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

the whole grandpa with aphasia thing was really weird to me because it happened months after my grandmother suffered the same thing

that actually makes more sense, i always thought it was alzheimers

I want Abbott's thing to be true; I like gags that resurface subtly

man no I am pretty sure I am not making that up

I'll admit more than anyone things can mutate in memory but I'm holding onto this one

it just doesnt seem possible

i would like it to be true

this will end up with me like Henry Darger, who made that giant novel in part because of a newspaper clipping he couldn't ever relocate, about a kidnapped baby

i don't see how Abbott's memory is implausible?

I was thinking today of the very first time I went to a business conference (where my employer flew me there and everything) – I was 22, and I had stupider ideas about boundaries/professionalism/etc, meaning I had basically no ideas about those things. They had us start out with '2 truths and a lie,' with everyone sharing to everyone in the room (~30 older and less inane people) and I said:
• My parents had an ostrich farm
• I wasn't born with a sense of smell
and because I knew those are outrageous I chose an obvious lie
• I have touched a unicorn
But when they were asked to guess the lie NO ONE guessed the unicorn one. When I had to reveal the lie I said, "The lie was that I touched a unicorn. [pause] Only a virgin can touch a unicorn." And the reaction was some of the worst, most palpably awkward silence...god. I have learned my lesson about being more bland with strangers but I still feel like I could never be put in front of a business conference.

― Team Safeword (Abbbottt), Thursday, 12 July 2012 23:21 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the po-facedness of managerial movers and shakers is a constant sadness to me

constant delight to me tbh

well, depends on yr mood. it's not like i ever want to "rise" to managerial level but knowing that i'm too flip for it to ever happen irks a little bit. dunno why. something about Kafka being a painfully accurate observer of organisations or something.

also after managing to find a corner to hide in for a few years i'm getting more exposed to the bracing crosswinds of office politics lately and oh god what is wrong with people?

they want not to have to care about office politics, ie scrabble ahead

i dunno man, the big dogs seem to be just as scrappy from what i've seen.

lol "shitting up" the "lols" thread

i'd rather be scrappy on the richer side tbh, but how to get there while maintaining a four-hour per day ilx presence? big questions, nobody comin up with anythin for me

ps lols thread w&t shot at this stage imo

yeah i know hence square quotes

Wasn't there a FBOFW where Liz was calling April a "retard" and her mom tells her to knock it off so she starts calling April a Boxcar instead? Last panel is Liz saying BOXCAR BOXCAR BOXCAR while April cries.

― Team Safeword (Abbbottt), Thursday, July 12, 2012 11:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

hahahaha there may have been a time in the BOXCAR era of ILX when I was splicing grandpa's BOXCAR rant into a lot of other FBOFW comics.

Where are the animated boxcars?

And here, I'll save you all a wiseass GIS. Talking about the animated FBOFW boxcars.

http://dinakelberman.com/simpsons%20gifs/train.gif

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/14939626.jpg

I have a boxcar mug

Josh was selling them for awhile. Also tshirts

btw this is the second time this week i have seen someone use the phrase "square quotes" on ilx. they are called "scare quotes." not "square quotes."

But for all intensive purposes, you know what they're talking about.

hahahaha there may have been a time in the BOXCAR era of ILX when I was splicing grandpa's BOXCAR rant into a lot of other FBOFW comics.

― I DIED, Friday, July 13, 2012 4:32 AM (2 hours ago)

ok if the April/'retard'/BOXCAR strip was your doing, you better find that shit

xpost -- Irregardless.

haha this is an interesting twist re boxcar

The editorial staff I work with has this bad habit of using smart-quotes on their word processing software. When their stories get published online, those smart-quotes turn into little diamonds and question marks. I send out a reminder email about every six weeks, telling them to turn that shit off, but they never do.

Maybe I should call regular punctuation "square quotes" and they'll get the idea of what I'm talking about.

I think most intelligent publishing software recognized some time ago that people copy and paste from Word prodigiously and fix that shit

I think most [blink]intelligent[/blink] publishing software recognized some time ago that people copy and paste from Word prodigiously and fix that shit

yup

btw this is the second time this week i have seen someone use the phrase "square quotes" on ilx. they are called "scare quotes." not "square quotes."

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, July 13, 2012 10:14 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

But for all intensive purposes, you know what they're talking about.

― pplains, Friday, July 13, 2012 10:28 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, this is kind've not a big deal. you should of left it alone, dude.

intense

pplains & s1ocki: pro-language decay

this is literally a tempest in a teapot, guys

thought it was a subtle zing, at least on NV's part

pplains & s1ocki: pro-language decay

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Friday, July 13, 2012 10:40 AM (27 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

your kidding.

No, Morbs is right. However, it's easy to look back on a grammatical mistake when hindsight's 50/50.

pplains & s1ocki: pro-language decay

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Friday, July 13, 2012 10:40 AM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Pretty sure that sentence requires punctuation at the end.

still wouldn't be a sentence w/o a verb iirc

NV knew what he was doing, he was just rifting on that topic

"never listen to your children cuz all they ever talk about is candy or magic the gathering" - scott seward

― scott seward, Thursday, July 12, 2012 10:09 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

From the Fear of Death thread:

well, death is easy to treat. just get plenty of bed rest. cure's the hard part.

― contenderizer, Thursday, July 12, 2012

i did know what i was doing, honest. happy to play fast and loose with the language and really can't abide grammar pedantry but my internal pedant is on point 99 pro cent of the time.

"pro cent"?

nvm completely misread that post my bad

That's people who are in favour of 50 Cent.

but all he does is whine about being shot...!