[andi*pandi]

you know, I'd almost forgotten we had a northern monkey. Didn't we have two? I forget.

::checks under sofa, backs away slowly from strange odor::

damn. mom said that's the last time she'll let us have pets.

[boots]

Speaking of former glory:

Tis a great great day in history of MacNN when we can link pedophiles, llamas and alpacas, waffles wearing hats, david hasselhoff, and Jean Claude all in one thread. This is surpassing zombo.com in terms of possibilities.

And chris v even coined the awesome term "llamasphere."

I think I pinpointed EXACTLY where the slide happened. One of my finer moments, if I do say so myself.

It starts out kinda slow, but really picks up near page 10.

[analogika]

Oh WOW!

I'd thought of the Great Abe Decomposition a while ago, but I couldn't remember which thread it happened in.

That was SENSATIONAL!!!

:goes to search for popcorn as he re-reads the thread:

[andi*pandi]

wow.

I kind of miss cody.

and mr natural.

[chris v]

Originally Posted by boots 

Speaking of former glory:

I think I pinpointed EXACTLY where the slide happened.

Yup, nailed it. A blaze of glory, that one.

[chris v]

You know, it kind of warms the cockles of my heart to see ol' WD's signature, still there, hosted on my .mac account, after all these years.

[- - e r i k - -]

This pops up ever so often:

[d4nth3m4n]

Originally Posted by boots 

Speaking of former glory:



And chris v even coined the awesome term "llamasphere."

I think I pinpointed EXACTLY where the slide happened. One of my finer moments, if I do say so myself.

It starts out kinda slow, but really picks up near page 10.

wow, i was in rare form that day. kinda can't believe i didn't get flagged for that.

Originally Posted by mitchell_pgh 

I miss tooki...

now you take that back.

[brassplayersrock²]

oh danny boy, what did tooki ever do to you?

[chris v]

Oh, hey, more good times! and entire internet meme was born in that thread.

[d4nth3m4n]

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock² 

oh danny boy, what did tooki ever do to you?

got his panties way too knotted about images that were like 641x481.

to the point that he'd delete the image altogether, instead of leaving a link to the image which was often relevant to the thread.

i didn't really get a kick out of how he stickied one of his own threads he was using to start a site about printer and paper compatibility in the peripherals forum while he was going nuts deleting (not merging) iPod threads in the same forum just around the time of the minis dropping. the whole thing seemed like an abuse of power to me.

hell, it's still stickied

[LegendaryPinkOx]

I love all of you, and besson3c quit bogartin' the paint thinner.
On a side note, in real life I'm not quite the babbling acid casualty I make myself out to be on occasions. Im just a very weird, quiet, little dude and I've never once regretted becoming a patron of this fine establishment

[brassplayersrock²]

i dont regret joining this place either, even with the occasional jerk

[Dork.]

Originally Posted by chris v 

Oh, hey, more good times! and entire internet meme was born in that thread.

I've been looking for that thread. Thanks for finding it!

[d4nth3m4n]

think i've got an idea to revive at least part of the lounge for you, starman-

take that there sig wall and make it all the lebowski sigs.

[Person Man]

Originally Posted by chris v 

Oh, hey, more good times! and entire internet meme was born in that thread.

Which internet meme was that? I don't have time to read the whole 7 page thread.

[d4nth3m4n]

Originally Posted by Person Man 

Which internet meme was that? I don't have time to read the whole 7 page thread.

got my money on 'foreign agent.'

[boots]

Most definitely the "Foreign Agent" meme. This has propagated in other places...."Fruit baskets are for foreign agents only."

Anyone remember the chick who wrote the alien cow stories and then disappeared...deleting all of the posts in case someone ripped her story off? BEB was a big fan, I remember. Was it Helen?

[Timo]

Wanna bring back some lounge glory? Get max, l'gnorante and (hey, stars could align) Fat Barry back. Make DH the emperor -- pay him to bring back the audio locks (good times, good times). Round it out with xi, analogika, the chrises, boots, pandi, (insert your favorite wit here) -- anybody really who hasn't managed to make a douche of themselves in Pol/War (you know who you are / actually you don't, do you?). Or people of that quality. Really, anybody who can laugh at themselves.

Or more chicks. That would liven this place up. Real ladies, I mean, not just pictures of boobs.

[brassplayersrock²]

boots is posting around the forums here and there. i haven't seen xi in a long time though

[chris v]

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock² 

i haven't seen xi in a long time though

HE'S PSOTTING FROM INSIDE THE THREAD!!1

[brassplayersrock²]

where?

[AKcrab]

Originally Posted by pooka 

I dunno. Kinda seems like things started with the Pol lounge. That was amusing for a while. But that only lead to people taking things way too seriously and getting seriously shitty with one another.

But hey, chris is back so who knows.

I agree, on all counts.

I think I even got shitty after the Pol lounge so I took a vacation.

[boots]

Originally Posted by Timo 

Wanna bring back some lounge glory? Get max, l'gnorante and (hey, stars could align) Fat Barry back. Make DH the emperor -- pay him to bring back the audio locks (good times, good times). Round it out with xi, analogika, the chrises, boots, pandi, (insert your favorite wit here) -- anybody really who hasn't managed to make a douche of themselves in Pol/War (you know who you are / actually you don't, do you?). Or people of that quality. Really, anybody who can laugh at themselves.

