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MWW that Is Is thing is pretty good. I'm I'm surprised it it has not not come up sooner.

Barry the O: It depends on what the meaning of IS is.

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C'mon, I've had that in my head for DAYS, and I finally find a place to hang it and nobody notices. I would haz a sad if I cared.

Maybe nobody got it. Let me explain. See, ...

@johntant: "I no longer have confidence that -we- exist in enough numbers to appreciably move the needle."

There are means to alter those numbers.

Difficult, and time-consuming means, like education by whatever method.

Easier means I forego mentioning because peaceful happy non-violent flower power.

MrScribbler: "...smile real wide and do nothing in the hope the bad shit will suddenly end through some magic, natural and invisible process akin to growing a flowerbed...."

A cogent summation of the SCOAMF's foreign poliicy.

Bad news came harshly through my
Cell screen today

Coulda flipped out easy but I
I've changed my ways

It'll take time, and I know it,
but in a while,

I'll read bad news and then I
thank Vic with a smile

When you've made you're mind up
Not GOing to be mad

I'll troll you right now
Any trick in the book uh now baby
That I can find...

Barry the O: It depends on what the meaning of IS is.

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Morning, Glories

Re: cobs disengaged like TFG?

I wrote a related tl;dr on this no one saw, #738 on the Evening Dump thread.
http://minx.cc:1080/?post=351308

Won't quote myself here, except for this:

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... Maetenloch's 4am post #694 on the Aug 12 ONT.
http://minx.cc/?blog=86&post=351132#c22508943
(Sure would be nice if port 1080 didn't obviate internal links on comment pages, Pixy!!)

"...Frankly I've gotten to where I don't enjoy the comments here anymore either. ... There's a reason you rarely see cobs in the comments anymore," said Maet, bemoaning nostalgically over "fun threads of old."
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so, you weren't imagining it.

JohnTant- Quick work, but... Do you live in an area (Mass? Vt?) where wharf is pronounced to rhyme with scarf instead of Worf? If not, you must give back ten of those internet points.

"...That show was on a long time ago and wasnt seen but for a small number of kids on staurday mornings."

Ah, truly that's the Mary Cloggenstein we've come to know and... well... know. The finest in ZIVs.

In descending order:
LIV - Low Information Voter
ZIV - Zero Information Voter
BIV - Bad Info Voter, as in, "so much of what they do know is wrong." -RR

panzernashorn: "Petrifying the chip on your shoulder weighs you down permanently."

Nicely said.

Thanx for the bdy wishes, artisanal 'ette, Jenny Hates Her Phone, votermom, and youse what just thunk it.

Jenny, guess your girl was just determined to be born on an auspicious day! HBD, Jenny's girl... and her mom.

Dog tells me I'm super late with the food! afk

Today I plan to go visit my mom, and thank her for her labor ,sixty-two years ago this day, in bringing me into Creation.

The kids get the cake and ice cream and presents and parties, but I try to honor the ones who did all the work.

cthulhu - okla has many nice areas

it's my muthafuckin' birfday and i am such a seething ball of anger and hate... -Peaches

Great day to be born. Rage on!

Tomorrow is better, but today's good, too.

Success! I wrote maybe my longest rant ever, looked to see if ONT was up, and it wasn't. I posted, looked again, and VOILA!

You're welcome.

Long & Late and maybe tangential since I think I dozed off reading part of the post, but since I done wrote it, here 'tis.

Comments will get hotter as the war gets hotter. And it's gonna be a long stretch before comfortable times return. Counting on you, General.

Already, in my few years here, I sense, policies here have had to... stretch... as times worsen; without yielding principle or control, of course. That's skill. I salute our host, the cobs, in their role of policing a true channel of open communication in the midst of the propaganda wars.

This is, I guess, where I should finally bring up that I have, for over a week now, pondered Maetenloch's 4am post #694 on the Aug 12 ONT.
http://minx.cc/?blog=86&post=351132#c22508943
(Sure would be nice if port 1080 didn't obviate internal links on comment pages, Pixy!!)

"...Frankly I've gotten to where I don't enjoy the comments here anymore either. ... There's a reason you rarely see cobs in the comments anymore," said Maet, bemoaning nostalgically over "fun threads of old."

I could write a much longer post about all he wrote in that comment. Sometime.

I understand unpleasant times, arguments, and individuals. It's when we let the bad bits be cumulative in our emotional memory that we get discouraged.

Times like these, this kind of outpost of civilization is rare, much-needed, and as you should well know, threatened from various sides. Frankly, we need folks like, well, the folks in charge here, to be vigorously joyous in their duty, lest we all feel the sting of consequences. Some guy used to frequently suggest, "Be of good cheer" and "Fear not." Simple advice direct from Deity.

Frankly, to my decades of online reading, and such familiarity as I have with other current blogs, AoS commentaria is the most amazing of civilizations, a well-run monarchy which knows when to leave good citizens alone, but slap a troublemaker in stocks... even if the monarch occasionally gets het up on valu-rite and mistakes an innocent citizen for a hobo. Nobody's perfect.

I'd also like to acknowledge those commenters on AoSHQ who are highly skilled at the biting but not over the line rant, the akido of flipping the bird, the "aren't you special" "bless your heart" school of burying someone alive. Such inspiration has helped me greatly to apply my personal philosophy of never using a cussword when a well-turned, acid-filled phrase can be hurled, never engaging in ad hominem when one may strip one's debate opponent's arguments naked in the middle of the thoroughfare; and, generally, speaking softly when I want to SMASH!

Because, I'm always angry.
http://youtu.be/msRaooooyds

All-out action issue.

HAHAHHAHAHHAA

For once, I don't think, "Wow, that looks great! I'd buy that issue!"

"...as of yesterday, Daniels’ group had sold only 39 tickets to their blasphemous event."

Really? That's hilarious. I sure hope they had to put down a big, fat, non-refundable deposit on the place.

pffft

here's a webwork with two pshops* from a pic that was already vague abstract.

http://mindfulwebworks.com/doodles/blowpen-landscape-permutations

* Paint Shop Pro 8.1

Grey Fox: "Besides, I always understood that closing the toilet was a matter of appearance and smell, not the inability of the females to close the lid on their own."

Look, folks, Milady & I got together in the mid-70s. We were there when most of this modern fem lib stuff got started. I yam a author'ty.

It's the toilet seat, not the lid.

And any man who sat down, in the dark or too sleepy to check, and found he'd left the seat up, can sympathize. (Low-hanging danglies might even touch the drink!) O, manly man, the person you leave the seat down for may be yourself.

Of course, the problem there is, standing in the dark or to sleepy to check, and peeing on the seat. Logic suggests for this reason alone, leaving the seat up should be the default, but logic has little place in relationships.

So, Milady & I did the math. Women needed to sit 100% of the time. Men need to sit X% of the time. So, in a two person home, try to leave the seat up ((100 + X) / 2)% of the time. Then we had a daughter... then we had two songs... Fortunately, by that time we could run spreadsheets on desktops to keep track.

Seriously, though, when we'd visit my brother's ex, with her daughter by a previous marriage, and my two nieces, I always left the seat up, even if I'd been sitting.