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I have stupid questions that don't warrant a whole thread unto themselves..

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― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 26 September 2002 10:54 (twenty-three years ago)

#1.

What is this *actually* a picture of....
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd200/d285/d28575q590r.jpg

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 26 September 2002 10:55 (twenty-three years ago)

It appears to be John Lydons crotch.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 26 September 2002 12:07 (twenty-three years ago)

a view from the ground looking up through a glass screen at a particularly kitsch iron

― blueski, Thursday, 26 September 2002 12:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Trianglehead's toupee as seen by a flying bird

― tigerclawskank, Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:07 (twenty-three years ago)

what is microhouse

― brains (cerybut), Thursday, 26 September 2002 19:12 (twenty-three years ago)

How do I tell the difference between House and Techo?

― brg30 (brg30), Thursday, 26 September 2002 20:52 (twenty-three years ago)

"lady, if you have to ask you'll never know."

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 26 September 2002 20:55 (twenty-three years ago)

the beat - eg. "Deeper and Deeper" vs. "Ray of Light"

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 26 September 2002 21:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"deeper and deeper", clearly. "ray of light" is all about that stupid guitar line, even if it was penned by lenny cockfarming kravitz.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 26 September 2002 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

"Deeper and Deeper" is the best Basement Jaxx single ever!

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 26 September 2002 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

It's a merkin (a pubic wig).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 26 September 2002 21:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Lady? No Jess,thats Mr.Dyke to you! :-)
Deeper and Deeper- I've heard the Fixx but not the Basement Jaxx

― brg30 (brg30), Thursday, 26 September 2002 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

who produced "got your money"?

― robin (robin), Friday, 27 September 2002 01:06 (twenty-three years ago)

neptunes?

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 27 September 2002 01:07 (twenty-three years ago)

the Neptunes is correct

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 27 September 2002 01:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Is that Kelis on Clipse's "I Don't Love Her"? Not the Faith Evans bridge part - on the chorus?

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 27 September 2002 03:11 (twenty-three years ago)

What does Eminem's side project name D12 mean? I'm guessing the "D" stands for his hometown of Detroit, but what about the 12? Aren't there only six of them?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 September 2002 03:20 (twenty-three years ago)

"dirty dozen"

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 27 September 2002 03:24 (twenty-three years ago)

the six of them have two personas each, hence twelve, and originally they thought the dirty dozen was a western since none of them had actually seen it but when they learned it was a war film they dropped the western theme mostly

― simon trife (simon_tr), Friday, 27 September 2002 05:07 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

what's the name of that condition where you sense letters and numbers as having specific colors, shapes, sounds or personalities associated with them.

― rent, Thursday, 13 November 2008 17:16 (seventeen years ago)

ilm whoops

― rent, Thursday, 13 November 2008 17:17 (seventeen years ago)

synaesthesia, no?

xpost

― Can't you read fish? (Michael White), Thursday, 13 November 2008 17:18 (seventeen years ago)

yes, thanks

― rent, Thursday, 13 November 2008 17:20 (seventeen years ago)

What is "The Gaylord Sound"?

― bidfurd, Thursday, 13 November 2008 19:30 (seventeen years ago)

four months pass...

Where did this "excelsior" thing start?

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 20:20 (seventeen years ago)

Stan Lee.

― Monkey Pocket Boob (libcrypt), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 20:23 (seventeen years ago)

What, exactly, are "challops?" And what is a "hen fap?"

― Imaginary Dead Baseball Players Live in My Cornfield (Pillbox), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 20:24 (seventeen years ago)

Just 'cause there's no way to post this image too much:

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/4184/imageuploadimagen.jpg

― Monkey Pocket Boob (libcrypt), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 20:24 (seventeen years ago)

Originally these threads were called "posts that made you laugh out loud", then someone added "excelsior" to the title of one of those threads, and for whatever reason the "excelsior" bit stuck and the "posts that made you laugh out loud" part was forgotten.

I think this is the OG excelsior thread:

i can't believe its another 'posts that made you laugh out loud' compendium thread, excelsior yadda yadda

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 20:25 (seventeen years ago)

So we can blame Stevem for that.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 20:26 (seventeen years ago)

So is that our Alan who got the autograph? Is that how it originated?

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 20:27 (seventeen years ago)

That image is pretty old and well-known. I don't think it's our Alan.

― Monkey Pocket Boob (libcrypt), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 20:27 (seventeen years ago)

What, exactly, are "challops?"

Challops is short for "challenging opinions." It can be used to describe:
1. An opinion that is intentionally (or seemingly intentionally) trying to hard to be provocative
2. An opinion that is actually very common but spoken with the authority that it is somehow noteworthy or interesting (much like an "O RLY" situation)

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 20:30 (seventeen years ago)

3. A little bit of 1 and 2.

― Monkey Pocket Boob (libcrypt), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 20:32 (seventeen years ago)

That image is pretty old and well-known. I don't think it's our Alan.
― Monkey Pocket Boob (libcrypt), Wednesday, April 8, 2009 4:27 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Well-known as a meme, or pre-internet? Well-known on ILX circles or outside of ILX circles? Sorry to be all tuomas in a thread where tuomas is schooling me, but I've never seen it before right now.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 20:32 (seventeen years ago)

I'm pretty sure I was aware of that pic back when I was reading Spiderman comix at 12 years old (a long time ago).

― Monkey Pocket Boob (libcrypt), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 20:37 (seventeen years ago)

It's definitely well-known outside of ILX, in any case.

― Monkey Pocket Boob (libcrypt), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 20:37 (seventeen years ago)

To clarify, Stan Lee signed his comic missives with "Excelsior" for as long as I remember reading them.

