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More Classics

by WaterGirl|  January 5, 20227:00 pm| 190 Comments

This post is in: Anniversary Week, Balloon Juice, Open Threads

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Painting of Steve by Avalune!

What a handsome boy!

I let you know on Sunday that we would  be rolling out links to some of the classic posts over the course of the week.

We’ll be naked mopping, losing the mustard, skull-fucking kittens, dining on tire rims and anthrax, faxing credenzas, reaching peak wing nut… Oh wait, that last one didn’t turn out as expected.

Well, here’s the next installment.

Tire Rims and Anthrax
Skull-fucking A Kitten
Faxing Credenzas / The Helicopters Are Laughing
Faxing Credenzas Explained

Peak Wingnut
Peak Wingnut by John Cole
Peak Cole by Tim F.

The Subaru Saga
Another Day In Paradise
Still In The Field
Please Get My Fucking Subaru Out of the Field

And I’ll look up first posts for another 10 BJ peeps, first come, first served!

Open thread.

 

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190Comments

  1. 1.

    guachi

    January 5, 2022 at 7:02 pm

    Me, please. I’m interested in how long it took me to finally comment. And if my comment wasn’t embarrassing.

  2. 2.

    Baud

    January 5, 2022 at 7:04 pm

    I didn’t realize skull fuck was a mock Rudyism.

  3. 3.

    JPL

    January 5, 2022 at 7:04 pm

    I’ve been on grandma duty, so if you have already researched mine, just let me know.   jl, JL with same email.

    thanks

  4. 4.

    mali muso

    January 5, 2022 at 7:05 pm

    Me please? I’m curious. ?

  5. 5.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 7:07 pm

    There are some great comments in the skull fuck a kitten thread.  It was 2007 and Cole was already tired of the election cycle.  I wish this commenter would come back, so much to love in this comment.

    Dreggas

    BTW if this is all it takes to get the gooper nomination I hereby declare that not only am i unopposed to knifing people in the thigh but I will also participate in a raucous round of seal clubbing after which I will skull fuck 5 kittens in a row to celebrate while biting the heads off of smalle furry forest creatures and bathing in their blood.

    I however promise I will not be caught harrassing young men on the internet, tapping my foot in a restroom or getting my meth on while getting a “massage”.

  6. 6.

    JPL

    January 5, 2022 at 7:09 pm

    @WaterGirl: Red Kitten’s children must be in their teens by, and that absolutely blows my mind.

  7. 7.

    guachi

    January 5, 2022 at 7:11 pm

    I don’t expect my first comment to be that good. I consider myself a “not valued commenter”, though I did have one comment so good that some regular said it should be a rotating tag. I appreciated that.

  8. 8.

    debbie

    January 5, 2022 at 7:12 pm

    I just found comments from me after the 2016 election. I don’t want to see any more!

  9. 9.

    Phylllis

    January 5, 2022 at 7:12 pm

    I’d like to know. Same nym & email.

  10. 10.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 7:13 pm

    @Baud: I didn’t either!  14 or 15 years later and Rudy just won’t go away.  well, actually, i haven’t heard a peep out of him lately.  Hmm.  It would be irresponsible not to speculate.

  11. 11.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 7:14 pm

    @guachi: Okay, checking on yours now.  Same email, I presume?

  12. 12.

    Edmund Dantes

    January 5, 2022 at 7:15 pm

    I’ll take my first post if the 10 spot is still open.

     

    email is same

  13. 13.

    Roger Moore

    January 5, 2022 at 7:15 pm

    I would love to see my first comment on Balloon-Juice.

  14. 14.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 7:16 pm

    @debbie: Were you ready to slit your wrists?

  15. 15.

    Baud

    January 5, 2022 at 7:18 pm

    @WaterGirl: 

    Yes, he been strangely quiet.

  16. 16.

    debbie

    January 5, 2022 at 7:18 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Close; I was seared by my own stridency.

  17. 17.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 7:20 pm

    @guachi:

    Unless you changed your email address at some point, your first comment was Feb 2, 2011.

    On a DougJ post announcing that Open Left is closing.

    I’ll just echo Console – Bowers was the only one on Openleft I liked to read, so I stopped making it a daily pitstop. A multi-person blog really needs consistent quality as I don’t really want to have to religiously scan the author before reading a post.

  18. 18.

    debbie

    January 5, 2022 at 7:21 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Rudy’s probably still recovering from the Mar-a-Lago NYE bash.

  19. 19.

    Roger Moore

    January 5, 2022 at 7:21 pm

    @Baud:

    Yes, he been strangely quiet.

    Maybe he’s smart enough to listen to his lawyer.  Oh, who am I kidding.  It’s far more likely that he’s trying to pitch a fit, but nobody will give him a platform.

  20. 20.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 7:21 pm

    @Baud: I’ll take that as a good sign for our side and a bad sign for Rudy.

  21. 21.

    piratedan

    January 5, 2022 at 7:23 pm

    checking in on my first post request….

    if you would be so kind to fax it to my credenza, with a credenza or even credenzaless….

  22. 22.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 7:24 pm

    i just read the first of the Subaru posts.  John really does tell a great story.

  23. 23.

    2liberal

    January 5, 2022 at 7:26 pm

    first post for 2liberal please, same email i believe.

  24. 24.

    Edmund Dantes

    January 5, 2022 at 7:26 pm

    The Subaru saga was an all time great.

    I think my other favorite is the story of Lilly and the broken shoulder (?). He was carrying her and fell? I forget it’s been so long.

