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I will not ever, ever get tired of that Heisman shot of Robinson.
Dear Diary Must Go Forward
Dear Diary,
Hello, I'm Misopogon. You may remember me from such entries as "The Decimated Defense," "Tate's a Quarterback, Yo!," and "Can I Get a Hero Up in Here?" It is my intention, Diary, to each week give you the latest and greatest in user-generated content from MGoBlog's Diaries section.
Tim used to do this feature, but with his permission, and because I'm the guy editing them anyway, I am taking over. This will again be a regular feature, probably on the weekends. They will also be shorter – this one's an extended edition to fill in everything that's happened since the last Dear Diary.
So - ahem - Dear Diary,
Sorry I Haven't Written Since July.
Allow me to catch you up on all of the history that's happened in the interim:
Aw, Hellenism
Back in late July, mankind was entering the 2010 season with a sense of wonder as his technology went from the Stone Age (when man could only throw rock), to the Bronze Age, then the Iron Age, The Steel Age, and finally that fateful day that MCalibur announced we had entered a true Dilithium Age.
In these kind days, the world was writ in poetry, and Rich Rod was building a new civilization (Blazefire). But whenever we seemed about to return from our long Odyssey (Mustaches4Michigan), some Angry Michigan [Position]-Hating deity or another would strike man down again (via – who else? - Shredder):
Aye, Rome fell, but thanks to MGauxBleu, it will not be forgotten.
(way more after the jump)
The Dark Ages
Things got pretty bleak, Diary, and everyone got pretty busy. You see, formerlyanonymous wrote this thing called Inferno-Canto, and rather than reading it in installments (I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X and XI), I saved it all up then dedicated all of August and September to catching up. I'm now on the part where John Wayne transforms into a Korean girl:
…and we ascend to the final circle of hell (where I imagine we are given Obi Ezeh and told to tackle Denard Robinsons over and over again -- Owait: Denard plays for us! [pinches self]).
The Renaissance
With the emergence of Denard, Rome was Born Again (Coach Schiano), and a few MGoArtists, caught up in the spirit of the times, went beyond the medieval Paint tradition to herald a new age of artistic greatness. They were all front-paged individually, but here's a Louvre worth of MGoMasterpieces:
- monuMentalangelo's A Denard Robinson Action Figure
- mdocatello's Oscar-nominated Denard: The Happening.
- chunkums da Vinci channeling his inner Final Fantasy to come up with the Single Greatest Thing Ever Produced By Man.
- MGauxBleuphael provides the secret to hype videos.
(There's a Renaissance artist named "Splinter" too, right?)
The Enlightenment
The Mathlete made perhaps the single most useful chart in MGoHistory (above). It looks kind of like Michigan's helmets, and also tells people who coach Denard Robinsons when to go for it on 4th down.
MCalibur got bumped so hard for his Blue Moon, Redux, which looks at turnovers and decides Michigan 2010 will get better by not being ridiculously unlucky, and Iowa will be worse by not being ridiculously lucky (MCalibur also created a new, better way to calculate QB play, and produced this while fall-down drunk, in case you were wondering if the Lady of the Lake, clad in the purest shimming Samite, actually held aloft this guy's brain from the bosom of the water.).
Enjoy Life took this turnovers stuff one step further with a three-part study of turnovers and how they affect the game, following up each subsequent week of the season.
Six Zero completed his off-season series of interviews with this site's most prolific bloggers, concluding with a one-on-one with the MGo-man himself.
Next, larsonlo created a revolution in education with his Football Fundamentals series of online courses. To get your degree, the courses are available below:
- FF 101: Intro to Football Fundamentals: 1.) Syllabus and Basics; 2.) Offense; 3.) Defense; 4.) Offensive Line; 5.) Receivers
- FF 201: The 3-3-5 Defense: 1.) Advantages/Disadvantages; 2.) Against Tight Formations
And Misopogon (that's me!) tried to allay fears about Free Safety by going on a Campbell-ian hero journey of the postion's recent past. In Act II all went to hell, then Act III was posted mere minutes before the start of the season, and (despite the lack of Ewoks) nobody read it.
That's okay; it's still incomplete and outdated because it's got a lot of stuff about Vlad Emilien's speed in there and he doesn't play for Michigan. An update with 100-percent more Vinopal is in the offing.
Modernism, Post-Modernism, Post-Post Modernism, Posting Posts in a Post-Post Office World, and Post Routes
Then the Big~Ten annexed Nebraska (M-Dog makes a funny), and touched off the War to End All Wars over conference realignment, the bloodiest front being the attempt by Huns to make Michigan-Ohio State a non-counting game in early October that's played six times per decade (or at least that's what the propaganda said). Yet from among this Lost Generation who fought in the darkest days of the Great War would flower some of the greatest literature of the age, e.g. Coach Schiano-emingway's Memories of The Game, in which two titanic programs faced each other every November, and then it rained.
jajaja23 brought an MGoNation back from the brink by hacking into Goggle Wave and bringing us a five-part series of conversations between our coaches and players:
And then, when Hal-like irreverence wasn't enough to break the malaise, saveferris went with Mario (obligatory Infinite Jest reference of the week) by reminding us there are things about this program that transcend recruiting, turnovers and wins, like a man walking.
That about catches us up to the present day. If you want to know the future, Diary, talk to the One Who Knows. I'm moving on to Indiana week.
The Half-Awesomest Thing Ever:
On Monday, Meeechigan Dan used his diary called Two Face to compare OSU and Michigan's offensive talent:
…against performance, the key being that despite a notable disparity in guru rating for our respective starters, we wouldn't want to trade our offense for theirs. Obviously, RR can coach offence, so Dan asked the potent question on every Wolverine's mind: "If he can coach the O, why not the D?"
In came resident MGoCoach steve sharik with a speculative, albeit intriguing answer:
I believe that Coach Rod loves offense and wants to run a program and coach offense at the same time. I believe that he was overly concerned about installing his offensive system when he got here more than building a total program. You can see it in practice priorities and you saw it in recruiting priorities, and I believe you saw it in hiring defensive assistants.
I believe that the most successful head coaches are managers, not coordinators who completely delegate one side of the ball. To make the next step from great coach to Hall of Fame coach, I believe Coach Rod needs to let go of the offense and let his excellent assistants (McGee, Smith, Dews, Jackson) run that show.
The other comments for M-Dan's diary are well worth your time.
For sparking the most interesting debate in awhile, and for that thing where Brutus gets punched in the kisser, Meeechigan Dan (three e's) is your Diarist of the Week.
The Coming Attraction:
Some excellent diaries were posted this week to get you ready for Indiana. BlueSeoul's Scouting Indiana (in brief), which includes the image above, gives us a preview of the Pistol Offense they run, as well as the Hoosiers' 3/4 defense and kind of silly new uniforms (on this: wait 'till you get a load of the Spartans' new duds).
For stat-heads, Enjoy Life put together his weekly National Rankings Update, etc., which if you're not statistically inclined may look like an airplane cockpit. In slightly more comprehensible numbers was mistersuits's bumped Our Defense, Their Offense – numbers offer hope!, which basically states that our offense being a constant (really good) against anybody, the power and execution of opponents' offenses will determine those games.
This Week in Things That Are Weekly:
Some users this fall (including some mentioned above) have begun regular weekly series to add to previews, UFR, etc.
MGoDiarist Extraordinaire The Mathlete, caretaker of the holy database, doles out the PAN (points above normal) to predict bloodshed:
This should be another bloodbath on the ground. No matter how you slice it, Michigan is really good at running the ball and Indiana hasn't been great at stopping it and they have played some terrible teams. Based on the numbers this is projected to be between a 9 and 15 point advantage for Michigan.
