Well, we got as far as installing MT3.12.
Look for us to restore the old content any hour now.
Update: We fixed things up as best we could and while the template needs a bit of work, all should be fine. The only thing to note now that is a few people are still getting the old site and leaving comments there — keeping them busy in their own, bizarro alternate universe. 🙂
Jen Shroder asks:
Did Geraldo completely make up all those cult stories and if so, why is he still a respected journalist?
This is a little bit too much like World Forum:
Good evening. Tonight is indeed a unique occasion in the history of television. We are very privileged, and deeply honoured to have with us in the studio, Karl Marx, founder of modern socialism, and author of the ‘Communist Manifesto’. Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, better known to the world as Lenin, leader of the Russian Revolution, writer, statesman, and father of modern communism. Che Guevara, the Cuban guerrilla leader. And Mao Tse-tung, leader of the Chinese Communist Party since 1949. […]
Che Guevara – Coventry City last won the FA Cup in what year? No? I’ll throw it open. Coventry City last won the FA Cup in what year? No? Well, I’m not surprised you didn’t get that. It was in fact a trick question. Coventry City have never won the FA Cup.
PS: Don’t miss this exciting treatment of Jen’s recent column, In Lone Defense of Scott Peterson:
Jen’s got all the instincts of a great lawyer. See, she takes the time to explain that “unknown circumstances” are just fancy legal jargon for “circumstances that are unknown.” Johnnie Cochran, watch your ass!!!
Andrew Sullivan writes:
ALL-TIME MALKIN AWARD NOSTALGIC ENTRY: How could we forget the classic Pat Robertson fund-raising pitch:
Given that the only clear reason for the existence of the Malkin award is her calling bullshit on Andy’s fundraising drive pathetic cries for money, mixing up Malkin award and fund-raising pitch really takes things up to a whole new level.
Meanwhile, Andy and his anonymous reader receive another F in German from us:
MISC: It turns out that the correct spelling is “verklemmt” …
if you spell it the German way, which I think most people would. The Yenta character on Saturday Night Live used the word as if it were Yiddish, but it’s not–it’s high German for “overwrought”–it just sounds Yiddish and funny to the English ear.
Unmittelbare Treffer
uptight = verklemmt
Funny how right Leo can be sometimes.
We’d also add that we’ve only ever heard of high German in reference to the spoken language — not to indicate that some words have different meanings in, say, Hannover and Stuttgart. (On this point though, we’ll happily defer to any native speaker that might be around.)
Verklemmt is an actual German word that is still in use, and means shy, self-conscious, repressed. Verklempt sounds Yiddish to me, and probably has a similar meaning.
PS: How is it that a self-proclaimed inventor of the blogosphere still can’t manage to have a separate link for every post, choosing instead to post several items as one? JFC get a clue.
Over at Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall links to the (excellent) No More Mister Nice Blog with this comment:
[ed.note: Thanks to this blogger for pointing me toward the story.]
ARTHUR:
Old woman!
DENNIS:
Man!
ARTHUR:
Man. Sorry. What knight lives in that castle over there?
DENNIS:
I’m thirty-seven.
ARTHUR:
I– what?
DENNIS:
I’m thirty-seven. I’m not old.
ARTHUR:
Well, I can’t just call you ‘Man’.
DENNIS:
Well, you could say ‘Dennis’.
ARTHUR:
Well, I didn’t know you were called ‘Dennis’.
DENNIS:
Well, you didn’t bother to find out, did you?
ARTHUR:
I did say ‘sorry’ about the ‘old woman’, but from the behind you looked–
DENNIS:
What I object to is that you automatically treat me like an inferior!
ARTHUR:
Well, I am King!
Can you outwit a computer? We tried, using neoconservatives as our “thing” to guess. Sadly, the machine pretty much got it right:
I am guessing that it is a football team?
Yes , No , Close
18. Can it scratch? Yes.
17. Is it multicolored? Yes.
16. Is it worth a lot of money? Sometimes.
15. Is it tall? Sometimes.
14. Does it come in many varieties? Yes.
13. Do you hold it when you use it? No.
12. Does it use electricity? No.
11. Does it shine? No.
10. Is it shiny? Depends.
9. Is it made out of wood? No.
8. Can it make a sound? Yes.
7. Can it be played? Yes.
6. Is it human powered? Yes.
5. Would you use it in the dark? No.
4. Is it soft? No.
3. Can it fit in an envelope? No.
2. Is it hard? Irrelevant.
1. It is classified as Other.
[Update: Hello, white supremacists and neo-Nazis! We don’t know why you’re all coming by today (10/21/05), but we’re all up here at the main page, making fun of Ian Stewart and, you know, burning aromatherapy candles and drinking herbal tea with a Joan Baez record on. We would be so unhappy if you were to harsh our mellow!]
Please let this be a dream!
…And for so many reasons too. Stephen W. Terrell writes about this year’s hit duo, in the category of, uh, hmm:
Meet Lynx and Lamb Gaede, 12-year-old California twins who have started their own pop band called Prussian Blue. It’s like a cross between The Olson Twins, Hanson and Hermann Goering.
