You Know You're a Kossack when...

You try to troll rate Bill Kristol.  Let me explain.

I took a break from some homework to surf the internets, and for some reason I ended up reading Bill Kristols NYT piece.  Nothing particularly noteworthy about it, but when I got to the end, well, I did what any Kossack would do: I tried to troll rate Bill Kristol!

It wasn't just a brain freeze though.  Rather, I think it was the natural reaction of a Kossack to a Bill Kristol tip jar.

Just check out this screenshot of the bottom of the column:

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See? He posted a tip jar!  Didn't see it? look again:







I swear, I'm not trying to be clever.  I actually scrolled down to that, read "Tips," and thought about troll rating him before I realized it.  I actually briefly debated whether it was TR worthy: On the one hand it isn't really TR worthy, but on the other hand, it's Bill Kristol!

Oh well, I guess less time reading DailyKos couldn't hurt me.

•  Know what drug causes neo-conservatism?

  Kristol meth. What else?

  by Dump Terry McAuliffe on Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 11:16:06 PM PDT

  •  LOL!!

    That comment, and this diary, are the perfect note for me to end my day with.

    Thanks for the laugh, both of you.

    by mcjoan on Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 11:17:06 PM PDT

  •  Duh! Isn't that Kristol clear?

    Hee hee

    by highacidity on Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 11:34:04 PM PDT

  •  Didja know?

    During his first year of graduate school, Kristol roomed with fellow conservative and government doctoral candidate Alan Keyes. In 1988, Kristol ran Keyes' unsuccessful Senatorial campaign against Paul Sarbanes in Maryland.

    wikipedia

    by maxschell on Fri Feb 15, 2008 at 12:43:45 AM PDT

•  My Tip Jar

  I forgot to post it...

  by IntertubeGuy on Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 11:18:01 PM PDT

•  I would have saw that

  and said "damn it, my TU status would expire the week before a bill kristol post!!!!"

  by RockRichard on Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 11:21:57 PM PDT

•  Bill Kristol's Tip Jar!

  Tips
  To find reference information about the words used in this article, double-click on any word, phrase or name. A new window will open with a dictionary definition or encyclopedia entry.

  You know you're a Kossack when you know that NO ONE, and I mean
  NO ONE will "hide rate" your Bill Kristol tip jar just for fun.

  by begone on Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 11:31:08 PM PDT

  •  Is this it?

    I soooo wanna

    ;~)

    by LaEscapee on Fri Feb 15, 2008 at 12:03:16 AM PDT

    •  GULP. Just...kidding. n/t

      by begone on Fri Feb 15, 2008 at 12:10:18 AM PDT

      •  Yer playing with fire!!...nt

        by bleeding blue on Fri Feb 15, 2008 at 12:11:44 AM PDT

•  He turned up in my local Flint paper

  the other day...I couldn't believe it.

  by cfk on Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 11:35:31 PM PDT

•  Funny Shit.

  by windowsoslow on Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 11:50:32 PM PDT

•  You think that's bad

  I try to rec/troll-rate LTE's in my morning paper, until I have that second cup of coffee and wake the f*uck up. Then I realize that dkos posters are a whole lot smarter, and more entertaining.

  by bleeding blue on Fri Feb 15, 2008 at 12:10:32 AM PDT

  •  Never mentally troll rate

    comments in a conversation...it shows on your face.

    by nadeane on Fri Feb 15, 2008 at 12:16:50 AM PDT

    •  God, I do that now. Or... "Hide Rate," which

      means, "get out of my face."

      I also want to make a laminated index card with a 4 & just hold it
      up in public at times.

      by begone on Fri Feb 15, 2008 at 12:21:45 AM PDT

•  You know you are a Kossack when..

  It's 1:30 am and I am still reading, the first thing I check...before the news.  Something happens and I log in because you are all on top of it, with more information.  I find myself randomly looking for orange.

  Love this place....flame wars and all.

  by nadeane on Fri Feb 15, 2008 at 12:14:24 AM PDT

•  I knew I was done for

  A year ago- trolls were ice trolls, fire trolls, standard trolls you could slay with fire or acid- that kind of thing. These days- they are of three varieties ratings, tags and concern.

  I also giggle uncontrollably when I see tip jars in bars. That could also be because I am drunk.

  by imported beer on Fri Feb 15, 2008 at 12:21:10 AM PDT

  •  And the bartenders would NOT appreciate it

    if all you left in their tip jars were little slips of paper with
    4's on them.

    by begone on Fri Feb 15, 2008 at 12:25:06 AM PDT

    •  HA!

      Or if I commented on their drinks either ;)

      "I do NOT agree with your stated preference for a blended Margarita. Give me Glenlevit anyday!"

      by imported beer on Fri Feb 15, 2008 at 12:29:03 AM PDT

      •  You could always hold up a blurry pootie pic

        

        by begone on Fri Feb 15, 2008 at 12:34:45 AM PDT

        •  aiii PORN!!!

          This will totally cause Pootie the election!

          by imported beer on Fri Feb 15, 2008 at 12:36:59 AM PDT

•  Unless they are a Kossack

  I'd take a 4

  by nadeane on Fri Feb 15, 2008 at 12:28:03 AM PDT

•  I AM SO GLAD I READ THIS!

  I thought I was a freak. Now I feel part of a rather crazy bunch of people who engage in the same behavior as I do.

  PHEW!

  by imported beer on Fri Feb 15, 2008 at 12:32:33 AM PDT

•  LOL

  I've had more than a few moments since I started actively participating around here, where I was on another web site and thought about tipping or TR'ing something on another web site before I caught myself.  Glad I'm not the only person that happens to!

  by Big Tex on Fri Feb 15, 2008 at 12:37:23 AM PDT

  •  Makes me crazy on Usenet. n/t

    by begone on Fri Feb 15, 2008 at 01:14:03 AM PDT

•  i knew i was a kos-person when

  i didn't mind the orange so much!

  my local paper allows comments on certain columns and stories.  registered users are allowed to give a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" - and "thumbs down" gets hidden.  

  by jlms qkw on Fri Feb 15, 2008 at 02:13:00 AM PDT

  •  Thumbs down--so colorless

    elsewhere

    

    by begone on Fri Feb 15, 2008 at 02:22:17 AM PDT

•  I just read Krauthammer's latest,

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/... complaining about the so-called "cult" of Obama. So naturally my reaction is to look back through Krauthammer's past columns to find all the examples of his slavish adulation of Reagan. I'm sure there is plenty but unfortunately I must go to work this aM and don't have time to look it up. I guess that it also what you are writing about, isn't it?

  by irate on Fri Feb 15, 2008 at 03:16:49 AM PDT