Cartoon, for the benifit of those of us in the back who are placing bets in the back… could you kindly enlighten us as to what in the name of Sneevish Q. Fludelmeyer your beef is with Una? It’s not exactly clear.
Please tell. I haven’t had a good laugh in days.
Your command of English seems on a par with your command of logic. Last time I checked, “humble suggestion” and “demand” aren’t exactly synonyms. Don’t read anything subliminal into it, nor in the advice following it.
And distain is spelled disdain.
Thanks for the link.
By all means, let’s.
Poste Haste is actually spelled posthaste.
Yeah, criticize my spelling skills one paragraph after I state that I’m nearly delirious with pain.
(FTR, half of my tooth, including a feeling, fell out of my head today. I don’t know how many of you have a had a raw nerve sticking out of your half-tooth before, but I guarentee you, it is not pleasant)
Fuck!
“feeling” equals “filling”
If I wasn’t in so much pain, I would go to bed…
yeah, that freedom of speech gives you the right to show everyone what an idiot you are…
Whilst PLG exalting Anthracite’s words to the heavens might be a slight exaggeration, I don’t see how that implies this is a religious or non-religious board (apart from anything else, the source-religion of those heavens was not specified and it is a fairly common phrase). If anything, it seems that it is you picking on someone else for their religion, which I’m pretty damned sure is not covered by that same free speech…
Somebody’s making a killing selling hockey gear in Hades, 'cause I’m agreeing 100% with oldscratch here. And what in Sweet Georgia Brown was up with the link to the gay link site? Huh, there’s gay sites on the web. I never would have guessed, personally. Guess that means Anthracite is a hate-filled bigot. Uh-huh.
Y’know, it’s always bizarre to watch people self-destruct like this. What causes it? Why do people seem pretty much OK one day and then go apewire the next? Is it really as simple as people going off their meds?
OK, I don’t know why, but I’m going to try to be helpful. To post a link, simply go to the site you want to link to. Highlight the URL, y’know the address up at the top of the screen up there? Press CTRL+C. Go back to the SDMB and paste the URL into a message by pressing CTRL+V. See that little thing that says Automatically parse URLs down there? Check it. Then click Submit Reply. The hyperlink will be created automatically. How’s that? Now you can never say I never did anything for you…
Y’know, I remember when the only people who ever started threads like this had single digits under the “number of posts” column. How can anyone possibly be around long enough to post 600 times, then post something so obviously totally fucked up?
I don’t know what happened, Duke, but I’ll wager it happened between 7:45 p.m. and 7:48 p.m. on the 14th of January 2001. That’s the time stamps on two posts in succession by Cartooniverse on the nuclear power thread. In the first one he/she made a perfectly reasonable objection to a post made by Anthracite. In the second one Cartooniverse adds a bizarre post script that scored unusually high on the snottiness meter. It was in this post that he/she accuses Anthracite of slander.
This leaves a number of unanswered questions. What warranted the venom in Cartooniverse’s P.S.? Where in Anthracite’s response did she “[make] it sound as though [she] HAD thought [Cartooniverse] was somehow ‘an okay one’?” And finally, what the hell any of this has to do with the Goodmorning Anthracite thread and all of us?
All and all, this whole situation has the lucidity of a fever dream.
I don’t understand. I just don’t understand.
I guess no one else does either, so I’m in good company. You know, I expect to be flamed for my opinions and fuck-ups, but I at least thought I would understand what I was even being flamed about. I can’t even follow the gist of it. From what I can gather:
I am the Great Satan in Clouds of Sulfur because I did not, in fact, slander Peter Jennings. And was told to “stop slandering” when I in fact did nothing of the sort.
I don’t know what the “good morning Anthracite” thread is doing being brought up.
I apparantly am also a seething cauldron of hate, rage, and gay…je ne sais quois? I really don’t understand this one.
And there’s that Pink Floyd playing again…just like I hear when I read G. Nome’s posts…“there’s someone in my head, but it’s not me” sorta stuff…hell, the OP here almost could read like Beat poetry, if not so lame.
So…anyone see X-Files tonight? I missed it - I was on the road in the Utah desert avoiding death…which you can read about in about 15 minutes over in MPSIMS…
Yes, Scully actually talked about Mulder at the end.
And yet, you say that like it’s a badthing.
I wanna be a seething cauldron of hate, rage, and gay! Perhaps with a zesty mint aftertaste!
Mayhaps the idea is to start the barrage with a steady stream of non-sensical banter, then move on to a steady shelling of delusional paranoia…then on to a coup de grace of downright lunacy.
Because nobody’s ever tried that tact before :rolleyes:
FTR…
Yes, Cartooniverse did mail me in the past.
No, he did not do anything improper, outlandish, or simply bug-fucking crazy like this thread. It was a perfectly normal, complimentary e-mail IIRC. And he was not trying to convert me either. How little did I know, at the time, what lies beneath…
I still think this whole thing was a combination of an odd Peter Jennings fixation, me using sarcastic humor in a post and failing to be clear (which I could have been asked to explain, I mentioned), and some sort of controlled substance - or lack of sufficient quantity thereof. My guess is too much PCP, or not enough Thorazine.
And has anyone else come to the realization that if Cartooniverse really has “worked closely” with Peter Jennings, then perhaps someone should tell ABC that we know the name of the guy who has been sending the poetry, nylons that smell like “Brut 33”, and ritualistically dismembered Beanie Babies to Mr. Jennings recently…?
And this week’s nominee for the “Squicky” award is Cartooniverse! Hooray! Strike up the band!
This is quite possibly the best combination of entertainment/amazement/pity I’ve seen on the boards since FreakFreely’s public implosion. You really are serious about this, eh toonie?
Just remember, I can’t slander you if Mr. Green Jeans goes to Omaha after seeing the entire 2nd season of The Greatest American Hero. Or at least, that’s what the aliens tell me.
Sheesh, buddy. I’ll take about half of whatever it is you’re having.
Just wanna go on record here as saying that Jack Batty’s link worked fine for me. That went to the "Nucler Power…I LOVES ME SOME!!! " thread, right? And that’s the thread that Cartooniverse is talking about? http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=55354
Also: Cartooniverse, if you want, I’ll sit here and listen calmly while you outline the substance of your complaint, because having waded through this thread, I’m now genuinely curious.
All I saw in the linked GQ thread was a bit of give and take between you and Anthracite, but obviously there’s a lot of back story or else you wouldn’t have been so angry. I still don’t understand what the MPSIMS thread has to do with it.
And, if you use Preview, you can tell ahead of time whether your link is going to “make”. You can click on the purported link in the Preview text, see, and find out. If it comes up with a box saying “C:\ Cannot Find Server Microsoft Internet Explorer”, then you just scroll back down to the Reply window and figure out what you did wrong.
Preview also has the extra added advantage of refreshing the thread (although not in a multi-page thread 
), so you can see if you need to add any last-minute ripostes.
No shit!
“Dumbfuckery” did it for me. “Virtual Wankery” would make an excellent name for a rock band. Oldscratch has had me laughing out loud three times in this thread. I think it’s great, and I’m kind of hoping Cartooniverse will start another one and say something dumb so Oldscratch can come up with some more zingers.
Y’know, if 20 other people showed up and said I didn’t know what I was talking about, I’d start to think that maybe I didn’t know what I was talking about.