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When do *I* get to have *my* rebound relationship?
It just isn't fair.

-- Super-Masonic Black Hole (masonicboo...) (webmail), August 6th, 2004 9:23 AM. (kate) (link)

― dean? (deangulberry), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i've edited books by ivy league professors that are gramatically challenged.
-- ||amateur!st|| (||...) (webmail), August 6th, 2004 7:33 AM. (amateurist) (link)

― dean? (deangulberry), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

See, where's the hilarity in that one?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

(That's precisely what I mean by anti-intellectual.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

impersonal pronoun vs. grammatically challenged inanimate object, and spelling to boot

― common_person (common_person), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.bahga.com/paul/Pictures/University_of_Waterloo/cheer-camp-booty.jpg
TO BOOTY

― common_person (common_person), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

GODFUCKINGDAMMIT

― common_person (common_person), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh, "professors" is spelled correctly. I'm not sure what you mean by "impersonal pronoun vs. grammatically challenged inanimate object." (The only pronoun I see is the "I" in "I've.")

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i cannot believe you are even trying to question our sense of humor.

everyone gets the joke but you.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

If you want to argue that the sentence contains a misplaced modifier, you might have a case. (Is it the books that are grammatically challenged, or the professors?) But given the fact that the sentence is fairly short, I don't think it has the potential to be misread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

All jocularity/sarcasm/irony aside, Jaymc, the level to which you are reading into things is highly amateur!st!c.

― thorHmono (Thor), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

besides, it's not like you know any of us.

― thorHmono (Thor), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

There's something mean-spirited about it, I gather, and when Amateurist writes a well-thought-out post with several five-dollar words, and then NOIZE DOODZ come in and poke him with a stick and ROFFLE, it strikes me as vaguely anti-intellectual. But maybe I'm just not getting it.
-- jaymc (jmcunnin...) (webmail), August 6th, 2004 2:10 PM. (jaymc) (link) (admin)
jaymc = amateurist?

-- dean? (¢¾¢ilx_omg_wtf¼¢...) (webmail), August 6th, 2004 2:33 PM. (deangulberry) (link) (admin) (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)

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Yeah, good detective work, Dean. I'm Amateurist. You've cracked the case.

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...) (webmail), August 6th, 2004 2:36 PM. (jaymc) (link) (admin) (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)

― dean? (deangulberry), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

besides, it's not like you know any of us.

I have no fucking clue who you are, you're right.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 6 August 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)


The problem is either using an impersonal pronoun ("that") to describe people ("professors"), a grammatical no-no (should be "who"), or, if you read it differently, then the books are "grammatically challenged", which is kind of stretching things, anthropomorphization-wise.  OK, that's not a huge error, but I wouldn't call him on it except the content of the post begs for it.  I think you figured out the spelling mistake.

The other problem is that THIS IS AN INTERNET MESSAGE BOARD AND NOTHING MATTERS

― common_person (common_person), Friday, 6 August 2004 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.helding.net/chief-joseph.jpg
I WILL BASH AMATEURIST NO MORE FOREVER

― common_person (common_person), Friday, 6 August 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

There's no way that the "that" in that sentence is intended to refer to "professors" unless you either have no concept of grammar rules or are actively looking for a mistake. It's awkward but it isn't wrong.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 6 August 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.eteamz.com/FLBigten/images/umpire.jpg

― common_person (common_person), Friday, 6 August 2004 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn skippy.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 6 August 2004 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

HI DAN

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 6 August 2004 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

HI DAN
-- cutty (holle...), August 6th, 2004 12:25 AM. (mcutt)

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 7 August 2004 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

COMMON PERSON I RECALL A USAISAMONSTER SONG

― thorHmono (Thor), Saturday, 7 August 2004 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

http://ryeuhh.250free.com/LOL.gif

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 8 August 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex, you like good music. How do you find time to learn about crap?
-- Red Panda Sanskrit

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

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Suzy, are you constitutionally incapable of writing a post without suggesting you know someone famous?

-- eclectic_glamazon (eclectic_glamazo...), August 10th, 2004.

