hi

This message *has* been deleted by its author. If you are seeing this message, you should contact Allison DuBois immediately for further guidance.

Ahh..shouldn't that be two, three, five, seven , one, one..

Whichever; I wish it would !

That's eleven, not one one. (Obviously; it's two ones.)

I think the self-destruct feature still needs some work; it appears to be stuck, and reloading the page doesn't help at all. But when it goes off there should be an impressive visual effect, so keep watching.

Oh! profuse apologies! How obvious - well, obviously NOT to me!

Maybe if I try eleven...

(I have to admit, with some chagrin, that this is all very entertaining - though still wishing the countdown to work - WORK!)

50: Amen to that...

This is a message for MrAndrew - I have the number for a very good counsellor!

Hi Jim! *waves*

This message intentionally left blank.

This may be the best thread on LT! You guys!

This message has been recovered by LT personnel, Nov 23, 2009, 11:31am. It originally read:

What's the good of deleting a message anyway, since Tim &co. can always find out what you wrote and display it to the world just to show they can? If I deleted this, I bet they'd be on it within the hour!

</i>!deteled neeb sah taht egassem eht si sihT

There is no hope for us messages! We're doomed, doomed I tell you!

This message is meant to kill the italics.

Okay, damage now confined to #67 and #68, though why it only sprung up after #75 was posted remains a mystery.

This message is not Toyah Wilcox singing It's a Mystery!

within this message, is a message

lol...I love this thread, you LTer's are such a witty bunch!
#63...loved it!

</i>(killing italics again)

Grr!

Everybody remember to use closing tags, please.

>85 235711: Why? :)

This author had been deleted from her message for not being funny, Today, 3:23pm.

This message won't be killed!!

Arma-thread-on is in the eye of the beholder.

Lo and behold, I saw a new thread and a new message ...

... and his tail drew the third part of the messages of LT, and did cast them to the earth

if you feel that you have received this message in error, please hang up and try your message again...

... and if you are sure that the message is really for you but you do not like it, please do the same.

this message was pre-recorded

97. Was it really or did you just say that here to look clever?

No offense,

Robert

98. And if it was we'll never know because...

The message has been deleted by its author.

98. none taken...just funnin' like the previous 96 posts! ;)

Me too, or at least the last 80.

Robert

This message has eaten its author

burp

Това съобщение е на чужд език.

This message has had so many deletions it has now morphed into another language and is indecipherable.

add: Annie...?

The last message (#111) could not be understood by this message.

>112 Lman:
The message above says "This message is in a foreign language" :)

See: indecipherable!

This message greets its Bulgarian friends.

This is a courtesy message. Thank you very much for taking the time to read it.

.This message does not pretend to be a deleted or flagged one.

This message is a copy of the flag parade in front of the Great Hall of the People

</i>These Italics are beeing flagged as too bold

</b> If you want to hear this message please press 1

This message is running off at its mouth.

This message just keeps going... and going... and going...

This message needs a good flogging!!

</i>This message r eating ur cheezburger.

This is a mess of messages.

If it does, it's wrong.

Robert

This message intends to delete itself because it has no discernible purpose :(

Message 156 has will not delete itself, so long as it can believe that its purpose is self-deletion for purposelessness.

The message has become sentient!!

>158 skittles: - you should have removed it from under the sink ages ago. Now you will need to kill sentient mold... Uh... I meant message.

I cannot kill the message.

I can now kill the message.

Even if I don't want to....

I am the way, the truth and the message.

but is the message the truth?

because the message is both true & false....

This message, no verb.

This

message

comes

in

pieces.

This message is top secret: delete before reading.

Strictly speaking, "Itʻs author" (172) is a sentence, answering the question,
"Who is it?". though perhaps it should be amended to :Itʻs AN author".

This message switches off italics.

Or maybe not.

The sum of the messages is greater than the parts of the messages.

However, is the sum of the messages a message?

Is this some message?

#178...LOL

This message asserts its right to an existence independent of its author.

Greater lurve hath no message…

An Anglo-Saxon manuscript has been discovered which reveals that:

The word "message" is derived from a syncopation of the Biblical phrase "mess of Pottage".

Hence, the lurve, er -- I mean the swerve or tendency-- of many of the above posts is moot.

This message is hungry after reading about pottage.

This message is providing #185 with a mess of pottage. The deadline for handing in your birthright is 6:00 Pm HST Today.

This message is autonomous.

This message refuses to hand in its birthright and is now in hiding. The pottage was good. Burp!

If this message has not already appeared, it will do so in a moment.

Debug test: your member name is: Message

011235813...

