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Posted by: Moulton

Is this going to be a mirthful parody of the WP-style Spammish Inquisition?

Posted by: the fieryangel

QUOTE(Moulton @ Sat 19th April 2008, 2:31pm) *

Is this going to be a mirthful parody of the WP-style Spammish Inquisition?


I think that the sooper sekrit WR cabal should allow all card-carrying member the right to have at least ten sockpuppets of their own in order to combat this invasion of KoolAid invested posters.

Posted by: jorge

Where are we? What does this button do....

Posted by: Moulton

Push the button, Max.

Posted by: jorge

QUOTE(Moulton @ Fri 25th April 2008, 4:06pm) *

Push the button, Max.

Wow! It made a sandwich!

Posted by: Jon Awbrey

QUOTE(jorge @ Fri 25th April 2008, 11:08am) *

QUOTE(Moulton @ Fri 25th April 2008, 4:06pm) *

Push the button, Max.


Wow! It made a sandwich!


Put down the AN/IL Probe and step away from the Earthling …

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Posted by: Yehudi

QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Wed 30th April 2008, 5:24pm) *

[Placeholder]

Squatter!

Posted by: anthony

QUOTE(Count DeMonet @ Fri 5th September 2008, 2:02pm) *

http://web.archive.org/web/20060111060701/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Essjay


"For various reasons, I prefer to remain anonymous on Wikipedia, but I also believe it is important for me to offer information about myself that is relevant to my work on Wikipedia."

Posted by: Herschelkrustofsky

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User:JzG
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From Meta

I particularly look out for violations of our policy on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BLP.
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Posted by: thekohser

QUOTE(Herschelkrustofsky @ Fri 5th September 2008, 12:22pm) *

QUOTE

User:JzG
________________________________________________________________
From Meta

I particularly look out for violations of our policy on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BLP.
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I also look out for private messages from Jimbo when he needs a http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rachel_Marsden&diff=189784135&oldid=185926385.

Posted by: Random832

QUOTE(thekohser @ Fri 5th September 2008, 4:44pm) *

QUOTE(Herschelkrustofsky @ Fri 5th September 2008, 12:22pm) *

QUOTE

User:JzG
________________________________________________________________
From Meta

I particularly look out for violations of our policy on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BLP.
blink.gif


I also look out for private messages from Jimbo when he needs a http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rachel_Marsden&diff=189784135&oldid=185926385.


Why the hell do people keep using the word http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_disparity_in_sexual_relationships#Slang_terms? She's 33. And Jimbo is 42.

Posted by: Jon Awbrey

QUOTE(Random832 @ Fri 5th September 2008, 12:46pm) *

Why the hell do people keep using the word http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_disparity_in_sexual_relationships#Slang_terms? She's 33. And Jimbo is 42.



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Cuda, Cuga —
Either way you're gonna lose yer nuts, Alvie.



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Posted by: thekohser

QUOTE(Random832 @ Fri 5th September 2008, 12:46pm) *

QUOTE(thekohser @ Fri 5th September 2008, 4:44pm) *

QUOTE(Herschelkrustofsky @ Fri 5th September 2008, 12:22pm) *

QUOTE

User:JzG
________________________________________________________________
From Meta

I particularly look out for violations of our policy on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BLP.
blink.gif


I also look out for private messages from Jimbo when he needs a http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rachel_Marsden&diff=189784135&oldid=185926385.


Why the hell do people keep using the word http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_disparity_in_sexual_relationships#Slang_terms? She's 33. And Jimbo is 42.


You've never heard of "mental age"?

Posted by: Random832

QUOTE(thekohser @ Sat 6th September 2008, 3:54am) *

QUOTE(Random832 @ Fri 5th September 2008, 12:46pm) *

Why the hell do people keep using the word http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_disparity_in_sexual_relationships#Slang_terms? She's 33. And Jimbo is 42.


You've never heard of "mental age"?


I'm not entirely convinced hers is significantly more than his.

Posted by: KStreetSlave

Cougar is a way of life. I've seen women in late 20's cruising airport bars in podunk-ass towns in South Carolina. They may be "cubs" but they're cougars in training.

