The stylistic quirks of various ILXors

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I kind of like how when Alex in NYC finds something funny, he doesn't copy it and paste it into the Excelsior LOL thread, he just posts "Hahahahahaha." It's classy and elegant.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, maybe we shouldn't do "duds," just classics, for the sake of peace and harmony.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

*scratches chin*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I get confused by the only lowercase people because my brain always assumes that it's amateurist, but sometimes it's not.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned has too many stylistic quirks to sort through.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Dud: the way n/a always tries to make people "get along". JUST KIDDING!

― Huk-L, Monday, 13 September 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

All quirk and no substance, I fear.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this, the appropriate thread, to mention, RJG's commas?

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, you, Ned.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I like RJG's commas but they seem a little forced by this point.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Capslock: DUD.

― briania (briania), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

pussy

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I am a gigantic fan of Chuck Eddy's seemingly-to-the-untrained-eye excessive parinthetical rant amendments.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

hi andrew!!!!

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

This quirk never got got fully

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it had a lot of

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey Mandee! Go on AIM if you like, go on

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think I have a stylistic quirk. Perhaps I should develop one.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

HI DERE! WAHT IS IT MADE??!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

N., I was going to mention that I like your style on this thread.

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

ILM posters' quirks

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the way cozen makes the effort to revive interesting threads, especially considering our haphazard classification scheme.

I like the way gabbneb gives extraordinarily descriptive answers on the national parks thread and on one of the restaurant threads.

I like amateurist's engagement with "high" and "low" culture.

I like the way William Bloody Swygart at times continued the US Open thread on his own.

― youn, Monday, 13 September 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.upcnet.es/~jpc8/style.jpg
http://www.mindspring.com/~majik/Templates/style.gif
http://www.rustyiron.com/engines/stable/style-d-crank.gif

― ROFFLE###@@@@!!!!!!!WOAHCHECKTHISNAMEFIELDOUT!!!????!!!! ▓▒░&, Monday, 13 September 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread was a bad idea. :(

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I, for my part, use too many commas, in a sentence.

-- Momus (nic...), April 25th, 2002 2:00 AM.

Momus taught RJG all he knows.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Ken C otm

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry I don't mean to seem

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Ken C's last post is very funny!!

Alba, the way you write is very distinctive!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

'postrophe, unlike punk, never dies!

(blame Andy H, if you want, for that :)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

What is distinctive about it, Pashmina? The only thing I can think of is that I overuse the phrase 'some kind of'.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

So're JW's posts but oh well P

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

(and that most of my jokes revolve around wilful misreadings of people's posts - but that is not really a stylistic issue).

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

effusive dry british wit, dude! didn't jess get on the excelsior thread for pointing it out?

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Yet, I am uncertain. For perhaps he already knows this, as most do.

― the bellefox, Monday, 13 September 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you the Pinefox?

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you a bloody river?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

DO U HAVE A POO FLANGE LIKE ME GRA

― GARU G, Monday, 13 September 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, none of the things I pointed out were stylistic either. (xxxpost)

― youn, Monday, 13 September 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck this thread.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

OK MY HOMES DOG

― RANDOS, Monday, 13 September 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Blount's multiple parentheticals.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

effusive dry british wit, dude! didn't jess get on the excelsior thread for pointing it out?

I thought that was only posted there for my dry, British response. Alas!

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not that big of a fan of *indicating action enclosed in asterisks* -- I think it's mostly Ned and Dee that do this -- but that's just me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

:-(

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

*shakes indignant fist at jaymc*

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, does Custos do that, too? Doesn't it seem like he should?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure what the style is. But it's recognizeable.

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

*HAS A WANK*

― GARU G, Monday, 13 September 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Alba is like an internet detective.

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh, Dan.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

*blushes* to thread!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

My quirks, such as they are, are virtually indetectable. Or, so I claim.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

*SPUNKYS IN ME EYE*

― GARU G, Monday, 13 September 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Custos and his D&Disms often make me laugh and cringe simultaneously.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

*OOH BETTY*

― GARU G, Monday, 13 September 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, my tendency to start posts with the word "yeah" is a total dud.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I think all my other quirks, if they exist, are cribbed from other Ilxors.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

N., you have stolen my 'alas'.

