All this week, i've watched the writing team here valiantly put in their best effort to convince the world how funny we are, all for the sake of the 2008 Weblog Awards, for which we found ourselves in the "Best Humor Blog" category. There have been some really great pieces posted by Echowood, Miss Cellania, Bigus Dickus and Baierman. And behind the scenes a flurry of emails have gone around discussing strategy, ideas, tactics to persuade readers to get out and vote. And each day, as our standing sunk lower and lower, it was a little heartbreaking to see how much effort they were putting in for such little reward. i almost started to feel sorry for Sarah Palin (almost).
Winning awards has never been our priority. I didn't even know we'd been entered, let alone made it through to the finals until Miss C sent me the link. "Funny" is a really subjective thing, and as I looked at the competition, it was really hard to say who was 'funnier". That's such a matter of personal taste, and there were some interesting candidates.
But these awards are not judged by a panel - they're a people's choice, the American Idol of web awards. The audience votes, and the most votes takes it. And YBNBY gets very good traffic - I mean, we're not the Huff Post, but we're of a decent size. in fact, I would guess that of the ten blogs in contention, we're possibly the second or third largest in terms of audience. So while I didn't expect to win, I thought we'd at least put up a good showing, just on the numbers.
And then... a funny thing started to happen.
Each day, we sank lower and lower. And each day, the puzzled look on my face got more and more like Munch's Scream.
I work in new media with clients on marketing efforts, so I'm pretty used to viewing website stats and making an analysis of where traffic comes from, so I decided that I'd monitor both vote counts and related traffic for some of the sites for 24 hours to see how well they correlated. I realize that there's not a direct relationship there - people visit a site without voting, and also definitely possible for a rabid fan base to vote for a site without visiting it. Still, theoretically, people should be reading a blog, deciding to vote for it, and clicking through to do so, so there should be at least some relationship between numbers of readers on a given day and votes cast, even given a margin of error. And if something, somewhere was wonky in the system, it might show up in the numbers.
To make things fair, I only tracked a couple of sites that had open stats, using exactly the same analytics system that we do, Sitemeter. Luckily, both the current 2nd and 3rd place blogs do too - Jon Swift and Boobs Injuries and Dr Pepper.
(I'm not sure exactly how those other sites have implemented Sitemeter - maybe only a small percentage of their pages are being counted for some reason. I did see the tracking code on most pages I visited, but blogspot is a strange beast, so you never know.)
Anyway, let's look at the visits for Saturday 10th January for those sites, pulled from Sitemeter, and put into a little graph so we can see the relative traffic. We happened to have a pretty big traffic day (as we did yesterday).
Let me say, I'm sure both those other sites are great reads, with popular authors, and a loyal fanbase, and of course, size isn't everything (as the Actress said to the Bishop). But we have our fans too, and looking at those figures, you might suspect that YBNBY could at least hold it's own.
Well, if you thought that, you would have been dead wrong. Votes cast from midnight to midnight on Saturday January 10th:
Now, I don't claim to be a true statistician, so I can't give you a scientific analysis of this discrepancy, but you don't have to be Stephen Hawking to be going "that's odd". (Just to give you a sense of scale - at this point, more people have voted for Jon Swift than have voted for Post Secret in the major blog category so, I'm not underestimating his following by any means).
So, while Jon Swift is showing a conversion rate of 70% on traffic and BI&DP has a conversion rate of 10%, YBNBY has a conversion rate of 0.19%. For every 500 people that read our site, only 1 of them thinks we're funny - presumably the other 499 are severely disappointed.
Which means - if Jon Swift had gotten our traffic today, he'd have gotten 42,000 votes, as opposed to our 116. This really makes my head hurt.
In the long run, it doesn't really matter. The whole team here do it for the love of it, and any revenue we get is tied to pageviews not awards, so all those visitors we got today are not without value. But still, you would have thought at least SOME of those ungrateful bastards would have voted for us.
Mind you, if you think the Humor category is a little "wonky", you might want to read what they're saying about the Food Blog votes. It makes you wonder just how secure against abuse this thing really is.
