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(umm, Kate, thanks for the support, but I really would like to keep all that under wraps. Basically, the person involved did apologise for over-reacting, and I also respected his position anyway)

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:28 (nineteen years ago) link

am I a contributor?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:28 (nineteen years ago) link

The cover is pretty cool.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't think I'm in that book at all. You fucker.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:29 (nineteen years ago) link

it *is* some sort of a meta-joke.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:29 (nineteen years ago) link

(I'm just jealous coz I was all over the first one, and I'm not in this one at all.)

― People love Gravity and Evolution! (kate), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:31 (nineteen years ago) link

am I invisible?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Twenty posts in two minutes! And the shit has barely hit the fan! Mark, you should put this thread in the book too *ducks*

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:33 (nineteen years ago) link

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/faq.php

Do I have copyright over things I post on ILx?

Yes.

― FUCKING A, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:33 (nineteen years ago) link

*dicks*

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Just checked. Did you "go to school with a girl called Megan Veek?"

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:35 (nineteen years ago) link

If any contributor objects then I shall withdraw it.

Done and done.

Did you not think even for a second "maybe I should inquire about this first"?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, this is what I am doing...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:38 (nineteen years ago) link

..enquiring, that is.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:39 (nineteen years ago) link

What's "Sing House of Jealous"?

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I still miss megan, now and then.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha, what I can't fathom is why anyone in their right mind would want to buy it!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:40 (nineteen years ago) link

lets all sing house of jealous lovers. over on ILM

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:40 (nineteen years ago) link

That's a rub selection of threads. No Missionary Position! WTF?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:42 (nineteen years ago) link

(Umm, that is actually one of them, sorry I missed it on the list above)

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Put me down for a copy, then!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:43 (nineteen years ago) link

OH NO MY SINGING IS IN THAT BOOK OH NO

― I am not a mandible (Barima), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 12:24 (nineteen years ago) link

I am in complete and total hysterics over this.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 12:40 (nineteen years ago) link

(SHOCKAH etc)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 12:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Let's send a copy to Gear!'s roomate.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 12:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Can we get a list of links to the threads that are compiled in it, please.

― LOGOUT, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 12:56 (nineteen years ago) link

OK, shall do.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:03 (nineteen years ago) link

This is great stuff though I'm not sure how well it would translate to book form. I guess a non-ilxor would find it very difficult. Are you taking out email addresses or the names or what exactly?

If there are enough ans this could make into a second book.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't think I'm in much of this either. I might be in House of Jealous Lovers, for a post or two. This is an odd selection of threads.

― St. Nicholas Ridiculous (Nick A.), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:09 (nineteen years ago) link

A car alarm keeps going off outside my house....what should I do?
A Four eared Kitten, you guys.
what to do when your roommate doesn't realize you're home and thusly is having loud sex in the living room
The Missionary Position
There's a guy outside my window who's been threatening to jump all night!
What the hell, let's all SING "House of jealous lovers"

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:09 (nineteen years ago) link

(the kitten thread is actually between the couch and the missionary ones)

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Could have asked first, 1) to see if everyone was ok with it, 2) to see what threads people might want in it if they WERE ok with it!

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Especially as Andrew Farrell is having a tizzy about it and will no doubt SEE YOU IN COURT, BUSTER.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link

The only thing that annoys me about it is that it implies some kind of finality to those threads, which is false. Thus the book should have been made up solely of locked threads.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link

That bugs me, too.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:33 (nineteen years ago) link

This is not making any money and I can't believe anyone but ilxors or lurkers would want to buy it.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link

do you really believe that?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link

No, he can't believe that.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link

yes I can believe that.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

You fucking liar.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.demarismiller.com/images/lawsuit.jpg

― GET A LIFE! (ex machina), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link

2 measly posts in the whole book. I object on egotistical grounds.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Print a couple of the threads onto a thong, and then we're talking...

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link

ARE THERE PICTURES IN THIS BITCH?!

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link

string a few sentences together, full of cheek.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 16:09 (nineteen years ago) link

believe.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link

The chapter is not closed on my roommate tale! why just this morning I found a note on my door that read "go to this website and we can get free movie tickets, it's so cool! =) " Suddenly my real-life has turned into an AOL inbox and my roommate is a spammer.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Surely you mean "spammee" (in the context of a "spam javelin")?

