It’s hard to be extremely funny when what you really want to say is… “Thanks.”
You guys are terrific. In two days I’ve received about a dozen offers of help and enough donations to start fixing the place up and pay the utility bills on this site (I’m not sure why a website needs “plumbers” or “boom operators,” but I trust that my web provider is being straight with me…). I’ll probably be contacting some of you technically literate folks in the next couple of days, once I figure out what this “Electronic Mail” is all about. [No, seriously, I just have to review my myriad and poorly-understood options.]
But to all of you who’ve been donating, offering to help out, or just dropping by: I’m very grateful. I’ll be able to access those kind donations on Monday, and which point I’ll be able to flee the countr- er, - upgrade my account.
Occasionally one of my fellow bloggers will attempt to commiserate with me by remarking that blogging is a “lonely” occupation. For me, that’s a little like a brand new parent talking about how quiet life becomes when you have kids… to a mother of 11.
Not that you’re like children to me. And of course having 11 kids in the three and a half years I’ve been running this site would be taxing to say the least. No, what I’m saying is that this site is never quiet, always challenging, and -despite the frequent frustrations - always worth it because of you, the readers. And when I say “readers,” I mean “readers and vociferous, amusing, and occasionally cantankerous commenters and emailers.”
And now you’re showing your support in a great, tangible way. I’d be wiping a tear away if I wasn’t packing my bags for Mexi- er, I mean - preparing to improve the site.
Thank you all.
Fanny Roborat
18 comments
Linkmeister
April 30, 2005 at 6:30 pm
1Mexico? You’re outsourcing Fanatical Apathy? Does Lou Dobbs know about this?
dee
April 30, 2005 at 6:50 pm
2I think it’s admirable of Adam to implement the cost-saving plan of moving to Mexico to get his Maker’s Mark duty free.
Would that we were all willing to make such sacrifices!
-=e=-
April 30, 2005 at 7:40 pm
3“Fanatico Apathetica”… I love it!
Just be careful crossing that broder with all those beer guzzlin’ minutemen guarding it, ok? I’m not sure if they can tell the difference between Jewish & Mexican.
-=e=-
April 30, 2005 at 7:40 pm
4“broder = border”
I’m such an illiterate dumbass.
David
April 30, 2005 at 8:13 pm
5Mexican, Jew, sidewinder - those Aryan Minutemen could care less about distinguishing. Their Aryan ancestors stole the Southwest fair and square from the Mexicans after first dispatching all those savages who seemed to think they had a right to do what their ancestors had been doing for at least 10,000 years, I guess on the theory they were liberating the Southwest from the Spanish, who had stolen it before the Aryans got there.
So Aryan Arnold loves the Minutemen. What a shock.
Adam, where da hell da snail mail address? Did I miss it somewhere (a Mailboxes Mexico address would be perfect)? Do we sends dollars or pesos?
By the way, I clicked Yes for Remember personal info? It didn’t help. I still can’t remember shit.
Leslie
April 30, 2005 at 8:53 pm
6David, my friend, you’ve just run out of RAM. But if you ever find the button that adds some extra memory into an expansion bay, for Lobster sake, SHARE!
rws
May 1, 2005 at 7:37 am
7Apatía Fanática — it does have a certain yo no sé qué, don’t it?
bri
May 1, 2005 at 9:22 am
8Stop by on your way to San Ysidro. Pacificos for everybody!
bri
Ibid
May 1, 2005 at 12:11 pm
9At least the web provider isn’t charging you for blink tag fluid. That stuff gets expensive.
David
May 1, 2005 at 12:15 pm
10Spanish really is a loving tongue.
OK, Adam, I hereby abandon my quest. No apartado postal for Apatia Fanatica, so I cannot a$$i$t the cau$e, mi amigo.
Would that San Ysidro were only an hour’s drive or so from Goldenrod (which as all Central Floridians know is the cultural hub of the Occident).
RAMS go with EWES and over CLIFFS, Leslie, as have way too many of my brain cells.
Murray
May 1, 2005 at 5:55 pm
11Now don’t go squandering that $100,000 I Pay Palled you, on a years supply of Maker’s Mark and a hacienda near Can Cun (OK, the spelling is a guess but you know where I mean).
Richard
May 2, 2005 at 4:34 am
12I thought you meant an 11-year-old mother for a moment. Not a surprising thing to see round these parts…
madbard
May 2, 2005 at 4:55 pm
13Everybody knows all the good IT outsourcing is done in Bangalore, but good websites are [flag_waving] American[/flag_waving]!
Pete in Van Diemen's Land
May 2, 2005 at 9:44 pm
14Oh, Adam (sniff), you don’t have to say anything, you silly old snufflewuppie! We wuv you too!
Seriously, have you considered selling merkley’s email address to some of the Fundie websites? Or you could sell the rest of us for scientific experiments…
David - so THAT’s what the “Remember Personal Info” thingy is. Doesn’t work for me either. If She Who Must Be Obeyed didn’t yell at me daily, I’d forget my own name. Now. How to get the paper out of this typewriter thingy…
hedera
May 2, 2005 at 11:36 pm
15snufflewuppie??? SNUFFLEWUPPIE??
Pete in Van Diemen's Land
May 3, 2005 at 7:35 pm
16C’mon, you know what a snufflewuppie is! Like a spunkychunks, or a lovemuffin, or a poochiewoochie, only cuter. It’s sort of like all the best bits of cute li’l kittens, adorable winged puppies, and cuddly wabbits, all put in a blender with real cream, sunshine, and seal pups.
Excuse me, I think I’m going to… RALPH…
Jerry
May 4, 2005 at 2:06 pm
17Ya know, until you got to the “put in a blender” part, that was pretty cute. After the blender thing, I think I might hurl, too!
turnkey
January 8, 2006 at 1:29 pm
18Mexican, Jew, sidewinder - those Aryan Minutemen could care less about distinguishing. Their Aryan ancestors stole the Southwest fair and square from the Mexicans after first dispatching all those savages who seemed to think they had a right to do what their ancestors had been doing for at least 10,000 years, I guess on the theory they were liberating the Southwest from the Spanish, who had stolen it before the Aryans got there.
So Aryan Arnold loves the Minutemen. What a shock.