Oh, good. That whole spat seemed so unfortunate.
So that was the ulterior motive. Never has a reconciliation been mechanically engineered with so much skill and so much sacrifice to one's own reputation.
Note: I'm not actually saying anyone damaged one's own reputation here. So don't sue me.
I'll be posting naked pictures of her
Ogged, these won't just be Bitch's head superimposed on my sexy, sexy body, will they?
Welcome back to the both of yez.
Yeah, Ariel's totally right about that. PS Larry Summers really *is* kind of an ass. I see that now.
Cool. (Though I thought, briefly, it would be funny if you sued her for libelling you as a torturer, but then I thought how that wouldn't be funny.)
Will there be a Very Special Reunion Episode?
a-and I mean this in as non-o-earnest a way as possible:
Awww, that's nice.
Seriously, you know what I love? Strippers.
That does my heart some good.
Told you it was OK to e-mail her (as in a favor).
Ok, use of "e-mail" instead of "email" checks out with the real PD, leaving me more confused than ever before.
I don't even understand what 13 means.
If it is someone imitating PD, they are so getting sued.
ogged asked PD for advice before talking to BPhD?
New topic: Should I start a blog?
Shouldn't ogged be able to figure it out from the IP?
No, that's the real PD. He's alluding to something from our correspondence.
So ogged,
Now that you are a talking basis, what's the deal with her?
Why doesn't she just retract the comments, issue a correction and be done with this?
Let's not go over that in comments, Paul. You are, as ever, free to email me.
I, for one, am unhappy with your attempts to have a happy ending. In protest, I'm calling myself a radical gay islamofascist and banning myself. I'll spend the next week submitting complaints to Weiner's department head and endeavoring to out Standpipe. Also, I've contacted my attorney about suing Bob.
Good Day, sirs.
New theory: ogged is Deignan. He has engineered this whole thing to bring himself back with a bang. It's going well, but ogged has become too bold and is now talking to himself.
Paul, in all seriousness--
if she simply said
OK, what Paul did wasn't within the technical definition of IP spoofing, and maybe his contact with me wasn't as threatening as I took it to be at first.
would you be done with her? For the record, I'd much rather see you get all lawyerly on Hettle and leave BPhD out of this.
But Ogged is right. Let's leave this out of comments.
(What readers don't know is that the three of us go out drinking all the time. Party city!)
I really can't tell if 21 is earnest or not.
Ossa on Pelion.
I thought Pelion got stuck on top of Ossa.
New topic: Should I start a blog?
I think recent events have shown that the answer to that question is always "Yes".
But seriously, yeah, do it. It's nice to have your own little bit of online real estate.
Now that you are a talking basis ...
... you can make a talking basis point.
Why doesn't she just retract the comments, issue a correction and be done with this?
Because. You. Are. An. Unreasonable. Bully. Who. Is. Threatening. Her. With. A. Baseless. Legal. Case. While. Hinting. You. Will. Expose. Her. Identity.
I hope you realise that if you had played this whole thing only slightly differently, people would be wholly on your side because of the nasty and underhanded (but not actionable!) thing that Hettle did by emailing your supervisor. Thanks entirely to your own special genius, however, your credibility is lit up in flames like the towering inferno.
So would I,
the problem is that if she runs the blog that publishes the material, knows of it, publishes similar stuff, etc. etc. then it becomes impossible to untangle BPhd from Hettle.
What she ought to do is settle individually. It would take a 20 min phone call, a couple letters of assurance/confidentiality and a couple posts.
I don't understand why, if she is (and should be) worried about this that she doesn't correct.
Slol: I think the order is reversed in Virgil and Homer. See.
I'm very uncomfortable with anyone brokering an agreement here -- to the extent B. wants to agree to anything, any discussions should be with her, rather than with third-parties in a public place.
In her place, I would make absolutely no further statements on this. Negotiating with someone prepared to bring a frivolous lawsuit is a fool's game.
argle,
It's stuff like that that foul things up for everyone.
Maybe you should cool it with the invective while we discuss, OK?
Let's all read and take to heart comment 23, and devote this and all other comment threads to innocent merriment, cock jokes, and the classics.
I think the order is reversed in Virgil and Homer.
Well I'll be. But then, who worries about which mountain goes on top of the other?
