• February 13, 2012

We'll Be Right Back?NO WE DID NOT BAN YOU (YET): We don’t know what’s going on with the comments, either. But we have our comment boxes again, on our various machines, across this great land. HEADQUARTERS is maybe working on the “can’t comment at Wonkabout” problem? Okay here is a fun challenge: If you can comment, but couldn’t before, please explain what happened, in the comments, and then we’ll have TECH SUPPORT read these comments, the end?

{ 107 comments }

Spunion April 27, 2009 at 6:30 pm

Mother?

Custerwolf April 27, 2009 at 6:32 pm

“If you can comment, but couldn’t before, please explain what happened….”

I woke up. I had been sleeping.

BillyClubb April 27, 2009 at 6:32 pm

Tech support? You have tech support? What king of blog is this? Do you also have valet parking service and catered lunches?

Fox n Fiends April 27, 2009 at 6:32 pm

Everybody’s Hugging!

Mr Blifil April 27, 2009 at 6:35 pm

What happened was I went into the comments and found a bunch of screeds from Dumfukistan stinking up the joint. On closer inspection they turned out to be my own earlier comments, submitted under the influence of a pharmacological/alcoholical soup whose doses are difficult to titrate.

Oh that and the comment I’m entering now has GOTTEN ME BANNED. I HOPE NOOOOOBAMA IS HAPPEEZ.

jagorev April 27, 2009 at 6:37 pm

When I click on a Wonkabout link, it always asks me to login again. Then I lose my desire to comment because I have the attention span of a gnat and poor Juli Weiner and Elizabeth Askew don’t get my appreciation for her wonderful posts. PLS FIX THIS KEN LAYNE KTHX

Servo April 27, 2009 at 6:38 pm

I was unable to comment at the end of last week; favicons wouldn’t load, either. I updated IE and SpybotSD, then reset IE because the registry data may have been corrupted. Fixed. Much faster also.

hailripley April 27, 2009 at 6:38 pm

I couldn’t comment because the comment box was full of porn. Your move, Tech Support.

jagorev April 27, 2009 at 6:38 pm

[re=301077]BillyClubb[/re]: I assume by ‘tech support’ Ken Layne means he has a starving Indian guy locked up in his basement.

Bearbloke April 27, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Servo April 27, 2009 at 6:44 pm

“Open the pod-bay doors, please, Hal.”

Dick Butt April 27, 2009 at 6:44 pm

I put SAGE in the email field and it fixed it.

bitchincamaro April 27, 2009 at 6:46 pm

I had 7 “WINS”, a big star by my screen name, a handsome, discernable, avatar, and TruckNutz in my mouth. Then the screen went blank and so did I.

[I'm hoping this post will be excreted to the ether like the last 4.]

qaf April 27, 2009 at 6:47 pm

I tried following up the Borgen post a couple hours ago by reading the linked post that was supposedly overrun with Borgians. What I got was the regular post (hey, Josh!) but no comments and no link to them, and the regular comment input box at the bottom. I didn’t know if this was normal, but it was sure weird.

Servo April 27, 2009 at 6:47 pm

Apparently, Wonkette has been “McCained”.

chascates April 27, 2009 at 6:49 pm

Outsourced your tech support to Mexico, eh?

Min April 27, 2009 at 6:50 pm

I refuse to disclose whether I am now, or have ever been, a poster on this website.

Lord Growing April 27, 2009 at 6:50 pm

Too much Leonard Cohen alt-text. My browser shot itself.

Crow T. Robot April 27, 2009 at 6:51 pm

I have no idea if I couldn’t comment before, but I can now.

slappypaddy April 27, 2009 at 6:54 pm

[re=301091]Bearbloke[/re]: you should be at least 81 to watch that… oh god, my eyes, MY EYES!

WagTehGod April 27, 2009 at 6:57 pm

I don’t know if I can comment here or not, but I can comment on the post that WON THE DAY.

http://www.dailypaul.com/node/91093

Numbat Dundee April 27, 2009 at 6:59 pm

Being Australian,I slept through the whole thing. That’s te problem with timezones – we wake up to discover that you lot have painted the world purple on a drunken binge, or elected another Bush and there’s nothing we can do (except wrestle a crocodile or find a compliant sheep).

WIDTAP April 27, 2009 at 7:00 pm

I was “looking” at a picture of Jim and suddenly went stereoblind.

