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― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 13 September 2007 10:44 (seventeen years ago) link
"DON'T TRY IT STEVEM YOUR FACE WILL BE A MASHUP" = still the funniest line ever posted.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 13 September 2007 10:46 (seventeen years ago) link
So which thread is it on? (sigh)
― Mark G, Thursday, 13 September 2007 10:46 (seventeen years ago) link
No, the funniest line on that thread is "The only E you'll be going near is A&E"
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 13 September 2007 10:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Not enough love here for Matos' mother's incredibly stupid ex-husband. My most re-read thread by a long way.
― onimo, Thursday, 13 September 2007 11:12 (seventeen years ago) link
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So pointless.
― onimo, Thursday, 13 September 2007 11:13 (seventeen years ago) link
it's 2, now
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 13 September 2007 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link
3
-- Mark G, Thursday, September 13, 2007 10:46 AM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
Oh, right, sorry! abusive comments
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 13 September 2007 11:17 (seventeen years ago) link
Re-reading the Jam thread just now wins it my vote. Takes an amazing turn when we all realise it's about rent boys.
― aldo, Thursday, 13 September 2007 11:21 (seventeen years ago) link
Solved: Why White Ppl are Assholes
Wins best opening post ever. The actual thread is kind of disappointing after all that.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 13 September 2007 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link
x-post Yeah I voted for the Jam thread. I would like Paul Weller to read it.
― Dr.C, Thursday, 13 September 2007 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link
i need to read the jam thread. never been aware of it until now.
actually, there's a few of these i'm totally unaware of. jesus. what delights await me?
you can thank me with your votes
you know, you're kinda convincing me, and i might use my OTHER LOGIN to do just that. couch thread, though ... i nearly broke my laptop laughing. (i'm a very puerile man.)
― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 13 September 2007 12:30 (seventeen years ago) link
DOES ANYONE BELIEVE THE COUCH STORY TO BE REAL THO?
― jhøshea, Thursday, 13 September 2007 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link
There are some elements which give me pause.
― dell, Thursday, 13 September 2007 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/2/Posters/PO7017~I-Believe-Posters.jpg
― kv_nol, Thursday, 13 September 2007 12:53 (seventeen years ago) link
who cares?
― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 13 September 2007 12:55 (seventeen years ago) link
Hey Louis, the Bobby Gillespie Bullshit Game thread was nominated twice, butins't in the poll! it has hilarious impressions of Germans in it!
― Neil S, Thursday, 13 September 2007 12:55 (seventeen years ago) link
I haven't read most of these, but I can't believe they'd be as genius as "so not going to happen".... oh man, "in ever old movie" ever, I've been searching everywhere for that thread!!!!
― Tom D., Thursday, 13 September 2007 12:56 (seventeen years ago) link
Sorry, that was garbled, but you get the idea...
― Neil S, Thursday, 13 September 2007 12:56 (seventeen years ago) link
I CARE WHY BECAUSE IT LOOK INTERSTING
― jhøshea, Thursday, 13 September 2007 12:58 (seventeen years ago) link
i have never doubted the couch
― blueski, Thursday, 13 September 2007 13:02 (seventeen years ago) link
my favorites are so not gonna happen snorg girl and incredibly stupid step father but so not gonna happen wins and we really need a 1-10 type of weighted voting thingy for this - also ilnfl is generally ingenious and i would probably just vote for that bord altogether
― jhøshea, Thursday, 13 September 2007 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link
for me, oink invites and uppers tie for second
― gr8080, Thursday, 13 September 2007 13:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Two threads I forgot to nominate which really should be on that list.
Taking sides:Madonna or Janet Jackson
Jay-Z /Nas hip-hop throw down? and other throw downs
― Billy Dods, Thursday, 13 September 2007 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link
Madonna/Jackson is actually up there on the ballot.
― dell, Thursday, 13 September 2007 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link
http://delivery.viewimages.com/xv/1512766.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF19396908EAF14430D35200AB6A329EEE5A2201FA7A1454429C8
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 13 September 2007 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link
can you make us a 1-10 weighted voting type of poll plz
― jhøshea, Thursday, 13 September 2007 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Madonna/Jackson is actually up there on the ballot, oh yes, I missed it. Now that makes my voting decision all the harder.
― Billy Dods, Thursday, 13 September 2007 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link
You really DID leave out "aw".
