subthread for exploding minds re: make a post in the style of the poster above you

this is where comments go that can't go on that thread b/c of its gigantic metaness

abbott's post re: scott made me laugh

That thread makes me seem like I'm autistic.

notable for how few posters have a recognizable style

do we have to make our metathread metacomments in the style of the poster above?

pretty impressive that the posters involved have managed to keep it so jovial and not be dicks which is what I thought would've happened by now

I guess when having other people do impersonations of you it's also easier to let anything that might seem mean-spirited roll off your back. Plus impersonation doesn't come as cheap as a zing, it seems more affectionate

Also, you can't refute anything unless you do it in the style of the poster above you.

I was non-offended but disappointed at the poor quality of imitations of me. I mean, cut-and-paste, talk about phoning it in.

by the time we wrote a full nabisco impression someone else would have posted

i posted three times and respect everyone i copied... in retrospect i should have stayed off because making someone try to emulate someone as non-present on these boards as me is pretty mean, and, in a way, thread-killing (although anyone who has paid attention would probably note my absurdly long sentences made worse only by the fact that they are not run-on sentences and filled with brackets, allowing a sort of sentence-within-sentence structure that successfully sticks it to periods everywhere).

also, i at least used the wikipedia entry for "fashion" so it was related to an interest of yours xp

That would have been the best part of the impression, Deej -- that always happens to me!

I think we did this once before, but it's actually more interesting to see if people can match the tone of people's one-line jokes and offhand comments, compared to when people posted at length and everyone knew stuff about everyone.

I did it with BRACKETS. deej otm.

That's been the hardest part with that thread, dealing with the x-posts. It's like the horror that is improv.

And you know, chaki, I don't work at a radio station anymore. You can ask jaymc for further details.

I don't know or care enough about most ilxors to accurately impersonate them

just seems like lazy zings

My jaymc was a cheap caricature so I didn't mean to make you sound autistic dude.

I didn't really get mine.

hahahaha I am so not posting to that thread

Okay, Tom's Cosby reference redeems all imitations of me, I am satisfied now.

more like lazy homages, really xxxp

i am surprised anybody remembers the nekkid underwear picture of me @ 18 -- it hasn't been posted in about 3 years, if i am correct.

I wanted to play but I didn't know who anyone was. But I was curious to see what people put for me because I don't think I have a "style" or whatever, John cheated by just doing an imitation of me trying to annoy Dr. Morbius, which I guess is kind of my style now.

actually my style: "or whatever," "I guess," "kind of"

i just stuck it to this thread again, haha. have fun not posting on it anymore nerds!

Dan M did an impersonation of you, Will, that I can only guess is because you both frequent NHL threads.

wait that is also my style!
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I am so not posting in that thread.

What Dan and Laurel said.

basically that thread confuses and confounds me re: 'style', 'character', 'stereotype' and levels of the world

thread moves too fast and most posters don't have an easily mimic-able "style" anyway

I'm gonna have to quit because I make it too easy when I post

I can't post in that thread because I don't actually read anyone elses posts, which probably explains a lot about my posting style.

I had a really good one for Rrrrobyn, but then someone beat me to the punch and now it's lost to the mists of time.

just a bit of fun, be cool

All I have to do is slip up once and it's "HAW HAW MASSIVE COCK!" for everyone.

Haha, yeah, jaymc, that is probably why. It got a warm giggle out of me which is really all we can hope for from a thread like that! Although the NHL treads have gone woefully unnoticed for quite some time. I think Scott ignored my name and just responded to my question-as-tom, though! this is xxxxxxxxxxp btw

throw him a bone rrrob

I already broke down. Someone totally LAMED off Jordan earlier and just flopped on "something about drumming" which was fucking lazy and inattentive.

omg n/a, wth

that WHOLE THREAD is lazy and inattentive

I'm...a leprechaun?

there needs to be a five minute wait time between posts

what, doesn't everyone else imagine laurel as a leprauchan 24/7?

no ... just me?

ok.

does chaki steal these thread ideas from other boards?

http://www.beachwalkvacationhomes.com/images/Irishman.jpg

?

no this one was original.

You know I'm not Irish, right?

and GOD sorry i tried to start a fun thread everyone. SHEEESH.

I am beside myself with perplexed laughter.

I thought n/a's leprechaun post was totally hilarious
but mostly because my sense of humor is generally dissociative and insane

"gree hee hee hee!"

Yes, that part is cracking me up too. Especially the "gree" part.

the thread would be funnier if they were all like n/a's and no one could figure out what the fuck was going on

i've definitely seen this style of thread done on other sites before, but not on other ILx boards... but also this is the best version of it i've ever seen. a lot of people have enough of a persona on this board that there's a point, almost.

