TS nabisco vs. sinkah

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Which has the bigger brane?

― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 20 July 2006 04:24 (nineteen years ago)

Write-in votes for Nick Currie not allowed.

― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 20 July 2006 04:24 (nineteen years ago)

Honorable mentions to:
jaymc: Best Memory
a(mateur)ist: Best Movie-Loving-To-The-Point-Of-Loving-Screen-Goddesses-More-Than-Real-Ladies-Persona
teh P!nef0x!- Best Literature-Loving-To-The-Point-Of-Being-A-Little-Fuzzy-On-Real-Life-Persona

― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 20 July 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

(I wonder if this thread will be here in the morning?)

― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 20 July 2006 04:32 (nineteen years ago)

(Not even Kenan is here to post his world-weary art-damaged reply with his scared-quoted clever new screenname)

― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 20 July 2006 04:33 (nineteen years ago)

(Maybe Ally or Tombot or Dan Perry will show up and have a Fite! with someone!)

― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 20 July 2006 04:35 (nineteen years ago)

(Although hopefully not Morbius because that would be yesterdays papers)

― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 20 July 2006 04:35 (nineteen years ago)

(Or maybe Jess will come and either delete this thread or flood it with funny images on a theme of his choice)

― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 20 July 2006 04:38 (nineteen years ago)

(Or perhaps gear! with post an image of Orson Welles with a funny quotation below)

― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 20 July 2006 04:38 (nineteen years ago)

(Where is everybody- was there another ILX wedding? Maybe I'll see some nice Jimmy the Mod photos of Dan Perry shaking it come the morn)

― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 20 July 2006 04:41 (nineteen years ago)

(Maybe I should try to add some crocfarmer appeal to this thread, since they should be waking up soon)

― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 20 July 2006 04:42 (nineteen years ago)

(Nope, they've already got their own thread, which they seem to be very happy with)

― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 20 July 2006 04:46 (nineteen years ago)

hi dere. I saw nabisco be not OTM in a thread once. I was taken aback.

― HPSTRKRFT (haitch), Thursday, 20 July 2006 04:47 (nineteen years ago)

nabisco is incredibly able to apply his generous intellect to find something interesting in the most banal of comments from another poster and whip out a thousand word morceau choisi upon a random topic within seconds, but could he ever match the fabled sinkah tour-de-force that we find here?

― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 20 July 2006 04:54 (nineteen years ago)

Eyeball Kicks

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 20 July 2006 05:29 (nineteen years ago)

Dude, Sinker wins this by a Mongolian mile. As do lots of other people on ILX. The only thing that ever makes me feel smarter than anyone on ILX is the fact that some of you have not yet noticed what a total dipshit I am.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 20 July 2006 05:48 (nineteen years ago)

Aren't they from two different eras?

I've been around ILE for 3 years or so, and I only know Sinker by reputation rather than postings.

Nabisco is a good debating partner with Momus.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Thursday, 20 July 2006 06:13 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, I just think Sinkah's the GR34T3ST. Maybe because I met him and he was as cuddlyintelligent as I expected him to be? Whatever. Maybe if I meet Nabisco I might change my mind, but for now Sinkah wins. :-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 20 July 2006 06:47 (nineteen years ago)

Nabisco is by no means a dipshit but really Momus writes his own rebuttals and he knows it, that's the (initial) problem. They're builtin. He doesn't care. The other problem (I didn't wanna bring this up on the Syd thread) is that he's RIGHT, it's just it fuckin SUCKS that he's right, and that he enjoys himself thinking that way.

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 20 July 2006 06:49 (nineteen years ago)

sinker's the only ilxor i've ever felt really intellectually intimidated by - not that yall aren't smart but he just comes at things from such unexpected and original angles (his unique writing style doesn't hurt) that it's difficult to compare him to anyone else. it's like someone said about the difference between a freeman dyson and a richard feynman - "that guy's pretty smart, he sure knows a lot" vs "HOW THE HELL DOES HE DO THAT?!"

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 20 July 2006 08:01 (nineteen years ago)

I like the tumbleweed blowing across the desolate beginning of this thread.

Having met them both they're obviously both lovely but have very different types of HUGE BRANE. Nabisco's very good at patiently explaining things that others have been feeling their way towards but failed to nail to to inarticulacy or just being plain irate with someone. Sinkah usually turns up with an out-of-the-blue perspective that even he doesn't believe half the time but still makes you think 'wow, I never thought about it like that before'.

They've both been posting since 2001, in any case.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 20 July 2006 08:13 (nineteen years ago)

i've not met nabisco, and have met the marvellous mistah sinkah, but i enjoy reading them both on these boards.

however, upon watching Aqua Teen Hunger Fporce again recently, i have come to the conclusion that

ILM = http://www.entertainmentopia.com/screenshots/dvd/aquaTeen_vol1_masterShake.jpg
and
http://z.about.com/d/animatedtv/1/0/1/R/Meatwad.jpg

and Nabisco = http://z.about.com/d/animatedtv/1/0/z/Q/Frylock.jpg

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Thursday, 20 July 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

I like the way that since Sinkah has met us, we have made him go to the pub and are DESTROYING HIS BRANE CELL BY HALF A STELLA CELL.

Being smart ain't a race.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 20 July 2006 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

I can't actually recall ever seeing a post by this sinkah person, so I'll have to go with nabisco.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 20 July 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

sinkah/er = mark s

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 20 July 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

I once thought 'y'know I don't see all the fuss about Sinkah's brane, it's not THAT big' but then I realised it was just very, very, very, very far away.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 20 July 2006 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

I can't look back to check here at work right now, but I remember enjoying Momus and Nabisco going back and forth on the Betty Friedan thread. They bring the best out in each other.

