The story with a thousand comments

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Rob Cockerham, the genius behind cockeyed.com,(and one of the few, the proud, the Honorary Mad Scientists) decided to assemble an “Elite Comment Strike Force!!!” and auction off 1000 blog comments.

Watching this auction on eBay, one of the things that surprised me was the set of “Similar Items on eBay”; Rob wasn’t alone– and the other guys are serious! There are titles like “100,000 US BLOG Visitors to your BLOG! Real Traffic,” and “200 Articles To Boost Your Article Directory/Blog #3.” I hadn’t really appreciated that there was a market for this sort of mercenary blog traffic. I’ll have to keep that in mind next time that I’m a sleazy scum-of-the-internet spam-blog operator!

Do we need to buy hits for our web page? Well, no. It’s not like we have any advertising on this page with which to make money. But we are indeed willing to pay for the privilege of being the web site that was the victim of Rob’s “Elite Comment Strike Force!!!”

Naturally, I bid, along with 23 other eager folks. The final price was $90. (Hey, free shipping!)

So, here it is: This is the story with one thousand comments. Strike force, do your worst!!!

To help get things rolling, here’s a prompt (which you are completely free to ignore): “what are you going to be for Halloween?”

Update: 10/11/2006, 8:28 AM PST 172 comments so far.

Additional prompt (which you are completely free to ignore): “What kinds of apparatus and instruments for helping to take over the world would you like to see instructions for at evilmadscientist.com?”

Update 2: 10/11/2006, 2:13 PM PST 530 comments so far.
More than halfway there! Here is my favorite comment so far, which is from Anonymous @ 152.2.115.201:

“I hope you’ll recycle these comments when you’re done with them. If your local recycling service won’t accept comments, you can always take them out back and compost them. Beautiful new comments will begin to sprout from the pile in just a few days. First there’ll be little tendrils of haiku. Then longer, more robust slogan vines. Let the natural levels of text succession take their course and you can watch a full-grown treatise grow from what was once a jumble of useless, hackneyed comments.”

Update 3: 10/12/2006, 8:21 AM PST 930 comments so far: The home stretch!

I have found it highly entertaining to watch the dynamic of nest building. We start out with comments like “I challenge you to a bet to see whoever can make a comment string nest to the MAX first!” and “I just want this to nest until only one word shows per line.”

And then, of course, we get dozens of comments about the success of that plan of attack: “I find it difficult to read your blog, because I have to scroll horizontally. You may want to consider correcting this.”

By the way, if you’re having difficulty finding a certain post, you can try using the search box near the top of the left-hand column to help find them. It works pretty well.

Update 4: 10/12/2006, 9:51 AM PST 1000 comments! (Well, 1000 including quite a few from persons– such as myself– who are not members of the elite comment strike force, you slackers!)

(Click the “Reply” button below to post a comment.)

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1,193 thoughts on “The story with a thousand comments”

    1. 1000 poeple are going to comment on this thread and all I could think of to lead it off was "First?"….

      I’m not good under pressure.

      P

      1. This is going to take me a long time all by myself and with only one post every 45 seconds.

        P

        2. Here, I’ll help. =)
          Maybe I should temporarily change the minimum time between comments.
          On the other hand, I don’t think that comments that take less than 45
          seconds to write are going to be the best comments in the world…

          —
          Windell H. Oskay
          drwho(at)evilmadscientist.com
          http://www.evilmadscientist.com/

              1. I really suprised no one else said this…

                Connect them in series then touch the electodes with two fingers and say "Oh crap that hurts."

                Simple.

                P

          3. The 45 second timer is acting pretty weird. I tried to enter a comment and it said my last comment was 19 seconds ago. I waited 20 seconds and tried again, it told me my last comment was 23 seconds ago. I tried again right away and it told me my last comment was 28 seconds ago. Time must work differently in your lab.

          4. That’s a negative thought….people can type alot of words in 45 seconds. See, I’m about to

            1. I like to move-it-move-it

              I’d much prever your logo if it said "LIVE"…evil is so negative.

