How to make yourself known on ILX.....

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So, you start up on here, you are a name (or pseudonym) amongst many, and no-one really knows you from Adam. So you have two ways of going.

1) Make loads of postings that express your individuality, viewpoints, and follow up on FAPS so your visibility is maximised,

2) Specialise in a particular field, and post on a scheduled basis about said topic,

3) Do something daft/ridic/crazy that then has you labelled as "Oh xxx, (s)he's the one that ..............."

OK, that's three things...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 14 January 2005 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

You're the one that what then?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

... I love the English language

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Specialise in a particular field, and post on a scheduled basis about said topic

Note to self: must post at least one computer related post every 72 hours.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

So, you start up on here, you are a name (or pseudonym) amongst many, and no-one really knows you from Adam. So you have two ways of going.

poor adam!

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

way to success is surely a snappy username

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Sure is!

― Alligator (caitlin), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i would be flattered if people got adam and me confused. adam is cool!

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Should *I* be flattered if people get you and me confused, though?

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

no, i'm not cool.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been posting here for over a year and I still feel incredibly anonymous. I don't think I'm notorious for anything except posting try-hard posey pics of myself.

― papa november (papa november), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

i've heard peeing on yourself is a good way to gain notoriety.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

.. which prompted this thread...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Being a complete twat to everyone else seems to make you very popular on here.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

kate, you're the one with the wicked makeup and stuff, right? every time you post a picture, i think 'oh my god, that's so amazing! i wish i had the patience and creativity to do that!'

sorry, i was going to say that on the photo thread and forgot, so i thought i'd add it here...

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost. i am stupid.

being a complete twat makes you very popular in real life too!

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha! Thanks. Most of the time I can't be bothered with the whole makeup thing, then I get bored and go crazy. I'm glad I'm memorable for something at least :)

xpost

― papa november (papa november), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's human nature to feel as though you're not popular or well known. I've always tried to take ILX as I find it and I've no idea if I'm well known / regarded or not. Anything else is madness. Besides, I've been here a couple of years now, it doesn't change that much....

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

caitlin, this is true

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

haha xpost whenever you post i imagine you sitting at the computer wearing a wig and crazy eye makeup.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

ste i don't remember you ever being very popular on here..

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

(see what i did there??????)

(KIDDIN'! BTW)

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd really rather be less know. And therefore less hated, but then again, that probably wouldn't make a difference.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

You're hated? Really? I find that hard to believe.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

you're not hated are you kate? i always saw you as one of the ilx originals?

ha xpost

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

(Sorry, it's a running joke, actually, that everybody on the interweb haaaaaaaaaates me, thus getting to a point about five or six years ago where there was a slogan "Don't Hate Kate" with t-shirts and a band named after it and everything. I guess that's a good schtick.)

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

haha xpost whenever you post i imagine you sitting at the computer wearing a wig and crazy eye makeup

Hahahaha, nah. I'm usually a no-make-up, wild unkept brows, pimply girl. I'm actually starting to think i was a drag queen in a former life.

― papa november (papa november), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey Kate! My name is Kate too and when I was in grade six the girls in my class made t-shirts that said "We hate kate". It must be something in the name.

― papa november (papa november), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I had the idea, when that Tina Turner biopic was first out, of getting "I like Ike" t-shirts printed. Never got round to it tho.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

It's just cause it rhymes so nicely, I guess, Kate. Though couldn't it have been "We Rate Kate" or even "We Date Kate" (as worn my superhott boys).

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

when I was in grade six the girls in my class made t-shirts that said "We hate kate".

OMG thats dreadful! Were they serious?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

BY superbott boys. Freudian slip there. Ha-HEM.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, I've heard way too many annoying limericks that rhyme with kate :)

....

yeah they were serious. i've been a bit damaged ever since.

― papa november (papa november), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but INXS wrote an entire rap about us!

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

oh and then theres that ben folds five song......

― papa november (papa november), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Yar boo sucks to them then.

x-post

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

God, don't remind me...

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think there has ever been a "mark" song. Which is nice.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

It could be worse. You could be called Jennifer!

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I pity any Jesse's out there for Rick Springfields Jesse's Girl. That song sucks balls.

