Somehow or another you all managed to jam up the last thread with 300 comments, so clearly we need another openish thread.
I am watching Battle of the Choirs on NBC because tv basically sucks without writers. I am rooting for Patti LaBelle’s crew.
Discuss.
Jen
We are just so fascinated by our own damn selves.
Netflix, I am relying entirely on Netflix and some old stuff I have DVRd that I haven’t gotten through yet, but the strike needs to end soon. Suffering through the primaries with no Colbert is bad enough, but if it extends to the general election season I’m going to do….something….
Robert Johnston
There’s only one solution to tide a person over while this writers’ strike continues.
Must download more porn.
Nikki
Gimme a heads up when they perform “Home.”
I love Marc Broussard!
crayz
More rumors of Edward’s infidelity
Gus
I’m turning off Battle of the Choirs. Television does indeed suck without writers. It’s no great shakes with writers either. I do agree that primary season without Colbert or Daily Show is awfully rough, though.
Nikki
Oh…apparently that was on last night. Oh well, back to Family Guy.
Jen
Have we battled everything that can reasonably be battled at this point, is that why we’re resorting to choirs? Personally, I’d like to see battle of the right-wing bloggers. Round One, wherein K-Lo and Jonah Goldberg SU-MO!
myiq2xu
You need more scotch.
myiq2xu
That’s the first sensible thing i’ve heard all day.
Jen
Myiq, you have found the new thread.
Anchorman was a pretty popular comedy, with Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd, Christina Applegate. Worth renting, especially during the writers’ strike.
A Different Matt
“Basically sucks?”
A Different Matt
Sweet Jesus Almighty Jen:
The Anchorman was the stifest, most awkwardest movie ever.
Ugh.
Ted
Let me know when he’s on his third wife.
Jarrod
This whole writer’s strike is the best thing to ever happen to my World of Warcraft character. He was feeling a little lonely during Chuck, Heroes, and Life…
calipygian
You guys are watching TV when The Simpson’s Movie came out today on DVD?
Jen
What, you didn’t like the Panther Sweat scene? You’re dead to me. ;)
Myiq was offering Afternoon Delight as an earworm, my personal opinion is that it has positive/humorous connotations from Anchorman.
So, we are without an annoying song right now….
My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard!
HI-ya! (The Great Muppet Caper is playing at my local theatre tomorrow.)
Ninerdave
Battle of the Choirs? There is no way that’s good.
Oh come on there has to be a Dirty Jobs repeat somewhere. Or go rent a movie, or turn the TV off.
demimondian
What’s TV?
demimondian
Yeah, John’s just jealous because we got a tricentithread going without Darrell.
demimondian
Celine Dion
myiq2xu
Here’s an earworm for ya:
Costanza!
Jen
And IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
will always love yo-uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
I can’t believe I can’t get a second on Anchorman. It’s not Ben-Hur, okay, it’s just worth Netflixing. No one?
srv
NBC? Just finished season IV of The Wire. So if you’ve been banging your head waiting for the last two DVDs from Netflix, they’re in the mail.
As always, ppGaz was right. It’s an unrealistic “police” show.
demimondian
Hey, wait. I thought you weren’t allowed to say anything nice about him?
Jake
Fixed.
skippy
then maybe netflix can send me disc 2…they insist there’s a “long wait” for it.
i’m a huge fan of the the wire. i’ve said elsewhere it’s like war and peace on crack.
on the strike front, letterman is negotiating an interim contract w/the guild, while leno and conan are just going back on air sans writers and jokes (tho in leno’s case, how can you tell?).
also, the wga and dga are starting to talk, which is a good thing. skippy explains it all.
srv
That’s about the nicest thing I could ever say about the man, given that he hates The Wire. I’m sure he’ll pop up any minute now to shit on it.
[SPOILER – DON’T READ]
Omars antagonist in prison? I see ppGaz.
[/SPOILER]
I got #1 immediately (on queue since August), but lost #2 because a return took to long. Then ordered #3/#4 (no wait). I then beat the local video store guy until he coughed up #2.
Cain
So, TPM had this great story about a guy who did the phone jamming thing a couple of years ago. He wrote a tell all book which TPM says actually seems to be an honest assessment of what happened:
http://www.amazon.com/How-Rig-Election-Confessions-Republican/dp/1416552227
Best quote:
Raymond on his sojourn in the slammer: “After 10 full years inside the GOP, 90 days among honest criminals wasn’t really any great ordeal.”:
Nice..
cain
Cain
What?! “Can’t stands ya?!”
cain
Dug Jay
Such bullshit! The Enquirer story on Drudge about Edward’s alleged girlfriend being pregnant is an obvious ploy by the Edward’s campaign to refute all the other stories out there about him sashaying around with the “guys.” They’re not fooling anyone.
ThymeZone
Heh.
ppGaz knows good tv when he sees it. ppGaz knows shit when he sees it. ppGaz don’t watch no shit.
ppGaz might not have mentioned that he knows law enforcement realism when he sees it. ppGaz knows this because he once worked for one of the largest law enforcement agencies in the United States. Let’s not dwell on this too much, but law enforcement, like many things, is pretty dull most of the time. It really isn’t very entertaining. That’s why, if you are going to write a screenplay about it, and you want anyone to read it, you have to jazz it up and inject plenty of angst and melodrama. You have to compress the melodrama of a hundred careers into a season or two of a serial show to get anyone to pay attention to it.
For that reason, it might be entertaining, if you find depressing lowlife shit entertaining, and I can certainly understand how that could happen …. but anyway, it might be entertaining, but it ain’t about real life. I’ve never seen a cop show or a doctor show that was true to real life, not even in the ballpark.
Now, ppGaz is going back to watching Green Acres reruns.
Breschau
Anchorman is absolutely worth a Netflix rental.
“I’m stuck in a glass box of emotion!”
I was actually surprised I enjoyed that movie as much as I did, since I don’t think Will Ferrell is half as funny as the rest of the movie-going world seems to believe. But I’ll watch almost anything with Paul Rudd in it now.
Stoic
“Supermassive Black Holes” on Discovery Science. Who knew?!
