You mean inventing the Matt Weiner persona, setting up a blog under his name, commenting at other blogs under his name, and getting this persona a job at Texas Tech were all just the set up for this one blog post?
I'm curious to know what I'm like in comments, because I can't imagine that I project some kind of consistent image. But then, I'm a shockingly poor judge of character.
And then the dog ate my homework, and my car overheated, and then my girlfriend called, (she lives in Canada, you wouldn't know her), and my grandmother passed away and I had to go to the funeral...
I worried about the dead-Weiner scenario, but one of the benefits of being a neurotic worrier is that you can dismiss concerns like that when you have them.
Register me as a "dead-Weiner" worrier, also; Weiner's on-line persona doesn't suggest a IRL persona that stands people up. But, as others say, to admit that is to admit that you often assume the bleakest possible story to describe a given set of facts. Also, in an attempt to reassert my masculinity, I paraphrase Shell Silverstein: what's one less Weiner, more or less.
Quoting a children's poet and asserting that the loss of one Weiner is largely immaterial isreasserting your masculinity? Talk about a different perspective!
Well, if my online persona doesn't suggest an IRL person who often screws things up and has an almost limitless capacity for getting lost, it gives an inaccurate impression. The problem was the inability to recover from the initial screwup.
I confess ((c) Kotsko) that I did worry that Ben or Kotsko had had some sort of dreadful crisis and that this was why they weren't able to do it. I confess further that the main reason this worried me is that I'd then feel like shit for having thought so many nasty things about them. But I guess I figured "forgot my phone number and left before I got there" was the most likely scenario.
I once removed a hairy caterpillar from a fellow's shirt. At first I picked it up, and it squirmed back onto the shirt. Then I flicked it a good flick. It ricoched off a nearby wall and landed back onto the shirt. It was a stubborn caterpillar.
Once, in the midst of coitous, I looked at her. At her, you understand, not my idea of her. Then, I asked her if she was enjoying it. (I forgot to listen to her reply.)
I suppose that would be fathering and raising two sons, but the time I felt the manliest was when I locked myself out of my house and broke down a solid wood door with my shoulder. I know it isn't that manly in the grand scheme of things, but oh was it a satisfying feeling.
and the least
Making my wife drive in Rome because the thought of driving in that city myself starkly terrified me.
if we are being totally honest, it has just occurred to me that in my case the answer to both is one and the same. Which is weird, but depends on perspective.
I punched through a thick wooden door to a dorm room in college. I was a stronger lad then. And my friend had locked me out, probably for being too drunk. Still, it should have broken my hand.
I wrote a love poem and put it in a secret place, to be found.
Up to you as to which is manly, which is chivalrous.
I shall admit that, after having punched through the door, I was pinned to the ground by said friend and told not to punch through his door anymore, and I obeyed. I was rather shocked that my fist had gone through. So the rest of the story isn't very manly.
God, ac, I'd hate to think of it is a fight but OTOH force was definitely used. And yes I did just class that as manly. So that makes me the neanderthal.
Here's one: in college one night I wheeled a giant oil-drum barbeque from one end of campus all the way to the other, so that my friends and I could barbeque the next day. It took two hours, and was technically a theft.
As we're on topic, I ve been holding my breath all day to see who picked up on the title of the post first. But then maybe that tells you more about me than I ought to tell.
But did you have chivalrous reasons? If it was that the woman was hot, but personally loathesome, this too falls under the rubric of enlightened self interest.
I have been 23 for about two months. I had, if not only chivalrous reasons, at least a spicy jambalaya of reasons in which the chivalrous reasons, like andouille sausage, formed a significant fraction.
Oh yeah. Called on my coyness by the person who tells me two-line stories.
I was just thinking that it was, in itself, an illustration of the second half of what I was looking for. And he might want to balance it out with a doorbreaking or two.
It's how I define myself against you lot, you see, not being snarky or making cock jokes. I'm a rebel. (Although now I do recall saying something about being handy with tools.)
And right. Three lines. All the difference. I take it back.
I extinguished a fire in someones hair. Her hair touched a candle and the fire started pretty fast. She was a bartender. I reached over the bar and put it out with my hand. I am pretty spacey so I was suprised that I was even able to react in time.
Most manly: depending on interpretation, either making a major mistake at work and owning up to it immediately, or refinishing my entire basement with my own two hands: I put up walls, I did drywall, I ran electrical wire, I laid a 300 sq. ft. tile floor, and hung a drop ceiling. It took me a year, but I got her done.
Or, I suppose, there's the time I intimidated a guy who had been flirting with my girlfriend all night long, in front of me, by simply looming over him and telling him very calmly that I'd appreciate it if he'd stop. Big points with the girlfriend, at least.