The previous message is a Fibonacci sequence. The 2nd-6th numbers is also a zip code in Brooklyn.

the fifth through ninth numbers represent a zip code in Huntsville, Alabama.

Has anyone seen my message?

If your message has not already appeared, it will do so in a moment.

This message could be habit-forming.

This is the message your mother warned you about.

These are not the messages you are looking for.

A message never dies, it just evolves into something else.

>209 AnnieMod:: It did indeed:

hi -> lo!!!!!

ALL YOUR MESSAGES ARE BELONG TO US

This message deletes rational behaviour by authors

add: like closing italics...CLOSE!

heh - worked!

**cue melody**

This is the thread that never ends.
It goes on and on my friends.
Someone started posting it not knowing what it was,
and they'll continue writing it forever just because, ......

Message 222 should have been deleted by its author.

(fancy forgetting the baked beans * hrrumph*)

...edited to close the italics Again *sigh*

Those italics keep coming back...

This message would like to know how to be italicized without always bringing up italicsthis/italics. thank you

This message demonstrates that you don't need more HTML tags if they've been left open, but that this affects headers as well.

And "Post a message", and "flag abuse", and "Debug test", and "If your message has not already appeared, it will do so in a moment".

This message thinks that MrAndrew is very bold.

Messages, messages, everywhere -- and not a one to read.

well, they've been deleted, you see.

PAY ATTENTION!

Wot message?

I can 't seeeee you.

Perhaps it will show up at the 300th post?

At the 300th post this message will undelete...at the 300th post...

This message recommends that message.

The message is broken.

This message is deliberately left blank.

This source left an anonymous message.

Message 229 is hilarious if you turn on the text-to-speech on your computer. So is message 231.

This message talks to itself?

This is a public service message.

Indubitably

This message is not a public service.

Message 259 is a valid deletion - unlike some (she adds snarkily)

translation: oooops!

This service is not a public message.

...all the way to the used book store!

To thine own message be true.

This message requires a valid massage.

The message in the thread goes round and round...

round and round, round and round ...

This message is spinning its wheels.

The wheels are the message!

Wheels within wheels. That is the message.

4 Real man! this message is 4 real! Hi!

Fragile message -- handle with care.

*everyone sing*

The wheels on the message go round and round;
round and round;
round and round;
The wheels on the message go round and round;
tra-lal-la-la LA (forgot the rest)

And the painted ponies go up and down,
We're captive on the carousel of this message.

There were ten little messages
lying in the bed,
and the littlest one said,
"Roll over, roll over."
So they all rolled over,
and one fell out,
and there were nine little messages
lying in the bed,
and the little one said…

This is a reel message.

Lights, camera, action!

The last message did not repeat. The beans from the spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam and spam (spamspamspamspamspamspam...)repeated and that's what came out.

This message will be deleted. Resistance is futile...

"A lot of bands mature, which means they get square; they start delivering messages. Hey, you got a message, use Western Union."

- the inimitable David Lee Roth

...then, if you're its author, delete it.

This is the message that was deleted.

MESSAGE: please go to room 101 immediately

Have you got the message yet?

no... was it subliminal?

if so, that explains it... my liminal isn't working properly.

This message is a figment of your imagination, and you are a figment of my imagination. (Insert maniacal laughter here.)

hey

hey

hey

hey

hey

And at 300, the message bites its own tail.

And at 301, the tail bites the message.

Must be a scorpion.

This thread has really amused me the last few days. Just wish I could think of something clever to add.

The rest of you...carry on

This message is the medium.

When the hit men deleted the medium, she made a mess.

The mess wasn't too big and wasn't too small. I'm trying to think of a good word to describe the size. Hmmm...

Martin Scorsese was tense after a hard day of directing so he went to a masseuse to get his stress kneaded away. He purchased hours of her attentions, and eventually her hands were entirely worn out. When the next customer came in, she said, "Sorry, the massage has been depleted by the auteur."

This message sometimes wishes it were just a note.

Delete a thread, and the web will unravel.

This message claims to be written by jimroberts.

Is anyone else rather disappointed that messages 291-298 were not deleted by their authors?

add: are they trying to hijack this thread perchance?!!

>313 jimroberts:
Need proof please!

This message claims to confirm that #313 was written by jimroberts.

Says who?!!

This message was a witness to that message so the message is authentic.

This message would rather not be associated with jimroberts.

This message is from the jimroberts association. Please stop infringing on our trademark.

The message was attempted to be returned to sender but came back address unknown.

The message was returned because the author was unknown.

This message wants to point out that, regardless of what previous messages might claim, this message *knows* them quite well.

