All Hail idiotic!
I would like to publicly thank the poster known as idiotic, whoever he/she/it really is, for a most valuable contribution to this primary season.
idiotic's EXCELLENT NEWS!!! has been the longest running joke I've ever experienced. The sparse economy and bold (I'm tempted to say capital) style of idiotic's humor has never failed to amuse. A work of comedic genius, idiotic's surgical strikes have not missed the mark once.
Imitators could not hold a candle to idiotic. Their posts never had the flair and razor sharp with of genuine idiotic. However, the EXCELLENT wave (dubbed the 'idiotic wave' by some) has taken idiotic's creation to the next level and provided a wonderful platform for teamwork and community building.
Thank you, idiotic. We are now eagerly awaiting EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR MCCAIN!!!
idiotic's EXCELLENT NEWS!!! has been the longest running joke I've ever experienced. The sparse economy and bold (I'm tempted to say capital) style of idiotic's humor has never failed to amuse. A work of comedic genius, idiotic's surgical strikes have not missed the mark once.
Imitators could not hold a candle to idiotic. Their posts never had the flair and razor sharp with of genuine idiotic. However, the EXCELLENT wave (dubbed the 'idiotic wave' by some) has taken idiotic's creation to the next level and provided a wonderful platform for teamwork and community building.
Thank you, idiotic. We are now eagerly awaiting EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR MCCAIN!!!
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Seconded. Idiotic provides some much-needed levity in here - and throughout the web, really. Keep it up!
June 5, 2008 5:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, I'm going to have to disagree with the idea that there should be levity "throughout the web". After all, the internet is serious business.
June 5, 2008 5:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Agreed...I don't think I laughed at four words so many times in my life. He will be sorely missed.
June 5, 2008 5:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
What do you mean, missed? Has idiotic been abducted by aliens or something? I don't think idiotic's work is done - not this election season, and maybe not ever.
June 5, 2008 5:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Agreed! Idiotic only has to switch one word, after all, and go on for the next six months!!
June 5, 2008 7:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
you could find him here...
http://excellentnewsforhillary.blogspot.com/
June 5, 2008 7:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now that's a sense of humor that I like!!
June 5, 2008 7:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is there a kind you don't like? ;)
June 5, 2008 11:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
True, so true.
June 5, 2008 11:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, the kind that thinks cruelty is funny.
June 6, 2008 12:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
So many things we will never know, like who was cscs?
June 5, 2008 8:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
The inception of the TIENFH wave was a beautiful thing.
June 5, 2008 8:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
We love you so, idiotic!
June 5, 2008 9:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
THAT'S
June 5, 2008 10:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
AMORE!!
June 5, 2008 10:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR idiotic!!!
!!!idioticmentum™!!!!
seriously, thanks for the tip of the hat.
June 5, 2008 10:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
The greatest one is the one who brings the comedy. Thanks for bringing us the funny, idiotic!
June 5, 2008 10:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Your brilliance shines through. It is like a great scientific theory - Elegant in its simplicity. :)
June 5, 2008 11:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Love your blog! My favorite:
What might otherwise be labeled as codependence IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR HILLARY!!!
June 6, 2008 2:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Agreed. And the fact that we managed to successfully turn it into a wave so many times makes me irrationally happy.
June 5, 2008 10:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
I like the waves too. Fun.
June 5, 2008 11:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
THIS
June 6, 2008 12:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
IS
June 6, 2008 12:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
EXCELLENT
June 6, 2008 12:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
NEWS!!
June 6, 2008 1:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
FOR
June 6, 2008 12:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
THE WEB!!!!
June 6, 2008 2:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
NEWS
June 6, 2008 2:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
FOR IDIOTIC!!
Idiotic is truly a cultural icon - so much more than a one-hit wonder, he/she/it has captured the mood, and the hearts, of a generation.
LONG LIVE IDIOTIC!
June 6, 2008 2:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
IDIOCITY - wasn't that the Police album with King of Pain?
June 6, 2008 4:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
That's EXCELLENT NEWS for STING!
June 6, 2008 10:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
idiotic - living proof that less is sometimes indeed more. Much, much more.
June 6, 2008 10:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ever notice how idiotic is just like Obama? Cool, collected, never up, never down, and an EXCELLENT speech-maker.
codegen86, your handle reminds me of a group research project I worked on in the late 70s and early 80s, in one of my numerous life phases. A gigantic compiler writer system, much better than the primitive yacc-lexx of the time.
We built an integrated LALR(1) parser-generator (PARGEN) that facilitated semantics, both in the grammar or in the parser, and an extractor to remove the grammar with its semantics from the parser in the form of a grammar to input into PARGEN. That allowed for iterative enhancement, the buzz word of the day.
As well we had an integrated code generator CODEGEN that accepted as intermediate language the output of PARGEN and that also had the extraction capability -- we could extract the code generator specification with its associate semantics (that produced the appropriate machine language), modify it, and input it iteratively into CODEGEN. The whole thing was written in Ada, the only general purpose language with encapsulation capabilities at the time.
We had fun, both creating and extracting grant numerous dollars from NASA. We even used our product, or a contractor firm did, to redo HALMAT for the space shuttle. Now of course you kids have it easy. No punched cards, no non-existent IDE, no add/delete/modify editors, no central printers (for an entire research center) that functioned with couriers, no graphic terminals (much less microcomputers) , and not even any coding sheets.
I assume your 86 points to code generated for Intel's family. Mine would point to age.
June 6, 2008 11:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yup, the 86 in my nick is neither my age nor the year of my birth, it refers to the x86 family of processors. I'm not an expert by any means but I've done a fair amount of maintenance work on an x86 compiler, both the front end (C language) and the back end (code generator aka codegen or just cg).
I don't think many people know what 'codegen86' might stand for :)
June 6, 2008 11:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
Some things are best left unmentioned.
June 6, 2008 12:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, at least it's not anything embarrassing.
I think.
June 6, 2008 1:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
funny, I was just thinking of "idiotic" when I saw the post about Clinton being 30 million in debt, and then I saw this one ... :-)
June 6, 2008 12:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
All hail idiotic! Perhaps one of the best things this clusterf@ck of a primary has brought us.
June 6, 2008 2:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
What's amazing is that it never got old - even with many of us repeatedly bastardizing it.
iodiotic you are pro.
June 6, 2008 2:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Idiotic, you never failed to make me laugh, and it would cheer me up whenever I was down and randomly opened a blog to see your famed phrase. Thank you, sincerely. You own, man.
June 6, 2008 2:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Idiotic, I don't have much to say. But didn't want you to think I was snubbing this thread!
All Hail!!!
June 6, 2008 2:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hear, hear... one of my favorite bits of TPM.
I also like the idiotic blog in its entirety.
June 6, 2008 2:58 PM | Reply | Permalink