DL inside jokes/lines you don't understand or know the origin of.

it predated me. so a LONG time ago. a wildly popular thread talked about "why was it that whenever you saw a lady with a cane sure as shooting' it turned out to be a dyke" or something like that. the cane=dyke association stuck, just one fo those things.

Nonsense. It involves Lesbian Sewing Circle rumors about Eleanor Powell.

""draining pasta"

What do you mean by this?

Dumping a pot of pasta into a colander to drain the water, R3.

""draining pasta"

"What do you mean by this?"

It's about how overwhelming it is to cook pasta as opposed to micro-waving ramen noodles in a cup.

IIRC there was also a thread about a lesbian crushing someone's foot with her cane. I think it happened at a Ruth's Chris steak house and involved bread pudding.

OP. it goes back to a point where (I think) it's untraceable. Look at this thread.

"Draing the pasta" is slang for "spanking the monkey."

No R5 it is not about that at all. It is about the tackiness of draining pasta in a strainer. The classy way is to pluck it from the water with tongs.

Huh, R5?

Where did Concerned Hockey Team Mom start?

i know nothing

Thanks, R7, R1.

[quote]it predated me. so a LONG time ago. a wildly popular thread talked about "why was it that whenever you saw a lady with a cane sure as shooting' it turned out to be a dyke" or something like that. the cane=dyke association stuck, just one fo those things.

And thus did "caneface" become the Sapphic equivalent of "gayface."

*kisses doll*

I guess you had to be there.

Cane face.

My favorite thing about the cane joke was when someone pointed out the reason that Rita Mae Brown is the ultimate lesbian of all time, even beyond "Rubyfruit Jungle," is because she writes mysteries where her cat solved mysteries. The poster added, "If she could, she would figure out a way to fit the mystery-solving cat with a little cane."

Where did the origin of the expression "Mary!" come from? DL or some other cultural event? Always wanted to know this for some reason.

Wasn't that a Jack Benny reference? His wife ~ Mary!

How did Cheryl and her rancidness come about? Was she an actual poster at some time?

Frosting can dad.

How is draining pasta middle class, and is middle class supposed to be an insult?

Why is what? Who is where?

Oh poo to pasta tongs..fine for spaghetti, if you want to expend ten times the effort of dumping the pot into a colander.

Growing up, we had colanders..the quaint little instruments of old were tied with jute and decorated the kitchen walls. What one did not do under any circumstances was to RINSE pasta-ruinous.

"MARY!" is older than God, to cop a line from an RMB book (the one about tennis, can't recall the title). Whatever you do, don't ask.

Apparently even the 15 year old who won the google doodle "diversity" contest knows about lesbians and canes. (right side of pic)

[quote] No [R5] it is not about that at all. It is about the tackiness of draining pasta in a strainer. The classy way is to pluck it from the water with tongs

That's so idiotic. Using tongs while it's still hot is a good way to break the pasta. The thing is you also want to get it out of the boiling water as soon as possible because it KEEPS cooking while it's in the water. It's supposed to be cooked Al dente. Leaving it in the boiling water to sit and COOK while you take it out with tongs is defeating the purpose of cooking it Al dente

Oh my R26. So much remedial DL education seems to be needed on here tonight. I don't even know where to begin with you. So I just won't bother.

Something about draining cooked rice too.

R28 I can't even....

I want to know about the origins of Cheryl and her stinky pussy. That's the most enduring meme around here as far as I can tell.

I always thought the cane thing originated with ER’s Dr Weaver, one of the earlier mainstream lesbians.

[quote]*kisses doll*

R15 that was from a thread that was called something like "The Creepy Little Girl Next Door." The gist was that the little girl would say something very bizarre and then kiss her doll and walk away.

One of the first bizarre remarks was "I know who'll stop the rain (obviously a reference to the CCR song of the same name.) King Kong will stop the rain." *Kisses doll* then walks away. Of course it went on from there.

Damn, I've been here way too long.

Those are my boundaries.

R30 - the very short version: Cheryl was a real poster here. She annoyed a lot of people on DL. So, someone started posting "your pussy stinks!" after all of her posts. Eventually it was being done by everyone and she stopped posting here altogether.

There are probably other people who can recap it better than me, but I think that's the gist of it.

I don't understand that picture of the girl in the car with that huge smile on her face. The car is from the 70s or something. She just has this giant smile on her face and straight hair.

I also don't get the whole "I was molested" - Lorna Luft thing.

I've been here so long that I don't even remember how I discovered DL, but I think R31 is the closest to lesbians and canes origin story.

[quote]IIRC there was also a thread about a lesbian crushing someone's foot with her cane. I think it happened at a Ruth's Chris steak house and involved bread pudding.

Ah yes...Claire. That one was about a story of an unexpected "plus 1" brought along to someone's birthday dinner where friends were all supposed to be sharing the cost. But Claire ordered all the ups and extras including a loaded baked potato (another running DL joke) and the bread pudding even though a birthday cake was provided. And then neither she nor her date chipped in for the added cost of her meal.

And then Claire crushed someone's foot with her cane on the way out. Pretty funny thread.

Also loved the thread about whether cash bars at wedding were tacky.

It's all kind of in the same spirit as the recent "Let's Be Unqualified Lesbians" thread.

Funny but not to be taken too seriously.

What is the shitbra all about?

R38 One story is that Melissa Gilbert was seen exiting a grocery store with a child. She supposedly told the child "don't make me get out my shitbra."

In another version, Melissa's mom would punish her when she didn't know her lines by beating her with a shit-filled bra.

^moronic

Jaclyn Smith and bootsy gumdrops. Someone please explain.

Funny, I know a lesbian with a cane.

DL does not make things up. It is all observational.

"Kisses doll" started after we had a DL character who would show appreciation with the outdated (even then) "Kisses, doll!" as basically a thank you.

At the same time, we had someone casually mention a creepy little girl next door in a thread about bad neighbors.

Someone combined these into *kisses doll*. We had a lot of shared fiction threads that started in the same way back then, but this one pissed me off because the guy who originally mentioned the creepy girl next door got edged out of his own story. Shit like that apparently mattered to me back then

For r41:

What about poo shoes?

Bootsy Gumdrop was a cat. Poo shoes was an EST involving the Bellagio. How about the gargoyle neighbor post? That was a good one, accompanied by pictures.

Stop the hate. You're killing us. Nutloaf. The Land. So many classics!

I'm relatively new to DL, but I find myself laughing uncontrollably every time a Darfur orphan reference is made. I know not why. Anyone care to explain?

I like the word pron.

I've always wondered where the classic death notice response of "He had a hot ass, but he had to die sometime" came from. I find it hilarious but just always wondered if it was a movie line or something created here.

What does EST stand for?

[quote]I find myself laughing uncontrollably every time a Darfur orphan reference is made. I know not why. Anyone care to explain?

As I recall it was just a euphonious term for abject poverty coined by a DL wit which stuck. The DOs are now aptly invoked whenever a DL humblebragger makes a complaint too far about his first-world 'problems.'

DOs are now indeed as firm a part of the DL galere as Bar Bush, Mrs Patsy Ramsey, The Concerned Soccer Team Mom, and indeed Momma. Honorary mention for Larry King.

I believe this thread was the origin of the Darfur Orphan.

What about that 1970s pic of the smiling girl in the car that often gets posted? Who is she? Who does she hope to be?

r54, huge thanks for the link, that thread is the best I've read on DL, ever. Wish Dave was still around.

