Frequently Asked Question : How do I get EXCELSIORED?

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Tips and Techniques to get into the Excelsior (series of) thread(s).

Where you say something funny, someone else laughs out loud and does the courtesy of adding it to the latest Excelsior thread, for others to laugh at. Some ILXors have never been, some can be once in a while, and some can at any time they like.

Notes and Suggestions start here:

― mark grout (mark grout), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

1. References to "Hey Ya" often succeed.

― mark grout (mark grout), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

2. Think WWDPS: What Would Dan Perry Say?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Ge1r H0ngr0 JOK3Z

― NUMBER 1 TERRY RILEY FAN (ex machina), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Remember that, statistically speaking, the more one-liners you post, the more likely one of them is going to be funny.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

3. Organise an Excelsior Boost faction with your few friends to hype your posts into Excelsior. Post each others' comments up on a regular basis.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Why do we need this? If your not funny, your not funny. You have no hope of getting onto an Excelsior thread.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

End all your posts with "Also I like rap."

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

trust aja on this

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, crap!! It's if YOU'RE not funny

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I wouldn't know.

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

4. Become quippy.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

5. Long, bizarre rants, or stories that end with someone getting covered in something are always preferred for Excelsior.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Get an ILXor significant other. Spend all day excelsioring each other when you could be fucking.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Why do we need this? If your not funny, your not funny. You have no hope of getting onto an Excelsior thread.

This is like Ernest Shackleton telling some kid he'll never make it to the Antarctic.

― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

ILX would be a much better place if people didn't worry about this.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Is "quippy" a saying said in the UK?

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

But Nicole, we wouldn't have the funny. WE WOULDN'T HAVE THE FUNNY!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

The LOL thread is ILE's version of ILM's cockwavery!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

'Quippy' is my own invention, Aja. And I am in Australia. Why, you ask? I often ask myself the same question.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm quippy!

Whippy Yippy!!

I'm listening to Le Tigre on the radio!

Yippy Quippy Whippy, thing!

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

If the LOL threads didn't exist, the folks whose fondest dream is to win the amateur night at the Comedy Castle wouldn't post pointless one-liners in the vain hope of ending up getting quoted in the LOL thread. That doesn't mean that the people who truly are funny would stop being funny.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

but how would we KNOW they were funny?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you saying WE are stupid?

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Is WE equal to YOU?

― andrew 'dean!' clay (deangulberry), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

It INCLUDES YOU too dean!

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Kids! Break it up THIS INSTANT.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

break it up break it up break it up break down!

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

YEAH!!

Look at those shards!!

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't really see how the impulse for making jokes (and I really doubt anyone makes jokes to get into an LOL thread) is any different in people who are funny than in people who aren't.

― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Although I don't think it is as common now as it was after the LOL threads were first introduced, I do think that people would post things in hopes to get into the LOL threads. Or, more to the point, that getting into the LOL threads frequently was the pinnacle of ILX honor, and that we as a group encouraged the postings that we heralded there more than any other postings made. We decided we were a bunch of funny people entertaining one another, rather than any of the other possibilities.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

That's the shitty bit, yeah. The reason I apparently come across as a bit 'hard' on the internet is that I hate ha ha chumminess. It's a rare talent to be able to be funny without having an element of cruelty or at least pushing the world away. I tend to find all the fucking knees-up-mother-Brown crazeee sexual innuendo and punathons a bit embarrassing. I don't like inclusiveness in humour. Threads are rarely funny when they're started with the intention of being so, either. But it's horses for courses.

I'm going to start using "but it's horses for courses" as a winky thing at the end of all my posts from now on.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone once suggested a thread for thought-provoking posts, which I think is a great idea.

― Sym (shmuel), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

It happened. It died.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Really? Where?

― Sym (shmuel), Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I dunno - maybe I dreamt it.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

there shuold be a "whats good on ile" thraed on ilm.

― :|, Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"knees up mother brown"?

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I was the one who suggested it, and someone else (nordic? nza? haikunym?) made it happen but then, as mentioned, it died.

