the estela appreciation thread

My dog thinks he is tough but in fact he is very small and woollen with round, shiny eyes.
He would blow kisses at the coyotes and try and get them to chase him. Then he would let them drink his water while he sang 'Imagine'.

-- estela (estelaisale...), June 17th, 2005 6:54 AM. (estela) (link)

if someone said this to me in a bar after a particularly long day i would make a secret mental note that they are probably the greatest person i have ever met.

That was my favorite too.

wait actually i think they're all my favorites.

the dentist's nurse correctly guessed my star sign recently, claiming she has a gift, but my file was up on the computer screen in the surgery when she did it and she was standing next to it, behind me, when she was talking about it so i was extremely skeptical, though i faked some awe because i felt sad for her.

when i arrived she had said, 'how's bub?' and when i said calmly, 'i don't have any children' she went into huge these long profuse apologies and ended up saying it was probably for the best and that children are completely overrated, she betrayed her own children just to make me feel better when i was quite peaceful about the whole thing anyway, i told i think children are very nice and in the end i let a small shadow cross my face so she would change the subject, which she did, to astrology.

-- estela

estela is probably famous in certain circles
i mean outside of this one

god she's just the greatest.

Not a good habit to get into, but i think this is part of experimenting with life which everyone tries at some low point.
-- Scorpion Tea (butt.dickas...) (webmail), November 10th, 2006 7:16 AM. (Dick Butkus) (later) (link)

"I love you but I have chosen darkness"

-- Scorpion Tea (butt.dickas...) (webmail), November 10th, 2006 7:29 AM. (Dick Butkus) (later) (link)

i would be very surprised if wordy wants to discuss relationship dynamics with the back-end of a panto horse.

-- estela (estelaisale...) (webmail), November 10th, 2006 7:31 AM. (estela) (later) (link)

Now this one..! creeps on you and puts you on the FLOOR!!!

and also gets the if someone said this to me in a bar after a particularly long day i would make a secret mental note that they are probably the greatest person i have ever met.

-- chicago kevin, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 23:36 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

.. vote from me!

For some reason, this thread has installed itself in my "favourites" list under the name of "horse"

poor estela

Cockblocking is a most asshole maneuver BUT it is useful in Scrabble to keep others from getting the triple words scores & c. (That is what my gang calls it anyway.)

-- Abbott, Saturday, November 3, 2007 8:47 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

sometimes it's the swain's proprietary air and the snarling looks he gives his friends, like a cat under a table guarding a sausage, that is the true blocker in this scenario, but the friends get unfairly blamed because the swain lacks self-awareness.

-- estela, Saturday, November 3, 2007 8:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

that whole abbott and estela routine is gold

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/bobhope/images/vc118.jpg

I love estela's ways.

freaky ways

now i think poaned sounds more like the kind of moaning someone would do after they had got pwned,

-- estela, Monday, 10 December 2007 14:05 (1 hour ago)

I led a girl on for a long time whom I liked as a friend but I really didn't want to make sweet love to her. Eventually I got married to someone else and she got really angry at me and wrote a "book" of sorts wherein I was the evil antagonist who kills her lover, etc.

These boundary kinds of things do need to be made clear, I have learned.

-- libcrypt, Friday, January 18, 2008 4:50 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

is that how you came up with your username?

-- estela, Friday, January 18, 2008 4:58 PM (48 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

estela keeps raising the bar

i like your gimlet eye and strict ways, omar little.

-- estela, Tuesday, February 26, 2008 12:06 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

when does estela write a book

one time i became convinced for a minute that estela is joan didion.

srsly shes got that way of writing that simultaneously makes you want to write like she does and makes you understand that you will never ever be that good.

martina amis

actually she's a lot funnier than mart's been lately

You're a friend of everyone!

-- Autumn Almanac, Thursday, March 6, 2008 12:03 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

aw<3 sweet little lies

-- estela, Thursday, March 6, 2008 12:46 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

AND SO IS JANUARY

23. T/S: "Clit-on" vs "Girly hard-on"?

-- King Boy Pato, Wednesday, January 9, 2008 4:24 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark Link

That should be 26 but whatevs.

-- King Boy Pato, Wednesday, January 9, 2008 4:26 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark Link

"mirage"

-- estela, Wednesday, January 9, 2008 4:30 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark Link

Well, what one do you have when reading my posts?

-- King Boy Pato, Wednesday, January 9, 2008 4:37 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark Link

your posts usually provoke quite dry responses from people, esteban.

-- estela, Wednesday, January 9, 2008 4:56 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark Link

this one took me about 5 months to get, which i am afraid says something bad about me

^^^ estela working on multiple levels here

there was a great estela post along the lines of "this thread is like watching my sea monkeys eat each other" but I can't remember where it was

i picture that exchange in my head as cate blanchett gently chastising pvt. pyle from full metal jacket
xpost

Olden but golden:

I had a dream last night that I was chatting to my puppy after he had returned from a walk with Mr. estela.
Me (happy high-pitched squeaky voice): Harry! what did you do on your walk?
Harry (cheery puppy voice): I chased a bird and some crabbits!
Me: Crabbits??!!
Harry: Yes, some crabbits!

