooter because she's sad and lonely and wants to give shelter to your masses.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

better leave out 'the wretched refuse of your teeming shore'.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

Good point. Just your masses, then.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

My huddled masses yearning to be free?

I've never thought of that as a euphemism before, but I like it.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

I lift my lamp up to the golden door.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

omg this is excellently erotic

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

patriorotica

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

um yeah. the ladies of tittwis in the underpants. /

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

so matt pond has a new ep out...winter songs. has covers of "holiday road", "i want to see the bright light" and "in the aeroplane over the sea"....quite spectacular.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

Hiya folks, sorry I haven't been posting for ages. Here's a bried update on what's going on with me: I'm supposed to start working on my master's thesis (on first wave feminism in the Middle East) but the whole thing kinda scares me so I haven't even started properly. Also, I need to find a job since I don't have that much studies left, but the thought of it scares me even more. I don't wanna graduate and move on to working for the rest of my life, I'd still like to live the care-free student life for a couple of years. For those of you who've graduated, did you feel the same way then?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

No - I didn't much like the student life (this was when I was hitting 40 and married, so not living a typical student life, of course). I wanted to get it done with and get a job.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

Also, a while ago I had a short, but a highly satisfying sexual relationship with someone, though it has ended now. Anyway, it made me think that I don't wanna live in a forced celibacy anymore, so lately I've been pretty sraightforward towards the girls I fancy; this a tactic I haven't tried too much, but it might actually work.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

I wish I had that kind of courage.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

I would like to have a satisfying sexual relationship with someone other than my right hand.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

Yes, that's kind of exactly what I meant.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

The secret is in being direct without coming across as overbearing or creepy. If you hear from someone, even someone you don't fancy, that they like you, it can be a great ego boost, which is an honest pleasure.

At least learn to switch hands ladies.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

Well, obviously I can't (and don't want to) turn into Don Juan overnight, but at least I'm trying to be more active on the romance front and not just mope about being terminally alone. To my surprise it seems to be working too: for the last few months I've been on more dates than for the last couple of years before that.

(x-post)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

I've got nothing to add to this. Except, um, GO TEAM!

(because I'm trying to think positive--but damn that reminds me of the album I forgot to bring to the station with me, the one with "Ack-Cen-Choo-Ate The Positive" or however they phonetisize it.)

― Huk-L, Thursday, 3 February 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

Okay, positive thought of the day: I filed a story about the most famous band from here in a long while, and how they broke up, and I think I managed not to make it exploitational. And I'm working on another story about another local band, and I might get poetic and personal.
I think I'm only going to cover local bands from now on, because I like talking to people I know.
I went out to a bar last night to interview the band that isn't breaking up, and I've known half the band since I was 15, and for a few minutes I wasn't the j'list, I was just the guy who's known people half their lives talking about stuff that means something. Except I was taking notes.
Does that counteract any social points I may have scored?

Anyway, I'm doing my radio show in 16 minutes, and I'm not sure, but it might be my last 2 hr tour of duty. Life is getting easier.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 3 February 2005 01:44 (twenty years ago)

Huk play some Black Mountain - Don't Run Our Hearts Around

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:04 (twenty years ago)

Hey dudes - glad to see the thread got back on track last night!

I have done fuck all work today other than delivering something to our lawyer and sticking some labels on some tapes. I have to do a full audit of what I need to do, go through all the crap on my desk and see what needs actioning (hehe) and redo my to do list accordingly. But I don't have the motivation right now.

On a happier note - isn't "America's Next Top Model" fantastic? I think I said pretty much the same last week, but fuck. I'm addicted - as I walked to work this morning I found myself debating who would be the last 5 or 6 girls left (I reckon Yaya, Eva, Anne, Cassie, Toccara and one from Amanda, Norelle (both my favourites) and Nicole. But please don't give it away if you know who wins!!!

I can't pleasure myself with the wrong hand. It just doesn't work.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 3 February 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

When it comes to pleasuring yourself, there is no such thing as a wrong hand. Actually, even without the 'yourself' element that's not far from true.

I think I could work up no interest in America's Next Top Model while the Underwear thread here is still going strong...

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 3 February 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

Keep your furry womble under wraps, young man.
-- Je4nne ƒury (jeanneƒur...), February 2nd, 2005.

pffft- it's really not fair to keep a womble cooped up, you know...

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-12/907501/the_wombles.jpg

― stelfox, Thursday, 3 February 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

let them run free and feel the wind in their fur, i say

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-12/907501/_40053559_womble.jpg

― stelfox, Thursday, 3 February 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

I agree.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 3 February 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

Meanwhile, and I really want your genuine opinions here (and no, I am not fishing), do y'all think I should take down that underwear picture?

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 3 February 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

I've just checked out the underwear thread & my god! hahah Tuomas I was shocked.

Luna: "you're still a super hot female" don't take it down cos I think it's a wicked picture & you look beeyootifoool, but if it's making you feel uncomfortable then definitely. :-)

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 3 February 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

Well, I think everyone who wanted to see it has seen it, so I can't see much harm in taking it down at this point -- if that's the direction you're leaning in, that is.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 3 February 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

If it's making you feel weird, yes. If other people are wiggin', no.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 3 February 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

yeah, no big deal to take it down. i'm thinking of taking mine down too at some point.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 3 February 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

Cool - thanks everyone.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 3 February 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

Yours was really cool too Julia!! I think y'all should take your pics down at some point anyway, just so that it can't come back & bite you on the ass. (pun totally intended!)

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 3 February 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

I've just checked out the underwear thread & my god! hahah Tuomas I was shocked.

I was a bit disappointed by the pics actually - my hair is too long (I hadn't shaved it for a while), my eyes look like I've had too little sleep and I seem to be showing a bit of tummy as well. I'm thinking of arranging another shoot, though I'm not sure what I could possibly do to add to what's already been posted to that thread. Maybe some of shots of me in women's underwear... It's not like I haven't done it before.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 3 February 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

your pics were great, tuomas! but it's always easy to be self-critical.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 3 February 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I thought they were really sexy, Tuomas!

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 3 February 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

I took my sexy undie pic down last night. Just... because. No need to have a permanent record of that sort of thing. I figure if you're really into me, you'll have it on your hard drive by now anyway, right?

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 3 February 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

RIGHT!

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 3 February 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

I mean, yeah, that makes sense.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 3 February 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 3 February 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Well, we still have it in the calendar... Tell me I'm not the only one who's already printed it out.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 3 February 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

I'm really disappointed there were some horrible responses to your beautiful pic, Luna. I hope the odd person didn't obscure the happiness (etc...) you brought to a lot of people! I can see why you wouldn't want to leave that out there permanently. I won't bother taking my nude down, though.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

I didn't notice any bad comments. What thread were they on Luna, or were they sent to you directly?

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

Via email.