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This is just one person's experience so take from it what you will.
I visit both your site and comics curmudgeon on a regular basis. I get a lot out of yesbutno, but I'll intentionally go away from my task at hand walk to the computer, and start it explicitly to see what Josh has to say about comic strips. I've laughed until I couldn't breath from his web site.
So naturally I've been clicking on his link once a day, and now that he seems to be doing fine I've started voting for you, for what its worth.
I think my issue is that your web site isn't what I'd call funny. Not a criticism, its just not the right word or category. I see it as similar to boingboing, which I'm also voting for to no avail.
That's not to say I don't think there might be something fishy going on.
Howdy, Scaramouch. You have to consider the effect of endorsements from other, bigger blogs. There are blogs with tens of thousands of daily visits, some fraction of whose readers will go vote for someone the author endorses. I have noticed some major blogs endorsing Jon Swift over the past couple of days; this could help explain his strong showing.
Scaramouch you are a wanker. You wank this site like it's your legacy. Your site attracts interest but rarely loyalty because your crew and core fans alienate what could be your core base. This sheltered New York City prideful wank is worth a look but not worth a vote for most people. Whilst I visit almost daily, because you do have great writers and content most of the time, your site comes across as arrogant and exclusive for many people. At least Swift treats his viewers like clients and makes them laugh as much if not more.
As far as awards you shouldn't care. I wouldn't. But you obviously do so take my advice and stop being such an asshole.
Well I looked for ways to cheat, but couldnt find any. I'm guessing the other sites found a way.
Scara, for the record, you might want to choose a headline that doesn't make Tim think that losing the contest is a good thing...
Also to consider...if this is the American Idol equivalent, don't we want to be the runner up instead of the winner? (Think Jennifer Hudson/Oscar winner vs Fantasia/what's-she-doing-now; Ruben Studard vs Clay Aiken (career, not personal life, not-that-there's-anything-wrong-with-that); Taylor Hicks vs Daughtry; etc...not including the last season, the breakdown is 50/50 for whether winning actually gets you a career or not)(2008 is too recent to see what long term ramifications are for their contestants' careers).
And the other sites may have a bunch of straight female vegans voting for their absence of boobs and bacon....
Jay, none of my piece was meant to take away from comics Curmudgeon (which indeed is superb) or any of the other sites. It was more a question of why so little votes from so many readers, that was all.
Also an interesting point about whether we're a humor blog, or a pop culture blog that's funny. I should probably give that some more thought when continuing to plan our world domination, because you're probably right - most of what we post isn't strictly humor,
And SO - you mean, we're the William Hung of blogs?
"You wank this site like it's your legacy" - best comment of the year so far :)
But seriously, Chad, are you still mad at Johnny about the 9/11 Conspiracy piece? The government came to take him away - what more could you ask?
It DOES suck. I lose every year. I'm the Susan Lucci of the Weblog awards. As much as I say I don't care, it really makes you wonder what people are voting for...merit? Popularity? Because my sister said so?
Meh. You got called a wanker. Frame that, baby, because it's brilliant.
I've kept my mouth shut on this for a while, but as a multiple-hits-a-day reader, I have to expand what acker said and say this:
You are not a humor blog.
When I think of "yesbutnobutyes", I think of a place where I can find quirky information, find cool recipes for bacon, and some other little ditties. There just isn't enough consistent humor to warrant the tag. There's enough that makes me hum a "hmm" or say "wow, that's cool" that I could never call ybnby a comedy site.
For example: during a good period of time, once a day there would be some sort of bacon post. Maybe not that consistent, but if you didn't post one day, there'd be too the next. ANYONE who's laughing at bacon must be turning on Nick at Nite as having a hearty chuckle second-by-second. Bacon is NOT funny. Bacon is delicious. Bacon is a utility. Bacon is hilarious. But recipes for bacon are not "hahahaha."
The Obama post: not funny, but cool. Guitar animation: not funny, cool. A lot of the side links: not funny, cool. French boobs: not funny, awesome.
