Comments on: I'm really not trying to be glib

I'm really not trying to be glib

jayder — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:12:31 -0800

I know this is a private website, where the administrator has a strong interest in avoiding litigation by celebrities, but what I saw happen in the last hour or so is just creepy.

By: grobstein

grobstein — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:18:26 -0800

There does seem to be an unusual number of broken links in the Metatalk feed this evening.

By: lee

lee — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:18:40 -0800

What happened?

By: iconomy

iconomy — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:19:53 -0800

What's so creepy about it?

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:20:40 -0800

Matt has been over this time and time again. This thread will not end any different than any other. Best to just move on, or if you really can't, e-mail him.

By: mediareport

mediareport — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:21:51 -0800

It's the Tom Cruise thing-that-shall-not-be-named again. It keeps coming up as folks discover the original is missing, and keeps getting deleted for legal reasons that haven't ever been made very clear.

By: jayder

jayder — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:21:54 -0800

It's probably best that nobody mention the name of the celebrity or the topic of the post/question, but it appeared that a discussion was nuked (as have several prior discussions about the same celebrity) because said celebrity (you can probably guess who it was) is notoriously litigious.

And I am not criticizing the moderators, by any means. I just think it's really sad that certain topics are basically off limits due to the insanity and wealth of certain celebrities.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:22:17 -0800

You know what's really creepy? Scien-------....What? I was going to say "Science Fairs." Jeez.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:23:00 -0800

Nobody likes a lawsuit.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:23:23 -0800

Except a lawyer.

By: MLIS

MLIS — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:23:32 -0800

It is not the owner (or administrator) of the site that needs to worry about litigation but rather the poster of a comment.

Read about how the owner of a website in the US is generally immune from civil actions for defamation arising out of a posters comment but that the poster enjoys no such immunity here.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:24:22 -0800

Takin' care of business, old school style.

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:24:31 -0800

And let it be known that the commenter who posted the comment at the heart of all this has also said, repeatedly, they just want this whole mess to die.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:25:00 -0800

ok that was a really lame attempt at pseudo-cryptic sarcasam.

By: danb

danb — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:25:11 -0800

It is not the owner (or administrator) of the site that needs to worry about litigation but rather the poster of a comment.

Especially because of this: "All posts are © their original authors."

By: lee

lee — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:25:42 -0800

#1 - The first rule of Fight Club is, you do not talk about Fight Club.

By: Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America

Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:26:33 -0800

Rule #1: No one may talk about Tom Cruise.

Rule #2: No one may talk about Rule #1 or #2.

I hope that simplifies things.

By: and hosted from Uranus

and hosted from Uranus — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:26:51 -0800

I'D LIKE TO IMPROVE THE SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO ON THIS THREAD, SO I'M FLAGGING ALL IRRELEVANT, OBSCENE POSTS.

SCIENCE! MAKE ROOM FOR THE INTELLIGENTSIA!!

By: iconomy

iconomy — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:27:56 -0800

Attempting pseudo-cryptic sarcasm is Risky Business, burhanistan.

By: mediareport

mediareport — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:28:22 -0800

they just want this whole mess to die

Too late for that, really; the original post's info has been copied online a bunch of places. It's searchable.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:29:25 -0800

So the cyclops is back in the bag, and we should probably all be thankful. Remember what happened to Odysseus's crewmates? A cyclops is nothing to laugh at, especially when it's rich and has hired a pack of hungry lawyers.

By: danb

danb — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:30:31 -0800

Huh. I read the Cyclops episode of Ulysses just this afternoon.

By: peacay

peacay — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:30:59 -0800

< -------- insert nucular device hereabouts---------->

By: Krrrlson

Krrrlson — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:31:13 -0800

WHAT DOES "." MEAN????

By: quonsar

quonsar — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:33:02 -0800

YOU THINK DELETED COMMENTS IS CREEPY? TAKE A LONG HARD LOOK, MR. CREEPED-OUT-BOY. I AM THE GOD OF DELETED COMMENTS.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:33:03 -0800

I'd have a lot more to add if I had the foggiest notion of what the hell is going on here.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:33:31 -0800

*sacrifices pixilated goat to quonsar*

By: Mid

Mid — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:37:00 -0800

This whole duclod thing is freaking me out way more than this. More scary please!

By: Mid

Mid — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:38:39 -0800

Also, if someone could make a celing cat .gif where the duclod guy comes out of the celing, I would crap my pants.

