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When just a good thread -- isn't |
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Posts: 876 (06/22/09 07:53:05) Master Shockliner |
You've all experienced it. Enticed by the title of a forum topic, you click the link, eager for some stimulating discussion -- only to find your senses
engulfed by a mind-numbing barrage of insipid funny cat pictures, spam, and canned political arguments from people who can only parrot the talking points of
Rachael Maddow and Sean Hannity.
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Posts: 3515 (06/22/09 07:58:53) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon |
and as soon as the name calling starts the thread falls off the the edge of the earth. If I had a penny for everytime I saw that happen.
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Posts: 877 (06/22/09 08:06:15) Master Shockliner |
John Morrissey wrote: Nonsense. Certainly we can all agree to strict qualitative measures of what constitutes a good message board thread. After all, a thread must never be produced merely for entertainment's sake. Nay, the original poster must always strive for artistic integrity. The post must have merit. It must broaden horizons and minds. It can never be trivial, nor can it merely be enjoyable. It must always transcend. It must be constructed in a manner that reveals deeper truths about the human condition. Otherwise, it is inferior and must be castigated and driven from the bleating masses like a rabid, herpes-infected llama. Or something. 
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Posts: 878 (06/22/09 08:10:55) Master Shockliner |
PS: Apologies to all. I was in a good mood and decided to give you a bit of a laugh by parodying the
other thread.
Apparently, it went over like a lead balloon. We now return you to your regular programming. |
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Posts: 4201 (06/22/09 08:28:38) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon |
Ow. Maybe there's no place for humor on a monday!
JG Faherty
www.jgfaherty.com 'Everyone has a monster inside.' "Bones," in Cemetery Dance #58 (available now) "The Toll" and "Hybrids" in Wrong World, www.wrongworld.com (available now) "Experimental Subject," in Bits of the Dead "Family First," in Dark Territories |
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Posts: 1741 (06/22/09 08:37:25) Shocklineraholic |
Dear Brian Keene --
I'll transcend YOU, pal! Yer pal, Transcendo the Angry Clown |
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Posts: 1133 (06/22/09 08:41:54) Veteran Shockliner |
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nkalanta |
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Posts: 14092 (06/22/09 08:42:23) Queen of Horror World
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To hell with you Keene - I only come here for the funny cat pictures.
You are so going to the basement. Like Horror? Visit Horror World |
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Posts: 1742 (06/22/09 08:48:55) Shocklineraholic |
Dear TomokatO --
I find that just looking at the "King of Threads" reveals deeper truths about the human condition. Namely, that we're retarded. And that I wish I had that hat. However, I would like to add that this photo is very well executed. If it was just a shitty, incompetent drawing in crayon on a napkin, it...would probably still be funny. Yer pal, Skipp |
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Posts: 879 (06/22/09 08:57:24) Master Shockliner |
nkalanta wrote: Says the Stephanie Meyer of message board topics. 
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Posts: 4114 (06/22/09 09:00:53) Shockliner Monkey King |
nkalanta wrote:Yay. I'll finally have some company down here in Nanci's basement. Now if she'd just change the bucket she makes me use. 
L.L. Soares
Horror writer/film critic/talking ape/all-around rotten bastid Website: Infernally Yours MySpace Page Coming in 2010: IN SICKNESS (story collection) from Skullvines Press Cinema Knife Fight - regular column on Fearzone.com |
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Posts: 526 (06/22/09 09:11:48) Veteran Shockliner |
Brian Keene wrote:Nanci had 29.5 million people peruse her threads last year? |
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Posts: 14093 (06/22/09 09:14:16) Queen of Horror World
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Y'all can just BYTE ME!
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Posts: 3445 (06/22/09 09:15:19) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon |
This cat is not here for mere entertainment. This cat has merit and artistic integrity. This cat transcends, baby.
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Posts: 881 (06/22/09 09:22:24) Master Shockliner |
WatersDan wrote: Sadly, she did indeed. It is infuriating, because none of those 29.5 million people know a good thread from a bad thread, nor are they qualified to tell us what sort of thread they enjoy reading.
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Posts: 2451 (06/22/09 09:30:12) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon |
You are looking like shit these days Keene. What happened?
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Posts: 883 (06/22/09 09:32:09) Master Shockliner |
DSolow wrote: I grew as old as you. |
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Posts: 527 (06/22/09 09:34:47) Veteran Shockliner |
Brian Keene wrote: What! 29.5 million Nanci fans can't be wrong! |
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Posts: 2452 (06/22/09 09:36:53) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon |
I grew as old as you.Ok, that just cost me some serious money. I bet the entire Tomo Board you would not come back with an "old" remark. |
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Posts: 884 (06/22/09 09:40:09) Master Shockliner |
DSolow wrote: I've a fondness for the classics.
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Posts: 14094 (06/22/09 09:42:41) Queen of Horror World
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WatersDan wrote: I bow to your superior taste Mr. Waters 
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