This is no way denouncing the blog--I love it, and still check it as one of the first things I read whenever I get to work. But on principle alone, I can't vote for you guys in a category where you were mistakenly characterized. I mean, would you vote for RuPaul as a woman in the "is she a woman or man" vote?
...
Bad example.
blah blah blah blah blah is all i heard from this post...
don't be a sore loser....would you have posted a similar post if you had won?
"If's" don't count...
My point...count your blessings and be happy brotha....your turn will come and i am POSTIVE you, your authors and, including your readers, will reap the benefits.
I am a devoted to YBNBY and will continue to spread the word.
-Anthony
Prideful and elitist? I'd say rather - saucily insouciant.
As far as voting goes, what can you say? People are stupid. Fuck em.
Just for the record, I wank from down in suburban Florida, and have actually lit my own farts before, so go easy with that "prideful and elitist" mantle, Chad!
I love your blog and checked out the Jon Swift peice ol shit crap thing when I voted for you. He sums his blindness up in his header...stupid uninformed idiot!!!!
People love him for his blind ignorance.
Yesbutnobutyes has been one of my favs for years so do not disparage
Just keep coming up with interesting garbage
Please continue, like alwayage
your fan,
hell
It's not humor to people who don't get it.
He who laughs last didn't get the joke. Some of The best humor in this blog is in the comments anyway. It's like a humor novel written by oh say...77 authors?
Besides, winning an award just means you've gone "Mainstream"
And chad, I've never been near new york. And as for scara being a "wanker" i think that's what we call a "Jerk-off" here in michigan. We usually use it to describe people who make judgements based on assumptions...Oh Hi there Chad!
Pablo, thanks for reminding me. I was trying to figure out what wanker meant.
If I found a video that described the title, I totally post it.
I think Echo would too.
Not Johnny though, he'd find it offensive.
I don't think that video would be humorous, an object sucking a monkeys balls. It'd be weird, strange, odd and shocking no doubt. And maybe that's why we could be in the wrong category. Cause we'd post stuff like that just because.
I'm happy just be having this conversation.
Scara -
I know that Wonkette.com gave their endorsement to Comics Curmudgeon early in the voting. They have a HUGE following that seems to swarm whenever they are told to. You probably already know that.
Comics Curmudgeon jumped out to a huge lead early in the voting. As the voting continued, Wonkette.com gave a half-hearted endorsement to Jon Swift, which may account for his high rate of conversion on late traffic.
A few days later, The Bloggess posted some criticisms about their endorsement of Comics Curmudgeon, which Wonkette.com posted with rebuttal. I'm sure The Bloggess benefitted from that as well.
It looks like the thing to do was to whine about the people at Wonkette.com and get them to comment on it so that you could get benefit from their vote-rich, albeit less-virile client base.
As far as the YBNBY conversion rate is concerned, I don't know what to make of it. The explanations listed thusfar about YBNBY not being a humor site seem reasonable, but is that the reason why more than 99% of the people visiting won't cast their vote for this site? Obviously not. Perhaps a good portion will use that reasoning, but not 99%.
Is there any way to tell how many of the YBNBY page hits are unique visitors? If you have Sitemeter on every page, is the number getting skewed on sites that have many internal links versus a site that does not? I probably refresh the forum page and re-visit the main page 20 times a day alone. Is that 20 hits (or more) in Sitemeter? If so, there really might be only about 77 of us loyals roaming around the site all day, mixed in with a few floaters from time to time.
And a few wankers, of course!
Speaking of Wanking, you'd figure the average porn site get's more hits than, let's say, The Complete Shakespeare or something. So really, maybe being the most popular web site isn't exactly the goal.
NOTE - www.theaveragepornsite.com is not taken afaict. Maybe that's a new opportunity. Porn for those people whose compulsion is averageness?
On the west side of Michigan, a wanker is a douche.
Nice photoshopping Scara. Always a big fan of Munch.
My criticism earlier was not constructive and I apologize for calling you an asshole Scara.
I can be a bit of a shit stirrer at times and should probably keep my thoughts to myself after a few wines.
For what it's worth I was terribly embarrassed when I awoke this morning and remembered writing that. I'm glad you took it with a grain of salt so to speak.