It's okay, I'm over it, I was just angry about it yesterday.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

That's lame (that they sent you a nasty e-mail). Anyway, I'm sure 99% of the reactions were positive, so I wouldn't take it too much to heart.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

I think everyone looks fantastic, and I am bitterly jealous of all of you : )

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

B-b-but judging from the pics you've posted in the past you look fantastic as well.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 3 February 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)

so...i played in a poker tournament last saturday and finished 15th....i don't care about that. one of my close friends confided in me and came out and told me he has been cheating on his wife for over a year with a girl he works with. ugh. basically that was my reaction. i knew he had seperated from his wife about 6 months ago but i didn't know why. last time i saw him he blew off my questions. he's now living with another friend of mine from high school in cambridge and apparently is in "love" with this girl he calls "folk chick". i had no idea what to say. he cried his eyes out for his son who is going to be three. he told me his wife never showed him love...which is something he has always needed. i didn't know what to say. but it was weird...likek something out of a movie when he was telling me this. all the while in the background snow patrols "chocolate" was playing on the stereo and it was actually the perfect song for what he was saying. ugh.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 4 February 2005 02:20 (twenty years ago)

This could be the very minute
I'm aware I'm alive
All these places feel like home

With a name I'd never chosen
I can make my first steps
As a child of 25

This is the straw, final straw in the
Roof of my mouth as I lie to you
Just because I'm sorry doesn't mean
I didn't enjoy it at the time

You're the only thing that I love
It scares me more every day
On my knees I think clearer

Goodness knows I saw it coming
Or at least I'll claim I did
But in truth I'm lost for words

What have I done it's too late for that
What have I become truth is nothing yet
A simple mistake starts the hardest time
I promise I'll do anything you ask...this time

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 4 February 2005 02:22 (twenty years ago)

ugh indeed. that seems so sad.

i usually hate the beginning of february but it's not too bad this year. all the fuss about the underwear thread has distracted me nicely. though that seems to be dying down now.

i am eating a sandwich for breakfast, because it's there. it's some sort of veggie sandwich, with mostly unidentifiable ingredients but i think there are artichoke hearts.

i bought a recliner for my future new apartment! i have to do all this waiting and wondering-if-i'll-get-accepted, and whatever, so i'm fixating on furnishings and decorating silliness and all of that. which is kind of fun actually.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 4 February 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Hmm. So next Friday night I have to entertain an Italian friend of the family and his wife. Now he's a lovely chap who I've known since I was born, and I'm sure his wife is fragrantly delightful. But I'd find such a social occasion very hard even if I had to speak in my own language.

I should be looking forward to it - it often saddens me that I never speak the mother tongue of my fathers. But it's a bit nerve-wracking.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

Dai! Forza! Divertite-vi e stai zito.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

Divertitevi e state ziti?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

Dear world: please pull your fingers out of your butts. Thank you.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

You (all) have fun and you (thou) hush up.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps I should have put in a 'tu' before the 'stai'.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

Sorry Michael, I was being a pedant. My version is what I thought you were trying to say but with plurals and agreements correct - I see I misread it.

How about "stai zito - divertirestevi!"?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

My Italian is all autodidactic and relies heavily on my knowledge of French so I'm not even sure what 'divertirestevi' means.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

A guy on the street liked my glasses. He said, "Those are some tight frames." Made my day.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

I just got the new album (a few weeks in advance!) by a dude I really like, whom my arch-rival claims is a personal friend of hers (whereas all my friendships are utterly IMpersonal), and I'm tempted to rub her face in it, but that would involve me acknowledging her existence, which I've sworn against.
Also, this weekend I need to write and produce 180 seconds of comedy gold to change my life forever. I'm thinking of building it around my drug deal joke.

xxxpost, but a fluke of luck, I might be getting new glasses.

― Huk-L, Friday, 4 February 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

I like that Huk doesn't just have rivals, he has arch-rivals.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Friends are impersonal, rivals, intimate.

― Huk-L, Friday, 4 February 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

what about nemeses?

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

Arch-nemesis!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

Ambrose Bierce-

CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.

When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was no more he was
observed to be deeply moved. "What!" said one of his disciples, "you
weep at the death of an enemy?" "Ah, 'tis true," replied the great
Stoic; "but you should see me smile at the death of a friend."

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

I'm actually a little confused as to the actual meaning of nemesis, so I avoid using it.

― Huk-L, Friday, 4 February 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

ha! speaking of italians, anyone remember the thread talking about the correct pronunciation of pasta a few weeks ago. last saturday morning there was a cookery prog on with Giorgio Locatelli, who i really like, taking the piss out of an aussie chef for saying "paaahstuh", like averyone was telling me it should be said. "shut up - it's pasta," says giorgio. this man is very very italian and has my vote on the correct way to enunciate italian words!

― stelfox, Friday, 4 February 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Aaargh - I used the conditional rather than the future!

Let me try again - diverteretevi, I think. Meaning "you will enjoy yourselves". But I'm not at all sure any more.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

I believe nemesis specifically denotes someone you respect, or were once friends with. Like Magneto and Dr. X, or Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson in Unbreakable, or Mr. Incredible and the kid.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

one of my close friends confided in me and came out and told me he has been cheating on his wife for over a year with a girl he works with. ugh.

a good friend of mine told me the same sort of thing a couple years ago. except that his wife is (as far as i can tell) really awesome and i don't think he had a particular attachment to the other woman. i think he just wouldn't turn down free sex. my response was 'ugh, don't tell me shit like that.' so now he doesn't. who knows if it's still going on.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

A source of harm or ruin: Uncritical trust is my nemesis.

Retributive justice in its execution or outcome: To follow the proposed course of action is to invite nemesis.

An opponent that cannot be beaten or overcome.

One that inflicts retribution or vengeance.

Nemesis Greek Mythology. The goddess of retributive justice or vengeance.

― Huk-L, Friday, 4 February 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

MOTHERFUCK IT

Divertiretevi.

Gah.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

Mark, with the pronoun at the end isn't it an imperative? can you put an imperative in the future? "You will have fun!"?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

I really like it when people bitch about how other people pronounce words, especially when it's pronunciations that differ because one is British/Australian/American and the other isn't. Superiority complexes are FUN! And useful!

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

Michael, the verb's reflexive, so you need the vi. You could put it before the divertirete is you like, but it's more stylish this way I think.

Luna, I never know what to do with pronouncing foreign words. I know how to pronounce Italian, but do I do it properly, accent/flourish/everything, or do I say it with an embarrassed English accent?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

You can in Latin. I don't remember any examples, but I remember thinking how silly Romans were for inventing a case for every single thing that someone might do. "At one point in time, he was going to go to the Forum"

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Naw sug - I didn't mean that at all.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

Luna, Ohn Thee Moanay.

xpost

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

The Romans never went anywhere BUT the forum, as far as I can remember. I also don't remember how to say thank you, please, excuse me or no, but maybe that was because you didn't really need the equivalent of a latin phrasebook.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

I thought the verb was 'diverire' to amuse and reflexively 'dirvertirse' to have fun.

So, and I'm kinda pulling this out of my culo, shouldn't 'have yourselves some fun' be 'divertitevi'?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

I can't remember how to say please either, but I use apocolocyntosis "pumpkinification" everyday!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

The Romans never went anywhere BUT the forum

Don't tell this to the Carthaginians, Britons, Gauls, Germans, Greeks, Egyptians, Persians, Iberians, etc...