By: nola

nola — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:40:04 -0800

So we are to never speak of -om -rusie. Is that the long and -hort of it.

By: davy

davy — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:40:35 -0800

WTF is the orihginal callout about? Will somebody tell me what's going on?

By: jeversol

jeversol — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:40:39 -0800

*eats popcorn, relaxes in lawn chair*

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:40:52 -0800

Some threads are useless without the image tag;
for everything else, there's mastercard.

By: oaf

oaf — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:44:06 -0800

WTF is the orihginal callout about? Will somebody tell me what's going on?

The requisite clues are all in this thread. I'm not going to link to what I found for fear that whatever is making the information disappear from MetaFilter and MetaTalk is going to attempt to disappear it wherever it appears.

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:48:47 -0800

Oh for fuck's sake, this is at least the fourth MeTa thread on this. Give it a rest.

By: serazin

serazin — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:48:50 -0800

Iday umonesay Omtay Oozcray? Utway idday ehay ooday isthey imetay?

By: davy

davy — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:51:10 -0800

What's quonsar done THIS time?

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:55:30 -0800

In Eyes Wide Shut, there's a scene where Tom Cruise's character is informed that any further inquiry along the lines he's pursuing will result in harm to him and those he loves. Similarly, if you keep bringing this up, you will harm at least one MeFite (who has had this comment come up in a job interview, reportedly) who, regardless of your personal feelings for Crazy Celebrity of the Week, doesn't deserve to have this permanently hanging around his personal and professional neck.

By: wendell

wendell — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:57:08 -0800

quonsar is Suri's father?!?!?

By: Tuwa

Tuwa — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:57:36 -0800

It's all part of a devilish scheme to let thetan infection rates soar so that Matt can cash in on the world's bestest most successful pyramid scheme and bask in his newfound bilionairiness. With the profits he'll start a new site, Cruisefilter, where adoring fans can post dreamy-eyed appreciations of timeless cinematic dialogue like "worship the cock" and "you can be my wingman." Decades later, scholars will search through the fragments of deleted threads wondering if Matt was a double- or triple-agent. MacMillan (2041) will advance the controversial theory that Haughey was in fact a quintuple-agent with at least three distinct conflicts of interest, but the evidence will be tenuous at best and the theory largely met with the academic equivalent of a blank stare and an embarrassed change of subject.

By: oaf

oaf — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:58:33 -0800

one MeFite (who has had this comment come up in a job interview, reportedly)

Seriously?

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:02:42 -0800

Seriously or not, it's not something you want to fuck around with, just because you find something funny. This is another person's life. We all feel the pressure of having celebrities crammed down our throat in one way or another, but this is not an appropriate way to relieve that pressure.

By: davy

davy — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:02:56 -0800

"Plato was gay? Mickey Mouse's dog was gay?"

By: ikkyu2

ikkyu2 — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:03:07 -0800

Please, people, let it go already.

By: Manjusri

Manjusri — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:03:15 -0800

This thread makes it seem less creepy, and implies that the original poster, not admin is the one threatened with litigation.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:05:30 -0800

(Not you, personally, but the people who keep posting this shit, and taking it to MetaChat, etc., because they can't read an archive and see that there's a reason their favorite ha-ha was taken down.)

By: oaf

oaf — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:06:17 -0800

Eideteker: I'm not sure what you mean. Bringing the comment up in a job interview is incredibly inappropriate. The problem is not with the poster of the comment.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:07:14 -0800

God, it's so embarrassing to be on the wrong end of this topic. Believe me, everyone, if you don't know what's going on here that's OK. Blurting it out is really terrible, for everyone involved. If you can't just let it go and have to know, it's like they said, there's hints upstairs and you can Google them as long as you're quiet downstairs.

Oh, also, there is no cabal.

By: nanojath

nanojath — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:20:56 -0800

It's clear from the fact that neither this nor the Unicorn Troll will die that there is no one minding the store.

By: Krrrlson

Krrrlson — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:21:29 -0800

Hitler.

By: mediareport

mediareport — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:21:40 -0800

Eideteker, I don't think everyone sees it as a "ha-ha." It was interesting, and folks keep rediscovering it's now missing. They don't know the history, and since Matt's been fairly strict about deleting references that explain it, I don't think you're being very fair to the folks who occasionally pop up in MeTa to ask questions about the absence. It's not like they're doing it to deliberately make the original poster's life miserable (although, to be honest, I'm not sure how that could happen, given the relatively benign nature of the speculation).