              – carl
              theWAREHOUSE

          5. Well, I *was* going to write you one of my FAMOUS fourty-four second comments, which are PRIZED the world over, but as you are so snobby about sad subjects, I suppose I am unable to make such a priceless post, and must instead make one of my lesser known one-minute comments. Aye. Ayeup. Yup dog. Qball. Puerto Rico.

      2. I bet you’ll be forgiven, donating to the cause and all.

        I on the other hand just wanted to be a part of the elite task force.

      2. Yes! Same for me. This isn’t as fun as I thought it would be.
        There’s really no story and now I’ll have to comment on the comments.
        Well, one down, one to go.

      3. I find it interesting, I’m not a part of the strike force, but I would have wanted to post a new comment, unfortunately, I don’t know where the button is to post a new one.

        1. Thanks to the extreme nesting of comments here, the “reply” button has
          been pushed to the horizontal middle of this web page, near the top,
          Just below and far to the right of the heading “Trackback.” Maybe I can move
          it to the left side….

          —
          Windell H. Oskay
          drwho(at)evilmadscientist.com
          http://www.evilmadscientist.com/

    8. Fur Real! There is no story, what gives. As an elitist I expected to drop my seredipitous comments on a real post not a post about a comment auction. Where have all the real mad scientists gone?

    9. This post concludes my 5 comment pledge with The Elite Comment Strike Force. Most of my comments were the stupid ones.

    12. I know we all love Rob and everything, who doesn’t…but let’s hear it for Jane, too, I mean she’s cute, she participates, watermelon, hey. Hip hip hooray Jane.

    13. Hey, um, Willard, can you unblock the, um, man part C-word from your deny list or something? It’s kind of awkward we can’t write that word when it’s 40% of Rob’s last name. And then the thing deletes your comment and you edit and resubmit and hit the time limit, it’s kind of bringing me down, is where I’m going with this, and I can’t be the only one. But I think we can rally, you know, get this done for Rob, despite the challenges, I guess.

        1. Thank goodness!!!!
          I’ve been trying to tell you all about my halloween costume — and it just wouldn’t take. I’m going as a ghost.

          — Need an enormous, rock-hard COCK? Buy herbal V1@Gra at my web site —

        2. Your spam filter is far too picky.

          Speaking of which, check out http://www.renewability.com for a great drain-water heat recovery system. Save between 25-40% on your water heating costs, and triple your water heating capacity! Kewl, no? Everyone needs one.

    14. I thought I’d go as slim goodbody for halloween. I’ve got the curly mullet but am having trouble finding an xtra xtra xtra large body suit.

    15. Hey, did you notice that the acronym for Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories is kinda similar to the Elite Comment Strike Force? It was destiny, man… destiny.

    19. I’m not officially part of the 1,000 promised, but I love cockeyed.com so I thought I’d add to it regardless. Last year for Halloween I was part of a ‘couple’ and therefore needed a set of costumes. We decided to go as the Green Monkeys from Nickelodeon’s Legends of the Hidden Temple. I bought two hunter green shirts from Michael’s, found the official monkey design and made a stencil. Then, I used the stencil to paint yellow monkeys on the green shirts. To add some flare – my boyfriend and I bought helmets, elbow pads, and knee pads from Toys R Us and wore those with the shirts. I was fantastic, and quite a hit with the old Nick lovers. Not sure about this year yet. That’s my post. Not sure if you know of http://www.woot.com, but it’s a cool site to check daily for cheap gadgets. Have a nice day. Hope you get your $90 worth. :)
      -Wendy from Pennsylvania

    20. Hmm … nifty blog, I gotta say! Though I never received the level of schooling required to become a full-fledged Evil Mad Scientist, I did last long enough to receive the two-year "scientician" degree. I’ll certainly be back (and I’m not just saying that because I promised to supply five comments to the fella what won the Cockeyed auction … though that’s one reason, sure).

    21. i was kind of hoping that we’d all get into a 1,000 comment discussion about current events or something like that.

    30. Why do I have to scroll sideways to see your site, and the comments?!?!

      WHY???