The schlurring Liza always cracks me up. And the Lorna.

"I like Blue" ???

Who is Helen Lawson ?

The schlurring Liza always makes me think DL has a collective IQ in the high double digits.

[quote] I've always wondered where the classic death notice response of "He had a hot ass, but he had to die sometime" came from.

The line is actually "He had a hot ass, but I guess he didn't live forever." Someone wrote it after Gene Anthony Ray, one of the stars from FAME the movie, died, and the point was that he had did indeed famously have a great ass in that movie, and that the theme song from FAME begins: "Fame! I'm gonna live forever...." The comment struck people as very typically mordant in the DL way, and then people started using it for other celebrities who died for whom it was bizarrely inappropriate (like Garrick Utley).

R61, thanks - i hadn't realized the FAME connection. I just thought it was generally inappropriate and hilarious.

R55 Are you talking about little me?

Datalounge refers to lesbians as “lesbians”?

Ah, there’s R1! Stormfront/ Datalounge never fails.

Can someone tell me the origins of "Dat's da suck job!" and "Squirrels, death" ?

Yeah, what is the origin of "squirrels = death"?

In college we had a lesbian who, among other affectations, did carry a cane, so the idea always seemed apt to me.

[quote]No [R5] it is not about that at all. It is about the tackiness of draining pasta in a strainer. The classy way is to pluck it from the water with tongs.

Italian people use a colander or tongs depending on the situation.

You use a colander more often than you would tongs--based on the common shapes of pasta.

The whole "it's classier to use tongs" is probably something that a person who doesn't really cook but watches a lot of people eat would choose to believe.

Cak and graxy...

[quote]What about that 1970s pic of the smiling girl in the car that often gets posted? Who is she? Who does she hope to be?

That's Susan Richardson, one of the daughters from the series "Eight is Enough."

The Susan Richardson Troll (whom I love) started posting as Susan, explaining why she never became a big star, in lots of unrelated threads.

I use a Chinese spider most frequently to remove pasta from water.

'Dat's Da Suck Job!' is a line from a post in which a datalounger recalled hooking up with a guy in - I think this is correct - a restroom in a garage. The guy gave him head and when he had finished he looked up at our poster and said 'Dat's da suck job!'. The poster realised that that moment that the guy had developmental disabilities.

Surely no one needs the Joey Luft joke to be explained. It's a simple enough gag.

No, R54, it started long before that. As I recall the posts were originally always made by 'The Darfur Orphans'.

Who is the blonde woman in the red, white and blue bathing suit standing next to an empty, pink, velvet easy chair?

Who is Erna?

What's "earrings, caftans" supposed to mean?

Nobody has really explained "Mary!" yet.

The fact that only one remains r75, I find disheartening.

Here.

Isn't this the origin of the Darfur Orphan?

[quote]What's "earrings, caftans" supposed to mean?

You're not gay, and you are not male. Fuck off.

Damn, there's a lot of newbies here. Poo shoes, unfortunately, is not an EST. She is all too real, still posts, and is the woman in R76's first sentence. She is very pro Trump and in the past has posted a lot of the objectionable pro Trump crap including starting threads. When you see someone calling out Dumbv1da, that is the same person. She will also cut you with a knife if you say anything even remotely critical of Isr2el.

R76, when somebody does or says something stereotypically queeny, that's 'Mary!'. That's as old as dirt and not original to DL.

R81 also brings up another tradition: odd spellings of some names. It’s a little-known fact that some people of various celebrity levels use Google Alerts to flag whenever their name appears on a web page. Hence Brendad Ickson and Dumbv1da.

[quote]Who is the blonde woman in the red, white and blue bathing suit standing next to an empty, pink, velvet easy chair?

D@vida, aka Poo Shoes.

[quote]Who is Erna?

Either a former Z-list actor turned porn producer or someone pretending to be said former actor. Mentally ill and nasty personality. May not be able to come back to the States because of his... proclivities.

[quote]What's "earrings, caftans" supposed to mean?

The answer to a "what are must-haves for a job interview" thread, if I recall.

[quote]Nobody has really explained "Mary!" yet.

Watch "The Boys in the Band."

Squirrels - death??

Actually D@vida complained that people were using her name even though she was signing posts with it, so the words were just banned.

Brendad though was definitely self Googling. Hilarious.

Squirrels. Death.

Was part of a MichFest's attendees overwrought blog post on just how sensitive they were feeling about everything. A kind of emotional fibromyalgia.

MichFest was a remarkable source of DL content.

But the name Poo Shoes itself has a backstory, right? A scenario of some sort?

She posted an EST saying the toilets at the Bellagio had overflowed and ruined her shoes with DARK BROWN FECES.

This may be the original thread.

How about "when WILL the tears stop!"

[quote]The Concerned Soccer Team Mom

I've been on Datalounge forever and this always makes me laugh but I somehow missed the origins. Is it just a variation on Maude Flanders' "Won't somebody please think of the children?!"

[quote]Is it just a variation on Maude Flanders' "Won't somebody please think of the children?!"

Could be. Many years ago, DL was mentioned in Entertainment Weekly and we had a mild influx of lookie-loos, which led to "Debbie, the EW-reading Soccer Mom."

Thanks, r93. I remember the EW-reading soccer mom but didn't make the connection.

r91, "When will the tears stop?!" is from a hilarious EST about a guy whose future sister-in-law didn't want him at her wedding. More details kept emerging and finally "Jodi" the bride-to-be starting chiming in about her feelings and how she was the true victim. Unfortunately, the EST names ended up being the same as an actual couple who were registered on various sites and DL detectives found their blog and started attacking them. DL pulled the original threads but the meme has lived on.

What about "she sends her love"?

Draining the pasta by dumping it into a colander after cooking is the correct way to do it. I lived in Italy and everyone does it there. What is wrong is to a) add oil to the pasta cooking water or b) rinse the pasta after draining it. Both of those things, which Americans often do, are big NO-NOs.

r96, that comes from a classic scene from "Roseanne"

r79 see r54

WHET Pollyanna Prisspot, School Marm?

It was fun reading that old post at r78. I had forgotten some old DL classics, like, "As a Fat womon, would I be useful on garbage detail?"

I think the two cultural references I most miss from my 18 yrs on DL have been the constant threads about the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival (of which that last quotation was a classic example from), and the constant threads about Star Jones. Dataloungers were just absolutely fascinated by both the festival and Star (they are both examples of women being extremely illogical and yet extremely fussy and self-important and bossy) , and could not stop posting about them. But the MWMF is no more (for reasons I still don't understand--something to do with trannies), and Star Jones has all but disappeared.

[quote]I had forgotten some old DL classics, like, "As a Fat womon, would I be useful on garbage detail?"

I loved that, as well as:

"I am telling you NOW so I don't have to tell you THEN."

[quote]when somebody does or says something stereotypically queeny, that's 'Mary!'

Specially when it's also intense and indignant. Many a pompous sentence has been quoted and mocked with a perfect 'Mary!'

Yesterday I saw "punch and delete"

I( was walking south on Hudson Street near Perry today, saw a heavy set middle-aged woman in blue denim jacket and jeans with short gray hair, walking with a cane. I started to quietly chuckle. Then looked to see if she was carrying a small bag that might have bread pudding. No such luck.

Clair's loaded baked potato incident has it own wiki.

