What's your ILx sign?

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The Unsinkable Mark S - "my theory is that there are only seven distinct ppl on ilxor at all" Just like the zodiac, uh, kinda!

So who are they and which one do you/your posts resemble most?

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 19 October 2002 00:39 (twenty-three years ago)

i am a composite of all lowercase snarky halfwits

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Saturday, 19 October 2002 01:48 (twenty-three years ago)

This question is intriguing - but I don't understand it.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 19 October 2002 02:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm gonna say 8:

Mark S/Starry
Jess
Tom
Hanle y
Nicole
Nate
Ally
The Dunedin Hive Mind

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 19 October 2002 03:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I knew someone was going to say something like "Dunedin Hive Mind".

― rainy (rainy), Saturday, 19 October 2002 03:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll say

Mark S
Ned
Ethan Trife
Tom
Anthony
Dang Perry
Dunedin Hive Mind
Ally

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 19 October 2002 03:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Dang Perry.

Haha.

― Andrew (enneff), Saturday, 19 October 2002 03:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm an Ally with Jess/Ethan Trife rising.

― felicity (felicity), Saturday, 19 October 2002 03:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Finney's plan because that makes it a lot easier to figure out what I am. Blount's, I'm not so sure. And what the hell would a "Nate" sign mean, anyways? "Enthusiastic until flamed, then becomes obnoxiously self-deprecating and light-treading; has fairly predictable and 'safe' though not horrible taste"?

― Nate Patrin, Saturday, 19 October 2002 04:05 (twenty-three years ago)

What some of them might represent (a la Chinese restaurant menu / astrological graph)

Mark S: Posts engage me even though they're clearly written by someone one million times smarter than me. Also: token 'guy I've heard of outside of ILx who posts on ILx'; see recent inductees - Gregg "our generation's Bert Convy" Turkington, Robert Christgau (one post so far but I'm crossing my fingers), and rather famously, Saul Williams and Simon Reynolds apparently, although I've never actually seen a Reynolds post (is he a lurker?). Leos.

Ned: Universally beloved figure, except by those who, um, distinguish themselves by not beloving the universally beloved figure (see: Trife, Ethan). Also, apparently responsible for 80% of the people who post here. Aquarius.

Ethan Trife: quintessence of two types of posters - 1) the authoritative voice on a genre most ILxors aren't authoritative on (see: Siegbran) 2) Puck (I'm thinking Shakespeare there, but 'The Real World' connotation might not be far off either to some people). Guaranteed to get people in a lather, prompt 400 response threads (see: Momus, this week at least). The straw that stirs the drinks, ILx's Randy Moss.

Tom: Posts (obviously) define the guiding aesthetic of ILM and by extension ILE. When Jess posts "what the hell has happened to ILx?" on an Indie/top 40 bashing thread, what is meant is that Tom would never start such a thread. (See: James Madison)

Anthony: Posts are able to successfully broach topics regarding highbrow culture, sex, and religion. Much more difficult than it sounds.

Dan Perry: All wit leads to...

Dunedin Hive Mind: Indicative of the highly localized tone ILx can take (see: any thread with 'FAP' in the title)

Ally: voice of reason

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 19 October 2002 04:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I will come to regret this thread I bet.

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 19 October 2002 04:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I am Dave Q.

Rainy & Ned are twins, surely.

― toraneko (toraneko), Saturday, 19 October 2002 04:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Dave Q truly rocks.

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 19 October 2002 04:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Rainy & Ned are twins, surely.

:-) I find this (and James' kind words) to be lurvly. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 19 October 2002 04:41 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm a bit ethan and a bit rainy. HOW CAN THIS BE?

― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 19 October 2002 05:10 (twenty-three years ago)

oh i forgot i'm very influenced by elisabeth and alex

― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 19 October 2002 05:11 (twenty-three years ago)

MiMSY! MEEP!

― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 19 October 2002 05:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally: voice of reason

!!!

