Stuff CJ Forgot to Delete: The Life of the LGF Dictionary
The infamous LGF Dictionary has a long and storied history (which includes yours truly), and I figured that I might as well get around to addressing what CJ told the world about it during the Battle of Al-Guardian™:
Well, not exactly. In fact, there isn’t much in there that resembles the real story. So, unlike CJ, we’re going to give you the whole truth. And for that, we need to look no further than the Dictionary itself (note the timestamps):
LGF Dictionary – The LGF Dictionary itself (which you are now reading — self-referential enough for you?) accidentally got its start with this innocent post: zombie 1/7/2005 02:41PM (which was a follow-up to this comment). In the space of three and a half hours, the idea had grown so quickly from a tentative list of six terms into a full-fledged lexicon that Charles made a thread devoted specifically to the concept: 1/7/2005: LGF Etymological Dictionary, Charles 1/7/2005 06:16PM, which has matured into the page you see here.
The devoted thread, as our readers may recall, was eventually memory holed. But as you’ll see, CJ was pretty sloppy with his delete-fu this time. If you follow the links to the original comments, you’ll find this, the LGF Dictionary hatchling:
So excited was CJ about the dictionary idea that he not only approved of it, but also contributed to it:
After that Dictionary thread, it was decided that since the list and definitions were the product of Zombie’s concept and organization, he/she was to be de facto curator of the contents. It was proudly linked in LGF’s sidebar over the years to Zombietime at first, then later to a lizard group blog that Zombie created. This official transition was kicked off with a dedicated ”big announcement” thread (again note the timestamp):
This was the site that I eventually “hacked” a year later (and re-hacked?). Zombie shut it down as a result, and then the Dictionary was sanitized a little by CJ (redacting the contributions of now-banned lizards) and moved to LGF itself until it was discovered to be missing in October 2009. (No announcement or explanation has been made, to my knowledge)
So, for our lurker mathematicians: The timeline proves that Dictionary was an LGF staple for almost 5 years, and that it was actually hosted on LGF proper for the “very short time” of almost 1 year.
Exit questions for the lurkers:
1. How many of the “crack editorial staff” are now banned? And why? (hint)
2. Can CJ tell the straight truth about anything?
he’s a fraud and everyday he gets more exposed.
FYI, “moonbat” was a play on the name of George Monbiot, a British climate nutcase. It was well established outside of LFG.
Proof cj has come full circle at least.
I’m using a sock here…not because I like having to use a sock, but because the “real me” can’t get out of the spam bin!
I wonder whatever happened to George Monbiot.
If I recall, before he went around the bend on climate stuff, he did do an expose on the public relations firms that provided the pretexts for going after the Serbs.
Too bad he lost his bearings.
Monbiot was last seen at al-Guardian, pushing some drivel about the Tea Party movement being an astro-turf project of the Koch brothers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/oct/25/tea-party-koch-brothers
Matter of fact, according to wiki,
“Howie Carr has used the term a number of times in his column in the Boston Herald.[3][4][5][6][7][8] The earliest known use by Carr was in a Rocky Mountain News article on August 8, 1996.[9]”
Well before LFG was even a twinkle in Chuck’s eye.
2. Can CJ tell the straight truth about anything?
There’s one way that “CJ” can be completely unaware of what “CJ” did in the past.
I think “pant load” should (retro-actively) be included in the LFG Dictionary.
As in, wow this site and the people posting here sure are such pant loads.
Maybe we should start up the new, revised edition of the LFG Dictionary. Post it all over the interwebs…… etc. etc.
Monbiot is a “journalist” at Al-Guardian.
Now he’s an opinion writer at that rag!
That shitstain claimed I was banned for making death threats, then was stupid enough to provide a link to my supposed death threat! Especially odd as all my comments were deleted when I was banned. He’s got a full archive showing how full of shit he is squirreled away somewhere.
He repeated his Sgt Schultz routine when St. Pancake was brought up. That was an interesting exchange, though. Posting on the al Guardian is a lot like posting on LGF: lots of pseudo-intellectuals engaging in flame wars. The big difference is Johnson was being deleted by the moderator as well – and the reason for comments being deleted was actually far less clear than on LGF where it is simply disagreeing with the megalomaniac in charge.
Ditto. He crapped all over himself many times by doing that.
He did not acquit himself well. He knew nothing of the years of referring to Rachel Corrie as St. Pancake!
What a weasel.
You said a mouthful.
FYI, I was comment 73 at the top link. See the deleted one?
The piece of shit flushed over 7 years of commentary of mine.
What a terribly dishonest man.
In his Guardian comment, he claimed he didn’t approve of the LGF dictionary. Now we find that in 2007, he praised it as “excellent work”. I had to laugh. Chuck has been busted lying again.
I busted him for this very hypocrisy in that Guardian comment-thread…not sure if that was one of the comments that got deleted, though. I provided a link to him praising the Dictionary, and one where he was proudly hosting it.
Lying crap-weasel.
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• Hot Air (Aug. 2009)
— just 6 weeks before KT’s