      W….h…..y……?

    32. Great site! Great links to other great sites! congrats on the win……….the Elite strike force rules!!!!!

    33. What a brilliantly simple Idea. you could possibly buy or sell enough comments to bring any site to a screeching halt.

    37. I think that the jackalope is an amazing creature. To be able to evade human detection for so long is an amazing feat. Also, jellybeans.

    39. wow, am i late. this is my…um……..comment.

      evil mad scientist huh? i knew one of those once.

      ate my dog, he did.

    40. Here I Am, your fave commenter WhiteFang, joining, nay, _leading_ a comment strike force. Not just any comment strike force, but an Elite comment strike force.
      Oh yes.
      On-topic, timely, a real comment pro, that’s me, dressed to the nines in my sharp new Ecsf uniform.
      _Striking_, are we not?
      ::looking around::
      ::reading every article::
      ::checking out comments by other members of the strike force. Good one, there.
      ::murmuring a few pithy comments, nothing less than Elite.::
      Very impressive, General. Very impressive.
      Carry on.

  2. Ok Mr. Nuke Clock guy…. How come I made a comment, hit reload, took a phone call and came back only to have it tell me my last comment ws 2 seconds ago? hmmmm

    P

      2. It’s hard to leave a commnet when there’s nothing to commnet on. The weather maybe?

        ORCHtchr

  5. Having read your blog for a while now, I’m pretty much convinced that your not actually evil at all. Have to say I’m disappointed.

    Be more evil.

      1. Evil Mad Scientists don’t apologize. They just do whatever the heck they want….

        Wait, I said "Heck" and not ____! What is wrong with me????

        1. This is true.
          The most evil people are the ones that know that they are evil and love every minute of it, like Sam Walton.

  6. It is really tough to talk about halloween costumes, because I place so much value on being the guy that thinks them up. I mean, who wants to be the Gieco Gecko when someone else just mentioned that HE was going to be the Gieco Gecko?

    1. That’s a good point; we also like to think up good costumes. How about,
      "What’s the best Halloween costume that you’ve seen this year?" That way,
      we won’t pressure anyone to give away their secrets.

      —
      Windell H. Oskay
      drwho(at)evilmadscientist.com
      http://www.evilmadscientist.com/

      1. I will be handing out candy as the Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons…

        All I will need are red, spandex coaching shorts, a t-shirt (size medium) withthe phrase “Worst Episode Ever” emblazoned on it, and a fake pony tail. Nerd factor is already built in.

        “Oh… Loneliness and cheesburgers are a dangerous mix.”

        http://www.thesimpsons.com/characters/home.htm

      2. As Halloween’s not yet passed, how, exactly, are we supposed to remark on the year’s best costumes?
        The only Halloween costumes I’ve seen this year are the pr-made sort that come from stores. They are hardly the best

    2. Dang it. I wanted to be the Geico Gecko.

      Well, can’t let the accent go to waste. So this year–Zombie Steve Irwin!

      Brains! Crikey! RAR!

    3. I let my kids decide what I’m going to be this year. Apparently I’m going to be a vending machine. Er, a haunted vending machine. And (this is the clever bit) where the candy comes out from a normal vending machine, you put candy into a haunted one. It is unclear whether this should result in dollar bills emerging from the money slot though.

    4. We host a murder mystery party on halloween every year, so this year for halloween I am the chief financial officer of a major business corporation.

      Seriously.

      dram atic de cisio n (at) y aho o (dot) co m

  7. WOW, I never imagined we’d be face to face with an evil mad scientist on our fist mission. Ahhh, I crapped my pants.

    1. Indeed, you’d think Rob would have made our first battle with a fuzzy lamb or something easy. Not to mention I didn’t take him up on his Comment-training opportunities.

  8. Well, I’m going to be Billy Idol I’ve got the ear ring, going to bleach my hair,
    and you know….<i>be</i> the Billy. I think it should turn out well.
    Hopefully this will open a lot of doors to a career to pursue.

  9. I plan to be a zombie. Ripped flesh, shuffling, moaning… it’ll be like prom all over again.

    Zombies FTW!

