It has been a week since Smokey left TBP. In that week no one has been told to eat shit, swallow anything gross, fuck off, or 50 other Smokeyisms. I personally feel that the blog has dropped a notch or two with his departure. This might be because he was one of my biggest supporters from the day I started the blog. He was a supporter before I had a blog when I posted on Seeking Alpha. So, my opinion is skewed.
So that brings us to the new poll question.
Is TBP better or worse without Smokey as one of the chief commentors?
A. Better
B. Worse
C. The Same
D. Eat Shit and Die
E. Suck my 11 1/2 inch Vein-laden beef pipe
I wasn’t going to respond to this poll. That “S” looks very much like a “5”.
I must vote “D” — in honor of Smokey, who did not invent that phrase, but sure as hell perfected it here on TBP.
Sometimes — and I emphasize SOMETIMES — his schtick got a little old. But, overall, the New Civility here is for the the birds. I still hold hope that he and his bald-headed yougurt slinger makes a return some day SOON.
Stuck
Maybe a few pictures of dead Muslim children can get the ball rolling.
Jim really does miss you Smokey, hope you are doing well. Just wanted to say I’ve been a fan since the SB days on SA.
I also just want to say I can’t staaaaaand looking at that picture above.
Where the fuck is Smokey??
Cynical30
You can see for yourself here:
http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=13455
D and E
Smokey must have the TBP shakes and I suspect he was around Monday for a relapse.
He shall return and give me some medicine for burying him so soon.
He will return.
His best one which I used to a prick at work(which brought quiet in the group which I had never seen before)”Why don’t you wrap your hand in barb wire and go jerk off a mountain lion in a phone booth.”
I’ll go with Stucky on this one, D.
Admin
Is possible, just to keep me happy, that the next TBP poll be #T? I’m begging you!! These irregular sequences are driving me crazy.
SSS
The system of TBP poll numbers is code. I’m sending you a message. Sort of like the Bat signal.
B, he was my hero.
Stuchenstein: I swear I saw some abiotic and “climate change” comments this week… all unanswered. I would have bombed em but I’m on this fucking phone too much as it is. And my skills are as an ant to everest… Smokey is necessary.
Wow that was some heavy shit.
Regardless of the ruthless flaming, frankly I’m suprised Smokey limped away from this site like a beaten mutt. What the fuck Smokey? Sure, everyone was coming down on you at once, but goddamn, you just turn the fuck tail & run?? Please tell me some pussy-whipped, boot licking man-bitch phished your password & impersonated you on that lame duck concession speech I just read. That was the sorriest , most cowardly display I think I’ve ever seen in my life. It literally hurt my eyes and burned a shit colored after image into my work monitor. You’ve been demoted down the man ranks beneath Lindsey Graham shoe tapping Larry Craig in a truck stop shitter and Elton John with two cocks in his ass.
So stop bullshitting you fucking asshole. Man the fuck up and get back on the boards before your goddamn man boobs start lactating you motherfucking bastard son of Satan and Dick Cheney. Your absence is pissing me off.
Cynical30
Cynical30
That was the vilest, nastiest rant in a week. It put a smile on my face.
A.
I found myself just tuning out the repetitive same old same old.
MA
A.
One less professed NeoCon on this site is a good thing! Fuck ’em!
D and E
I miss that bipolar bastard.
TBP was definitely better with him. So, B, but also D and E.
A, maybe.
I have to agree with Muck. His stuff was becoming decreasingly creative over time.
I was going to say “A,” with the reasoning that TBP will never approach major numbers with commentators like Smokey in the gallery. Then I saw the post, “BEST PENIS NICKNAMES,” and realized it isn’t Smokey that stops this blog from being quoted in The New York Times.
It is what it is.
So – final answer: B
Terry
The NYT wants to know your penis’ nickname.
If I ever got quoted by that liberal rag, I’d shut this blog down in a split second.
A. better.
Much better. I can’t recall when he contributed anything meaningful or intelligent. He could have been the dumbest of paid corporate trolls, except a few of you seemed to actually know him.
With out a doubt, E.
B, with D & E running close. Agree w/ Stuck, sometimes a little tiresome, but occasionally world class insightful. Those who thought he offered nothing must not have read his responses to RE’s metaphysical post.
B,D,E
he funny stupid and annoying, but in a way this site gets quite depressing, he adds a funny and annoying factor that is needed.
My punkbook grows. Not MA, though, he’s just a cool geezer…
But my punkbook grows
And not Punk the Ninja… just punkasses.
Somewhere between A & C. He’s definitely entertaining and I wouldn’t mind at all if he came back but I prefer reasoned disagreements over simplistic vulgarities most of the time. I too followed you over here from SA since the first Fourth Turning article a couple years ago and spend probably 4 to 10 hours a day with a window open here. I’m glad Stuck is back and would welcome a slightly reformed Smokey as well. Attack others’ ideas, not their families.
B!!!
This site has been like a crack pipe for me, mostly because I always get a good laugh, no matter how doomed we are. I came here first because I wanted to understand the financial shenanigans, but I stayed here because of the characters. I do hope he comes back, I miss him like a son-of-a-bitch.
