I went over to Althouse's and wrote a number of insanely offensive comments, but everyone started agreeing with me before I could declare "April Fools'!" Please ignore comments in which someone talks about trading in white women for Filipina because the former can't be trained; calls strangers "cunts" in front of their kids or justifies calling strangers "cunts" in front of their kids on account of "Alinksyite incivility collapsing into mutual incivility"; sings about it being "time to give the country to the darkies" or advocates that popular means good; claims that there were tea bags at the Boston Tea Party or blames the firing of Don Imus on "the Progressive Jews and the non-Jewish Left" because they were all written by an undercover agent in it for the lulz
Those good folks only wrote those terrible things because I baited them.
Update. If you haven't read the LGM version of this post you might not realize that, despite how obvious the game I played was, Althouse managed to pwn herself.
Update II. Performance art!











My, someone there doesn't like white....women. I've met Shouting before.
Posted by: John Emerson | Thursday, 01 April 2010 at 04:41 PM
On the other hand "Scar my tattered body no more with your punishing dildo mallet," isn't that bad a line.
Posted by: John Emerson | Thursday, 01 April 2010 at 04:58 PM
Department of the past isn't dead, it isn't even past
Of course, it was obviously liberals in charge all the time.
Scott, your preview software pouted at both my attempt to embed the link, and to post it raw. I only was able to post by reloading the page and carefully not previewing. Just mentioning so you are aware, and also you owe me four-plus minutes.
Posted by: Gary Farber | Thursday, 01 April 2010 at 06:06 PM
Except that I ended up, with all that backing and forthing and dozen times, accidentally wound up at the wrong entry. Sigh. Will repost. For the 9th or so attempt.
Posted by: Gary Farber | Thursday, 01 April 2010 at 06:13 PM
I remember Stephen "Shouting" Thomas from his days on HNN. The rest of them are real charmers, yeah. Too bad that April Fool thing didn't work out!
Posted by: Ahistoricality | Thursday, 01 April 2010 at 06:35 PM
Do any of those links still work? I was hoping for some cheap entertainment, but all I'm getting is vigorous assurance that cheap entertainment was once to be had.
Posted by: Vance Maverick | Thursday, 01 April 2010 at 06:54 PM
Vance, "Chase"'s comment (the one about telling the libtard's 11-year-old daughter what teabagging the sex act means) is still there. Just click on 'Oldest' to get to the first comments, or on the blog post title.
Posted by: kth | Thursday, 01 April 2010 at 08:00 PM
Vance, sorry about that. She changed the title of the post in order to break my link, and now her commenters are claiming I actually wrote those comments, because they're illiterate.
Posted by: SEK | Thursday, 01 April 2010 at 08:20 PM
The comments are still there, if you go looking for them. Althouse changed the link? She's got less class than I thought, and my opinion of her was pretty damn low to begin with. And most of those comments are by identifiable people (see above on Thomas, etc.) who are clearly not you. I'm impressed, though at the lengths to which they'll go to avoid criticism.
Posted by: Ahistoricality | Friday, 02 April 2010 at 06:23 AM
I visit the Althouse site regularly for one reason; to aggravate the living hell out of them, and it doesn't take much. All one has to do is disagree with the "Queen's" wing nut pack about literally anything, or better yet, post a comment reflecting approval of anything President Obama has ever said or done...and they go completely out of their minds.
What was the moniker you used to post your comments?
Posted by: Jeremy | Friday, 02 April 2010 at 09:32 AM
SEK, I actually do think this was a poor course of action. When you have folks like Jeremy commenting on your posts thinking that you actually did, um, "moby"(bizarre term, why not "troll"?) Althouse's site, it should say something about how your action will be interpreted by Althouse and her fans, whom doubtlessly know less about your tenure status or the other elements of the situation. More broadly, I don't think doing an April Fools prank that involved someone else's website was a very good idea- normally how April Fools works on the internet is that the website readers get fooled. notice how the interpretations occurring here are largely based on that premise.
Posted by: marriotr | Sunday, 04 April 2010 at 11:38 AM