Posted by: Castle Rock

QUOTE(anthony @ Fri 5th September 2008, 7:06am) *

QUOTE(Count DeMonet @ Fri 5th September 2008, 2:02pm) *

http://web.archive.org/web/20060111060701/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Essjay


"For various reasons, I prefer to remain anonymous on Wikipedia, but I also believe it is important for me to offer information about myself that is relevant to my work on Wikipedia."


QUOTE(Essjay @ userpage)

My motto on Wikipedia (and in life) is Lux et Veritas (Light and Truth).


You have to admire his chutzpah.

Posted by: EricBarbour

QUOTE
Here's a couple of memorable — well, I remember them, anyway — comments that I posted in response to a column by Padraig Reidy in The Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/29/wikipedia-internet-publishing

Is THAT where you and Kohs are hanging out?

I hope the deleted comments will make you realize:
ALL media are compromised, in one way or another.

Next time, Jon and Greg, just make it short and sweet.
Post a link, explain it, and go. That's all you have to do.

Posted by: Jon Awbrey

QUOTE(EricBarbour @ Fri 30th January 2009, 5:03pm) *

QUOTE(Jon Awbrey)

Here's a couple of memorable — well, I remember them, anyway — comments that I posted in response to a column by Padraig Reidy in The Guardian.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/29/wikipedia-internet-publishing


Is THAT where you and Kohs are hanging out?

I hope the deleted comments will make you realize:
ALL media are compromised, in one way or another.

Next time, Jon and Greg, just make it short and sweet.
Post a link, explain it, and go. That's all you have to do.


Yeah, well, you know how much we both love those Leftist-Leaning Labour Lackeys at Da Gaudian.

It's a Little Ludicrous — okay, a Lotta LOL — that they seem to have Louie Seized on Jimbo Wales as their E-Merkin Idle of a Counter-Culture Hero … I reckon it must be some kind of Cross-Cultural Confusion about the Antisocial Non-Associativity of (Counter-Culture) Hero vs. Counter-(Culture Hero).

Ja³

Posted by: Son of a Yeti

QUOTE(Kato @ Fri 6th February 2009, 9:50am) *

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I understand the photo illustrates WP admits commencing a copyedit of a Living Person Biography?

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Posted by: Lifebaka

QUOTE(Son of a Yeti @ Fri 6th February 2009, 12:23pm) *

I understand the photo illustrates WP admits commencing a copyedit of a Living Person Biography?

Oh, man, if only. That looks much more fun than actual copyediting.

Posted by: Moulton

Odd Socracy Questions Wikipedia's ad hoc Ochlocracy

What if the site were called Wikipedia.mob?

Would Howard Rheingold be gratified that his pheromeme of Smart Mobs had gone viral?

Or would Kelly Martin be vindicated that her pheromeme of an ad hoc ochlocracy had taken root like kudzu?

Posted by: dtobias

...because, like Moulton, you like nothing better than quoting your own writings, seeing how you're the only person in the world with reasonable ideas.

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Posted by: GlassBeadGame

QUOTE(Son of a Yeti @ Fri 6th February 2009, 12:23pm) *

QUOTE(Kato @ Fri 6th February 2009, 9:50am) *

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I understand the photo illustrates WP admits commencing a copyedit of a Living Person Biography?

wtf.gif


I think it's just JoshuaZ playing with his StarWars action figures and losing once again.

Posted by: Jon Awbrey

QUOTE(GlassBeadGame @ Tue 10th February 2009, 11:21pm) *

I think it's just JoshuaZ playing with his StarWars action figures and losing once again.


BTDT ——

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Posted by: EricBarbour

Christ, you're all headed for that happy place
where Awbrey and Moulton already are....

take your damn Adderall and go to sleep.

Posted by: dtobias

QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Wed 11th February 2009, 9:54am) *

History teaches that people can run for a long, long time with a head full of gas, but sooner or later Reality hits them in the head and lets the gas out.


...at which point you're running on empty.


