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Post by Hugs and Hisses on Oct 25, 2013 9:49:30 GMT -5
I'm Hugs and Hisses, and while I'm generally too terrified of the cool kids to comment on Newswires, and too out of it on the pop culture front to comment on anything else, I live for the Wednesday T.I. Shuffle Thread. It's pretty much the highlight of my extremely uneventful life.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Oct 25, 2013 14:18:30 GMT -5
out for a walk (bitch) ... I post only sporadically on AVC, but lurk constantly. The comments (along with O'Neal) are a substantial part of the AVC's appeal to me, so all of you fabulous jerks in one place to lurk around sounds great. Oh, god, I just watched that episode again this week! I love it! Spikey-poo really makes me crack up this season. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2013 23:05:12 GMT -5
Hello everyone. I'm Patrick Batman, that overly-earnest guy from the A.V. Club! I have a lot of interests. My name started as a Christian Bale joke, then was some kind of comment on human duality, now it's just my name. I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt--at least, I try to. I think I act the same way online as I do in real life. I always thought your name was one of the more clever ones I'd seen. Welcome! |
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Post by NewHereAgainoZach on Oct 26, 2013 0:21:20 GMT -5
I'm drunkneildiamond. I like booze. And Neil Diamond! Frequently together! Here comes the Scotch part! |
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Post by NewHereAgainoZach on Oct 26, 2013 0:39:01 GMT -5
Despite the tech woes, here goes... Lupin Addams - the name came from a fictionalised version of me in a friend's unpublished autobiographical novel, which tells you a lot about my friends. Mostly online I go by Cat Vincent, which is close to my real name. I know its a privilege to be able to do that... I'm a writer (of mostly Fortean journalism) with the sort of chequered past that just gets weirder every time I tell it: the bits about being a former professional combat magician and exorcist who used to live in a threesome with my current wife and our ex the heiress who dumped us because the Ayahuasca spirit told her to... Honestly, if I was going to make up shit, I'd try harder to be plausible! I live in the ridiculously lovely Yorkshire town of Hebden Bridge with the better of my previous lovers (together 20 years in '14, just after I turn 50). Main interests beside weird shit and pop culture is combining the two... which is why I've managed to become an authority on, of all things, Slenderman. Also love BABYLON 5 with a passion (best synchronicity in ages was seeing a car with the plate number B5 UFO today), much SF and a bunch of music ranging from classic prog to Troubadour songs to the genre Warren Ellis calls Difficult British Electronic Music. And I pun as a brain stem reflex. I want to bend elbows with you on many occasions. |
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Post by Post-Lupin on Oct 26, 2013 5:10:25 GMT -5
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Post by Lt. Broccoli on Oct 26, 2013 5:45:05 GMT -5
Noo ne noo ne noo ne noo ne noo...Hmmm!
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Post by NewHereAgainoZach on Oct 26, 2013 16:45:57 GMT -5
Outstanding! Now, to arrange a trip across the pond... I'll have to save up for that Coast-to-Coast hike my uncle wants to do. |
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Post by Post-Lupin on Oct 26, 2013 17:23:23 GMT -5
Outstanding! Now, to arrange a trip across the pond... I'll have to save up for that Coast-to-Coast hike my uncle wants to do. If I make it over to your side again (not been back since '99) I do plan on meeting as many AV Clubbers as I can... |
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Post by choppernewt on Oct 27, 2013 15:26:31 GMT -5
I'm choppernewt. Nice to see everyone.
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Post by Angry Raisins on Oct 28, 2013 21:36:02 GMT -5
Hi all. I post from time to time, probably on Newswires most often. Am too-easily tempted by comment threads where people are writing alternate lyrics for things.
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Post by Kid Q on Oct 28, 2013 22:27:54 GMT -5
Howdy all. I was a long time lurker who started posting about a year ago due to my need to gush about Rupaul's Drag Race then is sorta spiraled out of control. Love a variety of music, comic books, movies and television shows. Still not sure how I feel about the Oxford comma though.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2013 23:01:49 GMT -5
Howdy all. I was a long time lurker who started posting about a year ago due to my need to gush about Rupaul's Drag Race then is sorta spiraled out of control. Love a variety of music, comic books, movies and television shows. Still not sure how I feel about the Oxford comma though. Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma? (and welcome!) |
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Post by Box of Cotton Swabs on Oct 28, 2013 23:20:48 GMT -5
Still not sure how I feel about the Oxford comma though. PRO AND PASSIONATELY |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2013 23:32:04 GMT -5
Still not sure how I feel about the Oxford comma though. PRO AND PASSIONATELY As am I. I had to give him the Vampire Weekend lyric, though. |
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Post by X the Anonymous Zeus or Odin on Oct 29, 2013 1:04:30 GMT -5
I am X the Anonymous Man or Woman! Am I a man? Am I a woman? Who the fuck am I is really what you should be asking!
