If the government will not defend our civilization, then society must, despite having instituted a government for just that task. Not just our lives, but our letters and our graves. - BDB
I am with you about supporting this financially if it needs it. I am new here so I don’t know what BDB pays. If there’s one thing I know about BDB it is that he has a sense of humor. I’ve been kidded by him and I have kidded him on the AMUs.
ET & Titheness: FYI, I offered support back in the Summer of ’15 – and was politely, but definitively – refused. (Offered as clarification for ET, above.)
But do your enemies skulls have cool logos and are they made in China? Our mugs break the laws of physics and come with cheesy worded certificate with real typos.
No, mine are mostly unmade right here in my very own tool shop and ossuary. I Do like to hand paint my victims … er, I mean creations though. You know, with flowers and butterflies as well as the occasional blacked-out tooth and obligatory moustache. Also, felt tip pen works great for adding inspirational messages such as: “Heads, you lose!” or “You’re out of yer mind.”
Speaking of potential new members, if anyone knows jeannebodine at the old site it looks like she will not renew there. I can’t read why, but her titles still show up on my notifications page.
“There is nothing wrong with your [monitor]. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. …”
It’s not really a membership drive unless you keep a fail-o-meter at the top of the site for months, so everyone will know that you’re failing, and then you ban TKC for no reason.
Sorry Dime; once again, you manage to compel me to act the humorless heavy (which is so not me!) but TKC was one of my favorite members of Rick O’Shea and one of the significant reasons I enjoy this site.
So, ?may I have this dance, Liz. You seem in need of a tango or waltz to take that snarl off your face and replace it with a smile. Little exercise is good, too, and at my age, about the only exercise I can tolerate (other than driving cars fast). Music will do that.
I was referring to the bad place, and their never-ending membership drive, which for a long time had a progress bar on the homepage, visible to everyone.
We were frequently warned that the site was about to shut down, unless they reached 1500 new members- and yet there was it was, plainly showing that they weren’t reaching the critical number. Sometimes that number declined. Gosh, I’m sure that made people want to join up, knowing the place could vanish at anytime, but whatever. Eventually, someone figured this out, because they took it down just before I quit visiting.
About TKC, I referenced him because that’s what they did to him, in my view. He was also a favorite of mine there- and here- and I think he helped keep a bunch of unhappy customers around with his commentary.
Banning him was quite stupid, especially if you’re attempting to build a nice home for center-right commentary on the internet, as we were oft told. But if you want a place for the nevertrump fringe to preen, it makes perfect sense. You can’t have anyone harshing the mellow by noticing reality, so he had to go, I guess.
Xey, good call. It is easy to forget that we don’t have all the same experiences.
I was over there reading about someone leaving and was tempted to comment. What is the point if things never change. A wise person told me to not waste my time repeating what has been said over and over again. I am trying to follow that.
Titheness, when people asked for more “original” content, this wasn’t it…Incidentally, your “Do not adjust…” opening is from “The Outer Limits”. “The Twilight Zone”: “You are now entering a dimension not merely of sight and sound, but of mind…You are now entering The Twilight Zone”. Get it straight, wouldja?
Would someone make the graphic so I can have a cool “progress meter”?
Bar chart or pie chart is okay. I think we have had about 10 New Members since I showed up. The count is around 80 so 20 more to get to 100.
The rest are planning on a sock-roping contest. Like where you ride down upon the sock, lasso him/it, then tie off the ankles and stand up with a victory arms in the air. Could be fun.
You know how to bring joy. First, you offer to dance with Liz. Then, you make the sock-roping contest and Nanda is happy. Good job!! I just you would pick on someone less deserving. (smile)
All we need now are little banners proclaiming how much money we pissed down a hole, er, what level we signed up for, to display under our names for bragging rights.
Xey, you have not shown proper respect to the Minky. You better come up with some bananas or we are going to have to deal with a lot of ape poo being slung. (#100)
BTW, speaking of people I’d adore to hear from again is my previous partner in crime… the only Rodgers fan this Brady fan could ever tolerate.
You know who you are C*******e, so pls step forward and join the conversation. God knows MLR and I could use another sports fan who truly knows of what she speaks.
How can you give away free Memberships?
Volume. Volume. Volume.
It is free but I hear you vet people coming in. Are your standards high?
BrentB67 is here.
I am contributing a screwdriver to tighten down the lint filter and the liff laff regulator.
How did Brent become a Contributor?
Brent is not a Contributor but a Tool of the Laugh. ;-)
I’ll just email you my credit card number and let you do what you think is best.
Please remember to send the credit card that is not maxed out, Billy. No MisterCards, Vizas, or Dinar’s Club either.
Dime, what are you saying exactly?
Nobody has asked me to pay for membership, but I’m more than willing to do so. Just tell me how much and where to send.
Of course if you want to pay we will give you select Dreamium Podcasts.
Who produces your Dreamium Podcasts?
Vaporware Inc.
