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14:11 / 23.05.07

'Scool, Lenin and Sam. Obviously a relic of the barbarians I live among (that's barbarians, not BARBARIANS; that would be way cooler).

Anyway, if there's a joke more objectively irritating, if such a thing is possible, than lolcats—which I currently love but can tell I'll be sick of within a few weeks—it's Steve. Every time Steve comes up it's just a way to remind us all of a series of eyegougingly horrible posts from a spleenstabbingly horrible person with livergnawingly nothing funny about them. Admittedly if you repeat any random reference it becomes hilarious after about thirty thousand iterations, an artifact of the neurological overstimulation caused by an impulse hitting the same neurons over and over again. But Steve already has a connotation, and it's one of misery and tedium.

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14:13 / 23.05.07

Hey... how about LITTLE BARBARIAN'S BIG BOOK OF WISDOM?

Closed for Business Time

14:17 / 23.05.07

Thou art teh greatest entity!

14:20 / 23.05.07

just as an side, I think twee gets weird use over here as I've encountered it in the same way entity has. I encounter it in people who use ghey/gay to play the line of dismissing but not offending.

Is there a term for words that have that are same-but-scary-different on either side of the Atlantic?

Fanny, pissed, twee, cheers, what else we got?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

14:24 / 23.05.07

just as an side, I think twee gets weird use over here as I've encountered it in the same way entity has. I encounter it in people who use ghey/gay to play the line of dismissing but not offending.

See, I never had. Id's response makes far more sense now.

Indeed, id speaks STRONG TRUTH with the Barbarian Wisdom idea.

A MAN COULD CONCEIVABLY BE HAPPY LOGGING ON TO A SITE THUSLY NAMED.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

14:25 / 23.05.07

Hang on, what does "cheers" mean in the US?

14:26 / 23.05.07

They're whut we sit on, ya dumb limey!

My Mom Thinks I'm Cool

14:27 / 23.05.07

Fanny, pissed, twee, cheers, what else we got?

pants, if I'm not mistaken, means something a bit different. didn't really think about that at the time, but whatever.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

14:31 / 23.05.07

I thought you sat on your asses?

Unlike we cultured Brits, who have specially-designed arses for that purpose.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

14:31 / 23.05.07

Which reminds me, I think "bummer" is another of those words- a slur over here, not so bad over there.

14:36 / 23.05.07

A MAN COULD CONCEIVABLY BE HAPPY LOGGING ON TO A SITE THUSLY NAMED

Thusly. Thusly.com.

Thhhhussssleeeee... DOT com.
THUSSLY! dot com.

Hmmm. Kinda thrusting. Kinda nothing to do with anything, but with a positive, can do sort of attitude.

/...Strokes invisble beard. Rolls syllable around mouth.

Yer could of found a winner ther, stoats.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

14:45 / 23.05.07

How's about "Thusly spake the samophlange"?

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

14:48 / 23.05.07

SecretBeard.com

Or am I the only one who still says "Your face hides a secret face with a beard" when I am drunk?

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14:49 / 23.05.07

Bummer is a slur? I had no idea. Although now that I think about it it makes sense.

I think thusly sounds better as a dot org. I like the idea of a random preposition, as well—like "toward" or "over" or "around".

As to the "it'll never happen" issue, well, maybe if we started one new board with each proposed name and waited to see who hung out at each one, it would be like voting?

14:51 / 23.05.07

Uh, guys...

Danny the Street dot com is taken.

But Danny the World...

Isn't.

Awaits tumbleweed.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

14:54 / 23.05.07

Because calling ourselves DannyTheWorld.com would surely solve all the "Grant Morrison Fansite" issues people are complaining about.

Janean Patience

14:58 / 23.05.07

The legions of Roald Dahl fans such a name would bring us could possibly make a welcome change?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

14:59 / 23.05.07

I still want to know what "cheers" means in the States, because I said it to absolutely EVERYBODY when I was there...

ONLY NICE THINGS

15:03 / 23.05.07

I think (I certainly _hope_) that Sibelian was joking...

Incidentally, anyone claiming that we are so past being a fan site, please refer to any contributions they might have made to "Schizophrenics Can't Process Metaphor", "Morrison to Marry" and possibly some of the spicier parts of "All-Star Superman".

