It’s just one of those things, Joel.
-Tim Elhajj
I don’t know what you’re talking about, Joel.
- Alan “It’s a trap!” Au
Joel, you have to learn to adapt.
-Tom Chick
Run your cursor over the URL button and look above under TIP and it shows you how to do this.
-Doug Lowenstein
That’s a lot like chewing gum and walking.
-Tom Cruise
Yeah punk? And I’m all out of bubble gum. Walk-walk-walk.
(and yeah, the Xtien quote above is totally time bandits.)
- Where would King Arthur be without Guinevere?
- Happily married, probably.
- Well, that’s a bad… that’s a bad example. (-not from Time Bandits)
Nothing wrong with signing posts.
The Narrator
Saturday’s:
supine
- Lying on the back or having the face upward.
- Having the palm upward. Use of the hand.
- Marked by or showing lethargy, passivity, or blameworthy indifference. See synonyms at inactive.
- Inclined; sloping.
-Amanpour
At first I was going to reply with something dopey and sarcastic, as is my wont, but then it struck me that I had an actual answer to your question. So I’m falling back on that.
This habit goes back to the old days of q23, back when you didn’t have to register to be a poster. I think it’s required now. At any rate, way back when, before I disappeared for a couple years–henceforth referred to as “the dark time”–you could just post without registering and the only way people knew who the hell had posted was if you actually signed your post. Back then I never bothered to register. I think at the time I was afraid wumpus would somehow get my personal information and start stalking me.
It was a weird time. A more trusting time. I was often struck by how anybody could have written anything and posted it under any of us unregistered posters’ names. I preminisce no return to the salad days…
So anyway, I never got over signing my posts. And here we are.
“Charming, to the last. You don’t know how hard I found it signing the order to terminate your life.”
-Amanpour
Yay! I love playing this game.
– Lev Sergeyevich Termen
The signing your name thing goes back to Usenet for many of us.
Also, it’s helpful for people who’ve written a post so long that by the time you get to the end, you can’t see the name on the left side anymore. You know, people like Kitsune.
-Desslock
Totally. Goes back to usenet.
–
“Now here’s where you chip in and explain why you’ve got a fat chunk of Kirkegaard hanging from your posts.”
-Tom Chick
God… how many years has it been since we were all on USENET?
–Old Salt
I also do it because its helpful in keeping track in all the conversations I’ve participated in/am interested in. By signing Kitsune, you can just search for Kitsune on the forum engine and it lists threads with the most recent being the topmost (I don’t think it does that if you just search for your username, you just get your posts). Since people tend to call me out from time to time asking for info, its also a good way not to miss them.
-Scholtheim Reinbach III
What… three, now? Four? Most of us left around 2001-2002, didn’t we? I know I left towards the beginning of 2002.
And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality,
when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or
ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you
is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every
individual in these millions and millions about only one thing:
whether you have lived in despair or not.
-- Soren Kierkegaard,
"The Sickness Unto Death"
Hah. Amusingly, when looking for Tom’s query to me which was the origin of the .sig quote I put up earlier, I found a post that explains his love for the ‘don’t shoot, I’m with the science team,’ quote that garnishes the games forum.
Also, a fun slam on Damien. Aw, who am I kidding, they’re all fun!
Monday’s:
nihilists
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Philosophy
a. An extreme form of skepticism that denies all existence.
b. A doctrine that holds that all values are baseless and nothing can be known or communicated. -
The belief that destruction of existing political or social institutions is necessary for future improvement.
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See also Nihilism. A diffuse revolutionary movement of mid-19th century Russia that scorned authority and tradition and believed in reason, materialism, and radical change in society and government through terrorism and assassination.
(See Fight Club, the commentary track with Edward Norton on same, or Tom Chick’s Daily Radar review of same).*
And my favorite…
- Psychiatry A delusion, experienced in some mental disorders, that the world or one’s mind, body, or self does not exist.
I leave it up to snowcrash22 to attribute the quote.
-Amanpour
*Linked without permission because, well, Tom isn’t around right now to give permission.
Tuesday’s:
leviathan
- Something unusually large of its kind, especially a ship.
- A very large animal, especially a whale.
- A monstrous sea creature mentioned in the Bible.
- The excuse for why the Bush administration keeps stepping on its dick.
nthe largest or most massive thing of its kind; “it was a leviathan among redwoods”; “they were assigned the leviathan of textbooks” 2: monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old Testament.
A transliterated Hebrew word (livyathan) meaning “twisted” or “coiled.”
-Amanpour
[no mention at dictionary.com of Peter Weller]
I leave it up to snowcrash22 to attribute the quote.
-Amanpour[/quote]
Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.
Leviathan swallowed Jonah.
Check IMDB. That’s Robocop dude.