    -Chiron7936

    1. I was wondering only the same thing the other night and have come to the
      decision to go as nine things…..well one can never have enough! Must dash
      got some nitro-glycerine on the boil…

      ECSF

      1. That the first 1000 comment page would contain an article other than "This article will have 1000 comments". I mean, this’d be a great way to get the word out about some issue or something. Some of the 1000ish commentators must actually read the article…

        2. I agree completely. I actually read the article, and wish it had been something more interesting.

          1. The man paid the big bucks to have the Elite Comment Strike Force released on his website, we are just the deliverers of the gift of comments. Who are we to complain?

            …he is an evil mad scientist, after all. Be nice.

    2. Sounds like any weeknight down my local pub. Something a bit more "unusual" is called for, surely?

    3. Say … that’s my plan, too! Partially ’cause I love ’em, but mainly ’cause I’m whoring my new zombie horror/comedy feature film "Dead at the Box Office," which comes out on DVD this Friday! If you love Romero, you gotta see "Dead at the Box Office!"

      ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~*~*~*
      Now PREYING at a Theatre Near You — DEAD AT THE BOX OFFICE
      The horror/comedy salute to Romero’s "of the Dead" series
      http://deadattheboxoffice.com http://imdb.com/title/tt0818095/
      ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~*~*~*

  11. Congrats on winning the auction! :D I think the whole ideas a bit crazy myself, but I’m contriubuting to the comment effort,s o who knows what I’m talking about.

    I don’t know what I’m going as for halloween. Running out of time for ideas!

      1. I’ll probably be cold, yes. And laughed at. I weigh 110 kg, it’s gonna look sad (in a good way?). I’ll try to take some good pics

        1. WE really need to know your height no make an accurate picture, 110kg at 190cm is a lot different than 110kg at 120cm

          1. You know, you’d think that since you know the readers of your comments are American of the east AND west coast variety, you could use pounds and feet and inches

            1. Strange, I’m from norway and I’m both commenting and reading this. I’m 188 cm (that’s 6’2"). I agree that it would rock more if my 110 kg (242,5 pounds) was spread on a height of, say 158 cm (5’2"), but this is what I have to work with.

              The norwegian robin guy

  13. I was expecting comments to come faster than this. It may be due to the fact that the "add a comment" link is incredibly difficult to find (since there is none–just a poorly-named button).

  14. I’ll be going with my six kids who will all be going as classic movie monsters- Ms. and Mr. Dracula, the werewolf, frankenstein, frankenstein’s bride and the mummy.

    1. What an awsome article!!!!yay!!! go you!! well done on winning the auction. lol, hope the comments keep coming

      1. Well here’s another one! I didn’t realize there was a market for this mercenary commenting thing. What an odd world. BTW, has the War On Lettuce been won yet?

      2. Only 121 comments so far. Is Rob going to pull it off? Will the $90 be repaid? We are all on the edge of our seats following this exciting instalment…
        Like the web site – my staff in France call me Professor Fou (The Mad Professor) so I feel at home here !
        IH

    2. There. I created a count and everything to show my dedication to the 1000 post commitment. Let me expand on my prior post– every year my kids go as a theme (it’s their idea, not mine) and this year they chose classic movie monsters. Not the best year that we’ve had, but still pretty good. Last year was the Justice League (Flash, Wonderwoman, Batman, Superman, Green Lantern and the Martian Manhunter)– that was awesome. And the year before that when we only had five kids was much better- the Wizard of Oz- Scarecrow, Lion, Tin Man, Dorothy and Todo. Halloween is the major annual holiday in our house.

      —
      Animalball: I Rolled a 20! That’s Grievous Gaming!

    1. Which is more than most of the actual comments are. Can’t remember how many I signed up to write…

    1. Can I be an honorary member of the Elite Comment Strike Force? I didn’t sign up at the right time to be an actual member.

      Anyway, I’m not dressing up for Halloween, but my two year old will be a lion, I think.

