The Fly Suit

[Alisaura]

If you've got the Rock's Hottest Ticket boot, you do.

I think my favourite Exit is 18 November 1987. I would pay exorbitant amounts of money for them to do it again.

I'd be seriously willing to pay something stupid like $500 just to hear the set we had today.

If I have Rock's Hottest Ticket, it's under a different name...
Oh well, one more trip to u2start won't kill me (along with the dozens of others I need to make)...

Now, if we all asked our parents for $500....
Hell, I'd throw in my own money too!

 

[Axver]

You know how lazy people are... I certainly wouldn't have thought of googling Lichtenstein and finding out it's landlocked. Mind you, I would have stopped at the point where U2 supports whaling, but ....

I suspect some people just got a geographical education ...

And also learnt to read closely. I wonder how many people in their enthusiasm/selective reading saw it as save the WHALES, no 'r'.

 

[Alisaura]

I'll find you a tab so you can learn that spoon bass outro.

I hope spoons are easier to use than a pick.

Hahah! I love JCOSTER's ""

 

[Axver]

I hope spoons are easier to use than a pick.

It's probably an acquired art that will redefine the way the bass guitar is understood.

 

[Alisaura]

I totally couldn't have made a better set than this myself, this is so fucking amazing I have no words.

That thread will provide DAYS of entertainment. I need to sleep now... sleeeeeep toniiiiiiiight....

 

[Alisaura]

And also learnt to read closely. I wonder how many people in their enthusiasm/selective reading saw it as save the WHALES, no 'r'.

Good point. I can't wait to get to the Moby Dick part....

 

[Alisaura]

It's probably an acquired art that will redefine the way the bass guitar is understood.

That's what Adam's been doing with himself for the last year... redefining the bass.

I saw someone else post a thread with a pic of Adam's alleged new bass... was that a joke too? Cos it's.... rather Macphisto-esque.

 

[Axver]

That thread will provide DAYS of entertainment. I need to sleep now... sleeeeeep toniiiiiiiight....

Just for the record, Varitek put me up to that one.

I was laughing so hard as I typed that.

 

[Axver]

Good point. I can't wait to get to the Moby Dick part....

That, surprisingly, didn't gather much of a reaction. Clearly not a literary crowd.

 

[Alisaura]

Just checked... didn't even register a blip on the PLEBA radar... barring Jen's sig.

I love how I say I'm leaving and then forget and get distracted catching up.. but I mean it this time!

Seeya

 

[Axver]

That's what Adam's been doing with himself for the last year... redefining the bass.

I saw someone else post a thread with a pic of Adam's alleged new bass... was that a joke too? Cos it's.... rather Macphisto-esque.

Hey, I just found Adam has been LITERALLY redefining the bass. From the latest Irish English Dictionary:

bass, noun, 1. a type of fish. 2. a way to score chicks while standing around on stage looking cool with a 'fro. Usage example: With little musical talent but a cool bass, Adam Clayton fathered half of Ireland.

 

[Axver]

Just checked... didn't even register a blip on the PLEBA radar... barring Jen's sig.

I love how I say I'm leaving and then forget and get distracted catching up.. but I mean it this time!

Seeya

See, all the more proof it was fake. PLEBA surely would've known before us. "Bono was at Dublin airport boarding a flight to Vienna!" at least.

Have a good night!

 

[redhotswami]

damn i can't keep up with you all

 

[Axver]

damn i can't keep up with you all

With a little bit of time, don't worry, you'll be postwhoring along with the rest of us.

 

[redhotswami]

yeah right...we'll see about that. did i miss anything last night?

 

[Axver]

yeah right...we'll see about that. did i miss anything last night?

How much of the fallout did you see?

 

[redhotswami]

i didn't see the poorme and apology threads until this morning. so i crashed sometime before then.

 

[Varitek]

yeah right...we'll see about that. did i miss anything last night?

I just woke up 40 min. before my alarm, so I might go back to sleep, but second the question.

 

[Varitek]

i didn't see the poorme and apology threads until this morning. so i crashed sometime before then.

We got nervous when people came out of the woodwork and overreacted - 7 months before a new album drops is NOT the time to get banned.

After we posted the apology I feel like more supporters felt compelled to post and say they found it funny.

45...45....

 

[Axver]

i didn't see the poorme and apology threads until this morning. so i crashed sometime before then.

Some people threw fits. Wanted the mods to come down on us like a sack of bricks because they cannot take a joke. mofo82's thread is pretty much an Interference classic already.

 

[Axver]

After we posted the apology I feel like more supporters felt compelled to post and say they found it funny.

Yeah, it seems most people have been good sports about it - but then again, most people around have been from Australia/New Zealand and are the kind of people who'd think this is a good bit of a laugh even if they fell for it. I'll be very interested to see what happens in the coming hours, given our theory on global senses of humour and reactions towards being taken for a ride.

And, of course, the over-presence of obsessive-defensive hyper-fans here. Let's over-hyphenate more-sentences here shall-we!

 

[Varitek]

Speaking of interference classics everybody go read the thread about Bono hating.

 

[redhotswami]

since when have youtube comments been a source of political insight and inspiration?

 

[Axver]

Speaking of interference classics everybody go read the thread about Bono hating.

The one about YouTube comments on the Ronnie Drew song? Wow. This is a classic:

He has cancer idiots - and the man it was written for has said he likes it and it is helping... So SHUT UP ABOUT IT IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT.

Yes, we all better like everything liked by cancer patients we don't even know and will never interact with. But what if Ronnie Drew hates One? What then, Interference? I'm in the clear, but most of the board isn't!

 

[Axver]

since when have youtube comments been a source of political insight and inspiration?

Didn't you get the memo? We're replacing academic literature with YouTube comments. They're more entertaining, more abundant, and there seems to be a far greater - indeed, endless - supplty of people to produce them.

 

[Varitek]

Yes, we all better like everything liked by cancer patients we don't even know and will never interact with. But what if Ronnie Drew hates One? What then, Interference? I'm in the clear, but most of the board isn't!

Shit, wasn't WITS written for someone with eardrum cancer? I'm so in trouble for hating it.

 

[redhotswami]

Didn't you get the memo? We're replacing academic literature with YouTube comments. They're more entertaining, more abundant, and there seems to be a far greater - indeed, endless - supplty of people to produce them.

don't forget about the grammar lessons that are as equally important as the messages conveyed.

 

[Axver]

Grammar? YouTube is so far above and beyond grammar.

 

[Axver]

Shit, wasn't WITS written for someone with eardrum cancer? I'm so in trouble for hating it.

You're already going to hell about 77 times over, but now you're going to a special corner where they chisel WITS into your brain.

 

[Varitek]

so do we think they would have gotten it if u2 had played Native Son instead of Vertigo?