Today is LP’s fourth birthday!
So if you’re feeling in a nostalgic mood, or if you weren’t around way back when, you can check out the first two posts or have a look at a snapshot of where we were and what the place looked like on 21 February 2006, the first point at which the National Library’s Pandora archived us.
Hooray!
That also marks 3 years and 8 months or so since you first started hosting guest posts. http://larvatusprodeo.net/2005/06/30/guest-post-by-dkau/ Ahh memories…
Congrats Mark – I’ve certainly enjoyed it immensely. Thanks for all your efforts at keeping it lively and hospitable throughout.
No new taxis!
Happy Birthday from your favorite right wing troll!
Yay! Happy birthday!!! Is there cake?
Well done, Mark and Co.
Happy birthday and well done.
Happy fourth anniversary, Test Posts I and II !! You’ve aged well — in fact, you haven’t changed a bit!
Now, can I save my streamers and party hat for when the Missy Higgins thread turns four?
Yay! It’s been a great ride and I’ve enjoyed being a small part of it, congrats Mark!
aren’t you all clever!
Congratulations MB.
I miss The GOOD Old Days around here.
Happy Birthday and congratulations, Mark. LP has made a big difference to me. Feel like I got a whole bunch of new friends + some RWDBs I can talk to.
Many happies, all, and thanks for all the space!
Four years on and still almost as good as Normblog. I congratulate you and thank you for letting me misbehave here so egregiously so often.
[Cues appropriately hyper-nostalgic music, perhaps that f'ng horrible Green Day botch job, for Liam's Best And Worst Of LP Stoush review]
Kate vs Evil Pundit:
http://larvatusprodeo.net/2005/11/24/rape-in-the-third-world/
http://larvatusprodeo.net/2005/11/22/rape-never-the-victims-fault/
The Kirpan, Vicious Tool Of Religious Oppression or Trinket?:
http://larvatusprodeo.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/word-of-the-day-kirpan/
http://larvatusprodeo.wordpress.com/2007/12/09/pointless-controversy-resumed/
Warporn:
http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/07/stopgap-fighter-planes-and-a-lazy-six-billion-dollars-or-so/
http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/04/16/super-hornets-cant-drop-our-preferred-weapons/
http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/05/11/the-endless-rivers-of-defence-procurement-dough/
Geumatophobia, Peanut Glen, and the LP war movie:
http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/04/11/words-of-the-day-geumatophobia-ideophobia/
Whatever happened to the Euston Manifesto?:
http://larvatusprodeo.net/2006/04/18/we-are-the-undead-unreal/
http://larvatusprodeo.net/2006/04/24/euston-manifesto-receives-kiss-of-death/
http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/05/16/of-manifestos-and-manifestists-or-has-the-future-a-left/
http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/07/25/where-are-the-australian-eustonistas/
Kim vs. Ayaan Hirsi Ali vs. Pamela Bone vs. Tim Blair vs. any further
entrants:
http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/05/30/more-bones-to-pick/
http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/06/04/ayaan-hirsi-ali-and-the-fgm-debate/
Rob, Kim, Mark, Lefty Elitist, Evil Pundit, Norto and I wax lyrical on top of a big pile of skulls:
http://larvatusprodeo.net/2005/07/23/leftie-poll-vast-left-wing-conspiracy-responses-invited/
The Famous Chicks with Guns Thread:
http://larvatusprodeo.net/2006/06/01/our-foulmouthed-feathered-friend-reducks/
And what might be LP’s best ever stoush-comment, this one which brooks no discussion or allows any possible comeback (of course) directed at Graham Bird:
http://larvatusprodeo.net/2006/11/13/the-stern-review-the-situation-is-serious/#comment-201605
Congratulations LP collective, and many happy returns.
Happy birthday.
This blog is now at least as good as normblog. At least.
Congratulations to all.
Four more years? Of course! Best wishes to yourself and this blog, and may the adventure continue!
In four years time perhaps the LP hivemind will have reached the end of the 1970s!
Well done guys and gals. While others have fallen by the wayside, you have gone from strength to strength. Mostly.
Just drawing folks’ attention to Liam’s link heavy stoush review, which I just fished out of the spam bin.
It’s @ 13.
Congrats and long may LP continue to reign.
Happy anniversary! Congratulations and much gratitude to Mark and the whole LP crew who do a lot of work to keep this such a vital, charming and informative site. You all make a really important contribution to public discourse on so many fronts. Well done.
Now if somebody could just convince tigtog to drop by a bit more…
Well done! Keep it up.
Happy Birthday LP. May there be many more years.
Happy fourth, LP.
Always a necessary read.
Shaun @ 21, remember you’ve never officially left, so if you can find a bit of time…
And mick @ 4 with a new gravatar, ditto, you’ve been quiet too.
Congratulations to Mark and everyone else involved with LP. Four years is a real achievement.
Four years of blog life is an achievement; four years of providing a reliable space for fair debate, and a fair go for all with a voice is bloody fantastic.
I don’t always agree, but I am always impressed.
Onya etc to all.
Many congratulations to the collective and cheers to Liam for some good bedtime reading. Makes me wish i had discovered the world of LP sooner than i did.
Many happies. Enjoyed immensely by this lurker.
Hip hip, hooray.
For they are jolly good fellows, for they…
etc,
“fellows” not excluding any genders
Well done LP.
Good on y’all!
Congratulations Mark on creating this collective space! I really must get back into the LP habit – I’ve had some great times here.
Tis, indeed, a great space to hang out.
Thanks, team, for four years of constant high standards.
Happy Birthday and congratulations to Mark et al
Happy birthday. I’ve been reading and very occasionally commenting from the start. Sadly don’t have the time to look in more than a few times a week these days, but will keep coming back to see how the other side thinks.
Liam @ 13 thanks for the link to what you called the chicks and guns thread.
Best thread evah!
So that I’ll always be able to find it again I’ve bookmarked it under “Stuff”.
And stuff is how it should be remembered, Brian!
Ps – Bring back Anna Winter, tigtog, Shaun, and Kate!
xxxx
OMG! And Phil!
But he really never went away, did he?
Despite the best new social media craze crowding out blogging!
xxxx
Four years hey?
So where’s my bloody T-shirt?
Or my Nobel Prize for that matter?
Bring back Kate to LP!
There ought to be a FB group or something…
They work, don’t they?
We should also thank Rob Corr for
(a) suggesting that Mark get his own blog;
(b) Doing all the initial tech and design work on LP;
(c) Generally being an excellent and generous presence in the Ozblogosphere (back when there was such a thing);
(d) All the Pandagate fun.
And let’s all thank Sophie Masson too.
“And let’s all thank Sophie Masson too.”
Or least give her a LP voucher for an ambiguously strenuous troppo neck massage.
congrats LP and all
Thanks for the hospitality LPers. It’s more than I deserve!
Concrapulations everybody.
Too right, THR – a classless commentary zone is LP.
I still get the guilts thinking about the t-shirts…