Miscellaneous Junk

Okay, this is the weirdest headline I’ve seen for quite a while :

‘Cornhole’ Catching on Beyond Midwest

Click on the link to find out what they’re talking about. It’s not what you think.

In blog news, comments spam is driving me crazy. I wish I could confront these dickheads and say “Dude, my readers don’t wanna buy Lipitor or have phone sex with virgin sluts”. I’ve already installed MTBlacklist, which seems to work pretty well, but it looks like I’m gonna have to kick it up a notch. Starting today, I’m gonna periodically run MT-Close2 which will close the comments for any post older than 14 days. It’ll be a bummer to no longer get comments from random Bush supporters to posts I did a year ago, but it’ll do a lot to help stem the tide of crap that pollutes my site from people who are typing in random search words into Google.


posted by greg on November 1, 2004 @ 12:27 pm

12 comments

  1. “It’ll be a bummer to no longer get comments from random Bush supporters to posts I did a year ago…” Well, sometimes you have to throw out the crap along with the crap.

    Anyway, I’m sure those guys ‘n’ gals will gladly put their comments onto an entirely irrelevant new post, just to make sure we aren’t deprived of their creative insights, spelling and punctuation.

    Just in case they don’t make it through, here’s their message: Fear! Hate! (Garnish with lies; repeat often.)

    Comment by Kip W — November 1, 2004 @ 12:41 pm

  2. Thanks for the tip.

    I try to post funny headlines as I find them, and that one is priceless…

    Comment by Tbag — November 1, 2004 @ 1:50 pm

  3. Heh.. they changed their headline..

    Comment by Melissa — November 1, 2004 @ 2:09 pm

  4. What’s funny is that I’ve lived in Cincinnati my whole life, and have never had the inkling to play that game. It’s only caught on in the last few years, and I have no idea why.

    Comment by Nick — November 1, 2004 @ 3:32 pm

  5. Damn, they’ve changed it to “Corn Toss”.

    A lesson for all – take screen shots of outrageous or outrageously funny web content – it often gets watered down or disappeared.

    Comment by The Donkey — November 1, 2004 @ 5:06 pm

  6. Don’t worry. Google News still has some good headlines and quotes that will appeal to our lowbrow sides. Including this odd quote :

    the air is heavy with the scent of charcoal lighter fluid and the slap-slap-slap of cornhole bags against …

    I have no interest in knowing how to play this game if it involves lighter fluid. Ouch.

    Comment by greg — November 1, 2004 @ 5:13 pm

  7. Or the slapping of.. cornhole bags? Against stuff? Wow. that’s some good writin’.

    Comment by Melissa — November 1, 2004 @ 5:38 pm

  8. So, um…what exactly is a virgin slut? Because from my extensive knowldege of both virgins and sluts (ok, far more of the former than the latter) that venn diagram is kind of nonexistant (at least the overlap portion). Oh, and how does the easy html work, do I click it or what?

    Comment by socraticsilence — November 1, 2004 @ 7:17 pm

  9. If one played this game at a backyard BBQ or family gathering, and one decided to use a couple of extra bags of those premixed salads, would one be engaged in salad tossing?
    Addtionally, My high shcools alumni athletic support group is known as the bear backers, which is ironic considering I believe we abandoned sex ed involving contraceptives the year after I graduated, when you combine this with the ad for Care Net (one of those insidious “Crisis pregnancy counseling centers”) we we’re forced to run in the High School paper, and its a miracle that half my senior class didn’t get knocked up (damn jeebofascists and they’re wait til marriage crap, for those of us who don’t drink it takes a lot longer to deprogram chicks), this will probably change now that comprehensive sex ed has been stripped throughout the school system.

    Comment by Socraticsilence — November 1, 2004 @ 7:28 pm

  10. Oh, holy moly! I didn’t actually read the story before. Corn toss was common where I grew up in Michigan, but it was strictly a kiddie game. And it was always, always, always called corn toss. Toss. Got that? I toss, you toss, they tossed, we will toss.

    Corn. Toss.

    I am surprised they didn’t get any quotes from Heywood Jablome in that story.

    Comment by The Donkey — November 1, 2004 @ 8:10 pm

  11. Hey, cornhole is a good fucking game. Oops. I mean, it’s a lot of fun trying to get that bag in the hole. Damnit, you know what I mean. Stop laughing.

    Comment by The Critic — November 2, 2004 @ 7:25 am

  12. I wouldn’t say *all* your readers are disinterested in phone sex with virgin sluts.

    Comment by Amanda — November 2, 2004 @ 1:45 pm

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