OT Grammar question which I should know and I'm sure is quite obvious: If I'm listing three authors, one whom appends Junior to the end of his name, what punctuation do I use to separate items in the list? It can't be "Eskridge, Jr., Frickey, and Garrett," right? Is it Eskridge, Jr.; Frickey; and Garrett?
A couple of my comments in recent days have been the last made for an extended period of time. I now no longer feel shame that no one thinks me interesting enough to respond. Instead, my rule is "Last one to comment on a thread wins it."
So, if no one responds to this comment, I win. If someone does, well, sucks to them.
Unless you were talking about 113 in the context of 112, in which case: they're unrelated.
I just have a boss who uses the AP style guide when developing marketing communications materials. I use the Chicago Manual. The two have differences. So, she points out "problems" in my work that I don't feel exist--e.g., the serial comma is a problem to her, but not to me.
Or unless you were talking about 74, in which case I dunno. Unless Austro was commenting on the obvious "weiner/Weiner" joke which is there, but I always feel guilty about using (even though I do it), because really, how many times has he heard *that* joke over the course of his life?
Maybe there's some famous philosophy text with a title with a similar construction?
For the record, people,# 74 was definitely not meant as any reference to Weiner whatsover. It quite honestly never occured to me, and if it did, well I hope even in my tired state i'd hold fire.
Actually it was based on a misreading of the title: My tired eyes put an "a" before "Mexican".
Michael, I think the post title puns on the use of "weiner" to mean a foodstuff. (A very rare use at the Mineshaft, true.) If there's anything more to it, I don't get it either.
This may have been the most elaborate set-up ever undertaken in order to make a Weiner joke.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 05- 8-05 7:43 PM
You mean inventing the Matt Weiner persona, setting up a blog under his name, commenting at other blogs under his name, and getting this persona a job at Texas Tech were all just the set up for this one blog post?
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 05- 8-05 7:52 PM
You'd think he'd have a better joke planned out.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05- 8-05 7:55 PM
Ben is slightly more personable in real life.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 05- 8-05 7:59 PM
Hey, the light's green.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05- 8-05 8:03 PM
w/d: yes, but you left out the setting up a dinner and not arriving. Without that, the joke would not be worthwhile.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 05- 8-05 8:03 PM
That's weird -- when people ask me what Ben is like in real life, I say he's exactly like in comments.
Posted by Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 05- 8-05 8:50 PM
I don't think he's ever corrected my grammar in real life, so I can't say that.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 05- 8-05 8:53 PM
The commenter Ben Wolfson only corrects written grammar, so the "real" Ben Wolfson is identical in that respect, at least in my experience.
Posted by Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 05- 8-05 8:54 PM
In that case, the commenter Ben Wolfson is completely silent, and is nothing like the "real" Ben Wolfson.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 05- 8-05 8:56 PM
I've been known to correct speech as well.
I'm curious to know what I'm like in comments, because I can't imagine that I project some kind of consistent image. But then, I'm a shockingly poor judge of character.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05- 8-05 8:59 PM
you're short.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 05- 8-05 9:07 PM
Michael's been cracking me up lately, which disturbs me.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 05- 8-05 9:16 PM
what I'm like in comments
Adorable.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 05- 8-05 9:16 PM
13 leads me to believe that I am in comments as I am in life.
14 is just so, so true.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 05- 8-05 9:30 PM
That's weird -- when people ask me what Ben is like in real life, I say he's exactly like in comments.
This is something I just refuse to believe. Mostly on account of the fact that I ve seen his comments elsewhere....
I just bet ben played Cathulu in younger days.
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 4:23 AM
I'm being maligned! Sordid details here.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 7:46 AM
And then the dog ate my homework, and my car overheated, and then my girlfriend called, (she lives in Canada, you wouldn't know her), and my grandmother passed away and I had to go to the funeral...
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 7:51 AM
Was vaguely worried that Matt was lying in a ditch somewhere. Though no one else seemed particularly concerned.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 8:38 AM
Aw, that's sweet.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 8:41 AM
Also: Kotsko chose the pub.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 8:51 AM
I was vaguely concerned about Weiner, specifically concerned about Wolfson.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 9:26 AM
I worried about the dead-Weiner scenario, but one of the benefits of being a neurotic worrier is that you can dismiss concerns like that when you have them.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 9:41 AM
Register me as a "dead-Weiner" worrier, also; Weiner's on-line persona doesn't suggest a IRL persona that stands people up. But, as others say, to admit that is to admit that you often assume the bleakest possible story to describe a given set of facts. Also, in an attempt to reassert my masculinity, I paraphrase Shell Silverstein: what's one less Weiner, more or less.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 9:55 AM
Quoting a children's poet and asserting that the loss of one Weiner is largely immaterial isreasserting your masculinity? Talk about a different perspective!
