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(haha if I could lock ILX, I could CONTROL THE UNIVERSE)
(at least I tell myself that)
(hold me)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 June 2004 13:07 (nineteen years ago) link

mandee & I ordered the book, too.

we should have got.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 28 June 2004 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know.

And now I tie a brick to this thread and it sinks away...
http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/fabe/Ives%20Brick%205.jpg

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 28 June 2004 13:40 (nineteen years ago) link

(bye bye thread)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 June 2004 14:09 (nineteen years ago) link

What a thread.

I've been fairly repelled in this thread by the fact that certain people think that their words are more important than other people's words because they've written stuff professionally. Like that makes you better than us barely-literate proles who haven't made money from their writing?

If you've been paid for WRITING ILX POSTS then maybe you've got a fair claim, posts that you've worked hard on and feel represent the best you can do and demonstrate your professional ability to the world. If you haven't, even if you happen to be Noam Chomsky telling knob jokes and talking about how you like it up the arse, then tough shit, you're in the same boat as the rest of us schmucks. Live with it.

(NB I don't think it's right or appropriate to publish/print for non-personal use anything that's been on ILX, but this has all gone way beyond a discussion of legal and moral rights)

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 28 June 2004 14:15 (nineteen years ago) link

(FIN)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 June 2004 14:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Thank you for your words. I created another thread for the latest 'news' on this as I didn't want to revive this thread again, but here it is so anyway...

This book was for personal use. The resulting discussion has been fascinating and cool. The amount of outright hate has been negligible, if not non-existant. I don't know if anyone regards their words as being more important than anyone elses, but by regarding their own words as important. Which is as it should be.

Some important distinctions have been drawn up.

My final thought. I regretted this last week. Now, I kind of don't. My only regret is upsetting/annoying J.Dar3ie3ll3 to the point that he left forever. And I don't get my book, but that is minor.

And now, VengaDan says...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 28 June 2004 14:22 (nineteen years ago) link

(T-t-t-t-that's all, folks!)

― VengaPorky Pig (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 June 2004 14:23 (nineteen years ago) link

apart from me to say something - Barry is completely and utterly OTM

/falls over

― chris (chris), Monday, 28 June 2004 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link

dan, you're the moderator, we get it.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 28 June 2004 14:30 (nineteen years ago) link

(apparently you don't otherwise people wouldn't keep posting to this thread)

(and anyway a cursory scan upthread would show that I'm not trying to make any point whatsoever that involves being a moderator but keep on laping to those conclusions)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 June 2004 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link

look before you lap.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 28 June 2004 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link

(CURS YOU DMON KYBOARD)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 June 2004 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link

dan why don't you just lock the thread if you feel so strongly?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 28 June 2004 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link

(Because it would be an abuse of mod privs.)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 June 2004 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link

This is like that Victor Borge sketch where him and another piano player are playing manic chords going up a piano, swapping to the bottom of the piano and going up the keyboard again and again and again, until Victor gets to the top and then slams the piano lid down.

BANG!

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 28 June 2004 15:03 (nineteen years ago) link

do the moderators have their own bathroom?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 28 June 2004 15:04 (nineteen years ago) link

but dan don't you think that maybe your "last word" posts are doing nothing but prolonging the thread's existence?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 28 June 2004 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I think this thread could conceivably catch Sadahura Oh! And it started off its career under the radar (tear)

http://sportsmed.starwave.com/media/pg2/2002/0813/photo/a_oh_i.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 28 June 2004 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Chris, are you okay?

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 28 June 2004 15:59 (nineteen years ago) link

(egomaniac.)

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:22 (nineteen years ago) link

but dan don't you think that maybe your "last word" posts are doing nothing but prolonging the thread's existence?

WOW DO YOU THINK????

Jesus fucking Christ.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link

"Oh" my

http://www.cypsystems.com/images/mroh/pic1.gif

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link

(This thread has essentially devolved into a contest to see who can have the last word; I am participating without any of the obfuscatory rhetoric.)

-- VengaDan Perry (djperr...), June 25th, 2004. (later) (link)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Jesus fucking Christ.

now THAT's what i'd pay to see

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:54 (nineteen years ago) link

"oh" man that would be something.

http://www.pe.net/~jnes/ohport9.gif

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link

indeed

http://homepage.mac.com/philtwo/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2004-06-13%2022.26.04%20-0700/Image-F5F21212BDC211D8.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link

You know, as I scroll thorough this thread, it kind of looks like closing credits.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Key Grip - Sick Mouthy

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:07 (nineteen years ago) link

sorry for whatever it was that i did dan

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:38 (nineteen years ago) link

fortunately it's a roomy doghouse

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:02 (nineteen years ago) link

(It has a bay view and skylights!)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link

i call top bunk

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:11 (nineteen years ago) link

"Tell me more about this doghouse, Dan..."

http://www.curtisknapp.com/IMAGES/portraitsphotos/p039_oh_sadaharu.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:12 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

i want this book ;_;

― chaki (chaki), Saturday, 27 May 2006 01:27 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

LAST WORD

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

haha sorry

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

The irony was: I did decide to print one copy, much later when all was quiet (in fact, when ILX was off for those 2 weeks), only to find the pdf file was a bad format.

Story ends...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link

ysi?

― fongoloid sangfroid (sanskrit), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

at least no one violently objected

― gear (gear), Friday, 21 July 2006 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link

PDF'D

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 27 July 2006 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I find it mind-boggling that anyone got upset about this.

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 27 July 2006 23:29 (seventeen years ago) link

"jesus fucking christ" hahaha

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:33 (seventeen years ago) link

This thread brings back memories of the meltdown of 2004, the two week blackout, and how we went on regardless. Is it two years already?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 28 July 2006 09:08 (seventeen years ago) link

for me the fallout from this was kinda worse than I'd thought - obviously I came back posting under (several) different names, but there's something about posting under my own name that encouraged me to think harder, speak more clearly, be more kind. I always thought of this as a pleasant side benefit of the old-old-school ilm "rule"/suggestion/tradition of posting under one's own name. It's not news of course that wearing a persona has a transformative effect on one's speech, both in content and form. So, while I didn't have to leave, it was obvious to me that I couldn't post under my own name, and the small but real pleasure of that openness was lost.

Of course the upside was how long it took Momus to figure out who Thomas Tallis was, but then I understand that Momus has had a stand-in writing his posts for months now, so the joke's kind of on Thomas eh

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I really don't understand what's going on around here any more.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Postýng under ones own name bears some responsýbýlýty. And ýt took me longer than momus to fýgure ýt out as wel.

Bad typýngÞ heyç I am ýn turkey...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

This thread brings back memories of the meltdown of 2004, the two week blackout, and how we went on regardless. Is it two years already?

otm

I remember that summer particularly well, because I was unemployed and bored, so ILX was the perfect distraction. Which is why the blackout felt much worse than it would, say, now.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 25 September 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

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