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May 31, 2004 : We're Back...


I hope everyone had a good long weekend. (I played golf--for the first time in about twenty years. I shot a 72! for nine holes)

The site was down for about a day. I had to move it to a new host, and blah and blah blah blah.

I didn't upgrade MT, because 2.661 is no longer available--unless there's a way to get it that I'm not aware of. I just picked the whole thing up and dropped it in its new home, and it seems to work OK. If you come across any bugs or see anything wrong, let me know.

We're also still accepting offers for a site redesign. If anyone wants to try their hand at it, let us know.

As you were...

Posted by jpoulos at May 31, 2004 08:14 PM


People have said these things about that :

I wasn't doing anything. Do I have to start now?

Cripes. Around here it's always DO this, DO that, AS YOU WERE this. If it weren't for the poo, I just don't know what I'd do.

Posted by: yhbc on May 31, 2004 08:49 PM

I went to this.

Fun was had by all. We met the sarge.

Posted by: jonmc on May 31, 2004 09:24 PM

I have a copy of 2.661 if you need it. Let me know.

Posted by: eyeballkid on May 31, 2004 10:55 PM

Hey eyeball, if that's the zip file, I could use one.

Posted by: dong resin on June 1, 2004 12:50 AM

Just saw the words "Dong Resin" in the latest New Yorker. Too cool.

Posted by: ana on June 1, 2004 02:40 PM

post?

Posted by: ana on June 1, 2004 02:51 PM

I won't get into the Post until the Jennifer Love Hewitt pictures get out.

Posted by: dong resin on June 1, 2004 04:30 PM

Ummmm...exactly WHERE in the New Yorker?

Posted by: ColdChef on June 1, 2004 09:07 PM

HOLY SHIT! Page 30 in the "Talk of the Town" Section.

I am grisly green with envy.

Posted by: ColdChef on June 1, 2004 09:12 PM

Wow, cool, Dong! You're mentioned in the middle of a run-on sentence of fifteen bloggers! Slow down there, Mr. Hollywood Walk 'o' Fame!

Not that I'm jealous or anything.

Posted by: yhbc on June 1, 2004 10:21 PM

Dude, there are no run-on sentences in The New Yorker.

Posted by: jpoulos on June 1, 2004 10:32 PM

Haters.

Posted by: ColdChef on June 1, 2004 10:33 PM

Hate all you like, it's real hard to hold a grudge while nestled betwixt two Love Hewitt breasts, as I am currently.

Posted by: dong resin on June 1, 2004 11:27 PM

So then you can answer the question eternal, dong...does red or white wine go better with silicone? I'm dying to find out.

Posted by: ufez on June 1, 2004 11:56 PM

Weren't we all already freaking out about this last week, or was that somewhere else?

Posted by: eyeballkid on June 2, 2004 12:21 AM

also: DONG_RESIN IS SOOOOO OVER. You heard it here first second!

Posted by: eyeballkid on June 2, 2004 12:22 AM

hmmm. so strikeout doesn't work in comments anymore.

Posted by: eyeballkid on June 2, 2004 12:22 AM

'cause it's ONE-TWO-THREE-STRIKES-YER-OUT at the old snark game!

Posted by: Crash on June 2, 2004 02:30 AM

dong resin is the new Street Hawk.

Posted by: dong resin on June 2, 2004 02:36 AM

Or possibly Manimal.

Posted by: dong resin on June 2, 2004 02:37 AM

Dude, you should be aiming higher. Like maybe "Last American Hero" or even "Sledgehammer."

Actually, nobody's Sledgehammer cool. Not even Sledgehammer.

Posted by: arto on June 2, 2004 02:47 AM

Is it Love on the left and Hewitt on the right, Dong, or have i got it wrong?

Posted by: tizzie on June 2, 2004 08:14 AM

They're both very well made.

Posted by: Fes on June 2, 2004 08:49 AM

dong resin is the new tinky winky.

Posted by: jpoulos on June 2, 2004 09:22 AM

Actually, Lupo, dong was the OLD Tinky-Winky, too.