Does Youn have stylistic quirks?

― the bellefox, Monday, 13 September 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Youn's style is to post when I least expect her to.

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I like to borrow little things, from people.

I used to BREAK INTO CAPS every so often. But this trick has been overused, not just by me, and I hardly ever do it now.

I try to learn.

I liked what Mandee said. Keeps saying.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I have no style.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

You take no shit.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I kind of like how when Alex in NYC finds something funny, he doesn't copy it and paste it into the Excelsior LOL thread, he just posts "Hahahahahaha." It's classy and elegant.

Without the slightest, faintest semblance of a doubt, this is the first and to my knowledge only time the adjectives "classy' and "elegant" have ever been used with regards to yours truly. Cheers.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

The part where I said you were an internet detective or the part where I said that I like your style?

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I post without capitals when I am cranky.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm starting to think that ILX should have a monthly newsletter. Someone fax me.

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, does Custos do that, too? Doesn't it seem like he should?
Occasionally, when I'm in a hurry. I prefer the bold tag though (or FONT=ARIAL BLACK when I'm perturbed).
But back to the subject at hand.
The one that gets to me is the 'l33t h4x0rsp33k.
Especially using "TEH" for the, and ending a post with OK THX BYE
It was "cute" for the first 3,001 times...

Hey, I just realized...nobody has done the "[random person] to thread" in awhile.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm a quirk alright, though whether I'm stylistic has yet to be proven on any basis or theory.

Jess to thread.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Jess has quirks?

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

a monthy newsletter, yes. like the kind in old-folks' homes, with birthdays and facts about whatever month it is and an easy word game.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

ILX should just become an old folks home.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

that's you out, then.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

It already smells of prunes and pee.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

free at last

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Jess has quirks?

Have you READ American Splendor?

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I just forfeited my rights to my balls with that comment.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

It's September.

― the bellefox, Monday, 13 September 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm all style, I know and you know.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Aren't you old, though?

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Not very old, no. I wouldn't say.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah at all the Einstein's Bagels around town there's this newsletter on top of the bin called "Coffee Time!" with like a few pathetic articles and a crossword puzzle and a coupon. I think we could come up with something better.

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

jel has style for miles and miles, so much style that it's wasted

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i like hanle y's habit of attaching the first letter of a word to the word preceding it, a la "hi derw hat is itm ade."

― amateur!!st, Monday, 13 September 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

thank you, youn.

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 13 September 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I can think of many writers on ilx with style, but I am having a hard time thinking of any particular stylistic quirks.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Monday, 13 September 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

concentrate on me.

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 13 September 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

didn't i just post on this thread? i'm confused.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 13 September 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

nevermind, it was this thread

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 13 September 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, I like Alex's 'Hahahahaha' too - so much, in fact, that I have adopted it myself, albeit with fewer 'ha's.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 13 September 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I've used it too. I didn't realize it was an Alex in NYC original, although in truth I'd never really thought about it much.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Monday, 13 September 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i like alex in sf's style: "HAHA! Oh my god, WHAT are you TALKING about?"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 13 September 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not that big of a fan of *indicating action enclosed in asterisks* -- I think it's mostly Ned and Dee that do this -- but that's just me.

Well, what would you have me do instead? Sometimes mere words are just not enough to convey a proper response to something, so I can't limit myself to just words. Would you rather I put the actions in parentheses? What? What should I do instead of use asterisks?

I really, really wish I had a distinctive writing style. Or distinctive posting style. But I guess I don't.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)

(See, I don't think it's just you. I think I've been harrassed, either directly or indirectly, about that.)

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

(With no apologies to The Onion)

ASK GABBNEB THE ILXOR
_____________________

I've been unemployed for three months and looking for options for refinancing my home other than going to my lender. I'm currently 6.75% and want to lower the rate. The value is $295,000 and I owe $202,000.

