Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Bark louder, little dog.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Trump should be leading, not lying.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Our messy unity will be our strength.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

When I was faster i was always behind.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

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  1. 1.

    Joshua Norton

    Oh, but there’s more. Type Internet Aware Traditions into teh Google and let the good times roll.

  4. 4.

    HumboldtBlue

    Is the traditional internet now threatened because of non-traditional use of the internets by (shhh) teh gays?!!!

    My particular favorite internet tradition is hanging tinsel from my dick when I read right wing sites because the tin foil hat really fits well.

    Also, the internet lights are absolutely beautiful this time of year and just yesterday, I finished my traditional internets wish list for gifts people are going to buy me on internetmas.

    What are your favorite internet traditions?

  6. 6.

    Emma Anne

    Spock was so cute with his eye shadow. Who’s that supposed to be two below him?

  10. 10.

    Dennis - SGMM

    Shit. When I started on the Internet we had to carry the packets through the snow and only the shamans knew how to grep.

  14. 14.

    AkaDad

    My personal tradition is listening to different music for each blog that I read. For instance, when I read some right wing blogs, I listen to Dueling Banjos.

  15. 15.

    John Cole

    I hope one of you with video editing skills handles the the update to this post.

    What do you listen to when you come here, AKADAD?

  17. 17.

    Zifnab

    ok… first shot

    Win.

    Being here. Watching this happen. It’s like watching a beautiful, snarky baby being born. Le sniff.

    heh. Indeed.

  20. 20.

    Brian

    My email to you bounced. I have done up some lolz about politics and internet traditions but I have no website to put them on. How can I get them to you?

  21. 21.

    Gus

    Nice, cleek. No one can beat the LOLCat, though. That cat brings the cute as well as the snark. Brilliant.

  22. 22.

    AkaDad

    What do you listen to when you come here, AKADAD?

    Heavy Metal

    Because most of you rock my world, and the rest of you make me bang my head.

  24. 24.

    OriGuy

    When I started on the Internet we had to carry the packets through the snow

    You didn’t use carrier pigeons?

    RFC1149, A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
    This memo describes an experimental method for the encapsulation of IP datagrams in avian carriers. This specification is primarilly useful in Metropolitan Area Networks. This is an experimental, not recommended standard.

  36. 36.

    HumboldtBlue

    Oh Cleek I laughed so loud and hard the cat got scared and scratched me. That’s fucking brilliant.

    Merry Internetmas, Cleek is the InterSanta.

  38. 38.

    HumboldtBlue

    DFD Says:

    Has anyone asked Ted Stevens to comment? Someone needs to do a pic with the Tubeman.

    I saw one and now can’t recall who had it … C&L …. Trex … Instaputz … shit can’t recall …

    And this thread will live forever in the hearts of the true internet traditionalists.

  39. 39.

    DFD

    Sonny, I remember when I telecommuted to school with a 2400 baud modem and played Trade Wars by candle light!

  42. 42.

    slag

    cleek Says:

    it should go without saying that Chuck Norris is aware of all internet traditions.

    Yes. But does Mr. T pity the fool who is not aware of all internet traditions?

  44. 44.

    jake

    It’s Tradition!

    Who must raise the family and run the home,
    So Papa’s free to read the dirty books?

    Tradition!

  47. 47.

    Gus

    If this clown had any shame, he’d never darken the intertubes again. Sigh, I can always dream.

  51. 51.

    nightjar

    jake Says:

    Could someone please do something with this?

    I’ve had the fucking song stuck in my head since the first post

    Here ya go Jake. Maybe this’ll work.

  52. 52.

    Rome Again

    slag Says:

    This one’s for you.

    Slag, I LOVE that NeObama (#1) WOW!

    ;)

    I can’t believe, I finally find the opportunity to show off some graphics skills and I’m WITHOUT a graphics program on a new computer JEEEEZ!

    I’ll catch the next idiot I guess, there’s gotta be more where this one came from.

  54. 54.

    RoonieRoo

    I remember when I telecommuted to school with a 2400 baud modem and played Trade Wars by candle light!

    Luxury! We ‘ad to go down into mine to dig out the ore with our bare ‘ands and smelt it into the copper wire that we wove into patch cables to connect the tubes we made out of broken glass that we dug out of trash ‘eaps so we could play Space War using an old Smith-Corona typewriter as a ‘ardcopy terminal!

    Candlelight…hmph!

  56. 56.

    DFD

    I remember my first LAN was a complicated series of empty Manwich cans and packing twine.

  62. 62.

    gbear

    Tradition, Tradition! Tradition!
    Tradition, Tradition! Tradition!

    Who, day and night, must scramble for some meaning,
    Feed the unwashed masses, say his daily peace?
    And who has the right, as master of the nets,
    To have the final comment plz?

    Internet, Internet! Tradition!
    Internet, Internet! Tradition!

  67. 67.

    Punchy

    Coming up with something snarky w/r/t these in7ern3t tradishans is just a bitch pain in the ass.

  76. 76.

    rob!

    Mr. Nobody

    wow, i’ve never been to Riverdaughter…that is some big time, it’s-all-about-me craziness they got goin’ on over there.

  79. 79.