I do love your blog and will continue to enjoy it daily.
SOUR GRAPES!!!!!! lol
Jon Swift bought me a new mobile phone* for voting and I don't even KNOW him!!! lol
THAT'S how badly he wanted to win.
Up your game next year, YBNBY
Julian
*with no credit in it. Tight ass.
Right Paul. I Keep forgetting i'm not the only michigander on here.
Douche, jerk-off whatever same thing.
Way to man up and apologize chad. Now remember, don't drink and type!
Sorry you were left out of the big circle jerk Scara.
Mozart wasn't appreciated in his time either. And neither was Van Gogh. So go contract syphilis and eat poorly. Your legacy shall echo through time.
Lesson for next year: You can't lose if you refuse to play the game. I personally find all of this "Oh, please vote for me" stuff to be tiresome, and I'm glad this blog will sound alot less like PBS during a pledge drive for the next 11 1/2 months.
Mouch, sorry for your loss.
Thank you for introducing me to John Swift, I think I may fit in a little better over there.
Chad, once again you have proved to the world how much of a douche you really are. I think the apology was a great self realisation of your douchebaggery.
It's alright pal, one day you may wake up and change. Not Obama change, but real change.
Chad should get some sort of award for "Most use of the word wank in a critique"
Maybe i'm a day late and a dollar short on my comment.....ummmm....drink liquor next time...it'll make you pass out before hitting the computer....
Chad, please keep stirring the shit.
http://www.cafepress.com/yesbutnobutyes/6377342
Dave, the only thing I need to change is my IP address and the sheets on my bed.
Chad, sounds like you must have wanked yourself like it was your legacy.
Changing your sheets may be a good start.
You really should come here more often.
(That's what your momma said)
Dave, I checked out that Swift site too. The guy had a posting on how great a prez Bush was. That was funny.
Losing to unfunny weblogs bites.
The topics presented here don't follow one perspective for one rabbid fan to cast 1,000 votes. It appeals to the majority of people, and that majority is a true fan; but not a rabbid fan. Us common YBNBY fans vote 3 or 4 times to show our support and let the site be. We simply just don't drool over the blog, but appreciate it every day for the funny it gives.
Thank you for the funny. :)
I apologize for spending 10 minutes to read articles every day, but only spending 5 minutes of my life voting.
Hopefully the poor showing won't stop YBNBY from conducting an amazing routine with amazing writers. No worries mate; an award should be around the corner once a fitting category and opportunity presents itself.
Errr, maybe this is too simplistic but I voted once and probably won't go back to vote again. Like anyone else these days, I waste a fair amount of time online checking out inane and pointless shit but I'd rather be doing that then clicking around some stupid voting website.
Take your hits per day and the revenue that comes with them and run with it, I say.
Guys, guys, this needs to stop NOW.
Someone got killed over the UK Blogger Awards 2007, let's NOT let the same happen here.
Learn to love.
And grow UP lol
We know how to love Julian, so suck it.
God bless Dave.....
Dave, WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM WITH ME
You are SO racist. I am JUST trying to help.
JUST because I am English does NOT give you an excuse to BELITTLE me.
I BET you like owls you left-wing fascist.
first, please don't use my nickname in your reprimanding of Dave.
Second, Dave is not a racist--he just doesn't like you.
If he had a problem with Brits he wouldn't be hanging out on Scara's blog (wait, did I just say that Scara's blog is hanging out? How inappropriate...no wonder why we got an adult rating)
And if you had read Dave's accounts of spending quality time with his 3 year old son or his Labrador, you would know that he is very capable of love. Don't disparage him because he has yet to be deflowered.
ALL thugs have a soft side.
avo will NOT be on my Christmas '09 card list. I can tell you that NOW.
S.O.: Are you single by the way? You SEEM attractive in a 'feisty and probably doesn't get a lot of action' kind of way.
LOL
Is this the return of Myrtle? Or that nurse girl Meagan that had shown up here months ago?
I believe Dave has a magnetic personality and attracts these folks. We'll, he teases them too, I can't deny.