Jarrod
Fixed. I’m sorry, but if I wanted to watch someone act (and sound) like a drunken retard I’ll to the bars. I live in a college town… plenty of selection.
cleek
i’m right there with ya. he can be funny, but i ain’t payin no $9.50 to watch him on the big screen. if i want to see one of his movies, i’ll just wait till Comedy Central starts showing it every other day.
Jen
Jarrod, you clearly haven’t seen the Pearl videos. Granted, Will Ferrell is not the funny one in these.
This one is special just for you..
I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Jen
They charge $9.50 in Cary now? They have gotten big for their britches, haven’t they?
Robert Johnston
Amen.
CIA interrogators at Guantanamo refuse to play Ferrell movies during waterboarding sessions; it’s just too cruel for them.
Jen
I feel like I’m in a parallel universe where “Ferrell” = “Sandler”. I mean, for what he is, and he is not Seinfeld, I think he’s funny, but I guess there’s no accounting for taste.
One of my favorites? Eddie Izzard. Discuss. If you’re not familiar, Netflix.
Tamsyn
I’m not that fond of Ferrell, although he was good in Jay & Silent Bob. And I can only handle Sandler in his more “serious” roles (Spanglish, Click were okay). I’ve been seeing more of Eddie Izzard lately in movies and TV and actually find him amusing. But I also watch a lot of Britcoms which seems to have completely messed up my sense of humor.
Jen
I killed a poor defenseless little thread. I’m sorry. You can talk about whatever you want. I thought transvestite British comedians were interesting, but really. Battle of the Choirs it is.
ThymeZone
I think Ferrell is Three-Stooges funny. That is to say, not so much funny as just irritating, provoking a nervous laugh.
But funny is very subjective. I can start laughing at the very sight of Jerry Van Dyke, but Dick Van Dyke gives me a severe headache. And Mary Tyler Moore makes me want to set fire to myself.
jcricket
I can see it now:
Doctor! We need you to fill out these Medicare approval forms again. They rejected your initial filing due to a spelling mistake.
Damnit nurse! I’m a doctor, not a stenographer.
Little known fact about jcricket. One of his hidden talents IRL is the ability to stick annoying songs into people’s heads by humming just a few bars. That and always winning at Trivial Pursuit, Pictionary and Cranium.
Sadly, none of these, as they say, mad skillz, pay the bills. Neither does leaving anonymous comments on BJ.
“Before Stonehenge, there was strawhenge and woodhenge. ”
His routine about British films and their American remakes was hilarious.
John S.
Cary? North Carolina??
Egads, I have a cousin that lives there and I’m fairly certain there is no way in hell she can afford to pay that for a movie ticket. Shit, tickets don’t even cost that much here in South Florida.
Jen
Eddie Izzard is slap-your-mama funny, I don’t care who you are.
Jcricket, you should try Settlers of Catan. Now that is a game for geeks.
jcricket
Quick, order up the box set. “Ship to: Crazy Old Guy, Somewhere in AZ”
Asti
You call that good tv? Heavens to Betsy!
Jen
Yeah, Cleek and I are both in NC although he doesn’t seem to want to admit it any more. I don’t know what movies cost because I don’t get a babysitter enough to really know, I just know that every time I do go my head turns around 360 at the price because in my head it should be $5. And that is WITH my husband covering up the word “faculty” with his thumb on his university ID card.
John S.
Just lay off the Sex Panther.
It either smells like a used diaper with Indian food in it or Bigfoot’s dick.
demimondian
Indeed. It’s a huge hit in the Gollum office in Zurich, for instance…and anything which is a hit at any of our offices is for geeks.
Jen
Sex panther, that was it, not panther sweat.
rawshark
50% of the time it works everytime.
Andyjunction
The series finale of Extras on HBO Sunday night was incredibly good. As close to perfect as something like that can get.
Gus
I don’t know if anyone has pointed this out, but the Sadly, No! folks are taking down Jonah Goldberg’s asinine book. Easy target? Yes. Funny, though. Beats watching Battle of the Choirs.
Jen
I’m just relieved that I haven’t moved into the online gaming world. As long as that lil piece of the barrel is still there, I’m not a complete geek, right? Also, I have never been to band camp and I have never played D & D.
Sigh. Easier to list my geek credentials than non-geek.
rawshark
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Drift Away
DOBIE GRAY
(Mentor Williams)
Day after day I’m more confused
So I look for the light in the pouring rain
You know that’s a game that I hate to lose
I’m feelin’ the strain, ain’t it a shame
Oh, give me the beat, boys, and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Oh, give me the beat, boys, and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Beginning to think that I’m wastin’ time
I don’t understand the things I do
The world outside looks so unkind
I’m countin’ on you to carry me through
And when my mind is free
You know a melody can move me
And when I’m feelin’ blue
The guitar’s comin’ through to soothe me
Thanks for the joy that you’ve given me
I want you to know I believe in your song
Rhythm and rhyme and harmony
You help me along makin’ me strong
rawshark
Lets try that again.
Day after day I’m more confused
So I look for the light in the pouring rain
You know that’s a game that I hate to lose
I’m feelin’ the strain, ain’t it a shame
Oh, give me the beat, boys, and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Oh, give me the beat, boys, and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Beginning to think that I’m wastin’ time
I don’t understand the things I do
The world outside looks so unkind
I’m countin’ on you to carry me through
And when my mind is free
You know a melody can move me
And when I’m feelin’ blue
The guitar’s comin’ through to soothe me
Thanks for the joy that you’ve given me
I want you to know I believe in your song
Rhythm and rhyme and harmony
You help me along makin’ me strong
Jen
S,N has been at Jonah for DAYS. It’s pretty good, although I recommend supplementing it with Jon Swift’s Jonah Goldberg LOL cats. It’s been kind of amazing how many ways there are to say someone is full of shit.
ThymeZone
If Mr. Ed isn’t on, yes.
But, a town named “Hooterville” and a pig named “Arnold.”
Poetry! Pure poetry.
But the thing is, you have to watch at least two seasons to really get it.