― wow (Vic), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 09:09 (twenty-one years ago)

hargh!

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 09:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Jon, not everyone who is sick of you is European.
-- VengaDan Perry (djperr...) (webmail), August 10th, 2004 6:15 AM. (Dan Perry) (link)

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I think the only thing to be sick of at this point is people talking about me.
-- Red Panda Sanskrit (jonathan.william...) (webmail), August 10th, 2004 6:15 AM. (ex machina) (link)

― dean? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish I lived in America.

-- jel -- (freeduni...), August 10th, 2004. (jel) (later)

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"I don't even know who you are"

it's like home alone meets the 400 blows

-- cutty (holle...), August 10th, 2004. (mcutt) (later)

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

O U WIN

― dean? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

YES! CHICAGO + FRANCE + AMATEUR!ST QUOTE = ROFFLE

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm honoured, I think.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

my prob is that i will sometimes overcompensate for my wanting to escape (and consequent feelings of guilty for same) by being too nice, offering to go for another round of drinks, etc., thus condemning myself to several more hours of near-torture. strangely though, i'm not good at all at feigning interest in people .

-- |a|m|t|r|s|t| (|a|m|t|r|s|t...), August 10th, 2004.

― Vic (Vic), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

strangely indeed, also, hi Vic!

― dean? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I've always wondered where the women go during winter, too.
-- oops (don'temailmenicelad...), August 10th, 2004 7:40 PM. (later)

they come party at my house.

-- ken c (pykachu10...) (webmail), August 10th, 2004 1:01 PM. (ken c) (link)

― dean? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

my stuff didn't make the cut. : (

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, it took the emphasis away from PIMP DADDY KEN C

― dean? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

please, BELLE AND SEBASTIAN fans.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

No way, dude. They come party at his house.

― dean? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

you should go for the japanese porn - they sometimes build it up for ages! you'd be like "bloody hell get on with it", like, and like then they start getting it on and holy shit this girl gets raped for 4 hours before getting bukkaked upon.

-- ken c (pykachu10...) (webmail), August 10th, 2004 12:58 PM. (ken c) (link)

― dean? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I wasn't suggesting there was, Jon - I've never visited there. I am a 45 year old systems analyst, and not at all a noise dude.
-- Martin Skidmore (lonewolf.cu...) (webmail), August 10th, 2004 1:06 PM. (Martin Skidmore) (link)

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Ok, I'm pretty sure there isn't. Mostly name calling there.
I'm a 22 year old "application developer / systems administrator"

-- Red Panda Sanskrit (jonathan.william...) (webmail), August 10th, 2004 1:12 PM. (ex machina) (link)

― dean? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

ken c sucks

― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I hear that he has a party house!

― dean? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah if you go there, you get bukkaked upon!!!!

have fun.

― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I would rather not think of ken c bing, please.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

K CING ON YO TS

― dean? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

so that's what the C stands for?

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

It certainly doesn't stand for "charming."

― dean? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

VITAMIN KEN C ON YO TS

― dean? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

the c stands for cuntyface?

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Skipping 596 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

i dated a real sociopath once. jon isn't even close.

― Laura E (laurae55), Monday, 25 October 2004 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.kein-plan.de/bitte-ziehen-sie-durch/pics/Bush_-_American_Psycho.jpg

― amateur!!!!st (ex machina), Monday, 25 October 2004 05:35 (twenty-one years ago)

sometimes in the grip of existential panic (like at 3am alone in bed) i wonder why i am such a lame-o when it comes to picking up girls and such. i mean, i'll be dead an awful long time, why am i wasting so much time trying to mitigate against rejection and other such bullshit? but whenever i am hanging out with some girl, i can't recapture that state of galvinizing panic and revert instead to shyness and etc....

how do i harness my existential panic when it's needed most?!?!?!?!

