An amusing DUmmy thread about Ariana Huffington & the DUmp

[Ralph Wiggum]

This is actually a "best of" thread:

Stargazer99 (1,092 posts)

I've been on this site since Ariana Huffington owned it in the early 1990's


and one thing that was told several time in that period that the goal of conservative Republicans was cheap labor
now don't you think it is time to shove it down their throats?

Early 90's? 

Let the fun begin:

ChisolmTrailDem (2,093 posts)
1. Ariana Huffington owned DU in the early '90s?

nobodyspecial (2,221 posts)
3. News to the actual owners as well.

lol

sufrommich (14,910 posts)
6. I don't think HuffPo was around in the 1990s ,let

alone DU.

Dreamer Tatum (8,206 posts)
9. Ah, memories. Those of us who were here in the mid-80's

still recall the debates we had over Nicaragua and El Salvador.

It annoyed the folks who were here since Watergate...I understand the fur really
flew then. And that was before broadband!

Codeine (13,342 posts)
19. Remember the Dewey Defeats Truman thread?

Epic lulz there. So many people ended up on Earl Warren's iggy list that day!

Dreamer Tatum (8,206 posts)
20. And remember when we were online for the Shot Heard Round the World?

The Dodgers Win The Pennant!

I can still see the 1950-era HTML on the Sporting News website. Took forever for those
Maypo ads to load.

MineralMan (62,324 posts)
13. I believe you are confused about more than one thing.

rurallib (34,072 posts)
17. I believe the actual owner at that time was Ariana Underground

she married Franklin Roosevelt Democratic in early 2000 and they hyphenated their names and named the website after them. Thus Democratic-Underground.
I do believe that the Democratic-Undergrounds do not favor shoving anything down anyone's throat without full consent of the shovee.

snooper2 (19,893 posts)
18. I've been hanging out here since the early 90's as well-

Remember the threads about all the gangster rap coming out!



And then when Tupac was murded, shit GD BLEW UP!

Democracyinkind (3,658 posts)
34. I was here when the epic flamewars between the Greek and Trojan apologists took place.

I was almost run off this site for suggesting that both sides were dirty imperialists and that it was not about Helen at all but about OIL. Olive oil, that is.

[JohnnyReb]

I'm waiting for the "GOD threw Satin out of heaven" and now he's homeless thread.

[Karin]

   Codeine and Dreamer Tatum.  That was funny.

[GOP Congress]

Well, put a million monkeys together, a million Commodore 64's as well, give them enough cheetos, weed, and Diet Coke , and they can type out something that conservatives like us can laugh with, not at, for a change.

But just once.

[tanstaafl]

Well, put a million monkeys together, a million Commodore 64's as well, give them enough cheetos, weed, and Diet Coke , and they can type out something that conservatives like us can laugh with, not at, for a change.

But just once.

Commodore 64 .... that's so eighties, man.

And ghey, too.

[formerlurker]

Did anyone check their user profile to see when they became member?

[diesel driver]

Well, put a million monkeys together, a million Commodore 64's as well, give them enough cheetos, weed, and Diet Coke , and they can type out something that conservatives like us can laugh with, not at, for a change.

But just once.

Did they even MAKE a million Commode 64's?

Still they were a step up from the TRS 80's from Radio Shack...

[dane]

Did they even MAKE a million Commode 64's?

Still they were a step up from the TRS 80's from Radio Shack...

My first computer was a Radio Shack CC (color computer) 64 - hooked up to a portable TV.

[JLO]

Did anyone check their user profile to see when they became member?

Mid Feb. 2008, but I lurked for a long time before that. 

[DumbAss Tanker]

I'm waiting for the "GOD threw Satin out of heaven" and now he's homeless thread.

Sounds like one of Nadin's ancestors penned that one.

 

[Chris_]

Did they even MAKE a million Commode 64's?

The Commodore 64 has sold more than any other computer in history.   The Guinness book of Records estimates that  there were about 30 MILLION units pushed out of Commodore plants. However, most  historians argue that the real number is in the 20 million range.

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I had a neighbor with one.  The graphics and gameplay were better than the Tandy 1000 I had, but waiting for the games to load took forever.

[zeitgeist]

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I had a neighbor with one.  The graphics and gameplay were better than the Tandy 1000 I had, but waiting for the games to load took forever.

I still have one in the shed.  No brag, just fact.    A friend found it cleaning out an attic.  Has the leather covers, monitor, and a floppy drive.   I also have the multi function (green) monitor / Color TV  I used with mine back in the day.  Now I use it as a spare room 13" color TV.  I used it with the C64 then with a "Wells American 80286" IBM PC clone made in SC (it ran IBM DOS not MS).  The C64 was great, I never had a drive, I used cassette tape.  You could literally make and drink a cup of coffee while it loaded.   

[NHSparky]

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I had a neighbor with one.  The graphics and gameplay were better than the Tandy 1000 I had, but waiting for the games to load took forever.

I had one in HS.  Yeah, the cassette drive was slow, and the disk drives cost more than the computer did--about $500-600, IIRC.

But it was pretty cool what I could do with them compared to the Trash-80's or even the Apple II's.