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~~== [[Auto-antonym]]s ==~~

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text= Thanks for your inordinate contribution to answering my query; it was quite helpful and intellectually stimulating. '''[[User:DRosenbach|DRosenbach]]''' ([[User_talk:DRosenbach|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/DRosenbach|Contribs]]) 13:05, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

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~~== Seriously... I don't get it. ==~~

~~The headline says it all. What has Wknight94 got to do with the Mets?--[[User:Johnny Spasm|Johnny Spasm]] ([[User talk:Johnny Spasm|talk]]) 23:55, 25 January 2010 (UTC)~~

:Well, I'll give ya a hint... His signature would probably also work if he was a fan of the [[Fighting Illini]] and/or the [[Chicago Bears]]. :) ←[[User:Baseball Bugs|Baseball Bugs]] ''[[User talk:Baseball Bugs|What's up, Doc?]]'' [[Special:Contributions/Baseball_Bugs|carrots]]→ 00:14, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Florida Gators too. I didn't realize he was talking about the colors; I was trying to figure out what the hell "Wknight94" had to do with the Mets.--[[User:Johnny Spasm|Johnny Spasm]] ([[User talk:Johnny Spasm|talk]]) 00:24, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

:I'll admit he was a little vague about that. But now that you know, you could change your drab, boring signature likewise, if you were so inclined. :) ←[[User:Baseball Bugs|Baseball Bugs]] ''[[User talk:Baseball Bugs|What's up, Doc?]]'' [[Special:Contributions/Baseball_Bugs|carrots]]→ 00:30, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

::In self-defense, I ''did'' say "signature", not "username". [[User:Wknight94|Wknight94]] [[User talk:Wknight94|talk]] 01:42, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

:::AHA! Beware of inspiring ideas. >:) ←[[User:Baseball Bugs|Baseball Bugs]] [[User talk:Baseball Bugs|''What's up, Doc?'']] [[Special:Contributions/Baseball Bugs|'''carrots''']]→ 02:23, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

~~== User:StevenMario ==~~

Greetings ... I was looking through [[WP:AAU|the list of potential adoptees]] when I encountered this [[User talk:StevenMario|user's entry]]. I read through the talk page and the number of blocks, but all that said I concur that the user could use some supervision at least for a while. I'd be willing to offer my services and adopt the user, but I wanted to get your opinion first before I left the offer on the talk page. Thanks. --[[User:McDoobAU93|McDoobAU93]] ([[User talk:McDoobAU93|talk]]) 19:14, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

:For a hot second I thought you were going to ask ''me'' to adopt. I wouldn't be much of a mentor. My concern in his case is his "I'll think about it" response to my comment that he needs to provide sources, which suggests he doesn't grasp the issue. So he's going to be a challenge. I also don't know anything about your own history here. But if you're level-headed and willing to help, I don't see why not. ←[[User:Baseball Bugs|Baseball Bugs]] ''[[User talk:Baseball Bugs|What's up, Doc?]]'' [[Special:Contributions/Baseball_Bugs|carrots]]→ 19:40, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

::Brief synopsis ... over 3 years editing. Started out with similar edits (fanboy-like, no citations). Have gotten into a few edit wars over the years. Never been blocked. Developed into someone who prefers to find viable sources for the material, but also takes a no-nonsense approach to vandalism and broken promises. Do consider myself "level-headed" and up for a challenge, if someone is truly willing to learn and improve. --[[User:McDoobAU93|McDoobAU93]] ([[User talk:McDoobAU93|talk]]) 19:56, 26 January 2010 (UTC) (PS Yes, on second read-through, I can see how you read it that way.)

:::Gopher it. What could it hurt? The worst he can do is either (1) say no; or (2) not pay attention to you. ←[[User:Baseball Bugs|Baseball Bugs]] ''[[User talk:Baseball Bugs|What's up, Doc?]]'' [[Special:Contributions/Baseball_Bugs|carrots]]→ 06:23, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

~~== League Park ==~~

Your mention of [[League Park]] pointed me to [[House of David (commune)|House of David]]. I'm not sure which is funnier — [[Satchel Paige]] in a fake beard or the founder being celibate, except for those thirteen girls. [[User:PhGustaf|PhGustaf]] ([[User talk:PhGustaf|talk]]) 19:55, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

:It's safe to say Ol' Satch was not celibate. As for the group's founder... well, King David had many wives too, right? So its founder was just doing his religious duty. Until they caught him at it. Here's a metaphorically related clip on the latter subject, starting at about the 3:30 mark:[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nxp07vM_r0&feature=related] ←[[User:Baseball Bugs|Baseball Bugs]] ''[[User talk:Baseball Bugs|What's up, Doc?]]'' [[Special:Contributions/Baseball_Bugs|carrots]]→ 20:03, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

