I vote for spam. Shrimp plate is a line from Repo Man, the other two are posted on Web site called Steep and Cheap . com. Ratman's just pasting junk in your comments.
posted by Pedro at 2008-11-19 20:36:29 
Yep, I was just about to email Rex saying the same thing. Lulz.
posted by Andy Baio at 2008-11-19 20:39:34
As long as it's good junk, I like it!<br /><br /> <br /><br />
posted by Rex at 2008-11-19 20:40:08
but jesus, it's really mind-boggling stuff! like, who writes like that and just sends it to the spam bots? surely he could get a job writing in this town, no? <em>or all we all spam bots and that's his message</em>!?
posted by moneyries at 2008-11-19 20:56:34
I could go through all the posts I failed to ever mention and write a memory for each one. I could also compile a roll of honour and that might go some way to thanking the people who have helped us all along the way. And then I could spoil the effect (but redress the balance) by finishing off with a shit list of some of the cunts we've had to put up with. We need to stop trying to define who people really are and, well, look at how things fit together, like shrimp, or peas in a pod, or, and this is a stretch... peas and carrots.
posted by ratman at 2008-11-19 21:11:11
Let's make ratman a cultural icon for our times. Let's deconstruct him. Bring on the Derrida. Or better yet, som Zizek.
posted by Han at 2008-11-19 21:25:57
It's high time the specter of seeing double got some column inches around here. Bravo, sir.
posted by Eric at 2008-11-19 21:37:20
so, if that theory on "ratman is just pasting junk in your comments" proves to be false, i'm betting the dude is prince - http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-5420.cfm
posted by joshua Cohen at 2008-11-19 21:49:57
I want an exclusive, Paul Avery-style.
posted by stevemarsh at 2008-11-19 21:50:05
The brilliance of the non sequiturs escapes me. I am not the ratman!
posted by Sandman at 2008-11-19 22:18:36
Oh, I'll grant you it's good junk. His post in this thread opens with three sentences cribbed from Wreckless Eric's online tour diary from Oct. 14 -- that's excellent junk. The last sentence is harder to back-Google -- an original ratman?
posted by Pedro at 2008-11-20 14:07:44
ratman also posted his "Lions win extra trip to the salad bar" on SteapAndCheap.com: <br /><br /> <br /><br /> http://www.steepandcheap.com/steepcheap/forum.html?bboard_id=1002567&page=3<br /><br /> <br /><br /> Check out his other posts for more beatific holy goofiness.
posted by steve bryant at 2008-11-20 14:11:32
I am the ratman.
posted by marrina at 2008-11-20 14:11:34
Hey EVERYONE! Look at me! I plagiarize funny material from other blogs! Woo Hoo!
posted by ratman at 2008-11-20 17:05:31
Sign up for the SteepAndCheap Daily Dose to get this goodness emailed to you every morning. I know this fella, he works hard at them.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> Wuzgood Marsh? You like the KOL show? Yes I'm one of many Marsh stalkers.
posted by JimKuhn at 2008-11-20 17:08:44
I felt I could have written it. So, the fact that it was already written was kind of a technicality.
posted by ratman at 2008-11-20 17:14:00
Spotted - Marsh and Nick Swardson at the KOL show a few weeks ago. xoxo
posted by Jables at 2008-11-21 09:46:51
Young punk Otto becomes a repo man after helping to steal a car, and stumbles into a world of wackiness as a result
posted by repoman at 2008-11-22 17:15:27
