Posted by alexandra_k on January 18, 2014, at 1:36:29
In reply to Re: dinah?, posted by sigismund on January 17, 2014, at 22:42:58
> >I think they were blocks for saying critical things about the US as an abstract entity (around the time of the war on terror, I believe).
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> As you might remember, li'll jimmi was blocked for saying of Bush and Cheney 'Well, they are running the country.' Bob assumed (interestingly) that he had said 'they are ruining the country'. Subsequently unblocked, but it gives some idea of how quick on the draw it was.ahaha, yes i remember that. freudian slip on the uptake, that was. i think bob was taking pretty much anything he could get to cull the numbers...
some like to think of it as the 'good old days'. i prefer to think of it as 'the posting epidemic'.
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