Beef Supreme April 27, 2009 at 7:00 pm

I’m not really much of techno-whiz when it comes to ‘puters, but my guess would be that somethin’ got shitted up big time. When’s the last time you changed the timin’ belt? Do you have any mexican servers? Could be that swine flu virus?

Bearbloke April 27, 2009 at 7:03 pm

[re=301109]slappypaddy[/re]: …and the take-away lesson here is: DON’T EVER DATE MICHELLE BACHMANN!!!

snideinplainsight April 27, 2009 at 7:05 pm

So I updated to IE 7, then proxied my bookmarks, then I updated my registry, see? Then I went in and manually overwrote my IIRC DLL, then I got a rootkit and hacked the stupid Adobe update wedge, right? You with me still? Then I removed the component for the IIS and forged the root certificate for that. Then, then, then I gotta, I forget, pulled a backup, I had a symantic endpoint for the security client, I reset the permissions for that, but then you gotta make that the default across all users, then,…

Ah, FRAK it. You had me at ‘beer’ -

WIDTAP April 27, 2009 at 7:05 pm

[re=301109]slappypaddy[/re]: Definitely a Republican video. Insanely stupid AND up the ass.

V572625694 April 27, 2009 at 7:06 pm

Dinga-dinga dee!

chascates April 27, 2009 at 7:06 pm

[re=301110]WagTehGod[/re]: If there’s ever a http://www.dailymichelebachmann.com I’m going to just walk into a Mexican pig farm and embrace death.

CrunchyKnee April 27, 2009 at 7:13 pm

I couldn’t comment, but then I found an empty box of Rings Dings and 2-Liter bottles of Pepsi and a crumpled up note reading “K-Lo was here.”

Wet Work April 27, 2009 at 7:17 pm

I can comment, but it never posts as funny as I write it – are you censoring out my funniez?

dementor April 27, 2009 at 7:34 pm

I couldn’t post before because I was employed. Sorry, I won’t let that happen again. But I know a new avatar when I see one. Thanks SKS!

sati demise April 27, 2009 at 7:34 pm

Its that Cornfuker worm or sum such in teh tubes.

american mutt April 27, 2009 at 7:43 pm

BORING WONKETTE DAY

hobospacejunkie April 27, 2009 at 7:45 pm

I DON THING YOU GUYZ AR HALPIN KIN LANE

Mustang April 27, 2009 at 7:52 pm

The Wonkette shuts me down at least twice a day and I have to reboot but it’s worth it to not have to deal with the insanity of my workplace. Save me.

Mustang April 27, 2009 at 7:56 pm

[re=301146]hobospacejunkie[/re]: but that’s just how they are

CivicHoliday April 27, 2009 at 8:02 pm

hmm, had just assumed that the “-about” section was for platinum members only. (being bronze at best, didn’t want to push it…)

TJBeck April 27, 2009 at 8:07 pm

I can’t comment, also.

termite April 27, 2009 at 8:15 pm

Comment? Iz that some librul ting? Fuck libruls! Go USA!

Naked Bunny with a Whip April 27, 2009 at 8:28 pm

I couldn’t post because I’m a dumb, illiterate rabbit, derrr.

Servo April 27, 2009 at 8:33 pm

[re=301164]Naked Bunny with a Whip[/re]:
Big Wig will fix yer bunny ass!

ALIVE! April 27, 2009 at 8:35 pm

[re=301146]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Do you think Ken really expected constructive comments here? Try to imagine it:

Ken: “OK everyone, that was funny. But seriously this time, please post only details of your technical problems so we can fix them.”

Everyone: BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

Come here a minute April 27, 2009 at 8:36 pm

FAILed, it must be REDSTATErs. Hah, as if!

DustBowlBlues April 27, 2009 at 8:40 pm

[re=301122]chascates[/re]: I didn’t go to the michelebatcrazy site because I’m laughing so hard at “walk into a Mexican farm and embrace death.”

Oh, the wonkeratti truly are the nation’s finest minds.

Oh, what were we talking about? Oh, comments. I don’t really understand the internets but I know that when I don’t have a reply function, I don’t comment that I can’t comment because there is no reply function. But that never seems to stop the rest of you, which is why I don’t understand the internets.

bago April 27, 2009 at 8:43 pm

John McCain is advertising on a website that shows three McCain heads licking themselves.

windupbird April 27, 2009 at 8:44 pm

Sometimes I can’t comment even though I appear to be logged in. I just wind up at the user account/edit profile thing, and the only options I have are to return to Wonkette (can’t comment when I do) or to log out.

