Excelsior! The "Thinking" Thread Continues

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― smoky topaz (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:51 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.clubtreni.com/trenieferrovie/excelsior%5B1%5D.jpg

― smoky topaz (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:56 (twenty-three years ago)

"did anyone stop to think that maybe what they think at any given moment regardless of merit isn't exactly worth wasting more server memory on?"

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:57 (twenty-three years ago)

"but, by all means, continue the 'wackiness'."

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:58 (twenty-three years ago)

ha ha ha ha best post ever just for existing

(well before the x-post)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:58 (twenty-three years ago)

wanted: new job, new city, new haircut

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 19 September 2003 19:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I need to go home, and I need to see these trees and this river...
http://www.proriverrunners.com/images/kennebec_01.jpg

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 19 September 2003 19:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I like that Jess thinks in scare quotes so we know not to take him seriously.

Sorry, "thinks." And "seriously."

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 19 September 2003 19:17 (twenty-three years ago)

tep, you're supposedly a writer, right? you do understand the concept of quotation marks vs. 'scare quotes', right?

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 19 September 2003 19:25 (twenty-three years ago)

anyway, there is nothing i like better than ilx taking 5 minutes to load because someone feels the need to announce they just thought about scratching their ass, but hey, sue me.

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 19 September 2003 19:26 (twenty-three years ago)

If you think it's bad now, wait til next week.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Friday, 19 September 2003 19:32 (twenty-three years ago)

ha ha i can't wait for that guardian article to run.

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 19 September 2003 19:34 (twenty-three years ago)

C'mon, jess, it was a joke. But is there anything you're not going to hate on ILE today? Does this thread somehow magically tax the server more than any other?

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 19 September 2003 19:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Horace: if I can get a job without even applying for one here I'm sure there would be something for you, especially since you, unlike me, seem to be competent. New job: should be easy. New city: Winnipeg's pretty fuckin' hot right now. New haircut: Five Bill Phil, baby! Nothing more fun than having a crazy 80-year-old Ukrainian with shaky hands snap your lid!

I'm thinking it probably was a good idea to skip out of work a little early today.

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 19 September 2003 20:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm definitely not thinking about scratching my ass.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 19 September 2003 20:15 (twenty-three years ago)

. . .that Jess should eat a bag of dicks.

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Friday, 19 September 2003 20:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Wheat Thins are good. Wheat Thins are very good. Mmm Wheat Thins.

(note: A bag of dicks does not sound good at all.)

― Legendary Nothingness (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 19 September 2003 20:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Triscuits totally trump Wheat Thins. Fite!

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 19 September 2003 20:19 (twenty-three years ago)

mmm dicks. . .

i like triscuits and wheat thins both.

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Friday, 19 September 2003 20:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Ew! Triscuits texture is vile and their taste is even blander than Wheat Thins. Wheat Thins and Kaukauna cheese spread have been a staple of my diet since before I can remember.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 19 September 2003 20:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Triscuits come in flavors now! I haven't tried them, but it's true. Roasted Garlic, and Creme Fraiche Delight, or some such thing.

They're a cracker meant for cheeses, though, it's true.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 19 September 2003 20:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Last time I tried Triscuits was over 10 years ago, and I didn't particularly care for them. Must try them out again. But Wheat Thins... ooh. Need to find out where they sell the low sodium ones, though. The regular kind has a bit too much salt for my liking. Oh well -- one can fleck off the extra salt bits if one chooses, hm? As for cheese -- hm, found out a short while back I can actually like cheese if it's smoked! Hurrah for smoked cheese!

― Legendary Nothingness (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 19 September 2003 20:24 (twenty-three years ago)

the garlic triscuit is supreme yummy. must buy some now. . .

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Friday, 19 September 2003 20:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Speaking of crackers that now come in dif. flavors, Cheez-Its Cheddar Jack and Garlic Parmesan are gooood. I'm a bit scared of the Tabasco ones.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 19 September 2003 20:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Clearly CheezIts win.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 19 September 2003 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

And right now, I AM thinking about scratching my ass. JUST BECAUSE.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 19 September 2003 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I lied, I wasn't really.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 19 September 2003 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

ILX: The Water Cooler Years

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 19 September 2003 21:06 (twenty-three years ago)

share your most anal conversations etc.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 19 September 2003 21:12 (twenty-three years ago)

that's what ILX chat is for.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 19 September 2003 21:13 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.bullwhackers.com/cards/quarters.jpg

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 19 September 2003 21:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I really shouldn't have punched that 15 year old in the face today. No, fuck it, I should have. Still didn't make me feel any better, though.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 19 September 2003 21:46 (twenty-three years ago)

And that post is going to win me no friends at all, right? There were mitigating circumstances. Honest.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 19 September 2003 21:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Dom, sometimes you just have to...

