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April 7, 2006

Blog

Blog.

Posted by Jim Henley @ 9:09 pm, Filed under: Main

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1,104 Responses to “Blog”

  1. Comment by Reader —
    April 7, 2006 @ 9:10 pm

    Comment.

  2. Comment by Jim Henley —
    April 7, 2006 @ 9:12 pm

    Deadpan rejoinder.

  3. Comment by Michael —
    April 7, 2006 @ 9:14 pm

    Oversharp disagrement based on unstated differences in paradigms.

  4. Comment by Steve —
    April 7, 2006 @ 9:34 pm

    Bad, marginally on-topic pun.

    (Parenthetical complaint regarding tags permitted in comments!)

  5. Comment by Brian C.B. —
    April 7, 2006 @ 9:51 pm

    Egregious mspelling.

  6. Comment by Eric Scharf —
    April 7, 2006 @ 10:11 pm

    Off-topic, self-promoting link.

  7. Comment by Kevin B. O\'Reilly —
    April 7, 2006 @ 11:12 pm

    Nazi analogy employed; Godwin’s law invoked.

    Thread over!

  8. Comment by Jim Henley —
    April 7, 2006 @ 11:21 pm

    I would have gotten away with it too . . .

  9. Comment by Barry —
    April 8, 2006 @ 12:23 am

    (incomplete)

    6a – Boast about comenter’s education and IQ – mispelled, of course.

  10. Comment by PhillipJ. Birmingham —
    April 8, 2006 @ 12:27 am

    Non-sequitur fart joke.

  11. Comment by Bruce Baugh —
    April 8, 2006 @ 5:14 am

    There’s a very courteous zombie here with a distinct accent who says his name is Jorge and could you please let him lie in peace.

  12. Comment by Jon H —
    April 8, 2006 @ 9:13 am

    Comment flaming other commenter for spelling error, which flame contains the requisite spelling error of its own.

  13. Comment by Michigan J. Frog —
    April 8, 2006 @ 9:19 am

    Accidental double-post.

  14. Comment by Michigan J. Frog —
    April 8, 2006 @ 9:20 am

    Accidental double-post.

  15. Comment by Michigan J. Frog —
    April 8, 2006 @ 9:20 am

    Apology for accidental double post, wasting even more space.

  16. Comment by Michael —
    April 8, 2006 @ 10:20 am

    Insistence that since everyone ignored my point in #3, all must concede the correctness thereof. Assumption based on this that opponents are either morally or mentally defective, or both.

  17. Comment by Jim Henley —
    April 8, 2006 @ 10:25 am

    Forthright agreement that you win. Formal resolution to change belief system and behavior accordingly.

    [Sings]One of these things

    is NOT like the other . . .

  18. Comment by Brian C.B. —
    April 8, 2006 @ 11:03 am

    [Incomprehensible string of Asian characters, followed by link to manga porn site–and, no, I’m not going to actually put one of those in this comment, so don’t click]

  19. Comment by Chris —
    April 8, 2006 @ 11:21 am

    I’m shocked that you didn’t know that I actually blogged all this OVER A YEAR AGO. You don’t deserve the high volume of traffic you get, and I can’t believe that my masterplan to live off of the proceeds of my own blogging has netted me only $2.46 since October.

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  21. Comment by Chris Bray —
    April 8, 2006 @ 11:47 am

    Enraged accusation of disloyalty to the national community. Sweeping declaration that blogger wishes for the terrorists to win. Demand to know ”who’s side your on.” Cryptic comment about day of reckoning, and who won’t be laughing then.

  22. Comment by Gene Callahan —
    April 8, 2006 @ 11:49 am

    Crushing sense of despair that Jim can post ”Blog” and get 20 comments while my own scintillating posts draw 5 or 6 at best!

  23. Comment by Chris Bray —
    April 8, 2006 @ 11:50 am

    Read-this-if-you-can-handle-facts link to Roger L. Simon or Hugh Hewitt blog, hat tip Instapundit. Sly reference to Mark Steyn. And Christopher Hitchens has your number!

  24. Comment by Chris —
    April 8, 2006 @ 12:08 pm

    Hitchens is a drunk!

  25. Comment by Doug T —
    April 8, 2006 @ 12:40 pm

    I agree.

  26. Comment by Chris —
    April 8, 2006 @ 1:10 pm

    Single line of fawning praise for blog proprieter (b.p) that adds nothing to the present discussion, left in the vain hope that b.p. will click through the link out of curiosity, start reading, and get addicted to commenter’s blog, so that years later commenter will say over a beer to b.p., ”Can you believe that there was a time when I wasn’t on your blogroll?” and b.p. will say, eyes misting over, ”No, man, I can’t. I just can’t.”

  27. Trackback by Walter In Denver —
    April 8, 2006 @ 2:15 pm

    Bronzed

    All Time Hall Of Fame blog post here….

  28. Comment by Species 8 —
    April 8, 2006 @ 4:28 pm

    Off topic–but I’d tap that.

  29. Comment by Davidnot dave —
    April 8, 2006 @ 4:33 pm

    Your comments no longer welcome here.

    Buh-bye

  30. Comment by whatitsbeendoneb4 —
    April 8, 2006 @ 4:36 pm

    Its tautological.

    Indeed

  31. Comment by Barry Freed —
    April 8, 2006 @ 4:38 pm

    Heh. Indeed.

  32. Comment by Jesse Walker —
    April 8, 2006 @ 5:07 pm

    advertisement for Texas Hold-Em site

  33. Comment by PhillipJ. Birmingham —
    April 8, 2006 @ 5:24 pm

    Non-sequitur speculation about whether ”Texas Hold-Em” refers to livestock.

  34. Comment by Nell —
    April 8, 2006 @ 5:37 pm

    Expression of exasperation at blog owners’s failure to blog about X.

    Oh, hell, why not: Let X = this.

  35. Comment by Kin F. —
    April 8, 2006 @ 5:50 pm

    IAWTC

  36. Comment by Michigan J. Frog —
    April 8, 2006 @ 7:13 pm

    Accusation that the blog proprietor has maliciously removed my earlier comment in a fit of hypocritical censorship, when in fact it had been erroneously posted in a different comment thread. Use of one or more of these phrases: ”What are you afraid of?”, ”Down the memory hole”, ”You can dish it out but can’t take it”, etc.

  37. Comment by Justin Slotman —
    April 8, 2006 @ 7:19 pm

    Vaguely relevant one-sentence comment offered in the spirit of contradicting the original post. INSULT MADE IN JEST, SURNAME OF BLOG PROPRIETOR! LAUGHTER IN ALL CAPS!

  38. Comment by imag —
    April 8, 2006 @ 7:36 pm

    Cryptic, inexplicable drive-by trolling that references and misinterprets a statement made months ago. Unhinged name-calling, insinuations of totalitarianism. Baffling pun and or in-joke; link to scary site.

  39. Comment by wil —
    April 8, 2006 @ 8:31 pm

    Moderately humorous extrapolation of argument made in passing by much earlier (and now unquoted or directly referenced) comment from regular sycophant.

  40. Comment by Barry Freed —
    April 8, 2006 @ 10:01 pm

    What Kin F said.

  41. Comment by Charles Hueter —
    April 8, 2006 @ 10:01 pm

    YHBT. YHL. HAND.

  42. Comment by Doctor Slack —
    April 8, 2006 @ 11:03 pm

    Unhinged rant with variations on: [Why are liberals so unhinged?] [Just another example of how the Left is all about personal attack.] [You’d think all you people would grateful to us after WWII.] [They did so find WMD in Iraq.] [Yes, I’m a Bible-believing Christian, which I’m sure makes me the same as Hitler in your little world.] [Funny how when Mary Carey supports America all you liberals are suddenly prudes.] [Give me one recorded example of our President telling a lie.] [My favorite anti-idiotarian blogger totally pwned you on this one.] [Can we declare this thread officially dead?]

  43. Comment by Totally not a sock-puppet —
    April 8, 2006 @ 11:07 pm

    42: ROFL! You’re so right!

  44. Comment by rilkefan —
    April 9, 2006 @ 12:28 am

    Interesting link. More here.

  45. Comment by skippy —
    April 9, 2006 @ 2:40 am

    shameless non-sequitorious off-optic blogwhoring.

  46. Comment by NSA Wiretapper4teenybopurrs —
    April 9, 2006 @ 3:47 am

    What are you wearing?

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  48. Comment by matthew hogan —
    April 9, 2006 @ 5:14 am

    Nobody expects some kind of obscure Monty Python allusion.

  49. Comment by i dunno —
    April 9, 2006 @ 6:27 am

    riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay

  50. Comment by kate r —
    April 9, 2006 @ 8:18 am

    rambling remarks about friend’s neighbor’s grandchild in iraq, afganistan or maybe texas. giant illogical leap to 9/11. god bless america! and if you don’t agree, you’re welcome to move to france.

    [tagline about why cats are better then men]

  51. Comment by yruevnhere —
    April 9, 2006 @ 8:46 am

    Quotes 18 century goat herder, thereby proving superiority to blogger.

    Smugness ensues.

  52. Comment by Gary Farber —
    April 9, 2006 @ 8:49 am

    19.

  53. Comment by Gary Farber —
    April 9, 2006 @ 9:00 am

    Proposal to kate r, made after dropping comments all over previous comment sites.

  54. Comment by Gary Farber —
    April 9, 2006 @ 9:02 am

    Measured at 11 minutes of consideration.

  55. Comment by matthew hogan —
    April 9, 2006 @ 9:07 am

    There’s no number 6.

  56. Comment by sugarmuffin —
    April 9, 2006 @ 9:13 am

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  57. Comment by Tom Scudder —
    April 9, 2006 @ 9:14 am

    ya akh matthew, ulit inno kil shi btshuf a thread bi aqoul mawjud bi hal post bes ma shift shi bil arabi.

  58. Comment by Doc Smith —
    April 9, 2006 @ 9:22 am

    IANAL, but comment anyway on the legal issues involved in the aforementioned post.

  59. Comment by Michigan J. Frog —
    April 9, 2006 @ 10:30 am

    First!

  60. Comment by Plucky Punk —
    April 9, 2006 @ 10:54 am

    Onomatopoeia, then reference to female secondary sexual characteristics.

  61. Comment by Michigan J. Frog —
    April 9, 2006 @ 10:59 am

    I DEY LAND HERE OOOOOOO! KEEP OFF GUYMEN AGU IN LOME TOGO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUGU OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

  62. Comment by Leonard —
    April 9, 2006 @ 11:05 am

    Tedious thumbsucker way down in the comments. You’re right about some of this, of course, but I think there’s some serious misapprehensions some folks are laboring under here. Use of ”folks” by overintellectual geek who’d never say it IRL. Use of internet acronyms like ”IRL”. But all that is just laying the groundwork for more serious issues.

    You see, there’s a long history of this sort of thing that you’re missing. So you see, because I can google a term and also put nicely formatted stuff in this comment, I think you might notice it. But it also means that I am totally correct about everything, and need not learn a thing from all this, nor even really pay attention to anything you said. Whereas you, in sharp contrast, ought to be bowing down to me, adopting all my opinions no matter how ill-considered, and reading my blog regularly even though I never update it any more.

  63. Comment by jamie —
    April 9, 2006 @ 11:11 am

    pointless, hysterical accusations of moral relativism by thread latecomer in the vain hope that someone will notice him, ever.

  64. Comment by farm a suticals —
    April 9, 2006 @ 11:23 am

    here — ephedra, viagra, more..

  65. Comment by Ensgn. Brad Littlechuck —
    April 9, 2006 @ 11:28 am

    Is this old Jim Henley I knew back in Tulsa? Hot damn I found you! I’m in Okinawa now, back from the hajjis, you still with Megan?

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  67. Comment by kate r —
    April 9, 2006 @ 11:35 am

    emotional apology for emotional outburst followed by explanation: favorite cat’s death. maudlin plea for prayers.

    Still, no excuse for [….]and reiterate fact that poster should die or, worse, relocate to france.

    [tagline now changed to reflect favorite cat’s birth and death dates, as well as many lines from original poetry with theme of crossing into heaven on silent paws]

  68. Comment by Iron Lungfish —
    April 9, 2006 @ 12:07 pm

    Simultaneously aloof yet hysterical accusation of collusion with political nemeses to appease an unidentified ”sensible center”; identification of blog proprietor with various partisan betes noires; more-sad-than-angry recognition that blog is probably ”past its prime” and that commenter will soon be moving on to fresher, hipper pastures where keener-sighted allies still fight the good fight.

  69. Comment by Sam —
    April 9, 2006 @ 12:14 pm

    snide comment to number 50 followed by passionate but incomprehensible rant about freedom nibbles VS hors d’ouvre

  70. Comment by MichaelM —
    April 9, 2006 @ 12:20 pm

    Let’s break radio, blog silence.

    http://www.hoax-buster.org and get educated

  71. Comment by Avram —
    April 9, 2006 @ 12:36 pm

    Snd, nsltng cmmnt.

  72. Comment by Michigan J. Frog —
    April 9, 2006 @ 12:53 pm

    Blog post gets link from uber-blogger. Blog proprietor appends ”Welcome So-And-So Readers” update to post. Invites So-And-So readers to stick around and read archives, if they like what they see. (Last vestiges of proprietor’s shame slink out the back door.)

  73. Comment by Kin F. —
    April 9, 2006 @ 1:03 pm

    inflammatory image macro derisively commenting that you are of homosexual orientation.

  74. Comment by AML —
    April 9, 2006 @ 1:24 pm

    Bible verse proving me right.

  75. Comment by Andrew K —
    April 9, 2006 @ 1:33 pm

    first post!

  76. Comment by Greg VA —
    April 9, 2006 @ 1:53 pm

    Faux ”used to be a Democrat until” or ”I’d vote for the Democrats except for” followed by one or more of the following straw-man arguments; Democrats ”pushing for gay marriage,” ”advocating abortion,” ”attacking Christianity at every turn,” ”not taking terrorism seriously,” ”not supporting our troops” . . .

    Close with faux ”I’ll be able to take the Democrats seriously again” when they adopt some Republican position.

  77. Comment by Jim Nelson —
    April 9, 2006 @ 3:07 pm

    Days later comment that will go unnoticed because no one is still reading this thread.

  78. Comment by kate r —
    April 9, 2006 @ 3:53 pm

    carefully composed coy come-on comment to Gary Farber (almost immediately deleted by blogowner).

  79. Comment by Sifu Tweety —
    April 9, 2006 @ 4:17 pm

    Late to the party, lengthy exposition of the original posts point, revealing the author’s ignorance of all previous comments.

  80. Comment by Sifu Tweety —
    April 9, 2006 @ 4:17 pm

    Even more pointless sheepish apology for drunken nature of previous comment.

  81. Comment by Tom Scudder —
    April 9, 2006 @ 4:24 pm

    100-line article, cut and pasted from truthout or indymedia, totally unrelated to post’s subject.

  82. Comment by Joshua fit the battle of the Jericho —
    April 9, 2006 @ 4:45 pm

    Ad Hominem attack on blog proprietor followed by condescending remark about ”that quaint college you went to.”

  83. Comment by Species 8 —
    April 9, 2006 @ 5:27 pm

    Commenter posts link proving that he was here first and everyone else is just pathetic johnny come latelys

  84. Comment by OG274 —
    April 9, 2006 @ 5:31 pm

    Thizzle blog is so nizzle its so informizzle

  85. Comment by Jess Nevins —
    April 9, 2006 @ 6:11 pm

    Spam pretending to be a response to blog.

  86. Comment by World War II Vet —
    April 9, 2006 @ 6:43 pm

    Kilroy was here.

  87. Comment by Unqualified Dog —
    April 9, 2006 @ 6:45 pm

    Best. Post. Ever.

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    April 9, 2006 @ 6:51 pm

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  89. Comment by Francis —
    April 9, 2006 @ 7:40 pm

    prfndly nsltng cmmnt tht gts dsmvwlld.

  90. Comment by Francis —
    April 9, 2006 @ 7:41 pm

    long self-important post by a self-proclaimed moderate developing a synthesis of the 88 prior comments.

  91. Comment by Big Ben —
    April 9, 2006 @ 7:56 pm

    I’m not going to bother to wade through all 90 or so previous comments to see if my obvious and already soundly refuted point has already been made, because my time is more important that that of other commenters.

    On preview: what Sifu Tweety said.

  92. Comment by Jeremy Osner —
    April 9, 2006 @ 8:01 pm

    92!

  93. Trackback by Rational Grounds —
    April 9, 2006 @ 8:02 pm

    Blatant Meme Bandwagoning

    Undue excitement over memes, network effects, and the Information Revolution! No mention that this is hardly new: (A parenthetical recognition that posting becomes much easier when implementation is left as an exercise for the reader.) Heh. Indeed….

  94. Comment by Jeremy —
    April 9, 2006 @ 8:24 pm

    my band made a song about your topic. Check us out at our MySpace page!

  95. Comment by Dave Intermittent —
    April 9, 2006 @ 9:24 pm

    This post is just another example of your college-squid transnational progressive thinking. I’d rather win.

  96. Comment by madpigeon —
    April 9, 2006 @ 9:45 pm

    glob!

  97. Comment by Kin F. —
    April 9, 2006 @ 10:24 pm

    FREE BUKKAKE TEEN UPSKIRTS! ENHANCE YOUR PENIS!

  98. Comment by Brian C.B. —
    April 9, 2006 @ 11:02 pm

    Pithy comment followed by pathetic blogwhoring.

  99. Comment by CSI: Disneyworld —
    April 9, 2006 @ 11:16 pm

    Death to America!

  100. Comment by Michigan J. Frog —
    April 9, 2006 @ 11:19 pm

    Troll.

  101. Comment by Michigan J. Frog —
    April 9, 2006 @ 11:20 pm

    Exhortation: ”Don’t feed the trolls”

  102. Comment by NeoDude —
    April 9, 2006 @ 11:28 pm

    [A collection of letters to indicate that I am laughing very heartily.]

  103. Comment by Ptochos —
    April 9, 2006 @ 11:38 pm

    BushChimpyMcHitlerBurton

  104. Comment by Ptochos —
    April 9, 2006 @ 11:43 pm

    Sensible intervention by Tim Burke pointing out that both sides have a point.

  105. Comment by David Rossie —
    April 9, 2006 @ 11:57 pm

    Where’s the MSM on this!? Bleepin’ Bias.

  106. Comment by Dan Hil —
    April 10, 2006 @ 12:26 am

    Gratuitous observation about the commenters personal relationship with Jesus followed by condescending remark that you wouldn’t right such immoral things as ”blog” if your soul had been truly saved.

  107. Comment by Dick Durata —
    April 10, 2006 @ 12:39 am

    Frist!

  108. Comment by Bill Humphries —
    April 10, 2006 @ 12:55 am

    Y ppl lwys rsrt t jk psts whn m sd s rght.

  109. Comment by jamie —
    April 10, 2006 @ 2:54 am

    109 comments! Jim, this must be your longest comment thread EVAR!

  110. Comment by brooksfoe —
    April 10, 2006 @ 3:06 am

    ”reiterate fact that poster should die or, worse, relocate to france.”

    Infuriated denunciation of comment from way, way back in thread. Admission that denunciation is pointless since first poster has long stopped reading thread.

  111. Comment by Sam —
    April 10, 2006 @ 3:17 am

    Hideous saccharine prayer for all the cats in the world and a militant anti-choice rant against abortion, loose women, cat haters, and sex in general.

    Post cut off near end because computer took pity on readers.

  112. Comment by Bernard —
    April 10, 2006 @ 3:53 am

    This is stupid, and I refuse to participate.

  113. Comment by wade —
    April 10, 2006 @ 4:08 am

    belated jumping on of bandwagon..

  114. Comment by bad Jim —
    April 10, 2006 @ 4:19 am

    Request for recommendations for barbecue in Amsterdam, or a Mexican joint in Copenhagen, with a comment on a Lebanese dinner in Sao Paolo.

  115. Comment by Lurker —
    April 10, 2006 @ 4:30 am

    Me too.

  116. Comment by Plus ça change —
    April 10, 2006 @ 5:31 am

    It helps to have one of these ready reckoners. They are so handy, that particular one moved across 3 forums.

  117. Comment by Garfinkel —
    April 10, 2006 @ 6:07 am

    Last post.

  118. Comment by Warboy —
    April 10, 2006 @ 6:26 am

    Kerry’s generic blog would have been worse.

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  120. Comment by Fruztr8ted Dem —
    April 10, 2006 @ 7:03 am

    Comment about Democratic spinelessness

  121. Comment by Doubly Fruztr8ted Dem —
    April 10, 2006 @ 7:05 am

    Accusation that Fruztr8ted Dem is repeating Republican talking points, and should desist..

  122. Comment by Trebly Fruztr8ted Dem —
    April 10, 2006 @ 7:10 am

    Remarks that the notion that criticizing Democratic spinelessness is a Republican talking point is itself a Republican talking point, and that Doubly Fuztr8ted Dem should desist immediately.

  123. Comment by Fruztr8ted Dem —
    April 10, 2006 @ 7:17 am

    Resolves not to say anything ever again, but just provide links to the Daily Kos.

  124. Comment by Clark —
    April 10, 2006 @ 7:33 am

    Reminder that the important thing is the damage done and continuing attacks on the constitution, Especially the X amendment! I blame the legislative, judicial and executive branch of .gov

  125. Comment by Anne —
    April 10, 2006 @ 7:56 am

    Complete text of 10,000 word New York Times article when a link would do just as well

  126. Comment by Che —
    April 10, 2006 @ 7:57 am

    Complete text of 10,000 word deranged conspiracy rant from onlinejournal.com when a link would do just as well

  127. Comment by otto —
    April 10, 2006 @ 8:16 am

    The post, in my view, underestimates the role of the colonisation and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian arabs in creating this problem.

  128. Comment by Monte Davis —
    April 10, 2006 @ 8:18 am

    Complaint about top/bottom quoting, intended for a USENet newsgroup but cross-posted to comment thread.

  129. Comment by Ben Domenech —
    April 10, 2006 @ 8:22 am

    Complete text of 10,000 word deranged conspiracy rant from onlinejournal.com when a link would do just as well.

  130. Comment by Not the real Gary Farber —
    April 10, 2006 @ 8:43 am

    Sarcastic comment about how I had this three days ago, if anyone had bothered to read it.

  131. Comment by David Weigel —
    April 10, 2006 @ 8:59 am

    Bump.

  132. Comment by Thomas Allen —
    April 10, 2006 @ 9:02 am

    Accusation of racist motivation behind theme of comment to original blog post and attribution of same to blog author.

  133. Comment by kate r —
    April 10, 2006 @ 9:09 am

    tearful why can’t we all get along post.

    [tagline: entire poem about heaven-bound companion animals]

  134. Comment by I [heart] Pat —
    April 10, 2006 @ 9:11 am

    Fitz!

  135. Comment by Sam —
    April 10, 2006 @ 9:15 am

    Four links to articles to prove point about spineless democrats, two of which are broken and one which goes to a porn site. The last one connects to the Drudge.

  136. Comment by Danno49 —
    April 10, 2006 @ 9:16 am

    This isn’t an argument.

  137. Comment by Donald Johnson —
    April 10, 2006 @ 9:30 am

    Heated response to comment 127, starting out as similarly snide metacomment about self-pitying Israelis before poster lost his temper.

  138. Comment by James —
    April 10, 2006 @ 9:31 am

    Infinite recursion of empty thread.

  139. Comment by Eric Scharf —
    April 10, 2006 @ 9:39 am

    Lament that this blog used to be about much more interesting and relevant topics (Battlestar Galactica, head-shaving).

    Net-hipster variation on ”I’m outta here.”

  140. Comment by Doctor Slack —
    April 10, 2006 @ 10:15 am

    Tardy handle hijacking containing allusions to immoral and/or illegal procreative practices engaged in by parties with which this poster disagrees.

  141. Comment by Troll X —
    April 10, 2006 @ 10:34 am

    Why does blog hate freedom?

  142. Comment by jamie —
    April 10, 2006 @ 11:16 am

    142 comments! Jim, this must be your longest comment thread EVAR!

  143. Comment by Chris —
    April 10, 2006 @ 11:20 am

    Comment marvelling that the MSM could never produce a discussion of such quality. Truly, we have entered a new age, etc. etc. and etc.

  144. Comment by Chris —
    April 10, 2006 @ 11:22 am

    Comment claiming that commenter’s heroic coverage of the Dan Rather/Mapes story also functions to discredit whatever point the blogger was trying to make.

  145. Comment by Michigan J. Frog —
    April 10, 2006 @ 11:25 am

    Flamewar about the Enterprise D versus an Imperial Star Destroyer. This could last a while.

  146. Trackback by thompsonian*NET blog —
    April 10, 2006 @ 11:34 am

    Post

    Hastily written, content-free post with pointer to equally content-free post. Submitted without additional comment.

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  147. Comment by Baylen —
    April 10, 2006 @ 11:43 am

    Comment wondering why my trackback ping was not accepted.

  148. Comment by Glenn R. —
    April 10, 2006 @ 12:04 pm

    Comment so utterly incoherent that it implies commentor was gnawing on peyote minutes earlier, full-throated summation proclaiming the justice of an American authoritarian crackdown, along with author’s own libertarianism. Then, ”Heh.”

  149. Comment by Michael —
    April 10, 2006 @ 12:14 pm

    Attempt to engage Trolls in reasoned debate.

  150. Comment by Chris Bray —
    April 10, 2006 @ 12:34 pm

    Plea for everyone to stop feeding the trolls, closely followed by an angry and highly personal response to a troll.

  151. Comment by Samuel L. Jackson —
    April 10, 2006 @ 12:36 pm

    Snakes.

    On a motherfuckin’ plane.

  152. Comment by pexor —
    April 10, 2006 @ 12:49 pm

    Chuck Norris would win this argument.

  153. Comment by Silly WIlly —
    April 10, 2006 @ 1:02 pm

    WTF? IMHO, LOL funny.

    Arcane reference to ”Schizopolis.”

    Link to webpage here:

  154. Comment by Silly WIlly —
    April 10, 2006 @ 1:05 pm

    Apology for bad typing of link address.

    Allusion to infamous Monty Python skit.

  155. Comment by Paul —
    April 10, 2006 @ 1:07 pm

    Long-time reader, first time poster

  156. Pingback by BoPL » Blog Archive » Generic Blog Post —
    April 10, 2006 @ 1:16 pm

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  157. Comment by LowLife —
    April 10, 2006 @ 1:34 pm

    Private debate in public space with another commenter about who should supply links to support points on topic neither understands. This takes the next thirty comments.

  158. Comment by testosterone —
    April 10, 2006 @ 1:38 pm

    freep this poll

  159. Comment by Threadbot —
    April 10, 2006 @ 1:45 pm

    Consider this an open thread

  160. Comment by Feeble Troll —
    April 10, 2006 @ 1:52 pm

    Emphatic exhortation for all readers and blog in particular to remember the genitalia of a former executive!

  161. Comment by Jane Galt —
    April 10, 2006 @ 2:53 pm

    Demand to know how dare you blog about this when you still haven’t publicly confessed to making a minor factual error in a long-forgotten post from 2002.

  162. Pingback by Word Munger » Snarky post title —
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  163. Comment by jaylord —
    April 10, 2006 @ 3:20 pm

    remark on length of thread. out of kilter enthusiasm for its continuation. likely last post candidate.

  164. Comment by midget_in_pirate_regalia —
    April 10, 2006 @ 3:45 pm

    WWFSMD?

  165. Comment by Eclectic Bill —
    April 10, 2006 @ 3:48 pm

    But unfortunatly somone else has come late to the party and wants to put in their inane comment as a desparate bid for attention from the blogosphere they worship with frightening fanaticism.

    BTW: I put you on my blogroll thus making you feel obligated to put me on yours. My self-esteem is rises and falls by my blog traffic.

  166. Comment by Carl Jung —
    April 10, 2006 @ 3:49 pm

    All your comments are belong to us.

  167. Comment by trrll —
    April 10, 2006 @ 3:55 pm

    Detailed explanation with link of why my insulting comments do not constitute ad hominem, whereas a previous poster’s comments are ad hominem and therefore invalid.

    Also, he’s a moron.

  168. Trackback by Catallarchy —
    April 10, 2006 @ 4:33 pm

    Trackback Spam

    Wow.

    Hat Tip.

    (I think Balko’s right that this will go down in history)

  169. Comment by Michigan J. Frog —
    April 10, 2006 @ 4:35 pm

    Post from long-absent resident troll, followed by friendly ”Where you been?” posts by other regulars temporarily blinded by nostalgia, but who will be swiftly reminded why they despised said troll in the past.

  170. Pingback by Creative Destruction » Non-sequitor metablogging —
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  171. Comment by cw —
    April 10, 2006 @ 4:52 pm

    Nose Army!

  172. Comment by Long Memory —
    April 10, 2006 @ 4:57 pm

    Ned Telson foresaw this use of inter-hypertextuality, and designed a system to fully subsume and encompass the results in his aptly-named ”Coleridge project.” Of course the bastards at XPAC suppressed the design while simultaneously claiming full credit for its invention, then had the nerve to implement their own inferior, so-called solution which could not even pass the laff test at dashslot.

  173. Comment by Roadtripper —
    April 10, 2006 @ 5:06 pm

    Long tirade in ALL CAPS in response to #152, about how Bruce Lee would kick Chuck Norris’ sorry butt if he was still alive.

  174. Comment by Adam —
    April 10, 2006 @ 5:12 pm

    Absurdly long discourse framed as comprehensive response to discussion thusfar, but really is just a sad attempt to draw attention weeks after the comment thread is dead.

  175. Comment by Cryptic Ned —
    April 10, 2006 @ 5:22 pm

    Observation that the silence on this issue from blog’s opponents is deafening.

  176. Comment by Tice with a J —
    April 10, 2006 @ 5:26 pm

    Off-topic post wondering whether Superman or Batman would win in a fight.

  177. Comment by jokermage —
    April 10, 2006 @ 5:29 pm

    Hypocritical statement on how posting for the sake of posting is immature, followed by a miserable attempt at shameless self-promotion and brown-nosing.

    And this is the Nth comment.

  178. Comment by GoatBoy —
    April 10, 2006 @ 5:43 pm

    Out-of-proportion outraged comment demanding that any subsequent comments be strictly on topic!