RSA
Another NC person here, in Raleigh. To give the flavor of the area (I hope I haven’t told this story here before): A few years ago my wife and I went out to the movies to see Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. We bought our tickets, and the ticket taker said, “Wait–you realize this movie has subtitles, right?” I said, “Sure. . . Why do you ask?” She looked at me for a second and then drawled, “This is Garner, North Carolina.”
Sure enough, there were only about a dozen of us in the theater, and after about fifteen minutes, a couple of people in front of us got up and left.
Jen
Woo hoo, RSA, we are both in Raleigh and we have both seen the Final Sacrifice.
Even for the internets, those are some amazing ass odds.
Asti
Well, you watch and I’ll just do my own thing. Thanks!
rawshark
I liked the Wire from the first episode.
Go Toora Loora Toora Loo-Rye-Aye :)
demimondian
Jen, if it’s any consolation, FDDD used to have the same problem. Nowadays, though, people are shocked to hear that she has any geek credentials…and even more astounded when she starts listing them (Ph.D in developmental genetics, multiple pubs, etc., etc.)
Asti
Half of nothing is still nothing. ;)
ThymeZone
But, you know, this is all water over the dam.
rawshark
Didn’t see Anchorman then eh? Then you also don’t know what ‘San Diego’ means in the original German.
rawshark
I have no idea what that means. Knowing PPG its probably pretty funny too. Dammit I hate when I don’t get jokes.
incontrolados
Yet another episode of everybody loves Jen.
ZZZZZZzzzzzzz.
Frontline was what I already know, but it’s always good to hear Yoo explain why all of us ar suspects.
BTW — I’m confused about the use of ‘we’ here lately. I thought Michael D. was from Canada, as well as Jen. I know I could be mistaken. But is Michael D. a citizen of the U.S.? Is Jen Canadian/naturalized/native?
I’m confused.
Jen
Would that be Mrs. Demimondian? Those aren’t geek credentials, those are nerd credentials. Geek credentials would be like if she has Boba Fett in the original packaging, or if she has a Hitchhiker’s Guide tattoo (neighbor of mine. He says most people don’t know what it is. And we’re in NC!)
I wouldn’t be taken as a geek, either, really. Too cute.
demimondian
I thought Krista was our resident Canadian female (well, actually, we have a couple of others, but they don’t post very often.)
Asti
Sounds like a fair assessment to me.
Jen
I’m not Canadian, never pretended to be. I’m Southern, I can see how you’d be confused.
Does anyone love me? I wasn’t really feeling that. I mean, I wasn’t feeling unloved, but I didn’t get mad props on Will Ferrell…
demimondian
FDDD = Frau Doktor Doktor Demimondian (although, yes, it is really Doktor Frau Doktor Demimondian). So, yes, Mrs. Demimondian.
Billy K
Tamsyn,
Black Books much?
—
I’m disappointed in this crowd’s Netflix suggestions. Will Ferrel? Anchorman? The Wire? Eddie Izzard? I mean, I expected something a little less…”common.”
ThymeZone
When it comes to The Weir, you sorta hafta go with the flow.
Yes, you are dammed if you do, and dammed if you don’t, but just that’s the beauty of it.
Jen
Eddie Izzard is common, huh, well, name another British transvetite stand-up comedian, didn’t think so.
So name something yourself, what do you want me to say, Luis Bun~uel?
Asti
Sorry, when I’m in Germany, the only word I need to know is “hofbrauhaus”! :)
incontrolados
Ahh, southern. That explains a lot Jen, thanks.
I’m still confused about Michael D. but that clarification can wait for another day.
Jen
Oh, I like the Wire, too. I want to have an Irish wake laid out on a pool table in a pub, too, although I think it’s unlikely that the black folks, okay, anybody, will know the Pogues by heart…unlikely that my mom would go for that….it’s just all around unlikely.
Jen
What does it explain? So confused now.
Asti
Jen, are you planning to die before your mother?
incontrolados
It just clarifies you for me.
Jen
Ai, incontrolados, estas celosa o que?
RSA
Oh, yeah, that had slipped my mind. That got you a lot of geek love, if I recall. If there’s ever a BJ South get-together, I’ll wear my Castleton (Time Chasers) sweatshirt to it.
srv
Well, they do know how to make amplifiers.
demimondian
Heh. Listen, if you have it, tell me in advance, and I’ll try to schedule a talk at the research triangle office…
incontrolados
no, not anymore.
jcricket
Well I liked it before you even thought of watching it. I’m that cool.
For Netflix recommendations, I suggest Excessive Force II: Force on Force. The trifecta of bad elements of a title – a roman number, colon and then a subtitle that doesn’t explain the part before the colon. Plus wins awards for most use of a single word in a multiword title.
Jen
Not anymore? Is this Cryptic Juice?
Jen
That’s funny. Will you be at Balloon Juice South 2008?
rawshark
Wow, that is cool. Can’t top that.
ThymeZone
the only word I need to know is “hofbrauhaus”!
Gemütlich!
Jen
I do hope PaulL can come, too, because I just can’t get enough of that Duke Lacrosse.
incontrolados
No.
I’m only an infrequent commenter.
I was confused. You clarified. You asked if I was suspicious. I answered not anymore.
What is crytic about that?
demimondian
Sorry, jcricket is part of the BJuice Northwest contingent — along with me, capelza, zyzzy, babo, and some others whose names I can’t recall right now.
Jen
Celosa means jealous. That’s why I was confused.
Jen
Portland, perchance? Went to Portland in July, fell in love with Portland. Went to Portland in January, hated Portland.
incontrolados
I suit up with Zif, not that he would claim me as a friendly soul, or maybe he would, I don’t know . . . we are geographically in the same place.
demimondian
capelza is in Oregon, as is Chuck Butcher. Most of the rest of us are in Washington State.
Jen
Oh, everyone’s confused about Michael D., by the way. A gay Republican Canadian in favor of the Flat tax? Like an ROUS, I don’t think they exist.
rawshark
Phx here
Asti
Taub?
Rosafarbenes Floyd jedermann?
incontrolados
Celoso also means suspicious. That’s the meaning I took from you, given what was said in previous threads.
demimondian
TZ is in phx, as are a couple of others.
I thought Zif was in SoCal, srv, and you were in the Bay Area?