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:25:21 -0800

It's clear from the fact that neither this nor the Unicorn Troll will die that there is no one minding the store.

You keep a lookout and I'll snag us a case of PBR.

By: Pastabagel

Pastabagel — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:29:38 -0800

Whoever figures out what the hell is going on, please post your research to the front page. Mysteries are always best of the web.

By: nola

nola — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:30:10 -0800

you're going to steal PBR? The fucks wrong with you?

By: nola

nola — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:30:49 -0800

I'm sorry , I'm sorry. I just wish you would aim higher SW.

By: Balisong

Balisong — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:32:03 -0800

You know who else was named hitler?

HITLER!

By: eustacescrubb

eustacescrubb — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:33:34 -0800

Google is your friend.

By: Armitage Shanks

Armitage Shanks — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:34:24 -0800

WHAT DOES "." MEAN????

It's a pinhead.

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:38:19 -0800

This is all Daylight Savings fallout, right? Short on sleep, disoriented?

Seriously.

By: davy

davy — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:40:00 -0800

Oh. After some research, I see: the moral of this story is we should contribute to the March of Dimes to help stamp out birth defects.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:43:28 -0800

Look, for those of you who are wondering, let me explain without being too graphic:

There was this post, see? And it was about a guy. And there was this thing this guy liked to do in certain places. And certain other people found out and suggested that a different thing was probably the reason behind the first thing. And then this woman said this thing about the guy and this other thing and this other place and there was a thing about nipples. And this guy threatened to do this thing to these people using this other thing and this larger thing and several small things as a counterbalance. And then we all did this thing and took out these various things and did a certain thing with them that left small lumps of stuff all over various things. And that's basically it.

By: mediareport

mediareport — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:45:07 -0800

Google is your friend.

Oooh, and we were riding the line so well up until now, too.

*waves goodbye to thread*

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:45:39 -0800

Geez. You make it sound like a cross between an orgy and a biopsy.

By: davy

davy — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:51:29 -0800

eustacescrubb, Google works better with more precise search terms.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:51:36 -0800

You make it sound like a cross between an orgy and a biopsy.

I've apparently said too much.

By: oaf

oaf — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:52:20 -0800

You've definitely killed the thread now, davy.

By: davy

davy — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:52:37 -0800

(And I am trying to be glib. Any deluded celebrity's lawyers are welcome to make ME famous.)

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:56:25 -0800

Geez louise, what did I miss? Walk away for a few hours and things go KEERAAAAAAZY.

By: davy

davy — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:57:35 -0800

I'll outdo Quonsar yet. I want to be the curmudgeonly troll some celebrity sued! Yoo-hoo, OVER HERE!!

By: nola

nola — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:58:41 -0800

Chef , thanks for trying to help . . . but that don't help. In fact I thought I kinda knew what was going on, but now I'm sure I don't. And really, I'm ok with that. But I am enjoying this thread.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:59:38 -0800

Oh, I wasn't trying to help.

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:02:38 -0800

Wait, what the fuck? No, no, I followed the google shit. Still, what the fuck?

By: davy

davy — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:04:07 -0800

Hey, I'm just trying to get famous for something besides my itty bitty teenie weenie. (Warning: more Google shit!)

By: peacay

peacay — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:04:45 -0800

davy writes "I want to be the curmudgeonly troll"

It seems to be working out well for you.

By: davy

davy — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:06:21 -0800

(Oh, if I only had an IMG tag.)

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:06:41 -0800

Can you be sued for hosting HTML code which contains a link to a site in Chile?

By: davy

davy — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:07:36 -0800

"Can you be sued for hosting HTML code which contains a link to a site in Chile?"

Isn't that an AskMe question?

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:08:34 -0800

I used up mine last week.

By: eustacescrubb

eustacescrubb — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:09:09 -0800

You've definitely killed the thread now, davy.

If it gets deleted, then someone will invariably ask again. The more often this happens, the more MeFites will follow the trail and figure out what happened, meaning more people will read the comment. A catch-22, really. By bringing on the lawyers, Unnamed Celebrity may have assured the meme's survival, and worse, he may have solidified the thoery proposed in the comment as fact, even if it isn't true. If only he were rich and famous, and had a publicist to advise him in matters like these.

