The Sleep of Reason Brings Forth Monsters

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[Tim Cavanaugh]

Reason roolz

[smacky]

Wait, if the comments aren't working, then now's my chance to tell everyone that I absolutely HATE all {end transmission}

[Ball of Confusion]

stoopid internets

[Henry]

Los Caprichos! My favorite!

[mojoe]

Call Al Gore, as the inventor, he no doubt could fix it right up!!

[Rick Barton]

Reason does roolz for sure. But wow, since Saturday I've just been dying to say "libertoid android" down on the "Moo-cedes-Benz?" thread!

[Rick Barton]

...of course that should have been "...Reason does rool for sure". Oh well, at least I got to post the "libertoid android" bit on two threads.

[T. Lassiter Jones]

I thought it was spelled "r00lz" 🙂

[kwais]

You motherfuckers!!!

Here I am sweating bullets. I tried to post a comment to Ruthless down on the thread with the cops beating up the drug dealer.

And the message I got back was "this URL is forbidden"

So then I tried to click on Ruthless's name to send him an answer directly, and that came back "Forbidden".

Then I started to sweat bullets! I was thinking if I was saying something I wasn't supposed to and the guys monitoring the net had picked it up. I was racking my brain trying to think of what I had said that was wrong. I couldn't think of any information I was passing that is not open source. I was remembering some other guys that got in big trouble for passing sensitive information.

Maybe they were just scarred that I was about to pass something sensitive. Maybe someone on another post had passed something sensitive and they had gone and taken everyones ability to talk on this format. I was at a loss.

And why wasn't I able to view new posts? was that part of it.

And now I find out that y'all forgot to plug in the message reciever.

[OPUS]

Their you guys go again straight to the crack!

[kwais]

So I still don't get why I could send a message to Ruthless. I was able to send a message to Jennifer email address. Is Ruthless part of y'alls cabal?

[Pavel]

Admit it Reason Staff, there was at least a few hours where you were pretty sure your posts just sucked and no one wanted to respond to them.

[Rick Barton]

"The Sleep of Reason Brings Forth Monsters"

Of course that would be Goya-1797

[NoStar]

Comments are now working.

Sure wish I had something intelligent to say.
Oh well, I never have let that stop me before.

[Jennifer]

Hey, Ruthless! Kwais e-mailed and asked me to please tell you that he tried to comment to your statement down on the Drug War post, but for some reason he couldn't get through either to Reason or your address. (I suspect it's an Army plot to keep Our Troops from accessing subversive Internet sites, but I didn't tell Kwais this for fear of hurting his morale.) Anyway, he doesn't want you to think he's being rude and ignoring you.

Oh wait, never mind.

[kwais]

yeah, yeah, yeah....I'm a dumbass.

[kwais]

Hmmmm, is this so embarrassing that I need to change my pen name? See if Thoreau and the likes can figure out that I am the same person.

I don't know, I am not the only dumbass....surely.

There was that other time that the website was so slow that and I kept hitting the 'post' button and my message ended up posting 10 or 20 times. But they when other posters posted to make fun of me, their posts repeated 3 or 4 times also, so I was vindicated

[Jennifer]

Kwais-
Actually, I was attempting to be humorous, and also show that I wasn't ignoring your email (which I just checked). Had I been in your position, in Iraq, I'd've been freaked out, too. Seriously.

[Jennifer]

By the way, I also responded to the Drug War posting.

[Tim Cavanaugh]

That's like when somebody makes fun of somebody else's mispeling. The slowness problem you allude to has been mostly solved thanks to a server upgrade and database conversion; at any rate, multiple posts no longer seem to happen very often.

By the way, the culprit this time was a new antispam filter, which has subsequently been installed with apparent success. If you came here for the golden showers and bestiality, you may soon have to look elsewhere.

