June 30, 2004
IT'S A WRAP
Tom of Hilarity Ensues has taken it upon himself to
wrap up the 2015 series. You remember
the 2015 series, right?
Anyway, it's got blood and violence and guns and knives and explodey things.
The only question left is whether Jeff's going to tack on an epilogue.
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TODAY'S LOVE NOTE
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Introduction)
Love is the binding that holds you to your dreams. Love does not come over you, rather you choose to love. Only when you choose to love one forever and you stand by that dedication of love will you truly love for life and live happily every after.
(CAUTION: Romantics beware - comments may contain naughtiness)
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If I promise to love you forever, can I bind you and come over you?
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TODAY'S GRAFFITI CURRENCY
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Attempting to thow a bone to the liberals, President Bush appointed Michael Moore as Secretary of the Treasury. The results were predictable.
What was less predictable was that Moore agreed to resign his post after the complete production run of the new bill was shoved up his ass by Donald Rumsfeld.
(Hat tip to the delightful SondraK of Knowledge Is Power for the pic)
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Fucking prick... Michale Moore... not you
Posted by: Madfish Willie at July 01, 2004 09:18 AM (MpARC)
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What was less predictable was that Moore agreed to resign his post after the complete production run of the new bill was shoved up his ass by Donald Rumsfeld.
What was not surprising was that the entire run fit with plenty of room to spare.
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RR - LOL!
MW - I am too a prick!
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BLOGOSPHERE POLITICAL COMPASS PROJECT
Sandor of
The Zoo has
the first draft of a chart indicating the political positions of various & sundry bloggers. He'll be updating it twice monthly as an ongoing thing, so you can still get your spot on the graph of fame. All the how-to's
can be found here.
I can't help noticing that no-one's fallen into "Left Authoritarian" quadrant yet. Where the hell is the League of Liberals when you need them?
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DAMN IT!! Is It a sphere or Is It sand??!!?
Brain hurt Tom confused.
Posted by: blogless brother at July 01, 2004 07:08 AM (6cyEp)
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I need to retake this test. Last time I came out in the same quadrant as Ghandi. That's fine, he was a great guy, but I'm the person who thinks when we find a terrorist that has beheaded an American that we should kill his whole family, destroy his house and salt the Earth. Hardly Ghandi-like.
Posted by: Boudicca at July 01, 2004 08:04 AM (FnSa2)
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Tom definitely confused, because I don't think this is the right post for that comment.
Oh well. Anyway this should confuse you even more. It's the original post from the guy who coined the term:
http://www.iw3p.com/DailyPundit/2001_12_30_dailypundit_archive.php#8315120
The post itself is just crap. The comment makes more sense.
Ah screw it. It's a big ball of sand :-)
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AIR AMERICA'S EXCUSES
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A PRECISION GUIDED HUMOR ASSIGNMENT)
Air America, the sleazy, pathetic commercial propaganda arm of the DNC, is having (and I'm being polite here) a few minor financial difficulties, and may not last much longer. When it finally goes off the air in bankrupt humiliation (my dead pool pick is February - I figure they'll be completely irrelevant after the inauguration), there's going to be lots of finger-pointing and blame passed around. There's also going to be a dervish of spin put on the "why" of the failure, and I expect it to give rise to such excuses as the following:
Contract with Satan guaranteeing Air America's success found invalid due to not being signed in blood.
Al Franken's thick glasses kept accidentally setting the studio on fire.
Randi Rhodes didn't talk about her nipples enough.
Too much money wasted on salaries, not enought spent on bribes to Clear Channel executives.
Rush Limbaugh depleted the nation's supply of Oxycontin, so not enough was available to make Air America's hosts witty and insightful.
Digital brownshirts kept smashing people's radios
Al Franken is Jewish, so Bushitler had him gassed.
The fact that Al Franken is still alive does NOT disprove this theory.
Air America staff constantly attacked by vicious hordes of rats and cockroaches, who, apparently, didn't appreciate the competition.
The Air America signal simply wouldn't carry. Not surprising, since vibrations in the electomagnetic spectrum tend to vote Republican.
Nobody was buying commerical spots. Even a NAMBLA spokesman was quoted as saying "we don't want our reputation soiled by these degenerates".
Air America had to shut down because of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance laws, which expressly forbid such things as speaking in direct support of a candidate, or speaking at all if you're dumber than a bucket of monkey spunk.
Although Al Franken created a lot of great material he would often flush the toilet before it could be retrieved.
I tell ya, I'll be sorry to see 'em go...
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!
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"Randi Rhodes didn't talk about her nipples enough."
::shudder::
Posted by: physics geek at July 01, 2004 07:28 AM (Xvrs7)
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Randi Rhodes was from down here. I found her to be the most irritating talking head in the world. I was amazed when she got picked up. She had full plastic surgery, she was damn ugly, and when they finished, she was still ugly. Blech.
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Oops. Sorry. Me again. Sometimes I forget to enter ANY information!
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NOTE-IT POSTS: A YEAR OF STICKY THOUGHTS
Dana of Note-It Posts
celebrates 1 year of blogging today, with a little year in review post.
One of my favorite sections:
September 27, 2003 I posted who would be in my fantasy blogger harem.
October 3, 2003 I offered my boobies for charity (how's THAT for a welfare replacement?).
October 4, 2003 I began participating in miniluv's week-long Good News Blogging Challenge.