Posted by: Vidiot on June 2, 2004 11:13 AM

And Lupo, did you need us free-loaders to pony up for this new host thingie?

Posted by: tizzie on June 2, 2004 12:54 PM

Sorry, ebk, I'm a week-on, week-off.

Posted by: ana on June 2, 2004 01:30 PM

Tiz: Nope. I'm paying for so many sites, this one's pretty much free. Thanks, though.

Posted by: jpoulos on June 2, 2004 01:52 PM

Are you sure you don't want us to pay for one of the other sites, then?

Awwwwww, thanks, Mr. Poulos. You're mighty generous.

Posted by: tizzie on June 2, 2004 02:59 PM

And by the way, my putt-putt score is about 72 also.

Oh, you meant real golf. Nevermind!

Posted by: tizzie on June 2, 2004 03:01 PM

Lupo is made of real gold. I have touched the hem of his garment and I'm here to tell you, it changed my damn life.

Posted by: kafkaesque on June 2, 2004 06:05 PM

um...that wasn't my garment....

Posted by: jpoulos on June 2, 2004 08:19 PM

I have touched the hem of his garment....

Big deal. I did the same thing and took an upskirt photo that's been sold to stileproject.

Posted by: jonmc on June 2, 2004 08:36 PM

I thought it was sort of fleshy.

Posted by: kaf on June 2, 2004 08:40 PM

Yeah? Well, woooHOOO Uncle Kafkaesque.

Pictures?

Posted by: tizzie on June 3, 2004 11:49 AM

Congrats to Kaf (and to Crystal Palace)!

Posted by: jpoulos on June 3, 2004 12:16 PM

Ah, you know, she's baby shaped. You get the idea.

But having both a niece and a nephew means one thing: BABY RACES!

Posted by: kaf on June 3, 2004 01:04 PM

Will there be betting? You know there needs to be betting.

Posted by: arto on June 4, 2004 02:04 AM

But having both a niece and a nephew means one thing: BABY RACES!

I recommend TODDLERBALL! Hold the child under the arms and swing between your legs at a large inflatable ball. Proceed according to the rules of association football, with as many a-side as can be found adults willing and children swingable. This provides for an exciting game, an excellent workout for you and a fun carnival ride for the little uns. Also instead of growing up with futile dreams of becoming the next Freddy Adu, they will knuckle down to the life of a trapeze artist.

Posted by: uncleliam on June 4, 2004 08:39 AM

That explains everything. You mean Freddy Adu wasn't swung around by his uncles (or his ankles, or for that matter his carbuncles or his dill pickles or Don Rickles or brass knuckles, I can't stop) as a kid, and so he had to settle for this "teen soccer phenom" business, when instead, after a few sprightly rounds of toddlerball, he could have been the next Karl friggin' Wallenda?

Ah, fuggit, it worked out for the best. It's not like he's all that athletic or coordinated or whatever. I mean, really.

Anyway. Fes, perhaps an infant decathlon is in order. What else can you do with babies?

Posted by: Chico on June 4, 2004 10:31 AM

you can toss 'em!

You can also sometimes cajole them into wrestling over a cookie.

Posted by: Fes on June 4, 2004 10:45 AM

Okay, then. So we've got Rhythmic Gymnastics, the Living Room Dash, the Couchward Long Jump and Greco-Roman Cookie Wrestling.

What else? Synchronized swimming? Bathtub luge? Dingo hunting? (I hear babies are good at that.) Spitting for distance? Loudest cry?

There's a reason I don't have one of those things myself.

Posted by: Chico on June 4, 2004 10:51 AM

The main event:

Projectile Vomiting. For Form and Distance.

Posted by: jonmc on June 4, 2004 11:30 AM

Mine has perfected the "Nipple Toss" which is fun for him, but I'm not thrilled with his choice of hobbies. Also intriguing is sport-fishing, where he hooks us by the lip just like marlin. Those nails have barbs, too.