Let no man live rent-free in your shed, as my old mother used to say.

15:03 / 23.05.07

grant, I'm good for a fiver if you change it...

15:06 / 23.05.07

Well, it's a COMPROMISE, darling. At least it'd be the Doom Patrol lot, i.e., me, not the Invisibles lot, i.e. Epop. I am Novelty, Charm, Delight and Protector of the Strange and Disposessed vs Bow down before me, snails, for I am superior Magikkkan. *I* prefer Danny.

And it fits. We could have a comic shop and head shop could actually be a SHOP that sells heads and we could have Steve's Garden where conversation can be and a town hall where Policy is discussed and a magical cinema with a bar where we can talk movies and a seedy club where people can talk music and a library where people can discuss books and train station where gathering would be and a smoky cafe for the switchboard and a games shop for gaming types and a wacky pharmacists where the lab could move to and a proper TEMPLE for temple and an art gallery for art and fashion what have you andandand a workshop thingy of some sort for creation.

It's a GOOD idea. It is.

Awaits downpour of caustic soda.

15:07 / 23.05.07

A bummer is a downer, something mildly depressing. Bummed out. Surfer lingo, dude.
Cheers, is something you say when drinking like 'salute' or a description of an outcry of support. Cheering. Not used as 'thanks' generally.

Fanny is a polite grandma word for your buttocks especially when sitting or falling.

15:07 / 23.05.07

...your name I mean.

Fanny, pissed, twee, cheers, what else we got?

Wanker, bollocks, nob, pavement, football, Arsenal, colour, realise, etc.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

15:08 / 23.05.07

Ah, right. I got that "cheers", I was worried there was another one.

"Bummer" is, as I say, a slur over here, though it's one used mainly by children.

Of course, there's also "fag" = "cigarette".

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

15:09 / 23.05.07

I'm still confused about how someone gets Grant Morrsion Fansite = Vertigo Forum = Wizardworld appropriate?

If I wasn't worried about a sudden influx of Murakami fans, I'd say we should go with Hard-BoiledWonderland.com, but that's me.

What about, um, Barbesphere? So we can keep all the Barbe- prefixed thingums?

15:09 / 23.05.07

A bummer is a downer, but also a seventies playground word for one who enjoys the bumsex. bum=fanny, bummer=teh gay.
Does twee mean gay over there? Who knew!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

15:10 / 23.05.07

We really need to sort all this shit out, otherwise one day there's going to be a major diplomatic incident between the US and the UK. It'll be a really amusing one, but the death toll will probably be horrendous.

15:14 / 23.05.07

Bush: "Gordon Brown has supplanted my buddy Tony as godking of the UK, bummer"
Brown: "You what? Bummer? Well, you're a Texan wanker who talks bollocks mate!"
Bush: "I don't know what you just said but I'm gonna nuke your fanny off!"
Brown: "Fanny?! Right, where's the red button?!"

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

15:14 / 23.05.07

Breeches: Cheers, is something you say when drinking like 'salute' or a description of an outcry of support. Cheering. Not used as 'thanks' generally.

Actually, "Cheers" as "Thanks" is becoming quite common in my neck of Canada and the source of much gnashing-teeth.

Janean Patience

15:14 / 23.05.07

Yes, it only takes a President to use the phrase "total bummer" after meeting King William the Blonde and it's WAR!

15:45 / 23.05.07

PINEAPPLES, you twee bummers.

16:21 / 23.05.07

Fanny, pissed, twee, cheers, what else we got?

Well, when having a conversation over dinner with a family of fairly conversative American Christians... conversations about flicking fag butts are best avoided.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

17:13 / 23.05.07

Rubber.

17:15 / 23.05.07

I always wear one when it rains.

And use it when I make mistakes.

18:41 / 23.05.07

"Fuck Barbelith", should be the name. That'll show him, that'll show them all we moved on.

Seriously though, if a 2001 cosmic lovin' embracing placenta with weird freudian undertones that looks like a nipple with a rash (or initially a huge clitoris) isn't cool, well... Then I don't know what's cool anymore, and don't know if I waaant to be cool. There, I said it. Fuckin' kids nowadays...

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