Posted by: Cedric

QUOTE(dtobias @ Wed 11th February 2009, 12:52pm) *

QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Wed 11th February 2009, 9:54am) *

History teaches that people can run for a long, long time with a head full of gas, but sooner or later Reality hits them in the head and lets the gas out.


...at which point you're running on empty.

. . . or simply crash and burn.

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Posted by: Jon Awbrey

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Oh, the Inanity!


Posted by: dtobias

QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Wed 11th February 2009, 10:12pm) *

Oh, the Inanity!


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Oh, the manatee!


Posted by: Milton Roe

QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Sun 22nd February 2009, 6:56am) *

After Lunch,

Or Monday,

Maybe …

Jon Image

First Jung puns and now Freud ones? What you doing, Jon, going through old psych books?

Posted by: Jon Awbrey

QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Sun 22nd February 2009, 4:05pm) *

First Jung puns and now Freud ones? What you doing, Jon, going through old psych books?


Tagged for Web Searches under • Punis Envy •

Posted by: Milton Roe

QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Sun 22nd February 2009, 2:16pm) *

QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Sun 22nd February 2009, 4:05pm) *

First Jung puns and now Freud ones? What you doing, Jon, going through old psych books?


Tagged for Web Searches under • Punis Envy •

Or Punic war. But I'm afraid that it would end with Kato the Elder telling us to del-end-a our Carthagos.

Posted by: Jon Awbrey

QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Sun 22nd February 2009, 4:28pm) *

QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Sun 22nd February 2009, 2:16pm) *

QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Sun 22nd February 2009, 4:05pm) *

First Jung puns and now Freud ones? What you doing, Jon, going through old psych books?


Tagged for Web Searches under • Punis Envy •


Or Punic war. But I'm afraid that it would end with Kato the Elder telling us to del-end-a our Carthagos.


Here I couch,
Broken ♥ed,
Came to cathect,
And only catharted.

Jon

Posted by: EricBarbour

That's it. He's lost it.

Posted by: Milton Roe

QUOTE(EricBarbour @ Sun 22nd February 2009, 3:59pm) *

That's it. He's lost it.

No, that was actually vintage Jon, and clever use of catharsis/cathartic/Carthage. I think I'm pwned.

That bathroom wall poem he's riffing on*, is old. Steinbeck alludes to it in Tortilla Flat, 1935. I wonder how old it really is.


Milton


*For you culturally deprived:

Here I sit,
All broken hearted.
Went to shit,
And only farted.

Posted by: dogbiscuit

QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Mon 23rd February 2009, 2:24am) *

QUOTE(EricBarbour @ Sun 22nd February 2009, 3:59pm) *

That's it. He's lost it.

No, that was actually vintage Jon, and clever use of catharsis/cathartic/Carthage. I think I'm pwned.

That bathroom wall poem he's riffing on*, is old. Steinbeck alludes to it in Tortilla Flat, 1935. I wonder how old it really is.


Milton


*For you culturally deprived:

Here I sit,
All broken hearted.
Went to shit,
And only farted.

In my day the third line was "Paid a penny" which was in reference to the days of public conveniences* where one old penny was required to enter the stalls, one penny being a large amount of money.

*A minor British scandal is the loss of these useful facilities, usually blamed on the cottaging industry rather on the rather more dull budget cuts.

Posted by: Random832

QUOTE(dogbiscuit @ Mon 23rd February 2009, 10:08am) *

In my day the third line was "Paid a penny" which was in reference to the days of public conveniences* where one old penny was required to enter the stalls, one penny being a large amount of money.


No, the third line is "Paid my dime"; "Paid a penny" is a poor localization that doesn't preserve the meter.

Posted by: dogbiscuit

QUOTE(Random832 @ Mon 23rd February 2009, 1:41pm) *

QUOTE(dogbiscuit @ Mon 23rd February 2009, 10:08am) *

In my day the third line was "Paid a penny" which was in reference to the days of public conveniences* where one old penny was required to enter the stalls, one penny being a large amount of money.


No, the third line is "Paid my dime"; "Paid a penny" is a poor localization that doesn't preserve the meter.

