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myflix

myflix wrote:
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> myflix

I love it!
What inspired you ?

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:40:23 +0100, Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen <new...@ceejay.cjb.NOSPAMnet> wrote:

>
>I love it!
>What inspired you ?

Thanks :) 
The expression inspired me. 

>> I love it!
>> What inspired you ?
> 
> Thanks :) 
> The expression inspired me. 

No I mean to make it ?
How did you come up with the idea to draw two silly looking flamingos ?

_.-In alt.ascii-art, Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen wrote the following -._
>>> I love it!
>>> What inspired you ?
>> 
>> Thanks :) 
>> The expression inspired me. 
>
> No I mean to make it ?
> How did you come up with the idea to draw two silly looking flamingos ?

Because he is a John Waters fan?

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>> How did you come up with the idea to draw two silly looking flamingos ?
> 
> Because he is a John Waters fan?

Who ?

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:24:14 +0100, Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen <new...@ceejay.cjb.NOSPAMnet> wrote:

>>> How did you come up with the idea to draw two silly looking flamingos ?
>> 
>> Because he is a John Waters fan?
>
>Who ?
Nah just happen to like flamingos and it was a good opportunity  to try it!

_.-In alt.ascii-art, Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen wrote the following -._
>>> How did you come up with the idea to draw two silly looking flamingos ?
>> 
>> Because he is a John Waters fan?
>
> Who ?

The best thing about the internet is being able to look up the answer
when you don't understand a referance:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Waters_(filmmaker)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Flamingos

After you read those you will start seeing him and referances to his
works everywhere.  Heck I was watching Jackass 2 the other day and he
is even in that movie.  The guy is everywhere, just ask Ricki Lake.

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>>> Because he is a John Waters fan?
>> Who ?
> 
> The best thing about the internet is being able to look up the answer
> when you don't understand a referance:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Waters_(filmmaker)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Flamingos
> 
> After you read those you will start seeing him and referances to his
> works everywhere.  Heck I was watching Jackass 2 the other day and he
> is even in that movie.  The guy is everywhere, just ask Ricki Lake.

Did you consider that "who ?" might be more than just a question but also a
statement ?

Never heard of John Water or any of his work .. even after reading the wiki
articles on him. He is just another unknown nobody among all the others to me.

Also one of the worst things about the internet is that you can't start a
discussion by asking a question before some guy tells you to just google it.
It's a bit like Godwins law in that regard. :|

Maybe I didn't want to know what the internet had to say about it .. maybe I
wanted YOUR opinion ? :)

I have heard of Jackass and Ricki Lake though .. but don't watch either of them.

_.-In alt.ascii-art, Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen wrote the following -._
> Never heard of John Water or any of his work
> articles on him. He is just another unknown nobody among all the others to me.

s/Water/Waters/

> Maybe I didn't want to know what the internet had to say about it .. maybe I
> wanted YOUR opinion ? :)

My opinion: He is a thin gay man who makes funny movies.

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Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen <new...@ceejay.cjb.NOSPAMnet> kirjoitti 29.11.2007:
>>>> Because he is a John Waters fan?
>>> Who ?
>> 
>> The best thing about the internet is being able to look up the answer
>> when you don't understand a referance:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Waters_(filmmaker)
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Flamingos
>
> Did you consider that "who ?" might be more than just a question but also a
> statement ?
>
> Never heard of John Water or any of his work .. even after reading the wiki
> articles on him. He is just another unknown nobody among all the others to me.
>
> Also one of the worst things about the internet is that you can't start a
> discussion by asking a question before some guy tells you to just google it.
> It's a bit like Godwins law in that regard. :|
>
> Maybe I didn't want to know what the internet had to say about it .. maybe I
> wanted YOUR opinion ? :)

Whoever John Waters is (and I still don't know, since I didn't bother
to read the links, except that I now know he's "a thin gay man who
makes funny movies"), he's clearly not on topic.  That doesn't mean we
_can't_ discuss him here (we obviously are doing so right now, at
least in a metadiscussion sense), but it does mean that discussing him
is not intrinsically desirable, if there are alternatives such as,
say, Googling for him.

Also, the original reference sounded like it was intended to be
humorous.  Thus, asking for an explanation comes off kind of like
asking for someone to explain a joke.  Now, the great thing about the
Internet, as alluded to above, is that anyone _can_ be in on a joke if
they want to, they just need to spend a few minutes searching for it.
Or you could decide, as I did, that it isn't really relevant and just
let it be -- not everyone _has_ to get every in-joke.

If you in fact _had_ heard of John Waters before, and just wanted to
put him down as "just another unknown nobody" with your rhetorical
question, then, well, you've succeeded, WHBT, WHL.  If your question
in fact _was_ genuine rather than rhetorical, then you might've wanted
to consider the possibility that, if the person who originally posted
the reference had wanted to talk about John Waters in further detail,
they could just as well have done it already in their very first post.

Or, at least, having received a pair of links to Wikipedia in response
to your first, one-word post, you might have taken the hint and just
let the thread end rather than griping about it.

(And yes, I realize that this message is even further off the popic,
and will most likely come off to you as just as bitter and hostile as
your message came off to me.  Sorry about that.  For what it's worth,
this post was intended less as a put-down and more as a simple attempt
to genuinely answer the points you raised, as well as to show how your
tone came across to me; whether I've succeeded in this or not is a
different matter.)

At the very least, given that the original poster had just taken the
trouble of explaining their in-joke to you, you could've refrained in
your reply from gratuitously putting down both them and their favorite
filmmaker.  The proper response would IMHO have been either, "okay,
thanks for the explanation" or, if you couldn't be bothered to say
anything nice, nothing at all.

(Oh, and yes, you can also Google for any in-jokes, acronyms and
unfamiliar terms I may have used in this post.  Or just ignore them.)

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_.-In alt.ascii-art, Ilmari Karonen wrote the following -._
> Also, the original reference sounded like it was intended to be
> humorous.  Thus, asking for an explanation comes off kind of like
> asking for someone to explain a joke.  Now, the great thing about the
> Internet, as alluded to above, is that anyone _can_ be in on a joke if
> they want to, they just need to spend a few minutes searching for it.
> Or you could decide, as I did, that it isn't really relevant and just
> let it be -- not everyone _has_ to get every in-joke.

Well put.  The thread is over now and we can all go work on some ascii
art. 

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