ILM is where the real intellects hang out though. That dylan vs. bowie thread a while back was amazing.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Thursday, 20 July 2006 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

I find myself totally on the same page with Nabisco, which means that when we disagree it's like disagreeing with yourself. But Sinker... I can't understand what he's on about. Either he's operating on a godlike level of complexity, or he's just very bad at communicating. If the latter, I blame post-structuralist rock criticism. Pour some more beer in there!

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 20 July 2006 09:22 (nineteen years ago)

(Add to the godlike level of complexity a godlike level of absence most of the time, too.)

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 20 July 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

God - worst communicator ever

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 20 July 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

This thread is interesting. It's a bit - forward? A bit direct.

I don't feel intellectually intimidated by Sinker. He does not feel intellectually intimidated by me.

I think Konal's post, above, is terrific.

I really like Momus's post, for its boldness. It's better than if he'd hung back and been vaguely consensual.

I really enjoyed hanging around parts of NYC with Nabisco. It remains a good memory.

― the pinefox (the pinefox), Thursday, 20 July 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

Konal = the Father Dougal of ILX?

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 20 July 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

*imagines Tracey as giant rollerskate and nods enthusiastically*

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 20 July 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

i think many of us are capable of producing the complex and persuasive arguments Nabisco comes up with, but we're unable to type fast enough to do it in a reasonable amount of time.

http://www.computerlab.kids.new.net/typing_test.htm
Nabisco, how many words per minute?

― fongoloid sangfroid (sanskrit), Thursday, 20 July 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

it seems to me Nabisco is very practical in his approach: he tends to bring discussions back to their points, and to find their centers, eloquently and concisely. Consequently, people who haven't at all been contending what he contends often find themselves so persuaded by his arguments that they'll insist they were, in fact, on that side of the debate all along. Fascinating dynamic! Mark S seems much more in the continental-theory mode to me, which is to say, suspicious that the real truth of a matter might lie in its tangents, and therefore eager to try different strategies in discussing things i.e. drawing a totally awesome picture of an antennae'd guy fiting a dragon and finding therein a metaphor for intellectual discourse itself

I am very glad to know either & both of them, I think listening to them talk/jumping in sometimes is really good for my brain; I prefer the let's-just-fuckin-see-what-happens approach of Mark S if pressed, also his last name lends itself more readily to intellectual-assassin nicknames e.g. The Sinker

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 20 July 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

Mark S is very, very funny. Nabisco is extraordinary lucid.

I'm glad we don't have to take sides.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 20 July 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

extraordinarily, even

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 20 July 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

Ken, how much did you drink last night?

― Allyzay will never stop making pancakes (allyzay), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

Neither of them is as funny as Steady Mike.

Or even as lucid, probably.

I'm glad we don't have to allot percentage scores.

― the pinefox (the pinefox), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

I am very glad to know either & both of them

Quite. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

I can't take sides, they're both great. I wish Mark S posted here more, though.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

If he hears he's being dragged down to my level, perhaps he'll feel the need to come back and show y'all what's wot.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

The thing about Sinker is I can only occasionally tell whether he's being Whiteley for the sake of not being Weitling.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

nabisco amazes because he seems to be able to apply his intelligence to almost any subject and end up right almost every time, damn him. mark s seems to post about what he's deeply interested in (which is why he doesn't post as much i'd guess) as well as throwing in the occasional curveball & being very funny.

both win.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Also, both are very good to have a drink and a chat with.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

I think Mark S is funnier than Steady Mike.

But this is like saying I think a slice of fruit cake is tastier than a gingerbread man (with icing and those little edible ball bearings for buttons).

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

nabisco amazes because he seems to be able to apply his intelligence to almost any subject and end up right almost every time, damn him.

Suggest this is because he deals in interchangeable concepts and is charmingly up-front about his inexpertness in the details. Also he is always (or nearly always?) sincere, making him seem trustworthy and believable to the most wary of participants.

I don't really know Mahk Sinkah at all, more's the pity. :(

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

I think they're both v great, in many ways

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

MARK S SMELLS LIKE CHEESE
NABISCO SMELLS LIKE HAM

PUT THEM TOGETHER = ONE AWESOME SANDWICH

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

NABISCO, NOT BAITING YOU HERE, LOVE YR WORK
TAKE THE CHALLENGE: http://www.computerlab.kids.new.net/typing_test.htm

(i come in at 55wpm)

― fongoloid sangfroid (sanskrit), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

Nabisco makes good music. Sinkah draws funny pictures. I like them both, though I don't really read any long posts/threads - though by skimming through, I can see that they are a-okay.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

But this is like saying I think a slice of fruit cake is tastier than a gingerbread man

What a sweet thing to say.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 21 July 2006 08:06 (nineteen years ago)

I'd have said they were both fruitcakes, of different and equally tasty kinds.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 21 July 2006 08:08 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

Nabisco, are you ever going to come back, 5 years on, and tell us what happened, hee?

We just put the new Aislers Set record on in the office

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 11:29 (eighteen years ago)

I mean: HERE.

are you, going to tell us, what happened, in your exploration of and reflection on, that record

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 11:30 (eighteen years ago)

this thread turned out to be good, actually, on rereading.

old friends.

bookends.

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 11:36 (eighteen years ago)

thought this would be an ask chaki! poll

― banriquit, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 11:46 (eighteen years ago)

We just put the new Aislers Set record on in the office

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

four years pass...

changing my vote to Sanpaku.

― Leopard Skin POLL-Box Hat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 January 2013 20:03 (thirteen years ago)

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