lord custos tribute thread

Custos's last ever ILx thread: ScottPl's 1978-1982? Tell us about it.

More recently than I would have guessed

Back in the early 90s frightening people had big quote-unquote internet weddings

"Crazy Frog" - An Exercise in Applied Probability

Love everything up through The Globe, but am thinking they should now change their moniker to Big Audio Mistake.

-- Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, April 4, 2003 8:10 PM

SEARCH: "The Bottom Line," "E=MC2", "Medicine Show," "Contact," "Rush" "The Globe."

DESTROY: "C'mon Every Beatbox," "Just Play Music", their silly hats circa #10 UPPING STREET, the title of that album, their annoyingly cumbersome habit of changing their name (first Big Audio Dynamite, then Big Audio Dynamite II and the simply Big Audio) and everything they did after 1991. Everything after THE GLOBE was a....wait for it....Big Audio Mistake!

-- Alex in NYC, Tuesday, May 7, 2002 12:00 AM

Capable of great singles - "The Bottom Line," "Medicine Show," "E= MC2," "Contact," "Rush," "The Globe,"....but will forever live in the shadow of The Clash.

"C'mon Every Beatbox" was crap tho'.

-- Alex in NYC, Thursday, August 15, 2002 12:00 AM

Also, changing their name from Big Audio Dynamite to Big Audio Dynamite Two to simply Big Audio was a....

....wait for it.....

Big Audio Mistake

-- Alex in NYC, Thursday, August 15, 2002 12:00 AM (Thursday, August 15, 2002 12:00 AM)

a joke so good, it had to be told on not one, but THREE threads

haha, i was on the verge of posting that earlier
he changed the punchline on another post tho

denny vertigo was in b.a.d.II o.b.v.

Leann Rimes

Looks like a rapper's name, but isn't a rapper.

Glasses Malone

Does not use corrective eyewear.

-- xhuxk, Thursday, 27 March 2008 00:33 (53 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

big audio mistake isn't even like a pun or play on words or anything

anyway...

this:

If I'm in a car going 60 mph in Crazy Frog's direction and you're Crazy Frog on a motorcycle going 75 mph in my direction, how long until one of us inadvertently starts harboring real feelings and what is the magnitude of our heartbreak and subsequent distrust for the opposite sex?

Please answer in the form of a question.

(P.S. - I'll meet you behind the tool shed.)

-- Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:47 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

that thread is a nightmare

OMG forgot about dennys vertigo vs lethargy.

White men calling black men "bro" for no particular reason

the thread where we post like jazz musicians

^^^^ seriously

Mantronix
Mantronix: The Album (Deluxe Edition)
[Sleeping Bag; 1985; r: Warlock; 2008]
Rating: 8.08

-- Nate Patrin

haw

[ neenerneener] I remember him from Northwestern when he was in the Art History Department [ /neenerneener]
-- Kerry, Thursday, November 22, 2001 8:00 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Link

So I broke into the palace
With a sponge and a rusty Rohaldino bottle opener
She said "I know you and you cannot sing"
I said "thats nothing, you should see the reaction this got on ILX"

-- Trayce, Sunday, 27 April 2008 07:27 (1 hour ago) Link

Make A Band Name More Reasonable

http://books.google.com/books?id=duQvAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA125&lpg=RA1-PA125

both 'Liberal' and 'Conservative' have been overused incorrectly by ninnies for so long that it means absolutely nothing
Sometimes, I wish I carried a solid iron cricket bat with several huge rusty spikes jutting from it. And anytime some wingnut used "Liberal" as a noun, I could cluestick them upside their pointy little head.
"It's not a Noun, Fucknugget! 'Liberal' is (THWACK!) a mutha- (THWACK!) fuckin' (THWACK!) descriptor (THWACK!) it modifies a (THWACK!) Noun. A person (THWACK!) can't be a 'Liberal' (THWACK!) or a 'Conservative' for the same (THWACK!) goddamned (THWACK!) reason (THWACK!) they (THWACK!) can't (THWACK!) be a
'Begrudginly'!"
So, to recap: both 'Liberal' and 'Conservative' have been overused incorrectly by ninnies for so long that it means absolutely nothing.
Political debates might as well be a bunch of fat white guys complaining about opressive unicorns and bleeding hearted hobbits.

(Public Service Announcement: The 'Cluestick' portion of this post was made possible through grants from the Committee to End Public Violence.)

-- Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Saturday, January 10, 2004 11:56 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

for whatever it's worth, you can't say the guy was lazy.

it reads like bloom county which kind of depresses me

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-kass-14-may14,0,3973697,full.column

I thought of Custos when you linked to this on that other thread.

bloom county is totally the ur-text for custosism

Lou will die just after all the cockroaches, but before Keith Richards.

-- snoball, Sunday, May 18, 2008 2:09 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

(from Lou Reed RIP)

Gary Old Man

I heard a rumor that the only reason HRC wanted the job in the first place was because WJC left a suitcase like that one in Pulp Fiction in a secret under-the-floor compartment in the Lincoln bedroom, and whoever owns this suitcase/jewelled sceptre/magic shillelagh has the power to rule the world and shit like that so the VP slot is worthless to her because she wouldn't be able to get into the bedroom, so now Chelsea has to begin the long ascent to the presidency just for that one climactic scene where she pries the floorboards open

and stuff

-- J0hn D., Saturday, 7 June 2008 19:58 (2 days ago) Link

Indiana Jones and the Lincoln Bedroom

-- gabbneb, Saturday, 7 June 2008 20:04 (2 days ago) Link

it's the spear of Longinus, that's what it is, the spear of Longinus is hidden under the floorboards

-- J0hn D., Saturday, 7 June 2008 20:06 (2 days ago) Link

we must wonder though, why the republicans would allow her to discover it in the first place xp

-- deeznuts, Saturday, 7 June 2008 20:07 (2 days ago) Link

Dude, J0hn, here all this time I thought it was Freddie the talking flute he'd stashed up there.

-- suzy, Saturday, 7 June 2008 20:08 (2 days ago) Link

yes yes the whole reason Bush II has been unable to govern competently over the past eight years is that the faint sound of Freddie's beating flute heart has driven him insane

-- J0hn D., Saturday, 7 June 2008 20:16 (2 days ago) Link

i keep thinking of this, and the murder/tortue scenes, and the old europe vs new america, the old america that isnt even really on the map...and also about things like the cia black sites being where this film was supposed to talk place in, and the aestheicazation of tortue, adn escape into the rule of law...adn i want to make those connections, but im not sure its fair?
-- anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, October 1, 2006 12:44 PM (Sunday, October 1, 2006 12:44 PM) Bookmark Link

"I wish I could quit you, Hulk."

-- Ned Raggett, Monday, June 9, 2008 3:32 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

brokeback refs are prime cuts of custos

classic unnecessary joke-enhancement/belaboring

Yeah, fuck those haters.

-- Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, July 29, 2003 2:54 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

They be drinkin too much Hatorade.

-- NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, July 29, 2003 3:02 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

^^^ "they be ____" is a str8 shot to custos thread fyi

bozelka on "the happening" thread

well, bozelka in general, but ...

how many ned posts are just "______'s ______"? like

i want to see sci fi made by a gay dude from baltimore

-- bee #1

John Waters' Star Trek

-- Ned Raggett

lol amirite

^^^ fuck every post that isnt lol or amirite

i would say fuck all of 'em but it'd inspire a passive-aggresive tirade from g-kit... oh no that's torn it.

and what otm, this problem also plagued "aw"

do you feel like there is a lol between you and other amirites?

classic unnecessary joke-enhancement/belaboring

-- s1ocki, Monday, June 9, 2008 10:10 PM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

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character ark

please tell me this was intentional

-- n/a, Monday, July 7, 2008 3:35 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

raiders of the lost character ark

-- omar little, Monday, July 7, 2008 3:36 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

"DON'T LOOK AT THE LIGHT, N/A!"

-- Ned Raggett, Monday, July 7, 2008 3:36 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

punchline bandwagonning.

Funniest possible things to say during moment of climax.

Er, AC/DC are Hard Rock, or Pub Rock or something. I'm not sure you could go so far as to call them Metal.
Metal is a form of Hard Rock. But this is just genre-hairsplitting. Thats why genres suck. We should file everything in the record store under "Sounds" and leave it at that.

Customer #1: "Where can I find an AC/DC record?"
Store Clerk: "Ummm...try under 'Sounds' "
Customer #2: "Excuse me, wheres your Polka section?"
Store Clerk: "All polka records are filed under 'Sounds' "
Customer #3: "Yo, whassup? I'm lookin' for..."
Store Clerk: " 'Sounds!' "

-- Lord Custos III, Tuesday, July 2, 2002 8:00 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Link

you really need to keep that unique formatting to truly preserve the flavour of the post. otherwise it's like watching a widescreen movie in pan & scan.