If socking were a WMD ...
 

I think it's the Snarky Snark Snark Committee. It hasn't been around in a while, but unless (or perhaps because??) it's got terrorist connections, I'm sure we can expect a resurgence!

principles question
 

He was a core member of "The State," a comedy troupe started at NYU (go Violets! Shout out to alma matter of the Mrs.), who had a self-titled MTV sketch comedy show that was as uneven as anything on television (by uneven, I mean a pee-your-pants funny skit would be followed by something so stupid that anyone watching instantly became a worse person for having sat through it).

He was also one of the geniuses behind "Wet Hot American Summer."

He's a funny guy, no doubt about it.

I had my Office avatar before you. Therefore, I invented Office avatars. But, since I am such a mild mannered wuss, you can keep Gareth.

Anne
BBCAmerican

principles question
 

I vastly prefer Calvin & Hobbes to anything because I have a son who is Calvin come to ife, which is only fair, because I am Calvin's Dad.

Okay, a fatter, balder, older version of Calvin's dad. But Calvin's dad nonetheless.

principles question
 

In case you would like to see the admirable Ms. Sofer as you page thru: (1) a post by a sock, (2) a post by Lester mocking said sock, and (3) lather/rinse/repeat, here you go.

http://www.nbc.com/photos/Primetime/...g/1CPLax03.jpg

Uh, carry on.

edited to put in better picture.

Hail to the King, baby
 

At my whim and mercy.

and then may God help us all.

Pope Slave IX

And besides, Less has run out of words from his Thesaurus.

Hail to the King, baby
 

This is an excellent threat. Stop with the stupid socks or I'll set Slave loose.

Just a comment
 

In case you thought I was joking, get the sock shit under control. Make it funny or cut it out. It's not that difficult.

I will start deleting substance-free sock posts before I see this board go to shit.

If I knew how to post a poll, I would ask this question:

What should we do with sock abusers?

-- Delete them?
-- Flip them?
-- Ban them?
-- Hunt them down and kill them?
-- Torture them for our pleasure?

Like he needed a challenge.

As for what to do with the stupid socks, I say flip them (but only the ones I think are stupid), or hunt them down and kill them, but only after torturing them for our pleasure.

Just a comment
 

Flip 'em first, then let the community at large hunt, kill, torture, etc. Mob justice.

{My vote is biased because sock busting is not a strength of mine, although lately I have found it easier to figure some of them out (but not because my skillz improved).}

Just a comment
 

First, flip them. Then delete them. Then ban them.

TM

MacCloud would be ashamed...
 

Even in the special olympics, there can be only one winner. Congratulations, highlander, you are the worst of the useless socks.

Just a comment
 

Flip them. But first, have a sock line-up, so we properly identify the offending socks. Some socks are funny and they don't need to be flipped just because others are idiotic.

Just a comment
 

Then, salt the earth.

Just a comment
 

I think they reproduce by laying their eggs in the bodies of dead things.

Just a comment
 

Cool. So we need to burn the bodies I guess.

It's very Alamo, but if we must, we must.

Just a comment
 

are you suggesting napalm?

hockey haiku
 

Good point, leagl. Please stay!

However, in honor of the Pope's team (and mine, too), I give you the first hockey haiku of this season. Enjoy.

Blueshirts beat the Wings
but lose to the Ducks at home?
Messier's still old.

Just a comment
 

Please, whatever you do, don't send them over to the vacations board. I have no idea what I am doing over there.

Carry on.

Just a comment
 

But how many times can you ban Penske?

It's like a hanging with a firing squad, with a lethal injection to boot.

But, yeah, flip 'em and delete 'em.

wait until tomorrow for banning.

Poker night
 

Just a reminder to everyone that it's poker night. Yeah that's right.

Just a comment
 

What he said...I don't care what order you do it in, though.

Poker night
 

Poker night! Yay!*




*please say this in crank yankers intelligence-challenged (is this PC enough) guy's voice

Just a comment
 

nttawwt.

hockey haiku
 

And with one little haiku, Not Bob singlehandedly turns the board around for me. Hooray! It no longer sucks. I would hunt through a piled up heap of stinking shitty socks to get to a Not Bob hockey nugget.


(that said, I say death by firing squad to the socks. Or bleach them until they disintegrate into little bitty pieces)

Poker night
 

"Donkey Kong...Donkey Kong...Donkey Kong...Yaaaaay!!! Donkey Kong...YAAAY!!"


http://www.therecordlink.com/images/183932.jpg

early holiday presents
 

OK, as long as we've started with the (holiday talk), here is something that everyone should get for someone this December.
Those wacky Brits.
buy your humping dog here
http://images.iwoot.com/large/humdog_lg.gif
Who on earth thought "I know, let's make a stuffed Chihuahua that you strap to your leg and that humps frantically while yapping away in frenzied delight?" Where did that come from? We can only sit back in awe at the thought process, and slowly begin to understand how the truly great inventors of our age spend their free time.

In an effort to lighten people the fuck up.

principles question
 

Apropos of many things, MIB was also the voice of the pets.com sock puppet. Having him on the same '80s show as Triumph is funny on two levels, but probably not more.

Every blessed skit put on MTV by The State was once online for free, but apparently an upcoming DVD release inspired them to remove the links. I tended to like "$240 Worth of Pudding" and
"The Jew, The Italian, and the Red-Head Gay."

principles question
 

I love my job.

