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that was very difficult.
John McCain, 100 years in Iraq "fine with me"
by taylormattd on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:15:10 PM PDT
You did it!
-8.00, -7.08
It isn't easy being green.
by emeraldmaiden on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:15:55 PM PDT
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like 8 minutes per top comment to get it entered in the diary. Thank god I had most of the diary written already. Although there are a few "first comments" that I wish I had more time to find: Armando, DHinMI, Bob Johnson, etc.
by taylormattd on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:17:20 PM PDT
It's a neighborly day in this beautywood. Relentless!
by ablington on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:18:44 PM PDT
Who put much thought into their first comment, you know? I think most people's might be something like, "Is this thing on?" ;)
Political Expediency: Its The New Black!
by BentLiberal on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:17:13 PM PDT
Can't find that one (of mine) either.
by ek hornbeck on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:18:03 PM PDT
A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
by JekyllnHyde on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:27:02 PM PDT
just last year.
by ek hornbeck on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:33:45 PM PDT
... the 'Pikes Peak' of DK Comments!
by JekyllnHyde on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:41:04 PM PDT
was a snarky comment about CNN that said:
Certainly Not News
I was afraid to post anything of substance for fear of being shouted down...
Why John W. McCain is an unstable, crazy, angry, clueless, hypocritical, lying, pandering ass.
by clammyc on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:19:40 PM PDT
That's a sure sign of an early comment, heh.
by BentLiberal on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:20:31 PM PDT
I wanted to be on my best behavior.
by clammyc on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:21:23 PM PDT
Founder of the Committee to Save asdf
by droogie6655321 on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:24:35 PM PDT
doesn't live on.....
by clammyc on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:25:26 PM PDT
Nah, just kidding.
But I don't do it because it's DKos tradition. I do it because I say "Heh" in real life.
Also "Meh," but I'm also the biggest Simpsons fan you'll ever meet, and they created it.
by droogie6655321 on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:26:37 PM PDT
and same here on the Simpsons, although merely a fanatic nowadays as opposed to a few years back when I was obsessed with the Simpsons...
by clammyc on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:28:53 PM PDT
i think i sprained my ankle when i slipped on the kitten spooge on the linoleum.
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it's their screen name because they couldn't figure out how to spell "moran."
-9.75 (e), -7.18 (s)
by dadanation on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:29:33 PM PDT
funny and gross....
by clammyc on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:30:46 PM PDT
Or the Wanking Goblins?
by droogie6655321 on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:32:13 PM PDT
;-)
by clammyc on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:37:10 PM PDT
You'll have my "Heh" when you pry it from my cold, dead lips.
by droogie6655321 on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:31:53 PM PDT
by dadanation on Wed Feb 06, 2008 at 09:26:39 AM PDT
believe how much more esteme I garnered from my grandchildren. Nanny, where did you get it? I bought it. YOU DID? Wow. Your rock, Nanny.
Three generations of women in my family watched it together and I laughed the hardest watching my mother, 82, laughing at the final roof scene. I went to the bathroom and missed it but Mother was slapping her leg and trying to tell me and breaking up laughing.
OT a bit there but I noticed where a lot of stuff I have seen on dkos comes from after seeing the movie. The pure nuttiness of it and the expected made me wonder sometimes if had imagined it.
PaintyKat
WWYTR? Voting, contributing, supporting, and electing Democrats
by PaintyKat on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 09:11:50 PM PDT
Get to know John McCain.
by sbdenmon on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:33:10 PM PDT
...you did a 1000 word exposé on the weakness of CNN!
by BentLiberal on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:22:01 PM PDT
for Katie Couric ;-)
by clammyc on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:25:00 PM PDT
I was that way, too. It's hard finding your feet.
by droogie6655321 on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:24:14 PM PDT
my first comment was almost baiting the community, as it kinda, sorta defended the concept of purging voter rolls in various states. Statements like that, as we drew closer to the 2004 election and in all the time since, would quite likely have lit off a firestorm.
Even though I knew I was a very light poster until after the election that year, I'm surprised that it was a full month before my second post on Bush's lack of strength among military family voters.
Can you smell the Constitution burning?
by The Maven on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:26:48 PM PDT
I don't know how long it was before posting something relatively serious and in depth. I was in awe of the people around here.
And a bit of a secret - my first recommended diary used Wayne Madsen as one of the sources ;-)
by clammyc on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:30:16 PM PDT
Keep in mind, though, that I'd been a lurker for eight or nine months before I finally signed up, and it was then probably another month or so before that initial comment. I only had about ten comments prior to the election, and one not-very-substantive diary on poll results in the Daschle-Thune Senate race. That diary didn't even roll into extended text and generated one comment total.
Around Thanksgiving 2004 is when I started to pick up the pace a bit, but I was always limited by the fact that whenever I was accessing the site from home, it was on a 56K dial-up modem. That tended to put a crimp in logging on fairly regularly.
by The Maven on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:46:32 PM PDT
for so long about using my real voice - i remember my first bazillion posts being so damn nice.
then something happened.
i made my first sign for BiPM's one year anniversary of C&J and then the inner monster took over, photoshop became my new lover and -- well, i still fret when i post long responses, with this concern about whether or not the comment is comprehensive or relevant or pointed enough, etc...
i do remember the first time someone i really respected responded to one of my comments. in a good way.
that was really cool.
by dadanation on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:27:52 PM PDT
Can't read them all know because I'm too damned excited about the election results--but they're a treasure to return to in a quieter moment. :-)
It is never too late to be what you might have been [especially now] George Eliot
by begone on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:18:02 PM PDT
is there something going on tonight? ;)
by taylormattd on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:18:41 PM PDT
Great job on the diary; it still amazes me how much talent has passed through our little corner of the tubes.
by sbdenmon on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:20:47 PM PDT
Oh, I mean voting for change, sorry.
by BentLiberal on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:57:30 PM PDT
by ablington on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 07:18:30 PM PDT
Believe me, I know what you mean about it being a lot of work. ;-)
© sardonyx; all rights reserved
by sardonyx on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 08:10:00 PM PDT
No wonder you had such ready access to what you believed was a first comment from Matt Stoller the other day.
I wondered how you could search and just decided you knew more about getting around the limits of the search vehicle right now. And, I am sure you do, without a doubt but still.
You always keep coming up with new ideas.
I'll check out sardonyx diaries.
by PaintyKat on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 09:04:11 PM PDT
No wonder you didn't show up at the Super Tuesday edition of Seattle DrinkingLiberally.
The way to win is not to move to the right wing; the way to win is to move to the right policy. -- Nameless Soldier
by N in Seattle on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 11:00:23 PM PDT
wide narrow
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