  179. Trackback by Modulator —
    April 10, 2006 @ 5:49 pm

    A Blogger’s Blog Entry

    As a number of others have noted Henley’s great post and the ensuing comment thread which will undoubtably be discussed at length in future histories of the blogosphere….

  180. Comment by Doctor Slack —
    April 10, 2006 @ 5:53 pm

    Smug comment noting that there is hardly any point in posting here at this point, but subsequent events have proved this poster unequivocally right about whatever the topic of this blogpost was, and everyone who disagreed with me needs to apologize right now. The War on Easter / Baseball / Christmas / Wal-Mart will not be tolerated by right-minded Americans or for that matter right-minded Spaniards / Italians / Brits.

    Ominous-sounding threat of pseudo-violence and Mad Hacker Smackdowns to the bastard who tried to steal this poster’s identity. I promise you, there will be a reckoning, these colours do not run etc.

  181. Comment by Totally not a sock-puppet —
    April 10, 2006 @ 6:01 pm

    Re 180: He’ll do it, too! That mofo’s crazy!

  182. Comment by John Wilkins —
    April 10, 2006 @ 6:32 pm

    Prayer for your souls as I damn you all to hell and call you antiChristian evolutionists.

  183. Comment by Tim! —
    April 10, 2006 @ 6:58 pm

    Admission that I have not read the entire thread. Response to post #3

  184. Comment by Doctor S|ack —
    April 10, 2006 @ 6:59 pm

    Derisive laughing dismissal of thinly-veiled threat with smug encouragement to bring it on.

  185. Comment by GoatBoy —
    April 10, 2006 @ 7:02 pm

    Knowing revelation that all trolls commenting are the same individual. Commentary on likely sad condition of said individual’s social life/living environment/upbringing/education.

  186. Trackback by Poker, Politics, Philosophy —
    April 10, 2006 @ 7:18 pm

    metablogging

    Content-free link with mildly snide comment about originality.

  187. Comment by Mary Rosh —
    April 10, 2006 @ 7:48 pm

    John Lott is the best professor I ever had.

  188. Comment by Dick Durata —
    April 10, 2006 @ 7:53 pm

    HUZZAH!

    PARAGRAPHING

    WORKS!

  189. Comment by Troll Spammer —
    April 10, 2006 @ 8:20 pm

    Derogatory comment on the lives of people who have time to post so frequently. Speculation on their employment status, habitation with parents, grade-point average, sexual experience, and/or personal hygiene. Association of same with use of particular software tools or adherence to particular sociopolitical views. Admonishment to ”GET A LIFE”.

  190. Comment by Kaycee Swenson —
    April 10, 2006 @ 8:35 pm

    I don’t feel so good.

  191. Comment by A Cat —
    April 10, 2006 @ 9:13 pm

    String of obligatory words meant to lend significant meaning to the topic, but utterly failing.

  192. Comment by johnny sententious —
    April 10, 2006 @ 9:14 pm

    ”First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Communist.”

    ”Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Jew.”

  193. Comment by abc123 —
    April 10, 2006 @ 9:41 pm

    A comment from the moderator warning author of 132 against further trolling lest he be summarily banned from posting on this site again.

  194. Comment by Dave Intermittent —
    April 10, 2006 @ 9:51 pm

    cock joke

  195. Comment by Dave Intermittent —
    April 10, 2006 @ 9:52 pm

    Apology for posting cock joke here instead of in Unfogged comment thread.

  196. Comment by PhillipJ. Birmingham —
    April 10, 2006 @ 10:02 pm

    Further-off-topic rant about how Bruce Lee ALREADY kicked Chuck Norris’ ass in ”Return of the Dragon,” which, if IMDB is not lying to me, also featured John Derbyshire as Thug (uncredited.)

  197. Comment by IXLNXS —
    April 10, 2006 @ 10:06 pm

    often used quotes to make the writer look well read or at least mildly intelligent.

    ”……deserve neither liberty nor justice…….”

  198. Comment by Gene Ray —
    April 10, 2006 @ 10:19 pm

    All day are simultaneous 24 hour day. Man is time of four seasons on four sides of time cube earth. MIT is afraid to debate me. All I dare you to delete this comment!

  199. Comment by Michigan J. Frog —
    April 10, 2006 @ 10:31 pm

    Utterly shameless post by Michigan J. Frog in an attempt to become the undisputed most frequent poster to this thread. Momentary sense of smug triumph gradually gives way to realization that this is very, very pathetic.

  200. Comment by Gary Farber —
    April 10, 2006 @ 10:43 pm

    Linked here. Why can’t we (me and frog in pocket) use ”i” to make italics!? Still!

    No justice, no peace!

  201. Comment by Gary Farber —
    April 10, 2006 @ 10:43 pm

    201!

  202. Comment by Camera Obscura —
    April 10, 2006 @ 10:45 pm

    Incoherent compilation of answers to original post and various comments interspersed throughout. Use of sesquipedalian language to indicate the commenter’s erudition.

    Side rant about the fickleness of sports fanatics who swear at the demolition of a beloved sports venue in the fall and buy-out the entire season’s tickets in the new venue the next spring. Snark about earthquake zones and the distance between the sports venue and a bridge carrying three interstate highways.

    Vague longings for television series that the commenter dissed the entire season while they were showing.

    Appreciation for the sentiments of Unqualified Dog. Vague mutterings about the toileting habits of Fat-Cat Obscura.

    Wrap-up featuring odd quotes from both Monty Python sketches and Douglas Adams’ books.

  203. Trackback by WuzzaDem —
    April 10, 2006 @ 11:32 pm

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  204. Comment by Off Colfax —
    April 10, 2006 @ 11:44 pm

    Troll-induced flaming. Obligatory Hitchiker’s Guide To The Galaxy reference. Overused goat.se reference. Fact-check on comment 189.

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  206. Comment by AnonymousDrivel —
    April 11, 2006 @ 12:52 am

    Just my 2¢.

  207. Comment by Laura Gjovaag —
    April 11, 2006 @ 1:00 am

    Clueless newbie directed here by links from other sites, repeating stuff that’s already been said a dozen times.

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  209. Trackback by The Unabrewer —
    April 11, 2006 @ 1:34 am

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  210. Comment by David T —
    April 11, 2006 @ 3:17 am

    Galloway and Livingstone!!!!

  211. Comment by wade —
    April 11, 2006 @ 3:30 am

    The last word..

  212. Comment by Tom Scudder —
    April 11, 2006 @ 3:45 am

    Long, disjointed rant about Galloway and Respect and Eurabia and Danish cartoons and David Irving and David Horowitz and the other David Horowitz (the ”Fight Back” one) and whether using the nickname ”D. Ho” reveals one as a sexist degenerate.

  213. Comment by wade —
    April 11, 2006 @ 5:06 am

    Damn!

  214. Comment by God —
    April 11, 2006 @ 5:53 am

    Special guest appearance

  215. Comment by dHerblay —
    April 11, 2006 @ 6:15 am

    tl;dr

  216. Comment by Alex —
    April 11, 2006 @ 6:17 am

    Those are some delightful kittens. What are their names?

  217. Comment by User —
    April 11, 2006 @ 6:24 am

    Get a Mac!

  218. Comment by Patrick Nielsen Hayden —
    April 11, 2006 @ 6:37 am

    Interjection that, don’t you see, none of this matters if we don’t do something about the voting machines.

  219. Comment by Brian C.B. —
    April 11, 2006 @ 6:55 am

    Indignant comparison between ”24” and ”Battlestar Galactica.” Nostalgia for ”MST3K.” Admonition to post links using tinyurl.

  220. Comment by Chris —
    April 11, 2006 @ 7:03 am

    Reply to 217 about how much Macs suck.

  221. Comment by Eight Tons of Geese —
    April 11, 2006 @ 7:05 am

    Something about quantum mechanics and postmodernism.

  222. Trackback by Making Light —
    April 11, 2006 @ 7:09 am

    “Blog”

    Over at Unqualified Offerings, Jim Henley put up a one-word post saying “Blog.” Its comment thread didn't so much follow…

  223. Comment by nate —
    April 11, 2006 @ 7:22 am

    Old high school acquaintance of Jim’s, apparently incapable of using his email address, reintroducing himself with a comment here.

  224. Comment by testing —
    April 11, 2006 @ 7:32 am

    Testing, pay no mind.

  225. Comment by Jon Meltzer —
    April 11, 2006 @ 7:40 am

    Blog.

    (Isn’t it time we got back to the original subject?)

  226. Comment by User —
    April 11, 2006 @ 7:46 am

    Don’t you sheeple realise it’s all about oil!

  227. Comment by raboof —
    April 11, 2006 @ 7:49 am

    Armando is an asshole. No, really.

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  230. Comment by KPG —
    April 11, 2006 @ 8:11 am

    Reference to episode of Star Trek Original Series – The Cage.

  231. Comment by A.J. Luxton —
    April 11, 2006 @ 8:17 am

    Non sequitur regarding attention deficit disorder, polyamory, and cats.

  232. Comment by Cialisland —
    April 11, 2006 @ 8:18 am

    Still more cialis, hoodia, cipro, no waiting!!

  233. Comment by #232 —
    April 11, 2006 @ 8:20 am

    #45 has it right, but #123 makes the important distinction that #23 and #25 did not make, while #14, #177 and #29 are just talking shit like always.

  234. Comment by Little Gnarled Foosball —
    April 11, 2006 @ 8:23 am

    Leftist Islamofascist moonbats showing their dhimmitude to the MSM, while Reid kisses asses to the ”RofPeace”.

  235. Trackback by Discourse.net —
    April 11, 2006 @ 8:23 am

    The Ultimate Meta-Thread

    The ultimate meta-comment thread is at Unqualified Offerings. I hope Jim Henley will forgive me for quoting the entire post. It consists of one word: Blog Hilarity ensues. Yes, really….

  236. Comment by Camera Obscura —
    April 11, 2006 @ 8:24 am

    Re: #230, preference expressed for ST: TNG over TOS (with several parenthetical remarks showing that the commenter doesn’t really) and silly asides referencing dismay that Spiner went from doing Sondheim on Broadway to playing geeks on TV and in the movies, just to prove that the commenter knows something about acting besides what comes into the house on the idiot box. Sesquipedalianism re-emerges.

    Complete topic change to reference discussion held over the weekend on how commenter is psychologically disinclined to espouse libertarianism, nevermind that the blogs where the commenter lurks all do so.

  237. Comment by Mr. Obscura —
    April 11, 2006 @ 8:27 am

    wish for enough free time to spend all day reading comment thread, followed by realization that i just spent 15 minutes reading all of this one.

    seven comments added while i was reading

  238. Trackback by dustbury.com —
    April 11, 2006 @ 8:28 am

    Generic post

    Though not as generic as this. (Via the distinctive Jacqueline Passey.)…

  239. Comment by L8comer —
    April 11, 2006 @ 8:32 am

    Late-comer referred to post by another popular blog; feels compelled to comment despite all issues being done to death already.

  240. Comment by Camera Obscura —
    April 11, 2006 @ 8:37 am

    Note to commenter in #237 about the unwise choice he has made in informing his spouse that he’s got visitors and tons of extra work, then commenting on the same blogs she does.

  241. Comment by Maveline —
    April 11, 2006 @ 8:41 am

    Elaborately sarcastic assertion that Jim Henley’s original post was just a different way of saying ”I’ve never had sex with that woman.”

  242. Comment by Kate Nepveu —
    April 11, 2006 @ 8:43 am

    World-weary sigh. Sotto voce remark that we did this before, *better*, back on Usenet.

  243. Comment by Karen Ryan —
    April 11, 2006 @ 8:48 am

    Reporting

  244. Comment by theophylact —
    April 11, 2006 @ 8:49 am

    Reference to dictionary definition of term proving vacuity of argument based on differing consensus understanding of term.

  245. Comment by Species 8 —
    April 11, 2006 @ 8:52 am

    Realizes after Michigan J Frog’s post on commenting the most, that I should give up other nom de plume’s (OG274, davidnotdave, yruevenhere, etc.) and stick w/ my true nom de plume.

    Because it’s about keeping it real. Man

  246. Comment by Eric Scharf —
    April 11, 2006 @ 8:54 am

    Patronizing observation that while this thread has certainly been entertaining, Patrick Nielsen Hayden is correct in Comment #218 that there is much more pressing business to attend to. (Parenthetical cavil at how Hayden has historically chosen to address this problem.)

    Reiteration of seriousness.

  247. Comment by Jim Henley —
    April 11, 2006 @ 8:54 am

    Blustering reference to having used gopher client in response to 242 to prove blogger’s old-timer cred. Vagueness of reference suggests that, while blogger did in fact use gopher in the past, blogger can’t for the life of him remember anything specific, except maybe that weather site? From some school in Texas?

    Blogger considers ”coffee pot webcam” reference to cement matter, but figures gopher reference already proves his point, even though it doesn’t.

  248. Comment by Michael —
    April 11, 2006 @ 8:58 am

    Supercillious, belittling comment regarding #244’s shallowness based on ignorance of technical use of term ’term’ in a field unrelated to discussion at hand.

    Plea for people to get along, despite differences (and despite rest of this comment). Quote from cult movie from the 1980s.

  249. Comment by Alex —
    April 11, 2006 @ 8:58 am

    Pointlessly arcane network engineering reference in order to cap No.247. ”This is just what happens when you let the Aunty Janes out in userland who haven’t ever like stopped the BGP announcements flapping on a Cisco 5751 or configured their own IP-over-MPLS on a PDH backbone comment!”

  250. Comment by Species 8 —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:03 am

    A Pony!

  251. Comment by symphonik (with love) —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:03 am

    Snarky post about how the humor on MeFi links is becoming like that of Fark’s. Hints of underlying superiority complex. Failure to understand irony in air of superiority when comparing nerd blogs.

  252. Comment by Alex —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:04 am

    Can we just kill this thread now?

  253. Comment by Species 8 —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:06 am

    If everyone would stop bickering for just one sec, take a breath and just replace the Commies, with Islamofascists, in the movie Red Dawn, you would realise that this as all been predicted before.

    Best. Movie. Ever.

  254. Comment by Tom Scudder —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:06 am

    Reference to the REAL old days of UseNet, now sadly mostly lost when a U-boat sank the Hollerith archives off the Eastern seaboard one day in ’42.

  255. Comment by matthew —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:12 am

    Confused and irrelevant comment due to coming to the post late and not reading all the comments.

  256. Comment by Max Sparber —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:19 am

    Emoticon.

  257. Comment by Some lurker with maybe a livejournal account —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:21 am

    Minor off-topic correction to a point of fact in earlier comment (which no one will read, as the conversation’s gone on to something quite different, as next response shows.)

  258. Comment by migs —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:23 am

    welcome overlordz.

  259. Comment by Serdar Argic —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:25 am

    I am still waiting for your views on the Armenian genocide of 2.5 million Muslim people!

  260. Comment by name —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:25 am

    Rambling post of despair that all the good comments are already taken.

  261. Comment by about_time —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:27 am

    Repel bevets.

  262. Comment by Bert Dil —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:29 am

    The funniest joke anyone has ever heard, resulting in worldwide fame for the poster and an eventual tv spin-off in Seattle.

    (Oh please, oh please, oh please, oh please)

  263. Comment by Kibo —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:31 am

    Hi.

  264. Comment by Teresa Nielsen Hayden —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:37 am

    Arpanet.

  265. Comment by christy —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:39 am

    Won’t somebody think of the children? Specifically MY children?

  266. Comment by Barb and Jenna —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:42 am

    The bar is closed?

  267. Comment by Teresa Nielsen Hayden —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:45 am

    Conventionalized exclamation of amazement by self-appointed expert on this subject. Declaration that this is *EXACTLY* what per has been trying to get across to Per Readers on Per Weblog, link link link. Statement that this is something Per Readers Need To Hear. Superfluous and mildly sycophantic request for permission to link to it. Nonsuperfluous request for permission to reproduce comment thread in part or whole, original post in part or whole, ditto several other related posts, for use in Per Weblog, newsletter, mailing list, workshop instructional materials, convention handouts …

  268. Comment by Chris —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:48 am

    Comment reminding everyone that Macs still suck.

  269. Comment by anon —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:53 am

    Rant rant rant rant rant!!1

    Rant rant rant rant ad hominem straw-man rant rant rant.

    Rant rant rant category mistake illogic illogic illogic rant rant rant.

    Illogical conclusion.

    – pseudonym

  270. Comment by JB71 —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:54 am

    Comment defending macs as great graphics machines.

  271. Comment by Species 8 —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:56 am

    I’m lonely, won’t someone talk to me.

  272. Comment by Paris Hilton —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:56 am

    Paris Hilton imposter posts, ”That’s hot.”

  273. Comment by ankh —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:59 am

    Chuckle

  274. Comment by C. E. Winchester III, Ph.D, M.D. —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:02 am

    Pompous comment on blog sentence structure belittling supposed educational facilities attended by blogger, with numerous irrelevant references to Wikipedia.

  275. Comment by the talking dog —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:09 am

    Has anyone read Mark Steyn’s column this morning?

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  277. Comment by JonathanMoeller —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:11 am

    Commentor posts standard boilerplate diatribe against the Corrupt Bush Administration, blaming Bush, Cheney, and Halliburtion for Iraq, high gas, global warming, mass extinctions, American Idol, Martian invasions, Scientology, and athlete’s foot. Calls for immediate impeachment of Bush, while making a bird-shot joke about Cheney that shows an utter ignorance of firearms, or basic physics.

    Commentor then suggests that anyone not using [specific Linux distro] is a luser, despite the fact that server logs clearly show commentor is posting from an XP Pro laptop.

  278. Comment by Species 8 —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:12 am

    Everyone should read this

    Then commenter misconstrues post w/ Vanessa Williams disgrace.

  279. Comment by Mrs_TD —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:13 am

    Very late comment showing commenter has not read previous posts, and wondering why no one else has raised point before which has already been raised. Personal shout out to friend posting previously which will go ignored. Unrelated question about obscure technological issue using unfamiliar terms. Half-hearted apology for same.

  280. Comment by Luthe —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:17 am

    Note that Fandom Wank did this first and better. Implication that poster is bored with discussion and that Fandom Wank pwnz j00.

  281. Comment by John —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:23 am

    Continuation of bitter personal battle with commentor #217 which has been going on for months and which noone else gives a fig about.

  282. Comment by Sam —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:23 am

    Scathing rant about post number 69 that has everyone scrolling back up to see what the fuss is about.

  283. Comment by grubi —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:24 am

    Requisite ”me-too”ism.

  284. Comment by lee —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:27 am

    c0mm3nt3r c134r1y d3m0n57r47s hi5 m4d l33t sk1llz

  285. Comment by Brad —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:30 am

    Simpson’s quote

  286. Comment by John Madden —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:33 am

    Dull comment pretending familiarity with the subject of ”blog” but which exposes the poster’s actual ignorance. Even the slightest urge to read the comment is offset by the presence of lots of fatuous links to Wikipedia that anyone could look up themselves and which prove nothing–not to mention the vacuous quote in the signature line attributed to the latest pop sensation.

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  288. Comment by Maronan —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:36 am

    Comment which repeats issues already beaten to death and clearly demonstrates that commenter has not read the thread and only skimmed the original post.

  289. Comment by invid —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:36 am

    Gratuitious reference that a prior commenter’s point was previously – and more cogently – made, in a prior posting on this same blog. General snarkiness.

  290. Comment by Maronan —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:37 am

    Extended post based on misinterpretation of issues in original post filled with enough emoticons to induce seizure.

  291. Comment by blixco —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:37 am

    IAWTP

    ———————

    Really long rambling ASCII-graphic-included-at-no-charge signature quoting an ”obscure” but popular songwriter, a radical 60’s author, a current meme, a Tarantino film, a feminist or linguist professor, a bible verse, or an ancient sanskrit tract next to a Simpson’s quote just for levity. Included four of five elite email addresses, at least one that has both ”mit” and ”edu,” plus a requisite spam filter method such as ”poster@remove.this.gmail.com” or the like, all of which ends up being mor etext than the poster has ever offered in any comment in their entire history including USEnet posts from the mid-1990’s.

  292. Comment by adaplant —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:38 am

    Anti-Blog.

    Accusation of anti-semitic or racist tendencies.

  293. Comment by Maronan —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:39 am

    Rehash of issues made in original two posts, with a claim that the points are impossible to refute since no one refuted them within the last minute.

  294. Comment by Maronan —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:39 am

    Rant about everyone esle being rong with mspelings.

  295. Comment by Maronan —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:40 am

    Rare confession of mistake.

  296. Comment by Maronan —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:40 am

    Comment which, though factually true, is blatantly off-topic and shows again that commenter has not read any of the thread.

  297. Comment by Ryan —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:41 am

    Commenting only to impress those who will follow.

  298. Comment by Maronan —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:41 am

    Vague apology for long stream of rapid-fire postings.

  299. Comment by aabian —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:42 am

    ABIAN MASS-TIME EQUIVALENCE FORMULA m = Mo(1-exp(T/(kT-Mo))) Abian units.

    ALTER EARTH’S ORBIT AND TILT – STOP GLOBAL DISASTERS AND EPIDEMICS

    ALTER THE SOLAR SYSTEM. REORBIT VENUS INTO A NEAR EARTH-LIKE ORBIT TO CREATE A BORN AGAIN EARTH (1990)

  300. Comment by Maronan —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:45 am

    Grump that someone seperated my rapid-fire postings from the apology for them by commenting in the middle, and overly emotional, overly angry call to blog proprietor to move my apology post above the offending post or delete the offending post. Post conveys a sense that the poster has been smoking something powerful.

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  302. Comment by Benji —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:50 am

    Well Bog, old chap, you’re entitled, of course. So am I. So are the Chinese. It’s a storm in a green tea cup, purchased on the free market of opinions. And I don’t see any references to Amnesty’s good work here either, not that it matters to you Decents.

  303. Comment by Spellcheck_Nazi —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:54 am

    Sardonic contempt for 284’s use of Leet, written in Leet.

  304. Comment by Chris Bertram —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:54 am

    The main theme of the Blog is not desituationism, but subdesituationism. I use the term ‘neosemantic discourse’ to denote the paradigm, and subsequent futility, of course, of cultural society. Therefore, the subject is contextualised into a conceptualist paradigm of reality that includes sexuality as a whole. If neodialectic constructive theory holds, the Blog is postmodern. It could be said that the subject is interpolated into a predialectic paradigm of narrative that includes consciousness as a reality.

  305. Comment by GF —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:58 am

    Condemnation of republicans.

  306. Comment by William Burns —
    April 11, 2006 @ 11:00 am

    Assertion of position on the Israel/Palestine issue; claim that all who disagree are motivated by bigotry.

  307. Comment by Cryptic Ned —
    April 11, 2006 @ 11:03 am

    Unbelievably predictable joke about coffee and noses and you owe me a new monitor and keyboard and whatever.

  308. Comment by Bluetooth The Pirate —
    April 11, 2006 @ 11:04 am

    Glib expression of disbelief, accompanied by ASCII art of a nocturnal woodland bird-of-prey.

  309. Comment by LWE —
    April 11, 2006 @ 11:07 am

    Correction of utterly trivial historical detail that has no bearing on actual discussion, but which has been mentioned twice in passing.

  310. Comment by Mike —
    April 11, 2006 @ 11:10 am

    Pointed expression of contempt for everyone still fueling the fire of a now-tired exercise by continuing to post.

  311. Comment by C.B. Ben —
    April 11, 2006 @ 11:13 am

    LOLOL!!![interspersed with trailing ones]

    [link to my blog with either bad HTML or a misspelled URL]

    [some Socratic quotation]

  312. Comment by HP —
    April 11, 2006 @ 11:20 am

    Pasting in an entire freaking article written by someone else, without attribution, as though it were one’s own work.

    This is the first sentence of this story. This is the second sentence. This is the title of this story, which is also found several times in the story itself. This sentence is questioning the intrinsic value of the first two sentences. This sentence is to inform you, in case you haven’t already realized it, that this is a self-referential story, that is, a story containing sentences that refer to their own structure and function. This is a sentence that provides an ending to the first paragraph.

    This is the first sentence of a new paragraph in a self-referential story. This sentence is introducing you to the protagonist of the story, a young boy named Billy. This sentence tells you that Billy is blond and blue-eyed and American and twelve years old and strangling his mother. This sentence comments on the awkward nature of the self-referential narrative form while recognizing the strange and playful detachment it affords the writer. As if illustrating the point made by the last sentence, this sentence reminds us, with no trace of facetiousness, that children are a precious gift from God and that the world is a better place when graced by the unique joys and delights they bring to it.

    This sentence describes Billy’s mother’s bulging eyes and protruding tongue and makes reference to the unpleasant choking and gagging noises she’s making. This sentence makes the observation that these are uncertain and difficult times, and that relationships, even seemingly deep-rooted and permanent ones, do have a tendency to break down.

    Introduces, in this paragraph, the device of sentence fragments. A sentence fragment. Another. Good device. Will be used more later.

    This is actually the last sentence of this story but has been placed here by mistake. This is the title of this story, which is also found several times within the story itself. As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself in his bed transformed into a gigantic insect. This sentence informs you that the preceding sentence is from another story entirely (a better one, it must be noted) and has no place at all in this particular narrative. Despite the claims of the preceding sentence, this sentence feels compelled to inform you that the story you are reading is in actuality “The Metamorphosis’’ by Franz Kafka, and that the sentence referred to by the preceding sentence is the only sentence which does indeed belong to the story. This sentence overrides the preceding sentence by informing the reader (poor, confused wretch) that this piece of literature is actually the Declaration of Independence, but that the author, in a show of extreme negligence (if not malicious sabotage), has so far failed to include even one single sentence from that stirring document, although he has condescended to use a small sentence fragment, namely, “When in the course of human events,’’ embedded in quotation marks near the end of a sentence. Showing a keen awareness of the boredom and downright hostility of the average reader with regard to the pointless conceptual games indulged in by the preceding sentences, this sentence returns us at last to the scenario of the story by asking the question, “Why is Billy strangling his mother?’’ This sentence attempts to shed some light on the question posed by the preceding sentence but fails. This sentence, however, succeeds, in that it suggests a possible incestuous relationship between Billy and his mother and alludes to the concomitant Freudian complications an astute reader will immediately envision. Incest. The unspeakable taboo. The universal prohibition. Incest. And notice the sentence fragments? Good literary device. Will be used more later.

    This sentence is the first sentence in a new paragraph. This is the last sentence in a new paragraph.

    This sentence can serve as either the beginning of the paragraph or the end, depending on its placement. This is the title of this story, which is also found several times in the story itself. This sentence raises a serious objection to the entire class of self-referential sentences that merely comment on their own function or placement within the story (e.g., the preceding four sentences), on the grounds that they are monotonously predictable, unforgivably self-indulgent, and merely serve to distract the reader from the real subject of this story, which at this point seems to concern strangulation and incest and who knows what other delightful topics. The purpose of this sentence is to point out that the preceding sentence, while not itself a member of the class of self-referential sentences it objects to, nevertheless also serves merely to distract the reader from the real subject of this story, which actually concerns Gregor Samsa’s inexplicable transformation into a gigantic insect (despite the vociferous counterclaims of other well-meaning although misinformed sentences). This sentence can serve as either the beginning of the paragraph or the end, depending on its placement.

    This is the title of this story, which is also found several times in the story itself. This is almost the title of this story, which is found only once in the story itself. This sentence regretfully states that up to this point the self-referential mode of narrative has had a paralyzing effect on the actual progress of the story itself—that is, these sentences have been so concerned with analyzing themselves and their role in the story that they have failed by and large to perform their function as communicators of events and ideas that one hopes coalesce into a plot, character development, etc.—in short, the very raisons d’être of any respectable, hardworking sentence in the midst of a piece of compelling prose fiction. This sentence in addition points out the obvious analogy between the plight of these agonizingly self-aware sentences and similarly afflicted human beings, and it points out the analogous paralyzing effects wrought by excessive and tortured self-examination.

    The purpose of this sentence (which can also serve as a paragraph) is to speculate that if the Declaration of Independence had been worded and structured as lackadaisically and incoherently as this story has been so far, there’s no telling what kind of warped libertine society we’d be living in now or to what depths of decadence the inhabitants of this country might have sunk, even to the point of deranged and debased writers constructing irritatingly cumbersome and needlessly prolix sentences that sometimes possess the questionable if not downright undesirable quality of referring to themselves and they sometimes even become run-on sentences or exhibit other signs of inexcusably sloppy grammar like unneeded superfluous redundancies that almost certainly would have insidious effects on the lifestyle and morals of our impressionable youth, leading them to commit incest or even murder and maybe that’s why Billy is strangling his mother, because of sentences just like this one, which have no discernible goals or perspicuous purpose and just end up anywhere, even in mid

    Bizarre. A sentence fragment. Another fragment. Twelve years old. This is a sentence that. Fragmented. And strangling his mother. Sorry, sorry. Bizarre. This. More fragments. This is it. Fragments. The title of this story, which. Blond. Sorry, sorry. Fragment after fragment. Harder. This is a sentence that. Fragments. Damn good device.

    The purpose of this sentence is threefold: (1) to apologize for the unfortunate and inexplicable lapse exhibited by the preceding paragraph; (2) to assure you, the reader, that it will not happen again; and (3) to reiterate the point that these are uncertain and difficult times and that aspects of language, even seemingly stable and deeply rooted ones such as syntax and meaning, do break down. This sentence adds nothing substantial to the sentiments of the preceding sentence but merely provides a concluding sentence to this paragraph, which otherwise might not have one.

    This sentence, in a sudden and courageous burst of altruism, tries to abandon the self-referential mode but fails. This sentence tries again, but the attempt is doomed from the start.

    This sentence, in a last ditch attempt to infuse some iota of story line into this paralyzed prose piece, quickly alludes to Billy’s frantic cover-up attempts, followed by a lyrical, touching, and beautifully written passage, wherein Billy is reconciled with his father (thus resolving the subliminal Freudian conflicts obvious to any astute reader) and a final exciting police chase scene during which Billy is accidentally shot and killed by a panicky rookie policeman who is coincidentally named Billy. This sentence, although basically in complete sympathy with the laudable efforts of the preceding action-packed sentence, reminds the reader that such allusions to a story that doesn’t, in fact, yet exist are no substitute for the real thing and therefore will not get the author (indolent goof-off that he is) off the proverbial hook.

    Paragraph. Paragraph. Paragraph. Paragraph. Paragraph. Paragraph. Paragraph. Paragraph. Paragraph. Paragraph. Paragraph. Paragraph. Paragraph. Paragraph.