Diary, don't tell anyone, but one day I plan to hack The Mathlete's computer, steal this database, and use it to write the definitive predictive model for recruiting classes based on star rating. I would then sell it to jamiemac, who would use it to predict the score of every college football game to within 3 points, and we would make a fortune, which we would then use to take over the world. Once we own Earth, we will all get large TVs and awesome cars and make Buckeyes feed us grapes…
Oriental Andrew's "Down with OPP" takes us to our next opponents' press conferences. User monuMental (pictured) uses his artistic voyez to paint your desktop. And for you fans of bad football, stubob's Ugly Game of the Week gives you the full rundown of upcoming pillow fights. jamiemac has the take from the guys with the financial incentive to be more accurate than a Freep columnist.
User danross asks if Michigan's start to 2010 is the best 4-game offensive performance in modern Michigan history (spoiler: it is). Drakeep's Whoa! Not So Fast My Friend: Indiana and Rash's two-part series on Tempo-Free stats attempt to find a superior situational offensive proficiency stat to red-zone efficiency. West Texas Blue shows why Will Campbell is actually kind of exactly on track to be good (damn you burned redshirt). Wonk says true freshmen can punt, so long as they can punt and/or own space empires. And JLo interviews a guy from ESPN about getting video online, how the network skates around gambling, why LeBron's thing was aired (spoiler: it's $$$) and Erin Andrews's understanding of the Internet.
Keep penning 'em, carcajous. And if you're wondering why your commas are suddenly in strange places while "it's" and "its" are used appropriately, that was me.
Diary, don't tell anyone, but one day I plan to hack The Mathlete's computer, steal this database, and use it to write the definitive predictive model for recruiting classes based on star rating. I would then sell it to jamiemac, who would us it to predict the score of every college football game to within 3 points, and we would make a fortune, which we would then use to take over the world. Once we own Earth, we will all get large TVs and awesome cars and make Buckeyes feed us grapes…
Except maybe the part about the grapes...
Once we own Earth, we will all get large TVs and awesome cars and make Buckeyes feed us grapes…
Pure poetry.
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I realize all of the time (since July) that it took me to read and react to all of this board material when it was originally posted.
You provide the perfect summary and insights. To make matters worse you eliminated all of the bullshit that made my head(s) hurt.
Great work!!
To win Diarist of the Week against that competition is like a blubbery but irrepressible Rulon Gardner defeating Karelin a decade ago and proof that adolescent pictures describing a "dork" can win out against arithmetic treatises in today's day and age.
I humbly accept the prize of 5000 mgopoints!
around the room. Nice work, gentlemen. Let's meet back here in five and prepare for victory.
just make sure they wash their hands first. lord knows where they have been......
maybe its the bier.
just make sure they wash their hands first. lord knows where they have been......


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Now, here in America, "Golfer Phil Mickelson May Call It Quits Due To Climbing Tax Rates."
If you think perhaps Mickelson is being a bit of a baby for threating [sic] to end a career that's earned him a spot on this list of 10 wealthiest athletes on the planet because of some tax increases, understand that he's getting hit on the state level, too. In November, California passed Proposition 30, which increases the top income tax rate on resident millionaires to 13.3%, a drain on Mickelson's take-home pay that may force him to sell his 9,500 square foot mansion and flee his home state in search of more friendly pastures.Do Americans care whether Phil Mickelson lives in the United States or not? It's hardly the equivalent of Gerard Depardieu and France. Or is it? Maybe I'm not getting America's attachment to its athletes.
Which, if any, Americans are in a position to protest — effectively protest — taxes by threatening to leave the country? Threatening to leave a state seems more plausible. I would think there are a lot of athletes in team sports who could let it be known they are taking taxes into account, but presumably that's all haggled over in private negotiations. A team in a high-tax state is going to have to put up more money than a team in a low-tax state. It really is the golfer — the athlete in business for himself — who has some choices about where to live. But other than the one-off character Tiger Woods, America doesn't care about golfers.

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knox said...
"Eurotard": officially my new favorite slur.
IN THE COMMENTS: Some inapt ravings from link nonclickers. To them, I say, if you were born in July, you are a Leotard.
knox said...
"Eurotard": officially my new favorite slur.
AND, the right is officially intellectually bankrupt.
Eli Blake, thankfully we have Obama to bail us out.
Eurotard...You-are-a-retard said by a French speaker. This may offend Sen.John Kerry, and he is part of the 60 votes needed to ratify a sale of Wisconsin back to the French Canadians.
I buy at Low Pirce NoW!
I Levle With the Best!
EVY FuCkin Day!
I know you'll be reading this. I'm watchng an ol' favorite:
"She Wore a Yellow Ribbon"
am at Sudros wells and Trooper Smth (aka BG Rome Clay) has just been buried.
a classic
When I first read the heading, I thought it said "Euroturd". But "Eurotard" is bad enough, with "tard" now being a suffix meaning "retard".
I think I'll stick with my Freedomtard, thank you very much.
AND, the right is officially intellectually bankrupt.
Well, laughing is now forbidden. What's next, dancing?
Lighten up, you humorless prude.
I have no words. Trooper, I'm sending you my dry cleaning bill.
Sofa King:
What's mutually exclusive about laughing and pointing out the intellectual bankruptcy of that sentiment?
Learn to walk and chew gum, you incompetent boob. And if you're unable to get over that low bar, at least learn that others can.
What's mutually exclusive about laughing and pointing out the intellectual bankruptcy of that sentiment?
What sentiment? That something is funny? You're asking what's mutually exclusive about laughing at something and pointing out that it's not funny?
What is intellectually bankrupt about laughing, Audry?
And your second paragraph is rather confusing. It seems to agree with Sofa King...but no.
Reinaldo Arenas wrote in Antes que anochezca (Before Night Falls) that tyrannies are self-important, boring, and completely devoid of humor. It is not simply coincidence that those who dream of tyranny are also dull, humorless and self-important.
Don't like the -tard thing. I also didn't like Obama's Special Olympics slur. It seems to me that if people are to be used as an example of stupidity or incompetence, less vulnerable people can be picked out.
Homeotard ;)
Tolstoytard never really went anywhere. Chétard is still available.
Still available.
The airforce one fly over jumbotard.
Still available.
Nothing's intellectually bankrupt about mere laughter, per se. The right's adoption of the slur "Eurotard" is a different story.
"What sentiment?"
Scroll up. Stop when you reach the topic line or the post that Eli responded to. Do have fun dueling with that strawman, though.
Hiptard is not available, nor does it have the European flair.
Can you fit a douchebag into a Eurotard? Because there sure are a lot of douchebaggers around here.
Audrey wrote: "The right's adoption of the slur "Eurotard" is a different story."Audrey, I know it is common for political animals to think in absolutes, but you do realize (I hope) that Trooper York really does sell clothes, Eurotard really is a "dance and active wear manufacturer" and knox really is an individual -- not a meme.
It sounds to me like some kind of futuristic one-piece stretchy garment you could buy at Capezio. Unisex, transnational.
McCoy: Darn it, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a Eurotard.
Thankfully we only have to deal with one variety, imagine the confusion.. Franctard, Liratard, Marktar, pesetatard, guildertard
Eurotard is actually a brand of womens, ahem, under accessories. Trooper York did a blog on this. They are trying to compete with Spanx. I much prefer the term Euroturd. It is similar to Libturd and is more appropriate.
Please check the link before offering your knee-jerk response. You might see why this is so funny, then again, maybe not.
Trooper, you said something over there that's interesting to me. Since Spanx sell so well even in small sizes do you keep them stocked for maximum sales? My favorite local aquarium shop almost never has neon tetras. They get them in and they sell immediately because they're the most popular with little kids. This makes me ask why they don't buy huge quantities but the store acts like they're beholden to a single supplier. If it were me, I'd find multiple suppliers so they're always in stock. That, or breed them myself.
Of course I am waiting for Napolitanotard or turd.
Audrey II
So nice to have a new libtard scold to set us straight. I would certainly hate to do anything politically incorrect.
Chip Ahoy - I don't think Eurotards breed in captivity. And stop being so insensitive, dammit!
"What sentiment?"
