Yes. I've had 4 or 5 comments not show up in the past couple days.

Hmm...posting may not be the best idea...

I've had a couple of remarks not appear.

I posted a comment to the veg comment a bit ago and it has not shown up. A comment under gift certificates posted after (I think) did appear with the last round of updates.

me too

I commented on a post the other day but it never appeared

I think I've had a post lost to the ether as well.

oh well, it was probably topic drifty.

Ditto

I might have had some not posted. Sometimes I write a comment in Word, then tighten it up, then check the grammar in case Prof. McIntyre is lurking, then lose focus and forget to post it.

And here I was just thinking that you were censoring the comments due to high levels of snarkiness.

One of the things that makes this blog so successful, azgal, is the lack of censorship. EL lets us handle it ourselves. She lets us make obscure comments that might be insults, references to bad 70's Turkish Sci Fi films or the Faerie Queene. So the snark, rather than getting buried and festering, becomes an occasion for binding, either with or against the snarker.

It seems counter-intuitive, perhaps, but the more a blog is censored, the deader it gets.

Point to Lissa!

I've held this back long enough. Why are literate adults using idiotic archaic frat house slang like "snark". It really sounds retro-childish and lame. For Beelzebub's sake can't we stick to things in the dictionary and not sink into the morass of ancient adolescent and juvenile jargon? Really. The next thing you know, people will label us as some kind of puerile diggers of desert earth. McIntyre, can I get a what what?

snark (n.)
imaginary animal, coined 1876 by Lewis Carroll in "The Hunting of the Snark."

See? Y'all doubted me. Yes, Virginia, there IS an Owl Meat Grammarian.

Humpf.

Owl, I noticed after seeing Juno that a lot of middle aged adults were beginning to talk about their ... ahem "private places" as "junk". Now that just sounds so wrong!

and, as Freddie Mercury would say "Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me,for me,for me"

"Junk" is old-speak. That's been around for years. You have to understand that all that teen-speak in Juno is totally fake, written by a 35 year old stylizing things she's heard elsewhere on TV. I thought the dialogue was overwritten, I could see the writer behind it all. Bad script editing. Tina Fey was using it on SNL years ago, which means it was already old by then. (As in having a baby ruins your junk.) Thoroughly unappealing term. I prefer to make up my own as I go along. I was going to refrain from riffing on that but, well, it's Saturday and I haven't been bad in a while so let's go euphemism crazy (as Elizabeth breathes into a paper bag...)

nah.

Owl, in answer to your question about why "literate adults using idiotic archaic frat house slant", it is simple.
We ARE idiotic archaic frat house members. We write what we know.
Isn't that what writing professors always say to do?
:-)

Speak for yourself, Cosmo Girl!

Owl, I won't misbehave either but once, my partner and I started naming every term we'd ever heard used for that part of anatomy (and for women only) and we filled a sheet of notebook paper. Which later, had to be destroyed so the kids weren't wondering what the heck That was. We started asking everyone who called or came over that day and we were in hysterics from some of the answers.

We ARE idiotic archaic frat house members. Some us are, however, trapped in a pretend world where we are grownups.

Joyce, I would have loved to have seen that list, although I'm quite sure it would have made me blush.

That kind of slang is an entire sub-genre of fun. Alas, probably not the kind of fun EL wants us to have here, unless we can relate it to food.

No...let's not go there...

Eve - guilty of the charges!

Lissa, it is pretty funny and yes some would make anyone blush, but no, not here.

Who wants to start a archaic frat house members pretending to be grownup group?

No we must keep the blog chaste. I, however, would have absolutely no problem reactivating my abandoned blog for this purpose. So for puerile but witty eupemisms visit The Owl Meat Apocrypha.

Owl Meat -- it's about time you posted a new entry to your blog.

Owl Meat -- it's about time you posted a new entry to your blog.

I don't have anything to do on Christmas eve and Chirstmas day. Maybe I'll update it after I do some PM on my crossbows. I don't have any ideas for this Thursday yet, so my side blog will have to wait.

Good idea hmpstd.

There are a lot of things that I can do on my blog that I can't do here because the blogware is so much better. Plus I can post copyrighted material with impugnity and write about things that might otherwise cause Dear Leader to have a TIA or vanquish me.

For starters I added a new poll
Is Bucky Real?

Vote on the existential Bucky question here:
http://owlmeat.blogspot.com/

More to come ...

Owl, enjoyed your entries, dig deeper, you can even get more!

Joyce, I'm afraid I could only join an archaic sorority house. Gamma Gamma Pyjama or something.

Lissa, I guess I was thinking sexless and classless but why not sorority instead of fraternity - we could still be without class!

Indeed, I fear that nothing could bring class to my life!

As for sexless, gods forbid!

Joyce W: I'll pledge the sorority. I never want to grow up and get old, so I am ready!

Owl, enjoyed your entries, dig deeper, you can even get more!

More "junk" entries and an AWESOME photo. Also added a grackle poem for Grackle Day. The Owl Meat Apocrypha lives again!
http://owlmeat.blogspot.com/

The grackle poem is disturbing and involves Wonder bread.

Joyce

We should be thinking "sexless and classless", so how about a sandbox?

Shoot! I just now, reading Bird Blog found out that Junk in the Trunk doesn't mean, uh, you know....

Joyce W, I'm in. I never pledged for a sorority in college, but I'll by golly pledge for this one...too much fun not to!

Lissa, I meant sexless of course in the way of gender not practice. I'm not sure anyone would join if that were a stipulation! Delta Sandbox Pi?

Owl, enjoying your junk in the trunk entries. Very imaginative!