CLC, Tim and I are good examples of how Dave is racist (just to keep short)... Being a good friend of an African-american, a monkey and a Latin-american just proves your point Julian. Dave is SO racist.
I get plenty and my boyfriend likes me this way.
Bitchy, feisty, high maintenance, whatever you want to call it--if jumping to the defense of those who deserve it translates to that, go ahead and call me that...
Read my profile--not a doormat, and ready to jump to the defense of those who I deem deserving...
Oh yes, Julian, I like this approach you're taking with the Sarcastic One. I think it will work beautifully.
Between the mental stimulation they get here and the artificial stimulation they can get elsewhere, I'm fairly certain that they can make it through the down time until they can have another go with their man.
But keep pumping the Rico Suave'. I think it's working.
Tim/Rico... How is it going on the escape plan?
Ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!! You got served!!!!!
Tim - EVERYONJE is laughing at you and your INABILITY to make ANY sense WHATsoever.
I've shut Dav up and I was SURE AS HELL shut you up too.
Get a brain sunshine or I will TAKE you to the cleaners, punk
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tim, do you hear something?
It sounds like a gnat....little, annoying, and shortlived.
Scara, can I add spell check to my list of requests for the site?
Nothing like a good ol' flame war to pass a Tuesday....
Damn, sorry left the site to do some work and didn't realise that this has spiraled a bit into my territory.
Julian, I'm sorry that you took my comments as racist. I do not consider myself a racist.
Your comment:
"JUST because I am English does NOT give you an excuse to BELITTLE me."
I don't think that I belittled you. I think you probably just took a piss, looked down and automatically felt belittled.
Don't throw your self belittlification back on me.
I'm not a racist, though it is fun to throw that tag around, I'd like to clarify. I like Black, White, brown, yellow even purple people. I just don't like the French and some Homosexual English people. I cannot differentiate between the two so I threw you into that category.
Love Always,
Dave
Sometimes I just miss Thomas... His attacks are 'funiest'.
I'm not a racist either* so why are we arguing?
*but I DO hate black owls
You are probably just jealous of the Black Owl's ability to pee standing up.
or as a member of the rodent family, he fears their desire to attack him.
(he doesn't hate white owls because he's afraid that Harry Potter will jump to their defense)
yeah, prob didn't make sense...breathing paint fumes this AM....
Julian,
I'm not sure who 'EVERYONJE' is, but I have to assume that he/she is of Swedish descent.
I'm glad that you brought this to my attention because I have a great fondness for the women of Sweden. It would disturb me greatly if one of them was laughing at me.
Being that I don't really give a damn what the Swedish men think about me, I would like to inquire as to the gender of this 'EVERYONJE' person so that I know how to proceed.
Your prompt response is appreciated.
Was a TYPO, spacko!!!! lol
Tim, you know women fall in love with a man (or monkey) who can make them laugh...
and she is prob smart enough to read the whole site and get your references...
so, mascot to the Swedish bikini team, here you come!!!
(third best job--Australia, YBNBY, then that)
Tim, if you want to get familiarized with the language, I know a Swedish girl. I can help you to meet each other.
But you need to escape Alex' house first...
yeah, just like I thought...annoying buzzing noise equaled tiny, impotent gnat.
As you were boys...
Tim, do you think your Swedish girl has a hulking brother she can introduce to me?
Leo, good buddy ... there aren't enough hacksaws in the world to loosen the bindings I've created so that I would be free enough to hookup with a Swedish girl for 15 seconds.
Which happens to be about all the time I would need.
I know that because I got the wife a St. Pauli girl outfit for Christmas.
I like to wear it when we go to Liquor Barn.
Once again proving that T-I-M also equals T-M-I
You say Tim.
Julie,
I'm guessing you thought I wouldn't know what 'spacko' meant. But thanks to your good countryman Chad, I have recently had good reason to brush up on British slang.
I'll see your 'spacko' and raise you to a 'jabberwonker'.
Sincerely,
Your loyal secessionista
Julie's a bloody git and and a plonker.
Actually probably a bloody ponce and his momma is a bloody slag.