::A little more clicking finds the 1932 [[Pittsburgh_Crawfords]]. What a team. It was run by a crook, of course, but a far lesser crook than, say, [[Charles Comiskey]]. [[User:PhGustaf|PhGustaf]] ([[User talk:PhGustaf|talk]])

:::That article and the one about Greenlee himself tell me at least 2 things: (1) It's likely a reasonable picture of the kind of organization the Negro Leagues were, and why it's hard to take the leagues (though not the good players) very seriously; and (2) If a white equivalent to Greenlee, perhaps Bugsy Moran or Al Capone, had bought the Cubs instead of William Wrigley, history might have turned out differently. ←[[User:Baseball Bugs|Baseball Bugs]] ''[[User talk:Baseball Bugs|What's up, Doc?]]'' [[Special:Contributions/Baseball_Bugs|carrots]]→ 06:34, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

~~::::They might have won a World Series or two. [[User:PhGustaf|PhGustaf]] ([[User talk:PhGustaf|talk]]) 07:29, 27 January 2010 (UTC)~~

:::::Even just one would have been good. Can't get too greedy. I'm suddenly reminded of a National Lampoon (I wonder what I ever did with them) in which they speculated in a satirical way, what might have happened had JFK not been killed and instead served out his term and then stuck around D.C. The one thing I remember is that with all the Kennedy money available, JFK invested in the Washington Senators, acquiring all the top players of that era and turning the Senators into a perpetual champion, supplanting the Yankees. Money doesn't guarantee success, but it improves the odds. Although the Cubs' World Series losing ways defied all attempts at investments since 1908, and since 1945 they can't even buy a pennant. We'll see how this new owner goes about doing things. ←[[User:Baseball Bugs|Baseball Bugs]] ''[[User talk:Baseball Bugs|What's up, Doc?]]'' [[Special:Contributions/Baseball_Bugs|carrots]]→ 08:02, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

::::::Somewhere around here I have the National Lampoon Sunday newspaper parody. It's a stew of cross-references to their earlier yearbook parody, and doesn't fail to discuss Faun Laurel Rosenberg's several husbands. Too bad they stopped being funny. [[User:PhGustaf|PhGustaf]] ([[User talk:PhGustaf|talk]]) 01:00, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

:::::::Yeh, I have both the newspaper parody and the yearbook parody somewhere. Classic. There's a joke in the yearbook parody that I still like to quote, from their parody-within-a-parody excerpt from an ersatz U.S. History book. Something about how George Washington wore wooden false teeth (true) which "he had whittled from cherrywood after his father punched his teeth out", which probably has the same truth value as the "real" story. NatLamp once ran a ''Mad'' parody with Alfred saying, "What? Me funny?" But guess which publication is still in business. ''Mad'' may be as subtle and refined as the Three Stooges, but it's been a model of consistency over the decades. ←[[User:Baseball Bugs|Baseball Bugs]] ''[[User talk:Baseball Bugs|What's up, Doc?]]'' [[Special:Contributions/Baseball_Bugs|carrots]]→ 01:17, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

::::::::The newspaper parody was frighteningly close to the truth for the paper from the city I lived in at the time. One thing I recall is a report that some guy's house, listing the street address of course, had been burglarized twice but that they had missed some valuables, and of course reported exactly what and where those valuables were in the house. Then there were the filler blurbs on a couple of separate pages, one saying the earth is warming up, the other that it's cooling down. Now I'm going to have to go looking for those issues. ←[[User:Baseball Bugs|Baseball Bugs]] ''[[User talk:Baseball Bugs|What's up, Doc?]]'' [[Special:Contributions/Baseball_Bugs|carrots]]→ 01:22, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

:::::::::I think there were a couple or three characters from the yearbook that found their way into ''Animal House''. Like Amanda "Fridge"-something. ←[[User:Baseball Bugs|Baseball Bugs]] ''[[User talk:Baseball Bugs|What's up, Doc?]]'' [[Special:Contributions/Baseball_Bugs|carrots]]→ 01:24, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

::::::::::Amanda "Fridge" Pepperidge. And the parody yearbook was the property of Larry Kroeger, who was an innocent bystander in the movie. [[User:PhGustaf|PhGustaf]] ([[User talk:PhGustaf|talk]]) 01:37, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

:::::::::::Yes, Larry, who is apparently the alter ego of Doug Kenney or one of the other writers. I think there was also an Emily May "Preggers" Praeger, whose name (without the "Preggers") appears somewhere in the film credits also. Either she was fictitious, or was a real member of the staff whose name they used in the yearbook and the film. ←[[User:Baseball Bugs|Baseball Bugs]] ''[[User talk:Baseball Bugs|What's up, Doc?]]'' [[Special:Contributions/Baseball_Bugs|carrots]]→ 01:57, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

~~{{od}}~~

[[Emily Prager]] has her own wikipedia page. She's written for SNL and has novels to her credit. Quite a few NatLamp staff appeared in the Yearbook, in drag sometimes. Laura Singer was majorly hot back then; no idea what happened to her. [[User:PhGustaf|PhGustaf]] ([[User talk:PhGustaf|talk]]) 08:59, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