-- amateur!!!st (---...) (webmail), October 24th, 2004 2:29 AM. (amateurist) (later) (link)

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Monday, 25 October 2004 05:42 (twenty-one years ago)

actually it didn't even offend me the first time, jon. i just thought it was an opportune moment to offer the opinion that you and others here seem to exhibit sociopathic behavior in your eager attempts to offend and to transgress the boundaries of internet decorum for the sake of being transgressive.

so, i was thinking particularly of the following "symptoms":

- Need for stimulation/proneness to boredom
- Lack of remorse or guilt
- Callous/lack of empathy

i'm judging only from the evidence available on ilx, of course. perhaps ilx suffices as an outlet for sociopathic tendencies, and you're perfectly normal IRL; in which case i think we've got a bit of a raw deal.

anyway i met a swedish guy who lives in rochester. he says it's cold, which struck me as funny, since he's from sweden.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 25 October 2004 06:20 (twenty-one years ago)

What about Dean?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 October 2004 06:22 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't think dean is from sweden.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 25 October 2004 06:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Good point.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 October 2004 06:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I only ask because I find Dean the most inscrutable, actually.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 October 2004 06:26 (twenty-one years ago)

amateurist, why do you post on noise boarD????

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Monday, 25 October 2004 06:38 (twenty-one years ago)

also I just posted this and you go and be a creep (psychoanalyzing strangers on the internet)

gabba gabba we accept you we accept you one of us gabba gabba

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Monday, 25 October 2004 06:40 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm not a perfect person. there are many things i wish i didnt do
but i continue learning. i never meant to do those things to you.
and so i have to say before i go, that i just want you to know

i've found a reason for me, to change who i used to be
a reason to start over new, and the reason is you

i'm sorry that i hurt, its something i must live with everyday
and all the pain i put you through, i wish that i could take it all away
and be the one who catches all your tears, thats why i need you to hear

i'm not a perfect person, i never meant to do those things to you
and so i have to say before i go that i just want you to know

i've found a reason for me, to change who i used to be
a reason to start over new, and the reason is you
i've found a reason to show a side of me you didnt know
a reason for all that i do, and the reason is you

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 25 October 2004 06:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Detachment Kit - search and destroy

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 25 October 2004 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost, swedish guy in rochester? DIGITZ PLZ

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 25 October 2004 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

GOOD ON SO MANY LEVELS.

Ah fuck off you goldfish-brained loser. You and your little fucking vandal dickhead friends can just shove your ADD druggie toss up your collective arses. Fuck off back to BRIGHT COLOURS AND CAPITAL LETTERS WORLD and everyone'll be happier. Dick.

-- Markelby (boyincorduro...), October 25th, 2004. (later)

BRIGHT COLOURS AND CAPITAL LETTERS WORLD = AMAZING!

― ALLMUSIC.COM (ddb), Monday, 25 October 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Jaymc doesn't like me ;..(

― identity theftor (deangulberry), Monday, 25 October 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

who cares?

― ALLMUSIC.COM (ddb), Monday, 25 October 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Jaymc does, I think.

― identity theftor (deangulberry), Monday, 25 October 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Dean, I only said you were inscrutable!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 October 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

(which you are)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 October 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Inscrutable because I'm baffled what YOU have against ME, but so it goes, you know?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 October 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't even know who you are!

― identity theftor (deangulberry), Monday, 25 October 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

WOKKA WOKKA

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 October 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

d'oh!
Shamhain. Or however the fuck you spell it.

-- ian g (igre...), October 23rd, 2004. (later)

― ALLMUSIC.COM (ddb), Monday, 25 October 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Glenn Danzig = little troll man

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 25 October 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

ambient music dosent really inspire binge drinking as say, thin lizzy does.

-- ALLMUSIC.COM (stupidpum...), October 25th, 2004. (later)

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 25 October 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

thin lizzy inspires binge killing.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

binge rocking, you mean

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

At the time, I would have changed it if it was a photo of breasts too. Thankfully the image parser managed to do that for us all when Calum tried to post the breasts. Whatever. If you want penises hanging out on the screen, by all means. I've dangled the dong back onto that post and changed it to NSFW in the thread title, if that's what you really want ILX to look like.

