ILx "first mentions"

Good reminder of how completely lost the Tories were in 2001, anyway.

gbx (skowly) wrote this on thread DO YOU READ BOING BOING??????? on board All Noise Dude Summertime Fun Board and Pickle Bar on Mar 27, 2006

i read reddit.

lol

Richard Jones wrote this on thread Jeff Buckley Classic or Dud? on board I Love Music on 16-Feb-2001

I met him at a signing on the Grace tour. He recommended a Gastr Del Sol record on Big Cat that I've never been able to find (Does it exist?). I was sad to hear that he'd died.

I find his canonistion problematic, even though he was a personable and approachable fellow. One above average record and an interesting live set does not a classic make.

glad u weren't doing gastr del sol

There have to be so many reasons. Upbringing, peer pressure, feeling threatened. What is odd is that I seem to get along better with women than with men. Not sure why, although some people claim I'm so effeminate I practically *am* a woman. Hmmmmm.
I used to know alot of people who went to an all-male public school, and they didn't like women just because they'd never really been around them. Women were very alien to them, if you like.

It's funny, I don't like misogyny or misandry, but I can be something of a misanthrope. Go figure.

― Paul Strange, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius) wrote this on thread Rolling BOS - ANA 2004 ALDS thread on board I Love Baseball on Oct 7, 2004

Re the AL's Mr Lucky, from Nate Silver's BP column today:
Colon is the first pitcher to win 18+ games with an ERA of 5.00 or higher since Bobo Newsom went 20-16 with a 5.08 ERA for the 1938 St. Louis Browns.

If I joined this, I would make you all read pulpy fantasy novels, like _Eye Of The World_ by Robert Jordan or _A Game Of Thrones_ by George R. R. Martin.
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 October 2002 19:26 (11 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Paul Krugman's columns are very informative and very insightful. You may have seen the red/blue maps with relative population density factored in. A totally different picture. Most of those red states are mountains, deserts, plains, and forests. Some states have more livestock than people. One personal observation though. There aren't self-reliant, rugged individualists left in this nation anymore. We're one ignorant nation of self-centered sheeple.

― bryan, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 01:00 (12 years ago)

Help! We appear to be trapped in a moebius loop involving Fugazi! The concept of the Moebius is the basis of a song by Orbital. The Orbital is a big road that goes all the way around the outside of London. London is not only home to many fine bands, but it is also namechecked in songs and albums by bands from The Clash to Blur. Blur's guitarist, Graham Coxon, has recorded several solo albums which pay great homage to the hardcore punk aesthetic and guitar work of... ARGH!!! FUGAZI!!!

― Kate the Saint, Friday, 20 July 2001 01:00 (13 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

old ilx is so awful

unfair imo

brush up on yr ilx history and you'll nnotice i was the one to first-mention sheeple itt

Ally wrote this on thread Frank Sinatra: Champ or chump on board I Love Music on May 9, 2001

How come every time Ethan gets involved in a thread, he tries to turn it into some social media warfare? Jesus. I just started a thread for that very thing. Feel free to take your musings on Maxim and Eminem there, because I reckon it's nicer to consolidate that to ONE thread instead of 15.
FRANK SINATRA IS COOL. Not because I particularly like his music (quite a lot of his hits all sound exactly alike to me), but because he drinks and is a dirty rotten scoundrel and is a mafioso. That makes him hella cool. I have always wanted to buy something of his but I'm too lazy to walk up to the easy listening/vocal classics section of Tower. And like I said earlier, that whole kick ass talking instead of singing thing.

Tom wrote this on thread This is the thread where you call somebody random a cockfarmer in the knowledge that sooner or later they will Google their name and find it. on board I Love Everything on Oct 26, 2001

Michael Gove is a cockfarmer.

(I'm not Michael Gove)

Kristen Stewart from Panic Room looks a LOT like Conor Oberst. Especially when she's having that diabetic episode.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 17 January 2004 22:58

Composition is the suxxors. Arangements pwn.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Saturday, March 1, 2003 10:53 PM (11 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

second mention of "suxxors" tho

anyone else think nikki minaj is the best non-wayne young money rapper?

― Jordan Sargent, Sunday, June 24, 2007 4:25 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

she's a ryder

wayne on here is like "can't believe it" verse but more weeded if that's even possible. i thought it was funny when dj drama said "obviously there is more singing on here but wayne is in that zone". the palpable disgust in that statement alone was lol. gudda gudda is like mack maine with less personality and even less brain cells. can't wait to hear more.