  25. 25.

    debbie

    January 5, 2022 at 7:27 pm

    When your lack of sheepdog experience is cruelly exposed on your first day at work. pic.twitter.com/pDksvtu3Of— Paul Bronks for Lovina Animal Welfare (@slender_sherbet) January 5, 2022

  26. 26.

    guachi

    January 5, 2022 at 7:29 pm

    @WaterGirl: Ha!

    A post that is still true today and applies to Balloon-Juice. When all the front pagers are good I just start reading and then guess who the author is. Which is easy here as they all have a definite style.

    Feb 11, 2011? I’d been reading BJ regularly for probably four years by that point.

  27. 27.

    evap

    January 5, 2022 at 7:29 pm

    My first post, please :)   or am I too late?

  28. 28.

    dexwood

    January 5, 2022 at 7:31 pm

    Now It Can Be Told / Faxing Credenzas was my introduction to Balloon Juice. Oh, man, I was hooked.

  29. 29.

    evap

    January 5, 2022 at 7:31 pm

    I have used the “tire rims and anthrax” story many times.  This may be my all-time favorite post!

  30. 30.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 7:35 pm

    @debbie:

    I think you need a palate cleanser.  Your first comment was Feb 5, 2009 on John Cole’s post Obama Fiddled While These People Starved.  Always helping!

    Also, if you itemize deductions, you can include medical expenses. For many people without insurance, that can be a substantial amount.

    The next was May 21, 2009 on Good news for Mitt Romney.  You replied to a question from Joanne:

    Is Andrew the kid who was mugging when his father was making a speech a long while ago? Rudy was married to Donna Hanover at the time. He was an obnoxious kid then and if he’s the one I remember, it looks he didn’t grow out of it.

    Your reply:

    Yes, it was during his father’s inauguration speech as Mayor. Even better was the SNL take-off with Chris Farley playing Andrew.

    So you can stop cringing about that other comment now. :-)

  31. 31.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 7:36 pm

    @Edmund Dantes: You don’t have to try to remember, the links are in the post I put up yesterday, which you obviously didn’t read. :-)

  32. 32.

    debbie

    January 5, 2022 at 7:37 pm

    People were wondering about DeathSanti’s disappearance a couple of days ago. Those who had COVID on their Bingo cards, claim your prize!

    Here is a second angle of Ron DeSantis struggling with breathing problems during his event today. The longer this clip goes on, the worse it gets. pic.twitter.com/J9Jr55x8Py
    — MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) January 5, 2022

  33. 33.

    Scout211

    January 5, 2022 at 7:37 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Wow. That was a blast from the past, featuring an “internet protocol” from the way back machine:  Remember when posters demanded they get a “hat tip” for being the first person to post a piece of news that a front pager or any blogger picked up? I always thought that was kind of silly. But it was a thing. And now it’s really not a thing, thank  goodness.

  34. 34.

    debbie

    January 5, 2022 at 7:38 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Bless you! I still remember that skit!

  35. 35.

    Baud

    January 5, 2022 at 7:39 pm

    @Scout211:

    Now we just do “second”!

  36. 36.

    guachi

    January 5, 2022 at 7:40 pm

    Comment #4 on Cole’s Peak Wingnut post. So, so true:

    Dennis – SGMM
    OCTOBER 13, 2008 AT 9:10 PM

    I wouldn’t count them out so soon. Should Obama be elected they will create a cottage industry of tying his every decision to some secret agenda involving Socialism, the Islamofascist hordes or black supremacy.

  37. 37.

    MomSense

    January 5, 2022 at 7:41 pm

    Does anyone else remember the obnoxious commenter who used to correct us about our gun terminology and other shit?  He used to post from some kind of duck tent set up thing while hunting.

  38. 38.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 7:42 pm

    @JPL: I have the RedKitten is having her baby (!) post in the queue for later in the week.

  39. 39.

    Roger Moore

    January 5, 2022 at 7:42 pm

    @guachi:

    IIRC, Cole was admitting he might have been overly optimistic by the end of the thread.  It just goes to show that the old motto for the blog “Consistently wrong since 2002” was thoroughly earned.

  40. 40.

    John Cole

    January 5, 2022 at 7:45 pm

    @MomSense: Darryl

  41. 41.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 7:45 pm

    @JPL:

    Your first comment was on Jan 26, 2009 in a Tim F post called Clinton Post The Third.

    I actually feel the same way as John about the Clinton’s but I can afford to cast my vote in November for none of the above since I live in GA. If I lived in a state such as PA, I would vote for the democratic nominee.

  42. 42.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    January 5, 2022 at 7:45 pm

    Much like the Crazification Factor in terms of never-ending applicability, two things I constantly use from here:

    Cleek’s Law
    Tire Rims and Anthrax

  43. 43.

    The Dangerman

    January 5, 2022 at 7:46 pm

    Sure, me too. Same email (it’s a burner; I have no idea what the password is any longer).

    [email protected]

    I’ll be extremely disappointed if I didn’t drop multiple 4 letter words or maybe a 12 letter one. Cmon, boxcars.

  44. 44.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 7:46 pm

    @comrade scotts agenda of rage: you forgot roasting sparrows under the bridge…

  45. 45.

    Yarrow

    January 5, 2022 at 7:48 pm

    WaterGirl, I don’t know if you’re doing posts with comments from favorite commenters, but this comment from 2017  by efgoldman is still one of my favorites. It’s about his granddaughter turning FOUR. He loved her so much and it’s just palpable in his comment. Excerpt:

    TODAY WE ARE FOUR
    Mommy and Daddy found a place to have the party so Mommy doesn’t have to do it at home. They have games and punch and cupcakes! All my friends said they’d come. The cat has to stay home.

