Word.

Word indeed, DiBi. There's a phenomenon known as mass hysteria, and OS seems to have a bad infestation of it.

Where ya been Sister Sledge-hammer?!

Hey what's that smell. It's clean and fresh and - almost antiseptic smelling.
Has someone disinfected your mouth Drew? I can't think of anything else and this doesn't even sound like you. :(

You forgot to add a YouTube to this post, Drew.

Hey, it beats spammers (or tries anyway ;).

Rated for vintage Drew.

I wrote one about Russia, Turkey and Syria, with the Syrians taking out a Turkish warplane yesterday, but people here don't seem to get things like that.

Drew, I am so with you in this one, you said all that needs to be said, me too, I am just so tired about OS this and OS that. I still try to make the gallery challenge an invitation of creativity to all, ... Thank you for sharing, I totally feel you and seconding your view!! Rated.

yay, you picked REM.

I posted this

http://open.salon.com/blog/phyllis45/2012/06/22/finish_my_paragraph_some_fun_first_sentences_for_you

at 6:52 pm and it still only has 4 rates. I thought it could be fun, matching the general Friday fun. Instead, panic. Though this time people are spouting solutions, too.

So I asked why are we assuming and it's in the top rated. Upside, some good answers and some funny answers. Not too many "panic" answers.

So feel free to visit my fun post. You might enjoy it.

Gosh darn it...I just went meta myself!
Where's my cowbell?

Folks should go read some of the Reader's Picks:
http://open.salon.com/blog/os_readers_picks/2012/06/18/os_readers_picks_eighth_awards

Rated for "mooooo".

(you got funny looking sheep, BTW).

Those aren't sheep, Amy, they're llamas. I think. What's the dif, a herd animal is a herd animal is a herd animal....

Excellent suggestion Sirenita. I'll be checking it out shortly myself.

You're forgiven JD, as long as you rated this post. You did rate didn't you?

knee-jerk reaction i guess. "oh my! something is happening to OS, let me stare at my bellybutton for a while and then tell you how its reacting to the tragic news!"

for all the bitchin' and moanin' that goes on here, the instant a mass exodus was suggested everybody got shy & all 'well lets wait & see' ... cuz ya know its all kinds of fun to watch as the corpse starts to rot... and the smell is spectacular!

wow...i sound craky. i should maybe sleep/
(*waves at Amy* good to see you...where the hell you been woman!)

I agree, Lorianne, there's something compelling about the smell of carrion. I once turned over a dead cat I found in my back yard, and guess what? It was teeming with maggots!

What is a "plug-in" ?

I'm missing one. ( Don't tell me "Install Flash Player," ~ I've done all that. )

I'm "Missing plug-in," & can't see anyone's groovy youtubes.

Can't even watch news-clips.

Frustrated.

This never even made it into the feed-due to all the spam. Not that it matters- its not about the incipient demise of OS- so fewer people than usual would have noticed it.

http://open.salon.com/blog/in_the_crazy/2012/06/22/jerry_sandusky_has_been_found_guilty

Kim, me too on Firefox :/ had to open IE
that's what I should be doing right now- fixing that ...blech

http://open.salon.com/blog/in_the_crazy/2012/06/22/jerry_sandusky_has_been_found_guilty

half of the link didn't copy...

for the third time i shall try to comment:

1) maggots? *shudder* i will be gone before the maggots arrive (not counting the ones who already blog here i mean)

2) kim - depends on which browser you use *waves hi @ kim also*



that is all. i shall now click the button of doom & see if this works

Hi, Lorianne.

I been around. I just have been doing RL stuff.

Got to fly in a Gulfstream business jet on the way back from St. Louis this week. That was SERIOUSLY cool.

Maybe I should hook Drew up with the hansome, nice, rich guy who owns it, ya think? The dude is gay as they come, but she prolly wouldn't mind.

Julie, this is a macbook, which up until a week or so ago never had any problems accessing anything. I had Firefox on a pc, but that was a few years ago.
What's "IE" ?

Hi lorianne.
I have whatever browser comes with a mac. Google, I think.

Now I'm getting Bad Request ... & timing out on comments ...

amy - real life ... oh hell, almost any life is better than this belly button staring contest we have going on here. and yes.. i think Drew would love to meet a nice gay gentleman who owns a gulfstream. who wouldnt?

Julie, this is a macbook, which up until a week or so ago never had any problems accessing anything. I had Firefox on a pc, but that was a few years ago.
What's "IE" ?

Hi lorianne.
I have whatever browser comes with a mac. Google, I think.

Now I'm getting Bad Request ... & timing out on comments ...

I shall go meta by complaining about all of those going meta. Well played. Right to the top of the heap. I won't talk about what the herd is talking about, I"ll talk about the herd talking about what the herd is talking about.

I'm calling you moo-silla from now on.

Well played.