Scroll up. Stop when you reach the topic line or the post that Eli responded to. Do have fun dueling with that strawman, though.
Sanctimonious and ill-informed! A winning combination! You and Eli make quite a couple.
Chip Ahoy : If it were me, I'd find multiple suppliers so they're always in stock. That, or breed them myself.
An elegant solution, but I don't think it will work with undergarments.
I knew I should have put in a paragraph break.
So Eli Blake is a Eurotard. Fascinating - but not unexpected.
PlustardFor the gal that's largely late and now expectant.
For the gal that's green and wants to keep her gases to herself.
And let's not forget the dearly missed Fake Steve (of Steve Jobs' Secret Diary fame) who gifted the language with:
• Frigtard (v. your choice)
• Microtard (v. Steve Ballmer)
• Yelptard (v. any Yelper)
"madawaskan said...
For the gal that's green and wants to keep her gases to herself."
Oh dear. Do you know what you've just done?
On another note, I'm surprised no one has said Obamatard(s).
Chip Ahoy - Shipping fish is prohibitively expensive. You can't just ship Neon Tetras because the cost would far outweigh any returns. That's why pet stores tend to stick with just the one supplier unless they're dealing with high margin, exotic types.
Somewhat unsurprisingly, my visit to both the Spanx and Eurotard websites confirmed that neither produces an undergarment intended to attractively shape and smooth the cankle.
It's only a matter of time before someone plays the race tard.
Hey, professor, I was born in July, but I'm not a Leo! *sigh*
Fidel Castro is a Leotard, among other tard-ish things.
Speaking of leotard....
July is a Cancer, at least July 8th is. Does that make me a Cancotard?
As someone noted on Twitter, Insty linked to this blog post - not Trooper's. Aww. Troop should have gotten that link (and I'm sure Reynolds didn't mean to deprive him)...but maybe it will call attention to his blog, anyway.
Belatedly...very funny how a few jumped on this as a right wing thing. LOL.
OK, if retard is not an insult, why can't it be used in polite conversation anymore? I am truly confused.
Demotardoplasty. (As in, "Arlen Spector had a Demotardoplasty.")
Hey, August is for Leo, too. I am Leotard. Hear me roar!
Thank you so much for the link Professor.
It really is hilarious that Eli doesn't get it. But not surprising.
DIY petards
What is really even more funny about shape wear is that some brands put a "pee-hole" in it so woman don't have to take it off to urinate. Now no one in their right mind would do that but it is pretty amusing that they include this as a feature and not a bug. What the hell are they thinking?
What the hell are they thinking?
Cameltoe, I guess.
LOL, chickenlittle. :)
some brands put a "pee-hole" in it so woman don't have to take it off to urinate.
Those would be called "peetards".
*waves @ Darcy*
It's soooooo frwanch.
For the peeps that don't get these jokes.
I know chickenlittle. That is exactly what I call them when I tell the girls that they don't want to be hoist on their own peetard.
Then they always get the Spanx microfiber high waisted smoother.
Eura-fun one too! :-)
LOL! What happens when you comment before going to the link: I wrote sounds like some futuristic one-piece stretchy garment thinking it had started out as a politically-incorrect insult.
In Germany they are called "Leiderhoser".
No,no,no! Not pink.
Pot of Gold!


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The PlayStation Network has been back for a full day now, but for the wounds so deep that only free stuff can mend them, Sony has now implemented its Welcome Back program.
As previously reported, you can pick two PS3 games from a list of five (Infamous, Dead Nation, LittleBigPlanet, Super Stardust HD, and Wipeout HD), plus two PSP games from a list of four (LittleBigPlanet PSP, ModNation Racers, Pursuit Force, and Killzone Liberation).
The free games will be offered through July 3, but as long as you claim them before that, they'll be yours to keep. To claim them, go to the Welcome Back section. You'll pick one game from the section marked "Game 1," then go back and select another from the section marked "Game 2." If you own both a PS3 and PSP, you get four games out of the deal.
Plus subscriptions have been added or extended, 30 days going to non-Plus members and an extra 60 days going to current Plus members. A selection of movie rentals will be available over the weekend as well, and Music Unlimited subscribers have had an extra 30 days of premium service added to their accounts. Sony also promises that publishing dates on missed content will be coming soon.
You might want to wait a little while to start claiming your free stuff, though. Various users are complaining of errors accessing the Store, apparently due to the deluge of users rushing to grab their free content. Among those who have made it in, some are getting connection interruptions mid-transaction. There are mixed reports of a workaround for lost games through the Account Management listing, and Sony is sure to get any problems sorted out. At the same time, it doesn't hurt to have a little patience.


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Not surprisingly, this [percentage] correlates very closely to support for the war. In other words, only the moron dead-enders who still believe Iraq had anything to do with 9-11 continue to support the war. If they insist on clinging to the fiction of Saddam's involvement, they ain't gonna change their minds on the war itself. All rational human beings have concluded it's time to get the heck out.Yes, you are the rational one, comforting yourself with made-up ideas that everyone who doesn't agree with you must be irrational. But I don't think Saddam was personally involved in the 9/11 attacks, and I support the war. I'm sure General Petraeus doesn't think Saddam was personally involved, and Petaeus -- who knows a bit more than you -- supports the war. I think there are many others.
And then there are plenty of ill-informed people, and my guess is that a lot of them are against the war because they've gotten the feeling things aren't going well and notice that opposing the war seems to be what people are doing these days. I don't think they're "morons," but many of them are probably of below-average intelligence, and I'll bet quite of few of them heard the Saddam question and bumbled into a "yes" answer.
And why are lefties so illiberal about the less-smart and less well-educated citizens? [ADDED: I'm not saying all lefties do this, but that the ones who do are betraying their values.] Aren't these the people you act like you care about when you propound your various policies? Why are you calling people "morons"? Do you not concern yourself with mentally retarded persons and their families? I'm too politically correct to call you a "moron," but I will say that your reasoning is off and your self-flattery is embarrassing as you lazily conclude that the same 33% of Americans believe each of the things that you do not.


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Fairly Sizable Balance Change
Naruto Arena > Main > News >
Fairly Sizable Balance Change
Sunday, March 22, 2009 at 20:32 by Luapman
4/4/09 Balance Change:
Rework: Shikamaru (S)
Small Balance Change Tweaks 4/3/09
Nerfs: Anko
Boosts: Yoroi, Tenten, Neji, Zabuza, Jiroubou, Shino
Read about specifics HERE.
It's been awhile but here is a noticable balance update for you:
Nerfs: Shino, Jiroubou, Chiyo
Rework/Nerfs: Hinata, Zabuza
Reworks: Tenten, Sai
Boosts: Iruka, Kin, Gai
Rework/Boosts: Kyuubi, Kidoumaru, Neji
As usual you can find the log of changes here, and discuss game balance here.
Everyones favorite admin to hate,
Related subjects:
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It is that time of year — time for dyeing and hiding Easter eggs. (Next week, it will be time to find the eggs left behind before the dog finds them.) Many people have asked me how to properly cook eggs that will be dyed but also eaten. It is possible to do both and put those cooked eggs to use. Below I give you instructions on how to cook not only eggs for decorating, but I am including one of my all-time favorite non-boiled egg recipes, the Croque Madame.
Always choose the freshest eggs possible for optimum safety, nutrients and overall appeal. However, be aware that the fresher the egg, the more difficult it will be to peel. As eggs age, the white shrinks away from the shell, and the air pocket within enlarges. Older eggs peel more easily, so if you prefer easy-to-peel eggs, buy your eggs at least a week before cooking.
Hard-Cooked Easter Eggs
Place the eggs in a small pot and cover with cool water. Bring the water to a boil. As soon as the water comes to a boil, cover the pot and remove from the heat. Keep covered for 12 minutes. Remove from heat and run under cool water.
If you're not dyeing them, peel immediately.