Jen
Hm, unfamiliar with that usage. Woulda said sospechoso. Am I addressing someone who is not celoso or not celosa?
rawshark
As you wish.
Asti
Yes they do, I saw one almost take off Cary Elwes’ arm! ;)
demimondian
Of course you don’t think that they exist. That’s why they can surprise you.
Jen
Whoa. According to Babel, celoso has 17 separate translations into English. I guess context is really important.
My Spanish is conversational, obviously not native, but c’mon, how could it also mean assiduous, studious, and zestful?
Jen
Hee hee, this is just fun, dropping the geek magnets. I just wish I knew more about Star Trek.
ThymeZone
Yes, ditto.
demimondian
Um…Jen? Dropping geek magnets in a blog is right up there with fishing in a barrel. It’s not much of a challenge.
Cindrella Ferret
He’s probably just waiting for a chance to hijack the thread with a rant about the Fair Tax.
I feel like singing!
Doe, a deer, a female deer
Ray, a drop of golden sun
Me, a name I call myself
Far, a long long way to run
Sew, a needle pulling thread
La, a note to follow sew
Tea, I drink with jam and bread
That will bring us back to do…oh oh oh
incontrolados
That’s odd. Zif is clearly from Houston.
Could be that my Spanish is from a variety of sources. Usage varies. As do people. Perhaps you are dealing with just a regular person?
I’m not suspicious anymore. What more do you want me to say?
rawshark
You know what’s cool about having your jaw wired?
Nothing
rawshark
Were caught in a trap
I cant walk out
Because I love you too much baby
Why cant you see
What youre doing to me
When you dont believe a word I say?
We cant go on together
With suspicious minds
And we cant build our dreams
On suspicious minds
So, if an old friend I know
Drops by to say hello
Would I still see suspicion in your eyes?
Here we go again
Asking where Ive been
You cant see these tears are real
Im crying
We cant go on together
With suspicious minds
And be cant build our dreams
On suspicious minds
Oh let our love survive
Or dry the tears from your eyes
Lets dont let a good thing die
When honey, you know
Ive never lied to you
Mmm yeah, yeah
Jen
I wasn’t suspicious of your Spanish, just curious. I don’t doubt that it does mean suspicious.
Demi, I didn’t say it was a challenge, I just said it was fun. Although I have made references to both Office Space and This is Spinal Tap, that, as best I can tell, went completely unnoticed.
Well, this thread could also hit 300 if I didn’t need to go to bed so I guess I’ll just wish the rest of you well —
demimondian
Sorry, Cindrella — I already used the Sound of Music, so it’s off-limits now. You’ll need to find some other cloying and obnoxious Rogers and Hammerstein musical to draw upon for your earworms.
Me, I suggest…
Oklahoma! Where the wind some sweeping down the plain!
Where the waving wheat
It sure smells sweet
when the wind comes right behind the rain!
Oklahoma! Every night my honey-lamb and I
Sit alone and talk
And watch a hawk
Making lazy circles in the sky!
We know we belong to the land
And the land we belong to is grand!
And so I say
A-yip-a-yo-di-ay
Oklahoma! O-K!
L-A-H-O-M-A!
Oklahoma!
rawshark
In this thread? How could I have missed that?
Back up in your ass with a resurrection….
ThymeZone
Okay, I take that to mean “Are you deaf? R. Floyd is everybody.”
Cain
Dammit. I haven’t been to band camp, but I have played at the grand ol opry. Is that close? (but I do get the whole band thing) Sadly, I think I’ve been part of every geek culture out there. D&D? check. band? check. online gaming? check. rocky horror picture show? check. MUD? check. Yeah, sad.
cain
MNPundit
Speaking of music, Fragdoll Singing Still Alive.
/nerd
incontrolados
That’s it.
I know who you are.
Thanks Jen, for playing and all.
rawshark
All my life I wanted to learn german (favorite comic hero Nightcrawler) but what do I get in school, spanish, latin and french. Yuck.
demimondian
No, MNP, that’s not nerd, that’s geek — or so I’m told. Me, I’m up with dork, so I can’t tell.
Jen
And you’re still cooler than Jonah Goldberg!
You know, Hitler had pieces of flair he made the Jews wear. ZOMG Chotchkis is a liberal fascist restaurant!
That was just for you, rawshark, please don’t quote any more music or Vogon poetry at me.
I know, I said I was going to bed.
incontrolados
Oh, Jen, you even got cain.
Mission Accomplished
Jen
What is going on here? Can anyone help me?
rawshark
The music isn’t directed at you. I’m just very very very bored.
rawshark
Well some were but not all I mean.
rawshark
Not quite geeky enough to place my name are you?
incontrolados
Go to bed already.
Jen
I’m just trying to figure out why you have decided you don’t like me, or whatever the heck this is.
demimondian
As a rule, local custom opposes outing people, so I don’t think you need to worry about having been identified. My guess is that incontrolados thinks you’re one of our spoofs, and that he thinks he’s figured out which one you are. I’m not sure, one way or another, but I’m leaning towards believing that you’re real.
incontrolados
Rerun of the ’70’s show
MNPundit
See I personally agree with you, but my girlfriend who works in an office with a lot of nerds/geeks and Ron Paul supporters would class that as Nerd. Either way, Kitt is my favorite of the UK Frag Dolls… and honestly who doesn’t love the Portal ED?
To brush up my further nerd/geek/dork points, I hate all table roleplaying games but adore Japanese RPGS and never went to camp. Oh my parents threatened it, but I always managed to get out of it until they put it bluntly when I was 16 “Go to Camp or Get a Job.”
I got a job.
Cain
I’m in Oregon as well.
Oregon rocks regardless of the time of year. We might have to replace rain with snow but it’s all good.
cain
incontrolados
of course you are :)
Jen
Well, incontrolado is on the other side of the country from me, so I don’t think he/she actually knows me. Spoof? Spoof of what? Aren’t spoofs generally of the DugJay variety? A geek spoof?
I’m genuinely confused.
rawshark
I thought Cleveland rocked?
demimondian
Jen…you haven’t been here very long, I think.
