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posted under "Announcements" at 16:43:23 by Adam

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02.04.05, 16:50:39 Adam wrote:
now, that's not really from titanic. who's the guy in the back?

02.04.05, 17:07:27 Zoyx wrote:
Have you done Billy Jean King yet?

02.04.05, 17:16:42 Adam wrote:
don't think so! ;) just when I think that there can't be any more king stuff another one shows up.

02.04.05, 17:53:04 Pookareena wrote:
What about King Tut?
or King Lobster? Or King Crab?
or Budweiser, King of Beers?
or the Scorpion King?
or Alan Ralsky, the King of Spam email? (this one's a bit obscure, which is why I like it)
or the hundreds of Biblical Kings?
Have any of these been done??
Face it, Adam, this thing is never ever going away!!!

02.04.05, 18:01:38 Adam wrote:
i guess not! heh. king crab.

02.04.05, 20:21:11 Cloudscout wrote:
Oh, yes... we did King Tut.

By the way, you may have noticed a bunch of weird stuff in your directory today, Adam...

I'm tinkering with WordPress right now since Nucleus development has pretty much stopped. WordPress has lots of stuff to control comment spam so we can open comments back up again... it also has a lot of other great admin features and its plugin architecture is very robust.

The hardest part is importing the existing posts from Nucleus. There aren't any scripts that will do it automatically (at least, none that work right now... all have serious problems). So I'm working on making a script that will export from Nucleus to the Movable Type format which can then be easily imported into WordPress.

I'll let you take a peek when it's done so you can decide if you want us to switch to it. It's pretty cool. I hope to have it working by Sunday.

02.04.05, 21:00:01 Cloudscout wrote:
I'd like to go on record right now as saying that Nucleus really, really sucks under the hood.

It uses some bizarre method of managing URLs in posts (both links and images) that makes it incredibly difficult to actually EXPORT the stupid information.

I can trick it into exporting just the posts themselves as nice, clean HTML by creating a separate template/skin but then we don't get any of the comments.

I found a PHP script that someone wrote a year ago that is supposed to export all posts and comments into a MovableType-friendly import file but I guess it was written for an older version of MT and Nucleus so I've been trying to rewrite the thing but I still can't get it to manage URLs correctly. I've found some other bits of code elsewhere that may help. We'll see.

02.04.05, 22:01:20 Cloudscout wrote:
Okay, I figured out most of it... but some of the images in posts still don't show up. Not sure how to fix it... or if it really even matters since 99% of the posts here have no images in them.

At any rate, I'll work on the style sheets for the WordPress blog and then Adam can decide if he wants to go that way or not.

02.10.05, 17:32:16 Adam wrote:
hehe, nice pic of BILL. would you consider that a shit eating grin?

02.11.05, 11:54:44 Adam wrote:
king banana?

02.14.05, 12:14:57 Special K wrote:
Sir Ian McKellen made an appearance in the mid 80s Pet Shop Boys video: Heart.

I thought this would be an appropriate Valentine title bar. Plus he's creepy as a vampire!

02.18.05, 01:04:08 Cloudscout wrote:
I hired a monkey to take notes for me in class!

02.18.05, 11:39:27 Special K wrote:
Sea the monkey.

02.20.05, 08:39:55 Pookareena wrote:
Brass monkey! That funky monkey! Brass monkey, chunky! That funky monkey!
Sorry, I had to get that out of my system.

03.01.05, 13:16:43 Special K wrote:
George Michael's album cover for his song "Monkey."

03.01.05, 13:23:12 T Dog wrote:
You need the Evil Monkey that hides in Chris's closet (from Family Guy).

03.01.05, 15:44:08 Tom Servo wrote:
anyone remember Mon Chi Chi???

03.01.05, 17:10:36 Dena wrote:
All so soft and cuddly?

03.01.05, 17:49:27 Tom Servo wrote:
that oddly suggestive and disturbing 'THUMB' aaaaaaaaaiiii!

