Man I miss some old DU2 threads

[backwoodsbob]

The adventures of the Wiley Boy Cat named Ginger

Dont tuch teh butt

Name some other classics folks.

[Ptah]

1. Nighthawks.

[backwoodsbob]

2. yeah

[Heidi]

23. DU Nighthawks!

[In_The_Wind]

36. Yes, those were worth waking up for.

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[Heidi]

37. J!!!!!!

Love, love, love you, sweetie! Hope you're fine and keepin' it between the lines, g!

[In_The_Wind]

40. As always, rollin' on down the highway . . .

doin' the best I can.

I'm hibernating at home this winter.

The open road is beaconing as we speak . . .

Cannot wait for the spring to arrive, warm breezes, flowers, birds, butterflies everywhere.


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Yes ma'am, just to feel the wind beneath my wings again ~~> [img][/img]

[auntAgonist]

50. Nighthawk threads were fun. Hi All!

Hope everyone is well.

aA
kesha

[Heidi]

51. Hi, Kesha!

It's nice to see you!

[texanwitch]

53. Howdy Heidi

[Heidi]

54. texanwitch!!!!

How the heck have you been, gf?????

Miss you!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My mind just swarms with them...but I can't remember the names...

Those were the days, hey, my friend....weren't they?

[backwoodsbob]

4. my Dear Peggy

good times.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Yes.......very good times...

[backwoodsbob]

6. maybe it's me but there wasn't so much hatefullness back then

GD was even then a place we tread carefully and often laughed about but there was a sense of community and a vibrant activist movement...now it's just a free for all where *winning* a thread is more important than real discussion.

And the lounge...we were a family.We all circled the wagons for any regulars who needed help.I probably did a dozen road trips picking up animals to hold for people so they didn't go to the pound...but we all did such things.We pulled together and helped each other.

I miss that.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. I think you're right...

There was a great sense of fun and camaraderie...

I miss it too.

[MiddleFingerMom]

11. "Hatefulness" was often brought to The Lounge back then. It appears that the ones bringing it...

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... now have Meta in which to focus all their negativity.
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The Lounge is a much, much better place for that.
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[In_The_Wind]

16. Good answer ^^^ MFM . . .

[Arugula Latte]

29. Oh yeah? Screw you.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

32. Adversity usually unites people....

Had Romney won (bite my tongue) I'd be willing to bet there would be a greater sense of community here.

[mokawanis]

8. How many is a Brazilian?

Remember that one?

[backwoodsbob]

9. oh yeah

[orleans]

10. link? n/t

[pinboy3niner]

12. Dont tutch the but:

mcctatas
Wed Jul-23-08 10:27

My 5 year old learned an important lesson from the cat today...

here is his artist's interpretation:



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=7950254

[mcctatas]

14. glad to see that still exists somewhere

The artist its now 10, he will get a kick out of seeing it

[NYC_SKP]

61. It's true. Don't tutch it.

[alittlelark]

13. Kudzu.... it's going places

[progressoid]

15. I inherited a mixed animal from Uncle living in woods.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=624815#top

Can animals have sex with different animals?
My Uncle Leonard was a hermit that lived alone
in the woods in the mountains for many years. He
had a little money that he left to my sister and
left me a bicycle and drums and this animal that is
part wild and looks and acts like several type
of animals. I would say part dog, part cat and
the way it climbs part monkey. There is some kind
of wolverine or that kind of animal too in my opinion.
I am afraid to take it to the pound if it is illegal
and they take it. Leonard was a scary man to me and
I just don't want to immediately let it go even
though he is dead I just have this funny feeling
I would be in for bad things if I got rid of it.
I don't know why he left me it except that one time
I listened to him tell me the story of his life.
My sister and I were his only relatives. He didn't
have a will but told a neighbor what he wanted
left to who. I don't want to keep it in the house. I am
afraid if I left it outside it would climb over
this big wall we have around the house and hurt
somebody or even eat something. It weighs about
25 or 30 pounds, has stiff fur that is different
colors and lengths, makes sounds kind of like a
digging badger and if you pulled a rope or something
through a cardboard box. It has claws more like a
rodent. The tail is short and furry, but it could
have been broken off or cut off, it doesn't look right.
It doesn't really play, but it looks at you and then
looks awy when you look at it. It likes to root around
in the garden but it is winter and there's not too much
damage it can do out there.

