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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 10:05 AM
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What I will miss most about ATA
Skinner's responses. Sometimes they just made me laugh out loud.
I'm not sure if he was intentionally trying to be funny, but he has a knack for pointing out the absurd in a very hilarious manner.
He's done it to a couple of my responses where I just had to laugh out loud.
Did anyone else see the humor in some of his responses?
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 10:07 AM
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1. No, Skinner is a humorless automaton
Edited on Tue Apr-26-05 10:07 AM by jpgray
Whatever dim sparks of humanity he had left were extinguished during the primaries, when Name Removed generated about 68,000 posts.

:silly:
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miss_kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 10:07 AM
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2. Here. Have some Swedish Fish
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 10:13 AM
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3. I'd always laugh when he'd tell posters, in other words, to
"Check that attitude at the door and watch your tone! We don't live on this board 24/7! Geeze!"

He didn't put it that way but that's what he meant. LOL!
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El Fuego Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 10:14 AM
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4. Yes. I wonder what has happened?
I missed his responses too. So I started my own ATA:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3106657
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 10:17 AM
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6. Good morning El Fuego
I read up on Sunfest and it looks like you'll be having a blast.
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El Fuego Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:08 AM
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16. Good Morning Raging!
Here is a picture of Sunfest. Check out the "floating bar" barges. It is a blast!

http://www.sunfest.com/images/media05/SunFestSite%2Dth%2Ejpg
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:21 AM
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17. And despite that beauty
People still talk about Florida as if it were hell on earth
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El Fuego Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:38 AM
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18. VERY good point.
Ironically, once people visit, they don't leave.
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wildeyed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 10:15 AM
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5. ATA was my favorite forum.
Mostly because I could not check the board for several days, then go there to figure out what flame wars had been raging in my absence.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 10:20 AM
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7. Erm.. I missed something... no more ATA?
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 10:21 AM
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8. See here...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=announcement&id=157

How's your dad? He's in my thoughts, as are you. :hug:
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 10:33 AM
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10. He's being kept in the hospital for a few days until they
figure out what is happening with his lungs (pneumonia or not, and if so viral or bacterial) then they will try again to clean up the site of the surgery and keep it closed.
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 10:22 AM
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9. It was always entertaining.
You could almost feel Skinner's frustration sometimes when he felt he and the admins were being toyed with. I have a great deal of appreciation for the number of times that Skinner et al would entertain the Loungesque posts, be they requesting candy or asking Elad to code something to uncap all of sniffa's Ls.
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 10:44 AM
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11. I'll Miss The "CANCEL MY MEMBERSHIP!!" Tantrum Posts
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 10:49 AM
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12. They'll just post a lounge thread announcing their departure.....
Throw a little hissy fit or a pity party before leaving for two or three days.
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gkhouston Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 10:52 AM
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14. they'll say , "I'm leaving DU FOREVER... ask me anything!"
:rofl:
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 10:55 AM
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15. Oh Good! At Least We'll Still Have That Small Pleasure...
... at least when it's done in the lounge we have a chance to add our 3-cents worth before waving bye-bye.
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gkhouston Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 10:50 AM
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13. oh, definitely
and where will we go for Swedish fish now? :cry:

I can understand why they did it, but since I wasn't the one who actually had to do anything about the whining I found it pretty entertaining and I did actually learn things from time to time from the exchanges between the admins and the civil posters.
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TOhioLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:53 AM
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19. I loved Skinner's responses also...
...I'd read the aggrieved poster's lament...'Oh, whoa is me! the mods are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO cruel!' And then his reply, 'You mean this post, where you call ____________ an asshole?'

Highly entertaining. I'd sit back and :popcorn: and then :rofl:
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 12:16 PM
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20. My favorite Skinner response....
Some newish poster was complaining that he was oppressed because his post was deleted. Went on and on about how it was politically on point, shouldn't have been deleted, etc etc.

Skinner responded, "You failed to mention that your post included a photo of a nude man having sex with a cow."
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VelmaD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 12:20 PM
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21. I actually convinced Skinner to sing...
Kumba Ya and hold hands with everyone in the ATA forum. And he did it. I was stunned. Much as I poke him sometimes, he really is a funny funny guy.
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 12:30 PM
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22. ATA is gone?
:cry:


Shit.
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 12:31 PM
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23. I'll Miss Being Able To Have A Good Laugh...
... at the expense of the crybabies. I'll miss being able to send URL's to my buddies so that they can get a chuckle out of it too.
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