Written upon learning that Althouse’s entire archives had not yet been restored by google.
BTW, my hangover this morning was the equivalent of the black plague.
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Written upon learning that Althouse’s entire archives had not yet been restored by google.
BTW, my hangover this morning was the equivalent of the black plague.
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[…] I’d like to note that were this site to lose its archives it would merely be the equivalent of the lost footage from The Magnificent Ambersons. Or the outtakes from Andrew Ridgley’s solo album, I forget which. Share and […]
Mark S.
Does this mean we’re in for a 500 year Dark Age?
fhtagn
Well, my bacon wasn’t perfectly crispy this morning, which is clearly equivalent to the sack of Rome, the re-election of Dubya, and Chernobyl rolled into one.
dmsilev
I stubbed my toe yesterday. It was like Hiroshima and Nagasaki rolled up into one.
Mark S.
Oh, and turn off the Internets, no one’s ever gonna top that one.
jeff
I hope she sues and gets back every dime she ever paid them.
JoshA
“Iranian twitter activity similar to what we did in House last year when Republicans were shut down in the House.” Rep. Pete Hoekstra
fasteddie9318
I tried to eat our last Reese’s peanut butter egg today but found out that my daughter had gotten to it first, which was EXACTLY LIKE THE SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA except that some of those people survived, so this was worse.
Villago Delenda Est
Oh, so Google is the equivalent, now, of rampaging religious nutcases burning “pagan” books?
dmsilev
Sooo…. We are to understand Google as a mob of fanatical Christians egged on by their hierarchy to destroy Ann Althouse, who represents generations of knowledge accumulated by pagans.
Disproprtionality aside, is that *really* the analogy they want to use for themselves.
fhtagn
@Mark S.:
No, the Dark Age begins when Althouse forgets to pay the electricity bill and tries to blame Obama for stealing her light-bulbs.
Villago Delenda Est
@jeff:
OK, I think this thread has been won.
amorphous
The greatest tragedy the world has seen since they began airing “The Real Housewives of _______” franchise.
fasteddie9318
@jeff: If you have a strong stomach, go over there and read her comment addressing this very point. It’s not really free, apparently, because Google tries to make money on her content, or something, plus she paid money to somebody other than Google for her site meter and, um, it’s just not so shut up. The fact that she’s never paid Google a dime for the thing she’s now complaining about doesn’t seem to matter.
Baron Jrod of Keeblershire
You’re all being too hard on Roger J. I mean, he concedes that the loss of Althouse’s archives might not lead to a collapse of civilization followed by centuries of barbarism.
If only we all could be so optimistic!
fasteddie9318
But FEAR NOT! Ann has her own archive of all her precious material, so her important work of getting blitzed on box wine and smearing her own shit all over the internet will not be lost! COURAGE, MY FRIENDS!
Ron
I burned some of the bread crumbs on the catfish I cooked tonight. It’s clearly equivalent to the Great Chicago Fire.
piratedan
c’mon now people, at least this isn’t the equivalent of the Starland Vocal Band winning a Grammy now, is it?
flukebucket
I saw “Professor” and was afraid this was going to be just another praise and worship service for Newt.
M. Bouffant
No, the Dark Age begins when
AlthouseMeade forgets to pay the electricity bill and tries to blame Obama for stealing her light-bulbs.Someone has to say it: BLOGGER™ HOLOCAUST-leventy-two1!1
srv
I do have a question about all this though. Didn’t those post-Patriot Act laws require retention periods for all emails – something like 6 months?
If they can’t recover your emails, that would imply one of two things:
1) they’re not really meeting retension requirements
2) they won’t do as much work for you as they might for a NSL.
cathyx
my hangover this morning was the equivalent of the black plague.
Keith G
Yesterday at a resale shop I bought The Sopranos 2nd Season box. Just finished episode 4. Awesome stuff.
cathyx
@cathyx: Edit won’t let me fix my blockquotes. Ugh!
fhtagn
@cathyx:
You see, Google really is watching your every move. If you’d been a better person, edit would have been merciful. Now, say five Hail Googles and whip yourself severely.