03.07.05, 13:14:50 Special K wrote:
Maybe next time you can hire... the A-Team.

BLAM

BLAM

BLAM

BLAM BLAM

03.10.05, 00:42:57 Cloudscout wrote:
Want your very own shirt?

http://www.dieselsweeties.c...

03.11.05, 11:42:29 Special K wrote:
I was looking for that graphic but couldn't remember who had done it. Linda from LB loved that monkey.

03.15.05, 10:48:54 Dena wrote:
Adam Vernier! Did you put that sock monkey up there?!

03.16.05, 15:51:51 Adam wrote:
that monkey was super annoying and so were the other two in that pic. wonder twins. HAH!
i heard that all three of these characters were added in after the fact because the studio execs didn't think the show was accessable enough to younger audiences. uugh, if I were the artist I'd have a hissy-fit.

03.23.05, 10:43:21 Special K wrote:
I'M CAPTAIN KIRK!

03.29.05, 08:29:42 Special K wrote:
Just a suggestion but maybe the perma-thread for title discussion should have the comment order reversed. Also it might be nice to have a troubleshooting perma-link for problems or suggestions related to the website.

03.29.05, 12:21:05 Cloudscout wrote:
Nucleus doesn't support changing the comment sort order on an individual post.

03.30.05, 13:38:17 Special K wrote:
Does wordpress?

03.31.05, 08:47:22 Adam wrote:
Asparagus makes my pee smell.

03.31.05, 09:22:32 Special K wrote:
I don't think I wanted to know that. So here's a retort: Coffee makes MINE smell.

03.31.05, 18:15:45 Adam wrote:
whatever I want, God!

04.29.05, 13:35:59 Special K wrote:
Sinsitar had an optical 49-Way joystick. Unbelievable for 1983.

05.10.05, 14:01:44 Special K wrote:
FAMILY automart!

05.11.05, 08:54:22 Special K wrote:
Mr. Abs. Doin' it old shcool.

05.19.05, 09:38:29 Special K wrote:
In case you're wondering where the graphic is from... It's from one of the funniest episodes of the X-Files ever in which Jesse and Alex play the mysterious 'Men in Black'.

05.19.05, 10:35:33 T Dog wrote:
Many people mistake Venus for a UFO.

05.19.05, 11:34:40 Adam wrote:
Not to mention youranus.

05.25.05, 10:28:53 Adam wrote:
I want that car!

06.03.05, 08:36:40 Adam wrote:
oh trixie!

06.03.05, 10:07:00 Cloudscout wrote:
Oh, Speed! Are you alright?

06.03.05, 11:55:40 GwenGwen wrote:
This does not affect us at all! Ha ha!

06.06.05, 02:47:04 Cloudscout wrote:
Today's graphic comes from this site:

http://www.bloogue.net/b2.p...

Scroll all the way to the bottom.

06.21.05, 11:20:36 Special K wrote:
Shouldn't that read "Lick my glass."?

06.24.05, 12:07:06 Adam wrote:
girr!

06.27.05, 11:28:23 Special K wrote:
Are you lost?

07.06.05, 11:43:15 Adam wrote:
mmm pancakes.

07.06.05, 15:47:31 Special K wrote:
Don't they look yummy?

07.13.05, 09:04:19 Special K wrote:
Sorry about the animated gif. :)

I couldn't help it. I slipped and fell into animation shop and it just popped out.

07.13.05, 09:42:54 Adam wrote:
animated gifs are cool with me. it's the ones that make annoying noises that get to me.

08.01.05, 11:18:08 Xsyntrex wrote:
Where did that title graphic (looks like an airline safety manual satire) come from? And are there more?

08.02.05, 11:35:40 Adam wrote:
okay, i don't get it. what's underneath the suit? that looks like the suit from 2001.

08.10.05, 09:26:55 Pookareena wrote:
Ahhhhh! Mr. Abs!! Need to do my stupid crunches...urgh.

