Massive Cache of Plastic.com Now Available

profwhat.

Posted to Media on Mon Jul 03, 2006 at 10:17:16 PM EST. RSS.

An archive of over 5,400 Plastic.com writeups and discussions, culled from Google's cache of the site, is now available for download. Shane has extended his generosity further and agreed to host a 114 megabyte bzip2'd archive here on treesandthings. Keep in mind before you download: it's a huge file, and requires over a gigabyte of free disk space. Tying the whole archive together is a jury-rigged search page, which should run on any operating system with a modern browser.

Why bother saving that old crap, you ask? Curiosity; nostalgia; historical research; whatever the hell you like, basically. If you get bored, see if you can figure out who said the following (no fair cheating with Google):

"I don't think anyone's in danger of making 'friends' on Plastic."
"We can spout off endlessly and get ourselves all worked up, but ultimately, none of us can implement any official retooling of the system. The site does not belong to us."
"I can't bring myself to trust the administration's motives or abilities. To my mind, that alone is sufficient reason to oppose this war."
"I don't know about anyone else, but I am just in shock. It's way too soon to put together the pieces of what actually happened here. The only thing I can possibly summon up is just an awful sadness at this latest loss of seven lives."
"'Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead' The moment I heard, I called up a few friends and sang it."
"I only saw the Kerry speech, and I said to myself, 'that man will never be President.'"
"'Incoherent' is a Plastic code word for 'does not espouse neo-conservative propaganda.'"

Happy downloading, happy reading, and let's write some more.

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1	Taking up the quiz challenge sglover. Tue Jul 04, 2006 at 10:51:29 AM EST none

So who said, "I can't bring myself to trust the administration's motives or abilities. To my mind, that alone is sufficient reason to oppose this war."? This is pure vanity, because I suspect it might be me.

And thanks tons for all your efforts, Shane! Did Shane go under another alias at Plastic?

An argument isn't merely nay-saying and contradictions! -- M. Python

6 1	Preserved for all eternity eminem enterprises. Wed Jul 05, 2006 at 04:52:20 PM EST none

I would call that a "Murder on the Orient Express" type of line. [spoiler alert]. In other words, even if we didn't say it, we all felt it.

As for "I only saw the Kerry speech, and I said to myself, 'that man will never be President.'", I'm actually pretty sure that was my observation (right after the Iowa caucuses). I was never a frequent poster, and I'm not even American, so I'm tickled pink to think that I made the shortlist of Plastic Classic one-liners. But it was pretty obvious (like most of my posts).

2	profwhat, permazorch. Tue Jul 04, 2006 at 12:23:19 PM EST none

Thank you very much.

----- The earth may fail, but we will quiver

3 2	profwhat humorlesscretin. Tue Jul 04, 2006 at 09:59:05 PM EST none

Yes, thanks! There was a lot of good discussion on Plastic over the last 5 years, nice to see it saved and available again.

Humorless. Cretinous. What'd you expect?

4	Suggestion wetkarma. Wed Jul 05, 2006 at 07:38:44 AM EST none

Better to create this as a torrent so that the bandwith load is shared among people who are downloading the file than all charged back to one place.

In addition people will get the file quicker the more seeders there are.

If a torrent is created I'm willing to seed it.

Memory is a strange bell, jubilee and knell.

5	Thanks profwhat and Shane! 3fingerspointback. Wed Jul 05, 2006 at 04:26:35 PM EST none

Once I get home, I'll download it myself, and see what's needed to start a torrent if one is not already started.

(is 3fingerspointback)

7	Nice Job, profwhat. Anonymous Hero. Thu Jul 06, 2006 at 07:40:26 AM EST none

However I don't think I'll be downloading the file. I'd like that TnT become a fresh start, rather than Plastic II. My memory of many of the most recent plastic threads is that they turned into turd fests between groups of so-called adults flinging shit at each other. I would hope that we could just let plastic die and make TnT its own idiosyncratic site.

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profwhat.

Posted to Media on Mon Jul 03, 2006 at 10:17:16 PM EST. RSS.

Taking up the quiz challenge

sglover.

Tue Jul 04, 2006 at 10:51:29 AM EST

1

Preserved for all eternity

eminem enterprises.

Wed Jul 05, 2006 at 04:52:20 PM EST

profwhat,

permazorch.

Tue Jul 04, 2006 at 12:23:19 PM EST

2

profwhat

humorlesscretin.

Tue Jul 04, 2006 at 09:59:05 PM EST

Suggestion

wetkarma.

Wed Jul 05, 2006 at 07:38:44 AM EST

Thanks profwhat and Shane!

3fingerspointback.

Wed Jul 05, 2006 at 04:26:35 PM EST

Nice Job, profwhat.

Anonymous Hero.

Thu Jul 06, 2006 at 07:40:26 AM EST