We have a tradition here — there are people who show up with identities other than their usual nicks. In particular, you may have seen contributions from one DougJ…in several forms. When a new commenter shows up, we’re naturally a little cautious; most of us — yes, even me, TZ — have been taken in by the eminent Dr. J at least once.
So you see, you could be an established commenter sock-puppeting. Obviously, nobody likes to be taken in by a sock-puppet, and everybody likes to unmask them. The usual challenge is to name the sock puppet and say “well played.”
MNPundit
Cain, where abouts in Oregon? Seriously been considering moving to Gresham but no matter how much research it’s never as good as going in person.
Jen
You know, I am a geek. But I am NOT that big of a geek. I do have hobbies outside of this computer.
So he thinks I am actually someone else pretending to be Jen, or that I am Jen pretending to be someone else…oh…brain freeze.
myiq2xu
Here’s a song for the season:
I’d like to announce my candidacy,
I’d appreciate it if you’d vote for me.
I want to be Vice President.
Vote for me.
If I was Vice President you know what I’d do?
Pretty much anything I wanted to.
Vote for me. Vote for me.
I’d have a first class seat on Air Force One.
An awesome pad in Washington…D.C. (If you vote for me)
Play golf all day with heads of state,
If they brought beer wouldn’t that be great? I can’t wait!
Vote for me. Vote for me.
Cain
Cleveland? I’ve been to Cleveland. I’m not impressed. No cookie for you, rawshark. (actually I’m from Indiana, I’m a transplant and thus my personality is a more bubbly. Which makes me the anti-geek because for some reason geeks don’t like seeing other people happy and cheerful on the account that that they live in darkness all the time.)
ANYWAYS.. (I”ve had too much to drink so now my writing looks like LISP) Chicago rocks if any city in tha area does. I might be convinced that Kentucky rocks too.
cain
demimondian
We have many kinds of spoofs here. We have people that are genuine trolls (who post just for the response). DugJay, BIRDZILLA, etc. fall into this category. We have people who post things they don’t mean — you need to keep your snark detector running at all times. And we have people who post under multiple nicks simultaneously. Such people have even been known to have arguments with their “established” identity in order to build up their bona fides.
Incontrolados thinks that you’re one of the last class of spoofs. He/she could be right. I’m taking the chance on thinking not — if you’re a spoof, you’ve hooked me.
Jen
Thanks for explaining anyway, Demi, even if I don’t entirely get it. I’ve just been here for a month or so having fun because I’ve been getting bored at work. I am light-years away from creating online identities or spoofing people or sock puppeting or marionetting or anything. Frankly, I think I’d like to stay light years away from that. But, the more I deny the more incontrolados will believe I am spoofing…genius!
rawshark
Me either. Just joking around, tossing out Drew Carey show themes.
I got your alcohol beat, liquid vicodan baby. woohoo!
incontrolados
That’s the second one. It’s fairly easy to figure out from this thread alone that I am from Houston. (And perhaps it was a typo, but there is that ‘s’ is espanol . . .)
You are stating the obvious.
Does Jen remember Rome Again? That could be a time marker.
Cain
Jen,
I’m still cooler than Jonah? Why don’t you group me in with the Devil or Lucifer Morningstar or whatever name he goes by these days while you’re at it? Bah.
Jonah is a tool. I hope a thousand fleas bite the area between his butt cheeks on prime time television with Katie Colic.
cain
rawshark
‘Me either’ should be ‘I haven’t’.
Jen
So is Jen the established identity or the non-established identity? Incontrolados thinks I am having an argument over Will Ferrell at midnight to build up my credibility? This is just too weird.
Cain
There is no way Jen is Rome Again. Rome Again is a bit too passionate (since she falls for Cassidy’s trolls too often) Jen on the hand gave Cassidy a good run for his money. I truly enjoyed that. He probably did too. The bastard.
cain
incontrolados
That’s convenient.
myiq2xu
from the Tao Te Ching:
“Am I a man dreaming I am a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming I am a man?”
(I can’t remember if that was from Lao Tze or Zuang Tze)
demimondian
At this point, I think that ‘Jen’ is your established identity, just as ‘demi’ is mine. Incontrolados thinks not, apparently. He also appears to think that I’m in on your “real” established identity.
Now, I will admit that there are a couple of occasional sock-puppets whose “established” identities I actually do know, but no, incontrolados, I don’t have any special knowledge about Jen. Like I said, if she’s a spoof, she’s hooked me.
incontrolados
Yet another point.
Jen are you Bob Dole? Refering to yourself in the third person is lame.
Cain, I didn’t say that Jen is Rome Again, just that she is perhaps looking for the same outcome.
It could be.
Jen
Thank you, Cain. I feel as if I truly have landed in Bizarro world. And the “dig” at you was intended purely at Jonah the Whale as I have nothing against you whatsoever. I do not know who or what Rome Again is. I did enjoy Cassidy, speaking of schizophrenic people, though.
demimondian
Rome Again was a contributor who was here for a while, and then disappeared.
myiq2xu
Until now I never realized that Dick Cheney was a Joe Walsh fan.
Jen
I don’t refer to myself in the third person. Are you referring to this?
I phrased it that way because clearly the context depended on it. I guess I could have said “Jen”.
What the hell are these points you’re talking about? This points to something?
incontrolados
It’s your weakness then demi.
Cain
No worries. I was pulling your leg.
Rome Again was a regular contributor but has tapered off due to lack of time.
cain
Jen
Wow. I thought when the wingnuts talked about tinfoil hat liberals, that was hyperbole.
Just weird. You can believe I’m Jen, or believe I’m someone else, I don’t care. I just enjoy reading the comments and getting my sarcasm on.
demimondian
My weakness for teaching people who ask good questions? I have been taken in by that before, so it’s not impossible.
incontrolados
Yes Jen you could have used the personal pronoun I.
But never mind that.
demimondian
Jen…don’t worry, one way or another. If you’re real, you’re real, and that’s fine. If you’re not, you’re not, and that’s fine, too. Either way, welcome; you’re an addition to the commentariat here.
incontrolados
Are you talking about me?
Jen
You are referring to my online identity as “Jen”, no? So when I say, “so is “Jen” the established identity”, I have to say “Jen”, right, because you think I’m somebody else, right? What good would it do to say
“So am I the established identity?”