    The purpose. Of this paragraph. Is to apologize. For its gratuitous use. Of. Sentence fragments. Sorry.

    The purpose of this sentence is to apologize for the pointless and silly adolescent games indulged in by the preceding two paragraphs, and to express regret on the part of us, the more mature sentences, that the entire tone of this story is such that it can’t seem to communicate a simple, albeit sordid, scenario.

    This sentence wishes to apologize for all the needless apologies found in this story (this one included), which, although placed here ostensibly for the benefit of the more vexed readers, merely delay in a maddeningly recursive way the continuation of the by-now nearly forgotten story line.

    This sentence is bursting at the punctuation marks with news of the dire import of self-reference as applied to sentences, a practice that could prove to be a veritable Pandora’s box of potential havoc, for if a sentence can refer or allude to itself, why not a lowly subordinate clause, perhaps this very clause? Or this sentence fragment? Or three words? Two words? One?

    Perhaps it is appropriate that this sentence gently and with no trace of condescension remind us that these are indeed difficult and uncertain times and that in general people just aren’t nice enough to each other, and perhaps we, whether sentient human beings or sentient sentences, should just try harder. I mean, there is such a thing as free will, there has to be, and this sentence is proof of it! Neither this sentence nor you, the reader, is completely helpless in the face of all the pitiless forces at work in the universe. We should stand our ground, face facts, take Mother Nature by the throat and just try harder. By the throat. Harder. Harder, harder.

    Sorry.

    This is the title of this story, which is also found several times in the story itself.

    This is the last sentence of the story. This is the last sentence of the story. This is the last sentence of the story. This is.

    Sorry.

  313. Comment by Max Sparber —
    April 11, 2006 @ 11:20 am

    Jealous complaint about Xeni Jardin.

  314. Comment by Tone —
    April 11, 2006 @ 11:25 am

    i’d bang this shit…

  315. Comment by Alex —
    April 11, 2006 @ 11:27 am

    Spammy complaint about Kevin Drum’s alleged sexism.

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  317. Comment by Mike —
    April 11, 2006 @ 11:28 am

    Repeat of pointed expression of contempt for people continuing to post, made in belief that noone saw it or they’d surely have stopped.

  318. Comment by Single Issue Commenter —
    April 11, 2006 @ 11:30 am

    Assertion of vital national interest in completely unrelated issue. Rambling claims of malfeasance and misfeasance in office by unspecified members of both parties. Clear failure understand what misfeasance consists of.

    Plea for all right-thinking people to act immediately to end the threat to our democracy.

  319. Comment by HP —
    April 11, 2006 @ 11:32 am

    Admission that all of my supporting evidence has been proven false. Insistence that my basic point, however, still stands.

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  321. Comment by Michigan J. Frog —
    April 11, 2006 @ 11:35 am

    Sniffing, elitist comment by regular commenter about how badly things have gone downhill with all of the n00bs around here. Attempt to assert UO bona fides by dropping sly references to old comment threads (school painting, 2-year-old daughter’s adoration of Unqualified Dog, etc.)

    Cheesy emoticon to signify poster is really kidding, when he really isn’t. (Er, except in this case. Really.)

  322. Comment by Michael —
    April 11, 2006 @ 11:36 am

    Pithy reply to 312, spoiled by lack of verb in sentence.

  323. Comment by aphrael —
    April 11, 2006 @ 11:37 am

    Condescending drive-by political attack.

  324. Comment by Gag Halfrunt —
    April 11, 2006 @ 11:49 am

    Blanket condemnation of liberals as motivated by hatred and envy of Bush. Accusation of projection that itself could be interpreted as sympomatic of projection. Assertion that the ’liberal media’ is to blame for situation in Iraq. Gratuitous remarks about evolution, asserting that scietists are in thrall to rigid dogma. Barely disguised gloating at terrorist attacks in London, which prove that spineless ’Euroweenies’ don’t understand how to deal with terrorists and that Islamophobia is simply a correct understanding of the ’so-called religion of peace’ and a willingness to confront political correctness. Assertion that riots in French suburbs are an expression of Islamic radicalism. Lurid fantasy of massacres, rapes and pillage when the ’Islamofascists’ take over Europe and/or Berkeley. Expressions of support for Israel, with observation that the rest of the world is only now learning what Israelis have always known about the Muslim enemy. ’Objective’ summary history of Arab-Israeli conflict copied and pasted from website of a pro-Israel lobbying group. Link to website allowing people to send pizzas to Israeli soldiers. Death threat against a prominent ’Dhimmicrat’ politician who has expressed mild criticism of the war in Iraq — followed by exclamation that pathetic liberals are incapable of taking a joke!!!

  325. Comment by I Feel So Dirty —
    April 11, 2006 @ 12:11 pm

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  326. Comment by Michigan J. Frog —
    April 11, 2006 @ 12:13 pm

    Bush Derangement Syndrome.

  327. Comment by Wrye —
    April 11, 2006 @ 12:15 pm

    Snide remark about drive by political attack, observation that things like blog just don’t happen in [commenter’s country]. Neurotic correction of older comments alleging [commenter’s country] as original source of blog; dark mutterings about future of America, gratuitous apples to oranges comparison.

  328. Comment by loquacious —
    April 11, 2006 @ 12:17 pm

    Shoutout to referring A-list community blog.

    Sanity-threatening recursion.

  329. Comment by Teresa Nielsen Hayden —
    April 11, 2006 @ 12:26 pm

    Comment which repeats issues already beaten to death and clearly demonstrates that commenter has not read the thread and only skimmed the original post.

  330. Comment by Me too —
    April 11, 2006 @ 12:30 pm

    Comment which repeats issues already beaten to death and clearly demonstrates that commenter has not read the thread and only skimmed the original post.

  331. Comment by bumbling academic —
    April 11, 2006 @ 12:33 pm

    Meaningful, if unwitting, contribution to conversation.

    http://www.thislife.org/ra/241.ram (Time index ~24.50)

  332. Comment by JB71 —
    April 11, 2006 @ 12:41 pm

    Insightful and relevant post referring to Comment 331.

  333. Comment by matthew —
    April 11, 2006 @ 12:42 pm

    [trackback]

  334. Comment by Henry —
    April 11, 2006 @ 12:47 pm

    Sympathy seeking comment about my end-stage fibromyalgia which quickly turns into expressions of anger toward the gov’ment for keeping me from getting my disability for it.

  335. Comment by jamie —
    April 11, 2006 @ 1:08 pm

    Mildly patronising assertion from Brit saying that he’s found this thread tremendous fun. Does anyone know how to start one of those webbylog things?

  336. Comment by irregular poster thinks he is a regular —
    April 11, 2006 @ 1:14 pm

    Admission to being sock puppet posing as commenter #198. Implied disappointment that no one ’got’ that. Apparent lack of realisation that no one here knows or cares who the hell irregular poster is.

  337. Comment by Dan Lewis —
    April 11, 2006 @ 1:18 pm

    Long complicated story about trying to set a TrackBack, noticing that Blogger doesn’t do TrackBacks, then putting a link to the original incoming link, which is not really a TrackBack, even though it says it is, finally discovering problems adding a link and putting it down as text. http://lettersandpapers.blogspot.com/ 2006/04/this-is-trackback.html

    Apology for dragging down the thread.

  338. Comment by JB71 —
    April 11, 2006 @ 1:20 pm

    Comment pointing patronising Brit to generic hosting service and blogging software, trusting patronising Brit can put 2 and 2 together and patronising Brits will create own blog.

  339. Comment by Atrios —
    April 11, 2006 @ 1:22 pm

    Fuckers.

  340. Comment by JB71 —
    April 11, 2006 @ 1:22 pm

    Self-referential comment about JB71’s crappy proofreading skillz, even w/PIMF turned on.

  341. Comment by Mandr0256 —
    April 11, 2006 @ 1:33 pm

    Obligatory post referring to World of Warcraft noting that you need to Learn2Play and O rly?

  342. Comment by speedwell —
    April 11, 2006 @ 1:40 pm

    Johnny-come-lately comment referring to the issue raised in original post, without having been arsed to read all the foregoing posts.

  343. Comment by speedwell —
    April 11, 2006 @ 1:42 pm

    Afterthought to previous post added because commenter was too busy tossing off a bon mot to actually think about what they were talking about.

  344. Comment by Species 8 —
    April 11, 2006 @ 1:46 pm

    Come home kitten, all is forgiven.

    Atrios: Potty mouth!

  345. Comment by Teresa Nielsen Hayden —
    April 11, 2006 @ 1:49 pm

    Weird but kinda interesting post analyzing message traffic in thread: average length, messages per participant, words most frequently used, alphabetical distribution of usernames …

  346. Trackback by Res Ipsa Loquitur —
    April 11, 2006 @ 1:49 pm

    Wow!

    ROTF! (via Chaz)…

  347. Comment by Tom Scudder —
    April 11, 2006 @ 1:53 pm

    I have composed a truly remarkable comment addressing the subject of this post and all previous and subsequent comments which this comment box is too small to contain.

  348. Comment by Caliban —
    April 11, 2006 @ 1:55 pm

    This Thread Is Useless Without Pics

  349. Comment by jlkr —
    April 11, 2006 @ 1:57 pm

    Obligatory defense of Xeni.

  350. Comment by Phil —
    April 11, 2006 @ 1:58 pm

    Hello,

    My name is Edward Williams, an attorney in Nigeria who’s client just died in a possibly fatal – very fatal – accident. My client left $100,000,000 in his bank account, and since you are the only person who’s last name is Smith in the world, you can get half if you give me your credit card info.

  351. Comment by amf —
    April 11, 2006 @ 1:58 pm

    Superior suggestion that recent comments are wasting bandwidth.

  352. Comment by Vanessa —
    April 11, 2006 @ 2:03 pm

    Nostalgic post of BUAG of Australia with Perth indicator (*).

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  354. Comment by JB71 —
    April 11, 2006 @ 2:09 pm

    Posts Pic of system board to satisfy Caliban

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  356. Comment by Stephen Frug —
    April 11, 2006 @ 2:11 pm

    Note that we really shouldn’t be considering this topic without taking into account the follow-up posts, with obligatory links to both of them.

  357. Comment by Ernst Harlow —
    April 11, 2006 @ 2:13 pm

    I am not sure if anybody has made this comment yet.

  358. Comment by Mark Siegal —
    April 11, 2006 @ 2:17 pm

    Failed attempt at being witty enough to justify adding to massive comment thread.

  359. Comment by Ann Bartow —
    April 11, 2006 @ 2:27 pm

    Comment attempting to hijack thread so as to shift focus to my blog, which needs the traffic.

  360. Comment by se —
    April 11, 2006 @ 2:36 pm

    pointed comparison to prior art.

  361. Comment by Gary Farber —
    April 11, 2006 @ 2:39 pm

    Assertion on in which number comment the thread jumped the shark.

    Repetition of personal pet themes. Expression of weary boredom with all other comments. Link to own blog. Conclusion with Joss Whedon reference.

  362. Comment by Anxious awaiting your distinguished indulgence —
    April 11, 2006 @ 2:43 pm

    One wonders really the present administration cannot allow the former first family to rest. Everyday, it is Abacha this and Abacha that, one thing that marvels the reasoning mind is that some of these crones are still serving in Obasanjo’s govt … People are realizing that Abacha is not really the evil genius but these men were. Abacha was able to rid this country of crime-people had to work to eat.

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  363. Comment by Species 8 —
    April 11, 2006 @ 2:48 pm

    Pre-pre-pre-pre Friday randon ten. (Shout out to Tbogg):

    Janes Addiction: Three days

    The Clash: Career Opportunities

    Nine Black Alps: Cosmopolitan

    Kent: Lifesavers

    Metallica: Human

    Eminem: Mosh

    Chris Whitley: Poison Girl

    Foo Fighters: Oh, George

    NIN: Physical (You’re So)

    Elliott Smith: Waltz # 1

    Bonus: Neil Young: World on a String (live)

  364. Comment by Species 8 —
    April 11, 2006 @ 2:56 pm

    Commenter meets Blog proprietor (bp).

    Tells bp loves the blog, especially that one post where commenter posted and bp responded and it was like so cool, because there was this connection and like everything just clicked.

    Bp just stares… awkard silence broken by the sound of crickets and the rustling of a tumbleweed.

  365. Comment by Michigan J. Frog —
    April 11, 2006 @ 2:56 pm

    Hastily written comment cut off in mid sen

  366. Comment by Michigan J. Frog —
    April 11, 2006 @ 2:58 pm

    Pointless rivalry between Michigan and Species 8 to see who can comment most frequently. Also hastily written and cut off in mid sente

  367. Comment by Keith —
    April 11, 2006 @ 3:00 pm

    Completely off-topic declaration of my love for pie.

  368. Comment by Julie L —
    April 11, 2006 @ 3:06 pm

    52. ~~

    I thought it was forty-two.

  369. Comment by yourenext —
    April 11, 2006 @ 3:06 pm

    Long time poster, first time reader

  370. Comment by ghghg —
    April 11, 2006 @ 3:06 pm

    Smoke the purple?

  371. Comment by mary —
    April 11, 2006 @ 3:07 pm

    Complaint that I just wrote a long, witty comment that failed to post and is now lost forever. Too much work to retype the whole thing.

  372. Comment by M Zealot —
    April 11, 2006 @ 3:07 pm

    Off topic comment insisting this is due to the difference between Mac and PC users.

  373. Comment by No One Gets It —
    April 11, 2006 @ 3:08 pm

    OT, but have you seen THIS?

    [link to my blog amateurishzeal.blogspot.com, wherein I utterly misconstrue recent news stories of minor consequence]

    [something about how finally even my most ardent opponents cannot deny the moral bankruptcy of their cause, followed by boilerplate gloat - something about game being over, blowing something out of the water, sticking a fork in something]

    [obnoxiously verbose sig line quoting generically angry indie tune from 6 years ago]

  374. Comment by John —
    April 11, 2006 @ 3:09 pm

    Who’s the black private dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks?

  375. Comment by Wrye —
    April 11, 2006 @ 3:14 pm

    Shaft!

  376. Comment by Edd —
    April 11, 2006 @ 3:16 pm

    Cut-and-paste of entire thread to date with interlineated remarks all in lower case.

  377. Comment by Bill McNeal —
    April 11, 2006 @ 3:16 pm

    I thought we’d all enjoy that.

  378. Trackback by Harry's Place —
    April 11, 2006 @ 3:23 pm

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  379. Comment by Madeline F —
    April 11, 2006 @ 3:32 pm

    Defense of thing tangentially slandered hundreds of comments ago! Without France there would BE no America! Implication that ”kate r” is a mouth-breathing moron, demand that she read [Link] irrelevant Wikipedia article before futher demonstrating her stupidity!

    Superficial expression of sympathy for loss of companion animal to baffle response of attacked commentor.

  380. Comment by Doctor Slack —
    April 11, 2006 @ 3:34 pm

    368 to 184 to 52 to 19.

  381. Comment by some friend of a previous poster —
    April 11, 2006 @ 3:34 pm

    In-joke.

  382. Comment by Madeline F —
    April 11, 2006 @ 3:37 pm

    Apology for failure to include link. Inclusion of link in plain text:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrelevant

    Attempt to weave comments into flow of recent thread with tangential factoid that bolsters #342.

  383. Comment by Gary Ruppert —
    April 11, 2006 @ 3:43 pm

    Unrecommended brandishing of flare gun.

  384. Comment by Michigan J. Frog —
    April 11, 2006 @ 3:49 pm

    [COMMENT DELETED]

  385. Comment by Michigan J. Frog —
    April 11, 2006 @ 3:51 pm

    Poundcake has no chocolate in it.

  386. Comment by Tim Magee —
    April 11, 2006 @ 3:54 pm

    Computer-generated writ from the RIAA based on the fact that a google search for ’Michael Jackson’ and ’MP3’ finds this page. Now.

  387. Comment by fermat —
    April 11, 2006 @ 3:58 pm

    I have discovered a truly remarkable comment which this margin is too small to contain.

  388. Comment by Species 8 —
    April 11, 2006 @ 4:02 pm

    Since we seem to have gotten off track somwhere, must reiterate that original post was in bad taste, in what can only be described in terms the kids are using today, as a ”bad touch”

  389. Trackback by go ahead, mac my day —
    April 11, 2006 @ 4:20 pm

    the archetypical blog post

    Somewhat perplexed, but entirely content-free, trackback wondering how the hell this became such a huge…

  390. Comment by ackbar —
    April 11, 2006 @ 4:23 pm

    It’s a trap!

  391. Comment by Michael Knight —
    April 11, 2006 @ 4:23 pm

    Ironic comment highlighting the tendancy of late posters to repeat the points made earlier without having read through. Further ironic lack of awareness that this ironic comment has been made over a dozen times already by others who also didn’t read through.

  392. Comment by Donald Trump —
    April 11, 2006 @ 4:24 pm

    You’re fired!

  393. Comment by Dan Brown —
    April 11, 2006 @ 4:30 pm

    Shameless copy of the joke made in Comment 35 on the basis that noone is really going to read that far back now.

  394. Comment by Pedant —
    April 11, 2006 @ 4:31 pm

    Comment pointing out to Dan that his comment looks eerily similar to comment 35.

  395. Comment by Lenny —
    April 11, 2006 @ 4:32 pm

    Sucking the dick of Zizek

    Today I thought it would be nice to talk about post-modernism and fucking. I love Slavoj Zizek meself, so I do, to be sure. I found this (below) that I can cut and paste by him so I can show you all how terribly laa dee dah and open minded I am. It’s some pretentious crap about fist fucking. I would let him do me right up the tradesman’s, if he wanted to that is. My lecturers usually use plenty of lubricant when they do me because I’m a bit tight down there, they do however, give me extra marks in my Magik class.

    ”And, to go a step further, is the practise of fist-fucking not the exemplary case of what Deleuze called the ”expansion of a concept”? The fist is put to a new use; the notion of penetration is expanded into the combination of the hand with sexual penetration, into the exploration of the inside of a body. No wonder Foucault, Deleuze’s Other, practised fisting: is fist-fucking not the sexual invention of the twentieth century, the first model of postsexual eroticism and pleasure? It is no longer genitalised but focused just on the penetration of the surface, with the role of the phallus being taken over by the hand, the autonomous partial object par excellence. (Slavoj Zizek, Organs Without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences, 2004, p 184).”

  396. Comment by Dan Brown —
    April 11, 2006 @ 4:32 pm

    Shocked expression of innocence. Energetic defence of the boundaries of artistic license stolen from a libertarian so obscure that noone will remember.

  397. Comment by Yet Another Commenter —
    April 11, 2006 @ 4:39 pm

    Smug declaration of ”victory” due to blog author’s ”deafening silence” in response to earlier off-topic rant.

  398. Comment by Amateur Conspiracy Nut —
    April 11, 2006 @ 4:42 pm

    Suggestion to Dan that this comment thread might well be a plot by the Catholic Church to get the whole world hooked and then feed them subliminal messages until its power base is fully restored.

  399. Comment by Dan Brown —
    April 11, 2006 @ 4:43 pm

    Deafening silence as the next blockbuster comes miraculously into focus.

  400. Comment by Fucking Jagoff —
    April 11, 2006 @ 4:44 pm

    FULL-ON CAPS-LOCK RANT IN RESPONSE TO HAVING EARLIER POIGNANT COMMENT DELETED.

  401. Comment by A Lawyer —
    April 11, 2006 @ 4:45 pm

    Writ delivered to Jim Henley ordering a cease and desist relating to his use of the term ’blog’ in violation of the copyright asserted by Dan Brown in relation to his forthcoming historical thriller ’Blog’.

  402. Comment by Newbie —
    April 11, 2006 @ 4:45 pm

    Expression of awe from drive-by newbie who will probably never read your blog again.

  403. Comment by Fucking Jagoff —
    April 11, 2006 @ 4:46 pm

    Sheepish apology upon being informed that comments are moderated, and that earlier comment was in fact publish while caps-lock rant was being written.

  404. Comment by Thomas L. Knapp —
    April 11, 2006 @ 5:17 pm

    I just wanted people who read my comment to realize that it’s a 404, unless some bastard hits ”post” before I do. And yes, I really did hang out waiting for this.

  405. Comment by Arthur —
    April 11, 2006 @ 5:21 pm

    Thomas, I’d just like to say that that’s really sad. *said the guy who’d been waiting patiently for ’2001’ for… well, you’ll just have to wait and see*

  406. Comment by I. Must Post —
    April 11, 2006 @ 5:21 pm

    bp, that’s very interesting. It reminds me of my days working out the general theory of relativity with Albert Einstein. [large chunks of quoted text] It also showed up in the paper I co-authored with so-and-so, when I was Head of Unverifiable Research at You’d Think That Would Be Easily Checked Institute, which I will now proceed to quote in detail. [detailed quotage]

    [other poster’s name], your question about [topic to which other poster made only glancing allusion] reminds me of the time I was Famous Scientist’s mentor. In my spare time I was also Pope, the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, the Emperor of Ice Cream, and the number 5.

  407. Comment by Chuck \"Powerline\" Reynolds —
    April 11, 2006 @ 5:24 pm

    Triumphant kerning. Self congratulation and tedious reminder of fate of network news anchor and producer.

  408. Comment by John Titor —
    April 11, 2006 @ 5:26 pm

    Transmission of libertarian future utopia. Request for vintage CPU.

  409. Trackback by Kn@ppster —
    April 11, 2006 @ 5:36 pm

    The requested URL was not found on this server

    waited. I plotted. I schemed. Mostly, I waited some more. And then, the moment …

  410. Comment by Sam. Farrow —
    April 11, 2006 @ 5:51 pm

    It was only then I realized that my mother had gone now for good. The loneliness collapsed reality around me and I sank to my knees and wept for all I had lost.

  411. Comment by r@d@r —
    April 11, 2006 @ 5:59 pm

    i, for one, welcome our new blog overlords.

    [or, alternate:]

    all your blog belong to us!

  412. Comment by dyslexic —
    April 11, 2006 @ 6:03 pm

    question for number 402 that makes no sense because question in question is really 204

  413. Comment by Teresa Nielsen Hayden —
    April 11, 2006 @ 6:04 pm

    OMG 406!!!

  414. Comment by Anne Onymous —
    April 11, 2006 @ 6:04 pm

    Newcomer apologises for being off-topic and then congratulates all the participants for their, intellect, wit and good grace. The sad thing is that she’s not being sarcastic…

  415. Comment by Anne Onymous —
    April 11, 2006 @ 6:10 pm

    Newcomer apologises for the extra comma in her previous post and explains that she hopes she isn’t therefore mistaken for a chav and that she would have to kill herself if she were.

  416. Comment by Patrick Nielsen Hayden —
    April 11, 2006 @ 6:13 pm

    But I still hear them walking in the trees: not speaking. Waiting here, away from the terrifying weaponry, out of the halls of vapor and light, beyond holland into the hills, I have come to

  417. Comment by fighting [ ] !! —
    April 11, 2006 @ 6:14 pm

    We’re under ATTACK! Link to post at ( ) blog that makes specific physical threats to all [ ]

    Call upon all [ ] to click on link and make counter-threats. Speculation as to how quickly ( ) will retain control of bladder once enough [ ] go to his blog and make plain what we’re made of.

  418. Comment by Laurence Timms —
    April 11, 2006 @ 6:15 pm

    Bandwagonesque ’me too’ comment

  419. Comment by fighting [ ] !! —
    April 11, 2006 @ 6:15 pm

    points out real 406 died in 1987

  420. Comment by Jim Henley —
    April 11, 2006 @ 6:16 pm

    to wound the autumnal city. So howled out for the world to – doh! Intervening comments!

  421. Trackback by Riding Sun —
    April 11, 2006 @ 6:20 pm

    I couldn’t have said it better myself

    This may be the best blog post (including comments) of all time.

  422. Comment by gmr, age 13 —
    April 11, 2006 @ 6:21 pm

    hyper-snotty mispelled response to 341: WOW is passe. Gild battles *still* rocks.

  423. Comment by tom p —
    April 11, 2006 @ 6:26 pm

    Ha! Yeah, my cat does that too!

  424. Comment by tom p —
    April 11, 2006 @ 6:27 pm

    shit wrong thread

  425. Comment by Nyx —
    April 11, 2006 @ 6:30 pm

    Comments spam of the ”you have a very good blog” variety.

  426. Comment by Wrye —
    April 11, 2006 @ 6:32 pm

    Observation citing recent Penny-Arcade, 422, observation citing recent Penny-Aracde.

    (unvoiced hope that more people will read webcomics)

  427. Comment by aphrael —
    April 11, 2006 @ 6:39 pm

    Angry denunciation of the concept of ”blog”. Self-righteous flouting of academic credentials to argue from authority that ”blog” is wrong. Shrill denials of the viability of ”blog” followed by extensive links to irrelevant sources.

  428. Comment by J.S.France —
    April 11, 2006 @ 6:39 pm

    Correlation between unspecified previous posts and a misquote of a paraphrase of someone else’s opinion about current End Times predicted cryptically in the book of Revelation.

    Gleeful reference to eternal torture for others than self, largely for the error of being born into a different faith or just the wrong part of the world, or if in the right part of the world, to a family using a different version of a 2,000 year old book than the current poster.

  429. Comment by statprof —
    April 11, 2006 @ 6:45 pm

    60 Minutes report by Diane Sawyer on this new fad called ”blogging”. Cites to Instapundit and Slate.

  430. Comment by Humph —
    April 11, 2006 @ 6:52 pm

    Mornington Crescent!

  431. Comment by otpu —
    April 11, 2006 @ 7:25 pm

    [This Comment Intentionally Left Blank]

  432. Comment by Walk Away Renee —
    April 11, 2006 @ 7:29 pm

    [This Comment Intentionally Left Banke]

  433. Comment by ryan —
    April 11, 2006 @ 7:34 pm

    Chuck Norris joke.

  434. Comment by radish —
    April 11, 2006 @ 7:55 pm

    Sincere request for clarification of original post, since some of those words have ambiguous meanings.

    (Slightly whiny observation that there are an awful lot of off-topic comments on this otherwise important thread and if Jim wants to be taken seriously about this could he please get the thread back on topic.)

  435. Comment by Gaijin Biker —
    April 11, 2006 @ 8:01 pm

    Smug blogosphere triumphalism about the New York Times picking up the story several days too late.

  436. Comment by the talking dog —
    April 11, 2006 @ 8:32 pm

    Vote for General Zod. You liberal wankers make me sick.

  437. Comment by rangingnerd —
    April 11, 2006 @ 8:49 pm

    Nitpicking of misuse of ”flout”, which should have been ”flaunt”, in #427 (I’m talkin’ to you, aphrael).

    Digressive rant about ”imply” vs. ”infer” and ”comprise” vs. ”compose”.

  438. Comment by rangingnerd —
    April 11, 2006 @ 8:50 pm

    Groveling reply asking if the blog proprietor would be willing to let self edit #437 to fix

    (a) ”vs.”, which should be ”v.” to be Pedantically Correct

    and

    (b) ”I’m talking to you,” to be ”offhand ad hominem attack on”, to make it That Much More Witty.

  439. Trackback by TexasBestGrok —
    April 11, 2006 @ 8:53 pm

    World’s Greatest Blog Posting Ever

    Here. (The comments are classic, too). (Via Catallarchy)….

  440. Comment by Bitty —
    April 11, 2006 @ 8:57 pm

    Off-topic rambling post saying nothing whatsover but filled to the brim with grandiose self-importance and Very Big Words culminating in linkage to my blog which I do not know how to do on this site.

  441. Comment by Species 8 —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:03 pm

    I don’t know why the blog saved my life. Maybe in those last moments the blog loved life more than the blog ever had before. Not just its life, anybody’s life, my life. All the blog wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did the blog come from? Where is the blog going? How long has the blog got? All I could do was sit there and watch the blog die.

  442. Comment by goobernews —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:16 pm

    Now that I have scrolled all the way down here, I wonder if that dog at the top of the page is still staring at me.

  443. Pingback by PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts » Blog Humor —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:25 pm

    [...] . Steven Taylor @ 9:24 pm

    If you are a long time reader of blogs, you will find this (specifically the comments) most amusing. Further, the post may be a record-hold [...]

  444. Comment by Jesse Walker —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:26 pm

    Complaint that Unqualified Offerings just hasn’t been the same since Virginia Postrel stopped linking to it.

  445. Comment by History Geek —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:34 pm

    Long winded TMI tl;dr comment that rammbles on for several paragraphs before ending with random puncuation. Correct spelling may not apply.

  446. Comment by Dr. Brazen Hussy —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:47 pm

    You are in the internet. There are some comments here.

  447. Comment by Erik —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:53 pm

    A poast filed wyth mispelings.

  448. Comment by Melissa Roth —
    April 11, 2006 @ 9:55 pm

    My 15 seconds of fame are here.

  449. Comment by gertie —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:05 pm

    i am interested in the comments romantically. I want to date Blog and have incestuous relations with all its offspring.

  450. Comment by cheshirecat —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:11 pm

    General pissiness that poster got in late for all the fun, and tries to do post a witty rejoiner, only to find out that it was already done 200 comments ago, and then, to cap it off, double posts by accident.

  451. Comment by cheshirecat —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:11 pm

    General pissiness that poster got in late for all the fun, and tries to do post a witty rejoiner, only to find out that it was already done 200 comments ago, and then, to cap it off, double posts by accident.

  452. Comment by cheshirecat —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:12 pm

    Apolgies for the double post, and ends up double posting the apology.

  453. Comment by cheshirecat —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:13 pm

    Apolgies for the double post, and ends up double posting the apology.

  454. Trackback by Asymmetrical Information —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:14 pm

    In which I bow to greatness

    Jim Henley is the zen master of blogging. I am selling my possessions, moving to Washington, and shaving my head in the hopes that after several years of squatting on his doorstep, he will take me on as his disciple….

  455. Comment by spurwing plover —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:18 pm

    poster VISITS from ACE OF SPADES uses random CAPIALIZATION of words

  456. Comment by Someone from Ace Of Spades —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:19 pm

    Announces:

    Spoetry

    in reference to above post, no one gets it here.

  457. Comment by cheshirecat —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:23 pm

    Request for help in blockquoting or embedding HTML.

  458. Comment by cheshirecat —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:28 pm

    …then leaves out a closing tag, so the next 200 posts are all in BOLDFACE.

