Stephen Galton is a big baby!
August 6, 2004 3:03 AM   Subscribe

Lawyer files class action lawsuit after being flamed by message board users on Yahoo. Message Board users over-react, and then Slashdot gets hold of the story. Let the emailing, telephoning and name calling begin. (via slashdot)
posted by seanyboy (24 comments total)
 
Geez. What a big baby. I cannot believe someone is actually suing over that.
posted by erratic frog at 4:03 AM on August 6, 2004


Mother Theresa and a lawyer were locked in a room with a wolverine and a rabid dog. She was given a gun with two bullets. She shot the lawyer twice.
posted by RavinDave at 4:05 AM on August 6, 2004


This is exactly why our society is doomed.
posted by tommasz at 4:55 AM on August 6, 2004


If we call him a jackass, is he gonna sue us?

It's not like nobody reads MeFi.
posted by tcobretti at 4:55 AM on August 6, 2004


I believe "truth" is a defense, tc.
posted by RavinDave at 5:01 AM on August 6, 2004


We need judges. Lots of judges.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 5:21 AM on August 6, 2004


If we call him a jackass, is he gonna sue us?

did you see the way his lips are burned from sucking on those ambulance tailpipes?
posted by quonsar at 9:21 AM on August 6, 2004


Wow -- was this computer generated?
posted by NewBornHippy at 9:30 AM on August 6, 2004


I think "asscandle" and "fucktable" should be added to the next revision of the Oxford English Dictionary.
posted by armage at 9:31 AM on August 6, 2004


This is unbelievable and shocking.
I refuse to think a lawyer would do such a thing.
posted by Peter H at 9:34 AM on August 6, 2004


"overly robust" ... I like that turn of phrase.
posted by devbrain at 9:35 AM on August 6, 2004


XQUZYPHYR - that's precisely what i was thinking, heh.
posted by t r a c y at 9:49 AM on August 6, 2004


Kind of reminds me of this, or depending on your point of view, this.
(Ted I like your comics but boohoo)

FREE DIRTY DANNY!
posted by Peter H at 9:51 AM on August 6, 2004


my God, newbornhippy - i just read that link of yours. Good looney tunes indeed. That's not really the direction to take in this sorta thing, is it? I kinda feel grody now.
posted by Peter H at 9:55 AM on August 6, 2004


newbornhippy, you ignorant slut. You putrescent mass of walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. That is a classic usenet flaming screed that has been around the block a bit. ;-)
posted by madamjujujive at 10:08 AM on August 6, 2004


Ha, Results 1 - 10 of about 3,220 for putrescent mass, a walking vomit. (0.50 seconds) 
posted by Peter H at 10:19 AM on August 6, 2004


He's a parkbench. You're all parkbenches.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll have to go to work. Where's my shovel?
posted by spazzm at 10:20 AM on August 6, 2004


one lawyer doing something stupid != all lawyers are bad
posted by PrinceValium at 11:16 AM on August 6, 2004


Glad madamjujujive mentioned that, that particular flame predates the web by at least a couple years.

I prefer the variant with the science nerd paragraph addition, personally:
I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I
mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid.
Stupid so stupid that it goes way beyond the stupid
we know into a while new dimension of stupid. You
are trans-stupid stupid. Metastupid. Stupid
collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons
have collapsed. Stupid so dense that no intellect
can escape; the black hole of stupidity. Singularity
stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on the warm side
of Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid than our
entire galazy emits in a year. Quasar stupid.


Ah, the good old days of usenet, when people put some effort into their flames.
posted by malphigian at 11:38 AM on August 6, 2004


XQUZYPHYR - that's precisely what i was thinking, heh.

Sadly, it's also what I was thinking. After seeing it had already been said, I thought exactly what you just thought, meaning I've almost run out of things to say. To be truthful, I stopped reading comments after yours, t r a c y, in fear that this had already been said.

I may have, in fact, reached the end of my autonomy. Who do I sue?
posted by The God Complex at 11:43 AM on August 6, 2004


Quasar stupid.
On first glance I read that as Quonsar stupid. Oops.
posted by konolia at 1:22 PM on August 6, 2004


quonsar stupid
i.e. stupid like a fox.
posted by sonofsamiam at 1:31 PM on August 6, 2004


patrick, the girl needs to get an apartment that's not so downwind of the steel plant, or it's time for you to go home. hehe.
posted by t r a c y at 8:43 PM on August 6, 2004


there's even a website dedicated to this, ultimateflame.com
posted by mr.marx at 6:52 AM on August 7, 2004


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