After quoting National Alliance Northeast Regional Coordinator Rich Lindstrom who argued that:
The impact could be huge and their influence will encourage ‘copycats’ …creating an entire genre of pro-White music. …I’m hanging on the edge of my seat with anticipation.
Stephen asks:
I dunno … Does this guy sound just a little too excited about these little girls?
Aber hallo!
Just in case you think that’s not bad enough, be sure to read the comments the post received. Our favorite was:
You coudn’t have given Lynx and Lamb a better Compliment! Nazis aren’t as bad as everyone thinks.
Not enough for you? Maybe you’d like a taste of the lyrics of Aryan Man Awake?
Where freedom exists for only those with darker skin,
Where lies and propaganda will never let you win.
Where symbols of your heritage are held with such contempt,
And benefits of country ?cept tax are you exempt.Aryan man awake,
How much more will you take,
Turn that fear to hate,
Aryan man awake.
We’re gonna go have a few drinks now, see you a bit later on.
Many thanks to reader Margot for the link.
In which I conclude that the greatest problem with US foreign policy is reluctance to interfere in other countries’ domestic politics.
Shorter concept stolen from busy, busy, busy. Ignatius link stolen from uggabugga.
Added: Related complementary, yet contradictory, shorters from busy, busy, busy.
(8) All I want for Christmas is you! (8)
WorldNetDaily’s David Kupelian has a special message for us:
I don’t do this very often, but I’m going to do it now. I’ll make it short and, I hope, sweet.
Oh David — we thought you’d never ask!
If you’re a loyal WorldNetDaily reader, one who trusts and relies on WND for your daily news, then you …
Then you what? Can you guess?
Why? I could give you lots of reasons.
9/11?
This appeal would be easier if I could just take you on a tour of WorldNetDaily’s operation and share with you the enormous amount of work our dedicated staff performs to bring you two editions of WND daily.
It takes a lot of aluminum foil to run a big ship like WND.
If I could convey to you the tireless and inspired leadership of our CEO Joseph Farah, and if I described the endless sacrifices, difficulties, attacks and trials we constantly encounter on seemingly every side, my appeal would be more emotionally compelling.
Those damn sarcastic French Canadians — mocking you with their big words and loose grasp of the English rules of syntax and grammar. Sons of bitches!
I know how easy it is to mentally move on, click the mouse, and go to the next story and forget this message
It’s even easier when you’re not there mentally at all, David! [The comma in that sentence brought to you by John of Supertrevligt. It’s not just regular trevligt anymore, it’s Super Trevligt!?)
but I’m hoping you won’t, because we need you, just as you need us.
Hmm, seems David copied from an earlier post of ours (and/or Homer Simpson.)
We give everything we’ve got to you ? and when you in turn give to us, the cycle is complete[.] [Emphasis added.]
Hakuna Matata?
I don’t believe in begging, but I am appealing to both your conscience and your self-interest.
Right, this reminds us of something:
KRAMER: Now what does the little man inside you say? See you gotta listen to the little man.
GEORGE: My little man doesn’t know.
KRAMER: The little man knows all.
GEORGE: My little man’s an idiot.
PS: Bonus totally unrelated issue points: our new work environment reminds us of something about this Seinfeld episode. Can you guess which one?
Love and hate relationship notwithstanding, our recent 4-day outage taught us that there are a few among you loyal, hateful unbalanced readers who really, really care about us. This we know because of the many (three) emails we received while Sadly, No! had turned into Sadly, Boob Job! (Then again if they are real, they are spectacular.)
We’ll add that for those interested in knowing what kind of readers we have, take a look here and see which three pictures have been viewed more than 100 times. Apparently, most of our readers’ only source of cleavage shots consists of S,N! referrals.
Anyway, where were we?
Oh yeah — we wanted to tell you what happened. It’s funny you should ask. It all started with a massive spam attack, coming from Ohio, we kid you not, that knocked out our server. After that we found ourselves in a bit of tech support limbo which, coupled with the weekend, left us, well, holding on to our ample breasts lives. (Actually we were out of the town for the weekend.)
In order to serve you better, and the spammers not as better, we shall be making a few changes in the coming days, including a change of hosting provider and an upgrade to Movable Type 3. The good news is that Sadly, No! is likely to be down again for a short period of time as the site “moves.” The bad news is that we don’t expect it will redirect you to dahonger.com during that time.
So again, we offer our thanks to those who emailed us during our time of need. We would especially like to say thanks to David of A Fistful of Euros who wrote a second time after we’d written that:
Although it’s led to an interesting discussion in the comments section at the dark window about the great boob job (so they say) a woman featured on that other site got.
David’s reply:
link?
Though we hate to admit it, in all of you dear readers, there’s a little of us after all.
PS: A close favorite, though left in the comments rather than emailed to us, was Roman Totale’s “Bring back the rack.” In fact, we think that guy (Roman that is,) should name his web site Sadly, Rack!.