"Mary!" is used as a response if:

1) Someone says something very queeny

2) Someone says something trying to make themselves appear very butch

3) Someone tries to "wax purple" (i.e. use pretentious and pompous vocabulary)

R71 I wish the real Susan would drop by DL sometime and give us an AMA. I want to ask her if she liked Ralph Macchio when she worked with him on S5 of ‘Eight is Enough’.

'Mary's' was also an ancient, ancient gay bar in Houston.

Where did "Stevie Nicks kicked someone in the vagina and broke a collar bone" come from? I know that is not from the real world.

That's vagina bone, R109.

How about our beloved Southern senatrix, Miss Lindsey Graham? What did he exactly do that made DLers notice him and call him out on his ladylike bearing? I'm certain that mention also made of his fainting couch, pearl clutching, and attacks of the vapors around the same time.

No one's asked to explain me yet!

Because no one other than you gives a fuck, R112.

[quote] The line is actually "He had a hot ass, but I guess he didn't live forever."

The line is actually "He had a hot ass, but I guess he COULDN’T live forever."

[quote]The line is actually "He had a hot ass, but I guess he COULDN’T live forever."

The line is actually "He had a hot ass, but I guess he SHOULDN’T live forever."

Is the woman in the picture actually poo shoes? If so, how did they find her picture?

[quote] The line is actually "He had a hot ass, but I guess he SHOULDN’T live forever.”

That is wrong, you pasta rinser.

Good question, r116.

"COULDN'T" makes more sense than "SHOULDN'T."

How did YST and PMBT get started?

Kirker! I miss Kirker!

R121 = Kirker

I’ve been here for several years and still don’t get Julianne Moore, Seriously. Clue me in please!

Omg thanks for reminding me of michfest! Priceless.

Trust fund is gone, boys.

R123, it’s very prosaic. In the early years of DL various responses to acting threads, especially those involving actresses, suggested Julianne Moore as a casting choice or award nominee. This was before she was as big a star and renowned as she is now. She was still considered a rising, competent actress but wasn’t the first name on someone’s lips or keyboard. Thus when someone would respond with “Julianne Moore”, someone would respond with “Seriously?” or “Really?” The original person who mentioned Julianne would respond with “Seriously.” That evolved into “Julianne Moore? Seriously” or “Julianne Moore. Seriously?”

Ah, r126, makes sense in a DL sort of way. Thanks

What about, "Let me tell you about Deb Messing."?

The original Deb Messing thread...

God I wish African Baby Catalogue was archived. And add me to the many who miss the MichFest threads. They were a yearly treat.

Was the Mug Cradling an offshoot of the Mich fest?

It seems that there were more posters who "signed" their posts on DL in the earlier days. Did Dl ever have a chat function, or a way to message someone?

Michfest was one of the greatest things to ever happen to Datalounge. They really should have consulted with us before shutting down.

[quote] It seems that there were more posters who "signed" their posts on DL in the earlier days.

There used to be an option to be an Authenticed Poster. Such posters could select a name that would be signed for all their posts.

[quote] I also don't get the whole "I was molested" - Lorna Luft thing.

Because I was, you bastard.

r129 I don't think that was the original Messing post, because it makes reference early on to being able to cure eye cancer, which I think was first mentioned in the post about her trip to Africa.

I WILL say, however, that the post you linked to contains one my favorite DL lines of all time " I bent down to moisten her lips once again, and in a palsied wheeze, she uttered her last words: "Qui etait cette cunt?"

R131, I think the mug holding was its own thread. IIRC, someone posted a youngish woman wearing on oversized sweater, looking outside wistfully, book on table, and cradling the requisite mug of autumn goodness. Hilarity ensued.

[quote]"COULDN'T" makes more sense than "SHOULDN'T."

Or on other hand:

"COULDN'T" makes more sense than "SHOULDN'T." But WOULDN’T makes more sense than COULDN’T.

"DIDN'T live forever" is funnier relative to the song lyric. It reads like a putdown of the "I'm gonna liver forever" bravado, like a spin on the Baby Jane Blanche go-to. "But ya didn't, Leroy, ya didn't".

R88 see below

Still the greatest EST in DL history IMO

*live

Shitty little Ann, once around the garden and margarine in a fondue pot.

The thread that had me laughing loudest and hardest was the Red Dragon Cheese thread. Gargoyle on the roof was excellent too. And anything posted by Blue Agave ... RIP.

EST = Elaborate Scenario Troll. A post usually with a complicated, maudlin story with multiple parts trying to get responses of sympathy, advice or anger.

Of course these types of posts led to the popular "This never happened."

Free drink refills

For a while we were threatened with bannination if we said something was an EST.

R116, she linked to her own FB for a while when she was trying to prove she really had been in movies and was still "modeling." That stopped when she was found on the IMDb with one credit, a 1990s Z-list movie called "F.A.R.T."

[quote] How did YST and PMBT get started?

I know how PMBT got started (Japanese Canadian upset that his "crush" was not selling used textbooks at a good price and whether or not one should date outside one's program or major). I don't know how YST got started.

Is Frau an insult? Is it against muddled aged women who may or may not wear polyester? Is Mary! a reference from Phyllis on the Mary Tyler Moore show?

Cradling the mug is a reference to fibromyalgia and being tender to the touch from a commercial. DL has a history of mocking various diseases, especially the frau ones.

Lesbians and canes was a reference to the all too common sight of older lesbians needing canes after years of playing certain sports and often being overweight. The sports activity damaged the joints/knees which was compounded by being overweight, thus needing canes to walk.

The Haiti story was the actually the LAST appearance of the brilliant "Let me tell you about Deb Messing" troll, not the first. It was preceded by at least two others. The second-to-last had Deb Messing in New Orleans cheering up the survivors of Hurricane Katrina by bringing in a traditional jazz band, and had my all-time favorite line from a Deb Messing thread with Deb greeting the sobbing elderly survivors by saying quietly, "I think somebody here needs a little Mardi Gras."

Has anyone kept the original Bonnie Mace threads? I've read the two last ones, which were brilliant, with Bonnie hooking up with Irene Ryan ("...and there hung the two tiniest testicles I ever did see") and Dolly Parton in the dumpster ("Let me show you what we Tennessee gals do with an unexpected fistful, or should I say mouthful, of shit!"). But I never got to read any of the earlier ones. One is Bonnie Mace hooking up with her high school volleyball coach, and the other has Bonnie hooking up with Martina Navratilova.

I always loved how the Bonnie Mace stories always had morals provided at the end of them.

Since we're reminiscing, does anyone remember that olde Victorian rhyme posted here a few years ago?

It went something like 'denim shirt and denim jeans (blah blah blah) lesbian come between.'

Betwixt? Between? I can't remember the middle.

"The man who goes up into the man"? Kirker?

What is the yellow skin troll background story?

Frosting can dad.

What’s with the pictures of celebrities and the wrong name captioned underneath?

R156, from one of the hollywood lesbian threads?

Good times.

Sigh.

[quote]The Haiti story was the actually the LAST appearance of the brilliant "Let me tell you about Deb Messing" troll, not the first. It was preceded by at least two others. The second-to-last had Deb Messing in New Orleans cheering up the survivors of Hurricane Katrina by bringing in a traditional jazz band, and had my all-time favorite line from a Deb Messing thread with Deb greeting the sobbing elderly survivors by saying quietly, "I think somebody here needs a little Mardi Gras."

Bless you. I don't even have that one any more. I do remember she had constructed a perfect French Quarter village for elderly African-American women evacuees.

