I’ve noticed a bunch of newbies lately, and I am running out of creative ways to welcome you to the party. So here it is, for all of you: I’ll take your coat, help yourselves to Fig Newtons and Schlitz, the Cheese Whiz is in the microwave, you can make out in the bathroom but not the bedroom, and remember to put the seat down.
I hope you’re planning to come to our Crush party tomorrow! The best way to act like you’ve been reading our blog all this time is to read our blog from April on, all 800-something posts. Just kidding! Someone get this kid his inhaler! And a Schlitz! Okay. Seriously, our three-quarters-of-a-year-in-review posts might be sort of helpful.
Stuff We Love to Hate and Hate to Love
10 Most Viewed Articles of 2007
Guns, cherries, corks, and all the news that POPPED in 2007
Popularity: 3% [?]
Tagged as: Blogs
Im not really new, Im just here for the Schlitz.
Dude, me too. We have like so much in common!
I’m a newbie. Should I wear a disguise to Crush? What’s the dress code? Are pants optional? Am I asking too many questions?
Semi-newbie here, longtime lurker, somtime poster. I was really looking forward to the Crush tasting, until I realized that I’ll be attending the first of many pre-natal classes that night. Mrs. Wingnut might be a little miffed if I left her to do it by herself! Crush on Villains, and give Gregg a good reason to host another one!
@ Smiley - Of course pantys are optional. Duh?
@ Wingnit - Congratulations! I personally think you got your priorities all screwed up, but hey, to each their own
I always figured prenatal classes should be required before drinking age is reached ’cause most pregnancies occur after the booze starts flowing.
Wow…that was helpful. Now all I need to do is find a way to explain how reading all of that is in fact billable. “Research?” Damn.
So I can dig the anonymity aspect of it all, but what, we show up and pretend like we aren’t trying to figure out who is who? Certainly you guys / girls (editors) must be on the prowl. I’m going to show up with a ‘Thor’ name tag just to see what happens. Maybe not. Maybe I’ll just get wasted and move to another town afterwards…that’d be sweet.
Nice link gMonet
I’m wondering what happens when I show up to Crush and realize that I know some of the people from real-life, and not just from reading posts from them on this interweb site. Or maybe all of the faces will be new ones…somehow I doubt it though…this place is small like that…but, you never know…
Do you call each other by real names if you know each other’s real names, or do you call each other by screen names only, even when you know people’s real names? If so, is it weird?
I feel like I’m about to enter the twilight zone tomorrow night…
Thanks Silmo - what else are we living our lives for if it’s not for some real f’n gusto? No Schlitz? Just give me whatever’s free.
I’m also glad I’m not the only brand nubian curious about how this goes down (icenine, Smiley)…I guess that’s why it’s all centered around alcohol - the answer to most of life’s questions that don’t have answers. Looking forward to it…
@ icenine
Everyone uses the name that is on the name tag regardless of how well you know them or they you. People typically use their handles. You may run into someone you know from your other life, but just remember The Code applies.
Hmmm…what do we write on our spouse’s tag? Would he be Mr. Chickie? The Buckingham Rooster? I think that might make his head swell and I certainly don’t need that. I may have to just use our real names. We’ll see. Technically, I’m not a newbie as I’ve been reading sporadically for a long time now, and daily in the last month or so. But since I’ve only recently started posting I have no problem being called a newbie. Especially if it allows me to ask dumb questions without being shunned. About that dress code…?
Owing to yesterdays epic thread that both ended up on the news and ended up degenerating into drunken pornograpghy, I will refrain from making a ‘cock*’ joke of any kind. I goes against my nature, but hey, I guess we’re trying to get all respectable up in here. I can roll wit it.
*male rooster
Silmo’s right… use whatevers on the name tag. at the zinc party, it was a mix of screennames, real names, and made up names that only existed at the party. Basically, you can be as closeted as you want.
mc is right on!
Yes, let’s please refrain from going to the bad place today. We’re pulling the figurative dog off the ottoman.
B yo - thread on the news?
I was originally kidding about the name tag thing, but I’ve seen quite a few references to them since then. Name tags provided or is it BYONT?
this newbie says thanks, lilith! wish i could be there tomorrow.
Everytime Ive been to one of these deals there were nametags. I dont know where they came from. Some folks had none, some had many some came as others, some made stuff up. It was all very confusing, as god intended.
gMonet: The pink paintball thread topic got picked up and aired by Ch 29 news, and thus was included in their online version. The online version credited this blog a breaking the story, and linked to it. As the fates would have it, that *particular* thread got way out of hand (I am guilty of contributng to that) in both size and vulgarity. There was some weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth. Thor’s hammer may have hit a few inboxes. I have know idea how many clickthroughs would come from NBC29’s site, or what the traffic was like yesterday, but it was a kind of perfect storm of wierdness that was at first hilarious, then exciting, then almost on the edge of scary(mostly, Im asssuming , for the admins).