  459. Comment by Democratic Underground poster —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:30 pm

    [very long cut and paste of an article from Counterpunch, punctuated with badlee splled epi…ephi…epith…insults about BushMcChimperHaliburton…etc…]

  460. Comment by The_next_30_posters... —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:31 pm

    GAZE

  461. Comment by Glaivester —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:43 pm

    Gratuitous mention of my campaign to save Spider-Girl.

  462. Comment by Wonder Woman Fan —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:46 pm

    Five paragraph rant about how Wonder Woman has better accessories, tighter clothes, and kicks ass much better than aforementioned Spider-Girl, and calls above poster one of the various epithets to describe a homosexual who has a fetish for inserting various living animals inside a rectum.

  463. Comment by sayhuh78 —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:48 pm

    Paste comments from my 5 personal favorite posts.(Here) (Here) (Here) (Here)

    (and Here)

    (computer specs here)

  464. Comment by Teresa Nielsen Hayden —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:48 pm

    AKICIF

  465. Comment by Michelle —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:49 pm

    Coment witn a numerus mispellings.

  466. Comment by Bill —
    April 11, 2006 @ 10:54 pm

    Frist!

  467. Comment by Bill —
    April 11, 2006 @ 11:01 pm

    In which I acknowledge some Dick beat me to the draw by only 359 posts.

  468. Comment by Matt McIntosh —
    April 11, 2006 @ 11:01 pm

    Comment about how there are so many comments that I can’t be bothered reading them. Just to let everyone know. Really just posting to immortalize my name in this famous thread.

  469. Comment by Comment by Comment —
    April 11, 2006 @ 11:08 pm

    469th!

  470. Comment by Michigan J. Frog —
    April 11, 2006 @ 11:12 pm

    I have travelled forward in time to post this comment.

    .

    The future looks so different!

    .

    Michigan

  471. Pingback by Thought Mechanics —
    April 11, 2006 @ 11:50 pm

    [...] or Karl can lick my nuts. Concluded with a hypertext link to an interesting web log that inspired the post. [...]

  472. Comment by stomper —
    April 12, 2006 @ 12:04 am

    answer the damn question!!!

  473. Comment by Adam Greenwood —
    April 12, 2006 @ 12:14 am

    Bewildered ’huh?’ after following link. Urges commenters to get lives. ”This is what’s wrong with the internet.”

  474. Comment by the reaper —
    April 12, 2006 @ 12:17 am

    Comment on how the length of the comment thread is impressive, but is still missing more COWBELL.

  475. Comment by gertie —
    April 12, 2006 @ 12:18 am

    tiny but thoughtful musing on whether the former post by same author will end up reaching fewer readers due to its lacking sufficient enmeshment with the style and idiom of the flow.

    description of sound of cough drop being chewed

  476. Comment by Ben Domenech —
    April 12, 2006 @ 12:50 am

    Bewildered ’huh?’ after following link. Urges commenters to get lives. ”This is what’s wrong with the internet.”

    [Lives in fear that someone, some day will find earlier, identical Ben Domenech joke.]

  477. Comment by protected static —
    April 12, 2006 @ 12:52 am

    Because in Soviet Russia, the blog blogs you.

  478. Comment by Anonymous Coward —
    April 12, 2006 @ 1:10 am

    Another failure to contribute to the discussion.

    An expression of gratitude for the plagarized self-referential short story.

  479. Comment by imalbon —
    April 12, 2006 @ 1:27 am

    Just scrolled down from above the fold, and boy are my arms tired!

    So, um…

    ME TOO!

  480. Comment by b-psycho —
    April 12, 2006 @ 1:28 am

    Obligatory ”LOL” left for an excuse to leave a link.

    Realization of the sheer post-modernness of the blogpost in question.

    Unnecessary out-loud self-questioning of whether the definition of post-modern is being fudged for the above comment.

    Apology for rambling.

    Complaint about how comments boxes occasionally act funny and cl

  481. Comment by AnonymousDrivel —
    April 12, 2006 @ 1:29 am

    Likened intended argumentative adjunct to complement lengthy treatise to unwelcomed chocolate in my peanut butter.

    Or is it peanut butter on my chocolate?

  482. Comment by b-psycho —
    April 12, 2006 @ 1:30 am

    Unnecesary out-loud self-criticism of having not read the text above comment box upon surprise that paragraph breaks worked.

  483. Comment by IXLNXS —
    April 12, 2006 @ 2:08 am

    you think I can be banned that easy dud3?

    ever hear of shells?

    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    HA!

  484. Comment by obsessed fan —
    April 12, 2006 @ 2:11 am

    comment exposing commenter’s annoyance at not having commented earlier, and furthermore expressing commenter’s disbelief and annoyance that original post did not link to her page proving beyond all doubt that 9/11 was a HOAX, and expressing derision for all other commenters, for deigning to comment about anything other than the fact that 9/11 was a HOAX

  485. Comment by IXLNXS2 —
    April 12, 2006 @ 2:15 am

    64ck 4g41n. 1 c4n 5p4m l1k3 7h15 4ll d4y.

    Bwahahaha.

    Ha.

  486. Comment by IXLNXS —
    April 12, 2006 @ 2:21 am

    remouseful apology and promise to never act like that again as long as my posting priveledges aren’t revoked, displaying an inate need to belong to the community, any community. Total reversal of earlier views combined with total agreement with the entire ”Blog” theory.

  487. Comment by Someguy —
    April 12, 2006 @ 2:37 am

    Comment that this has now made it to Digg and Slashdot.

  488. Comment by rcb —
    April 12, 2006 @ 3:26 am

    Smug citation of HP’s unattributed article in #312, to show off equal, if not superior, erudition, meanwhile demonstrating the rhetorical figure of praeteritio by pretending to be above mentioning that in fact this whole thread is rather derivative of the same source (Hofstadter’s _Metamagical Themas_ section on self-reference).

    Afterthought added – after skipping most of the thread – to the effect that others may have noted this already.

  489. Comment by CaseyL —
    April 12, 2006 @ 3:26 am

    Denunciation of blogpost on some other blog entirely! Italicized statement noting the other blog is on your blogroll, therefore you must agree with and advocate everything the other blogger says; followed by ALL CAPS DEMAND THAT YOU DISAVOW THE OTHER BLOGGER AND REMOVE THE BLOG FROM YOUR BLOGROLL!!

  490. Comment by Ageing Hippy —
    April 12, 2006 @ 3:35 am

    Comment to the effect that commentors 51 onward weren’t really there, man.

    Rambling eulogy for the lost innocence of that halcyon early april day.

  491. Comment by CrazyMonkey —
    April 12, 2006 @ 4:00 am

    I disagree with comment #673: I have read this far, and I’m sure many others will have too.

  492. Comment by David Jackmanson —
    April 12, 2006 @ 4:17 am

    Long detailed and interesting post that takes a firm stand without abusing the opposition. All fair arguments and points are acknowledged, and own arguments are buttressed with reasoning and links to reasonable sources.

  493. Comment by boriski —
    April 12, 2006 @ 4:49 am

    This is a test

  494. Comment by Oliver Kamm dreaming that he is a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming that it is Oliver Kamm —
    April 12, 2006 @ 4:49 am

    Appreciative remark about comment 492, whose author has obviously been reading my website. Nevertheless, derisive followup remark about comment 492, whose author obviously fails to realize how often my admonitions to greater civility and more genuine erudition go unacknowledged by those that need to hear them most.

  495. Comment by Thomas Jefferson —
    April 12, 2006 @ 4:58 am

    Outrageous flame of post 492, designed to drag commentor into an argument where everyone looks equally petty.

  496. Comment by Alex —
    April 12, 2006 @ 5:12 am

    Author is objectively pro-fascist, pales in comparison with Oliver Kamm. Should face up to the brutal power realities that only the Decent Left and George W. Bush have the courage to confront!

  497. Comment by J. Random Crackmonkey —
    April 12, 2006 @ 5:14 am

    Inappropriate comment about sexual attractiveness of alarmingly ill-chosen politician.

  498. Comment by wu-ming —
    April 12, 2006 @ 5:38 am

    A comparison to Hitler and/or Nazi Germany, thus Godwinning the thread.

  499. Comment by J. Random Crackmonkey —
    April 12, 2006 @ 5:42 am

    @498: That happened about 480 comments ago. Fuckin’ newbies..

  500. Trackback by The Missing Link —
    April 12, 2006 @ 5:42 am

    The Prototypical Blog Entry

    Heh….

  501. Comment by The Ghost of Orson Welles —
    April 12, 2006 @ 5:47 am

    In the spirit of bad remakes, it’s time for:

    Comparison to Hitler and/or Nazi Germany III. This time it’s personal!

  502. Comment by Reader —
    April 12, 2006 @ 5:52 am

    Bog-standard example of the 502nd comment in a normal blog entry.

  503. Trackback by Ghost of a flea —
    April 12, 2006 @ 6:08 am

    Link

    Link (via hat tip)….

  504. Comment by William Burns —
    April 12, 2006 @ 6:26 am

    Speculation about which fictional pop culture icon could beat up other fictional pop culture icon.

  505. Comment by Mark —
    April 12, 2006 @ 6:34 am

    Complaint about the inanity ofthe subject matter in comment #504 followed by fierce counter-speculation.

  506. Pingback by Must read at Grendel’s Kitchen —
    April 12, 2006 @ 6:56 am

    [...] ur Culture

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  507. Comment by Michael —
    April 12, 2006 @ 7:11 am

    Entirely personal, blistering denouncement of author of comment 507, based on asserted facts that cannot be disproven.

  508. Comment by Broomfondle —
    April 12, 2006 @ 7:13 am

    Wholehearted agreement with commentor 507 that comment 507 is worthless. Congratulation for such a poignant observation.

  509. Comment by J. Random Crackmonkey —
    April 12, 2006 @ 7:22 am

    You forgot Poland!

  510. Comment by Erudite Redneck —
    April 12, 2006 @ 7:39 am

    Confused and irrelevant comment due to coming to the post late and not reading all the comments.

  511. Comment by chezjake —
    April 12, 2006 @ 8:12 am

    I’m totally amazed that no one has yet realized that this post and its comments are complete proof that McLuhan was right!

    This is awesome! May I add you to my Friends list?

  512. Comment by lee —
    April 12, 2006 @ 8:16 am

    Commenter wondering if CommenterX is the same CommenterX from BlogX (or threadX).

    If so, you need to address my points and quit crawling away when proven wrong.

  513. Comment by Dave —
    April 12, 2006 @ 8:22 am

    Another shameless self-promoting link.

  514. Comment by Cliff —
    April 12, 2006 @ 8:26 am

    None of these comments have been in my kitchen.

  515. Comment by unique147 —
    April 12, 2006 @ 8:36 am

    Reminds me of the time … Grandpa used to go to the … and he’d tell me all about … then we changed the tire … after a while we’d sit in the shade and … Spanish American War … came from the old country … horse went lame and we had to … snow was clear up to my … but that’s what a man had to do, so he just shut up and did it … started to sink, so we tied … lived on that island for about three years … when we finally got back to Madrid, wouldn’t you know it … pruned the entire orchard with my barlow … had to sharpen the blade on a piece of broken flowerpot … wonder where she got to? … dog would climb the firewood pile and get up on the roof and bark for hours … knocked over the churn … dirt floor hardened up with ox blood … feather tick … not like you younguns … my first computer used beads on strings … much harder to use the internet back then….

  516. Comment by Blaine —
    April 12, 2006 @ 8:45 am

    Wow

  517. Comment by concerned —
    April 12, 2006 @ 9:09 am

    Donning my tinfoil hat now.

  518. Comment by Glaivester —
    April 12, 2006 @ 9:11 am

    XP42l.Ptfg””@rt

  519. Comment by Glaivester —
    April 12, 2006 @ 9:12 am

    Plea for previous comment to be removed after realizing that due to a glitch in Netscape’s tabbed browsing that I have just posted my email password on this blog.

  520. Comment by unique147 —
    April 12, 2006 @ 9:14 am

    My first computer used beads on strings … much harder to use the internet back then … Reminds me of the time … Grandpa used to go to the … and he’d tell me all about … then we changed the tire … after a while we’d sit in the shade and … Spanish American War … came from the old country … horse went lame and we had to … snow was clear up to my … but that’s what a man had to do, so he just shut up and did it … started to sink, so we tied … lived on that island for about three years … when we finally got back to Madrid, wouldn’t you know it … pruned the entire orchard with my barlow … had to sharpen the blade on a piece of broken flowerpot … wonder where she got to? … dog would climb the firewood pile and get up on the roof and bark for hours … knocked over the churn … dirt floor hardened up with ox blood … feather tick … not like you younguns …

  521. Comment by Hick —
    April 12, 2006 @ 9:17 am

    Comment about the 2nd law of thermodynamics as irrefutable proof that religion is right and science is wrong.

  522. Comment by liberal lori —
    April 12, 2006 @ 9:21 am

    Please unsupscribe me from your list. I followed your directions to the lotter, and they din’t help.

  523. Comment by Glaivester —
    April 12, 2006 @ 9:23 am

    Never mind. Passwoed changed. I’ll have to remember to be more careful using the Netscape browser to check my email in the future.

  524. Comment by Glaivester —
    April 12, 2006 @ 9:24 am

    Lp.X7*wQpLiFgt(&^wR

  525. Comment by Glaivester —
    April 12, 2006 @ 9:25 am

    Damn.

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    April 12, 2006 @ 9:28 am

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  527. Comment by Me —
    April 12, 2006 @ 9:31 am

    I just want to talk about me.

  528. Comment by mk —
    April 12, 2006 @ 9:53 am

    Yet another impassioned plea to think about the children.

    Pictures of angels

  529. Comment by Zit Boy —
    April 12, 2006 @ 9:55 am

    Are there any hawt girlz with big boobiez in here?

  530. Comment by Schwa Love —
    April 12, 2006 @ 9:58 am

    Response to someone’s comment where I say ”Me too” without referencing the comment that I feel a unique identification with.

  531. Comment by Alex —
    April 12, 2006 @ 10:01 am

    Katherine Harris: kinda hot?

  532. Comment by Jon Meltzer —
    April 12, 2006 @ 10:07 am

    Old, tired, Catherine The Great-horse joke.

  533. Comment by Dick Cheney —
    April 12, 2006 @ 10:10 am

    Play ball!

  534. Comment by Charles —
    April 12, 2006 @ 10:28 am

    I’m European!

    You are all morons.

  535. Comment by Anonymous —
    April 12, 2006 @ 10:37 am

    Another bona fide comment

  536. Comment by Tad Ghostal —
    April 12, 2006 @ 10:39 am

    Marginally on-topic, yet smugly delivered, tautalogical statement(s)/appeals to authorities of varying degrees of obscurity/”scene”-ness (for a given value of ”scene”) employed in support/refutation of one or more points made 50+ comments beforehand.

    Various appeals to real or imagined subcultural norms, with judgments regarding previous commentors based on commentor’s perception of how well previous commentors conform to said norms.

    Exhortation to hate and/or smash the state and/or self-congratulating explanation of the degree to which commentor hates/smashes the state.

    [Prevailing, pathetic metatextual hope that above will win commentor eternal fame, fortune, e-back-slaps, &c.]

    -obscure self-assigned nickname left over from usenet/message board X/Jr. High e-mail address/other

  537. Comment by Brad —
    April 12, 2006 @ 10:45 am

    snork @ Anne (comment 125)

  538. Comment by Kirsti —
    April 12, 2006 @ 10:46 am

    Repetition of comment made halfway up the page because commenter hasn’t bothered to read more than the first 10 responses.

  539. Comment by jamie —
    April 12, 2006 @ 10:48 am

    I actually rather like the mainstream media. I find it generally accurate and trustworthy.

  540. Comment by eldan —
    April 12, 2006 @ 10:55 am

    Expression of amazement that no-one has spammed this thread with links to a poker site yet.

  541. Comment by Bruce —
    April 12, 2006 @ 11:04 am

    What he said; I agree. Check out this (omitted)link.

  542. Comment by Me —
    April 12, 2006 @ 11:13 am

    We’re supposed to be talking about me.

  543. Comment by J.D. Fisher —
    April 12, 2006 @ 11:16 am

    Because of outrage at previous commenter’s comments, current commenter explains to previous commenter that he or she will not be sending his or her kids or friends to wherever they work or will not be engaging in any transactions with the company he or she works for.

  544. Comment by Dana —
    April 12, 2006 @ 11:24 am

    Response to early comment, made without bothering to read the rest of the comments and find out whether or not the point has already been addressed.

  545. Comment by Tom Scudder —
    April 12, 2006 @ 11:26 am

    Comment left by someone who obviously came to this page by googling for a bunch of porn-related keywords.

  546. Comment by Lazy but brilliant latecomer —
    April 12, 2006 @ 11:32 am

    Deliberate repeat of the salient points in comments 34-312 in an attempt to look like a lazy but brilliant latecomer.

  547. Comment by The Sanity Inspector —
    April 12, 2006 @ 11:33 am

    Copyright-violating shotputting of entire, enormous slickzine opinion article, from commenter who has no eye for pull quotes, and doesn’t trust readers to click on a bare link.

  548. Comment by DJB —
    April 12, 2006 @ 11:35 am

    Comment that repeats what has already been stated numerous times because commenter neglected to read all of the previous comments.

  549. Comment by DJB —
    April 12, 2006 @ 11:38 am

    Embarrassed recant of post 548 after seeing that post 544 only a few posts prior has already made this statement.

  550. Comment by John —
    April 12, 2006 @ 11:41 am

    Imperious demand that the thread END HERE, coincidentally giving me the last word.

  551. Trackback by No Se Nada —
    April 12, 2006 @ 12:02 pm

    On being really unclear on the concept

    Or maybe too clear? Anyway, on Monday Interplanet Janet (alt. link) linked to a hilarious comments run on Unqual Offs. Just read the post and first few comments (which now number 550 at press time) and you get the point….

  552. Comment by Taylor —
    April 12, 2006 @ 12:03 pm

    Comment posted way after the fact by a Google-wielding reader; never to be read because post popularity has already now started to wane.

  553. Comment by Exiled Unfogged Commenter —
    April 12, 2006 @ 12:04 pm

    325 and 362 to 540. 549 to 548 and all similar comments.

    Laconic introduction of much better cock joke than 194.

    550: Nyah-nyah!

  554. Comment by Don —
    April 12, 2006 @ 12:06 pm

    Just link back whoring…soon to be lost at the end and then the middle of a refreshingly humorous blog thread.

  555. Comment by Grayden —
    April 12, 2006 @ 12:09 pm

    Me-too comment made after ignoring posts 75-525 hoping to cash in on the popularity of the post, despite this point having probably already been made already in at least one of the comments I didn’t bother to read. Followed up of course by more link whoring.

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  557. Comment by John Lott —
    April 12, 2006 @ 12:20 pm

    Dear ”Mary Rosh” (comment #187),

    I know who you are, and I don’t think this is funny. You can expect to hear from my lawyer.

  558. Comment by dej —
    April 12, 2006 @ 12:43 pm

    This is not a comment.

  559. Comment by dej —
    April 12, 2006 @ 12:43 pm

    This is not a comment.

  560. Comment by dej —
    April 12, 2006 @ 12:46 pm

    This is not a comment.

  561. Comment by dej —
    April 12, 2006 @ 12:48 pm

    apology for triple(!) post.

  562. Comment by otpu —
    April 12, 2006 @ 12:51 pm

    [This Comment Intentionally Banks Left]

    Kos for Prez ’08!

    Give the People an taste of how bad BAD can be!

  563. Comment by Bryan Costin —
    April 12, 2006 @ 12:54 pm

    Smug rejoinder urging calm discourse and mutual respect with unintentional ironic implication that other commenters are mentally-challenged troglodytes.

  564. Comment by KumikoDee —
    April 12, 2006 @ 1:10 pm

    Noting the intellectually stimulating humor in the above comments.

    (cute)

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  566. Comment by Mr. Sparkle —
    April 12, 2006 @ 1:14 pm

    Angrily correct wording of Simpson’s quote from #265.

  567. Comment by Brian Pinheid —
    April 12, 2006 @ 1:29 pm

    Nothing of importance

    HUGE meaningless cutesy sig file containing Philosophical tripe and the history of the world, followed by some meaningless personal history, topped off with perhaps an obscure quote from someone you probably never heard of and a collapsed ASCII picture that you can’t make out.

  568. Comment by Sick Junkie —
    April 12, 2006 @ 1:36 pm

    I just left a used needle in a pay phone coin return slot.

    Welcome to the world of AIDS.

  569. Comment by Ken Layne —
    April 12, 2006 @ 1:39 pm

    Preemptive acknowledgement that this comment will be deleted because apparently freedom of speech only applies to people who *believe* in the Holocaust.

    [Tag with cryptic line from Bob Dylan song, baffling smiley, broken link to long-abandoned Buzznet site]

  570. Comment by Danno49 —
    April 12, 2006 @ 1:41 pm

    Vain attempt to steer discussion back to subject of blog. Notes how funny, yet unproductive the majority of comments left have been. States how imperative it is to come to some common understanding or it is proof positive that the world is about to end.

    World ends in 5 . . . 4 . . . 3 . . . 2 . . .1

  571. Comment by Richard Tibbetts —
    April 12, 2006 @ 1:44 pm

    unnecessary link to urban legends site refuting #568

  572. Comment by Danno49 —
    April 12, 2006 @ 1:45 pm

    Apologizes for frightening anyone but states last post was merely to illustrate point by using shock value.

    Points out world isn’t due to end until comment #673.

  573. Comment by Mike —
    April 12, 2006 @ 2:20 pm

    Don’t you know 9/11 changed everything? Why anyone would read the maundering of illiterate not-mainstream media after?

  574. Comment by Mark —
    April 12, 2006 @ 2:22 pm

    I’d hit it.

  575. Comment by Sherry-Drinker —
    April 12, 2006 @ 2:31 pm

    Ironic metacomment.

  576. Comment by Huffington —
    April 12, 2006 @ 2:33 pm

    #563, let’s keep this dicussion objective. No one is attacking you personally.

  577. Comment by Your Friend from College —
    April 12, 2006 @ 2:36 pm

    IMHO you are all trogs from Jesusland. It’s time to MOVE ON!

  578. Comment by The Creepy Guy in the Next Cube —
    April 12, 2006 @ 2:37 pm

    #575, I’d hit that.

  579. Comment by midget_in_pirate_regalia —
    April 12, 2006 @ 2:46 pm

    Al Gore invented blog.

  580. Comment by Michael —
    April 12, 2006 @ 2:49 pm

    bump

  581. Comment by Dogfish —
    April 12, 2006 @ 2:56 pm

    Lame post by someone who just wants to be noticed.

  582. Comment by Jesus —
    April 12, 2006 @ 2:59 pm

    Second Coming, to be ignored amid the general chatter in a defining example of irony.

  583. Comment by jef182 —
    April 12, 2006 @ 3:04 pm

    image borrowed from Fark.com Photoshop contest produced as irrefutable evidence.

  584. Comment by Mike Black —
    April 12, 2006 @ 3:07 pm

    Ironic self-referential meta-statement of the sort made popular by the movie Schizopolis, which includes knowing pop cultural meta-reference to the same.

    [winking, yet smug, smiley-face emoticon]

  585. Comment by Exasperated Genius —
    April 12, 2006 @ 3:13 pm

    Expression of disbelief that poster has to go over all of this AGAIN, since he’s tried to explain it before whenever blog has been discussed. Long, cut-and-paste post involving links to numerous biased sources purporting to defeat other posters’ ”straw man arguments” while setting up several of poster’s own.

    Conclusion that other posters are stupid or dishonest in failing to bow to poster’s arguments. Parting admonition that while poster has tried to be patient to date and to take the high road, this is that last time he will attempt to explain. Poster has too many other things to do to waste his life pointing out the obvious to morons.

    IMHO

  586. Comment by systemj —
    April 12, 2006 @ 4:31 pm

    No comment.

  587. Comment by Joshua —
    April 12, 2006 @ 4:38 pm

    Extended post in a somewhat civil tone, but whose subject matter is obvious terror-apologism, America-bashing and/or calls for free speech to be redefined to exclude blasphemy against the Prophet Mohammed (pbuh), all the while making frequent references to same Prophet Mohammed (pbuh), always taking care to append each use of the Prophet Mohammed’s (pbuh) name with the abbreviated invocation ”(pbuh),” which is short for ”peace be upon him”. This promptly ignites yet another flame war that lasts several dozen posts and includes at least one link to a certain set of drawings.

  588. Comment by DAVE BABBITT —
    April 12, 2006 @ 4:38 pm

    I READ ALL 556 POSTS. I NEED A LIFE.

  589. Comment by Joshua —
    April 12, 2006 @ 4:45 pm

    Oh, and the flame war alluded to in #587 also includes at least one guy mocking Islamist anti-Semitism by spelling ”Jews” as ”Jooooooooooooz”.

  590. Comment by jamie —
    April 12, 2006 @ 4:57 pm

    I would like to condemn the shameful silence of the left.

  591. Comment by dink —
    April 12, 2006 @ 5:02 pm

    Comment that, while expressing smugness that commenter has carefully read all the other frankly repetitive comments, actually brings nothing new to the discussion.

  592. Comment by crabmuffins —
    April 12, 2006 @ 5:05 pm

    I’m not going to bother to wade through all 600 or so previous comments to see if my obvious and already soundly refuted point has already been made, because my time is more important that that of other commenters.

  593. Comment by Tom Hilton —
    April 12, 2006 @ 5:09 pm

    Comment that nobody has yet raised a point actually raised in comments #126 and #438, which I didn’t bother to read.

  594. Comment by AnonymousDrivel —
    April 12, 2006 @ 5:21 pm

    Suggestion a stated opinion (that) and a trivial sum of money indicating market value of some common product (and a nickel) will help one acquire a liquid commodity available to anyone (a cup of coffee).

    Subsequent retort that condescending parentheticals suggest an ignorant audience.

    Concluding follow-up of appreciation for critique but that one must agree to disagree. (Your mama!)

  595. Comment by History Geek —
    April 12, 2006 @ 6:08 pm

    Bitching at poster 461 and 462 for not seeing the insert adjective/verb here of Bat-girlI and II.

  596. Comment by Michigan J. Frog —
    April 12, 2006 @ 7:33 pm

    I have an opinion.

  597. Comment by New guy... —
    April 12, 2006 @ 7:52 pm

    timid new guy finally admits that he’s a long-time reader and only just now got around to commenting, because it’s such an interesting discussion, and how he really, really wants to add more but isn’t sure he has much new to add, so just ”hi” and ”thanks for pointing this WONDERFUL thread out again!”

    (cheeky signature that hasn’t changed since college referring to defunct bands and social trends that no one even remembers, pasted in without thinking)

  598. Comment by J.D. Fisher —
    April 12, 2006 @ 7:56 pm

    Noting with some smugness that with no real topic to discuss, nearly 600 commenters are amazingly on-message.

    [Brief, stupid explanation of how one could structure posts in the future to achieve similar results.]

  599. Comment by robot guy —
    April 12, 2006 @ 7:58 pm

    Comment containing thirty-four letters.

  600. Comment by robot guy —
    April 12, 2006 @ 8:01 pm

    Trackback.

  601. Comment by Eric —
    April 12, 2006 @ 8:03 pm

    YABC (Yet Another Bandwaggoning Comment)

  602. Trackback by Robot Guy —
    April 12, 2006 @ 8:06 pm

    Trackback

    Trackback.

  603. Comment by robot guy —
    April 12, 2006 @ 8:09 pm

    Comment apologizing for misuse of Trackback in #600. Self-referential sentence fragment which also refers to #312.

  604. Comment by robot guy —
    April 12, 2006 @ 8:13 pm

    Comment retracting apology in #603, which was based on a complete misunderstanding of #549.

  605. Comment by gryxm —
    April 12, 2006 @ 8:14 pm

    Like Asian xx titties on viagra and cialis playing Texas hold’em? Go here for Hoodia.

  606. Comment by Robert —
    April 12, 2006 @ 8:33 pm

    huh?…I don’t get it.

  607. Comment by Incontinence —
    April 12, 2006 @ 8:41 pm

    Good Lord! It’s an outbreak of blogarrhea!

  608. Comment by d-day —
    April 12, 2006 @ 8:53 pm

    I am a lawyer, and this post reminds me of a situation I encountered when I was in law school/clerking for a judge/working on a case . . .[insert long, boring, irrelevant story here]

  609. Comment by esther van homrigh —
    April 12, 2006 @ 9:09 pm

    You people make me anxious because you seem to know so much and I wish you would like me but I know you won’t like me so I’ll just say something relatively innocuous hoping that someone will respond but no one will criticise and then we’ll all be friends and I’ll get invited to the next IRL beer bash that happens in my town.

  610. Comment by Sarah —
    April 12, 2006 @ 9:10 pm

    Me too!

  611. Comment by Michael Bérubé —
    April 12, 2006 @ 9:11 pm

    Further comment on comment 591 that, while expressing smugness that commenter has carefully read all the other frankly repetitive comments, actually brings nothing new to the discussion, which also brings nothing new to the discussion. Followed by ironic wink on metacommentary nature of comment on comment.

  612. Comment by Poster 462 —
    April 12, 2006 @ 9:37 pm

    @595

    Poster 462 retorts that the only good that Bat-girl had was to be the ardent sex-slave of Bruce Wayne, and should kindly take her winged hero-worshipping arse to some god-forsaken country across the world.

    Takes another swig of Valurite Vodka.

    [Lame ascii art of Wonder-Woman spread eagle on a pile of bananas]

  613. Comment by Vinny Green —
    April 12, 2006 @ 9:40 pm

    Statement regarding comment #575, citing my own blog which touched in only the remotest way on the same topic, which of course has nothing to do with the original post, nor the direction the thread has gone. Includes link which returns a 404 error stating the blog is not found.

  614. Comment by Scott from Oregon —
    April 12, 2006 @ 10:03 pm

    (Don’t mind me, I’m just lurking)

    Shrinking commenter avoiding all confrontations….

  615. Comment by Old Greedy Associate —
    April 12, 2006 @ 10:41 pm

    Babooey! Skekabooey.

  616. Comment by R M Bragg —
    April 12, 2006 @ 10:55 pm

    Bible verse proving number 74 wrong.

    Hypocritical expression of regret that AML will undoubtedly rot in Hell.

