Copycat threads.

[kentauros]

For those that don't understand, a visit to The Lounge is in order. There, we will educate you as to why this phenomenon crops up, even in the Hallowed Halls of GD :hi:

[texanwitch]

1. O no.

A copy cat thread in GD.

[kentauros]

2. And it's been copycatted by MrScorpio!

In GD! :rofl:

[texanwitch]

3. Things happen.

:rofl:

[MrScorpio]

4. They so do happen

It's magic!

[kentauros]

5. It's the Battle of the Copycatted Copycat Threads!

"Next time on SCTV" :D

[AsahinaKimi]

6. IBTL

:p

[kentauros]

38. And a day and a quarter later

we're still open fur business :p

[Rex]

7. COPYCAT THREADS RULEZ!!!

JUST LIKE ALL CAPS!!!!

[Renew Deal]

36. .

:bounce:

[kentauros]

37. What about baseball caps?

[Warren DeMontague]

8. What is this "lounge", of which you speak?

Is that where the ruffians and street urchins drink their ale and play their dice games?

[texanwitch]

9. Sort of.

You are close.

It is where all the cool folks hang out and drink beer, I least I do.

[kentauros]

10. I'm out of beer!

:cry:

[texanwitch]

11. Wine will do.

Or ice tea.

Beware of the wind outside, Houston will have to be called the Windy City.

[kentauros]

12. It'll have to be tea :)

You mentioned your chimes going earlier. It's like a gamelon here! :D

[texanwitch]

13. The chimes are going like crazy and the trees busy also.

I have a lot of chimes.

[kentauros]

14. And all these clouds moving inland,

looking like they have some rain for us, only to pass on by and waiting until they're dangerous later on...

[texanwitch]

15. Yep.

I have to reallly water my garden, we need rain.

I am watching a Oklahoma tv station live, damn they are getting our clouds.

[kentauros]

16. Certainly all of our moisture,

just floating by right overhead. Come one down! :hi:

[texanwitch]

17. I am watering around the house blocks.

We payed a lot of money to raise the house, foundations are going to be hit bad.

Just a little rain would help.

[kentauros]

18. Would using a weeper hose help?

Then you can keep it soaking with the tap barely open. It'll keep it wet better than having to go around with a hose yourself, or so it seems to me :)

[texanwitch]

19. That is what I am using.

I have hay in the garden now to help keep the ground wet.

[kentauros]

20. I've used that technique before, too.

It works great, also at keeping weeds down. And then you can till it all into the soil in the fall as more organic matter for the worms.

[texanwitch]

21. I hate to weed.

I won't water the yard in general, the grass will grow back.

[kentauros]

22. Maybe grow some native grasses instead.

Something you have to neither mow nor water (much) :)

http://www.seedsource.com

[texanwitch]

23. Been thinking about it.

Thanks for the website.

I want to make it more wildlife friendly.

I do have a lot of plants that the butterflies seem to like.

Native planting it the way to go.

I need to take a picture of what the birds or wind planted, sort of a sunflower type plant.

It is growing tall.

[kentauros]

24. Show the pic to Ptah.

He'd probably know :)

[texanwitch]

25. I will.

The seeds came from the railroad yard, now only concrete and townhouse grow.

Nice to have the plants growing, the plants are getting big.


The plants don't seem to need to be watered, they just grow.

[kentauros]

26. When your soil is healthy,

plants often need less watering because the ground is able to both absorb more and hold it longer.

Those plants may also have a long taproot and have dipped into the water table, if it's still close to the surface...

[texanwitch]

27. The ground is sandy.

Some of the plants are almost 7 feet tall and still growing.

The bees and flying insects seem to like the plants.

The plants are yellow with a black center.

[kentauros]

28. I see wild sunflowers or something like them

growing along the railroad tracks here, so they're probably the same plant. What we call "weeds" often have long taproots to bring moisture up to the surface as well as nutrients missing from the soil. They are actually indicators of what's missing in the soil, instead of simply "pests" to be eliminated :)

[texanwitch]

29. I like my weeds.

They are pretty and butterflies seem to like them.

The are hardy plants.

Yards in area have clay just underneath the top soil, the sand breaks it up.

Water does not stand in my yard, it soaks in.

At one time everyone would buy a truck load of sand and spread it around the yard for drainage.

Our yard is easy to dig in.

[HopeHoops]

30. Oh, they are a staple in The Lounge. Sometimes the copycat beats the original...

...even when the original is really funny.

[kentauros]

31. It's still alive!!!

Jeez, I go to bed, wake up, get to work and here is this thing, still alive! :P

Okay, I'll go back to work now, and check back later... ;)

[HopeHoops]

32. "IT'S ALIVE!"

[texanwitch]

33. The plants keep growing taller and taller.

I tell you, it is a mutant plant.:scared:

[kentauros]

34. Triffid?

Have some saltwater handy if it uproots itself and starts to walk around :P

[texanwitch]

35. There are several growing.

I was thinking about Triffids.

[sudopod]

39. And they say we don't make anything in America anymore!

THIS MEME MADE IN USA

[astral]

40. Is there a 'why' as to the copycat threads ..

besides them being funny? I see it and once in a while do it, but is there an origination 'incident' or something?

I think I remember where "I'm Series!!!" came from, and I know about being a 'moran,' and I know LOLcat-speak.... lets see what else is there...

[kentauros]

42. The original phenomenom that inspired this one

was the spate of "K&R if you like..." threads the other day. Did you see them? They were getting locked right quick, soon as they popped up :rofl:

[stevenleser]

41. IBTL

[kentauros]

43. IATIBTLP

"In After The IBTL Posts" :P