A friend of a friend did lights for a Tom Jones concert in New Zealand. Apparently his retinue specially insructs the lighting people everywhere he appears to keep a diffuse spotlight on his crotch at all times.
Tom Jones, going to the mens's room, ladies and gentlemen! Look at him go!
When I saw Buddy Guy, he wandered through the crowd playing solos (extremely long wire plugging his guitar into the amp), including into the women's room.
I'm not going to speculate on what the apostrophe is there. Certainly not to suggest "menses room".
Tom Jones, going to the mens's room, ladies and gentlemen! Look at him go!
When I saw Buddy Guy, he wandered through the crowd playing solos (extremely long wire plugging his guitar into the amp), including into the women's room.
I'm not going to speculate on what the apostrophe is there for. Certainly not to suggest "menses room".
Let me revise and extend my remarks. "Melody" isn't quite right – as often as not I end up with something improvised and recitativey on a really mundane subject like socks, or peeling potatoes. I bet this behavior correlates well with self-indulgent introspection.
You mean it's in my interest to bring my real life personality more in line with ogged?
What does that mean? On your PG date, you were who you are IRL? Or, at work, you assume the persona of ogged, and ogged is singer? Or you were ogged, and not X, on the PG date, and X is a singer?
I think this is that "you'll never hit it if you're aiming for it" strategy; but the thing is, it doesn't work if you're aiming away from it in order to hit it. If you know what I mean.
ogged, can you define "prudishness" in this sense? Is it a reluctance to have sex with someone you haven't been emotionally involved with, or an unwillingness to be emotionally vulnerable enought to achieve that involvement?
Yeah, well, what's the point of anonymity if you can't have strangers peer nakedly into your soul? I really am curious, though--I'd like to think that I have advice to offer, but it's dependant on the real source of the "prudishness" mentioned.
ogged is, of course, free to say that he doesn't care to share, a more than reasonable response to some idiot getting too personal in a public forum. The social retardation I may have mentioned elsewhere sometimes makes it hard for me to tell when I've crossed a line.
I was kidding, Chopper. I've asked TMI questions before, and always followed it with a formulation similar to, "Not to pry or anything." Personally, I'm betting that there's no "cause" to it that ogged can point to, and that it doesn't particularly bother ogged - I mean, he almost married into the Astor family fortune, after all.
This belongs on the other thread, but may I suggest you write a script that's triggered by particular words ("head", "thrust", etc.) and immediately appends an "At the Mindshaft" comment just after the just-analyzed comment?
What I meant, ac, as I'm sure you understood, was, either through hypnosis, brain-pinching, or some other technique, convincing yourself that you don't like $GIRL (or, in general, do not have sex as a priority), thus enabling you to be relaxed, not take direct aim at the target but neither purposefully aim away, and then! just at the moment when, if you were really uninterested, the opportunity would be lost forever, post-hypnotic suggestion kicks in, or your s3kr1t brane is unleashed, or whatnot, allowing you to fulfill the designs you never knew you had.
The ZBM was my favorite part of Hitchhiker's Guide by far and it was a great disappointment to me that it was left out of the movie.
Re 42: Could not recall the details, but yes I did understand you, b. My favorite part of the series was the artificial universe he created to survive the Vortex thingy. I think of that all the time, in my ac-o-centric existence.
Interesting. Whatever filter is filtering stuff here only replaces zeroes with the letter 'o' when the zeroes occur between letters (maybe not just between—maybe merely preceding or succeeding suffices); when the zero is involved in the creation of a number, it is retained.
Oddly, other digits commonly used in l33+-speak are not substituted (eg in "s3kr1t" above). w00t.
What all look the same to you? If the characters between the 'w' and the 't' in "woot" look the same as the characters following the one and the comma in "10,000", then your font is at fault.
get that outfit and photoblog it.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 06- 2-05 5:30 PM
This album kicks ass. Mock it at your peril.
Posted by Joe O | Link to this comment | 06- 2-05 5:44 PM
Singing in the office, hmm. I think Ogg is in love.
Posted by Mezzo | Link to this comment | 06- 2-05 7:11 PM
the dana carvey skit about tom jones is hi-fucking-larious.
he had a thing in his pants! it was moving. it actually sang a song! it was tom and his jones!
Posted by tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 06- 2-05 7:44 PM
Only if you would have sang to me, too. "Sex bomb, sex bomb ..." (saw that on endless video billboard loop in Vegas when he was performing there)
Posted by profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 7:58 AM
A friend of a friend did lights for a Tom Jones concert in New Zealand. Apparently his retinue specially insructs the lighting people everywhere he appears to keep a diffuse spotlight on his crotch at all times.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 8:05 AM
That is totally awesome. But I bet the logistics are a bear at restaurants. Tom Jones, going to the mens's room, ladies and gentlemen! Look at him go!