09.09.05, 10:15:07 Adam wrote:
Speaking of ice cream....
http://darthcream.ytmnd.com/

09.12.05, 09:33:15 Adam wrote:
are those dudes in a dual-person hair dryer?

09.12.05, 10:23:40 Special K wrote:
"Those dudes" as you put it are Agent 86 a.k.a. Maxwell Smart played by Don Adams and his boss "The Chief" played by Edward Platt from the highly comical 60's television show: _Get Smart_.

They used the "Cone of Silence" in several episodes to secure their conversation. They also used the Umbrella of Silence and a portable version of the Cone of Silence.

Would you believe... Don Adams played Inspector Gadget in the 80s cartoon series.

Other memorable characters were:

Agent 99 played by Barbara Feldon
Hymie played by Dick Gautier

09.12.05, 20:13:50 Tom Servo wrote:
Was watching 'Sledgehammer' if ANYONE remembers that totally incredible show... and noticed that in the background, two apt. doors have '86' and '99' on them. nice lil tribute!

09.27.05, 20:40:26 T Dog wrote:
Ole!!

09.30.05, 10:07:23 Dena wrote:
oh fer cute. I want me some kittens.

09.30.05, 11:00:29 Tom Servo wrote:
I've been interested in the phrase 'oh fer cute' of late... is this a regional thing?

09.30.05, 14:21:17 Special K wrote:
Yah shur yoo betchya.

10.04.05, 13:21:10 Adam wrote:
weird, i just cleaned our cat-pan today.

10.11.05, 23:09:13 Tom Servo wrote:
I reached some sort of geek sartori last night while watching Dune with my gf last night. Her being a Dune Virgin, I was explaining some plot points to her. As the Words flowed out of my mouth I felt a tightness in my skull as my pineal gland expanded and the world shon anew in radiant bliss. These words were as thus;
"Oh yeah.. the Fremen? Um... they're collecting water to trasform the planet... and they're building a fighting force of extraordinary magnitude. They forge their tradition in the spirit of their ancestors."


Anyone been reading Questionable Content?

10.12.05, 08:26:27 Adam wrote:
haha, nice tomserveo. I think we should give you a hand!

10.12.05, 09:33:40 Dena wrote:
Or an intervention...

10.12.05, 17:12:13 Tom Servo wrote:
You have my gratitude!

11.02.05, 16:02:37 Tom Servo wrote:
What did you do that poor horse?

11.07.05, 15:21:52 Special K wrote:
Le Flaming Potty Seat.

11.11.05, 10:58:32 Special K wrote:
Veteran's Day Today.

I did have the title named "Remember" but then I thought that was a bad title. Most of us -can't- remember--except for what we've read in books. The Gulf War we can. The current 'war' we can. But WWI, II, Vietnam and all the wars before and around that time--many of us can't.

So then I thought I would change it to 'Respect'. Because I think all of us want to respect our troops.

And then the song lyric from the song "Respect" came to me. And I thought it an appropriate, thought-provoking sentence.

Anyway... It's Veteran's Day. Do what you normally do to honor them.

11.27.05, 01:18:16 Tom Servo wrote:
Hey A, D, A and A, (and anyone else who was there) Big Ups and thanks all for hanging in da Big CF and boogyin down wit da disco bowl! I had a blast! whoooooO!

11.27.05, 09:35:52 Adam wrote:
yeah swervo! was a grand time! we always have a blast when we come to CF. good seeing u.

12.12.05, 08:17:23 Adam wrote:
leather jacket + speedo = genius!

12.12.05, 14:07:28 2J wrote:
Please do the needful, and place a censorship-bar over 2/3 of the title graphic.

12.19.05, 15:20:30 Special K wrote:
Festivus requires one unadorned aluminum pole.
I give you...
THE POLE!

01.04.06, 20:55:47 Tom Servo wrote:
My super power is also soaking up syrup. WHO put that up there? Roll call for all who read Questionable Content... Lacey and I are big fans. I can't wait to buy my own Pintsize. so yeah, fess up! who's a QC reader?