    There’s a lot more if you click through. RIP.

  46. 46.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 7:49 pm

    Okay, The Dangerman at #44 will make 10, which is my limit for one day. :-)

    There will be another chance tomorrow!

  47. 47.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    January 5, 2022 at 7:50 pm

    @Edmund Dantes:

    Covered earlier this week. Look in the sidebar (or at the bottom on the mobile site) under “Classics” for all of the anniversary stuff so far.

  48. 48.

    Baud

    January 5, 2022 at 7:50 pm

    @Yarrow:

    RIP

  49. 49.

    JPL

    January 5, 2022 at 7:50 pm

    @WaterGirl:  Thank you.   Can’t wait for the Red Kitten post.

    early on I did use another email, but that is long gone.

  50. 50.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 7:52 pm

    @Yarrow: Hold on to that link because, yes, nominating favorite COMMENTS over the years is also on the anniversary agenda. :-)

  51. 51.

    Almost Retired

    January 5, 2022 at 7:52 pm

    I wanna know what ultimately happened with “Michael Gass” from the credenza threat.  Did he provide John Cole complete documentation of his multiple he-man law enforcement accomplishments in condensation-proof lamination?  Was he found to be a front-pager trolling for shits and giggles?

    The trolls seemed to be more ubiquitous (and obvious) in these historic threads, although maybe they’re still here and my troll-dar is not very sophisticated.

  52. 52.

    MomSense

    January 5, 2022 at 7:53 pm

    @John Cole:

    Thank you!!

  53. 53.

    cain

    January 5, 2022 at 7:53 pm

    me me! I would love to know – it’s hard to search for my main cuz of McCain. :P

  54. 54.

    JPL

    January 5, 2022 at 7:53 pm

    @Almost Retired: I still think it was Doug and he went on to bigger things.   Now he just torments the NYTimes.

  55. 55.

    Yarrow

    January 5, 2022 at 7:54 pm

    @WaterGirl:  I don’t know if I’ll be around when that thread happens. My schedule, as usual, is extremely chaotic. What I really would like is if someone could find a way to get that comment to his wife, daughter and granddaughter. What a treasure for them that would be.

  56. 56.

    cain

    January 5, 2022 at 7:56 pm

    @Yarrow:

    Damn I must have missed that post – egoldman yelled at me once – lol. I can’t remember someone maybe it was Stuck beat him with a stick.

    Anyways, the cat’s name was Guybrush which is a CLEAR reference to Guybrush Threepwood!

  57. 57.

    MomSense

    January 5, 2022 at 7:56 pm

    @Yarrow:

    ?

    I think about his wife sometimes, too. I remember EF said she watched all the cheesy Christmas movies.  At some point during TFG’s maladministration I felt so overwhelmed with everything T that I started watching them. Made me think of them.

  58. 58.

    cain

    January 5, 2022 at 7:57 pm

    skullfuck a kitten was a popular saying and I remember when John mentioned that if you googled it you get balloon-juice as the only place that it shows up. haha!

  59. 59.

    schrodingers_cat

    January 5, 2022 at 7:57 pm

    I lurked for a longtime before I first commented. I think my first comment was in the post about Tunch and the furminator. Which I immediately bought for my ginger kitteh with copious floof.

  60. 60.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 7:58 pm

    @mali muso:

    Your first comment was on June 20, 2014 in a soccer thread by Randinho Italy v Costa Rica Open Thread!

    (longtime lurker, first time commenter)

    After watching that first surprise Costa Rica win at the home of Tico friends who were ECSTATIC at the results, I have an emotional attachment for the team. But then again, my grandparents were Italian immigrants, so a win by Italy would suit me as well. Really just hoping to see a match that is more exciting than last night’s crapfest between Greece and Japan…

  61. 61.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 7:58 pm

    @piratedan: You’re up next.

  62. 62.

    cain

    January 5, 2022 at 8:00 pm

    BTW the naked mop thing – I thought  remembered different. Didn’t John strip naked to mop the house because it was goddam humid that he was trying to stay cool as well????

  63. 63.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 8:01 pm

    @JPL: The email doesn’t need to be functional in order for me to search on it, if you still know what it was.

  64. 64.

    Another Scott

    January 5, 2022 at 8:01 pm

    I had forgotten about balloon boy and Mr. Gass and his credentials. “Gass” appears 137 times in that thread – he was busy! Now I don’t feel so bad about commenting more than 10 times in a long thread…

    Thanks. :-)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  65. 65.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 8:02 pm

    @Almost Retired: DougJ had a reputation for trolling on Bj under assumed names, but I have no idea.

    Were you here for faxing the credenzas? i haven’t re-read that post yet, but it was hysterical in real time.

  66. 66.

    Mike E

    January 5, 2022 at 8:02 pm

    I really enjoyed the calm, collegial backdrop to the DougJ interview of JGC, where “skullfcuk a kitten” can be casually dropped in conversation with no warning lights going off or circuit breakers tripping. And John kinda reminded me a little bit of Stephen Jay Gould…if he ever worked blue, heh.

  67. 67.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 8:03 pm

    @Yarrow: Best bet on that might be Subaru Diane.  She knew how to get in touch IRL.

  68. 68.

    JPL

    January 5, 2022 at 8:04 pm

    @Another Scott:  If it sounds like Doug, and writes like Doug, it’s Doug.  imo

  69. 69.

    Almost Retired

    January 5, 2022 at 8:04 pm

    @WaterGirl: I wasn’t here then, so I was a “faxing the credenzas” virgin until this afternoon.