M. Bouffant
@fasteddie9318:
Jeeze. $10.00/yr. for Sitemeter (so she can see your whole IP Address) & Google makes money on the ads she makes money on.
Crap, I had to pay Google US$5.00/yr. for extra storage (20GB) cuz I post many large pix on my crummy web log. That sounds like five bucks more than she’s ever paid for her three zillion posts & infinite comments, & you haven’t heard me whining about the stupid & entirely their fault outage.
Jerry
BTW, my hangover this morning was the equivalent of the black plague.
I call it: “alcohol induced concussion”
jeff
@fasteddie9318:
So it is Blogger that is the leech off the awesomeness of La Franzia. Even better.
cathyx
@fhtagn: Yes, we were discussing this morning how the ads we see here are strangely related to what we’ve been shopping for on the tubes.
hhex65
@Keith G: which is equivalent to discovering the Lascaux cave paintings…although things don’t always work out in New Jersey.
fhtagn
@cathyx:
Of course, there is the heretical sect that says that learning how to use tags would evade the edit demon…but I tend to discount such things as going against Googleian Omniscience.
Baron Jrod of Keeblershire
Guys! Guys! I just tried to watch a YouTube video, but the stream was too slow! Do you think I’ve been added to Google’s blacklist?
Oh God. Oh God. What do I do? Oh shit. I need to flee the country. Can anyone get me a new SSN, a passport, and a plane ticket to Costa Rica?
fhtagn
@cathyx:
Well, I haven’t recently purchased or even shopped for any comely wenches in a state of relatively minimal attire, much less solar panels, more’s the pity.
SFAW
That’s Ave Googlea, you heathen.
cathyx
@fhtagn: I’m seeing political ads and Amazon.com ads. Guilty as charged.
Citizen_X
CURLIE LITEBULBS AR SLAVERY. WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!
scav
@cathyx: Wait a minute, you can buy comely solar-powered wenches at Amazon now? Amazones(C) by any chance?
fhtagn
@SFAW:
Listen, my child. I know Cardinal Nitecruzr extremely well, and if you don’t stop trying to make good Americans speak Latin, which is what they all talk down in Mexico, I can’t answer for the consequences.
And that’s ten Hail Googles to you for spiritual pride as well as three days in the cilice.
master c
This.
master c
master c
I suck. cant link
Nutella
That whole thread is great. One commenter noted ominously that Althouse must deal with
Hee.
David Brooks (not that one) is a richardhead.
I for one would like to contribute to the expenses of the defamation suit to be brought by nitecruzr, the Google employee she accused of dirty tricks.
scav
@Nutella: Hell, I didn’t think existential threats could be handled by thumb drive backups outside The Forest of the Dead.
lamh34
Alright, this is soo OT, but I can’t wait for an open thread, I need to share my pleasure with the world…lol.
I’m a big Adele fan, and I was told to listen to this John Legend cover of Adele’s song “Rolling in the Deep” and damn, I gotta say thank you to the person who suggested this. I gotta cop this on Itunes. Can anyone else say DUET!!!! Make it happen music Gods!!!!
Get ready for an ear-gasm.
John Legend – “ROLLING IN THE DEEP” cover!!!
I’m a soul girl by heart, which is probably why I like Adele so much…I consider her a blue-eyed soul singer and I do love me some John Legend, so cover while not better than the orginal, was sex for my ears..lol.
now I know some of ya’ll aint’ into the soul music, but for those who are, then I’m sure ya’ll will like this cover as much as I do…
Jewish Steel
Google banned me for using the c-word.
Edit:Over and back Chris Bosh! Suck it!
SFAW
fhtagn –
Forgive me Father, for I have sinned.
scav
@Jewish Steel: Show me on the doll where Google banned you.
brad
I remember a day this winter when it was cold out and I needed to go get groceries, which was IDENTICAL to the siege of Leningrad.