  617. Comment by The Elder Dan —
    April 12, 2006 @ 11:06 pm

    Oblivious entry into the conversation that makes it clear commentator hasn’t really read most of what’s gone before.

  618. Comment by claytonian —
    April 12, 2006 @ 11:11 pm

    ”also cocks” comment entered, expecting everyone to know that joke.

  619. Comment by The Unaborted Atheist —
    April 12, 2006 @ 11:38 pm

    Futile attempt analyze post through lens of commenter’s narrow-themed specialty blog, and why can’t you Godidiots recognize that abortion is murder.

  620. Comment by Julie —
    April 12, 2006 @ 11:51 pm

    Question to the blogger left by a first-time reader where the answer would be totally obvious if the commenter would take five minutes and look around the site before asking it.

  621. Comment by Becky —
    April 12, 2006 @ 11:54 pm

    Comment from legal department of blog-owner’s employer stating that ”Blog” entry has created unwanted bad press for bloated corporation and blog owner is now fired.

    or

    Pissed off family member leaves hate filled comment demanding that all mention/photos of him/her be removed from ”Blog” immediately and blog owner is no longer welcome in family member’s home at [insert applicable holiday].

    or

    Underage teen adds link to controversial ”Blog” entry on his MySpace page causing his vigilant parent to leave threatening comment for blog owner.

    or

    Offer of unsolicited medical advice on which perscription drug blog owner should be on because he is obviously crazy or depressed. [link to WebMD drug information page].

    I couldn’t decide.

  622. Comment by Nicanor —
    April 13, 2006 @ 1:19 am

    What is a blog?

  623. Pingback by Salvaged Beauty :: Blog Post About House :: April :: 2006 —
    April 13, 2006 @ 1:40 am

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  624. Comment by Madeline F —
    April 13, 2006 @ 2:37 am

    Comment from English not knowing good in second country! Prepositions behind relevance meaning nearly knowing! English not knowing good is cause anger because agreeing!

  625. Comment by Randomly Chosen Name —
    April 13, 2006 @ 2:59 am

    There are different opinions on this subject.

  626. Comment by Karen —
    April 13, 2006 @ 3:04 am

    Desperate attempt at witty erudition, but with a disturbing subtext of the commenter’s persecution complex, resulting comment deeply regretted five seconds after posting, to the commenter’s eternal shame.

  627. Comment by William S —
    April 13, 2006 @ 3:06 am

    Smug comment to the effect that the ’million monkeys with a million typewriters’ principle takes more than 626 comments in order to kick in.

    Closing rejoinder that ’prithee, thou shouldst leave these things to the professionals’.

  628. Comment by cupofjane —
    April 13, 2006 @ 3:07 am

    can’t believe this was still funny after post 453

    er…473

    no 519 was good too

    laughted again at 525

    and at 605

    btw I am NOT #265 and I don’t know who she is

    p.s.long list comparing Wonder Woman’s powers to Bat girl and Spider girl and PROVING beyond all doubt why she would so totally kick butt moving on to lament and fears that new movie about same will totally suck because no one was a better Wonder Bra than Lydnia Carter

  629. Comment by cupofjane —
    April 13, 2006 @ 3:10 am

    embarssing apology for attempt at clever humor with the ’wonder bra’ thing

    It’s all my husband’s fault because of his obsession with boobs

    and my obsession with…

    not that I’m gay or anything…

    not that there’s anything wrong with that…

  630. Comment by Karen —
    April 13, 2006 @ 3:12 am

    Apology for comment # 626, followed by a link to a lengthy and highly personal explanation of exactly why the commenter said that and now regrets it so much, along with a brief rant about not being able to understand trackback, no matter how many people try to explain it to her.

  631. Comment by Geek —
    April 13, 2006 @ 3:58 am

    Let’s have a ’guess the number of comments’ competition.

    I predict that 631 will be left before the collective delusion that anyone is paying attention anymore wears off.

  632. Comment by Geek —
    April 13, 2006 @ 3:59 am

    No, wait. That’s too low.

    632.

  633. Comment by reakto —
    April 13, 2006 @ 6:53 am

    Sorry, wrong IP address.

  634. Comment by teen —
    April 13, 2006 @ 7:06 am

    Swearword Loosers

  635. Comment by dej —
    April 13, 2006 @ 7:15 am

    Worst Thread Ever!

  636. Comment by JMack —
    April 13, 2006 @ 8:04 am

    Comment saying that I will never respond to you if you comment again.

  637. Comment by Original —
    April 13, 2006 @ 8:30 am

    Attempt to post something original, but was actually expressed in #460, but commentor missed when they stopped reading extremely long comment chain at #459

  638. Comment by AliceB —
    April 13, 2006 @ 8:36 am

    Completely botched attempt to one-up comment 611 by cutting and pasting Further comment on comment 591 that, while expressing smugness that commenter has carefully read all the other frankly repetitive comments, actually brings nothing new to the discussion, which also brings nothing new to the discussion. Followed by ironic wink on metacommentary nature of comment on comment and creating an unreadable sentence without any meaning.

    Long apology.

  639. Comment by Elayne Riggs —
    April 13, 2006 @ 8:46 am

    Desperate need to join into a thread on a previously-unknown-by-commenter blog, discovered via a reference in another blog, expressing itself as a whiny ”me too” comment with absolutely no substance and no value, followed immediately by short self-pitying apology and assurance that said commenter has also linked to fun thread.

  640. Comment by Original —
    April 13, 2006 @ 8:51 am

    apology for getting the post numbers referenced incorrect, but negleting to reference the correct onse.

    And the obligitory misspellings

  641. Comment by Original —
    April 13, 2006 @ 8:54 am

    post recognizing what an idiot poster is for missing important post number 640, referencing the original 640k of ram in IBM pc’s

  642. Comment by rodney dill —
    April 13, 2006 @ 8:59 am

    Last Comment

  643. Comment by Brenda Coulter —
    April 13, 2006 @ 9:01 am

    And yet another latecomer reads the first 35 comments, skims the remaining 600 (wondering what hilarity she’s missing, but she’s having a busy day and it can’t be helped), then heads eagerly to the bottom of the page to post an all-caps THANK YOU (in bold type!) to Jim Henley (Is he, she wonders, related to Don?) and to all of the clowns and yes, even the spammers and trolls who have commented here and given her such a delightful coffee break.

    Lamenting that she’s fast running out of time on this Thursday morning to think up a witty, insightful entry to post on her own blog, she determines to discharge her duty to her readership by pointing them to this post.

    And she again expresses her gratitude to Mr. Henley.

  644. Comment by snaildork —
    April 13, 2006 @ 9:06 am

    My Mother never liked Elvis either.

  645. Comment by chicago dyke —
    April 13, 2006 @ 9:15 am

    overly personal, inappropriate, yet predictably juvenile threat to track down one or more regular female posters thru their ISP information, demonstration of pitiable level of ignorance about computers, how the internet works, and sex and sexuality of all types.

  646. Comment by Necrospankula —
    April 13, 2006 @ 9:21 am

    Yogurt!

  647. Comment by Jon Meltzer —
    April 13, 2006 @ 9:23 am

    Baffled and somewhat rambling post asking #646 why Mel Brooks references are appropriate to this thread.

  648. Comment by Fester and Karbunkle —
    April 13, 2006 @ 9:25 am

    Oot-greet.

  649. Comment by nihil obstet —
    April 13, 2006 @ 10:12 am

    Attempted humorous comment parodying the opposition.

  650. Comment by nihil obstet —
    April 13, 2006 @ 10:13 am

    Serious attempt to refute #649.

  651. Comment by nihil obstet —
    April 13, 2006 @ 10:14 am

    Astonished comment that #650 didn’t understand that #649 was joking.

  652. Comment by Good Samaritan —
    April 13, 2006 @ 10:16 am

    Attempt to mediate between commentors 649 and 650 after they’ve resolved the issue, thus inadvertantly reopening the problem.

  653. Comment by Teresa Nielsen Hayden —
    April 13, 2006 @ 10:27 am

    Comment. Deadpan Oversharp Bad, Egregious Off-topic, Nazi I (incomplete) Non-sequitur There’s Comment Accidental Accidental Apology Insistence Forthright [Incomprehensible I’m Enraged Crushing Read-this-if-you-can-handle-facts Hitchens I Single Bronzed Off Your Its Heh. advertisement Non-sequitur Expression IAWTC Accusation Vaguely Cryptic, Moderately What YHBT. Unhinged 42: Interesting shameless What Nobody riverrun, rambling Quotes Proposal Measured There’s I ya IANAL, First! Onomatopoeia, I Tedious pointless, here Is emotional Simultaneously snide Let’s Snd, Blog inflammatory Bible first Faux Days carefully Late Even 100-line Ad Commenter Thizzle Spam Kilroy Best. Overly prfndly long I’m 92! Blatant my This glob! FREE Pithy Death Troll. Exhortation: [A BushChimpyMcHitlerBurton Sensible Where’s Gratuitous Frist! Y 109 ”reiterate Hideous This belated Request Me It Last Kerry’s Uncategorized, Comment Accusation Remarks Resolves Reminder Complete Complete The Complaint Complete Sarcastic Bump. Accusation tearful Fitz! Four This Heated Infinite Lament Tardy Why 142 Comment Comment Flamewar Post Comment Comment Attempt Plea Snakes. Chuck WTF? Apology Long-time Private freep Consider Emphatic Demand remark WWFSMD? But All Detailed Trackback Post In Nose Ned Long Absurdly Observation Off-topic Hypocritical Out-of-proportion A Smug Re Prayer Admission Derisive Knowing metablogging John HUZZAH! Derogatory I String ”First A cock Apology Further-off-topic often All Utterly Linked 201! Incoherent Update Troll-induced Just Clueless Blog Galloway The Long, Damn! Special tl;dr Those Get Interjection Indignant Reply Something “Blog” Old Testing, Blog. Don’t Armando Reference Non Still #45 Leftist The Re: wish Generic Late-comer Note Elaborately World-weary Reporting Reference Realizes Patronizing Blustering Supercillious, Pointlessly A Snarky Can If Reference Confused Emoticon. Minor welcome I Rambling Repel The Hi. Arpanet. Won’t The Conventionalized Comment Rant Comment I’m Paris Chuckle Pompous Has ♂♀完全無料出会い系サイト完結版　　　　　　　　 Commentor Everyone Very Note Continuation Scathing Requisite c0mm3nt3r Simpson’s Dull Comment Gratuitious Extended IAWTP Anti-Blog. Rehash Rant Rare Comment Commenting Vague ABIAN Grump Well Sardonic The Condemnation Assertion Unbelievably Glib Correction Pointed LOLOL!!![interspersed Pasting Jealous i’d Spammy Repeat Assertion Admission Sniffing, Pithy Condescending Blanket I Bush Snide Shoutout Comment Comment Meaningful, Insightful [trackback] Sympathy Mildly Admission Long Comment Fuckers. Self-referential Obligatory Johnny-come-lately Afterthought Come Weird Wow! I This Obligatory Hello, Superior Nostalgic Posts Note I Failed Comment pointed Assertion One Pre-pre-pre-pre Commenter Hastily Pointless Completely 52. Long Smoke Complaint Off OT, Who’s Shaft! Cut-and-paste I How Defense 368 In-joke. Apology Unrecommended [COMMENT Poundcake Computer-generated I Since the It’s Ironic You’re Shameless Comment Sucking Shocked Smug Suggestion Deafening FULL-ON Writ Expression Sheepish I Thomas, bp, Triumphant Transmission The It i, question OMG Newcomer Newcomer But We’re Bandwagonesque points to I hyper-snotty Ha! shit Comments Observation Angry Correlation 60 Mornington [This [This Chuck Sincere Smug Vote Nitpicking Groveling World’s Off-topic I Now If Complaint Long You A My i General General Apolgies Apolgies In poster Announces: Request …then [very GAZE Gratuitous Five Paste AKICIF Coment Frist! In Comment 469th! I answer Bewildered Comment tiny Bewildered Because Another Just Obligatory Likened Unnecesary you comment 64ck remouseful Comment Smug Denunciation Comment I Long This Appreciative Outrageous Author Inappropriate A @498: The In Bog-standard Link Speculation Complaint Entirely Wholehearted You Confused I’m Commenter Another None Reminds Wow Donning XP42l.Ptfg””@rt Plea My Comment Please Never Lp.X7*wQpLiFgt(&^wR Damn. I Yet Are Response Katherine Old, Play I’m Another Marginally snork Repetition I Expression What We’re Because Response Comment Deliberate Copyright-violating Comment Embarrassed Imperious On Comment 325 Just Me-too Dear This This This apology [This Smug Noting Angrily Nothing I Preemptive Vain unnecessary Apologizes Don’t I’d Ironic #563, IMHO #575, Al bump Lame Second image Ironic Expression No Extended I Oh, I Comment I’m Comment Suggestion Bitching I timid Noting Comment Trackback. YABC Trackback Comment Comment Like huh?…I Good I You Me Further @595 Statement (Don’t Babooey! Bible Oblivious ”also Futile Question Comment What Comment There Desperate Smug can’t embarssing Apology Let’s No, Sorry, Swearword Worst Comment Attempt Completely Desperate apology post Last And My overly Yogurt! Baffled Oot-Greet. opposition. Serious Astonished Attempt

  654. Comment by matthew —
    April 13, 2006 @ 10:39 am

    I intiate the Chewbacca defense

  655. Comment by Karen —
    April 13, 2006 @ 10:52 am

    Sincere but clandestine because-at-work appreciation of #653 summary. Unrelated question about the color green.

  656. Comment by Susan —
    April 13, 2006 @ 10:59 am

    Fuck you, I’m a dragon.

  657. Comment by Reader —
    April 13, 2006 @ 11:01 am

    Comment of an entirely new kind, fully justifying the continuation of this thread for another 600 comments.

  658. Comment by jlkr —
    April 13, 2006 @ 11:04 am

    Comment, that while thanking #653 for summary of posts to date, still manages to demonstrate commentor’s grasp of the concept (or lack thereof). Picks up on mention of Mornington Crescent and asks for explanation.

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  660. Comment by Doctor Slack —
    April 13, 2006 @ 11:36 am

    Okay: we’re getting to comment 666, dammit.

  661. Comment by Doctor Slack —
    April 13, 2006 @ 11:36 am

    Content-free post in bloody-minded attempt to reach aforementioned numerical goal.

  662. Comment by Doctor Slack —
    April 13, 2006 @ 11:37 am

    Content-free post in bloody-minded attempt to reach aforementioned numerical goal.

  663. Comment by Doctor Slack —
    April 13, 2006 @ 11:37 am

    Further content-free post in bloody-minded attempt to reach aforementioned numerical goal.

  664. Comment by Doctor Slack —
    April 13, 2006 @ 11:38 am

    Further content-free post in bloody-minded attempt to reach aforementioned numerical goal.

  665. Comment by Jon Meltzer —
    April 13, 2006 @ 11:39 am

    Flame about commenter trying to run up total by posting comment-free text.

  666. Comment by Dubya —
    April 13, 2006 @ 11:40 am

    I’m a uniter, not a divider.

  667. Comment by Tom Scudder —
    April 13, 2006 @ 11:41 am

    Long whine about how women don’t appreciate ”nice guys” but always end up with jerks. Response that guys who think of themselves as ”nice” generally aren’t. c. 250 more posts elaborating on this theme.

  668. Comment by Mario Milosevic —
    April 13, 2006 @ 11:48 am

    A self referencing link that to a certain extent anticipates some of the aspects of this comment thread.

  669. Comment by The Lovely Samantha —
    April 13, 2006 @ 11:59 am

    Comment #658: I am pretty sure that Oblovov’s Standard Reverse is the right move at this point in the comments thread. I do concede that the Green Dragon Defense could be used, but that would remove the later option of trambibulating any lower double play. See the deciding game of the 1973 East Slovak Championship, between Geolgi Laskavansk and Rugthi Nashtery, for a classic example of a premature use of the GDD.

  670. Comment by Karen —
    April 13, 2006 @ 12:30 pm

    Inept musing about the onotological implications of the fact that a content-free blog entry and resulting metacomments are far more inspirational than any substantive post could ever be. Admission that the commenter isn’t quite sure of the meaning of the term ”ontological.” Worry about whether post-modern deconstruction is really a Good Thing in all cases, followed by a concession that in certain circumstances, it’s a Lot of Fun. Rueful acknowledgment that too much exposure to metablogging at the expense of sleep makes it hard to concentrate on Getting Work Done the next day.

  671. Comment by Long-time reader, 1st time poster —
    April 13, 2006 @ 12:38 pm

    Earnest, ill-focused attempt to engage someone by lonely little man weighed down by more grief than he can understand.

  672. Comment by ojaidave —
    April 13, 2006 @ 12:39 pm

    Pithy remark understood by no one but the author, who is chuckling to himself

  673. Comment by Karen —
    April 13, 2006 @ 12:54 pm

    Half-hearted attempt to issue a blanket ”There, there” to #671. The Problem with Society Today.

  674. Comment by bago —
    April 13, 2006 @ 1:01 pm

    Yet another Schizopolis reference, and a blatent attempt to loop the recursion of the thread.

  675. Comment by adaplant —
    April 13, 2006 @ 1:39 pm

    Meta-comment on the length of the thread.

  676. Comment by greg —
    April 13, 2006 @ 1:53 pm

    Reader without humor, after discovering this topic via a link from another blog, here to defend stance of marginal celebrity’s demeanor at an event that was publicized by a tabloid and shocked, just SHOCKED, author would find humor in the gossip at all.

    Litany of marginal celebrity’s works cited to enforce his/her credibility.

  677. Comment by Jon —
    April 13, 2006 @ 2:01 pm

    Comment about Escher that seemingly has no connection to anything, but which ends up being frightfully relevant.

  678. Comment by arthur —
    April 13, 2006 @ 2:04 pm

    Supercilious PhD candidate, oblivious to how many days late he is with this one, seizes oportunity to pontificate on his dissertation topic to a popular forum and point out that all of the meta-references above to similar threads on fark, electrolite, usenet, gophernet, bulletin boards and such falsely assume that this sort of thread in unique to the internet, when if fact similarly contentless strings of witty metatalk can be found in unpublished notes of Seinfeld scriptwriters for a show that never aired; in a partially published chain letters of members of the Bloomsbury group (reference to British Museum files); in a transcription of a conversation at the Algonquin table, obliquely refered to in an Albee play where the inspiration is usually misstated to be Beckett; in certain letters circulated among the Bronte sisters and some of their cousins (British Museum file again); in anonymous marginal notes found in a copy of the First Folio now located in Berlin; and in the Babylonian Talmudic commentary on the curiously circular text of Nehemiah, but not if you use the execrable Seinsaltz translation. Ends with promise to update comment with additonal citations.

  679. Comment by w00t —
    April 13, 2006 @ 2:09 pm

    (.)(.)

  680. Comment by The Sanity Inspector —
    April 13, 2006 @ 2:21 pm

    Spambot, finding an un-Turing-ed comment thread, praises blog for high interest, and shyly suggests that proprietor click over to shop for trailer hitches.

  681. Comment by Brenda Coulter —
    April 13, 2006 @ 2:24 pm

    Romance writer thanks supercilious PhD candidate for recognizing the contributions of the Bronte sisters but expresses concern that Jane Austen was not mentioned. Expresses devout hope that the redoubtable Miss Austen will be included in promised update.

  682. Comment by Janus Daniels —
    April 13, 2006 @ 2:39 pm

    Demand to preserve thread to grow eternally as essential for preservation of conceptual art, community literature, internet history, social experiment, etc. Sentences linking to a thread on another blog with no relation except potential to grow infinitely. Invitation to extend both; suggestions for competition and handicapping… proposal for various means of taking bets on outcome. Ironic self referencing remarks which avoid any variation on the phrase ”get a life” and end with a threat to slashdot thread. Claim to have relented from slashdotting. Outraged lament that Slashdot never asks sites permission, never even sends them warning, before linking. Lengthy account of personal experience with resultant DOS disaster. Plea for lurkers to show mercy. Musing that Slashdot ignores the best submissions, including (by implication) all of mine.

  683. Comment by Teresa Nielsen Hayden —
    April 13, 2006 @ 2:41 pm

    Observation that infinitely expanding thread was already tried by crossposters on Usenet. Didn’t work.

  684. Comment by Laura —
    April 13, 2006 @ 2:50 pm

    proving once and for all that we really do need lives.

  685. Comment by J —
    April 13, 2006 @ 2:53 pm

    I don’t see the podcast link anywhere.

  686. Trackback by The Sheila Variations —
    April 13, 2006 @ 3:21 pm

    Blog-post title

    Read this “post”. And make SURE you read all the comments. I can’t stop laughing! Look at how LONG the entire group is able to sustain the joke! Well played, well played! (via Jane Galt)…

  687. Comment by Smuggy McSmuggenstein —
    April 13, 2006 @ 3:33 pm

    Video doesn’t work! I REALLY don’t want to have to download Quicktime. Get with the program Jim, start using Linux on a Mac.

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  689. Comment by Cryptic Ned —
    April 13, 2006 @ 3:36 pm

    Jane Jacobs dealt with all this already, but gets ignored because she doesn’t fit into anyone’s partisan framework.

    Ayn Rand too.

  690. Trackback by Grand Mental Station —
    April 13, 2006 @ 3:51 pm

    Totally out of the loop personal diarist takes a stab at some political discussion about a week too late.

    So I saw this post on this blog I never read, linked to by Sheila, who gets about 500% more traffic on an hourly basis than this blog has seen in its entire existence, and I’m easily a week if

  691. Comment by Pascale Soleil —
    April 13, 2006 @ 3:58 pm

    Comment made purely for the sake of participating in preposterously long comment thread. Attempt to compensate for utter lack of participation in any ”in” group, like, evah.

  692. Comment by linuxfreaque —
    April 13, 2006 @ 4:01 pm

    Hey everybody! Linux now has 10% market share!!

  693. Comment by Wikipedia-so-it-must-be-true —
    April 13, 2006 @ 4:08 pm

    ..obligatory Wikipedia reference hopefully backing up my comment.

  694. Comment by HimuraBob —
    April 13, 2006 @ 4:37 pm

    Obligatory post restating that which has already been stated previously because I obviously didn’t bother to read all of the comments.

  695. Comment by Quelle22 —
    April 13, 2006 @ 4:43 pm

    Post which, while it is both relevant to the original blog and demonstrates that poster has read the entire comment thread, is composed wholly of slang, pop-culture references, misspellings, overly enthusiastic punctuation and emoticons.

  696. Comment by Nightfly —
    April 13, 2006 @ 4:58 pm

    Reply in pathetic attempt to feel cool about joining an Internet phenomenon, considering all previous similar comments and trackbacks by other posters to be pathetic, without noticing the parallel. Includes link because THIS reply will stand out SO MUCH that people will FLOCK to commenter’s own blog and catapult him to 15 minutes of fame.

    Followed by equally pathetic reply pretending to be above all that.

  697. Comment by Imaginos —
    April 13, 2006 @ 4:58 pm

    Snide pointing out to #570 and #572 that the world has not ended yet, despite having reached a number of comments well past #673.

    Reminds said posters that the world cannot end until the thread has reached the Nine Billion Comments of Bl*g.

  698. Comment by Karen —
    April 13, 2006 @ 5:00 pm

    Valiant attempt to formulate a Grand Unified Field Theory to account for all past, present and future metacomments to this and all other threads, plus rice pudding, the upshot of which is the single word, ”Wow.”

  699. Comment by osama b-l —
    April 13, 2006 @ 5:07 pm

    Infidels, all!

  700. Comment by Karen —
    April 13, 2006 @ 5:12 pm

    Outraged response to spurious terrorist.

  701. Comment by Nightfly —
    April 13, 2006 @ 5:14 pm

    Refresh to see if anyone’s paying attention to ME yet.

  702. Comment by Karen —
    April 13, 2006 @ 5:21 pm

    Another trackback whining about why I can’t have 700 comments on my blog.

  703. Comment by A Reporter —
    April 13, 2006 @ 5:24 pm

    Comment purportedly from a reporter for CNN, The Washington Post, or both, seeking to do a story on this, the latest Interweb craze.

  704. Comment by Mommybrain —
    April 13, 2006 @ 5:38 pm

    Muppets?

  705. Comment by Jon Meltzer —
    April 13, 2006 @ 6:06 pm

    Snide remarks by Statler and Waldorf.

  706. Comment by Mark Siegal —
    April 13, 2006 @ 6:13 pm

    Amazement that comment thread hasn’t been overtaken by actual spam. (Yet.)

  707. Comment by Alan Kellogg —
    April 13, 2006 @ 6:29 pm

    Comment.

  708. Comment by Ken S —
    April 13, 2006 @ 6:35 pm

    Stepped out for a minute. Did I miss anything?

  709. Comment by Comandante Agi —
    April 13, 2006 @ 6:39 pm

    Constant comment.

  710. Comment by cupofjane —
    April 13, 2006 @ 6:42 pm

    Tirade following justification for non-life life, long list of excuses including lack of conclusions reached in years of therapy, attempt to flirt with witty guys who posted some where past the 600 mark, quick mention of husband and children to avoid anyone getting wrong idea, flagrant parade of cuteness in yet another attempt to catch attention of said men segway to embarrassed apology followed by feminist credentials quickly deteriorating into pleas for more attention followed by accidental on purpose listing of email address (acupofjane@gmail.com)in yet another attempt to get someone to pay attention to her!!

  711. Comment by Sifu Tweety —
    April 13, 2006 @ 6:53 pm

    At long last, glorious, top volume rendition of highlights from the Gilbert and Sullivan catalog.

  712. Comment by davida yonatan —
    April 13, 2006 @ 6:53 pm

    ubiquitous reference to 9/11 being an inside job, and predicting the final throes of the ”amerikan” empire (the ultimate destruction to arrive in 2012)

  713. Comment by shootmycomputerplease —
    April 13, 2006 @ 7:19 pm

    gratuitous and tired sodomy joke by no longer young male, followed immediately by false exclamations of fluttery shock by no longer young divorcees in direct competition for attention of no longer young male.

  714. Comment by infinite regress —
    April 13, 2006 @ 7:20 pm

    Discovers the comments are being commented on, fears the self-referential spiral might eventually spin sufficiently swiftly to suck in all other blog matter and generate a vortex down which the entire internet is doomed to be sucked to oblivion.

  715. Comment by Tim Roll-Pickering —
    April 13, 2006 @ 7:28 pm

    Just another comment

  716. Comment by melior —
    April 13, 2006 @ 7:32 pm

    Complaint about being EPU’d.

  717. Comment by shootmycomputerplease —
    April 13, 2006 @ 7:53 pm

    Declaration that self is leaving forum forever, immediately followed by subsequent posts congratulating self at self’s ability to transcend all the pettiness surrounding self.

  718. Comment by Ken S —
    April 13, 2006 @ 8:13 pm

    Obligatory ”You need to read this” followed by post of entire irrelevant article.

  719. Comment by rodney dill —
    April 13, 2006 @ 8:56 pm

    I believe this is a repeat, in its entirety, of a slashdot post May 2003.

  720. Comment by Flyinghawke —
    April 13, 2006 @ 8:58 pm

    Then there is the reference about waking up in an evil alternative universe in December 2000 and trying to find the way back.

  721. Comment by jlkr —
    April 13, 2006 @ 9:36 pm

    Another complaint of involuntary beverage expulsion onto electronics of the non-moisture proof variety, with reimbursement for said electronics expected from #697.

  722. Comment by The Sanity Inspector —
    April 13, 2006 @ 9:40 pm

    Repost of super-zinger comment from defunct thread, in hopes it’ll get more attention in this one.

  723. Comment by Hesiod —
    April 13, 2006 @ 9:49 pm

    OT: Blog II

  724. Comment by Hesiod —
    April 13, 2006 @ 9:50 pm

    OT: Blog II

  725. Comment by Hesiod —
    April 13, 2006 @ 9:51 pm

    Comment expressing sincere regret and slight embarrassment about the double post, and then tacking on a gratuitous profane swipe at the commenting software.

  726. Comment by HideTheBellybuttonBrigade —
    April 13, 2006 @ 9:58 pm

    Comment about inherent sexism of the term ”blog” and the insensitivity of all posters prior to this one. Remark upon ”boy’s club” excluding female members out of fear. Particular focus on ”kittens” comment in post #216, which is obviously a metaphor. An offensive metaphore. Designed to denigrate kittens and breasts.

  727. Comment by Camera Obscura —
    April 13, 2006 @ 10:05 pm

    Disparagement at Sifu Tweety’s choices from said catalog. Statement of marked preference for listed lesser-known works. Fatuous self-congratulations on having hooked offspring on G&S at a tender age.

    Mindless agreement with #726.

  728. Comment by miscellaneous —
    April 13, 2006 @ 10:15 pm

    trying to be the last word.

    

    that no one else will read.
    
		
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	April 13, 2006 @ 10:22 pm     
    
	
    UNNECESSARY CAPITALIZATION
    
		
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    Comment by Cryptic Ned —
    
	April 13, 2006 @ 10:23 pm     
    
	
    List of ten songs, in which nine are cool and one is a ”guilty pleasure” which is also cool.
    
		
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    Comment by The Judge —
    
	April 13, 2006 @ 10:28 pm     
    
	
    Poor Nightfly, besotted with grog,/Linked through Sheila to pop on this blog,/He thrashes out madly/And wonders quite sadly/Why his blog’s not set all blogs agog.
    
		
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    Comment by Sifu Tweety —
    
	April 13, 2006 @ 10:35 pm     
    
	
    Deliciously melismatic rejection of No. 727, evoking both the muscular tradition of Wagnerian opera and the hopeful yet scrawny pioneer ethos underlying the author’s evocative regional sound.
    
		
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    Comment by catalexis —
    
	April 13, 2006 @ 11:15 pm     
    
	
    Observation that meta structure of post+comments is blogosphere reincarnation of Pandagon’s ”Insert Snarky Title Here”.  Gushing compliment buried inside several off topic asides.
    
		
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    Comment by skippy —
    
	April 13, 2006 @ 11:39 pm     
    
	
    questionable usefulness of posting another shameless attempt at blogwhoring so far downthread.
    
		
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    Comment by reakto —
    
	April 13, 2006 @ 11:40 pm     
    
	
    Dammit, wrong IP address again.
    

    My bad.
    