― Monkey Pocket Boob (libcrypt), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 20:40 (seventeen years ago)

right, I know that. But why did ILX latch on to "EXCELSIOR!"

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 20:41 (seventeen years ago)

I dunno, but it does seem like a kind of funny thing to say at the time, hm?

― Monkey Pocket Boob (libcrypt), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 20:44 (seventeen years ago)

this is the ALL NEW thread where you copy and paste the posts that made you laugh out loud is where the ilx EXCELSIOR meme started

― The-Reverend (rev), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 20:48 (seventeen years ago)

why did burt_stanton get banned?

― Hey! We're ... LOL (sarahel), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 20:49 (seventeen years ago)

he hit the big time

― The-Reverend (rev), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 20:50 (seventeen years ago)

"I'd like to invite you to a taste of my challops, it's a special one that's made of gold"

― the next grozart, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 20:54 (seventeen years ago)

burt got 51 suggest bans.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 20:54 (seventeen years ago)

More specifically, why did the people suggest ban him enough times for that one-way trip to Roswell?

― Hey! We're ... LOL (sarahel), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 20:54 (seventeen years ago)

Prob cause they were envious of his challopra-fu skills.

― Monkey Pocket Boob (libcrypt), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 20:57 (seventeen years ago)

Are there impressive examples outside of the Vampire Weekend thread? Or was that his gesamtkunstchallop?

― Hey! We're ... LOL (sarahel), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 21:04 (seventeen years ago)

Hey hip-hop nerds. What kind-of hip-hop is this?
Oh my god, I'm a hipster
at what point did grind core and black metal become the hipster music du jour?
Are "hipsters" this decades "yuppie"? ? ?
What do you think the weird music you like sounds to "norms"?

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 21:07 (seventeen years ago)

Thanks Whiney, and thanks for explaining challop upthread. Now I feel less clueless.

― Hey! We're ... LOL (sarahel), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 21:09 (seventeen years ago)

this is the original AFAIK: SON OF EXCELSIOR! i can't believe it's another 'posts that make you laugh out loud' compendium thread"

― the next grozart, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 21:12 (seventeen years ago)

Are you seriously going to try to claim that SON OF EXCELSIOR is the original?

(I think Rev is correct, upthread.)

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 21:56 (seventeen years ago)

rip burt_stanton

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 21:58 (seventeen years ago)

More specifically, why did the people suggest ban him enough times for that one-way trip to Roswell?

― Hey! We're ... LOL (sarahel), Wednesday, April 8, 2009 1:54 PM Bookmark

pedantry here, but roswell is a couple states away from area 51

― The-Reverend (rev), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 22:26 (seventeen years ago)

that's what they want you to think

― HOOS talking about magic & spells & steen dude! (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 22:27 (seventeen years ago)

*spooky noise*

― The-Reverend (rev), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 22:28 (seventeen years ago)

reverend, you are right, but "one way ticket to roswell" has a nice consonance to it.

― Hey! We're ... LOL (sarahel), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 22:32 (seventeen years ago)

Challops is short for "challenging opinions." It can be used to describe:
1. An opinion that is intentionally (or seemingly intentionally) trying to hard to be provocative
2. An opinion that is actually very common but spoken with the authority that it is somehow noteworthy or interesting (much like an "O RLY" situation)

It just occurred to me that back in the mid/late 90s, this same thing was communicated -- by lots of people I knew -- by saying "that is a BOLD STATEMENT" in something like the voice of Sam Jackson in Pulp Fiction

I apologize on the 90s' behalf, but it served to get a variety of points across fairly efficiently

― nabisco, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 22:35 (seventeen years ago)

I think it says something positive about the 90s that this was a common sentiment. I don't think it was in the 80s, but then I was wrong about Roswell and Susannah Hoffs.

― Hey! We're ... LOL (sarahel), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 22:38 (seventeen years ago)

pedantry here, but roswell is a couple states away from area 51

Not to question the quality of the pedantry, but isn't Roswell in NM and A51 in AZ?

― Monkey Pocket Boob (libcrypt), Thursday, 9 April 2009 22:35 (seventeen years ago)

I guess not, whups.

― Monkey Pocket Boob (libcrypt), Thursday, 9 April 2009 22:37 (seventeen years ago)

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/3779/roswell51.jpg

― Monkey Pocket Boob (libcrypt), Thursday, 9 April 2009 22:40 (seventeen years ago)

Q: is there a sample of J.P.Mirouze - Sexopolis on Malcolm Mc Larens Duck Rock?
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5100ENKSYXL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

― meisenfek, Thursday, 9 April 2009 22:41 (seventeen years ago)

do you have a clip of the sexopolis?

― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Thursday, 9 April 2009 22:42 (seventeen years ago)

lol i awlays thought excelsior was a reference to excelsior the book??!

― k3vin k., Thursday, 9 April 2009 22:46 (seventeen years ago)

― meisenfek, Thursday, 9 April 2009 22:46 (seventeen years ago)

i didn't listen to the whole song, but don't recognize any of it from the mclarren album. what gave you that idea?

― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Thursday, 9 April 2009 22:54 (seventeen years ago)

the World Famous Supreme Team intro & word bits...out of my corroded memory

― meisenfek, Thursday, 9 April 2009 23:04 (seventeen years ago)

i wouldn't really file that under "stupid question"

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 9 April 2009 23:22 (seventeen years ago)

Following up on my stupid question upthread, I did a site search and came up with

this gem

― Hey! We're ... LOL (sarahel), Saturday, 11 April 2009 20:17 (seventeen years ago)

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