  70. 70.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 8:05 pm

    @cain: I believe John said he combined housekeeping with hygiene.

  71. 71.

    JPL

    January 5, 2022 at 8:05 pm

    @WaterGirl:  Thanks, but I don’t remember.   It really doesn’t matter, but this site has given me close to two decades, of laughs.

  72. 72.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 8:05 pm

    @Almost Retired: If it wasn’t funny unless you were there, please don’t tell me, I would be crushed.

    On the other hand, as long as the helicopters aren’t laughing, I guess it’s okay.

  73. 73.

    dkinPa

    January 5, 2022 at 8:07 pm

    Just wanted to say that the painting of Steve is gorgeous!  Also, as someone who came late to this blog, I am enjoying the classics — especially enjoyed the story of how John fell in love with Lily!

  74. 74.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 8:09 pm

    @piratedan:

    Your first comment was on Aug 18, 2010 on a John Cole post called The Clown Princess Tweets.  That’s intriguing, will someone read that post and let me know what it’s about?

    I don’t know which is worse…what she says or the possibility that she actually believes what she says.

  75. 75.

    cain

    January 5, 2022 at 8:09 pm

    So.. have we reached Peak COVID yet? Nope…

  76. 76.

    cain

    January 5, 2022 at 8:10 pm

    @WaterGirl: It must have been a Sarah Palin thing.

  77. 77.

    cain

    January 5, 2022 at 8:11 pm

    @WaterGirl: Yeah, I don’t remember the shower part I guess. I just remember him sweating it out and mopping the floor.

  78. 78.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 8:12 pm

    @dkinPa: I love that painting of Steve, too!

    Your comment reminded me that in today’s post I forgot the notation that the artwork was done by Avalune.  I just remedied that.

    Avalune is so talented!

  79. 79.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    January 5, 2022 at 8:13 pm

    @cain:

    “Naked Mopping” is also under “Classics” in the sidebar (or page bottom on the mobile site).

  80. 80.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 8:15 pm

    Apropos of nothing, I guess, except maybe leopards eating faces…

    Here’s a photo of Tucker’s Christmas present.  He just finished plucking the eyes out and eating the face.  That’s apparently the best part!  :-)

    More Classics 1

  81. 81.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 8:15 pm

    @WaterGirl: I guess he ate a hand, also.

  82. 82.

    Another Scott

    January 5, 2022 at 8:17 pm

    @JPL:  It doesn’t sound like DougJ to me. I wasn’t here, I don’t think, when he was trolling the place, but I do remember him trolling the WP (?) comments and getting some writer there to agree with his astute observation… There’s a slyness to the writing that was missing with Mr. Gass, IMO. (Plus Gass gave names of other places where he posted.)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  83. 83.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 8:19 pm

    @Phylllis:

    Your first comment was on Dec 16, 2016 on an Anne Laurie holiday post called Friday Morning Open Thread: Not Getting Into the Holiday Spirit.

    You were having a back-and-forth conversation with satby.  Bonus points for using the word ruthless in your comment.

    @satby: Oh yeah, this break is for ruthlessly cleaning out dressers and closets.

  84. 84.

    Yarrow

    January 5, 2022 at 8:20 pm

    @cain:

    egoldman yelled at me once

    You got off lucky. He told me I and everyone around me deserved to die.

  85. 85.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 8:20 pm

    Are any of you guys who wanted your first comments still here?

  86. 86.

    Roger Moore

    January 5, 2022 at 8:22 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    I’m still here! I think I’ve used the same email consistently for as long as I’ve been posting.

  87. 87.

    The Dangerman

    January 5, 2022 at 8:22 pm

    @WaterGirl: *raises hand

  88. 88.

    piratedan

    January 5, 2022 at 8:22 pm

    @WaterGirl: aye, it was a Sarah Palin commentary regarding one of her tweets where she illustrated just how ill-equipped she was for any job and emblematic as a harbinger of what the GOP was turning into

     

    and ty!

  89. 89.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 8:24 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    Your first comment was on Oct 30, 2008 in a John Cole post titled Profiles In Douchebaggery.  There was a conversation about The Onion.

    Nah. If you want to see the true genius of the Onion’s predictions, you have to see this classic.

  90. 90.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 8:25 pm

    @The Dangerman: Okay, just got done with Roger Moore’s, you are next.

  91. 91.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 8:25 pm

    @piratedan: Was she the one that wrote notes on her had for a debate?

  92. 92.

    mali muso

    January 5, 2022 at 8:26 pm

    @WaterGirl: Woohoo!  Thanks for blast from the past.  I knew I delurked during a World Cup, but couldn’t remember which one. I think I started lurking somewhere between 2009 and 2010, so it only took me 4 years to get the courage to post. lol

  93. 93.

    Scamp Dog

    January 5, 2022 at 8:27 pm

    @WaterGirl: Ooh, pick me! Same nym and email as I use now.

  94. 94.

    Fair Economist

    January 5, 2022 at 8:27 pm

    @WaterGirl: Oh man, OpenLeft closed almost 11 years ago? I feel old.

  95. 95.

    Phylllis

    January 5, 2022 at 8:27 pm

    @WaterGirl: Well that was…prosaic. I know I had been lurking for ages before that.

  96. 96.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    January 5, 2022 at 8:28 pm

    The “helicopters and credenza” thing (with condensation!) was one of the gnarlier topics I researched for the anniversary. I couldn’t find some specific things that I “knew” were true. I ended up searching for my later explanation from when the topic came up a few years later, although I’m not completely satisfied with that either.

