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    Blogging Through History: Commenters In The 1690s

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    Image of casi nadie (loves MCC forever) casi nadie (loves MCC forever)
    03/29/09

    In reply to Blogging Through History: Commenters In The 1690s
    Somebody really needs to make a blog titled Publick Occurrences.
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    Image of saintbernadette saintbernadette
    03/29/09

    In reply to Blogging Through History: Commenters In The 1690s
    Today must have been Quirky Interwebs Stuff day on CBS Sunday Morning. Did y'all see Mo Rocca make a sweatshirt to sell on Etsy?
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    Image of ImDatNinja (loves her Red Sox) ImDatNinja (loves her Red Sox)
    03/29/09

    @saintbernadette: Do you have a link for this? Plz!!
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    Image of lauraholtsteele lauraholtsteele
    03/29/09

    @saintbernadette: He was making it to sell? I assumed he was making it to keep for himself, and just using Etsy as an example of the new "do it yourself" movement. I loved how Mo lied to Martha about whatever kind of stitch he used. And then, how Martha thought that the maraccas - Moroccas - were ping pong paddles!
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    Image of saintbernadette saintbernadette
    03/29/09

    @lauraholtsteele: You're probably right; I was making scrambled eggs while I watched it. But yes, I loved the ping pong paddle part!
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    Image of ImDatNinja (loves her Red Sox) ImDatNinja (loves her Red Sox)
    03/29/09

    In reply to Blogging Through History: Commenters In The 1690s
    Jez just when I thought you couldnt be any awesomer you post a clip from my favorite morning show. Long live SDM!
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    Image of BabyJane BabyJane
    03/29/09

    In reply to Blogging Through History: Commenters In The 1690s
    Eat Ye a Sammich!
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    Image of greengrey greengrey
    03/29/09

    @BabyJane: Who do ye think ye are? The town medicine man?!
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    Image of Maiden Curly Crown O'Portugues-Winchester Maiden Curly Crown O'Portugues-Winchester
    03/29/09

    @BabyJane: ye mun ken, that the remedie for suddene weyt lost is nae a sammich, but, to have thine blude let, vis, a course of leeches.
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    Image of BabyJane BabyJane
    03/29/09

    @greengrey: @Maiden Curly Crown (nee TacoToes): Me thinks I love ye both!
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    Image of hortense hortense
    03/29/09

    In reply to Blogging Through History: Commenters In The 1690s
    April showers bring May flowers

    What do May flowers bring?

    TEH AWESOME


    -happyplrgm, 1624

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    Image of sympathyforthebasementcat sympathyforthebasementcat
    03/29/09

    @hortense: Aye. Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote the droghte of March hath perced to the roote, teh awesome blossoms.
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    Image of sequined sequined
    03/29/09

    In reply to Blogging Through History: Commenters In The 1690s
    Watching clips like this makes me want to go smack my 15-year-old self for always whining, "I hate history! History is so boring!"


    History is fucking cool, you dumb shit. It's just like today except with cooler clothes and funny spellings!

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    Image of BabyJane BabyJane
    03/29/09

    In reply to Blogging Through History: Commenters In The 1690s
    Hear Ye! hear Ye!


    Goody Lohan did parade around the Village Square in her legging garments.
    Me thinks she should don some pantaloons.


    *Early Jezebel.

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    Image of vamusical vamusical
    03/29/09

    @BabyJane: Wherefore doth ye tabloids concern yourselves with the womb of Lady Anniston, so long now barren? Thou need find different conversation for regular discourse!
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    Image of YourScreenplaySucks YourScreenplaySucks
    03/29/09

    @BabyJane: Dirt Bag; Salem Edition: I saw Goody Aniston with the Devil! I saw Goody Portman with the Devil!
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    Image of iloveastone iloveastone
    03/29/09

    In reply to Blogging Through History: Commenters In The 1690s
    I love that this flow chart admits that network television is behind EVERYTHING. Hi-larious.
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    Image of TheFormerJuneBronson TheFormerJuneBronson
    03/29/09

    In reply to Blogging Through History: Commenters In The 1690s
    I learned something similar from A World Lit Only By Fire about Martin Luther, to wit: he didn't defiantly nail his theses to the church doors; he posted it, like everyone else did, to hear comments about it. That was SOP for his institution. The church doors were their bulletin board. And he had no idea that it was going to have the effect it did.


    However, I'm still going to have to vote "no" on the Globe website comments. What a bunch of yahoos. They're embarrassing me as a Massachusetts resident.