That is why I am typing in this very restrained voice today, and placing a very docile furry puppy, that has been sedated, on the ottoman, very gently.
Thank you for your time.
the pink paintball thread was hardly the first one to get crazy vulgar, it was just the first one really labeled “outta hand” because our leaders got all hyped up about being featured in the corporate press. Once you let floozy out of the bag and revel in her craziness (see “things that popped in 2007″) you can’t expect her to get prim and proper when company comes over.
I’m totally willing to be called wrong on this one, it’s just how it appeared to me at the time.
I re-read all of the train-wreck that was the pink-paintball thread, and quite frankly I don’t think it was all that bad. Its a mixed blessing that two of the most popular and witty commenters are also two of the most likely to go off on tangents (or perhaps never read the original subject matter to begin with?) and to spice things up a bit (yes I’m speaking of ‘yo and flooze) But if you tried to reign either of them in I think readership would plummet. May I suggest an ‘R’ rated thread of the day? Where any and all tangents would be permissible without be-fouling more serious subjects? Would that work? Kind of like what we had yesterday, but you could plan it…
Where is flooze by the way? Did Thor put her in a ‘time out’?
Didja read comment #216? That’s the rub.
And I will always tangiantialize… I just gotta be more nuanced. Or something.
I’m sulking
And Im pretending to be a restrained sophisticate.
Thor and I have been vigilant for a while– remember this?
http://cvillain.com/?p=633
I participate in it, too. But yesterday, I stepped away from the computer at 3 and came back at 10, and I was met with the full gambit: gay jokes, clique jokes, drug jokes, self-love jokes, cursing, and mentions of physical ailments located in the nether regions. Reading that, what do you think?
I think this is a really bright group. Such creativity with these topics has probably never been seen in this city. I just prefer it when it’s related to the post, and, maybe one offense at a time.
I tend to agree with HD and MC with the exception of the point when someone refered to my arm wrestling friends as “dikes” Not b/c they are dikes, b/c they’re not, and not b/c in private the comment wouldn’t be friendly, but because it was said on the internets and could easily be misconstued.
I think I crossed a few lines (namely commentary on the reporters, i regret that), as sometimes happens. I also think I have self corrected, and rest upon the greater body of my posts in my defense.
And, as always, I can only speak for myself.
I’m over it. Moving on!
So last weeks poll about oral sex and the current one asking if we are gay are acceptable, but clique jokes are verboten? I feel like I am on a date with someone that says no, means yes and then complains they didn’t get laid all night.
. I’m sorry but that is how it went down.
Yesterday’s thread was like a classroom when the teacher steps out and all hell breaks loose. Thor admonished at one point, HD told him to chill out so Thor posted a
B Yo What was wrong with comment 216?
H-D I think designating an R-rated thread would be like putting cookiesd in front of a six year old and telling them “don’t touch” OR like adding kerosene to the fire. Pick your metaphore (or mix your own. HEY!)
That was her leaving. Im glad she’s back, and agree with her above comment. And, like the comment above that, I too, am moving on.
Shouldn’t we be arguing about bar stools, or fondue or something?
I get annoyed when a thread turns into a few posters’ chat room about “hd, check your email”, “see ya later at ___”s, and other dumb cyber flirting. That’s when I usually lose interest in a thread.
Ohhh somebody’s mad they don’t get email or invites or flirted with…
Thor/Lillith, if you want to try to curb threadjacks, you might want to try a daily “Open Thread/Post” where anyone can post about anything. DailyKos does that and it seems to help with off-topic discussions. Not that each thread has to stay completely on-topic, but an Open Thread may dissuade people from completely going off-topic. Might also help with the things Gobbler noted above in #32.
Hey I’ve posted my email on this site on more than one occassion
I can’t invite people if I don’t have their email
Not that they’d want to be invited
I will however be collecting addresses tomorrow at Cruch
See y’all later at Asscafe!!!
@30 - silmo, i read that as “kerosene cookies”, and thought, why would you put those in front of a child? and then i thought, why *wouldn’t* you put those in front of a child?
/going to hell
/doesn’t care
/will see you all there
shenanigans, check your email, oh and kiss kiss flirt flirt love.
Floozy I love you.
Number 9…Number 9. Of course we all know each already. Or The Faces….not to be confused w/ Rod Stewart and The Faces. This town is like The Truman Show. That’s the point.
Do you guys like the “open thread” idea? I like that a lot actually. P.S. We didn’t try to clean up for NBC 29.