He's also practicing operatic high notes, so it could really go either way: sports or the arts.

Posted by: readymade on June 4, 2004 11:30 AM

Mine has perfected the "Nipple Toss"

I hear that's a medal sport in the Gay Games.

Posted by: tizzie on June 4, 2004 11:53 AM

No, that's the "Salad Toss".

Posted by: Crash on June 4, 2004 05:17 PM

I would like to think dong got a mention once I started commenting.

Cause it's all about me. Or related to me. Or involves me somehow. Maybe I'm there, in the back, off to the left, behind the guy who won't take his hat off. Possibly I was involved, but no longer am. It could be about me in that I noticed it. No matter what, it's about me.

Even if you think it clearly isn't.

Posted by: salmonberry on June 5, 2004 05:51 AM

Waitasec, though, didn't you knit that hat that the guy who won't take his hat off, won't take off?

Posted by: arto on June 6, 2004 11:40 PM

No.

I crocheted it.

Which makes it hipper. A pink crochet deerstalker. I'll flood the world market with them.

Posted by: salmonberry on June 7, 2004 02:13 AM

No.

I crocheted it.

Which makes it hipper. A pink crochet deerstalker. I'll flood the world market with them.

Posted by: salmonberry on June 7, 2004 02:13 AM

*sigh*

Posted by: salmonberry on June 7, 2004 02:14 AM

I'll take three!

I'll take three!

I'll take three!

Posted by: Jacob Two-Two on June 7, 2004 11:52 AM

Any relation to Bishop Desmond?

Posted by: tizzie on June 7, 2004 12:51 PM

You ever heard of this book, tiz?

Maybe it's a Canadian thing, though Mordecai Richler did okay in the States, didn't he?

(I remember a photo op with Richler and the Bishop sometime in the 80's, in Montreal maybe, where the book was given to him as a gift and everyone had a good laugh about it.)

Posted by: Chico on June 7, 2004 03:22 PM

I've never heard of it, chico - probably has less to do with it being Canadian than with the fact that I haven't been in the market for kids books in a while.

Posted by: tizzie on June 7, 2004 04:33 PM

tizzie, that book is a book for all.

Posted by: salmonberry on June 8, 2004 12:47 AM

Except hooded fangs, of course. They might get a little offended.

Posted by: arto on June 8, 2004 03:40 AM

Ah, but it has a surprise ending which is delightful to hooded fangs, even if they won't admit it.
If you havn't read it, I highly recomend it for any age -but ignore the sequels.

Posted by: towerbrave on June 8, 2004 11:19 AM

I actually was just like Jacob Two Two for awhile around age 8. I would say everything twice and everyone would tell me to stop it, and I'd say stop what? cause I couldn't hear myself do it. Eventually it went away.

This book, and that gangster Eddie Two-Times in Goodfellas are the only pop cultural mentions of this phenomenon

Posted by: jonmc on June 8, 2004 02:04 PM

That's bunk. That's bunk.

Echolalia is pretty well-known. It's a kind of autism, right? http://www.medfriendly.com/echolalia.html

Actually...it looks like most define echolalia as repeating other people's speech, which I myself do sometimes, but in the voice of James Earl Jones.

There were more pop-culture references to repetition surely, like a series of McDonald's commercials which featured a guy saying "how you doing how you doing?" Let me tell you, it got more god damned hilarious every time. I remember a kind of annoying comedian who did a whole routine about speech repetition. Margaret Smith?

Posted by: kaf on June 8, 2004 05:56 PM

That's bunk. That's bunk.

I wasn't inspiring a conspiracy or anything. Those were just the only one's I've ever seen. And like you said, that was people repeating back what others said. I actually did a little net research on echolalia/echophenomena awhile back and that was about 90% of what I found.

I did meet two guys in college who did the same thing when they were kids though.

Posted by: jonmc on June 8, 2004 10:38 PM

Figures that there had to be two of 'em. Get 'em in the same room and have a feedback loop!

Posted by: arto on June 9, 2004 02:50 AM
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