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All Acting Regiment

16:38 / 05.10.05

We should really start using this thread for quoting stuff again.

The Return Of Rothkoid

23:37 / 05.10.05

E.Randychu in the RIP Ronnie Barker thread:

Hang on, so that's how you compare performers? Try and imagine them in each other's roles, then use that comparison to figure out who's 'better'? Cool. I'll have to try it.

Let's see. Johnny Cash isn't as good as Autechre because he'd probably do a shit version of P:NTIL.

Genius.

07:17 / 06.10.05

There isn't enough fish in Star Trek.
Legba Rex in the Waaaaay Too Much Information thread.

Now I finally understand why ST was always so boring to me. No Flipper (yes yes, mammal, not fish), no white sharks or sushi and no Jacques, Dory or Nemo!

ONLY NICE THINGS

15:04 / 06.10.05

Count Adam is only the capitals away from being the greatest exponent of deadpan in the modern age:

To be fair, Superman's image has seemed somewhat outdated for some time now. I think the younger generation will find it much easier to relate to him as a GIANT FOUR-ARMED STABBING ROBOT.

ONLY NICE THINGS

00:07 / 07.10.05

More goodness from Comic Books - Warewulf on the possibility of Colossus/Picard slash:

Goddamn, I'd read that.

"Russian. Metal ass. Hot."

"Boishe-moi!"

This will be the point of ultimate Claremont recursion.

P. Horus Rhacoid

03:00 / 07.10.05

Which do you think kids are going to find more attractive— sex before marriage is sinful and you have to avoid sinning, or anything bad you do is caused by aliens which can be removed from your body with magic cans if you pay enough money and then also you will get psychic powers?

Sentimentity explains the allure of Scientology over in the Intelligent Design thread of the Head Shop. Made me laugh, it did.

Bard: One-Man Humaton Hoedown

04:52 / 07.10.05

ultimate Claremont

I hear that title's coming this summer from Marvel. Its the Ultimate world, where things are more realistic, so it follows failed writer Chris Claremont through his life on the street, where he wound up because people realized just how bad he was right off the bat. Its gonna be a real hot seller!

Regrettable Juvenilia

07:54 / 07.10.05

We shall see what you say when Islam controls our world!

robertrosen sets the alarm bells ringing, but perhaps not in the way he intended.

Regrettable Juvenilia

07:57 / 07.10.05

While watching Doctor Who (2005) the other day, my boyfriend said something cute. It was something along the lines of "God I love black english guys! Makes me want to slap every rich black guy in America who still thinks he has to talk ghetto, like it's in his genes are something. Black english guys are proof."

In the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Cynthia Tucker wrote about the crime in New Orleans and seemed to partially blame the fact that "black men are the likely parpetrators in more than 40 percent of the homicides in which a suspect has been identified" (a fact from the FBI's Uniform Crime Report, note the IDENTIFIED and that it's a homicide) on the "inexplicable popularity of a gangsta culture that glamorizes thug life."

So maybe there is something there for "classic" crime in America. We have the culture currently to back it up. I have black friends who are the geekiest "white washed" Mario Kart lovers you'll ever meet when we're playin' games, but when we're at the mall, on comes the hat and the walk and the voice.

Not to say that black people have crime, but the culture is supporting the stereotype. Honestly, it's not like the majority of blacks are arguing the -culture-. These rude statements, yes. The rappers talking about raping people and putting bullets into east side and stuff, no. And that's just going to throw more firewood into prejudice folk like this.

Sometimes I think Barbelith was invented just to push me over the edge, you know?

08:09 / 07.10.05

So, wait, Flyboy, are you saying you don't love black English guys? Even though they talk all proper, like "Pip, pip, cheerio, old chum!"? It's so cute, it's almost like they're real people.

You're a horrible racist.

Regrettable Juvenilia

08:12 / 07.10.05

I miss Kali's boyfriend.

ONLY NICE THINGS

08:33 / 07.10.05

You may have disagreed with what he had to say, but at least he had a consistent proposition with which to engage.

12:17 / 07.10.05

Chris Ware just can't let go of that time I used special fertiliser to grow a giant potato, drew his face on it, gave it a little t-shirt that said "I'm Chris Ware. I'm so sad about that" and said "Hey Chris, that's you that is" and rolled it around all the comic conventions.

But later on, it was baked and combined with 100 tins of baked beans to feed poor homeless children.

I did a good thing.

Yes you did, Suedey. Yes you did.

12:39 / 07.10.05

My problem is obvious.

Yes it is, robertrosen, yes it is.

Is my mind defective? Am I insane? Maybe so!!!!!!!!!!!

Those eleven exclamation marks are tipping me toward a Yes.

All Acting Regiment

14:12 / 07.10.05

Needs a few "1"s in with the "!"s.

18:45 / 07.10.05

Sax in Wifegate -

No no no no no, Oddman. You don't get it. Hugh Jarse, you see, was just a character I made up to use as a byline for the fake story at the head of this thread. You can't pretend to be him as well.

I think this was the first time I ever literally LOL'd at something on the Internets.