I was just thinking today that I wish Smokey would come back for a war for oil smackdown, as I have one of these waiting for him.
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If that doesn’t get him to come back on to thrash me, he really isn’t reading the blog anymore.
Punk: Maybe not today, but you KNOW he’s gonna stop in for a look. That’s why I hope Admin keeps the post somewhere on the board through the weekend.
War for Oil’s too easy. Of course we’re there for oil but I say blitzkrieging sand dunes for oil is a necessary evil.
Cooter Rooter
Lipitty Split
Ooops wrong thread, my bad.
It depends on what you use the site for and why you read the comments. I use TBF for investment insights, along with others, and my own skills in math, accounting, demographics, financial history and an strong “bullshit” detector. So far I am “winning” and I hope to continue to do so…
I ignore the “flame wars” that sometimes erupt in the comments section,as such Smokey’s presence or absence makes no difference to me.
@ Colma
I dated a girl once, who called her Privacy, “cooter”.
I didn’t like it all that much.
Oh, yeah: About Smokey. I got tired of hearing about his huge pecker, but I have to admit: I trolled somebody the same way he burned me. It was funny shit.
Let me tell you about my HUGE penis………
Administrator says:
“Terry
The NYT wants to know your penis’ nickname.
If I ever got quoted by that liberal rag, I’d shut this blog down in a split second.”
You are correct; the NYT will not be discussing the nickname of my penis – that will only happen here.
Perhaps my choice of the NYT was not the best. Not because their readers shouldn’t be exposed to TBP, because I wish they were exposed to it. My point is this: TBP is valuable due to the issues covered – of course they are not mainstream. My wish is that the awareness of these issues was mainstream. I want my 81 year-old mother to know; I want my neighbors to know; I want the Baptists to know; I want the Catholics to know; I want all Americans, of every generation to know; I want the Germans and the Japanese to know.
Anything that hinders or impedes the flow of this information is not something I’m in favor of, thus my original vote of “choice A” regarding Smokey. Further consideration led me to consider that perhaps I’m expecting too much, hence my comment, “It is what it is.”
JQ, your writing is powerful. There are people, and forces, who consider it dangerous …if it were widely disseminated. Those who consider it dangerous are my enemies; they would do harm to my family, my friends and neighbors, and our nation. I support the growth of this site and urge folks to read it. Sometimes I’m embarrassed by the comments, but they are what they are.
Terry
Thanks for the endorsement. As of three years ago, I had never written an article in my entire life. Then I saw the Republican party treating Ron Paul like a nut during the debates. I got pissed off and wrote an article that Lew Rockwell posted on his site. I’ve stayed pissed off since. Robmu1 and I would debate issues over email. We thought our comments were hysterical and said it was a shame no one else could see them. When Seeking Alpha started to edit my articles and take the good stuff out, I decided I needed a place where I wouldn’t be censored. That is how TBP was born. It blows me away that we will get over 2 million visitors this year. If it grows no larger, I’d still be happy.
As you say, the larger it gets, the more dangerous it will be to those in power.
I beat old baby batter breath with so many factual jabs, creative crosses and unique uppercuts I doubt smokey will evah evah challenge me again by posting here.
Fuckem and feedem fisheads
rip-site was better with him than without him.
i can’t believe he rolled over like the cur he is
Smokey was part of the constant grow in membership of the site, IMO.
For good or bad.
Some of his comments, I still miss. Genuine Smokeys does not grow on trees.
Wads of dirt takes effort to haul. I still like his style.
You guys sound like you are missing the days when you sat around and took turns jerking the smoke-chain (for reference: kinda like one of those bead chains on a ceiling fan if there were 11 1/2 beads). Wipe the yogurt off your lip and get over it already.
My vote is: D
Cordially,
Sonic
Smokey is posting on a new blog called SA, (seeking alzheimers)
@colma: “My punkbook grows. Not MA, though, he’s just a cool geezer…” Who you calling a “cool” geezer? I’m hotter than a Polish pistol in a quick draw contest.. Faster than a speeding ticket. “Blazing Saddles” is my favorite movie! All hot, hot, hot…..
MA
D&E and the square root of 3.
Cynical30–well done. +10
I think the real reason Smokey is gone is because he had his lifesavings invested in TEPCO.
RE
Either that or he lost the microscope he used to find his penis, or he developed an allergy to scat.
RE
Admin sez:
“Terry
Thanks for the endorsement. As of three years ago, I had never written an article in my entire life. Then I saw the Republican party treating Ron Paul like a nut during the debates. I got pissed off and wrote an article that Lew Rockwell posted on his site. I’ve stayed pissed off since. Robmu1 and I would debate issues over email. We thought our comments were hysterical and said it was a shame no one else could see them. When Seeking Alpha started to edit my articles and take the good stuff out, I decided I needed a place where I wouldn’t be censored. That is how TBP was born. It blows me away that we will get over 2 million visitors this year. If it grows no larger, I’d still be happy.
As you say, the larger it gets, the more dangerous it will be to those in power.”
That last sentence really caught my attention, given the events of the past few weeks. As usual Jim, you were right.