Answer and Stuff
Here is the answer to the "Four truths and a lie" question from my previous post:
1) I pointed my fingers and did the twist.
This is in reference to the Wiggles' song, "Can you point your fingers and do the twist," which I found out at the concert that I can totally do. I pointed my fingers and did the HELL out of the twist. Yeah!
2) I got goose bumps when I heard the first few bars of "Big Red Car."
It's not even my favorite song. And I wish Rhonda was right, and that it was just cold in there, and the goose bumps were purely coincidental. But when Sam drove that red car out on stage...
It makes you get goose bumps just looking at it, doesn't it? ...No? ...Shut up.
3) I was pleased with the performance of the new yellow Wiggle, Sam Moran.
I was indeed. Sam did a great job. However, that's not to say I still don't have concerns about him. Like, for example, the fact that he's a little soft around the midsection. Don't get me wrong, I won't be winning the Mr. Universe competition anytime soon. I carry a little extra fat cold weather insulation on my frame also. But knowing that keeps me from going on stage with three other really skinny guys while wearing unflattering clothes:
5) Murray, the red Wiggle, waved at me when he walked around the crowd.
Very true. For a second, I also thought he was trying to muster up the courage to ask for my phone number. That's how sure I am he was waving at me.
Which leaves us with #4. Apparently, I'm not as good of a liar as I thought, as most of you got it right. Sarah and Becky even had the reasoning correct. The Captain's entrance was pretty exciting, but exciting enough to touch hands with a stranger? I think not. That sort of reckless behavior is reserved for major sporting events.
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On a completely unrelated note, if you're linked on the sidebar, that number next to your name is your score on the "omarphillips.net scale of cool" (higher is better). You might notice this number increase in direct proportion to the number of comments you leave here. That's not a coincidence. (*UPDATE* - Numbers only appear on the main omarphillips.net page, not on individual post pages. Sorry for the confusion!)
Comments
Lia said:
So gold card status is not related to number of comments? One more thing to cross off the list.
Sarah said:
Man, my number is kind of low... gotta start working on that.
No Cool Story said:
I guessed it right! I made it to the scale of cool! Yes! I wonder what other hidden talents I have...hmm.
Gold card status, is that like Willy Wonka minus the chocolate and the weird hair?
If I say I got goose bumps looking at the red car, will that get my more "cool" points?
Radioactive Jam said:
So... does my score include comments from my weird-name alter egos? Because I feel a bit of competitiveness awakening in my mind.
Rhonda said:
74? That stinks! Shouldn't the scale be more about quality that quantity?
That being said I guess I will be posting many more comments....stuff like "cool" or "I agree"...because I can't have RAJ being 4 times cooler than me. SHAH!
I said:
lia - Not DIRECTLY related, no. The requirements for gold club membership are much more arbitrary and subjective.
Sarah - Yeah, pick up the pace! Though, I guess yelling at you to do so is not a good way to encourage you.
NCS - You would have earned more cool points if you had asked each of those questions in individual comments. Not that I'd encourage such comment padding behavior.
RaJ - Never fear, it did count all of your comments as Radioactive Pie-Butt, Radioactive Turkey, Radioactive Czech, Radioactive Anarchy, Radioactive TP, Radioactive Diaper, Radioactive Butt Cheeks, Radioactive Jerky, Radioactive Spandex, Radioactive Salmon, Radioactive Djiboutian, Radioactive Calvinist, Radioaktive Lamp Chops, Radioactive Earwax, Radioactive South Virginian, Jadioactive Ram, and Mr. 5002. Among others.
Rhonda - As long as you don't leave comments that just say "OMG" or "LOL," I fully support your plans.
Jon said:
Wow, I guess I'm cool, but I'm not Cadiz Cool™. One day though... one day...
cadiz12 said:
man, i was so sure i was right! well, at least you know i'm not a liar, right?
am i the only one who doesn't see numbers? i'm not even looking at this on dialup. (shh, don't tell the boss.)
cadiz12 said:
so am i going to lose coolpoints because i didn't readily realize that you had to be on the homepage to see the numbers? give it to me straight; i can take it.
Silandara said:
So how DO you make it into the list of links, Omar?
elasticwaistbandlady said:
258....259...
Holy cow! I rock!
Apparently, I could make a full time career doing nothing but commenting on your blog, Omar. Does that come with 401K and benefits?
Syar said:
I'm guessing a quarter or more of those 271 (heck yeah!!) comments was me padding it up with pad, pad, lilypad, pad and haboob. If we just brought back the haboob, I bet your comment count would significantly increase.
So...VIVA LA HABOOB!
Do the twist to that, Wiggles!
Syar said:
It updates automatically??
Whoa, Omar. I needed like, 4 bandaids to recover from this cutting-edgeness. MUCH better than sortable links.
VIVA LA HABOOB!!
Pad, pad, mad-pad, pad!
Jonathan said:
I’m not listed as a link (my site is down), but someday I hope to be. In the mean time I think I will do what any good OP.net commenter would do in a situation such as this - pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad pad
And pad
I second the HABOOB!
Carrot Jello said:
I've never seen the wiggles.
Carrot Jello said:
Nope. Not ever.
Carrot Jello said:
I've seen Captain Bogg and Salty though.
Carrot Jello said:
Way better than the wiggles. I.M.H.O.
Carrot Jello said:
Even though I've never seen the wiggles. They can't be that good though. My 3 year old refuses to watch them. He's pretty smart, so I just watch what he watches so I can be cool.
