"The first and most important thing to say about John Dominic Crossan's work is that it is bad history."

- D.A. Carson
The Thinklings Weblog Sucks Because . . .

Okay, so we're hearing that our blog blows ginormous chunks. It's too whatever and not enough such and such. It sucks.

Well, here's your chance, The Rest of You.

I'm not buying the previously cited rationales for Thinklings suckiness. They ring hollow to me. I'm sure you can do better.

Fill in the blank in the comments:
"The Thinklings blog sucks because _________________________."

The commenter with the best answer will win a link to their blog in our roll as punishment. If the winning commenter already has a link in our blogroll, firstly, Why? We suck. But secondly, you'll win an alternate prize, something to be determined at a later point but just as inconsequential as a link.

Good luck!

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Comments on "The Thinklings Weblog Sucks Because . . .":
1. Milly - 03/12/2008 2:31 pm CDT

The Thinklings Weblog Sucks Because . . .Milly The Moonpiest doesn’t have an emoticon.

2. blest - 03/12/2008 2:53 pm CDT

The Thinklings Weblog Sucks Because it doesn't link to me often enough even if I have, until this month, been quieter than an Arminian at a Calvinist rally.

AND because no currently posting Thinkling has ever bought jewelry from me.

So there!

3. rebecca - 03/12/2008 2:53 pm CDT

The Thinklings blog sucks because there is too much technical jargon. Case in point: "blows ginormous chunks."

4. blest - 03/12/2008 2:54 pm CDT

Also, there has been a dearth in pictures of monkeys.

5. blest - 03/12/2008 2:55 pm CDT

Leave it to the chicks to pile on the criticisms.

;-p

(blest ducks and covers)

6. Bill - 03/12/2008 3:30 pm CDT

The Thinklings is like behonkus sweat on a gym weight machine, when you don't have a towel.

What I'm saying is this: it totally sucks, but there's nothing you can do about it. You can't ignore it. It follows you. It clings to you.

All you can do is ponder on its suckiness.

7. rebecca - 03/12/2008 3:45 pm CDT

And there are no recipes. Unsucky blogs post recipes.

8. rebecca - 03/12/2008 3:46 pm CDT

Although, on second thought, maybe "blows ginormous chunks" is a recipe.

9. Jared - 03/12/2008 3:49 pm CDT

Nah, it's the result of a recipe.

10. Brian in Fresno - 03/12/2008 4:34 pm CDT

Does Bill qualify to win a prize since he is a Thinkling?

11. Jared - 03/12/2008 4:37 pm CDT

The Thinklings blog sucks because we give prizes to ourselves.

12. blest - 03/12/2008 4:43 pm CDT

The Thinklings blog sucks because it knocks blogs with recipes. Plus it is laden with simple carbohydrates and doesn't exercise.

13. blest - 03/12/2008 5:13 pm CDT

Okay. This is the big one.

The Thinklings blog sucks because, after almost five years and close to 1500 comments, they STILL have not conclusively settled the gatorade issue. That and there are too many wussy yellow-seeing namby-pambies cluttering up the joint.

14. Bill - 03/12/2008 6:26 pm CDT

Actually, that question was settled in the first few comments of that thread.

It's green.

15. Jared - 03/12/2008 6:33 pm CDT

Nay, it was settled in the mind of God before the foundation of the world.
All you yellow-seers must repent. The day of judgment is coming.

16. Ellen - 03/12/2008 6:34 pm CDT

The Thinklings blog sucks because:
1. The Thinkings Blogolatry is the mindless worship of The Thinkings Blog.
2. The Thinkings Blog was declared extinct in 1902!
3. During World War II, Americans tried to train The Thinkings Blog to drop bombs.
4. Fifty-two percent of Americans drink The Thinkings Blog!
5. The Thinkings Blog has often been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean.
6. Three seagulls flying overhead are a warning that The Thinkings Blog is near.
7. There are now more than 4000 satellites orbiting The Thinkings Blog!
8. The Thinkings Blog, from the movie of the same name, had green blood.
9. A thimbleful of The Thinkings Blog would weigh over 100 million tons.
10. All the moons of the Solar System are named after characters from Greek and Roman mythology, except the moons of Uranus, which are named after The Thinkings Blog.

17. jimmmaaa - 03/12/2008 6:35 pm CDT

The Thinklings Blog sucks because it is well, disjointed. It also sucks because it doesn't slam people out in the blogosphere and make them feel like a piece of dirt if they have a slightly different points of view.

I think you guys Rock! I may be disqualifying myself, but I find the different perspectives quite refreshing and great. I love the live blogging of Lost each week. I always read it after I have watched the show. I think many of the posts by Jared are very right on and catch me off guard at times when he hits the nail on the head in some of his posts about Jesus. All you guys are great.