Yes, the day-to-day can be dull. I cannot think of a job where that is not the case. Even Michael Jordan had to go to practice every day, and Wesley Snipes has to remember lines and shoot and reshoot scenes ad infinitum, and Jennifer Connelly's highly compensated love slave (my preferred occupation last time I took one of those tests) needs to clean up a bit.

But there are times when it's thrilling as hell -- like when I stand up to address a room full of parties and witnesses and triers of fact, and a hush falls over the room, and I get to sum up the case I've been thinking about for the past year or three. And there are other times where it's deeply satisfying on an intellectual level, or on a personal level -- the latter being the sort of thing E/O is talking about.

I spent several years between college and law school knocking around San Francisco, tending bar, temping, and having enormous amounts of fun. Eventually, the shitty work aspect of that life got to me -- not so much the lack of money (though certainly the money I make now is a nice thing) as the fact that 8 hours a day I was doing something that bored me.

Maybe if I had a great artistic talent and the drive to capitalize on it those years would have been more satisfying for a longer time. But having seen the other side, a job that pays me scandalous money to think, to give advice, to work with smart and cool people, to avoid heavy lifting, and to have occasional moments of spotlight glory is a pretty damn nice thing.

I suppose that makes me a geek in SD's eyes, but if so, fuck him.

Just a comment
 

They do suck, and in their dishonor, and to lighten the mood before the banning begins, I present my first ever (and maybe last) Song Parody attempt.



ANOTHER SOCK POST (to the tune of the new BNL single Another Postcard which is currently being played to death. Hey, what can I say, the song works for my purposes.)


You can't imagine so much socking on the FB
All of them coming anonymously (except for their IP)
I never thought I'd have to wade through all of this crap
But someone keeps posting this awful stuff and won't shut their trap.

Some socks in nice suits, some socks are trying to pick fights
Some socks in cahoots, some socks that want some socking rights.
We got Jehovah socks, a sock who lives in Fu Fu Land
Another somehow, is lamer than the real Dat Phan.

[CHORUS (x2):]
Another sock post on the FB.
And every one is addressed to Penske.

If I had to guess, I'd say the sock-senders think it's great
He's socking us, maybe she's socking us just to see us get irate
Our bandwith's down - and I wish these socks could be ignored
It isn't funny, but at least they stay on e/o's board.

Some socks from Africa, socks who think they are Aunt Bea
Socks who love PLF, overusing the smiley
An RP tribute sock, some socks that are pretty crass,
A third-rate Bilmore sock, some socks who wanna bang Thrasher's ass

[CHORUS (x2)]

Somehow they followed us even though we packed and moved our home
No matter what, they come and they come they won't leave us alone
Another sock on the board could make me lose my mind
But look at me shuffling through the posts until I finally find

Some socks in nice suits
Some socks in cahoots
Some socks in Fu Fu Land
Some socks are Dat Bland
We've got some Brazilian socks; that's socks devoid of any hair
We've got Dave Foley socks reposting lamps of women's underwear.

Another sock post annoying me
And every one is addressed to Penske.
Every one is, every one is, every one is addressed to Penske.
Every one is, every one is, every one is addressed to Penske.

Beware of Sockeration
 

Just out of a morbid sense of curiousity, did Bilmore publish a retirement manifesto, or what?

Edited to say, if so, maybe I should learn how to use the search function. Doh.

Further edited to add in light of the above post, I am neither a sock nor Penske, whom I understand quit socking, except for being Bilmore. And I'm not Paigow either. NTTAWWT.

He's probably just busy.

Just a comment
 

Excellent parody!

Someday, decades and decades from now, we will look back on the low mark in FB sockery and smile at this parody.

Or this again.....
http://www.isk.canoe-kayak.org/repor...mages/roll.jpg

Who's That Guy?
 

Does anyone happen to know who the guy is on the commercial for ESPN's fantasy games? You know, the one who busts the chops of Warren Sapp, Jeremy Roenick and now Ben Wallace -

Is he anybody?

Da (I'm gonna melt all this iiiiiiissssssssse) ve

Who's That Guy?
 

Tracy Morgan.

Who's That Guy?
 

That would be Tracey Morgan from SNL. Actually, its for their line of sports video games... Funny stuff.

Edited to add: D'OH!!

Banned Socks
 

As punishment for sock sins, I am banning the following Penske socks:

1 A Poster from the Land of Fu

2 Alejandro Paco...Alfonso Jose

3 au jus

4 B_R_C's Parents

5 charlie the crocodile

6 Crazy FBers from the SF Area

7 Dr. Whoopie

8 fair and balanced

9 flare up

10 glinda the good witch

11 mackdaddy long legs

12 New Jersey

13 Over 14 Wonderwhitebread eater

14 Paig's Sock

15 pantaloonie

16 Penske_Account

17 Royal Canadian Mountebank

18 silent but deadly

19 the ghost of Plated's Socks

20 the ghost of Vince Foster

21 the Jewish People

22 the poker

23 theGhost of Juanita's sanctity

24 uncle crackerjack

Let this be a lesson to you serial socketeers.

Just a comment
 

Thanks. I'm so happy I feel like running a 5K.