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On second thought I could use a snort!

Is that crusty part edible?

Are you actually R E T I R I N G?

You have before but your periodic returns have been pleasant. Are you giving up the goat, now, though?-caius (tailor) 00:42, 30 April 2008 (EDT)

He's just a confused (REALLY CONFUSED & NEEDS REPARATIVE THERAPY!!!!) contributor. He's not really retired, just hasn't fixed his userpagiz. human 00:50, 30 April 2008 (EDT)

I will have you know that my repara needs absolutely no therapy whatsoever and by "absolutely no" I mean AB-SO-LUT-ELY (about sex six months oughta do it) ZERO! ZILCH! NADA! (This won't count as a pre-existing condition will it? You know how it is with this LOUSY RW health insurance! $3.50/mo shouldn't have no restrictions! And have you seen the NOSE on the doctor? You would swear they've gotten "Patch Adams".

CЯacke® 08:59, 30 April 2008 (EDT)

We finally gots us two doctors now! Be sure to get a second opinion. --AKjeldsen^Godspeed! 09:48, 30 April 2008 (EDT)

oh, thas right, but I heared the second one was only a "Doctor", thusly not to be trusted with real medical issues (or discharges). CЯacke® 11:37, 30 April 2008 (EDT)

Wait, what—you're leaving? Don't go! You're our token homosexual! How will we survive without you?! -- Radioactive afikomen ^{Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.} 11:45, 30 April 2008 (EDT)

I'm the OUT token homosexual...the closeted ones (you know who you are) will still be here. As far as retiring...the template was added some time ago. I am as retired as I'm likely to get until I die. Cough cough wheeze. CЯacke® 12:02, 30 April 2008 (EDT)

Coughing and wheezing at 50+? C'mon, you still got a third of your life left, and that ain't bad! : ) -- Radioactive afikomen ^{Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.} 12:24, 30 April 2008 (EDT)

Aren't you guys forgetting our ladies? Genghis^{You have the right to be offended; and I have the right to offend you.} 14:04, 30 April 2008 (EDT)

"Homo = same, not homo = man." —Ghenghis

I know. I was teasing. You thought I forgot Grandma Susan? : ) -- Radioactive afikomen ^{Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.} 14:08, 30 April 2008 (EDT)

And now...My Andy (Warhol) Impression CЯacke®

"Impression"? You mean you're not Andy Warhol? : ( -- Radioactive afikomen ^{Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.} 12:14, 16 May 2008 (EDT)

Andy Warhol(a) be dead and buried not 15 miles (as the raven flies) from my location, deep under a mountain in Western Pennsylvania. And I don't wear bad rugs on purpose. CЯacke® 12:40, 16 May 2008 (EDT)

One of my mannequins (male torso & head) has a bad blond rug. On purpose. human 14:01, 16 May 2008 (EDT)

*raises eyebrows* One of your mannequins—you have more than one? And why do you have mannequins in the first place? -- Radioactive afikomen ^{Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.} 15:16, 16 May 2008 (EDT)

EC Shaddup RA CЯacke® 15:42, 16 May 2008 (EDT)

You own mannequins? I knew there was something about you that I liked! We here have a total of five, not counting the (cheap) Halloween "butler" that talks whilst holding a candy dish. Ours are ALL male: a natural tone, a stark white (flattop, stainless steel head), another natural toned guy with molded "hair" and a grayish guy with a hands on hips look (when he's all put together). I don't count the wood "drawing mannequin" that is a wood version of a rough pencil sketch. Nor have I included the wood skeleton one, both of those are life sized but not quite what one thinks of when one hears (or sees) "mannequin" . CЯacke® 15:42, 16 May 2008 (EDT)

Here are a few of them. When I got my red "pump" telephone it cross-pollinated my queen & phone collections! I also have masks and a miniature suit of armor... human 15:47, 16 May 2008 (EDT)

Oh, I also took my "human skull" plastic model and "aged" it and mucked it up to make it look "real" - people actually believe me when I tell them that I dug it up in my swamp out back. Yup, I own a swamp, too... human 15:50, 16 May 2008 (EDT)

...You must be so proud. -- Radioactive afikomen ^{Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.} 16:21, 16 May 2008 (EDT)

As a peacock, bro, as a peacock. human 19:00, 16 May 2008 (EDT)

Does it get you teh ladyz like a peacock? : ) -- Radioactive afikomen ^{Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.} 21:38, 16 May 2008 (EDT)

The dates do like it, and do not disapprove by withholding their favors. Iz that the kweschun you askt? human 22:48, 16 May 2008 (EDT)

I haz been thinking

I know a dangerous task. But someone haz to be doing it. I will move this to the appropriate place when I iz done. I'm editing here to avoid ECs.