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Michael, yes if you're talking in the present, but because this is a week away I reckon future is better. Unless it was supposed to be in the imperative?

(I am genuinely enjoying this conversation. I r a geek)

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Bloody Romans. What did they ever do for us?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Mark, me too.

Here's my real question:

In English, the imperative would be "have fun' and the imperative in the future would be "you will have fun" or "you're going to have fun" said not predictively but as a command (and you vill like it!).

In French, the imperative would be "Amusez-vous", (S'Amuser being a reflexive verb like in Italian). "Vous allez vous amuser" could be said as a command or one could say "Allez vous amuser" (Go have fun) but in neither language is there a real, unambiguous future imperative.

I don't recall having ever heard one in Italian and I have made only the must cursory study of the language otherwise, hence my question.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

Notice that I actually posed no question at all!!

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

Well, um, let's see if I can manage...the Imperative is by its very nature a future tense of sorts.
"EAT SHIT!"
The subject can't eat shit until after the imperatator is finished saying it, so during the act of saying "EAT SHIT" the shit will be eaten in the FUTURE.

― Huk-L, Friday, 4 February 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

Your toadies are not as good as mine, Huk. When I say jump, they're midair before I've even finished.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

Anyway...so C. Rice was on the TV, and one of my "co-workers" says, "I think Condi Rice is the only international agent who would carry a gun on a foreign mission."
So I say, "Uh, what about James Bond?"

Everybody just stares at me, like I said the most ridiculous thing.

― Huk-L, Friday, 4 February 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

He meant imaginary international agent. She's Sec. of State.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

x-post
Michael, exactly how many languages do you know well/can stumble through?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

But she doesn't actually carry a gun, does she?

― Huk-L, Friday, 4 February 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

jocelyn,

Gibberish, English, French - fair to good
Italian - middling
Spanish - more mediocre than middling
German, Japanese - Some formalities, dirty words, know how to ask for blow jobs

I used to know how to say 'thank you' in about 20 languages.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

And now my A/R is engaged in a conversation about how she thinks C.Rice doesn't need a gun, that Rice could kill someone with her hands.

― Huk-L, Friday, 4 February 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

But she doesn't actually carry a gun, does she?

Didn't they just change the rules on international pouches to crack down on the potential for arms smuggling? I think, at least, that they were talking about it.

She could probably just bore me to death.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

Huck, Tell her Madeline Albright did that already.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

I should. Even though they quit talking about that five minutes ago. That would make them crap their pants. Or me crap my pants. Figuratively. My pants. Their pants. Literally. I would crap their pants. And then not tell them. Only problem: getting into their pants without them thinking I'm trying to get into their pants. Or that could be the whole ruse? Hrrm.

― Huk-L, Friday, 4 February 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

Wouldn't you have to eat their pants before you could crap them, Huk?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

"Hey, co-worker, can I, um, borrow your pants?"
"Are you going to take a dump in them?"
"NO!"
"Okay, then."
five minutes later
"You totally crapped in my pants!"
"I don't know what you're talking about."

― Huk-L, Friday, 4 February 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

Je n'ai aucune idée de quoi vous parlez.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

I'm in a meeting and I am so totally bored I can't stand myself. I'm pretending to take notes... kill me.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

haha, I wish I could post on ILX while in meetings! I was doing the drawing diagrams on the white board thing this afternoon, which I always enjoy in a childish way.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Here, I'll help, Luna.

Rivals, Nemesis, Italian grammar, Romans, crapping pants, Secretaries of State and their favorite killing techniques... Am I missing anything here?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

No, but all that stuff is irritating me. I refer you to: I have either become a curmudgeon overnight, or I have PMS

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

I have decided to stop answering the phone. It's never for me anyway.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

Who's it for, Chris?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

Usually it's for my roommates.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

Can't you impersonate them, leading to some sit-com type hijinks?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

Also, how long are you projected to be laid-up?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

Casuistry, the video on this page made me think of you:
http://www.fightthemonster.com/sounds.html

― Huk-L, Friday, 4 February 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

The people I work with are complete asshole morons who have no business living in the 21st Century if they can't even fucking clear a goddamned paper jam.

― Huk-L, Friday, 4 February 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, you mentioned that.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

It's especially frustrating though, since I stopped being here, pay-wise 45 minutes ago, and there's no way they're going to pay me extra for staying late to fix the fucking photocopier because these fucking nimrods don't know enough to quit sending the same fucking document a zillion times while I'm trying to find the fucking jam, which I shouldn't be doing anyway, since I'm not supposed to be here since I'm not being paid right now, and they're the ones who are being so fucking anal about my non-existent job description and fuck them and if I show up here (at work, not ILX) on Monday, it'll only be because I have a serious lack of self-worth (or possibly a perfectly rational fear of being B-R-O-K-E).

― Huk-L, Friday, 4 February 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

So if they aren't paying you, leave. Fuck them in their motherfucking stupid asses.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

dun and donne

― Huk-L, Friday, 4 February 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

I have no tolerance! I am bitchy!

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

Also, how long are you projected to be laid-up?

Hm?

HUK GO ON STRIKE ALREADY.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

Luna:

hee HEE...I'm Stuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupid!!!

You're welcome.

-Ash

― Ash (ashbyman), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

No! Not working! Oh god.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

You are powerless in the thrall of the Mary the Cheerleader impression. Do not resist. Just begin feeling better and less bitchy.

(Rest of thread: When I was in law school I played guitar at NYU basketball games for pocket money. There was an NYU cheerleader at the time named Mary. Very tall, very pretty, deeply...deeply dumb. She was talking to me and a drummer named Ben, I don't remember about what. When she left Ben tuned to me, very straight faced, and asked if I would like to hear his impression of Mary. He then spoke the above lines in a high pitched falsetto that no matter how funny Luna finds my version, I can never accurately reproduce. The Mary impression rarely fails to crack her up.)

― Ash (ashbyman), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Aw, for a moment there I thought you were dressed as a cheerleader. Damn.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

I don't have the gams for it.

― Ash (ashbyman), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

I think we should be the judges of that! Pictures!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

I FORGOT TO TELL YOU ALL THAT I AM THE WORST MOTHER EVER.

Last night, I was trying to cut the sideburny things on Spencer's hair and he wiggled AND I CUT HIS EAR.

He burst into tears and so did I.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

Also, no matter what Ash says, his spoken word version never fails to reduce me to helpless laughter.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

Did you cut it a lot? Or just a little?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

I mean every kid gets their ear cut a little at some point, how else do they learn to stop wiggling?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, every kid gets their ear cut once in a while. It's still attached?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

well, just a little, but it bled a lot, and there was a teeny piece of skin in the scissors! HAUL ME AWAY!

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

Oh it's OK. He'll be fine. You're not a bad mother.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

You gave him a scar he can talk about in those post-coital moments when one talks about those things. He should thank you. Or he can later say it's a fencing scar from when he went to an aristocratic school in Germany.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

Or we'll be in court and he'll be testifying against me and yelling "MY MOTHER MUTILATED ME!"

He asked me if I'd ever cut him before and I allowed as to how I'd nipped his wee finger with nail clippers when he was a baby, and he called me a lean mean cutting machine and we laughed.

