5: If comments don't work on the old ones, then they'll remain spam free and the moderators will only need to clean up the new threads.
6: And now that they are officially frozen, we can begin the print publication of Unfogged: the fucking archives.
On the subject of the other thread, it's interesting how big a "winner" bump Peltola got. Won by 2 in august, won by 10 in November. I wonder if you'd see a similar thing in a Trump/Biden rematch, people like to vote for the winner.
A guy I went to school with, my main memory of him is when he was bitten by a snake after he picked up the snake, is blaming the Democrats for him not being able to see The Charlie Brown Christmas Special.
Tell that guy we're doing it to him specifically. Everyone else gets to watch the show.
He thinks Pope Francis is a tool of the liberal establishment. But he only posts like once every six months.
8: I like how Biden is saying it will be fun to watch the Rs fight each other. I hope that if TFG pulls ahead on the R side, he'll pivot to "Beat him once, watch me beat him again."
How much longer is this 0-0 thing going to go on? It's been 74 minutes. Let's just say it's a tie.
The guy on the tv says ten more minutes.
Didn't England invent this? I was assuming we'd lose pretty badly.
According to the commentators, the United States should work on scoring goals.
This tie was one of the United States' greatest wins ever!
On the subject of the other thread, it's interesting how big a "winner" bump Peltola got. Won by 2 in august, won by 10 in November. I wonder if you'd see a similar thing in a Trump/Biden rematch, people like to vote for the winner.
You rarely see direct rematches like this, but this is probably a big part of the incumbency advantage. It explains why appointed incumbents get much less of an advantage than elected ones. People like winners!
We played very well. I was happy to be able to see it in person.
I went and rescued just one comment of mine from the Ironic thread that didn't post:
Ok, I listened to Whoot. They are extremely similar. BUT I wonder if they don't both have a common ancestor - like neither was exactly derivative of the other so much as that chant was something showing up in the clubs or in obscure ultra cool rap corners of the world at that time. Also Whoomp is not quite so hyper-focused on it strictly being a booty that we've found.
I was aware of both, had only heard whoomp, and didn't know that it was booty.
Lots of music coming out of the pirate clubs.
Having no idea what it sounded like I made up my own whoot ditty.
Having no idea what it sounded like I made up my own whoot ditty.
heebie! Can you rescue individual comments? Can you send me the one I wrote about being an escaped zoo animal from the check-in thread? I phrased it so well.
32: okie-dokie, artichokie! Coming right up.
Lurid writes: As a final check-in, I'm concerned that almost 18 months without paid employment have led me to develop, er, eccentricities. Idiosyncrasies. Basically, I'm like a coati who escaped from the zoo and has just been living on the twisty slide nearby for more than a year, scaring children and doing little slippery flips of, so it believes, unparalleled beauty and grace.
Heebie's take: I'm glad I rescued this.
Also, in case anyone cares, I know my house style of starting guest posts with "So-n-so writes" is very clunky. The problem is that I felt strongly that you should know who the author is before you start reading it, and I wasn't sure how best to insert a byline. (I guess I could have written "Written by So-n-so", but what - in parentheses? bold?) I don't necessarily stand by my choice, but I'm not going change it now.
I was quite fond of my handy guide on how to distinguish J, Robot from Johnny Cash and a toddler, but I'm sure the opportunity to make the distinction will arise again.
I like the not-really-clunky current style for the reasons you say.
I think it's pretty unclunky. I can't think of a less clunky way of doing it.
Putting the guest's writing in orange would be too jarring.
If I ever submit a post I'd like you to lean in to the clunk.
42: " guest post by local favorite Egggggg-plaaaaaaannt . . ."
You could do what I did when writing reports off of the World Book Encyclopedia as an grade schooler: replace each word with its first synonym in the thesaurus, and post the result without attribution.
That's brilliant. Why did I never think of that?
That's inspired. Why did I never conceive of that?
46 made me laugh. If I remember, maybe I'll fish 37 out when I'm back on a computer.
Right now we're in Las Cruces, driving home from phoenix. Jammies went to college here, but I've never spent much time in the southwest. Sure is desolate and empty, but not necessarily in a bad way.