Amy some of us drive to work.

kim - with a mac you likely have Safari as a browser & since youtube changed the way it presents videos, lots of folks have had issues. one of the easiest solutions i have seen lately is to just download google chrome and use it to access the web. if youre alreay using chrome, maybe update your browser... joan h recently had the same sort of issues & that fixed her right up.

Kim- Internet Explorer (a pos browser, but right now it's the only one I've got that can do videos)
still trying to fix Firefox *grrr* wish Tink were on

You do know in the past day or two that there were plenty of regular posts amidst the spam and the meta/sky-is-falling ones, right?

Lorianne, why do you like Chrome?

julie - dont like chrome (or dislike it either) i use firefox with a PC... but for mac users it seems to work well at resolving video & general flash issues that Safari seems to be struggling with ...

I downloaded it. It's fast like Firefox, but plays videos- good enough.

hey, does your Firefox see video?

julie - because i am magic!

or...because i make sure i keep my browser updated and all my windows critical updates downloaded also. web technology moves fast, so i think its important to keep my computer as up to date as i am capable of... cuz ya know, i have enough frustrations without having to get cranky when machines dont work right.

*snort*
alright, I knew a quick fix was too much to hope for :D
I wish this shit was magic and I was gifted.

Abrawang, yes, that is precisely what I'm saying. There are lots of good posts every day that aren't about spam or the end of OS - those are the posts I read, and I highly recommend others do so too. OS smells a little funny but it ain't dead yet.

Kim, Julie, I hope you solve your technical difficulties. These videos are quite poignant, heartrendering even.

Keri, you win today's award for convoluted yet ultimately pointless bitchiness. I recommend Midol.

Ian, lots of worthy posts haven't made it into the feed because of the herd activity. I'm sorry yours didn't either, but I congratulate you for not being a llama, or sheep, or whatever those critters are in that picture up there.

Phyllis, I'm glad your post is generating humor and good answers rather than panic. Panic is for llamas and all their misbegotten kin.

Yes, DiBi, and the Dead Weather as well. It's an odd pairing but somehow it works for me.

Stathi Stathi; thank you for visiting. I like your attitude.

Don, that's what I'm sayin!

Thank you Seer. Unlike a dead cat, vintage Drew just gets better with age.

Margaret, are you threatening me?

Ooooh. Cat fight!

Such a bitch, Drew. A beautiful bitch, but still...a bitch.

You are right, I must admit with a small chastened“moo”.
Seems OS is still here, and aren’t we all feeling silly.
But, Drew, that was a scary 5 hours on Thursday, when I could not get on.
I had to pick up a fucking book.
They are so darn boring, cuz most of them are by dead guys who can’t pm you, or even say “thank u for the comment”.
Like Nietzsche…he said: “we now need many preparatory courageous human beings… who know how to be silent, lonely, resolute, and content and constant in invisible activities …, more fruitful human beings, ..happier beings!”

Thank God os is back. Who wants to have to read that outdated crap?

WE ARE DOOMED!!! And I feel fine....

You had me at blah-blah-blah. Then your mooooooo0 jousted my reflexes toward a Gregory Corso type rant and, on finger tips, I did ten push-ups. I must bulk-up my forearms in case tattoos become obligatory in my relentless quest for cool. Now I cannot type well. It is a gorgeous summer dawn; please allow my thank you for the image of the cow herd. Manure in the morning or not.

lorianne's right. I couldn't see anything until I downloaded Google Chrome. Now I see everything. Even into the future. ~r

I like when Jules snorts.
Anyway.
Meh. OS Meh. It's a good attention getter for some. For others, it's a reason not to log on.

herd bloggers

I like that phrase. I'm as guilty as anyone of going meta, but I'm surprised that there can be so many posts at the same time on the same meta-topic. I think it used to be more common for OSers to add their thoughts as comments on a single post, in a converstation about a topic.

I realized, in the bright but slightly damp light of day, that its not a herd of bloggers, but instead a FLOCK of bloggers.

That way they can do the skittish, bird brained, "poop on everything" bird thing, they can "hen party" to their hearts content and they can peck your eyes out if they don't like you.

There's even a few wanna be bull silly gooses running around here (hi Matt, Bill & others) who can go flock themselves!

Oh gosh!

Rumours fly all over OS about its imminent demise and someone is annoyed and upset that a good number of the members of OS - who just might have a serious investment in time and effort and talent and blood, sweat n' tears, might want to blog about that.

Twit!

I'd be bloody surprised if folks DIDN'T blog about something that would have such a great personal effect on so many of us DIDN'T get blogged about! (And no, I didn't so my ox isn't being gored)

Are all the people who are concerned about the environment also a "herd"? What about those genuinely concerned about child hunger? Or the ridiculous political position the US finds itself in? Ot the economic woes of Europe?