― t-t-totally some dude (J0rdan S.), Friday, November 14, 2008 3:33 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I haven't read the whole thread, but the Defari & J-Zone bits at the top and bottom are definitely what's up. I hate the hiphop scene here, because the only things that get championed are nerd rappers with names like Common Market and Optimus Rhyme (actually, that's a great name, but damn if I wanna listen to anyone who calls himself that) and Macklemore, who raps about his white liberal guilt, and anything that sounds like it was made by actual humans, instead of backpack-bots gets overlooked.

― The Reverend, Wednesday, August 29, 2007 5:08 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hello all ILX0Rs - just thought I'd give everybody a shout-out from the Pan Pacific Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where Malaysia air lets you stay FOR FREE during layover. Nicest hotel I've ever seen in my whole life, the sort of place you imagine you'll never actually see the inside of except in movies.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, July 22, 2003 12:20 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

much later than I thought:

Dr.C wrote this on thread ITV's FLOOD! on board I Love Everything on May 7, 2008

RC was also in BBC's appalling 'The Last Enemy' mini-series this year (Benedict Cumberbatch, David Harewood etc etc).

ryan wrote this on thread Which film critics do you trust (if any?) on board I Love Everything on Sep 11, 2002

I don't care what anyone says, Armond White is one of the most interesting critics around.

That's not the first mention for Cumberbatch! Mark S and I were talking about him (though we may have misspelled his name or just referred to him as "momus-boy") on the Sea Captain Dramas thread.

I saw it last night. Don't know the comic, but I loved the film. Peters out in a weird way towards the end (and I don't even understand what was happening in the final scene with Steve Buscemi) but yeah - really great character drama. Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson are err... very attractive. The convenience store scenes reminded me of Richard Linklater and Kevin Smith, but in like, a good way. Oi give it foive.

From Has anyone seen Ghost World yet?

Embarrassingly, the next three mentions are also by me.

Andrew wrote this on thread Indie Rock: What's Going On? on board I Love Music on 27-aug-2000
although emo is a sub-genre of this thing we have dubbed indie rock, it does not define the whole genre. of course, a shit ass emo band would prefer to be labeled by this meaningless term

geordie racer wrote this on thread Pop-Eye 27/5/01 on board I Love Music on 29-mei-2001
when rave got ultra-cheeze some people moved away from house to define the nu - shiit, now that record is no.1 WITH A BULLET ( an' there'll be more) a similar thing will happen. All Hail the nu Flesh !

wizzard wrote this on thread Jay-Z / Nas hip-hop throw down? & other throw-downs? Pt. 2: The Saga Continues. on board I Love Music on 27-mrt-2002
BEST, yo da best,where you at dawg...LMAO where ya at dude...niggaz be carvin you new assholes ....shiiit,Best yoh,you gotta come bac dude,oh damn best you gotta hear this yoh.come bac from off of that vacation.

jess wrote this on thread i have gotten emails today saying that i am: on board I Love Everything on 13-dec-2001
i think ethan probably meant dancehall rather than dub. whether he knew it or not.
shiiiit...saying hiphop started out by london bridge, saying stuff like that man you know you can't live.

Ramosi wrote this on thread Reaction to porn on board I Love Everything on 14-mrt-2002
So a while after Kerri Kendall, the real shit went down.....in same friend's back shed, he pulls out the Hustler, aw shiiiiit......no hairy muffz, I can see everything.....yeah. antoher friend shows me video porn a bit after that (by then I'd learned to wank like a man, by hand) and the rest is Randy West worshipping history. my documents folder is split into three these days......mp3......mad porn....crazy porn

that mofo(yeah i used mofo) is ugly. and it seems as though he wants to go Ja Rules(punkass who cant even survive the streets of london LMAO) route by making an R&B(Like my man RZA said "Rap & Bullshit" though most of it is ok) cd with R.Kelly, who did a joint with the name person who jacked his chain, Fat Joe. and niggas quick to call mobb deep sellouts cause they did a joint with 112 SHIIIIIIT(SORRY BUT IT PISSES ME OFF HOW FUCKIN STUPID PEOPLE ARE, GOD DAMNIT!!!). Biggie did joints with 112, and even Fuck- a-Fellas own Shittie Sigel did and aint no one else sayin they sold out. and speaking of sigel. first off to say beanie is a great rapper is saying that the Chicago Bulls are a good basketball team. i agree with steph, it takes like a 5 minutes for the page to load shit.

Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington) wrote this on thread Celia Cruz is dead on board I Love Music on 17-jul-2003
Shiiiiiiit. What now?! The cultural ambassadors of Cuba all seem to be dropping like flies. RIP Celia...Pa' ti, mi negra. Azúca!

nickalicious (nickalicious) wrote this on thread The all Dragonlance all the time thread! on board I Love Everything on 9-aug-2004
HO LEEEEEEE SHIIIIIIIIT

JasonD wrote this on thread Jazz Vocalists - CD/SD on board I Love Music on 23-okt-2002
shiiiiiiiiit, most of the jazz i listen to has vocals. more of the late 60s - 70s spiritual vibe

f--gg (gcannon) wrote this on thread the WENDY KROY hiccup: and other flaws in other films on board I Love Everything on 21-mrt-2005
the other famous thing is that it's shiiiiiiiiiit.

TOMBOT wrote this on thread I HATE APPLE on board I Love Everything on 19-jan-2006
I can arrange things basically any way I want, change the look and feel a pretty hefty amount right out of the box to suit my liking, and when you integrate all the things that Office apps can do together relatively seamlessly and with pretty frightening speed it really makes Apple's Finder + iWork look like shiiiiiiiiiiit.

C4rl0 K wrote this on thread You wanted the best and you got the best.... on board De Subjectivisten on 21-apr-2004
JEEEZUS wat een gezeik hier! ik kom per ongeluk op deze site, en lees godverdomme een en al gezeik over een gast met een KISS-shirt! En iedereen er over doorzeiken, ik heb na de helft van alle berichten mijn moed verloren om verder te lezen. Ik las alleen nog het laatste bericht van Tony van Reeuwijk, en dat was de enige figuur die gelijk had: Die Lester is gewoon een LOWLANDS-GAY die loopt te zeiken over trends en wat wel en niet 'cool' is. shiiiiiiiiiiiit, ik ga kapot hier, wat een mongool die Lester! Echt zo'n sms-ende TMF-nerd! Ik kan er niet meer tegen...

Casuistry (Chris P) wrote this on thread Is there an inordinately high number of people for whom Transformers:The Movie proved to be an unparalleled emotional watershed? on board I Love Everything on 21-nov-2003
It had one of the scream a bad word ("SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!", as I recall) as their planet exploded! It made me feel a bit grown up seeing that, I think. (Note that this scene has since been removed from most copies.)

river wolf wrote this on thread Have you ever fired a gun? on board I Love Everything on 4-sep-2007
Well, Sweden hasn't been in a war for 200 years or so, so I think there's a good chance it won't happen during my lifetime either.
-- Tuomas, Tuesday, September 4, 2007 5:48 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

oh SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!! PWNED!!!
This is going straight to zing thread! :D Kudos!

Ramosi wrote this on thread Paul Verhoeven Show Girls,Starship Troopers,Basic Instinct on board I Love Everything on 14-mrt-2002
Bourke has the best taste on ILE.....Total Recall was the fat cat's pajama hat.....I saw it VERY young, my mother was a little iffy renting it for us but come on, she's always been very manipulable......the flick just sucked me in and I bought every bit of it.....I was entranced......the scene where arnie sloooooowly yanks out the glowing red tracking device out his nose had me belting out the loudest, most bewildered Hooooooooooooo-lyyyyyyyyyy SHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiT ever.....I think it was a perfect transition flick for me, childhood wonder, sci-fi => straight ruggedness. A thing of wonder.

DG wrote this on thread The Britpop Salvage Company, Established 2001 on board I Love Music on 8-jun-2001
Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit, I remember that! A friend had that issue, and I remember not being impressed with the article. I would *love* to read it again though.

on a top secret challops mission in contraristan (The Reverend) wrote this on thread Please help me find and/or replace these stolen CD's on board I Love Music on 13-okt-2009
Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. Before I moved city a month ago, I boxed up my entire CD collection. Just found out my fucking junkie bitch sister stole them all, about 500 CDs. :( :( :(