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 19 September 2003 22:03 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.home-again-realty.com/images/quarters.jpg

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 19 September 2003 22:43 (twenty-three years ago)

i was at Trader Joes and i saw the package of coconut covered dates, my gramma's favorite. i actually reached for them, to mail them to her --and stopped my hand in midair because i remembered she was dead. it was like an automatic motion to reach for them. i can't stand dates, she is the only reason i would reach for them, and i don't see them very often so i was briefly elated at seeing them--the elation ended abruptly.

it made me sad.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 19 September 2003 23:06 (twenty-three years ago)

The Tabasco Cheez-Its rock. Tabasco themselves -- well, McIlhenny (McIlheny? It always looks wrong), the Tabasco company -- have some kind of cheese crackers out, but the Cheez-Its are better. They're really addictive. The spice is not super-hot -- I wish I could find those pretzel nuggets I used to get with the habanero; Chile Today, I think? New Mexico Chile company? something like that -- but that makes them very easily munchable, and you can always toss a little Dave's on there if you need the burn.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 19 September 2003 23:35 (twenty-three years ago)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 20 September 2003 01:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Dom, I love you.

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Saturday, 20 September 2003 02:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Whoa that's hardcore! You guys, like, totally don't give a shit! You're all 'well fuck you, dude!' Yippie-I-kai-ay!!

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 20 September 2003 03:01 (twenty-three years ago)

what in the hell are you talking about?

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Saturday, 20 September 2003 03:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Whoops, that should've gone on the 'good thing' thread, but I guess I WAS thinking it.

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 20 September 2003 03:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought he was just way unimpressed with my Tabasco Cheez-Its love.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 20 September 2003 03:25 (twenty-three years ago)

cuz Ice Cube
is crazy as FUCK

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 20 September 2003 05:40 (twenty-three years ago)

CHECKING the CELL STRUCTURE

― Annouschka Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 20 September 2003 06:21 (twenty-three years ago)

26 days

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 21 September 2003 08:48 (twenty-three years ago)

holy shit -- one of the guys(Ben) from Midwest Product figured out that "1999" and "Manic Monday" are the same song, only pitched off by a few tones.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 21 September 2003 14:18 (twenty-three years ago)

These things don't really work for pop, I did the same thing w/'Yesterday'/that ballad from 'Cats' once ('Memory'?)

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 21 September 2003 14:33 (twenty-three years ago)

And I was WRONG and FOOLISH and ARROGANT and this is no great proof of the folly

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 21 September 2003 14:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Hm. I feel stupid. It probably doesn't much matter. I hate days when it feels like you're just waiting for time to pass...

I have psychic email abilities this morning. Maybe that just means my friends are predictable.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Sunday, 21 September 2003 15:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Skipping 43 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

I love those little kitty pics, Ally!! They really did a good job in helping turn around that one particular thread from being a disaster into being something lighter. I don't mind if they're in lots of other places, either. I think we all need cute little posed kitty pics in our lives.

More thoughts:

I wish I could sleep for a billion years. I know certain prayers are getting answered at the moment, but I wish certain other prayers would get answered as well. I wish I could find a rather good appointment time for something I need to do (J.Girl knows what I'm talking about) so I can actually do it. I wish so many things....

― Legendary Nothingness (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 20:08 (twenty-three years ago)

ok, that echidna's nose is really disturbing

― Annouschka Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 20:13 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.crazyape.com/images/boxshots/helitop.jpg

― Annouschka Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 22:09 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.atlanticsyndication.com/images/NoAbsolutes090402114241am.jpg

Ooh, pictures....

― Legendary Nothingness (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 23:27 (twenty-three years ago)

the raindrops
the raindrops
the raindrops
the raindrops

― thommuschka magnahead (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 25 September 2003 01:37 (twenty-three years ago)

The shitty thing about praying for just one day without thinking about Patrick Swayze's "She's Like The Wind," is that there's really no way to appreciate it when it happens.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 25 September 2003 01:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I wish Liam Neeson had more personality.