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
@lamh34: Holy crap. That’s amazing. Wowie zowie.
And having said that — even with the goosebumps I’m currently getting — Adele is still better. Which is quite saying something, actually.
fhtagn
@brad:
Oh come on, just because you were surrounded by Russian snipers with the entire Wehrmacht bearing down on you, that’s no reason to exaggerate!
Mr Stagger Lee
To the Seattle Sonics fans, Oklahoma City’s win and into the NBA Western Conference finals is equivalent to the Germans entering Paris.
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
And I must say – the person who left the comment re: Althouse was clearly taking the piss. “Things almost always work out”? Taking the piss. The Mickey. The pissing Michael, if you will.
Just sayin’.
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
@lamh34: It must be noted that Michael Posner’s version doesn’t quite reach the same heights….
TooManyJens
@scav: FTMFW.
fhtagn
@Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther:
In the land of the wingnut, the one-brain-celled man is king.
Jewish Steel
@scav: Ok. First turn off safe-search.
OMER ASIK with the flush!
bk
I have to believe that Roger J. was doing a little snark there.
lamh34
@Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther: Duly Noted…and the court agrees…lol
Barb (formerly Gex)
@M. Bouffant: You are not a Galtian Overlord whose missing work would be a loss to all of humanity. AA obviously is. By the way, maybe the initials should be a hint to Drunkie McVblogger.
@jeff: Using conservative argumentation – it is entirely possible Google did not go public until they had Althouse on blogger. I can’t be bothered to check, so let’s just assume that’s true.
David Brooks (not that one) is a richardhead.
@Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther: Translating from British to USAian: this is clearly snark. And now they are going to make fun of us for taking it seriously.
Barb (formerly Gex)
@Mr Stagger Lee: I thought we were doing hyperbole. Didn’t you get the memo?
MikeJ
@Mr Stagger Lee: Have you asked him if it really is?
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
@David Brooks (not that one) is a richardhead.: Indeed.
Tim F.
Perhaps the best moment of Hoekstroika ever.
billgerat
@Mr Stagger Lee:
the Oklahoma City team is dead to us Sonic fans.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@brad: Not quite identical to the Siege of Leningrad. I’d say it was identical when you were OUT of groceries. When you went out and bought groceries, it would have been identical to the RELIEF of Leningrad.
ETA: I really should read more carefully, since you said it was like the Siege when you needed to get groceries, which meant you were out of groceries, but hadn’t yet bought them, which means my whole comment is invalid.
Have I passed my Republican speechwriting test yet?
gwangung
@Mr Stagger Lee: Fuck Clay Bennett. With a rusty pitchfork.
Svensker
@lamh34:
Hot damn.
Yutsano
@gwangung: I wouldn’t even bother with either the farm implement or the sodomy. I’d much rather go for a vegetable peeler and lemon juice. And even that is a waste of good lemons.
suzanne
I’m missing some of the story. Set me straight. Blogger goes down, Althouse’s mental diarrhea goes down with it, so she decided that Google has a vendetta against her?
WTfuckingF?
cbear
When I went to leave the house this morning I discovered my car keys were missing—just like the Lindbergh baby.
patroclus
A 2-litre Dr. Pepper bottle exploded on me the other day and I swear it was the exact metaphysical equivalent of the British massacre at Amritsar!
Lawnguylander
Conservapedia is the Irish monesterys of “Liberal Facism, from Edward R. Murrow to b/tards.”
Mark B
My cat got upset at me when she was playing and scratched my hand. It was the worst betrayal of trust since Judas turned over Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.
gogol's wife
Why are you all keeping me from going to bed by inventing these great Hoekstroikas?
patroclus
That was almost as bad as the time some driver cut in front of me real quickly – when it happened, I was precisely reminded of the near-identical circumstances of the Rape of Nanking!