-- Sean Carruthers (oneiro...), October 21st, 2004 8:44 AM. (SeanC) (later)

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Who's doing it better right now?
-- kaiser wilhelm (braniga...)

The Strokes
-- sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (hot.air.balloo...)

The Faint
-- sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (hot.air.balloo...)

The Rapture
-- sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (hot.air.balloo...)

The Yeah Yeah Mehs
-- sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (hot.air.balloo...)

Les Savy Fav
-- sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (hot.air.balloo...)

!!!
-- sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (hot.air.balloo...)

Wolf Eyes
-- sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (hot.air.balloo...)

Sonic Youth
-- sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (hot.air.balloo...)

Oneida
-- sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (hot.air.balloo...)

J Mascis
-- sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (hot.air.balloo...)

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Artist: GOOD BEAT
Title: DANCE TO IT
Album:
Year:
Composer:
Genre:

-- TOMBOT (kid...) (webmail), October 26th, 2004 10:58 PM. (later) (link)

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't want to live in a world where mr. rogers is not a sniper.

-- ryan (augustuscaesar2...) (webmail), October 27th, 2004 9:43 PM. (ryan) (later) (link)

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.google.com/images?q=why+are+people+so+mean%3F&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&client=firefox-a&start=0&sa=N

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

ELLIOTT SMITH NEW CD---

THIS ONE IS FOR DEAN GULBERRY

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

TOM YOU TELLING PEOPLE TO CHILL IS LIKE HITLER TELLING PEOPLE TO BE NICER TO JEWS.

-- Allyzay Science Explosion (allyza...), October 27th, 2004. (allyzay) (later)

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

IT IS FREE
THAT SHOULD APPEAL TO YOU

-- identity theftor (power.strik...) (webmail), October 27th, 2004 11:14 PM. (deangulberry) (later) (link) (admin) (207.105.246.23)

THAT'S LIKE FREE PAPER CUTS.

-- Ian John50n (dr.carl.saga...) (webmail), October 27th, 2004 11:16 PM. (orion) (later) (link) (admin) (64.6.189.42)

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

That reminds me, did I ever mention that I had an AIM chat in, like, 1995 with someone who claimed to be Phil Rudd of AC/DC? I never knew why anyone would want to impersonate him -- he wasn't trying to pick me up or anything and seemed genuinely interested in whether the younger generation still listened to AC/DC -- so I always wondered if it was actually him.

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...) (webmail), October 25th, 2004 1:55 PM. (jaymc) (later) (link)

(I had no idea who he was, btw. I mean, I'd heard of AC/DC, but that's about it.)

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...) (webmail), October 25th, 2004 1:55 PM. (jaymc) (later) (link)

Same thing happened to me but it was someone claiming to be in Polvo. I didn't know who they were.

-- roxymuzak (emilysu...) (webmail), October 25th, 2004 2:08 PM. (roxymuzak) (later) (link)

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

MUHAHAHAHA

― identity theftor (deangulberry), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I would've been much more excited about Ash Bowie IMing me!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

was your AIM ID = marytimony4eva?

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw Mary Timony open for Erase Errata with V for Vendetta or some womynist shit.

It sucked

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

well if she was a guy named devendra and played the same songs would you be more impressed?

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

no.

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/vegan_meat/

MORE IMPRESSIVE

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

i wish the links for "Pain Acid" and "Tears at Night" worked

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Fisting is gentle.

-- Casuistry (chri...), October 28th, 2004 1:19 AM. (Chris Piuma) (later) (link)

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 28 October 2004 04:23 (twenty-one years ago)

the feeding of ann coulter! solely for Jon's entrance

― Laura E (laurae55), Friday, 29 October 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Casuistry meant "gentile".

― adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 29 October 2004 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

i think you mean "genteel".

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 29 October 2004 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i can't take sides. however, i will pretend they're fighting a war in a region of outer space where it's 1973 forever.

-- el sabor de gene (yn...), October 29th, 2004. (later)

(on Hawkwind & Sabbath)

― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 29 October 2004 05:00 (twenty-one years ago)

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