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    Image of Annabellie Annabellie
    03/29/09

    In reply to Blogging Through History: Commenters In The 1690s
    Now I want to know what the 18th century equivalent of Facebook was...
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    Image of Santos L Halper Santos L Halper
    03/29/09

    @Annabellie: Public lynchings.
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    Image of Maiden Curly Crown O'Portugues-Winchester Maiden Curly Crown O'Portugues-Winchester
    03/29/09

    @Santos L Halper: oh my god, i think i love you. that was hilarious.
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    Image of Gretchen is a new kitten mom! Gretchen is a new kitten mom!
    03/29/09

    @Annabellie: The "Wanted" poster in the public square?
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    Image of Annabellie Annabellie
    03/29/09

    @Gretchen (hates insurance adjusters and will get new timpan...: ...which would be a really unflattering etching of you from seventh grade...
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    Image of hortense hortense
    03/29/09

    In reply to Blogging Through History: Commenters In The 1690s
    "Witch, plz."- Abigail Williams, 1692


    "We're really sorry about that whole witch thing, but please come buy our goods profiting off of the murder of 20 innocent people!"- Salem, MA, 2009

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    Image of sequined sequined
    03/29/09

    In reply to Blogging Through History: Commenters In The 1690s
    Sometimes it's nice to be reminded that the more things change, the more things remain the same.
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    Image of vamusical vamusical
    03/29/09

    In reply to Blogging Through History: Commenters In The 1690s
    I loved this but the idea of newsmedia reverting to more antiquated methods of news worries me. Many voices does not necessarily mean more accurate voices. To me it means society just becomes more divided.
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    Image of Eeva Eeva
    03/29/09

    In reply to Blogging Through History: Commenters In The 1690s
    Um...none offenfe ment or aniethinge lyke, but methinks thisse iss nothinge lesse than ve excremente of ve ox, & a ladye sholde not be writting ve tidingss & news ov ye dayss.
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    Image of Santos L Halper Santos L Halper
    03/29/09

    @Eeva: I wish I could friend you again for using "f's" in the place of "s's." If Pepys could see you now.
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    Image of Annabellie Annabellie
    03/29/09

    @Eeva: Watch it Ben Franklin or you'll get disemvowelled.
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    Image of haguenite haguenite
    03/29/09

    @Santos L Halper: It's not really an f though. It's a long s. But I do agree that substituting them with f in your head makes for some hilarious reading.
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    Image of Santos L Halper Santos L Halper
    03/29/09

    @haguenite: I just remember reading old diaries (ala Pepys) and wondering where the s's went. I guess I was harkening back to the days when I didn't know the difference.
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    Image of sympathyforthebasementcat sympathyforthebasementcat
    03/29/09

    @Eeva: Perhaps thou hast just become wroth because thine arse is fat! Ye olde brachet!
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    Image of Eeva Eeva
    03/29/09

    @sympathyforthedevil: Zounds! HEAR YE, HEAR YE, ich ken that sympathyforthedevil hast scitten in hisse pantaloons lyke an infante.

    Verily ich sayy, go fike thysself.
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    Image of sympathyforthebasementcat sympathyforthebasementcat
    03/29/09

    @Eeva: Oh. It is on till the dawn breyken, thou dulle cunny!
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    Image of A Small Turnip A Small Turnip
    03/29/09

    @sympathyforthedevil: Holye horsehite, mine owne deare Devil. Thou hast stoleyn mine hearte with "Ye olde brachet!" I shall henceforth follow ye to the end of my mortal dayes, amen.
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    Image of Annabellie Annabellie
    03/29/09

    In reply to Blogging Through History: Commenters In The 1690s
    Most of the comments on that first newspaper were probably "YOU SPELLED PUBLICK WRONG. LEARN TO USE SPELLCHECK."
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    Image of sequined sequined
    03/29/09

    @Annabellie: Back in the day, evidently, there were intense spelling debates because it wasn't all standardized yet. Supposedly (by which I mean according to Bill Bryson) people got testy about it.
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    Image of sympathyforthebasementcat sympathyforthebasementcat
    03/29/09

    @Annabellie: FYRST!
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    Image of Santos L Halper Santos L Halper
    03/29/09

    @Annabellie: Correction: "Spellcheque." The Pilgrimes knowest not what is best for thine spellings.
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    Image of iloveastone iloveastone
    03/29/09

    @sympathyforthedevil: Oh ye hilarious, I just peed my pants a tad.
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    Image of Annabellie Annabellie
    03/29/09

    @sequined: I know, and I think that it would be totally amazing NOT to have standardized spelling! You could spell things however you wanted to that particular day. You could even spell your name however you wanted to. Which is why my last name has a crapload of variations, even though there was only one dude from France who came over with my name back in 1645 or whatever.
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    Image of mepo - Robert Cornhole invented it mepo - Robert Cornhole invented it
    03/29/09

    @Annabellie: GIFs were provided by town criers.
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    Image of Annabellie Annabellie
    03/29/09

    @sympathyforthedevil: Mine lady there doth require some type of sustenance, perhaps in the form of a sandwich.
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    Image of iloveastone iloveastone
    03/29/09

    @Annabellie: I think it was maybe more like "Spellinge: ye art doth doin it ronge!"
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    Image of sympathyforthebasementcat sympathyforthebasementcat
    03/29/09

    @Annabellie: Mayhaps, the Earl of that region could prepare one for her.
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