I was wonder about that "knees up" phrase myself.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess I also think it's a bit easy to be funny while being cruel and so I'm more in favor of the attempts to be funny without being cruel. Also part of me suspects that if you stop thinking sex is funny then you stop being human a bit. Though I might be wrong, I haven't decided.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry - it's an old round-the-piano Cockney song. A 'knees-up' is a kind of thigh-slapping "let's all get together and have a laugh" kind of party.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you know, I had no idea what tune "who ate all the pies" was sung to until now. It's "Knees Up Mother Brown" isn't it? I kind of disassociate football chants from the songs they come from.

This probably belongs on another thread.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

No, I like it here.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

and here i am, thinking that it was dastoor-ian original.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Nicole and Casuistry OTM. I'm all for abolishing the LOL threads, as they mostly serve to reinforce cliques. Very often, what's posted there, particularly the extended conversations, aren't inherently funny. They're just there because it's Dan being Dan responding to Momus being Momus (or whatever). They're only funny if you're a regular.
(possible translation: Why am I never there dammit?????>??)

― Prude (Prude), Sunday, 25 April 2004 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)

"How can you be funny if I don't know who you are?"

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 25 April 2004 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Exactly.

― Prude (Prude), Sunday, 25 April 2004 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I posted something yesterday from someone I'd never heard of.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 25 April 2004 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

"I guess I also think it's a bit easy to be funny while being cruel and so I'm more in favor of the attempts to be funny without being cruel."

Wisdom.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 25 April 2004 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/blogphotos/Blog_God_Hates_You.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 25 April 2004 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I think part of the reason I don't like chummy knees-ups is that they make me think "Oh no, this is a lame-o internerd messageboard community," which isn't just my personal hang-up; it's also because it makes things less inclusive, putting off potentially interesting newcomers. I imagine them looking at it and thinking "Ho hum, here are some people whose humour revolves around lots of inpenetrable running jokes about each other - I'll go elsewhere". I know I'm not innocent of this myself.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 25 April 2004 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)

a lot of in-joking is inevitable, when people have been together for a while. it can be offputting to newcomers or those not in w/ the in-crowd, i agree. but it's still a human trait whenever groups are involved, whether IRL or online.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 25 April 2004 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, well I hate it. Except when it's funny. Ach, I said all this alreadyhere anyway.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 25 April 2004 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)

"drunkist"?!

― :|, Sunday, 25 April 2004 23:41 (twenty-two years ago)

t/s: Drunkists vs Sodores

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Sunday, 25 April 2004 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)

So what number are we on? A few more pointers and I'm excelsior bound, I'm sure!

― sLeeeter kinney (Leee), Sunday, 25 April 2004 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)

6. Excelsior piggybacking: someone else says something funny and you respond with 'lock the thread'. This can get you in on the tail of the funnier person, as it's likely the Exceslioriser will paste your post over there too.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 25 April 2004 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

No. Don't do that.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 25 April 2004 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the unspoken message is not to do any of these things, Kim.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 April 2004 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I think its interesting that some people object to the more "injoke" LOLs, eg something being funny simply because it is "Dan-esque" or refs Momus' wang or whatever. But there's plenty enough regulars that would know, so why not have this?

On the other hand, any time I see a longwinded spiel imitating what I am guessing is some rapper or other, I am bereft of amusement. I have NO idea what is being referenced let alone who. The 2nmost recent LOL post is a good example (that finnish rap comment and its reply. Sorry, whys it funny?)

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 26 April 2004 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Having said that I like the LOL threads and really, each to his own in the humour stakes. There is a similar thing on usenet with a best-of-usenet humor group, and sometimes you'll read a post that isnt funny at all if you dont get it (eg coding jokes from C++ groups or something) but somewhere, an engineer in a bad shirt is pissing 'emselves.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 26 April 2004 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I generally found just reading Usenet to be funnier than reading a.h.b-o-u, though.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 26 April 2004 06:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Nicole unfortunately OTM up there.

How to get in the Excelsior threads:
1) be extremely popular
2) be extremely unpopular

I read lots of things in ILX that do actually make me laugh like a drain. I very seldom post them to the Excelsior thread.

Coz the Excelsior thread is really long, it moves really quickly, it is more cliquey than the "thread where I say" threads and I just can't keep up.

People will keep being funny without the Excelsior threads. But I hope that people would stop *trying* to be funny (which often isn't funny at all) without them.