18:56 / 07.10.05

I'm still waiting for Oddman to turn around and do the big reveal, tell us it was all a joke and make idiots of us all for believing him.

It's like that time I woke up and discovered that my left arm was paralysed. Then I realised it was a dream, so I forced myself to wake up. Only, when I woke up, my left arm was paralysed. So I went downstairs and had some breakfast, then realised that I was still dreaming. So I woke up, but I still couldn't move my arm. I'm starting to think maybe I never woke up at all.

19:17 / 07.10.05

I'm still waiting for Oddman to turn around and do the big reveal, tell us it was all a joke and make idiots of us all for believing him.

There is that delicious element of uncertainty to it all, isn't there?

19:19 / 07.10.05

He is the walrus.

19:25 / 07.10.05

He is the walrus.

"Shut the fuck up, Donny! V.I. Lenin. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!"

Mon Oncle Ignatius

20:21 / 07.10.05

The inimitable Stoatie, in the "W*fegate" thread:

You know, kids, Haus has really raised the bar here. Personally, I will no longer feel my life has any meaning until Garth Ennis comes round and shoves shit through my letterbox.

And then the comically-timed punchline:

(To clarify- buying Adventures In The Rifle Brigade by mail order doesn't count).

Ouch. That's got to hurt...

21:07 / 07.10.05

Fuck it, that entire thread needs to be barbquoted. Barbclassic.

P. Horus Rhacoid

23:42 / 07.10.05

"Holy crack-scoffing squirrels, Batman! Park junkies on turkey are fighting with cats for hash!"

Mistofelees in the Lateshift, speaking on the spectre of the Brixton crack squirrel.

ONLY NICE THINGS

07:42 / 08.10.05

Just in case:

This is an embarrassment to all of Barbelith.

The man who is directly responsible for the existence of this place checked in on us, and what does he find? A demeaning comment made by a long-time member of the community. What is that demonstrating? This is supposed to be a place of intellectual discussion, not a cesspool of slander.

I think that this should be taken as a wake-up call: There is a certain level of comfort here with regards to Mr. Morrison, and Haus just drew the line in the proverbial sand. We don't know him personally. We don't hang out with him. Most of us have no real relationship with him at all, other than we are fans of his work. Haus, making that "joke" about him would be shaky grounds if you WERE friends...so to be a complete stranger and make such a statement...it's just bad form. It makes you look juvenile and unintelligent.

Mr. Morrison has been a good sport about all of the jokes at his expense, ignoring anything he could possibly take as offensive...but you do not ever speak ill of another man's wife. EVER. There should be no tolerance for that on the board...and to have to audacity to ask him for some sort of evidence that you made more than one derogatory comment about Mrs. Morrison? One was too many. He shouldn't have to PROVE to you that you were inappropriate.

And to challenge Grant Morrison...to say that perhaps he misspoke...The man is a writer. He uses words to make his living. When he wants to make a point, he does NOT misspeak.

Grant Morrison is my favorite writer, and has been a huge influence on me, and I someday hope to become a peer to him...But if he were to think that I was just passive while someone dilapidated his or his wife's character, and I said nothing...Well, that just doesn't sit right with me.

This comment reflects badly on all of us.

Barbelith is not about trash-talking our idols, it's about embracing and celebrating and discussing their intellectual products, and whether the intent was malicious or not, it was still taken as offensive, and the damage has been done.

Now Haus, my advice to you, is to apologize, and not to ask anything more of Mr. Morrison.

Bonus points for use of "dilapidate".

08:49 / 08.10.05

Oddman can't not be a jokesuit. Surely.

14:51 / 08.10.05

You know, the thing is, I quite want to be dilapidated now. Possibly by gigantic amazons or big samoan men covered in baby oil. There's something indescribably filthy about the word...

16:33 / 08.10.05

That's because you keep subconsciously reading it as "depilitate".

Yes. I read your mind.

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03:12 / 09.10.05

To attempt a discussion of faith in terms of objective empirical truth is fool's errand, worse than dancing about architecture.

Not especially witty, but wise, and a lovely image which brought me up short.

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03:12 / 09.10.05

(That's Jack, of course.)

03:25 / 09.10.05

(Hate to disappoint, but that's a paraphrase of a quote—of uncertain origin—originally applied to writing about music. Not mine, but oh how I wish it were.)

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04:00 / 09.10.05

(Oh. But you wear it so well...)

11:42 / 09.10.05

I always thought it was Frank Zappa.

Regrettable Juvenilia

12:11 / 09.10.05

Yeah, it sounds like the kind of bullshit he'd come out with.

All Acting Regiment

12:23 / 09.10.05

Chorus girls: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Regrettable Juvenilia

12:50 / 09.10.05

In its original application, I mean. It's the kind of statement that sounds clever but is actually meaningless. By the same token, I could say "writing songs about sex is like playing football about politics" or "making a film about an artist is like knitting about philosophy", but none of these statements would be meaningful criticisms of anything. That's no comment on Jack's application of the term, except that I think it's not a great thing to aspire to have originated.

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