I didn't say what the other lines were, before it was bastardised. mellow.gif

Posted by: dtobias

And articles like that normally go on to advocate massive governmental coercion in the name of saving the Earth, leading some commentators to regard "greens" as former "reds" who changed color once it was no longer "in" to be commie.

Posted by: Milton Roe

QUOTE(dtobias @ Mon 2nd March 2009, 6:14am) *

And articles like that normally go on to advocate massive governmental coercion in the name of saving the Earth, leading some commentators to regard "greens" as former "reds" who changed color once it was no longer "in" to be commie.

They have long been known as watermellons.

QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Mon 2nd March 2009, 6:58am) *

Available on Virtually Simulated Gold Plaques for a Nominal Donation of £1,000,000 Each — Get Both for Only £1,999,999 !!! — Brought to You by the Loving Hands and Expert Craftsmanship of the Madoff Mint.


Madoff, now there's a guy. You have problems with him? He didn't take that $50 billion all for himself. Most of it he doesn't have anymore, which is why they'll never find it, even though you can be sure they'll look everywhere. What Madoff did, was take money from one group of people who felt entitled, and give it to another group of people who felt entitled. Felt entitled to 15% return on their money, just due to who-they-knew. While all the time Madoff simply skimmed a (relatively small) fraction for performing this service; this bit of theater for people who apprectiate being appreciated by life.

In fact, Madoff reminds me a lot of governments in general, and Congress in particular. Madoff will go to jail: but Barney Frank, no. Even if it turns out to be Frank who authorized the law allowing the executive benefits for AIG even after they took taxpayer money, no. Make sure you explain this in your treatise, there.

Posted by: Malleus

QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Mon 2nd March 2009, 1:00pm) *
When I first read your comment, I got a mental image of the Butter on the Fingers being due to the spreading of the Grease on the Elbow ...

Did you know that you can't lick your own elbow?

Posted by: Casliber

QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Fri 6th March 2009, 12:24am) *


Re*Capitulation

QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Thu 5th March 2009, 8:46am) *

Most of these Fake Equivalence Conflict Ending Strategies (FECES) appear to derive from the general philosophy of Coherentism.

The cache, of course, is that all such approaches to Sea Level In Mind Only (SLIMO) ignore the reality of where the true sea lies.


I think my latest stab † in the dark sleep.gif may just have struck at the heart ♥ of the beast cthulhu.gif — at any rate, it looks like a promising line of inquiry to develop as time goes on.

Jon Image


I like that little cthulhu Icon - cthulhu.gif - cool!

Posted by: Son of a Yeti

QUOTE(Casliber @ Mon 6th April 2009, 3:31am) *

I like that little cthulhu Icon - cthulhu.gif - cool!


The previous Arbcom:

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Posted by: Casliber

QUOTE(Son of a Yeti @ Mon 6th April 2009, 9:42pm) *

QUOTE(Casliber @ Mon 6th April 2009, 3:31am) *

I like that little cthulhu Icon - cthulhu.gif - cool!


The previous Arbcom:

cthulhu.gif cthulhu.gif cthulhu.gif cthulhu.gif cthulhu.gif cthulhu.gif cthulhu.gif


Awww, you only added the word 'previous' 'cos I'm reading it laugh.gif

Posted by: Son of a Yeti

QUOTE(Casliber @ Mon 6th April 2009, 5:07am) *

QUOTE(Son of a Yeti @ Mon 6th April 2009, 9:42pm) *

QUOTE(Casliber @ Mon 6th April 2009, 3:31am) *

I like that little cthulhu Icon - cthulhu.gif - cool!


The previous Arbcom:

cthulhu.gif cthulhu.gif cthulhu.gif cthulhu.gif cthulhu.gif cthulhu.gif cthulhu.gif


Awww, you only added the word 'previous' 'cos I'm reading it laugh.gif


Doh. The present arbcom has only six members:

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Posted by: GlassBeadGame

QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Fri 28th January 2011, 11:38am) *

Forthcoming …

Jon rolleyes.gif


Just try not to come in fifth again, Laz.