Let an EXCELSIOR be an EXCELSIOR, and let sleeping LOLS lie

My dad called me this morning and said that "the guy from the Foo Fighters" looked like "the guy from the Chili Peppers" "except with a shirt on."

― jaymc, Monday, February 13, 2012 8:37 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Then he hung up.

― jaymc, Monday, February 13, 2012 8:37 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

holy shit SB went, huh.

Not really no, its just been renamed.

you may be surprised to find that there was a thread about it

Haha :)

otm this is where facists come together and express themselves openly, and nobody judges them, it's a liberating and accepting environment

― iatee, Monday, February 13, 2012 7:28 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I mean, not that liberating, I guess

― iatee, Monday, February 13, 2012 7:28 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OH "flag post" is "suggest ban"?? I thought it was something to do with Wire

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4022/4541085120_62da5cf0b9.jpg

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!

omggggg

You missed the ILX "Wire covers" set then?

a runnier bunnier Donnie Darko

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, February 7, 2012 4:58 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

BI is just a dude? I assumed it was a band. lol.

Justin Vernon is the dude's name, Bon Iver is a nom de plume or a band depending on how many people are playing

― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Monday, February 13, 2012 7:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

vernon is just his middle name tho, his full name is: Justin Vernon Bieber

― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 (dayo), Monday, February 13, 2012 7:09 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I picture someone running around trying to trap Dave Mustaine and he keeps escaping, like a malevolent hateful hyperreligious Schmoo

― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, February 15, 2012 2:23 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wait for it . . .

So that other thread is gonna be "I can't be bothered to read thd book but do I ever have PINIONS about what it all means" which is p much my gender theory nightmare.

This is why I don't discuss gender with men any more. Failed experiment, tears before bedtime.

― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, February 15, 2012 4:20 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm gonna try and make them read the book and if they don't I'm gonna tie them to a chair and feed them the book one piece at a time. Until I get tired. I get that you've been round this course too many times but I haven't - outside of the sociology of gaming at least - and I'm excited about it, at least for now.

― Also unknown as Zora (Surfing At Work), Wednesday, February 15, 2012 4:23 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm not doing this any more. I'm going back to threads about trees and coastline and Cornish grammar and Radiohead records. :-(

― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, February 15, 2012 4:23 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk u got sniffy w me for quoting monique wittig. its like also there is not one single syllabus for doing womens studies. there are feminisms.

― judith, Wednesday, February 15, 2012 4:24 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I must've missed it: what book are we talking about?

― jaymc, Wednesday, February 15, 2012 4:27 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"The 100 Greatest Action Films of All Time"

― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, February 15, 2012 4:28 PM (40 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You missed the ILX "Wire covers" set then?

Not entirely but apparently I never saw the end product's cover! That'd be me basically never reading ILM though I suppose.

Well, it was posted as a link, so it's quite likely few have seen it.

fwiw this actually seems pretty straightforward but (capricious bolding to follow)

METHODS:
Sixty mature Leghorn* type chickens were chosen and divided into three groups. The 25 chickens in group A were given a weekly dose of 3 mg/kg/week methylprednisolone acetate(1) intramuscularly(2). Four chickens in group B died after the first drug injection and were excluded from the study(3). Therefore, the remaining 21 chickens in group B were additionally given 25 mg/kg/day pentoxifylline(4) intramuscularly(5), along with the steroid medication(6) as given in group A. The ten chickens in group C were not given any injections, as they were accepted as the control group(7). After the sacrifice(8) of the animals at week 14, both femoral heads(9) were taken from each animal. The animals which died along the course of the study also underwent pathological examination(10) but were not a part of the statistical analysis.
RESULTS:
In this study, steroid induced femoral head osteonecrosis(11) has been experimentally observed in chickens after high doses of corticosteroid therapy(12). The chickens were given pentoxifylline in order to prevent the effects of steroid on bones and bone marrow. The results showed that chickens are suitable osteonecrosis models(13), and that steroid causes adipogenesis(14) and necrosis(15) in the bone marrow and the death of the subchondral bone(16).

