xpost, Classic or Dud

(xpost)

Will someone please tell me what Xpost means? Is it referencing a post before the one just above you? I honestly have not been able to figure this one out.

Yes, that's what it means. Sometimes I write xpost, and sometimes I say something like, as ____said, blah blah blah, just so it's more civilized, less messageboard lingo-y.

I feel like Marilyn Manson at a Tool concert.

Hahaha. I wish Adam would come back to ILX.

What's the etymology of xpost, as it's used on ILX? It can't be an abbreviated form of crosspost, since it's, well, not a crosspost. Is it just that x is a cool letter to attach to post?

you need to cross a post in order to reply to the intended one. if there's more than one post you need to cross more tha...4-2-4 dammit

x=cross

xpost

The real question is, when you read "xpost", do you say it in your head as "cross post" or "ecks post"?

I go with the latter.

A crosspost is usually understood to be a post made to multiple threads, newsgroups, or what have you. However, I guess I'm not thinking imaginatively enough:

you need to cross a post in order to reply to the intended one.

I'll buy that.

A crosspost is usually understood to be a post made to multiple threads, newsgroups, or what have you.

This is what I thought it was meant to mean, but couldn't ever fathom where all the crossposted posts were hiding. It had long confused me. I'm pleased to finally become privvy to the alternate ILX usage of the phrase. Hopefully things will make more sense from now on.

Someone all 'splain to me this 4-2-4 thing.

I think we need to adopt "4-2-4" or similar as a convenient shorthand to convey to Louis when he needs to stop explaining something

-- That mong guy that's shit, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 13:54 (8 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Yah but what is the thing?

I DON'T KNOW THE THING

After England got knocked out of the European Soccerball Championships, there was a lot of piss-taking of the manager's choice of team formation. He set England up as 4-5-1, which basically means four defenders, 5 midfielders and 1 striker. Most fans would have preferred the team to play 4-4-2, which is usually a more attacking line-up. So now 4-5-1 means "you are very wrong" and 4-4-2 means "OTM". 4-2-4 is a joke about telling LouJag when to chill a little.

4-2-4 is a very ambitious, idealistid formation, and one that requires a superb defence and a good solid centre to work properly. The essence is that I am too inexperienced to carry off some of my arguments, and too prone to unnecessary posting. It was something that sprang out of a football-related discussion earlier today on ILE, was readily adopted, and put to subsequent use by several members of the... (in such an instance as this would 4-2-4 be employed)

Oh my goodness no wonder I could not riddle it out.

4-2-4 is also a desperate formation employed by a team that is losing and needs to get a goal quick sharp. And has a shit midfield.

cf. Mick McCarthy on Tactics, 1994-2007

I thought it was mebbe reduced 36-24-36...no sense was made.

This is where you say "lol you wacky limeys".

I WILL SAY NO SUCH THING.

i love it when you english tell stories about your silly games

If it was some cricket thing I would say such a thing.

louis sometime you should tell the story of the time duncan mcrooningham scored five tries in the soccerball championship against wembertonshire

i think he won the golden socks trophy

pip pip, he scored a Hunter's Trifle in that one, he did.

McCrooningham was perhaps the finest linecocker never to represent Scotland. I think there's a youtube vid of the wonderful pipecock he scored against Rutland Memorable in 1973.

think they were using the famed, possibly illegal, 5-5-6 formation

those were the days, before the magna carta was signed

and they used a pubmasters head for a ball

The formation was legal until 1978, when it was banned by the Soccerball World Council after Terry Guano's near-hernia in that year's Mother Teresa Cup final.

An American equivalent would, be, say, 8/14-.003-(10+3)/12, reflecting the time that poor Omaha Colonoscopy semislider Hacken Burl Hackenbacker attempted to howitzer his spindrift into the seventeenth landgrab, without accounting for the unusually vertical scrimmage. You can find him now, playing guitar in his pop's basement, whimpering.

4-2-4^^

okay i get it now

MAN ON

TO FEET

A moot point, as the next year a stray peat fragment struck and shattered McCrooningham's tibia in the aftermath of the Rebellion of Secessional Heifers (1712)

he later coached cheltlandham-lancaster SBC to the buckingham palace finals

[in comics when i was a kid the names of fictional football teams were always made like that, by putting together parts of two real clubs. Everport featured a lot.]

i used to root for the new york-new jersey metrostars

now i dont pay any attention to the new york red bull

Remember when Arseham were the finest Strollers in the Beefeater's League?

I'm a Rochdale Hypotheticals man m'self.

4-2-4 is a very ambitious, idealistid formation, and one that requires a superb defence and a good solid centre to work properly. The essence is that I am too inexperienced to carry off some of my arguments, and too prone to unnecessary posting. It was something that sprang out of a football-related discussion earlier today on ILE, was readily adopted, and put to subsequent use by several members of the... (in such an instance as this would 4-2-4 be employed)it to still be 1924 for anyone to fucking use it unless they have three minutes to put two past Doncaster in the play-off semis.

-- Just got offed, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 22:18 (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

cf. Mick McCarthy on Tactics 1994-2007

Dear Americans: Mick McCarthy is what Guy Smiley was renamed when Sesame Street was shown on UK television

Well, in that division, I always preferred Haversham Warcraft for some reason. Must have been their flamboyant opsimath manager, Percy Carriage-Clock. xxxp

ffffffft Haversham Warcraft are a bunch of TOSSERS

Yeah, Geoff Butthurt was the worst goalfelcher of all time.

Dear Americans: Mick McCarthy is what Guy Smiley was renamed when Sesame Street was shown on UK television he got so lost in that curtain he bashed his nose against a wall

-- Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 22:49 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

Somewhere along the line, everyone on this thread started speaking in some indecipherable language.

2-3-5.

MY HEAD

8-13-21.

http://www.hotinhollywood.tv/photos/uncategorized/2007/08/15/margarita150807.jpg

2-3-5.

-- libcrypt, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 22:53 (45 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

lol Ardiles as Spurs manager

lemon party (against scurvy)

The Franklin Party v. Robert Falcon Scott v. Shackleton

http://intricateart.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/425fortune.jpg

Shackleton Arrangers are a pretty decent side.

34-55-89.

v. Stan Curbishley and his renowned 'braggadocio' defensive dance arrangements

4-8-15-16-23-42

Hut! Hut! Hut!

see a girl walkin' down the street
just the kind of girl that I'd like to meet
it ain't her hair, her clothes, her feet
somethin' much more discreet
now I ain't loud baby I ain't proud
I just want what I'm not allowed
movin on up & help myself
do a world of good for my mental health
36-24-36
something's brookin' that needs to be fixed
I don't know how to tell you this but
I'm getting bored and I need some kicks
like 36-24-36
man-o man-o man-o man
I got a red hot plan if you understand
cannot fail it's plain to see
I'm have'n fun and makin' money
I know this summer's gonna be the best
if I don't die from lack of rest
experience what my daddy said
that's what I got just like he said
36-24-36
something was broke but I got it fixed
I don't know if I should tell you this
but I was gettin' bored and I got my kicks
like 36-24-36
somethings special 'bout her personality
somethings special 'bout her psysiology
36-24-36
I want lots of pretty chicks
36-24-36
I want lots of pretty chicks
36-24-36
I want lots of pretty chicks
36-24-36
I want lots of...

Mystic Max has spoken. He's even got the two-in-a-row that always happens. If I could be arsed I'd buy a ticket.

Put the Christ back in Christpost

the x in xpost is a substitute crucifix for christ