I didn't tell him about the circumcision.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 February 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

Luna, dear, please tell me you didn't do the circumcision yourself.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

Let me tell you, it's the mental scars from my mother that I mind the most.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

when i was wee i was very attached to my blanket. my mom ultimately took it away and said it got eaten by the dryer. I NEVER LET HER WASH ANY OF MY CLOTHES AGAIN.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 4 February 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

Did you punish the dryer?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

No, Michael, I didn't. I am such a wuss I had to leave the building while it happened.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 February 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

My mom left mine in Oregon after a roadtrip, mook - I was (and remain) incensed that they refused to immediately turn around and drive back for it.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 February 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

I'm still mostly upset about the circumcision.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 4 February 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

I still have a rather battered stuffed toy from infancy named 'Rocky Raccoon'.

Whose, Chris?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

Everyone's. It's always a disappointment.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 4 February 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

Wait, you're in Portland! FIND MY BABY BLANKET!

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 February 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

i actually brought the blanket thing up last thanksgiving--i think my mom felt guilty about it...

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 4 February 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

My mom denies any knowledge, 'oh, you must have given it up at some point...'

I did NOT.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 February 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

Do you have photos or at least a description? Last known whereabouts?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 4 February 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

Ouch mookie. "Hey mom! 'Member when you scarred me for life by taking away my precious blanket and lying about how the dryer ate it? BTW, I love you, Mom."

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

ALSO MY MOM NEVER HAD A WARDROBE SO I COULD NEVER GO TO NARNIA

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 4 February 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

Somewhere in Portland, and it was white with fairy tale characters on it, and the softest, best blue ribbon facing...

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 February 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

oh my god, the ribbon

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 4 February 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

(that Narnia thing made me lose my shit just now)

I am off to go rescue the aforementioned child from the clutches of the playground. I shall return.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 February 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

I'll check the local Goodwills. If you find a pic, I'll put up posters.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 4 February 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

thinking of the funny. thinking of the funny.

So I was talking to my mother last night, and for some reason, or another--oh yeah, I remember why--I got on the topic of how a certain local politician is manipulating the local economy, the local arts scene and the stupidest civic pride campaign in the history of civic pride in order to drive up the value of a certain parcel of land he's alleged to own. And if he himself doesn't own it, I know who does (one of his friends). And my mom was all, "I have another call coming in, I'll talk to you later."
And I realized I am genuinely obsessed with this REAL LIFE conspiracy, and that, even more than the petty humiliations of my quotidian existence, this haunts me at night and alienates me from my loved ones.
I guess it was also hard for my mother to hear, because I was implicating a friend of hers as an accessory to this gross abuse of power. FIND THE DEED! There must be some public registry of who owns what? Right? I can crack this, and it will cement my reputation as, um, the greatest CD reviewer this city has ever seen!

― Huk-L, Saturday, 5 February 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Hey everyone,

I'm in a good mood tonight - a relaxing Saturday with my lovely girlfriend (whose birthday it is tomorrow ahem) and "Match of the Day" on telly. And "Shallow Hal", which is actually a great film, slightly to my surprise.

I love you all.

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 5 February 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

Shallow Hal was one of the most poorly marketed films in recent memory. It's almost exactly the opposite of what everyone thinks it is. I found it very touching. Happy birthday to the girl (58 minutes early)!

― Bryan (Bryan), Saturday, 5 February 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

Well, the only thread with the key word in the title was a bad one, and I don't like Luna's threads going nearly a day without an answer, and I guess I need to say this somewhere friendly.

A couple of weeks ago I saw my new national health psychiatrist. He suggested I might be bipolar. I said I hadn't seen anything that seemed like a manic episode. He said that being bipolar didn't necessarily involve remotely equal amounts or severity at each pole, so it could be the case without my noticing. I wondered whether we were getting towards a distinction without a difference, then, but apparently this could mean different treatment - he was specifically suggesting lithium.

He gave me a prescription, but first I need blood tests, because they need to monitor levels and adjust the amount I take. I've not got around to having the tests yet. This is partly the panic attack aspect of my depression, where I can't get around to anything most of the time when it is not essential right now, and since my GP, it turns out, doesn't do blood tests, this means time off work and going to my choice of two inconveniently located hospitals. But partly I think I am a little reluctant. I feel as if starting this might be acknowledging what I think might be an even worse illness than the depression; and there are side effects. This may sound trivial, but one of them is weight gain. I have put on some weight since being on anti-depressants, but I think I'm still in reasonable shape. Since the one aspect of my life that I am most miserable about is being single and lonely, having almost no affection in my life, I fear putting on much more weight might just give me more cause for being depressed, less chance of changing this.

Anyway, this week. I've had a couple of spells when I've been extraordinarily happy, for no reason I can spot. Walking along the street with a spring in my step, singing. I've also had some spectacular plunges into depression, probably my most precipitous ever, caused by what is really only petty nastiness from one person on ILX - this would be a fairly trivial upset at healthy times, but this week it's sent me into major tailspins, to the point where I have very seriously contemplated suicide for the first time in months.

I don't know that I'd call those good spells at all manic, but then my understanding of bipolar disorder is very superficial, and I have to acknowledge that the swings have been insanely huge and fast. Not as big, but yesterday I got out to a small FAP with no real trouble, but today I've failed to do so - frankly it wasn't even a close thing, though there are lots of people there who I'd like to have seen, and I'm sure I'd have had a good time.

I think I will organise those blood tests, then getting onto the lithium as quickly as possible. I can try to be disciplined to avoid the weight gains, and really keeping in shape if all I achieve is a tolerably lean corpse is getting my priorities rather wrong - the doctor said that about 50% of people in circumstances like mine are helped significantly by lithium, so I have to try it before it's too late.

I'm not sure why I'm posting this at all. I'm terribly depressed right now, and I'm desperately trying to hold on to one particular hope for the future, but really it's not something where I can work up all that much belief in it actually happening. I feel I'm risking opening myself up for some more abuse, and I guess that's probably why I'm here, because this is the friendliest thread on ILE.

I should emphasise that I am not seriously suicidal right now - I decided after the last time I got that bad and posted about it here that I wouldn't do that again, because it felt abusive and cruel, because I realised I was risking making a bunch of people, most of whom I like a lot, watch someone's final decline into suicide. My judgement goes when I get into the worst states, but I hope I stick with that resolve.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 6 February 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

I'm glad you can share with us, you know there is much love for you here, and you know that you'll always have that.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 6 February 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

Martin do be patient and ride it out--meds really do work. Try to enjoy those happy times--if you are in good enough shape to wonder if they are manic they probably aren't severe enough to qualify. It sounds as if you are having mood swings, though.

You probably know best what helps you in these situations from previuos experience. Hang in there, we've all been there and you are not alone. When brain chemistry goes awry I've found it's best to keep in mind, that like a bad trip, it is chemical, and it will pass.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 6 February 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

Thanks to both of you.

The trouble is, that it's been going on, off and on, for many years now, so although the worst phases do pass, the odds that they will come back are very high, so that thinking doesn't actually help me much. And I have been on medication for years and years, and it isn't obviously helping very much.