I for one agree with Paul:
It's stuff like that that foul things up for everyone.
But I also agree that this isn't the place to talk about this, as per LB's 35.
Yes, once again: not in the comments, folks.
Lizard,
What I suggested to ogged was just to e-mail her and have her e-mail me.
Obviously, with this nonsense of "cyberstalking" I'd be dopey to initiate the conversation directly.
And Paul?
If you claim to have given these facts to a lawyer who has advised you that you have a viable cause of action for defamation against B. or Hettle, you are either a liar, or have found an incredible incompetent.
I don't understand why, if she is (and should be) worried about this that she doesn't correct.
More baseless assertions interpretable as threats of legal action. And you wonder why, etc, etc, etc.
It's pretty easy to untangle, it seems to me. She didn't defame you.
To accuse her of defamation is really going to require you proving that her claim of ban evasion ('spoofing') caused you demonstrable harm. I don't think Hettle e-mailing your supervisor, who doesn't seem to have heard of blogs, counts as demonstrable harm; moreover, it seems less likely that Hettle's over-reaction can be pinned on her. More likely that he made his own stupid decision to e-mail your advisor.
I guess with all this hoopla, if I were BPhD, I'd be pretty uninclined to take your word that a private phone call would solve all this, ya know?
Try it and I'll spoof my IP address. (After engaging in a program of research to figure out what that entails.)
Cala should start a blog.
Virgil got Homer wrong.
Josh Marshall is still being coy, though slightly less so.
Rate My Professors delights / scares me now that I know all about it.
Ben, it rules that PD comments here. No banning of Paul!
I'm done. Didn't catch those last few comments (38,40,41,etc) before posting in 44.
It is cool. Like having some form of vaguely demented mascot.
You weren't kidding when you said "folk hero," huh, Labs?
You know what? I like kosher food.
The classics...yes.
So. The Aeneid. I started reading it in high school, but set it aside when it started seeming like an Odyssey knock-off. What's the deal with all that? Worthwhile anyway?
I should say that I don't see anything wrong with discussing this, nor with discussing it with Paul -- it's the taking positions on what B. should to to resolve it that I find unsavory. If ogged wants the whole discussion to stop, of course, I'm okay with that.
Yeah, sorry, ogged, I didn't preview before posting.
I don't know how those who keep kosher do without the occasional bagel with egg and cheese and bacon. Mmm. Bacon.
wow...59 to 38. That was a lot of comments quickly.
The Aeneid is the Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony of Latin poetry.
I read a lot of that stuff when I was maybe 12 and thought it was really cool. Took Latin and stuff, read some Virgil.
Revisited Homer recently and thought, jeebus, but there's a lot of slaying in this. I'm finding it hard to decide what I might have liked about it.
On the other hand, it's the only place to get the straight skinny on the Trojan Horse.
Rodney King is banned!
I think he's been discriminated against enough already.
Discussions of Homer are not banned, but discussions of an author of the same name are.
I've always thought Shostakovich was the Odysseus of 20th century Russian composers.
All in all, I'd say this topic is now officially played.
So, most blatant 1/2 + 7 violation evar?
Little known fact: Circe was the Hildegard von Bingen of demigoddesses.
For you, Cala, I'll grant endless extensions. In fact, I'm extending just thinking about it.
Guess I'm a conservative after all.
70: If RateMyProfessor is any indication, there are some serious violations just waiting to happen in universities across the land. I looked up my old school, and some of the profs rated as hot were at least 55. One was probably 70 at the time of the rating, and is now actually dead.
Rodney King may well be the fifth symphony of ancient Greek literature.
Also, only 5 things happen in The Iliad:
1. People whine and sulk.
2. The gods whine and sulk.
3. People hack up cattle.
4. People hack up each other.
5. People play games.
But Odysseus was the Beethoven of the Homeric age Hellenistic heros!
Pretty handsome for 87 is like pretty handsome for ewwwwwwww.
1. People whine and sulk.
2. The gods whine and sulk.
3. People hack up cattle.
4. People hack up each other.
5. People play games.
I think that's Blogging, isn't it?
"Homeric age" and "Hellenistic" are non-intersecting, Michael.
Pwnd.
We need 19 comments in the next 15 minutes to get to 100 in less than an hour.
Actually, I think the boat-listing is one of the best parts.