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link

"remember when I caught S**** getting spammed up the backdoor? Good times, friend."

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link

So would that mean Butt-Sex Boy is a spanner?

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link

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"oh" man that would be something.

http://www.pe.net/~jnes/ohport9.gif

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link

indeed

http://homepage.mac.com/philtwo/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2004-06-13%2022.26.04%20-0700/Image-F5F21212BDC211D8.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link

You know, as I scroll thorough this thread, it kind of looks like closing credits.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Key Grip - Sick Mouthy

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:07 (nineteen years ago) link

sorry for whatever it was that i did dan

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:38 (nineteen years ago) link

fortunately it's a roomy doghouse

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:02 (nineteen years ago) link

(It has a bay view and skylights!)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link

i call top bunk

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:11 (nineteen years ago) link

"Tell me more about this doghouse, Dan..."

http://www.curtisknapp.com/IMAGES/portraitsphotos/p039_oh_sadaharu.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:12 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

i want this book ;_;

― chaki (chaki), Saturday, 27 May 2006 01:27 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

LAST WORD

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

haha sorry

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

The irony was: I did decide to print one copy, much later when all was quiet (in fact, when ILX was off for those 2 weeks), only to find the pdf file was a bad format.

Story ends...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link

ysi?

― fongoloid sangfroid (sanskrit), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

at least no one violently objected

― gear (gear), Friday, 21 July 2006 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link

PDF'D

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 27 July 2006 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I find it mind-boggling that anyone got upset about this.

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 27 July 2006 23:29 (seventeen years ago) link

"jesus fucking christ" hahaha

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:33 (seventeen years ago) link

This thread brings back memories of the meltdown of 2004, the two week blackout, and how we went on regardless. Is it two years already?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 28 July 2006 09:08 (seventeen years ago) link

for me the fallout from this was kinda worse than I'd thought - obviously I came back posting under (several) different names, but there's something about posting under my own name that encouraged me to think harder, speak more clearly, be more kind. I always thought of this as a pleasant side benefit of the old-old-school ilm "rule"/suggestion/tradition of posting under one's own name. It's not news of course that wearing a persona has a transformative effect on one's speech, both in content and form. So, while I didn't have to leave, it was obvious to me that I couldn't post under my own name, and the small but real pleasure of that openness was lost.

Of course the upside was how long it took Momus to figure out who Thomas Tallis was, but then I understand that Momus has had a stand-in writing his posts for months now, so the joke's kind of on Thomas eh

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I really don't understand what's going on around here any more.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Postýng under ones own name bears some responsýbýlýty. And ýt took me longer than momus to fýgure ýt out as wel.

Bad typýngÞ heyç I am ýn turkey...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

This thread brings back memories of the meltdown of 2004, the two week blackout, and how we went on regardless. Is it two years already?

otm

I remember that summer particularly well, because I was unemployed and bored, so ILX was the perfect distraction. Which is why the blackout felt much worse than it would, say, now.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 25 September 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

LAST WORD

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 15:31 (fifteen years ago) link

that's it, i'm leaving ilx.

― omar little, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 15:32 (fifteen years ago) link

Thread of missing excelsior the book

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link

oh this was a bad idea, sorry

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 15:35 (fifteen years ago) link

haha was this the first time we saw "Just a bit of fun, so lets be cool."

― Ste, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 15:42 (fifteen years ago) link

it looks like the damage has already been done so swiftly and efficiently that there's nothing even remotely concievable I could've done to stop it

― omar little, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 15:42 (fifteen years ago) link

Ste: yes

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link

I always thought that the idea that you should "think harder, speak more clearly, be more kind" wasn't a bad one.

Was it?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 16:12 (fifteen years ago) link

six years pass...

does anyone actually have this? seems like the ultimate ilx collector item.

― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 22:37 (eight years ago) link

mordy has a Torah version he says is better but

― thoughts you made second posts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 22:39 (eight years ago) link

you come home and the lights are still on and your parents are in the kitchen and there is a copy of 'excelsior the book' on the table

― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 23:15 (eight years ago) link

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