I just got shit on by the force of lurker xpost

it was emergency. i broke the glass.

Hahahaha that was exactly right, though!

hahahaha awesome

lol @ u guys upset about the "laziness" of the thread. ME THINKS U R TAKING THIS A BIT TOO SERIOUSLY (max).

maybe u just bitter cuz u aint got no style to emulate?

max is just pissed because he got "this movie was filmed at my school" which I admit was the first thing I thought of too even though max is cooler than that.

Those jigs Laurel dances are Scots, I'd have thought.

i like the thread! i just can't really deal with it v well!

having "movie filmed at my school" as the lazy zing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "screen name is BIG HOOS" >>>>>>>>>>>>> "called lil wayne 'svelte'" >>>>>>>>>>>>> "got beat off by a dude"

(not actually mad abt the lazy thing just want to seem smarter than everyone else)

that thread makes me realize how little attention i've paid to any quasi-recent ilx people

if you do not know someones style i suggest not posting as that person.

I think I'm too uptight to have a style.

They are teh Scotessses, yes, but what's funnier is that Nick knows someone IN CHICAGO who studies actual Irish dance.

nick, you definitely have a style.

I think I'm too uptight to have a style.

This is like saying "I smell too much like pizza to have a scent."

s1ocki is posting a lot and i don't know his style at all

slocki's one of the most discernible posters on all of ilx!

^@^ otm, my only problem is that i suck at emulating it!

I'm also avoiding that thred, I think I'm too vague and boring to be considered to have a style.

srsly!
xpost
emulating is the hard part, that's true

ok wait this is not a sad about identity of self thread
xpost

lol i just posted a momus journal entry as nabisco

I am stabbing myself in the face right now

ha!

My ILX posts don't get me any art-school groupies, though

har
xposts

thread is abt to eat its own tail i think

i'm not even sure if i just emulated chaki, or nabisco, or both

I want to see what the antipodeans do to it tonight. probably nothing but those folks are hilarious

i like this thread. it's like the other thread's green room.

i want ned to post on the other one so i can break out some asterisks.

lol

nabisco, who am i quoting in your imitation of me???

I want to see what the antipodeans do to it tonight. probably nothing but those folks are hilarious

if estela posts, nobody will be able to emulate her

i always forget estela isn't in the states!

having "movie filmed at my school" as the lazy zing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "screen name is BIG HOOS" >>>>>>>>>>>>> "called lil wayne 'svelte'" >>>>>>>>>>>>> "got beat off by a dude"

(not actually mad abt the lazy thing just want to seem smarter than everyone else)

-- max, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 22:28 (10 minutes ago) Link

who is the last one - dk??

hai

This thread = http://www.webcomicsnation.com/memberimages/culturepulp30.wcn.gif

um who got "beat off by a dude" a million xposts to max.

louis jagger

Umm Jordan it was just kind of meta -- that Homer Simpsony way of imitating people where you're all "ooo, look at me, I'm JOHN, look at my stupid ... SHOES, and my stupid ... FACE, aren't I so special"

thought maybe we just found something new out about alex in baltimore

Yeah, I did one for Nabisco, too, but too late.

it wasn't even to climax sigh trudge mutter

that cartoon laurel posted contains both harold shipman and nemi

i am a fan of KANTLIPS and his work

Shakey that was actually a pretty good approximation of me, tho probably unintentionally?

kudos to everyone on an anti-clusterfuck thread. tho i guess it's closer to a real actual clusterfuck, in a way

Also, I am looking forward to participating in the subthread that offers commentary on this thread.

I didn't really get mine.

-- Noodle Vague, Wednesday, November 7, 2007 4:05 PM (Wednesday, November 7, 2007 4:05 PM) Bookmark Link

I've been looking for an hour, but my spreadsheet isn't working. I kinda thought you two faintly resemble each other.

haha well played jaymc

i bet you could post here in this thread posts imitating other people but that were to xposted for the other thread

fuck, that was in reference to his homage to my canadianism, not you talking about a spreadsheet xp

dan actually I posted that cuz its the first thing I can remember ever reading in a chaki post! but also yes becuz Momus blogs make me want to stab myself in the face.... Momus too, for that matter.

I was going to wait until Nabisco posted again. Maybe.

louis did you actually tell people on ILX this story?

plz direct me to thread if it will save time.

jordan s. try googling 'louis jagger'

tuomas sargent

he told the world baby, he's living out loud

xxxxxxxxxxxxxpost well I guessed that was what you meant but I couldn't find a picture of mookieproof either.Who was it who saved pix from old WDYLL threads?

