there are subtle nuances in every single one of those EXCELSIORS, I'll have you LOL

need it read to me before bed

I want that read to me as I die, in Tibetan Book of the Dead/special agent dale cooper fashion

(hey hbd btw, sorry my fb seems to be malfunctioning, and I didnt see a thread in SNA)

xp to deems

np, tho damned uf i know who you are on fb!

happy for grampsy that he had a moment but i feel like we shouldn't encourage him

not funny

http://www.lucasforums.com/images/smilies/arms.gif

the 90 minute backlash cycle

it was a funny post, i'm just stingy with praise because it was preceded by 50 grampsy posts that were desperate attention-seeking garbage

i've only seen the grampsy wdyll post and the why did the chicken cross the road post

collect 'em all!

as opposed to this 51st which begs for no attention? x-p

jesus h christ that's A+

i'm ok with attention-seekers as long as they have some talent

For a long time the chicken and the road were allies, right from when the chicken was just a chick and the road just an alley

I think this might be one of my favorite first sentences EVER

grampsy is like an even worse garrison keillor

It's the 27th verse to Clive Dunn's "Grandad"

Reminds me of a line from a Jack Handey piece in a recent New Yorker: "Some say he was buried in the Caucasus, among the crocuses."

Jack Handey is the drummer for Grampsy

I miss the days when I thought Al Franken was Jack Handy

Handey, sorry.
I miss the days when I thought Jack Handey was Jack Handy.

not bad

as opposed to this 51st which begs for no attention? x-p

― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Monday, July 9, 2012 11:37 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

garbage that doesn't deserve attention vs. something amusing that deserves at least a little

what thread is the chicken thing from? i'm a long-time grampsy fan.

first time caller

grampsy keep doin' ya thing brush them haters off yr shoulder

so which thread is it?

Jokes that you didn't understand for years after you first heard them

it was a funny post, i'm just stingy with praise because it was preceded by 50 grampsy posts that were desperate attention-seeking garbage

― some dude, Monday, July 9, 2012 11:32 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

uh oh ilx quality control is here

closely followed by congressional oversight

^and resultant pundits

House Un-ILXian Activities Committee

do u remember "MCI"

I remember Metropolitan Coal Industries, if that's what you mean. In those days coal mines were right in the middle of cities. Streets seethed with black faces (at least there could be no racial discrimination; there's a silver lining to every cloud). We all had painful hacking coughs that never went away, no matter how much Doctor Weerenger's Patent Throat-Cleansing and Brass-Cleaning Fluid we took. The fogs weren't pea soup, they were black coffee, tar and Quink. You'd stagger out of bed at 4am, open the door, and the black fog would quickly envelop the whole house. Invisible trains clattered around hellish embankments, and above it all, glinting in the dagger-stab glimmer of a resentful moon, were the mine-heads: pits straight to hell.

Now you're all hairdressers and receptionists. Not that I've got anything against that. No, you marched for your rights to cut hair and answer the telephone. Good luck to you, I say.

― Grampsy, Wednesday, July 4, 2012 9:24 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's nabisco and i claim my five dollars

the child of nabisco and jagger let loose to terrorize ilx

glasgow come up more than once. i say its momus.

louis isn't from scotland is he? who's the music-writing ilxor from scotland?

kinda too bad he has to mention pitchfork and hipster runoff in some posts. ruins the mood.

c-man

xpost

kinda too bad he has to mention pitchfork and hipster runoff in some posts. ruins the mood.

― scott seward, Monday, July 9, 2012 1:05 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

for some people it really sets the mood, though

imo grampsy's ultra-literary style doesn't mix well with the crackerbarrel elements. more awkward than grin-inducing for me. otoh, if he could edit himself better and develop his timing, i see a kernal of hope.

and there is the thought that i might be a bit more sour on him because his comic persona rests on a young person's lack of sympathy for the old.

Maybe this is the undercover return of Grimley Fiendish?

Or maybe that person who was working on the sitcom with the enchanted cafetiere?

i dunno, at least one person is having fun on ilx. more than i can say for myself lately. it is summer though.

it's not about fun goddammit it's about satisfying the thread police

The thread police
They live inside of my head

inside of my THREAD

i thought it might be marcello.

I thought it was louis but now I'm wondering if it's Ro!

it's totally not some previously established ilx poster

That's the name of your dog, right?