    I’ll just say that it was one of those epochal blog events where people’s memories quickly overtook the reality. You have to pick through several days’ threads to get all of the reverberations.

    I think Omnes accurately likened it to the line from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: “This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”

  97. 97.

    The Dangerman

    January 5, 2022 at 8:30 pm

    I’m actually a bit afraid of my first post as it was during the Obama/Hillary days.

  98. 98.

    UncleEbeneezer

    January 5, 2022 at 8:31 pm

    “Spanish police had a rather unusual start to the year when they were forced to see in 2022 by breaking up a New Year’s Eve orgy that breached local Covid restrictions.

    According to Spanish paper El Mundo, officers discovered more than 50 people getting to know each other rather well at a property in Llica d’Amunt near Barcelona, after two of the invited guests knocked on the door of the wrong house, causing the man living there to raise the alarm and gave the game away.

    People were having sex upstairs in a property and the party was reportedly organised by a group of Americans who allegedly hired prostitutes to attend.”

  99. 99.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 8:31 pm

    @mali muso: 4 years!

  100. 100.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 8:33 pm

    @Scamp Dog: You’re next after The Dangerman because I think you were a request on a different post when I had already reached 10.

  101. 101.

    Roger Moore

    January 5, 2022 at 8:35 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    The link has apparently rotted, but I know which Onion article I was thinking of.

  102. 102.

    cain

    January 5, 2022 at 8:36 pm

    @UncleEbeneezer: This feels like deja-vu – I could have sworn that I heard something similar back in 2021 or even in 2020.

    ETA – yup – https://www.insider.com/spanish-authorities-broke-up-50-person-madrid-orgy-2020-10

    ETA2: the funny part is that it was the same number of people in both cases.

  103. 103.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 8:36 pm

    @The Dangerman: Your first comment was on my birthday, June 13, 2008.  On a John Cole Open Thread.

    Not a Pandora guy, but you can find that track on FineTune.com.

    The Dangerman diggs them FineTunes.

    fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

    Major points for speaking of yourself in the third person!  :-)

    I added the part in italics so you wouldn’t be disappointed at no swear words.

  104. 104.

    guachi

    January 5, 2022 at 8:38 pm

    I’m fascinated by how many comments first comments are about generally mundane things. Just jumping in and adding to the conversation.

  105. 105.

    ThresherK

    January 5, 2022 at 8:38 pm

    I’ve been laughing harder at Please Get My Fucking Subaru Out of the Field than I ought to over something that’s nine years old. The link title alone set me off.

  106. 106.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 8:38 pm

    @UncleEbeneezer:

    officers discovered more than 50 people getting to know each other rather well

    hahaha

  107. 107.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 8:39 pm

    @guachi: When you’re smart, that’s how you do it.  You just ease in with a comment that doesn’t make you feel too vulnerable, and before you know it people know your nym and then you’re maybe a bit looser.

  108. 108.

    Baud

    January 5, 2022 at 8:40 pm

    @guachi:

    I had the same thought.

  109. 109.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    January 5, 2022 at 8:40 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    Ha! I’m glad you remembered.

  110. 110.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 8:41 pm

    @Baud: Maybe I’ll have to look up Baud.

  111. 111.

    Baud

    January 5, 2022 at 8:42 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    I looked up mine a long time ago.  Something about the tea party.

  112. 112.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 8:43 pm

    @Roger Moore: I fixed the link in your “original” comment.

  113. 113.

    Alison Rose

    January 5, 2022 at 8:44 pm

    I’d totally forgotten the Subaru Saga.

  114. 114.

    The Dangerman

    January 5, 2022 at 8:45 pm

    Hmmm. Might have been, um, impaired. Now I gotta go look up the context. Thanks!

  115. 115.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 8:45 pm

    @Scamp Dog:

    Your first comment was on Jan 17, 2010 in a DougJ post called Junkies only.

    Somerby had a few choice words to say on Gail Collin’s vacuous column about the MA Senate race in his Thursday Howler. On Friday he just said he had no idea how the race would turn out.

    It does kind of boggle the mind that someone on the internet doesn’t invent an instant opinion on the spot–most of us would be ready to go on a tear on the topic.

  116. 116.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 8:45 pm

    @The Dangerman: I liked it.  Thought it was fun.

  117. 117.

    2liberal

    January 5, 2022 at 8:47 pm

    watergirl, I think you passed over my request for my first post at #23

  118. 118.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 8:48 pm

    i am reading the middle Subaru post now.  i know i said this earlier but Cole is such a great story-teller.

    edit: holy fuck, i forgot how serious the accident was.  but the beginning and the end of the post are both still funny.

  119. 119.

    Argiope

    January 5, 2022 at 8:52 pm

    @WaterGirl: It’s a pack of snarling jackals…probably best to kind of sneak in slowly at the edges, roll over and show a soft underbelly at first to make friends. Pretty sure that’s how I did it.

  120. 120.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 8:54 pm

    @Baud:

    I found your first comment on Oct 28, 2010.  Nothing about the tea part.  You were strong right out of the gate!

  121. 121.

    Argiope

    January 5, 2022 at 8:54 pm

    @WaterGirl: ​
      It’s a pack of snarling jackals…probably best to kind of sneak in slowly at the edges, roll over and show a soft underbelly at first to make friends. Pretty sure that’s how I did it.

  122. 122.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 8:54 pm

    @Argiope: Pretty sure that’s how we all did it, but you phrased it much better than I did!

  123. 123.

    Baud

    January 5, 2022 at 8:55 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Oh.  Hmmm.  Do you have a link?