By: davy

davy — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:12:49 -0800

So far I'm pretty sure Unnamed Celebrity is NOT the Duclod Man; s/he doesn't have enough imagination.

By: MLIS

MLIS — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:13:27 -0800

Wow. . .just. . .wow.

And I am trying to be glib. Any deluded celebrity's lawyers are welcome to make ME famous.

It is not about you. Since this is a community, presumably you read what Eideteker had to say, up-thread? Or the original poster himself?

Many of us could have posted the search string you did, but we didn't (It's called class, see mediareport, who also knew the proper search string but did not post it).

It would be nice if your wish came true and you were forced to hire a lawyer at $400 an hour to defend against an action.

What, you think the legal community would line up to do pro bono work for you as if you were Salim Ahmed Hamdan?

LMAO.

By: davy

davy — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:19:19 -0800

Um, MLIS, there will be no suit. (CYA!)

By: docpops

docpops — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:25:11 -0800

Wow. . .just. . .wow.

stop...please...fucking stop

By: davy

davy — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:30:10 -0800

What should be on that big "Hollywood" sign instead.

By: davy

davy — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:35:19 -0800

"All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."

By: davy

davy — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:39:48 -0800

And as my parting shot, my previous quip made me think of some decent career advice for Someone Unnamed.

By: nanojath

nanojath — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:45:11 -0800

So you hit that five dollar bottle of wine pretty hard then.

By: Brainy

Brainy — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:53:14 -0800

damn it! ive been reading the blue all this time! I missed all the excitement.

By: Afroblanco

Afroblanco — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:57:25 -0800

eustacescrubb - so you're saying that MeFi is Tom Cruise's tarbaby, eh?

Heh. I'd say it's more like the world is his tarbaby.

By: Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:19:58 -0800

But... but... I love MetaFilter!

By: inconsequentialist

inconsequentialist — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:24:25 -0800

Wow.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:43:17 -0800

I'm sure there are at least one billion better uses for that five dollars you just blew.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:52:27 -0800

It was stupid, lazy and totally unnecessary post. Google Tom Cruise Cyclops and click on the first link. Whoa, was that hard or what ?

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:19:05 -0800

Is this about that doctor that posted all that stuff about that guy's messed up teeth and his wierd retard babies? If it is, I'm wondering why that's being brought up over and over again. I don't remember it being a big deal.

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:19:27 -0800

Wait a second. This is the only Metafilter comment ever made by Tom Cruise. I'm sensing that there are some serious Thetan issues going on here. Xenu is pissed. This post is SOOOO not clear.

By: liquorice

liquorice — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:33:25 -0800

I knew about this all along. I just wanted to say that so I could feel superior and stuff. Carry on.

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:48:50 -0800

We need a "Flag if likely to cause litigation" button.

By: grapefruitmoon

grapefruitmoon — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:58:51 -0800

I claim this thread and all of its thetans for the glory of myself and my descendants!

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:07:59 -0800

See here.

By: By The Grace of God

By The Grace of God — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:27:04 -0800

I knew about the since-deleted claims years ago, discovered in a thesis-avoidance celebrity google fest during university. But what I want to know if if the admins have deleted anything else major because of lawyers - perhaps things more important than stupid celebrity crap. What are the unknown unknowns of MetaFilter?

By: bugbread

bugbread — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:38:51 -0800

puke & cry writes "If it is, I'm wondering why that's being brought up over and over again. I don't remember it being a big deal."

Because lawyers threatened legal action, which they would probably lose if taken to court, but which would financially destroy the doctor and a certain reclining-cyclist PVR devotee in the process. It wasn't a big deal when it happened, but it was a big deal later, and part of the getting-threatened process involved a big deal of it not being made of here, which is why previous threads in which it became a big deal are no longer here...and which is why, in all probability, when this happens again in a few months, you won't be able to find this thread either.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 03:52:24 -0800

danb: "It is not the owner (or administrator) of the site that needs to worry about litigation but rather the poster of a comment.

Especially because of this: "All posts are © their original authors.""