Lionel Hutz Esq. April 27, 2009 at 8:48 pm

I was busy in my garden. If tech support can help me with my weeding, feel free to send them over.

Servo April 27, 2009 at 8:49 pm

[re=301164]Naked Bunny with a Whip[/re]:
…or General Woundwort.

chascates April 27, 2009 at 8:49 pm

At least Barry’s attempted strafing of Lady Liberty knocked all the MEXICAN DEATH PLAGUE heads off of Drudge’s site and replaced them with:

“WHITE HOUSE CAUSES TERROR SCARE IN NYC…
WAS UPDATING FILE PHOTO OF AIR FORCE ONE…
Buildings evacuated in panic…
New Yorkers Run Through Streets…
Put City on Edge…
‘We thought we were under attack again’…
Bloomberg Ballistic…
Photo op nightmare…
Video…”

Sounds as bad as 9/11 or the last Godzilla attack.

ihasasad April 27, 2009 at 8:50 pm

I was able to comment when i was at my computer and then, for some reason, when I went to grandma’s for spaghetti I couldn’t comment but when i got back to my computer i was able to comment. what do you think was the matter? give it to me straight tech support, I can take it. OOOOooooo! That sounded like I was talking about butsecks!

wheelie April 27, 2009 at 8:51 pm

[re=301180]windupbird[/re]: Hey, what do you think this is, some freakin tech support thread?

Uncle Bubba April 27, 2009 at 8:53 pm

No comment.

Uncle Bubba April 27, 2009 at 8:54 pm

Please send me five dollars.

Custerwolf April 27, 2009 at 8:59 pm

[re=301190]ihasasad[/re]: Spaghetti, eh? Login filters out impastas.

DustBowlBlues April 27, 2009 at 9:03 pm

[re=301083]Servo[/re]: Okay, now I totally don’t understand the internets. Oh, I get it–you’re talking about Wonkabout. Okay, now I can’t help at all.

Bruno April 27, 2009 at 9:05 pm

[re=301077]BillyClubb[/re]: Wonkette’s HQ has marble floors and oak paneling. Plus everyone must wear a smoking jacket. This ain’t no state-school blog.

thebaker April 27, 2009 at 9:06 pm

i see a painted rachel. is there something wrong with my graphics?

Custerwolf April 27, 2009 at 9:06 pm

[re=301200]DustBowlBlues[/re]: Me neither.

Bruno April 27, 2009 at 9:07 pm

[re=301081]Mr Blifil[/re]: “submitted under the influence of a pharmacological/alcoholical soup whose doses are difficult to titrate”

It’s contageous. That happened to me too, damn you pig flu!

jaba the slut April 27, 2009 at 9:08 pm

Post. Post. 1 2 3……
Well, it hurts when I bend my elbow, and this rash thing doesn’t seem to be going away.
HELP ME MR TECH SUPPORT. THE TRUCKNUTZ! THEY BURN!!!!!!!

NYNYNY April 27, 2009 at 9:09 pm

Did anyone notice that after that plane flew over Manhattan today one of the Twin Towers reappeared?

Bruno April 27, 2009 at 9:13 pm

The Confluence will be bragging about how they HaX0red the daily swine

Cranky Old Batt April 27, 2009 at 9:15 pm

Dear tech support:
This will be no help at all but
I think it was last week I kept trying to log in and after putting in my user name and password, I was still at the login screen. No error or anything.
So I tried again. And again. And around and around it went,
like a ‘how do you drive a stupid person crazy?’ joke.
I got dizzy.
So I went and did some – eh – werk for a few days and then everything was fine.

Also, I like nerds. What are you wearing?

Kev-O-Tron April 27, 2009 at 9:19 pm

My avatar didn’t like that post about K-Lo and teh pr0n so it deleted itself.

Kev-O-Tron April 27, 2009 at 9:24 pm

[re=301172]ALIVE![/re]: The best suggestion I can offer is to turn the website off and on again. Try blowing in it a la Nintendo from the eighties.

engulfedinflames April 27, 2009 at 9:25 pm

i don’t understand.

Bearbloke April 27, 2009 at 9:29 pm

[re=301188]chascates[/re]: Anybody checked the MEXICAN DEATH PLAGUE map recently?… It seems that North Carolina, Scotland and New Zealand have fallen into brain-eating-zombie pandemonium…… ummmm, Trucknutz!

