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megan walker - May 13, 2005 9:49:55 am PDT #4829 of 10001

"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

FTR, and really not wanting to start a whole thing, especially as a long-term outsider:

While I don't have any problems with "cabal" jokes as such (love the idea of a decoder ring), I would have to agree that they are jokes about what I remember as a seriously divisive time on the board, one that caused at least one poster to leave. I totally see why someone might reasonably think they are not funny.

t /tired of supporting people through email

Topic!Cindy - May 13, 2005 9:51:11 am PDT #4830 of 10001

What is even happening?

Megan, what's your tag from?

Karl - May 13, 2005 9:54:01 am PDT #4831 of 10001

I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.

From way upthread:

ita: I can't recommend the wayback machine highly enough.

Heh, funny you should mention it. Yeah, the Internet Archive is pretty cool. Did you know it's based in San Francisco? In one of the prettiest parts of a very pretty city? And you know why I haven't been around and posting much for the past few weeks?

Because I just started working there, as of 29 April. Fear my Mighty Wayback Powers!

(I'm doing testing and automation for their web-crawler, for you techie types.)

Lyra Jane - May 13, 2005 9:55:05 am PDT #4832 of 10001

Up with the sun

Karl, you rock. The wayback machine helped me to recover a file I thought was lost forever, from the web page I had in college.

I love the Wayback machine.

Scrappy - May 13, 2005 9:55:37 am PDT #4833 of 10001

Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Hooray, Karl!

Nora Deirdre - May 13, 2005 9:56:35 am PDT #4834 of 10001

I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

AWESOME, Karl!

Jessica - May 13, 2005 9:57:47 am PDT #4835 of 10001

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Kat's link aside, cabal jokes have been around as long as the board has -- hell, they've been around as long as discussion boards, period. I really don't see them as referring to any one incident.

megan walker - May 13, 2005 10:00:43 am PDT #4836 of 10001

"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Megan, what's your tag from?

Oh, where's Nilly when you need her? Someone (meara?) asked me that the very first time I posted on the Phoenix and I explained the whole thing. Basically, it's a joke memo someone wrote to me at work ages ago, one part of which was a whole riff on my (admittedly) difficult-to-spell names.

I've never bothered to change the tag since I figured it reminded the NYistas that megan walker was a pseud whenever I de-lurked. Although I'm sort of hoping that after this many years they don't need it anymore...

ETA that I'm responding to Topic!Cindy and not Jess.

Jesse - May 13, 2005 10:02:33 am PDT #4837 of 10001

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

We Know Who You Are.

megan walker - May 13, 2005 10:03:52 am PDT #4838 of 10001

"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

We Know Who You Are.

And you know where I live. Wait... is that a good thing?

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