Category: Greetings

A site note

Scoop, ... 18 comments.

I’m not one to enforce a lot of rules about what you can and can’t say in the comments, but there is one prime directive: choose one identity and stick with it. No sock puppets.

(And worst of all, don’t use a second or third identity to agree with what you previously said. That can be especially obvious if your English is not perfect and all of your identities make the same grammatical or punctuation errors.)

Also – and this is not a rule, just a suggestion – don’t keep posting the same opinion in every thread. OK, you don’t like HBO or modern Hollywood or male nudity or some other pet peeve. We get it. Those are not baseless opinions; many others agree with you. But you don’t need to keep repeating the points. We already know how you feel.

The revised Scoopy Calendar

Scoop, ... 4 comments.

Like the Catholic Church, I have revised the calendar, eliminated some saints and added others. It is now a lunar calendar, with one fixed-date holiday for each month, and an extra movable-date holiday for Giant Pink Japanese Penis Day.

January 6: Mr. Bean Day (Rowan Atkinson’s birthday)

February 24: Unsuccessful Voyage Day (Billy Zane’s birthday)

March 22: Shatmas (William Shatner’s birthday) *

First Sunday in April: Giant Pink Japanese Penis Day
April 18: Eric Roberts’ birthday.

May 1: Cousin Greg Day (Nicholas Braun’s birthday)

June 21: Count Floyd Day (Joe Flaherty’s birthday)

July 8: Hey Now Day (Jeffrey Tambor’s birthday)

August 18: Dalton Day (Patrick Swayze’s birthday)

Note: Dalton Eve (August 17th) occurs on Spicoli Day (Sean Penn’s birthday)

September 19: Talk Like a Pirate Day

October 24: Salieri Day (F. Murray Abraham’s birthday)

November 27: Booger Day (Curtis Armstrong’s birthday)

December 23: Festivus

* Shatmas is also my New Year’s Day. I am now living in the year 94 A.S. (Anno Shatner).

Site news

Scoop, ... 7 comments.

Most of the database has been restored.

There are some quirks from things that could not be restored:

1. The old posts are all there, but they are undated and uncategorized. That’s inconvenient, but the search engine finds them all.

2. The old polls are all gone. That’s disappointing, but the only thing we lost is the numerical tallies.

3. When Other Crap posts link to additional Other Crap posts, the links sometimes don’t work. That is related to the loss of the date. For example, if an internal link leads to https://othercrap.com/2020/10/its-matilda-de-angelis-topless-again/, it will return a 404 error, even though the post still exists. (It is now at https://othercrap.com/its-matilda-de-angelis-topless-again/ because of the date problem.) There’s no way I can fix those in batch, so I’ll just have to edit them as I find them. If you get a 404 error on that kind of link, you can get to the link you want by stripping away the date indicator in your address bar as I demonstrated above, or you can just search again for what you want, because the search engine does return the NEW url.

4. The old comments are gone, even though the post may tell you there are, for example, 10 comments.

A note about the site

Scoop, ... 19 comments.

It appears that I may have lost all the Other Crap posts of the past six years. There may be some hope, but it doesn’t look good. That database was corrupted. As of now, I’m starting from scratch with a new host.

I mention this for two reasons.

1. I’m sure you were wondering why the site has like five posts instead of 23,000.

2. I want you regulars to realize why am I going to re-post some of the best material from the past. I know that people don’t like repeats, but I kinda need to fill things out again, so if you’ve seen it before and don’t want to see it again, just be understanding and ignore it.

Anyway, the present and future continue as if nothing had happened, but the past is gone.

Just as in real life.

Except on the Wayback Machine, which has collected a pretty decent percentage of what has appeared here. According to their count they have preserved a record of 34,915 distinct URLs from Other Crap!! That dates back as far as 2003.

If you’re missing the great old material, I should mention that the subscription site still contains everything that has been published there since 1998!!

(If you are a member of the Fun House site, have some patience. I fell a little behind because I’ve been dealing with this database disaster.)