That's fucking bullshit. Only a child would think that means that Matt doesn't have to worry about litigation. First of all, anyone can sue anyone for any time. Litigation itself only requires a lawyer, not proof, not a legitimate cause, not even Matt to be the original author of the content in question. And since the so-called victim of the alleged libel probably has enough money to drown a horse. Matt only has half that much. Second, "copyright" does not equal "the sole legal responsibility of". If someone posted pirated MP3s on Music, Matt would be responsible for hosting them, and so he'd be liable for litigation. It's the same here. He facilitated the distribution of the comment, so is entirely within the reach of a tort.

By: liquorice

liquorice — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:07:13 -0800

It costs that much money to drown a horse?

By: bugbread

bugbread — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:15:09 -0800

liquorice writes "It costs that much money to drown a horse?"

Well, think about how much water you get when you wring out a dollar bill. Not much, right? Now imagine how many dollar bills you'd have to wring out to get enough to drown a horse with.

By: Wolof

Wolof — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:39:37 -0800

I'll outdo Quonsar yet.

Going to say something funny one of these weeks? It'd be welcome.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:45:54 -0800

Ugh, no more posting right after getting out of bed.

...anyone can sue anyone for anything at any time...
...And ~~since~~ the so-called victim...

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 05:15:42 -0800

i'd post something brilliant and witty here, but it would just be vaporized with the rest of the thread

By: empath

empath — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 05:37:18 -0800

Okay, so if i understand this correctly, this is all about a certain much-favorited comment made by a prolific askme answerer about a certain famous celebrity? Because I remember that comment, and as funny as it is, the world and metafilter will survive without it.

By: octobersurprise

octobersurprise — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 05:47:30 -0800

What are the unknown unknowns of MetaFilter?

If. You. Only. Knew.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 05:56:52 -0800

Brad Pitt is cooler anyway.

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:20:37 -0800

> ...the so-called victim of the alleged libel probably has enough money to drown a horse. Matt only has half that much.

That would still be enough money to buy us all ponies. Drowned ponies.

By: Abiezer

Abiezer — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:24:28 -0800

You want the tooth? You can't handle the tooth!

By: breezeway

breezeway — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:25:02 -0800

I'm starting a religion based on Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination. We're all gonna get cool facial tattoos and then have them removed, leaving extensive facial scarring that only shows when we get mad and shout "V0RGA, I kill you filthy!"

The immolated man is my personal savior.

By: Justinian

Justinian — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:36:01 -0800

ruh roh, some of my comments show up in some of those google searches. Don't hurt me, mr. lawyer guys! I is sorry.

By: dreamsign

dreamsign — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:50:01 -0800

ruh roh, some of my comments show up in some of those google searches. Don't hurt me, mr. lawyer guys! I is sorry.

Aw, fucking hell.

By: dreamsign

dreamsign — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:52:23 -0800

Ok, the deletions are gonna happen. I just hate that I was sitting there none the wiser while it was going on. Can I have a big red cherry light and alarm when matexmyn starts hitting the delete button? I feel like my universe is being sucked into a gray hole, here.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 07:00:27 -0800

It is not about you.

That's the point—davy wants everything to be about him. When he's drunk, anyway. The drunk part is a guess, obviously, but it's the only way I can explain the fact that sometimes he's funny and lucid but most of the time he acts like a five-year-old hopped up on sugar. Seriously, davy, you don't have to jump up and down and piss on yourself to get noticed.

Also, this post is mindbogglingly pointless and stupid. "I know this is a private website, where the administrator has a strong interest in avoiding litigation by celebrities, but what I saw happen in the last hour or so is just creepy." So send him an e-mail if you care that much. Jesus.

By: COBRA!

COBRA! — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 07:01:13 -0800

Hitler.
posted by Krrrlson at 11:21 PM CST on March 12 [+]
[!]

So, anybody read The Castle in the Forest? I was enjoying it pretty well last night until I hit the first big twist about the narrator; I went from, "wow, Mailer's pulling this off," to "there's no fucking way he can keep this up." Half an hour later, I had to go to sleep because I don't like reading about dog abuse, even if it's Hitler's dog.

By: monju_bosatsu

monju_bosatsu — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 07:03:06 -0800

Enjoy the ride down the memory hole. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

By: Dave Faris

Dave Faris — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 07:16:18 -0800

I know this is a private website, where the administrator has a strong interest in avoiding litigation by celebrities, but what I saw happen in the last hour or so is just creepy.

And so your response, after seeing all of those other threads deleted is to start another one?

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 07:16:36 -0800

I'm going to close this, but everything that people wanted to know about has been said and answered it looks like.