Comments on: Example: “Head you wouldn’t believe, call 555-3278.”

By: mollymooly

mollymooly — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:05:44 +0000

I just put most of these under (private information) and (personal communication).

By: noen

noen — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:58:53 +0000

Alien Mind Transmissions sometimes come from a different plane of existence or a parallel universe. It seems awfully imprecise to just say “The Seventh Plane”. Oh yeah, thanks a lot, that really narrows it down for me. Sheesh.

By: Henry (not the famous one)

Henry (not the famous one) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:19:21 +0000

Ruprecht—
If we’re talking about cereal boxes, then it’s time to link to http://www.flickr.com/photos/33032196@N00/62027592/.

The great Myles na gCopaleen also commented on the need of some obsessives, when denied anything else to read, to read every word on boxes of cereal. Unable to provide a citation, other than Best of Myles.

By: James Wimberley

James Wimberley — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:19:00 +0000

Blog comments.
Since the Management still reserve the right to delete comments arbitrarily and so change the numbering, in spite of specific and reasoned complaints by the Commenters, the shortest unique citation of comment 10 (9 letters) is:
“blog post http://crookedtimber.org/2009/01/07/example-head-you-wouldnt-believe-call-555-3278/, comment 10 by ejh, accessed 2008-01-09 at 00:6 CET”.
It’s even longer of course if accessed on the Wayback Machine or by time-travelling research botslave.

By: Russell Arben Fox

Russell Arben Fox — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:00:57 +0000

ejh wins.

By: ejh

ejh — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:30:09 +0000

867-5309

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:45:45 +0000

I would actually like to see some sort of citation convention for information received via the GIYUS Megaphone software.

By: Knecht Ruprecht

Knecht Ruprecht — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:38:31 +0000

Also potentially useful: citation conventions for breakfast cereal boxes, Starbucks cups, drunken rantings of the guy on the next barstool, cocktail party gossip, pillow talk, “enhanced interrogation” sessions, unfogged comment threads, viral e-mails, and jumbotron messages.

By: Knecht Ruprecht

Knecht Ruprecht — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:12:14 +0000

Fortune cookies: list fortune, name of restaurant, whether eat-in or take-out, date consumed, and lucky numbers.

Example: “The loudest gong sounds the entrance of the biggest fool” [Yin & Yee’s Szechuan Cafe, takeout: June 10, 2005; 424-56-81]

By: James Wimberley

James Wimberley — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:09:36 +0000

More categories:
Visions [angel’s name and rank, substances previously ingested, date and place]
Omens and auguries
Rumours
Fashions
Lies [with refutation; this would speed things up for Tim Lambert]

By: Jon H

Jon H — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:51:53 +0000

Unfortunately, you call that number and get John Merrick.

(Or Joseph Merrick if you want to be all factual.)

By: john b

john b — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:07:39 +0000

Is that Glenn Reynolds’ phone number?

I was going to berate Henry for not checking his own blogroll, then I noticed someone had finally (many years after the URL for the old one persisted whilst redirected) removed my old blog and not added the new one. Bad Timber…

By: Russell Arben Fox

Russell Arben Fox — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:42:17 +0000

I thought there was a blogosphere-wide aggrement that any cited graffiti that included an actual phone number would be replaced with 867-5309.

By: Henry

Henry — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:00:45 +0000

sorry – fixed.

By: Gdr

Gdr — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:59:52 +0000

Here's the link