Bringing the eggs to a boil and removing from heat will prevent the ugly green-gray that forms around the yolks.
If you plan to eat your colored eggs, make sure the coloring is non-toxic. Once cooked, leave eggs at room temperature for only two hours at a time, with at least two hours for refrigeration between displaying.
A safe presentation option is to fill the bottom of a basket or bowl with freezer/cold packs, arrange eggs, and hide the packs with fake grass or confetti.
Keep hard-cooked eggs in the refrigerator and eat within a week.
Croque Madame
5 tablespoons unsalted butter, divided 4 tablespoons all-purpose flour 3� cups whole milk Kosher salt and freshly ground black or white pepper Freshly grated nutmeg 8 slices good-quality white bread 4 eggs 8 ounces gruyere cheese, shredded � pound deli ham, thinly sliced
To make the bechamel sauce: Heat 4 tablespoons butter in a wide saucepan until melted.
Add flour and cook until flour smells almost nutty and roux is blond in color, about 3-5 minutes.
Add milk, about � cup at a time, whisking continuously. Let each addition cook unto the roux before adding more milk.
When about 1� cups of milk have been added, pour in remaining milk and bring to a simmer. Reduce heat to medium-low and cook, stirring often, until thickened, about 15-20 minutes. Season to taste with kosher salt, freshly ground pepper, and nutmeg. Remove from heat and refrigerate at least 20 minutes, although an hour or more is best.
To make sandwiches: Preheat the oven to 200 degrees.
Position bread slices on a wire rack without overlapping. Place in the oven for about 20 minutes, flipping the slices after 10 minutes, until the bread has dried out. Remove and let cool.
Crack one egg into a small bowl and check for shells.
Heat a nonstick pan over medium heat. Add remaining butter to melt. When butter has melted, slide egg from the bowl into the pan. Cook to desired doneness. Transfer to plate and repeat with remaining eggs. Keep eggs warm.
Increase oven to 450 degrees. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil.
Assemble sandwiches by first spreading a thin layer of chilled bechamel sauce onto a slice of bread. Arrange a quarter of the ham on the sauce. Spread bechamel onto another slice and place it sauce sidedown onto the ham. Spread more sauce on the top of the top slice and sprinkle with a quarter of the Gruyere cheese. Place on the lined baking sheet and repeat with remaining sandwiches.
Bake the sandwiches until the cheese is brown and bubbly, about 5-10 minutes. Remove from oven and top each with a fried egg. Serve immediately.
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Monday, September 24, 2012
Comics 1110-1112: Deep, Man
1111. Wouldn't it be hilarious if a reporter started talking about the fact that the universe is dying instead of the event they were covering? D
1112. Is the whole point of this really "lol people who complain about game balance just suck at the game" or am I missing something? F
210 comments:
- AnonymousSeptember 24, 2012 at 8:28 PM
Now I've got stage fright and forgotten my witticisms. Damn.
- AnonymousSeptember 24, 2012 at 9:56 PM
Ron Paul 2012ReplyDeleteReplies
You've said that before.Delete
Ron Paul would never win, he's too rational and full of good arguments.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 9:40 AM
Eumesmopo, at the risk of doing an act capable of encouraging suicide contrary to s.2 of the Suicide Act 1961, I ask you to please kill yourself right now.Delete
Hmm... seems legit.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 9:49 AM
Ron Paul is the worst politician the USA has *ever* created - and I'm including all the "free market definition of what counts as a human" pre-Civil War politicians in that.Delete
RP couldn't be worse than any of the presidents from Truman to Obama even if he raped babies.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 10:09 AM
Let me guess, Eumesmopo: you're a socially awkward computer geek in his late teens or early 20s who considers himself to be of above average intelligence and who constantly gets angry about how "dumb" the world is?Delete
You're also significantly more well off than those around you and you are convinced that it's mostly down to what you think is your hard (but only in the sit-on-your-ass-and-vaguely-apply-your-neurons sense) work and your God-given right to exploit your intelligence even to others' detriment.
If you want to offend me, you can freely call me a cocksucking/cum-dumpster/nigger/faggot/sisterfucker. But please, for the love of god, don't compare me to Randall Monroe for that's far too obnoxious.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 10:21 AM
Hey now, what's the problem with sisterfuckers?Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 10:25 AM
Possibility of retard-baby. Ron Paul thinks abortion is murder.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 24, 2012 at 10:23 PM
Time for a poll, everybody! When was the last time you had sex and how often have you had it and how old are you?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 2:58 AM
yesterday. my partner was on the blob so it was messy as fuck - just the way i like it.Delete
when you get beyond your teens, you don't count how many times you have had it.
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 8:40 AM
I have had sex 3+1634i times. And I am 34-14i years oldDelete
That's right! I know complex numbers.
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 8:52 AM
I know more numbers than you.Delete
Prove me wrong.
captcha: 69 finalbu. wait what
In other words, you've had sex 3 times, but you've imagined yourself doing it 1634 times. You're 34, but you wish you were 20. And yet you feel proud enough to say so on a comment thread full of complete strangers, thinking we wouldn't mock you for it because we're too dumb to know about complex numbers. I think I speak for all of us when I say: Dude, that's sad.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 9:11 PM
don't listen to Jon Levi we all secretly think he's a dick.Delete
- Random UnrollSeptember 26, 2012 at 12:00 PM
Assuming integers, for any number n that you know I know the numbers n and n+1. Assuming any other non finite group, for any number n that you know I know the numbers n and n<group operation>n. Will there be anything else?Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 1:58 PM
Unroll, that's an assertion, not a proof.Delete
It would have just as useless but more succinct to say "For any number n that you know I know the number n".
And your penultimate sentence, considering closure, is especially stupid.
Did you know the number 2394823983.348272842, for example? Maybe you recognise it now, but I bet you've never even thought of it before. I have so many more numbers like this that you do not know.
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 2:22 PM
To know is to be able to define. Having "thought of it before" is not a definition of knowing that I agree with. I mean, for example, all integers are "known" to us, all digits of the decimal representation of pi are not. All terms of the sequence where the nth term is 2n are known, all the terms of an uncomputable sequence like nth term is the number of babies born in year n AD are not.Delete
tl;dr I believe known = computable, you evidently believe known = computed
I was going for "I know at least as many integers as you", not necessarily exactly as many, although you're right that would disprove the original as well.
Considering closure, it either yields itself or a different member of the group. I can't see what you mean.
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 2:40 PM
If known = computable then all the decimal digits of pi are known but all the real numbers are not.Delete
In fact, the digits of pi are more known in any real sense than "all the numbers", because there *is* some formula for establishing each decimal digit of pi. But there is no way of "computing" all real numbers - they are uncountable.
Your group comment seemed to be vacuous beyond "I know something about group terminology". For if you know any member n of the group then you also trivially know n op n as it is (possibly another) one of those members.
- Random UnrollSeptember 26, 2012 at 3:12 PM
I was very careful not to claim that "all the numbers" were somehow known, so don't put words in my mouth. I only talked about countably infinite sets. Also, pi itself is non algebraic and irrational, so the formula you're talking about has to be an approximation method that can calculate the value to within a non zero error.Delete
You're right though, if your number is in an uncountable set I don't know it. My example was specifically for integers and other countable sets.
"For if you know any member n of the group then you also trivially know n op n as it is (possibly another) one of those members."
Yes, by the same token knowing n+1 given n is exactly as trivial, which is to say not trivial at all. Again, I was demonstrating I know at least as many numbers, not exactly as many, which is why I went to the trouble of outlining how I could compute an additional member of the group for any group.
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 3:29 PM
0. If I can with 100% certainty obtain the digit then it doesn't matter what sort of formula I'm using.Delete
1. I asserted that I know more numbers than you. If you're going to read assumptions into that, you have to either state them or expect me to take you in good faith as trying to tackle the problem as presented.
2. Anyway, you specifically talked about "any other non finite group". This includes the additive group of real numbers (R,+), where the members of R are uncountable. So you weren't only talking about countably infinite sets at all.