R159. are you drinking Yellow Tail now?

You know it, r160 — and planning a Kicky Southwestern Laundry Room/She-Shed at the same time.

r159, aka Deb Messing Troll: I <3 you forever.

Wow, DL royalty in the house. R159, thanks, you've made me laugh so hard, so many times.

She-Shed?

"Mary!" supposedly originated in 1971, when PBS broadcast Elizabeth R.

Glenda Jackson had a way of exclaiming "Mary!" that queens found campy and adopted. And because of course no self-respecting gay missed Elizabeth R, it took off.

Cathy's beauty is ethereal, eternal, extraordinary, timeless. Mother Nature was verrrry generous with our beauty, our DL Ingenue -

. . . Ah, yes, the iconic DL Ingenue, Cathy.

Then there is the iconic DL "Julie" . . . Julie, Julie, Julie . . . it's all about our glorious, shameless, "Julie" . . .

I've never read the Debra Messing threads, but I did think about "let me tell you about Deb Messing" at 2min mark in this video.

Mary! Is in Boys the Band, which came out in 1970. The play is from 1968. I'm not claiming it coined the term but Glenda can step off.

Let me tell you about R159 ...

The Brendad Ickson thing was originally a typo.

r101 it was a golden era when Star Jones married Gay Al, I remember I started a thread about it and it was up to 600 posts in a day

r172 "The Marriage of Bigaro."

The man go up into the man is not Kirker. Every once in a rare while a thread would pop up with very disjointed English. Remember the name of that poster?

I assume it was the same one who used to do Wundy Girl.

OMG! WHET "Wundy" ???

R159, we need you now more than ever.

*kisses doll* (the creepy little girl next door origin)

[quote]it was a golden era when Star Jones married Gay Al

Will we not be celebrating Star's imminent wedding at sea? I suppose it will be too much of a letdown unless there's a maritime disaster, in which case DL's rewrite of "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" will make it all worthwhile.

[quote]Squirrels. Death. Was part of a MichFest's attendees overwrought blog post on just how sensitive they were feeling about everything.

Rose! She was a mess.

Does anyone remember the blogger who claimed to have been sexually assaulted by damn near everyone, including being penetrated by her aunt with a shotgun? Was that Peppermint Patty?

What is “pancakes Barbara”?

Who was “Peg” ?

Peg was a right-wing troll who arrived at some point between 9/11 and the Iraq War. If I remember correctly, after she left (or was banned), if anyone tried to sign a post as Peg it was automatically changed to "Troll."

The first Brenda Ickson parody thread that was inspired by a Canadian youtube comedian was riotous. Both her video and the responses.

I remember Peppermint Patty. She had a bullshit story about some guy in a checkout line who called her a fatass. She told him off,the whole store applauded, and some muscled hunk bought her a candy bar.

R179, it is a reference to a dessert from the film THE WOMEN (1939). It is a carb-laden nightmare.

The recipe was created by Elsie de Wolf (Lady Mendl), Lesbian.

A fellow DLer and I often use the "turkey meatballs and a towel" as an inside joke.

"How was your date?"

"Oh, you know, turkey meatballs and a towel."

[quote] [R101] it was a golden era when Star Jones married Gay Al,

Even before that it was hilarious. She was so full of herself on The View, and she acted as if no one could detect her fears and her weak spots about being fat and aging and not being married or having children, and of course everyone in the world could within two seconds of seeing her on the show know exactly what she was up to because she was so full of shit.

There was one poster who would post every day some ridiculous thing she said on The View and then would ask why she said it: "Star Jones said on The View today she doesn't like Halloween and handing out candy to children from the entrance door to her condo. Now, why in the world would you suppose Star feels this way?" When I started here in 2002, I swear that a third of the c3lebrity posts would be about some insane thing she had said.

But the wedding was the most insane of all because everyone in the universe could tell immediately Al was gay and just in it to be famous and get the attention, and Star was so completely deluded. Remember when he proposed to her at some sports event? "Who knew it would be on the Jumbotron?" she said (of course they both fully knew it would be and had planned it that way).

Pancakes Barbara was Louis B. Mayer's favorite dessert served in the MGM commissary, and there's an in-house reference in "The Women" when the cook asks Mary Haines what she should make for dinner, and Mary says "Pancakes Barbara!" It's almost impossible to think of it being a dinner course because it's nothing but sugar and carbohydrates. But it sounds so glamorous and exotic that many Dataloungers didn't even know it was a real thing (me included).

There's a fantastic post about Pancakes Barbara here. I didn't know you served them with ice cream!

Join us!

I posted that already, at R184, r189: There's a word for you girls, but it isn't used in polite society- outside of a kennel!

R188 is the bitch, not 189.

To be fair, I believe Mrs. Haines was referring to Pancakes Barbara as the dessert option.

May your pineapple and milk be served with a side of death.

I'm a bitch for posting a link to a story about Pancakes Barbara. Sure, why not. DL has been full of morons lately, why should this thread be any different?

I knew a girl who was on Datalounge and didn't understand some ow what was going on. But then she died.

Does anyone know what has happened to Shitty Little Anne?

What's supposedly going on, r195? Because all I see is someone mangling The Women references in an attempt to get attention for a weak "let's be" thread, while people like r187 are actually contributing to the conversation and being interesting and on-topic.

The "man who goes up in the man" was from a thread started by someone who was either a non-native speaker or a brilliant satirist who came here to ask us "about the homosex where the man goes up in the man."

The best thing to come out of the MichFest threads was the corporate identity "Nan Michiwomyn" (or somesuch) who would be in female-centric threads and post , "Man on the Land!" whenever a penised-person posted.

What oh what did Simon Hall have to do with a bag of oranges?

R197, r195 is just quoting another DL meme. You tell a long, rambling story and then end with..."And then she died."

Hi, Bronzie - There was speculation that Simon was beating up Matt Bomer, based on a pic set that appeared on Just Jared a couple of years ago. In The Grifters, we learned that Anjelica Huston's character used to beat John Cusack's character in the stomach with a bag of oranges, since you could fuck someone up that way without leaving a mark. Since Simon wasn't leaving any marks on Matt's face, a bag of oranges came into play.

R201 should have signed his post “Diane Lane’s bag of frozen peas”.

Ow what

What does gurl and OP mean?

I still think the Deb Messing troll is Richard Lawson.

R194 You posted the same link within half a dozen posts. That's why you are a bitch.

The crazy lady upset that other people have dared talk about "The Women" reminds me, was the Spaz Troll someone who was acting like a spaz, or someone who called others a spaz?

[quote] What does OP mean?

Optimus Prime, Rose!

[quote]You posted the same link within half a dozen posts. That's why you are a bitch.

They pretty obviously have you on ignore, genius.

And I can't speak for everyone's phone, but on mine, when I go out to the ignored tab I can see what people have written but I can't see any links they posted. That would probably explain why they saw you calling them a bitch and didn't see your stupid link.

OP means Original Post, or Poster.

Noodles! Yum!

I remember when someone here invented "Pancakes Judy," which was Pancakes Barbara, but with pills.

Where did Uncle Bottom come from?

Also, why is she very specially referred to as "Mrs. Patsy Ramsey, formerly of Boulder, Colorado?"

Miss Warwick is a genius. And her stalker is a racist cunt.

[quote] Also, why is she very specially referred to as "Mrs. Patsy Ramsey, formerly of Boulder, Colorado?"