― Super-Kate (kate), Monday, 26 April 2004 07:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the unspoken message is not to do any of these things, Kim.

That's kinda one of the reasons I started this thread. Nail the 'cliches'. A good percentage of the Excelsior thread entries don't make me laff at all, either I don't get it or they are 'in'. But that's OK, it can be all things...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 26 April 2004 07:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the TITTWIS (oh, excuse me, "this is the thread where I say") threads aren't really cliquey, or if they are, their cliquiness only extends as far as those people who are willing to talk about their normal, everyday lives instead of trying to keep their distances and preserve this aura of being a cool, aloof person all the time.

Having said that, Kate, much of the rest of your post is completely OTM. As is Eisbar's and N.'s posts. I guess if I wasn't so much of an outsider (you know, not being in a clique, never having met any of you IRL, only really keeping up communication lines with a few of you), I wouldn't really be as quick to agree here, but yeah, in my own personal realm of online existence, I do.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 26 April 2004 07:39 (twenty-two years ago)

How to get in the Excelsior threads:
1) be extremely popular
2) be extremely unpopular

I think that's not quite fair, at least in the sense that ILX is so big now that there is not a satisfactory definition of popularity or unpopularity.

I do agree about the lol threads I guess, but then the more enclaved ILX gets the less possible it seems to be to do anything about it.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 26 April 2004 08:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I wish the people who keep starting new Excelsior threads would stop to be honest, its getting kinda lame and they are progressively becoming less and less funny. Ditto Thread Connections to be honest, are people really not bored of this game after over a year? Deep down I don't really care, though.

I'm not convinced that getting rid of the Excelsior threads would stop Custos or Kingfish or whoever posting lame dick jokes, sadly - why would they? We're basically stuck with them.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 26 April 2004 09:13 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, in defence of starting new aruga/roflao threads...

Sometimes, a good punchline can promote a thread into being read, whereas I may well have skipped it.

FWIW, I don't think I've ever read a "This is where I say" thread, what's it all about alfie?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 26 April 2004 09:27 (twenty-two years ago)

The comparison between "thread where I say" and the Excelsior threads was perhaps ill-founded.

What I meant to imply is that both are fairly mystifying to the casual reader. (I have actually given up on both.)

I am not trying to draw a value judgement about TWIS threads. Because I do have to say that whatever goes on in TWIS threads doesn't generally affect other threads, in fact, perhaps it even provides a much-needed way to keep off-topic personal chatter off other topical threads.

I dislike Excelsior threads because I do feel that they have ultimately negatively affected the entire tone of the board. Certainly personal advice threads. It seems that people who weren't interested in such matters used to just ignore such threads. Now they seem to get on them specifically to make witty (read: cruel) remarks about the persons and/or their questions.

― Super-Kate (kate), Monday, 26 April 2004 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

whats a LOL thread / excelsiroed? seriously

― don (don), Monday, 26 April 2004 09:49 (twenty-two years ago)

see top of this thread...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 26 April 2004 10:04 (twenty-two years ago)

well maybe i'm missing something but most of these posts seem to assume a knowledge of the threads. never mind i don't care that much anyway, thanks for the helpful link and all that [insert winky smiley]

― don (don), Monday, 26 April 2004 10:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm mystified by 3/4 of ILM but I'd never ask that they stop doing what they do. Horses for courses, come on. I love the LOL threads, I genuinely find a lot of it funny and always stop to scroll through it.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 26 April 2004 10:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I rarely find anything on there funny, but it's mainly about the context, yeah. Having something thrust in your face with a 'this is funny, look!' label on it is obviously not a recipe for mirth. I try to put a link to the thread when I post on there. I guess I just do it to show that something is appreciated.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 April 2004 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and yeah - I do restrict it to when it actually makes me laugh out loud.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 April 2004 10:17 (twenty-two years ago)

It's really strange how many people on ILX conflate someone saying "I don't like this" with "I think this should be banned".

I think that Excelsior threads have a negative effect on the boards. Whatever.

I think football, private transportation and the BNP should be *BANNED*. Whatever.

