Who are you surprised no one's mentioned yet?

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As in : "I'm surprised no one's mentioned [complete unknown] yet."

Possibly my favourite ILX statement. It's such vanity disguised as such wondering disingenuousness. I love it.

Give me some more examples of statements like this. Also, who are you surprised no one's mentioned yet?

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 25 April 2003 08:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This statement is especially wonderful when it occurs about 3 posts into a thread.

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 25 April 2003 08:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Or when ____ has already been mentioned twice, but the poster was too lazy to go back and read the thread from the beginning.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 25 April 2003 08:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm surprised no one has mentioned my cousin yet.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 25 April 2003 12:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm surprised no one has mentioned me yet. or cats.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Friday, 25 April 2003 12:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm surprised that no one's mentioned Paul II, the two hundred and fifteenth Pope, yet.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 25 April 2003 12:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm surprised no one's mentioned DJ Crudduz and Griz yet.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 25 April 2003 12:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Otto the busdriver yet.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 April 2003 12:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I am hurt and offended that no one has mentioned MEEEE yet!!!

waaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― kate, Friday, 25 April 2003 12:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I did, matt. on the 'papas: S/D' thread from last week.

and I mentioned kate on the 'people: S/D' thread from a long time ago.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 25 April 2003 12:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I've mentioned you before too, kate. I've never mentioned RJG though. Hi, RJG. Consider yourself mentioned.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Friday, 25 April 2003 12:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm surprised no one's mentioned my cat Cindy yet.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 25 April 2003 12:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm honestly surprised no one has mentioned Geir yet. Or C*lum.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Friday, 25 April 2003 12:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Moshe Dayan yet.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 April 2003 13:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Carmine "The Big Ragu" Ragusa.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 13:25 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.wfmu.org/hova/images/ragoo.jpg

He's from Worcester. Our biggest export.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 13:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Momus yet. And Moshe Dayan.

― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 13:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm surprised that no one's mentioned me yet, since I just did this for the first time last night on the "Contemp. Amer. Novelists" thread. Surely I was this thread's inspiration?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm surprised no one's mentioned that fucker jess harvel yet.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm surprised Pynchon hasn't got mentioned yet in this thread.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Aaron, I'm not sure Pynchon qualifies. Unless you have a radically different take on him than I do.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Nah, jaymc, there are worse offenders. Recently the top soul/funk albums thread on ILM bugged me. People were using this phrase after only a handful of posts.
(cross post)

― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm surprised no one has mentioned people saying that they're surprised that no one has mentioned someone yet yet.

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, wait.

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I shoulda winked after my first post.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, you should have YOU FUCKER

― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 15:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned EAT MY FUCK yet.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 April 2003 15:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Scott Baio.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 25 April 2003 15:36 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.celebrityzone.co.uk/photos/scott/007.jpg

There ya go.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 April 2003 15:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Toshiro Mifune yet.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 15:50 (twenty-three years ago)

YES!

I'd say I'm surprised by the lack of Marv Albert but I just referenced him, so there you go.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 25 April 2003 15:55 (twenty-three years ago)

has nobody mentioned vice magazine? *ducks*

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

The Big Ragoo can kick Baio's ass. or he'd tap dance him to death at a brewery.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Alejo Carpentier.

― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 25 April 2003 16:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Gale, I miss Gale.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Scott Baio yet.

― thread skimmer (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I never could figure out why Joanie loved Chachi.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Because she was using him to get at his Uncle Fonzi.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)

What's WRONG with you people??!! Scott Baio!!!

(this is my favorite variation on this trope)

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)

and now you know?

― hstencil, Friday, 25 April 2003 16:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Im sorry but Carmine is ten times better.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:31 (twenty-three years ago)

favorite = that's when I reach for my revolver

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:31 (twenty-three years ago)

http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~solvay/group09/papa.gif

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Scott Baio to thread!

― I wonder if anyone else is laughing as hard as I am at this thread? (nickaliciou, Friday, 25 April 2003 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Scott Baio OWNZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ this thread.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:33 (twenty-three years ago)

"There's always" Scott Baio.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:34 (twenty-three years ago)

The Big Ragoo

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Scott Baio is sooooo overrated. U R ALL SO VERY VERY GAY

― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, I suppose if I had to choose between Chachi and Potsy and Ralph, I'd have chosen Chachi too.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I lie - I'd have chosen Pinky Tuscadero.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:47 (twenty-three years ago)

My sister's bf looks exactly like Scott B. IS scott Peruvian?

― Sarah Mclusky (coco), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:47 (twenty-three years ago)

U R ALL GAY, THE BIG RAGOO SAYS SO.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Come on - Pinky Tuscadero? Tell me you wouldn't have tapped that ass.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:02 (twenty-three years ago)

++IS scott Peruvian?

god i hope not, cause i am and you know i am a little concerned with this. i say he is from another planet.

― kephm, Friday, 25 April 2003 19:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I am completely unsurprised at how thoroughly unhumorous this thread turned out to be. I'm all for meta but whatever. Mention by dick bitches. I'm audi.

― Millar (Millar), Friday, 25 April 2003 19:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Hi, Millar's dick!!!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 25 April 2003 19:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I've used this phrase a few times on here. I don't get the 'vanity' part - it's a more polite way of saying "You're mad not to have listed X really early in this thread".

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 25 April 2003 20:12 (twenty-three years ago)

but isn't that a polite way of saying "You're mad not to be as well informed and smart as I am" ?

― rainy (rainy), Friday, 25 April 2003 20:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Instance #4893 of reading too much into an ILX post.

― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 20:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think it necessarily is, Rainy - at least no more than half of my ILX posts, and I don't have that kind of thing in mind.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 25 April 2003 20:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't actually think that about you Martin, it just seemed like Sam was putting forward a convincing case.

― rainy (rainy), Friday, 25 April 2003 21:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm so NOT surprised that no one has mentioned me yet.
I'm quite surprised that no one has mentioned Tankpuss or Chickenbear yet.

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 25 April 2003 21:37 (twenty-three years ago)

(I just wandered over to ILM and one of the revivals was a thread where one of the last of the previous batch was me saying almost exactly this thread's theme phrase! About the origins of rock & roll: I was genuinely surprised that no one had mentioned Wynonie Harris or Ike Turner, as they are often credited. I am pretty sure that would have simply been genuine surprise.)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 25 April 2003 21:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I think a lot of times the mention is simple surprise, not advocacy -- jaymc's mention of Chabon wasn't so much "obviously Chabon should be discussed," I thought, as "Chabon typically comes up in these discussions," since he wasn't sure himself yet what he thought of Chabon.

I just typed "Chabon" way too many times for it to mean anything. I've got Chabonic. I have Chabonized myself. (I'm leaving out the obvious suffix for Chabon.)

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 25 April 2003 21:59 (twenty-three years ago)

You have a Chaboner?

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 25 April 2003 22:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm surprised no one has mentioned King Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud yet. He's the world's seventh richest man, you know.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 25 April 2003 22:02 (twenty-three years ago)

You have a Chaboner?

Bingo.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 25 April 2003 22:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Cool, thought so. I wish you'd mentioned it, I feel greedy

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 25 April 2003 22:13 (twenty-three years ago)

"You have a Chaboner" could only be followed by "bingo"

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 25 April 2003 22:37 (twenty-three years ago)

BINGO.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Saturday, 26 April 2003 00:20 (twenty-three years ago)

To the best of my knowledge, no one’s mentioned Christopher Millardyet. But I can’t say I’m surprised.

― Rex (Rex), Saturday, 26 April 2003 13:15 (twenty-three years ago)

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