Pulling a Kowalski
Honoring one of our own
By The Directors Posted in Miscellanea — Comments (31) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Alex Kowalski is an institution at RedState. He's been around here longer than most and has taken more leaves of absence than most. RedState would not be RedState without people like Alex Kowalski. He's given his time, talent, enthusiasm, money, and a heck of a lot more, and we're better for it.
Perhaps the most distinguished legacy of Alex at this site is the coining of a phrase. When someone goes "Kowalski" they are replying to themselves in a comment thread. Alex is notorious for this. Long before Krempasky spilled the beans in a comment thread one day, it was routine for the site contributors to note someone "pulling a Kowalski" in a post. Since the day krempasky let slip that this was our in-house term, it has become part of our culture.
Today we'd like to announce that we'll be making that part of RedState's permanent culture. When RedState 3.0 launches, any user who attempts to reply to that user's own comment will not see the "reply to this" button. Instead, the user will see the button at right.
While we realize this is a rather in-house joke, we think it is most appropriate and a great way to recognize Alex's contribution to the growth of this site.
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"Land of the Free and Home of da Whopper" Peter Griffin...Family Guy
conform and celebrate diversity....or else!!!
don't let this go to your head because we have our hands full with
Our hymn to the Divine Obama
Now you will never be able to get away.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
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Small is beautiful.
Freedom of Religion not Freedom from Religion
nt
1. McCain, 2. Thompson, 3. Giuliani, 4. Romney
that's funny.
1. McCain, 2. Thompson, 3. Giuliani, 4. Romney
Shouldn't "The Directors" have written the first comment in this thread?
The Unofficial RedState FAQ
“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say. ” - Martin Luther
Search for the string "I have never seen a comment as stupid as that one" and the button can turn into "pull an MBecker".
Search for the string "star" and "trek" and have the button say "pull a moe"
I'm sure there are more.
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. --Voltaire
Obama, you're where you
should be all the time!
Still Carrying A Torch for Fred
WARNING! McCain Anxiety Attack Zone
Barack Orbasm in Progress (for lefty trolls)
Obama, you gave up the things you love,
and one of them was - grandma!
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CongressCritter™: Never have so few felt like they were owed so much by so many for so little.
RS poster. He would, OTOH, be more than happy to bite a few of them.
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CongressCritter™: Never have so few felt like they were owed so much by so many for so little.
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CongressCritter™: Never have so few felt like they were owed so much by so many for so little.
Being immortalized as webslang, that is.
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa
Now hitting that button is something I really look forward to.
The button lefty sites need is "Be a sockpuppet." Which of course is an entirely different animal.
You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
...a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right...
---Thomas Paine---
...a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right...
---Thomas Paine---
Socialism doesn't work. It looks nice on paper, but it's been tried and it's failed miserably every time (usually accompanied by widespread death and suffering).
Proud member of the V.R.W.C.
I still think it should be a verb.
Socialism doesn't work. It looks nice on paper, but it's been tried and it's failed miserably every time (usually accompanied by widespread death and suffering).
Proud member of the V.R.W.C.
Gosh, fellas. [blush] Now I'm in this forever.
And I couldn't be happier. People can read the FAQ in the future, and there are a few Redstate regulars who have actually had the temerity to sit through my various and sundry explanations of this behavior before. Some of them are more plausible than others, but in the end it boils down to handedness and my own internal wetware version of the Von Neumann Bottleneck. To think: I was considering changing my posting style to stop the practice; how terribly shortsighted I would have been.
This is what I mean when I say that perseverance matters, folks.
I am honored and humbled and I hope that anyone who has ever been confused or befuddled by the term -- not to mention the posts themselves -- now understands that there is a method to the madness and a madness to the method. Even without this recognition I would be honored to keep posting as a part of this website, and I think you folks have just cemented it for as long as you're on the web. You're stuck with me now, may heaven help us all. ;)
"Violently anti-Communist, and much more militaristic than the norm." -- John "margittai Neumann János Lajos" Von Neumann
Now let's win this election, people, and quit screwing around. :)
is that in this thread, pretty much everyone pulled a Kowalski except the man himself.
Hahahahaha
on becoming a permanent RS fixture, even on the days you don't post.
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