If I remember from Cryptonomicon (lacked the Latin to do this properly), you're saying that the new regime will be in place for centuries? Or am I committing that old error about your post titles?
wolfson, I always thought that you were a grammar-bitch in furtherance of the assertion of your intellectual superiority. If you start going in and quietly changing comments so that they are grammatically correct, merely because you can't stand error, I will think you are a fascist, but also maybe have newfound respect for your little-bitchsmanship.
I don't know, this reminds me a lot of when Andrew Johnson replaced Lincoln, except that Ogged wasn't assassinated and Lincoln wasn't replaced by a committee of five. But the point is, Johnson's term ended badly.
Or maybe it's like the troika of Brezhnev, Kosygin, and Podgorny, except that it has fewer male members by one, and more female members by three. And we all know how that ended up!
Or perhaps it's like Abba, with an extra girl. (The extra girl would represent Brian Jones, the extra guy in the Rolling Stones, who was found drowned in a swimming pool and replaced by a succession of lackeys.)
I hate to be negative, but you can see that there are a lot of negative signs and I felt that it was my duty to share.
Bummer. I think that the traditional bribe around here involves nekkid pictures of onesself, but I don't think that'd have much value as currency (or what fruity Mexicans would call currants, si?)
I've been impersonated! It was my evil twin brother. Or the aliens. Probably the same aliens who replaced my brain with oatmeal last night while I slept. The ones who stole that important envelope that really really should have gone into the mail today, if only I could find it. I blame INS.
Wouldn't that be "sęculorum"?
Posted by Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 4:19 PM
Not according to the $1 bill.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 4:21 PM
3 posts, 2 to go.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 4:23 PM
If I remember from Cryptonomicon (lacked the Latin to do this properly), you're saying that the new regime will be in place for centuries? Or am I committing that old error about your post titles?
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 4:24 PM
Do we get superhero costumes with this gig?
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 4:24 PM
Oh, I see -- you paid Ogged off so that you could blog here unchallenged.
Posted by Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 4:24 PM
Wolfson as Robespierre---chilling!
Posted by Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 4:27 PM
wolfson, I always thought that you were a grammar-bitch in furtherance of the assertion of your intellectual superiority. If you start going in and quietly changing comments so that they are grammatically correct, merely because you can't stand error, I will think you are a fascist, but also maybe have newfound respect for your little-bitchsmanship.
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 4:27 PM
The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin'. I'm just saying, is all.
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 4:28 PM
Truly, the little bitches are running the asylum.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 4:28 PM
Edit my posts at your peril.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 4:29 PM
So are you going to blog at The Weblog, too, maximalizing the Wolfsonianism of the blogosphere?
Posted by Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 4:30 PM
Do you think Kieran's wife reads unfogged? Kieran does on occasion, maybe he can say.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 4:30 PM
Trolling already Ben?
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 4:35 PM
I don't understand what 13 is ostensibly a sequitur to, anyway.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 4:41 PM
I just assumed ben was going to say something bad about the person in question if it were confirmed that she doesn't read the blog.
That or he's trying to hit on her.
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 4:43 PM
I like this new plan of Wolfson's; efficient.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 4:43 PM
Something to do with maximalising soething?
(typoes intentionally left; if gone then wolfson edite)
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 4:47 PM
I don't know, this reminds me a lot of when Andrew Johnson replaced Lincoln, except that Ogged wasn't assassinated and Lincoln wasn't replaced by a committee of five. But the point is, Johnson's term ended badly.
Or maybe it's like the troika of Brezhnev, Kosygin, and Podgorny, except that it has fewer male members by one, and more female members by three. And we all know how that ended up!
Or perhaps it's like Abba, with an extra girl. (The extra girl would represent Brian Jones, the extra guy in the Rolling Stones, who was found drowned in a swimming pool and replaced by a succession of lackeys.)
I hate to be negative, but you can see that there are a lot of negative signs and I felt that it was my duty to share.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 5:01 PM
Just don't pass a Tenure of Blogroll Act and everything will be fine.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 5:03 PM
Weiner: she's giving a talk at Stanford.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 5:07 PM
Now, instead of posting comments to correct grammar, I'll just go in and edit comments without warning
Your going to be bisy.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 5:44 PM
Now, instead of posting comments to correct grammar, I'll just go in and edit comments without warning
Finally, an invisible hand that actually moves things towards the ideal.