    2. I’m going to dress as a gen x blogger who writes about stuff that nobody cares about. Wait… I do that every day. I know! I’ll dress as a Youtube video!

  17. Do you realise that you’re going to have more than 1000 comments, what with the Elite COmments Strike Force AND your regular commenters?

    Does that disturb you? Or is more really better?

    1. This, my third comment on this topic, has fulfilled my ECSF obligations. I signed up to provide 3 comments, and with this one, I have. Any additional comments I may make are on my own time, and are provided free of charge…

      However there may be a small handling fee ;)

      ECSF member Baron VonKlyff signing off.

    2. That’s true. You should probably let your service provider know to expect AT LEAST 1002 comments.

  18. Is it bad that I don’t really plan on doing anything for halloween other than carving a pumpkin? but it will be a kick-ass pumpkin if that helps.

    1. Nah, carving a pumpkin is pretty cool. I think I might dress my daschund puppy up as a Oscar Meyer hotdog, and then my wife and i would go as a bottle of Ketchup and Mustard. What do you think, too corny?

      2. i think the hot dog and condiments is a very good idea. especially if you have a daschund.

    1. You should dress up like an animal control officer. Or a Camp Bow Wow employee. Just a red t-shirt and jeans!

      What nobody said we couldn’t pimp our places of work!
      :P

      Rebel(final obligated post)

  20. Well the nitro-glycerine is done now….phew was a close one for sure.

    So, still deciding what to dress up as…..decisions….decisions….how about a
    mad scientist or is there enough of em on here?

    1. I was thinking of just being a cardboard box robot or maybe just a ninja if i get lazy…

      1. How about printing out all these comments when we are done and going as
        the Elite Strike Force 1000 Comments??

      4. I saw a guy dressed up as Mr. Butlertron, complete with magical sweater vest. It basically owned.

  21. What am I going to be for Halloween? That is a damn good question.

    I want to do something, but I want it to be relatively low-key and low-maintenance (I have a class that day). Any suggestions from other commentors?

    1. Go as something "normal" like a student. Then you can get candy though you my have to explain your costume.

      1. I usually wear mostly black, and mostly casual clothing. Maybe I’ll get dressy and pretend I’m an actual human being.

        —
        -Spoodles (like noodles)

        1. One year I pulled a couple of select items from the all-black corner of my wardrobe, and went as eurotrash, but only because I was going to a party filled with Germans.

          They seemed to like it, though. Although they might have been laughing at me.

  22. I don’t have a costume chosen yet. I’ll probably just go as a hippy, gypsy, vamipre, or goth. Kinda depends what my hair looks like.

    Rebel

    1. Speed Limit
      Your last comment was 48 seconds ago. This site requires at least 45 seconds between comments

      Let’s see:
      "time" == T2 – T1
      "limit" == 45 sec
      IF "time" >= "limit", THEN ALLOW POST

  23. Well, for Halloween this year I think I am going to make a shot at a costume I have never tried before: Lazy College Freshman. I may not have the time or opportunity to do anything All Hallow’s related, thus, my costume may be of the self-forming, self-decribing variety.

    AR (1/5)

    1. I’ve always been afraid of laboratories ever since that lobatomy a few years ago. Weird.

  24. We have declared a Jihad on your comment section. Die you evil pig of a comment section.

    Wait, is this post on topic?

    1. Oh great… now we have radical extremists in the ECSF!!! Rob, what kind of background checks did you do on THESE "Elite" troopers?!?

      Somebody’s probably preparing for a suicide commenting!!

  25. So, evil mad scientist, what flavor of stew are the aliens secretly brewing in the center of the earth?

    I always wanted to know.

  26. Hmmm…. Seems vaguely quite on the Comment Front. Maybe we should get some explosions in here, Bruckheimer/Bay style, and then your 1,000 comment article, although recognized the world over as terribly written, poorly directed, and littered with some of the worst performances ever to ‘grace’ the screen, would go on to rake in millions in the box office!!

    No, wait, i think I just confused your article with the movie Armageddon… My sincerest apologies- Should I go bring some dude’s head on a pole to brighten the mood?