BOYCOTTING POLL
― roxymuzak, Thursday, 13 September 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link
aw is shit
― blueski, Thursday, 13 September 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link
So you did a prejudging session?
― roxymuzak, Thursday, 13 September 2007 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link
i kinda like it really
― blueski, Thursday, 13 September 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link
<3
― roxymuzak, Thursday, 13 September 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link
There's something kind of depressing about this thread, like watching a slide-show of my summer vacation.
― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Thursday, 13 September 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link
i think i'm the only person in the world who finds neither the couch thread nor the "so not gonna happen" thread funny
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 13 September 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link
so not gonna happen = 2 crepey altho gr80 sold it really well
― blueski, Thursday, 13 September 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link
ohhh shit another good one was mandee's 'guys in my area' thread
― blueski, Thursday, 13 September 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't really get so not gonna happen.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 13 September 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link
i just feel bad for the ppl in the so not gonna happen picture.
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 13 September 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link
maybe this is a "it's funny if you identify with any of these characters" thing
I don't get this poll.
― roxymuzak, Thursday, 13 September 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link
for me it was fun getting so into the minutiae of the room, analyzing everything etc. then while looking st on a microscopic level everything was revealed and it became just cosmic. the transition was so shocking i actually gasped when i saw the second photo. plus cyber-stalking is just kinda nerd thrillz.
― jhøshea, Thursday, 13 September 2007 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, no one said it was "funny."
― jaymc, Thursday, 13 September 2007 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link
aw
― ken c, Thursday, 13 September 2007 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link
well it is kinda funny - wayne and all - but thats only part of it see.
― jhøshea, Thursday, 13 September 2007 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link
I blogged about it:
There's something utterly fascinating about this ILX thread, which began with Emily posting a photo of three people sitting on a bed -- but with no information about it apart from her own caption "so not gonna happen." From then on, everyone almost instantly began dissecting it, and for hundreds of posts.
The ways in which people analyzed the photo differed, however. On one hand, you had those interested mostly in socio-psychological analysis based on the available clues in the photo: for instance, what are the motivations of the dude in the photo (quickly nicknamed "Wayne")? What does his dress and body language tell us about his goals in the scenario? Why are these girls hanging out with him? Etc. And then you had those of us who sought to expand upon that by gathering as much detailed, actual information as we could about the photo subjects and their environment. The fact that Wayne's Hooters t-shirt reads "King of Prussia, PA" at the bottom (look closely) is irrelevant to determining what sort of relationship he has with the sorority gals on the bed, but inasmuch as it broadens our knowledge base, the discovery of this detail is rather exciting.
When Emily revealed the source of the photo -- a photo gallery on the website of a young soldier deployed in Iraq -- some complained that this took the fun out of the game. But for the more investigative-minded posters, it only gave us more to work with. Full names led us to Myspace profiles, which enlarged the social circle beyond the partygoers pictured in the gallery. The comments there were revealing: a reference to "that shadeball Tommy Loftus" suggested Wayne's entire real name (we already knew the surname from the URL on some of the jpegs). And yet by the time I had worked out that Ashlee and Danielle and Jenna, who went to a different high school than most of the gang, must have met them at Delaware County Community College, I had to stop and ask myself what was really the point of all my amateur sleuthing.
Longtime readers of this blog might note shades of the Maya Keyes fiasco, at least in the initiative I took toward investigating and putting together a puzzle based on clues dropped around the Internet. (My friend Robyn joked that I should find some way to turn my obvious skill and talent in this area into a career -- like what, a private eye?) But in this case, there was no sense that I was on the front line of uncovering a political scandal; in fact, at one point, I remarked that the very banality of these kids' lives held a certain appeal to me. The pleasure, therefore, was related more to the thrill of fiction, at having a narrative unspool before you, a whole world opening up full of new people and places, all somehow connected. One of the things I like about an epic novel like DeLillo's Underworld is how you're introduced to a minor character like Eric Deming in the context of being a colleague of Nick Shay's, and then a couple hundred pages later you're treated to a prolonged account of his childhood. (You find the same thing in the improv-comedy form known as the Harold.) In this sense, the delight I took in tracing Andy's love of Pantera and friendship with a sandwich-maker named Glen (for instance) was like a great subplot spinning off from the main storyline, with boundless possibilities.
― jaymc, Thursday, 13 September 2007 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link
god you guys are kind of creeps
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 13 September 2007 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Love you, too, the schef (adam schefter ha ha).
― jaymc, Thursday, 13 September 2007 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link