Julian, just kidding dog. Come back pal.
It's all in good fun.
TOO late.
I am DEFO going to blog about you now and get ALL of Plymouth (UK) to HATE you.
PS MOST of my town reads my blog so I HOPE you weren't planning a holiday around SW England any time soon. You would NOT be very popular.
NOW who's laughing????????????????????? pmsl
how cute...I learned about this in psych class but have never witnessed it...
Julian has delusions of grandeur!!!
awwww.....
And, boys and girls, I think we have just witnessed Julian wanking his own blog...
send the boy a tee shirt...
Julian has DEFO got a FAB blog it is followed by Five people and he follows John Swift (explains a lot) . I took a quick look and translating Thomas is much easier and Saner! His blog reminds me of the Crank Yankers prank phone calls and crap, mostly crap, crazy but crap.
Holy Crap, Julian just gave me the SW England Black ball.
No, Julian I don't plan on visiting anytime soon. I'm sure it wouldn't take much time for the Ladies to warm up if I did visit. For future reference you should give me your Mom's phone number.
I'm kind of a NW England kind of guy any how.
I think it's funny that you feel that everyone in SW England loves you enough to follow your command and blackball me from your town, but doesn't love you enough to give you a job.
Who's Laughing?
Dave is Laughing.
*Dave wiping his ass with a photo of Bill Strauss*
I'm sorry pal that was probably a little too far. Just trying to give you a little material for your blog.
C'mon Dave, that was harsh.
Bill Strauss is like the Babe Didrikson of European Soccer.
I know it was a little harsh, I submitted it and then had submitters remorse.
Now the little fella has left us forever.
Come back Julian ya little British camp.
I've given up blogging now because of what jonniewalker said about my blog.
As for Dave... *shakes head*... I DOUBT you get laid as often as me, so I'll just let it go THIS time.
Juliet,
You are probably right.
I forgot how much chicks dig dudes that live with their mom and don't have a job.
I'll bet you kick ass at Dungeons and Dragons too.
Badass.
Love Dave
Dave, you can make anyone sound desirable...
uh....not.
guess this side of the pond is not ready for his brilliance (hahahahaha) yet
You lot are WAY too weird
Julian,
Sorry bro, I was kind of a douche bag yesterday. It was a bad day and I took it out on you.
I think you are pretty funny and I checked out your blog, which by the way was fricken hilarious.
You should come back and be a part of team UNNA, I as the president am giving you a formal invitation.
The initiation is over and I will no longer hurl insults towards you or your mother, who by the way is probably a very special lady.
I got caught up in the moment when you told me that I didn't know how to love,called me a racist, and suggested that you got laid more often than I.
Those type of comments really hurt.
Sure on the outside I am extremely good looking, and Yoked like an ox. That still doesn't protect my sensitive inside, and to be honest the attacks hurt, they really hurt.
I have already forgiven and forgotten and I hope you will be kind enough to forgive me.
Your friend,
Dave
Dave,
ALL is forgiven. I have made some calls and if you NOW decide to come to Plymouth (UK) you will be given the red carpet treatment AND free (OTC) drugs.
I love you, Dave.
ROFL
Julian
PS Shall we do an exchange where I come to stay with you and we go to FRAT parties???????
So, Dave and Julian... are you done with your penis fencing? BFF now?
Great...
Dave, should I send him a SWAT team and a UNNA Rescue Card now you have invited him to become a UNNA member?
What on EARTH is a UNNA Rescue Card??????
Sounds like something out of 24!!!!!!! lmao
I WISH you guys lived nearer me... I've been HUNTING for a new wingman in ages, then TWO come along at ONCE!!!!!!!! pmslol
Julien,
I look forward to visiting Plymouth, looking more forward to the OTC drugs.
You'll have to come down for a visit.
I'll take you hunting.
Leo-Please School Julien up on UNNA.
hurry Leo....H.U.R.R.Y!!!!!!!!!
rofl!!!
I'll try to do it short... but to get everything you should peruse the YBNBY comments and forum threads from now to 5 months back, I guess.