Or more chicks. That would liven this place up. Real ladies, I mean, not just pictures of boobs.

Speaking of laughing at yourself, this was a good time.
Gives me warm fuzzies rereading all the lerv. Now, where did I put that block of Limburger? I hear it goes well with Devil Bunny.

And here is one of my favorite rants. I wish LE hadn't lost the "Some shitfish stole my car radio" rant when the BBQ met Davie Jones.

[xi_hyperon]

Originally Posted by boots 

Speaking of former glory:



And chris v even coined the awesome term "llamasphere."

I think I pinpointed EXACTLY where the slide happened. One of my finer moments, if I do say so myself.

It starts out kinda slow, but really picks up near page 10.

Originally Posted by boots 

Speaking of laughing at yourself, this was a good time.
Gives me warm fuzzies rereading all the lerv. Now, where did I put that block of Limburger? I hear it goes well with Devil Bunny.

Aw, this makes me sad. I remember those days.

[brassplayersrock²]

oooo, wrong person. i was thinking of someone else on here that i havent seen in awhile

[andi*pandi]

Devil Bunny wants a Llamaburger!

[analogika]

PorscheBunny?

[abe]

Originally Posted by analogika 

Oh WOW!

I'd thought of the Great Abe Decomposition a while ago, but I couldn't remember which thread it happened in.

That was SENSATIONAL!!!

:goes to search for popcorn as he re-reads the thread:

The several bannings and the perma-PL ban has served to take all the joy out of my posting. It's perfunctory and safe now. And I guess that was the desired effect.





Meek as a lamb now.

[chris v]

Originally Posted by analogika 

PorscheBunny?

whoa, there's a blast from the past.

[ReggieX]

Keeping The Lounge in top form requires time & effort, things that are severely lacking these days. The originality of the topics is gone, replaced with the usual rehashed celebrity & political news of the day, why bother participating?

[BRussell]

I often wonder if Powerbookdude ever kissed a girl. He must be like a sophomore in college by now?

[scaught]

^I wonder what ever happened of that lad, as well.

[sek929]

PBD would always IM me and talk about his latest disaster with the opposite sex.

Ahh, young and hideously awkward love...

[starman]

Originally Posted by sek929 

PBD would always IM me and talk about his latest disaster with the opposite sex.

Ahh, young and hideously awkward love...

Same. I had to block him, it just got that annoying.

[sek929]

He was a nice kid and all, but he wouldn't so much as smile at a girl without thinking about for a year first.

[starman]

And ask everyone for advice...

[starman]

Maybe Dakar is right. Maybe there's no way to bring this place back to what it used to be. It's been bugging me for about a year now. Instead of being funny, people are more inclined to personally attack people. 'Hood had to actually come in here and remove all the derailing from this thread yesterday, which more or less proves my point. How about just backing off and try to make this place into a community again instead of a cess pool of personal crap?

[RAILhead]

Did some one say crap?

Man, after last night's frozen pizza and the big breakfast I had at the club this morning, there was no safe place for my wife in the house...

[brassplayersrock²]

so that's the smell coming from your house?

[boots]

Liberal use of "ignore" is recommended, either technology aided or otherwise. The personal attacks only work if you take the bait. Seriously. It's always been clear who the a$$hats are, and it was always clear when someone got suckered into a vortex with them. I'm particularly guilty of being weak-willed on this count.

This place can be what you want it to be. There are enough people here to have serious and enjoyable discussion, so long as you don't let the weasels hijack the ideas. All it will take is a large enough group to rise above the crap.

I know that sounds like a lecture, but hey...I'm a teacher. It's in my nature. My question for you is "Do you really want a better place?" Here's a suggestion:

1) Ask questions that are on your mind or share things that you think are cool.
2) If you aren't interested, leave the thread alone. Don't snipe at it, just don't bother with it.
3) If someone does snipe, don't engage with them. Report the post and then ignore it.
4) Reread your responses twice. Once as you (for spelling, etc.), and once as the audience...it's amazing how often something that is worded ambiguously turns a thread into an unintentional flame war. Edit out personal attacks; the fact that you wrote it down helps at least vent the frustration. Don't make the rest of us share your frustration.
5) If I've said it once, I've said it a million times: There is no number 5. We tossed him overboard and banned his IP.
6) Rinse and repeat.

[brassplayersrock²]

but number 5 keeps IMing people telling them to do bad things daddy!

[abe]

Meek as a lamb now.

[Dork.]

Shall we call you Lamb Chop now?

[abe]

Originally Posted by Dork. 

Shall we call you Lamb Chop now?

Sure. Why not? You can even call me Shari.

I don't care.

[besson3c]

Can I call you Butthawk?

[nredman]

i remember the good old days of wasting hours everyday on macnn - actually it was kind of sad

[rozwado1]

i used to waste so much time here during my undergrad. my fault for not being able to sleep in after a bar night...

i've taken a couple years off bc of ca$h and Railroader. So they're both MIA now?

[subego]

RR is temporary.

[gorickey]

Originally Posted by osiris 

Are we back to our former glory yet?

Now that I've posted....yes.

(snicker)