October 7, 2003 was the date of my first Top Ten - the Top Ten Reasons Not to Vote for Howard Dean.
November 17, 2003 - my first Linkified Lyrics, Toby Kieth's I Love This Bar.
December 3, 2003 I launched Bloggers With Boobies. Bloggers Who Support Bloggers With Boobies followed on December 7th.
I gotta run to work now, so you'll have to go to Dana's place for the linkified versions of these lines.
As a consolation, I'll give you the link to a picture of her in a slightly-too-thin cotton camisole.
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June 29, 2004
MORE PROBLEM SOLVING
Ok, so now you've snuck in to see Flabbyass 9 1/2 (or whatever the hell it's called) and you've taken some notes and you're all set to rip His Hugeness a new one.
Then you realize that there are about 6.02x1023 different lies that need fisking. What a daunting task! Whatever will you do?
Via Physics Geek, I've learned that you can go to Fahrenheit Fact and see which chunks-o-crap have already been neutralized. Link the best, fisk the rest, and still have time to go out drinking.
Or just download the site to your PDA, go out drinking anyway, and read it over while you're nursing the hangover the next morning. Whichever.
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Posted by: Madfish Willie at June 30, 2004 12:19 AM (0pRbT)
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The warning that MW forgot to give:
VERY disgusting vomiting picture. Not safe except for the jaded and callous.
Although it certainly sums up MY feelings.
Posted by: Harvey at June 30, 2004 02:06 PM (ubhj8)
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Hahaha... I thought I would
bushwack suckerpunch everybody!
Posted by: Madfish Willie at June 30, 2004 02:59 PM (0pRbT)
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A post referring to Avogadro's number. Be still my heart.
I DID mention that I'm a geek, right?
Posted by: physics geek at June 30, 2004 03:20 PM (Xvrs7)
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PG - even if you didn't, the fact that you spelled "Avogadro" right is a pretty good sign :-)
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TODAY'S LOVE NOTE
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Introduction)
Speak softly my love, hold me close against your heart... because my life is yours
(CAUTION: Romantics beware - comments may contain naughtiness)
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So please don't kill me for sleeping with your sister.
Posted by: Harvey at June 29, 2004 10:37 PM (ubhj8)
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How's that song go - "I died in your arms tonight"?
Posted by: _Jon at June 30, 2004 08:49 AM (grH7t)
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and by "heart", i mean chest.
Posted by: sarahk at June 30, 2004 07:05 PM (HtWwm)
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...and by "chest", I mean boobies.
...and by "boobies", I mean big squishy ones with perky nipples.
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TODAY'S GRAFFITI CURRENCY
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As always, when looking between the amount you're paid and the amount you've actually earned, you'll find someone from the government with an arrogant little smirk on his face.
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LOL, that's pretty witty there, Harv.
Posted by: sarahk at June 29, 2004 11:23 PM (HtWwm)
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YAY! I made Sarah laugh at one of these!
[insert rhythmless-white-boy happy-dance]
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Posted by: Madfish Willie at June 30, 2004 03:00 PM (0pRbT)
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MW - Of COURSE you don't get it. Welfare checks don't have taxes withheld. If you got yourself a REAL job, you'd know that those smirking government tax monkeys take a good portion of your gross pay :-P
Posted by: Harvey at June 30, 2004 04:14 PM (ubhj8)
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Where the fuck does it say anything about Welfare Checks?
Posted by: Madfish Willie at June 30, 2004 04:49 PM (0pRbT)
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i laugh at them often.
dance some more!
Posted by: sarahk at June 30, 2004 07:07 PM (HtWwm)
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Dance, Monkeyboy, Dance!
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Note to self - say something about monkeys & watch the Bartender get distracted :-)
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BLASPHEMOUS EXPLETIVE
Ya know what I love about lefties? It's the way they respect everybody's diversity of opinion and never let a civilized discourse devolve into a series of ad hominem attacks. It's the way they keep a conversation rooted in fact and never let strong emotions cloud their judgement. It's...
Screw it. I can't do this with a straight face.
That, and I'm pretty well pissed.
Remember Michele? She's that nice lady I blogged about recently with the Showcase entry who'd had a political epiphany and abandoned the left for greener pastures.
I also mentioned that some of her former friends reacted by taking a virtual crap in her comments, so I asked the kind-hearted among you to give her some support. A lot of people did, and she appreciated it.
Some of her former friends, however, decided that the best way to deal with the situation was to hijack her blog. Straight up destroy the content and leave a rude message on the scorched earth where some fine writing once stood. Just in case the cowards cut & run, here's a screenshot of their handiwork:
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Unable to respond in any rational manner they showed their true pack-of-diseased-hyena colors by stealing intellectual property and issuing threats.
I'm suprised there weren't any giant puppets involved.
On the bright side, Michele managed to transfer all her old posts to a new site and will continue blogging in the face of despicable thuggery.
To the miserable pieces of shit that perpetrated the offense:
Fuck you.
And the horse you rode in on.
And the little dog that followed your horse into town.
Especially that little dog.
Assholes.
UPDATE 6-30-04 12:10AM: Blogspot has removed the offending site. Good thing I've got the screenshot as proof.
more...
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Sounds like she should be a MuNuvian!!! Why don't you drop Pixy an e-mail?
Posted by: Madfish Willie at June 29, 2004 07:30 PM (0pRbT)
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Why is it that we never hear about people on the right doing things like this?
"Liberals: Crushing your dissent, then claiming to be more open-minded than you."