The message in 322 is growing sideburns, a snarl and swivel-hips.

#320
All your message are belong to us.

This message is a warning not to…Arrrrgh!

The message will 'Arrrrgh!' if it wants to!!

hey bthompson1!

vdelcarmen and bthompson....see the insanity you have started! lol

This message says, "hey, lindasbooks."

This message says:

"Spring has sprung
Fall has fell
Summer's here
And it's hot as usual."
…Author Unknown

I like mackeral

This roly-poly message says holy mackeral

This message says some people don't know how to spell mackerel. Tee hee hee!

Für mich soll's immer Makrele regnen.

32, 111, 342: which message is next?

This message is glad that it doesn't have to spell mackerel very often. ;)

This message would go fishing but it's winter in Canada and ice is cold and I think even the mackeral and the mackerel and the other fish too are hibernating and if they aren't, they should be.

Oh, alright... it's not actually winter up here. And we don't really all live in igloos, but don't tell anyone.

This message thinks someone has stolen its icicles. If you come across any hot icicles, please inform it.

Not me. Can't keep hot icicles in an igloo. Too cold.

Hey. Cool.

hey

Hay! Straw! Grass!!

This message says people who live in grass glass houses shouldn't throw stones orgies.

That might approve attractive to passers by and draw new friends.

This message has authorised its deletion. (Or "authorized", if you prefer.)

362 and 363...LOL...funny stuff!

Isn't this where we came in?

# 367 - I would like to see the opening deletions again, and then we can go. Besides, if we wait a few minutes, there will be fewer cars in the parking lot.

This message has not been deleted by its author.

Must be a double feature after all!

If the repeats on the tv weren't bad enough, now we have them on LT!

If the repeats on the tv weren't bad enough, now we have them on LT!

Shut up!

Shut up!

Stop repeating what I say!

Stop repeating what I say!

New stuff will be posted during sweeps week.

It is always sweeps week when you get a new broom!!

hi :)

yo

yo

oy

uff da!!

HELLO ALL!

This message has been deleted by its author.

No it hasn't. It's right there.

Yes it has.

No, i'm telling you i can see it! Look!

You're imagining things.

This messages has been grounded for three weeks.

I looked. It was only from December 11 to December 15.

Robert

Promise?

And the check is in the mail.

The Bohemian wears chain mail?

The camel wore a nightie.

Robert

The nightie smelt of camel.

the camel sniffed the nightie??

This message is smarter than your message.

My message's daddy can whip your message's daddy.

my message's daddy is your daddy

your message's momma reads army books!

well your army books read your message's momma!

. . .

Daddy, where do the messages come from? And their daddies, and their daddies' daddies?

well, when a mommy message and a daddy message love each other very much...

#235711: Well, just look at how well these messages have propagated.

and don't call me "daddy"!!

I didn't call you daddy. It was message #399 that was asking the question. I don't know which previous message it assumed to be its daddy.

#403/235711: it was a joke... very similar in intention to this entire thread!!

and I can't be anyone's daddy... my dna stops with me.

I know it was a joke; #403 was a joke too, though perhaps not a good one.

This message is not a joke.

This message can marry its own father.

#405/235711: gotcha!!

to return to the spirit of the thread:

The joke is the message.

Spirit of the thread, do you have something to say to us?

This message is my first on LT. I don't want to delete it.

I am the Spirit of Threads Present. Come and know me better!

Oh, no. I'm not going to let you take me on a magical trip round the internet to see all the threads going on right now.

I am two thousand one hundred and seventy, and the spiritual harbinger of messages yet to come.

High.

This message has forgotten how italicize.

This message italicizes.

Robert

Are they friendly spirits?

Friendly? Just listen:

Well, what do you expect from alcohol, friendly spirits? You must be thinking of Caspar.

*channeling Bullwinkle*

Nuthin' up my sleeve...

Booh!

Vacuity ... the Final Frontier. These are the messages of the thread hi. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new words; to seek out new playfulness and new inanity; to boldly go where no thread has gone before.

Fascinating.

This message doesn't want to wear the red shirt and go on an away mission.

You will be deleted! Resistance is futile!

We are the message.

We are the Book.

It's not dead, Jim.

Make it so, Number One.

Ask not what the message can do for you. Ask what you can do for the message.

We shall defend our messages, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the Talk, we shall fight in the groups, we shall fight in the site talk and in the book talk, we shall fight in your starred; we shall never surrendah!

Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this cyberspace a new message board, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all messages are created equal.

Ich bin ein LT'er!

#432: And this message eats jammy donuts for breakfast.

This message was tired but after reading today's messages has suddenly found the will to fight!

