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    WTAN Signing Off: Old School Like a Typewriter in the South Bronx Jungle

    Signing Off: Since the Establishment Loves Biggie, Do You Think His Birthday Will Become a National Holiday?

    WTAN Is All Girls, Girls, Girls This Weekend

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    Deep Thoughts: In the Year 2050 Will the Internet Still Be Using Exclamation Marks So Much?

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    Image of scarletmenace scarletmenace
    05/24/09

    In reply to Signing Off: Since the Establishment Loves Biggie, Do You Think His Birthday Will Become a National Holiday?
    Sorry, entertainers are not heroes. Not even dead ones.
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    Image of raesanni raesanni
    05/24/09

    In reply to Signing Off: Since the Establishment Loves Biggie, Do You Think His Birthday Will Become a National Holiday?
    Yes, we ought to have a national holiday celebrating this woman beating drug pusher. Martin would surely approve.
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    Image of bess marvin, girl detective bess marvin, girl detective
    05/24/09

    @raysanni: True, but let's not forget the other people awarded such a holiday like the asshole Christopher Columbus himself, he who is associated with rape, murder, robbery and syphilis.
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    Image of ChillbearLatrigue ChillbearLatrigue
    05/24/09

    @bess marvin, girl detective: Yeah, but back in those times, it was more acceptable. By the way, does syphilis really belong in that list of charges? I know it was deadly back then, but I'm pretty sure CC didn't want to contract it.
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    Image of bess marvin, girl detective bess marvin, girl detective
    05/24/09

    @ChillbearLatrigue: right, because there is such a time where rape and robbery is acceptable. stop while you're behind.
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    Image of krismry krismry
    05/23/09

    In reply to Signing Off: Since the Establishment Loves Biggie, Do You Think His Birthday Will Become a National Holiday?
    The Notorious BIG, Christopher Wallace, can have a national holiday when everyone stays home from work and thinks about him. At the same time they need to make a national holiday for 2Pac, Tupac Amaru Shakur, also. Then Malcom, Malik el Shabazz. Beloved ones.
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    Image of jasonelias jasonelias
    05/24/09

    @krismry: Darned if I want to think about Biggie even on a day off. I do think Tupac's life and what he left behind bares some reflection. As for Biggie, he was a bright guy but his legacy is narrowing with the years. Oddly enough one of the most lasting things he gave us is Lil' Kim. Hey, thanks.
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    Image of The One The One
    05/24/09

    @jasonelias: Tupac was a rapist.


    Another B.I.G. legacy is Faith Evans, who is a far more talented singer than Lil' Kim could ever hope to be, but never as famous.

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    Image of Stream Of Consciousness Stream Of Consciousness
    05/24/09

    @The One: Fair enough..but Lil' Kim is a rapper..not so much a singer. Not saying I am a big fan of Kim but it's not a fair comparison.
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    Image of The One The One
    05/24/09

    @Stream Of Consciousness: Good points. But I still maintain that Faith is far more talented, in general, than Kim could ever dream of being.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    05/23/09

    In reply to WTAN Is All Girls, Girls, Girls This Weekend
    T.A.N.'s got something for the ladies! Happy mem day weekend to you and thank you for holding it down.


    Wow, it is oppressively happily peopled and warm outside, I had to run back home and pour out an inch in a cool room.


    Double X has been chapping this little Jewess's butt, cannot wait to see what the kids have to say on this topic, among others...

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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    05/23/09

    @BookishLookish:


    Bookshileh, is that you hanging from the ceiling?


    Foster Brooks is live in Viva Las Vegas, WuTanMan is here with the girls, girls, girls. Gawker's memorial day weekend is overrun with He-Male Elvis Impersonators?

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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    05/23/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Please, if I attempted that move I'd have two shiners to show for it.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    05/23/09

    @BookishLookish:


    And maybe a shriner or two to boot. {{grynne}}

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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    05/23/09

    In reply to WTAN Is All Girls, Girls, Girls This Weekend
    Humph. If the serving is only a smidgen of peen, I send that shit right back to the kitchen.
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    Image of mcbeachy mcbeachy
    05/09/09

    In reply to WTAN, Gawker Hacked by 'Hipster Runoff' and the AZN Poet
    @Smitros - Ha. Nice one. My total heart eclipse was last month.


    ps - I would friend you but my browser is so archaic I don't have the option. (It also appears I can't "reply" anymore either.) Soon my words might just be ghostly ephemera that fade into oblivion like skywriting from a little plane....

