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posted by Sapphireblue (45 comments total)
 
I agree with the poster's moral contention.
posted by jkottke at 6:17 PM on November 12, 2000


Others with relevant comments further support the poster's moral contention, possibly brining other nuances in.
posted by th3ph17 at 6:54 PM on November 12, 2000


Kottke's an ass. (Just trying to move things along here, people.)
posted by bradlands at 7:05 PM on November 12, 2000


I think you were supposed to have a link in there, bradlands. You biased against links or something??!?! Not everyone around here hates links you know!
posted by kidsplateusa at 7:15 PM on November 12, 2000


Kottke's an ass.

Hey, lay off Kottke. He coined the term "metatorial", you know.

Really, he did.
posted by ethmar at 7:33 PM on November 12, 2000


I alone am king.
posted by Succa at 7:43 PM on November 12, 2000


I detect the hand of Greg Knauss here.

I'm honored to have been chosen as the first blooming idiot.

I just wanna know: which band was there?
posted by baylink at 7:51 PM on November 12, 2000


Courtesy comment about how god-like Nader is. (and an added note inside parentheses that Michael Moore is somehow amusing.)
posted by ZachsMind at 7:51 PM on November 12, 2000


LOL. That link is gold! Much, MUCH better than having to read yet another article on the political situation right now. Thanks, Sapphire.
posted by aprilgem at 8:27 PM on November 12, 2000


don't thank me... thank solistrato :)
posted by Sapphireblue at 8:35 PM on November 12, 2000


NADER NADER NADER!!!
posted by PWA_BadBoy at 8:43 PM on November 12, 2000


They missed the ubiquitous "Metallica Rool"


posted by Jofus at 2:58 AM on November 13, 2000


Reference to Derek Powazek.
posted by cCranium at 3:09 AM on November 13, 2000


I am looking for a used car.
posted by fred at 7:44 AM on November 13, 2000 [52 favorites]


That comment trying to link this thread with the election.
posted by Hjorth at 8:08 AM on November 13, 2000


Pointless meandering comment posted a day late that may have had an actual cogent point but wasn't properly thought through before posting and which, due to the avalanche of links flooding the main page, probably won't get read by any other than the idle curious. (My specialty.)
posted by chicobangs at 8:18 AM on November 13, 2000


Baylink: actually, I wasn't riffing on specific people; I just swiped the link detail from a thread and just played with whatever names were there. So there's nothing personal in there. Promise.
posted by solistrato at 8:33 AM on November 13, 2000


I know, avalanches don't flood. Bad metaphor. (Self-referential non-sequitur follow-up.)

(Someone spent way too much time putting this together. It's brilliant. And scary.)
posted by chicobangs at 8:34 AM on November 13, 2000


Doesn't this belong in MetaTalk?
posted by Aaaugh! at 9:27 AM on November 13, 2000


the truth is out there
posted by sudama at 9:31 AM on November 13, 2000


I don't think we need an election link in every damn thread. Anyone who thinks otherwise can go to posted by EngineBeak at 9:57 AM on November 13, 2000


Incendiary comment just as thread is winding down, spurring a whole flurry of posts.
posted by peterme at 11:15 AM on November 13, 2000


Don't forget "demonstrating a horrible HTML trainwreck."

This one I ain't reporting to Matt.

This is kinda fun, actually. The sort of self-referentiality I haven't gotten to engage in since I hung out on A.F.U.

I was told we wouldn't have to do this anymore, though.
posted by baylink at 1:01 PM on November 13, 2000


... i've been waiting for someone to jump on th3ph17's post and bitch about how old the links are, to make the ambience complete.

do I have to do *everything* myself?
posted by Sapphireblue at 1:26 PM on November 13, 2000


Excellent. The circle is now complete.
posted by th3ph17 at 3:01 PM on November 13, 2000


Inappropriate and irrelevant self-link for which I will be roundly chastised.
posted by bradlands at 11:22 PM on November 13, 2000


An overwrought comment double-posted at an ungodly hour, calling the above poster ein muy arrogante idioteo, containing a phrase in a second and/or third language and a bizarre topical groaner, mangled and frivolous, and expressing reservations about the erosion of discourse within the thread (ambiguously, 'taking the fifth') and a previous post which -- ?

"Expressing reservations about ... a previous post" -- a naked singularity, threating to punch the mefi chad out of the spacetime ballot!
posted by EngineBeak at 2:42 AM on November 14, 2000


An overwrought comment double-posted at an ungodly hour, calling the above poster ein muy arrogante idioteo, containing a phrase in a second and/or third language and a bizarre topical groaner, mangled and frivolous, and expressing reservations about the erosion of discourse within the thread (ambiguously, 'taking the fifth') and a previous post which -- ?

"Expressing reservations about ... a previous post" -- a naked singularity, threating to punch the mefi chad out of the spacetime ballot!
posted by EngineBeak at 2:43 AM on November 14, 2000


A curt apology for the double-posted comment.
posted by EngineBeak at 2:46 AM on November 14, 2000


Yeah, Brad, but if you want to get bitched at for self-linking, you're *supposed* to hide the link behind some text that doesn't make it obvious that it's a self link.
posted by baylink at 11:40 AM on November 14, 2000


Righteous indignation at the prospect of being told how and what to post on MeFi. Unveiled threat to abandon community and start own message board. Vague allusion to censorship on the part of mathowie. Gratuitous fart joke.
posted by bradlands at 1:09 PM on November 14, 2000


Roar of laughter. Insertion of pseudo-HTML tags demonstrating such.
posted by baylink at 2:49 PM on November 14, 2000


Whiny screed railing against the morons who post gratuitous fart jokes and the immature suckups who laugh at them.
posted by kindall at 5:32 PM on November 14, 2000


Well-meaning but rambling post about how things are done differently in Britain, and aren't we all friends here?
posted by holgate at 7:42 PM on November 14, 2000


Posting of a comment weeks -- months! -- after everyone else, thereby reviving a thread that should have died out long, long ago.
posted by Shadowkeeper at 1:24 PM on June 26, 2001


Pointless continuation of a long-dead thread by a self-declared non-Cabalist.
posted by cCranium at 1:12 PM on August 24, 2001


Insistant declaration that there is no Cabal™.
posted by snarkout at 1:26 PM on August 24, 2001


Winking inference that Cabal™ denial was discussed at earlier Cabal™ meeting.
posted by CrazyUncleJoe at 9:58 PM on August 24, 2001


What's a Cabal™?
posted by Avogadro at 11:56 AM on October 16, 2001






I bow to your obvious superiority.
posted by ColdChef at 6:51 AM on January 26, 2002


hello?
posted by goneill at 6:35 PM on March 3, 2002


I knew if I waited long enough, someone would follow me here.
posted by ColdChef at 8:19 PM on March 3, 2002


unbelievable
posted by goneill at 9:08 AM on March 4, 2002


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