Anyway apparently I look like some dude charged as a serial killer in ipswich.

jordan s. try googling 'louis jagger'

-- deej, Wednesday, November 7, 2007 4:49 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

i have things to do within the next two weeks that aren't "wade through ilx google search results for louis jagger"

hahaha he thinks he has to wade

lol jordan you wont do any wading

what happens if I log in with my mod handle and post immediately after myself, does the universe make that sound like like a car engine that's already running and you turn the key to ignition again

nabisco gets it.

wow ok. louis you won't need a job ever right?

http://p.vtourist.com/1/1917182-Bans_on_a_pool-Arlington.jpg

OOPS FUK BYE

lates

has anything like that LJ thing ever happened before or after (what happens in ILX not staying in ILX to that scale)?

remy bean has actually suffered quantitative damages as a result of ilx. i haven't, yet.

id i ever mention how continually impressed i am every time you post and don't, like, flip out and vomit on the keyboard and type through the vomit? i mean, i know i am not helping, but i'd be showing up at someone's house. and shitting on it. then ringing the doorbell. then shitting on them.

My Nabisco one was going to be...

Haha but so the thing that's so deeply weird about this thread is that even though each post isn't necessarily an accurate representation of each poster, it still strikes this awesomely-felt note, like in that one episode of Girlfriends when Mo'Nique guest-starred. Which, again, don't get me wrong here, is an argument for the serial comma.

Well, now we know what Will's YTMND quote will be.

xpost

shit on the whole house?

lols at jaymc's nabisco

2 jaggers 1 house

jaymc's nabisco is good!!

i don't actually know who did it. my initial suspicion was phil the buttez p4terson but i think that was disproved. people have suggested a loathsome semi-lurker called 'bato'. i don't think i'll ever know. it's not worth getting all worked up about. i can only continue to badger ytmnd to take it down.

yeah thats why i loled!

kudos jaymc

I haven't hyphenated adverbs in like 4 years, largely as a result of YOU hounding me about it! Other than that and Monique never hitting Girlfriends, A++

jaymc otm
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lol!

I looked it up on Wikipedia, she did a cameo once "as herself." :D

Oh wait shit right, they kept showing up at her door trying to get her to come to the grand opening of Joan's restaurant!

Jaymc-girlfriends.xls - 1
Nabisco-girlfriends.doc - 0

hahaha

Can we just arbitrarily repost the leprechaun thing for various people at random intervals?

GREE HEE HEE HEE HEE

I had this saved for JesseMonster http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsVlYjHuJOE

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=42

I wrote a Louis one and then I got beated to the punch (this is all in good fun, Louis, I hope you don't mind me poking fun at your romantic aspirations):

It appears my most recent lady love has chosen to decline my propositions, which I posed to her in a thoroughly convincing eight-page free verse poem that served as a delightful dual metaphor for both my carnal desires and the downfall of the British Empire, particularly the situation in India. I'd be more inclined to shake off this rejection if the football scores were better. Alas!

hahaha
xpost
hahaha
xpost

hehe

rororro

I had a Louis one that was basically "Mark E Smith was okay but surely you have admit the REAL DEAL was Nick Cave."

Jessie's one of me is super! My whole 'sports despair' huffle has proven rich pickings...

other than that girl's voice being way more irritating than I hope mine could ever be, I could definitely easily be that much of an ass if I put my mind to it. XD

well, louis, we all have to give you some credit that only the sports despairs deserved their own special thread.

I just almost posted a "gree hee hee hee" thread on Aeon Flux Top Level, but that barb e woman scares me.

:p it wasn't JUST for sports despair!

when that thread first started i posted without thinking about how i would be zinged... BIG MISTAKE. i was *somewhat* mortified. meh - i'll get over it. less mortified since it was only gr8080.

jessie monster's LJ post: brilliance!! pity it didn't make to the actual thread. that thread is remaining incredibly good-natured considering its length.

we're basically good people on this message board. fo realz.

Yes, the only bad people are those after libble invites in ire.

and ILX System. bastard.

Will you shut the fuck up and tell me in plain English how we're going to fix this fucking country?

It appears my most recent lady love has chosen to decline my propositions, which I posed to her in a thoroughly convincing eight-page free verse poem that served as a delightful dual metaphor for both my carnal desires and the downfall of the British Empire, particularly the situation in India. I'd be more inclined to shake off this rejection if the football scores were better. Alas, and then I wanked a dude off.

Fixed.

kudos to bell labs for getting my schtick down pretty well

I DONT EVEN WEAR GLASSES, HOOSTEEN, SHEESH

I don't know how Esteban had the noive.

that was awesome

the confusing bell labs for having glasses. the thread needs more screwups

Mr. Vague, you are now a Minnesota Vikings fan

all women look alike to big hoosin'
spendin cheese

I WUZ GONNA SAY ?!?!?!