Well, picture him dating your 90 yr. old widowed grandma. In that context, you could say handsome, right?
78.
There's also 6. Mourning for the deaths of those just hacked up. That's, to me, one of the more interesting parts.
There's also 6. Mourning for the deaths of those just hacked up.
If the other 5 are blogging, then that one is this actual post and thread.
The taking of armor and the grabbing of knees play important roles.
"Homeric age" and "Hellenistic" are non-intersecting, Michael.
Pwnd.
Actually, I knew this, but figured there's be 150 comments by the time I could google the right answer, and I assumed any reasonably well educated person would understand what I was trying to communicate.
I particularly enjoyed finding out how much blood came out of which opening in each dying person.
When it comes to desensitizing people to violence, nothing beats Homer's poetry. Not even action movies.
I do find that I'm looking for a novelistic resolution here, like FL. I want this to resolve with an event of some sort, and of course it won't, it'll just trail off into nothingness.
87: Maybe if I were ninety. With cataracts. ewwww.
I assumed any reasonably well educated person would understand what I was trying to communicate.
You wanted to communicate your lack of knowledge about Ancient Greece?
You could almost certainly get away with saying Achaean, and that alliterates with age.
Gary Farber will be so pissed off by this thread if he ever gets here.
Just hella pissed.
95: I think the most you can hope for is actually the occasion of this post.
I should know this about the Illiad, and Ancient Greece generally -- what does a tripod look like, beyond the inherent three-leggedness, and what exactly do you do with one other than win it or donate it to a temple?
95- Isn't it novelistic if Ogged and B are the main characters?
89: isn't that what the games were?
92: I am including that as part of the hacking process.
I'm amazed to see that ogged has not only posted but also replied in comments. Yay!
Ha! 2 comments a minute for fifty minutes!
102: or maybe an elderly-person orgy. That would be a neat resolution. Apo's already provided the pretext that'll drive the plot shift.
Why will Farber be pissed? (I didn't see a pejorative sci-fi reference.)
True -- demoting PD to narrative device (or deus ex machina if one wanted to be complimentary).
When it comes to desensitizing people to violence, nothing beats Homer's poetry.
I disagree, actually. I think the violence is awfully moving, especially when it happens to a hero with a reasonably developed personality. But of course, you have to be a feeling person to be moved in this way, by the horror of the transformation of men into things. (Yes, I know that's a crib from, I think, Simone de Beauvoir, and I don't feel like googling the citation.)
106, no, you grab the knees in the process of pleading for mercy. Sometimes it works, too, so you can't completely subsume it into hacking.
When it comes to desensitizing people to violence, nothing beats Homer's poetry. Not even action movies.
I disagree! The Iliad usually represents the dying in a good light; "the heroic suns of Thesoloniusious, who raced strong mares in the summer of their native country of Ioniciousness..." There's a lesson there to celebrate life while you have it, but also that war, well, sucks.
Cala, he's frequently complained about long, in-jokey threads riddled with high school cafeteria–style one-liners. He feels it drives such as him away.
I think the violence is awfully moving, especially when it happens to a hero with a reasonably developed personality.
I did not find any of the heroes to have reasonably developed personalities.
97. I am the epitome of the modern man. I enjoy sharing not so much what I know, but what I do not know.
or maybe an elderly-person orgy
Are you ever too old for an orgy?
106. I could all the recounting of the noble characters of all those hacked down as little micro-mournings throughout the work.
Is it wrong that I find myself wanting to put parentheses into long strings of words joined (or maybe separated...) by hyphens?
Like, I think of 114 as (high-school-cafeteria)-style.
These defenses of The Iliad only prove how successful the desensitizing has been.
"could" for "took" is your most adventurous misspelling yet, Michael.
Transgressive and thrilling! I give it an "A".
I think I agree with 120 if the implicit verb is something like what I think it is.
121. That's what the en dash is for.
Because I experience a deeply felt, painful reaction to the violence in Homer, even on re-reading it n years after initially meeting it, it proves it's desensitizing?
I think we need to start DateMyProfessor.com.
Actually, I took "could" for "count" not "took".
Is Troy really windy? Anybody ever been there?
License to Illiad
Illiad in Philly
I thought you guys thought Farber would be pissed because he never gets comments. And he blogged the Deignan stuff last month, anyway. (The Farber is prolific when he's blogging.)