  124. 124.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 8:56 pm

    @2liberal: I didn’t forget you, it just seemed like maybe people who had asked weren’t still on the thread, so i switched to the people who chimed in to say they were still here.  And then took one person who had asked in an earlier thread this week, but was not one of there first 10.

    There was a method to my madness.  You’re up next.

  125. 125.

    Scamp Dog

    January 5, 2022 at 9:02 pm

    @WaterGirl: Huh, that’s a lot later than I expected. I thought I started reading this blog in the mid oughts.

  126. 126.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 9:04 pm

    @Baud:

    First

    Second

    Third

    Fourth

    Fifth

  127. 127.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 9:06 pm

    @2liberal:

    Your first comment was in this post No Nipple Uncovered on May 1, 2010.

    LINK

    or

    http://tinyurl.com/26qnypd

    ow, it appears, he may be preparing a legal assault on an embattled proponent of global warming theory who used to teach at the University of Virginia, Michael Mann.In papers sent to UVA April 23, Cuccinelli’s office commands the university to produce a sweeping swath of documents relating to Mann’s receipt of nearly half a million dollars in state grant-funded climate research conducted while Mann— now director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State— was at UVA between 1999 and 2005.If Cuccinelli succeeds in finding a smoking gun like the purloined emails that led to the international scandal dubbed Climategate, Cuccinelli could seek the return of all the research money, legal fees, and trebled damages.

    this guy is having some fun. too bad he is holding public office. a dubya clone.

  128. 128.

    Manxome Bromide

    January 5, 2022 at 9:06 pm

    It wasn’t my first post, but my high-water mark on this blog was clearly answering a question nobody wants an answer to.

  129. 129.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 9:06 pm

    @Scamp Dog: Maybe you used a different email at first?

  130. 130.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 5, 2022 at 9:08 pm

    I am glad to see that my memory of being in early on the credenza thing but not at the beginning was accurate.

  131. 131.

    Argiope

    January 5, 2022 at 9:08 pm

    @WaterGirl: Sorry for the double post.  Visual composition window wasn’t working in Firefox (on a Mac, Firefox version 95.0.2 (64-bit), with a keyboard covered by a kind of frayed rainbow-colored silicone thingy to keep me from spilling various liquids into it. TMI?) When I wrote the comment in text mode and hit submit it just kept spinning….so I abandoned Firefox and went to chrome.  Firefox apparently did eventually decide to work after all.  Crafty little browser….it just made me THINK it was sleeping.

  132. 132.

    Baud

    January 5, 2022 at 9:10 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Thanks. Fascinating. Aside from the reference to Obama, I could have made similar comments last week.

    I haven’t grown at all.

    ETA: Why mess with perfection?

  133. 133.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 9:13 pm

    @Scamp Dog: Yep, i searched for Scamp Dog instead of your email, and you had a different email address early on.

    Quote of the Day has your first comment on Aug 6, 2008.

    You replied to this, probably from up top in the post itself/

    Doubtful, and even if it is significant, how do you magically get these tires inflated to the proper psi ?

    You replied with this;

    You go to this really, really high-tech place called a gas station, and they have this amazing device that will add air to your tires! And then you check it with a pressure gage! If you can’t afford one, see your local Republican party for a freebie, they’ll take care of you…

  134. 134.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 9:14 pm

    @Baud: Why, indeed!

  135. 135.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2022 at 9:15 pm

    Ahh the Subaru Saga… :)

    It’s currently being a windy bastard in the Windy City.  And it’s 14 degrees outside.

  136. 136.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 9:15 pm

    @Argiope: They are all crafty!  Glad to know how it happened, though.

  137. 137.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 9:16 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: Very windy here, also, for about 24 hours now, maybe more.

  138. 138.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 9:17 pm

    okay, finally had time to read the third Subaru post.  Too funny!  This is why we all love John.

  139. 139.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2022 at 9:20 pm

    @WaterGirl: Same.  Looking at 19F/5F for tomorrow.  Hoodie around the house it is!

  140. 140.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 9:21 pm

    Okay, I have looked up my last “first comment” for the night.

    If I didn’t get to you, be sure to show up in the next anniversary post and mention that you asked in this one.

  141. 141.

    cope

    January 5, 2022 at 9:22 pm

    @WaterGirl: Our terrier Jesse has eviscerated every stuffed dog toy and three comfy dog beds in the year we’ve had her. If there’s a squeaky thing in it, she rips out out in a violent biting and shaking attack that brings to mind the bad Indiana Jones movie.

    She treasures these trophies and carries them around for long periods of time. I dread the thought of her ever getting her sharp little teeth into a small, living animal.

  142. 142.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 9:23 pm

    @Baud: Next time you take a trip, maybe we should transplant some older comments and just make it look like you’re still commenting?

  143. 143.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 9:26 pm

    @cope: We have furry body parts strewn all around the house.  A foot here, a torso there, a faceless bear over there.

    Life with dogs.

  144. 144.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 9:27 pm

    Are you guys enjoying all these links?

  145. 145.

    danielx

    January 5, 2022 at 9:30 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Fifteen degrees in Indianapolis and high wind….time to keep space heater on low in the garage so the damn refrigerator will keep refrigerating.

  146. 146.

    Origuy

    January 5, 2022 at 9:35 pm

    Is there a link to a post with the whole Waltersaga?

  147. 147.

    Benw

    January 5, 2022 at 9:38 pm

    Haha peak wingnut! What sweet summer children we were.

    @WaterGirl: the links are awesome.

  148. 148.

    zhena gogolia

    January 5, 2022 at 9:38 pm

    @WaterGirl: I’m hoping to get to them eventually. Just too much going on right now. Thanks for all this work!

