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Just a bit of fun, so lets be cool.

I put together a number of threads and made a product out of it.

http://www.cafeshops.com/go_quick.11716560

Its not meant to be a profit making exercise, just a 'nice to have' if you want one.

Basically, its the threads "Car alarm", "Trucker hat/couch", "Four eared cat", "Sing House of Jealous" and on a darker tip, "Man on the roof".

Its $18, which is pretty much base price for this on Cafepress.

Unless anyone violently objects, its there if anyone wants one. It's not meant to be a 'harry potter' scale. I dunno.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)

For Fuck's Sake.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:12 (twenty-one years ago)

362 pages!

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

who gets the cash? can i have royalties per word if i am in it?

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm basically keeping it at cost price. It's just a memento, that's all.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Remember what happened the last time you did this, Mark!

― People love Gravity and Evolution! (kate), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

what happened last time? were there fireworks?

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

gunshots.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't actually remember the last time.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Erm, in a manner of speaking. One of the persons on the thread what was reprinted objected most violently to the "rape".

― People love Gravity and Evolution! (kate), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I know, I just do this for a fun thing, and suddenly people get paranoid about it. I'm not making a massive print run, each copy gets individually produced. I'm not making a profit, etc.

Basically, the same rule applies: If any contributor objects then I shall withdraw it.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

am I in it?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha mark yr first post is in the excelsior thread

― artdamages (artdamages), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Hang on, you are ACTUALLY PRINTING A BOOK OF ILX THREADS AND SELLING IT?! And this is not some sort of meta joke? My word...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

(umm, Kate, thanks for the support, but I really would like to keep all that under wraps. Basically, the person involved did apologise for over-reacting, and I also respected his position anyway)

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

am I a contributor?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

The cover is pretty cool.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think I'm in that book at all. You fucker.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)

it *is* some sort of a meta-joke.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)

(I'm just jealous coz I was all over the first one, and I'm not in this one at all.)

― People love Gravity and Evolution! (kate), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

am I invisible?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Twenty posts in two minutes! And the shit has barely hit the fan! Mark, you should put this thread in the book too *ducks*

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/faq.php

Do I have copyright over things I post on ILx?

Yes.

― FUCKING A, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

*dicks*

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Just checked. Did you "go to school with a girl called Megan Veek?"

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)

If any contributor objects then I shall withdraw it.

Done and done.

Did you not think even for a second "maybe I should inquire about this first"?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, this is what I am doing...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:38 (twenty-one years ago)

..enquiring, that is.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

What's "Sing House of Jealous"?

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I still miss megan, now and then.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, what I can't fathom is why anyone in their right mind would want to buy it!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

lets all sing house of jealous lovers. over on ILM

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

That's a rub selection of threads. No Missionary Position! WTF?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:42 (twenty-one years ago)

(Umm, that is actually one of them, sorry I missed it on the list above)

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Put me down for a copy, then!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

OH NO MY SINGING IS IN THAT BOOK OH NO

― I am not a mandible (Barima), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I am in complete and total hysterics over this.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

(SHOCKAH etc)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Let's send a copy to Gear!'s roomate.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Can we get a list of links to the threads that are compiled in it, please.

― LOGOUT, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, shall do.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

This is great stuff though I'm not sure how well it would translate to book form. I guess a non-ilxor would find it very difficult. Are you taking out email addresses or the names or what exactly?

If there are enough ans this could make into a second book.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think I'm in much of this either. I might be in House of Jealous Lovers, for a post or two. This is an odd selection of threads.

― St. Nicholas Ridiculous (Nick A.), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

A car alarm keeps going off outside my house....what should I do?
A Four eared Kitten, you guys.
what to do when your roommate doesn't realize you're home and thusly is having loud sex in the living room
The Missionary Position
There's a guy outside my window who's been threatening to jump all night!
What the hell, let's all SING "House of jealous lovers"

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

(the kitten thread is actually between the couch and the missionary ones)

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Could have asked first, 1) to see if everyone was ok with it, 2) to see what threads people might want in it if they WERE ok with it!

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Especially as Andrew Farrell is having a tizzy about it and will no doubt SEE YOU IN COURT, BUSTER.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

The only thing that annoys me about it is that it implies some kind of finality to those threads, which is false. Thus the book should have been made up solely of locked threads.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

That bugs me, too.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

This is not making any money and I can't believe anyone but ilxors or lurkers would want to buy it.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Skipping 734 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

dan why don't you just lock the thread if you feel so strongly?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 28 June 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

(Because it would be an abuse of mod privs.)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 June 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

This is like that Victor Borge sketch where him and another piano player are playing manic chords going up a piano, swapping to the bottom of the piano and going up the keyboard again and again and again, until Victor gets to the top and then slams the piano lid down.

BANG!