Mahousu April 27, 2009 at 9:29 pm

[re=301098]qaf[/re]: All of that was perfectly normal; what was not normal was that the Comics Curmudgeon post was signed by Alex Pareene, whoever he is.

But yes, the problem source is clearly the Borgen Project. Little known fact: number 7 on the list of Millennium Goals is “The End of Wonkette. Plus Late Night Shots, if we can swing it.” They got close on this one – well, at least closer than they’ve gotten on any of the other Goals.

Of course, an estimated $19 billion could change all that.

RabidHamster April 27, 2009 at 9:35 pm

Let’s all go snurging. Oh fuck — are comments working again?

facehead April 27, 2009 at 9:42 pm

WONKAGEDDON IS NIGH!!!!!!!!!!

Bearbloke April 27, 2009 at 9:52 pm
wheelie April 27, 2009 at 9:57 pm

If you still cannot comment, I suggest you say prayers to Jeebus via twitter, as recommended by a high-ranking Irish Catholic priest today. It may not work, but you know, sometimes God’s greatest gifts are unanswered tweets.

chascates April 27, 2009 at 10:01 pm

[re=301238]wheelie[/re]: Does God have a Facebook page now?

ihasasad April 27, 2009 at 10:05 pm

[re=301198]Custerwolf[/re]: you’re so saucy

Bearbloke April 27, 2009 at 10:11 pm

[re=301232]facehead[/re]: Oh yeah, and Michigan has fallen to the zombies, too. Maybe they’ll help the Lions build a decent team next season…

WadISay April 27, 2009 at 10:18 pm

Did you try having your tech support remove their body piercings? I am now again receiving my instruction from Uranus.

shortsshortsshorts April 27, 2009 at 10:20 pm

Maybe Wonkabout is sick with BARRY IMPLEMENTED SWINE FLU.

Oh fuck today has sucked. HELLO EVERYONE! Sorry that I have not been able to engage in these strange musings. More at 11…

Things that don’t work right now:
1. Stock Market.
2. Chinese drywall.
3. Teabagging.
4. My passenger side window.
5. Orange multi-purpose cleaner.
6. Wonkabout.
7. Ford Motor Cars.

MGBYG April 27, 2009 at 10:23 pm

There is a delay after signing in and a 50/50 shot of going back to where I have to hit sign-in, again.

I know my e-mail addy ends in cox.net, I have no choice in the matter, but that shouldn’t cause said issue.

Bearbloke: When Ford’s sales are ahead of Toyota’s, the Lions will win another game.

DustBowlBlues April 27, 2009 at 10:29 pm

[re=301143]american mutt[/re]: It’s never a boring wonkette day, just boring news. I feared it would be like this forever when Hopey won and we lived in unicorn land. But the Republicans keep things lively but even they run out of retarded things to say once in a while. Given them a day or two.

Custerwolf April 27, 2009 at 10:29 pm

Wow. Would you look at that. My wolfie has magically blossomed into a Lotus Flower. Something strange is afoot….

chascates April 27, 2009 at 10:30 pm

[re=301253]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Wonkabout is up and taking comments. Did you check or was it one of your many staff members who told yo that?

shortsshortsshorts April 27, 2009 at 10:33 pm

[re=301260]chascates[/re]: Hahaha my “staff members” are too high on “drugs” to do anything like fakt checking. You pretty much are one anyway, SO HOW IS YOUR LSD DOING?

Low overhang April 27, 2009 at 10:35 pm

well it works for me
if I can read this after submitting….. that feels kinda tingly
I like bacon, will I gets teh porky flu now also

chascates April 27, 2009 at 10:38 pm

[re=301261]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: No LSD in many years, though not for lack of desire. No ganja, only for lack of cash and initiative. I did buy a great bottle of Pernod this weekend and made pastis (1 Pernot to 5 water). Currently working through a cheap cab sav and hoping for a Michele Bachmann episode in the next few days.
She’s got to have something to say about this porky sickness.

chascates April 27, 2009 at 10:49 pm

And in case anyone has missed hearing about there is a major cultural and journalistic event coming up on CNN:

“Rock star Bono interviews George Clooney for a Time 100/Anderson Cooper 360 special airing May 1 at 11:00 p.m. ET.”

Let’s see Meghan McCain top THAT!

facehead April 27, 2009 at 10:52 pm

I just found this through the email account I never use so it is important and omg I won:

http://blingee.com/badge/view/541/user/13824685

AxmxZ April 27, 2009 at 10:57 pm

I couldn’t comment because Wonkette stopped acknowleding my existence, no matter how many times I tried to log out and back in again. Now I know how inner gay children feel at Republican conventions.