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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    05/09/09

    @mcbeachy:


    That last sentence sounds like my world.

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    Image of mcbeachy mcbeachy
    05/09/09

    In reply to WTAN, Gawker Hacked by 'Hipster Runoff' and the AZN Poet
    Don't know how that random "I" snuck in. Must be a little burp of my ego.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    05/09/09

    @mcbeachy:


    Don't worry. That's better than a total eclipse of the heart.

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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    05/09/09

    In reply to WTAN, Gawker Hacked by 'Hipster Runoff' and the AZN Poet
    I'm all for racial harmony, but T.A.N., what do you have against vowels? Are you a letterist? I've never read a text message that long without a booty call being involved.
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    05/09/09

    In reply to WTAN, Gawker Hacked by 'Hipster Runoff' and the AZN Poet
    1st y'all

    nice @AZN FLU
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    Image of mommy_dearest mommy_dearest
    05/03/09

    In reply to Deep Thoughts: In the Year 2050 Will the Internet Still Be Using Exclamation Marks So Much?
    Has there been any in-depth wikipedia research into the use of the exclamation point and the question mark together?!?!


    This is the issue that is plaguing suburban America, as self-important PTA moms have adopted this puncuation to end every question and it is driving me crazy. Yes, I heard it was a question with the first question mark. When you add those exclamation points, it turns "Did you remember the cupcakes?" into "WTF is wrong with you? Did you remember the f-ing cupcakes?"


    I'm not sure if I hate the ?! combo or the self-important PTA moms more.

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    Image of T.A.N. T.A.N.
    05/03/09

    @mommy_dearest: yes, the most perfectly named piece of punctuation : the interrobang!!??!


    [en.wikipedia.org]

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    Image of mommy_dearest mommy_dearest
    05/03/09

    @T.A.N.: The depth of your knowledge is amazing. I will always be loyal to you.
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    Image of Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
    05/02/09

    In reply to TAN Kicks the Mad Styles, So Step Off the Frankfurter
    Lykke Li, how I love!
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    Image of bayktdin bayktdin
    05/02/09

    In reply to Deep Thoughts: In the Year 2050 Will the Internet Still Be Using Exclamation Marks So Much?
    It's easy to show feelings in person, on a video or audio clip and set proper mood. In text it's very difficult to not seem overly harsh without shaking up the rules of writing well.


    I think there is one hip hop blog that uses CAPILIZATIION instead of exclamation marks.


    But how do the uptight William-Strunk-Elements-of-Style types set the proper mood without bad grammar, wrongful punctuation and phonetically spelled dialogue?


    Guilt as charged Mr. Strunk... guilty as charged.

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    Image of krismry krismry
    05/02/09

    @bayktdin: Don't even worry, Strunk and White are totally dead, along with apostrophes, semicolons, colons, quote marks, and all the rest of those archaisms and old relics. The only thing left is exclamation!!!!1!!!!!
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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    05/02/09

    In reply to Deep Thoughts: In the Year 2050 Will the Internet Still Be Using Exclamation Marks So Much?
    But can we agree never to use the word "bledia" again? I love ya T.A.N., but no. No!!!!
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    Image of Hamilton Nolan Hamilton Nolan
    05/02/09

    In reply to Deep Thoughts: In the Year 2050 Will the Internet Still Be Using Exclamation Marks So Much?
    MCs act like they don't know!
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    Image of TedSez TedSez
    05/02/09

    In reply to Deep Thoughts: In the Year 2050 Will the Internet Still Be Using Exclamation Marks So Much?
    By the year 2050, how you feel about something you write won't be expressed by punctuation at all, but by a form of electronic telepathy known as emoticonditioning. It was created by Bill Gates as part of a plan for world domination he came up with after watching an episode of "Dollhouse," but that he couldn't get to work because the software wasn't supported by Windows.


    When someone reads what you write, all the nuances (excitement, sarcasm, irony, what-have-you) will be projected directly into the reader's brain. As a result, everyone will finally get your jokes, but it will turn out that they actually aren't as funny as you think they are.


    The young folks, of course, will be much more facile with this technology than the rest of us, and will spend hours a day trying to force each other to think of the word "interrobang."

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