― bnw (bnw), Saturday, 19 October 2002 05:38 (twenty-three years ago)

hive mind my insectile ASS

― dz (lucylurex), Saturday, 19 October 2002 05:53 (twenty-three years ago)

di i can totally see its you postinhg nit cfuckiung duane, log the fucking off damiite ur username shows up there

― vic (vicc13), Saturday, 19 October 2002 05:55 (twenty-three years ago)

tho i dont read the rest od the thred

― Chupa-Cabras (vicc13), Saturday, 19 October 2002 05:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Where the hell is Hanley sign?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Saturday, 19 October 2002 07:07 (twenty-three years ago)

And for that matter where the hell is Hanley?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Saturday, 19 October 2002 07:08 (twenty-three years ago)

is there one that fits incoherent, scattered, changeable thought-processes? cause thats mine.

― donna (donna), Saturday, 19 October 2002 08:04 (twenty-three years ago)

s'called david h, but it may have been copyrighted before me.

― david h (david h), Saturday, 19 October 2002 08:10 (twenty-three years ago)

ILx's Randy Moss.

I originally read this as ILx's Sterling Moss. This is an uninteresting fact.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 19 October 2002 08:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think that I am similar to any other poster.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 19 October 2002 08:36 (twenty-three years ago)

or to be more distinct not *that* similar.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 19 October 2002 08:44 (twenty-three years ago)

though maybe I just wanna be some kind of British Ned/Hanle y device.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 19 October 2002 08:47 (twenty-three years ago)

None of the above. Thank fuck.

I'd rather die than become part of a hivemind or an axis of tweevil.

― kate, Saturday, 19 October 2002 09:03 (twenty-three years ago)

actually my more-evolved theory is more like the goon show than the zodiac: multiple characters from a single typist (of which there are seven), and made way more tricky by the fact that typists like nothing more than to mimic their fellow creators' successful characters

lemma 1: throwdowns = proof of identity (ie the seven never lose it with one another, since they are all typing from the same net cafe)
corollary 1a: the dunedin hivemind is exactly NOT that, but the actual seven
proof: when they sleep, where are we?

lemma 2: i am a character invented by maryann

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 19 October 2002 09:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Can I be one of Toraneko's identities, please?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 19 October 2002 10:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I hate it that I do not understand mark s's lemma goon schema.

I don't think I am any of Tim F's types but that is because I am a rampant egotist.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 19 October 2002 11:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd rather die than become part of a hivemind or an axis of tweevil

You stole the phrase "axis of tweevil" from my Avril Lavigne rant! Which doesn't do the stances againts a hivemind much good actually.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 19 October 2002 12:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay, well who am I, then? I think I'm my own me. I can't be classified. I'm a motherfucking individual, you hear? Yeah! Fuck you! Fuck!

― Andrew (enneff), Saturday, 19 October 2002 12:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually maybe I'm bits of Dave Q, Martin Skidmore and Lady Di all wrapped up in one.

Tracer Hand and The Pinefox are surely of a kind - they're both very mysterious.

― toraneko (toraneko), Saturday, 19 October 2002 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think of Tracer as mysterious. Maybe Josh is a composite of Tracer and the Pinefox.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 19 October 2002 13:30 (twenty-three years ago)

josh is about as mysterious as melba toast.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 19 October 2002 13:31 (twenty-three years ago)

haha has ilx always been this self-involved?

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 19 October 2002 13:34 (twenty-three years ago)

well as you know "mark p" there are only seven of "us" and "we" all live in just one cybercaff in "dunedin"

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 19 October 2002 13:37 (twenty-three years ago)

my face would be red if it wasn't so transparent!

― minna (minna), Saturday, 19 October 2002 13:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Can't it be both?

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 19 October 2002 13:45 (twenty-three years ago)

don't question me please

― minna (minna), Saturday, 19 October 2002 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm a motherfucking individual, you hear? Yeah! Fuck you! Fuck!

I'm not. < /life_of_brian>

― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 19 October 2002 14:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Probaly a wannabe Tom out of the original options. However, there must also be a Sinister subset - people like me, Madeleine, Archel, Liz :x have all been influenced by our freaky cult. Don't you think?

― Mark C (Mark C), Saturday, 19 October 2002 14:59 (twenty-three years ago)

sinister maps exactly onto dunedin i think: eg any given hive = the seven

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 19 October 2002 15:02 (twenty-three years ago)

or to put it another, equilucid way, any definable subset = the whole

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 19 October 2002 15:04 (twenty-three years ago)

i like being part of tim's choices but i don't exactly know what a "jess" is.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 19 October 2002 15:04 (twenty-three years ago)

but mark, where do I fit?