What a wonderful philosophy. Hypocrites.
Posted by: CD at June 29, 2004 07:38 PM (f97u+)
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Oh, and if you're wondering what inspired that comment,
Moorewatch was hit by a Denial of Service attack recently, presumably by Mikey Moore fans who disagreed with them.
Posted by: CD at June 29, 2004 07:40 PM (f97u+)
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Holy sh--! I don't even know what to say! Let me get this straight... these are liberals, who are all about free speech... right? I mean aren't they the ones that are angry about FCC sanctions etc?
Posted by: Boudicca at June 29, 2004 07:45 PM (oshZe)
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Assholes. Good for her though. Don't let the bastards get ya down.
Posted by: Tammi at June 29, 2004 08:09 PM (UTT/j)
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To tell you the truth I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often. Check out Slashdot comments - there's a LOT of liberalism in them thar computer geeks. I think most of them find hacking blogs to be beneath them and that's the only thing that has saved us so far.
But be prepared. If blogs gain as much influence as people who blog believe they can - there will be more and more incidents like this - on all types of blogs. I just hope that site defacement doesn't pick up the allure it held in the mid 90's. It was almost a requirement to deface a site if you wanted to call yourself a true hacker/cracker. *sigh*
Posted by: Teresa at June 29, 2004 10:05 PM (nAfYo)
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Madfish is right, let's ask her over to Munu.
I cannot believe this happened. It's exactly why I wanted to avoid voting in the Showcase, but I cannot believe it's already turned to this. Thank goodness Michele had the sense to fight back rather than take the easy route of giving up.
Posted by: Simon at June 29, 2004 10:38 PM (OyeEA)
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Remember, we on the Right are the Digital Brownshirts! I mean, it's our job to act like boorish louts, shut down sites we don't like, and be cruel to those that fall away from the Truth.
But oddly, the Left is doing such a fine job, I think we'll need to start kicking kittens and drinking puppies just to get back in the running.
Posted by: Russell at June 29, 2004 10:47 PM (u5uqs)
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Ok, I put up a post at Ellis Island. Go give her a "YAY!"
http://ellisisland.mu.nu/archives/033913.php
Posted by: Harvey at June 29, 2004 11:46 PM (ubhj8)
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LOL! Harvey, you are one of the less than astute persons waxing outraged over the entry I wrote saying blogging is a mixed bag. And, at the same time, you are proving what I said is accurate.
This incident is exactly the kind of misbehavior common in the blogosphere that people, especially newbies, need to know about. So is your effort to put a needless political spin on it. (Hat tip to CD.) I will try to remember to revisit the topic in an upcoming Blogospherics column. For now, newcomers should know:
1) There are many issues involved in having comments sections (including the fact that Blogger does not offer built-in support). You will want to weigh whether you want the hassle before deciding.
2) Your password for your main blog should be guarded. The friend you gave it to on Monday will transmogrify into an enemy and spam or erase your site Friday. Ditto for hosting. You probably want to stick with the bigger, impersonal blog hosts, not your pal Frank who is offering you space on his server cheap . . . until he thinks you crossed him in some way.
I've a couple of issues for Harvey, he who criticizes people who know what they are talking about while doing a bad job himself.
1) This entry, rambling and poorly written, and used as an opportunity to take pot shots at one's political 'enemies' exemplifies bad blogging.
2) The word 'exemplify' is used properly in the sentence above. It is not used properly as an introduction in your comments section, Harvey. Exemplifies means demonstrates. You need to use a a word synonymous with 'says' to introduce comments.
Posted by: Mac Diva at June 30, 2004 01:10 PM (lDKyE)
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Correction: I misread CD. Apparently, he is another member of this little Right Wing circle jerk.
Posted by: Mac Diva at June 30, 2004 01:14 PM (lDKyE)
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Mac Diva:
You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down the evolutionary chain at you. Even sheep won't have sex with you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot.
And what meaning do you expect your delusional self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake?
You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile one-handed slack-jawed drooling meat slapper.
On a good day you are a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wall paper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go.
You smarmy lagerlout git. You bloody woofer sod. Bugger off pillock. You grotty wanking oik artless base-court apple-john. You clouted boggish foot-licking twit.You churlish boil-brained clotpole ponce. You gormless crook-pated tosser. You craven dewberry pisshead cockup patting naff. You gob kissing gleeking flap-mouthed coxcomb. You dread-bolted fobbing beef-witted clapper-clawed flirt-gill.
You are a fiend and a coward, and you have bad breath. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you, and wish you would go away.
You Socialist Shitstains For Stalin™.
Fuck you if you donÂ’t like it, so forward any objections to your Anal cavity .
Posted by: Madfish Willie at June 30, 2004 03:06 PM (0pRbT)
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And if you give Harvey any more shit, you'll be on the list for
Clobberin' Time... I've seen
Clobberin' Time, and it ain't pretty....
Posted by: Madfish Willie at June 30, 2004 03:11 PM (0pRbT)
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Wow. So I gather I now know what a troll is? Me thinks she is ranting on your blog so she can increase her ecosystem standings. That is all. I say ignore her and definitely nobody LINK to her! Blech.
OH, And I'm going to try to stay on MW's good side. I think that "
What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake?" may very well have been my favorite. LOL!
Posted by: Boudicca at June 30, 2004 03:25 PM (wLXgf)
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Wait... how am *I* the one putting the political spin on this? Did you NOT read what Michele's enemies put on the hijacked blog space?