Mark B
I just finished Portal 2, and although I thought the Jonathan Coulton song at the end was pretty good, IMO it wasn’t quite as good as the one that finished up the first installment. I feel like I was just raped.
cbear
@Mark B: Oh yeah, well my cat just took a dump outside of the litterbox and now I’m faced with a toxic disaster that rivals Chernobyl.
fhtagn
@cbear:
Objection! Chernobyl has already been invoked. Find a disaster of your own for your feline to exploit.
Mark B
My next door neighbor has a similar last name to mine and often gets my mail. It’s a conspiracy by government agents to enable identity theft!
fasteddie9318
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
THE LIBRARY. OF. FUCKING. CONGRESS.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Mark B
Last year, raccoons invaded my koi pond and killed several fish. It was the worst extinction event since a comet hit the Yucatan 65 million years ago and ended the reign of the dinosaurs.
JPK
My cat pooped outside his litterbox so I changed the litter. Then he pooped outside the litterbox again. Now I know how the people in Nagasaki felt.
fasteddie9318
Damn, my chair has really worn out of padding. My ass is so sore that I now know exactly what the people of Dresden felt like when their city was being firebombed.
Mark B
Due to a defective dryer sheet, my bedclothes now have static cling. Now I know how the test tower at the Trinity site must have felt.
cbear
@fhtagn: I did not see that, but that’s only because I was blinded by the chemical fumes released from the catshit which is exactly the same thing that happened to a lot of those poor bastards in the Bhopal disaster.
Mark B
Dammit, I should have compared static cling to being executed in Old Sparky. That would have worked even better.
cbear
@Mark B:
Bullshitter. That incident only just barely rises to the level of the Rape of Nanking.
fhtagn
Listen, you whining moochers, I forgot to put sugar in my coffee, and that was the worst disaster humanity has faced since David Brooks discovered that sex could be a team game.
Mark B
Well, at least no one here has compared cutting themselves while shaving to the Holocaust. That would be tasteless.
Sarah Proud and Tall
@fhtagn:
There’s no need for that kind of language.
fhtagn
@Sarah Proud and Tall:
Help! I am being repressed!
Sarah Proud and Tall
@fhtagn:
Bloody peasant.
Mark B
I think that touting the above comment as the greatest internet comment ever is the most inappropriate award since Marlon Brando sent that cute Indian squaw to pick up his Oscar. Everyone knows that the greatest comment ever is “I am aware of all Internet traditions.” Roger J’s comment is good, and maybe even a classic, but it’s not even a first ballot hall of famer. Best comment ever, my ass!
fhtagn
@Sarah Proud and Tall:
Oh what a give-away!
Caz
“Black plague?” Sounds a little racist to me. Why do you have to refer to it as the “black” plague? Can’t you use another non-racist term for it? What are you, a conservative?
Ripley
The bemused irritation I felt upon reading comment #96 is exactly like that apocalyptic day in November 2000 when a corrupt judicial body installed a dimwitted sociopath to this country’s highest political office and destroyed us all.
Dr. Wu
A better analogy would be the cleaning of the Augean stables.
Michael D.
My bus was late this morning. I do not know what this equates to, but I don’t like Ann Althouse.
JohnR
“..the equivalent of the black plague.”
These false equivalencies will be the death of us! Hangovers have been scientifically tested (assuming that you understand this to mean ‘experienced by scientists’) to have equivalencies ranging from “Torquemada’s best efforts” to “In the belly of the Sarlacc”. Certainly the Black Plague would fall somewhere in between those extremes, even distinguishing between bubonic and pneumonic plague.
If we’re going to go the ‘wildly exaggerated’ route so favored by blog commentors, let’s pull up our socks here, eh?
Ghanima Atreides
UPDATE:
Almost 400 comments.
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This reminds me of what Julian Sanchez said about ressentiment….conservatism has become an inferiority complex masquerading as a political philosophy.
The Wingularity is Near.
Comrade Darkness
I’m pretty sure being a hubris-filled asshole one of the seven deadly sins.
I wish these bitches would just try to follow their own religion. Lame forever and always.