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 19 October 2002 15:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Am I just a younger version of Gayle?

― Nicole (Nicole), Saturday, 19 October 2002 15:07 (twenty-three years ago)

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hivemind s, where do i come from?

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Monday, 21 October 2002 21:23 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.sfrisch.com/images/rip_torn.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 21 October 2002 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

four months pass...

Ah, the joys of randomiser...

Finally figured out what it was that bothered me about this thread. With the exception of token female Ally, *all* the archetypes raised have been male. Female posters fall into their own separate zodiac signs, though I'm not going to be tactless enough to suggest them...

― kate (suzy), Friday, 14 March 2003 19:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, suggest, suggest!

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 14 March 2003 19:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm in a mood for tactlessness and kate is good at this sort of thing.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 14 March 2003 19:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, I'm not worried about the tactlessness of who I will offend by describing as an archetype, but the tactlessness of who I will *forget*! I'm also bad with names, so I can think of the person, but never recall their screen name!

Here are the only seven women on ILX:

-Ally - Archetypical New York gal - bossy, intense, opinionated, sexy, sassy and HAVING MORE FUN THAN YOU

-Lady Di - veering between tomboy and sex kitten, she symbolises the lady musicians of ILX

-Donna - ILX's resident mom (that is yer name, right? I am having brain farts right now)

-Mel W - neurotic, insecure and slightly agoraphobic, but terrifyingly intelligent, and knows more about music than anyone else

-Sarah Clarke - the girl's girl. Top Shop and fags and wine with the boys down the pub

-Rainy - the sweet heart of ILX, she worries about everyone, and everyone loves her in return

-Suzy - the literati and the glitterati. Knows everything about everyone (and not afraid to let you know it!)

That was really difficult! I had to leave all sorts of people out to keep it down to only seven. And some overlap, so it's hard to figure out which of two people should get the name of the sign!

― kate (suzy), Friday, 14 March 2003 20:28 (twenty-three years ago)

In which case, I am a Lady Di with Mel W rising. ;-)

― kate (suzy), Friday, 14 March 2003 20:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I AM having more fun than you. All of you!

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 14 March 2003 20:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't really fit in, I should go host Wake Up Wakefield or something.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 14 March 2003 21:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I knew I was going to offend somebody... sigh...

― kate (suzy), Friday, 14 March 2003 21:05 (twenty-three years ago)

you know, i was never really sure just where mark s was going with this 'rip torn' thing, and then the other day i looked in the mirror and..

http://members.aol.com/dubplatestyle/mitchtorn.jpg

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 14 March 2003 21:15 (twenty-three years ago)

my life is small and empty.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 14 March 2003 21:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Which one am I? I'm not having fun at all.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 14 March 2003 21:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I suck, OK? Delete my post. The chixors of ILX are individuals and not herdable like the boys are and I suck and I shouldn't have done it and now I'm going to go and boil my head and beat myself up it all and I am so fucking worthless why did I get out of bed this morning?

― kate (suzy), Friday, 14 March 2003 21:19 (twenty-three years ago)

They're just sore sports, Kate.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 14 March 2003 21:48 (twenty-three years ago)

You only like my ILX starsigns coz yer one of them.

― kate (suzy), Friday, 14 March 2003 21:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Pff, like you wouldn't be the same way!

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 14 March 2003 21:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I knew I was going to offend somebody... sigh...

I wasn't offended. It was entertaining!

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 14 March 2003 23:18 (twenty-three years ago)

What about the men? Do we have to pretend to be a female sign and dress up accordingly?

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 15 March 2003 13:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Ronan, you haven't read the rest of the thread, have you? Go look up at the top and you'll see that SIX of the seven original signs were male.

Typical male response to female response to sexism... "Oh no, us MEN are being excluded!"

― kate, Saturday, 15 March 2003 13:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh sorry, I apologise for my light hearted comment.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 15 March 2003 13:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Aw, Ronan would have looked cute in a dress.

