Because the algorithms starting directing people towards his stuff instead of the usual crap:

I don't know how Mull transformed into Gen X's cool uncle from a 70's Midwestern snarkass a la Bill Murray, David Letterman and (the archetype) Johnny Carson:

Maybe he mellowed out, maybe the world soured past him.

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CHEERLEADER!

SO-AND-SO!

WHAT'S-HER-FACE!

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In the town
Of Monterey
Lived a millionaire
Who sailed the seas,
And he sold
Us all a lie
Of a tourist
Submarine

So we sailed
From Canada
After giving him
All of our green,
And we died
Beneath the waves
In a plastic
Submarine--

We all died in a plastic submarine!
Plastic submarine!
Plastic submarine!
We all died in a plastic submarine!
Plastic Submarine!
Plastic Submarine!...

Patchwork Poltergeist posted a fragment of what I hope is a story about Cozy Glow and how she got that way. It involves Flim and Flam and the way Patchwork writes them reminded me of something but I couldn't put my finger on it until now.

It's the Cheerybles from Nicholas Nickleby.

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Dropping lots of foreign-language posts. Could somebody take care of that please?

Also just saw a spambot post flogging fake IDs. Literally, as in "Hey, get your fake IDs here!" Given the site's recent experience with underage members (ahem) the mods may want to take a look at this, at least.

Thanks!

I realize mods have real lives so sometimes they can't check a horsewords site every day, but bot posts have been proliferating and they don't seem to have been taken down starting about three days ago.

I keep trying to find the right forum fir this and I'm always getting told it's the wrong one, so I'll post this here and maybe someone who sees it will ping the mods.

How's it feel when there's
Time to remember?
Branches bare like the
Trees in November...

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Don't the sky look funny?
Don't it look kinda chewed-on, like?
Don't you feel like runnin'
Don't you feel like runnin'
From the Dawn's early light?

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With SpongeBob SquarePants as the voice of Charles Nelson Reilly