Question: Why does it matter what one believes?
It only "matters" when one acts on those beliefs in a way that affects other people. Having and holding a belief that has no rational basis is part of being human.
To deny such, to strive for complete rationality, is a "belief" per se, that is not totally rational!
The bane as well as the boon of Homo sapiens is that we are able to have this sort of "mental illness" and not just survive with it but thrive. It is not rational to fashion a cutting implement from a rock, unless a fantasy of being able to cut something with the implement has already been envisioned within the mind of its creator. Being able to predict the future is part and parcel of any religion and is borne out of this internal fantasy realm that includes creativity and supposition.

I think everyone would agree with your first point. However do not try to associate religion with irrationality and rationality with atheism, and have the two pairs be mutually exclusive. Setting religion aside, irrationality is one of the qualities that makes consciousness in humanity. Everything else works rationaly, perfectly. One of the things that makes conscious beings unique is that we can act irrationally. Lyra § talk 17:19, 28 May 2008 (EDT)

Yes, this is the point and one that I woulda put on the talk page when I was DONE...but no matter.

My point is that the same "thing" that gives rise to our unique mental abilities to invent things that do neat things is the exact same thing that gives rise to religions. Most people, (in my view) view religion as sort of a necessary (evil, if you like), function of humanity. To suggest we "opt out" is fine if advocating on a solitary level but to bring it to the level of mandatory for full recognition as a fully functional rational human being then I think that falls beyond the pale, a sort of "orthodox atheism", if you will. CЯacke® 17:32, 28 May 2008 (EDT)

I've think that the more atheist you get in your worldveiw, the more like fundamentalists you become, I agree. I don't personally think that all religion will or can ever be abolished, rationality or irrationality aside. Lyra § talk 17:44, 28 May 2008 (EDT)

Right. Religion is the "dark side" of creativity. Basically. CЯacke® 18:01, 28 May 2008 (EDT)

I hate to stick my atheist nose in, but it's the promulgation of religion that I dislike - I could go on, but I think you all know my POV by now, so I'll shut up.   ^Contribs_Talk 18:07, 28 May 2008 (EDT)

Tart thou ipsy

I have replied to your reply. Please reply. <font=""; face="Comic Sans MS">Jellyfish!^{Not too SHahB} 12:37, 3 June 2008 (EDT)

This is a reply. <font=""; face="Comic Sans MS">Jellyfish!^{Not too SHahB} 12:37, 3 June 2008 (EDT)

I didn't ask you to reply. Please do not reply. Do not expect a reply. <font=""; face="Comic Sans MS">Jellyfish!^{Not too SHahB} 12:37, 3 June 2008 (EDT)

I set this up

This is "just in case" we want to do it this way...and for practice for me in use of the side-by-side template. I was going to do a side-by-side-by-side article some time back to do a refutation on an essay that first needed to be translated into parsable English before any possible refutation could take place but got bored with it...it was purdy though. CЯacke®

Interesting. Side x 3 could be useful at times, too. ħuman 19:26, 27 June 2008 (EDT)

TK

Since you blocked this user last, would you like to add some special apology to the "please come back" email? Bohdan2 20:35, 1 July 2008 (EDT)

Who wants TK back? Proxima Centauri 18:01, 18 July 2008 (EDT)

Well Cracker

Is it really just a god damned cracker?. tmtoulouse ^heckle 20:14, 10 July 2008 (EDT)

Inquiring minds want to know! Radioactive afikomen ^{Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.} 17:13, 13 July 2008 (EDT)

