Banned by AOL

American Spectator ^ | 12/22/2003 | Kathy Shaidle

[Orangedog]

AOL is nothing but crap. And, just try to terminate your account on their website.

You weren't trying hard enough. Just go into one of the homosexual chat rooms with your flamethrower set to "incinerate." Back around 1995 we used to have contests to see who could get an account terminated fastest. My record time was 45 seconds.

[Dane]

I noticed the latest AOL commercials feature Snoop Doggy Doo, and address the fact that they send out tons of unused discs

I knew that AOL sucked back in version 1. whatever, but some people will never get it. Although I kept Prodigy until early 96, I also signed up with an independent ISP back in 95 for unlimited web surfing.

Sheesh who can ever forget those days of paying $14.95 per month for a whole five hours of online surfing and then paying an extra $2.95 for each hour afterward(Prodigy, AOL, Compuserve).

[Paul Atreides]

All I know is that, when I was on AOL, they kicked you off if you stayed on too long. Seven years later, I'm still hearing that same complaint from people. If you are enjoying your time with AOL, more power to you.

[FreePaul]

I know one person who uses AOL. I help him sometimes with computer problems. AOL puts so much trash on his computer that he has trouble running anything else. In addition I have trouble accessing many sites from his computer. They may not be blocking them but they are doing the same thing in some manner.

[ladyinred]

In 2000, CNET News reported that AOL's "youth filters" were preventing young surfers from accessing liberal websites; "your children can easily view the site of the Republican National Committee," Brian Livingston reported at the time, "but the Democratic National Committee is blocked."

At least there is a silver cloud in every lining or something like that!

Actually, AOL is not someone I would do business with. Their parent company Time Warner is on my boycott list. Censoring everyone's email seems like a Marxist thing to do, so I am not surprised.

BTW; Is your screenname related to the EastEnders?

[DLfromthedesert]

I still have mine on a 2 for a msn account. I still get a lot of e-mail on it. And if my computer goes on the blink, it's back-up access to the web.

[Paul Atreides]

LOL! I never thought of that.

[dpa5923]

I save the cases. They make great replacement DVD cases.

[Capriole]

Just go into one of the homosexual chat rooms with your flamethrower set to "incinerate." Back around 1995 we used to have contests to see who could get an account terminated fastest. My record time was 45 seconds.

Very clever. That will get you banned, all right. But it may not stop AOL from billing you forever. I'd love to hear a clever way to stop them from doing that!

[Paul Atreides]

Before they went to CDs, and, before I got a CD-burner, I used to take the sign-up floppies they sent and erase the info on them and have a blank disc.

[Paul Atreides]

Also, a lot of fun: seeing how long it takes to get terminated from Lucianne.com.

[IncPen]

How ironic that AOL is now marketing itself as 'family-friendly' after years and years of catering to and enabling sexual perverts.

One of the problems with vetting content is that you open yourself up to litigation for the content you didn't vet.

It's a real hazard at FR, imho.

[Orangedog]

That will get you banned, all right. But it may not stop AOL from billing you forever. I'd love to hear a clever way to stop them from doing that!

Not all that hard. If you have a zero balance on the credit card they bill you on, just cancel the card. I had to do that to keep MSN from billing me after I terminated my account with them in 1998.

[perfect stranger]

And we heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight: "Happy Kwanzaa to all, except if you're white!" Haaaaaaaaaaaa-haaaa

[RunningJoke]

"Ours is the golden age of minorities. At no time in the past have dissident minorities felt so much at home and had so much room to throw their weight around. They speak and act as if they were "the people," and what they abominate most is the dissent of the majority. The self-assertion of the majority, except on election day, is seen as a threat to freedom. It used to be minorities looked over their shoulders wondering what the majority thought of them. Now it is the majority that wonders what the minorities think." --E. Hoffer

[Willie Green]

Now it turns out that AOL is nannying people's e-mail and search results? And you have to pay HOW much/month?

AOL plans to hire developers in India

[reagan_fanatic]

I'm a computer technician. I LOVE AOL.

I fix more crashed computers from that one sorry program than any other.

I should send them a thank-you card.

[Labyrinthos]

What is AOL? Is that the company that sends me free CD's for target practice? They make GREAT targets at 100 yards.

We throw them off the deck like frisbees and blast away with a 20 gauge. Pull...BAM!!!

[gcruse]

Kwanza Komedy

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Published 12/16/2003 11:10:28 AM

'Twas the night before Kwanzaa And all through the 'hood, Maulana Karenga was up to no good. He'd tortured a woman and spent time in jail. He needed a new scam that just wouldn't fail. ("So what if I stuck some chick's toe in a vice? Nobody said revolution was nice!") The Sixties were over. Now what would he do? Why, he went back to school -- so that's "Dr." to you! He once ordered shootouts at UCLA Now he teaches Black Studies just miles away. Then to top it all off, the good Doctor's new plan Was to get rid of Christmas and piss off The Man. Karenga invented a fake holiday. He called the thing Kwanza. "Hey, what's that you say? "You don't get what's 'black' about Maoist baloney? You say that my festival's totally phony? "Who cares if corn isn't an African crop? Who cares if our harvest's a month or two off? Who cares if Swahili's not our mother tongue? A lie for The Cause never hurt anyone! "Umoja! Ujima! Kujichagulia, too! Collectivist crap never sounded so cool! Those guilty white liberals -- easy to fool. Your kids will now celebrate Kwanzaa in school!" And we heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight: "Happy Kwanzaa to all, except if you're white!"

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

You're too late. He already did;

Alex Trebek: "Yeah, it was a trick question, Mr. Connery. Why don't you pick a category?"

snip-

Sean Connery: "I've got to ask you about the Penis Mightier."

Alex Trebek: "What? No. No, no, that is The Pen is Mightier."

Ive copied as much as I think the Admin Moderator will allow. For the whole sketch, go here;

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/98/98pjeopardy.phtml