Oh, and exemplifies doesn't mean "demonstrates" it means "
illustrates by example or serves as an example of"
I chose "exemplified", not because I think that a comment is an exemplification, but because it fit the "Example" theme, and it wasn't too big of a conceptual stretch, definitionally, since a comment can be thought of as an "example" of what someone thinks.
Look, I'm a silly guy and I say silly things. I know what words mean, and I'm quite familiar with the rules of grammar and punctuation. I will bend or break those rules as I see fit for purposes of entertainment or communication.
Just out of curiosity, do you go around busting Shakespeare's chops for making up words?
Posted by: Harvey at June 30, 2004 03:29 PM (ubhj8)
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I was just logging back on to harass her about the exemplify thing, but you did it. Have I told you lately, Harvey, how I have lost all tolerance for the self-righteous???
Hugs and kisses from an adoring Blog Daughter!
Posted by: Boudicca at June 30, 2004 03:38 PM (wLXgf)
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I was going to respond to the troll, but then I realized that it wasn't making any sense.
And, of course, MW pretty much said everything I wanted to say.
Posted by: CD at June 30, 2004 04:05 PM (f97u+)
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Um, did Mac Diva say Blogger does not offer built-in comment support? If so, she's wrong. It most certainly does. It's a relatively recent new feature (a couple of months) but it's there if you wanna use it. I was already using HaloScan so I'm sticking with it for now but I can switch over anytime, or use both!
Posted by: RadarRider at June 30, 2004 04:22 PM (OaTVj)
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RR - Mac Diva is WRONG about something?
[eyes bugging in complete shock and horror]
And this line:
"You need to use a a word synonymous with 'says' to introduce comments"
Need?
NEED?
Well, I suppose if my readers all just stepped off the short bus, she might be right. Personally, I give my droppers-by a little credit for being able to make sense of my verbal flippancies.
Maybe she's projecting, based on the 60-watt bulbs that comprise HER readership?
Posted by: Harvey at June 30, 2004 04:35 PM (ubhj8)
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When I first came across "Bad Money", I read everything. Yes, it was funny, pervy and had good links, but it was more than the sum of it's parts. There was a sense of compassion and decency. That is evident now. Harvey, you are a gentleman, Sir!
Posted by: Sally at June 30, 2004 05:52 PM (a1D32)
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[blushing]
aw shucks :-)
Thank goodness I've got the Bartender around for those times when compassion and decency simply Will. Not. Do.
And Sally... don't tell anyone about the compassion & decency thing. I've got my reputation to think of ;-)
Posted by: Harvey at June 30, 2004 11:00 PM (ubhj8)
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I've had the same thing happen to me as happened to Michele; I changed my political views after 9/11 and lost many friends because of that, in a very public way. It was a very difficult thing to go through and I am still dealing with some of my former friends in my comments.
(I couldn't find Michele's email or I would have emailed her directly)
Michele, just stay true to yourself, that's what matters. It's going to be a struggle because the friends you left on the left will now think of you as a enemy; they cannot separate the politics from the personal and they cannot understand people who break out of the flock and refuse to be sheep.
As for Mac Diva, she seems to turn up everywhere, mostly uninvited and spewing lessons on how to blog because she sees herself as some kind of blogging expert who has it all figured out. The only thing she has figured out is how to inflate her own ego with imaginary greatness.
Posted by: michele at July 02, 2004 04:41 AM (c9A+j)
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She's a legend in her own mind!
Posted by: Madfish Willie at July 02, 2004 12:32 PM (yN46R)
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Oh wow -- Madfish Willie you are my hero. I've seen that crusty wankstain Mac Diva's musty anal drippings on too many blog comment sections, not to mention I once made the mistake of reading its own blog. It took me months to rinse the smell of poo out of my computer.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at July 02, 2004 08:24 PM (WNIT4)
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My pleasure, Ms Andrea... there's plenty more where that come from too!
Posted by: Madfish Willie at July 03, 2004 11:35 AM (yN46R)
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Wow! That was truly a thing of beauty, Willie. Makes me homesick for the old days of alt.rec.flame before semi-literacy took over the 'Net.
Been a long time since I've seen "naff", "ponce", "churlish" and "gormless" used properly in context.
Well done, sir.
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June 28, 2004
SUDAN UPDATE: CARING SLIGHTLY MORE, BUT...
Eric of
Straight White Guy sent me a link to
a briefing on Sudan's checkered past involvement in terrorist activities.
That's got my attention, but... 1996?
I'm still looking for a recent threat assessment, and some arguments that it's better for the war effort that we invest our blood in Sudan instead of elsewhere, or whether we really need to keep our boys freed up & flexible, so as to deter the major anal irritants (N. Korea, Iran, Syria) from trying anything funny should they get it in their heads that we don't have the manpower to respond.
UPDATE: 1998 (also from Eric) - a little more informative.
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TODAY'S LOVE NOTE
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Introduction)
In her love, I am the hero, the king, the poet, and alive.
(CAUTION: Romantics beware - comments may contain naughtiness)
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And orgasming like Clinton at an intern convention.
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In her lust, I am the heat, the passion, and the thrust.
Posted by: _Jon at June 29, 2004 09:02 AM (grH7t)
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It's a bit disturbing that "alive" is the LAST criterion here.
