The Oasis threads were a big joke.

[LoZoccolo]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

It actually all started as a copycat thread about two months ago. Someone had posted a thread asking if the Beatles were really more popular than Jesus in the 60s or something, so I posted one asking if Oasis was more popular than the Beatles in the 90s. I admitted it was a joke in another thread the same day, but I decided to keep it going for kicks. I was having fun coming up with all these obtuse angles. Barely anyone responded to the one where I admitted it was a joke, and really, no one in the past two months went and dug it up, so it's like no one remembers seeing it. Then I got the idea in my mind that I'd come clean the day after April Fool's day. It's almost like a two-month-long April Fool's joke in the final analysis.

I should say that I actually really am an Oasis fan, just not one that's out to prove they are better than the Beatles at every turn. I think that Oasis is underrated and that the Beatles are overrated, just not to the proportions I put it in the Oasis threads. And while I do see some influence from the Beatles, I still do think they're their own band, and that some of their songs are better than some of the Beatles songs. I'd even go so far as to say they're on the short list for best band of the 90s, and that I'm looking forward to their next album.

I could see people saying that my mock-musings were lame, obtuse, annoying, deluded and self-important, but I still can't get my head around why they would infuriate certain people. And it would only be certain ones, but they'd get really mad. I think it's interesting that someone would waste that much anger on something they are in the same breath are saying is stupid. If I was going around spreading false political propaganda, it might be dangerous, but I was saying that a band was really cool, and that it was cooler than another band.

I also thought it was funny that other people, unprompted in public or private, started joining in the effort, and one in particular started some hilarious threads himself. I would name names to give props, but the next thing I know is they'd be saying that their threads were serious whether they actually were or not. I'll let them choose whether or not to reveal that!

A lot of you did catch it, some sooner than others, and it was really funny reading some of your responses to the threads.

And in case you're thinking this is another April Fool's joke, please note that it is no longer April Fool's day in Chicago where I live.

Well, this thread will probably be more popular than the Beatles by tomorrow morning. It's as if this smiley came right on time...

:hide:

[JohnKleeb]

1. hahahaha thats interesting

[progmom]

2. Hey LoZoccolo

:loveya:

:rofl:

[progmom]

16. kickin it

:kick:

[Reverend_Smitty]

3. you sir...

are a sly fox :P

[progmom]

4. Voted for the greatest page

So everyone can finally see the truth!


:P

[JohnKleeb]

6. did that too

[More Than A Feeling]

8. Sure, why the hell not.

Gettin' way too stuffy on the Greatest page, if you ask me. Time to lighten them up!:)

[LoZoccolo]

49. Thank you! n/t

[Radical Activist]

5. LOL You have got to be kidding me!

I honestly didn't pay that much attention to the constant Oasis threads. I thought it bordered on an unhealthy obsession. I can't believe you kept it going that long.

I'm not surprised it pissed people off though. Arguments get more angry and passionate when you say something is better than what another person likes or cares about. It works in the political forums too. I could start ten threads about populism but none of them would be as busy as the one thread that asked who was the BETTER populist. If you ever want to get a lot of discussion going on a thread just say that x is better than y and wait.

[jpgray]

7. You, sir, are profoundly disturbed

Those who have you on ignore will never get a chance to see this punchline. It was pretty over the top though, so I imagine most knew you were either at least half-joking or insane.

[pres2032]

9. you sir, are awsome

best april fool's joke i've ever seen.

i salute you! :yourock:

[Ellen Forradalom]

10. I see the intervention worked

You seem to have shaken the grip Oasis had on your life.

Perhaps there are other sufferers out there who need treatment.

[BiggJawn]

11. Still my favourite brand of water cooler...

None colder!

[last_texas_dem]

12. That is a good one

I have to applaud you for keeping it up that long!

I suspected from time to time that you might be overexaggerating or joking to some degree, but then I'd read another thread and decide you were being totally serious.

I became a casual sort of Oasis defender because I love the album What's the Story, Morning Glory? but am not familiar with much else by them. Plus, it bothered me that so many people were ragging on them as being a horrible band when I think they're pretty good. I'm a major Beatles fan, though, so even I got a little defensive when you called the Fab Four a "boy band"!

The Oasis threads were pretty fun, though. I think I just might miss seeing everybody get riled up about them!

[asthmaticeog]

13. Well, I'm glad it's over.

Honestly, I find some of your non-Oasis posts to be quite insightful and funny. But as the unceasing Oasis obsession dragged on, it wore really thin with me, and not just because I don't much care for the band. I genuinely admire your tenacity in keeping it up for so damn long, and your resourcefulness in finding a new angle every damn day.

Just please never do it again. :spank:

[Susang]

14. Wasn't too hard to figure out

I doubt even Oasis likes their own music that much.

A couple of us Chicago DUers even speculated that you were enrolled in the Second City training center (Level 1 or 2 would be my guess) and this was some bizarre form of internet improv. Then we sobered up. ;-)

[Bat Boy]

15. Fundamental rule of comedy...

If you have to explain the joke...

[RevolutionaryActs]

17. LOL!!!!! Beautiful.

:loveya:

[Celeborn Skywalker]

18. Kick!

[underpants]

19. Okay who DIDN'T know that?

I did

[flvegan]

20. "Beatlist propaganda" should be in Wikipedia

Nice work.

[Midlodemocrat]

21. Hey, LoZo

I remember the thread where you said it was a joke, and I was waiting for you to come clean. Nice work! It was fun reading all this stuff, even though I have no idea who Oasis even is.