I only wondered about those happy times once the bad ones arrived. It seemed shocking, how sudden the plunges were.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 6 February 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

Also: I am low enough to be inclined to try to refute anything positive anyone says to me. This isn't ingratitude, I promise, it's despair.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 6 February 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

I was just about to make the same 'bad trip' analogy! It's so hard to get perspective on it while you're in the middle of it, but as much as you can realize that normalacy is possible, you just have to keep believing in that. nb my depressive episodes are largely behind me, I hope, and I never took medication for them, but once I was able to draw a parallel between the episodes, PMS, and recreational drug experiences, it helped me to cope a little bit. It sounds as though you know this already though. I was very opposed to medication, maybe I shouldn't have been.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 6 February 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

Dee-
Way xposted but I'm glad you liked Dave's art. He started out with the crosses and moved onto the paintings on the linked page. Although you can't see it in the photo, some of those are made of ceramic tiles that he made and assembled, and others have woodburning and wood cutout work. He's convinved me to dabble and one of these days I might take some pictures of my stuff. I haven't been on AIM lately because my laptop had a major malfunction and is being repaired. The loaner I am using doesn't have AIM installed and because it's not mine and rather old, I'm afraid to add anything to it. I hope things are going well for you.

Pink, way upthread, I miss Sam also. She is truly the best, and I hope she's lurking even if we don't hear from her often. That girl is a real lifesaver.

Martin-
I can relate to what yuo're saying because I also have long term brain chemistry issues and it gets old after a while. The last time I had a problem it was because I had been taking the meds for so long everyone just assumed the prescription and dosage were appropriate but the fact was that my needs had changed over time, and we needed to adjust things in order to make them more effective.

I know what you are going through and my heart goes out to you. We're here to talk to so you can count that as a positive thing. There never is a good way to express the empathy I feel for your situation--it all comes out sounding trite. At the risk of dispensing homilies, hang in there, and know that people are rooting for you.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 6 February 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

And that does help some, honestly. Thank you.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 6 February 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

Hi everybody.
I don't have a lot to say. I'm older than I realized, and further removed from my youth than I had thought. That's not necessarily a bad thing, as I spent most of last night among people my age who are not as far removed from my youth as I am. In particular, I saw an old roommate, a drug-addict, last night. Not like a stoner, but a compulsive consumer of chemicals. When we were roommates, he seemed like this ideal. This fucked up Trimalchio who not only survived, but thrived through hoodwinking the Social Services Dept and charming women. He never worked, except on his car, and every night was Saturday night. He quoted Burroughs and the VU and Wu-Tang without credit or footnote. He always had wine and cigarettes, and girlfriend who would pick him up a pizza on her way over. He was a shoplifter without peer.
He's 30-years-old, now, and still playing the same games. It's like the only way you'd know ten years had passed is by the sunken pits of his eyes, which have nothing near the shine of days gone by. He says his teeth are loose, from the methadone, when I ask him how he's been. He thinks his addictions make him a martyr, but they just make him addict.

― Huk-L, Sunday, 6 February 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

..."Every junkie's like a settng sun"
/Neil Young

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 7 February 2005 05:42 (twenty years ago)

Hey Martin, hoping things do get better for you, for good. You know we're here and thinking of you, either way.

I had some horrible news at the weekend, and I'm ill. Saw Sideways though, which was excellent.

Ah hell, I might just go home.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 7 February 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

Hey martin, I hope things improve for you. Hopefully the new course of meds will help to get you back on an even keel.
Archel - I hope you are ok petal. I feel really icky this morning (threw up & everything) so I'm not sure why i'm at work either.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 7 February 2005 10:45 (twenty years ago)

im back at work. whoopee.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 7 February 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

Welcome back to the real world Chris... :/

Thanks Pink honey. Throwing up sounds bad. Maybe we should both go back to bed and watch videos all day?

Oh yeah and I couldn't find a thread or what have you, but Happy Birthday sgs for yesterday!

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 7 February 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)

aw thanks Archel!

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 7 February 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

yes indeed fellow feb b/day gal, hope you had a lovely day!

Archel, that idea sounds perfect!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 7 February 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

HB, SGS

― Huk-L, Monday, 7 February 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

hope you had a great bday, sgs!

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 7 February 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

So, self-indulgently, I googled myself this morning and found a blog entry that said (my name) "continues to be a bright ray of sunshine in an otherwise dreary [...] entertainment section".

Effin' made my week.

― Huk-L, Monday, 7 February 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

Seems to have been the weekend for shit to happen. Mine was pretty bad, but it's over and I'm thankful for that. (I'm not saying I'm glad to be back at work, mind you...)

Martin, I'm sorry to hear this weekend wasn't better for you, I was so hoping it would have been.

PinX - I hope you're feeling better soon!

Archel, I'm around if you need an impartial ear.

Chris - how're you feelin?

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 February 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

happy b-day SGS.

I feel much better, but still pretty sore in the knee and elbow. Its a pain in the arse to drive a standard car.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 7 February 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I can imagine.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 February 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

i was able to have sex for the first time this weekend. i lasted approx 20 seconds.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 7 February 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

I had sex if masturbation counts.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 February 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

was it YUGE? (xp)

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 7 February 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

possibly.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 7 February 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

My horoscope this morning began: "Today is a wonderful day for you to be on vacation..." and I stopped reading there.

― Huk-L, Monday, 7 February 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

I'm no better today, to be honest - I didn't make it into work, and don't think I will tomorrow either. This is my third period of sick leave in a four month period, which will end at the end of February. They warned me that any more than three, and I am liable to be sacked (I've had loads of sick time, so I understand this). This means I absolutely have to get in every day until then, however I feel, which isn't going to be easy.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 7 February 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

Whenever it's deadline time, and the editor and I are really genuinely busy, that's when my boss decides it's time to freak out about every inconsequential thing that's ever occurred to him and pester us about it all day. Three times today he's raised a stink about how he doesn't like the subject line of the emails that come from the web contact form. It says, "Contact form." I don't know what he expects me to do about it, and I'm not going to ask because frankly it's not important and I don't care at all. Instead I turned off his access to the contact forms. If he needs to see it, I'll mail it to him myself.

Shitwit.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 7 February 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

I took down the underwear pic - thanks y'all, for your support.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 February 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

I took down my underwear. WOO-HOO!

― Huk-L, Monday, 7 February 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

SGS people line up on my right for hi-fives! Sad people line up on my left for hugs!

Did someone eat Nick and Sarah or did they go on an overseas adventure that I failed to notice?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Sarah has a new job, and Nick has a new edict at his job to not abuse the internet. So, that's where they are. They'll creep back in time.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

What? There ought to be a law.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

There is a law...unfortunately, it's not a good one.