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 10:22 AM
That would have been funnier if I'd typed "one's" as I meant to.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 10:22 AM
I'd be curious to know, in the caterpillar burning tradition, what y'all consider to be the most manly thing you've ever done, and the least.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 10:39 AM
Well, if my online persona doesn't suggest an IRL person who often screws things up and has an almost limitless capacity for getting lost, it gives an inaccurate impression. The problem was the inability to recover from the initial screwup.
I confess ((c) Kotsko) that I did worry that Ben or Kotsko had had some sort of dreadful crisis and that this was why they weren't able to do it. I confess further that the main reason this worried me is that I'd then feel like shit for having thought so many nasty things about them. But I guess I figured "forgot my phone number and left before I got there" was the most likely scenario.
(ac: No way.)
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 10:45 AM
What about the most gentlemanly thing you've done?
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 10:47 AM
now there is a nasty trap eb, i fear.
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 10:50 AM
I once held a door.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 10:50 AM
Open or closed?
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 10:51 AM
against whom?
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 10:52 AM
No wonder I got all those nasty looks!
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 10:52 AM
I slew an offending bug.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 11:04 AM
was that the most gentlemanly thing or are we back to caterpillars?
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 11:05 AM
I once removed a hairy caterpillar from a fellow's shirt. At first I picked it up, and it squirmed back onto the shirt. Then I flicked it a good flick. It ricoched off a nearby wall and landed back onto the shirt. It was a stubborn caterpillar.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 11:08 AM
the most gentlemanly thing you've done?
Once, in the midst of coitous, I looked at her. At her, you understand, not my idea of her. Then, I asked her if she was enjoying it. (I forgot to listen to her reply.)
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 11:12 AM
the most manly thing you've ever done
I suppose that would be fathering and raising two sons, but the time I felt the manliest was when I locked myself out of my house and broke down a solid wood door with my shoulder. I know it isn't that manly in the grand scheme of things, but oh was it a satisfying feeling.
and the least
Making my wife drive in Rome because the thought of driving in that city myself starkly terrified me.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 11:23 AM
if we are being totally honest, it has just occurred to me that in my case the answer to both is one and the same. Which is weird, but depends on perspective.
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 11:28 AM
if we are being totally honest
ok. 38 was fiction.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 11:34 AM
like who knew?
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 11:34 AM
British people also use "like" incorrectly? Damnit.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 11:38 AM
:) mmhmmm :)
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 11:39 AM
I punched through a thick wooden door to a dorm room in college. I was a stronger lad then. And my friend had locked me out, probably for being too drunk. Still, it should have broken my hand.
I wrote a love poem and put it in a secret place, to be found.
Up to you as to which is manly, which is chivalrous.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 11:39 AM
I shall admit that, after having punched through the door, I was pinned to the ground by said friend and told not to punch through his door anymore, and I obeyed. I was rather shocked that my fist had gone through. So the rest of the story isn't very manly.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 11:46 AM
I am not going to tell the "most" ..that is way too personal. But I can do second most.
Second most manly: Protecting a person of foreign parentage from a thug in the street and having to use force to do it.
Second most unmanly: Shortly after starting to work, making a BIG mistake and then not owning up.
Most chivalrous: Escorting a Pregnant lady accross most of Romania so that she could be with her boyfriend. Long story.
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 11:54 AM
Doorbreaking seems popular. No fights?
Re 39: A guy once asked me to take over driving on the autobahn. I love going a hundred miles an hour. Should have been a race car driver.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 11:57 AM
Ah, I guess 47 counts as a fight, or near enough.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 11:59 AM
Most fights are not very manly. Ideally it would be something both selfless and physical. Or some sort of feat.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:02 PM
God, ac, I'd hate to think of it is a fight but OTOH force was definitely used. And yes I did just class that as manly. So that makes me the neanderthal.
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:03 PM
No fights?
I'm a lover, not a fighter.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:04 PM
Here's one: in college one night I wheeled a giant oil-drum barbeque from one end of campus all the way to the other, so that my friends and I could barbeque the next day. It took two hours, and was technically a theft.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:05 PM
selfless, check... i mean i was just passing by. Then again not selfless, how could you live with yourself if you let someone get beaten up?
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:05 PM
Apo... you can be both and a sinner, according to the song.