Cut out the snark; if you need members to pay, then just say so and give us the details.
This is a business like any other; I get it.
Liz, I am doing a parody.
I am with you about supporting this financially if it needs it. I am new here so I don’t know what BDB pays. If there’s one thing I know about BDB it is that he has a sense of humor. I’ve been kidded by him and I have kidded him on the AMUs.
Moral of the day:
Don’t post jokes about “the lights going out” when you have an audience of business people and entrepreneurs. This isn’t funny to folks like us!
Just saying …
Liz, point taken. I was not trying to deceive but just have some fun getting points across.
This isn’t funny, Period.
ET & Titheness: FYI, I offered support back in the Summer of ’15 – and was politely, but definitively – refused. (Offered as clarification for ET, above.)
Thanks for this Nanda and I hope BDB knows he’s got members here willing to pull out their wallets.
Nothing good in life is ever free! :)
There are three levels of membership: the Ball Level, the Diamond Level, and the Ball Level.
What is the difference between the Ball Level and the Ball Level?
If you have to ask you can’t afford it.
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Let’s just say it up front, you don’t get a free mug with any level.
Pencil, we promise to send you a full set of mugs with a dining room table.
And my new book, Jeb! 2016 .
That’s OK, I prefer to drink from the skulls of my enemies anyway.
But do your enemies skulls have cool logos and are they made in China? Our mugs break the laws of physics and come with cheesy worded certificate with real typos.
No, mine are mostly unmade right here in my very own tool shop and ossuary. I Do like to hand paint my victims … er, I mean creations though. You know, with flowers and butterflies as well as the occasional blacked-out tooth and obligatory moustache. Also, felt tip pen works great for adding inspirational messages such as: “Heads, you lose!” or “You’re out of yer mind.”
Vald, but do your skulls still have handy ears?
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If this is a membership drive where are we driving to?
First I tee you up then I drive.
Our first Member Cruise better the heck not be to Japan.
Have you made your $1000 dollar deposit for the cruise yet, Pencil?
Wait, it costs MORE than $1000? I guess I will have to drop down to the Diamond Level.
Wise move.
I hope I get to sit at the table with Bill Crystal. He hosted the Oscars once I think.
Bill Crystal is an editor at the Weakly Standard. He had a scheduling conflict and won’t make it this life.
Maybe I’ll get to sit at a table with someone named Klein. About 67% of political writers are named Klein for some reason.
Chairs are extra. You are at the standing buffet level.
If you get within range I will buffet you, Little Mister Muffet.
A ‘Crystal’ skull would be a great addition to my collection.
Speaking of potential new members, if anyone knows jeannebodine at the old site it looks like she will not renew there. I can’t read why, but her titles still show up on my notifications page.
Who let Rod Serling in here? Just curious….
“There is nothing wrong with your [monitor]. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. …”
Well could you do something about the Contrast then, it’s too dark.
Have you tried adjusting the rabbit ears?
Contrash? What is wrong with Contrash?
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It’s not really a membership drive unless you keep a fail-o-meter at the top of the site for months, so everyone will know that you’re failing, and then you ban TKC for no reason.
Otherwise, you’re just messing with us.
Xey, can’t I just ban TKC and skip the fail-o-meter?
For a limited time only we are giving TWO FREE MEMBERSHIPS for the price of one.
Sorry Dime; once again, you manage to compel me to act the humorless heavy (which is so not me!) but TKC was one of my favorite members of Rick O’Shea and one of the significant reasons I enjoy this site.
Liz,
Xennady brought this up. He was joking and I responded to his joke. He could have used any name.
So, ?may I have this dance, Liz. You seem in need of a tango or waltz to take that snarl off your face and replace it with a smile. Little exercise is good, too, and at my age, about the only exercise I can tolerate (other than driving cars fast). Music will do that.
@Dev: It depends whether or not you are a good dancer. :)
Will that dance be a Sock Hop?
Sorry, that was perhaps too obscure.
I was referring to the bad place, and their never-ending membership drive, which for a long time had a progress bar on the homepage, visible to everyone.
We were frequently warned that the site was about to shut down, unless they reached 1500 new members- and yet there was it was, plainly showing that they weren’t reaching the critical number. Sometimes that number declined. Gosh, I’m sure that made people want to join up, knowing the place could vanish at anytime, but whatever. Eventually, someone figured this out, because they took it down just before I quit visiting.
About TKC, I referenced him because that’s what they did to him, in my view. He was also a favorite of mine there- and here- and I think he helped keep a bunch of unhappy customers around with his commentary.
Banning him was quite stupid, especially if you’re attempting to build a nice home for center-right commentary on the internet, as we were oft told. But if you want a place for the nevertrump fringe to preen, it makes perfect sense. You can’t have anyone harshing the mellow by noticing reality, so he had to go, I guess.
Xey, I thought you hit the right notes for this thread. Those who know you know your respect for TKC. Thanks for getting the joke.
I put up a donut chart in the OP just so My Membership Drive would get some respect.