Or are only those who annoy YOU to be called, in a derogatory tone, a "herd?"

And who the heck forced you to read such blogs if they annoy you? I guess it hasn't occurred to you that reading such blogs when they are not to your taste is not required of you - perhaps not even desired of you.

So you blog about other people's blogs. Why? You wouldn't be trying to build a "herd" of your own, would you? You're welcome to all the "herd" of mental midgets that have commented in support of your rant; especially those like - but not limited to - STATHI STATHI who gave you a supporting comment AFTER giving Poor Woman just as supporting a comment.

So you can just keep your two-faced, hypocritical "herd"..... We'll get on with blogging about any damned thing we please. Just as you can.

;-)
.

I like cows. They're sweet. And vegetarians.

It appears that news came out about the end of OS, which I will probably miss. Next week begins my summer rambling to locations without wifi, including a cottage on the beach on a tiny island in Maine, for a month of slapping black flies and drawing on the porch.

In any case, it's been a hoot here, all of it. You missy, a creative soul with a sharp edge. Best wishes for a continuing creative life.

Moo,
Greenheron

Can't believe that me who goes meta more often than cows make pies hasn't joined the herd.
Agree with Keri H here.. meta on meta- genius

shit, lady, if there is nothing valuable or prescient about yr post,
which there is, but we idiots need time to catch up.
at least you got rita to share what she really thinks.

"I like when Jules snorts.
Anyway.
Meh. OS Meh. It's a good attention getter for some. For others, it's a reason not to log on.''

AND, of course she is right, in that hard no holds barred
girly way she has.
i know well that way.
still, i gotta shrink back a bit.
oh , but i always bounce back like a demented jack in the box.
always.
os helped me with that trait.
god or goddess or demons
bless this dumb place. as for you?
o i want a damn buffy and/or angel movie or miniseries.

new stars.
?

Same as it ever was ...

Tried to rate this, numerous times. There, that should do it!

Listening to "Die by the Drop" and chuckling... I posted "1966- Our Last Trip..." No dire distractions from impending doom, but just in case I'm double posting.

Ok ok...I just rated~~~sheesh!!!
And Drewsie....this is not a cowbell you handed me, but a shock collar!!!! Right?

oh i know these boys..jmac and jd.
thing is, why they being so polite to you?
that is what we call a mystery.

as for herds, i suppose you see yrself as the girl cow who left the herd?

and adventured afar and wide.

good.

This is the very best of the meta posts about OS going under that I have seen yet.
How did Kim Gamble make a comment sandwich in the thread just above?
The use of a YouTube video will also set a trend is my guess.
I like it when people find an audience on their own without resorting to long time repugnant habits here on OS.
Have you seen my latest post?
http://open.salon.com/blog/alsoknownas/2012/06/22/no_dead_flowers_at_the_os_funeral/comment

shit, lady.
you got my 'uncle',the best of men, alsoknownas,
whoring his shit atcha.
not bad.
good day's work.

these old beards on os, these older guys.
that is where truth lays . lies. uh, yknow.

cows and horses and mid-level forces
don't appeal to me anyhoo

trick is; culling. from the herd.

that is the trick for tricky folks.
nuff said, cuz i am sure u gonna come back with bombasticism
for my bothering you. as is the way of the girl.........

Why don't you just start a new group "Sock puppets unite!" and celebrate yourselves there?

I'm with Skypixeo. I'm outta here.

DREW: All soon will return to normal, fear not.
alot will be lost when it does.
crisis brings out gumption.
but i am shy.
and in the end,
i just don't care.

sad but true.

thrive, gal.
james.

Thumbs up.

zuma! thats funny (to me)

i revamped a site i have as a place ot go if this place goes tits up...i have always wanted to use that phrase)

http://oursalon.ning.com/

when i made the default member icon, i made it a sock puppet!

There's a lot to be said for sock puppets Lorianne, though I myself would never have one since they're prohibited by the Open Salon TOS.

Thank you, Sweetfeet, and backatcha.

James, methinks you feel things too deeply, but that's a good thing since it makes your knowing deep as well.

Zuma, I've never been a big joiner of groups, and even if I was I'd never join a group that would be so crass as to accept me as a member.

Drew,
Funny, I could have sworn that you are a member of Open Salon.....

;-)
.

Touché, Skypixie. The truth is, though, I didn't so much join OS as stumble into it in a similar fashion to how all those poor creatures stumbled into the La Brea Tar Pits.

Your snark is badly needed here. Keep up the good work.

Thanks ONL. Someone has to do it.

And Skypixie, are you seriously comparing people whining about rumors on a blog site to people who have concerns about the environment and child hunger? How very special; you're even more of a fatuous old fucktard than I'd thought.

bonus points for: "fatuous old fucktard "

cuz that shits funny

Drew, I am so sorry, having to do that in your blog, but my name was mentioned and I am forced too.