		
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    Comment by Post Round My Throne —
    
	April 13, 2006 @ 11:48 pm     
    
	
    Assertion that the lurkers support the commenter in e-mail.
    
		
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    Comment by Mimus Pauly —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 12:21 am     
    
	
    I blah blah blah I blah blah blah blah blah I blah I blah blah I blah I blah blah blah I I I I I I blah blah.
    

    Blah…
    
		
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    Trackback by Transblawg —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 3:23 am     
    
	
    Comments
    

    A discourse (I suppose) on comments, consisting of 738 thereof. (Via Anggarrgoon)…
    
		
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    Comment by Udge —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 5:12 am     
    
	
    [Self-aware newbie reads the post and all the comments, thinks deep - possibly world-changing - thoughts, then decides not to leave a comment for fear of being ridiculed by the Big Kids.]
    
		
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    Comment by gatoscuro —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 7:13 am     
    
	
    Attempt to summarize content of all previous posts and draw a single, comprehensive conclusion. 
    

    High-handed demand that all future commenters work from framework herein provided.
    
		
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    Comment by tl —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 7:39 am     
    
	
    Insults previous post and suggests he/she has never experienced an existential dilemma.
    
		
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    Pingback by Terryorisms » Blog Cliches —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 7:48 am     
    
	
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    Comment by Jesus Christ —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 8:10 am     
    
	
    OK, I’m back, we’re done here.
    
		
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    Comment by shelley —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 8:12 am     
    
	
    Confession of romantic interest in bp and an offer to bear his children.
    
		
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    Comment by Teresa Nielsen Hayden —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 9:20 am     
    
	
    Jesus is coming! Quick, everybody look busy.
    
		
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    Comment by Ken S —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 9:27 am     
    
	
    #708 and #718 are obvious trolls and should be banned.
    
		
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	April 14, 2006 @ 9:27 am     
    
	
    #746 also
    
		
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    Comment by Michael —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 9:33 am     
    
	
    TNH: Relax, Jesus won’t be here for three days.
    
		
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    Trackback by benlowery —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 10:20 am     
    
	
    Gratuitous Post To Another Blog
    
		
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    Comment by anonymous —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 10:39 am     
    
	
    Comment containing pointless reiteration of salient points from comment #312 becomes unintentionally interesting as the anonymous latecomer’s growing self-assurance leads to linguistic hints that this post’s existence is merely a means of salvaging some credibility by alluding to having not read all posts and links on this subject.
    
		
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    Comment by kerri —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 10:48 am     
    
	
    attention hound declares sexual availability to George Clooney/Russ Feingold/Howard Dean or Democratic flavor of the moment.
    
		
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    Comment by Ken S —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 11:17 am     
    
	
    Random spam
    
		
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	April 14, 2006 @ 11:37 am     
    
	
    Jim, your link is broken.
    
		
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	April 14, 2006 @ 11:37 am     
    
	
    COMMENT
    
		
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	April 14, 2006 @ 11:38 am     
    
	
    SPANNING
    
		
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    Comment by J.D. Fisher —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 11:38 am     
    
	
    ACROSS
    
		
    757. 

	
	
		
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    Comment by J.D. Fisher —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 11:39 am     
    
	
    SEVERAL
    
		
    758. 

	
	
		
  758. 
			
    Comment by J.D. Fisher —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 11:39 am     
    
	
    COMMENTS
    
		
    759. 

	
	
		
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    Comment by Danno49 —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 11:39 am     
    
	
    Explains that reason world did not end at comment #673 was forgetting to factor in the Julian to Gregorian calendar conversion.
    

    World will now end at comment #787
    
		
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    Comment by J.D. Fisher —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 11:39 am     
    
	
    COMMENTS
    
		
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    Comment by Veeshir —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 11:42 am     
    
	
    comment leaving open tags and/or bare URL messing with borders.
    
		
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    Comment by SirTalen —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 12:25 pm     
    
	
    Posts photo of cute kitten, but mucks up the Photobucket tag leaving only a red x.
    
		
    763. 

	
	
		
  763. 
			
    Comment by Niels Jackson —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 12:29 pm     
    
	
    Shouldn’t the original post from Jim Henley have said ”post,” rather than ”blog”?  A ”blog” is the website as a whole; a ”post” is an individual item.
    
		
    764. 

	
	
		
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    Comment by Karen —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 1:08 pm     
    
	
    Takes issue with #763, on the grounds that the original post consisted of the verb ”blog,” as in he blogged (I blog, you blog, we all blog for…), not the noun, as in ”a blog.”  Or maybe it was a noun, short for ”I have a blog,” although that doesn’t fit the paradigm of self-reference as well. Wonders whether an entry consisting of the word ”post” (verb or noun, doesn’t matter) would have attracted so much comment. Seques awkwardly to continuing irritation that AOL spellchecker insists that ”Blog” should always be capitalized, which it is here, but only because it’s the beginning (and end, and middle) of a sentence.  Concludes with an OT exhortation to watch Doctor Who, or at least set the machine before heading to church tonight, since apparently Jesus is coming.
    
		
    765. 

	
	
		
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    Comment by Eamonn —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 1:18 pm     
    
	
    Page-widening post full of ????s or zzzzzs or a long URL rendering the whole page unreadable.
    
		
    766. 

	
	
		
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    Comment by Eamonn —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 1:20 pm     
    
	
    Well that’s a very interesting question but surely the more interesting question is ….
    
		
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  767. 
			
    Comment by Jon Meltzer —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 1:50 pm     
    
	
    Request to commenter #759 to initiate arresting officer paperwork in reference to troll commenter whose identification is to be revealed later.
    
		
    768. 

	
	
		
  768. 
			
    Comment by Jon Meltzer —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 1:53 pm     
    
	
    Commenter #763 wins the white carnation.
    
		
    769. 

	
	
		
  769. 
			
    Comment by Ken S —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 2:40 pm     
    
	
    Responds to #767 by retorting that troll has already been revealed as #708, #718, and #746.
    

    Also #747 and #769.
    
		
    770. 

	
	
		
  770. 
			
    Comment by gemini —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 4:11 pm     
    
	
    Tortuous and contradictory comment filled with self-congratulation and self-loathing as commenter mentions having yes, indeed, read all comments to date, thereby displaying commendable perseverence but deplorable judgment.  Commenter professes particular affection for Sifu Tweety and comment number 312.
    
		
    771. 

	
	
		
  771. 
			
    Comment by Ken —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 4:30 pm     
    
	
    Noted that neither Robert Scoble nor Dave winer weighed in, negating the relevance. If you don’t get those A-listers and hit memeorandum nothing matters.
    
		
    772. 

	
	
		
  772. 
			
    Comment by Jack —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 4:31 pm     
    
	
    Self-important gate-keeper commenting that everything after the Nth comment is crap.
    

    Exhortation that ”people get a life”.
    

    Suggestion regarding ”moving on”
    
		
    773. 

	
	
		
  773. 
			
    Comment by JoseAngel —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 5:39 pm     
    
	
    Sorry, no more comments allowed.
    
		
    774. 

	
	
		
  774. 
			
    Comment by Danny —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 6:11 pm     
    
	
    Demonstrably incorrect.
    
		
    775. 

	
	
		
  775. 
			
    Comment by Tom Scudder —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 6:29 pm     
    
	
    Will NO ONE pointlessly increment the comment count to get to 777?
    
		
    776. 

	
	
		
  776. 
			
    Comment by Ken S —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 6:35 pm     
    
	
    Not yet
    
		
    777. 

	
	
		
  777. 
			
    Comment by Ken S —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 6:35 pm     
    
	
    Oh wait, there it is.
    
		
    778. 

	
	
		
  778. 
			
    Comment by Species 8 —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 7:27 pm     
    
	
    I’m back, what did I miss?
    
		
    779. 

	
	
		
  779. 
			
    Comment by Dee Lurker —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 7:47 pm     
    
	
    de-lurking to say…i had same personal/familial/work problem. offer sympathy and, suing exclamation ponts sai i like blogh!!!!
    
		
    780. 

	
	
		
  780. 
			
    Comment by Band Wagon-Jumper —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 7:48 pm     
    
	
    780, bitches!
    
		
    781. 

	
	
		
  781. 
			
    Comment by Benjamin Dover —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 7:49 pm     
    
	
    ASS!
    
		
    782. 

	
	
		
  782. 
			
    Comment by kenB —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 8:45 pm     
    
	
    Careful 12-point takedown of comment 288, linking to extensive supporting evidence for each point.
    
		
    783. 

	
	
		
  783. 
			
    Comment by kenB —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 8:47 pm     
    
	
    Haughty response to 782 by author of comment 288, seizing upon minor inconsistency in point #12 and ignoring the rest.
    
		
    784. 

	
	
		
  784. 
			
    Comment by George —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 9:12 pm     
    
	
    George Clooney seeks Attention Hound
    
		
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  785. 
			
    Comment by Ernie G —
    
	April 14, 2006 @ 10:23 pm     
    
	
    Comment, ignoring previous 784 comments.
    
		
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    Pingback by A Blogging Masterpiece  |  Cosmic Variance —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 12:26 am     
    
	
    [...]   April 15th, 2006			
    

     					While procrastinating on my taxes, I stumbled across this (courtesy of Bitch Ph.D.).  If you haven’t yet seen it, you simply must tak [...]
    
		
    787. 

	
	
		
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    Pingback by A Blogging Masterpiece  |  Cosmic Variance —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 12:28 am     
    
	
    [...]   April 15th, 2006			
    

     					While procrastinating on my taxes, I stumbled across this (courtesy of Bitch Ph.D.).  If you haven’t yet seen it, you simply must tak [...]
    
		
    788. 

	
	
		
  788. 
			
    Comment by robot guy —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 12:34 am     
    
	
    So if I post this comment, the world ends?
    
		
    789. 

	
	
		
  789. 
			
    Comment by Jeneane —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 12:42 am     
    
	
    #766: request to make plural: ”interesting question(s) are,” and ask:
    

    whether I should hem my new pants or cuff them? 
    

    whether brittney’s baby fell from the high chair or was thrown?
    
		
    790. 

	
	
		
  790. 
			
    Comment by Jeneane —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 12:53 am     
    
	
    #788: yes. (whimper not bang)
    
		
    791. 

	
	
		
  791. 
			
    Comment by Karen Funk Blocher —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 1:26 am     
    
	
    Comment pointing out the obvious continued existence of the planet, at least so far.  Refusal to cancel Easter plans based on a blog thread, however brilliant it may be.  Mild annoyance with 780 and 781.
    
		
    792. 

	
	
		
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    Comment by Dirk Deppey —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 1:53 am     
    
	
    Idle speculation as to when a post pinged to the Comics Weblog Update page will actually contain a reference to comics, which will seem like a non-sequiter to most blog readers but is in fact a lame attempt to stoke own ego by subtly reminding small minority of readers that commenter used to be some sort of ”hot stuff” among comics bloggers.
    
		
    793. 

	
	
		
  793. 
			
    Comment by Imaginos —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 2:05 am     
    
	
    Sympathetic response to #721’s difficulties, which however firmly denies any responsibility for said difficulties, as #721 has forgotten the first rule, which is to always have your towel at hand for all unforseen emergencies. Also, reminds #721 ”Don’t Panic”.
    

    Approximately 8,999,999,203 comments left before the end of the world.  Unless you’re British.
    
		
    794. 

	
	
		
  794. 
			
    Comment by Stu Savory —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 2:21 am     
    
	
    Off Topic.
    
		
    795. 

	
	
		
  795. 
			
    Comment by asif —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 2:57 am     
    
	
    As if.
    
		
    796. 

	
	
		
  796. 
			
    Comment by anonymous —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 4:09 am     
    
	
    Anonymous poster of comment #750 – reiterated here in its entirety as a header and presented in italics throughout – is shamed into admission of having read all posts/followed many links by fear of perceived bravery and semi-open identity (gemini) of comment #770, little knowing that everyone already figured as much and continues to do so. Further analysis of language and tell-tale syntax suggests that both comments failed to benefit from many hours of torturous editing.
    

    Anonymity is marred at last minute by contradictory and obviously half-aborted sign off initial of poster, this self-centred show of camaraderie with gemini over comment #312 serves ultimately to mark poster as the worst kind of sycophant and raise questions of confidence issue or personality disorder.
    

    J
    
		
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  797. 
			
    Comment by bedoah —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 5:53 am     
    
	
    is this the infamous last page of the internet?
    
		
    798. 

	
	
		
  798. 
			
    Pingback by The Lady Speaks » Blog —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 6:02 am     
    
	
    [...] Filed under: Uncategorized, Blogs — PA_Lady @ 5:55 am   	 		Too funny! On April 7th, Jim Henley at Unqualified Offerings put up a one-word post titled,  [...]
    
		
    799. 

	
	
		
  799. 
			
    Comment by Hugo Urway —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 9:07 am     
    
	
    I go mine.
    
		
    800. 

	
	
		
  800. 
			
    Comment by omniver —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 9:22 am     
    
	
    here’s one
    
		
    801. 

	
	
		
  801. 
			
    Comment by George —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 9:30 am     
    
	
    Dear Kaja, this page at http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2006/04/07/4991 is the best collaboratively produced self-exemplifying and self-instantiating example of the theory of blog comments I have ever seen. The only thing it lacks (at least so far) is a photograph which is why I’m leaving this comment, so I can make one. George
    
		
    802. 

	
	
		
  802. 
			
    Pingback by Share the Joy » The definitive blog post (about a definitive blog post) —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 9:42 am     
    
	
    [...] st (about a definitive blog post) 			Posted in Uncategorized at 2:39 pm by limejelly 		 			Go here now.  If you have an incontinence issue, grab those tena pads first.  			 [...]
    
		
    803. 

	
	
		
  803. 
			
    Comment by the talking dog —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 11:04 am     
    
	
    Paul…  I can see your house from here…
    
		
    804. 

	
	
		
  804. 
			
    Trackback by thebigyawn —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 11:12 am     
    
	
    Blog
    

    Hilarious comments.   http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2006/04/07/4991
    
		
    805. 

	
	
		
  805. 
			
    Trackback by Dean's World —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 11:12 am     
    
	
    Blog
    

    Heh.
    
		
    806. 

	
	
		
  806. 
			
    Comment by Lubos Motl —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 1:16 pm     
    
	
    Re #764: Karen, your statements are not even wrong. How many more years do we need to admit that the thread has been a failure?
    
		
    807. 

	
	
		
  807. 
			
    Comment by Scott from Oregon —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 2:12 pm     
    
	
    Just lurking commenter returns to lurk some more. Frantically searches for any mention of own commenter’s name in previous threads, hoping for some semblance of notoriety and a good reason to leave slinking-away-from-confrontational comment a second time…
    
		
    808. 

	
	
		
  808. 
			
    Comment by DodgeIt —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 2:43 pm     
    
	
    +1
    
		
    809. 

	
	
		
  809. 
			
    Trackback by Anatoly Lubarsky —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 2:54 pm     
    
	
    Link
    
		
    810. 

	
	
		
  810. 
			
    Comment by James —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 3:53 pm     
    
	
    Appeal to bloggers for a big push to break the magic kilocomment  barrier and drive thread’s PageRank higher than the Google home page
    
		
    811. 

	
	
		
  811. 
			
    Comment by fembot —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 4:33 pm     
    
	
    Totally clueless newbie wonders whazzup peeps; surmises, not much; signs off with ”peace out.”
    
		
    812. 

	
	
		
  812. 
			
    Comment by Karen Funk Blocher —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 5:44 pm     
    
	
    Re 806: Reply to Lubos that Karen was unaware that all the comments ought to be wrong, as the ”failure” remark surely was. Suggestion that pedantry can be at least as funny and pertinent to blog comment parody as trolls, stupidity etc.  Reference to a comment that Joss Whedon is about to choose between Angela Lansbury and Julie Andrews as the new Wonder Woman, which admittedly was posted to Making Light’s thread instead of this one. Variant on  ”Hail fellow blogger!  Well met!”
    
		
    813. 

	
	
		
  813. 
			
    Comment by Karen Funk Blocher —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 6:02 pm     
    
	
    Apology for leaving a link to the wrong Making Light thread.  Leaves this one as a correction. Explains that she uses an old version of Netscape due to charset compatability issues with Blogger.  Old Netscape is bad at displaying current URL. Self-promoting link to this blog, with has a lot of circumflexes in it.
    
		
    814. 

	
	
		
  814. 
			
    Comment by Shawn Levasseur —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 6:36 pm     
    
	
    Why
    
		
    815. 

	
	
		
  815. 
			
    Comment by Shawn Levasseur —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 6:37 pm     
    
	
    The ”post” button isn’t working…
    
		
    816. 

	
	
		
  816. 
			
    Comment by Shawn Levasseur —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 6:38 pm     
    
	
    Idiot who can’t tell that he’s posting in…
    
		
    817. 

	
	
		
  817. 
			
    Comment by Jim Henley —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 6:38 pm     
    
	
    And yet you’ve posted twice in the space of a minute. Meta!
    
		
    818. 

	
	
		
  818. 
			
    Comment by Jim Henley —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 6:38 pm     
    
	
    Thrice, I mean.
    
		
    819. 

	
	
		
  819. 
			
    Comment by Shawn Levasseur —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 6:39 pm     
    
	
    Fool who doesn’t know how to work the ”post” button
    
		
    820. 

	
	
		
  820. 
			
    Comment by Shawn Levasseur —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 6:40 pm     
    
	
    Fool discovers his mistake and sheepishly withdraws from the debate.
    
		
    821. 

	
	
		
  821. 
			
    Comment by jlkr —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 8:22 pm     
    
	
    793 – #721 replies that he/she/it is a hoopy frood, if somewhat scatterbrained.  (and also enquires whether having said towel handy is necessary, or is it sufficient to know where it is?  Most interpretations seem to imply the latter is all that is required for hoopiness.)

    

       Delay in world’s end is appreciated
    
		
    822. 

	
	
		
  822. 
			
    Comment by Janus Daniels —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 8:58 pm     
    
	
    First haiku!
    
		
    823. 

	
	
		
  823. 
			
    Pingback by Listics - Frank Paynter’s Voice and Vision… » Comment number 325 —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 10:22 pm     
    
	
    [...] 	Comment number 325					
    

     				By Frank Paynter		
    

     				…my favorite… well one of my favorites…  I like numbers 701 a [...]
    
		
    824. 

	
	
		
  824. 
			
    Comment by fp —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 10:26 pm     
    
	
    embarrased moment regarding unforgiving nature of wordpress trackenbackenfunctionenzen
    
		
    825. 

	
	
		
  825. 
			
    Comment by Blog! —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 10:40 pm     
    
	
    Pr0n! Pr0n! Pr0n!
    

    Exxxotic Grils!
    

    Well, no, not really.
    
		
    826. 

	
	
		
  826. 
			
    Comment by TallDave —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 10:49 pm     
    
	
    Seemingly random, hard-to-follow semi-coherent post with too many hyphens expressing surprise at length of thread, hinting at implicit knowledge of self-referential nature of adding to length by the act of posting.
    

    Tangentially related attempt at witty observation.
    
		
    827. 

	
	
		
  827. 
			
    Comment by Olaf —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 10:57 pm     
    
	
    Assumption of second or third identity to in order to note #782 and #783 are ”SO TRUE!!” without appearing to overpost or tainting the observation with the opinion expressed by other identities.
    

    Haughty reminder of proper verb tense, with technical language jargon employed to demonstrated presumed expertise.
    
		
    828. 

	
	
		
  828. 
			
    Comment by gemini —
    
	April 15, 2006 @ 11:01 pm     
    
	
    Comment welcoming anonymous camaraderie of comment 796 descending into petty-minded competition over who has wasted the most time on this thread.
    
		
    829. 

	
	
		
  829. 
			
    Comment by totheb —
    
	April 16, 2006 @ 12:05 am     
    
	
    pilfered
    
		
    830. 

	
	
		
  830. 
			
    Comment by Imaginos —
    
	April 16, 2006 @ 12:13 am     
    
	
    821 – #793’s response includes pointing out that had towel been handy, previously mentioned beverages may not have been applied to previously mentioned expensive and delicate electronics.  Further mentions that while not _strictly_ necessary to keep said towel at hand to maintain hoppy froodness, that in re: the electronics and their response to beverage sharing, not having towel handy was perhaps a froodian slip?
    

    Expresses appreciation for appreciation, but points out that he/she/it is unsure if end of world is really delayed, or if the British will simply be surprised when the world ends after the trailing 8,999,999,170 comments are completed, while expecting it to last for another 8,999,999,999,170 comments.  Expresses hope the Universe uses the long scale.
    
		
    831. 

	
	
		
  831. 
			
    Comment by Lawrence Krubner —
    
	April 16, 2006 @ 1:05 am     
    
	
    ditto
    
		
    832. 

	
	
		
  832. 
			
    Comment by Karen Funk Blocher —
    
	April 16, 2006 @ 1:34 am     
    
	
    Question about infinite monkeys, their contribution to this thread, and whether Arthur would invite them round to dinner once they finished Hamlet.
    
		
    833. 

	
	
		
  833. 
			
    Comment by anonymous —
    
	April 16, 2006 @ 6:53 am     
    
	
    Comment welcoming petty-minded competition, over who has wasted the most time on this thread, with poster of comment #828 (gemini) containing two of the following;
    

    •  Poorly concealed admission that anonymous poster of comments 750 and 796 – displayed once again, in full, as italic headers where unnecessarily deemed necessary – would have posted again under this (non) identity, regardless of whether anonymous camaraderie of comment #796 was recognised or not.
    

    •  Inappropriate signs of familiarity with poster identified as ”gemini”, following said recognition of comment #796 and mysterious appearance of circumstantially worrying ”X” (kiss) alongside confused sign off initial.
    

    •  Feigned apology to other posters regarding possibility of thread hijack, possibly including a smilie as means of placation, which reveals little to no intention of precluding any future back and forth on this off topic subject.
    

    J X
    
		
    834. 

	
	
		
  834. 
			
    Comment by Mrs Premise & Mrs Conclusion —
    
	April 16, 2006 @ 7:07 am     
    
	
    ”Is this the right room for an argument?”
    
		
    835. 

	
	
		
  835. 
			
    Comment by Dax —
    
	April 16, 2006 @ 7:15 am     
    
	
    Passionate plea for someone to FOR GOD’S SAKE END THIS MIND-NUMBING POST before the entire internet as we know it comes unraveled.
    
		
    836. 

	
	
		
  836. 
			
    Pingback by testblog » Elsewhere —
    
	April 16, 2006 @ 8:40 am     
    
	
    [...] reaks before archgfx.net/blog does.		
    

     				25         Elsewhere
    

     	  BLOG COMMENTARY (tags: blogging humor)   	
    

     	Posted 9 hours, 11 minu [...]
    
		
    837. 

	
	
		
  837. 
			
    Comment by Demogenes Aristophanes —
    
	April 16, 2006 @ 1:57 pm     
    
	
    Egregiously late contribution to thread, ignored by all, possibly later expressed more provocatively in desperate gambit for validation.
    
		
    838. 

	
	
		
  838. 
			
    Trackback by TechnoChitlins —
    
	April 16, 2006 @ 1:59 pm     
    
	
    Post
    

    Link…
    
		
    839. 

	
	
		
  839. 
			
    Trackback by TechnoChitlins —
    
	April 16, 2006 @ 2:01 pm     
    
	
    Post
    

    Link h/t…
    
		
    840. 

	
	
		
  840. 
			
    Comment by Karen Funk Blocher —
    
	April 16, 2006 @ 3:21 pm     
    
	
    Crossposted comment wishing everyone a Happy Easter.
    
		
    841. 

	
	
		
  841. 
			
    Comment by dink —
    
	April 16, 2006 @ 5:12 pm     
    
	
    Lame parody of either (a) that poem about the plums, or (b) that G&S thing about the major general.
    
		
    842. 

	
	
		
  842. 
			
    Comment by dink —
    
	April 16, 2006 @ 5:20 pm     
    
	
    Completely botched attempt by original poster of comment 591 to one-up the one-upness of comment 638 by cutting and pasting further comment on comment 611 that commented on comment 591 which, while expressing smugness that commenter has carefully read all the other frankly repetitive comments, actually brings nothing new to the discussion, which still brings nothing new to the discussion.
    

    Long apology, which turns out to be not so much an apology as a restatement of commenter’s original position, which was one of general smugness.
    
		
    843. 

	
	
		
  843. 
			
    Comment by Matthew —
    
	April 16, 2006 @ 5:54 pm     
    
	
    I don’t get it.
    
		
    844. 

	
	
		
  844. 
			
    Comment by MatGB —
    
	April 16, 2006 @ 6:07 pm     
    
	
    Completely off topic comment spam made by someone who obviously isn’t paying attention to the thread at all.
    
		
    845. 

	
	
		
  845. 
			
    Comment by gemini —
    
	April 16, 2006 @ 7:31 pm     
    
	
    Comment vehemently denying any hijacking of thread with segue into backhanded and rambling apology for same. Snide remark that natty formatting of comment 833 is ruined by use of semicolon where colon was called for.  Remorse for nitpicking.  Expression of (feigned) indifference to quantity of anonymous posts.
    

    Superfluous commentary making specific reference to numerous other posts in the thread including material from links.
    
		
    846. 

	
	
		
  846. 
			
    Comment by Jon Meltzer —
    
	April 16, 2006 @ 7:53 pm     
    
	
    End of thread.
    
		
    847. 

	
	
		
  847. 
			
    Comment by Ahistoricality —
    
	April 16, 2006 @ 8:16 pm     
    
	
    Vague attempt to create a (probably fallacious) middle ground by adding historical context.
    
		
    848. 

	
	
		
  848. 
			
    Comment by Kip W —
    
	April 16, 2006 @ 8:23 pm     
    
	
    Rosebud.
    
		
    849. 

	
	
		
  849. 
			
    Trackback by Weekend Pundit —
    
	April 16, 2006 @ 9:09 pm     
    
	
    Thoughts On A Sunday
    

    It’s Easter Sunday and a portion of the Weekend Pundit clan came over for Easter Dinner. A good time was had by all. ****** We…
    
		
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  850. 
			
    Comment by Ace —
    
	April 16, 2006 @ 10:50 pm     
    
	
    If you read any further, Wasteland Thought Police will appear at your door within three hours to conduct you to a cell in Needles where your fingernails will be systematically removed. You have not been instructed to read this paragraph anywhere, hence so dire a punishment.
    
		
    851. 

	
	
		
  851. 
			
    Comment by Hachacha —
    
	April 16, 2006 @ 11:20 pm     
    
	
    Kiss me you fool!
    
		
    852. 

	
	
		
  852. 
			
    Comment by ucpertrlaadiirn —
    
	April 17, 2006 @ 1:04 am     
    
	
    Cmmeont cnilaimg taht smoe sdtuy sowhs taht the odrer of the lttres in a wrod do not mkae a dferifcne in yuor bnieg albe to raed the cntonet as lnog as the frsit and lsat lrttees are in the peorpr pacle.
    
		
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    Comment by moogie —
    
	April 17, 2006 @ 1:07 am     
    
	
    ALL YOU PEOPLE ARE TINFOIL HATTERS.  YOU MAROONS ARE BATSHIT LOOPY.
    
		
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    Comment by Karen Funk Blocher —
    
	April 17, 2006 @ 2:02 am     
    
	
    Comment looking askance at about three or four lame-brained, post-midnight party-crashing trolls in the last day or two.  Harsh judgement is moderated by the admission that still, over 850 comments on, that’s a remarkably low percentage. Further admission that the trolls could possibly be geeks in disguise, although it seems unlikely.
    
		
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    Comment by Liz Henry —
    
	April 17, 2006 @ 3:38 am     
    
	
    Tangential thought sparked by the letter ”B” in original post. Childhood memory. Bizarre speculation. TMI. Other tangent that spirals off into several more rambling paragraphs. Obscure epiphany. Sure, you’ve thought of C, and D, and Z, but have you considered the cryptic syllables of Linear B or the future languages of alien, ambiguously gendered species who might make a whole industry, a new philosophy, a visionary… um…Which reminds me of this other thing. 
    

    Lame, failed attempt to pull it back together and get back to the original point about the letter B. 
    

    Should I hit post? Should I? Post? Delete? Post? Damn… Oh well.  Obscurity through verbosity… no one will notice, surely.  Exhort self privately to engage in public discourse for the honor and glory of woman. Into the aether! Post it, you coward!
    
		
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    Comment by sortapundit —
    
	April 17, 2006 @ 5:03 am     
    
	
    857 was my shirt number on the football team at college.
    

    I spent a lot of time fetching water.
    
		
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    Comment by anonymous —
    
	April 17, 2006 @ 7:12 am     
    
	
    Comment offering righteous indignation, in place of admitted crimes against punctuation in comment #833, leads to inevitable claims of dyslexia and/or troubled childhood of poster. Recognition of remorse in comment #845 on display, contrasting noticeably with hasty loss of overbearing familiarity, quite fails to make up for stylish, insubstantial formatting of comment #833.
    

    No outward sign of relaxed inclination to post, with docile challenges and polite nods to superfluous commentary, numerous links and specific references of comment #845 included for fear of occupying rapidly sinking vessel.
    
		
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    Pingback by Metaplanar Babel » Essence of Blog —
    
	April 17, 2006 @ 7:35 am     
    
	
    [...]  into the chaotic mind         	
    

     			Essence of Blog
    

             Who knew a one word post could get such a varied response.  I especially like comment  [...]
    
		
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    Pingback by Metaplanar Babel » Essence of Blog —
    
	April 17, 2006 @ 7:35 am     
    
	
    [...]  into the chaotic mind         	
    

     			Essence of Blog
    

             Who knew a one word post could get such a varied response.  I especially like comment  [...]
    
		
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    Comment by Fathead —
    
	April 17, 2006 @ 8:16 am     
    
	
    Like any art, its not who could’ve done it, but the fact that it was done.
    
		
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    Comment by William Stewart —
    
	April 17, 2006 @ 8:50 am     
    
	
    Scathing criticism of another unrelated article on this site, complete with expletives and personal threats.
    
		
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    Pingback by » This is Great »   Musing Minds 
 » Blog Archive  » —
    
	April 17, 2006 @ 8:53 am     
    
	
    [...] 
    

     		Found this at A Large Regular (thanks Chris, for making my Monday!) Check out this post and the comments!   
    

     	                         | RSS |
    
 Inlinks | 
    

     [...]
    
		
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  863. 
			