01.18.06, 09:47:48 Special K wrote:
I don't think Mister Absurd's search engine works very well.

It only found 12 Shatner entries. There have to be more than that.

01.23.06, 09:25:36 GwenGwen wrote:
Isn't it cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute!

01.24.06, 13:09:09 Special K wrote:
What in the hell is that?

01.25.06, 17:56:38 2J wrote:
I don't want to know.
Looks... painful.

02.22.06, 07:56:54 Special K wrote:
I had one of those. I sold it on ebay for $20 with all of the tapes I had acquired too.

02.22.06, 10:09:43 T Dog wrote:
You haven't heard KC and the Sunshine band until you've listened to them on 8 Track!

02.23.06, 12:57:29 T Dog wrote:
It's official, Issac Asimov has always looked old.

04.24.06, 10:44:31 Pookareena wrote:
Oh god, I almost peed my pants when I clicked on Mr Absurd and saw Dr Winikoff (or whatever). Thanks for the laugh:-D

04.24.06, 11:50:54 Adam wrote:
yeah. hehe. we got a really good laugh out of that article.

06.20.06, 14:45:18 Cloudscout wrote:
Ahh, Internet Celebrities. Such fleeting fame.

08.02.06, 23:18:24 GwenGwen wrote:
Do you need TP? For your bunghole?

10.17.06, 13:29:16 Adam wrote:
poop!

10.19.06, 09:35:45 Special K wrote:
Guess Who is in the title graphic and you'll win a prize!

10.24.06, 13:24:46 T Dog wrote:
Someone set us up the bomb!

10.25.06, 14:42:57 Special K wrote:
All your base... are belong to us!

11.16.06, 17:27:59 Cloudscout wrote:
I love pudding pops.

01.10.07, 21:26:59 Tom Servo wrote:
Men! Men in tights!

01.19.07, 15:24:20 Adam wrote:
i have great hair!

01.19.07, 15:49:28 Special K wrote:
Well that's one way to look at it. :-)

02.23.07, 08:18:30 Adam wrote:
lol. I love it.

02.26.07, 10:44:00 Adam wrote:
um. ahh. uuuh. *no comment*

02.26.07, 11:04:47 Pookareena wrote:
That cherry ain't lookin' so good these days...

03.07.07, 19:17:48 Pookareena wrote:
You color bad.

03.15.07, 12:52:54 Adam wrote:
treasure bath!

03.15.07, 13:29:28 Cloudscout wrote:
It's good to be the king.

03.15.07, 15:38:03 Special K wrote:
Unless you're Caesar.

03.29.07, 11:38:04 Adam wrote:
is this a reference to something?

05.17.07, 07:42:38 Xsyntrex wrote:
That's not hot.

05.17.07, 09:35:04 Special K wrote:
Far from it. I don't even know why anyone would find her attractive.

06.24.07, 14:29:42 Pookareena wrote:
CHICKEN BUTT!!!!!!!!!!

07.20.07, 09:02:29 Special K wrote:
That is the best title-graphic image ever. http://www.misterabsurd.com...

07.20.07, 09:16:20 Adam wrote:
it makes me laugh every time I look at it.

07.23.07, 03:52:28 Tom Servo wrote:
Why don't you purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka?

08.10.07, 07:47:45 Adam wrote:
hehehe. yay!

08.17.07, 23:04:48 Adam wrote:
sweet! thanks to whoever put up the vader clipping the bush image. That used to be my desktop background and then I changed it and couldn't find the image. ;)

09.16.07, 00:52:47 Cloudscout wrote:
Are the new ads on the item pages too annoying? If so, I'll pull 'em. I think it's funny to see what kinds of targeted ads show up on the weird posts we make, though.

Oh, and we've pulled in just shy of $5 in ad revenue since we started the ads a few weeks back. If that trend continues, it will cover hosting costs each year. Woohoo!