― Huk-L, Monday, 7 February 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

I miss them : (

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Me too.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

me three. Nick is teh funny.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Hi all. I'm kind of floating around ILX. Here's what happened: about a month back, this woman in my office came around and told us all that my boss was getting pissed about people using the internet and that we should lay off. Then she said something vague about how our boss was threatening to track internet usage. So I thought I should stay offline. So I've been pretty good. The good part is I'm getting a lot of work done, and when I'm busy, work is more tolerable. The bad part is there are days when my boss isn't here and/or I don't have much to do and I'm SOOO bored. And it's hard to resist the temptation to get online, especially because I'm not even sure she's tracking internet use (she's not particularly computer-savvy), but when I do get online I feel guilt and dread for the next 24 hours. I guess there's probably a happy medium, where I go online in spurts small enough that it won't cause too many problems if they are tracking it, but it's hard. Bleh. I need a new job. Yeah, and Sarah just started a new job that she likes so don't encourage her to get online at work and get fired.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 7 February 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for the nice words though y'all.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 7 February 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

I wish I had a job that I liked and was motivated to stay off the internet for :(

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 7 February 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

Me too!

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 February 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

Motivation: not wanting to be unemployed again. That's about it.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 7 February 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

Granted, my standards for liking a job have gotten pretty high. At least I'm not serving fucking coffee anymore, ya know? I kinda do like my job now, but I hate my boss, and I'm not too big on the pay. What I need next is THE PERFECT JOB.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 7 February 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Dear Front Desk:

Don't fuck with me.

thanks,
Huck

― Huk-L, Monday, 7 February 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

Huk, also, have you printed out that quote about you and framed it by your desk?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 February 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

I should. I see if my mom would do a needlepoint thing of it, with a little picture of Jesus below the lettering.

― Huk-L, Monday, 7 February 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

Jesus with a stack of CDs.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

I thought Jesus was still into vinyl.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but that's not what the labels send him to review.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

Didn't you guys see The Passion (I didn't, but I learned this from Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade)? Jesus digs i(nri)Pod.

xpost

― Huk-L, Monday, 7 February 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

PinX - I hope you're feeling better soon!

Cheers darlin, hope everything has sorted itself out for you. (Just a quick side question for you actually Luna. Where did you get your dogs from & what breed are they crossed with?)

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

I saw Vanity Fair at the cinema yesterday (The Odeon Wardour Street only charges £5 a ticket!), and I am still in the world of heaving bosoms, muddy streets and those odd trousers soldiers used to wear that bunched up funnily and showed off your foreskin. I enjoyed it very much, especially how it looked - my love of things historical just seems to get stronger.

Reese Witherspoon deserves an award for the most convincing English accent ever - I can't ever get past the fact that for a romantic lead she is just not at all pretty, but she is pretty good at what she does.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

So I opened this thread and right at the top was the message I wrote yesterday about why i haven't been posting, so I was like WOW! TITTWISers been busy last night, writing like 300 posts! So I was scanning down, reading, and eventually near the bottom I ran into my post again and it was a Twilight Zone crazy thing. Then I realized that I had read Tuomas's post way up top and thought it was mine because it starts with "Hiya guys."

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Aww! How are you Nick? How is Sarah's job going?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

I have a mustache. Not really a good one, either. It's sort of a gag. Like, I dare anyone at work to say anything about it. Ha ha ha! The nincompoops! I pwn them with my mustache and they don't even know it.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

Dude, you know you have to post a pic don't you?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

This is me for a brief few weeks a couple of years ago:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/biondino/photos/beardclose.jpg

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

Maybe I'll get one of the photogs to shoot me.
I don't even have a goat.
I hadn't shaved since New Year's, and I was just sort of trying to trim my very dignified beard (a few people at the show I went to on Saturday told me it looked good, hot even!) with two big streaks of white on either side of my chin, and, aw, I sort of fucked it up.

But it's like, a wide, just shy of bushy 'stache that extends all the way to the edge of my mouth and almost looks like a smile. The hairs on my upper lip are still sort of bristly, so when I actually smile, the whole gets sort of splayed out.

I'm rad. I know it.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

you r gay.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

See, the thing is, I'm not put-together enough for it to really look like a gay-stache. I sort of look like more like Clark Gable's lazy brother.

Okay, I look gay.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

I think the going rule is that there are two straight men allowed to have mustaches, and they are Burt Reynolds and Tom Selleck, and if you're not one of them, you may as well just tighten your leather straps and swish down the street, you big butt banger.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Well, at this point in my romantic career, I guess I can't be too choosy.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

...those odd trousers soldiers used to wear that bunched up funnily and showed off your foreskin. I enjoyed it very much, especially how it looked

reeally. hm, i should move that up on my netflix list.

it's just as bleak out today as yesterday, but it already seems like such a better day. yesterday was teh suck, for whatever reason.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Today it was -39 Celsius with the windchill when I left for work. I must love my job or something.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

It's snowing again here. I am none too thrilled.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

-39 Celsius

Which, surprisingly, is -38 Fahrenheit. Huk, I don't know how you survive that.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

You're telling me! -- which reminds me of last week, this guy I used to be friends came by work to visit someone else, and he tried to strike up a conversation with me about something I had just done in the public eye. I was like, 'yup, that was me." Offering nothing, since I don't trust him at all.
Then he asks what else is is new with me.
"Nothing."
"Nothing?"
"Not a thing."
"That's too bad."
"No shit, my life sucks."
"Well...uh...good to see you again."
"Whatever."

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

Sure that's not just Pinter dialogue?

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

Looking at it like that, I was actually reminded of Napoleon Dynamite.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

(Just a quick side question for you actually Luna. Where did you get your dogs from & what breed are they crossed with?)

I got them both from the animal rescue, and I have no idea what either one of them are mixed with . . . they were both strays. Zero was 3 months when we got him, he and his sister had been left outside the shelter, and Zoe was about 6 months - apparently picked up off the street by the animal control guys.

They just want to love you http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v240/lunacee/hounds.jpg

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

aww! I wish I had a dog. I miss my old dogs. I have a picture of Gus on my phone but can't post it yet.

and thanks for the b-day wishes up there y'all!

I have been shirking my thesis today. Pears, I will trade you weather, I miss having snow.

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

I think the going rule is that there are two straight men allowed to have mustaches

I think someone is forgetting that someone else lives in Anadacay.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

So someone in the office only now noticed my stache. "It takes a lot of guts to wear one of those in 2005," he said.
I said, "yeah, I'm trying to get into a bar."

I'm not sure how I feel about it. I mean...I had totally forgotten about it. But there's dudes, older dudes, here who have mustaches and no one questions their sexuality. Of course none of them are wearing pink t-shirts with glittery lettering that reads: "Hot Stuff!" across the chest either.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

"It'll take even more guts not to wear one in 2006."

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

Argh, I hate being behind on this thing! It only exacerbates my feelings of total alienation wrt this place. Like, I could not feel more of a disconnect than I do at this very moment, which has nothing at all to do with the person from here who I actually chatted with tonight, but when I'm not connected to this place all the time I feel like I'm not connected to this place at all, and, well, it may seem insane for me to seek some sort of connection here when most people around here only view it as a fun dumping ground for nonsequitirs and "hilarious" nonsense and whatnot, but I do, or at least I used to, and I have no clue how to either make that full withdrawal from this place and not care about anyone around here or rearrange my schedule to where I have enough time to play around here the way I used to. Are you sick of this ramble yet? Yes? Too bad, because I've just thought of a few more things to say. I just wish I possessed some quality about me that would lead me to some niche around here, and for God's sake, fannishness is NOT a "niche". No, I'm talking about either being witty or intelligent or highly knowledgable or beautiful or wild or uninhibited or well-travelled or well-read or a gourmand or a great advice-giver or cool or brave or lively or a free spirit or creative or successful. And the only thing I sorta kinda had over here, i.e. being known for participating in this thread series, is slipping ever more so out from my grasp, which means I'm left with nothing but an ability to interject here and there in the odd occasional thread, and what the fuck kind of joy can I derive from that?