That doesn’t clarify anything when you think I am somebody else.
This makes no sense.
ThymeZone
Har! As I used to say, DougJ snared me so many times, he put a band around my leg.
rawshark
Is it a bad thing to change names?
demimondian
Heh.
Well, inc, you certainly seem to have made an impression. I genuinely don’t think that a spoof could have pulled off the combination of hurt feelings and confusion that Jen has, so I think that she’s real, and that you’re being a jerk.
rawshark — not at all. I don’t do it, but mostly because the game isn’t fun for me. But that’s just me.
incontrolados
Suckers. He just admited it.
demimondian
OK, inc. Out with it — who do you think Jen is?
incontrolados
I could have changed my name to Michelle, but you all would have gotten confused.
I have always linked to my blog, where it is clear I am a female.
Suckers are marked.
Time for a movie and I’m not telling you which :)
Cindrella Ferret
Rats! I missed it. OK. OK. But …
The sun’ll come out
Tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
That tomorrow
There’ll be sun!
Just thinkin’ about
Tomorrow
Clears away the cobwebs,
And the sorrow
‘Til there’s none!
When I’m stuck a day
That’s gray,
And lonely,
I just stick out my chin
And Grin,
And Say,
Oh!
The sun’ll come out
Tomorrow
So ya gotta hang on
‘Til tomorrow
Come what may
Tomorrow! Tomorrow!
I love ya Tomorrow!
You’re always
A day
A way!
rawshark
Who Clemens? He denied it of course. I think he’s lying. Anyone else think Heath Ledger is going to kick ass as The Joker?
rawshark
Victor/Victoria?
incontrolados
Jen is TZ
He just said
incontrolados
Ouch
incontrolados
Jen, come back, Jen (forlorn emoticon)
demimondian
Hmm.
OK, Inc, I’ll pass on a couple of things I do know.
(1) TZ != Rome Again. They are different people with different IP addresses.
(2) It’s unlikely that TZ is Jen. I won’t go into the details of why I think so, but I will merely say that I do think so.
demimondian
I don’t know what to think. It certainly wouldn’t surprise me, though.
Cain
Of course it depends on the approach. I’m fairly new and I haven’t made any waves mostly. But then I’m not looking to troll. It’s more fun reading the snark. I’m just not as good as you guys are.
cain
incontrolados
I never said that. Rome Again proved they were different.
The Other Steve
You know, I was actually thinking this would be a good opportunity for the porn industry. They’re in desperate need of writers, and I’m sure writers out on strike could do scripts for them under psuedonyms and nobody would be the wiser.
:-)
rawshark
The internets are weird.
Anne Laurie
Pikers, all of you. The modern twenty-first-century Geek does the anime. Shojo anime. Shojo fansubbed anime. Although now you can get Genshiken on Netflix, so anybody who was a geek in college can see their secret history of shame explicated in cartoon format, probably whilst peeking through their geek fingers as they hide their geek faces in shame.
incontrolados
Cain, you have offered some of the most heartfelt comments on this blog. That’s why I felt bad that the ‘Jen’ program got you, too.
Cain I respect you. You have a good heart. I know that from reading your writing. That you got taken in, well ….lesson learned.
demimondian
OK, so when did TZ “admit” he was Jen?
incontrolados
upthread demi
I’m watching a movie
You all know each other, no?
work it out.
demimondian
You may be watching a movie, but I don’t think your watching the text.
incontrolados
demi, you know TZ, ask him.
I’m going to watch a movie.
(notice Jen hasn’t asked about my Spanish. . . or anything else. )
MNPundit
Blech I just watched Blood+ and am getting a Saya-Sword for Christmas. After that, I’m going to switch over to Ergo Proxy in the next few weeks. I define your 21st Century Geek.
After all, I’ve responded to the anime style since Robotech, when I was THREE.
demimondian
True enough. and that has what to do with what?
incontrolados
They’ll say that I was the first, but I will deny it. But in everlasting blogodog. I won.
And you all remember that.
Movie
now
pikers my ass
incontrolados
‘We’ll ‘ wait until tomorrow.
You sucked it in. Jen baby is gone.
ThymeZone
I’m not doing any new characters right now, kids.
I have only done one in the last year, and he/she has not posted here for months. There’s a reason and pattern to that character’s work here, which I cannot divulge except for money. Make me an offer. But anyway, I have neither the time nor the motive to be doing any new characters at this time.
incontrolados
Well said TZ.
hemi
Save yourself some pain and skip it. Proxy is good for the first seven or so episodes and then it becomes utterly dull (on the other hand, the fact that you managed to slog all the way through Blood+ may indicate that you could survive the middle 12 or so episodes to get to the other interesting part). Go watch Black Lagoon or Darker than Black if you haven’t seen those two yet.
Oh, and re: Genshiken – It isn’t Shoujo. It’s Seinen. Shoujo is stuff like *shudder* Ouran Host Club or The Third.
rawshark
Snatch?
Anne Laurie
MNPundit: Giant robots, sure. Enjoying mecha is easy geekery. Brag to me once you’ve watched all 76 episodes of HIKARU NO GO (confess, gamers: Did you even suspect a phrase like “the cut-throat world of professional Go masters” could be used un-ironically?). Or PRINCESS NINE, which I’m told is actually quite sound in terms of baseball. And for all the Heinlein/Andre Norton YA readers, I would recommend TWIN SPICA, a lovely little epic about a teenage girl working heart & soul to achieve her dream of becoming a professional astronaut, except it’s only available in the bootleg fansubbed version, probably because there are no panty shots (although there *is* an exploding rocket).
incontrolados
A.L., she was dead before she was alive.
Remember this day.
TenguPhule
Space Battleship Yamato.
Comet Empire, bitches.
TenguPhule
That was the 90s.
True Otaku-geekdom is now ranked by watching fansubbed anime based on obscure games made by geeks that were played by only the hardest of otaku and being able to identify the main characters by name by the end of the opening sequence.