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Post by Desert Dweller on Oct 29, 2013 1:43:06 GMT -5
Hello! Hope you all don't mind me coming over here. I don't think I really knew the TI existed until about 2 months ago. And I actually have to work on Wednesdays, so commenting on that was pointless. And nuDisqus changes pointless to impossible.
So, perhaps I might get a chance to interact a bit with people on non-AV Club topics over here?
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Post by outforawalk on Oct 29, 2013 2:23:25 GMT -5
Howdy all. I was a long time lurker who started posting about a year ago due to my need to gush about Rupaul's Drag Race then is sorta spiraled out of control. Love a variety of music, comic books, movies and television shows. Still not sure how I feel about the Oxford comma though. I am pretty sure RuPaul's Drag Race is something that needs/deserves gushing about, so kudos! And also hello. |
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Post by Post-Lupin on Oct 29, 2013 8:54:08 GMT -5
Hello! Hope you all don't mind me coming over here. I don't think I really knew the TI existed until about 2 months ago. And I actually have to work on Wednesdays, so commenting on that was pointless. And nuDisqus changes pointless to impossible. So, perhaps I might get a chance to interact a bit with people on non-AV Club topics over here? Of course! Welcome, and get stuck in. |
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Post by SensitiveSethPutnam on Oct 29, 2013 8:57:28 GMT -5
I am X the Anonymous Man or Woman! Am I a man? Am I a woman? Who the fuck am I is really what you should be asking! Who the fuck are you? |
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Post by X the Anonymous Zeus or Odin on Oct 29, 2013 9:29:08 GMT -5
I am X the Anonymous Man or Woman! Am I a man? Am I a woman? Who the fuck am I is really what you should be asking! Who the fuck are you? Exactly. |
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Post by Kid Q on Oct 29, 2013 14:38:51 GMT -5
Still not sure how I feel about the Oxford comma though. PRO AND PASSIONATELY The main reason I don't take a position is due to how passionate some are about it. Plus sometimes I am just too exhausted to key in that final comma  . The same indifference in me is caused by the use of the passive voice, but that is a different story. |
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Post by Trurl on Oct 29, 2013 15:23:57 GMT -5
The main reason I don't take a position is due to how passionate some are about it. Plus sometimes I am just too exhausted to key in that final comma . The same indifference in me is caused by the use of the passive voice, but that is a different story. I like to goad grammar nazis. They're like fundamentalists, they're so easy to get riled up - "nooo!" they say, "Don't you know that God decreed how to use apostrophes? And that putting an apostrophe in the wrong place makes a sentence completely unintelligible!" |
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Post by Kid Q on Oct 29, 2013 15:37:34 GMT -5
The main reason I don't take a position is due to how passionate some are about it. Plus sometimes I am just too exhausted to key in that final comma . The same indifference in me is caused by the use of the passive voice, but that is a different story. I like to goad grammar nazis. They're like fundamentalists, they're so easy to get riled up - "nooo!" they say, "Don't you know that God decreed how to use apostrophes? And that putting an apostrophe in the wrong place makes a sentence completely unintelligible!" Some of my best friends are grammarians and I love them all, but I like to mess around with them sometimes. Also, I am my own worstest editor. |
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Post by ann03 on Oct 29, 2013 17:31:42 GMT -5
I use a lot of the proper grammar etiquette and whatnot, but I'll be damned if I can remember what the actual terms are half the time. I mainly just go with, "Does this sound right? Yes? No?"
If I do ever edit something for somebody, or catch a mistake, though, and point it out for whatever reason, I try to do so in a non-obnoxious way.
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Post by Post-Lupin on Oct 29, 2013 18:32:26 GMT -5
I'm horribly addicted to ellipses...
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Post by ann03 on Oct 29, 2013 18:41:43 GMT -5
Me, too. And dashes. I use those a LOT.
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Post by NewHereAgainoZach on Oct 29, 2013 19:01:59 GMT -5
I'm horribly addicted to ellipses... Ditto... Total ellipsis of the heart... |
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Oct 29, 2013 19:17:28 GMT -5
I am addicted to brackets (to the point I'm sure every other one of my posts includes one as a lengthy and unwarranted digression from my main point.)
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Post by 🐍 cahusserole 🐍 on Oct 29, 2013 19:49:58 GMT -5
There are ellipses... and ellipses . . . but my favorite is the one-character ellipsis… you can tweet 420 dots with the single-character ellipsis…
Being in publishing, one thing I'm obsessed with is the difference between hyphens, n-dashes, and m-dashes. - vs. – vs. —. GLORIOUS.
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. The same indifference in me is caused by the use of the passive voice, but that is a different story. 
