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The Mic is On! It’s Song Lyrics and Quotes!

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It’s Like Open Mic Only Different

Here’s how it works.

open mike night

It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME
The rules are simple — be nice.

There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it.

Tonight it’s short song lyrics and quotes!

We might also talk about

  • famous words
  • lines from a song we’ll never forget
  • great one liners from our friends
  • what we used to say as childhood

AND THE EVER POPULAR,
Basil the code-writing donkey, and Milton the Moose.

HART Comment

On Tuesday nights, the WHOLE show is in the comments. Go figure.
–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Look Out Behind You!

Disguises and mystery were part of a Halloween Open Comment Night as people showed up as their alterego or even the alterego or their alterego. We had our own version of the Bloggy Horror Picture Show. The Dread Arachnid terrorized us and may have eaten Boxcar Willy and we know that Darth Varder ate Jar Jar as B-B-Q even before the show. So it was no real surprise when the links started leaking as they always do.

The Link Leak Virus seeped into every thing we saw. — The Link Leak Virus is a special strain of the indie virus with blogtipping mutations that occur in threes at Open Comment Night they become a link free-for-all.

Welcome to all of the new folks who came. It was great fun having you!

You should see the links that everyone was treated to..

And now for the Ghastly, Ghostly Plot of Horrors

Thanks to Rick Cockrum who did the honors of gathering the dirt on the despicable deeds done there.
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The Mic Is On — It’s Halloween!

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It’s Like Open Mic Only Different

Here’s how it works.

open mike night

It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME
The rules are simple — be nice.

There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it.

Tonight it’s Halloween!

jack-o-lanterns

We might also talk about

  • Halloween costumes and parties
  • Urban legends and childhood beliefs
  • trick and treats and childhood pranks
  • Haunted Housed and ghost stories

AND THE EVER POPULAR,
Basil the code-writing donkey, and Milton the Moose.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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20 More Successful Bloggers’ Most Successful Posts: Afternoon and Evening Links

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Who’s Paying for This?!

A few days before the party we’d had quite a discussion about whether people would be wrong to take money for writing comments that they sincerely felt. In the last comment on that post I left a message for a blogger friend, Chris Cree. . . .

Lorelle couldn’t be here, but she emailed to say,
Give my love to all the fellow SOBers and wish I was there!

I did.

Outstanding Bloggers’ Most Successful Posts: Afternoon and Evening

    1. Mark Ryden’s cabinet of curiosities and popular antiquities by Stephanie
    2. perfect cheese sandwich by SeanRox
    3. How to Write E-mail that Sucks: An Incomplete Guide

At comment 278. Chris Cree discovered that I said he was paying for each comment at this birthday party. Chris said

OK! I must insist: Everyone stop commenting on this post!
I just noticed that Liz promised that I was volunteered to pay for all these comments!

I better call Visa and up my credit limit!

Of course, no one listened.

  1. Commentary: Economy Foam by Debbie Millman
  2. If You’re Gonna Write Crap, Journal by Carolyn Manning and We Are Family by Carolyn Manning
  3. Cubicle Warrior – What it takes by Scot Herrick
  4. In the side of a mountain, there exists, a place named paradise by Jessica Doyle
  5. The Battles Hymn of the Blogger by Mike Sansone
  6. Crash Davis and the Belief Statement – My Turn by Starbucker
  7. Putting Holes in Walls by Ann Michael
  8. Blogging in Person by Sandra Renshaw
  9. Customer Service Difference #3: Ritz Carlton and Who else wishes there were no moronic idiots in customer service?
  10. Content Theft? Please, Tell Me What You Think About This… by Mark Wade
  11. A Brief History of Digg Controversy by Tony
  12. What Happens During Euthanization? by Renée
  13. Writing for WOM ^ Branding the Croc Hunter Way by Kammie K. and Be Unique, Kick the Critique – Self-Love is Where it’s At by Kammie K.
  14. Successful Blog by Cat
  15. Simplified Business Plans for the Real World.by Becky McCray
  16. Comments From Students on Using a Class Blog by Dr. Delany Kirk
  17. Case File 060805 by Timothy Johnson

 

Mike Sansone gave me a party hat and poetry. Liz Strauss Wears a Cap.