― Super-Kate (kate), Monday, 26 April 2004 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I think we need less homer simpsons and more funding for public schools.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 26 April 2004 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

When can we just ban the working class and be done with it? ;-)

― Super-Kate (kate), Monday, 26 April 2004 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

is that a hammer and sickle at the end of your post?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 26 April 2004 10:51 (twenty-two years ago)

No, it's a fox hunting horn, what do you think it is?

― Super-Kate (kate), Monday, 26 April 2004 10:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Who said anything about banning? I said Id not ask ILM to "stop what they do". MattDC said "I wish the people who keep starting new Excelsior threads would stop to be honest". Thats all I was reflecting on.

I like having daft things to chuckle at. Lifes dull when everyone's serious (or worse, crabbing at each other).

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 26 April 2004 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

gosh and here I was thinking that the Excelsior threads were just a place to post stuff that had make us giggle - silly me!

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 26 April 2004 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

this thread made me laugh. meta always does!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 26 April 2004 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

oh the joys of life

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 26 April 2004 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

life without joy isn't worth living ronan.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 26 April 2004 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

it's all my fault i'm sorry

the London FAP threads are too long (300 posts before it even happens), meta, cliquey and stuff too, oh well

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 26 April 2004 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

gosh and here I was thinking that the Excelsior threads were just a place to post stuff that had make us giggle - silly me!

I'm glad I'm not alone in this thought.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 April 2004 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Naive fools.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 April 2004 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Yay us!

(Actually a lot of the criticisms are solid; at the same time the nature of the board as set up means that there is no solution as such to the perceived problems, so.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 April 2004 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

One can make people feel bad.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 April 2004 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

a sensible approach

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 26 April 2004 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

It's horses for courses.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 April 2004 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

FAP threads 'cliquey'?

What else could they be? Some can go, some cannot. That's what they do...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 26 April 2004 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I see his point, as FAP-crap-discussion does have a habit of spilling out onto other threads, which was my original complaint about the Excelsior threads.

― Super-Kate (kate), Monday, 26 April 2004 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, FAP threads are what they are (I kind of hate all messageboard lingo, esp. acronyms, but that's another story). As long as they don't totally drown out everything else, they don't bother me. It's when the ostensibly open-ended, subject-based threads get bogged down in inpenetrable personal banter that it's a bad thing.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 April 2004 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

This sort of get-a-room banter should also be banned: Tall Asians: C or D?

(What I said about banning the working class, add Scottish Middle Class "Marxists" to those up against the wall.)

― Super-Kate (kate), Monday, 26 April 2004 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

In fact, ban all of ILE except Archeology threads, crush threads and, meta-threads! Hooray!

― Super-Kate (kate), Monday, 26 April 2004 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

um kate, why does it feel like you take exception to all the cliquey stuff on ilx except that which involves you?

(xpost)

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 26 April 2004 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

There definitely needs to be more banning.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 26 April 2004 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

How liberal of you Kate to be a banter banner

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 26 April 2004 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

All people pointing out my "hypocrisy" and missing the obvious ironing will also be up against the wall.

― Super-Kate (kate), Monday, 26 April 2004 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

My ironing board is up against our back wall at the moment...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 26 April 2004 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

more david banner necessary.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 26 April 2004 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

"HULK SMASH EXCELSIOR THREAD!!"

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 26 April 2004 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

up against the wall can be nice....so i've heard

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't tease me with lecherous comments when you're in another country!

― Super-Kate (kate), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm telling you, if we could just keep out those people who were educated at private schools everything'd be hunky dory

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

more david banner necessary

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Can we just have Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde instead? I'm *sure* Dr. Jeckyll went to a fee-paying school...

― Super-Kate (kate), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

7. I dunno.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Interesting thread. It makes me think of kittens.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

if Badly Drawn Kit doesn't get you Excelsiored, nothing will.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

And toast. Toast should definitely be banned.

― Super-Kate (kate), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

You know, Oasis meant that I didn't have to shave the bit between my eyebrows.

Dawn "Hey, shave the bit between yr eyebrows"
Me: "No."

And now, Amber has the same eyebrows as me, but Auburn coloured, obv.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate, when you say, "Toast should definitely be banned," do you mean "Toast should definitely be buttered and the covered with raspberry preserves"? Because YUM.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Banned, Jammed, what's a consonant or two between friends?

― Super-Kate (kate), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

B.Marley "We're Banning... I wanna ban it wit you..."

