Pedantic qn for people posting to the Excelsior threads...

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Do you do it when you see a funny post or when a post actually makes you laugh out loud?

I used not to bother with them but now I'm trying to do it when a post makes me literally laugh and I'm finding myself thinking, 'oh god I laughed, that means I have to post it'.

Sorry for this thread which is the worst I've ever started but I do honestly want to know.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 11 December 2003 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 11 December 2003 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

it's like truth or dare only they're the same thing!

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 11 December 2003 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i post stuff that does make me laugh ... sometimes out loud, sometimes not.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 11 December 2003 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Only when I do actually laugh out loud. No actually I include suppressed laughs/silent mirth when proximity of coworkers etc precludes actual LOL.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 11 December 2003 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I... don't follow the letter of the law. I just post things that I enjoyed enough to preserve out of context. But if I laugh at something and it doesn't seem worth posting to the LOL thread, then I don't feel obliged to.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 11 December 2003 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I have to laugh out loud, but I don't post everything I laugh out loud at or I'd come across like a spazz.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 11 December 2003 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, I don't even post everything that makes me laugh out loud, just the ones that go that extra step towards getting me fired.

Yeah, what hardman Barry said.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 11 December 2003 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't laugh out loud at work so I just post stuff that almost makes me laugh out loud.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 11 December 2003 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

So much corner-cutting!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 11 December 2003 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Unfortunately I have a silent inward laugh so can never post to those threads.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 11 December 2003 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

a subtle 'pfffffffff' from me gets you posted on these threads but only two thirds of the time. i only really laugh out loud at the visual stuff i think.

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 11 December 2003 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

89% of the time, I actually laughed out loud in some form.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 11 December 2003 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

oh i was almost rolling on the floor from the fox-hunting thread last week tho

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 11 December 2003 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

The main problem is that the stuff that makes me laugh out loud is on the previous Excelsior threads, so I have to repost them on the new one causing some kind of feedback effect which stops it being funny.

There is the theory of the mobius.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 11 December 2003 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't have the time to find out what makes other ppl laff out loud. if i really LOL OMG!!!!11 i usually mention it on the thread at the time

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Thursday, 11 December 2003 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually here's ANOTHER question - have you ever made a post with the intention of getting on those threads? Or have you posted and then thought as you pressed submit "Hey that'll turn up on one of those threads."

I've not done the first thing. I did the second recently and lo and behold it did.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 11 December 2003 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

"Please be on the 'EXCELSIOR' thread, please please please please please..."

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 11 December 2003 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Tico, yes to the first question. And about half the time (I haven't done it that often, it's a hollow sport) they show up. Whereas there are also posts I make which I am actually more proud of that never get posted to the LOL thread; oh well.

Although admittedly I haven't really cared about making it onto that thread for several months; perhaps I have hung out too much with the "Thread Where I Say"ers to care about that sort of cock-waving.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 11 December 2003 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i try and be witty regardless of the excelsior threads. then again i did start the very first one - just a blatant example of my over-bearing desire to be thought of as a funny mang.

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 11 December 2003 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I love it when I get onto the threads, but I know my sense of humour isn't strange, funny or original enough to merit it 99 times out of 100. The occasional appearance still thrills though.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 11 December 2003 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I hardly ever read them to be honest, I mean, the odds are I've already read most of what's in it, unless it's on the mini-clique threads.

― chris (chris), Thursday, 11 December 2003 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Any thread that is posted up by me has obviously missed the point of my post since I AM NEVER BEING FUNNY.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 11 December 2003 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

sometimes i think the ongoing popularity of the excelsior threads are directly to blame for a lot of the bad, forced humour on ilx

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree with you.

― Allyzay, Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I blame the fact that we have humans posting instead of robots like before.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

or is the other way around?

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

this is the thread where you copy and paste whatever other posts on ilx you thought were kinda ho-hum

this is the thread where we copy & paste the posts that really make us think

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

the better turing test

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i'll bet the one tom thought would turn up on the thread was his "urgent and K Y" post.

my copy and paste function doesn't work anymore so i can't do this. but i rarely actually laugh out loud anyway. it happens on aim, not so much here. when it does happen, i either figure someone else'll find it funny too and post to one of the threads, or (and this is much rarer) i add a 'haha' to the thread, even though this practice has pretty much become obselete.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

obsolete.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

haha

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

what do you call a vegetable that has passed its expiration date? obso-leek!

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

*tumbleweed*

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Part of the reason I end up laughing out loud at posts is because I actually know the person who posted it and I can imagine exactly how they'd be saying it and it cracks me up. Which results in me sometimes posting things that are probably less than funny to anyone else in the world, but trust me you'd be laughing too if you were me.

― Allyzay, Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I hardly ever laugh out loud here, I just think "that is funny" and smile. Same when I watch TV. In person I laugh at anything though.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Must... not... copy... "obso-leek"....

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I laugh a lot. In fact it's kind of maniacal. That's why god gave me enormous teeth.

― Allyzay, Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Your teeth aren't that enormous, Ally.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

That's kind of like telling someone "You don't look THAT fat in that" innit!!

― Allyzay, Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www3.sympatico.ca/jim.pattison/modesty/mb02pb.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 11 December 2003 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoa where can I buy that outfit?

― Allyzay, Thursday, 11 December 2003 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

This place makes me laugh loud more times than I post it up in the thread.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 11 December 2003 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

If I giggle out loud, that post goes straight to Excelsior. I assume a gol is the same as a lol?

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 11 December 2003 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Gollum vs Lollum FITE!

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 11 December 2003 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i never laugh out loud at work. they hang people for this.

― kephm, Thursday, 11 December 2003 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you work at a funeral parlour?

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 11 December 2003 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Sometimes if I read a particularly good section of LOL thread or of a thread full of absurdity, I'll be giggling so much my workmates must think I'm retarded. Bizarre humour, wordplay and things like sleep-talk and suchlike are what gets me, tho I've been known to stick up rather obvious BOOM BOOM things. Hey, I laughed at it, deal.

I'm a bit sad when some people bitch about how humour here is forced cause of it, or that much of whats up there isnt funny, or so on. Life isnt here just to provide sombre theoretical discussions all the time, mang.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 11 December 2003 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

++ Do you work at a funeral parlour? ++

Almost. I process annuities, Death claims, etc.

― kephm, Thursday, 11 December 2003 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

a subtle 'pfffffffff' from me gets you posted on these threads but only two thirds of the time.

"EXCELSIOR! This is the thread for posts that made you fart out loud."

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 12 December 2003 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

http://www.creationmoments.net/catalog/images/0000-7.jpg

― banriquit, Monday, 30 June 2008 13:12 (seventeen years ago)

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