  149. 149.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 9:38 pm

    @Origuy: We thought that might be too hard since things were pretty grim at the beginning, so that wasn’t in the plan.  Though maybe we could link to a couple of the happy Walter posts and then people could find the others on their own.

  150. 150.

    danielx

    January 5, 2022 at 9:40 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    I certainly am, although…

    …but as I read things, the hey day of modern wingnuttia may have passed.

    Cole’s powers of prognostication are barely better than mine.

    But his and my error were the same, a mistaken assumption. Peak wingnut will never be reached as long as there is a wingnut mediaverse to keep the cauldron boiling in perpetuity,  sort of like a nuclear reactor. Once a self-sustaining reaction has been achieved, it doesn’t go out until it runs out of fools – er, fuel.

  151. 151.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 9:41 pm

    @zhena gogolia: I will share your thanks with Steeplejack who did a lot of the tracking down of links, too.

  152. 152.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 9:42 pm

    @danielx: Consistently wrong since 2002!  :-)

  153. 153.

    danielx

    January 5, 2022 at 9:46 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    I gotta be me. Often wrong and often uncertain.

  154. 154.

    debbie

    January 5, 2022 at 9:51 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    I certainly am, thanks!

  155. 155.

    frosty

    January 5, 2022 at 9:55 pm

    @WaterGirl: The links are great. So many commenters have left though! On one The Moar You Know was the only nym I recognized from the current crew of jackals.

    Did you get a chance to look up my first comment? You may have posted it in a thread with 200+ comments that I didn’t get to. (sorry for the nagging)

    ETA There are some great baked goods in the pie filter tonight. Holiday related!!

  156. 156.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 9:59 pm

    @frosty: You’re not nagging!

    I’m not keeping a running list, though.  But anyone who asks again  in a new post makes it into the 10 for that post, unless they are a total straggler! :-)

    So jump in on the next thread and I’ll make sure to get it done.

  157. 157.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 10:00 pm

    @frosty: Thanks for the reminders about the holiday pics in the pie filter.  I suppose I have to take those out soon?

  158. 158.

    frosty

    January 5, 2022 at 10:02 pm

    @WaterGirl: Yes, still here. Same email as always.

  159. 159.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2022 at 10:03 pm

    @frosty: I have done my 10 for tonight. :-)

    Please see my comment at #156.

  160. 160.

    frosty

    January 5, 2022 at 10:04 pm

    @WaterGirl: 12th Night, whenever that is, ends the holidays? I usually take the lights down a week after New Year’s so that seems like a good time to tidy up the pie filter.

  161. 161.

    Ken

    January 5, 2022 at 10:18 pm

    @WaterGirl: Thanks for the reminders about the holiday pics in the pie filter.  I suppose I have to take those out soon?

    Holiday pics?  I should pie people, I’m clearly not getting the full benefit of this nearly-top-10000 blog.

    As for removing the pictures, remember that Scrooge pledged to keep Christmas in his heart every day of the year. Should we not aspire to the same lofty goal?

  162. 162.

    danielx

    January 5, 2022 at 10:23 pm

    Ooooh! College football national championship IN THE HOUSE this weekend! With free concerts and many other opportunities to spread disease, not to mention the city being infested with rich shitheads from Georgia and Alabama! What’s not to like?

  163. 163.

    geg6

    January 5, 2022 at 10:24 pm

    I was there for the whole credenza, condensation and laughing helicopters saga which lasted several days.  It was the most epic thing ever on the tubes.  Although I had been around BJ quite a while by that time, that whole thing is what made me fall in love with this place forever.  Start to finish, commenter after commenter, I never laughed so hard and so long in my life.

  164. 164.

    Jean

    January 5, 2022 at 10:34 pm

    I remember the Subaru saga, the credenza and the laughing helicopters.  The credenza and helicopters, I know, made me laugh out loud but I couldn’t for the life of me say what the context was or why it was so funny.  Was it some troll trying to make himself important or superior?  The commentary just became crazier and crazier.  I’ll go back and read them.  Thanks, WaterGirl.

  165. 165.

    Poe Larity

    January 5, 2022 at 10:40 pm

    @UncleEbeneezer: They’re not orgies! They’re Omicron parties. All the kids are doing it. Stop being a fuddy-duddy,

  166. 166.

    NotMax

    January 5, 2022 at 10:44 pm

    @Poe Larity

    Virusfest ’22. Going out with a bang!

    //

  167. 167.

    danielx

    January 5, 2022 at 10:46 pm

    @Poe Larity:
    All in a good cause, better than a lot of other gatherings of which I have heard and read.

    If you are going to spread a virus (of whatever sort), do it with feeling.​

  168. 168.

    zhena gogolia

    January 5, 2022 at 10:46 pm

    OMG, I’ve dipped into the “helicopters” thread and my husband can’t figure out why I’m crying with laughter.

  169. 169.

    Suzanne

    January 5, 2022 at 10:51 pm

    Spawn the Youngest is my uber-cuddler. This pandemic has been going on for 80% of her life, so she is used to having her people nearby to love on her constantly. Not going to lie: this part is a bright spot.

  170. 170.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2022 at 11:02 pm

    @Suzanne: What’d say the other day – “The cuddles are epic.”?

  171. 171.

    Suzanne

    January 5, 2022 at 11:04 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: Yes. Epic. She cannot sleep if she isn’t touching someone. And she’ll rub your ear to soothe herself. It’s really cute.

  172. 172.

    MomSense

    January 5, 2022 at 11:05 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    INORITE

    As soon as condensation came in to the thread I knew it was going to be epic.

