>> ^moonsammy:
Oh my god... she really did say nucular. NO MORE OF THAT. It isn't a hard word. I can understand mispronouncing February (seriously, who enunciates that first r?) but nuclear is an easy word.

McCain's assistants probably focused on her pronunciation of "Ahmadinejad" and it never occured to them that she might pull a Homer Simpson on Gibson. By the way, didn't McCain's puppet-masters finally acknowledge in May of this year that Khamenei and his groupies were in charge in Iran and not Ahmadinejad? Maybe her instructor didn't get the memo.

And i enunciate the first "r" in February. I think it's quite common if English is your second or third language.

osrry for the delayed feedback. i went to the pub next door, got wasted, smoked a couple of joints... you know, celebrating totaly forgot where this thread is going. so please, beer with me, mkay?

NordlichReiter-> I'm a LHC groupie as well but it's kind of a narrow field, atheist sounds nice cause I am one but don't feel I'm up for the Spanish inquisition right now

MGR-> medical? I've abused my body for 34 years, man - I don't think I'm the right person for the job

mintbbb-> "fire, fire FIRE F-I-R-E f•i•r•e" (excerpt from *drugs talk)

bluecliff-> not much need for the *balkans channel now that yugoslavia is an ex-parrot

jonny-> thanks for reminding me of spacy... now what? so, *wings is off then

Fjnbk-> insidejokes is a good idea. we'll need that with the rate this place is filling up with ass gravy. but I'm not willing, maybe someone else could try that...

blankfist-> you are my sunshine, my only sunshine...

Eklek-> presentation sounds nice. right now, everything sounds nice

gwiz665-> my time just ran out.

i'm fucked up, stoned, drunk and quite pleased with the way this day went by. it's not everyday you find a diamond, even if it is made of bronze. i'm off to bed. thanksforallthefishandgoodnight

I think the real story here would be their groupies.

Or: Things Groupies Would Do to Suck Tommy Lee's Cock.

Hi, my codename name is 6k0f4l2 but you all know me by a different name. I go around fixing the world's problems, everyday, 7 days a week. I ask nothing in return, and always have a positive attitude. I usually do all this within a half an hour time slot. I have some loser groupies, but most importantly, a sweet, sweet green mullet.

Why didn't he clarify his relationship when the Siftquisition started instead of saying "Oh I got a groupie"?

What. About. Time. Stamps?

Hell, The sentence "I guess I just have a groupie" pretty much admits guilt to me.

He just told us that he had nothing to do with Dr.A voting on his stuff, but the fact is it's pretty much impossible for him to have done so were it not for Mr. Fisk's input.

Can't we just get more time stamps already?

Well, I've said my piece already, but I'll say it one more time (and for the last time):

It is overwhelmingly likely that MrFisk and the notorious Doctor are the same person. Given that they both have a similar structure to their names (formal prefixes much?), given the voting record shows upvotes on the same videos within mere seconds of each other, given their tendency to defend their videos in very similar ways (pointed out by Farhad above), and especially given the vile things DrAlcibiades was posting, I don't see how we can't ban this guy.

Remember, virtually everyone was in favor of banning the Doc. If (as the evidence shows) they are very likely the same person, then how can you support banning one and not the other? It's not as though since the MrFisk persona is nicer and pretends to be more oblivious that he isn't the same guy on the other end. That's what we need to be concerned about. In my view, we run an intolerably high risk of keeping around DrAlcibiades by keeping around MrFisk.

"Oh," you might respond, "we can't be totally certain they are the same person." Granted. We cannot be totally certain. But we don't really need to be, either. I suspect of all the people who've ever been banned here, it's only a miniscule minority who we could actually be 100% certain were guilty of what we had accused them of. That is as it should be. Many of the decisions we make everyday--both on the Sift and off--are informed by what we think is the "best explanation" for the data before us rather than some extremely rare sense of certainty. My take is that now is not the time for us to adopt a "proof beyond all doubt" mentality, thereby rejecting entirely (and with great hypocrisy!) inference to the best explanation as our modus operandi for these kinds of situations.

However, you might respond, "Tofumar, it's not that we disagree with you about the way to think about these things. It's just that we don't think, as you do, that they are likely to be the same people." Fine. Then it's up to MrFisk--or you, if you'd like to take up the considerable task--to provide a plausible scenario which explains away these "coincidences." I think we can all agree that saying "I guess I just have a groupie" and "Review my Tits embed and lighten up" don't cut it.

Other more softhearted Sifters might raise one final objection. They might say "We see what you're saying, but we may scare off newbies." I say we should be scaring off newbies like the Doc (and MrFisk). Let's take your point a bit more seriously, however, and think about the risks involved with each decision. If I'm wrong and we ban this guy, we run the risk of punishing him for something he didn't do. Worst case scenario is probably that he gets restored later by the admins (maybe with probie status?), or rejoins under another name. In this latter scenario, he would lose all 11 of his star points, but if, as he is fond of reminding us, his posts are "dope" and he wants to contribute "worthily," it should take no time at all for him to make those up. On the other hand, if we don't ban him, we take a serious chance of inviting the good Doctor into our community. For those of you who need to be reminded why this is a bad idea, go and watch this over at another site. It's one of the most grotesque things I've ever seen in my life.

After you do that, if you still think that banning MrFisk will risk doing more harm to the community than not, I'll be happy to shut my big yapper, and will do my best to get along with him from this point on.

Yeah. A groupie. Right.

I'm for a ban, pending an investigation into the IP logs & vote timing. No bronze star should protect you if you cheat (i.e. use sock-puppetry) to get it.

[Edit: This comment was written in response to MrFisk's above comment, in which he claimed he "must just have a groupie," or some tripe. He has since edited his comment to remove that phrase.]

First time in years I've incorrectly guessed something was satire when it was actually real life.

Hope he gets awesome groupies

Wow, what is it like to be a fake groupie to a fake band for an embarrassing internal movie trying to get a corporation to drink its own kool-aid.

badgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadger
badgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadger SNAAAAKE!!!



I upvote for having Groupies as "groupies".

That's what you get for not being one of my devoted groupies. Whom are you a groupie for anyway? Hitchens?

In reply to this comment by critttter:
AAhhhh ., I just tried to post Eighteen, Alice Cooper!!!!!!

probably a cop groupie.

The top 10 users have published, respectively..
612-zifnab
482-eric3579
654-mlx-(rock n roll groupie points)
766-(farhad was a frikkin' machine back in the day)
lowly fedquip, professional muckracker's friend, 476
419-deputydog
plastiquemonkey-485
worker ant-487
firefly-(AWOL)-514
and of course dd....in the 10 spot, with the big 6 oh

these are ACTUAL viddies published, not dime-a-dozen poser points, otherwise known as star points, which are little carrots of joy for all you folks down on the pole.....which, incidentally, I hand out like candy whenever I get the chance, in order to subvert that little perk (hehehehee) and to brown-up the nose from time to time....

and yeah, I am sick of requeueing, and I'm gonna boycott it, for the sake of the kuntess I'm having with somebody.....

farhad2000 is the closet to a major milestone,(800) but alas, he's preoccupied with the real world, and hasn't been sifting, which should be a lesson to all you folks in how to scare away people with heads what have filling, passion, and a lust for anarchy.....

The next icon for published vids past 500, should be a bouncing hemorrhoid donut...