"Crankyland isn't Crankyland anymore"

Submitted by Rajah on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 13:37.

That's what Mia said in a recent e-mail. Is it true? And if so what made Crankyland Crankyland? Was it the people? What's the true essence of Crankyland? Can we get back there or must we evolve into something else? The last thread to generate more that one hundred posts was about the godless atheists. Is that what we've become. an atheist/communist website?

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Back when Crankyland was Crankyland

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Submitted by elderly_gentleman on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 16:41.

I had been a lurker for years. When I finally came out of the darkness, everything was rosey - or so it seemed. Now...

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Back in the good old days

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Submitted by Coaster on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 17:03.

We had this guy who just hated back in the good old days posts.  I wonder what ever happened to him?

Well, back in the good old days, people would post about drama in their personal lives.  And it was indeed fairly personal stuff.  The drama was real, and I felt involved a bit in their lives; Though I was limited to sitting on the sidelines and cheering them on.  Now, not so much.  That was one element of Olde Crankeelande.  It seems that now nobody wants to share intimate details of their lives with perfect strangers.  What's up with that?

Generally, I'd say that few here share much of themselves, and that has removed the closeness from what had been a friendly little watering hole with an occasional sprinkling of jerks.  Nobody invests themselves in this website, and we're the poorer for it. 

Group hug, anybody?   I didn't think so. 

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Hmmm

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Submitted by Rajah on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 18:52.

Some people didn't like the drama. I guess I created some of it myself. It's alot more fun if you're on the sidelines I guess.

What puzzles me is people like Aron didn't show up for Crankyland's near death experience.

Perhaps Crankyland is dead and it just doesn't know it yet. Maybe we are all dead and we don't know it. We're Cranky Zombies! Mmmmm BRAINS!!!!!

Heck, I'd settle for some depressing rants

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Well, I miss the old site.

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Submitted by Mal_Content on Sun, 02/01/2009 - 21:55.

I miss everything that made it feel like I was talking with friends.  Or enemies, depending on the thread.  This site just feels so...pedestrian.

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Would it help, Mal, if I talk more about my cockring?

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Submitted by HS on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 02:44.

Because I could do that....

 

HS

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Sadly, no, HS.

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Submitted by Mal_Content on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 22:18.

Perhaps if you posted a pic...?

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I'll ask the Little General if I can post his

Rajah's picture
Submitted by Rajah on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 22:28.

But I'll have to find some other host than Tinypic.com. They say he's porn, imagine that!

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Well, since HS is too shy to post his, I'll post mine...

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Submitted by Coaster on Tue, 02/03/2009 - 05:39.

Coaster's Ring O (hold your) Fire

                                          (Actual Size)

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Ya know, when I showed the ^above^ entry to my wife.....

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Submitted by Coaster on Tue, 02/03/2009 - 05:47.

She laughed a little bit too much.

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Mine kept falling off

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Submitted by Rajah on Tue, 02/03/2009 - 11:16.

Hey, it's cold in here! Give me a break!

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What kept falling off?

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Submitted by FearlessFreep on Wed, 02/04/2009 - 05:07.

The ring, or...?

 

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I used to be the worst about

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Submitted by Badtz Maru on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 21:05.

I used to be the worst about posting embarassing stuff about my personal life here.  Back in the 90s we thought the internet was anonymous.

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Long time no see, BM!

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Submitted by FearlessFreep on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 05:37.

What's new in your life?

 

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Let's see...I'm married

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Submitted by Badtz Maru on Fri, 02/20/2009 - 20:41.

Let's see...I'm married again, I have three kids (3, 4, and 7), one of which is biologically mine, I've been out of the tech support industry for about 4 years now, have a private investigators license (expires this year and I don't plan to renew it as I'm not doing that anymore), and I live in Dallas, TX now.  I've shifted away from being a libertarian and I'm an Obama socialist now.

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As for me...

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Submitted by FearlessFreep on Fri, 02/20/2009 - 21:16.

Still unemployed in Toronto.

 

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The site is doing well, I don't think it's that bad...

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Submitted by TMundo on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 19:23.

...especially considering Cranky put up a lot of notes talking about how the site was closing, and how he didn't want to write reviews anymore, but reviews ar her, and some of the same folks are still around.  New posters are popping up, and the films that were reviewed in the past are generating new posters at random.  The place is becoming more of an archive like the imdb then one single page per week.  Conversations don't die, they get saved for later.  It's a growing process, it'll be something new.

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back when Mark Walberg was Marky Mark...

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Submitted by TMundo on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 19:28.

...this is how we used to make the party start...

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I also have been a lurker,

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Submitted by Yo_Terrance (not verified) on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 19:31.

I also have been a lurker, and the reviews I've read today, most recently "Indiana Jones", have been short of the mark.

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Welllll...

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Submitted by Mad Ness (not verified) on Thu, 01/29/2009 - 00:17.

The thing is, this is by all means a brand new website.  It's so different from the original Cranky's, the comparison is almost unfair.  

While we're on the subject, wasn't it Aron who said, "the 'Good Old Days' always seem to be five months before *you* started posting." 

/ Wasn't really into the drama either.

// Or the politics.

/// Just here to talk about stupid pop-culture bullshit.

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And I'm still having a hard time staying logged-in. WTF?

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Submitted by Mad Ness (not verified) on Thu, 01/29/2009 - 00:19.

Which is, for the two or three people who notice when I'm gone, the reason why I haven't been posting that often.

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I've noticed

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Submitted by Rajah on Thu, 01/29/2009 - 01:16.

This place turns into a sausagefest!

Even the people who crossed over with us from the old site have stopped posting

Xur (why hast thou forsaken us?)

Terribell (are you lactating yet?)

Kangagang (where are you?)