― Nicole (Nicole), Saturday, 15 March 2003 13:56 (twenty-three years ago)

ILX always struck me as male-dominated tho - maybe there are 6 men to every 1 woman on ILX? actually having stuck around for this long i've noticed more and more females so the ratio may be more like 5 men to 3 women...the 6 to 1 ratio fits ILM perhaps in terms of posts made...

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 15 March 2003 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I know I was all ready and all and now it's fucking ruined. And with it my entire bank holiday weekend. It's like being 5 and having your big sister and her friends tell you to fuck off.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 15 March 2003 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm like mel vs suzy. without the intelligence. my name is sMel

― zemko (bob), Saturday, 15 March 2003 14:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ronan obviously you need to slut around more before you can really be a proper martyr to the feminist cause

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 15 March 2003 17:37 (twenty-three years ago)

cool, hstencil get your curvy butt in here now

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 15 March 2003 17:38 (twenty-three years ago)

i'll bring the tony conrad records and we can film it all as "downtown homage"

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 15 March 2003 17:39 (twenty-three years ago)

it will be like one of those tv movies with tiffany amber thiessen, only it won't have her in it

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 15 March 2003 17:40 (twenty-three years ago)

or hit fox tv show "fastlane." i'm bill bellamy, obv

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 15 March 2003 17:43 (twenty-three years ago)

shit, mine sounds so boring!

― donna (donna), Saturday, 15 March 2003 17:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I am a satellite.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 15 March 2003 17:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Ach, yer only mad cause I couldn't remember if yer name was Donna or Lorelei. You are the mum that takes care of us all and makes us milk and chocolate chip cookies and stuff. Mmmmm, cookies.

― kate (suzy), Saturday, 15 March 2003 22:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I am Ronan's bad uncle

― chris (chris), Saturday, 15 March 2003 22:57 (twenty-three years ago)

It would probably be rather easy to do a statistical analysis of the top 100 posters or so and look simply at word count, profanity content and ILE vs. ILM postings over a span of a couple of months or so and then use some funny charts and things. Nabisco one fall on one end and trife would fall on the other and then somewhere in between you have the rest of us.

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 15 March 2003 23:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Dude, I think you're DRASTICALLY underestimating the amount of Nabisco-filth on the boards.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 15 March 2003 23:43 (twenty-three years ago)

It verges on the nabisgusting.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 15 March 2003 23:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Practically nabysmal.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 15 March 2003 23:56 (twenty-three years ago)

The one thing I can always count on ILX for is shit puns.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 16 March 2003 00:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I mean, seriously, we should get Richard Whitely posting up in this bitch.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 16 March 2003 00:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Sarah C___ - the girl's girl. Top Shop and fags and wine with the boys down the pub

Um? Top Shop, okay, fags - don't smoke, wine - for gods sake my favourite beer is Highgate Dark and my first consideration of a pub is "does it have beer" - you'd think this would be a given but notwith the GOTHS eh.

Are you confusing me with someone else?

― Sarah (starry), Sunday, 16 March 2003 00:25 (twenty-three years ago)

You know what? Fuck off all of you. Moderator please delete my post. It was intended as a harmless bit of fun and now everyone has had a go at it. And while you're at it, delete me.

― kate (suzy), Sunday, 16 March 2003 11:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I was flattered.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Sunday, 16 March 2003 11:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm a Taurus.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 16 March 2003 11:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Me too - when's yr birthday?

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 16 March 2003 17:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Blimey. I wasn't insulting you, just pointing out that your description wasn't that accurate, therefore leading me to think you had just randomly put in my name instead of someone elses, sheesh... whatever! I'll drink wine in the pub if you want, but I'd much rather have some nummy Nut Brown Ale... mmmmm.

Oh dear though, in the pub yesterday I was drinking TEQUILA VODKA RED BULL aka LOOPY JUICE. I'm off for a sossidge butty...

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 17 March 2003 09:30 (twenty-three years ago)

OK, I have realised that the wine thing was actually Emma. But the rest of it STET!

― kate, Monday, 17 March 2003 09:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I hate those bloody fags!!!

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 17 March 2003 09:33 (twenty-three years ago)

(See what I did there)

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 17 March 2003 09:34 (twenty-three years ago)

The whole thing's Emma I think.

(Kate yr post was a good idea and I larfed.)

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 17 March 2003 11:04 (twenty-three years ago)

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