The original Patsy Ramsey poster would sign posts precisely that way, and it stuck. At the time, the Ramsey family had moved away from Boulder.

And then she died.

In the old day we had "RACIST LESBIAN TROLL ALERT!" and I often wondered if it was inspired by a specific incident.

And who was “24 and too hot to believe” ?

That's Nan MichiganWomyn

R76, You don't get "Mary!"? Are you very young?

r217, it was a meme, not really an individual

Okay, which of you is the Original Artist?

Apple have submitted their new emoji to the Unicode consortium for consideration. Included is a what appears to be a lesbian with a cane.

It was Le$Bian Raci$t Troll

What does "Get her" mean?

Evidently this is another Troll Farm Intern fact-gathering thread. They pop up every few weeks in a new guise, and DL just loves to share! R224 clinches it.

Not so much faux-naive, more foe naive.

Get r224.

Fresh shitbra for r197, please.

Thanks for answering about PMBT.

How did YST, Chambo and Colto get started?

R225 is making fake news, yes?

[quote] Also, why is she very specially referred to as "Mrs. Patsy Ramsey, formerly of Boulder, Colorado?"

The very first Patsy Ramsey joke was someone signing his snarky comment about being mean to a child as "Mrs. Patsy Ramsey of Boulder, CO" back in 1997, and people started picking it up. I think "of Boulder, CO" was because her name was less well known than her daughter's was at the time, and identifying where she was from made the gag clearer. Then not long after the Ramseys moved to Georgia to get away from the press attention, and so her sign-off was altered to "Mrs. Patsy Ramsey, formerly of Boulder, CO." For a while after she died, she became "The Late Mrs. Patsy Ramsey, formerly of Boulder, CO," but that didn't catch on much.

It's a great gag, and makes me laugh nearly every time. People really did think soon after the murder she must have done it (though oddly now people think it's more likely it was her husband or young son Burke).

Judy "pills" Garland, you and your name, etc etc etc

[quote]Chambo

Because someone is a fucking idiot.

R222

R230 Thank you for that! I always wondered where the, "formerly of Boulder, CO" came from!

I had to google because I'd forgotten the exact wording, but EST stands for "Elaborate Scenario Troll" and at one time ESTs were theoretically red-tagged and banned.

The creative among us would level an accusation in a subtle way like, "That's an extremely salacious tale you are spreading here," perhaps in relation to the Frosting Dad, my favorite.

What is Frosting Dad?

What is Turkey and Meatballs?

What is God, I miss Brunch?

What is Once Around the Garden?

What is R3 Refrigerates Bread?

Years ago there was a thread about Pancakes Barbara that descended into posts by personifications of female-named desserts, increasingly aggressive, until "Apple Brown Betty" posted "I'll cut all you bitches!" or something like that.

Soft butch sous chef?

This is like explaining “dassabesso”, ME:, the Pendulum and ‘raqio’ to O&A newcomers, and by that I mean tedious kompromat that kills our Bits dead. This is comedy, people.

What is it with all the lasagna recipe references?

Mrs Dr Barry Weiss, DDS

Great Neck LI

Mary! is answered upthread but somewhat incompletely.

Most usages are really an exclamation. You're replying not just to someone being an OTT queen or using vivid prose/words, but also just someone saying something very dramatic, or responding to someone really making a big statement.

To which the only real and complete response to such a statement would be,,,

"MARY!"

[quote] What does "Get her" mean?

Get a load of her.

See also: Smell her!

Smell you!

See Moldy-Oldy Link below:

"The frosting thread was probably the all-time best thread ever on Datalounge. Whether it was real or not, the poster seemed so genuinely crazy and you just kept feeling sorry for this poor fat girl having to sneak a can of frosting (!) because he was so controlling.What I remember is a guy was complaining about his chubby daughter (or partner's daughter) stealing/sneaking a can of frosting. He went off on the poor teen.

I think he felt everyone would jump on board and bash her but he was so extreme with his feelings, we all turned on him like a bat out of hell."

"Damn, poor girl... can you imagine being berated for the damn can of frosting.

I can't remember details, but frosting dad kept insisting he was a good parent with a good relationship with his daughter, but all these other redflags kept popping out in his posts. I remember he came off as very controlling of his daughter and heavy-handed in his parenting. He came off AWFUL in that thread."

"The best threads are when some loony OP posts something, expecting us all to agree with him, but the exact opposite happens and s/he is left bewildered, posting over and over, trying to turn opinion to their side but only digging a bigger hole for themselves. Frosting dad and turkey meatballs were both like that."

Why “10 year old Tai Shan, the SuperStar Panda”?

The title of that frosting can thread was the florid "Not Without My Daughter."

R245, When I first stumbled onto DataLounge, I had a horrible flu, unlike anything I had every experienced, for over a week.

I lay in bed in misery, comforted by DataLounge. There was a thread discussing a webcam of a baby panda named Tai Shan. It was the purest comfort I could have imagined.

And, now, Tai Shan is 10 years old.

And Cackle Cackle must be 90.

And R246, the funny thing is that the title made no sense, but was the name of a Sally Field movie where her Iranian husband kidnaps her kid.

[quote]He was someone I dated while he was stationed in Miami. Seemed like a great catch. I went running one evening through a local park and he was bent over a log, getting fucked anyone that would get in line. Fucked. Up. Never saw him again and never returned his calls. He's a lying mother fucker.

Killer:

[quote]That's such a coincidence, [R3]! Backstage at Attitudes, I was running to my dressing room when I saw Jerry bent over a log, getting fucked by anyone who would get in line. I remember asking Frank, "Frank, why is there a log backstage?"

[quote]—Linda Dano

Omg not without my daughter frosting can dad was hilarious!

Turkey meatballs was the I'm not running a b&b thread wasn't it? Good fucking times.

I miss the time before this chaos that is now our lives robbed us of frivolity.

Up-thread, the mystery of the woman posing by the chair was revealed to be Poo Shoes. But who is the guy with curly hair, glasses and sticking out his tongue supposed to be? Also, what's the full title and origin of [xxxx] Mint Julep Face Mask Cream?

Queen Helene Mint Julep Face Masque

Jackie on Assistance was a DL classic! Someone typed Jackie Onassis but somehow spell check changed it, and a thread was born.

r252 Ohhhhhhhhhhhh

R253 = Merv Griffin climaxing with Ryan Seacrest.

I think that's Matt, r250, but I am not 100% sure. Got a link?

Signing your name as "from" somewhere is an old-fashioned affectation people used for social entries in newspapers and magazines. It was especially insufferable when someone used it to imply they were related to THE Snowcrofts of Syosset or some such thing. That's where the "of Boulder, CO" came from.

The first time I saw "formerly of Boulder, CO" I absolutely lost it.

Maybe, r225, but even when explained the trolls don't really GET the DL memes, so they should be easy to spot. Sometimes we have regulars who obviously don't really get them, either, and they pitch a fit about it, which is hilarious to me.

R101 Was a fundraiser held for Miss Star so she could finally get the neck replacement surgery? Did she appear at the Michigan Womens fest?

Am dying at R248 post.

The early Helen Lawson threads were funny and charming and had a very insider feel. As most memes are it was overused but still, funny early on.

I swear Girls Will Be Girls got its idea from those threads.

To R66 and R73...