3. "Exactly as many" implies "at least as many".
4. What is not trivial about knowing n+1 given n?
tl;dr I still know more numbers than you.
- Random UnrollSeptember 26, 2012 at 4:23 PM
0. You cannot with 100% certainty obtain all digits. Read my last comment. The error is non zero. You can achieve an arbitrary degree of accuracy but not absolute accuracy.Delete
1,2. Yes I agree, I should have explicitly stated the specific case I was looking at. I overlooked uncountable sets when thinking of the proof.
3. No. The set of possibilities covered by "exactly as many" is a subset of the possibilities covered by "at least as many". "At least as many" => "exactly as many" OR "more"
4. The fact that you know one more number than the other person.
tl;dr Yes, good job.
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 4:47 PM
0. There are infinite digits therefore you'd need infinite time to obtain all of them, but you *can* with 100% certainty obtain any of them - and, with infinite time, all of them.Delete
Perhaps you are saying that any particular iteration of some program you have in mind will only give a certain precision, but that doesn't matter - you just view that program as a subroutine to a larger program which repeatedly calls it requesting higher precision. But there are algorithms which add terms or whatever to repeatedly obtain known better precision, so even that's unnecessary.
Let's see what else you could have meant by recalling what you said:
"all integers are known to us, all digits of the decimal representation of pi are not."
You clearly didn't mean "all integers can be written down in a finite amount of time", did you? We have a very simple formula for obtaining all the integers too, but you'd need to run the algorithm (not, then, perhaps strictly an algorithm) forever to get them all. IOW, in finite time you can only list all the integers "to an arbitrary degree of accuracy but not absolute accuracy".
3. My argument: a in S, S subset T => a in T. Your argument: b in T, S subset T => b may be in S but maybe not. I'm not sure what your point is, but it's not contradicted mine. Perhaps you were keen to show that T contains some elements not in S. But you haven't shown that. You've merely shown a hypothetical candidate for an unspecified number.
4. To be absolutely clear: you haven't proven that I don't know n+1.
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 4:54 PM
8 minutes then I'm going to bed, if you have anything else to add... AFK for daaaays after that so get yer Internet manpoints in!Delete
- Random UnrollSeptember 26, 2012 at 6:46 PM
My defense is pretty untenable. That's cute, do you have all of next week planned out?Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 27, 2012 at 11:22 AM
To get back to the original poll, the answers for the last several posters are "never" and "30, give or take 10".Delete
- weaselsoupSeptember 28, 2012 at 6:58 PM
why is everyone pretending this is the xkcd forumsDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 3:07 AM
This is like a few miles from where I live. Good job, Randy. Pity your ego meant you chose to disguise yourself as a "maths teacher". Way too obvious. Should have chosen geography or something - it's just a field trip gone awry, then.Replies
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 7:05 AM
she looks like a dudeDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 7:13 AM
Abu Hamza? Well, he'll be flying your way in a few weeks, so you can take a closer look...Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 27, 2012 at 5:39 PM
I know that this blog enjoys harping on Megan, and I can get behind that. But isn't trying to tie Randy to a real world tragedy, even jokingly, just tasteless?Delete
I'm gonna go out on a limb here, Rob, but I think you use rather unsupportable subjective criteria in your letter grade assessments.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 6:15 AM
go back to africaDelete
How might one 'go back' to a geographic location one has never actually visited?Delete
Perhaps you mean for me to 'go back' to Africa in a spiritual or philosophical sense. If so, please to explain what that might be?
Actually, I have visited Africa. I once watched the sunrise at Abu Simbel and expectorated on the "Living Image of Aten" just before a bus load of Master Race types descended the stairs and 'polluted' the chamber thus forcing me to seek cleaner climes.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 7:41 AM
Yawny yawny cunt cunt.Delete
I support my grades by resting them on my enormous girth.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 8:51 PM
They rest there regardless of Rob's spatial orientation, enthralled by his mighty gravity.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 7:45 AM
Alright, I'm bored with Randall's What Ifs. They're all the same thing. "Leaving aside the laws of physics long enough to create an impossible situation, here's what the reinstated laws of physics say could happen" Yawn. Since we apparently need magic to create the What If scenarios in the first place, who's to say the wizard's spell couldn't have safeguards to prevent all the death and destruction Randy envisions?ReplyDelete
That's the other thing. Every secenario plays out with ridiculously hyperbolic destructive forces. Tsunami force jets of superheated plasma. Hurricanes of blood. Tornadoes of antimatter. Supervolcanos erupting birdshit at supersonic speeds. Faster than light shockwaves generated by the thermonuclear decomposition of small mammals. The entire population of the world trampled to death by the AI-enhanced buses of the Providence transport system.
Were you looking for a joke? Here you go. Michael Bay is a bad film-maker and his movies are chock full of ridiculous destructive scenarios. Ha-ha. It's so funny, Randall used it once in 748, based his entire What If series off of aping (his vision of) Michael Bay, then brought it up again explicitly in What If #10.Replies
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 8:11 AM
I have decided that if Randy were really an Engineering On An Epic Scale geek, he'd be spending his time What If'ing with stuff like this guy has in his backyard. If he actually built/refurbished engines like these but also wrote a comic in which he described his adventures or what he would do if life were a little bit different, I would be impressed. I wouldn't even care that this Wesley Crusher wannabe can't draw or that he can't tell even old jokes for shit.Delete
In fact, I was trawling Youtube last night and it's amazing how amateur engineers can produce a quality product. And, at the risk of conflict of interest, I always find it interesting to note how many of these guys are radio hams. There's an underlying philosophy of doing something not because it's easy and not because it makes money, but because it's an intellectual and manual challenge. Like JFK said before he was assassinated - although that cunt obviously included Vietnam in the "but because they are hard" category.
But no. Everything Randall does is in his head. Useless idiot.
Anonymous September 25, 2012 8:11 AM said,Delete
".....Like JFK said before he was assassinated - although that cunt obviously included Vietnam in the "but because they are hard" category......"
That is not what JFK said before he was assassinated! Just before he was assassinated he was explaining to Jackie why it was necessary to end school segregation but NOT to end the segregation of Marilyn's thighs.
And Vietnam was not 'hard'. The Military/Industrial Complex made it appear so for marketing purposes.
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 9:11 AM
Anonymous September 25, 2012 9:11 AM said,Delete
You, sir/madame, are good. Your laconic ripostes are indeed challenging.
But, alas, I can't be arsed to rise to them.
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 9:21 AM
In response to your expected response, I proffer, premptively, "Nyuck, nyuck."Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 9:23 AM
never mindDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 9:34 PM
Randy's aptitude for scientific method is on par with that of Mythbusters. They perform an experiment, find it boring, then proceed to introduce obscene amounts of energy through one form or another, culminating in: "LOL ASPLOSIONS"Delete
This is ok for Mythbusters, because they're engineers and entertainers, not scientists, and you respect them for the expertise and time it takes to physically set up the experiments and inevitable explosions. Randall sits at home and wildly speculates on the behaviour under impossible scenarios of systems that he read two Wikipedia articles on.
The parents of obese children are good parents.ReplyDelete
So what if they are condemning their crotch-fruit to a lifetime of ill-health excused only by its mercifully short duration(People who were obese as children will die 25 years or so sooner than they otherwise would have had they not been obese when young).
The parents of the obese give their children everything the child desires - food wise that is. The children are happy!
The parents of the obese also keep their fat offspring safe from predators. As far as I can tell, there are no chubby-chasing paedophiles lurking about and 'fugly' teens are never raped!
A morbidly obese child is a safe and happy child!Replies
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 9:41 AM
i had sex with a fatty under AoCDelete
Articles of Confederation?
Article 11:
If "Canada" (as the British-held Province of Quebec was also known) accedes to this confederation, it will be admitted.
Oh dear! What might have been!