    AR (2/5)

  27. So, according to Mr. Button up here, this is not so much 1k Comments as 1k REPLIES. Which, I guess, means I have to give this a slightly more personal touch the only way I know how–
    "So, how’re the kids? Good? Good. They have been looking pretty well off lately, so i guess work is going well. What? No, I haven’t.. seen them recently… Nor have I been by your office, which is located at _whisper whisper_… NO I AM NOT STALKING YOU! Aw, cmon, not another restraining order man, you know my drawer is full. As is my glove compartment, since some of you people still drive after meeting me… And the ones in my pocket, ya know, because some people just HAVE to shop, psycho stalker or not. Did I say something wrong? "

    AR (3/5)

  29. Come, Red Brothers! Together, we shall spread our glorious manifesto across the land, in small snippets of text smeared, almost at random, across an innocent website, Mother Russia will love and thank US, the Elite Comrade Strike Force…. What is it, Yuri? *whisper whisper*
    COMMENT? That’s the C???

    Oh crap.
    Can I get a mulligan on this comment? Paris, not gentlemans… No need to snipe someone elses statement…

    AR (4/5)

  30. I will be taking my kids out dressed as "their father" as my wife stays home to hand out treats to the locak deviants!

    1. That’s fine. Just make sure that you are also too lazy to go out asking for candy.
      Every year, at about 10:00 the doorbell starts ringing from 16 year-olds without costumes who say "trick-or-treat". Not only are they too old for it, but they expect something for nothing. That really bothers me.

    1. You wouldn’t get any candy from me! I buy three Snickers bars every Halloween, and only the kids with the BEST costumes get the candy. Well, they would if they ever came to the door. The past 7 years all the kids have stood on the sidewalk, scared to come to my door. They dare each other to touch the grass on my lawn.

      I end up crying myself to sleep about the childhood I never had. The next morning I get up and have three Snickers bars for breakfast.

      1. I’m very lucky this year. I just moved across the country, so I can recycle my Halloween costumes because no one here has seen them! I think I’ll work retroactively and be Velma from Scooby Doo this year…

        1. I’m impressed that you keep you costumes from one year to the next. Mine usually end up destroyed after the first party.

  34. For Halloween I’m doing the same thing I do every year. Dress up like Michael Jackson and scare all the neighborhood kids until they give me their trick-or-treat candy. But that’s just me.

    1. I’m not even in the strike force. but I was so impressed with your article I had to respond. You know. This one. This article. the one that was written about… well, this. Wait. I’m so confused…
      And… there it is. Now my nose is bleeding…

    2. I somehow think that dressing up as Jacko would scare the neighbourhood parents more than the children. Not to mention the fact that it’s been done already: http://www.zug.com/pranks/mj/.

      I may go dressed up as Mario, or Luigi. I think I’ll have to convince one of my roommates to dress up as the other.

  35. it’s not so common to celebrate halloween in germany so I guess I’m going to dress normal.

    krebstaratomichotsauce
    (guess my name was to long)

    1. Tha’s WHY I dress up for Hallowe’en here, because everyone looks at me like I’m an eejit. They’re all too uptight. I think I’ll dress up as a German!

      (why do I have to preview my comment? I know what it looks like …)

    1. A line oft heard in Veggie Tale’s "King George and the Ducky"

      Love that song!
      "Because I love my duck."
      "Sir, if I could have a minute."

      1. <3 Veggie Tales!! Esepcially Silly Songs With Larry. My personal favorite: The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything!!

  37. I’m not likely doing Halloween this year, now that I’m in college.

    You did kinda waste this, you could have had a big ole’ discussion on a relavant topic, but instead the post is about getting 1000 comments. Oh well.

    1. We’ll see who’s laughing when next week’s invention is a magnet hooked to a chain of capacitors that mysteriously changes comments into dollars… THEN everyone will want to win an auction like this. But it’ll be too late. Once the experiment gets out, comment auctions will go up into the $700 range. That is, unless he gets a patent.