― papa november (papa november), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

it so desperately needs to be "i wish that i was jesse's girl"

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

'The Bell(e) Of St Mark'

― Stevem On X (blueski), Friday, 14 January 2005 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Whatever it's called. I'm drunk and I hate that song anyway. When I was 18 I worked at Sizzler and I heard that song 15+ times a day.

― papa november (papa november), Friday, 14 January 2005 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

start threads about c-span, your q-rating will go SKY high

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 14 January 2005 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Close, stevem, close.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 14 January 2005 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

The Fall: "Mark'll Sink Us"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 January 2005 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, you got me. I did mean in a romantic way, but I'll have that one.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 14 January 2005 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

There is 'Juliet And Mark' by Kevin Coyne and 'Mark'll Sink Us' by the Fall. (xpost)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 14 January 2005 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

or start threads about obscure british garden birds

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 14 January 2005 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Somebody beat me to a Kevin Coyne song (*hangs head in shame*)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 January 2005 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I had the idea, when that Tina Turner biopic was first out, of getting "I like Ike" t-shirts printed. Never got round to it tho.

Ha ha; I like that a lot...

― KeithW (kmw), Friday, 14 January 2005 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

4) Be from somewhere else than the UK/USA/Australia/New Zealand. Be sure to mention your home country and its quirky ways regularly.

Worked like a charm for me! Nowadays I don't even have to mention it. This is hardly an option for most of you though.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 14 January 2005 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I have rellies from finland. For some dumb reason it makes me feel like I have kind of affinty for you.

― papa november (papa november), Friday, 14 January 2005 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

:( expo-HAHA-HAA :)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 14 January 2005 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I still feel relativly anonymous, even though I've been around 4 or 5 years.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 14 January 2005 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Entering the water he makes not a ripple. Entering the forest he moves not a blade of grass.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Friday, 14 January 2005 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

If I can come up with a word as repeatable as bukakke or a phrase as catchy as "fuck washing a hat", that will put me on the map.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 14 January 2005 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I have no idea.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Friday, 14 January 2005 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i like to think of my username as snappy, but i'm not convinced anyone has a clue as to who the fuck i am.

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

You are Greg Kitten, yeah?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I've heard of me. It's a start.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh no!

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I recognize everyone on this thread, except for Ned.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

the dollar sign in the name trick has really helped me out.

i can reccomend it to anybody.

i mean, look at ma$e.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I still think I have next-to-no profile among 99% of the ilxers I haven't met. But as I've met like a hundred of something of you its hardly like I feel anonymous.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

sure, i'm Greg Kitten. if reading my email address is as far as you can go for detail, i guess i'm right.

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Alternatively, start a random lust thread, or something else that makes you the hero of an ILX realtime thread. Everyone will be rooting for you and your profile will go through the roof even if you don't pull.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

ILX realtime threads are the way to go. Obv. example being Gear!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Matt DC, you are unforgettable.

I think no one remembered me until I started going by "Homosexual II," and since I became whatever-my-name-is-now, no one remembers me again. SO SAD.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

4) Be from somewhere else than the UK/USA/Australia/New Zealand. Be sure to mention your home country and its quirky ways regularly.

I was hoping that this would work for Mississippi, but apparently Mississippi can just fuck right off.

Which reminds me, today's my one-year anniversary on ILX. Must find other thread...

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, *I* always remembered you. Even before I met you in real life. So there.

(xpost)

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Did Homosexual II coincide with the time you started posting pictures of yourself, just out of interest?

(That's option three, be a girl and post a picture of yourself looking pretty)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh no!
-- Hari A$hur$t (lindseyloha...) (webmail), January 14th, 2005 4:53 PM. (link)

Oh yes!

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I've always posted dumb pictures of myself, sadly enough.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember you from when you were posting as Mandee, this is madness.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

be a total lame-o-zoid

― Whoever Posts Below This is Gay (Adrian Langston), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Mandee is most memorable.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm kind of tempted to start all over again now.

rather than be known as the guy who wet himself.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

come back as conner smedley, hari.

P.S. did you really wet yourself?

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

He did. I'm not convinced it was pee tho.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I do nothing, but I'm high on Matt's underrated ILXors list.

(I try to have "live" online breakdowns too, but that shtick never worked)

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll have better luck getting mah nob out on Banzai.

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

BET BET BET!!!