125: Really? So it should be "high-school-cafeteria—style"? I assume you're right, but it seems unappealing.
But then, I insist on putting commas outside of quotes, even though I know that doing so is considered to be incorrect (unless you're in Britain). Computer programming has screwed up my brain.
unless you're in Britain
Or a linguist.
"count" is the correct, originalist translation
No! It should be "high school cafeteria–style". That is what the en dash is for. As opposed to "cafeteria(hyphen)style".
I completely agree with you re: punctuation and quotation marks (see above for an instance), but for the same reason, I think.
(The Farber is prolific when he's blogging.)
You know, I think that's part of the reason he doesn't get comments - when the site's active at all, posts just slide down the page too fast.
For the first time ever, I qualify as an originalist scholar.
slol, that depends on whether or not you think 122 is a real argument, or a weak parody of the "the fact that you do not agree proves I'm right" style of arguing in the blogosphere.
I can see how people could be moved by The Iliad, but I was not. This is probably because it all seemed pretty meaningless to me.
Anyway, no one's explained tripods to me. I could google, but this is easier.
whether or not you think 122 is a real argument
This is a civil blog, and an earnest one. Of course I took your broken-back weak argument seriously.
I think you put a tripod on top of a fire, and heat the sweet gray goo inside.
Incidentally, doesn't ogged owe us a scandalous picture of profgrrrrl?
Also they're something with three legs awarded as a prize in the aforementioned games.
It did lead me to wonder if being desenstized to violence would make one more or less likely to be violent. The assumption, as I understand it, is that being desensitized is bad because people sensitive to violence would be more likely to try to prevent it.
But aren't people who find glory and honor in violence sensitive to it?
That's probably not expressed very well, but it is serious.
She already knew that.
Yes, it was a weak attempt, I grant.
Still at 2 comments per minute, aren't we?
Good news, people.
I just wrote another sentence for my presentation.
141: I like Farber's blog. But I don't understand the Read the Rest score. It confuses me; I can't figure out if it's being used ironically or not, and sometimes it's blank, and I can't figure out why someone would link to something that wasn't worth Reading the Rest Of.
Tis a cool blog, though, when he's writing.
WHAT. THE. HELL!
Dad goes away to class and everything falls apart?
Yeeesh.
I'm going to turn around and come back tomorrow and I want this straightened out by then.
Oh, and somebody (eb?) asked about Iowa and all I'll say is they have some very HOT women there, and I know some jokes, too, but now is not the time.
ben, depending on how long the sentence is, you may be ahead of me. I've been in the library for 5 hours, 10 minutes right now and have written exactly 174 words.
Well, right; people who enjoy violence are clearly in a literal sense sensitive to it. But I was thinking of a colloquial sense of "sensitive", as in e.g. "Sensitive New-Age Guy". (Does anyone say that anymore? No. Bad example.)
Prof. Owens of the UMTC Philosophy department is rated hot. There's a little chili pepper next to his name and everything. Ridiculous.
The funny thing about Farber's comments about the comments here is that, if you go to the archives, you can find him complaining about the amount of comments here back during the days when 45 comments could be considered the motherlode.
I think the general sense of 'desensitized' is 'think the violence (sex, whatever) is no big deal'. The people delighting in violence are desensitized to it because they don't really understand that violence is a big deal; you know, it's fun. For kids!
But I don't understand the Read the Rest score.
That seems pretty simple -- he's either quoted all of the good bits or there's more stuff to read at the link that he didn't quote.
slol, I don't think that was eb's point. Someone who really thinks that there's honor and glory in violent acts probably isn't completely inured to it, but isn't sensitive just at the level of a bare sensing, either; rather, such a person will (we think) have a sense that violent actions are weighty and important.
From "Michael's girlfriend"'s list, in the link eb produced: 27. no big butts. And yet!
Michael has a woman's ass. Otherwise, why would it give me needs?
Yes, w-lfs-n (in 162) says it better than I did. So to complain about senseless violence or the desensitizing effects of violence in movies is not always to say that there should be less violence; it could also mean simply that the violence we do have should be more meaningful.
Reading the reviews of some of my old professors is amusing.
a real jerk, but the class was easy.
...