El Tomboto wrote this on thread the cowboys' bigger is bigger than your bigger: NFL week three on board I Love NFL on 21-sep-2008
JAC @ IND - ... Wires by 2.
OHHHHHHHH SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT

flapjackin (gbx) wrote this on thread Minneapolis ILX'rs on board I Love Music on 18-jun-2010
oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit it is about to get real

PappaWheelie V wrote this on thread I reject modernism and all its tenets on board All Noise Dude Summertime Fun Board and Pickle Bar on 1-mei-2007
shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNHeLFBADKs&eurl=http%3

ibaka flocka flame (J0rdan S.) wrote this on thread the finest of display names only on board I Love Everything on 30-apr-2010
shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

lauren (laurenp) wrote this on thread Coachella on board I Love Music on 26-apr-2004
SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT. i just got back from a visit to the new york eye & ear infirmary. i have significant sinus-related fluid built up in my left ear, and i've been prohibited from flying on thursday. goodbye, coachella.

pies. (gbx) wrote this on thread ILX FOOD FIGHT!!! Round Three - North/East Round of 16 on board I Love Everything on 4-aug-2010
oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

Gotta admit, I've never done an archive search for "Momus-Boy".

Haha, I swear we were mentioning him by name because it's kind of a memorable name but I guess we either weren't, or we misspelled it? Damn.

I mean, what do you reckon "Cumberbatch" translate in Sinkah-speech?

just searched for this stupid phrase but it only has three mentions so might as well post all them

grimly fiendish (grimlord) wrote this on thread Bis on board I Love Music on 18-Jan-2005
o ficlomg jayed nos ... woah, hang on, it helps to look at the keyboard and the screen occasionally and not just guess where the keys are ... i fucking hated bis with a passion when they started out. they made me want to kill people with a chainsaw. but somehow they transformed into this godlike creation of power and wonder. the factory covers EP is chillingly brilliant. i saw them twice just before they split up - they did an amazing gig at optimo - and was blown away.

as i've said elsewhere, i'm not massively taken with dirty hospital. but steven clark is a top, top, top bloke: a genuinely good guy. as far as i know he and john are still running a wee studio round the corner from my house ... i was going to go in and do a demo there, but never got round to it and now i've kinda put all that behind me. ach well.

grimly fiendish (grimlord) wrote this on thread C4 Grange Hill doc ...........Zammo WTF!!!!!! on board I Love Everything on 31-Aug-2005
RIP. by all accounts he was a top, top bloke. and his portrayal of bronson was perfect.

grimly fiendish (grimlord) wrote this on thread What on earth will be nominated for the Nationwide Mercury Music Prize 2005 shortlist? on board I Love Music on 06-Sep-2005
fucking hell, respect to antony and his big johnson! i admit, i wanted MIA to win ... but i'm more than happy with this. wow.

i still think he was shit live, and i still think the album isn't a patch on what it could be. but for his cover of "mysteries of love" alone he is one of my favourite things of the past 12 months. and he seems like a top, top bloke. so yay all round.

There was very little music written exclusively for flute as a solo instrument until Debussy's Syrinx. Many think Syrinx is about Pan chasing Syrinx...but in fact the piece was written for a play. It was performed at then end of Mourey's play, Psyche, and the only piece of music in this play (although it originally was intended that more should happen). So Syrinx was a commissioned piece by Mourey. The flute was laid alongside pan in the last scene as he dies. A short line was read, and then the piece was played offstage, originally debuted by Louis Fleury Dec. 1, 1913. Syrinx is the name of the woman that Pan (half man/half goat) chased through the woods in pursuit of her (she was completely and utterly disgusted by this half beast who lusted after her), and she came to the river begging the nymphs to assist her, and they allowed her to be disguised as a reed. Unfortunately Pan plucked the reed and whittled an instrument, the pan pipes, if you will, out of this reed. The original title which is still on the sheet music is, is La Flute de Pan (the flute of pan)....which fits the play by Mourey.....Debussy did not think of this piece nor his sound ideas as "impressionistic" but rather he called them an "arabesque".....