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i swear on the lives of all those i love that that was urine, in my pants, from my urinating device (i.e my penis).

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Using horrible grammar and bizarre punctuation seems to be the only thing I've really gotten noticed for.

xpost ha hahaaa ( I still don't believe you)

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

What was that "technically, it was Paris Hilton" all about then?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Come to think of it, I'm probably quite high on the list of People Matt DC and Stevem Would Like To Make A Sandwich Of. Ditto for Ken and Roxy.

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

4) Be from somewhere else than the UK/USA/Australia/New Zealand. Be sure to mention your home country and its quirky ways regularly.

I've mentioned my Newfoundland / Labrador roots about every third post. Hasn't done squat re: increased visibility, though.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

What was that "technically, it was Paris Hilton" all about then?

there was no logic or reasoning behind that, i just wanted to say 'technically' 'paris hilton' in the same sentence.

AIM conversations are a good way of getting known. i would never have started posting as much as i do if it weren't for roxymuzac and aimchats.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

These are the kind of threads that get started right before the server explodes. Just warning y'all.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

HI DERE I AM CONFUESD AFRICAN MANG

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, how about posting the entire contents of your brain to ILX in a effort to stave off the inevitable Barneyfication and Hornsbyization of your brain over a two month period starting at Veteran's Day, will that work? Probably not. OK, then I suggest

Include the words "hey guys" frequently in your thread titles, and make many threads about articles of clothing, with concentration on novel man-garment interaction.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

So B4rim4, where are you from again?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Huddersfield

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I either am never around in a good time for an aimchat, or I have become grossly unpopular.

Or I changed my screen name.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

you were posting as Mandee, this is madness

Hey, this does sound miles better than "I'm Mandy, Fly Me" !
(10cc really should retitle their song, pronto.)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

good time for an aimchat

That happens? When? And how?

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

usually somebody bored starts one an invites trickle until lots or not very many people are in there.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Friday, 14 January 2005 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Come to think of it, I'm probably quite high on the list of People Matt DC and Stevem Would Like To Make A Sandwich Of

So, are you coming to the pub tonight or what?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 14 January 2005 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Pub's yer uncle?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 14 January 2005 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

That depends Matt, how many people at the pub will be wearing spiked leather and chains?

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Friday, 14 January 2005 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Ultimately, it doesn't matter.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, we're all gunna die anyway.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

"gunna, gunna, gunna me mon aftah mi'nite!"

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

How about using the corny old gambit of impersonating a fishbone caught in ILX's collective throat?

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I am destined to remain anonymous in perpetua.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Does that mean we won't be able to tell the difference between you and Matthew Perpetua?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

How to make 10,000 nontrivial posts and still be unknown. That is my dream.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

It's all about AIM.

― AaronHzILX (AaronHz), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

The only AIM conversation I've ever had with another ILXor was with Kenan, almost two years ago. (Back then I was using AOL as my dial-up ISP, but since I got DSL I haven't bothered with instant-messaging at all.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

AIM takes effort.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I hate IM conversations. Nothing personal against jaymc, mind you.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris, your Hamlet gambit over on ILF was a good one.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I only talk to about three ppl on AIM.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I love AIM conversations and my secret wish is that Adam would instant message me.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

really?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I am not on very much. Ask s1ocki. Ask Rosemary. Ask kyle.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Get in!

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I always feel like IMing is way more entertaining to most people than it is to me, so when someone IMs me, they're just looking for me to provide them with free entertainment. Dude, that's not why I'm sitting in front of a computer.

I don't have many friends. Also, I can't stand children.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

The thing about AIM is that if I'm at home and I'm online, I'm probably doing like five things at once, so I don't know if I could keep up with a real-time conversation.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Children are nice. It's old people that I could do without.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Especially the fifty-something horny hubbies IM'ing you looking to be your "daddy."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Am I known for anything around here? Beats me... Let me just get back to rebiasing this amp...

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

you are known, by me at least, for playing video games.

congratulations!!!!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I tried on these shoes last night that sort of resembled shriveled white assholes, and I accidentally yelled out (to my sister, standing about 20 feet away), "DO THESE LOOK LIKE OLD BAG SHOES?" and a little old lady with a walker was right behind me. I felt I should have been shot on the spot.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Martin, I only learned you were an audiophile/gearhead recently. Before that, my first impressions of you were mostly to do with They Might Be Giants and your awesome comics.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

your awesome comics
Martin, you created "Where's Waldo?"?