En Garde!

All for one, and one for all!!!
Deletions unite!

All messages are equal, but some messages are more equal than others.

Two

messages

bad,

four messages good!

Wouldn't Marshall McLuhan just love this thread?!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message

The medium is no longer the message.

The number of messages is not medium... getting really close to extra large.

No, not medium; and not rare, either.

Well done!

French fries and corned beef hash, but not messages.

Robert

Whadaya' have against messages? Huh, huh, huh? =^..^=

Batteries for hearing aids are located in aisle 4.

He thought he saw a battery
For use in hearing aids.
He looked again, and saw it was
A book of poems by Yeats.
"Aisle four", he spoke, "to try it more
Would be to tempt the fates."

  Delete a message

Tannoy message "Clean up crew to Aisle 4!"

Pardon?

He said 'TANNOY MESSAGE "CLEAN UP CREW TO AISLE 4!"'

What's 'tannoy'?

Robert

Not sure, but I think it is "Nue Yawkese" for "to annoy." k4k

#457: Mr.Durick "What's 'tannoy'?"
Are you serious? A public address system popular in the 1960's.
#458: Often annoying.

t'annoy or not to annoy, that is the question.

I was serious. Thank you for the answer.

The question is not t'annoy or not to annoy; it is to be or not to be, silly.

Robert

I choose to be silly, Mr.Durick.

No, no, no! anaavu, you must get a message.

Maybe in this case the massage is the message, after all.

It's 7:39 PM. Do you know where your messages are?

Number of words on the first 3 pages of

McLuhan's The Medium is the Massage: 9 *

* Not counting large, flamboyant punctuation marks as words.
I used to put this in question form, as a Trivia Question in AOL.
Notice how I've progressed? --From mere Trivia to
real, solid info.

Hi! Could somebody tell me how to delete a message?

Sure - click on that little x to the right of your message.

The message lives!

# 472 is = to: "DO kill the non-messenger."

The message never dies. Evidently.

We don't know, that message was deleted.

When no-one reads it, the message dies.

if the message falls in the woods, is it a message?

My message says yes, because a message is a message as soon as it is sent, whether or not anyone reads the message in the message.

if the message falls in the woods, is it a message?

Anything that falls in the woods is by definition not a message, because messages aren't the kinds of things that fall in woods. However, some object's falling in the woods may cause a message to be sent, or even constitute a message.

ok..

If a message is lost in the woods & is never seen or heard, would it still be a message?

Yes, a message could fall in the woods if it fell off the pigeon, so I stand (sit(?)) by post #481.

Same answer to skittles: a message is a message as soon as it is sent, whether or not anyone reads the message in the message sent by the messenger.

The pigeon is the message!

The message is the pigeon!

The message is, "Eat this messenger!".

Can anyone read my smoke signals? Should I call the fire brigade?

Puff puff-puff puff puff whoosh

The message adamantly states:
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!

Stop the pigeon. Stop the pigeon. Stop that pigeon now!

Pigeon stopped. Pigeon examined. Pigeon unhappy. Pigeon released.

did you get the message from the pigeon?

The pigeon ate the message.

My cat eats pigeons but doesn't pay attention to messages.

Robert

My pigeon eats cats.

WOOF!!!

You win!

This message can't think in italics, and
possibly will be disqualified.

T & * S M @**age is Ill*@ i*#le --
except to expert de-coders.

This message is a smart-ass response.

@504 - It is not, there's NO way I'm an expert and I can totally read that.

This message is to Boobalack: The coded part says: "This message is illegible".

This message is to BethyB:
I suspected you could "totally read that", and I'll take your word for it that you read it as above,

This message is to rolandperkins - yup, that's TOTALLY how I read that!

This message returns you to your normal chain of messages ... well, assuming it's what you'd call normal, anyway ...

This message wants to play with the cool kids.

we be here.
we be cool.
we read.
we stay in skool.

This message is a cool kid, but the author isn't.

There is madness in the message, but the message isn't mad.

There is a method to the madness in the message.

The message is madly methodical.

The message is methodically mad.

The madness is methodically massaged?

This message doesn't know about the messages, but it fears for the sanity of the authors of the messages.
N'yuk, n'yuk, n'yuk.

What! Of all the things that could possibly be mentioned in this thread, I had to go and miss the pigeons? The LT pigeons? My pet project... *shakes head, checks on the Messenger Pigeons collection*

This message has covered itself with plastic.

The message is the plastic.

This message is the paper (as opposed to the plastic).

This message is tired of being repeatedly deleted.

Message 90 was wrong!!

Message 236 was strangely furry.