SeanRox had promised a cake.

What kind of cake do you like Liz? I’m stopping by the bakery later, so I can get your favorite. . . . Ok Liz, a flourless chocolate cake — with confectioner’s sugar only on top it is. I just put in the order and I’ll pick it up on my way back to the party.

I think he ate it himself. . . . Gosh I hope he didn’t get sick. (They don’t call it “killer cake” for no reason.)

HART brought HART’s Famous Chili. So I finally got something to eat.

We talked and partied until almost midnight.
It was an SOBirthday.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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The Party Post Was Up at 5:33 a.m.

Everyone who attended the blog birthhday party October 24, 2006 was invited to bring a link to their most successful post and to explain how they made that choice. Each blogger made a choice based on his or her own criteria. During the party, people left to read posts and came back to talk about them.

To celebrate DWB’s one year b-day Cat created a shared banner page. Take a look it is incredible — like the blog it comes from.

Timothy Johnson offered these words his sales for charity.

And since you made a semi-obscure reference to “Race Through The Forest,” check out the charitable promotion I’m running right now. I’m basically donating my book-sales margins, so I want to sell as many books as possible to benefit three very deserving child serving organizations. . . . Let’s hope those Amazon reviews help raise a whole lot of money for some really great charities: A Time to Give.

Outstanding Bloggers’ Most Successful Posts: Morning

Outstanding bloggers identified these posts as their most successful in the first 250 comments of the party.

  1. Motley F….. Crue by Martin (warning: some words my offend).
  2. You’ve only Got 30 Seconds or 20 Words… by Char and The Queen of Multitasking or ADD? by Char
  3. Your Life, Your Greatest Work of Art by Rick
  4. Biphasic Sleep : 30 Day Summary by Scott
  5. The Ingenious Thomas Heatherwick by Mark McGuinness
  6. My Three Most Influential Teachers by Kent Blumberg
  7. Negative Thinking Power by Chris Cree
  8. The Power of 48 Minutes by John Richardson
  9. 3 Valuable Lessons from 1st Grade Career Day by Tony D. Clark
  10. You’d Have to be Brain Dead to Listen Up! by Ellen Weber
  11. What Adoption Usually Looks Like by Kate and No More Gratuitous Celebrity Mother Mentions
  12. New to Blogging? So was I at one time… by TechZ and My # 1 Digg I heart geek boys
  13. What Do You See in This Drawing? by Robyn McMaster

    14. Acomment 80 that we started tallking about the importance of breathing and what it meant when we were breathing through one notril more than the other.

    In the middle of that discussion — at comment 96 — Tony decided that he would see whether co.comments could keep with the number of comments this post would be getting. . . . more on that later.

  14. Ignore the Sun by Roger von Oech and Do You Recognize This Symbol?
  15. 21 Ways to Be More Creative by Christine Kane
  16. Amusing PowerPoint Slideshows in Hart’s email by HART
  17. Writing like Dead Grass by Michael Stelzner
  18. Net Neutrality Threatens Grandparents/Vets by Joe

    19. At comment 180, Tim asked Is there a World Record for most comments received on a single blog post? Who/where/how would track?

    I found this link — Most Comments Ever.

  19. We Can Still Pass The Combating Autism Act by Big Roy
  20. Who Do You Think You Are? by Steve
  21. The Purpose of A Hearty Life by Hsien Lei
  22. Pisa & Florence With Kids
  23. media strategic myopia by Mike Dunn
  24. Keep moving toward your goals by Kirsten Harrell, Psy.D.
  25. Breaking: Bach Joins Keller Williams Realty by Benjamin
  26. Home At Last by Debbie Call
  27. The Shoes by Candice

Candice did elaborate.

There are actually many other posts about shoes, like “the shoes the laptop wears” and my red shoes. (The laptop wears a pair of pointy-toed black leather high heels that were the talk of my cousin’s wedding. Heh.)

The coolest people were coming to this party, and It was only 1:40 in the afternoon.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

PS If I missed your most successful post link from the morning of the party, please let me know and I’ll update the list.

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