Dime, I just wanted to explain to EThompson what that was about, as she wasn’t around the bad place when the stuff I mentioned went down.
Xey, good call. It is easy to forget that we don’t have all the same experiences.
I was over there reading about someone leaving and was tempted to comment. What is the point if things never change. A wise person told me to not waste my time repeating what has been said over and over again. I am trying to follow that.
lol
or, for Vald — llo
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Pencil you have a heck of a sense of humour.
No. The fail-o-meter is mandatory.
So, you are saying I can’t succeed unless I have a fail-o-meter pegged to the top of the page. Shirley, you jest.
It’s either the fail-o-meter or the bold and inspiring mission statement and masthead: “We’ll Try To Suck Less Tomorrow.”
Make no promises you can be nailed with.
“We’ll try to suck less.” No timeframe. Could be next millennium.
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Yes but make the fail-o-meter a pie chart instead of a bar graph, ok? Pie is much tastier. Maybe some whipped cream on it.
Nuts.
Yes you are, but we like you anyway.
Thanks, I think.
What is it all the cool kids do? Kickstarter? GoFundMe or some such stuff.
The challenge is that small donations don’t move the needle much.
We are approaching a critical mass where we are too little to be big and too big to be little.
I’ve a meeting with LureStudios this week on a new economics/investing subscription project. They could be a lot of help, but that costs $
Brent, is this studio about fishing?
Feature Request: If we make the Member Icon’s much larger I will post a real photo of myself.
That is why they keep it small.
Titheness, when people asked for more “original” content, this wasn’t it…Incidentally, your “Do not adjust…” opening is from “The Outer Limits”. “The Twilight Zone”: “You are now entering a dimension not merely of sight and sound, but of mind…You are now entering The Twilight Zone”. Get it straight, wouldja?
We just had Billy put up his first post. Let’s congratulate him.
Please don’t call attention to it, Dime. Otherwise the PTB will just take it down.
Thanks.
Please no one pay attention to Billy’s post. Ignore it and don’t read it.
I just saw this. . .
-TPTB
TPTB,
What is the difference between TPTB and PTB?
the the
Would someone make the graphic so I can have a cool “progress meter”?
Bar chart or pie chart is okay. I think we have had about 10 New Members since I showed up. The count is around 80 so 20 more to get to 100.
Yeah, but 30 left because you joined. So it’s a wash.
Dev, only 30 left I am hurt. I thought I was more important than this. I blame Brent.
The rest are planning on a sock-roping contest. Like where you ride down upon the sock, lasso him/it, then tie off the ankles and stand up with a victory arms in the air. Could be fun.
Not for the Sock.
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I am so up for the sock-roping, Dev…Had a short course with the Rope-Master, shortly after parachute-training.
Nanda, I just spit up part of my dinner laughing at your comment; I hope you’re satisfied Missy!
Dev,
You know how to bring joy. First, you offer to dance with Liz. Then, you make the sock-roping contest and Nanda is happy. Good job!! I just you would pick on someone less deserving. (smile)
I really think it is wrong for people to think that I would write comments to pad my comment count. How dare they.
Never fear, LaRoche is here.
Mike, I am 15 short of a C.
For those too lazy to look at the OP again. I have given Pencil a donut.
http://balldiamondball.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Fail-o-meter.jpg
Ha!
I dunk your silly chart in my highly-caffeinated beverage!
How could use my graph like that? If this drive fails it will because of a soggy fail-o-meter.
All we need now are little banners proclaiming how much money we pissed down a hole, er, what level we signed up for, to display under our names for bragging rights.
What level do you want to brag at? Charleston Heston? Big Baboon?
Zaius
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How are people to know how superior I am with a badge under my name?
What’s with these symbol posts?
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I had to search my keyboard to find that thing. Are you guys hiding stuff from me? Is there a conspiracy??
Why? What I have I done?
Xey, you have not shown proper respect to the Minky. You better come up with some bananas or we are going to have to deal with a lot of ape poo being slung. (#100)
BTW, speaking of people I’d adore to hear from again is my previous partner in crime… the only Rodgers fan this Brady fan could ever tolerate.
You know who you are C*******e, so pls step forward and join the conversation. God knows MLR and I could use another sports fan who truly knows of what she speaks.
Even if you don’t like hockey! :)
We are up to 83 Users. How often should I update the fail-o-meter?
Only 1417 to go, or the site closes forever! Or something!!
Xey, did you see that? I think I saw the lights flicker.
Again with the drama?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCc-RWIp7XU
Any bets on when we hit 3 digits and the BIG 100?
We are up to EIGHT FOUR users.
Minus the 17 “inbound” who. by the looks of them, will not be joining us. . .
Riffraff, MLH?
“Never tell me the odds.”
The donut is working! The donut is working!
What was in that coffee you dunk it into? Was it high octane German joy juice?
Not touching that with my ten foot pole.
Up to 88 users.
“Looks like I am going to need a bigger donut.”