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 8:14 AM
Is that what it would have taken, PG? You mean it's in my interest to bring my real life personality more in line with ogged?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 8:17 AM
Tom Jones, going to the mens's room, ladies and gentlemen! Look at him go!
When I saw Buddy Guy, he wandered through the crowd playing solos (extremely long wire plugging his guitar into the amp), including into the women's room.
I'm not going to speculate on what the apostrophe is there. Certainly not to suggest "menses room".
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 8:20 AM
Tom Jones, going to the mens's room, ladies and gentlemen! Look at him go!
When I saw Buddy Guy, he wandered through the crowd playing solos (extremely long wire plugging his guitar into the amp), including into the women's room.
I'm not going to speculate on what the apostrophe is there for. Certainly not to suggest "menses room".
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 8:20 AM
Crap.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 8:21 AM
I chronically find myself setting bits of speech to melody. Though never to my knowledge a melody by Tom Jones.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 8:21 AM
It's not un-u-su-al to sing songs 'bout any—
Rats.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 8:41 AM
What's new Bridgeplate, whoooaaaoh-woh-woh-oh?
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 8:56 AM
Let me revise and extend my remarks. "Melody" isn't quite right – as often as not I end up with something improvised and recitativey on a really mundane subject like socks, or peeling potatoes. I bet this behavior correlates well with self-indulgent introspection.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 9:29 AM
I do that too. And now I have to assume that Labs does as well.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 9:36 AM
I thought 5 was a Flipper song.
(Since I post under my real name, it would be unwise to reveal my habit of altering the lyrics to any song that I'm singing so they refer to my cat.)
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 9:36 AM
Who's the black private cat who's the sex machine to all the chicks?
Fang!
(I miss that cat every day.)
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 9:39 AM
And now I have to assume that Labs does as well.
O Labs, Abu, O Fontanical Labs,
Your posting may dwindle but still we adore you.
Wont you sing us a comment
exquisitely lyrical?
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 9:59 AM
This is a warning. Wear that, just once, and your nickname becomes "Fez."
Posted by Tripp | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 10:18 AM
Also 5, you mean "sung", not "sang".
OKTHXBYE
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 10:26 AM
You mean it's in my interest to bring my real life personality more in line with ogged?
What does that mean? On your PG date, you were who you are IRL? Or, at work, you assume the persona of ogged, and ogged is singer? Or you were ogged, and not X, on the PG date, and X is a singer?
I'm confused.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 11:34 AM
This is as I expected. "more in line." IRL, less likely to make "sex bomb" jokes.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 11:36 AM
IRL, more likely to stammer "So, uhhhhhh, wanna touch it?"
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 11:40 AM
Chopper does like to share.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 11:41 AM
It was such a tender moment, our little time in The Mineshaft.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 11:43 AM
At the mineshaft.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 11:44 AM
Too slow I am.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 11:44 AM
You'd think that a move towards "ogged" might be an obvious strategy. Ogged gets much flirt action here; you've still not reset the Tivo.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 11:45 AM
I'll never overcome my natural prudishness. Lately, as my Tivo approaches 500, I'm thinking I should forget zero and just shoot for a thousand.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 11:48 AM
I hear that when you hit 500, your sac drops off.
Or was that when you've been married that long?
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 11:51 AM
I think this is that "you'll never hit it if you're aiming for it" strategy; but the thing is, it doesn't work if you're aiming away from it in order to hit it. If you know what I mean.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 11:51 AM
Did I mention that, since I use my real name, none of these things I say have anything whatsoever to do with personal experience?
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 11:52 AM
ogged, can you define "prudishness" in this sense? Is it a reluctance to have sex with someone you haven't been emotionally involved with, or an unwillingness to be emotionally vulnerable enought to achieve that involvement?
Not to pry, or anything.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 11:56 AM
Not to pry, or anything.
No, not at all.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 11:58 AM
The correct strategy, which circumvents the gotcha MW describes, is the Zaphod Beeblebrox Maneuvre.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 12:00 PM
Yeah, well, what's the point of anonymity if you can't have strangers peer nakedly into your soul? I really am curious, though--I'd like to think that I have advice to offer, but it's dependant on the real source of the "prudishness" mentioned.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 12:00 PM
ogged is, of course, free to say that he doesn't care to share, a more than reasonable response to some idiot getting too personal in a public forum. The social retardation I may have mentioned elsewhere sometimes makes it hard for me to tell when I've crossed a line.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 12:03 PM
I was kidding, Chopper. I've asked TMI questions before, and always followed it with a formulation similar to, "Not to pry or anything." Personally, I'm betting that there's no "cause" to it that ogged can point to, and that it doesn't particularly bother ogged - I mean, he almost married into the Astor family fortune, after all.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 12:04 PM
Re 36: Creating a second head?