Actually, should a Cracker find itself damned, (by god, naturally), it would find itself in hell, thus it would no longer be Cracker stuff but toast. CЯacke® 18:15, 13 July 2008 (EDT)

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Talk about your boring riffs... ħuman 02:36, 19 July 2008 (EDT)

I have no socks...here. CЯacke® 08:42, 19 July 2008 (EDT)

Nifty clock

I noticed you have a nice little clock/calendar watermark in this screenshot... I can't seem to remember/figure out how to do that... help? ħuman 02:40, 21 July 2008 (EDT)

It's a program called topmostclock. Being an Old timer sometimes I like the simpler things, analog clocks, tubed amplifiers: so instead of the windoze clock I gots this baby to let me know I've spent WAYYY too much time online.
I'm "supposed" to turn the clock off and sign outta CP when I do a screenshot like that but last night I was too tired/lazy to do so and shopped out the incriminating info, (also making Conservapedia "Trusworthy" again which I like to do simply because I can and also as a signature of sorts, when one sees the "trusworthy" on a .png you know it's a "Cracker". CЯacke® 11:58, 21 July 2008 (EDT)

Hmmm, thanks. The win 3.x clock used to work a bit like that... I never noticed the "trusworthy" shopwork! Now I'll know. ħuman 23:13, 21 July 2008 (EDT)

Boycott

To fully clear the Conservapedia:Boycott you need to swap about six things, detailed at the boycott page... ħuman 15:44, 14 August 2008 (EDT)

Heart of Gold

Cracker! Heart of Gold is ahead of you in total RW contributions! You need to make 7 edits really quick to alleviate this. I think this will be my last such post of today. tmtoulouse ^heckle 20:56, 17 August 2008 (EDT)

???

and ??? --JJ4e^{Got milk?} 13:22, 29 August 2008 (EDT)

Two things...

1. What does that whiskey line even mean?
2. That McCain photo article itself appears to by a direct copy of a different, older article (from another site), with token bits added at the end. Would you mind awfully if I changed the link to a more substantial report? Pink_{(Astronomy Domine)} 15:49, 16 September 2008 (EDT)

As we both know I don't do much WIGOW much, probably for this very reason. Change whatever you like I don't mind. The "whiskey line" would be better if I had just copied the picture to a file and used it as a caption, but due to copyright issues and the fact I'm too lazy to actually do that, (hellididntusedtousethespacebarorpuncuateuntilthreeyearsago), I didn't. CЯacke® 17:56, 16 September 2008 (EDT)

Scary, kids!

I came to a tie in the US presidential race using this handy-dandy Electoral Kollege tally generator I found via dailykos. CЯacke® 16:09, 3 October 2008

I got these results by guessing which state had the most stoopid highest level of people who were related before marriage the most likelihood of going teh RED or teh BLUE.

Er, interesting choices. tmtoulouse 16:13, 3 October 2008 (EDT)

Shirky Link

The Clay Shirky link you put on the Mobocracy debate is very interesting - and very pertinent. I particularly loved

Geoff Cohen has a great observation about this. He said "The likelihood that any unmoderated group will eventually get into a flame-war about whether or not to have a moderator approaches one as time increases." As a group commits to its existence as a group, and begins to think that the group is good or important, the chance that they will begin to call for additional structure, in order to defend themselves from themselves, gets very, very high.

Err... has he hit the nail on the head or what? Silver Sloth 18:20, 8 October 2008 (EDT)

'Sactly. When one takes oneself too seriously is when the chance of making a fool of oneself is the highest. The calls for MOAR RLEUS usually come from folk who NEED to know where NOT to tread. Living life (or merely participating in a wiki) without CLEAR demarcations of just what to do next are quite scary for some people...Resources like Shirky remind us that just because it sounds rational and logical AND it feels like the "right thing" to do don't necessarily make it so.
It's a sort of "positive apathy", whereby doing nothing NOW saves loads of grief down the road. CЯacke® 11:11, 9 October 2008 (EDT)

What do I

win? ^{— Unsigned, by: Neveruse513 / talk / contribs} 14:07, 9 June 2009 (UTC) ADDENDUM - If your that thin skinned, you shouldn't be here. If you're not, than I believe your the one who won. ^{— Unsigned, by: Neveruse513 / talk / contribs} 14:20, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

<serious>So yeah, if you ever come back, I'd appreciate more of an explanation. If it was the 31 second block, stay gone. If it was the butt plug thing, I didn't mean any offense. "butt plug" was simply a variable. Someone says "I like X, you gotta problem with that?" and 3 times out of 7 I'm going to give a playful block for "not liking X".</serious> ^{— Unsigned, by: Neveruse513 / talk / contribs} 20:24, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi?