You guys make me laugh and sometimes some of the posts hit me right in the gut, but in a good way.

OK, you suck because, sometimes my stomach hurts from either laughing or getting hit in the gut. Don't do that anymore! :-)

18. Jared - 03/12/2008 6:41 pm CDT

jimmmaaa, you rock!

And sorry about hurting your stomach.

19. Jared - 03/12/2008 6:42 pm CDT

Ellen, in my mind, the Contrivium entry about Uranus is the front-runner for best reason we suck.

20. Ellen - 03/12/2008 7:08 pm CDT

I thought that was pretty good myself ;^)

I tried it again and discovered that the Thinklings weblog can eat up to four kilograms of insects in a single night.

Which would mean that you all truly suck...bugs.

21. blest - 03/12/2008 7:14 pm CDT

If this blog gets more suck-ups...it will suck!

bwa ha ha ha!!!!

22. GinH - 03/12/2008 10:29 pm CDT

I couldn't even make up reasons Thinklings sucks because it so doesn't. But I don't have a blog to link to anyways. . . I'm too busy reading yours.

23. salguod - 03/12/2008 11:33 pm CDT

The Thinklings Blog sucks because it's not spelled backwards. All the cool blogs are spelled backwards, don't you know. If it were sgnilkniht.org it wouldn't suck. At all. It would kcus. :D

24. stroke - 03/12/2008 11:45 pm CDT

aside: EVERY time i've EVER read salguod, i've always thought it said salugod. this is mindblowing. what else am i missing? it's not the thinklethings or something, is it?

25. slumberjack - 03/13/2008 1:06 am CDT

The Thinklings Blog sucks because it is so very slow to be informative. For example, for many years I have been spelling the word "behonkus" incorrectly! It is only now that I learn of my mistake, and furthermore: this information did not avail itself to me in the blog itself, but in the blog "comments"! So there! Take that! By the way, the color of the liquid it: INVISIBLE!

26. Bill - 03/13/2008 6:58 am CDT

We suck because we've been searching for Blo for five years now and still haven't found him!

27. Quaid - 03/13/2008 8:17 am CDT

The Thinklings Blog sucks because Mike Huckabee dropped out of the race for President.

28. Quaid - 03/13/2008 8:18 am CDT

I'm not sure if that was funny.

29. jen - 03/13/2008 9:54 am CDT

Thinklings blog sucks because you post the best stuff when I'm away from my computer for extended periods and when I come back the best comments I come up with have already been said.

30. gretchen from lifenut - 03/13/2008 10:00 am CDT

The Thinklings blog sucks because I have to insult it to get on the blogroll.

31. Jared - 03/13/2008 10:53 am CDT

We suck because we've been searching for Blo for five years now and still haven't found him! We still haven't found what we're looking for. We have sung with the tongues of angels, we have held the hand of the devil (it was warm in the night, it was cold as the snow), but we still haven't found Blo. Because we suck.

32. Raindream - 03/13/2008 11:12 am CDT

Quaid, you need to get an instrument with more than one note. :-)

The Thinklings Blog sucks because it live-blogs Lost. How do you spell LOSERS?

And I agree that The Thinklings Blog sucks because the contributors don't burn and slash those who disagree with them. I mean the throw-downs you've had with the Pyros and the Butte Head Tavern crowds are grade school brawls. We want adult entertainment.

. . . then again, maybe we don't.

33. Bill - 03/13/2008 11:41 am CDT

[Bill elbows Raindream in the face and declares all-out blog-war on that other sucky blog, Brandywine Books]

34. Bill - 03/13/2008 11:43 am CDT

"The Thinklings Blog sucks because Mike Huckabee dropped out of the race for President." I think, actually, that Mike Huckabee dropped out of the race because Thinklings, and in particular your lame posting supporting him, sucks. If we didn't suck, he would have sewed up the nomination by now.

35. Bill - 03/13/2008 11:45 am CDT

And we also suck because our comments no longer do paragraph breaks.

36. Jared - 03/13/2008 11:48 am CDT

the best comments I come up with have already been said Hmm. If multiple people are having the same thoughts, surely those aren't the "best" comments someone could come up with. We suck because our commenters aren't very original.

37. Jared - 03/13/2008 11:49 am CDT

Brandywine Books sucks because it's about reading and other stuff for nerds.

38. Raindream - 03/13/2008 12:18 pm CDT

oh you didn't. . . . you know, I just thinking that this blog sucks--really, I mean, really sucks--because it's not relevant. It's not authentic. There's no incarnational quality here, dude. Now, don't shoot the messenger here. I'm just trying to be a blessing and let you know you suck before you go do something really stupid.