We got all of 2 visitors from their site, anyway.
Thor/Lilith Why was # 25 post edited? The pixels in the last 3 sentences are younger than the original post.
Don’t offend newbies
Just make a jerk of yourself
Here pubically.
@ 40 - And I was one of those visitors. That says a LOT about there lame site. I betcha they don’t have anything close to the number of visitors as we do. Of course their site is notable for its absence of “spooge” talk.
“Spooge talk”, or rather from tacit to explicit sexuality, sells product, and it does not matter what that product is.
Always has, always will. Welcome to the internet. We’ll be back with more elucidation after this heavily breasted car commercial…
/when you turn your car on, does it return the favor?
“/when you turn your car on, does it return the favor?”
funny you ask.
currently: earlier this week and last it was choosing not to turn on. (due to a worn key) and so actually i have a new found guilty reverence and appreciation for my car starting without some sort of magic happening… so in a human/machine sort of way- i may have been turned on by my car starting this week.
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(everone have fun at Crush- i regret i will be unable to attend)
Sex doesn’t sell. Being memorable sells. If your product is awash in a sea of sex, sexuality doesn’t make any impression.
Thanks Uva. I’m with you.
Flooze, I added to that comment because I CAN, actually. You guys might notice that I comment on my own comments a fair amount. Editing my comment to add to it allows for more people to shine in the recent comments and for me to come off as less flippant. I don’t take stuff out though.
/so there
47: That makes sense, lilith. You might want to add a little [updated, DATE, -ed.] when you do so. Seems a little (just the leetlest beet) sneaky otherwise.
Even if it’s within five seconds of pressing “submit comment”? I’ll just comment again if it’s not immediate.
I mean, I will if you guys want, but…? [<- That was added within one second.]
Oh, I didn’t realize we were talking about immediate updates. I’ll turn my outrage sensor back down to “Normal” and maybe get some more coffee.
For me and maybe some other internet rookies. Can someone give me a quick lesson on formatting? How do I make stuff bold and italicized, or in those big quotes?
<I>text</I> = text
<B>text</B> = text
<strike>text</strike> =
text<blockquote>text</blockquote> =
cool thanks
Lilith/Thor, are you also able to go into our comments and edit them? Serious question.
@Floozy of course we can, but we don’t unless someone screws up a html tag every now and then.
Does the system keep an archival log of any changes made? By that I mean is there a time/date stamp recorded somewhere to register an edit was made. Answer this and I’ll tell you why I am curious…
not that we can easily see.. i’m sure there is a log somewhere
Planning a lawsuit Floozy?
I’ve never edited someone else’s comment. I seriously can’t think of a time.
Yes I can. Once– a misspelling turned a normal word into a dirty joke (or close), and it was unintential on the author’s part, but it was joked upon, so I switched it back to its original form. And frowned upon myself.
Sil… LOL…
I was recently asked by a client/friend (who is an attorney) if I was concerned about libel etc as I am a web forum owner. As I see it, the ability to edit posts by someone other than the original poster establishes reasonable doubt as to whether they wrote the original post, unless there is a record kept of such changes. My forum has a log and if my moderators make a change of any kind, it is recorded and ID/date/time stamped. It came that way, I did not design it (not that smart). I just wondered how this one was setup.
Reasonable doubt is always your friend.
And no I am not going to say what the forum is… it is restrained and polite and boring as hell… and I use one of my many chamelonic personalities to run it.
Such a tease.
Oddd though, I run a forum that collects pictures of all of you which have been photoshopped heavily. Nope sorry cant tell you why how or where.
the bottom line is we aren’t responsible for what you folks write, so you better check yourself.
are we freaked out? of course. can we do anything about it? no. would we edit your posts to create libel? are you F-ing kidding me? of course not.
this has a database and server logs built on wordpress and other standard web stuff. that’s enough to trace who did/edited/wrote what, but it doesn’t sit in the wordpress admin.
welcome to the internet.
I wrote this!
BYo… I heard you were heavily downloading giraffe pics recently. Do you shorten their necks before you put them on our bodies, or is the neck what it’s all about?
Thor… never implied you would… just could.
When anyone has a website, he/she can do any of that; I fail to see how this is unique to us vs any other site on the internet.
Because, Thor, you and lilith are such kind and benevelont internetical overlords that we were all chipping in for a surprise thank you trip to Cozumel. But now, well, Mr. Glib, you can just forget it.
Well, you’ve edited mine, but only when I asked you to and only when the rules applied…
Goddammit! Can you go back and add a
to #68, lil? I hate to come off as an ass right before Crush 
Thanx.
In 61, Flooze declares,
Hellooo (elooo, eloooo)
I’m here baby! I don’t like crowds.