I didn't know that here in OS there is a comment squad, that can control and criticize, where and what we rate and comment. I totally agree with Drew, when this OS mania, makes us all forget our own creativity. I mean, we deal more with OS than the ρeορle, that are actually ρaid to do that. I have no ρroblem signing in when it comes to solving the ρroblem, but I always wanted to be a ρart of a solution, and what Ρoor woman suggested and wrote, is a way that we all, who consider one another friends, will not loose each other. No, I do not want to loose the friends I have made here, but I also do not want to have all my writings and thinkings working on and about OS.

OS closed us out with no resρect to our work, and the logic thing to do is to exchange our emails so as not to loose our friends, even if OS closes. If my need of having friends and not wanting to loose them is to blame, well, there is no answer to a blame like this, but I think that our creativity, must work in issues which will not have OS in the title. I mean I did it my self, and I got agry with me, it is as though, I am not here on my own thinkings and feelings, but only to deal with the ρroblems of OS.

I have commented in all articles that gave solutions to the ρroblem, cause I want to belong to a creative community like this one, and I gave some suggestions to the issue, cause I mean my need, and I am willing to work into the creation of a safe and sound other community, to the can of my abilities, but that is all. If OS wants to close, there is no words I can say to make it not, and I keeρ my work working.
I am sorry Drew, to have done this in your blog and issue, but as you can read, my name was mentioned, out of the blue, and anyway, I agree, that we must keeρ our work working, after having assured a meeting ρoint with the friends each of us has here. Thank you, for your understanding, and for commenting in my latest work.

I'm off to attend a seminar on music therapy for children with Downe's Syndrome, but I'll be back later to reply to the rest of these nice comments. And even the not-so-nice ones; I especially love those. Ciao hepcats.

STATHI, don't worry about skypixie. He's a bit psycho. Seems really nice, then suddenly turns horribly mean. When that happens, I can't figure out if he's hung over, off his meds, or possessed by demons. I would not take his outbursts too seriously.

Oh Drew.....!

Why you poor, benighted wee thing! You just "stumbled into OS" and didn't actually, really, truly "join"?

Yeah.... right!

And it was YOU my dear Tar Pit friend who compared "groups" of people, who wrote on a particular concern, to "herds".... remember?

You even went so far as to say to another commenter here.....
""What's the dif, a herd animal is a herd animal is a herd animal....""

I guess that you've realized your error or you wouldn't be trying to hang that can on MY tail.

@Sirenita,
It's none of the things you mentioned. I just get a bit snarky when people whom I normally respect come out with something off the wall and idiotic; which we all do at times. Am I supposed to ignore such stupidity because I like and appreciate most of what that person says?

Unlike some hypocrites around here, I applaud when I think it warranted and criticize when I think that is due. For instance, I really think very, very highly of your writing ability but think that your ability to judge people would be better off if you didn't so often take Nana's opinions as your own as would Drew with her mimicking his "fatuous old fucktard."

Nana may be a twit but at least he's an original twit.......

;-)

Spam? What spam? Closing? What closing? Am I missing something by writing and commenting about other things?

Yes, sky, I totally need someone to tell me how to think. Can't take a step without asking nana "right foot or left?" Before I met nana, I had no opinions at all. None. For instance, on my own, I could never have discerned that you were an gratuitous asshole to the nicest person on this site. Folks who knew me before I met nana comment on the total change from the old "whatever" days. Yep, I praise the lawd for the day I met nana and finally got to have an opinion, albeit a slightly used one.

D-S, this is the funniest post about OS I've seen in a long time, and probably the most insightful as well.

I'm with you, sister.

I think I love you Tom. Daniel and Erica, thank you for your support in this, my hour of direst need. ;-) Sirenita; it's amusing how Skypixie assumes that if a woman thinks he's a temperamental, misogynistic old blowhard she must have gotten that idea from - wait for the punchline! - a man. And Skypixie, your charges of unoriginality ring a little hollow, coming as they do from a geriatric windbag who repeatedly uses the antiquated term "twit" as if it actually hurts my feelings. If sheer quantity of text won arguments you'd hands down be the winner here, but sadly, all you've managed to do is demonstrate, in your spittle flecked, vein-bulging fashion, what a raving, syphilitic cumstain you are.

I love:
spam
meta posts about OS closing
the way you talk to skypixieo
key lime pie

and yes, i rated this.

PS - the 4th cow from the right seems pretty depressed.

I love;

Manolo Blahnik shoes
sunsets
long walks on the beach
Skypixie's sputtering, enraged tone when he thinks someone deserves a tongue-lashing
Axel Gay Grande Champagne Cognac
tongue-lashings

Deborah, Margaret wouldn't dare challenge me to a cat fight, though she might be able to take me in a slapboxing match if I had the flu that day and she somehow managed to smuggle a pistol into the ring.