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 05:26 (twenty years ago)

There. Rant over. And, I mean, if "fannishness" could be banked upon, God almighty I would've de-fucking-lurked on a fan forum and STAYED THERE. Instead, I look at the fan forums, get insanely bored by what I read, and come over here. Thing is, though, I can't keep on taking taking taking -- I've got to GIVE, too, for crying out loud, but I have no fucking idea what to do in order to give if I don't have enough time to keep up with this thread alone.

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 05:29 (twenty years ago)

(In other words -- sorry I'm barging in AGAIN. I will hopefully have enough time this weekend to where I can start to catch up with various places online, including this thread series.)

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 05:33 (twenty years ago)

and I have no clue how to either make that full withdrawal from this place and not care about anyone around here or rearrange my schedule to where I have enough time to play around here the way I used to.

You don't have to choose. This thread allows you to jump right in. I'd rather you cared by participating even a little, even if you miss a lot, than to feel like you can't participate at all. (Or, in other words, so much of this thread is ephemeral that it's ok, and if there's anything super important like a car wreck, you'll hear.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 06:01 (twenty years ago)

Word is bond.
Even though you post, like, 1/100th as many posts as I do, you still bring the word count, and the flavour. It's like a potluck supper up in here, or a hippie wedding. Or something.
I like reading your posts, even though I rarely comment on them.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 06:57 (twenty years ago)

Luna - your dogs are the cutest!

Dee honey, I very rarely venture into the world of ILX anymore. I was fed up with feeling inferior (or perhaps, being made to feel inferior - not sure which) & I had just simply had enough of certain ILXors & their "woe is me" routine & "i am so superior in my misery" crap with the most horrific insults being hurled at a moment's notice. (obviously nobody on this thread, but I guess it's obvious who it is!) I always felt a bit of a gulf existed anyway as most of the ppl that I get on with around here are the other side of the world. I'm not in London so the numerous London events threads were pointless & frustrating to me. Basically, what I am saying is that I miss ILX. That said, I only miss the ILX as it was when I was completely involved in it. I am so behind with ILX overall, that I really have no desire to try to catch up. I would miss conversing with certain ppl from ILX hence why I come here. Almost all of the ppl that I get on with on ILX post on this thread & I am happy to keep up (as best I can) via this thread. Dee, all of these feelings of alienation aren't doing you any good. You are a wonderful, beautiful person & you really shouldn't be so bothered about ILX. (not the ppl, the board) At it's best it can be caring, supportive & funny. At it's worst it can be a negative, upsetting, horrible place to be.
I miss that you are not around more, but there is always email. Take care. xxx

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 09:28 (twenty years ago)

markelby are you coming to massachusetts?!

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

Chris, yes, at the start of May. Far west of Mass though - that's quite a long way from where you are?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

where exactly? im in central mass.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

Housatonic in the Berkshires - do you know it?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

yeah its about an hour and a half from me. its pretty out there.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

I'll be there too. My mom lives there.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

What would you do in a situation like this... Last sunday I had a one-day job commission, and I met this nice co-worker, with whom I got along great right from start. We started talking about this particular Sunday club night she'd never gone to, and I said it's a nice club, she should go there. Apparently her boyfriend doesn't drink at all, and she called him about the club, but he didn't want to go. Then she asked me to come with her, but I had to say no because I already had plans for the evening. However, we exchanged numbers and talked about possibly seeing each other some other time (she lives near me); I thought this was perhaps a bit out of the ordinary, since I'd only met her a few hours earlier and usually I never hang out with my co-workers. Now I'd love to call her, because it's rare to meet a person with whom you click right from the start, but for some reason I wonder - even though I shouldn't - whether her and my intentions are completely innocent. Does this sound innocent to you?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

no.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

(not that there's anything wrong with that)

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

Also, would you say Duran Duran's "Rio" is a good song to dance to? Because it's been playing in my head for a while now, and I have a DJ gig on Friday, so I thought of downloading it and playing it there...

(x-post)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

we should do a meet up half way fap!

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

a masspike massfap!

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

Yay! Massachusetts FAP y'all! Who else can make it? First week of May...

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

what the hell is halfway between worcester and housatonic? Springfield?

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

ooh, northhampton!

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Is that where your chums live, SGS?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

manitoba, junior boys may 2nd at the music hall in northhampton.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

I think we'll still be in NY on the 2nd. My friends live in Worcester, but Northampton is nice and I haven't been there in ages.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

oh thats a monday. bingo doesn't do school nights. YOUR FRIENDS LIVE IN WORCESTER! THATS WHERE I LIVE! GO VISIT!

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

They live on...Oberlin st I think? I have never been to Worcester and have no idea if that will mean anything to you. I may go visit them sometime during my 3 weeks in MA but that may depend on their schedule. We should swing some massdrinks somehow though.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

oberlin st is two miles from my house! definately swing some drinks!

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

I have barely slept all week, and now I'm super cranky and very short fusey. like Jake Busey.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

at least your not like Gary Busey.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

And the fucking cunt who works on (different stuff) on the same files that I do has buggered them up and he's not in until 2 and that's when I have to have these files FINISHED for him, but I can't even fucking open them because he's FUCKED them UP and if he was here this morning, I'd probably kick his fucking ass back to Kitchener.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

Ha I am just getting ready for my annual appraisal and on the 'staff development needs' section I've said 'would like possibly to do the assertiveness workshop maybe'. Sigh.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Huk, Archel's giving you material!

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

But seriously folks. The last time I spoke to my boss about that kind of thing, I actually *requested* an appraisal as this company doesn't seem to do them. I'm going to try and sit down with my bosses (i.e. my mum) this week and flesh out my current role. It's the beginning of exciting upwards momentume, I tells ya!

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

Consider it stolen!

So I just took a rather long and boring phone call from someone asking for info on something, and I had to wait while she found a pen, and I was all (to myself), "Damn it, you should have a pen ready when you call me. Quit wasting my time with your nincompoopery! I have a lot to do today!"
And then when I hung up, I went back to reading the Green Lantern message board.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

if it was the end of May, I could totally do it, as I'll be in New England for a wedding. Maybe we can do one anyway, Chris?

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

Dee - fuck them, we dig you, post here when you feel like it. *hugs*

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Absolutely!

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

I'll be in MA until May 17th--will I miss your visit Luna?

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

Yep, I get to Maine on the 16th, and I wouldn't be able to get to MA until the end of that week. Damn!

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

Aw, yuck. I want to go to Maine! I've never been there. I think Mark and I may be taking a road trip up to Vermont/Lake Champlain but Maine's a bit far for the time we've got on this visit.