Mal Content (posting will help your igloo fever)

Wally Pipps (we need your brain)

Junkyard Dog (one lousy post?)

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I miss Grundle/Capt. Lance Murdoch

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Submitted by FearlessFreep on Thu, 01/29/2009 - 05:44.

We had interesting cartoon discussions.

 

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He also started alot of other discussions in the old Crankyland

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Submitted by Rajah on Thu, 01/29/2009 - 13:37.

I'm curious what he'd say about his free market now

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I also miss Beast

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Submitted by FearlessFreep on Sun, 02/22/2009 - 06:51.

I'm sure he'd be interested in my opera blogposts.

 

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Me too.

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Submitted by MadNessMonster on Mon, 02/23/2009 - 00:53.

I'm still reeling from that awful, awful day when we found out.  I still wonder what he would have said about "Timmy To the Rescue".

(Oh, jeez, I'm going to start crying again.)

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Beast was a helluva guy.

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Submitted by Wulfgar on Mon, 02/23/2009 - 02:06.

Totally miss him.

 

 

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~No, my young padawan; this one is mine.~

 

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I'm still around!

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Submitted by Xur on Sat, 01/31/2009 - 06:05.

Well, not *around* as in around here, but I'm around.  I currently have extremely limited Internet access and a ridiculously overactive personal life at the moment, so I haven't logged in for a while.  Don't worry, I'll be back eventually!

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Careful, Xur.

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Submitted by Mal_Content on Sun, 02/01/2009 - 21:57.

Your overactive personal life may cause severe cramping of the hands.

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Then what is this site lacking?

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Submitted by Rajah on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 00:48.

The chaos factor is missing, maybe that's it

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It's true about Rajah...

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Submitted by TMundo on Sat, 01/31/2009 - 23:58.

the evidence supports it:

Rajah wrote:

Wally Pipps (we need your brain)

Rajah is a zombie.

Now, what kind of zombie be he?

-Simple flesh eater

-Brain Eater

-Agile Carnivore

-Slow Arms Out

-Reproductive

-Attempt at Reasoning

 

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Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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Submitted by Rajah on Sun, 02/01/2009 - 00:12.

BRAINS!

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Back to lurking for me

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Submitted by gamerarocks on Thu, 01/29/2009 - 14:10.

A little tongue-in-cheek, and perspective goes out the window.

Impeach Jim Gibbons!

 

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ok

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Submitted by Critico on Thu, 01/29/2009 - 17:03.

so she should come back and try to put some life into this thing.

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Excellent point.

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Submitted by MadNessMonster on Sat, 02/21/2009 - 15:26.

This isn't the old Crankyland. Get over it.  I'm sick of being one of the last female regulars.  <:(

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Is it the same as Olde Crankopolis™?

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Submitted by Wulfgar on Thu, 01/29/2009 - 21:13.

No.

 

Could anything be as great as (some of) our Rose-Colored Memories™ of That Place And Time™?

 

Doubt it.

 

Can it be Good Enough™?

 

Maybe, if you fuckers make an effort, For Fuck's Sake™.

 

 

 

~No, my young padawan; this one is mine.~™

 

 P.S. Nessie, your Girl-Geek™ presence has been missed.

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" P.S. Nessie, your Girl-Geek™ presence has been missed."

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Submitted by MadNessMonster on Fri, 02/06/2009 - 22:09.

*^_^*

So far I haven't had a problem staying logged in using Firefox.  You'll be seeing some more of me.

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I will now ™ a ™ ™™ see? I did it

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Submitted by TMundo on Thu, 01/29/2009 - 23:48.

TMundo™ Yeah, I like that

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 01/30/2009 - 05:23.
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Eh.

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Submitted by Wulfgar on Fri, 01/30/2009 - 06:07.


I give it a 2.3 out of a possible 10.

 

 

Try harder, cuntrag.™

 

~No, my young padawan; this one is mine.~

 

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How are youse guys trade marking everything?

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Submitted by Rajah on Fri, 01/30/2009 - 12:00.

not fair!

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What...

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Submitted by Wulfgar on Fri, 01/30/2009 - 12:40.

...yöu dön't knöw Höw Tö Dö It?™           
~No, my young padawan; this one is mine.~

 

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Copy and paste is a great way of taking credit for something™

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Submitted by TMundo on Sat, 01/31/2009 - 04:00.

or you could just get a Mac.

I don't use a Mac.

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That's what Crankyland needs

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Submitted by Rajah on Sat, 01/31/2009 - 13:11.

More lifeless people!

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OK...

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Submitted by Wulfgar on Sat, 01/31/2009 - 21:45.

...ALT+0153

http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codealt.html

~No, my young padawan; this one is mine.~

 

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oh hello there don't mind

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Submitted by church on Sun, 02/01/2009 - 21:16.

oh hello there don't mind the mouldy brain matter

 

no rajah keep your dirty fetid hands away from my brain!

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It's certainly different

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Submitted by Badtz Maru on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 21:03.

Nice to be able to get my old handle back now, though.

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Whatever happened to

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 23:24.

Whatever happened to Pathetic Owl, Veruca Salt, and all the older Crankylanders

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^^^Coaster ate them

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Submitted by Rajah on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 00:39.

He likes to meat people

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Badtz! Church!

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Submitted by MadNessMonster on Sat, 02/21/2009 - 15:31.

Good question about the other posters though.  I seem to recall that the (for want of a better word) generation of posters who were established well before I started vanished sometime between the Cranky Survivor thingie and the Conqueror Clone Wars.

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Where the heck is Terribell? Carrying that baby around I suspect

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Submitted by Rajah on Sat, 02/21/2009 - 20:22.

Alas, I don't know nuthin' bout birthing no babies!

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