I went to this guy's office hours a couple of times, but walked away both times. He was in his office talking to other professors about how "****ing stupid" the South is and "****ing Repub. ****s" and how "****ing stupid" LSU students are. What a jerk. His contempt for everyone but himself and his extreme left buddies is obvious in class, too.
This has to be my favorite:
Regularly teaches courses on former Nazis... Will fail you based on attendance even though this is against university policy. Basically, his classes are like being in a dictatorial forum.
The first sentence refers to Heidegger.
Jesus Christ, I go to teach my class and it's up to 164?
LB: but why link to something if it's only a 1 out of 5?
(I'm sure I'm the only person on the internets to whom this has seemed weird.)
I see I'll have to watch myself around Chopper.
Oh look, the comment window remembers me! I feel all warm and fuzzy. It's so nice to be back.
It's also really nice of all of you to refrain from pointing out to Ogged that while he and I were broken up, I slept with all of you, so really, which means you all already have your own naked pictures.
Seriously, I really appreciate your discretion.
Cala, the rest is only worth 1 out of 5. The good stuff was quoted.
I understand 1 out of 5 to mean that all the good stuff is in his excerpt so there's little reason to read the rest.
I slept with all of you
I feel so cheap.
Hey, you didn't sleep with me, goddammit.
I'm gonna sue.
"you, which."
See? I even made an editing error first post out, just for Ben.
Dr. B, you know how ogged is when he's jealous. Throws fits!
(I guess I'm just a loser that always clicks through anyway.)
Ah, here's what I was looking for. We should all be glad he doesn't post "upwards of 60 to 80" times on busy days.
This is excellent. Since we all have naked pictures of b, we can compare, and pick our favorites. Who wants to post first?
B sez: "I feel all warm and fuzzy."
Which I would know if you'd slept with me. But no, I just have to infer it from your damn blog.
Grumble, grumble, grumble.
Design a comment to make Gary's head explode. Hints -
1. Write about something he's already addressed;
2. Write badly about it;
3. Write with little technical care;
4. Write something denigrating Sci-Fi guys.
I can't really think of anything else.
168: I also thing that it's sometimes because he is pointing out how damn stupid it is, and you really shouldn't pollute your mind by reading any more of it. He has read it so you don't have to.
Reference Azimov, Ghandi, and Isreal.
Ogged's first podcast - "I Might Like You Better If We Slept Together."
--I'm not sure why no one is blogging about Serenity. Its probably because it takes all the faults of science fiction, and magnifies them so much that the sci-fi friendly industry, led by the Lucas/Spielberg cabal, is hoping that we'll all ignore it. And I say this as someone who is typically a fan of science fiction: I have the first three seasons of Buffy on DVD.--
Racial differences are genetic. I'm sorry. That's just the way it is.
Ogged, you are suck a fucking nerd. Seriously, I can just picture you slurping spit around your retainer, as you sit alone in your mom's basement, rolling up characters for your new roleplaying campaign that combines anime, vampires, and Classic Trek slash. The boys (and they are all boys, ogged) will sure love this one!
Ooh, remember how angry he go when it was suggested that health restrictions be placed on foodstamp purchases? Do that again.
Sorry I'm late to this thread party.
Oh man, but Tolkien is teh fantasy.
Clearly, Tim's 182 barely scratched the surface of things that annoy Gary.
And spoiler alerts that don't actually spoil things! He hates those, because they desensitive people to spoiler alerts. Actually, I'm serious.
Spoiler Alert:
---
ogged is teh ghey.
Shit, this is probably 40 comments too late, but I think the image of Aeneas carrying Anchises with Ascanius in tow is moving.
Now, in non-annoying Gary/baiting ogged mode: welcome back, ogged. The place just isn't the same without you.
Shit, man. You can't post something like that without a spoiler alert.
Clearly this is not the place to express my inability to get emotionally involved in classical literature (I have the same problem with plays).
I have all seven seasons of Buffy on DVD. So, nyah.
And Apostropher, really, it's very sweet of you to pretend, but as you can see I've converted Ogged to my way of thinking and he's not in the least jealous.
Thanks chopper, but I'm not sure I'm back, so much as taking a break from my hiatus.
Come to think of it, I've never seen Gary as mad about anything as he was about spoilers.
Speculating about someone's sexuality! Asimov's sexuality!