The deal is, Debussy opened the door for solo flute works. Edgar Varese walked through that door, ahead of his time. Trained as an engineer he was very excited by new sounds....attempting to transcend city sounds into new ideas of dissonance and consonance and such. One must recall, that cities were being built, new ideas of construction and the skyscraper came into being. To this end, he explored the full range of acoustic instrument preferring not to reinvent the wheel, theoretically speaking. Even in school, he chose not to follow the rules of theory to compose. He was well liked, and knew everyone of his time. Density 21.5 was also a commissioned piece: George Barerres (sp?) requested he compose it for the inauguration of the Platinum flute at the 1938 (I think was the year) World's Fair. The title is derived from the density of platinum; however, recent study shows that the density is actually something like 21.53 (or whatever...another digit) and Varese wanted the title corrected, but it never took. The piece is about exploring acoustically electronic sounds. Varese is considered the 'Father of Electronic Music.' Varese was french born but spent most of his adult life in America. He knew, among other famous personalities such as Picasso, Anais Nin, who wrote in her 3rd diary (if memory serves) around page 140 or so where she quotes him in the peak of his depression something to the effect of "America does not like my music...." After Density, Varese really fell into quite a funk and didn't compose a thing!

His house was quite interesting with all kinds of instruments donated to him by friends. It wasn't until the late 50s that he received his first anonymous donation of some electronic equipment from Ampex Corporation in Redwood City, California, USA. He was ecstatic. He also worked with Phillips Corp. and he was at several other world fairs. Philips pulled him out of retirement, for all intense purposes, in his 70s! People had forgotten he was still alive.

Density 21.5 explored the hemiola (3 notes evenly distributed against 2 beats), the triplet, duples (8th notes), and the idea of dramatic expression wherein, I sense, the loud/soft dynamic markings are not so much about a "classical" creation of volume, rather about an "electric" sound of wooshing or leaning in and out, and sometimes suddenly the volume is turned up. This piece explores the complete range of the flute, from middle C to D4....although there are a few other 4th octave notes the flute can play.

Between Debussy & Varese, the literature for solo flute was opened widely between these 2 efforts, and other pieces are in the fore as pieces to play for solo flute, Jolivet....Honegger.....and much more. Density isn't played publicly as much anymore, which is sad. It's a piece you either love or hate, generally....I, as a flutist, like it very much because it feels like a whole new vocabulary of notes.

Many up & coming flutists tend to not play this piece accurately, ignoring the rhythms at times, playing parts too fast, not understanding the "electric" nature of the piece.

Varese is a very interesting personality to me. He was clearly an intelligent and passionate man. I have records of his with brass, percussion and other instruments. It takes a bit of getting used to, and for those who are more major/minor oriented, this music is disturbing and aggressive and senseless. However, as a musician, his music is difficult to play effectively, requires volumes of air, control and thinking your way through the story, and knowledge of one's instrument.

I am pleased to say that I am lucky in that I've been asked to play these 2 pieces back to back at a modern music concert tomorrow, and I chose them as contrasting pieces of the 20th century in the flute repertoire, the Syrinx being rather melodic and somewhat haunting and the story line quite clear and the colors expressive versus the angularity, the wide intervals, the intensity of the dramatic dynamic markings, the key clicks (which should sound like a cork popping), and not rushing through the rests. Syrinx keeps that Bb coming back, so having a steady Bb every time one arrives at it is important. The section on the second page is clearly about modes and many flub this section (Bb/B/Db/Ebb....). Varese is about the rhythmic structure, that hemiola keeps coming back and the last note of these always gets short shrift unless well practiced....the F/E/F# figure (2 16ths/8th notes into a tie....)

Both Debussy & Varese were also interested in expanding the range of individual instruments.....

In this way, both Debussy & Varese contributed greatly to pulling the flute out of the orchestra and into a place in its own right, and other composers followed suit exploring yet further the timbre of this instrument, changing it from its perception of something ethereal and uplifting to being nearly brassy and brash, with a voice of its own.

Rapunzel

― Rapunzel, Sunday, April 18, 2004 12:26 AM (10 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a couple of my votes, but then I don't really read music blogs -
Of course, Where is Raed ?

Languagehat

Samuel Pepys' Diary

Gawker

And.. though it's winding down I suppose.. the New York City Anti-Hipster Forum
To me.. a good blog is focused but not too focused, and is written by someone w/a deep knowledge of a subject, often part of a community of fellow.. scholars/devotees of that subject, & is sharing it & making it accessible - as in Languagehat, I have learned a lot & found great links to like-minded blogs - and thus have been led to tons of language resources in several languages that I wouldn't have otherwise known about. And, of course, Salam Pax's blog provided an absolutely invaluable perspective on life in Baghdad before & during the war.. and it's extremely well written to boot.