09.18.07, 01:15:51 Tom Servo wrote:
hey hey I can't log into the admin area. And i have neat-o stuff to share! :o

09.18.07, 09:32:20 Cloudscout wrote:
What happens when you click on the Admin Area? You're obviously logged in or it wouldn't have let you post a comment.

09.18.07, 17:51:33 Tom Servo wrote:
It say, "Message: Sorry, you're not allowed to log in to the admin area. You can log in as another user, though"

Have I been banned due to excessive punctuation??!!????!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!???????

09.18.07, 18:22:48 Cloudscout wrote:
I don't know. You must have pissed someone off (or someone accidentally clicked something). Heh. It's fixed now. Hopefully it wasn't intentional. ;)

09.18.07, 23:33:09 T Dog wrote:
Did the image upload page go away? I finally went to use it. Poof.

09.19.07, 00:03:21 Cloudscout wrote:
No, it's still there. You have to go to create a new item and then click on the far-right icon in the formatting toolbar. That will pop open a new window for uploading images.

09.19.07, 02:32:16 Tom Servo wrote:
I'm SORRY! grovel grovel! (i said that just like the hamburgler says "rubble rubble")

10.29.07, 12:43:43 Special K wrote:
Michael Jackson as a Mii.

I'm totally going to make 3 or 4 Michaels on my wii.

Err.

um.

yeah.

12.05.07, 16:09:59 Adam wrote:
I gotta get me some of them sauna hot pants!

01.09.08, 12:34:37 Adam wrote:
*sigh* I love breakfast.

03.14.08, 15:07:42 Cloudscout wrote:
As soon as I saw the title graphic today, the first thing that came to mind was that "They're always after me Lucky Charms!" would make a great ALT tag. I was pleased to see that SK was already on the same wavelength.

03.14.08, 15:36:20 Pookareena wrote:
I want some Lucky Charms...but just the marshmallow pieces.

03.14.08, 15:41:33 Special K wrote:
Like minds and all that.

We need to move this tank to Wordpress. There are better ways to manage pages there. ;-)

03.25.08, 02:07:26 Cloudscout wrote:
The original of today's graphic can be found here:

http://www.goodlookin.tv/ne...

03.25.08, 05:18:51 T Dog wrote:
My eyes!

03.25.08, 10:51:37 Special K wrote:
My eyes!

03.25.08, 14:54:38 Cloudscout wrote:
Just so there's no confusion, that's NOT a picture of 2J.

03.25.08, 17:59:02 Dena wrote:
riiiiiight.

04.07.08, 08:15:28 Special K wrote:
It's not easy being green.

05.09.08, 16:34:24 Tom Servo wrote:
Dear Dena, I have a computer problem that I just can't seem to figure out. I wrote someone an email a couple days ago, and they haven't written me back yet. I keep hitting 'refresh', but there is still no new message for me. How do I get their email back to me to show up quicker?

05.09.08, 16:59:02 Adam wrote:
I also hit refresh up to ten times a day. I'm expecting an email from a friend but I keep getting a message from someone named Haywood Jablowme about some erectile dysfunction medication. So, I know my email is working and unfortunately I'm working too, so I don't really need this product. WTF?

05.12.08, 15:40:01 Tom Servo wrote:
Perhaps you should try to track down this Haywood. He can't be happy that you're getting all his important boner mail.

06.30.08, 07:50:19 Tom Servo wrote:
fish beat!

04.30.09, 11:50:45 Cloudscout wrote:
Stock up on Hamiflu!

05.01.09, 11:57:52 Tom Servo wrote:
And Leon is getting laaaaaaaarger!

05.01.09, 13:13:05 Adam wrote:
Get that finger out of your ear! You don't know where that finger's been!

06.05.09, 10:42:47 Tom Servo wrote:
ow I just stubbed my toe! ow ow ow

06.09.09, 01:13:36 Tom Servo wrote:
Poop!

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