PA has a Republican stronghold in the Allegheny West and Republican-leaning Appalachia runs through it SW to NE - "Alabama in the middle". While there are two big Democratic cities on either side, each 'coast' of Pennsylvania has Republican tendencies - rust belt Reagan Democrats in the West, and Wall Streetish Rockefeller Republicanism in the East. If the national race is close (i.e. if Kerry doesn't create a major movement to get rid of Bush), both states could easily go either way (though both lean Kerry), depending on how big the turnout is on each side. If enough of the right comes out strong for Bush and enough of the left stays home, Bush wins both.

I'm 14 and my name is "Pearl." I just found out that I might have chlamydia. I really like this guy and I need to know if I should tell him. What should I do? I am a little scared. Please answer soon.

We live in a mass culture. i suppose that participation in an angry massed response is the easiest way for an individual to feel like he or she makes a statement. i place more trust in the iconography selected by the opposing political professionals - sending money to help them put ads on the air and hold rallies and bus tours (participating if possible, but these probably don't happen where you live because you've chosen a place where more people are like you). if you want to participate more organically, I think it's more effective to engage in personal dialogue with undecided voters by visiting their states or writing letters to them or their newspapers.

I'm in love with a married man. He also says he is in love with me, but can't seem to leave his wife, what should I do? I love him with all my heart. I believe we are soul mates and have too much in common to just give this up

I'm not sure whether the ferry makes sense. It might if you're going to take 90 and would otherwise stagger things the way I do. You may well cut Fri and Sat time behind the wheel by 2-3 hours, depending on what the state roads across Wisconsin to 90 are like (these are more direct than going South to 94, though I don't know that they're faster), but you'll add clock time, most likely - you could still presumably make the same destination Sat night, but you'd get there later if you take the ferry. That isn't the only factor in the tradeoff. You also add 4 hours on water. For some people that would be good, and for some it would be bad.

(Gabbneb is an ilxor poster who has been featured on more than 750 threads.)

__________________________________________________________________

(I post this with no offense intended for one of the most interesting posters on here.)

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 03:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I appreciate the civility of Nabisco's discourse, as if he were holding a door open for you, with a large package in the other hand, pausing just enough for you to be aware of it so that you would know to manoeuver around it but not letting it stop the flow of the conversation.

― youn, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Nabisco has a large package? I thought he had a certain quiet confidence.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 03:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, you're right. It's because he's confident.

― youn, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 03:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i have plenty of quirks in real life but on ilx it's straight schtick, 24-7

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 03:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't cough as often on ilx as i do IRL

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 03:34 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, and thank thank god, zeus and the holy earth mother the innernet hasn't smellovision capabilities yet.

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

And yes, Nabisco is indeed the goodness.

― nedateur!!!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i like when some posters forget to put a punctuation mark after their last sentence. it's quirky

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

it distresses me, like they passed out mid-sentence

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 08:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Jaysus. The fact that I am not even mentioned on here == ILx gone to POT. I'm entirely IN character, but it's pretty automatic. I'm probably less "in character" now seeing as I don't give a sh1t about the boards these days and lets face it, no-one recognises when I post anything as it's lost in a sea of "hahahahaha asshats", no doubt.

― Starry (hello chickens), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 09:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I have no style.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 09:48 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahhahhahhaha

(xpost)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the way Mark flicks his hair when he types

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i think ste may well be in

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 09:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Penelope has a great style, dry, concise, very witty but emotionally resonant too. I give her 10 out of 10.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 10:10 (twenty-one years ago)

What does pwn3d mean? It's really starting to annoy me, but maybe that's because I don't have the faintest idea what it means?

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 10:19 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a typo for 'owned' that became au courant suddenly in messageboard-land.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay then, it still winds me up.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 10:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, it's rubbish. I kind of hate 'owned' too though.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

OTM - and I hate OTM too

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 10:38 (twenty-one years ago)

For some reason, it makes me think of white people saying 'wiki wiki wa wa'.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Gamer types who play Doom3 are responsible for shite like pwned. Which is my excuse, Ive a gamer partner :(

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

(I am not suggesting I want black people to go around saying 'wiki wiki wa wa' either, but it would be marginally more entertaining)

Anyway, I am turning this thread into another trivial gripes one, and for that I apologise.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

PWN3D is annoying, but not as annoying as Fuck Washing A Hat. Which is mostly annoying because I don't get it.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

In't that just some ILX meme people ran with, for no good reason, as usual?

