Padding Post Count vs Spamming the Lounge

en homage a monsieur colorado...

:o

What was the question?

:hi:

What up?

:bounce:

????????????????????????? :wtf:

but i actually don't think you and i have birds.

i think he was talking about male anatomy.

:rofl:

:P

:wow:

:o I fell asleep watching a movie and just woke up.

do you get the sundance channel?

I really did just get here a few minutes ago. I'm lame.

look down one post.

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:


Oh wait....I have that on DVD :o

i just watched Breaking Away - progdad's fave movie

i wanted to watch y tu mama again....but no...!

Now mind you, I can't stand either Hugh Grant or Julia Roberts, but I love that movie for some reason... I'm weird.

I figured it was the same as posting in the DU Lounge a lot.

Or I guess you could just post a bunch of "me too" replies.

Or maybe start controversial threads where it's you against everyone and you reply to almost everyone who replies.

are you teaching a class on that?

I'm still teaching the crank call class for two more weeks.

what with caller ID and all...

In college me and my friends were like really into some crank calls! The Jerky Boys had released their album around that time, like 1993-1994, and it was just before caller ID. Of course this was in Ann Arbor and all, so you probably know what I'm talking about when I tell you we'd crank call places like:

- Stucci's: I told them I had a kid who went and ate some leftover ice cream that someone left on a table, and it was their fault for not cleaning it up. We found that if we involved a kid in the story, they would be afraid to come back and say we should have been watching the kid or that they're not responsible for what the kid did, etcetera.

- Zingerman's: Me and a friend tried our hand at making up our own urban legend and seeing if it would spread. The urban legend was this: Zingerman's bakes this loaf of bread every day called the Thousand-Dollar Bread, and they really charge $1000 for it, and they don't even let you see it unless you look like you can afford it. The money goes mostly to charity. So Tracy Chapman was in town to play a show and they invited her to go see it, and when she saw it, instead of her decrying that people are spending $1000 on bread when some people don't have anything to eat, she just says that a loaf of thousand-dollar bread should be almost twice as big as that. Anyways, after a while I decided to see if the urban legend got back to them on an off chance, and kept asking the guy if they had the Thousand-Dollar Bread. Like I kept asking him what his most expensive bread was because my son was graduating from (what's the name of that school for gifted kids that people line up to go apply for or whatever? That one.) and we wanted to have the Thousand-Dollar Bread.

- Pizza Bob's: This was one of my favorites. We said we ordered a pizza from there, and it was late, but the delivery guy handed us the box and it was so hot I dropped it, and we had to go to a convention so I left it there. When we got back, the little plastic table they put in the middle melted because they obviously had put it back in the oven in the box to warm it up because it was so late. They told me they didn't have the little plastic tables, so I just KEPT INSISTING that they did! Then the guy asked me what it said on the box so I said "It says 'Pizza Bob's'" and the guy was like, we don't have our own boxes, they just say "oven fresh pizza" on them! But I just KEPT INSISTING I had it right in front of me and I was gonna go bring it in! This started as a scam to try to get a free one.

We also tried to have Dan Rather paged on a text-message pager (someone I knew knew the number to have people at CBS paged), but I don't know if they'd let me put the message we tried to send here. It was when those were really new, and you could call a number and have an operator enter the message for you, and they wouldn't enter it, citing FCC regulations.

So yeah, crank calls were like, a big thing of mine back in the day! You wouldn't have guessed, eh?

I loves me some spam, I gotta special recipe made from real spammers! We serve it breakfast, second breakfast, elevenses, luncheon, tea, dinner, supper and midnight snack. Be sure to visit Hannibal's Cafe to absorb all the potent likker served in the Lounge! (hic)

:thumbsup:

with fava beans and a nice Chianti.

The dot posts piss me off.