  173. 173.

    NotMax

    January 5, 2022 at 11:06 pm

    First time since before Xmas with enough days of sun (2) to sufficiently dry out the ground in order to do mowing of the entire property. Grass in places was between knee high and thigh high. 2½ hours on the riding mower, now feel as if I ran a triple marathon – in work boots.

  174. 174.

    danielx

    January 5, 2022 at 11:19 pm

    @NotMax:

    It’s 14 degrees with a 30 mph wind from the northwest here and I damn near froze my fingers off using chainsaw on fallen limbs earlier. Fuck you and the riding mower you rode in on.

  175. 175.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2022 at 11:20 pm

    @NotMax:

    2½ hours on the riding mower, now feel as if I ran a triple marathon – in work boots. 

    How do you think the rider mower feels?!

  176. 176.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 5, 2022 at 11:23 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: I doubt that the mower is laughing.

  177. 177.

    Poe Larity

    January 5, 2022 at 11:36 pm

    Looks like Brandon Brown flip-flopped on wanting to monetize that meme, but Nascar noped:

    NASCAR has rejected a sponsorship deal between driver Brandon Brown and the cryptocurrency LGBCoin, according to multiple news reports.

    Brown’s racing team, Brandonbilt Motorsports, had prematurely announced last week that LGBCoin — a reference to the anti-Biden chant — would be its 2022 sponsor for the second-tier NASCAR Xfinity Series.

  178. 178.

    James E Powell

    January 5, 2022 at 11:41 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Are any of you guys who wanted your first comments still here?

    Yes, I am. And I am only posting this comment so that I can reference it in the next anniversary thread, as you mentioned.

  179. 179.

    Sebastian

    January 5, 2022 at 11:44 pm

    I am not sure I want to see my first post haha

  180. 180.

    James E Powell

    January 5, 2022 at 11:45 pm

    Reading Cole’s Peak Wingnut filled me with nostalgia and melancholy.

  181. 181.

    Sebastian

    January 5, 2022 at 11:46 pm

    Good boy!

     

    https://www.npr.org/2022/01/05/1070626680/dog-rescues-injured-owner-car-crash-new-hampshire-highway

     

    EDIT: Good girl!!

  182. 182.

    Jean

    January 5, 2022 at 11:47 pm

    @zhena gogolia: I reread the whole thread and couldn’t believe how funny all the commenters were in response to Gass.  I forgot about Brick Oven Bill and noted so many others who were popular at the time (General Stuck) and many who still are.  I didn’t see where “credenza” showed up unless it was, as someone noted, a riff on misspelling of “credential,” making fun of Gass’s  misspelling of  “condescension” as “condensation.”People just started riffing off the theme–“jazz commenting” as someone said.

  183. 183.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 6, 2022 at 12:01 am

    David Axelrod @davidaxelrod
    “There can be no soft-pedaling what happened and no absolution for those who planned, encouraged and aided the attempt to overthrow our democracy. Love of country demands nothing less,” writes
    @KarlRove

    in an oped for the WSJ, so no link. Judging from the comments and replies to Axelrod, Rove is Rove, and tries a little “Democrats are being mean”. But Karl “Turd Blossom” Rove– cause I never forget and infrequently forgive–  has now spoken up more than anyone named Bush.

  184. 184.

    Another Scott

    January 6, 2022 at 12:04 am

    ICYMI, this fits with the Mr. Gass thread.

    https://t.co/dNnqBdIpRU pic.twitter.com/EopbwYDxaI— Gail Simone (@GailSimone) January 5, 2022

    (via Popehat)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  185. 185.

    Sebastian

    January 6, 2022 at 12:31 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    I have a hunch it’s on purpose. Coming out openly would only lead to polarization.

    I read a while ago that there were concerted activities by Obama and GWB (&Co). Obama was responsible for our allies and W (and his gang) for within US.

    With that in mind, look again at Liz Cheney, Karl Rove, and William Kristol.

    Bill has created a bona fide anti-Trump NRA named RAP (Republican Accountability Project) with ratings for politicians and all that jazz and they are running a brutal ad on FOX on 6 JAN during every commercial break, incl. Tucker and Hannity.

    https://twitter.com/accountablegop/status/1478548703673827331

     

    EDIT: Apparently also on Fox and Friends. This is a Cheney double-barrel.

  186. 186.

    CaseyL

    January 6, 2022 at 12:59 am

    I do love that portrait of Steve.  It captures him so well.

    I’m not all agog to see my first comment.  I think I remember it.  I didn’t know John yet, and just tore into him about something  he said (regarding welfare, I think).  Gah.

  187. 187.

    No name

    January 6, 2022 at 4:40 am

    @WaterGirl: Yes!

  188. 188.

    Miss Bianca

    January 6, 2022 at 10:55 am

    @WaterGirl: Late to the thread, but YES.

    Can’t wait to revisit the Subaru saga and of course, faxing the credenza, a thread (multiple threads?) I remember reading and just being in agony from laughing so hard. Litlebritdifferent (spelling? ack!) was en fuego in that thread, as I recall, trolling the troll like nobody’s business.

  189. 189.

    Primer Gray (formerly Yet Another Jeff)

    January 6, 2022 at 12:16 pm

    @WaterGirl: Sparrows and curtain rods…I use that one a lot…up there with Tire Rims and Anthrax for evergreen usefulness.

  190. 190.

    Primer Gray (formerly Yet Another Jeff)

    January 6, 2022 at 12:29 pm

    @WaterGirl: Well, since this is a possibility, please let me know mine.

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