Posted by Michael H Schneider | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 9:07 PM
you do recognize that, in reserving the right to correct grammar, you follow in the footsteps of a certain litigious blogger who-shall-not-be-named.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 9:09 PM
Ah, but said blogger made it clear that he was only deigning to do so.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 9:11 PM
preventable upon payment of deigngeld
Posted by Michael H Schneider | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 9:13 PM
his blog did, for a few weeks, make quite a draw, though it was akin to a group gathering at an appauling wreck.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 9:15 PM
I like Appalling Rex, King of the Blogs. Catchy title. It's probably trademarked. Pretend I didn't say it.
Posted by Michael H Schneider | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 9:19 PM
too late. I've saved the haloscan.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 9:22 PM
Claim it was just a spoof.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 9:27 PM
Bummer. I think that the traditional bribe around here involves nekkid pictures of onesself, but I don't think that'd have much value as currency (or what fruity Mexicans would call currants, si?)
Posted by Michael H Schneider | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 9:28 PM
I've been impersonated! It was my evil twin brother. Or the aliens. Probably the same aliens who replaced my brain with oatmeal last night while I slept. The ones who stole that important envelope that really really should have gone into the mail today, if only I could find it. I blame INS.
Posted by Michael H Schneider | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 9:34 PM
or it was . . .
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 9:36 PM
[waiting for you to hand me the sealed envelope, so I can open it and announce who it was]
Posted by Michael H Schneider | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 9:43 PM
no, MHS, you cannot announce it.
His name cannot be said. He is likely here, with us, in this dark hour.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 9:45 PM
Look here: I've found a notebook from the past, written by one Daniel Guap!
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 9:48 PM
Oh. Right. H-m.
You're not talking about that guy from the NSA, are you?
Posted by Michael H Schneider | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 9:49 PM
Daniel Guap speaks to me through the notebook!
He was a swell fellow, for his time.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 9:49 PM
Daniel Guap has made me do awful things. Oh no!
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 9:50 PM
oh crap, I'm missing an N.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 9:51 PM
That's Daniel N. Guap.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 9:51 PM
The N doesn't stand for anything, as with Truman.
Did he use a period? It's uncertain.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 9:52 PM
I'm glad you found your N. You didn't happen to see a letter with my return address on it near your N, did you?
Who is Daniel N Guap?
Posted by Michael H Schneider | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 9:55 PM
Who isn't Daniel N. Guap?
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 10:01 PM
he wrote this swell notebook, through which he talks to me. I tell him my secrets.
No, Daniel, I mustn't!
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 10:04 PM
Only conservatives are teh sm@rt! Liberals think with ancient serpent minds, which makes them emotional.
I'm so angry and perturbed! Now unleash my serpent monster from teh ch@mb3r!
Posted by Daniel | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 10:07 PM
I .... must release ... serpent monster
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 10:16 PM
four dots? some delusional conservative blogger must have eaten my brain or something.
time to admit this joke is lame.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 10:18 PM
Wait until it molts. Until it's moltin'.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 10:18 PM
I'll keep playing then!
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 10:19 PM
Now it's time that I destroy you text!
Posted by Daniel | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 10:20 PM
Text, stop making me laugh so hard.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 10:21 PM
he's got my wand. My wand's no match for the serpent monster. Seeing as I can't get my hand on it.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 10:21 PM
Game? It sounded *just* like the NSA guy.
Hang on, I've got my field guide opened to "How to Tell A Serpent Monster From A One Eyed Trouser Snake"
Posted by Michael H Schneider | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 10:23 PM
I'd like to help, except this Daniel fellow won't lay off my wand.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 10:23 PM
The Harry Potter Remix.
Posted by tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 10:23 PM
it's gotten late.
Till next time, when I will perform teh exciting conclusion to Who Isn't In On This Joke Yet?
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 10:26 PM
[applauds]
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 01-30-06 10:30 PM
Wolfson obviously just has a giant crush on his co-blogger. Or he's trying to assert his little bitch dominance over Kotsko. Or both.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 7:15 AM
Wolfson obviously just has a giant crush on his co-blogger.
Yeah, it's a shame he and I live on opposite coasts. I'm very accomodating.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 7:17 AM
I heard you're more in the habit of demanding accomodation.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 7:20 AM
Sure. You "heard" it.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 7:25 AM
Saying that I heard something does not exclude the possibility that other sensations were involved.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 7:27 AM
Your public speaking has improved considerably.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 7:31 AM
Compliments will get you only so far. I know what you did with the debate team.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 7:36 AM
Whoa, that was apo?
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 7:57 AM
By grace of -gg-d
I just noticed that the anagram of "Ogged" is "e.g., God." Is that a mere fortuity?
Posted by Frederick | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 5:50 PM