You said to email you through the wiki, but I'm not precisely sure how to go about doing that, so...Hi? Am I doing it properly?

FeiRuoWa (talk) 20:45, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Fellow homo?

=) rational ghey (talk) 23:14, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Ed

Message from the department of being fair even to the devil

I don't think Uncle Ed actually has anything about little girls: on the contrary, he has two young daughters and his reading/viewing matter is apparently geared to what they watch - hence his apparent preoccupation with such things. 00:47, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

shhh. Don't axe the meme. C®ackeЯ 00:50, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Anybody want this WIGO CP?

Assfly blocks TK, for old-time's sake one supposes. C®ackeЯ 05:01, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Prick, go fuck thyself

You're quite the wit...or is that twit? Block me again and we'll see what happens. You liberals can't stand any dissent. TeaPartyPlanner (talk) 06:35, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Could Somebody Please

My mop is dirty and there are only a couple of strands left to it; I'd like a floor buffer, a Cratship 3000 would do nicely.

21:39, 8 April 2011 (UTC) C®ackeЯ

It might take some time for us to get one of those, as our lead time on those is about 2 weeks. But would a Ninja 2500 work in the interim? The Goonie Punk ^{Can't sleep, clowns will eat me!} 21:42, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

Geez, one of them propane jobbies? I guess so, but I really like the sweet sweet smell of the ozone as the Cratship 3000's batteries wear down. 21:51, 8 April 2011 (UTC) C®ackeЯ

That is fine. I'll place a request for a Cratship 3000 and see what happens. But, in the meantime, you've got a trusty ol' Ninja 2500 to help you out. Punky ^{Your mental puke relief} 21:53, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

Thank you kindly. 21:55, 8 April 2011 (UTC) C®ackeЯ

Your super mop

Hath been awarded. Now get to work! AnarchoGoon ^{Swatting Assflys is how I earn my living} 15:24, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

Why thank ye kindly sir/ma'am. I would do more but I see that I've been blocked for 3 months and will await the expiration of said block since I don't undo blocks from other sysops janitors that involve me. The smell of the ozone of the 'Cratship 3000 is reward enough. 18:22, 17 April 2011 (UTC) C®ackeЯ

DNA

Best edit summary this decade so far, good sir. Mountain Blue (talk) 19:22, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

Liberal warrior

If we can't block that turd for a lengthy time then we may as well say that we won't block anyone. Calling people baby fuckers etc is too much for me to accept. It is also no big loss because I am pretty sure that he is just a sock of someone who wants to have an alter ego. --Damo^Hi 07:59, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Can we find some trumped-up charges to stick it in the vandal bin? I doubt it, but whatever... ħuman 08:44, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Cracker is back!

And with a vengeance! Nice to see you all over the place, old friend! ħuman 08:59, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

We're moving Cracker Central to Braddock PA, (ref Levis commercials of the past year), to help with the gentrification, consequently I need somewhere online to be able to shirk retreat from the stresses of RealLife® moving things, (now that I've kilt myspace and ED). 17:14, 26 April 2011 (UTC) C®ackeЯ

Well whatever you think you're doing here, stop being reasonable and even-toned. It's totally unhelpful. Nutty Roux (talk) 17:08, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Okay, I'll get my storm-trooper boots out of the Halloween closet, shall I? 17:11, 18 May 2011 (UTC) C®ackeЯ

Group-Enemy

I just re-read "A Group is its Own Worst Enemy." I think you're right about RW, and in particular, that large scale is killing us. sterile^talk 13:20, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

Mass deletion

Are you sure moving that whole body of text to the talk page is right? There was some non-troll content to it. Aboriginal Noise ^{Theist, barely hanging by a nail} 00:45, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

Stuff that was tangential to the purpose of the page I moved, even my off topic posting about what to do with HCMs. But do as ye see fit, I shan't revert.