It all started with Dave saying he could be a better president than any of the candidates for the last year's election. In a short time we had got almost all the commenters working in some area on his new government.
UNNA stands for United Nations of New America. Although we have Frank the Tank in the Aussie arm of the nation.
By the way, I'm from Brazil... what brought the 'Nations' instead of 'States' in the name.
We even have a flag: http://picasaweb.google.com.br/leo.mdc
Well, I can't remember everyone's positions, and I don't have the time to look for it now... as far as I can remember, the nominates were Dave (president), ConservaLiberCrat_08 (vice), sarcastic one, Tim, E, etantao, jeni gump, Senor (Sheriff) Pablo, me, and I'm sure I forgot some... sorry...
I'm the Arms Dealer and Thugs Contractor. So, everytime a UNNA member is needing some help, I'm the one to call.
Every member gets a SWAT team to keep their asses safe. All of them skilled in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and lots of other corporal fights, sharp-shooters and trained in one of the most dangerous places in the world, the Brazilian slum called Rocinha and another ones in Rio. (look for it, you'll be marvelled)
The UNNA rescue card is like a panic card you use to call any SWAT team available to help you wherever you are, whenever you're in danger.
The UNNA's motto is "Either with us or against us". We're tough but we're fair. And we don't want sissies in our team. If you have a problem with one of us, both will be headed to the White House, where there will be an Octogonal Ring where all the arguing take place. Brutally or not.
Now back to the work... I'll post some more about it if I get the time.
I am TOTALLY with you on this.
Have any of you guys noticed an UPTURN in lady action since becoming members??? ANY advantage is welcome!!!!! lmao
Julian, dear...the one thing that Leo left out of his very detailed update is that we don't use many all cap words unless we are referring to each other's nicknames (SP, CLC, SO)...it's in our constitution that we find it irritating to be shouted at at random intervals...
but I'm glad you decided to become a member--of course, you can be kicked out at any time as well...we bring it to a vote and decide.
SO, well remembered.
Julien, your position in UNNA is the foreign minister of pimp.
I will have details shortly.
Also in UNNA we do not use shorthand while speaking to other UNNA members.
E.G. LOL, ROFL, LMFAO etc.
Sorry dog, that just comes with being the foreign minister of pimp.
More powers bring more responsibilities... someone said it once...
Oh, and I forgot to mention if you have any ties or love for Argentina , you might as well get the hell out.
Ok, I will try (would usually put that in caps), but it will NOT be easy.
How will you know when I am emphasising? Caps are ESSENTIAL.
PLEASE overlook my writing style and accept me for who I am.
I have never even HEARD of Argentina, so I am HAPPY to play along with not liking him.
caps are not essential unless you're in a gun fight and need to pop one in someone's ass...
ask e.e. cummings.....
Julian, our second language is sarcasm, so you won't need to capitalize everytime you want to emphasize...
If you really need to give emphasis to something, you can **always** use the asterisks... it's less screaming than caps actually are.
Use the caps once in a while is a resource used by everyone... note: once in a while. You're using it in the rate of one per sentence. Or more...
You don't need to permanently stop using them, just use it reasonably.
Dave: Thanks for remembering about the 'Hermanos'. And in this subject Julian has a bonus-point on his favor: England has beaten the shit out of the Argentinians in '82, during the Falkland Wars.
I've been away too long!!!
Who the heck is this Julian Meteor dude?
Your future ex!!!!!!! lmao
That is Julian Meteor, Vicky... don't worry... pretend you haven't noticed and he forgets you.
Julian---you just broke Miss C's heart with that comment.....you're nothing but a manwhore...glad she didn't waste her time with you...
Vicky, you have got some major catching up to do...guess that was some good monkey love....
Sarcky... this manwhoriness ain't nothing new for us, because according to Julian he hangs out with 15 girls in a week--OK, only in the Meteorius Calendar, which has 365 days per week.
And every time he senses a different progesterone smell in the air he freaks out. That's one of the effects of lack of sex. The hunger.
But I thought he turned over a new leaf while he was pursuing Miss C....guess I was wrong....glad to see she didn't fall for his chavtacular ways....