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el duderino's avatar

Timer had a pretty serious drug problem

https://youtu.be/uJ0kITB5mw0

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eggs ackly-wright's avatar

where the fuck is the open thread?

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Quercus's avatar

Just testing to see if I’ve got this figured out. Please ignore this interruption.

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Strangething's avatar

Is anyone on Wonkette doing the mastodon thing?

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RACH's avatar

Sis I just signed up for a monthly. Using that extra dollar an hour here in MT to do good. p.s. what's rent like in Detroit for a small apartment?

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emily nunn's avatar

What took you so long my god

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EyeQueue's avatar

I just showed all of these PSAs to my partner (who is younger than I am) and he marveled that we actually had such PSAs to teach children about their health.

Apparently, when he was growing up, it was just all commercial programming and none of this. :(

I have fond memories of Timer and the "hunk o' cheese" and the little popsickles my mom would help me make with the ice cube trays and toothpicks.

We watched the entire reel of these last night on YouTube.

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mondojohnson's avatar

OMG the ice cube tray thing! We had some good TV back in the day. This, Schoolhouse Rock, etc.... Timer, if I recall correctly, was originally a character in an Afterschool Special™ -- he was the tour guide for a "Fantastic Voyage"-style tour of the human body. (I may have hallucinated all of that.... does anyone else remember this?)

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Goin Green's avatar

But, if we want a plain cheese sandwich, it's OK, right? I like plain cheese sandwiches.

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Regret's avatar

I second this. If the bread and cheese are of good enough quality, then you don't need much else.

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EyeQueue's avatar

Were the "wagon wheels" with bread or crackers? I think Timer calls them "crackers," but it really looks like round bread in the video.

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Ray Bluth's avatar

I miss Discus. Am I in the minority? There were always a lot of complaints about Discus.

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ICC's avatar

It's different. Let's give it a chance and remember to go over to chat.

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Paulomatic's avatar

I predicted on the first day here that more and more people would be missing Disqus.

Substacks sucks, and is unlikely to get any better. I know why we moved, but it is sad.

Wonkette is less than it was.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

I honestly do not see much difference other than the lack of pics

But I didn't do all the things other people did with embeds and formatting and what not

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Fog of Jen's avatar

edit:except for the "New Comment button"

I do miss that

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Goin Green's avatar

The devil you know...

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Dirty-Work's avatar

Plain cheese grilled with a slice of tomato and pepper works.

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Stuart's avatar

Do you no longer encourage users to click through Wonkette en route to Amazon.com? I'm always glad to help, but I'm not seeing the link any more.

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Rebecca Schoenkopf's avatar

we've been forgetting to put it at the end of posts because we don't have a fast code for it anymore! Ima get Shy to link it over on the side of the homepage.

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Khavrinen's avatar

That's what I came to ask, too. Maybe an answer could be added to the "How to" post?

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Rebecca Schoenkopf's avatar

we've been forgetting to put it at the end of posts because we don't have a fast code for it anymore! Ima get Shy to link it over on the side of the homepage.

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Blinky's avatar

Is this the place to meta?

If so: I think when an article has its own chat room, the chat room link could be pinned in the comments. Then you get a full circle of navigational goodness.

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SunMoonStars's avatar

Ok I made it and you are here. Now I'll wait for someone to reply to see how that works. Where do I see the replies so that I can respond to a response to my posts?

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hillary's left one's avatar

just checking to see if I did everything right in the switchover. I may have had two accounts before, based on thank-you notes received from Our Editrix having been received in two different email accounts over the years.

I think, just one subscription for now, under this name...so goodbye for now, uptown brothers

now will this post?

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Mx.le Maerin's Luxury Comedy's avatar

Ha we have to be just as nice in our non-comments as ever we were, because half of us have new names here and some also have new icons (like me, I just noticed, where is my Stefon?) so WE DON'T KNOW if you're new or not! Hi thanks for joining give Wonkette a little cash you won't regret it I'm pretty sure!

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blueicebank's avatar

Same name here and icon (I had to dig into the weeds to find it).

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