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Who was it who said ILE is like having a tea party with your stuffed toys? I still think about that and laugh.

So long here and I still can't put a face to the names except for a few Australians, and of course the twin pillars of Momus and Ned (the anti-Momus).

― thee music mole, Friday, 14 January 2005 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I tried on these shoes last night that sort of resembled shriveled white assholes

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Start your own board; ban people from it.

― LSD ARISTOCAT (ex machina), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Call people a moron for messing up trivial details on highly techical threads.

― LSD ARISTOCAT (ex machina), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Who was it who said ILE is like having a tea party with your stuffed toys? I still think about that and laugh.

It was ME! Yay!

"Sometimes posting to ILX feels a bit like lining up all your stuffed animals and having a pretend dinner party with them."

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Martin, I only learned you were an audiophile/gearhead recently.

Heheheh... Well I have actually annoyed some people on guitar/effects/recording forums elsewhere on the net, so I am really careful about how and when that info gets out especially on a board which is patently not about that subject.

Plus, nobody likes an audiophile. (And I'm not as bad as many thing. Usually I'm in the school of thought that goes "Does it sound good to you? Okay, then.")

Also, thanks. Here's hoping compliments of that nature get me off my ass and onto creating more comics... ;)

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Call people a moron for messing up trivial details on highly techical threads.

Jon this is one of my favorite things!

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought about posting something about Jon, but I'd figured we should just wait for him and he could do it way better than I.
2xpost
Be careful about making your name in association with stuffed animals, adam.
(n by x post)
dave225,
I know you for your good sense of humor, your dislike of certain effluvium-losing jambands and your excellent metaphoric use of a certain Mustachioed Man Versus Melon entertainer (see impersonations thread), in particular during the Iggy vs. the Corrs controversy.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Specialise in a particular field, and post on a scheduled basis about said topic

Oh hey! Did you know that Duran Duran were almost going to sign to Phonogram? Yeah, there was a huge bidding war back in 1980 between them and EMI to sign the band, but the band chose EMI because they were "hugely patriotic" (Nick's words, IIRC) at the time and wanted an English-based label with very English connotations, e.g. The Beatles. They have since regretted this decision, BTW.

(also: TS: Dave Gahan vs. Simon Le Bon )

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

My field of specialisation is Gary Numan, so I just wait around for those threads.

One really annoying thing I've found is when you post something you think is funny and someone else comes back with 'that's not funny'. Why don't they just not laugh? That's what I do.

― thee music mole, Friday, 14 January 2005 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost:
Congratulations! You can now change your name to Dee the Proud Poster.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

introduce c on t's to the ILeXicon

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

make "i don't even know who you are" a household phrase

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I do think Matt DC is OTM re "I think it's human nature to feel as though you're not popular or well known." I don't think too many people really give a damn about me over here and I think I'm getting to the point where it really wouldn't bother me all that much either way, really. I'm just stupid, insignifcant little me, you know? Miss "No One Special Unless You Want Duran Trivia And Then She'll Burst Forth With Reams Of Information". Miss I think she's harped on A Certain Subject for a bit, you know. (Even though I really haven't listened to the band's music in a few months.)

(Speaking of AIM -- I'm surprised more of you aren't available late at night! That's the only time I can really get to chatting with people.)

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

#3. Pazz & Jop. Outkast. 'Nuff said.

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Congratulations! You can now change your name to Dee the Proud Poster.

Well, considering that I read something like seven or eight online forums on a semi-regular or regular basis and this is the only one I actually post at, I still think the "lurker" status fits me well. But thanks.

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I want Adam to IM me as well. And then make awkward small talk. And then apologize and head off to do something more interesting. And then come back and do it again the next day. And to keep this up for several weeks. And then for several months. Until finally he builds up the courage to ask me to come to the Apple Pan Dowdy Cook-Off with him. At which point I'll say that I don't particularly like apple pan dowdy. And he'll say "oh" and it will be awkward. That, I think, would be beautiful.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

adam is a horrible IMer.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Did anyone say this yet: Have a name already from outside ILX, like chuck, Matos, Ned, Momus, and some others I may be forgetting.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 14 January 2005 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Heheheh... I have a name from outside ILX (though not in the rock crit or musician circles), but I don't use it on ILX... Curious ain't it?

