Why Do The Ex-el-see-yor Threads Always Have Such Weird Names?

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I mean what are they supposed to be exactly- elegant variations of Snoopy typing "It was a dark and stormy night"?

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

they're supposed to be funny

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

i.e. totally apt as thread titles

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

they're funny

crosspost x2

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

It was much better when it was based on song lyrics (that I knew of).

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

Right, let's post some classic excel thread titles.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

this is an excelsior we live in (uh ohhh oh) and these are the laugh out louds we're given (wuh ohhh oh)

I can feel Excelsior in the air tonight, oh lord, and I've been LOL all my life, etcetcetrc

EXCELSIOR, it'll pass you by, in the wink of a young girl's LOL

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

*To avoid confusion with the actual thread, I have deliberately misspelled "excelsior" in the title of this thread.
(massive xpost)

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

Noted already.

Mind you, how about when..

ROLLING ON THE FLOOR, LAFFING OUT LOUD, PULLING STRINGS, NEW EXECLSIOR

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

No.

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

ok,thx,bye.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

I never figured out why the 'Excelsior' thing stuck either.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

I dunno, I guess the current one is OK actually. Sorry, mark, if you felt insulted.

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

no worries.

Did a little search, and found these early posts:

I once ripped the head off of my He-Man action figure, glued it onto an empty coke can and called it "Excelsior The Great". Does this count?
-- Croooooow (hell...) (webmail), September 6th, 2001 1:00 AM. (link)

And, before that,

ile search = excelsior!
-- kevin enas (ithesof...) (webmail), August 7th, 2001 1:00 AM. (link)

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

And, bizarrely, the first "Excelsior" thread Wasn't one!

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?msgid=385890

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

Thread won't load for me.

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

ahem, try again.
Excelsior! The "Thinking" Thread Continues

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

Suggestion for the next one: "I don't think anyone anticipated that the LOLs would be EXCELSIORed." -- G.W. Bush

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

rofl

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

Our current models can't handle it, we need to create new models to predict ROFFLES of this magnitude. -- Mike C

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

Ex-chelsea or Excelsior

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

Today we published a 50 page dossier detailing the history of ILX's LOL, its breach of UN ROFLutions and the current attempts to rebuild the Excelsior LOL programme.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

No one knew the funnybones were going to break

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

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