    John S.

    rob!-

    Did you see our favorite lunatic p.luk being quoted over there (with commendation)?

    plukasiak, on June 17th, 2008 at 1:34 pm Said:
    off topic, but…
    Just got mail from the Obama campaign. So I wrote a check for $100, tore it in half, and am sending it along with this message…

    Dear Senator Obama
    On behalf of my friends in Florida, please find half a check for $100. Since your campaign saiid their votes should only count as half votes, I figure you’ll know what to do with half a check.
    But, in case you need a hint – the RBC corruptly ensured your nomination while violating the DNC charter “sunshine” povisiions for meetings. In that spirit, you can take my half-check, and put it ‘where the sun don’t shine’.

    This is a person who has simply snapped. Sad, really.

  82. 82.

    John Cole

    Lukasiak has always been kind of nuts, and was definitely always a dick. He is actually one of about 5 people who have been banned here since 2002. I let him back, but I banned him for a few weeks.

  85. 85.

    GrandCamel

    I just stopped by to say that this is a brilliant new meme and I really hope it takes off.

  88. 88.

    rawshark

    Best I could do was use the line in a comment on a non political blog. Sorry. I doubt if anyone there will even know what it means.

  96. 96.

    Conservatively Liberal

    Didn’t someone recommend a yoda submission? I can’t find that comment now.

    Well here’s to you, missing commenter.

    Yup, and now you have Yoda giving out the sage advice for all to heed. ;)

    Kewl!

  98. 98.

    SGEW

    Wow. Internet meme travel fast.

    It’s like watching your baby get sick from some nasty virus, and then seeing your neighbors drop dead in their driveway the next day.

    Fun.

  100. 100.

    Warren Terra

    Y’know, the rickrolling was clever the first time, and who could have guessed it would only get more clever the next two times? Thanks for playing, Chet Scoville and Richard Paul.

    I think my favorite so far is the church notice board, from Cleek early on. Wasabi Gasp’s silkscreen is also pretty good.

  102. 102.

    MR Bill

    My own “contribution”:

    Je suis AWARE de toutes traditions de l’Internet

    (Context for anglophones: Jean-Claude Van Damme: Aware. It… defies explanation, and may not be able to cross the language barrier. But hey, we’re talkin’ ALL Internet traditions…)

    Was that Van Damme or Earnest P. Worrell?

  104. 104.

    b. hussein canuckistani

    We ‘ad to go down into mine to dig out the ore with our bare ‘ands and smelt it into the copper wire that we wove into patch cables to connect the tubes we made out of broken glass that we dug out of trash ‘eaps so we could play Space War using an old Smith-Corona typewriter as a ‘ardcopy terminal!

    Candlelight…hmph!

    I kept a 68000 motherboard in a shoebox in the middle of the road.

  106. 106.

    Gus

    Does anyone know if that “vanderleun” is Gerard Van der Leun?

    I assumed it was, but I guess you can’t be sure. Anything that takes that pompous prick down a peg makes me happy.

  107. 107.

    Dennis - SGMM

    Lukasiak has always been kind of nuts, and was definitely always a dick. He is actually one of about 5 people who have been banned here since 2002. I let him back, but I banned him for a few weeks.

    Yes, but he’s become a god to those whose monitors are adrip with spittle.

  108. 108.

    Grand Moff Texan

    Since your campaign saiid their votes should only count as half votes, I figure you’ll know what to do with half a check.
    But, in case you need a hint – the RBC corruptly ensured your nomination while violating the DNC charter “sunshine” povisiions for meetings.

    Behold, the trembling fingers of a drama queen.

    Lukasiak made more sense when he was arguing for police powers to torture people with tasers.
    .

  117. 117.

    The Other Steve

    OT: this s awsm. Big John!

    I think it’s considered cool down in Texas.

  120. 120.

    libarbarian

    I am not aware of all internet traditions.

    Can anyone point to me to the appropriate reference material so I can catch up?

  122. 122.

    greynoldsct00

    Can anyone point to me to the appropriate reference material so I can catch up?

    Go back to John’s post yesterday from 1101A titled as such and happy reading! :)

  124. 124.

    Damned at Random

    The only internet traditions are rum, sodomy and the lash- no, wait, that’s the British navy.

    The only internet traditions are Cheetos, misogyny and snark.

  128. 128.

    Paul Weimer

    How does it look written in Latin?

    Cognosco omnes mores interretiales.

    Darn. I’m at work, or I’d whip up one now. I think we need Gaius Julius Ceasar or M.T. Cicero saying that…

  129. 129.

    USJogger

    I couldn’t resist piling on. My thing is fake album covers from fictional bands. (There was a meme going around at the beginning of this year, and it got stuck in my brain.)

  134. 134.

    Nombrilisme Vide

    MR Bill:

    Was that Van Damme or Earnest P. Worrell?

    That was Van Damme. That was so, so, SO very Van Damme. The linked interview has a certain cult status in France, to the point that when I lived there, I saw a network television announcement for their airing of one of his films manage to work the word “aware” into their narrative description around 10 times in 20-30 seconds.

  136. 136.

    Jill

    This is without a doubt the most fun it’s possible to have that doesn’t involve cooking dinner afterwards. I’m laughing my ass of, marveling at how quickly this thing has taken off, and yes, a wee bit of feeling sorry for the poor bastard who inadvertently started it.

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