Posted by: Sally at June 29, 2004 04:56 PM (a1D32)
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Considering how hard my wife makes me come sometimes, I occasionally have to check on the "alive" part ;-)
Posted by: Harvey at June 29, 2004 10:57 PM (ubhj8)
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Blow the back of her head out sometimes????
Posted by: Madfish Willie at June 29, 2004 11:21 PM (0pRbT)
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MEANWHILE AT ALLIANCE HQ
Precision Guided Humor assignment reminder:
What excuses will Air America come up with to explain their poor performance?
Due Wednesday by 8pm.
Monday Linky Stuff
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i keep thinking that now that i'm in the alliance, i should do one of these assignments. if only you could assign me to not be lazy.
Posted by: sarahk at June 28, 2004 10:02 PM (HtWwm)
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Start doing assignments or I'll spank you!
And not in a happy way ;-)
Ok, so here's the pitch on the PGH. Go to the Air America web site, look at those bitches, read the kind of crap they normally say. They usually blame Bush & the Republicans for everything. Find a "blame-Bush" quote, then change it a little to relate it to AA going out of business. Exaggerate for effect if need be.
Or you can just sit there and look babe-like. Whichever :-)
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hmm. exert effort... sit on my butt looking pretty... hard choice.
Posted by: sarahk at June 29, 2004 09:56 PM (HtWwm)
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mmmm... pretty butt...
And there's your post right there:
Air America went under because the staff was too busy admiring each other's pretty, pretty butts to actually do their assigned programming.
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ARROGANT, IVORY-TOWERED, CLAM-HEADED ELITIST
I went to the Showcase, as I do more or less daily, to check out the new blogging talent on the scene. While there, I found out that Mac Diva of BlogCritics did
a hatchet job on the Showcase site, thinly disguised as a lukewarm endorsement. Simon does
an applause-worthy job of defending both the Showcase and blogging in general against this swath of smarmy condescension, but I want to add my own loving foot-to-gluteous.
The first annoyance is this hoary old canard that blogs don't really count because:
A mere 2% of Adult Internet users maintain Web diaries or Web blogs, according to respondents to this phone survey. In other phone surveys prior to this one, and one more recently fielded in early 2004, we have heard that between 2% and 7% of adult Internet users have created diaries or blogs. In this survey we found that 11% of Internet users have read the blogs or diaries of other Internet users.
So. F******. What?
Is your anal-cranial inversion quotient REALLY so high that you think that popularity is an unerring guide to quality? Statistically speaking, and rounding to three significant digits, 100% of internet users have NEVER heard of Mac Diva. Does that say anything about the quality of Mac Diva's writing, research, or posting? Hardly. It just means she's relatively unknown. Judging quality is the province of people who ARE aware of your existence, NOT of those oblivious.
And what is the non-oblivious Mac Diva's judgement of the blogosphere at large?
As imperfect as the media is, it is leagues ahead of blogs in providing reliable information. Even the best blogs provide very little information, relying on being conduits of opinion, instead.
The big mistake here is assuming that only that which is provided by major media counts as information. I say it depends on what kind of information you're looking for. If you're looking for the doin's & goin's on of elected politicians in Washington DC, then you should probably tune in to CBS. Not many bloggers have those kind of connections. But if you want to know what life is like on a nuclear powered aircraft carrier, or what people are writing on their currency, or how to write a love note that'll make your wife's heart melt, you come to me. I GUARANTEE you Dan Rather doesn't know shit about any of those topics, and even if he did, he sure as hell isn't going to interrupt pimping Clinton's stack of lies to talk about it.
The virtue of the blogosphere is this: EVERYONE is an expert on SOMETHING, although usually it's in a very narrow field. Too narrow for the big boys to bother with. Yet sometimes that narrow expertise is exactly what's needed to make sense of what's going on in the world. The big boys don't have the air time or page space to devote to these things. That's why people turn to blogs. There are millions of tiny news-niches that have been left in vacuum for years. Blogs are filling that vacuum.
Picture the universe of information as a big glass jar. You fill it with "big media marbles" and you swear on your mother's grave that the damn thing's full and there's no room for anything else. Blogs are the sand you pour in to fill the spaces in between.
Take the sand and make glass. Take the glass and make a lens. Look through the lens and see the world better, clearer, brighter than you've ever seen it before.
THAT'S what the blogosphere is.
UPDATE 5-29-04 12:30am: I don't say this often, but check the comments to this post, because some excellent points are being made.
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Extremely well said, Harv. I like your statistical approximation of the percentage of internet users who have heard of Mac Diva.
thanks again for all your support of the Showcase. I've started a weekly "best of" at Simon World but it's hard when there's been so many good ones already.
Posted by: Simon at June 28, 2004 08:46 PM (FUPxT)
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That guy is dumb fuck... there is no blog contest... right now it is only set up to showcase new bloggers' work... it is a place where anyone can go to find out where the new bloggers are and link over to their sites... and he automatically disqualifies his status as a judge of quality, researched reporting/writing by identifying himself as a (former?)journalist... we all know what kind of accurate, researched, un-biased reporting they do now-a-days... jack-ass!
Posted by: Madfish Willie at June 28, 2004 10:39 PM (0pRbT)
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"Take the sand and make glass. Take the glass and make a lens. Look through the lens and see the world better, clearer, brighter than you've ever seen it before."
Very goood!
Um, as for statistics, I'd like to see a survey of how many people in the US have direct input into the topics for coverage on a major US Media Show? I'll bet it's less than 2%....