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't really bother posting to the funny threads for the following reasons:

1) things are sometimes funny in context
2) I found it funny, others might not
3) I laughed at people being mean to each other

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 26 April 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

wait, when was the last dick joke i posted?

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Monday, 26 April 2004 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

i think it is all harmless fun really.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 26 April 2004 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

No dick jokes are very serious.
Why do you think Momus is in the elevated* position he is in today?

*ahem

― ..., Monday, 26 April 2004 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

oh don't ban the funny thread, just include me more often.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 26 April 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

8. Wait for someone to say something like "but then Damon Albarn would have to be drug behind a team of horses in his own offal" and then say "I FIND YOUR IDEAS INTRIGUING AND WOULD LIKE TO SUBSRIBE TO YOUR NEWSLETTER," 'cause that's superfresh.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 26 April 2004 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

People who never actually get posted to LOL thread in complaining abt it being crap shockah.

(PS just kidding, it probably isnt the case at all. Oh god I am sleep depped)

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 26 April 2004 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

For what it's worth, I used to get posted to the LOL thread fairly often, and it brought me joy, and then I realized I didn't care for the LOL thread and its effects, and I said "fuck that noise" and then I stopped getting posted to the LOL thread as often. But I don't read them so much these days, so I don't know if I'm being posted there or not. Either way I'm happy.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 26 April 2004 23:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Happy is good, sir. As opposed to bad.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 April 2004 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

INdeed. I mean its a bit sad that there's noise over the threads that bring joy and amusement (LOL threads, aussie rambling, this is the... etc etc) when there is plenty of other far more distressing stuff going on that seems to be mostly ignored. It makes me a sad panda.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 26 April 2004 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Do not be a sad panda. Instead, dance and sing. Woo!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 April 2004 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

you have to eat the soggy biscuit.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 26 April 2004 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

OK now I'm just scared :P

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 26 April 2004 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Trayce is quite right. And I'm not just saying that because she posts my hilarious ejaculations into Excelsior all the time.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 00:02 (twenty-two years ago)

"ejectulations"

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 00:06 (twenty-two years ago)

That's odd. I thought you were going to make the connection to the soggy biscuit and hit me out of the park. Instead, you wrongfooted me with a googly.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Gah, I shouldve seen that one. Ive had like 4 hours sleep. Don't mind me.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Sometimes the LOL thread is a necessary evil - there's no other place to display stuff like the Kenyon/Rony from my cage Kanye West post (something truly special, thanks whoever posted it) unless you start threads for every exceptional post (you'd probably have to pretend to be drunk to get away with that). Brilliant flashes aside, I think it's one of the corniest things on the internet - the online equivalent to the early days of America's Funniest Home Videos when you would have cut off your pinky if people would just stop being SO EASILY AMUSED. I think as some people get older or gradually become suffuse with that tiny, chipper brand of office banter, they start laughing at anything by anyone they aren't enemies with.

― LC, Tuesday, 27 April 2004 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

You think the LOL thread is one of the corniest things on the internet? Have you seen the rest of the Internet?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Chris OTM - We're Lenny Bruce compared to the rest of the Internet, dammit.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Do not be a sad panda. Instead, dance and sing. Woo!

ned raggett = donovan leitch?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 03:25 (twenty-two years ago)

do people really change their posting habits in order to get on the LOL thread? I suppose some probably do. I post one-liners (as do all the people who have bemoaned them. I suppose they just think theirs are actually funny), but I never post while thinking "oh boy I bet this'll get on the LOL thread!". Therefore, not having a LOL thread wouldn't affect me. Sorry.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Chris OTM - We're Lenny Bruce compared to the rest of the Internet, dammit.

(I'd post that one to the curent Excelsior thread, but this thread is excelsior proofed.)

When first started here, and got posted to excelsior the first time, it was a quite nice feeling the rest of the day. And admittedly posted a few to get posted there, subsequently. But none of the 'on purpose' ones got there. I'd find the ones that did, I'd say "Really, That funny?" but feel nice again, anyhow. Now, I dont pay no mind it, it's just like a creme egg you didn't expect moment.

Ahh. flowers and baby lambs. I got too much sleep, didn't I?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 07:27 (twenty-two years ago)

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