Chess is for dorks. Go is the real shit.ReplyDeleteReplies
You can't play 'Strip' Go. You can play 'Strip' chess.Delete
Now that I, as Black, have chosen the Queen's Indian when you, as White, avoided the Nimzo-Indian by playing 3.Nf3 instead of 3.Nc3, you must take off your blouse.
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 10:11 AM
All games are for dorks.Delete
Real men apply their intelligence to solving real problems.
Real women create these real problems in order to watch real men apply their intelligence in buttock-clenched ways in their effort to solve these real 'problems'.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 10:26 AM
Playing Chess as a tease game makes it suck even worse.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 10:34 AM
This queen takes your knight, Eumesmopo.Delete
Careful, Eumesmopo, that Anonymous is a quean, not a queen.Delete
As opposed to the perfectly well-behaved lady that you are.Delete
On Thursday, September 27, 2012, at 06:00 Local Time, I depart from YOW.ReplyDelete
On Saturday, September 29, 2012, at 00:15 Local Time, I arrive at BKK.
Total stops/connections: 4.
Total transit time: 35+/- hours.
Will you miss me?Replies
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 11:13 AM
I don't know. What about you? Will you miss me?Delete
Yes Anonymous, I will miss you.Delete
I will miss you as the wind misses a McDonald's hamburger wrapper.
I will miss you as an XKCDsucks reader misses the point.
I will miss you every chance I get.
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 9:06 PM
Your feeble doggerel does not convince meDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 12:13 AM
Probably not for long. You were forgotten within the month last time, and surely you've noticed that your impact this time around has been somewhat less profound. There were moments when you even made out to be coveting esteem, which really let down your prior display of unflappable self reliance. However, I think most of your problem (if it can be considered such) stems from most of this blog's remaining audience not being the envious type. Those with delusions regarding their own worth left long ago.Delete
Where I really feel let down, however, is that my private theory of weaselsoup being an intentional inversion of your traits never played out. I had noticed that everything making you unlikable were reversed to make her likable (her gentle participation as opposed to your slipshod arrogance, her sexual frustration ie. availability as opposed to your sexual assertiveness ie. unavailability, etc.), and I sat back waiting for a grand culmination which never arrived. All we got was a washed out repeat of the first incursion, the experience of which was similar to the flavour of a vanilla diet milkshake immediately after consuming a packet of icing sugar. My expectations here were perhaps too high, but it was still disappointing.
Maybe you could at least give weaselsoup some pickup tips before you go?
Have fun in Thailand. Suck off a ladyboy for me, and try bringing a new facet if you ever come back.
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 3:12 AM
Also, four stops to Bangkok? Something's afoot.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 3:38 AM
Ah, that's one tricky riddle... Your mum? Is it your mum's that's afoot, Anon?Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 11:38 AM
I know you're sleeping and I really do hate to bother you, but I wonder if you could get up and adjust the angle of your webcam a little to its left. All I can see now is your 20 litre econo-barrel of Astroglide - with the "touch free" motion sensor activated 'bliss' dispenser, a quartet of IKEA 'SKUBB' boxes - burgundy colour and a recent Domino's large pizza box - extra baby leeks and venison.
There's a good boy.Replies
That was quick.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 3:08 PM
Of my schoolfriends, the longest I have known are i) doing a rather interest-attracting PhD [removed detail lest you cunts contact him], having been a trader for a while; and ii) having done a PhD at Imperial, now working in industrial process management.ReplyDelete
Of the more recent, we have one strategist at the MoD, one absurdly well-paid investment fund manager, one Cambridge postdoc researcher, and one (the one we all thought was mediocre) is head of department for a local private school. The dullest boy I recall from our House is now a GP with a special interest in mental health; the nastiest is (almost satisfyingly) only an investment banker of minor consequence.
I have reviewed my life and, looking at how much of a failure I am, I now choose death.Replies
I can't tell for sure if that's black humour, angst or an actual suicide message thrown into this blog at random. Wharever's the case, cheer up:Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 9:04 PM
don't forget to tell someone to upload the videoDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2012 at 9:09 PM
I postulate here that you can only become so fat before you can become no more fat.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 12:24 AM
Only because you eventually die.Delete
Anonymous September 26, 2012 12:13 AM said,ReplyDelete
".......as opposed to your slipshod arrogance....."
SLIP-SHOD (adjective)
1. careless, untidy, or slovenly: slipshod work.
2. down-at-heel; seedy; shabby.
3. Archaic: wearing slippers or loose shoes, especially ones worn at the heel.
Definitions 1 and 2 are hardly apropos. My arrogance is Olympic in stature!
My bunny-slippers would accommodate definition 3 though.
"......Where I really feel let down, however, is that my private theory of weaselsoup being an intentional inversion of your traits never played out....."
If by 'played out' you mean 'came to fruition' and if by 'let down' you mean 'disappointed', I can understand your concern. The discovery that you have improperly formulated, ostensibly because of your lack of intellectual acumen, a correct private theory must be traumatic for you.Replies
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 6:54 AM
I'm glad I'm not the first person to think weaselsoup was ALTF's alterego, even if they do not yet coincide in space and/or time.Delete
Also AC's formulation is "ostensibly" better than your alternative.
Mustelagoulash is my alterid.Delete
Who the fuck is AC?
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 10:10 AM
Take a photo of yourself for us before you leave. Hold up a "Goodbye xkcdsucks" sign. Make the photo available to us.Delete
occupatio: No excuses based on lexical, syntactic or semantic matters in this post.
"......Take a photo of yourself for us before you leave. Hold up a "Goodbye xkcdsucks" sign. Make the photo available to us......"Delete
I have, in my possession, separate photographs of Drew Brees, Stevie Nicks and Marianne Faithful together, Bob Dylan and, of all people, Danny Glover holding a sign which reads: "ALTF SUX".
You will never see these.
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 10:43 AM
Let us hear your voice.Delete
Back then she asked if we would miss her just so that she could respond to any show of affection with indifference and smugness. Dear ALTF, I hope you're not that unidimensional in real life or you would be a very dull and boring person.Delete
I am more than very dull and boring.Delete
I am irksome and zerodimensional IRL - get the Point?
Having zero dimensions means you can't exist in real life you dumb skullfuck.Delete
You didn't get the Point, did you?Delete
No you did not.
Still, you're right about my non-existence IRL. So much for the usefulness of Rob's 'Word Verification' hurdle.
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 11:17 AM
I think we should draw a Line under this twodimensional troll.Delete
To be equivalent to my droll dross, in quality, you must spell it 'humour'.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 11:28 AM
That would (further) insult humourists everywhere.Delete
I know of no extant humourist, anywhere, who is as proficient at my chosen vocation as I am at their chosen vocation.Delete
The persona being fictional doesn't make the actor unreal. By "dear ALTF" I don't refer to the obviously unexisting IRL internet character, but to the felch who's typing the crap I'm reading.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 11:44 AM
being dull is a vocation ideally practised rarely.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 11:46 AM
Hey ALTF can we have the photo please; I promise I won't fap to it.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 11:51 AM
Horseshit, ALTF. Even speaking as a straight male I'd rather get a blowjob from Julian Clary.Delete
"......Hey ALTF can we have the photo please; I promise I won't fap to it......"Delete
And I make no promises.
"......being dull is a vocation ideally practised rarely...."
I am not ideal.
Like I have said before, at least once that I recall, if only you knew who I was/am. I have a VERY large Wikipedia page - with photographs and everything - wherein many gentiles and assorted reprobates endlessly debate the veracity and validity of my various worldly accolades.
While I am away, perhaps you might avail yourself of it?
".......Even speaking as a straight male I'd rather get a blowjob from Julian Clary......"Delete
How about as a gayer then?
Eumesmopo September 26, 2012 11:43 AM said,Delete
".....but to the felch who's typing the crap I'm reading......"
I had to research that word.
It works as a noun?
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 12:08 PM
Link to the Wikipedia page, then?Delete
Thought not.
You remind me of why people took tours of Bedlam.
