Your Top 10 sj moments

Music threadjacks call for desperate measures....



"Oh, she talks kinda lazy and people say she's crazy..."

 

I can't believe we've made it six pages without a mention of the greatest post-padding accomplishment in the history of post-padding: Flash and her effort to get that second star in her first hour of registration, or whatever it was.

Bubbler's posts are gems. I'd buy those in paperback. (Well, as long as it wasn't more than $2.99.)

The outpouring for Van McKenzie was priceless.

Somebody else said this, but I'll say it again: The best thing about this board is that it makes me feel a helluva lot better about the the future of journalism. I've learned first about more breaking news events here in the last three years than probably any other source. (That's part of the problem for a lot of us, I know, but I think it says a lot.)

And, of course, Rosie, the board mom. Have never met her, but I suspect she's one of the nicest people one would ever meet.

 

I'm pretty sure you were one of my draft picks, Bubbs. Perhaps my first SportsJournalists.commer. You or Tron...can't remember. I think by that time we were drafting two at a time, so maybe you were together.

It was getting crowded in that hot tub.

 

The board reaching out to Gary Lundy's family was big for me, too.

Reading Lundy growing up made me want to do this for a living, and when I was an 18-year-old kid who everyone else on that beat — even those who would eventually become good friends — wouldn't bother to look at, Gary talked to me all the time and gave me all kinds of advice. And he approached me, not the other way around. Four years later, I was a college senior who had never written one word for his paper and freelanced for nearly every one of its competitors, including one as basically a full-time guy, and he was still the nicest guy in the world to me.

I dare say every writer in the SEC was hurt at least a little bit when Gary passed suddenly and without warning. We lost a great writer and an even better guy.

 

before the proliferation of moderators

 

How have the moderators made this a worse place?

 

I agree with Space, although no offense to the moderators. They're just doing what more of the members wanted.
I just liked it better the old, looser way.

 

Not trying to be a smartass, I'm just wondering. What specifically have the mods done that you thought should have been allowed?

 

I'm probably not answering your question, Sir Mix, but because -- even before it came up on here -- I made plans on doing this very exercise this evening...

The deal is, if you fire up "Dark Side of the Moon" at the end of the MGM lion's third roar at the start of Wizard of Oz, there are a number of musical and lyrical syncs with the film. The more pot you smoke or hash you eat, and the more parallels you see. My favorite is when the film goes from black and white to color at the start of Money, with the sound of the cash registers.

I believe the band has always denied any kind of purposeful matching. I'm curious, though, who was the first stoner to decide to mash up these two works of art. It's kind of like the first guy who saw a lobster and said, "You know, I'm going to suck on that thing's legs." The mind boggles.

And yes, Rush sucks.

 

Well, I've never been a fan of the divided boards. I liked all topics on one board. Many members wanted different boards for different topics, and Webby obviously agreed.
I'm not really a fan of posts being deleted unless they out someone or include naked pictures.
And I don't like it when threads get locked, in particular the 'romp in the hay' thread, to which the only complaint was people thought Boots was lying - a silly reason to object to a thread let alone protest to get it locked.
And please understand that I say this with all due respect to Fife, Gutter and all. They volunteer their time and are doing what they've been asked to do.

 

whoever has "A Day in the Life of Hockeybeat" send me that shit. I'd love to read it again. Thank you. And fuck your mother.

 

It's sent.