Anne Laurie
VANDREAD, TenguPhule. Because if the so-called “opposite sex” really existed, you just know they’d be all weird’n’alien’n’stuff. Tongue, as the late great R.A. Lafferty once said, so firmly in cheek as to protrude from the vulgar bodily orifice. And the CGI mecha segments are clearly deliniated, so you can fast-forward *to* them or *through* them, depending.
Anne Laurie
True Otaku-geekdom is now ranked by watching fansubbed anime based on obscure games made by geeks that were played by only the hardest of otaku and being able to identify the main characters by name by the end of the opening sequence.
Oh, so you *did* watch Genshiken!
I know someone who’s actually taken conversational Japanese classes to improve their enjoyment of anime. But that wasn’t me. Really. I can barely grok teh English, obviously enough.
cleek
last movie i went to was up at Atlantic Springs. it was $9.50. might have been because it was ‘3D’ and we had to get glasses.
i think the place in Apex near us is cheaper (we’re actually Apeckers), though.
Krista
Goddamn — that was the most meta thread ever. Who gives a sweet goddamn if Jen is a sock puppet or if she’s real? This is all theatre, boys and girls.
Jen
I went to bed, incontrolados. That’s the big conspiracy. I’m awake now
I’m just Jen. Is TZ Thyme Zone? I’m not him. Hard to prove a negative, so I guess you can believe it if you want to, take a poll, I don’t care.
Your blog says there are now two people, in case you haven’t been there lately, so I don’t know whether you’re Michelle or someone else. I didn’t ask about your Spanish because what’s to ask? You speak Spanish. I speak Spanish. Millions of other people speak Spanish. Okay.
Saying “my online identity ‘Jen’ in trying to explain why I used the third person instead of “I” in trying to clear up all this confusion over who you think I am, is not exactly admitting to being someone else, is it? If it is, it’s a pretty elementary mistake to make if I’m denying who I am, no? Is there any other thing I can clear up for you?
Jen
Oh, I just saw that ThymeZone posted and confirmed he wasn’t me, so he is TZ, sorry for the dumb question.
myiq2xu
I’m still just me. I think. I used to be schizophrenic but we’re much better now.
4tehlulz
It’s not my fault that Clannad is one of the best series this year.
And I’m sorry Anne Laurie, but you’re not hardcore unless you are familiar with Akagi.
cleek
i’m still me, too, regardless of what i put in any particular Name field.
Jen
From now on you shall be known henceforth as Cleek in Apex instead of Cleek in Cary.
Psycheout
Silky Pony takes himself out of the race Gary Hart style. Edwards’ girlfriend is six months pregnant!
It seems there are not only two Americas, but two women on John’s mind.
Jen
Incontrolados, are you Psycho? I think you must be, because you once left an -s off of something and you never asked me if I speak Farsi. Well played.
myiq2xu
What’s the problem? Edwards is a Democrat – we’re allowed to have a little fun.
Remember – unless it’s a dead girl or a live boy, it’s machts nichts.
cleek
played-out spoof cites spoof ?
zzz
Psycheout
Clannad isn’t bad.
D-Chance.
Three things for the day:
1) The US is going to give out tens of billions of dollars in trade concessions in exchange for maintaining that idiotic and intrusive ban on internet gambling.
2) John Edwards is impregnating gals while his wife is wasting away from cancer… looks like the Republicans aren’t the only men guilty of such obscene activities.
3) Your Time Person of the Year: Vladimir Putin. Well, he’s a much better candidate than YOU.
Psycheout
Perhaps you’re right. This might help him. This might be an attempt to make the Breck Girl seem more macho and less gay.
Jen
I’m sorry, Cleek or whoever you are, this has just been profoundly weird for me. I have never been accused of being someone I’m not before, for reasons that are completely cryptic to me. I just can’t let go. I really do apologize for dominating the thread, I really would rather talk about something else, but I don’t know anything about anime. I forgot to list that among my non-geek-credentials.
myiq2xu
I recall reading about a man who spent years trying to prove that the Iliad and the Odyssey weren’t written by Homer, but by another Greek with the same name.
Jen
That’s pretty funny.
Krista
You do realize that this story is from the National Enquirer, right?
cleek
if you want to get precise my location depends on the time of day. i live in Apex, but work in Cary. sometimes i drink too much in Raleigh. it’s a mad mad mad mad Triangle.
you can just call me ‘cleek’, for short.
myiq2xu
Enquiring minds want to know.
Jen
How about Cleek Who Did Not See Ron Paul’s Blimp Nyah Nyah Nyah…?
demimondian
It’s interesting — the Enquirer’s headlines are ludicrous, but the facts in the stories are often entirely correct. If you can find a copy of the story, it actually mentions that the Andrew Young near whom the mother-to-be in question is living now “claims” to be the father of the child. My guess is that he’s claimed that all along, and that the Enq got somebody to allege that Edwards had been the father, and ran with that headline. That’s been the pattern they’ve shown in the past.
myiq2xu
Isn’t “cleek” the sound of a light switch in France?
Jen
Hello Demi!
I am reminded of a line from So I Married An Axe Murderer.
“Mom, I am concerned that you refer to the Weekly World News as ‘the paper’.”
Do you think I should change my name to ThymeJen?
I’m kidding. I’m not TZ. Thank you for believing in me.
jenniebee
My God! It’s like we’re joined at the state line!
Jen
You from the other Carolina?
Punchy
John’s next post is coming from Massachusettes, at the altar with his best man. JUST his best man.
Battle of the Ch…I can’t even get myself up to type it…for real, Cole?
Lee
For those that are prior military or truly care about the military this is the saddest thing I’ve read in a long time.
Got it from memeorandum.
Jen
I think they prefer What Not to Wear. That can’t require writers, right?
myiq2xu
In his defense, it does say “Battle” in the title. Perhaps he was too drunk to reach the remote. That’s happened to me before.
tBone
This is a weird thread even by this place’s standards.
Jen & Inco, I suggest you hurry up and complete the Airing of the Grievances and move on to Feats of Strength.
Jen
Well, I would invite her, but I don’t know how to say Festivus in Spanish.
Punchy
Holy fuck, you pay $9.50? Christ, I drop only $7, and that’s a bone more than just 6 months ago.
myiq2xu
Festivnosotros?
myiq2xu
This place has standards?