Posted by: _Jon at June 28, 2004 10:45 PM (RZ4Hy)
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In my narrow areas of expertise I find the major media wrong more often than right. I also find them completely uninterested in correcting factual errors in my areas of expertise.
I've spoken to people with other areas of expertise, they tell me more or less the same thing.
Someone should ask this Mac Diva character the following question. Since you major media people are either lying or totally ignorant when you write about things that I know, why should I believe you when you speak about things I don't know?
Posted by: Peter at June 28, 2004 11:34 PM (PcgQk)
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Peter: You are absolutely correct! I don't recall the exact situation, but I remember reading about something that I was a witness to and thinking "WTF... that's not how it fucking happened... lying bastard just made up shit and twisted it around to make it sound better". After that, I've never trusted anything I read, execpt the sports page... it's hard to lie and make shit up if their are thousands and millions of witnesses that can call
bullshit.
Posted by: Madfish Willie at June 28, 2004 11:48 PM (0pRbT)
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And that's part of my original arguement - blogging is not about reporting. It is all about opinions, fact-checking and so on. I'm with Madifhs, there have been plenty of times I've had to point out to Mrs M or others that the "news" on TV was wrong, lying or a mistruth.
That's Mac Diva's problem: being part of Big Media (by calling themself a journalist) automatically identifies Mac's bias - from there the rest of the critique loses value because of that bias. It's especially galling given Mac once won the bear's showcase!
Posted by: Simon at June 29, 2004 12:23 AM (FUPxT)
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Ack! I am out of highschool a long, long time. I can pick what I do/read/see etc. based on, well, what I enjoy and not what X% of my friends enjoy.
Hey, I know I don't "rock". I'm not sure I could "rock". I can be me though. And that's what I try and be on my site. Just Rachel Ann. Sure I'd like tons of visitors to me site; adulation is pretty good for the self esteem. But should a person just stop writing because thousands aren't beating down their door?
If it is just a numbers game then you've lost that very important part of oneself that hopefully started you blogging in the first place; the desire to share the truth of yourself.
Posted by: at June 29, 2004 02:12 AM (+J8HX)
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oops, sorry, the above was exemplified by me. I don't know what happened to me name and all that..it just disappeared.
Got to get more sleep...
Posted by: Rachel Ann at June 29, 2004 02:15 AM (+J8HX)
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"Silence, plebes!
Quit your typing and blogging and expressing your opinion and listen to us, your betters, Who Know Things You Don't and Can Tell You Best What To Know and How To Live Your Life!"
So, yay for elitist swine!
Posted by: Russell M. at June 29, 2004 12:55 PM (1NyUN)
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ONLY 7%-11% of internet users read blogs???
Do you have any idea how freaking many people that is?? Especially considering they have to actually make an effort to log on and find those pages, instead of having a program pumped to them after watching some vapid worthless reality show, and watching merely because their asses are welded to the lazy boy?
Of course they rip on blogs, they like their monopoly. In the process they get people who have never read personal online opinion pages
to go "Hmm, what's a blog??" and enter a new world.
That's what happened to me, and I couldn't be happier.
Posted by: Graumagus at June 29, 2004 01:31 PM (xBX8Q)
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Harvey thanks for the quote Re: % based on phone survey. I DON'T BELIEVE IN SURVEY'S! I used to work for one of those companies while in college, and they too are biased.
Besides, any self-respecting blogger would be too busy writing to bother with stupid questions for a surveyor.
Oh, by the way, I'm also a former Washington insider (who worked as a lobbyist on capitol hill) and a former journalist (who worked for a neighborhood newspaper in the East Village), but even if I worked with the NYTimes, those credentials don't give me the standing to make sweeping statements as she did.
So I go over to her site 'cause I want to tell this stupid broad to her face she's full of it and what do I find? A rehashing of newsarticles related to the Jack Ryan divorce culled from the web of mainstream media. How hypocritical is that!!!
She just wants her name to come up in Goodle enough times to get her ranking up so she can seem in some circles (her own) that she has credibility. I say we don't even mention her name so that she doesn't get any more undeserving hits in the blogosphere. I propose we banish her to blogosphere oblivion!
Posted by: Michele in NYC at June 29, 2004 06:08 PM (ldN8h)
Posted by: Madfish Willie at June 29, 2004 07:34 PM (0pRbT)
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O.K.
If blogs are the sand, and sand Isn't round how come It's called the blogosphere...AHHH SHIT now Im gonna have serious thought's all day. But seriosly I think If the taking heads wanted to know what people really think
(and they don't) they'ed hit some blogs and start reading, and of course they don't tell you the survey Is +or- 2-7%.
Really, I mean what kind of answears would you give to someone whos Interupting your dinner.
Posted by: blogless brother at June 29, 2004 10:44 PM (6cyEp)
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There's likely to be more as Mac Diva contacted me and told me to expect a response sometime soon....
Posted by: Simon at June 29, 2004 10:44 PM (FUPxT)
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Mac Diva - interesting about her... she won the New Blog Showcase way back when:
http://www.truthlaidbear.com/newblogshowcase.php
(6-9-03) Mac-a-ro-nies
Now check out her Ecosystem ranking history:
http://www.truthlaidbear.com/showdetails.php?host=http://macaronies.blogspot.com
Number of links stays the same since about August of '03. Ecosystem ranking on a steady decline.
Shall I speculate that there are some "issues" here?