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 10:44 (twenty-one years ago)

"Meme" is annoying, sorry Trayce

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)

you know what's annoying? PEOPLE WHO BITCH ABOUT STUFF THEY DON'T GET ;)

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)

"Oh it's always the same with you - meme meme meme!"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)

'Dadaismus' is an annoying name.

Winkies are annoying (both sorts)

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Seven too many words there, Steve.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Fark sorry, what word would work instead of meme? I dont care for it either but what else works? Repeated injoke? OK maybe.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Why is "Dadaismus" an annoying name? I'm changing it to "N"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks for the memes

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Dadaismus is kind of hard to type i've noticed

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 10:50 (twenty-one years ago)

It's just that most things are annoying if you think about it.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm thinking of changing my posting name again

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

you lot are comforting. like the changing of the seasons.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i think i meant that to go on the "ilx is boring now" thread, but it works here too

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I think you are comforting like the tides of the sea.

But there's just one thing that's just driving me berserk.

Why do only fools and 'orses work?

Lalalalalala...

― Starry (hello chickens), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Boosh boosh boosh boosh.

― No Income Tax or VAT (hello chickens), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

this is doing my head in, are the songs at the start and the end from Only Fools and Horses two different songs ?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Of course! The one at the end is that "C'est magnifique, bookistry"
thing. It is bookistry isn't it?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 11:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Hooky street!!!

― Starry (hello chickens), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, how odd, it is Hooky Street - where did I get "bookistry" from? It doesn't even exist!

We've got some half price cracked ice and miles and miles of carpet tiles,
T.V.s, deep freeze and David Bowie L.P.s,
Ball games, gold chains, whatsnames, pictures frames and leather goods,
And Trevor Francis track suits from a mush in Shepherds Bush,

Bush, bush, bush, bush, bush, bush, bush ...

No income tax, no V.A.T.,
No money back, no guarantee,
Black or white, rich or poor,
We'll cut prices at a stroke......

God bless Hooky Street,
Viva Hooky Street,
Long live Hooky Street,
C'est magnifique, Hooky Street,
Magnifique, Hooky Street,
Hooky Street (to fade)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

heh i always thought that was "booky street"

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

oh!!! i wasn't that far off then.. i never knew the words properly and sung something like "bookies' street" or "cookie's sweet"

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i preferred 'boosh, boosh, boosh, boosh' quite frankly

thanks anyway, i just had to prove my colleague wrong.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a dream about amateur!!!st last night -- he was trying to dig to the center of the earth!

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank you, Mark. That's extremely generous of you.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think Nabisco's confidence is quiet.

N. is right about 'owned', and funny about making noises.

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

how does the title theme go?

stack a pony in me pocket (probably wrong)
i'll fetch the suitcase from the van,
cos if you want the best ones and you don't ask questions then brother, i'm your man

cos where it all comes from is a mystery
it's like the changing of the oceans and the tides of the sea
but he's the one who's driving me beserk
why do only fools and horses work
la la la la la lala la la la...

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Stick a pony in me pocket

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't even know you.

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I enjoy the odd time signatures employed by Truman's Water on their smash hit "Enflamed".

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

This is one of those virtuouso ILX threads where irrelevant tangents follow each other in rapid succession. I am always reminded of the goon show or Harold Pinter.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Airline food is so bad.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

It is bookistry isn't it?
Hahahahahaaha
it's like the changing of the oceans and the tides of the sea
Changing of the SEASONS

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

quite right

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I thank you!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I dislike "pwned" also. When people say it I assume they're making fun of me.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's a bit rubbish too for what it's worth!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

why? xpost

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

it's obvious.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

that's crazy talk, fatface

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahahahaha! (sorry!)