[RetroLounge]

22. Glad to help out! I loved the Joke!

:yourock:

:hi:

RL

[JimmyJazz]

24. Pishaw - you fell for it and you know it.

:P

[RetroLounge]

47. I'll admit he had me going for a bit...

But then I caught on. Not even the Gallagher Brothets like themselves THAT much.

:hi:

Hope you had a great Saturday. Just came back from a Day in Madison and am glad to be home...

RL

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

23. No shit. I couldn't see this coming

:eyes:

[Susang]

31. Shocked, are you?

You should take some time to get used to the idea. Time heals all wounds, you know. ;-)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

40. I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue!

[LoZoccolo]

44. So /that's/ the caption...

...of that picture of John Coltrane!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

51. That's right

[crispini]

25. Hee hee

:thumbsup: I missed the original thread so I just thought you were slightly off for awhile, but *yesterday* I became convinced that it was either a joke or you really could use an intervention. I was thisclose to putting you on ignore and then figured that it was a joke.

Although I will admit to using hide thread on some of the Oasis content in the Lounge, heh.

[deutsey]

26. Glad to see the meds are beginning to work.

Seriously, you punk'd us good...real good.

;-) :hi:

[miss_kitty]

27. "The Oasis threads were a big joke."

I'll say! :P

[dolo amber]

28. I personally found it funny

In a most obnoxious and disturbing kind of way. ;)

This one was my fave :7 :

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=2522757

[RagingInMiami]

29. You mean I got suckered into starting this thread?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=2838049

[LoZoccolo]

33. Ha maybe!

I wonder if the person who put it up remembers it's still there, what with all the blinking going on.

[RagingInMiami]

39. That thread was joke, but this post on that thread was not a joke

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=2838049#2838076

[Wat_Tyler]

30. I just found it really unfunny and tedious.

Next time, please choose a funnier subject if you're going to drive a point into the ground (and in fact, beyond - all the way to the fiery core of the earth, and probably beyond). OK?

[GCP]

32. Oh, Thank God

Does this mean there'll be no more Oasis threads?

PleasePleasePlease PleasePleasePlease PleasePleasePlease PleasePleasePlease PleasePleasePlease PleasePleasePlease PleasePleasePlease PleasePleasePlease PleasePleasePlease PleasePleasePlease PleasePleasePlease PleasePleasePlease
PleasePleasePlease
PleasePleasePlease
PleasePleasePlease

[jonnyblitz]

34. damn i thought it was obvious. this is surprising to me that so

many thought you were serious! Your tone in those threads DRIPPED of sarcasm and your persistance, to me, seemed like a dead giveaway that you were toying with your audience.

[LoZoccolo]

37. There was actually one person, who went from...

...thinking it was a joke to thinking it was serious towards the end. The first ones were really silly, but then I started thinking I should make them somewhat less so if I expect it to last two months. But then that also afforded me the opportunity for a silly one every now and then.

[jonnyblitz]

38. I got a kick out of those threads. I am sorry you "fessed up !

the reponses always cracked me up! :P

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

35. I knew that...

There's just no way anyone could be that into Oasis.

[DS1]

36. I know that, but they still made me want to beat you, however

you did a fantastic job of exposing my inner 'Beatlist' to myself :toast:

[Kathy in Cambridge]

41. But it was still OVERKILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Fenris]

42. You could not have been more obvious.

The way you continued on you had to be one of two things:

1) Kidding.

2) Mentally ill.

3) Both.

You've just affirmed #3.

[FrankBooth]

43. I assumed it was some kind of internet/psych experiment

quite amusing!

[coloradodem2005]

45. You dissed the Beatles.

:spank:

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

46. But you HAVE TO DO THEM DAILY because some of us are ADDICTED.

I mean, I KNOW it was a JOKE, but DU without a daily Oasis thread will be like...well, DU without a daily Oasis thread, I guess.

On second thought, we'll manage. Carry on.

:evilgrin:

[johnnie]

48. I had fun with them

I figured you were a fan, but not that obsessed. It was way over the top, but it's cool that you admit it was a joke. I tried to come up with some "Beatles versus Oasis" threads, but they sunk like stones..lol.
Good one dude :thumbsup:

[Floogeldy]

50. They were HUGE jokes

Just how stupid do you think we are?

}(

[JVS]

52. THIS IS NOT HAPPENING, THIS IS NOT HAPPENING!

You gave me something to believe in and now have torn it cruelly away! Curses upon you!

[LoZoccolo]

53. Indeed, you were the earliest fellow traveler.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=2509947

[Nevernose]

54. Your free-time is even greater than your capacity for subtle humor

:D

[imenja]

55. your repentance is too little too late

You've brought about global domination through the Oasis behemoth. You need to set up a reparations fund for all those you've wronged.

I volunteer my services as CFO.

[StopTheMorans]

56. massive titanicos for that. on a side note, i have to admit that i do own

2 oasis albums, and that i attended an oasis concert in 2001 :D

[LoZoccolo]

57. And me and my friends really use the word "titanico".

:D

[MsAnthropy]

58. Spam is spam is spam

and none of it's funny either

[LoZoccolo]

60. Yeah it is!

:hi:

[GOPBasher]

59. You got me. Not that I ever got mad or anything, but when

you said something like, "Oasis is without question the best band of the 90's," I calmly said, "They're pretty good, but think there are many 90's bands that are better." I didn't realize you were joking at all. But I didn't get mad at anything. Good thing, or else I'd feel like a total assface now.

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

61. Respect

Don't forget that Noel's name spelled backwards is LEON.





And Liam's backwards name is MAIL.



Outstanding.

Now check the Beatles' backwards names:

luap
nhoj
egroeg
ognir

Holy fucking shit. Is there any doubt left how hard the Beatles suck?

[imenja]

62. You know they won't end

They are still going on. They'll live forever.