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 14 January 2005 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't really get AIM.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost:
oh yeah, I followed up on jaymc's tip and did a little research.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 14 January 2005 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

You mean you now know my secret, Ken?

Argh.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 14 January 2005 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

C'mon martin, I ain't no bigshot around here.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 14 January 2005 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Me neither, but you know my secret!

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 14 January 2005 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Adam, AIM is all about multiple rows of smiley guys.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 14 January 2005 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

AIM bores me. I'd rather talk on the phone, actually. No offense to the people I've AIMed with of course, I'm speaking in a general sense. Meaning? Everyone I AIM with I'd rather just talk on the phone to.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 14 January 2005 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

So.

I need a beer.

Does ILX dare me to drink a beer?

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Friday, 14 January 2005 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I believe this thread is perhaps better suited for inviting such challenges.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 14 January 2005 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh man, I totally would rather AIM then talk on the phone. I have nothing to say to a phone. Who wants to talk into an object? Typing is one thing, talking is another. I also don't like those new phone systems where you say "ground shipment" instead of pressing "3". That irks me, I usually try to get to an operator at that point or see if there's a website or maybe a competitor I can use.

Ned is known outside of ILX? For his spoken word albums, I hope.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 14 January 2005 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I have to deal with that voice activated UPS system all the time, Chris and I sympathize with you there--i hate hate hate it. Even pressing numbers is better than having to talk to an automaton.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 14 January 2005 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh my god, I hate those voice systems, especially when I can be heard grunting "No," "Number three," or "Partially destroyed" all down the phone in a grating monotone, in the middle of a quiet office. Plus I hate the sound of my voice.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 14 January 2005 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't mind web chatting with someone if they remember to spell and punctuate. Otherwise, give me the telephone.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 14 January 2005 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been accused of being a stuck-up snob in the Literati rooms for daring to spell and punctuate.

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Friday, 14 January 2005 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

The worst is Claire with Sprint. I hate her with the fire of a thousand suns.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 14 January 2005 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned is known outside of ILX? For his spoken word albums, I hope.

Maybe this little thread called TS: AMG vs. ILM that I created under an old name will help you understand, Chris. Probably not though.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 14 January 2005 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I got known for constantly denying I was a goth, and backing this up by saying "look, see?" and posting pictures of myself looking totally goth. I didn't do it on purpose!

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 14 January 2005 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

three years later and i'm still unknown

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Saturday, 15 January 2005 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sorry, but did you all just hear something?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 15 January 2005 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Nope.

― Michael White (Hereward), Saturday, 15 January 2005 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Who are you, Jim? ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 15 January 2005 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, actually I did hear some kind of electric sound, come to think of it.

― Michael White (Hereward), Saturday, 15 January 2005 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Nah it was just surface noise ;)

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 15 January 2005 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

pwned :(

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Saturday, 15 January 2005 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, a slight return!

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 15 January 2005 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw we lub you Jim!

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 15 January 2005 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Jim is a fine feller, a statement I can say having had a beer with him. And he makes him good music.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 15 January 2005 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't mind web chatting with someone if they remember to spell and punctuate. Otherwise, give me the telephone.
Man, after 3 seconds with me on msngr you'd be setting your computer on fire!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 15 January 2005 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

4) Tell everyone how much you fancy your own cock

― Adamdrome Crankypants (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 15 January 2005 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

That's enough to get a thread going but not enough to get everyone to remember who you are. Unless you actually show the thing. And it's a great cock.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 15 January 2005 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah I was going to mention getting ones shlong out online. Which IIRC, only Momus and, technically speaking Martin, have done. Is that right?

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 15 January 2005 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Though I suppose that fits in with definition 3 in Marks original post...

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 15 January 2005 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)

only Momus and, technically speaking Martin, have done

I don't recall ever getting my shlong out onl-- Oh. The other Martin. Right.

Dammit, that wouldn't be the first time Mr. Skidmore has caused me confusion, though I can't say anything because he was on ILX first.

― martin m. (mushrush), Saturday, 15 January 2005 06:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it hard, really?