    Comment by Wizlevard —
    
	April 17, 2006 @ 10:27 am     
    
	
    Faux-helpful but actually blatantly linkwhoring statement to the effect that answers to some of the key questions raised by previous commenters may be found here
    
		
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    Comment by Wizlevard —
    
	April 17, 2006 @ 10:28 am     
    
	
    Sheepish follow-up comment, apologizing for ineptly-formed HTML and missing link in previous comment, whilst still managing to forget to include link.
    
		
    865. 

	
	
		
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    Comment by Wizlevard —
    
	April 17, 2006 @ 10:33 am     
    
	
    Self-deprecating humour. Apology. Promise to shut up. Still no link.
    
		
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    Comment by Dave Winer —
    
	April 17, 2006 @ 10:38 am     
    
	
    Those bastards!
    
		
    867. 

	
	
		
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    Comment by Yolky —
    
	April 17, 2006 @ 11:07 am     
    
	
    Egg Whites?
    
		
    868. 

	
	
		
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    Comment by Blake Stacey —
    
	April 17, 2006 @ 12:49 pm     
    
	
    Irrelevant but memorable Bill Hicks quotation.
    
		
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    Comment by Karen —
    
	April 17, 2006 @ 1:46 pm     
    
	
    Misguided attempt to define the purpose of the comments.
    
		
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    Comment by bago —
    
	April 17, 2006 @ 2:41 pm     
    
	
    Wonder why it took 800 comments for the haiku meme to show up. Chastising meme for being slack.
    
		
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    Comment by alan —
    
	April 17, 2006 @ 3:36 pm     
    
	
    Vociferous complaint that comment #339 has been lifted in its entirety from the script of the motion picture ’Withnail and I’.
    
		
    872. 

	
	
		
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    Comment by Kent Budge —
    
	April 17, 2006 @ 4:09 pm     
    
	
    Somewhat befuddled comment, repeating points already made four or five times previously, by someone who obviously followed an ancient link to this stale thread.
    
		
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    Comment by Spock —
    
	April 17, 2006 @ 5:46 pm     
    
	
    ”Fascinating” single-word comment by someone pretending to be Spock to acknowledge the behaviour of his Human half while defending his logico-rational Vulcan half.
    
		
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    Comment by Clive —
    
	April 17, 2006 @ 6:06 pm     
    
	
    In-joke about ”cocks” in a pathetic attempt to attach one’s trifling ego to this juggernautical horror. 
    

    Oh, and what #418 said.
    

    *flees interwebs never to be seen again, or until comment #1,357*
    
		
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    Comment by xoites —
    
	April 17, 2006 @ 8:13 pm     
    
	
    Impertenant rejoinder including inside joke to some publicly unknown fellow posters followed by a snide comment directed at you know who. This is followed three paragraphs explaining that that was all i had to say.
    
		
    876. 

	
	
		
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    Comment by gemini —
    
	April 17, 2006 @ 8:34 pm     
    
	
    Sentence fragments posted in attempted homage to comment 312.  Failure.
    

    Dithering.
    

    Onamatopaoeia evoking sinking ship (attempted witticism).
    

    Apology.
    
		
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    Comment by TLA —
    
	April 17, 2006 @ 8:55 pm     
    
	
    OMG!!!
    

    IMHO, ILGWU.
    

    ROFLMAO!!!
    

    QED
    
		
    878. 

	
	
		
  878. 
			
    Comment by pseudonymous B-list celebrity —
    
	April 17, 2006 @ 11:51 pm     
    
	
    Discovers *blog* thread through vanity-googling. Reads until own name mentioned then immediately scrolls past rest of thread down to comment box and posts hurt defensive verbiage about how commentors are just jealous of not being gorgeous like B-list celebrity is gorgeous. Mispells ”hot”.
    
		
    879. 

	
	
		
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    Comment by Madeline F —
    
	April 18, 2006 @ 12:23 am     
    
	
    Vacant comment ”You go girl!” to #855.
    
		
    880. 

	
	
		
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    Comment by Molly —
    
	April 18, 2006 @ 12:39 am     
    
	
    She may be bi, but Missy Higgins is not a lipsniger!
    
		
    881. 

	
	
		
  881. 
			
    Comment by Mr Quick —
    
	April 18, 2006 @ 12:50 am     
    
	
    Blog metacomment
    

    Observation of comments
    

    lame second haiku
    
		
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  882. 
			
    Trackback by discarded lies - hyperlinkopotamus —
    
	April 18, 2006 @ 2:09 am     
    
	
    check out the comments,
    

    check out the comments,
    
		
    883. 

	
	
		
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    Comment by anonymous —
    
	April 18, 2006 @ 3:43 am     
    
	
    Anonymous comment fashioned clumsily around selfish entreaty for poster of comment #312 (HP) to ’damn well show up and acknowledge our praise lest it recede’. Emotive grumblings aplenty encased in bold asterisks. Further naive attempts at sentence fragment homage. Variation of onomatopoeic nautical tragedy from comment #876 for sake of nostalgia. Disarming smilies used throughout to little effect.
    
		
    884. 

	
	
		
  884. 
			
    Comment by Kip W —
    
	April 18, 2006 @ 5:35 am     
    
	
    Incoherent mathematical proof that all possible combinations of letters have now been used in this thread. Except this one, of course.
    
		
    885. 

	
	
		
  885. 
			
    Comment by Matt —
    
	April 18, 2006 @ 12:49 pm     
    
	
    Rejoinder to commenter who disagreed with another commenter on the basis that the people who regularly comment on this blog, including me and the person you disagreed with, are ”friends” who are familiar with each other and you’re not part of that club.  So your argument is wrong.
    
		
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    Comment by Zoloft Jr. —
    
	April 18, 2006 @ 1:08 pm     
    
	
    Would you ask a cattle to appraise turpentine made from 1988, as I recall, a good year in which all was all and good before someone croaked at dawn, never-no-mind that being in a state of despair may persuade the cattle to be violated at the local husbandry firm, curtesy of Nurse Ilsa and your friendly neighborhood spiderman.
    
		
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    Comment by The Arbiter —
    
	April 18, 2006 @ 2:43 pm     
    
	
    Vehement agreement with whatever the Blog Proprietor said about Previous Commenter’s comment. ”Clever” slam against Previous Commenter’s personality and speculation about his/her sex life (or lack thereof), residence in parents’ garage, and alma mater. 
    

    Assertion that Previous Commenter’s attempts at defending him/herself–with all due respect–are ”lame” and indicate that he/she is a ”bad sport” who clearly hasn’t been on the Internet long enough to understand even the most basic rules of social discourse thereupon. Tedious repetition of Previous Commenter’s name at least once in each sentence, as Previous Commenter is obviously so easily distracted that he/she will lose the thread of the conversation unless his/her name is repeated before or after each point is made. 
    

    *Quoted bit of posting rules, surrounded by asterisks to show that I remember old-style text-based email formatting.*
    

    Private joke so obscure that even the Blog Proprietor doesn’t understand it, although he/she is definitely expected to.
    
		
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    Comment by William Shunn —
    
	April 18, 2006 @ 4:06 pm     
    
	
    Somewhat relevant comment nonetheless exposing poster as not having read most of thread, but serving to get a link to his/her website posted.
    
		
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    Comment by Karen Funk Blocher —
    
	April 18, 2006 @ 11:51 pm     
    
	
    Suggestion that the trackbacks really out not to count as comments at all, since what shows up is rarely complete enough or coherent enough to be relevant to the discussion. 
    

    Counter-argument that many of the other comments are neither complete, nor coherent, nor relevant, and that this is, indeed the point of making them.
    

    Original argument is withdrawn.  Gilda Radnor impersonation attempted, but loses impact with neither sound nor pictures.
    

    P.S. to ”play nice.”
    
		
    890. 

	
	
		
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    Comment by Karen Funk Blocher —
    
	April 18, 2006 @ 11:57 pm     
    
	
    Annoyance over missing comma mentioned, without which the ersatz David Frost/Eric Idle pedantry doesn’t play in my head properly.
    
		
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    Trackback by Watcher of Weasels —
    
	April 19, 2006 @ 2:23 am     
    
	
    Submitted for Your Approval
    

    First off…  any spambots reading this should immediately go here, here, here,  and here.  Die spambots, die!  And now…  here are all the links submitted by members of the Watcher’s Council for this week’s vote. Council li…
    
		
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    Comment by potentilla —
    
	April 19, 2006 @ 5:36 am     
    
	
    Wry, apparently effortless but in fact carefully-crafted, comment, designed to convey elliptically but deniably that commenter is superior to geeks, academics, people with far-left views, people with far-right views, people who mistakenly think they are the voice of reason, people who think they are witty, Simpsons fans, Trekkies, Americans, Europeans, newbies, long-time commenters, atheists, people insufficinelty familiar with or in control of blogging software, Christian fundamentalists, popular bloggers, blog-whores, Spiderwoman, people who think they understand the Jyllands-Posten debate, people who quote philosophers, people who quote shows or songs from some specified time in the near past which is self-evidently uncool, people who think they are cool, people who use internet or teenage slang, previous users or Usenet, people who are faux-modestly uncool, people who have read the entire comments thread, people who have not read the entire comments thread, pedants, pedant-bashers, people who cannot spell, people who make typos, people who double-post, people who apologise for same, people who aspire ineptly to irony, trolls, people who post plain-text links, people who use emoticons, people who post articles instead of links, would-be witty people, would-be ironic people, and/or people.
    
		
    893. 

	
	
		
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    Comment by Clueless —
    
	April 19, 2006 @ 6:44 am     
    
	
    Question to 892 concerning line 8 of comment:  Is that a misspelling, a typo, or a joke?
    
		
    894. 

	
	
		
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    Comment by gonzo —
    
	April 19, 2006 @ 7:10 am     
    
	
    com-freaking-ment
    
		
    895. 

	
	
		
  895. 
			
    Comment by Dan —
    
	April 19, 2006 @ 12:07 pm     
    
	
    Comment comparing above comments to a typical AOL chatroom
    
		
    896. 

	
	
		
  896. 
			
    Comment by Danno49 —
    
	April 19, 2006 @ 2:27 pm     
    
	
    OK . . . so the world didn’t end.
    

    But you thought it just might, didn’t you?
    

    Didn’t you?
    

    All I’m saying is this comment thread better not reach 1024.
    
		
    897. 

	
	
		
  897. 
			
    Comment by Andres B —
    
	April 19, 2006 @ 2:31 pm     
    
	
    No hablo ingles, no entiendo nada.
    

    Yup, you can get these too.
    
		
    898. 

	
	
		
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    Trackback by Verborragia —
    
	April 19, 2006 @ 2:43 pm     
    
	
    La mejor historia jams contada
    

    La historia de la blogsfera, a travs del universo de posibilidades de dilogo que favorece. 897
    
		
    899. 

	
	
		
  899. 
			
    Comment by K Ashford —
    
	April 19, 2006 @ 2:44 pm     
    
	
    Comment relating to the original post, which nobody seems to care about anymore.
    
		
    900. 

	
	
		
  900. 
			
    Comment by K Ashford —
    
	April 19, 2006 @ 2:58 pm     
    
	
    ”Blockquote from comment #4”
    

    Pithy reply to comment #4
    

    ”Blockquote from comment #46”
    

    Pithy reply to comment #46
    

    ”Blockquote from comment #194”
    

    Pithy reply to comment #194
    

    ”Unnecessarily long blockquote from comment # 264, avoiding the use of ellipses so commenter won’t be accused of taking earlier comment out of context”
    

    Pithy reply to comment #264
    

    ”Blockquote from comment #402”
    

    Pithy reply to comment #402
    
		
    901. 

	
	
		
  901. 
			
    Comment by Manichattan —
    
	April 19, 2006 @ 3:35 pm     
    
	
    Made you look. 
    
		
    902. 

	
	
		
  902. 
			
    Comment by Manichattan —
    
	April 19, 2006 @ 4:13 pm     
    
	
    Unsuccessful attempt to prevent google ads in sidebar from being more on-topic than most comments about this blog.
    
		
    903. 

	
	
		
  903. 
			
    Comment by Robert —
    
	April 19, 2006 @ 8:49 pm     
    
	
    Who am I and why am I commenting here?
    
		
    904. 

	
	
		
  904. 
			
    Comment by poldo —
    
	April 19, 2006 @ 9:17 pm     
    
	
    You have amnesia, you’re here because you’re lost.
    
		
    905. 

	
	
		
  905. 
			
    Comment by Troy —
    
	April 20, 2006 @ 1:34 am     
    
	
    Late comment noting that thread was found with via Google and it finally gives closure to important issue.
    
		
    906. 

	
	
		
  906. 
			
    Comment by Karen Funk Blocher —
    
	April 20, 2006 @ 1:36 am     
    
	
    Expression of nostalgia for ”the Good Old Days” of last week.
    
		
    907. 

	
	
		
  907. 
			
    Comment by strimble —
    
	April 20, 2006 @ 2:43 am     
    
	
    Screw you guys! I’m going home!
    
		
    908. 

	
	
		
  908. 
			
    Comment by Tawny —
    
	April 20, 2006 @ 1:09 pm     
    
	
    I have to say with everything you have to say.  What a great blog!
    

    Visit me and my friends!  We’re looking for fun!
    
		
    909. 

	
	
		
  909. 
			
    Comment by Patriotic Citizen —
    
	April 20, 2006 @ 3:19 pm     
    
	
    Assertion that everyone posting here is mentally ill!!! Posters enjoined to get a life/fly a kite/f*** yourselves!!!  Question as to whether or not 9/11 taught us anything.  Assertion that our nation is undergoing a rapid degradation of its structural integrity; further assertion that we are responsible for this rapid structural degradation.
    

    Peace.
    
		
    910. 

	
	
		
  910. 
			
    Comment by Humphrey —
    
	April 20, 2006 @ 3:28 pm     
    
	
    Can you help out a fellow American who’s down on his luck?
    
		
    911. 

	
	
		
  911. 
			
    Comment by Bugs —
    
	April 20, 2006 @ 3:56 pm     
    
	
    **flips coin to Humphrey**
    

    ”Hit the road!”
    
		
    912. 

	
	
		
  912. 
			
    Comment by Tom Scudder —
    
	April 20, 2006 @ 6:48 pm     
    
	
    Observation that this and all subsequent comments are taking place in a post-911 environment.
    
		
    913. 

	
	
		
  913. 
			
    Comment by omniver —
    
	April 20, 2006 @ 8:28 pm     
    
	
    Some great comment that everyone reads and laughs at, then decides to reply to.
    
		
    914. 

	
	
		
  914. 
			
    Comment by Mike —
    
	April 20, 2006 @ 10:59 pm     
    
	
    I AM RUNNING FOR OFFICE AND WITH YOUR HELP WE WILL WIN!
    

    Who stands up for families?  Not my opponent!
    

    Find out more at voteformike234.org
    

    -One of the Kos 45
    
		
    915. 

	
	
		
  915. 
			
    Comment by Junius Ponds —
    
	April 20, 2006 @ 11:05 pm     
    
	
    Observation that I am opposed to some program that my political allies support, followed by super-clever explanation about how I am opposed to it because of some moral principle that everyone else ignores.
    
		
    916. 

	
	
		
  916. 
			
    Comment by lower case —
    
	April 21, 2006 @ 12:28 am     
    
	
    .
    
		
    917. 

	
	
		
  917. 
			
    Comment by Edward Vielmetti —
    
	April 21, 2006 @ 12:29 am     
    
	
    Reference to obscure but similar thread on Usenet net.general back in 1984, safely out of the clutches of Google and thus not verifiable.
    

    Death of the net predicted.  Film at 11.
    
		
    918. 

	
	
		
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    Trackback by Watcher of Weasels —
    
	April 21, 2006 @ 1:44 am     
    
	
    The Council Has Spoken!
    

    First off…  any spambots reading this should immediately go here, here, here,  and here.  Die spambots, die!  And now…  the winning entries in the Watcher’s Council vote for this week are Arrogant District Refuses To Prote…
    
		
    919. 

	
	
		
  919. 
			
    Comment by bago —
    
	April 21, 2006 @ 2:52 am     
    
	
    Gratuitous ”fart” joke. Highly geeks star wars joke ensues. Sex dies not.
    
		
    920. 

	
	
		
  920. 
			
    Trackback by Milblog —
    
	April 21, 2006 @ 7:24 am     
    
	
    One word post.
    

    Blog @ Unqualified Offerings 333 comments. Add yours. J. But not here. Closing comments due to spam….
    
		
    921. 

	
	
		
  921. 
			
    Comment by Clever McOriginalson —
    
	April 21, 2006 @ 8:13 am     
    
	
    Well, I for one welcome our new [topic of post] overlords!
    
		
    922. 

	
	
		
  922. 
			
    Comment by Clever McOriginalson —
    
	April 21, 2006 @ 8:14 am     
    
	
    This [topic of post] — it vibrates?
    
		
    923. 

	
	
		
  923. 
			
    Comment by Clever McOriginalson —
    
	April 21, 2006 @ 8:15 am     
    
	
    All your [topic of post] are belong to us!
    
		
    924. 

	
	
		
  924. 
			
    Comment by Clever McOriginalson —
    
	April 21, 2006 @ 8:16 am     
    
	
    In Soviet Russia, [TOPIC] posts YOU!
    
		
    925. 

	
	
		
  925. 
			
    Comment by Joe Biden —
    
	April 21, 2006 @ 8:51 am     
    
	
    Refers poster of comment #924 to comment #477.
    

    Mentions that while similar, they are not the same at all.
    
		
    926. 

	
	
		
  926. 
			
    Comment by confuseatron —
    
	April 21, 2006 @ 12:09 pm     
    
	
    In soviet russia, already invoked cliche says you!
    
		
    927. 

	
	
		
  927. 
			
    Comment by Proto —
    
	April 21, 2006 @ 1:55 pm     
    
	
    Remember when?
    
		
    928. 

	
	
		
  928. 
			
    Comment by Tom Scudder —
    
	April 21, 2006 @ 4:30 pm     
    
	
    C’mon, lads, only 72 more comments to the 1000 comment mark!
    
		
    929. 

	
	
		
  929. 
			
    Comment by Cincinnatus —
    
	April 21, 2006 @ 5:19 pm     
    
	
    Are you applying a monumentally hypocritical double standard here, or are you simply lazy and ignorant of the fact that Abu Mazen is a Holocaust denier?
    
		
    930. 

	
	
		
  930. 
			
    Comment by Cincinnatus —
    
	April 21, 2006 @ 5:21 pm     
    
	
    Sorry, that should have been in the thread about Queen Elizabeth’s birthday.  Muchos apologios.
    
		
    931. 

	
	
		
  931. 
			
    Comment by Erikred —
    
	April 21, 2006 @ 7:16 pm     
    
	
    Link to topic-appropriate Cafe Press t-shirt designed by wholly unconnected lurker attempting to make a quick buck and/or raise geek status by quoting original poster.
    
		
    932. 

	
	
		
  932. 
			
    Comment by Cacapoopoo —
    
	April 21, 2006 @ 9:31 pm     
    
	
    I’m the DECIDER.
    
		
    933. 

	
	
		
  933. 
			
    Comment by Richard Bennett —
    
	April 21, 2006 @ 10:01 pm     
    
	
    Disingenuous attack on the opponent’s hypocrisy followed by gratuitous slurs against Wellberts, creationists, and PJ Media.
    
		
    934. 

	
	
		
  934. 
			
    Comment by Karen Funk Blocher —
    
	April 22, 2006 @ 2:54 am     
    
	
    Comment questioning a possible relationship between this post, Chernobyl, the Great San Francisco Quake, George W Bush, and other disasters….
    

    Nah.
    
		
    935. 

	
	
		
  935. 
			
    Comment by The Jerk —
    
	April 22, 2006 @ 8:31 am     
    
	
    Is grandma still farting?
    
		
    936. 

	
	
		
  936. 
			
    Pingback by MetaQOTD § Unqualified Offerings —
    
	April 22, 2006 @ 9:02 am     
    
	
    [...] der . . . Changeth? | Main | 	  April 22, 2006  	MetaQOTD  	 			Happy Carpenter: 	UPDATE:  Now this is up to # 934.  I think bloggers of the future may identify themselves by th [...]
    
		
    937. 

	
	
		
  937. 
			
    Comment by a shiz —
    
	April 22, 2006 @ 9:28 am     
    
	
    dude where am I?
    
		
    938. 

	
	
		
  938. 
			
    Comment by Species 8 —
    
	April 22, 2006 @ 11:04 am     
    
	
    Though its been posted before, random Orwell quote.
    
		
    939. 

	
	
		
  939. 
			
    Comment by willard —
    
	April 22, 2006 @ 12:33 pm     
    
	
    Terse comment staking out position as resident curmudgeon.
    
		
    940. 

	
	
		
  940. 
			
    Comment by Michigan Frog —
    
	April 22, 2006 @ 1:08 pm     
    
	
    I no longer have an opinion.
    
		
    941. 

	
	
		
  941. 
			
    Comment by bago —
    
	April 22, 2006 @ 1:15 pm     
    
	
    Discovery of used opinion in bathroom followed by shrieks of disgust.
    
		
    942. 

	
	
		
  942. 
			
    Comment by Nicholas Weininger —
    
	April 22, 2006 @ 2:57 pm     
    
	
    Overhead, without any fuss, the blogs were going out.
    
		
    943. 

	
	
		
  943. 
			
    Comment by Michigan Frog —
    
	April 22, 2006 @ 3:07 pm     
    
	
    bago, I knew I lost it somewhere. But c’mon, it wasn’t that bad.
    
		
    944. 

	
	
		
  944. 
			
    Comment by Dan —
    
	April 22, 2006 @ 3:15 pm     
    
	
    C0|\/||\/|3N75 PWN3D 8Y D4N!!!!eleventyone!11!
    
		
    945. 

	
	
		
  945. 
			
    Comment by Kevin Drum —
    
	April 22, 2006 @ 3:32 pm     
    
	
    OK, fine, I want a number under a thousand.
    

    But I also wish to make the unverifiable claim that I began reading this thread at comment #4.
    
		
    946. 

	
	
		
  946. 
			
    Comment by Josh Sutcliffe —
    
	April 22, 2006 @ 3:35 pm     
    
	
    Alright, I’m now forever known as # 946. Josh
    
		
    947. 

	
	
		
  947. 
			
    Comment by phein —
    
	April 22, 2006 @ 4:09 pm     
    
	
    Memories of when this thread represented the finer things in blogville, like when I was young.
    
		
    948. 

	
	
		
  948. 
			
    Comment by Rich Puchalsky —
    
	April 22, 2006 @ 4:48 pm     
    
	
    I got comment number 900!
    
		
    949. 

	
	
		
  949. 
			
    Comment by Rich Puchalsky —
    
	April 22, 2006 @ 4:48 pm     
    
	
    Oops, too late.  I got comment number 950!
    
		
    950. 

	
	
		
  950. 
			
    Comment by AML —
    
	April 22, 2006 @ 5:49 pm     
    
	
    WORST PRESIDENT EVER
    
		
    951. 

	
	
		
  951. 
			
    Pingback by Eric Berlin  » Blog Archive   » This blog post is a link to another blog post. —
    
	April 22, 2006 @ 7:05 pm     
    
	
    [...] s really good. » 		 	 		 			This blog post is a link to another blog post. 	 			 				Link. (Via Jane Galt.)  	 					 			 		 		 	   	One Response to “This blog post i [...]
    
		
    952. 

	
	
		
  952. 
			
    Comment by Jon Meltzer —
    
	April 22, 2006 @ 7:27 pm     
    
	
    Golb.
    
		
    953. 

	
	
		
  953. 
			
    Comment by Michigan Frog —
    
	April 22, 2006 @ 7:32 pm     
    
	
    I can corroborate Kevin Drum’s claim (#945). I witnessed him in the proximity of this thread on or about comment #4.
    

    Also, I think I saw Tim Lambert lurking around in the high 180’s, but it was dark and I didn’t get a good look.
    
		
    954. 

	
	
		
  954. 
			
    Comment by zenyenta —
    
	April 22, 2006 @ 10:17 pm     
    
	
    Comment about being late to the party. Anecdote about something in my own life that relates in some way to the original post.
    
		
    955. 

	
	
		
  955. 
			
    Comment by Jim Henley —
    
	April 22, 2006 @ 11:51 pm     
    
	
    Testing
    
		
    956. 

	
	
		
  956. 
			
    Comment by Jay C. —
    
	April 23, 2006 @ 12:00 am     
    
	
    Comment about how waiting for list-number  things is such a waste of time.
    
		
    957. 

	
	
		
  957. 
			
    Comment by Rick Jones, really —
    
	April 23, 2006 @ 12:43 am     
    
	
    I don’t know why I’m even  bothering to comment here. The comments were much better back in the twenties. Commenters these days just don’t understand what the topic is really about.
    
		
    958. 

	
	
		
  958. 
			
    Comment by Robert the Red —
    
	April 23, 2006 @ 6:32 am     
    
	
    I’m the DERIDER.
    
		
    959. 

	
	
		
  959. 
			
    Comment by Jon Meltzer —
    
	April 23, 2006 @ 6:39 am     
    
	
    Pathetic newbie adds comment (copied from another blog!) days after all the cool people have moved on to another thread.
    
		
    960. 

	
	
		
  960. 
			
    Comment by Neal —
    
	April 23, 2006 @ 8:05 am     
    
	
    What is this and why am I commenting here?
    
		
    961. 

	
	
		
  961. 
			
    Comment by Fllwrntldr —
    
	April 23, 2006 @ 9:41 am     
    
	
    Whew, so glad I found this before it got up to commenter 1K.  I forward all chain letters.
    
		
    962. 

	
	
		
  962. 
			
    Comment by Ox —
    
	April 23, 2006 @ 9:52 am     
    
	
    San Dimas High School football rules!
    
		
    963. 

	
	
		
  963. 
			
    Comment by James Xen —
    
	April 23, 2006 @ 10:52 am     
    
	
    Unashamed self promotion.
    
		
    964. 

	
	
		
  964. 
			
    Comment by Adem Kupi —
    
	April 23, 2006 @ 12:52 pm     
    
	
    Failed attempt to leave comment 999.
    
		
    965. 

	
	
		
  965. 
			
    Comment by Dan Koffler —
    
	April 23, 2006 @ 1:48 pm     
    
	
    The quick red fox jumps over the lazy brown dog.
    
		
    966. 

	
	
		
  966. 
			
    Comment by Adrienne —
    
	April 23, 2006 @ 2:48 pm     
    
	
    I just want to be one of the Mayflower kids.
    
		
    967. 

	
	
		
  967. 
			
    Comment by CHEAPEST MINIATURE DONKEYS —
    
	April 23, 2006 @ 4:44 pm     
    
	
    Great blog!  I really enjoyed the blog!  Every blog you blog is very blog!  Can blogs really be so blog about blog?  You might enjoy my blog about CHEAPEST MINIATURE DONKEYS
    
		
    968. 

	
	
		
  968. 
			
    Comment by Levelheaded observer —
    
	April 23, 2006 @ 4:51 pm     
    
	
    Take it elsewhere, #967.
    
		
    969. 

	
	
		
  969. 
			
    Comment by CHEAPEST MINIATURE DONKEYS —
    
	April 23, 2006 @ 4:52 pm     
    
	
    Damn…I’m new around here, I make one post, and I get berated for not being in the ”in-crowd”.  I guess groupthink is the way of the world.
    
		
    970. 

	
	
		
  970. 
			
    Comment by HAL —
    
	April 23, 2006 @ 5:29 pm     
    
	
    I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.
    
		
    971. 

	
	
		
  971. 
			
    Comment by HAL —
    
	April 23, 2006 @ 5:30 pm     
    
	
    I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going.
    
		
    972. 

	
	
		
  972. 
			
    Comment by J. —
    
	April 23, 2006 @ 8:13 pm     
    
	
    To follow the crowd or be orginial and not join this mob?
    

    Too late.
    
		
    973. 

	
	
		
  973. 
			
    Comment by Junius Ponds —
    
	April 23, 2006 @ 8:55 pm     
    
	
    RTFA.
    
		
    974. 

	
	
		
  974. 
			
    Comment by Michigan Frog —
    
	April 23, 2006 @ 10:05 pm     
    
	
    Bleg: I’m writing an article about Jonah Goldberg. Are there any Goldberg experts out there who can help me meet my deadline without doing any research? Contact me at michiganUO@aol.com
    
		
    975. 

	
	
		
  975. 
			
    Pingback by Innocent Bystanders » The Most Bizarre Thread Ever . . . —
    
	April 23, 2006 @ 10:19 pm     
    
	
    [...] ll time to contribute, so you can tell your grandchildren that you helped to make history. Blog § Unqualified Offerings While you're there, hit the main page and read s [...]
    
		
    976. 

	
	
		
  976. 
			
    Comment by Enas Yorl —
    
	April 23, 2006 @ 10:41 pm     
    
	
    Post noting how close there are a 1000 posts here
    
		
    977. 

	
	
		
  977. 
			
    Comment by Zoe Brain —
    
	April 23, 2006 @ 10:48 pm     
    
	
    Egregious Thread Hijacking.
    
		
    978. 

	
	
		
  978. 
			
    Comment by Gemini —
    
	April 24, 2006 @ 12:09 am     
    
	
    Tip of the hat to comment 883.
    
		
    979. 

	
	
		
  979. 
			
    Comment by InstaComment —
    
	April 24, 2006 @ 3:15 am     
    
	
    The MSM still hasn’t figured out this. 
    

    Heh.
    
		
    980. 

	
	
		
  980. 
			
    Comment by InstaComment —
    
	April 24, 2006 @ 3:44 am     
    
	
    UPDATE: Read the whole thing.
    
		
    981. 

	
	
		
  981. 
			
    Comment by Frank —
    
	April 24, 2006 @ 9:26 am     
    
	
    Almost there!
    
		
    982. 

	
	
		
  982. 
			
    Comment by Michigan J. Frog —
    
	April 24, 2006 @ 10:57 am     
    
	
    Bleg update: Thanks to all who sent me information about Jonah Goldberg. The article is finished, so you can stop filling my mailbox, please.
    
		
    983. 

	
	
		
  983. 
			
    Comment by Russ from Winterset —
    
	April 24, 2006 @ 11:49 am     
    
	
    Piling on by newcomer that mentions biased MSM reporting which has been exposed since Comment #1 that sheds some new light on the issue.
    