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 25 September 2003 10:22 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.osric.com/~jeremy/shoveitallin.jpg

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 25 September 2003 18:37 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.garyrosenkidsmusic.com/KIDSMUSIC_files/cd-teddybears175.jpg

― Annouschka Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 26 September 2003 00:30 (twenty-three years ago)

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 26 September 2003 03:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I realized the Manic Monday and 1999 similarity when Dump covered 1999 a couple years ago and slowed it down

― Carey (Carey), Friday, 26 September 2003 03:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Where in the hell is my hairbrush? Why does it always walk away just when I want it? I mean, when I don't want it, it's always laying around somewhere, kicking back, taking-up valuable horizontal space so other shit can't get stacked there. And it's only when I actually need the damn thing that it slithers off. It's all part of the plot.

Oh.

It was under a stack of books.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Friday, 26 September 2003 11:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Aw, they yanked the piccie. New piccie!

http://deanna.ladyinterference.com/ilx/pnrwcclothes.jpg

I hope no one recognizes this. *laughs* Not like people don't already know how predictable I am. Ok, what's up with what Kingfish posted? Is that what he was really thinking at the time? Or was he being snarky? If so, who was he being snarky to? I'm lost. Not like it'd be hard to be lost at this time in the morning. I can't believe I overslept. I need to be more disciplined. Ok, so I have San Antonio as a Friendster. Yay. I hope whomever's doing it approves my testimonial. It pretty much summarizes all my feelings about this place. Hm, I think I should skip breakfast today so I can have lunch. Hm.

― Legendary Nothingness (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 26 September 2003 11:37 (twenty-three years ago)

note, i am not snarky. i post stupid pictures.

i was thinking that b/c i'd just finished it in photoshop, and am too impatient to find a particularly context to use it in.

my quest to get ILX to adopt image macros continues.

http://www.osric.com/~jeremy/saywhat.jpg

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 26 September 2003 13:01 (twenty-three years ago)

could you survive by eating nothing but chocolate?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 26 September 2003 13:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I love little pussy,
Her coat is so warm,
And if I don't hurt her,
She'll do me no harm.
So I'll not pull her tail,
Nor drive her away,
But pussy and I,
Very gently will play.

That Mother Goose was one kinky lady!

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Friday, 26 September 2003 13:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Well then, Kingfish, go right ahead and keep it up. :)

Oh good, San Antonio approved the testimonial I left it. It reads:

Ahh, San Antonio. I love you and hate you at the same time. You are an absolutely inescapable part of my identity, as I've lived within your borders for all but four of my years. I am constantly frustrated by your limitations, yet at the same time I don't know what I'd do without you. I have been to your schools, your supermarkets (usually H-E-B), your bookstores, your Tex-Mex hangouts. I've even weathered the storm of the condescending 09er just so I could have possibly the best sushi in the world (Koi Kawa, don't you know). I can't get S.A. out of my blood. Damn you for being so much a part of me.

And in other thoughts... I can't believe I made it through today. Today was just about the longest day in my entire life. I'm seriously hoping nothing happens tonight and I can have a relaxing evening. A night like the day I had today would be nightmarish.

― Legendary Nothingness (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 26 September 2003 19:20 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.jerseycityhistory.net/

― Annouschka Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 26 September 2003 20:16 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.steveconley.com/pages/sill.jpg

― Annouschka Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 26 September 2003 22:22 (twenty-three years ago)

20 days

http://southsidecallbox.com/images/ukraine.jpg

― Annouschka Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 27 September 2003 05:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm thinking that life's really goddamn good right now and I hope I'm not jinxing myself by admitting it.

― Annouschka Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Holy shit I might be driving to Chicago tonight and then driving back tomorrow. I am insane in the membrane. And then if I get a job now we'll have to figure out the apartment situation and the moving situation and the repainting our current apartment situation and the selling all of our furniture situation and AAAAH!

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm wondering what I used to post to ILX, and why I can't think of anything much to say anymore. Or maybe I just said nothing much more often. Oh well. I'm also thinking it's weird to be back at university again. And, I'm glad that it rained. It's October, I'm glad about this as well.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:21 (twenty-three years ago)

My eyes hurt.

― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm wondering what I did wrong, actually.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 2 October 2003 16:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Happiness is hard to come by
But I've had my fair share
The satin sheets, the lemon peels
The minor keys, the major pills
We've climbed the mountains, saw the top
And planted the apple seed
And can't you see we could've had it all?

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 2 October 2003 17:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow, you always know how to make me feel better! You know this, right?

and the music was like wind in your hair/the moonlight caressed your sillouette...