Natalie, where have you been??? Have I mentioned lately that you're the only woman for whom I'd turn gay?

Tink, if the child support check doesn't arrive this week I'm sending my cousins around to take it out of your ass.

J P, tattoos aren't obligatory, but I hope my ex is tossing some giant tattooed thug's salad in the state prison right now.

Joan - Google Chrome also makes you telekinetic.

Ya know... You just gotta love this place.

Not only do we have whining meta posts...

Not only only do we have bitching meta posts about the whining meta posts...

We now have an scolding meta post (complete with an open call for the sheeple) that takes to task the meta post bitching about the whining meta posts.

I need a meta post score card, FFS.

Actually, I think I'll go write a "Why I'll be happy if OS gasps it's last". That should generate a whole new round of angst cuz gawd knows the political, human rights, legal, religious, medical, etc. catastrophes going on around the world isn't creating enough. We need MORE angst. Angst is the new cow bell. Or maybe llama bell. Or... Tinker bell.

i wish you'd seen my face when i read what's-his-name insinuate that sirenita is someone's little woman, waiting for the green light to voice an opinion. good thing this is all virtual, dontcha think, instead of, you know, like we're all in the same room. whoo-eeee.

but then it fits with the sky-is-falling OS-is-going-away thing. if you've been here longer than five months, you've heard that song how many times?? here's the deal: the server went down for part of a night and morning. it didn't even give us the old mop this time, just nada. news flash: the OS servers are old and the s/w is a patchwork. shit like that happens and actually used to happen *more* than it's happening now. the last few months, spam aside (and who cares, really, if it doesn't slow things down) have been remarkably crash-free here at our little free-for-all, hardly any gremlins from palau even.

drew, see if you can find a youtuber for bonnie raitt's new version of "right down the line," that great gerry rafferty number, and let's all dance, 'k? i'll loan you some kickass high heels, girlie. :)

Hi Amy. Actually, this wasn't directed at meta posts as such. It was more a shot at the herd mentality phenomenon, though some of our dimmer OSers (hi Trig! hi Keri!) took it to be an attack on meta itself. And where did I call anybody "stinking sheep" as I'm being accused of doing? The term I used was "festering llamas" but oh well, we can't expect journalistic standards of accuracy on a blog site run by diseased fruitbats. Now your comment is making me want to do an open call entitled "Go Meta On Meta About What It Would Mean To Not Be Able To Answer Open Calls."

Candace, I've lost count of the times I've heard "This Is The End!" usually written in all caps and slanty bold for that serious effect. I'd miss OS if it went down, and I'd miss some of the people here, but there's no reason beyond rumors and speculation to think that's happening, and in the meantime the handwringing just gets on my fucking nerves, especially when it keeps posts that are actually about something from getting into the feed
Looking up Bonnie Raitt...

Rita, I love when Julie snorts!

Rob said: I'm surprised that there can be so many posts at the same time on the same meta-topic.

I used to be surprised by that too, Rob, but nowadays it's apparently de rigeur.

Greenheron, enjoy your rambles in the wi-fi-free zones. There's something liberating about going far enough away from everything that you can't get a cellphone signal or the Internet or any of the other things we've come to believe are necessary.

Scarlett, thank you for quoting the Talking Heads.

justphyllisfornow reminds me of why I rarely come here. Jesus wept.

Hi Emma. Actually, I've found Phyllis to be one of our more solid new bloggers. She's smart, funny, doesn't do drama for drama's sake, and is in general a positive presence on the site. She is, in fact, the opposite of the sort of bloggers I used to refer to as "fuckmuppets.."

You misread my tone. I was applauding your sensibility in getting eyeballs to the page by going meta about meta. I did actually figure out you were speaking of herd posting in general which would only be one level of meta, but the situation at hand raised it to meta (squared). I'm surprised you misread a compliment, you are usually so delighfully whorish about them.

i think maybe i feel too much,tis true, Drew.

well, yeah, duh!
you got a mood disorder, dummy...

but..i don't BLAH BLAH BLAH on like stahi, ha.
(tease to stahi)


i try to keep my insanity succinct.


gotta say, that phyllis is the cat's pajamas.
she is open and so fulla
hope & positivity &
yet severe cutting wit
that
i feel, uh, as you do, re. her being a good member here.

drama is what is written on a huge
dumpster in my neighborhood, weird.

ha keri gotcha kinda good there...

i might not agree with her assessment, but emma's "jesus wept' comment killed!

... and reminded me why i DO still come here.
some of you typing monkeys are just sharp & funny as hell.

jesus never wept. no evidence, sorry!

Gee Drew, I didn't know you cared!

As to, "spittle flecked, vein-bulging fashion, what a raving, syphilitic cumstain" things, I bow to your superior knowledge and experience of such things.