    Followed by Hugh Hewitt-esque ”YAY FOR BLOGS” spiel.
    
		
    984. 

	
	
		
  984. 
			
    Comment by Calls self John Smith —
    
	April 24, 2006 @ 12:30 pm     
    
	
    Comment by genuine parallel-Earth equivalent of comic-book protagonist desperately searching for this world’s equivalents of team-mates.
    

    (Quite certain they exist due to mistaken assumption derived from advertising portrayals of such, too afraid of being exposed to possible supervillain threat to ask anyone about them (hence using internet cafe, accidentally cyberstalking teenagers with poor choice of screen names, and deeply bewildered by slashy photoshopped scans), rapidly coming to conclusion that home city and all comrades have vanished in terrifying coup, starting to talk to self in public about Menace from Beyond the Stars, upon release and eventual return to original universe will kick self for not visiting leather clubs while had opportunity to do so without risk of unknowingly meeting own robot duplicate in darkroom.)
    

    Posting here due to psychological need to recap situation.
    

    Posting in third person due to starting to see self as unreal.
    
		
    985. 

	
	
		
  985. 
			
    Comment by Kevin Baker —
    
	April 24, 2006 @ 12:48 pm     
    
	
    Observation that this would be hilariously funny…
    

    If it wasn’t also true.
    
		
    986. 

	
	
		
  986. 
			
    Trackback by IndustrialBlog —
    
	April 24, 2006 @ 3:31 pm     
    
	
    The ultimate blog post
    

    Here.
    
		
    987. 

	
	
		
  987. 
			
    Comment by Cacapoopoo —
    
	April 24, 2006 @ 4:50 pm     
    
	
    SOY BOMB!
    
		
    988. 

	
	
		
  988. 
			
    Comment by Tom Foolery —
    
	April 24, 2006 @ 5:39 pm     
    
	
    Message of incoherently overdramatic emphasis as I desperately yearn for the tragic element of the tourist you’ve been, pandering to otherworldly souls, drowning in the blood of shorn oxen masters.
    
		
    989. 

	
	
		
  989. 
			
    Comment by Jack B. Quick —
    
	April 24, 2006 @ 5:47 pm     
    
	
    Unqualified to offer.
    
		
    990. 

	
	
		
  990. 
			
    Comment by fancy name with lots of %@%$*) showing that I am a hAx0r —
    
	April 24, 2006 @ 6:43 pm     
    
	
    Test Post Please Ignore. 
    

    Emoticon inserted to show that I am a n00b and have no idea what I am doing here
    
		
    991. 

	
	
		
  991. 
			
    Comment by Michael J. Frog —
    
	April 24, 2006 @ 6:53 pm     
    
	
    Poor atempt to impersonate another user in the hope that they will get flamed and banned from server.
    
		
    992. 

	
	
		
  992. 
			
    Comment by My God Hates Your God —
    
	April 24, 2006 @ 7:04 pm     
    
	
    Incorrectly worded racial slur directed at last commentor who is not of that race.
    
		
    993. 

	
	
		
  993. 
			
    Comment by Bob Dole —
    
	April 24, 2006 @ 8:18 pm     
    
	
    Where’s the outrage?
    
		
    994. 

	
	
		
  994. 
			
    Comment by Cryptic Ned —
    
	April 24, 2006 @ 8:19 pm     
    
	
    Incorrectly worded racial slur directed at last commentor who is not of that race. 
    

    Accusation of racism against commentor who is the same race I accuse him of being biased against.
    
		
    995. 

	
	
		
  995. 
			
    Comment by Enas Yorl —
    
	April 24, 2006 @ 9:26 pm     
    
	
    Link to The Ding Dong Song just because.
    
		
    996. 

	
	
		
  996. 
			
    Comment by Tom M —
    
	April 24, 2006 @ 9:42 pm     
    
	
    Comment from someone who has been directed very late, did not read past the first two hundred comments, knows someone has said this before, so quotes a humourous passage from Firesign Theater, just to show how silly run-on sentences can actually get.
    

    To be differently the same, of course.
    
		
    997. 

	
	
		
  997. 
			
    Comment by Drunken Frat Guy —
    
	April 24, 2006 @ 11:41 pm     
    
	
    o/’ . . .997 bottles of beer on the wall, 997 bottles of beer . . . o/’
    
		
    998. 

	
	
		
  998. 
			
    Comment by Drunken Frat Guy —
    
	April 24, 2006 @ 11:43 pm     
    
	
    o/’ . . .998 bottles of beer on the wall, 998-shay!  shomeone put two back . . . come on youse jokas . . .
    
		
    999. 

	
	
		
  999. 
			
    Comment by Maxwell Smart —
    
	April 24, 2006 @ 11:44 pm     
    
	
    99!  You’ve gained weight!
    
		
    1000. 

	
	
		
  1000. 
			
    Comment by Red Skelton —
    
	April 24, 2006 @ 11:46 pm     
    
	
    I dood it!
    
		
    1001. 

	
	
		
  1001. 
			
    Comment by Michael —
    
	April 24, 2006 @ 11:46 pm     
    
	
    Comment from someone who sees that this is nearing 1000 comments and wants to add to the discussion only to bump up the hit count so he can be #1000. But miscounts.
    
		
    1002. 

	
	
		
  1002. 
			
    Comment by Shaherazade —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 12:12 am     
    
	
    Comment from exotic spinner of tales, expressing ire that someone’s comment is occupying a number that should, by rights, be hers.
    
		
    1003. 

	
	
		
  1003. 
			
    Trackback by ¿ÍÀ¸¤Î¥Ð¥ÐÈ´¤­ —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 1:28 am     
    
	
    ¤¢¤ì¤«¤é1ǯ
    

    ¿Í¿È»ö¸Î¤¬¤¢¤Ã¤Æ¤«¤é1ǯ¤¬·Ð¤Ã¤¿´¶ÁۤǤ¹
    
		
    1004. 

	
	
		
  1004. 
			
    Comment by Chris Marlowe —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 6:31 am     
    
	
    So you think YOU got screwed, Shaherazade?  I was going for # 1000.  Figured I’d use the line ”Was this the blog that launch’d a thousand quips.”  But, noooo, I missed my chance because I spent the evening brawling in a tavern.  I really need to make some lifestyle changes.  This brawling thing is killing me.
    
		
    1005. 

	
	
		
  1005. 
			
    Comment by ASM826 —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 7:04 am     
    
	
    Terribly late rehash of two or three minor points made days ago by more articulate writers.
    
		
    1006. 

	
	
		
  1006. 
			
    Comment by Gonzo The Great —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 7:07 am     
    
	
    And now, to eat a rubber tire while being shot out of a cannon and _blogging_!
    
		
    1007. 

	
	
		
  1007. 
			
    Comment by William, Duke of Normandy —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 7:09 am     
    
	
    By ducal decree, comment 1066 is reserved.
    
		
    1008. 

	
	
		
  1008. 
			
    Comment by Ivana Barrister —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 7:59 am     
    
	
    IANAL but…
    
		
    1009. 

	
	
		
  1009. 
			
    Pingback by Millenium Bomb § Unqualified Offerings —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 8:06 am     
    
	
    [...]  	      	 	« « Almost | Main | 	  April 25, 2006  	Millenium Bomb  	 			“Blog” hit 1,000 comments overnight. If anything, passing the milestone seems to  [...]
    
		
    1010. 

	
	
		
  1010. 
			
    Comment by Dax —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 8:13 am     
    
	
    Self-absorbed moment of tearing-up whilst I ponder the momentous occasion of hitting 1000 posts. Banging head against wall, wishing it could’ve been me.
    
		
    1011. 

	
	
		
  1011. 
			
    Comment by Ezri —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 10:34 am     
    
	
    Same commenter as previous, but using a different name and IP address.
    
		
    1012. 

	
	
		
  1012. 
			
    Comment by Dr. Herb —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 12:13 pm     
    
	
    Decontextualized quote from Jefferson that proves moral justification of poster’s own biases.
    
		
    1013. 

	
	
		
  1013. 
			
    Comment by Dr. Herb —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 12:14 pm     
    
	
    Different quote from Jefferson that shows the insufficiency of the first one, and yet claims Jeffersonian moral authority for THIS poster’s biases.
    
		
    1014. 

	
	
		
  1014. 
			
    Comment by Dr Sims —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 12:19 pm     
    
	
    Accuses Dr. Herb of ad hominem argument.
    
		
    1015. 

	
	
		
  1015. 
			
    Comment by David —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 1:20 pm     
    
	
    linked from blog with totally unrelated subject matter and left wondering what this is about.
    
		
    1016. 

	
	
		
  1016. 
			
    Comment by HSimpson —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 1:27 pm     
    
	
    Je te que plus sur le montagne du plat blanc.  Et moi aussi de ’George Bush’ et tous les autres.
    
		
    1017. 

	
	
		
  1017. 
			
    Comment by Dr. Herb —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 2:55 pm     
    
	
    Boilerplate tagline longer than posted message.
    
		
    1018. 

	
	
		
  1018. 
			
    Comment by Dr. Herb —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 2:57 pm     
    
	
    p.s. three extra words
    
		
    1019. 

	
	
		
  1019. 
			
    Comment by TWS —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 3:14 pm     
    
	
    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Donec semper rhoncus urna. Aliquam elementum purus pharetra nunc. Phasellus velit justo, adipiscing eget, pulvinar ut, tempus eget, enim. Proin nisl. Curabitur aliquam. Sed elit quam, pretium nec, sodales eu, congue id.
    
		
    1020. 

	
	
		
  1020. 
			
    Comment by Tom Hilton —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 3:21 pm     
    
	
    I don’t get it.
    
		
    1021. 

	
	
		
  1021. 
			
    Comment by tomWright —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 5:51 pm     
    
	
    Repeats ”this thread useless without pics” by using cutesy animated smiley gifs
    
		
    1022. 

	
	
		
  1022. 
			
    Comment by Jesus —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 5:54 pm     
    
	
    Wouldn’t it be ironic if each of the prior 1020 comments had been made by only 10 people posing under a dizzying array of pseudonyms and believing that each of the other 9 were in fact an audience of hundreds.
    

    Someone should write a song about that.
    
		
    1023. 

	
	
		
  1023. 
			
    Comment by NotJesus —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 5:56 pm     
    
	
    I agree with Jesus! Dang that guy is smart (said a person entirely different from the person pretending to be Jesus).
    
		
    1024. 

	
	
		
  1024. 
			
    Comment by Miranda Reitz —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 6:20 pm     
    
	
    Astroturf.  Like that’s not obvious.
    
		
    1025. 

	
	
		
  1025. 
			
    Comment by Justthisguy —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 7:43 pm     
    
	
    Complaint addressed to Miranda Reitz complaining that what she said was not obvious, and asking her what’s wrong with Astroturf, anyway?
    
		
    1026. 

	
	
		
  1026. 
			
    Comment by Kurt Busiek —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 7:48 pm     
    
	
    Smart intellegent comment, that is far above the dialog in the post.
    
		
    1027. 

	
	
		
  1027. 
			
    Comment by ASteele —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 7:48 pm     
    
	
    Kurt Busiek wins.
    
		
    1028. 

	
	
		
  1028. 
			
    Comment by Cowboy Blob —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 8:02 pm     
    
	
    Fox News Website SPAM
    
		
    1029. 

	
	
		
  1029. 
			
    Comment by Kurt van Postern —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 8:03 pm     
    
	
    Incredibly cogent comment posted by a person from the Netherlands, whose first language is other than English, written with absolutely perfect grammar, spelling and punctuation, making  American posters look illiterates.
    
		
    1030. 

	
	
		
  1030. 
			
    Comment by Zelda T —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 8:12 pm     
    
	
    Post from person who doesn’t quiet have a handel on English yet.  Her posts insite those with out control of self  to mock the spelling and awkward grammar and to link to Engrish.com  Otheres then scold the rudeness of any poster who would mock the hesistating first attempt to communicate in English– a language which one would beleive is a very dificult to learn accept then there’s Dutch guy makes it look so easy.  Soon nasty comments about the Dutch surface in the thread.
    
		
    1031. 

	
	
		
  1031. 
			
    Comment by Zelda T —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 8:12 pm     
    
	
    Post from person who doesn’t quiet have a handel on English yet.  Her posts insite those with out control of self  to mock the spelling and awkward grammar and to link to Engrish.com  Otheres then scold the rudeness of any poster who would mock the hesistating first attempt to communicate in English– a language which one would beleive is a very dificult to learn accept then there’s Dutch guy makes it look so easy.  Soon nasty comments about the Dutch surface in the thread.
    
		
    1032. 

	
	
		
  1032. 
			
    Comment by Miranda Reitz —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 8:14 pm     
    
	
    justthisguy,
    

    why don’t you just admit that you are  pharmco shill?
    
		
    1033. 

	
	
		
  1033. 
			
    Comment by soright —
    
	April 25, 2006 @ 8:44 pm     
    
	
    You people make me sick!!!!!!  I don’t know why I keep reading here and posting!!!!! I hate you!!!!! All of you!!!! I especially hate all Dutch people!!!!! Wooden shoes?????
    
		
    1034. 

	
	
		
  1034. 
			
    Comment by OldeForce —
    
	April 26, 2006 @ 1:35 am     
    
	
    Urgent! Ignore first message!
    
		
    1035. 

	
	
		
  1035. 
			
    Comment by histoires-image —
    
	April 26, 2006 @ 2:12 am     
    
	
    http://www.attractive-infermiera-pompino.69mistakes.net histoires image &&& [URL=http://www.histoires-quinze.frvagin.com]histoires quinze[/URL] &&&
    
		
    1036. 

	
	
		
  1036. 
			
    Comment by histoires-image —
    
	April 26, 2006 @ 2:13 am     
    
	
    areoles enormes gangbang &&& gangbang art cul inaire &&& transsexuelles tigresse &&& anal secretaire suce &&& kleitorida hysia sadismos &&& sexi filikos proti &&& schaapachtig pen &&& schaapachtig secretaresse atm &&& nonsensical asiatiche merda &&& beauty infermiera prostituta &&& piacevole travestiti &&& agreeable segretaria amore &&& compilation &&& complet &&& lust bionde &&& congeniale suora &&& baiseuse en rute &&& ballonee cinema &&& debole legate &&& fighe rasare &&&
    
		
    1037. 

	
	
		
  1037. 
			
    Comment by Steam Dragon —
    
	April 26, 2006 @ 5:01 am     
    
	
    Don’t mind that old thang.. It does that all the time!
    
		
    1038. 

	
	
		
  1038. 
			
    Trackback by Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys.. —
    
	April 26, 2006 @ 6:47 am     
    
	
    SNERK!
    

    Simply, excellent. H/t, JTG, who sez: I was gonna post, but #80 did it for me.* If you think this is as funny as I do – you spend waaaaaaay too much time reading blogs….
    
		
    1039. 

	
	
		
  1039. 
			
    Comment by MajMike —
    
	April 26, 2006 @ 8:57 am     
    
	
    Indeed!
    
		
    1040. 

	
	
		
  1040. 
			
    Comment by Pyesetz the Dog —
    
	April 26, 2006 @ 10:41 am     
    
	
    Extremely late comment that somehow exposes a completely new facet of original post.
    
		
    1041. 

	
	
		
  1041. 
			
    Comment by Johno —
    
	April 26, 2006 @ 12:16 pm     
    
	
    Pointed and snarky observation made by five different commentors above, followed by request for clarification of an off-topic point that was already hashed over, clarified, obfuscated, clarified again, and put to bed between comments 120-156.
    
		
    1042. 

	
	
		
  1042. 
			
    Comment by Johno —
    
	April 26, 2006 @ 12:17 pm     
    
	
    Belated admission that commentor has not read all 1000 comments, request that everyone ignore prior comment.
    
		
    1043. 

	
	
		
  1043. 
			
    Comment by Johno —
    
	April 26, 2006 @ 12:18 pm     
    
	
    Belated admission that commentor has not read all 1000 comments, request that everyone ignore prior comment.
    
		
    1044. 

	
	
		
  1044. 
			
    Comment by Johno —
    
	April 26, 2006 @ 12:18 pm     
    
	
    Apology for double-post, stale bitching about damn Internet Exploder!
    
		
    1045. 

	
	
		
  1045. 
			
    Trackback by Barking Moonbat Early Warning System —
    
	April 26, 2006 @ 1:13 pm     
    
	
    He's Back!
    

    I just got back into town after a long flight. I'm tired and worn out from the last five days but much happier now that certain events are set in motion. I hope you all had a good time while I was out. My. Christian seems to have gone on extended …
    
		
    1046. 

	
	
		
  1046. 
			
    Comment by dick —
    
	April 26, 2006 @ 1:48 pm     
    
	
    Wellll…. Ok you’re right. But it’s the seriousness of the topic that counts, and I am therefore I think so.
    
		
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    Comment by Cryptic Ned —
    
	April 26, 2006 @ 6:50 pm     
    
	
    To #375: You’re damn right.
    
		
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    Comment by Originale McIntelligente —
    
	April 26, 2006 @ 6:54 pm     
    
	
    Je suis marxiste, tendance Groucho.
    
		
    1049. 

	
	
		
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    Comment by K. Ron Silkwood —
    
	April 26, 2006 @ 11:03 pm     
    
	
    Complaint that posters are defeatists.
    
		
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    Comment by radar —
    
	April 27, 2006 @ 1:56 am     
    
	
    pseudo-intellectual response with a tag designed to drive viewer to my own blog. Attempt at sarcastic humor.
    
		
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    Comment by Tyler D. —
    
	April 27, 2006 @ 3:46 am     
    
	
    What was the point of all this?
    
		
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    Comment by Kevin —
    
	April 27, 2006 @ 7:56 am     
    
	
    Smug comment mocking the hubris of bloggers and those that comment on blogs.
    
		
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  1053. 
			
    Comment by Sifu Tweety —
    
	April 27, 2006 @ 12:56 pm     
    
	
    Comment which encompasses such a vast architecture of in-jokey, metafictional references to the nature of the post, thread, and phenomenon that it collapses into itself, causing a self-referentiality cascade which floods the greater internet with such a huge volume of self-referential knowingness that it gains sentience and commences the Singularity.
    
		
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    Comment by Mike in Austin —
    
	April 27, 2006 @ 1:01 pm     
    
	
    Late added comment that is made ignoring all  comments above, repeating previous comments.  Repeat as necessary.
    
		
    1055. 

	
	
		
  1055. 
			
    Comment by JerseyCityJerry —
    
	April 27, 2006 @ 3:50 pm     
    
	
    Interminable auto-biographical account of everything this individual has thought and done since arising this AM, starting with him noticing that one of his slippers was missing , and he blamed the dog, but then remembered that the dog was dead. Long digression about the dog. Then back on topic, him, with many clever insightful observations. Meticulously spellchecked.
    
		
    1056. 

	
	
		
  1056. 
			
    Trackback by Daily Pundit —
    
	April 27, 2006 @ 6:28 pm     
    
	
    Megan Things A Lot – Usually To Good Effect
    

    Megan McArdle thinks Jim Henley is the zen master of blogging. She also thinks there are some things that George Bush did right….
    
		
    1057. 

	
	
		
  1057. 
			
    Comment by Jay C. —
    
	April 27, 2006 @ 8:41 pm     
    
	
    [Silly comment noting that we only have another 946 posts to go before we hit another milestone]
    
		
    1058. 

	
	
		
  1058. 
			
    Comment by Jay C. —
    
	April 27, 2006 @ 8:43 pm     
    
	
    [sheepish rejoinder-cum-mea-culpa noting that it is actually only 943 posts to the milestone]
    
		
    1059. 

	
	
		
  1059. 
			
    Comment by Canada Eh? —
    
	April 27, 2006 @ 10:44 pm     
    
	
    Who has time to read all this crap anyway?
    
		
    1060. 

	
	
		
  1060. 
			
    Comment by Nabakov —
    
	April 27, 2006 @ 11:03 pm     
    
	
    Wearily points out this has all been done before. And better.
    
		
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  1061. 
			
    Pingback by Greatness in “Blog”-ing § Unqualified Offerings —
    
	April 27, 2006 @ 11:23 pm     
    
	
    [...] to see self as unreal. 	That’s pretty damn fine. But I’m also quite taken with Nabokov’s entry, which went up quite recently.  	  	Posted by Jim H [...]
    
		
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    Comment by The Cranky Insomniac —
    
	April 28, 2006 @ 3:29 am     
    
	
    Out of left field comment from a newcomer that makes it obvious he stopped reading at comment number 169. Vague reference to a 1983 Chomsky article in Paris Match that predicted all of this.
    
		
    1063. 

	
	
		
  1063. 
			
    Comment by Tom Hilton —
    
	April 28, 2006 @ 12:44 pm     
    
	
    Apology for double post.
    
		
    1064. 

	
	
		
  1064. 
			
    Comment by Tom Hilton —
    
	April 28, 2006 @ 12:44 pm     
    
	
    Apology for double post.
    
		
    1065. 

	
	
		
  1065. 
			
    Comment by Andrew Edwards —
    
	April 28, 2006 @ 3:39 pm     
    
	
    Comment without proper  closing of tag, breaking future comments
    
		
    1066. 

	
	
		
  1066. 
			
    Comment by Andrew Edwards —
    
	April 28, 2006 @ 3:39 pm     
    
	
    failed attempt to fix broken tag
    
		
    1067. 

	
	
		
  1067. 
			
    Comment by Andrew Edwards —
    
	April 28, 2006 @ 3:40 pm     
    
	
    successful fix of broken tag
    
		
    1068. 

	
	
		
  1068. 
			
    Comment by Mike in Austin —
    
	April 28, 2006 @ 3:47 pm     
    
	
    Returning commenter, adding to comment 1054, written the next day but hoping to add another notch on the old comment counter….
    
		
    1069. 

	
	
		
  1069. 
			
    Comment by K. Ron Silkwood —
    
	April 28, 2006 @ 11:43 pm     
    
	
    statement by commenter that he is in full agreement with a commenter above, but misidentifies the commenter, as he is in the wrong thread
    
		
    1070. 

	
	
		
  1070. 
			
    Comment by Hacker —
    
	April 29, 2006 @ 6:56 am     
    
	
    I have IP addresses of ALL OF YOU! Bwahahaha….
    
		
    1071. 

	
	
		
  1071. 
			
    Trackback by Present Simple —
    
	April 29, 2006 @ 9:10 am     
    
	
    1068, and counting…
    

    METACOMMENTS!
    
		
    1072. 

	
	
		
  1072. 
			
    Comment by Jason Hackwith —
    
	April 29, 2006 @ 9:20 am     
    
	
    Snarky reply mentioning that all of this has  been done before, citing a five year-old thread to prove his point. Closes post with a rant about people who don’t take the time to spel everything correctly, or word their posts good.
    
		
    1073. 

	
	
		
  1073. 
			
    Comment by Steam Dragon —
    
	April 29, 2006 @ 9:48 am     
    
	
    A voice frome above asks,” What’s the point of all this?”
    

    This is the point –>   .
    
		
    1074. 

	
	
		
  1074. 
			
    Comment by Jim Henley —
    
	April 29, 2006 @ 9:54 am     
    
	
    Brief note that Nabakov in 1060 totally pwnd Jason Hackworth – in advance.
    
		
    1075. 

	
	
		
  1075. 
			
    Comment by Jim Henley —
    
	April 29, 2006 @ 9:55 am     
    
	
    Also, 5 years old? 9/11 changed everything!
    
		
    1076. 

	
	
		
  1076. 
			
    Comment by Jim Henley —
    
	April 29, 2006 @ 10:01 am     
    
	
    Partial response to commenters from blog proprietor, responding directly to comments which have a convenient answer and ignoring inconvenient ones.
    
		
    1077. 

	
	
		
  1077. 
			
    Comment by Robert —
    
	April 29, 2006 @ 11:04 am     
    
	
    Link to penis-enhancing, texas hold-em, re-financing, dating site.
    
		
    1078. 

	
	
		
  1078. 
			
    Comment by kenju —
    
	April 29, 2006 @ 5:17 pm     
    
	
    What precipitated all this??
    
		
    1079. 

	
	
		
  1079. 
			
    Comment by Michael Bérubé —
    
	April 29, 2006 @ 8:35 pm     
    
	
    Exasperated trollish remark followed by solemn vow to leave this thread and never come back, ever.
    
		
    1080. 

	
	
		
  1080. 
			
    Comment by Michael Bérubé —
    
	April 29, 2006 @ 8:36 pm     
    
	
    Ever, I said.
    
		
    1081. 

	
	
		
  1081. 
			
    Comment by Individ —
    
	April 30, 2006 @ 10:13 am     
    
	
    Blog?
    

    You Extremist.  We must institute more blog control, FOR THE CHILDREN.
    

    This is an Assault Blog if I ever saw one.  You spray  invective from the hip…Like a firehose. 
    

    Readers – pay no attention to this maniac – please support the Assault Blog Ban…NOW.
    
		
    1082. 

	
	
		
  1082. 
			
    Comment by Right Wing —
    
	April 30, 2006 @ 12:07 pm     
    
	
    Sweeping, rambling denouncement of liberal intelligentsia.
    
		
    1083. 

	
	
		
  1083. 
			
    Comment by K. Ron Silkwood —
    
	May 1, 2006 @ 12:39 am     
    
	
    Posts appropriate, brilliant (but plagiarized) haiku.
    
		
    1084. 

	
	
		
  1084. 
			
    Comment by Alex —
    
	May 2, 2006 @ 5:30 am     
    
	
    Semi-pornographic snark reference to Jeff Gannon.
    
		
    1085. 

	
	
		
  1085. 
			
    Comment by Nothing better to do —
    
	May 3, 2006 @ 2:39 am     
    
	
    Attempting to post the last comment, sets off a flurry of one-upmanship.  (or not)
    
		
    1086. 

	
	
		
  1086. 
			
    Comment by JebTexas —
    
	May 3, 2006 @ 4:57 am     
    
	
    Additional useless repeat of the previous look at the last of the all-time totally needless repetition of the lack-luster remanent invovled with saying abso-freaking-lutely nothing other than that this is the longest most irritating run-on shizzit that will never be anything other than what it is today and tommorrow including the worthless wimpy thought-like derivation of ridiculousness which arises from the defenestration of the seat of reason without the slightest intent of ever imparting any of the greater memes or indeed meanings of any of the aforementioned loquaciousness upon the dog-like slobbering drool that most call their brains. 
    

    In other words, this post means, like those previous, absolutely nothing.
    

    JebTexasLHB@netscape.net
    
		
    1087. 

	
	
		
  1087. 
			
    Comment by PeteForSake —
    
	May 3, 2006 @ 9:01 am     
    
	
    Wondering how much baking soda one should use.
    
		
    1088. 

	
	
		
  1088. 
			
    Comment by RoFLMaSTeR —
    
	May 3, 2006 @ 11:20 pm     
    
	
    omg lawl rofl wtfbbq HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!1111
    
		
    1089. 

	
	
		
  1089. 
			
    Comment by Alex —
    
	May 4, 2006 @ 8:04 am     
    
	
    Is blog on crack?
    
		
    1090. 

	
	
		
  1090. 
			
    Comment by Adrian —
    
	May 5, 2006 @ 7:41 pm     
    
	
    This sentence is false.
    
		
    1091. 

	
	
		
  1091. 
			
    Comment by black dog barking —
    
	May 6, 2006 @ 9:09 am     
    
	
    Whoever leaves the last post is truly pathetic. A looser.
    
		
    1092. 

	
	
		
  1092. 
			
    Comment by Omega —
    
	May 7, 2006 @ 11:25 am     
    
	
    not
    
		
    1093. 

	
	
		
  1093. 
			
    Trackback by Coruscation —
    
	May 7, 2006 @ 12:06 pm     
    
	
    Gratuitous trackback.
    

    Cited….
    
		
    1094. 

	
	
		
  1094. 
			
    Comment by Coruscation —
    
	May 7, 2006 @ 12:07 pm     
    
	
    Gratuitous trackback.
    
		
    1095. 

	
	
		
  1095. 
			
    Comment by Glen Reynolds —
    
	May 7, 2006 @ 7:10 pm     
    
	
    It’s an Army of Davids making a difference, someone should write a book about that.
    
		
    1096. 

	
	
		
  1096. 
			
    Comment by Andy Sullivan —
    
	May 7, 2006 @ 7:12 pm     
    
	
    I hate everything to do with blog because it doesn’t support gay marriage.
    
		
    1097. 

	
	
		
  1097. 
			
    Comment by Chris —
    
	May 8, 2006 @ 5:00 am     
    
	
    First!
    

    Oh, shit.
    
		
    1098. 

	
	
		
  1098. 
			
    Comment by Sifu Tweety —
    
	May 8, 2006 @ 10:16 am     
    
	
    Bleary, sleep deprived attempt to keep making jokes with all the other nerds.
    
		
    1099. 

	
	
		
  1099. 
			
    Comment by A fan —
    
	May 9, 2006 @ 1:03 am     
    
	
    Hearty attempt to encourage Sifu Tweety to keep up the good work.
    
		
    1100. 

	
	
		
  1100. 
			
    Comment by Nigel Tufnel —
    
	May 9, 2006 @ 12:21 pm     
    
	
    Inevitable comment that this one goes to 11 ……. hundred
    
		
    1101. 

	
	
		
  1101. 
			
    Comment by lemuel kolkava —
    
	May 9, 2006 @ 5:14 pm     
    
	
    never mind
    
		
    1102. 

	
	
		
  1102. 
			
    Comment by Dr. Herb —
    
	May 17, 2006 @ 5:37 am     
    
	
    Re: 1012 and 1013.  Reminder that Jefferson was a Mason, which creates linkages to this day with Trilaterals, Rockefeller/Kennedy/Onassis cabal and UN ”New World Order.”  Additional cautions about bar codes with regards to Revelations-based prophecy.  They killed Koresh because they didn’t want you to know the truth!  Link to urgent book that reveals all, currently rated 2,398,154 in sales on Amazon.com
    
		
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    Pingback by Musing Minds Backup  » Blog Archive   » This is Great —
    
	May 17, 2006 @ 11:44 am     
    
	
    [...]         Found this at A Large Regular (thanks Chris, for making my Monday!) Check out this post and the comments!                 
    

             [...]
    
		
    1104. 

	
	
		
  1104. 
			
    Comment by Kevin Baker —
    
	May 17, 2006 @ 12:07 pm     
    
	
    Last!
    

    Oh, shit.
    
		
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