Posted by: Harvey at June 29, 2004 11:23 PM (ubhj8)
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BB - Ya got a point there. What kind of morons don't have anything better to do than to answer a phone survey? All the smart people are reading blogs :-)
Posted by: Harvey at June 29, 2004 11:57 PM (ubhj8)
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"All the smart people are reading blogs" . . . not. The data from Pew and other research proves that most Internet users are oblivious to the blogosphere. That would include what people who actually do their homework call 'agenda setters.' Blogging is an activity a handful of Internet users in engage in -- for an average period of four months. What I've said is that blogging should be understood in the context of other media, an unassailable point to any thinking person.
This is just the kind childish group grunting I referred to in my entry about reviving the Showcase. Thank you all for confirming my point.
Posted by: Mac Diva at June 30, 2004 12:10 PM (lDKyE)
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grunt. grunting grun grunt. grunt?
Posted by: at June 30, 2004 12:37 PM (1NyUN)
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Mac - Again with that odd assertion that popularity relates in some way to quality. If blogging were widely known, but disregarded (like, say, the National Enquirer, or Air America), I could see your point.
And I think Peter has the best explanation of the relationship between blogging and the larger media. Big media is riddled with factual errors & biases. An emergent property of the blogosphere is that these flaws get pointed out by people who know better.
As for group grunting... well, one look at my banner should be a good indication that making fun of shit is something that gets done around here a LOT. You want boring stuff, try the Puppy Blender.
And the line you quoted out of context... see that little :-) at the end? That means I was making a joke. Something similar in theme to the one that goes something like, "You never want a trial by jury, because juries are composed of 12 people who were too stupid to figure a way to get out of jury duty."
[reconsidering]
Ok, maybe I should've written that line, "all the smart people are too busy reading blogs to answer phone surveys :-)".
Better?
Posted by: Harvey at June 30, 2004 03:04 PM (ubhj8)
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Mac Diva:
The only thing worse than your logic is your manners. Harvey should have snipped away most of what you wrote, because, well... it didn't really say anything. Your attempt at constructing a creative flame was pitiful. I mean, really, stringing together an insult among a load of babbling was hardly effective... Maybe later in life, after you have learned to read, write, spell and count, you will have more success. True, these are rudimentary skills that many of us normal people take for granted that everyone has an easy time of mastering. But we sometimes forget there are "challenged" persons in this world who find these things more difficult. If I had known that this was your case then I would never have read your comments. It just wouldn't have been right. Sort of like parking in a handicapped space.
I wish you the best of luck in the emotional and social struggles that seem to be placing such a demand on you.
Posted by: Madfish Willie at June 30, 2004 03:16 PM (0pRbT)
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I had not heard of Mac Diva before reading this post and now having read Mac Diva, I know I need never waste my time again. Thanks for the tip!
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TGOM - You're quite welcome. And it's nice to hear your voice again.
Or read your typing.
Well, you know what I mean :-)
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GETTING OFF THE HORNS OF YOUR DILEMMA
So, you hate Michael Moore, and you want to write a scathing review of his latest crapumentary, Fulloflies 90210 (or whatever the hell it's called). But it just GALLS you to think that you have to put money in that bloated shitsack's pockets to do it.
I'm here to help.
Go to the theater, buy a ticket for a good movie, and sneak in to Fukentwerp 69 (or whatever the hell it's called).
Problem solved.
(Hat tip to the Bob & Brian show, where I first heard of this miracle cure)
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Some of the clerks saw it. One said it opened his eyes to the truth. The more intelligent one said "It was one-sided"...
Posted by: Susie at June 28, 2004 11:36 AM (QYOUV)
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Oh, come on, Harvey,
There are no 'good' movies out in theatre's right now.
Wednesday will see Spiderman 2, however, which I think looks at least halfway decent.
Posted by: Joey at June 28, 2004 12:10 PM (AML/2)
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Wait, scratch that.
I saw The Terminal, and it was flippin' awesome.
But don't waste good money on The Terminal if you're just going to see Moore's film.
Download the thing.
That way you can slow down the fast cuts, and funny editing and check the facts while you watch it.
Posted by: Joey at June 28, 2004 12:14 PM (AML/2)
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Fuck Moore... that movie only did 21 million... that's not shit for a weekend's worth of receipts... and a long weekend at that if you count the early opening in communist New York... I can't really see that the movie actually did shit for sales when it comes right down to it... certainly not for the amount of ass-kissing the dummocrats are giving up over it... Fuck Michael Moore!
Posted by: Madfish Willie at June 28, 2004 10:30 PM (0pRbT)
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Come to think of it... let's do the math... 21 million divided by average ticket price of ???... how many people actually saw that piece of crap mockumentary?... how many people saw it more than once?... interesting....
Posted by: Madfish Willie at June 28, 2004 10:32 PM (0pRbT)
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Fukentwerp 69
Stop! You're killing me here.
BUHWAHAHAHAHA!
The SF Bay Area is living proof that stupid is forever.
This pompous fuckwit ignored the R rating and let teens into his theaters.
Baghdad-by-the Bay is simply all a twitter what with the Gay Pride Parade, Clinton's crapfest A-Go-go and Hillary
whoring headlining a Democratic fund-raiser where she vowed to defeat the Republicans' "extraordinarily ruthless machine." That Hil, what a wordsmith, eh?
So Moore's cinematic cow patty was simply the icing on the Dem buttcake.
