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And I remember when that meme was just a comment by a troll.
My how it’s grown!
I too was there when history was made, and I congratulate the owners of this fine establishment. If there was any chance of my having grandchildren someday, this is the story I would tell them…over and over…
It’s a shame that comment thread has been lost, because without verification, its turned into Woodstock.
The Wayback Machine disagrees!
Very little is ever truly lost on the internet.
Yay! Perusing the thread, I notice, first, that I did not comment on it, though I was an active commenter at LGM those days. Second, I’m reminded of many LGM commenters of days past, like coozledad and aimai and righteous bubba. And whatever happened to Matt Weiner? He moves to Vermont and suddenly he’s too good for us?
I too was an active commenter in those days (much less here now) and didn’t comment (as noted below). I’ve seen aimai around, I think (doesn’t she blog somewhere?) great commenter btw, and yesterday’s righteous bubba is today’s Substance McGravitas (IIRC).
I see Aimai mostly in the comments at alicublog and Hunting of the Snark. IIRC she used to sometimes post at No More Mr. Nice Blog with Steve M. but I haven’t noticed her there recently. She is a very memorable commenter
I always wonder what leads heavy commenters to change focus from blog to blog. I suppose blogs change and so do the interests of commenters. Aimai was a beast here for a long time but then disappeared entirely.
I always wonder what leads heavy commenters to change focus from blog to blog.
I commented fairly regularly on Obsidian Wings for quite awhile, but eventually tired of it. It’s a noble undertaking, but the earnestness of it wore me down. I really don’t think “conservatism” (at least in its present US incarnation) deserves any better response than ridicule, derision, and snark, and that’s not the place for it.
Yeah, Kvetch, I used to be a fairly regular, or at least an irregular regular at ObWi too and left for similar reasons. Also, Hilzoy leaving didn’t help of course.
Sometimes life throws some circumstances one’s way that causes one to leave commenting on a favored blog for a time as well. Speaking from experience here.
Well, I won’t speak for anybody else, but for me it’s always been comment registration requirements.
You have been warned.
I was there and am still a bit mystified at how that spread.
The Wayback Machine crashes both Safari and Chrome on my Mac. Oh well.
Firefox, too. It’s infernal.
But no, the Wayback Machine shows you have no comment on that thread, Kvetch. Funny that, I remembered myself as commenting on it too but apparently not. Ah well, at least I can brag that I’ve an early comment on that legendary Jim Henley post, “Post.”
No, I did not comment, and it was only after the thread had gone cold did it occur to me that the phrase would be best uttered in the voice C3PO: “I am fluent in over six million forms of communication, and what’s more, I am aware of all Internet traditions.”
The voice of C3PO, obviously. No robot I.
Whereas I did not remember commenting on it, and comment pretty rarely in general, and yet I see I did contribute an overly complicated piece of snark. My existence is validated.
Is there a way we can copyright this thing? Or at least force anyone using to link back to LGM? Between Krugman stealing our line and that brewery in Colorado, I feel like we are losing some major opportunities here….
I bet if you made Krugman an honorary LGM blogger you could use that to vastly increase your haul of complimentary LGM beer from that brewery.
You see, this is the kind of forward-thinking ideas we need from our commenters.
Also you could pay commenters cash money.
If you read the thread, you’ll find that one commenter did get a free “Lawyers, Guns, & Money” barleywine.
You can’t prove there was any causal link between that and their commenting here … but can you prove there wasn’t?
“All Internet Traditions IPA”
I like the sound of that! (Slogan: “You don’t know beer until you know All Internet Traditions!”)
(What would they link to, Erik? The comment thread that birthed the meme was lost in the great JSKit Purge.)
They could link to this:
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-am-aware-of-all-internet-traditions
Not as good a tagline as Polygamy Porter — Why have just one
http://www.wasatchbeers.com/shop/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/043c321167dc3c85e9e10d6cd9ee0da6.jpg
Fame! Fortune! Free beer!
Then again, it could just be the beginning of the inadvertent appropriation of the meme by Krugman.
Has Krugman ever used “Shorter”? That’d be fun too.
Yep.
A pretty good blogpost all around by Krugthulhu. I’ve got a feeling he reads the A-List folks pretty frequently. I’ve seen snarky references to other memes from time to time, and that one has taken on a life of its own at this point, in part because John Cole picked it up and played with it as well.
Between that and the beer, I seriously think you need to think about finding a better IP lawyer, gents. :)
Campos may get his blogging award taken away
Good point, Bill. :)
My question is how to write a citation. APA format, for instance, doesn’t cut it.
This is the coolest thing I’ve ever had almost nothing to do with.
It is probably my greatest claim to fame.
I have to admit I actually thought Sadly, no invented this phrase.
I always thought the “All internet traditions” line was from John McCain’s presidential run; I seem to recall him saying that at some point. I’d imagine that’s where Krugman knows it from, though you can never be so sure with that guy; he pulls obscure meme references out of his hat with alarming regularity for a Nobel prize winning Economist.