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 28 June 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

do the moderators have their own bathroom?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 28 June 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

but dan don't you think that maybe your "last word" posts are doing nothing but prolonging the thread's existence?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 28 June 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I think this thread could conceivably catch Sadahura Oh! And it started off its career under the radar (tear)

http://sportsmed.starwave.com/media/pg2/2002/0813/photo/a_oh_i.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 28 June 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris, are you okay?

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 28 June 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

(egomaniac.)

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

but dan don't you think that maybe your "last word" posts are doing nothing but prolonging the thread's existence?

WOW DO YOU THINK????

Jesus fucking Christ.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"Oh" my

http://www.cypsystems.com/images/mroh/pic1.gif

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

(This thread has essentially devolved into a contest to see who can have the last word; I am participating without any of the obfuscatory rhetoric.)

-- VengaDan Perry (djperr...), June 25th, 2004. (later) (link)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesus fucking Christ.

now THAT's what i'd pay to see

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"oh" man that would be something.

http://www.pe.net/~jnes/ohport9.gif

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

indeed

http://homepage.mac.com/philtwo/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2004-06-13%2022.26.04%20-0700/Image-F5F21212BDC211D8.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

You know, as I scroll thorough this thread, it kind of looks like closing credits.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Key Grip - Sick Mouthy

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry for whatever it was that i did dan

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

fortunately it's a roomy doghouse

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

(It has a bay view and skylights!)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i call top bunk

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

"Tell me more about this doghouse, Dan..."

http://www.curtisknapp.com/IMAGES/portraitsphotos/p039_oh_sadaharu.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

i want this book ;_;

― chaki (chaki), Saturday, 27 May 2006 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

LAST WORD

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

yeah?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

haha sorry

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

The irony was: I did decide to print one copy, much later when all was quiet (in fact, when ILX was off for those 2 weeks), only to find the pdf file was a bad format.

Story ends...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

ysi?

― fongoloid sangfroid (sanskrit), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

at least no one violently objected

― gear (gear), Friday, 21 July 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

PDF'D

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 27 July 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

I find it mind-boggling that anyone got upset about this.

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 27 July 2006 23:29 (nineteen years ago)

"jesus fucking christ" hahaha

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:33 (nineteen years ago)

This thread brings back memories of the meltdown of 2004, the two week blackout, and how we went on regardless. Is it two years already?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 28 July 2006 09:08 (nineteen years ago)

for me the fallout from this was kinda worse than I'd thought - obviously I came back posting under (several) different names, but there's something about posting under my own name that encouraged me to think harder, speak more clearly, be more kind. I always thought of this as a pleasant side benefit of the old-old-school ilm "rule"/suggestion/tradition of posting under one's own name. It's not news of course that wearing a persona has a transformative effect on one's speech, both in content and form. So, while I didn't have to leave, it was obvious to me that I couldn't post under my own name, and the small but real pleasure of that openness was lost.

Of course the upside was how long it took Momus to figure out who Thomas Tallis was, but then I understand that Momus has had a stand-in writing his posts for months now, so the joke's kind of on Thomas eh

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

I really don't understand what's going on around here any more.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

Postýng under ones own name bears some responsýbýlýty. And ýt took me longer than momus to fýgure ýt out as wel.

Bad typýngÞ heyç I am ýn turkey...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

This thread brings back memories of the meltdown of 2004, the two week blackout, and how we went on regardless. Is it two years already?

otm

I remember that summer particularly well, because I was unemployed and bored, so ILX was the perfect distraction. Which is why the blackout felt much worse than it would, say, now.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 25 September 2006 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

LAST WORD

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 15:31 (seventeen years ago)

that's it, i'm leaving ilx.

― omar little, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 15:32 (seventeen years ago)

Thread of missing excelsior the book

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 15:33 (seventeen years ago)

oh this was a bad idea, sorry

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 15:35 (seventeen years ago)

haha was this the first time we saw "Just a bit of fun, so lets be cool."

― Ste, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 15:42 (seventeen years ago)

it looks like the damage has already been done so swiftly and efficiently that there's nothing even remotely concievable I could've done to stop it

― omar little, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 15:42 (seventeen years ago)

Ste: yes

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 15:43 (seventeen years ago)

I always thought that the idea that you should "think harder, speak more clearly, be more kind" wasn't a bad one.

Was it?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 16:12 (seventeen years ago)

six years pass...

does anyone actually have this? seems like the ultimate ilx collector item.

― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 22:37 (ten years ago)

mordy has a Torah version he says is better but

― thoughts you made second posts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 22:39 (ten years ago)

you come home and the lights are still on and your parents are in the kitchen and there is a copy of 'excelsior the book' on the table

― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 23:15 (ten years ago)

nine years pass...

#intellectualproperty #boardetiquette

― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 4 June 2024 18:45 (one year ago)

History.

― Mark G, Thursday, 6 June 2024 06:59 (one year ago)

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