Althouse: "I’ve gone peak Instapundit. Without looking I accurately guessed the identity of the last 20 blog posts."

March 8, 2018

"I’ve gone peak Instapundit. Without looking I accurately guessed the identity of the last 20 blog posts."

Writes an Instapundit commenter on a post that links to me.

14 comments:

Ralph L said...: Does he mean who the post links to or which blogger put in on Instapundit?
Hate to poop on your party, but I suspect it's the latter.
You should ask for clarification--that would freak him out.

Either way, funny comment.; 3/8/18, 7:06 AM
California Snow said...: It has become a little predictable. I know Glenn's posts almost immediately. He's either promoting his latest column, or it's a post about "Teach women not to rape" or it's something about sex with a smattering of 'buy this off Amazon'.; 3/8/18, 7:08 AM
Ralph L said...: He does the education bubble stuff, too.; 3/8/18, 7:16 AM
Leland said...: Piker. It is more like name that tune, how many words before you can make the accurate guess?; 3/8/18, 7:31 AM
Jon said...: Also, car posts.; 3/8/18, 8:16 AM
Anonymous said...: And Sarah Hoyt, a useless addition to the page, whose posts I skip right by.; 3/8/18, 9:07 AM
SweatBee said...: And to think I thought I was the only one who played that game.; 3/8/18, 9:51 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "Does he mean who the post links to or which blogger put in on Instapundit? Hate to poop on your party, but I suspect it's the latter."

I think you're right. It's not a party on my part, because his comment sections on a link to me always (or seem to always) have people saying why are you linking to her, you should warn us when you're linking to Althouse, stop linking to Althouse, Althouse is dead to me forever since she did that one thing that one time, etc etc. So I experienced it as another one of those sorts of remarks. But it does make much more sense as saying I know what Glenn links to and Ed and Sarah and Austin and who-all. That's actually more of a party for me because I presume that Glenn is the big favorite and this is a Glenn post means this is the good stuff. And that would be my stuff. It's all quotes from me.; 3/8/18, 11:04 AM
Ann Althouse said...: I also like to think that my writing is more identifiable than all the various other things that get linked to at Instapundit.; 3/8/18, 11:17 AM
Ralph L said...: Yes, you're special.; 3/8/18, 11:56 AM
Rabel said...: Of the two quotes in that post, the first, with all the exclamation points, is somewhat atypical Althouse. The second is classic Althouse writing style. Can't say exactly why, but yeah, that's an Althouse quote.; 3/8/18, 12:28 PM
Henry said...: I also like to think that my writing is more identifiable than all the various other things that get linked to at Instapundit.

Yours and Megan McArdle's always stand out. Wit and acumen jump off the page there.; 3/8/18, 12:55 PM
Ann Althouse said...: “Of the two quotes in that post, the first, with all the exclamation points, is somewhat atypical Althouse. The second is classic Althouse writing style. Can't say exactly why, but yeah, that's an Althouse quote.”

The first quote is the imagined voice of Michelle Obama.; 3/8/18, 3:17 PM
lonetown said...: Haha I was thinking the same thing when I saw one of your links at Intsy. That's an Althouse!; 3/9/18, 4:58 AM