What can I say, Thucydides? It's not you, it's me. I just, something...something's wrong with me. I need some space to figure out what I really need out of a relationship, and it's not fair to you to ask you to wait around. You understand, right baby?
What about Dido, eb? If not when she's giving herself the hari-kari special, at least when she's backing up Eminem?
Clarke we know about, Heinlein dabbled...
I actually haven't read any of the Greek or Roman histories. I suspect that I'd like them.
Thanks for screwing up my joke, smasher.
An "ATM" joke? Seriously, Smasher, thanks for screwing that up.
It is good to have you back, ogged, however briefly. Why don't you just show up on Friday (here, Th) Fundays, if you don't want the thing taking over your life? Or not, obviously.
Hmm, you may be right, Armsmasher. I'd forgotten about that.
You know, I think we ought to welcome Ogged and bphd back by sending them a nice fruit basket.
I'm starting to feel loved, y'all. You better stop.
Seriously ogged, the american gay lesbian transgender blogging society (AGLTBS) made us promise we would stop doing that.
Cala, you want a fruit basket? Have a fruit basket. (Note: same link.)
What lovely loveliness is in this thread! I have missed it! I hateth you, demanding partner! You did not really need that memo written today!
Now, if only PD will become a regular poster, and BPhD returns to her former glory, the millenium of unfoggeddom shall be upon us!
But where is Standpipe?
I missed all the fun. I'm the Charlie Brown of unfogged.
Psst... text... want to try to kick the football?
I marvel that nobody has pointed out Chopper's Freudian slip typo in 189.
Freudian slip typo
subliminal suggestion
Well, I'm hating this thread in lieu of Gary Farber.
I should probably say, "My hatred of this thread serves as a proxy for Gary Farber's." I don't mean to imply I'm hating this thread instead of hating Gary Farber.
I am, though.
(Actually I'm not. I love this thread. And Gary.)
text, I am here! Helloooo! It sucks to be shot from a cannon and to land so far away from the Internet.
Also, I am very happy to produce, in this here comment, my very first words addressed to bitchphd. Helloooo!
Next we should talk about frites.
I completely forgot last night, darn it.
Deignan and the Angry Bitch
ash
['Choreography by Fontana Labs.']
Wait, I read the "typo" in 189 as a clever attempt to piss off a hypothetical Farber who's reading this thread, not a Freudian slip or any kind of suggestion.
Mmm, frites.
Oh please tell me, Chopper, how exactly does one suck a fuck? [I'm all ears.]
I can tell you that ears aren't going to get it done.
It's that very sort of inside-the-box thinking that's kept the TiVo running, Ogged.
Nonsense, you just have to do your ETs. It's great, you can do your ET excercises all day and nobody even knows. If anyone wants to borrow my brochure for Phase I, I can do that, but you'll have to send away for the rest.
If I were inside the box, apo, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
It's true. Inside a box, it's too dark to readtype.
So, really, did nobody get 233 or is it more fun to ignore the reference and make me look like a sexual incompetent for asking?
Leave town for 48 hours, and the world changes. And dear whomever, #8 was fricking hilarious.
On the contrary, it makes you look overqualified.
I didn't "get" 233. I was however, getting ready to make a comment about required 3rd parties or extraordinary limberness which now seems ill advised. So, do tell.
Also, have I mentioned that I earned my living as a proofreader and/or editor for a number of years? I just want everybody to be clear on that, so they can really savor every last frickin' one of the inordinate number of typos I produce here.
Proofreading is about 80% of my current job. The other 20% is sucking a fucking nerd.
Yeah, OK, I could have followed the link. I really should get around to seeing that movie one of these days.
I just didn't respond in kind because I was too busy thinking about Maggie Gyllenhaal.
I didn't, and I've seen the movie twice.
I'm a good proofreader, when it's greater than 30% of my job on a daily basis--I have to get into a zone.
Now all those years buy me is the exceptional misery of catching every damn typo in ads and newspapers.
I did not get it + I should have = SHAME.
No one's asked me about the brochure. I may not have mentioned that it's quite glossy.
You think so, apostropher? I'm not sure. Maybe I should watch a movie about one to see what it's like.
Did you give it an acqueous coat or just a spot varnish, SB?
Maybe I should watch a movie about one
Start with The Beverly Hillbillies. That Miss Hathaway is a looker.
Wow. I thought 252 was overkill, but I guess not.