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:06 PM
I say that's pretty selfless, Austro, and you probably have most of us beat.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:07 PM
Selfless and physical, yes, that's more appealing.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:07 PM
i doubt it, honestly.
Besides, my worst makes up for that.
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:08 PM
#53
so long as you rolled it back again, I d say no harm done.
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:13 PM
I want to say something about 28, but don't know how to phrase it.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:21 PM
I rolled it back some time later. That didn't feel quite so victorious, however.
Also I refused the advances of a drunken lady when I knew she would regret it on at least one occasion. I think that's more in the chivalry category.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:22 PM
I refused the advances of a non-drunk hot girl on multiple occasions a few years ago. Many people have expressed bafflement.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:25 PM
Also I refused the advances of a drunken lady
at the risk of sounding priggish, unless you too were pie-eyed, that sounds like enlightened self-interest.
ac, you know that qualifies as teasing!
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:26 PM
I'd ask you to tell the story, b, but think I've learned my lesson.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:27 PM
62. Ben wins
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:27 PM
It's not creepy or anything.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:29 PM
it sounds weird though.
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:29 PM
re: 63. Perhaps yes. It's more evidence of "not a bastard" than positive proof of anything else.
re 62. Did you have chivalrous reasons, or was this a time when girls were icky?
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:29 PM
I mean your ability or desire to flesh out the story.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:30 PM
Not only was it not a time when girls were icky, it was a time when feminine attentions were most welcome.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:31 PM
must be... he said "a few years ago"
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:31 PM
As it were.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:31 PM
Whatevers, ac.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:33 PM
As we're on topic, I ve been holding my breath all day to see who picked up on the title of the post first. But then maybe that tells you more about me than I ought to tell.
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:34 PM
(Wait, Austro... are you saying that a few years ago I must have thought girls were icky? How old do you think I am?)
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:35 PM
That took time, Ben.
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:35 PM
But did you have chivalrous reasons? If it was that the woman was hot, but personally loathesome, this too falls under the rubric of enlightened self interest.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:36 PM
So err Ben. How old are you?
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:38 PM
I have been 23 for about two months. I had, if not only chivalrous reasons, at least a spicy jambalaya of reasons in which the chivalrous reasons, like andouille sausage, formed a significant fraction.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:40 PM
Actually Ben, I was not far wrong. (serious for a minute)
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:42 PM
I have a feeling that the title of this post is a joke which I do not get.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:42 PM
Oops. Just posted to the wrong thread.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:45 PM
I hope this can be elucidated zu meiner Zufriedenheit but I have to run. Later.
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:45 PM
It was also a badly formed link. This is what you wanted, nicht wahr? If you actually want to know the story here, I can tell it.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:48 PM
Yes, I'm trying to do seven things at once. It's not going well. Yes, tell me the story.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 12:50 PM
So, is it b or bw or b-wo or Wolfson or ___?
I demand to be shown a consistent image!
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 1:18 PM
I'll show you my consistent image, eb.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 1:31 PM
60: Para 1, 2, or 3?
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 1:33 PM
There was an obvious point to be made about it, but I didn't want to be too snarky. Have a reputation for sweetness to maintain.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 1:45 PM
Aw, come on.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 1:49 PM
Oh yeah. Called on my coyness by the person who tells me two-line stories.
I was just thinking that it was, in itself, an illustration of the second half of what I was looking for. And he might want to balance it out with a doorbreaking or two.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 1:55 PM
No, I think ac is right. Being snarky at unfogged is so inappropriate.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 1:56 PM
Called on my coyness by the person who tells me two-line stories.
Actually it was three lines.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 1:57 PM
It's how I define myself against you lot, you see, not being snarky or making cock jokes. I'm a rebel. (Although now I do recall saying something about being handy with tools.)
And right. Three lines. All the difference. I take it back.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 2:01 PM
I think some of your cock joke set-ups have been intentional. Fruit doesn't hang that low of its own accord.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 2:02 PM
I think you underestimate the gravity of what we post here.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 2:05 PM
Yes, it's quite pendulous.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 2:07 PM
No, I think ac is right. Being snarky at unfogged is so inappropriate.
I owe a few apologies then. Its been a hard day and I m in the mood for snark.
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 2:07 PM
what is ben? The gravity?
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 2:08 PM
100 woho
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 2:09 PM
The fruit.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 2:09 PM
101 to 99. No, it doesn't make sense in the context of the analogy, but I got to call Ben a name.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 2:10 PM
It's true; the comment sections have increased in length and magnitude since I came on board.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 2:11 PM
Oh well thats ok then... :)
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 2:11 PM
I extinguished a fire in someones hair. Her hair touched a candle and the fire started pretty fast. She was a bartender. I reached over the bar and put it out with my hand. I am pretty spacey so I was suprised that I was even able to react in time.