39. Scott - 03/13/2008 1:19 pm CDT

Stroke, you're not alone in the Salguod confusion (it took me 30 seconds to type that so it was write and I still want to edit it). And the Thinklings suck because they came up with a cool name for their blog before all the good urls were taken.

40. Jared - 03/13/2008 1:24 pm CDT

Hahaha. And: Salugod? You guys read it like that? That's too hard for me to say. I never slipped up on Salguod's nomenclatural backmasking experiment. I pronounce it "sal-gwod," though, so maybe I'm making a mistake in mental pronunciation.

41. Scott - 03/13/2008 1:28 pm CDT

Oh and the Thinklings would suck if they awarded the coveted link punishment to one of the aforementioned chicks who posted multiple reasons why you suck since that's like cheating not that there are rules but if there were I would totally not be breaking them since I only said why you would suck and not why you do suck although you would also suck not to link Blest because though a chick and multiple suck contest enterer she totally rawks at blogging and jewelry making.

42. Raindream - 03/13/2008 2:14 pm CDT

Scott, that's a beautiful sentence, but I think it contributes to global warming so you'll have to trim it down. And that's an impressive hang drum video you have on your site.

43. stroke - 03/13/2008 2:49 pm CDT

i guess i just see "god" in everything! i'll start worshiping guod, now. the thinklings blog sucks because it claims no one is original, yet is always linking, quoting, and referring to what is already written down somewhere else. who asked? even the word "thinklings" is an unoriginal swipe from some REAL intellectuals.

44. Bill - 03/13/2008 3:04 pm CDT

Am I the only one who has always pronounced it "Sal-good"? The Thinklings blog sucks because we're the nexus of the intellectual universe, but none of us even knows what a "nexus" is. Is that a car?

45. Bill - 03/13/2008 3:05 pm CDT

Oh, and to the commenter who said nice things about the Lost live-blogs. Thanks! I'm going to live-blog tonight too. It will probably suck (my post, not the show).

46. blest - 03/13/2008 3:47 pm CDT

Thinklings sucks because it's misogynistic. Did you know there has never been a female honorary Thinkling?? (gasp) I think I'll sue.

Scott however, does not suck unless you count sucking up, in which case he does, but we likes it. ;-)

47. Sherry Early - 03/13/2008 5:51 pm CDT

The Thinklings blog sucks because:

1. It has no chicks.

2. It's a cheap attempt at hero worship of C.S. Lewis and his fellow Inklings who wouldn't be seen in the same room with a Thinkling.

3. It's only one of two blogs that I'm checking during my Lenten blog break, mostly because Bill live blogs LOSt and gives me nice compliments.


48. Bill - 03/13/2008 6:29 pm CDT

Yes, we suck.

But, hey, the linebreaks in Comments are fixed. It was a dorky mistake on my part.

Because I suck . . .

49. judy - 03/14/2008 11:00 am CDT

The Thinklings blog sucks because I said so.

Need more be said?

And, I have a blog read by TENS each day.



50. Scott - 03/14/2008 3:26 pm CDT

Raindream - Global warming is a myth (or so says Centurion of TeamPyro). As a good Democrat I disagree regardless of what "science" says. St. Gore knows and sees all (pbuh). Thanks for stopping by the blog.

Blest - I excel at sucking up. Sadly I suck at Excel.

Just - If I start reading your blog does that mean it's read by elevens?

51. Scott - 03/14/2008 3:26 pm CDT

Just = Judy

See! I suck!!!

52. judy - 03/14/2008 8:33 pm CDT

I'd like to think that I'm Just.

But, I'm just Judy.

53. Milly - 03/14/2008 10:12 pm CDT

The Thinklings blog sucks because:

It has no chicks.


Isn't Blo a chick?

54. Bill - 03/14/2008 10:31 pm CDT

"Isn't Blo a chick?"

Thank you Milly! I was waiting for someone to point that out!

The Thinklings sucks because we needed a chick to point out the obvious.

55. salguod - 03/15/2008 12:10 am CDT

aside: EVERY time i've EVER read salguod, i've always thought it said salugod


Heh. I am the God of Salu! Bow before me! Or not. Ahem.

That's the first I heard of that. Lots of folks reverse the u & o. Lots. So many that I actually registered salgOUd.net to catch them. Think I'm nuts? The guy who owns salguod.COM did the same thing.

When I came up with the idea, it seemed quite clever. Who know that spelling Douglas backwards would be so challenging. :-P

Oh, and I pronounce it sal-goo-odd, FWIW, but what you say in your head is fine with me.

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