[biologist]

Tim: which are your favorite sites for golden showers and bestiality, since it's not available here?

just asking for everyone else's benefit

[Ball of Confusion]

which are your favorite sites for golden showers and bestiality

You mean on the same site? 'Cause I find the ones that focus specifically on one or the other are a lot less watered down. Well, except for the golden showers specialty sites, which I guess are more watered down.

[biologist]

yes, ball, I need those on the same site. I'm hoping to see people letting animals give them golden showers. 🙂

hey, it's Valentine's Day, after all

[kwais]

Jen,
cool. Cool other post too.

Tim,
I wasn't getting the golden showers or bestiality on this website before. What was I doing wrong?

[kwais]

Wow,
Three golden shower, and bestiality jokes before mine came through.

[NoStar]

No golden showers from beasts here? I thought this was a Libertine blog site. Oh hell, I guess I can always go back to Slate and the fray.

[Ball of Confusion]

So can the new spam filter filter out copied-and-pasted song lyrics? 'Cause that would really be adding some value...

[NoStar]

FREAKIN' AT THE FREAKERS BALL
Words and music by Shel Silverstein

LEAD-IN: There's gonna be a Freakers Ball,
Yes, yes, tonight at the Freakers Hall,
Yeah and you know that you're invited,
One and all.

C'mon babies? grease your lips?
Put on your hats, and swing your hips.
Don't forget to bring your whips.
We're goin' to the Freakers Ball.

Blow your whistle?bang your gong --
Roll up somethin' to take along.
Feels so good? it must be wrong ?
Freakin' at the Freakers Ball.

All the fags and dikes, they're boogyin' together --
Leather freaks dressed in all kinds of leather.
The greatest of the Sadists and the Masochists, too,
Screamin' "Please hit me" and "I'll hit you".

F.B.I. dancin' with the junkies ?
All the Straights swingin' with the Funkies
'Cross the floor and up the wall
Freakin' at the Freakers Ball.

Everybody is lovin' each other --
Brother with sister? son with mother.
Smear my body up with butter,
And take me to the Freakers Ball.

So pass that roach and pour the wine --
I'll kiss yours and you'll kiss mine.
I'm gonna boogie til I go blind --
Freakin' at the Freakers Ball.

Black ones, white ones, yellow and red ones --
Necropheliacs lookin' for dead ones.
The greatest of the Sadists and the Masochists, too --
Screaming' "Please hit me" and "I'll hit you".

Everybody ballin' in batches --
Pyromaniacs strikin' matches.
I'm gonna itch me where it scratches --
Freakin' at the Freakers Ball, y'all
Freakin' at the Freakers Ball.

---
No need to thank me, BoC.

[Hooray]

Hooray!

[Jesse Walker]

Admit it Reason Staff, there was at least a few hours where you were pretty sure your posts just sucked and no one wanted to respond to them.

Actually, I thought they were so good that no one could find any nits to pick.

[smacky]

I thought this was a Libertine blog site.

You STOLE MY JOKE!

....I never knew Shel Silverstein wrote such adult material...or was that in one of his children's poetry collections that I haven't read?

[NoStar]

Smacky, Shel wrote a lot of adult material including short stories that appeared in Playboy. Many of the songs performed by Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show were penned by him.

Another favorite Shel Silverstein song:
PENICILLIN PENNY

Penicillin Penny,
She's the queen of the Sunset Strip.
If she ever gives you any
Then you better see your doctor real quick.
From the backseat of Cadillac cars
To the floor of mens room bars,
She's Penicillin Penny
And her future's written in the stars.

She's Penicillin Penny
And ever since the day she came,
They say she's had so many
She gives them all numbers, not names.
I always called her hon',
But she calls me one-thousand-and-one,
And Penicillin Penny
Starts to boogie when the day is done.

She's Penicillin Penny,
If you ever see her passing through
Better run into your house
Or she stops and lays a little on you.
If you ever let her in your door
It takes 20,000,000 units or more to cure
The love that Penicillin Penny lays on you...
---

I also like his poems and stories for children.