I am surprised to learn that you were so handicapped and unable to think before meeting Nana, though. My impression was only that you'd borrowed one trite expression of his not that you'd found it necessary to build your life around his teachings.

Oh well, live and learn, I suppose.......

;-)
.

Now I'm confused. Are you talking to me or Sirenita?

Nice wig, Drew.

Certainly better than "Helmet-hair" Margaret's doo.

Thank you Joisey. I made it from the hair of a crack whore I found passed out in the alley. Such glorious tresses were wasted on a $20 gutterslut.

Great observation and title, it's a receipe of spam and rhubarb in a cow pie
entertaining read

skypixie, are you threatening me?! No, wait, that's Drew's line. Well, I'm sure she won't mind me borrowing it. I'm wearing her whorish-looking red ruffled tank top right now. We're like sisters.

**GASP**

You cut Joersy's hair when he was passed out? Did you delouse it before you touch it?

(waiting for Amy to call me a "slut" now and then beg the blog author to delete the comment, like she did in Judy Mandelbaum's post "The "rainbow party" myth: Is oral sex the new kissing?" on August 16, 2010.)

Hey Sinerita, how's all those dental dams that Amy is quite sure that you use with your female lovers or else you're "stupid". (see Kim Gamble's blog "The People I Delete Define Me" and Amy's comment at 4:56 PM on June 20th).

Amy, I don't have to put words in your mouth. Your foot already occupies that position.

Joisey and Amy, I want you two to shake hands and agree never to dog each other again. My blog simply isn't the place for such uncivil exchanges.

these comments are funny

What now? Am I having a catfight with Amy and didn't know it? 'Cause I *insist* on puddin' rassling to settle any differences we may have. Hell, we should just pick a fight so we can get straight to the puddin'.

Joisey, sadly, I don't have random sex with women. I know the women I date. If I did have random sex, I probably wouldn't eat strange cunt in the backseat of my car, not without getting some health info first.

The point I made on that long ago thread (do you really save shit for two years to try to ambush someone with? 'cause that's sad) was that the rate of HIV transmission between women had less to do women's early adoption of barriers and more to do with the lower risk of HIV transmission through oral sex for both men and women.

I like me some strange, it's always guys, and it's always with protection. Now, save up that information up and who knows? Maybe two years from now, when I'm a born-again virgin, you can throw this comment in my face and then try to stir some shit between me and another blogger. Better luck next time.

Sirenita was the 100th commenter, and for that she gets to keep my whorish red ruffled tank top.

DH, it's a laugh a minute around here.

Wait, DH Austin was the 100th commenter; I'm PMing him the tank top, or, alternately, a tube of AstroGlide.

Drew! That tank top is da bomb on me, onna counta I got big tits. Pleeeeeease don't give it to DH.

Why must you lord your rack over me Sirenita? Is it a sin to be a B cup for Christ's sake?

Drew, sweetie, I love your tits and whorishness can be achieved many ways, not just with big tits. There's things you can do with a tiny skirt and no panties that will have folks completely distracted from your pin pricks. PM me for some other tips.

Drew, your cousins are here. Thanks for the Super Lube, we are having fun time!! :D

Pin pricks? Now you've gone too far madam; prepare yourself for a series of bizarre and threatening PMs.

No Super lube for you, Tink, just bend over and take it like a man. Say hi to Tony and Rocco for me.

I'm learning so much from reading these comments, me the country red neck girl, and so innocent... *blush*

Found myself tapping my foot to Kim's comments and the next thing you know...

"Julie this is a macbook..."
"Julie this is a macbook..."
"Julie this is a macbook..."
"What's a plug in..."
"Julie this is a mac book..."
"I'm missing plug in..."
"Julie this is a mac book..."
"What's 'IE'..."
"Julie this is a macbook..."
"I'm missing one..."
"Julie this is a macbook..."
"I've done all that..."
"Julie this is a macbook..."
"Don't tell me..."
"Julie this is a macbook..."
"Frustrated..."
"Julie this is a macbook..."
"Hi lorianne..."
"Julie this is a macbook..."
"Julie this is a macbook..."
"Julie this is a macbook..."
"Julie is this a macbook...?"
"I think I'm a macbook..."
"I think I'm a macbook..."
"I feel like a macbook..."
"Julie what is a macbook..."
"I think we're all macbooks..."
"It's a great day for macbooks..."

"Isn't it."

Also the though of OS going belly up made me realize I may never get a chance to try songwriting.

Joisey Shore, Joisey Shore, let down your long hair.
So I can tie a wild boar in it.

Drew why would I threaten you? I was just wondering what you've put in your vagina lately.

@keri: Moo000-Silla - ahhhhhhhahahahahaaaaaa. Ha ha.

Thanks for visiting my blog Asia Rein. I adore rednecked innocence, know a little about it myself - it seems like only yesterday when I stepped off that Greyhound bus in Baltimore, eyes wide with wonder at the tall buildings and my first glimpse of a Laotian transvestite.