― daria g, Thursday, June 5, 2003 4:08 PM (11 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

From Best blogs of '03 so far

James Mitchell wrote this on thread It's July 2008 in Iraq... on board I Love Everything on 22-Jul-2008

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Wikileaks

Photo of a detainee held by the United States, with his face wired, lips sewn, red eyes and torso sacked. According to digital camera metadata the image was taken on Feb 9, 2003 03:49:25. The 6 Aug 2004 is also mentioned in relation to this photo. The facial wiring is clearly non-medical. The location of the detainee is unknown, possibly the US Bagram Theater Internment Facility in Afghanistan.

☀ ☃ (am0n) wrote this on thread 2010 in Iraq on board I Love Everything on 06-Apr-2010

nice, never seen assange interviewed before

OK, DO you dig The Style COuncil? (started by Mike Hanle y on board I Love Music on 28-Jun-2001)

first thread of hundreds starting with "OK, "

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Won't someone please think of the children.

- Chris Clunge, Mungington

hahahahaha

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 01:44 (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I blame immigration.

― daily mail wogan lenin (dog latin), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 01:46 (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Tom wrote this on thread My turn for an advice thread. on board I Love Everything on Oct 11, 2001:

The global situation is actually as much a help as a hindrance - forcing myself to think rationally about something, even something I can do nothing about, is a Good Thing. 9/11 was a trigger for this bout of depression, certainly, but on the other hand I have at various points convinced myself that I was going to die of nuclear war, ebola, being buried alive and vCJD, so anthrax and terrorist onslaughts are just another couple of morbid little demons on a long list.

Man, when Ched Evans starts showboating you know a team are playing well.

― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Sunday, 21 September 2008

fritz wrote this on thread Psychic Predictions for 2002 on board I Love Everything on Dec 18, 2001

Acne will be "in". First to catch on will be the "unicorn" look - a single giant pimple on the forehead between the eyebrows. The fad reaches levels of absurdity when Tom Ford uses stencils and greasy creams to create elaborate patterns of zits on the runway models' exposed flesh at the Gucci show in Milan.

Haven't there been several Ebola outbreaks since the 70s? The one in the 90s was in the news a lot, so it's hardly surprising Tom mentioned it in 2001.

Nothing happened before day 1 of ILX

Anna, the badger allusion may be a reference to the legendary tanuki, which stands by many a Japanese roadside playing with its balls.

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, October 8, 2003 4:15 PM (11 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

A+

CBC, Moxy Fruvous, undiscovered Canadian talent--you do the math.

No matter which way you add this one up, it's a losing proposition the second you get Moxy Fruvous into the equation. As nice a guy as Jian Ghomeshi seems to be most of the time, there's just something about that band that makes me feel like committing violence (possibly clawing my own ears off).

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 6 February 2003 22:27 (11 years ago) Permalink

"Seems to be," "committing violence"--à propos, almost ominous.

barbarian cities (jaybob3005) wrote this on thread Is anyone following the Tory leadership contest with any intensity? on board I Love Everything on 06-Dec-2005

xpost - how is it disgusting for the tories to elect a leader/opposition which is likely to precipitate a slight resurgence in parliamentary democracy. for all of george osborne being a tory boy twat, he gave brown more to think about at the dispatch box last night then he's had in longtime.

i find web clumsy because if i miss my click-point i get an automatic zoom in on, i dunno, someone's funny emoji or a date/time stamp or formatting help

― the late great, Saturday, August 25, 2012 11:15 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(search term: "emoji")

actually when i searched for "emoji" in ilx search, the first thing that came up was this:

Google mail has a bunch of new useless shit you can use to bloat up you email, but one of the crummy emoticons looks familiar...

https://www.gmail.com/mail/help/images/whatsnew/emoji_crab.gif

Isn't that ripped off the mongfux 'sarcastic crab'?

― milling through the grinder, grinding through the mill (S-), Monday, November 3, 2008 11:23 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

...bc of the gif file name

Mike W (caek) wrote this on thread The other 24 guys -- yes, 2006 GIANTS BASEBALL on board I Love Baseball on 30-mrt-2006
Pre-1993(?): First division - Fourth division
Post-1993(?): Premiership, Division One - Division Three
This year: Premiership, Championship, League One, League Two.

It's ludicrous marketing. Every league must be its own special snowflake. You'll occasionally hear references to "the old first division", which invariably means the division that is now the Premiership.