I was the origin of the "Dat's Da Suck Job" story, and R73 has it pretty close. Here's what happened:

I posted to a thread about embarrassing sexual encounters, I think, and shared my story. I was driving around and saw a really hot guy standing by the side of the road. He smiled at me, so I thought, hmm, ok...I drove by him again, and he was looking for me and smiled and casually waved. I let him in my car and took him to my house. We only said "Hey, what's up..." "Hey", and that was it - I got him into my roommate's room (I'm not sure why I didn't want to do this on my own bed?), and he nudged me to lay down, and he pulled my pants down. He gave me a really incredible blow job. It didn't take long. I said "Wow, that was really amazing." He wiped his face with the back of his hand, opened his mouth (when I could then see he had very crooked teeth and a messed up looking mouth in general), and he proudly declared "Daaaaat's Da Suck Job!" I was mortified, and gently escorted him out of the house, and never told a soul about this. I can still hear him say that...

[quote] I can still hear him say that...

And so can we. So can we.

Is "Raaaaanch!" related to the epic Baked Potato Bar (lesbian wedding reception)?

"Once Around the Garden"

There was a thread started (widely assumed to be a very brilliant EST), where someone was complaining about his boyfriend making him enforce a salad bar policy at his restaurant. When a patron purchased a salad bar, they could choose "Once Around the Garden", obviously meaning one trip to the salad bar, or, "Autumn Harvest", all you can eat. Of course some patrons paid for the former but were overindulging.

Hilarity ensued...thread below.

I think everyone has willfully forgotten that one r263, except for the one who tried to make it happen.

I'm surprised surprise anal has yet to come up. I used to know the story, but I no longer remember.

I know a few newbies recently did not know the whole WHET vs WEHT and scolded others for using WHET.

They also didn't know the EEEEEEEE! Homosex story.

I regret asking this but what are all of the code names for in the awful Jeremy Renner threads?

It's impossible to even read one for fun because of the dumb "funny" names for all of the characters.

And are the threads purporting that JR is obviously gay or are they supporting the lie of his fake heterosexuality?

Did "surprise anal" really start here? I've seen it recently in promotional descriptions of porn scenes.

I want to know who the original "uncle bottom" is.

You won't keep that Adonis figure if you keep eating that Pancakes Barbara!

"nacreous perma-layer of cum."

[quote] R149: Cradling the mug is a reference to fibromyalgia and being tender to the touch from a commercial. DL has a history of mocking various diseases, especially the frau ones.

As I recall, there was a commercial, in which the model/actress was photographed cradling her mug. Then, having brought this to DataLounge’s attention, it turns out to be a common pose in advertisement that some us had never noticed.

As for the fibromyalgia origin, I don’t recall the Mug Matter as originating with them. Correlation does not imply causation.

Okay, I've been here the last three years - the entire time with Trump as candidate & UGH Pres - but I don't get when someone posts as Melanoma and has her saying she is hitting him with a bag.

I try to figure out what that means with her accent but I am stumped.

ah, yes....the homosex poster..........

........

"eeeeeeeeeeee! At all times, my endearment is betrothed by your own words and entered with GREAT FANTASTIC!!!!

I begin the make ask: DO YOU KNOW THE HOMOSEX IN WHOM THE MAN GOES UPINTO THE MAN???

THIS QUESTION, it is not of the false appearance. Across the world every day in the time zones, whether YOU ARE SPRING FORWARD or FALL BACK, it is filled with the presence of THE HOMOSEX. In times many past, there were those who ought to hunt down the HOMOSEX as though it were a betrayal of the national love.

But because of the Books published like the person of DR. RUTH WESTHEIMER and the reasonableness of MISTER AARON BROWN, today we are bathed in an era in which the HOMOSEX have a new wonder and almost glistening, among those of once whom made a VAGUE SUBURBAN DENIAL!!! eeeeeeeeee!

TODAY OUR TUBES are blessed with those in whom THE HOMOSEX IS APPARENT. Even if mr anderson cooper immerses himself in vagary upon some sort of TIME WARNER HAUNCH, everyone smile at the tubes and say THERE IS mr anderson cooper WHOSE SILVER HAUNCHES are daily violated by the HAIRY PUBIS!!!!!! ~eeeeeeeeee! This no longer makes any consideration beyond a fortnight for those who engage IN THE TYPICAL VIEWERSHIP. And why the America dream what had DRAGGED UP ON A BOAT in the pervious era MIGHT STILL YET BE ENVELOPED by those who are of the HOMOSEX.

This at least is my own hope in which I occasionally bathe."

Uncle Bottom refers to a poster who is always finding himself in sexual situations with his hot, straight nephew. His style of writing reads like someone who wants to write like Tennessee Williams, but has no talent.

R275 — You're overthinking this.

R277, not getting the post.

R277, he’s just quoting

What is the origin of Mariah Carey saying "I have problems of my own"?

"nacreous perma-layer of cum."

There were many threads about gym steam rooms back in the day, and the level of cruisiness that took place in some of them. There was one steam room at a gym in NYC which was notorious (NYSC upper west side?), and there were many trolls in that steamroom, and certain DLers would come here and compare notes about them, giving them code names and sharing horror stories, since apparently their antics were legendary and longevitous.

There were many reaction posts to these very honest cruisy threads, coming from more Puritanical DLers...who would seek to scorn and shame the "whores in the steamroom" having their own Autumn Harvest. This was a common theme in threads back in 2007-2010, IIRC.

One such insult that was lodged at these steamrooms included the above descriptor about the floors of the steamrooms containing a nacreous perma-layer of cum.

[quote]"nacreous perma-layer of cum."

It's actually "nacreous layers of permacum," which is much funnier (in my opinion.)

"Lens Dunham" was another one that began as a typo.

RAAAAAAANCH came from an Arby's or Wendy's commercial in summer 2005.

Damn if this thread isn't a bunch of ancient white men jerking off over past jerk offs. Not many of you either because most of these "inside" jokes are not too hilarious. At least not to someone under 40. Tasteless can be really funny but Darfur Orphan and Your Pussy Stinks? Stupid old men. I read the world trade center is an insatiable bottom thread. Not really. One funny title doesn't make a funny thread. And the fact that it was posted that day is the furthest thing from funny at all. There are some diseased minds on Datalounge but far more who just fall into hateful misanthropes and old queens. That joke was way too soon. Who would say that kind of thing on 9/11. Very gay and very stupid. There are some witty posters here but not the ones who repeat the same old things over and over. The "M" posts are stupid because they sound like nothing Meryl would say, just some ancient Bette Davis impersonator inhabiting Streep's career, aka ancient gay without an audience. The Concerned Cream Cheese Cracker Mom redundancies can go too. Stop jerking off into your old spunk. Was funny once maybe in some context, just a grandpa joke now. There is more wit on Twitter in 30 minutes then there is on DL in a month. That's not saying much.

And in case you forgot, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. Gay men and teenage girls are famous for it.

R284 was once told to die in a grease fire and has never recovered.

R284, you're a humorless drone, who attacks others for making insults, then uses "so gay" as an insult.

Who forced you to visit this site? Do you have a therapist? Get another.

You spew ageist vitriol, quite poorly. Your grammar and syntax are below remedial.

Your phobic obsession with older people is repetitive. Hopefully you will not live to be much older.

R284 - fun at parties, lively at brunch

My grammar and syntax are fine with my publisher. I got style y'all, pedantic old queers clean it up. Old gays sure do hold tightly to antiquated grammar rules AND what they believe to be inside jokes. When you can no longer clench....Continue on with your funny stuff. Why would I threaten you?