Yeah, the MacBook section of the thread kinda glazed my eyes over too. I'm guessing you know all about being glazed over Maragaret, am I right? (by "glazed over" I meant completely covered in dried semen as you walk home from the annual Biker's Blowout up on Route 9, but then you already knew that)

MLambere, I missed your comment up there, buried as it was by a deluge of civil discourse. Thank you for visiting!

What's the matter with you people ?

I still don't know what songs I missed there. All I can see are the cows. What are they looking at ? Is this some kind of metaphor ?

Thank you, Sirenita. you keep working Drew's red blouse and me and my Saran Wrap might visit you. (which is my barrier of choice, contrary to what the New Jersey Nitwit thinks).

BTW, thanks for playing safe. Rock on, chickie.



@ Drew: Shake hands? You mean as in like actually touching him?? EWWWWW!!!

Well, okay... But not without a SERIOUS "barrier"... You know, like a couple feet of concrete poured around him 30 feet down in the East River.

See I'm coming half way!

Think Purell, Amy, and if that doesn't work there's always antibiotics.

Kim, the videos are from my reign as Samba Queen during our local Carnivale parade. I wish you could see them, I'm just fantastic.

"Helmet-hair" Margaret.

Am I to read that I am making Amy cum halfway?

Just gotta get Darla's Feeldoe to get her all the way there, I guess.

(gives a new meaning to Sinerita's "shit-stirrer" comment)

I am Sinerita, Queen of the penetrating, vibrating sine wave. I love to fuck my cosines. Fear me!

Love,
Sirenita

Who is Darla Feeldoe?

I've heard that fucking your cosines can result in mentally deficient babies, banjo players and so forth.

i dont usually know whats going on here..i am happily clueless.

but even i know what a feeldoe is...

I just now did a Google image search for "feeldoe" and they look sort of like a boomerang, but shinier. Why does Joisey know so much about such implements?

Read Darla Carmichael's blog, you fuckmuppet. Sheesh.

Drew, I could tell you about some of the oddities who are my relatives, but that would be a tangent.

Drew, can you possibly be any more abhorrent, loathsome and revolting?
Of course you can but it still astounds me that your mother didn't drown you after you shrieked your first words which I'm guessing were something like "f*ckin' MAAA MAAA!"

What I do at the Biker's Blowout is my business but I can assure you I wouldn't be walking home from it; I'd be ensconced in some comfy motorcycle sidecar wearing a crown and velvet, ermine lined (fake of course) robe, admiring my (freshly scrubbed) reflection in the grand prize trophy cup I won (I win it every year) for the annual "Bitchin' Bukkake Babe" contest. Guess what the cup holds?

Joisey: Oh how jealous you'd be of my newly highlighted locks in shades of buttered toast, gold, wheat, lemon, cornsilk and ash, all enhanced with a lightly layered cut that makes looking at my head a sensory overload; one can't decide if one should smell it, lick it or bury one's face in it. You can't do that with a helmet you NINNY.

@Asia: The reason Drew's neck is red is due to her choking fetish.

Um...all you write are meta-posts. In fact, when's the last time you didn't? I honestly can't remember.

Madge - Sister Sledgehammer is a trademark of Douchebag Enterprises, a wholly owned subsidiary of Shitstain, Inc (a member of the GoFuckYourself Group).

You owe royalties.

Long time no see, Malcolm. Did you really "um" at me? OK, well, um, I've already explained this but I'll do so again just for the heck of it; this was not directed at meta posts as such. It was more a shot at the herd mentality evinced in last week's spate of Chicken Little handwringing about the impending demise of OS, and the week before in the interminable avalanche of posts about the spam issue. To repeat; meta doesn't bug me, but moo-moo behavior does. Capisce?

Margaret, you squealing, rapacious swamp sow; your pathetic fantasies are beneath contempt, and are very likely indicative of egomania and latent sociopathy and possibly even Assburgers. I've seen the FB pictures, and there was no velvet or ermine involved, nothing but a stonewashed denim miniskirt, a besmirched tie-dye "I'm With Stupid" t-shirt, and hideously over-applied mascara mixed with body fluids running down over your chemically-impaired grin. I felt sad for you, but I forwarded the photos on to my other FB friends and some may even make their way into the personals section of Easy Rider magazine next month. Far be it from me to judge anyone, but in my judgment you're obviously a very troubled person completely lacking in morals, and what's more, the crabs in that part of Ohio are notoriously hard to eradicate so you need to get down to your local CVS immediately to start the process. Word to the wise; Rid alone won't do it, as there are now nits all throughout your house. You will need to burn your bedding and douse your carpeting with chlordane or hexachlorobenzene and, of course, shave all infested areas of your body, though even these steps will do little to restore your self respect, assuming you had any before the incident.