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 2 October 2003 17:09 (twenty-three years ago)

SIMH, sug.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 2 October 2003 17:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I am surprised that there are no threads for a) Alex and her Cher impression winning Fame Academy (ft. a none too diplomatic Daniel Beddingfield) and b) Derren Brown's russian roulette (ft. Ralf Little as the gun loader).

― Alfie (Alfie), Monday, 6 October 2003 09:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Waffles here and martinis in the Equator Lounge.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 03:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I am thinking of Blossom from the Powerpuff Girls because they guy who just moved into my building works with the creator and is going to bring me all things Powerpuff. I am exceedingly pleased.

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 03:38 (twenty-three years ago)

"The overworked and equally dubious motto 'Peace Through Understanding' is curiously reflected by one of the more frightening exhibits, the underground home, sponsored by the Underground World Home Corporation. The pamphlet given to each paying visitor notes that 'the Underground Home is . . . protected from the ravages of nature, the physical and psychological assaults caused by our industrialized society and the population explosion . . . but most of all, it offers the average man the proverbial island unto himself. The utmost in security (it) lessens the likelihood of human intruders, protection from storms of all types; is impervious to nuclear fallout.'"

― Annouschka Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 07:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I am thinking that I started a Fame Academy Thread on ILM and no one noticed.

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 07:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Are you surprised Kate? Or was the title 'Fame Academy is shit'? Now then I would be surprised is nobody answered!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 08:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How is Fame Academy more shit than Big Brother? And how many threads were there about Big Brother? Or Pop Idol? Etc?

Why is HSA so formal in his emails? He almost never emails me. That's weird.

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 09:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Because there is no singing! They are all pretty shit really I guess.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 09:29 (twenty-three years ago)

After yesterday I am thinking that I am in dire need of both an amazing jetpack and a poisonous shotgun.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 8 October 2003 09:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I found your thread yesterday Kate, I added a post that says 'Dammit, found this thread too late'. I rarely visit ILM and for some reason it didn't occur to me that a Fame Academy thread would appear there rather than here. Oh well.

Apparently some dictionary compilers include made-up words so that if another publisher copies their definitions, they can prove the plagarism. Today I am thinking: "What are these words?".

― Alfie (Alfie), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 09:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I am thinking that I have never been interested in "Reality Programs" especially "Reality Music Programs" in the slightest until they started including token indie kids to appeal to my demographic. And then one of the token indie kids won. Ha ha!

Oh my god I am part of a demographic that wins TV gameshow mentality popularity contests. Shoot me now.

Oh, and there was a book about map-makers that employed the same technique, Alfie.

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 09:44 (twenty-three years ago)

*yawns* i should still be in bed.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 9 October 2003 07:09 (twenty-three years ago)

It's a common technique - the best known comics guide does the same. I think it's a disgrace and we should be able to sue all these people for deliberately including false information.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 9 October 2003 20:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Mmm milk duds.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 9 October 2003 20:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I am looking forward to going to the theatre tonight, yay! The day is dragging. :-(

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 10 October 2003 08:24 (twenty-three years ago)

This database drive me NUTS!!! You can't use a new index without rebuilding the data, and you can't rebuild the data unless no one is in the database, and I came in at 8.30 this morning to rebuild the data while no one was in, and it STILL wouldn't let me rebuild.

WHY WILL THIS BLOODY THING JUST NOT WORK?!?!?

(And why is this database so clumbsy that it takes 20 minutes to run a report? I bet that has something to do with HOW FREAKING LONG IT'S PROBABLY BEEN SINCE ANYONE RE-INDEXED IT!!!!!!!!)

― kate (kate), Friday, 10 October 2003 08:40 (twenty-three years ago)

is it ever appealing
to stand on the ceiling?

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 10 October 2003 12:55 (twenty-three years ago)

no, i probably won't be clicking on that "dead animal carcass" thread anytime soon...

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Ew gross - I did. Don't do it.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 20:52 (twenty-three years ago)

The pictures are not so bad. No exposed entrails or anything.

― fletrejet, Wednesday, 15 October 2003 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm thinking "holy shit, if I posted that on here last night (while drunk), what the fuck did I do while I was on friendster?"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 21:05 (twenty-three years ago)

twelve years pass...

https://www.instagram.com/p/BKUBjrahVBa/

remember guys

ignorance is bliss

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 22:48 (ten years ago)

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