  41. Not in making a Halloween costume, but in making sure that he gets to keep his $90. I mean this is a man who’ll teach us how to make coffee, wearing nothing but his unders and holding a one year old, and I don’t even like coffee. I don’t like Halloween either, but on November 1, you can get some deals on candy. We buy all the M&Ms and York Peppermint Patties we can find, because we use them in Christmas Cookie recipes! And in case you think we do morbid Christmas, you’re wrong. We sort them out orange and brown, and since we live in East Tennessee, orange work nicely for everything! Go Vols!

  42. Guess I’ll just be "Dad with three kids on sugar highs" that night. Should make the next day at school interesting……

    1. We’re kind of on the same wavelength. I’ll be dressing up as "dad getting totally wrecked going from house to house getting the cider with the whiskey in it and then yelling at the kids about eating too much candy before collapsing into bed and blasting my wife with a hot fog of whiskey breath as I coo, ever so gently, ‘wanna dress up as my hot little meat sleeve?’"

      That’s just how I roll.

      1. I am the very model of a modern major general
        I’ve information vegetable animal and mineral.

        You heard me right.

        – carl
        theWAREHOUSE

  44. I’ll be going as Mister Softee for halloween of course! It’s everyone’s favorite ice cream dude!!

    Everyone knows the tune! Sing along with me!

    “The creamiest dreamiest soft ice cream
    You get from Mister Sofffffteeeee
    For a refreshing delight supreme
    Look for Mister Sofffffteeee”

      1. Actually, that is pretty accurate :-P

        Oh, and I forgot to mention, I’m not only dressing up as Mister Softee, but I am also carrying around some portable speakers and playing the song continuously. If I have time to construct a mister softee truck, I could do that too.

        1. Another friend of mine says when he was growing up, they sang the song as something like

          "All of the kids in the neighborhood
          Throw rocks at Mister Softee…"

          1. I think I’m dressing up as a lazy guy who can’t be bothered lugging around a costume all night.

            – Carl
            theWAREHOUSE

  45. I want my $0.09 shipped to … nah, kidding.

    Anyway, glad I could help.
    Greets from Finland (a long way from you guys)

  46. Do our worst? What do you mean?
    Halloween.
    Heh, rhyme.
    Halloween isn’t much of a celebration in this household.
    So I’ll be home.

    1. Oh, sure. The system will accept a lame post like the one I just made above, but not a detailed one about Halloween costumes.

      TANJ.

        1. Maybe it is too many characters. Although I didn’t see anything prohibiting that in the "Important Stuff."

          It was a long post I prepared. I assumed a nice content filled post would be appreciated.

          Short version: I was a grim reaper recently, and my best costume was the jolly green giant. Don’t know about this year.

          1. I used to get a lot of comment spam– so I put a few of the most common
            words, which weren’t likely to end up in "real" comments, on a blacklist.

            So… your post must have been about the size of your ******, or about the
            ***** that you were ******* in the *** with the **************, while taking
            ****** that you got without a prescription?

            —
            Windell H. Oskay
            drwho(at)evilmadscientist.com
            http://www.evilmadscientist.com/

            1. Thanks for the response. You are going to read all 1000+ posts, aren’t you? :-)

              I simply went into some detail about how I made the costume. No way of knowing what keyword set the spam filter off. I didn’t list any items that are typical spam though.

  48. Are we there yet?

    (Ugh, I feel stuck up. Putting "Rlopez10" as the title.
    Sorry)

    By they way, LOVE your website!
    It is awesome! Maybe I should make an account then.

    Thanks EMSL!

  49. gasp. I agree with one of the above posters that this add a comment button
    is difficult to find. yes.

    1. So I thought for halloween, I might give out live goldfish in little plastic bags of water. Whaddia think?

      1. I was going to dress up like a letter B and the number 4 on All Hallows Eve.

        That way when someone asks me what I am going to be for on Halloween…. they will answer their own question.

  50. ***WHOOSH****

    Flies in and STRIKES!

    I think I took this Elite Strike Force a little too seriously. I had a cape and everything.

    /and not for halloween
    //hangs head in shame
    ///slinks off into the sunset

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