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Address bar? Well, unless you're in Firefox 3.5, where they call it the "Awesome Bar", even though some of its functionality appeared previously in other browsers.

I think they've blocked your hotlinking.

This is the link to the image: http://eatliver.com/img/2007/2128.jpg

Edit: Ah, how crude, it checks the referrer.
Edit edit: egads, now it shows. One would think they'd be better at this...

But I don't recognize the location in Chicago.

Champagne flutes, actually. But one serves sparkling wine if the vintner isn't actually from the Champagne region of France.

There was a guy on the 55 Garfield bus, back when I rode it from the Red Line to home in Hyde Park, who would repeatedly try to sell everyone products with this line: "I got CDs, DVDs, Pornos, CDs, Pornos, Pornos, Pornos, Pornos..."

I'm surprised he didn't sell LPs, because he skipped like they did at certain points.

Also, I'm glad I don't live in Uptown anymore. I only found out after I moved there that there used to be a mental hospital in the area that closed down. And no, I don't like that Billy Joel song.

Well, according to my reputation ticker, I'm apparently, even after all these years, missing the point.

Which is quite true, I wasn't aware this thread had a point.

Also, that's a really big gun. It's almost like I'm compensating for something.

It's too bad we can't self-police and remove other tags.

Wouldn't that be a Haet crime?

I still need to up my post count and pretend to reply when I know nobody will respond.

This is why I <3 Ely, even if we have that legitimate beef over the Medic badge.

I would disagree.

There have been times when it looked like an actual conversation was starting in a Rookery thread... only to have it rollover to the next day, and the thread wither and die.

And even if the thread is repeated daily, tabula rasa, everybody in it already seems to know each other, so it's more difficult to get into the natural rhythms and patterns.

There have been examples when new posts have been completely ignored, because the thread has already started blowing, as clouds do, in another direction, and there's little effort made to reconnect with previous threads.

Convenience and organization, perhaps. I don't see the inclusiveness.

Not quite. You're the one in here trying to shut them up, so it's not like you're on the high horse here.

You could, after all, ignore what you view as irritating, offensive junk.

Thanks for playing though.[/QUOTE]

Actually, I think the biggest irony is that the people complaining about the Rookery are having fun. In their own thread. And you're the ones trying to limit their fun by coming in and argue with them.

And the funny thing is, that's probably heightening their enjoyment, just like how hearing the whinging of humans always makes releasing the neurotoxic gas into the labs that much more fun.

I think your numbers are off. If it's 5 pages, and we presume 25 per page, 48 + 9 = 57, which doesn't work.

We should be trying to figure out the number out of 125.

If we're talking about just the two you counted, pages 1 and 4, that should be 50 threads: 7 out of 50 is what you had, which is still a relatively high 14%.

Lies. The more hostile it gets, the funnier and funner it is.

3 Rookery-related threads out of 25 leads to 12%, or almost an eighth of all threads. Virtually all other threads are one-offs; in other words, 4%. (We are, for the moment, excluding the Stickied threads.) It's significantly more.

How significantly more? Well, that's a 200% more Rookery threads, if I've done my math right, than each one-off regular thread. 3 times as many.

And that's on the first page.

Sure, bring the math. There's always a way to make it look bad.

The guy who stands on Michigan Avenue, Chicago, proclaiming that Obama is a part of the Russian Communist plot isn't violating any rules, and it's easy enough to look and walk past him, but after the first few days of seeing him, his presence just starts getting... well, let's just say that if they institutionalized him, most people wouldn't mind.

Those town hall meetings for the health care program, nobody has to go to them if they don't want to. They're easy enough to ignore, and they're probably good for our form of democracy. So why do people go to them just to shout down other people for no reason?

Every now and then I peek in. Sometimes I find a off-hand statement that I'd like to respond to. So I do.

Then I realize it's like spitting into the wind. Don't get me wrong, a breeze is a breeze, and they're always nice, even if you're Marilyn Monroe, and it's staged and coming from a vent below you, but if you're sensible, you quickly realize there are other places more worth your time.

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a/s/l?

I have very little invested in G.I. Joe, since at the time of my youth, I was more entertained by My Little Pwnies and Tetris, but I find it odd that we're placing so little value on continuity.

Or is it just specific to this franchise, where we say frak all to what's been established before?

It's not quite pretentiousness if it's not an affectation.

Can't have been much digging. The last forum software was UBBthreads, while this one's vBulletin. While both are written in PHP connecting to a MySQL backend, they're entirely separate products from different, competing companies. I think the owners of vBulletin wanted to sell to UBBthreads at one point, but never got there.

I'm not sure why they didn't cut costs and just use phpBB instead.

As far as the joke... meh.

*shrugs* We all look for different things in a movie. For a dumb summer flick, this doesn't meet my requirements.

Is this like, Women in Refrigerators-style "Thanks for showing up, GTFO now" ?