Custerwolf April 27, 2009 at 10:57 pm

[re=301272]facehead[/re]: Well deserved, my friend, well deserved.

102415 April 27, 2009 at 10:58 pm

I have never been able to get into wonkabout. It wants me to log in again and I have never been able to edit or change my password which since the Great Migration continues to be about 27 mysterious characters long. If I get logged out I have to ask for a temp password to get back in. I would love to go back to my old itty bitty password but IT is busy with porn and youtube. I can however change my avatar anytime I want. Weird.

Blender April 27, 2009 at 11:00 pm

[re=301174]DustBowlBlues[/re]: the nation’s finest minds, on (or maybe off) the nation’s finest meds. manamana.

SayItWithWookies April 27, 2009 at 11:03 pm

Okay, I still can’t comment on Wonkabout, but there’s the way I jimmy it so the comments work: Go to a Wonkabout article, then in the url text box (the one that has the whole address and where you type in a website’s address etc.) and change the URL so instead of saying http://wonkabout (then the dot-com-slash-article-name) it says http://wonkette (dot-com etc. etc.) This page suddenly recongnizes my cookie and lets me comment.

I think this whole thing could be fixed if you could get your server to touch the hem of one of President Obama’s garments.

Custerwolf April 27, 2009 at 11:05 pm

Soooo…where’s the story, “Clearasil killer loses zit.”

Bearbloke April 27, 2009 at 11:14 pm

[re=301263]Low overhang[/re]: That’s not quite how it works… check this out:
http://thumpandwhip.com/2009/04/27/swine-flu-mini-tutorial/

RobPetrified April 27, 2009 at 11:49 pm

First they came for the intelligent people, and I said nothing because I’m not that intelligent.
Then they came for the clever people, and I said nothing because I’m not that clever.
Then they came for the snarky people, and I said Fuck you, assholes, I voted for Ron Paul.
And they shot me in the knee.

PAbitter April 27, 2009 at 11:49 pm

I had the best comment in the motherf$%ing world, Ken. It’s a long story, but it involves a shiny demon. He threatened to eat my soul and so I said the first thing that came to my head. Just so happened to be the greatest comment in the world.

tootsieroll April 28, 2009 at 12:12 am

I haven’t tried to comment because I just got back from Costco, and fighting over 10 lb bags of rice and cases of ramen noodles.

Monsieur Grumpe April 28, 2009 at 12:14 am

I when I saw your commenter problem I thought I’d send Wonkette my Amiga 1000 because it always works. I only used it for playing strip poker anyway. It didn’t fit in the box so I had to use a hack saw and a hammer to get it to fit. Your Welcome! The postage should be about $13.26.

jaba the slut April 28, 2009 at 12:22 am

Color me tard, but I believe that some day my chocolate bar will have a Golden Ticket, then I’ll have a chance to visit the Wily Wonkabout Comment Factory.

shortsshortsshorts April 28, 2009 at 12:23 am

[re=301283]RobPetrified[/re]: If it had anything to do with you voting for Ron Paul, can you blame them?

zoink April 28, 2009 at 1:09 am

[re=301251]WadISay[/re]: WIN

trondant April 28, 2009 at 2:21 am

[re=301260]chascates[/re]: He only has one “staff member” and it is currently deep inside a sheep.

SeminoleInDior April 28, 2009 at 4:13 am

The Wonkette interwebs were clogged from a lack of buttsecks. I’ve come to rectify the situation.

Lionel Hutz Esq. April 28, 2009 at 4:45 am

To help the Wonkette Masters: The only truthful comments are those that start “I was masturbating….” I mean, you did read K-Lo’s screed, right?

Gunner April 28, 2009 at 8:39 am

Hey, wow! Now I can comment, when I haven’t been able to do so since before Wonkette became independent or whatever. Of course, not being able to comment meant I spent less time reading comments and thinking of what witty thing I might say, so maybe I was better off before. Curse you Wonkette!

RobPetrified April 28, 2009 at 12:49 pm

I kans comment hear, but I’m not allowed to post my brilliant, witty bon mot about Specters defection.
And I only voted for Ron Paul in the primary to mess with the Republicans.
In the general election, I voted for the human.

nosnikreplliw April 28, 2009 at 5:13 pm

why can’t your lame website open links in a new tab like every other lame website on teh internets? huh?

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