Jen
Festivnosotros this year will be celebrated by having a battle of feats of strength between Jonah Goldberg and K-Lo. Jonah will not be allowed to read from his book as that would definitely qualify as hitting below the belt. Admission will be $9.50, but will be well worth it.
srv
I think she’s Darrell in a David Lynch sorta way.
Dracula
Is there a better kind?
By the way, where the hell is Zombie Santa Claus? This close to Christmas and the Zom is AWOL?
myiq2xu
The NYT ran an article saying that the WH was more involved in the torture taped destruction than it previously admitted.
The WH issued a non-denial denial, claiming that the story said they were misleading the public when in reality they didn’t lie cuz they took the Fifth and ain’t said diddley shit.
myiq2xu
I can’t type this AM for shit. I’m not sure if I need coffee or a little hair of the dog.
WTF – I’ll try both.
Face
Great cement.
Check Phoenix.
cleek
“cleek” is the sound Eric Cartman makes when the Costa Rican prostitute tells him “why donchoo take a peekshur, mayn!”
Cartman: “Okay. Cleeeeek!”
no, really.
Face
Great cement.
Check Phoenix.
Jen
Cleek is also pretty close to the camera sound Rosie Perez makes in voicing Go Diego Go.
I’m Cleek, la ca-ma-ra, and I can take a pic, I can see to the animal you cho-ose…
Got kids, baby, I bet Thyme Zone doesn’t have kids…
Krista
Wrong on that, actually. TZ is doting grandfather to the World’s Cutest Child(tm).
Jen
Oh noes, TZ is my DAD!!!!!!!!
Darkness
Or after a day at the Paulaner Bräuhaus:
Doe, a deer, a female deer
Reh . . . another kind of deer
(If you ever find yourself so low as to be at the Hofbräuhaus, Bavarian gods forbid, please do yourself the favor of picking yourself up by your lederhosen and taking yourself a few streets over to the Kapuzinerplatz. Several good establishments over there with Germans who are not pretending to be Disney. Oh, except the Hofbrähaus in Vegas, which frighteningly enough, is a more authentic experience than the one in München.)
tBone
Low standards are still standards.
ZSC had an epic meltdown in a thread a while back, re: liberal intolerance of religious beliefs, IIRC. (Yes, seriously. I guess being a disembodied head in a jar gets to you after a while.)
So enjoy this Christmas, kids. It will likely be the last. Next year the only thing you’ll be getting in your stockings is a copy of the Secular Humanist Manifesto and a certificate for a free state-sponsored gay marriage and/or abortion.
jcricket
Geebus people, altheway to the bottom and no one comes out and says that rawshark is from the Watchmen (the best graphic novel ever).
I also keep thinking that myiq’s handle is Mr. Mxyzptlk (from Superman).
And in the interest of full disclosure, I actually write all the comments here, I just let you think you do.
myiq2xu
I was in Munich twice, once for a Led Zepplin concert and once for the Oktoberfest. For a beer drinker, Oktoberfest is like the holy land. Giant tents big enough to play football (or futbol) inside, filled with long wooden tables and wooden benches, packed with people drinking from 1 liter mugs of beer.
The magic words to know in Deutch: “Fraulein! Bier bitte!”
ux2qiym
Nope, I ain’t gonna vanish.
jcricket
Dude, we don’t hand out certificates, we actually force the gay marriage and abortion on people, even the men. You will also not get a copy of the manifesto, but will instead have to recite it by memory as part of your citizen oath.
We do have nice jumpsuits for everyone.
myiq2xu
Is marijuana still mandatory or is it optional now?
jenniebee
Oh, no hun. Ahm frum Vahjinya, by the Grace of God.
And just so you know, we totally have the Coolest Senator of the Year competition locked up this year. Yay us!
Jen
Well, you can beat Liddy Dole and Richard Burr with both hands tied behind your back…it’s still weird to me that we actually elected Edwards at one point.
tBone
With matching headscarves, I presume.
Dreggas
I’m still waiting for Battle Of The Quadripalegics and Clash Of The Quadruple Amputees. Then we really will know we have bottomed out…
myiq2xu
I watched part of “The Biggest Loser” last night but I didn’t see Jonah Goldberg anywhere. Plenty of other fatties though.
MNPundit
My point is, that even before I knew what it was, something genetic in me responded to anime type art style. I actually rather enjoyed Princess Nine, but that was a while ago. My tastes swing far more toward 12 Kingdoms than Go. Twin Spica does sound pretty interesting though I think I am going to check it out.
Thanks!
rawshark
The Yamato was the original Japanese battleship. The Argo is the space battleship.
jcricket
Mandatory. Since we outlawed religion we had to get a new “opiate” for the masses.
Think of it as a modern burka. We’re just being respectful to our evil Islamofascist overlords that took over once there was a void in the Christian “Missle Shield” protecting our nation from harm.
myiq2xu
I wish the cnetral committee would make it optional. It’s hard to find the really good stuff and prices are way too high.
But that’s probably the idea.
Pb
Jen, cleek, etc.,
Eww, Cary! (I’m in Durham. :))
jcricket
Not since we nationalized (or “re-patriated” as the proper term goes) the marijuana industry. It’s now the nations #3 employer (behind Brawndo and Costco)
Jen
Hi, PB. I used to live in Durham, one of the bluest dots in a red state. Good times. I sure hope that doesn’t make PaulL descend.
Pb
Jen,
Yeah, but not so blue that we can’t still mock Chapel Hill for being bluer… dirty hippies! :)
Jen
That place, they should put a fence around that place and call it a zoo.
Darkness
And then sell tickets!
Oh, but wait, that’d be capitalist, then it’d be red…
Jen
It’s a Jesse Helms reference. I do hope I have established my NC “state cred” by now.
TenguPhule
Combat Butler Hayate, Anne.
Get your Parody on!
TenguPhule
You are *WEAK* in the Geek.
Space Battleship Yamato was the original same of the series before the dub to Starblazers.
binzinerator
And it didn’t basically suck with writers?
Of course, Ultraman didn’t suck.
And besides, Fuji was hot.
“And using the Beta Capsule…Hayata becomes….Ultraman!“