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#1 2003-10-14 12:42 pm
The Form Topic
This is a convenient form to help the members of minithink post useless general news item topics. In this heading you would put in a quick inflammatory statement to cause posters to become enraged.
Here you post a small, but useless snippet of the article you are posting. Make sure to find the most offensive part of the article and take it out of context. This will allow the readers to become even more angry and post early and post often.
Here is where you put an extremely inflammatory, and cynical analysis of the topic you posted. Be sure to put in a few mass generalizations and any other devices that could create strife, and in turn, more posts. Facts or accuracy is not important here.
Last, but not least, don't forget the Source
I hope this helps you in posting topics in the future. Please be sure to post on subjects such as Homosexuality, the Iraq war. America, Bush, and any other subject that has been beaten to death.
Thank you and welcome to minithink!
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#2 2003-10-14 12:44 pm
- SpacemanSpiff
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Re: The Form Topic
And this is where you put the obligatory one line put down. Don't offer any support other than a harsh retort.
"The first time one sees natural beauty which is privately owned; oceans as people's back yards, confounds the senses. I didn't know God had a a toy store for the rich." -- Spanglish
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#3 2003-10-14 12:45 pm
- Tria
- Minor Prophetess
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Re: The Form Topic
And this is where you put the obligatory one line put down. Don't offer any support other than a harsh retort.
Piss off!
(a demonstration of how debate is carried out)
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#4 2003-10-14 12:45 pm
- registered_user
- bulletproof
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- Posts: 16026
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Re: The Form Topic
No one is forcing you to read it.
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#5 2003-10-14 12:48 pm
- Sternum
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- Registered: 2002-01-10
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Re: The Form Topic
This is where you call the Conservative a nazi, or the Liberal a tree-hugging communist.
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#7 2003-10-14 12:55 pm
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This is the point at which the opposing team makes a dumb reference to something unrelated to the story, but supposedly acts as a critique of the source, mostly claiming the source is biased and only spins or lies. You should not address any of the points raised in the article or the story even if carried on all major new sources.
It's a paradox of how sharply dull I am.
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#8 2003-10-14 12:57 pm
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This is the point at which the opposing team makes a dumb reference to something unrelated to the story, but supposedly acts as a critique of the source, mostly claiming the source is biased and only spins or lies. You should not address any of the points raised in the article or the story even if carried on all major new sources.
then you reply with a less than 5 word witty retort
Just like back in Saigon! Eh, slick?
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#9 2003-10-14 1:02 pm
- SpacemanSpiff
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Re: The Form Topic
Never forget that at any moment an alternate topic may be created using any two noncontiguous words from any post in the thread.
"The first time one sees natural beauty which is privately owned; oceans as people's back yards, confounds the senses. I didn't know God had a a toy store for the rich." -- Spanglish
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#10 2003-10-14 1:07 pm
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Your topic wins when it is virulent and offensive enough to cause:
1) best buy or northwind to post in it
2) makes someone so angry that they leave Minithink forever, make a new username, and start posting again two weeks later.
Just like back in Saigon! Eh, slick?
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#11 2003-10-14 1:09 pm
- SpacemanSpiff
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- From: Transmogrifier
- Registered: 2001-07-31
- Posts: 5536
Re: The Form Topic
Your topic wins when it is virulent and offensive enough to cause:
1) best buy or northwind to post in it
2) makes someone so angry that they leave Minithink forever, make a new username, and start posting again two weeks later.
And earns you a PM warning from a mod
"The first time one sees natural beauty which is privately owned; oceans as people's back yards, confounds the senses. I didn't know God had a a toy store for the rich." -- Spanglish
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#12 2003-10-14 1:11 pm
Re: The Form Topic
Your topic wins when it is virulent and offensive enough to cause:
1) best buy or northwind to post in it
2) makes someone so angry that they leave Minithink forever, make a new username, and start posting again two weeks later.And earns you a PM warning from a mod
Or goes on past 15 pages without anything new ever being added.
It's a paradox of how sharply dull I am.
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#13 2003-10-14 1:19 pm
- Tria
- Minor Prophetess
- From: Madison, WI
- Registered: 2000-05-13
- Posts: 18087
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dont use punctuation with replies, it makes the topic harder to read, and people more angryier
(making up words helps too)
This is where I flame you and debunk your arguments because you don't take the time to use punctuation.
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#14 2003-10-14 1:35 pm
- damage
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- Posts: 3184
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This is where someone blames Clinton. Be aware that replacing the Cs in a name with Ks earns an extra point bonus.
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#15 2003-10-14 1:42 pm
- Jaligard
- Sarcasm is just one service I offer.
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This is where I usually come in with a rambly four-page dissertation addressing some small point someone brought up erroneously. Just as I make my point four pages later, someone posts before me with a concise, well-written statement that says the same thing I did, only better.
George Bush: "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator."
George Bush: "One of the hardest parts of my job is to try to connect Iraq to the war on terror."
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#16 2003-10-14 2:03 pm
- SpacemanSpiff
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- From: Transmogrifier
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- Posts: 5536
Re: The Form Topic
And for some unconnected reason one of the following two people groups feel oppressed by every topic that is mentioned: gays or AZNs (gay AZNs however, do not feel oppressed)
"The first time one sees natural beauty which is privately owned; oceans as people's back yards, confounds the senses. I didn't know God had a a toy store for the rich." -- Spanglish
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#17 2003-10-14 2:06 pm
- Tria
- Minor Prophetess
- From: Madison, WI
- Registered: 2000-05-13
- Posts: 18087
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Hmm... So my question is thus: If we are all know the stereotypes so well, and I assume dislike hem, why don't we do anything about it? Or are there just a few people who are keeping the intelligent comments from going forth?
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#18 2003-10-14 2:08 pm
- ShnickyShnack
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- From: Rockin' out
- Registered: 2001-05-25
- Posts: 22237
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And for some unconnected reason one of the following two people groups feel oppressed by every topic that is mentioned: gays or AZNs (gay AZNs however, do not feel oppressed)
AZNs?
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#19 2003-10-14 2:14 pm
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And for some unconnected reason one of the following two people groups feel oppressed by every topic that is mentioned: gays or AZNs (gay AZNs however, do not feel oppressed)
AZNs?
Anal-retentive Zit-faced Nazis?
It's a paradox of how sharply dull I am.
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#20 2003-10-14 2:55 pm
- cocoamix
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This is where you make sure to add exclaimation points to every sentence!
The part below is where you manually type your name at the end of every post, because otherwise people would never be able to figure out who the author was!
cocoamix
Not that anyone here does that, do they? 
Jingoism - Extreme and emotional nationalism, or chauvinism, often characterized by an aggressive foreign policy, accompanied by an eagerness to wage war.
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#21 2003-10-14 3:13 pm
- Blueboy626
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This is the place in the thread where you change your avatar and demand everyone guess what you replaced with it-even though this has absolutely NOTHING to do with the subject at hand.
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#22 2003-10-14 3:16 pm
- ShnickyShnack
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And this is where a seldom heard-from poster comes out of the woodwork and has an online psychotic episode.
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#24 2003-10-14 3:29 pm
- Gr@sshopper
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And this is where a seldom heard-from poster comes out of the woodwork and has an online psychotic episode.
Oh! OH! Can I do that bit?! Huh?
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#25 2003-10-14 3:30 pm
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And this is where a seldom heard-from poster comes out of the woodwork and has an online psychotic episode.
Oh! OH! Can I do that bit?! Huh?
No it would be more like Dean G Baker or Mac Mistress comming back for a little more fun
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