* lol
1) what the hell is this and why didn't you say what it is and not what it's named
2) this should seem obvious, "intra," "muscularly," but it's still not layperson
3) "excluded from the study" is a meaningful statistical concept, that MIGHT have implications, but this isn't clarified
4) ok waht is it
5) there's that word again
6) so the first one is a steroid medication?
7) is this like being popular
8) my god
9) this is a kind of fish, right
10) staring contest
11) wait is this what you're suggesting is happened? is everything that you described above...this?
12) didn't realize that was especially high
13) osteonecrosis is not for sale!!!!
14) chill wave
15) death metal
16) decemberists album

― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Thursday, February 16, 2012 2:15 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha beat me

Anyway technically speaking what TurnItIn probably does when you upload your paper is check a bunch of n-grams (chunks of words a few sentences long) and checks its index for matches. When it finds matches on an improbably long chunk of words, it flags it as plagiarism.
Basically it types in random phrases to google but advanced and automatic.
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Thursday, February 16, 2012 5:02 AM (1 hour ago)

imna reverse engineer it and sell a product that can write papers for people
― iatee, Thursday, February 16, 2012 5:05 AM (1 hour ago)

im gonna sell people chunks of words
― lag∞n, Thursday, February 16, 2012 5:06 AM (1 hour ago)

i will sell them dream words and nightmare paragraphs from a red factory in a dead town
― (_()_) (Lamp), Thursday, February 16, 2012 5:17 AM (57 minutes ago)

that does sound like a pretty good business model
― lag∞n, Thursday, February 16, 2012 5:23 AM (52 minutes ago)

at the very least it's better than the groupon business model
― iatee, Thursday, February 16, 2012 5:24 AM (50 minutes ago)

that's the premise for my romance writer's phrase book, and it was published in 1984!

(not the phrasebook i wrote, the phrasebook i HAVE)
it was written by kent and shelton
it is a campy masterpiece of weirdness

Amazon link plz?

gbx's footnotes are amazing. I have lolled.

XP LINK TO THE THREAD GODAMNIT

imna reverse engineer it and sell a product that can write papers for people
― iatee, Thursday, February 16, 2012 5:05 AM (1 hour ago)

This basically exists for lazy and stupid SEO people: http://www.kunocreative.com/blog/bid/71420/What-Black-Hat-Content-Marketing-for-SEO-Looks-Like

It takes existing content, reads and parses it, then spits back out a rewritten version substituting synonyms and similar phrases. If you click through and look at the "rewritten" version compared to the original, it's like "Engrish" to the nth degree.

holy shit SB went, huh.

Not really no, its just been renamed.

you may be surprised to find that there was a thread about it

I'm surprised; who the fuck would read that thread?

tho glad I mostly kept off the Whitney threads now.

i will always sb you

http://www.amazon.com/Romance-Writers-Phrase-Book-Perigee/dp/0399510028

added to wish list

not to be all self promotey (because there's nothing to promote) but
Invent interesting metaphors and similies for women's romantic novels.

r.i.p. the phrase "ban cruising"

can we use "flag waving" now?

Do we have confirmation on that Onion attribution? Seems too racist for them.

― Three Word Username, Friday, February 17, 2012 7:12 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's from the onion

― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Friday, February 17, 2012 7:23 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

When?

― Three Word Username, Friday, February 17, 2012 7:29 AM (40 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

from the onions new spinoff, racist onion

― max, Friday, February 17, 2012 7:30 AM (8 seconds ago)

lol in part because, why would the Onion be incapable of racism

Didn't say incapable, it just doesn't seem their style. Would be surprised but not incredulous if it turned out to be from there.

well, google up onion popular baby names and get surprised, then!

racist onion

why you make me cry racist onion...

btw have you guys heard that Pitbull single "International Love" where the only places Chris Brown mentions in the chorus are New York City, Los Angeles and Miami, and he sings them like they rhyme with each other? stay in school kids.

― CANDY aka JUNK (some dude), Friday, February 17, 2012 10:08 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if u want to read other racist things on the internet, 8t07mf70nt is full of it

― Mordy, Saturday, February 18, 2012 7:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

does that say pitchfork

― bnw, Saturday, February 18, 2012 7:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha I meant to post that one earlier.

Edited for brevity. Good long laugh, though.

god. i was dating * briefly * a girl in the fall who was trying to tell me what a great book Fountainhead is.

― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, February 17, 2012 12:37 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

She was into the freaky butt stuff, wasn't she

― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Saturday, February 18, 2012 6:01 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if mlk were alive today he would def have a laser pointer and a headset and the freakeconomics guys would help him figure out new smartphone apps w/ which we can defeat racism

― iatee, Monday, 20 February 2012 16:34 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mlkvalley

"I Am The Resurrection And The Life. No Man Comes To the Father Except By Me. Why Isn't There A White History Month? Mom, update my blog, tell them I'm sick"

― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:13 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

...perhaps that needed its context to be funny, not sure (racist crazylady on is this racist thread)

that last sentence just slays me

there was one teenager in america who knew who the libertines was, I met him once

― iatee, Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:26 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha that's the second time I've been excelsiored this week w/ a typo in my post :(

the libertines might as well just be one person for all I know

in high school, my best friend, whose pedantry remains unparalleled, would have told you that "who the Libertines was" is correct & would happily have explained to you why

yeah I guess it's up in the air but it does sound bad