Your irrational pet peeves

[dodint]

Ask me about ICQ. (2306800)

[stopper40]

Ask me about ICQ. (2306800)

You actually remember your number. I'm impressed is ICQ even still around?

[dodint]

Not sure why that number has always stuck in my head, but there it is. I tried to reclaim it years later but it's been reissued. ICQ is still there, was last sold in 2010 by AOL for almost $170million.

Actually, that must've been a really formative time in my life. I can remember my first website: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/7770" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Switched to Angelfire to make a Petr Nedved site after that.

Also, Webcrawler was my first steady search site, before Google.

iMemory Lane, today.

[DocEmrick]

Well that is certainly irrational.

I think it depends on what you do. I have 6 programs open right now and 3 tabs open on my browser.

that's not terrible. I have 4 tabs open and 9 programs but I'm in software so I always have to have a bunch of programs (Visual Studio, command prompt, SQL server, Outlook, Chrome etc.) open. But I have some meetings where someone shares their screen and they have something like 20+ programs and 15+ tabs open on multiple browsers.

Just seems so unnecessary, I want to ask why he doesn't close them.

Haha I can see that.

"Sir...why do you have chrome, firefox, internet explorer, netscape*, and aol** all open at the same time?"

*Netscape was a web browser from back before you were born
**AOL was the google of the early to mid 90s

Reminds me of web dude vs sales guy

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[columbia]

AOL is thinking about buying Yahoo.
I had know idea that for the former still existed.

[DocEmrick]

AOL is thinking about buying Yahoo.
I had know idea that for the former still existed.

Steve Case was on MSNBC a week or so ago. I was howling thinking of the old EFNet #prankradio calls to AOL customer service where phewl called up and demanded to speak to Steve Case.

[shmenguin]

Not sure why that number has always stuck in my head, but there it is. I tried to reclaim it years later but it's been reissued. ICQ is still there, was last sold in 2010 by AOL for almost $170million.

Actually, that must've been a really formative time in my life. I can remember my first website: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/7770" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Switched to Angelfire to make a Petr Nedved site after that.

Also, Webcrawler was my first steady search site, before Google.

iMemory Lane, today.

webcrawler was as good as it got back then. i had an angelfire site in 1997, but switched over to tripod the next year for some reason. i remember the day where i figured out how to put a picture on the internet. my mind was blown.

[DelPen]

Hate it when at work I get an IM that says good morning and then nothing else. I refuse to initiate or take part in an IM conversation that way. Ask your question.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

somehow AOL.com still is 147th in page views. I legitimately don't know anyone that still uses that site.

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

Hate it when at work I get an IM that says good morning and then nothing else. I refuse to initiate or take part in an IM conversation that way. Ask your question.

I will ignore those IMs until I get another one.

[shafnutz05]

somehow AOL.com still is 147th in page views. I legitimately don't know anyone that still uses that site.

Email. I see tons of AOL accounts in my job as a recruiter. I would guess they had an AOL account, and may not use it anymore but wanted to keep their email address.

[columbia]

Maybe they should merge and re-brand as Prodigy.

[mikey287]

My little nest egg is ~50,000 free hours of AOL locked up in CDs...can't wait to cash out on that sucker...

[columbia]

I'd cash it in for orange juice futures.

[blackjack68]

somehow AOL.com still is 147th in page views. I legitimately don't know anyone that still uses that site.

Email. I see tons of AOL accounts in my job as a recruiter. I would guess they had an AOL account, and may not use it anymore but wanted to keep their email address.

My parents are in their 70s and use AOL.

[Lt. Dish]

Punchable faces has some history on LGP.

By the looks of it, it has been attributed to the following people:

Vance Worley - Rocco
Rick Nash - MIMH
Chris Osgood - Slappy
Jonathan Papelbon - TheGhostOfGoulet
Brad Marchand - Steve, DontToewsMeBro
John Jay - canaan
Chris Hayes - dodint, who later nominated him a 2nd time after seeing a pic of him on google
"those PS4 guys" - Spangler
Steve Ott - sil/Lt. Dish in a team effort
Claude Giroux (officially described as "this turd", but mentioned during a punchable faces discussion)
Alec Baldwin - idoit40fans
David Luiz - Rocco
Dan Bylsma - SoupOrSam
Jeremy Roenick - Steve
Matt Holliday - TheGhostOfGoulet
Milan Michalek - Juice, Malkamaniac
Andrew Fillaponi - JS©
Phillip Rivers - Beveridge, thewicked child (separate posts)
Govs. Tom Corbett and Tom Wolf - pghskins
Brandon Dubinsky - MRandall25, MIMH
and last but not least, Todd Chrisley of Chrisley Knows Best - apparently me

Although that's a solid list, why do I feel there are people missing?

Solid data mining there.

Well done, indeed. Needs some Ryan Braun, though, unless I missed it elsewhere.

[redwill]

Reminds me of web dude vs sales guy

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Oh, my Lord. How is it I've never seen this before?

So good from start to finish. "How am I supposed to get on the internet without AOL?"

I'm gonna be chuckling for the rest of the day. Thanks, man.

[DocEmrick]

AOL still functions as a portal website, with it's basic e-mail services. No doubt name recognition alone leads the unwary to it's clutches.

AOL was so much fun in the mid-90s. If it wasn't for AOL's buggy and horrible API, I never would have become a developer. The AOL hacking scene started in Pittsburgh, the entire social engineering method known as "phishing," was started on AOL. Look up AOHell. Dude supposedly lived in Shaler.

[shafnutz05]

haha I definitely had AOHell at one point. Used to frigging love using it in chat rooms.

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

Punchable faces

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

Punchable faces

I don't even know this guy but I want to punch my monitor. That's how you know you have a really punchable face.


edit: haha oh, he's the president of the NCAA. had no idea. don't pay attention to college sports.

[dodint]

AOL chatrooms in 1996 was where my snark was born. I've just been tending it ever since.

[tifosi77]

I'd cash it in for orange juice futures.

When I see a mention of the Koch brothers I actually picture the Dukes in my head.

[yubb]

"Grip" hockey sticks. Irrational because I've never used one. I've felt them in the store and want to break them instantly.

[DocEmrick]

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