Eumesmopo September 26, 2012 11:43 AM said,Delete
".....but to the felch who's typing the crap I'm reading......"
I do not type, nor do I keyboard. I copy-paste letters/words with my mouse.
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 12:15 PM
SO QUIRKYDelete
".....You remind me of why people took tours of Bedlam....."Delete
Bethlem Royal?
My favourite hell on earth!
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 12:21 PM
Fun fact: Bedlam was founded in 1337.Delete
Not so interesting fact: last time I stood on the Greenwich Meridian at Greenwich, someone took a photo of me standing underneath the clock at 13:37.
captcha generator: 137. Fuck.
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 12:24 PM
do tell us moreDelete
That's very humourous of you!Delete
Red Hats!
My tutor seems to extort huge sums of money from those gals. And they give freely and willingly. I reckon he's diddling them on the side- perhaps even 'felching'.
".....Fun fact: Bedlam was founded in 1337......"Delete
Fun Fact: I don't fucking care!
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 12:29 PM
So what does this lecherous wretch of a tutor tutor you in?Delete
"....So what does this lecherous wretch of a tutor tutor you in?...."Delete
The manners and proper deportment which is expected of me according to my high social class.
It's an onerous battle for the poor man.
Stop fucking ending your sentences with a preposition or I'll fuck you up.
Carl ought to be on the guy on the far right, looking back in maddening despair as he sees what has become of his creation.Delete
Funny guy, but I must protest. I do not have delusions of grandeur, but of adequacy.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 12:52 PM
Your feeble threats only spur me on.Delete
That's fine work, you should post more frequently here.
Like me mam always said: "Treat 'em like shite, the mens loves it!"Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 1:06 PM
was your mother an 18th century tavern wench or just impersonating one?Delete
The little penis you inscribe in your 'O's to turn them into 'Q's is pitiful.Delete
Are you trying to under-compensate?
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 1:24 PM
I fear that even the smallest under-compensation would be redundant over-compensation.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 8:11 PM
"My arrogance is Olympic in stature!"Delete
Sorry, but it looks pretty slipshod to me. Maybe you can try for Olympic arrogance in your second sequel.
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 8:51 AM
hey polaczky polaczkyReplyDelete
Eumesmopo September 26, 2012 11:43 AM said,ReplyDelete
".....but to the felch who's typing the crap I'm reading......"
I had to research that word.
It works as a noun?
I don't give a felch. ♫♪ bah dum tss ♪♫Delete
Anyway. Who are you (the felch behind the keyboard, I mean)?
Not bloody likely my friend.Delete
I've too much to lose.
Is your dad going to spank your ass if he finds out?Delete
My father was killed by followers of Aung San Suu Kyi when we were escaping Myanmar.Delete
As a result, I don't like her much.
My success in the NGO business rests on my anonymity. You would not have me endanger my financial well being would you?
Of course I wouldn't.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 12:46 PM
And this is why daddy told me never to dismiss privileged reactionaries - even a broken watch hangs around the right neck once in a while.Delete
Around my neck?Delete
The albatross!
Fuck me! You ignorant cunts, that's the "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" for fuck's sake!Delete
Ignorant fucking savages!
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 1:08 PM
we know fuck what the fuck do you want a medal for the reference jesusDelete
You fucking well don't know!Delete
And yes, I want a laurel.
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 1:22 PM
We discussed the Rime a few days ago, didn't we? Do not expose yourself as one who has merely sampled the Pierian spring.Delete
A few days ago? The fuck we did. I wasn't involved and how dare you discuss such poetry without me?Delete
Like these fucking Yankees would be able to contribute?
A little slathering is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Priapean sprung.
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 1:35 PM
So ALTF, is this new "I SUCK COCKS" sig permanent?Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 1:17 PM
yes we fucking do the shoehorned reference was simply ignored because it had no relevance to the conversation at hand. you simply jump at the fucking remotest piddling opportunity to showcase the storybook daddy read you last night and expect everyone to attribute it to your culture and panache. well fuck you and fuck the horse you rode in on too because no one buys that shit for a second.ReplyDeleteReplies
".....well fuck you and fuck the horse you rode in on...."Delete
You mean the horse in on which I rode?
You are an unlettered cunt. And no mistake.
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 1:41 PM
I realise that you're side-tracked what with having to issue French letters to the Spanish maid on what's to go in your German suitcase, but would you mind bringing your usual Fool-ish creativity back to your posts? I hate to see a once great Hooke fall.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 1:46 PM
Speaking of luggage, I assume it is ALTF standing faithfully next to the old guy by the Topas Titanium. The hug gives it away.Delete
"....would you mind bringing your usual Fool-ish creativity back to your posts?....."Delete
Are you talking to me?
If not, fucking why not?
If so, fucking why so?
".....I assume it is ALTF standing faithfully next to the old guy....."Delete
Standing? Yes.
Faithfully? No.
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 1:59 PM
Corporate welfare queens have to stick together!Delete
The Private Sector?
Are you fucking mad?
Government financed NGOs all the way!
I hate the NGOs financed primarily by private donations through public appeals/churches et cetera and such. You have to make it 'look' like you're spending the charitable ducats wisely when the Press snoops about.
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 2:13 PM
An NGO is NG. The method of incorporation is a tax detail.Delete
Maybe it's a language problem? "Corporate welfare" is where the government pays money to private business to do work which i) it could do itself; ii) probably doesn't need doing anyway; and iii) certainly doesn't cost *that* much to do.
The behaviour of a (com)pliant government is epitomised by The Spitting Image 1987 Election Special in which businessmen celebrate that Britain is about to be handed over to them like so many Philistine foreskins.
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 2:18 PM
Once again, death injury agreements strike war Soviets Americans two-nil and stupid bastards.Delete
Good night.
".....An NGO is NG. The method of incorporation is a tax detail......"Delete
Maybe so, but 'NGO' oozes off the palate better than 'NG' does.
And to be perfectly honest, I care nowt for the foreskins of Philistines.
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 2:30 PM
All the Ngs at school were so good at mathematics, though.Delete
And they'd complete their papers early, swing back on their chair, look at you, and grin.
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 1:27 PM
0/10 try againReplyDelete
Let's say goodbye with a smile dear,ReplyDelete
Just for awhile dear, we must part
Don't let this parting upset you,
I'll not forget you, sweetheart,
We'll meet again,
Don't know where,don't know when.
But I know we'll meet again, some sunny day.Replies
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 2:42 PM
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 2:46 PM
ALTF, just wanted to say that my partner is masturbating me while she reads that poem to me as you've written it.Delete
Don't forget to keep that thought in mind - and I mean vividly, vividly in mind, including the part in a few minutes where I spooge in the direction of the screen and hit your avatar - while you're having your holiday at our expense!
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 2:49 PM
I do not allow you to leave us, ALTF.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 8:06 PM
2:46, would the memory of that particular ejaculation be tarnished if I were to inform you that, far from being an ALTF poem, what you were masturbated to was merely a transcription from a classic song?Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 27, 2012 at 2:02 AM
Nah. She sang it just like that old Eva Braun, she did.Delete
Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?Delete
Remember how she said that we would meet again some sunny day.
Vera! Vera!
What has become of you?
Does anybody else in here feel the way I do?
- AnonymousSeptember 28, 2012 at 3:04 AM
Maybe. I usually use my hands. How do you do it?Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 28, 2012 at 4:26 AM
I myself keep my hands in my pockets. I stand uncomfortably close to women in crowded places, protesting the lack of standing space if they complain about the bulge in my pants pressing into their backs.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 28, 2012 at 5:10 AM
I just act offended that they're pressing their large ass against my groin.Delete
Whatever response they make either admits that they're fat or that I'm exceptionally well hung. When I'm in the US, both of these are usually true.