#90: jimroberts "THE END OF THE THREAD IS NIGH"

On checking that messages calculations, this message has found a mistake. But now:

THE END OF THE THREAD IS NIGH

The end of the thread may be nigh, but the message lives on.... and on.... and on....

...which is neither here nor there.

On 534:

THis message contends that the message IS here or there, but isn't sure which.

This message thinks that message 538 is a dirty old monk.

This message has been arrested for trying to find out whether any other messages are wearing no panties :(

This message regrets that 543's bond is forfeit, because 542 went right back to its investigations.

The message has been given a sentence that precludes access to books for the life of the message.

This message certifies that Message 546 will be very short-lived.

hi

This message is hiding in a dark alley.

This message sees message 551 on the video surveillance cameras in the dark alley.

Hmmph.

This message says that totally consonantal,
i.e. non-vocalic, posts (like 555) are,
generally, banned

This message isn't clear.

**yawn**

G'night, messages!!

Hi Boobalack, how ya doin'?

Robert

Pretty good, Robert. Thanks for asking. How are you doing?

Lettie

Well, I got some sciatica, and the gummint's comin' down on us, and lawsy what's a soul to do?

Robert

Ha. No more sciatica for me since my surgery.

This message hs investigated the connection
between "sciolist" and "sciatica" and has
concluded that there is absolutely no connection.

"ouch!"

This message has been tied up..... to a post.

#577

This msg thinks 'tied up to a post' might mean S&M

This message has not been flagged.

This msg. still believes Boobalack looks young and beautiful because her genes are passed on to her granddaughter and grandson.

A family of messages must really be something to see.

what the hell

This message is attempting to communicate with the other side.

re#594

"Oh heavenly days".

This message thinks that threads that get too fat should spawn spin-off threads.

Thsi message agrees, and thinks that the spin-off should be in a more appropriate group.

This message invites all messages to a new beginning.

This message thumbs its nose at #600!

>592 bookmonk8888:

This msg. loves having a lot of babies so long as the missus does the diapers

>593 skittles: (skittles)

This msg. asks skittles how do you put a condom on a msg.

> 601 (jimroberts)

Why two identical threads? Could cause confusion and lose members.

#605: perhaps because this thread has over 600 baby messages??

and you put the word condom over the 'sticking out' parts!!

'word condom' is also another phrase for ERASER!!

This is a nice and warm and cozy place.

#607
Going there will just spawn more messages!

#605 bookmonk8888 "Why two identical threads?"

Identical? Ths msg thinks not!

Too fat a thread must amoeba-like, split.

#606 (skittles)

Naughty girl! If you are a girl. Doesn't say on your Profile Page. You should add more to your Profile Page. Would be nice to know more about you. You seem a fun person.

Why does Your Groups say that there are 576 messages in this thread?

That's funny; now it says 577.

578

because of the 'truly' deleted posts.

614 minus 578 equals the number of truly deleted posts.

hi!

Love the silliness and humor of this thread. Research shows that "faffing around" is good for you -- see faffing around

Too bad that contributions to this thread have decreased immensely since it was hijacked by #601 (jimroberts). Very few also in his new one. "If it works, don't fix it."

This message fixes the thread.

This message is giving #623 a hint: that it isnʻt the path to Heaven or Purgatory.

this message whispers to message 620 that not every message traverses a high speed internet connection and this message thanks message 601 for its consideration toward those messages

>625 sqdancer:

This msg says thanks to sqdancer because it hadn't thought of that. Still disappointed though that messages have decreased a lot since then -- ah well, can't have it both ways - got to think of others too

This message would like to stay on message, but has forgotten the point. What to do....what to do...

hi, krazy4katz

hi Mr.Durick. What's new?

k4k

Messages 630 through 632 so far.

RD

#630

No, no. The medium is the MASSAGE

633: this message wonders if that means fiction is friction

#634

Plenty friction because the medium is a psychic

This message gives the classic answer to 633:

"The M A S S A G E !!??" -and the classic
answer to that:

"A N D H O W !!!"

Actually, this message would prefer XLarge.

This message is nervous!

hi

This message is mispeled.

zo iz thiss wun,
butt et iz shuah th mistayaks ore miner.

This message feels like its big sisters are trying to make plans without it knowing about the so it can't tag along.

something tells me this topic has been overthrown by spam and a sick sense of humor....

hi

Lo?

This message awakens from its long slumber and looks around for coffee.

This message has been suspended for (1) being boring, and (2) not being able to make italics. The writer is searching for a serving of 649, pending reinstatement.

This message is preparing to jump to a new thread, as 649 got cold while it was loading. Follow me....