Okay, I have a homework assignment for you all. My friend told me a month or two ago that I was one of her favorite white people, and I want to give her a mug for the holidays with some variation of that joke. For example, I could put my face on a mug and say "One of N's favorite white people!" Something along those lines. She uses "wypipo" on twitter and IG a lot, so I can use that, too. "Not so bad, for wypipo!" with my face. Something funny and self-deprecatingly white too make her laugh. What's the funniest choice?
It was explaining how to distinguish you given that all three of you were constantly distracted by passing trains.
Fair enough! I'm typically a fan of trains, but having every class I teach in this building interrupted twice per session by thundering noise is really starting to irk me. Maybe I need to start channeling Johnny Cash rather than the Quad City DJs given that none of my students seem to appreciate the dance very much...
Of course, I pull it off roughly as well as these guys... https://youtu.be/h0v6DrAznj0
No, I lied. Unlike the baseball guys, I can at least pull off the arm movements correctly: https://youtu.be/CMZzQY7JTyc
48: "One of the good ones" or "I don't mean you" or "Not all wypipo". But you should tell her you're not white, you're Jewish.
"Not all wypipo" may be what it has to be. That would crack her up.
Somehow I will never learn to read "yt" as "white." Every time I sit there confused trying to figure out what it's an acronym for.
Now I'm confused because it's 'wt' in the original comment but, if one is hooked on phonics, 'yt' makes more sense.
Wt is fine, I get that. Wypipo also fine. Yt I'm just thinking "what does youtube have to do with this?"
Thank you for saving my comment. Not a suggestion, but on the theme of white-people mugs, there's got to be some version of "I don't flavor anything but coffee" that would sell?
(It would not literally sell. I hope.)
I assume that yt is one of those things as to which my approval is not sought, and is not being used in contexts intended to communicate with me. May as well be the Yukon Territory.
There's a character in Snow Crash who refers to herself as "Y.T.", short for Yours Truly. Would a mug with Heebie's picture captioned "Y.T. on the Mug" be funny?
Did the whitey tape ever get posted to yt?
In light of this discussion, wt.social may want to consider a new name.
Maybe old news to others, but Dark Biden is actually an anti-American drawing done by a Chinese artist. Here's his weibo page:
https://m.weibo.cn/p/1005052406295573/photos?type=face?type=face&jumpfrom=weibocom&type=face
The foreground zombie is public something, I think knowledge
https://www.slowboring.com/p/dark-brandon-explained
I hope Standpipe gets a cut of everyone who subscribed after reading that.
Couldn't remember the name of the "Knives Out" semi-sequel for a minute; all I could surface was "Only Onions In The Building."
Guys, the first volume of the graphic novel version of "The Worst Journey in the World" is in bookshops now, and I can't imagine that there is man or woman among you but will zoom out and buy about seven or eight copies to distribute at Christmas or other similar occasion to raise the spirits and stiffen the spines of your various friends and relatives. My copy arrived this morning and it's great.
If ogged is around and doing technical things wondering if he is aware of the apparent hole in old comment threads occurring sometime around 2011-12 (I think, I posted details earlier, but do not have the time to find now). I'm guessing they are just gone, but maybe just some index/overflow issue tha tis easily resolved.
73: I assume you're being sincere? I am casting about for a present for a holiday party next week.
I guess it ships from England. That may take too long.
75: I am being 100% sincere, though perhaps slightly optimistic about the degree to which my lifelong obsession with polar exploration is shared by other people.
Here you go https://worstjourney.com/ and there's a link to the publisher so you can order it.
Yes, it is shipped from England, and that may take a while.
Also important caveat: this is volume 1 of a planned 4. It ends with the expedition sighting the Antarctic continent for the first time.
Like how Batman ends with the villain from the next movie.
You mean it's a graphic novel about polar exploration that doesn't contain any actual polar exploration?
80: it includes a lot of pack ice, penguins, etc and an extremely alarming storm at sea.
One of the greatest accounts of polar exploration is "South" in which none of the crew sets foot on Antarctica at any point in the book.
73 and etc. How much of the original text is in the graphic novels?