People my age don't see therapists gramps and there is nothing subpar or remedial about me R286. It's very immature and violent of you to wish me death dude. What the fuck is up with that? Die in a grease fire is not a Datalounge creation old fool. My dad used to say it at college. If you enjoy your racism and misogyny and repetitive jokes, then continue thinking yourself unique and progressive R286. You're not the only one, but you're a small group here now. I'm not sure we will all die but I can guarantee the worst of DL will be gone soon. Ancient white f*gs. Cancelled.

R284, please share something with us that you consider funny, on another thread, please, since this one has nothing to do with your incoherent hateful babbling.

We'll wait.

Well smell r284!

[quote]We'll wait.

Don't hide behind some collective idea of "we" R289. Datalounge old timers are not a mob. You're all alone. Scared old keyboard queens. Racists, misogynists, basement dwellers and a few privileged OLD white men who have seen better days. I suggest that you get together and hate one another as much as you hate everything else. That is my best advice to you. Take care.

R284 has been TRIG-gered!

Pedantic drivel and virulent hatred like "f*gs" and "gramps" isn't funny, you blathering fool. You're not funny and you never will be. You obviously have anger issues and plenty of hatred yourself. You're a tiresome interloper with a warped and myopic perspective that interests no one. You don't get the jokes because you are part of this community, or any other, except meme-regurgitating cell phone addicts like yourself.

"My grammar and syntax are fine with my publisher."

Let me guess; THEM Magazine? Huffpost Queer Voices?

And R291, "Scared old keyboard queens." And where are you, typing from your A-list party on a yacht? You're here, too. Sad, bitter and a boring drone.

Also, "r284 smells sexy" You're complimenting yourself? Sniffing your own stench? Talk about a lonely old "f*g!"

This is not a war. I was not trying to be funny. I clearly stated my opinions on the thread topic. Then some old bitches got offended. Fair enough. But the attacks was personal and I must respond. I am done with you now but I do smell sexy. Why would I need to smell myself? That was a sad revelation R293. But there seems to be one main attacker, clearly drunk and getting more verbose and less sensible at R286 and R292. I am sorry for your pain but I can't help you beyond that platitude. Everyone here now is in some proximity to a device with a keypad. The similarity ends there. I am one of the most funnest guys you'll ever get to pay to meet. Put away the whiskey now gampi and back away. Get some rest R292. Ask your therapist why a stranger on the internet triggered you so? This conversation is boring for everyone. My initial post @ R284 was not.

The cradling a mug was a thread someone started about women (and some gay men) who like to cradle mugs and how, despite it being completely harmless, can be really annoying. It became linked with people who like scented candles and sweaters with kittens on them.

Cradling my Mug

R280, Mariah Carey

r284 has stated her boundaries! Please do not make her state them again, sisters!

[quote]And in case you forgot, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. Gay men and teenage girls are famous for it.

Mary!

Let's call R284, R291, R294 YooNique, because s/he thinks s/he's better than all of us. Yet theres/he goes, late at night on a Saturday, railing against all DataLoungers as "old white men" "Gramps" and "f*g"s, hurling childish insults like a toddler who's shit its pants, then blames others for the stink.

By the way, YooNique, your despicable clueless initial and second rant got deleted, just like your alleged literary career will be too, once your alleged "publisher" endures more of your bile.

YouNique is the kind of "artist" who, at an open mic, bores everyone to tears with a sing-songy spoken word about Daddy spanking him, scarring him, wounding him!

S/he referenced multiple posts on this thread, which refer to decades of other threads. YooNique does not understand the context of the humor in these references, because YooNique only thinks of itself as relevant (but still not at all funny).

YooNique is also the sort of dullard who gulps down an entire meal at a restaurant, then demands a refund because s/he didn't like it.

YooNique latched onto this thread and this thread alone, for some bizarre reason, to upstage dozens of others who were having a perfectly fine time. YooNique doesn't know how to 'read a room.'

" I was not trying to be funny. " Good, because you never will be.

"But the attacks was (sic) personal and I must respond." You repeatedly stated your disgust with elders and "f*gs," hypocrite. You 'must respond' after shitting on all of us, the "collective we," the 'other,' the white old gay men, who, sorry to say, comprise the majority of people who post here most often.

We're not "offended," YooNique. We have endured many turdlette mini-trolls like you for years. That is the benefit of life experience. You'll spiral off in a Rumplestiltskin dervish to some other website to rant and spew your textual spittle at others, never finding comfort, or an audience.

And if you're a writer or author-to-be, you will fail and fail again, because you lack empathy, A person who despises an entire older generation has nothing to work with, other than, as you typed earlier, Twitter posts and online silliness like this very thread.

Bye, YooNique! You won't be missed.

She also will NOT be ignored, R300. At least not longer than a single post.

[quote]YooNique

That's three syllables, right?

Lucy Ricardo: I want the names to be unique and euphonious.

Ricky Ricardo: Okay. Unique if it's a boy, and Euphonious if it's a girl.

R52, EST = Elaborate Scenario Troll, someone who spends a lot of time constructing implausible stories with occasional crazily specific, often irrelevant, details that reveal their personal quirks.

Meant to add, a lot of ignorant posters tend to label any post they disagree with or anything that resembles real gossip as an EST. It's one of the most annoyingly idiotic behaviors of our less-intelligent readers.

WHET Noodles? Did he get lost in a Zabar's dumpster?

Speaking of Lucy, where did the whole "Lucy wanted to do X, but Gary Morton wouldn't allow it" thing come from?

I don't get the Lorna / Joey Luft thing & why they pop up to remind us they were molested.

No one else does, either, r308, except possibly the Lisha drunkies.

M!

A!

R!

Y!

I'm a wizened veteran of this dump, but if someone would be so kind as to remind me of the origin of "Is dis Daddy's puduter?", I'd be ever so grateful.

The "soft-butch sous chef" was the suspect, later identified as the actual murderer, of a married, closeted lawyer who was stabbed to death in a Donovan Hotel room on Thomas Circle in Washington, D.C.

[quote]has stated her boundaries!

Where did this come from??

R313 Others may know more details but I know it's a Michfest thing.

I believe it's related to the Michfest lesbian who wrote a lengthy diatribe on a website about things her fellow attendees should and should not do that included lots of gems.

"Do NOT do it. Do NOT!"

And the capper....

"I am telling you NOW so I do not have to tell you THEN."

R310 that just made me laugh!

I'm really curious about the disappeared "mini-troll" and his alleged "publisher." What kind of book would such a nasty person write?

Crackers Robbed Me of a Hardback Deal! A Memoir?

Hating on Old Gay White Men for Fun and Profit?

How to Put Off People and Give Influenza to Friends?

r308 This is the first I've heard about JOEY being molested. Is this a #MeToo thing?

R308 R317

Lorna pops up to say she was molested.

Joey pops up to say he likes blue.

I know Lorna said something in her book about #MeToo, but I know nothing about Joey. Is he special? A drunk? Fetal alcohol baby?

R319 Speculation is all of the above that you mentioned.

[quote] I know nothing about Joey. Is he special? A drunk? Fetal alcohol baby?

Did Judy take pills?

Ha! Ha! Ha! I'll say.

Judy was one of the most talented singers ever. She also had a lot of pain and struggle throughout her life. Despite that, she had a good heart, which is hard to encounter in Hollywood. At a time when gay people were oppressed beyond belief, they identified with her struggles and she theirs.