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 12:05 PM
This belongs on the other thread, but may I suggest you write a script that's triggered by particular words ("head", "thrust", etc.) and immediately appends an "At the Mindshaft" comment just after the just-analyzed comment?
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 12:07 PM
Whoops! 36 contains Incomplete Anglophilic Orthography (IAO)!
What I meant, ac, as I'm sure you understood, was, either through hypnosis, brain-pinching, or some other technique, convincing yourself that you don't like $GIRL (or, in general, do not have sex as a priority), thus enabling you to be relaxed, not take direct aim at the target but neither purposefully aim away, and then! just at the moment when, if you were really uninterested, the opportunity would be lost forever, post-hypnotic suggestion kicks in, or your s3kr1t brane is unleashed, or whatnot, allowing you to fulfill the designs you never knew you had.
The ZBM was my favorite part of Hitchhiker's Guide by far and it was a great disappointment to me that it was left out of the movie.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 12:12 PM
In highbrow-speak this is "How Apelles learned to paint foam."
(Yes, I had to look it up.)
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 12:17 PM
immediately appends an "At the Mindshaft" comment
I have begun doing this with fortune cookies.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 12:24 PM
Re 42: Could not recall the details, but yes I did understand you, b. My favorite part of the series was the artificial universe he created to survive the Vortex thingy. I think of that all the time, in my ac-o-centric existence.
Re 43: Like dreaming the shape of benzene.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 12:36 PM
This will be a test.
This is a test: 10,000 is a large number, larger than, for instance, 1503.
This has been a test.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 12:40 PM
Interesting. Whatever filter is filtering stuff here only replaces zeroes with the letter 'o' when the zeroes occur between letters (maybe not just between—maybe merely preceding or succeeding suffices); when the zero is involved in the creation of a number, it is retained.
Oddly, other digits commonly used in l33+-speak are not substituted (eg in "s3kr1t" above). w00t.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 12:43 PM
45: Or like Alice going to the, damn, what was it again? Top of the hill, I think.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 12:44 PM
Top of the hill it is. I always liked the elephants.
47: They all look the same to me.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 12:47 PM
What all look the same to you? If the characters between the 'w' and the 't' in "woot" look the same as the characters following the one and the comma in "10,000", then your font is at fault.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 12:49 PM
Bad font!11!!!!! Actually, I don't care.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 12:51 PM
You know who doesn't care is your mom.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 12:52 PM
So, I'm just curious here: Wolfson, Weiner, did either of you get a lot of wedgies, purple nurples, etc., in high school?
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 12:53 PM
Aren't high schoolers a bit too old to do those things?
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 12:54 PM
Also, Wiener, total burn: your mom really doesn't care about 0 vs. 0. She's all about 1 vs. I, if you know what I'm saying.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 12:55 PM
I bet Weiner reads the Internet in Comic Sans.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 12:55 PM
100 vs I00
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 12:56 PM
eb: in the right setting, 40-year-olds aren't too old for that sort of thing.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 12:56 PM
I read it in dingbats. Noone can know what I'm reading!!!1!!1
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 12:57 PM
What the hell are you guys all talking about? Nerds.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 12:58 PM
Weiner: 43. Suck it, nerd.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 1:01 PM
Also, Wolfson: did you time 42 to be comment 42? If so, brilliant.
[Yes, I realize that makes me just as much a nerd as everyone else.]
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 1:03 PM
Hey, look: chicken outfits!
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 1:05 PM
"It's something that you don't really need but everyone wants to have anyway"
I was just thinking how, though it isn't a necessity (like buttless chaps) I sure would like a small, plastic jumpsuit designed for a chicken.
Then my priest told me I couldn't have one.
Badum-ching!
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 1:38 PM
I'm always away when the comments are hopping. Too prudish to sing "sex bomb," is all I meant.
Chopper, Wolfson still gets lots of wedgies.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 1:42 PM
It's not the same if you request them.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 1:45 PM
bawkbawk chickens
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 1:47 PM
I thought by prudishness you meant your Jedi masterlike selflessness, always putting your homies' needs before your own.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 1:51 PM
There is that, but I just call that my Jedi masterlike selflessness.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 1:53 PM
ac, it occurs to me that you haven't wieghed in on the Honesty thread. Given the band in question...
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 1:56 PM
And now, upon review, I see that I was wrong. Dammit.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 1:58 PM