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

STFU N00B

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I was joking Steve. (I'll get you)

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I like adam's stylistic quirk of posting total randomness in the middle of threads.

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

g a b b n e b b

― bnw (bnw), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, he's just been made redundant.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

x-men

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

gabbneb is one part instapundit?

― Symplistic (shmuel), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

"Oh I hope not"

< / Bill Dana >

i wouldn't have noticed the letters were different if i hadn't read that. i rarely read T.O.R.A. or Tapped, though I probably should check them more

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"owned" and "pwned" are both great!! "PwNz()r3D" is probably even better, but takes too long to type.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 16 September 2004 06:58 (twenty-one years ago)

A friend just responded to an e-mail I wrote her: "you use too many !!!!"

I realized that I do probably use exclamations more than I used to, and I think it's because of Adam and S1ocki!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 September 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

(There's something charming about the eager enthusiasm that a well-placed exclamation conveys.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 September 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I do this, perhaps too much - : /

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 16 September 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

"owned" and "pwned" are both great!! "PwNz()r3D" is probably even better, but takes too long to type.

-- Pashmina (vietgrov...), September 16th, 2004.

I misused it.

― youn, Thursday, 16 September 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

i tend to misspell and not be funny.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 16 September 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Me two.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 16 September 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

is instapundit not left leaning? I was going to throw in a really un-gabbnebb site purposely but forgot.

― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 16 September 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

I kind of like how when Alex in NYC finds something funny, he doesn't copy it and paste it into the Excelsior LOL thread, he just posts "Hahahahahaha." It's classy and elegant.

I just noticed that s1ocki and mark p just performed this same trick. It's always pleasing to see a "hahaha," even if you're not the one being congratulated.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 October 2004 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 11 October 2004 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Exclamations are nice, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 October 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

the nordicskilla in manila does it sometimes too, i've noticed. i like how alex always ends his with a period, though.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 11 October 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 October 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

well that's settled then.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 11 October 2004 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

don't miss next sunday night, when we discuss the idiosyncracies of dj martian's line breaks!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 11 October 2004 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Who else has odd line breaks? I want to say Nowell and t\'\'t.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

s1ock1 and amateurist always sound slightly stoned

― Germany's Fun-Loving Beer (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

(sorry; "s1ocki")

― Germany's Fun-Loving Beer (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean that in a peanuts gang sorta way

― Germany's Fun-Loving Beer (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:06 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.theatergroepscala.nl/ygmcb_c%20zonder%20tekst%20klein.jpg

(l-r: me, amateurist)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i always think of slocki as sort of, um, high on life. adam too. am not so much, but that's nothing a bunch of exclamation marks couldn't fix.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

(or parisian girls, pick one)

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha!

― Germany's Fun-Loving Beer (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)

blarcaharcahoy!

― oops (Oops), Monday, 11 October 2004 03:30 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahaha!

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 11 October 2004 04:49 (twenty-one years ago)

What are you guys laughing about? Is it about me?

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 11 October 2004 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahahaha!

― oops (Oops), Monday, 11 October 2004 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

we're all high

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 11 October 2004 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread reminds me of the ceiling-tea-party in Mary Poppins.

― Core of Sphagnum (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 11 October 2004 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahaha!

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 11 October 2004 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i think amateur!st should be charlie brown and slocki should be snoopy.

― youn, Monday, 11 October 2004 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

you have to explain why

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 11 October 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I AM HIGH ON LIFE AND NOW HAVE TEH LIFE MUNCHIES

― Ratchet (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 October 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahaha!

― Ratchet (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 October 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

One of the biggest injustices in the world, is the way that Ratchet and Ironhide have never had new toys made where they actually look like they do in the cartoons. It's something that's always annoyed me.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 11 October 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Run with it, sucker

― Baaderonixx says DANCE!! TAKE A CHANCE!!! (baaderonixx), Friday, 28 October 2005 08:02 (twenty years ago)

STOP HATING ON PWNAGE.
don't diss the l33t ch1c.

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:08 (twenty years ago)

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