(I was watching Pittsburgh - Baltimore the other night and decided I might adopt the Steelers actually.)

Labs is like the only lady around here who DOESN'T wear glasses. Christ.

hence the confusion, probably

do you guys like my glassestittays

FIXED

jk i don't wear tittays either ;_;

DUDE YOU SHOULD ADOPT THE STEELERS

Or the Vikings, either is a thumbs-up from me.

xpost: In every ILX thread ever, dudes pervin' on girls' tittitats

tittitats

I have thought about that and my answer is no

I don't get to see enough NFL nowadays :(

Aw. I was really hoping tittitats would have some legs.

Is tittitats the new vajayjays?

(Also NV, I watched my first NFL game of the season last week yet I still fully endorse several teams so actually watching is optional in my book.)

Tittitats could be the new vajayjay, depending on your doctor.

^^vv<><>BA(start)

(That's what I was going to post for Chaki.)

i dont get it?

up up down down left right left right B A start

i know but why is that me?

cause you make video games

for danzig

tru

...B A SELECT start

jeez!!

The internet disagrees with you.

the internet - reliable source

FUCK YOU IT'S LIKE THE BIBLE

wait

haha

Cockburn's, Louis? Tsk. Warre's at a stretch. And quite a stretch at that.

You're not a port-souser? Shame. Perhaps I too will grow out of it with ripening maturity.

i like tacobell

now where the hell is the damn exploding minds original thread.

that's it. i'm done. have fun staring into the rhombus mirror.

-- Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 8 November 2007 22:18 (Yesterday) Link

???

I've noticed at times you say "i'm done" or "that's it" or "i'm out".

Look, I have a Mac, so Excel doesn't even work for me. I'm not disagreeing that it was a stretch.

Can anyone find the old ILE thread where we imitated other posters? I tried to find it. It was good.

dr. c was a genius on that thread.

i am NEVER done

this is the thread where you impersonate other ilxors

Pretty sure there was one before that, though.

Yeah, I was thinking of an even earlier one, from the 'classic' era.

(Thanks though.)

I remember there was a really good impression of Tom E by Pinefox.

Ilxor Impressions (be nice!)

Summarise Me!

The really big one is IL* Challenge!

How do you guys find these things? Do you have a good memory for thread names or is there another way to look things up? I'm impressed in any case. I <3 ILx.

What's funny is that this was a spot-on impression of Jess in 2002:

me me me. do me, someone! oh Tom, Tom - i've just e-mailed you. about c-90 go!: i'm sorry i'm taking so long over this!!! but it'll be worth it you'll see! i have a seventh article in the works too, about You Know What: i really think this EP is the perfect compromise between Low Birth Weight and Geogra-doggido. i’m sure i can get to the "heart" of what the record is "about". my take is gonna be that it nods towards industrial/electronic "bliss-out" that even BoC at their most reserved cannot yet do, the ethereal yet rhythmic "minimalism" of recent drum and bass, and the arch confessionals of Nick Cave.

Tom, what about that Lambchop album, then? what's that like? oh yes, my article - sorry, real life keeps getting in the way, but that's more important anyway. i think i shall say it’s "hop on"-pop in the best Les Savy Fav tradition, all swirling chords and the sound of distant drums. "wayward funk-rock", no less - equal parts Parliament, Jim Reeves and The Cramps. whaddyathink? Tom, you haven't replied to my e-mail yet. i'm hurt. i'm hurt in my heart.

n Jeff W, Thursday, February 21, 2002 1:00 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark

I believe "Summarise Me" was the one I was looking for. Ah, the old days when we all tried to write long, clever, sophisticated posts. That thread worked better when you could see people's email addresses though. The impression of Tom E I mentioned:

There’s three variants of this game actually: the one where you have to explain what someone else’s schtick is (= quite boring so DUD), the one where you have to adopt another poster’s style (= CLASSIC as above posts prove), and the one where you have to mix the subject matter of one poster with the style of yet another poster (= probably CLASSIC, but very hard).

Really it’s a way of understanding other people’s points of view better by understanding their language I suppose. Not that understanding DJ Martian’s language will help ;)

-- Foxy Tigger, Friday, July 27, 2001 12:00 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Link

Dr C doing Mark S is the best post on any of these threads.

i hate this thread because it takes the urge to be oh-so-clever-clever that underpins many of ilx's worst impulses and turns it against ourselves

-- jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 20 March 2003 16:26 (4 years ago) Link

You're not a port-souser?

on the contrary, I am a committed and regular drinker. My point was largely : Cockburns? Ehhh

Fair play. I shall seek to expand my oeuvre beyond such hackneyed and vulgar juices.