Posted by joe o | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 2:12 PM
Now THAT is cool. I mean that saved a life, i reckon.
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 2:14 PM
Hasn't it already been well established that y'all are too rough and I'm too delicayte?
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 2:15 PM
Most manly: depending on interpretation, either making a major mistake at work and owning up to it immediately, or refinishing my entire basement with my own two hands: I put up walls, I did drywall, I ran electrical wire, I laid a 300 sq. ft. tile floor, and hung a drop ceiling. It took me a year, but I got her done.
Or, I suppose, there's the time I intimidated a guy who had been flirting with my girlfriend all night long, in front of me, by simply looming over him and telling him very calmly that I'd appreciate it if he'd stop. Big points with the girlfriend, at least.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 2:23 PM
OT Grammar question which I should know and I'm sure is quite obvious: If I'm listing three authors, one whom appends Junior to the end of his name, what punctuation do I use to separate items in the list? It can't be "Eskridge, Jr., Frickey, and Garrett," right? Is it Eskridge, Jr.; Frickey; and Garrett?
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 3:09 PM
Depends on house style--but starting with the 14th edition the Chicago manual cuts the Gordian knot by saying you drop the comma before the 'Jr.'
Also, the Chicago manual FAQ is full of use-mention confusions. Shame!
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 3:18 PM
(Search the manual for "Jr." and click on the first answer to see the recommendation and the use-mention confusions.)
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 3:20 PM
Nothing like being a Chicago Manual guy when your boss uses AP.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 3:31 PM
I've decided from now on I will no longer think of it as "killing" a thread, but rather "winning" it.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 6:41 PM
I wait patiently for the joke to be explained.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 7:08 PM
A couple of my comments in recent days have been the last made for an extended period of time. I now no longer feel shame that no one thinks me interesting enough to respond. Instead, my rule is "Last one to comment on a thread wins it."
So, if no one responds to this comment, I win. If someone does, well, sucks to them.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 7:50 PM
Unless you were talking about 113 in the context of 112, in which case: they're unrelated.
I just have a boss who uses the AP style guide when developing marketing communications materials. I use the Chicago Manual. The two have differences. So, she points out "problems" in my work that I don't feel exist--e.g., the serial comma is a problem to her, but not to me.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 7:52 PM
Or unless you were talking about 74, in which case I dunno. Unless Austro was commenting on the obvious "weiner/Weiner" joke which is there, but I always feel guilty about using (even though I do it), because really, how many times has he heard *that* joke over the course of his life?
Maybe there's some famous philosophy text with a title with a similar construction?
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 7:56 PM
I'll shut up now.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 7:56 PM
yep, I'm referencing 74 and 81.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 05- 9-05 8:02 PM
For the record, people,# 74 was definitely not meant as any reference to Weiner whatsover. It quite honestly never occured to me, and if it did, well I hope even in my tired state i'd hold fire.
Actually it was based on a misreading of the title: My tired eyes put an "a" before "Mexican".
Lets just forget that shall we?
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05-10-05 3:02 AM
See, now Austro wins!
Wait...
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 05-10-05 8:06 AM
I had to overcome my absolute conviction that that would happen before writing that last. Dammit.
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05-10-05 8:14 AM
Michael, I think the post title puns on the use of "weiner" to mean a foodstuff. (A very rare use at the Mineshaft, true.) If there's anything more to it, I don't get it either.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 05-10-05 8:27 AM
Ogged notoriously has trouble formulating jokes that are funny.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-10-05 8:32 AM
Am I going to have to put up with overflowing hostility from Ben "Event Planner" Wolfson now that he's been exposed as not-so-very-careful-after-all?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 05-10-05 8:35 AM
*splutter*
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05-10-05 8:37 AM
Girls, girls! Hair pulling is OK, but no fingernails!
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 05-10-05 8:38 AM
just call him Filo and be done with it!
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05-10-05 8:39 AM
I didn't plan a lick of that event! Seriously, look at the email exchange, it's all Kotsko and Weiner.
Also, this is the normal level of hostility.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-10-05 8:40 AM
Sorry, Ben "Of Course Not" Wolfson, then.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 05-10-05 8:42 AM
In the playground at school, the cry of "SCRAP" would go up when the hostilily overflowed.
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05-10-05 8:43 AM
My ignorance re: Weiner's phone number corroborates, not undermines, my claim not have planned anything.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 05-10-05 9:01 AM
Wow, he's in total meltdown.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 05-10-05 9:03 AM
Sounds like denial to me.
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 05-10-05 9:07 AM