Comments on: The A-List Fan Club.

The A-List Fan Club.

Byun-o-matic — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 10:56:03 -0800

The A-List Fan Club. I know you're sick of hearing about it, but I found this site too amusing to not mention. Does anyone know the story behind it?

By: dhartung

dhartung — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 11:06:34 -0800

Read the first entry for Nov. 15, should tell you all you need to know.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 11:06:54 -0800

(Yes, I suspect you're being sarcastic.)

By: snakey

snakey — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 11:26:42 -0800

Sarcasm is dead! Long live Sarcasm!

By: highindustrial

highindustrial — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 11:36:17 -0800

Someone wake me when it's not the eighth grade anymore.

By: rebeccablood

rebeccablood — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 11:46:07 -0800

napster! rcb

By: highindustrial

highindustrial — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 11:57:23 -0800

Shh. I don't want the RIAA after my ass. ;)

By: Byun-o-matic

Byun-o-matic — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:08:47 -0800

But is it sarcastic, or ironic?

By: daveadams

daveadams — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:10:29 -0800

I vote for ironic.

By: Byun-o-matic

Byun-o-matic — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:19:04 -0800

A vote for Nader is a vote for sarcasm.

By: daveadams

daveadams — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:29:39 -0800

A vote for Dubya is a vote for Dumb.

By: highindustrial

highindustrial — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:30:07 -0800

Sarcasm is very often just cheap semantic inversion masquerading as irony.

By: scottandrew

scottandrew — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:34:41 -0800

Sarcasm is the new orange!

By: Hackworth

Hackworth — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:35:38 -0800

I'm not sarcastic.

By: mikel

mikel — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:41:28 -0800

That Nader shore did ruin things for Gore.

By: cCranium

cCranium — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:46:52 -0800

Sigh. How many times must I tell you people? When you duplicate a copy of Nader, you're not stealing his popularity, you're just sharing your sincerity. Now rather than only having one copy of his elite status, there's two Jakob Neilsons that suck, on with which Flash sucks for you, and one with which Flash sucks for me. You're not hurting Netscape 6 when you trade it with friends, but if you make money providing access to Dubya's quote list, you're taking money out of the A-listers that have worked hard to make mauve the new sarcastic!

By: daveadams

daveadams — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:50:08 -0800

Quidditch is the new irony!

By: highindustrial

highindustrial — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:54:32 -0800

Go cCranium go! (Laughing out loud now.)

By: Sapphireblue

Sapphireblue — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:09:07 -0800

i want whatever cCranium is having.

By: Zeldman

Zeldman — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:44:48 -0800

That's like Hitler and the Nazis!

By: RakDaddy

RakDaddy — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:01:50 -0800

Nader Nader Nader!

By: riley370

riley370 — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:19:09 -0800

It's sardonic. And I may start a Z-List blog. Like all playgrounds we've known, blogland naturally has people who worry about trivialities like a-list kids.

By: john

john — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:41:26 -0800

It must be Friday, or free prozac day at the clinic.

By: Byun-o-matic

Byun-o-matic — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:50:05 -0800

I'm on Wellbutrin, so there. I did Paxil for a while, but it made me see too many piggies on the bus. Is it Friday already?

By: sugarfish

sugarfish — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:40:09 -0800

wait, wait, wait... there's an a-list? and the people hang out here? *snark*

By: Optamystic

Optamystic — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:40:19 -0800

I like balloons.

By: wendell

wendell — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:51:22 -0800

"Are you the Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons?" Worst thread ever!

By: davidgentle

davidgentle — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 19:28:00 -0800

It's as though someone made an eliza style AI program from everyone's recent responses. "But maybe cows humping in the grass don't find your Nader".

By: EngineBeak

EngineBeak — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 23:35:58 -0800

March springs grope inside the pancakes.

By: pnevares

pnevares — Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:55:48 -0800

wendell seems to have mixed up his threads

By: bradlands

bradlands — Sat, 18 Nov 2000 08:44:09 -0800

Anyone who's ever seen how Wendell dresses knows that's right. (I'm on the A-list?! News to me. I figured I was rather somewhat farther down on the consonant scale.)

By: webmutant

webmutant — Sat, 18 Nov 2000 09:23:39 -0800

I agree with the poster's moral contention.

By: dcodea

dcodea — Sat, 18 Nov 2000 09:45:34 -0800

Ad hominen attack. Establishment of straw man. Careful attack of straw man. Non sequitur. Non sequitur. Appeal to conseqeunces. Appeal to popularity. Establishment of False Dilemma. Irrelevant conclusion.

By: aekastar

aekastar — Sat, 18 Nov 2000 17:24:30 -0800

who wants to be on the a-list anyway? aaaack! popularity reminds me of high school; for real.

By: jmcnally

jmcnally — Sat, 18 Nov 2000 21:27:51 -0800

How 'bout we change this A-List to the A-Team? Then we can all say "I pity the fool" again, just like it was 1985...

By: daveadams

daveadams — Sat, 18 Nov 2000 23:23:56 -0800

who wants to be on the a-list anyway? aekastar, no one wants to be on the A-List, except (apparently) the people who write nasty screeds about how evil the A-List is. The people who are supposedly on the A-List certainly didn't ask for it. And Brad, you'll always be on my A-List.

By: barbelith

barbelith — Sun, 19 Nov 2000 05:44:09 -0800

Will someone please draw up a list for me of who is A-list and who isn't? I wouldn't want to be hating people when I'm supposed to be being hated by them. Or the other way around. Oh it's all so confusing...

By: cCranium

cCranium — Mon, 20 Nov 2000 10:47:44 -0800

The first rule of the A-List is there is no A-List. The second rule of the A-List is there is no A-List. It's pretty safe to say that if you see someone's blog linked to on more than 10 sites you reach by randomly surfing blogging-software sites, then someone somewhere considers them A-List, and therefore they are to be hated with extreme prejudice. It's like an indie band. If someone you don't know has heard of them, they've sold-out and are no longer cool.

By: aekastar

aekastar — Mon, 20 Nov 2000 17:59:32 -0800

daveadams - very true. and yeah, I know I'm not a-list. I'm only linked in a few places. not that I'm complaining. it's nice to know if I'm genuninely read instead of just up on someone's list because it's supposedly *cool* to do so.