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 4:56 PM
Best suicide method?ReplyDeleteReplies
Shooting your medulla oblongata from the back of your skull with a high caliber, modern, clean, and well maintained gun is the most painless and guaranteed way to kill yourself. If you can't acquire a gun, then your most guaranteed option would be to jump from a heigh of at least 40m and drop with your head against a solid concrete floor, however, this method has the downside of being far too dramatic and conspicuous.Delete
If you are afraid of shocking too much the people that will find your corpse and want a clean death, then you have two good options:
1º - Hanging - Only try it if you can make a good hangman's knot and tie it to something tall and sturdy. Practice it with objects that have the same weigh as you before you actually give it a go. Here's a video tutorial on how to make a hangman's knot:
2º - Asphyxia by Carbon Monoxide - All you have to do here is lock yourself inside an airtigh room (if you need to improvise the airtighting, don't make a rushed job with masking tape, instead; use clay putty and take your time to truly seal all the air passages) and burn a good amount of coal inside it. Don't worry for it won't hurt the least bit.
If you do, however, possess a shitload of balls and want to suicide like a man you can always simply grab a kitchen knife and proceed to sever your femoral arteries, stab yourself in the aorta and finish with a deep cut in the carotids. But be warned that the pain will break all but the strongest of will.
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 10:37 PM
The best suicide is the intellectual suicide of devoting your life to religion.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 27, 2012 at 2:01 AM
The worst suicide is the intellectual suicide of devoting your life to the Free Market.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 27, 2012 at 10:37 AM
Build a guillotine.Delete
- Random UnrollSeptember 27, 2012 at 1:32 PM
There's this dude cut off his own head with a chainsawDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 27, 2012 at 1:49 PM
"Some factual information for you. Have you any idea how much damage that bulldozer would suffer if I just let it roll straight over you?"Delete
"How much?" said Arthur.
"None at all," said Mr. Prosser.
What is it with neo-atheists and college lefties that they have to bash things for no apparent reason?Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 29, 2012 at 3:43 AM
I couldn't think of a worse place to bash silly and harmless things.Delete
Socialism is satanism! Ban niceness! Privatise the government then give it unregulated power! Ron Paul 2012!
- AnonymousSeptember 30, 2012 at 4:50 AM
You know that dude in the room who imagines he is relating some insight when he's really just explaining the joke that everybody else had caught on to? The guy that you seem to keep encountering at all the parties you go to even though nobody will ever admit to having invited him?Delete
Is that guy Eumesmopo, or is it me?
- AnonymousSeptember 30, 2012 at 5:15 AM
Interesting paradox, but I'd still say it's him.Delete
Anon 3:43:Delete
For all I know, Obama has helped a lot in the "Privatise the government then give it unregulated power!" part. RP would at least put an end to the corporate welfare and the fascist foreign policies.
Anon 4:50:
Nobody invited me, but it's not like I live to please anyone's whims anyway.
- AnonymousSeptember 30, 2012 at 9:20 AM
RP would enable the private sector to take over the old roles of government, becoming the new government.Delete
A country happy to buy from the China state corporation will be as happy to buy from something even more resembling John Company.
There will always be power at the top. What changes is the extent to which that power is moderated by democratic will. "Small government" just means "little democratic input".
And since when is being ruled by sellout bigwig lobbymongers a form of democratic input? US goverment already owns it's balls to a wealthy network of private interests (just look at Iraq, Lybia, ACTA, NDAA, EESA, PATRIOT and all those other stupid things that US wouldn't have done if it really were a democratic and constitutional goverment) and because of that it acts as a inverted Robin Wood, it takes away the money of the poor with it's unbalanced tax system and gives it to the rich through the guise of bullshit such as "foreing aid", "public healthcare", "national security" and "bailouts". The people at the bottom of the food chain would do much better without a big goverment.Delete
- AnonymousOctober 1, 2012 at 2:21 AM
This sure is an exciting exchange of the same old tired rhetoric that everybody has heard before. It is the debate to end all debates. Who will stick most steadfastly to their cookie cut ideal? Who will most convincingly feign that their position is built more upon rationality than emotion? The anticipation is intense.Delete
- thejanitorSeptember 27, 2012 at 6:34 AM
A mediocre suicide is the intellectual suicide of coming to this blog.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousSeptember 27, 2012 at 6:55 AM
A vainglorious suicide is the intellectual suicide of assuming that your life is more meaningful than this blog.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 27, 2012 at 10:03 AM
HI ALTF!!Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 27, 2012 at 12:00 PM
There are insufficient Megan Stammers Stammers jokes.ReplyDelete
In formulating his plan, I would like to start by assuming that Forrest was not talkin' 'bout his g-g-g-generation.Replies
- AnonymousSeptember 27, 2012 at 12:03 PM
Jokes about Megan will get old.Delete
Unlike Megan.
- AnonymousSeptember 27, 2012 at 12:04 PM
I'm surprised Randy isn't getting on his White Knight horse and milking this one too.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 27, 2012 at 3:02 PM
i like how the alt text for 1113 serves no purpose other than to over-explain the joke, thereby making it totally unfunnyReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 27, 2012 at 4:27 PM
I think most "bad" people are simply scared. Not counting psychopaths, psychotics, and jewsReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousSeptember 27, 2012 at 4:52 PM
I think most "bad" people are simply cunts.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 27, 2012 at 5:24 PM
To be sure. But if it makes any sense, the judge part of me is intolerant, the human part, indulgent.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 28, 2012 at 3:09 AM
I think all scared people should be weeded out and exterminated. The next evolution of society can't afford cowards. You are only as strong as your weakest link.Delete
- Random UnrollSeptember 28, 2012 at 4:04 AM
Meet the contemporary ubermensch: internet tough guyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 28, 2012 at 5:49 AM
Bet you wouldn't say that to my face.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 28, 2012 at 6:18 AM
Bet you'd never show it.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 28, 2012 at 6:18 AM
Your ass has always been the reasonable one.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 28, 2012 at 11:18 AM
Come on, 5:49. Pics/dox or you are a pussy.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 28, 2012 at 2:29 PM
http://www.facebook.com/daniel.smithson.180, bitch. If you have the guts to meet up I'll fuck you up.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 28, 2012 at 3:15 PM
Yeah, you probably would fuck me up. I would be laughing so hard at your faggot goatee that I wouldn't be able to defend myself.Delete
- Random UnrollSeptember 28, 2012 at 7:06 PM
http://www.facebook.com/officialchucknorrispage?fref=ts, bring it on son. Pick a time and place.Delete
Just what kind of retarded white trash fuck threatens, right out of the blue, people he doesn't even know and proceeds to show his identity after that? Seriously, were you born with idiotism or did you catch it by sucking musty cocks?Delete
- Random UnrollSeptember 28, 2012 at 11:37 PM
lol you actually believe that profile belongs to the person who posted it?Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 30, 2012 at 6:59 AM
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.ReplyDelete
Hey, did I tell you I visited a tribe of pedophiliac cannibals the other day?
- AnonymousSeptember 30, 2012 at 1:57 PM
That's just what the tribe tells tourists. They were probably all sniggering and nudging each other in the ribs as they watched you operate under the illusion you were broadening your cultural horizons.ReplyDelete


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RunJRun is a very simple system for doing parallel processing in Java, using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances as compute nodes. The basic compute unit is a Runnable, Serializable Java object, a "task" for short. A user submits a list of such tasks to RunJRun. Each task then has its run() method invoked on an EC2 instance. To use it, you'll need an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that has the RunJRun server-side software installed; several such AMIs are available.
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This is something I've always wondered.
I've sucked a few guys in my past and when it comes to climax they always seem to get such a kick out of having their cum swallowed. One guy even wiped a bit off the side of my face and fed it to me with his finger while he was...well...almost giggling.
Some guys make it known to me before I blow them that they want to be swallowed.
Others ask.
And others are shocked when I do it because they've never had it done to them.
But they all seem to get the hugest kick out of it. I would figure that just getting head would be enough...but it's almost as if they do it just to see someone swallow their spunk.
Any thoughts?