Posted by: feste at June 28, 2004 11:25 PM (vA90C)
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Don't hold back, feste, how do you REALLY feel? :-D
And having spend over 2 years stationed in Alameda, I have to agree with you on the psych-ward condition of the Bay Areas Moonbat brigade. I saw them in action under Reagan, and they were just a hoot. I can just imagine what they're like now.
Joey - download... the Terminal or Fuckwit 867-5309 (jenny jenny)? And where would I go for that?
Posted by: Harvey at June 28, 2004 11:55 PM (ubhj8)
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Hey if Moore is advocating to teens to sneak into the movie for free why can't adults do it.
Here in Michigan (Yes most of us are embarrased that is he associated with the state) he spoke to the news stations and told them since it's rated R the teens should just sneak in free because blah blah blah.
Nice guys, he's willing to for go profit so he can enlighten teens. What a nice guy (gag, choke, cough).
Posted by: Machelle at June 29, 2004 07:13 AM (ZAyoW)
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I'm sorry, but it isn't even worth the trouble or the 8 bucks (even if Moore doesn't get it) to go see Farfenpoopen 666, or whatever it is. I'll just wait for everyone else to document the disinformation, then just read that.
Posted by: CW at June 29, 2004 07:49 AM (PGJkQ)
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Machelle - I was going to ask you for a source on that, but I found it:
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1488698/06252004/story.jhtml
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June 27, 2004
TODAY'S LOVE NOTE
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Introduction)
I can't wait to be with you, see your smile, look in your eyes, feel your sweet touch, hear your perfect words and kiss your perfect lips.
(CAUTION: Romantics beware - comments may contain naughtiness)
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And spank your perfect ass with a riding crop.
Posted by: Harvey at June 27, 2004 10:12 PM (ubhj8)
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~~~wha?~~~ oh sorry, must've been thinking about someone else. you were saying, dear?
Posted by: sarahk at June 28, 2004 06:36 AM (HtWwm)
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No no no....
As my darling husband says:
....Spank your perfect ass with some 30-grit sandpaper and a swim fin.
(Who has a riding crop lying around the house?)
Heh.
Posted by: Emma at June 28, 2004 12:08 PM (NOZuy)
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uhh, the bar I frequent on some weekends has women that walk around with riding crops and whips....
Yah know?
Oh, and ....
I can't wait to be with you, see your hips, stare at your boobs, feel your hot breath, smell your sweet fragrence, and lick your perfect lips.
... damn I'm good.
Posted by: _Jon at June 28, 2004 02:57 PM (ZM3Qb)
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I lost track at "feel your sweet touch." Right
there baby. Don't Stop!
Posted by: Johnny - Oh at June 28, 2004 03:40 PM (Nl2WO)
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Emma - ROTFLMAO! :-D
I don't have a riding crop, but I DO have a saddle.
I swear it's only a prop for taking humiliating pictures of horse-dog Jake.
ONLY!
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TODAY'S GRAFFITI CURRENCY
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[Thanks again I'm a millionaire]
Technically a true statement if you use "Enron accounting".
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IF YOU LIKE THEM, YOU'LL LIKE THESE GUYS
I have my musical preferences. Certain bands and albums I like. I wish I could find more groups that sound like them. Trouble is, I don't have a lot time to go to the library to check out CD's at random. I also don't have the cash to "take a chance" on an unknown artist. File-swapping services? Forget it. I've got enough spyware & viruses on my computer already.
Thanks to Matty O'Blackfive, though, I've found a way to significantly narrow the search. It's sort of a musical version of Google. You enter in an artists name and it brings up other artists who are similar. I gave it a dry run with a couple of my favorites, and I have to agree that the "similars" it picks out ARE actually similar.
(compressed screenshot - click to enlarge)
So if you're looking to expand your musical horizons, give MusicPlasma a try.
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Put in Tom Petty and it gave me the Traveling Wilburys and Roy Orbison as very close so I give it a thumbs up!
This visual search engine would rock if put into use on the Blogosphere!
Posted by: Nick Queen at June 28, 2004 01:02 AM (waHYO)
Posted by: Simon at June 28, 2004 04:09 AM (GWTmv)
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Anyone know if there is anything similar for films? It would be good if you could type in a director/genre or film name and it matched it on similar lines.
Posted by: Alex at June 28, 2004 04:35 AM (a1D32)
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Great link; thanks for the heads up!
Posted by: pam at June 28, 2004 03:07 PM (l6NIn)
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About time you noticed that site... I thought everyone already knew about it or I would have blogged it....
Posted by: Madfish Willie at June 28, 2004 10:41 PM (0pRbT)
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I can just picture the blogosphere version - Type in "Bad Example" and you'd see a tiny circle way off in the corner that everyone has shunned as a pariah for being a degenerate pervert.
And if you look closely, you can see a tiny image of me watching pornos :-P
MW - that's what I thought when I saw it at Matty's place. But then I realized that I actually have a few (very few) readers that he doesn't, so I posted on it for their sake.
You might want to do it for the same reason.
Posted by: Harvey at June 28, 2004 11:21 PM (ubhj8)
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I don't have any readers... just search engine hits for "hippo dog singing elephant"
Posted by: Madfish Willie at June 29, 2004 12:02 PM (0pRbT)
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MW - If I were literate, I'D be a reader.
As it is, I only go to see if you've posted any dirty pictures. I keep being disappointed.
Posted by: Harvey at June 29, 2004 11:06 PM (ubhj8)
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