-- estela, Thursday, 3 April 2003 21:23 (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

When I told Mr. estela about my dream he asked enviously, 'What did his voice sound like?' and I said, 'Oh, you know'.

-- estela, Thursday, 3 April 2003 21:39 (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

I hate it when I finally send emails to people I owe an email to and they send a huge long reply five minutes later, putting me straight back into debt. It's discouraging and leads to longer and longer silences from me.

-- estela

^^^^

and then when the calf of incisive truth comes careening at full speed toward you, you won't instinctively step back but will trudge to the upper pasture, corner the calf, and carry that massive animal back to the barn in your arms, exclaiming in amused disgust, "internet pals!"

― estela, Sunday, September 14, 2008 1:53 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

^^^^^

See, yeah, that was brilliant, but srsly, if I were estela I'd just start saying dull things all the time on purpose so people wouldn't do that so much. Not that I really have that problem.

people who, given an inch, take a mile

a list thread

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― genital grinder (roxymuzak), Sunday, September 14, 2008 7:35 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i was going to say deeznuts until i remembered this scenario requires an initial inch proffering.

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― estela, Sunday, September 14, 2008 8:44 PM Bookmark

Sydney is going to get a blow job from Mother Nature tonight, I hear.

― King Boy Pato

Could this be yet another false alarm from the bureau of metereology? Nothing's happened yet.

― moley

somewhere in town a once cockeyed optimist is squinting sadly at the sky.

― estela

Apparently, 75% of office workers have a "workplace spouse" - a fellow employee that you have an intense relationship with due to the fact that you spend most of your working week together, and whom you would try to protect to ensure that they remain close to you and in the relationship. And I presume the gender that you're attracted to.

I think I have one of these workplace spouses and our relationship has been getting weirder in recent times to the point of outright flirting.

In short: HOW TO COPE

― India's second-favourite Australian popstar (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 25 October 2008 06:08 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ask to be moved to a different fryer.

― estela, Saturday, 25 October 2008 06:14 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

outstanding.
favorite whipping boy or is it a time zone thing?

both aussies

Also, in a previous phrases-you-hate thread I mentioned hating "Can I get..." when asking for something. The only time it should be used is by a Southern Baptist preacher asking for an Amen.

― naus (Robert T), Monday, 21 November 2005 07:24 (2 years ago) Permalink

then how will Marvin get a witness?
― estela (estela), Monday, 21 November 2005 07:28 (2 years ago) Permalink

That's the other exception.
― naus (Robert T), Monday, 21 November 2005 07:40 (2 years ago)

you seem grumpy, JOrdan S., maybe you are chakstruating.

― estela, Wednesday, June 18, 2008 5:22 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is that a sincere request or are you chakstruating.

― estela, Wednesday, November 26, 2008 10:12 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Can I get a "fuck you" from all of my niggas to these bitches who don't love those who get no dough?

new age Indian pan pipe music posts.

― estela, Monday, February 9, 2009 11:09 PM (2 days ago)

zing ploy pathos

― estela, Sunday, February 15, 2009 8:01 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

amazing

next level

Despair upon despair upon despair

oh boy

― Young Chizzy (country matters), Thursday, 23 April 2009 23:33 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you started small but i predict a volley of typing.

― estela, Thursday, 23 April 2009 23:37 (21 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Hi. I've tried to clean up my act, and in spite of the occasional grievous error (which I've profusely apologised for) such as JFC.jpg, I think I'm largely succeeding. Whether this is a sign of belated maturity or a reaction to the sword of Damocles imminently pendant over my very ILX existence remains to be seen; I'd rather hope to think it's the former, but if SB has had a positive effect, it HAS been to impress the value of thinking before posting with somewhat more assiduousness than I'd been exercising beforehand. 3 SBs gained in the past 4 months (at last count; can this please be updated in case I've caused any significant offence in the past few days), as opposed to 90 in the previous half-year, bears testament to this. I'm seriously trying to stave off the remaining nine, even indefinitely, if I can.

Anyhow, enough of the self promotion. I've been banned from 77 since before my temp ban, following an offence that although serious (reposting a non-77 user to 77) I think I've served enough time for. I maintain I was made something of an example of, and also maintain that my offence was borne out of stupidity rather than malice, stupidity which I am slowly weaning out of my system. This sort of self-analysis can come over a bit jerkish so I won't press my case any further, but it'd be cool if you could let me back onto 77 kthx :)

― sorry for british (country matters), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 10:34 (4 hours ago)

tl;sb

― estela, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 10:44 (4 hours ago)

Vivian Girls are a great band. I think it's def sexist that bullshit like Wavves gets a pass and the V-Girls have to put up with so much internet nonsense.

― gui lovato (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, May 9, 2009 7:04 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so in other words you wouldn't put the vivian girls under wavves.

― estela, Sunday, May 10, 2009 12:59 AM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

O. M. G.

i need to have kevin k. explain that one to me later