~~== Re:[[The Big Snooze]] ==~~

~~{{Tb|Fastily}}~~

-'''[[User:Fastily|<big>F</big>ASTILY]]''' [[User talk:Fastily|(TALK)]] 01:50, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

~~== Accusations of sock puppetry ==~~

I have just discovered that you have accused me of sock puppetry during my block (well, during what I thought was my block period, actually it was much shorter). Retract your unfounded accusations of sock puppetry. --[[User:Belchman|Belchman]] ([[User talk:Belchman|talk]]) 04:01, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

~~:Where was that? ←[[User:Baseball Bugs|Baseball Bugs]] ''[[User talk:Baseball Bugs|What's up, Doc?]]'' [[Special:Contributions/Baseball_Bugs|carrots]]→ 04:07, 29 January 2010 (UTC)~~

~~::In the question that I posted that started all this mess (in the Humanities desk). --[[User:Belchman|Belchman]] ([[User talk:Belchman|talk]]) 16:42, 29 January 2010 (UTC)~~

:::Sorry, you need to provide a specific diff to my specific comment, since I don't recall accusing YOU of sockpuppetry, just "suggesting" same about that drive-by IP address. Also, you need to draw a line through the remarks to Bus Stop and me that got you blocked, and you need to answer the question I posed about that one website, which you ridiculed on the grounds I'm not sufficiently internet-savvy, which I will readily admit, which is why I asked the question. ←[[User:Baseball Bugs|Baseball Bugs]] ''[[User talk:Baseball Bugs|What's up, Doc?]]'' [[Special:Contributions/Baseball_Bugs|carrots]]→ 17:45, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

~~== Your Spanish-speaking doppelganger ==~~

I blocked {{user|De insectos de béisbol}} (even though the report wasn't at UAA) for a username vio. From the edits, this is clearly someone else. Any ideas we can take to SPI? —[[User:Department of Redundancy Department|DoRD]] ([[User:TravisTX|?]]) ([[User talk:Department of Redundancy Department|talk]]) 23:58, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

:Thank you. Regarding these characters, go to about the 5:30 mark of this item:[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuUfN6yGgjA] Whodunit? Well, I can think of a couple or three, but I would just as soon apply [[WP:DENY]] for the time being. ←[[User:Baseball Bugs|Baseball Bugs]] ''[[User talk:Baseball Bugs|What's up, Doc?]]'' [[Special:Contributions/Baseball_Bugs|carrots]]→ 00:16, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

~~== Real World colors ==~~

I wish there was a method to the color coding used. Maybe a heat map that defined their prospects for success in ''the real world''. ;) Ok, so it wasn't that informed. More of an aesthetic usage of color in a table to separate, clearly, the names. These type of schemes where used in the past with this show in sister Wikipedia articles and I was just continuing the trend - although I choose a slightly different variation. [[User:Neutralis|Neutralis]] ([[User talk:Neutralis|talk]]) 01:05, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

:Correct. It was purely aesthetic and not based upon a standard or a tie in to the show which the article defines. [[User:Neutralis|Neutralis]] ([[User talk:Neutralis|talk]]) 01:19, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

::Since you brought it up, maybe colors should not be used? Is there a standard to which these type of tables should be formed? I'll admit it does look a bit gaudy and I was only following the trend set forth by previous articles. Personally when I work in Excel, I like alternating light grey/white. This is more of a random aside than anything, but I figure I'll probably be creating another table or two down the road and being that this is the topic du jour, I should know best practices. If of course, there are rules in place. [[User:Neutralis|Neutralis]] ([[User talk:Neutralis|talk]]) 01:44, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

~~== where are the haters? ==~~

Hey Bugs- where did your "this user has enough detractors" statement go? I looked like a drunk idiot explaining it to Mrs. Tedder and then going to your page. [[User:Tedder|tedder]] ([[User talk:Tedder|talk]]) 02:14, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

:Oh, sorry, I moved it to the user page, along with the other stuff. The talk page was getting too cluttered. ←[[User:Baseball Bugs|Baseball Bugs]] ''[[User talk:Baseball Bugs|What's up, Doc?]]'' [[Special:Contributions/Baseball_Bugs|carrots]]→ 02:19, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

::I think the item you're looking for is in a new section called "Complaints Dept." But don't hesitate to look at the other folded sections, as I move some things from here into 2 or 3 of them, and I also added a thing or two. ←[[User:Baseball Bugs|Baseball Bugs]] ''[[User talk:Baseball Bugs|What's up, Doc?]]'' [[Special:Contributions/Baseball_Bugs|carrots]]→ 02:23, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

~~:::{{done}} Showed to Mrs. Tedder and the household we are visiting. Off to dinner. [[User:Tedder|tedder]] ([[User talk:Tedder|talk]]) 02:33, 30 January 2010 (UTC)~~