Editor Log: September 6, 2000 (thing)

Greeted two newbies, one with the warm hand of friendship, and the other (frotteurist; see below) with a polo mallet between its beady little eyes.

• toilets by nick (never logged in on E2)

  "If you spell T.S. Eliot backwards, it spells toilets." You think so, huh? Try again.

• I just did something evil by CthulhuFhtagn

  The user is unable to distinguish between "evil" and "moronic". He made some repulsive nodeshells about another user, then wrote a little "poem" about it. Drunk? Stupid? Who cares?

• Episode 1 by Slush (never logged in on E2)

  "A place in Koowammaba where the Army tested their super ray guns many years ago on innocent Koowammabas."

  I'm all for nonsense, but this is too fragmentary and vague to be amusing. A nodeshell remains.

• farlane (last seen July 11, 2000) has been pruned:

  • interactive adventure

    "this is an interactive adventure.
    
    
    Try not to hurt yourself."

    Idiot.

    jenny mcfarlane: Now he's bragging about his sister's secondary sexual characteristics. I find that disturbing. It's pretty much content-free anyway, and not graphical enough to excite prurient interest.

    pretenders: Even if it were correct, it'd be redundant. Our hero attempts to define pretender (as in "pretender to the throne"), but he comes to grief because he doesn't know what the hell it means. Don't try to define a word if you're not bright enough to find the Webster 1913 entry for it, okay?

• Sunrise Meditation by coplan: If you want to thank somebody for a writeup, send a /msg. I /msg'd coplan to suggest a nuke request, but I got no response.

• The Level Promotion Node by coplan: He wants us to know that he's level 4 now. Don't do that. The user was informed after the fact. Enough is enough.

• Emporer Tomato Ketchup by Ed Aims (never logged in on E2)

  "A brand of ketchup :) also see stereolab"

  Emperor is spelled "Emperor". There is a Stereolab record entitled Emperor Tomato Ketchup, and they spell it correctly. It's got its moments but I wouldn't call it their best effort. Could somebody zap the nodeshell?

• Zane Corwin presents:
  • drunk-fest: Stupid one-liner.
  • machinery: Stilted, semi-literate, supplanted by Webster 1913.
  • can opener: People open cans with them. Who knew?
  • manual: Poor attempt at a definition by somebody who didn't understand the word very well
  • cereal: Babble.
  • popularity: Babble.
  • inversely proportional: He doesn't know what it means.
  • electric: He's a moron.
  
  
  

• cereal by MrChavo: "Smoke a bowl! With milk!" Someday a real rain'll come and wash all the morons out of the database. Until then, I'll do what I can with what I got.

• ratso's nightmare by frotteurist (user no longer exists)

  "pure vapidity! i thought chaos had no quantifiable parts?"

  I can scrag 'em faster than you can gibber 'em, kid. And take that redundant second suffix off your name, while you're at it.

  the largest feedback loop, ever by frotteurist (user no longer exists)

  More nonsense, but this time I think it was attempting to communicate, in a crude way. I /msg'd it, asking for more clarity. It manifested in the Chatterbox and told me that I wasn't qualified to judge its sublime literary efforts. A tedious conversation ensued; it made the same grandiose noises they all make. Nobody cared. sensei vaporized it on becoming convinced that it was untrainable. Elegantly, I /msg'd sensei "Kill it", and when the page finished reloading there was a /msg from sensei reading "Done". This critter was just another idiot who can't handle criticism and can't accept authority, regardless of how tactful and mild the authority may be. And I really was reasonably tactful at first.

  Rip-off Man by Foxy Penguin: Incoherent babble about Microsoft w/r/t Linux. This stuff has been done to death for a long, long time.