Sirenita, is that a trigonometry-related joke or just another poorly disguised crack at my bosoms?

Joisey; who is Darla Carmichael?

Drew, I knew you'd get it. You're smart, brilliant even, with mature intellectual depth, broad attainments, and tiny titties.

That's it, I'm taking back my red ruffled whore tank top even though your rack has likely rendered it too capacious for my less grandiose though very shapely bosoms. (please note, sirenita; a lady calls them bosoms, not "boobs" or "tits")

Drew, guilty as charged but - you still think I'm pretty, right?

Obviously the Gypsy Jokers found you pretty (or at least present) or we wouldn't be having this conversation, but what does pretty have to do with it? Jezebel was pretty, but did that keep the righteous people of Jerusalem from throwing her carcass over the city walls for wild dogs to eat? Hester Prynne was pretty, and Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton and any number of other notorious skanks were pretty, and what of it? Hell and STD clinics are full of pretty women, Margaret, but prettiness is no substitute for making good life choices.

Drew, I liked your writing, and since I am new here, glad to meet you. Rated.

Sanctimony doesn't suit you Drew and anyway "pretty" is in the eye of the beholder. For example, the left side of my face droops, most of my teeth are gone, I'm all hunched over and I shuffle when I walk since my recent accident at the church carnival. But the priest told me I'm still beautiful to Jesus. You're right about making good life choices though. If I could do it over again, I wouldn't have bet that carny 5 bucks and my cotton candy that I could drink a fifth of Jack then dodge the Scrambler cars while the ride was in motion.

Not sure what a Gypsy Joker is; maybe the Wandering Jew's hilarious cousin?

obviously the meta doesn't bug you. it's all you do. in fact, even when it appears you're not doing a meta post, i'm not exactly sure you're not just using a different format to make a stealthy meta post.

and, you did say to write about anything but, but you didn't write about anything but, but anything you write is but anything to me.

of course i got your point, though. i was giving you shit, you holier than thou scamp. deal with it.

Thank you much, Olga.
Don't play coy with me, Margaret - the Gypsy Jokers are a biker "club" in the same vein as the Hell's Angels and you know that. They're obviously not as famous, but they're no less of a vector for STDs. Speaking of STDs. it doesn't surprise me you hang out with carnies, given your predilection for gang bangs with the more marginal elements of our society.
And Malcolm, I knew you were giving me shit you obstreperous poltroon, hence my response. It's what we do around here, and it beats the hell out of the "What a wonderful post. Rated." sort of commentary so many OSers seem to require.

Do I file that under "F" or "O" when it's fucking obvious? Aaaah, my filing system is a mess. I'll figure it out later.

I think madge thought I was serious with my royalties thing, but whatever. Old people - what are you gonna do with 'em (when you can fit anymore of them in Florida, I mean)?

Too true Malcolm. We could eat them, but I'm guessing the meat isn't that appetizing.

@Malcolm: No need to get touchy. I'm a reasonable person. Just because I hang out with a violent and some might say unsavory bunch, who think nothing of slitting a guy's throat at a Taco Bell drive-thru if he fails to give them a receipt rather than reporting it to corporate doesn't mean *I'm* like they are.
Let's do lunch some time and discuss these royalites I supposedly owe you. How about at Taco Bell? Youi'll find me sitting in the beefy leather-clad section.

Drew: You obviously don't have kids because if you did you'd know in sex ed they spend a significant amount of time discussing the importance of protection during a gang bang; gang bangs are the preferred method of *hooking up* these days because it saves so much time in terms of getting to know someone. Better to get to know the important stuff en masse. The condom exchange program has had a very positive response too; the used ones are resold at a greatly reduced rate to sexually active 12-year-olds who can't afford brand new ones. Everyone benefits.

That's brilliant, Margaret, And with the money we make from selling faulty condoms to 'tweens we can invest in expired antibiotics and run a clinic outside whatever fetid little warrens they hold their gang bangs in. I'm also envisioning sidelines into the sex slave trade and organ harvesting, but I'm still working the details out. How much chloroform does it take to knock out the average 12-yr-old?

Madge, if you're hanging out in the "beefy" section of your local Taco Bell, there is absolutely no danger of me getting touchy with you. Simma down...you older ladies go through "the change" and it's one extreme (beef burrito) after another.

As for royalties, Camilla's probably good enough.

Drewsie,

one word - meat tenderizer (fuck you, I'm not good at math, OK?)

madge or drew -

did they choke off all new member sign ups to stop the spam? I don't have a sign up button anymore when I sign in, but that may be an old deal. I ain't been coming here much at all anymore.

I swear I had one yesterday, or whenever my first comment in this post was, though.

They removed the "Join Now" button a couple weeks ago. I guess the idea was to cut off the flow of spam, and, combined with the new cover configuarion, it seems to have succeeded.