I was thinking more of, oh, I don't know, small town elections in the rural south with successful strategies to suppress the voting of people of color.

Also, suggested Obner language use rules:

1. No use of the construction "I loves me some...."
2. No use of "fail" in all of its mutilated language forms. Especially heinous if modified by "epic."
3. Posting whilst drunk does not exempt anyone from these rules.

With the Pixies winning (so far), that basically means Radiohead finished fifth in this event. I'll accept that, although it did perform much better against Doolittle than Pavement did.

Total Votes 69 LOL

Y'know, we really don't have to try that hard at all, thanks to folks like you.

FWIW, I wish it was Bossanova that was slaying Sticky Fingers instead of Doolittle.

How 'bout Colossal Repudiation?

Or Astronomic Flounder?

Jesus, Drink...touchy much?

I didn't know calling you on your bullshit was going to elicit such a response.

And I didn't want to list out all of the Timmy Joes and Jewels Santanas that are unable to follow the most basic thread topics and conversations.

and for full Tim Russert effect, there's this.



Sorry you're own petard hoisted you. Go cry in the car.[/quote]

maybe if you wrote like a grown up and didn't have so many irrational hatreds I could follow your "logic" better.

I've kinda noticed that throughout this entire tournament (and to a certain extent, this is the overall tone of the board in general), the M.O. for some of the participants has been to be irritatingly faux-confrontational, and then indignantly shocked when someone gets fed up with the irritating faux-confrontation.

I sort of got used to it and even look forward to it at times, but I can certainly understand how someone could overreact to this, and hopefully those who are irritatingly faux-confrontational might also understand how someone could overreact to this too.

Anyway, whoever wins this, this was actually a REALLY great idea and made for a damn fun time for three or four weeks. Thanks to OPA for doing all the work. I was really skeptical but it really worked out well. I wouldn't mind doing another one in maybe a different way soon - perhaps several albums on "teams" or something like that. For example, a 5 album team vs. another 5 album team, which would probably polarize the voting less. I also think we should vote in posts rather than polls to timestamp it and to ensure no one's using gimmicks.

does this mean you two can finally get back to being bff's

I like Derris's Term "Astronomic Flounder". It seems like someone should be using it as an awesomely bad band name. I too enjoyed myself during this process, even if my music taste was publicly ridiculed a little.
I wouldn't consider this exercise to be an overwhelming success. The seeding and pairings were never really logical, especially the full bracket system after having a FIFA World Cup Style pool play.
Who's going to do the Obner bracket now?

an obner member bracket would bring this board to it's pasty white knees. someone please do this

i asked this in another thread.

especially curious that this poll has almost 20 more votes than the other one.

it's already set up and seeded, someone just needs to post up polls

http://www.obner.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=784742#784742

I got next. Will do a bracket up after work, & post the first four matches in the late eve (~ 9 pm CDT).

o man o man

Expect the regions to have naming similar to the Obner Fantasy Baseball League divisions (O3CR & Ting-Ting La-La). Not the same, but of a piece.

There will definitely being a FAIL region (though not necessarily indicative of the failure/"failure" of the posters slotted there).

(low whistle)

i like our brackets chances.

No.














Just.... no.

you can be deleted user.

I'm looking forward to the gentlemanly discussions this may engender.






Also... FUCK. YOU. 98%.

i can't believe Dusty Chalk is still up there. we could/should sub him out?

Incredible. It'll be larf, but I also have no doubt that Rome will burn in the process.