I was mainly looking to keep the page as streamlined as possible. 00:50, 19 May 2011 (UTC) C®ackeЯ

Nah, if it is cool by you, it is by me too. My thought was that is is a forum page, and as such discussion can (and usually does) stray from the topic at hand. Aboriginal Noise ^{Theist, barely hanging by a nail} 00:53, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

Right, but it is also a policy page...things that ARE going to happen (soon) on the wiki. The off topic stuff rather diluted this import. If the fourum pages didn't have talk pages I'da left it all. 00:55, 19 May 2011 (UTC) C®ackeЯ

Taking out the trash.

Counter RW ANNIVERSARY PARTY, so you don't have to dirty your feet at Human's "party"

Food galore

I think there's some popcorn and chips under the couch cushions.

YAY I found several boxes of Joesph Redenbacher, (Orville Redenbacher's cousin), down by the sump pump, (okay in the sump pump well), but they're still sealed (mostly). I don't have a microwave over but there's some plutonium over by the litter box...which reminds me...

BEWARE OF CAT

Simply put the bag next to the neat glowing blue stick and back off for about a minute, it'll be done when your eyes melt. C®ackeЯ

Swimming Pool

The swimming pool is CLOSED until I can get the rats' bodies outta the pipes...I poured a bunch of Draino® in and the pipes should be cleared by midnight (your time). C®ackeЯ

MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC

The band I hired insisted on being paid in advance, in cash. The news reported this morning that they died in an explosion of over-dosing of China white...Now THAT'S serious punking!

I'm sorry, but I think I stabbed your cassette deck. Ag Bengip (talk) 20:42, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Umm that wasn't a cassette deck, I'm running a check on Lenski's raw data. You might want to buy a couple cases of kaopectate. Have a four-year old beer, it won't hurt you, now. C®ackeЯ

Alkyhall

I gots it a half case of Iron Shitty City beer, it's four years old. Let's us try it out on the dogs first. C®ackeЯ

Oh, God, you are killing me with the Iron Shitty. I'll bring a quarter barrel of Rolling Rock that was still brewed in Latrobe. That was a good vintage. Aboriginal Noise ^{Theist, barely hanging by a nail} 18:22, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

I quit drinking in 1993, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2003 and 2004. There are times I still miss beer, (even though the bourbons and various Kentucky blends were my poison of choice). And yes, RR was my beer (when I partook of beer, light and sweet as it was/is). "33" C®ackeЯ

BYOB

C®ackeЯ is a cheap bastid!

Thank you sir

You have truly stood on the path of the righteous. I now recall the percentage of the population who voted the Nazi party into office. Just because they are many, does not make them right. We will make a stand here oh brother, and the poets shall write of our glorious causes for many centuries to come. MarcusCicero (talk) 23:14, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Village

Sorry to ask, I'm just very curious - which village were your grandparents from? -- DasRationalpersone (Annoy me!) 12:30, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Don't rightly know. Sorry. C®ackeЯ

5 minutes?

Heya 16 ounces short of a cup: Fuck off. 5 minutes? 03:53, 5 January 2012 (UTC) C®ackeЯ

Why aren't you a sysop? Peter ^{Urist for Mod!}(MW) 03:55, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

I promoted myself. (Old MC fan I guess.) 03:58, 5 January 2012 (UTC) C®ackeЯ

He is now. PintOfStout Talk BRONIES! 03:56, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Please do not undo my decision. Thank you. (I reserve the right to bitch at unjust blockings). C®ackeЯ

dishing it out

I take it constantly. I just want that shithead off my back--User:Brxbrx/sig 03:45, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Yet each time I have advised for you, in moderate tones, to please not involve yourself in debates where you should involve yourself you ignore that advise. I hope you have learned something. Ace^{The Rep Grows Bigger} 03:52, 12 July 2012 (UTC)