― Stephen Patrick, Saturday, 15 January 2005 07:18 (twenty-one years ago)

http://f.myspace.com/00047/75/84/47414857_l.jpg

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 15 January 2005 07:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Martin. The other white meat.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 15 January 2005 09:40 (twenty-one years ago)

martin m just get your cock out and be done with it. no more confusion

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 15 January 2005 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I do think Matt DC is OTM re "I think it's human nature to feel as though you're not popular or well known."

Ahem, Dee honey, that was me.

― Matt (Matt), Saturday, 15 January 2005 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Now I really don't feel known on ILX.

― Matt (Matt), Saturday, 15 January 2005 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Mustachioed Man Versus Melon
I should have written Mustachioed Mallet-bearing Man Versus Melon.

― Ken L (Ken L), Saturday, 15 January 2005 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure if I'm being annoying enough yet to be known.
I might have to crank it up to 11.

― MY FAVOURITE LIGHTER IS CHEESEBURGER (trigonalmayhem), Saturday, 15 January 2005 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I did. I gmailed the music that no-one talks about.

― B4rima da Bandit (Barima), Saturday, 15 January 2005 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

hey don't forget donut bitch and kenan's weenies!

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 15 January 2005 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess I went with Mark Grout's #3, talking about shitting myself, being pissed on by my brother, having menstrual blood on my face and stuff like that. I also talked a lot of shit about ilxors behind their backs in AIM chats and made some friends that way. When I say I'm the lowest of the low you should just take my word for it.

― Bryan (Bryan), Sunday, 16 January 2005 07:47 (twenty-one years ago)

timestamping if off here. in fact so are all the cookies. fuckin god damn never know who's incontrol of this fucking computer.

― RAINBOW, Sunday, 16 January 2005 07:48 (twenty-one years ago)

teenny wil u fuck me tho. timestamping is off so its hard for me 2 tell when you made that post. Q

― quid., Sunday, 16 January 2005 07:50 (twenty-one years ago)

what did i make that post or smoeoene else? ciz i'm all for competition n shit but plagairism sucks...nto that i wd ever ask a woman outright to fuc k me or anytthing.

― halleljuha, Sunday, 16 January 2005 08:08 (twenty-one years ago)

MATT! Honey, I feel like shit now. Um, I'm terrible with names and I'm insanely regretful I messed things up ESPECIALLY there. I shall flog myself senseless to make up for this.

(I'll never forget that you gave me a little shining light in the midst of a vast field of darkness, though. You, Coastaltown Matt, not any other Matt. Well, maybe one other Matt too, but you definitely.)

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 16 January 2005 08:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Dee plenty of people here give a damn about you! Aw, buck up woogums (etc etc). But I mean seriously, what kind of thing is that to say? You've made yourself known with your respectfulness and forthrightness and extremely clear writing. You've got thoughts that last longer than a sentence or two, and I think you're probably the most notoriously open-minded person around here. Anyway, I'm not on AIM because I've never done it and I'm got a phobia about it.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 16 January 2005 08:23 (twenty-one years ago)

You are taking no shit from the shitters Dee and you are the BM dudes (for must we be known as it) favourites.

― Sami Jheryllkanyga, Sunday, 16 January 2005 08:47 (twenty-one years ago)

dee. yeah i'd hit it.

― John (jdahlem), Sunday, 16 January 2005 08:49 (twenty-one years ago)

And you thought no one cared!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 16 January 2005 08:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Tracer I could not be fucking with for I belive he has a sociology degree.

― Sami Jheryllkanyga, Sunday, 16 January 2005 09:01 (twenty-one years ago)

No flogging please Dee, it's not a flogworthy issue (and I echo the sentiments others have voiced about you).

― Matt (Matt), Sunday, 16 January 2005 10:05 (twenty-one years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/sexymollusk/VasDjifrens.jpg

of course i only make myself "known" to spread the black message of hopelessness and despair to hasten the arrival of Nightspirit. YOU ARE ALL DOOMED.

― Mr. Vas Djifrens (byzantum), Sunday, 16 January 2005 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)

That is the most incredible thing I have ever seen.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 16 January 2005 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Include the words "hey guys" frequently in your thread titles

Not me. Prove it!

― mark grout (mark grout), Sunday, 16 January 2005 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

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