Carrot Jello said:
I know you want to comment on how cute my baby is, but there are too many women commenting, and you don't want them to think you're some sort of pansy commenting about how darling he is. It's okay. Just know I realize this.
Nadia said:
Oh, what, just because I'm on hiatus I have ZERO cool factor?
Way to put the heat on me, Omar. Gaahhh.
Nadia said:
Fine then.
NOW can I get me some cool?
jazz said:
oh man. the padding begins.
jazz said:
pad.
see?!
Carrot Jello said:
WHATever you guys. Anything you can do...
Carrot Jello said:
I can do...
Carrot Jello said:
I can do, better.
Carrot Jello said:
Oops! Silly me. Said "I can do", twice.
I said:
Jon - Sadly, by the time you reach mid-2007 Cadiz Cool™ numbers, she'll have set the bar even higher. Not that I'm trying to discourage you. I'm just saying, keep your feet on the ground, but keep reaching for the stars!
cadiz - I never would have thought you were a liar, though I am admittedly disappointed that you don't think I can do the twist (you said "would," I heard "could").
cadiz again - You weren't the only one tripped up by that technicality. It was my bad for not explaining.
Silandara - Easily! Hey, I just noticed that tomorrow is the one year anniversary of your first comment on this site. You owe it to yourself to take the day off and celebrate.
Elastic - Yes, but I charge prohibitively high fees, and the benefits program is 100% employee funded. Welcome aboard!
Syar - I'm far too lazy to update it manually, so yes, I wrote it to update automatically. And now that you mention it, I would also like to see the return of the haboob.
Jonathan - That's some quality padding, man.
Carrot - You should.
Carrot - Seriously.
Carrot - Never heard of 'em.
Carrot - Nonsense.
Carrot - Your 3 year old has bad taste :)
Carrot - Thanks for understanding.
Nadia - I hope you know that my entire plan with this whole "cool points" thing was to get you to start blogging again. My plan worked BRILLIANTLY.
jazz - I never would have figured you to be a padder, Jasmine (comment padder, that is). Et tu, Jazz? Et tu?
Sarah said:
I refuse to pad! I'll come by my comments the hard-earned way, by gosh!
elasticwaistbandlady said:
I once had an erotic dream about Greg Wiggle.....we were 'Hoopty-Doo! Hoopty-Dee! Hoopty-Doin-It' All. Night. Long.
Papi, concerned, made the Wiggles website restricted access from our PC.
elasticwaistbandlady said:
Hey, you people don't have a license for Haboob Resurrection! I'm going to have to issue some Haboob tickets to each and every one of youse.
elasticwaistbandlady said:
And just one more because it's been so long since Omar Phillips.net has been so interactive and fun....HABOOB!
No Offense, Omar.
Syar said:
You sneaky, sneaky person, you.
33 comments? 3 haboobs? Nadia blogging again?
What a masterminded plan.
Syar said:
MASTERMINDED, I say.
Haboob.
Jonathan said:
Is it just my browser or is the main page shifted to the left for everyone? The page for the post looks fine.
Plus I see a & in the upper left corner.
Html issues Omar?
Rhonda said:
Elastic - I had a dream about Anthony just a few weeks ago! We were in a bar making up dirty lyrics to all the Wiggles songs. It was one of the many incredibly strange pregnancy dreams I have been experiencing.
Rhonda said:
Hey Omar...maybe you should add a spellchecker to live preview. That will help me leave more comments.
Jonathan said:
incase you are wondering what it looks like - http://www.ziehl.us/opnet.jpg
Jonathan said:
hmmmmm now it looks fine.
I said:
There was an extraneous ampersand at the beginning of my code, like you said. And anytime there's text displayed before the DOCTYPE is declared, it throws the browser into quirks mode, which caused the xhtml/css to render differently (only in IE, apparently). Thanks for the heads up!
cadiz12 said:
aw, omar, how you flatter me. very well, carry on.
at first i was like ok, omar's been blogging for more than 2 years--a comment a post, two once in awhile--that sounds about right. but then i realized you don't necessarily post every day and i got confused. i've told you, numbers are not my thing. so in conclusion, who knew i had so much to say?
oh and jon, forget about Cadiz Cool™-- if omar were tallying based on word count alone, everyone would be striving for Onj Cool™ status.
demosthenes said:
You're brave to have ignited the padding. Sounds like the performance was up to par... and I write this from my new, glossy-screened 13.5 inch macbook, which is amazing, so thank you very much for your guidance.
In exchange, I promise not to stoop to the... levels of others... in order to pad my ranking.
demosthenes said:
Too much, anyway.
demosthenes said:
Okay, maybe a little.
Jon said:
Yes, I don't think I'll ever catch up to Cadiz, but I can take some pride in the fact that my comments are all natural. No supplements of any kind. Also, I did once legally change my name in order to win a contest... that's got to be worth a couple extra cool points.
Lianne said:
You really know how to rake up the comments! Good job, way to manipulate the internet for your power good.
Becky said:
aw, haboob. it's the comment pad technique that's closest to my heart... i feel somewhat responsible for its rise to popularity.
I said:
Becky, you were the haboob queen. Those were the days, eh?
Jonathan said:
49 + this one - 50 comments for one post. Whats the record?
Glo said:
Whoa. The Wiggles make for good conversation!
I'm totally jealous. As the only Wiggles fan in my house, there woulda been a tear or two in my eye - especially if they'd sung Fruit Salad, a song I credit with beginning my career.
No Cool Story said:
:( And here I thought that if I commented more I'd look like a "commenter for cool points" whore.
This is exactly why my loser score is 82.