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Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Vote them off the island The folks at Gawker Media are playing with a new model for moderation- once a week, they terminate someone and explain on the front page why they did it. Probably a little too drastic for spofi's tastes, but... ya know, something different.

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once a week, they terminate someone and explain on the front page why they did it Sounds like my ex-wife.

Here's hoping for supermike from deadspin.com.

Hahahaha I love this. Awesome.

That's great, but we have many more islanders than they do, and our island is really more like a peninsula anyways. Still, a cute (and very Gawker Media) idea.

We're an isthmus, damn it -- get it straight! Oh, and I'm more for a vote, then a virtual ritual disemboweling. You know, hari kari ... or maybe Harry Caray for us here. ///heyyyyyyy, everybodyyyyyyyy!

Can we have our own Mendoza line? Maybe instead of .200, make it .600 for comments not deleted? I don't think obtaining a "barely passing" grade is too much to ask for.

It's Hara Kiri (or more specifically, seppuku). If you're gonna throw about ritual suicides, get your vowels (and bowels) right! (Harry Carry reminds me of another awful mis-Anglicization of a Japanese phenomenon ... Karaoke. It's Karah-okay, ok? Not Carry-okie or Ka-rokie. Okie dokie, fenokee?) It just makes me want to go nucular!

btw, I'm all for public embarrassment. As you can see from my various posts, I do a good job of embarrassing myself in front of everybody. And sorry for going off-topic. I will go kill myself now. Just kidding.

If the mouth-breathing knuckleheads who posted idiotic crap in threads were all made of hot dogs, would you eat 'em? I know I would! They'd be delicious!

Hey what's your favorite planet? Mine's the Sun! It's like the King of Planets!

That's why your friends call you "Whiskers."

Awww, man, you guys are doing quotes from movies I've never seen. Again. GOSH!

No movie wc2k2, they're doing Will Ferrell's Harry Caray from Saturday Night Live.

Man, I am so out of touch. Besides, I can't remember any of the lines I hear anyway. I was gonna throw out some lines from Anchorman ... but I got nothing. All I can remember is him doing jazz flute. Sigh.

(Harry Carry reminds me of another awful mis-Anglicization of a Japanese phenomenon ... Karaoke. It's Karah-okay, ok? Not Carry-okie or Ka-rokie. Okie dokie, fenokee?) Ah, Karaoke, the Empty Orchestra. And totally off topic, when the inventors of the noble art of karaoke, the Japanese, visit Indonesia, they are always amazed that Indonesians sing karaoke when they are stone cold sober!

Indonesians sing karaoke when they are stone cold sober! There's no call for that at all. Don't they have a tsunami to be concerned about or something?

Oh, and I'm more for a vote, then a virtual ritual disemboweling. Something along the lines of Mortal Kombat, where the spine is ripped from the body, and held up by the skull as it drips bodily fluids into the stones below. I'd buy that for a dollar!

FATALITY!

Speaking of mortal combat, I once had a guy on my baseball team that would yell "Finish Him!" when our pitchers got a batter down 0-2 and the occasional "Fatality" on a strikeout. It was funny until the 13th time I heard it.

FATALITY!

justgary should post FATALITY! every time he deletes a bad fpp.

Friendship!?!

Are we nominating candidates yet? If so I offer up this guy and his "Go Tigers" . Did I just open a door that was supposed to stay closed?

tron7, we have that guy on my team too. He usually plays center field and yells it from there. He also yells "Sweep the Leg!"

"Sweep the leg" would probably be funny 13 or 14 times before it got old. Mine was a lefty pitcher with a screw loose. He threw the only no-hitter I've ever witnessed and didn't even know it until the last out was recorded.

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