I understand 252, and I thought all comments leading up to it (Maggie and Jake are the same person, don't be fooled!), but I don't understand 255.
I interpreted 255 as "wow, 252 sure did beat that dead horse into the ground—until apostropher saved the joke in 254!"
I stopped worrying about my lack of comprehension when I realized everyone was referring to a movie I haven't seen.
Becks, I was staring at that line thinking isn't that from a movie? And I just watched Donnie Darko monday night (yah netflix).
Those people really need to learn how to insult people better. It's like reading a LiveJournal or something.
Of course you (you≠Gary) realize, this means war.
Actually, Thucydides is really great.
Thucydides rules. The Melian dialogue, two apparently distinct wars that are actually the same one continued, the whole way he conceptualizes history, the decline from Pericles (and his oration) to the leadership of "the most violent man in Athens", the night of the herms, and oh, man: the Sicilian expedition. Fantastic stuff.
"Of course you (you≠Gary) realize, this means war."
She's an unarmed civilian who doesn't know the field of war, actually.
Really, i gots no troops. Story of my life, mostly. (Can I write another sentence with a one word clause, maybe? I can, apparently. I must stop now, regrettably.)
Why does the script of that movie contain the phrase, e.g., "You're suck a fuck-ass!" Was Chopper, unbeknownst to him, channeling the script? Is the kiss-and-make-up a sign that someone has travelled back in time and... ah shit, headed for a spoiler, Chopper you really should see the movie. For everyone else, I'm writing "Where is Bob?" on the wipeboard on the fridge.
Deignan promises to sue Dr B to drive up traffic, and never delivers.
Ogged promises naked pictures of the lovely Dr B to drive up traffic, and never delivers.
You exploiters are so alike.
Next week, naked pictures of PZ Myers, so I can figure out who my loyal readers are.
I'll be posting naked pictures of PZ Myers at noon, eastern time at apostropher.com.
Damn you, Ogged, you thunder-stealer.
I've got your thunder in my pocket, apostropher.
Yeah, I left that there as a little surprise for you. Sticky stuff, ain't it?
Ah, much better. My influence (comment 155) has already settled this place down to its normal rowdy self.
And BphD - of course I didn't tell. I learned a long time ago that those who tell will soon have nothing to tell about.
I sure wish I could remember what it is we did though. But, knowing you, it was fabulous! One teeny question - a mitre box?
the desecration of the herms was the seminal event of western history.
One teeny question - a mitre box?
Tripp, while we've established that B's box is twice as large as Ogged's cock, let's not go overboard. Also, you spelled meter wrong.
Is there something Michael Berube hasn't been telling us?
I miss this place alot, so I come back for a sneak read and whaddyaknow... the one thing I found hard to accept here is resolved. Respect people.
Just one question: WTF is PD? :)
Man its lonely in Warsaw.
Yeah.. too long if you ask me.
I lurk still... but I had to break cover for this.
PD == paul deignan (who, i believe [despite the threats made above regarding the discussion of this issue] if he proceeds with suing BpD will discover that lawsuits without merit can draw (a) anti-SLAPP motions (SLAPP == Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) and (b) countersuits for intentional / negligent infliction of emotional distress and for harassment [among other causes of action].)
yes, iaal, but not in defamation. no this isn't legal advice and none of you are my clients. so there.
SLAPP suits -- usually filed by a land use developer against a community organization seeking to prevent a particular land use. by claiming defamation the developer can chill his opponent's expression. California courts take a dim view to SLAPP suits and can levy substantial penalties against the plaintiff. other states (where i'm not licensed to practice law) also have anti-SLAPP procedures.
further examination of the analogy between the classic SLAPP suit and PD's assertions are left as an exercise to the reader.
PD, if you're still reading, best of luck you're really really really really going to need it.
BpD, so when do we get to see you naked? since you're hot enough to get two smart guys, well, my imagination ..... hmmmm, let's not go there.
PZ, did you hear Barbara Bradley Haggerty on npr on ID? i just about blew a fuse.
Actually, Thucydides is really great.
That w-lfs-n, he really knows how to wow the ladies.
But what about George I thought you wanted him to ask you gambling software dedication and research and all Ive got to show for it is a bootleg .
Woah! Two spams! And one of them is old! You missed it, ogged.