[Ineeda]

18. IMO, this was the best and most amazing

thread in the history of DU. Well-written, imaginative, and incredibly funny. Is A-Schwarzenegger still around?

[progressoid]

19. Yeah, I've seen him around from time to time.

But not lately.

[kurtzapril4]

24. That thread made me laugh so hard! n/t

[Heidi]

17. The Wiley and Excellent Boy Cat Named Ginger sends you his love, backwoodsbob!

[IMG][/IMG]

[unhappycamper]

20. GINGER!!!1!

HEIDI!!!1!

CALL ME WESLEY!!!1!

[Heidi]

21. UNHAPPYCAMPER!!1!11!

[backwoodsbob]

34. Ginger!

Loved some of those stories

[sarge43]

22. Kudzu: It's going places.

Agent Mike

The Lounge Particle Accelerator

Greywarrior's The Thread That Will Not Die

[Paulie]

35. The thread that will not die

Is still going.

X I want to create a thread that never dies. [View All] graywarrior Sat Jan-19-13 12:15 AM 5363 +7

Some whackadoodle kicked it last month.

[sarge43]

42. Only the good die young. n/t

[seaker]

52. Good to know

[LeftOfSelf-Centered]

25. Nobody has mentioned narwhals yet?!

What's up with that?

[backwoodsbob]

26. I figured narwhales was a given :)

[jpak]

27. The "things not to say when viewing The Passion of the Christ" thread

The "I am more patriotic than you" 4th of July thread...

[sarge43]

28. Oh yeah!

"things not to say" is in the DUzy Hall of Fame. Snark by which all other snark is measured.

[GCP]

55. I was actually crying with laughter reading that thread

Wasn't it started by Will Pitt?

[libodem]

30. I really enjoyed the review

Of inheriting the strange animal from the expired Uncle. That silly story had me in stitches.

[nolabear]

33. Oscar!

Somewhere out there, Oscar lives.

[libodem]

41. Super funny

And darn near believable.

[tavalon]

58. I posted the link further down

It still puts me in stitches, every time.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

31. Wish I had known about DU back then. n/t

[Heidi]

38. It was a good time, SD!

I'm not sayin' it could never happen again, but I wish you'd been here for the original heydays.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

45. The longing comes across loud and clear!

[tavalon]

59. Even back then, people were bitching about how DU had changed!

Nostalgia often makes us forget that little tidbit.

[In_The_Wind]

39. It's better late than never.

Welcome to the DU party. [URL=.html][IMG][/IMG][/URL]

I_T_W
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[Sekhmets Daughter]

46. Thanks.

You have a wonderful weekend yourself.

[Arugula Latte]

43. The semi-hostile Lounge takeover of the Douchebag thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=3134331&mesg_id=3134331

[siligut]

44. And posters, burp

[BlancheSplanchnik]

47. Outraged declarative. Insinuations regarding unnamed posters.

Protestations of innocence and mistaken identity ensue.

You are either with us or against us.

[backwoodsbob]

49. oh Jeez I remember that one

That shit went on for days.Half the lounge posted in that thread.

[Xyzse]

48. I've heard of DU for a long time but never joined till last year.

That was when http://www.commongroundcommonsense.org closed down.

I lost a community and am still wondering if this is my current home.

I was looking at some of the searches that brought me to DU2, and some of them involved who would win in a fight between...

[GCP]

56. And Matcom with his dancing hippo

[tavalon]

57. Easy, speasy

Oscar. He never gets old, well, he probably does but he's still hilarious:



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=624815

[tavalon]

60. I always loved the meta threads

Not like what happens in Meta-discussion but meta threads in which we all showed that we knew the memes of DU, the good, the bad, the ugly and the hilarious. One started a few months ago, but it died fairly quickly. It seemed that too many people didn't understand the irony and were actually getting riled. Oy!