who r BIG 4 ilm?

Nabisco would be high up in a list of "posters who have influenced the posting styles and argumentative approaches of ILX" (in ways beyond mere phrases like "OTM" - of which Nabisco was beneficiary 10 billion times more than user).

There's probably been a thread on that topic.

In that regard I would say:

Nabisco - top shelf logic
Ethan - top shelf trolling
Ned - top shelf largesse
Dog Latin - top shelf challops

My second division would be:

Some Dude - top shelf balloon-puncturing
Geir - top shelf posts consistently in character
Sinker - top shelf equation-speak
Dave Q - top shelf contraristanning

Most other posters are combos of the above, e.g. Lex = Nabsico X Geir, Vahid = Nabisco X Ethan, rtc = Ethan X Dave Q.

maths

Probably needs to be a shout to Tom E here although I suspect he automatically floats above any Big Four.

The werewolf threads were all time.

If I'm being serious, then Tom, Ned, Nabisco, and Sinker are the four who have most influenced my deportment / thinking / writing in an ILM context.

Marissa Marchant
Mariesa Sabriel
Crispin Glover
Norah Jones

Were i to choose, using tim/mouthy's criteria on a personal level (posting style, musical influence, reflection, arguments, challops) particularly on ILM, I'd say: definitely Lex, Tim F and Matt DC - after that it's a toss-up between a number of posters including Mouthy, Whiney, DJ Martian, Ned, Mark G, Nickalicious, Seward, Johnny Fever and loads of others.

DOM
NED
NABISCO
DAT NIGGA DELMAR

Ned and Tom and two others.

(As in maybe two militant anti-rockists such as Lex and Marcello)

People here are always comparing Lex to Geir, which I can see, but I think Lex's critical parameters are even more arbitrary than Geir's. As far as music goes we have little in common, but we have similar pet peeves, and it always seems to me that when he rails, it's always imo against the worthiest targets (the indie hype machine, laddish idiocy)

Same thing w Aerosmith, who may be similar to Nabisco, but is a great writer in his own right and brings top-shelf psychological insight into everything he posts...

The big four of ILM are

War
Famine
Pestilence
Death

Death is one of the Big Four of death metal iirc

War is one of the big 4 of Latin funk too, except when they aren't

War is one of the Big Four of black metal iirc

also:

http://media.photobucket.com/image/famine%20band/themetalden2007/l_a39101f9db4e483584d711d620377ddf.jpg

&

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0MuxouJorOc/SuoW0yHqDGI/AAAAAAAABWs/XQucJsj4kzo/s320/pestilence_band_01a.jpg

er..

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z89/themetalden2007/l_a39101f9db4e483584d711d620377ddf.jpg

I wouldn't call Lex or Geir's attitudes arbitrary - quite the opposite to be honest.

xpost Please let there be a band called Famine. Oh look, there is...

Best thing about most of these inclusions is that they're prone to the sort of multi-paragraph considered thinkpost that kill debates with how OTM they are, and then you have Ned who is impossible to leave out because he has the power to just post an emoticon and have everyone go "Yes! Ned OTM"

Haha, too kind. Most of my lengthy responses are definitely from the earlier days of the board but one still has to throw in as one can.

I would definitely withdraw myself from the initial list and substitute Alex in NYC. And probably slip J0rdan S. out to slip Alfred in. So, Ned/Alex in NYC/lex/Alfred

This lineup would really be Wilson, Lloyd George, etc. I get to be Clemenceau though.

haha top shelf balloon-puncturing

xpost - just so long as I'm not Wilson!

haha top shelf balloon-puncturing

yeah I don't disagree with this at all, but I'm not quite sure what it means--I'm kind of hoping some good poster can point me in the direction of examples of ^this

There needs to be a top shelf hypeman in there as well although that might be covered by Ned's top shelf largesse.

Sure there's a straight balloon-puncturer who precedes Some Dude but I'm struggling to think of who.

Jess was a Vahid X Some Dude cross avant la lettre.

Which in some ways made him the ultimate ILMer.

pretty sure it just means i have a tendency to burst other peoples' bubbles (i.e. being a wet blanket or spoilsport) but in a top shelf way i guess, which i think is fair to say but i'm not gonna provide my own highlight reel here

xpost -- wow yeah it's definitely an oversight that noone's 4 has included strongo hulkington so far

all the guys with names like Mark C, Matt P, Mark DC, they should all just be one poster

lol

the big 4 of Alexes:

Alex in NYC
Alex in SF
Alex in Baltimore
Lex Pretend

no mainhattan no cred

oh word yeah we need 5

for a moment I thought you were Alex in Baltimore--that was me 'connecting the dots' lol

no yeah Alex in Baltimore was my previous dn before some dude

It's less about being a spoilsport and more about making people look ridiculous seemingly without trying.

It's a skill I've never cultivated so I can envy without feeling resentful or competitive.

There's at least one thing fairly loveable about most everyone listed in this thread.

Matt P
Mark (D)C
luke gretton
J0hn D.

i considered being alex in london when i first joined but decided against it

ethan
weingarten
dave q
and johnny fever, obviously

oh actually haha that was because i wasn't in london when i joined! and did not want to define myself by cardiff cuz i kinda hated that city

i considered being alex in london when i first joined but decided against it

― lex pretend, Thursday, April 14, 2011 1:38 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

this is like finding out batman was almost 'flying squirrel'

BAT MAAN aka the sugarglider

There's at least one thing fairly loveable about most everyone listed in this thread.

― Tim F, Thursday, April 14, 2011 9:38 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah i mean this is kind of like a weird opportunity for a total love-in, just thinking about all these big entertaining personalities and likable people that have been posting here over the years

Big four ILX cinephiles:
Soto, Morbs, Eric and History Mayne??? Or Clemenza? S1ocki?

I kind of think the answer should be:

alt.music.alternative
Sinister
Freaky Trigger
Google

i considered being alex in london when i first joined but decided against it

i wish i had decided against my dn

include me out, but amateurist is a lock

xposts

never too late to change imo

thinkin about it actually

all the guys with names like Mark C, Matt P, Mark DC, they should all just be one poster

― frogbs, Thursday, 14 April 2011 13:30 (10 minutes ago)

For me it's all the Jordans and Jasons and Jaxons etc... Never did get my head around it, so sorry to those posters

xp oh yeah Amateurist...although I haven't seen him around lately. And what about admrl?

I've been Johnny Fever since 2003 (after using my real name before that). Have thought about changing it a few times over the years, but I can't think of something I like more.