Ah well, we'll have to go back to Cali sometime :)

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

I might be able to get there on the 14th instead, and if I can change it, I'll let you know!

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

Everything I did yesterday was ruined by the night guy. Fuck this town.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

Huck, your hate is beginning to worry me :(

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

Worry you? Worry you? I'm the one living this nightmare!

I haven't been sleeping well, and I'm behind on some freelance stuff (that I may never get done) and haven't even figured out what I'm doing for this comedy contest thing that closes Sunday and I'm just at this point where I feel like I've got nothing to look forward to, and I'm frustrated and lonely and bitter...and yeah.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

I just think you're pretty rad, but sometimes you just seem so desperately unhappy, and it comes out in humour or in bitterness. It makes me sad to think of you being unhappy.

< /emo >

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for your concern.
I'm not really THAT unhappy. It probably comes across worse than it really is on TITTWIS because I (maybe unfairly) knee-jerkingly vent here. My posts on ILComics are 98% angst-free (unless you count my recent gnashing over Ed Brubaker's defection to Marvel).

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Rant away - that's what we're here for. I do hope you find a more satisfying job this year though - you deserve better than those fuckers.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

I've got my radio show to look forward to tonight. And it's probably going to remain two hours long for the foreseeable future, since the rap kids that were supposed to be taking over my second hour came in for an orientation and after learning that they could never ever scratch with the station's turntables haven't been heard from.
I'm partly relieved, since I really like doing two hours. But my music collection hasn't been growing very fast, so I feel like I repeat a lot of music and therefore am not doing the best show I could be doing, BUT I don't think there are too many people who listen EVERY week, so, at worst, they might be hearing the same artist twice a month, which is really no big whoop.

Most of my troubles would vanish into the ether if I was better at chilling the fuck out.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

This coffee is make me buzz out! Zabba hey goob nobba waaaaaah yip yip yip!!!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

I like Doo-Wop.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 10 February 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

hello, thread.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 10 February 2005 01:43 (twenty years ago)

Hello, Orbit. I've been waiting for you.

― Thread, Thursday, 10 February 2005 01:47 (twenty years ago)

I knew you wouldn't let me down.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 10 February 2005 01:48 (twenty years ago)

So sorry, guys. I wasn't looking for sympathy so much as I was venting out some very frustrating, er, frustrations about this forum, which I do have to say reminds me of this town in how much of a love/hate affair I have with this place. Okay, and another big frustration I have with this place -- with all of the adulation for (I'm sorry to mention them again) Duran Duran that apparently went on with the "DD: Classic or Dud" thread on ILM, I would've thought more people would've actually, you know, shown some fannishness toward the band, which I haven't really seen in anyone aside from Ned, who ACTUALLY mentioned listening to them unprovoked. ARGH. I'm sorry, I guess I should be "over" them by now (*rolls eyes*), but FUCK, their music is the foundation on which I have laid my entire musical fanhood from 1991 onward, and their music is also, either consciously or subconsciously, the yardstick by which I end up determining what is "good" and "bad" musically, so they're pretty fucking important to me, and I don't like this written off at all, esp not from a community of music fans that purports to have an unconventionally positive view of the band's music, but oh, I guess every album the band's released since 1983 hasn't exactly been Rio, has it???

Fuck. I'm so sorry about this all, but I am so desperately in need of airing these frustrations and Issues SOMEWHERE and, well, you guys put up with me the best, so....

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 10 February 2005 04:46 (twenty years ago)

Also, if I could tie up everyone who works for the music department at Entertainment Weekly and beat them all to a fatally bloody death, that would be ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL, thanks.

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 10 February 2005 04:48 (twenty years ago)

Hi all, mp3 gmail request: lil' ghetto boys (on the chronic) & the soul song (marvin gaye?) which it refernces, and I think I'm back on this thread for real again. I haven't been an active participant since August, but I'll try real hard to participate now. Honest, folks. Also: tomorrow marks my one-year ILX anniversary. After a spotty Dec / Jan, I'm in full, manic, creative upswing for February. Rare form, indeed.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 10 February 2005 05:00 (twenty years ago)

It's been since August? Really? Well, welcome back, I made you shoofly pie!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 10 February 2005 09:59 (twenty years ago)

Dee, I'm sorry, I'm really pretty meh towards Duran Duran. I have never been able to see what there is to make a fuss about, even if The Reflex and Girls on Film are decent pop songs. You're the second Duran obsessive I've known and I didn't get her, either (she played me "medazzaland" and was very disappointed I didn't think it was special), but it's clear that for some people there is *something* amazing there. The thing is, why do you need other people to feel it?

One other thing you and this other girl have in common is that you're evangelists for the band's *later* work. The problem is, to lots of people a band's appeal begins to wear off after a while - not only do they have the potential problem of running out of ideas, but the pressure to come up with stuff that's a) as good as before and b) sufficiently fresh must be immense. Fans are fickle, most of them, and there's always something else out there to distract them with shiny newness.

Did you know W3s out of the band died recently? That's really sad.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 10 February 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

i find myself scared shitless when interpols video for "evil" is on tv. me no like.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 10 February 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

I love my sister. She just texted me: 'just eaten old chicken which i think has poisoned me. if i am dying will you come to my house instead? if it passes i'll see you in pub'.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 10 February 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

Morning.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 10 February 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Where IS that olde thread on poems for weddings? I'm sure there was one. Help? Thanks for the ee cummings btw Chris, it's lovely.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 10 February 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

Hi! Just thought i'd say.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 10 February 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

I think duran duran are fucking brilliant! "The Reflex" was the first video I ever saw on MTV.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 10 February 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Arena was one of the first albums I ever picked out for myself (after the Empire Strikes Back two-record soundtrack) , and "View To A Kill" was my first 7".

― Huk-L, Thursday, 10 February 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

Archel, is this what you mean?

what we talk about when we talk about love

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 10 February 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

Hm, no... I did find that one when I searched ILB. I had an idea there was a much more substantial one somewhere. Possibly just in my brain. Thanks though!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 10 February 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

I remember there being a more in-depth thread on that subject too...

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 10 February 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

aw, that reminded me of the old 97's, which makes me miss sam.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 10 February 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

no, not just in your brain, archel. i think it might have been 2002 sometime, because i remember sending it to a friend who was planning her wedding...

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 10 February 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

okay, is it wedding that you were looking for? it was the one i was thinking of, anyway...

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 10 February 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

Yes! Thank you :)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 10 February 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

I should start a new one of these today - any suggestions?

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 10 February 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

This is the Thread Where I Say Pt 28: I think my good friend is fucking my sister.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 10 February 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

Maybe flick back through this thread and take a choice phrase that tickles your fanny?

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 10 February 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

An interesting choice...

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 10 February 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

It is done: This is the Thread Where I Say Pt 28: My Pimp Hand is Strong

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 10 February 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

I started my show last night by playing the 90s cartoon Batman theme, and then saying "Music Nerds are a cowardly and superstitious lot..."
and then the whole show was downhill from there.

xpost

― Huk-L, Thursday, 10 February 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

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