R310, just for you I'll add a

//ARY!

which I haven't seen around here in ages (a leftover from 90s BBS-speak or whatever.

Every time I saw it used on here it would crack me up for no discernible reason. But I loved it just the same.

// ary

I never got the whole deal with Elizabeth Mitchell (who played a lesbian on "ER") and chalupas.

P.S. Those dykes were nuts.

WHET Yoonique?

[quote] Using tongs while it's still hot is a good way to break the pasta.

But I break up the pasta before putting it in the water. Is that so bad?

It's busy writing a sassy Scorpio sonnet for the doorman, or perhaps it's massaging Palmer's stretch-mark butter into its succulent peach booty, r327. But don't worry. It will be back.

"DL inside jokes/lines you don't understand"

All of them.

^^says the poster who could leave at anytime and by their own admission doesn’t get it.

^^ types R331, who should leave, but won't because her sad lonely life offers nothing better than being a humorless drone and wannabe hall monitor.

gifs

R327 still ranting at last nights open mic.

R334, still pining for the days before her menopause kicked in.

[quote]But I break up the pasta before putting it in the water. Is that so bad?

You are worse than Mussolini.

Bump!

The first time a read about "the homosex, where the man goes up into the man" I could not stop laughing. Funniest thing I'd ever read here!

The only time I break up spaghetti is when I'm making soup, I break it into one inch prices, cook it, then add it to the soup. Its perfect, and it doesn't overwhelm the soup

What year was the "This is Nana Mouskouri. Is Paul there?" wrong number thread? It was in the midst of SusieLee.

[quote]I break it into one inch pieces

How? I would have to stop at 2"-3".

[quote] I would have to stop at 2"-3".

You must be a terrible bottom.

Yeah, I don't get fucked by pasta, r342.

So you don't stuff your rigatoni, eh R343?

AIKC - is the ban now off? (R284 is him, if I'm not mistaken) I thought he was revealed to be some writer trying out a character? R329 obvs' knows the score. So dick proud, so humbled.

We must pay tribute to DL's Perpetual Ingenue, Cathy, who turns 38 this September.

I thought "Julianne Moore. Seriously" originally was a comment about a picture where Julianne Moore was in the middle while some other, more prestigious, actresses were on her left and right hand side. And some poster commented "Julianne Moore (in the middle), Seriously?"

I thought the "nacreous layers of permacum" refers to the steam room and whirlpool area of the San Vicente Inn in West Hollywood which is / was a gay resort and a notorious cruising spot.

[quote] What is the origin of Mariah Carey saying "I have problems of my own"?

I believe a mother wrote to her and begged her to visit and sing to her comatose daughter in the hospital and maybe her live singing would wake her up. Supposedly Mariah Carey replied "I'm sorry, but I have problems of my own". Apparently the angry mom shared that reply with the press.

Resisting the surgeon's knife for another year, r346.

38 r346? I’ll have you know I’m as young as 22 and certainly no older than 32 but 38? Not for another decade at least.

I stuff my cannoli r344

Why is CZJ unliked by DataLounge?

Actually, Cathy is loved by DL. She shamelessly lies about her age, without even a mere hint of remorse.

She's such a Glamour Puss!

Thank you, r348. Who knows? Maybe I'll go wild and indulge in a quarter syringe of Botox or Radiesse when I'm middle-aged.

Thankfully, I have lots of time to think it over. Until then, it's sunscreen, good genes, and lots of water!

[quote]Bye, YooNique! You won't be missed.

Wow, what a great post that was at R300!

A W&W hardly seems adequate. Maybe we could start a fan club. Until then, I'll stick with the topic and think of a "DL inside joke/line" that honors R300. Something like, oh, maybe, "I'd lick his shitter."

[quote]"Miss, with all due respect, I have my own problems. I have no time to accommodate everyone else’s," the e-mail to Katz read. "My sister is suffering HIV right now. Is anyone worried about my problems? Some people can be so damn selfish. Next time you e-mail me with any requests, you will be reported. Have a great day! m.c."

Actually the Mariah Carey story was debunked, but we hold on to it because it's so hilarious. (Sorry about the Faux News link).

That story is almost as delicious as Shirley Maclaine’s crème brûlée.

The difference is the Shirley MacLaine Creme Brûlée story was true r356.

LA can go to hell in a hen basket, but while that happens movie stars still need their dessert, damn it!

A hen basket? Everyone knows it's the roosters who have the baskets.

Thank you, ladies and germs.

That's why I call my rooster Kylo Hen

A most excellent thread.

Bimp.

[quote] Datalounge old timers are not a mob.

I like the idea of a DL mob. "Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes" takes on a whole new meaning.

[quote] I like the idea of a DL mob.

Caftan-wearing gays and cane-wielding lesbians.

A writer on Supergirl must be a DL visitor. Resident lesbian Alex was seen sporting a cane.

[quote]I like the idea of a DL mob.

They'll make you an opera you can't refuse.

Who is this Poo Shoes and has she pranced 'once around the garden'?

CZJ is not only a Glamour Puss but a Glamour Puss that shops at T.J. Maxx. And fills carts up with stuff apparently. My dream girl.

It took me forever to figure out why DLers called the late Kennedy woman Jackie On Assistance. But I finally did.

Yes, the magic of auto-correct: Jackie Onassis >> Jackie On Assis tance

One of the most hilarious errors ever and it spawned a thread that went on and on forever.

[quote] Uncle Bottom refers to a poster who is always finding himself in sexual situations with his hot, straight nephew.

No, that's wrong.

"Uncle Bottom" is the generic name on Datalounge for someone who is trying to please everyone in his family by ignoring problems and conflicts. Usually he is buying expensive presents for his nieces and nephews in the vain hope he will please them and they will care for him in his old age.

if someone is posting a thread about family conflict or expectations, and someone posts that the OP has to go to great lengths to please his family members, that person is always called "Uncle Bottom." The idea is that bottoms are usually seeking to please others

Please explain the origin of “I did not like Heath Ledger in his role as Joker”.

R366, This is Poo Shoes

I have always wanted to know the origin of "I can cut a bitch." Is that from DL? I haven't seen it too much here lately.

[quote]Jackie On Assistance

I loved that thread.

R373, that isn’t originally from DL, but I don’t know the origin.

Denny from Columbus and the rolling suitcase was a great thread!

Sows at the trough.

Red dragon cheese in Cambridge and Anthony's bubble butt

[quote] and Anthony's bubble butt

Who? What?

[quote]I've been on Datalounge forever and this always makes me laugh but I somehow missed the origins. Is it just a variation on Maude Flanders' "Won't somebody please think of the children?!"

That's actually Helen Lovejoy's signature line, not the late Maude Flanders'.

Could someone please explain those Larry King threads that pop up after someone famous dies. Was he known for mixing up names on his show or what?

R379, mixing up names, facts, linear time and object permeance, etc.

R379, mixing up names, facts, linear time and object permanence, etc.

As a Larry King-adjacent funeral faux pas you may also see references to the Sarah Michelle Gellar mix up where she tweeted “RIP Boy George” instead of George Michael.

"Julianne Moore, seriously" was all the rage for a couple of years. It's gone now. So these DL memes come and go. Some are funnier than others.

R379 I think it started after King interviewed Sharon Tate's sister and confusingly asked her if she forgave Roman Polanski for killing her sister.