Can we have permanently open threads in the sidebar?

March 5, 2006 5:30 PM

My favorite pony: Perhaps certain posts could be set aside in a Hall of Fame nook, like certain creatures of Hollywood — ever-youthful, never far from our thoughts, and always open to comment. I'm particularly thinking of this thread. All kudos to washburn, but in this case, the comments have been so wonderful that I hate to see this thread inch down the blue, creeping slowly slowly into oblivion. Save the worms! Anybody?
posted by rob511 to feature requests at 5:30 PM (24 comments total)

And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
posted by monju_bosatsu at 5:49 PM on March 5, 2006

That's what the sidebar is for.
posted by loquacious at 6:14 PM on March 5, 2006

It's an interesting post, but I'm not inclined to put ass worms on the sidebar. Maybe you can lobby mathowie to do it?
posted by jessamyn at 6:50 PM on March 5, 2006

I came so close to missing that thread.

*sigh*
posted by amro at 6:58 PM on March 5, 2006

What do you have against ass worms, Jess?
posted by crunchland at 7:13 PM on March 5, 2006

I think a lot of people are trying to FORGET that thread, actually....*shudder*
posted by konolia at 7:37 PM on March 5, 2006

That airnxtz thread definitely belongs in the Assworms Sidebar.
posted by evariste at 7:58 PM on March 5, 2006

it was clearly a worthy post ... and yet, i'd just as soon forget about it ...
posted by pyramid termite at 8:22 PM on March 5, 2006

A sidebar for intestinal worms and eBay scammers? Yes. Possible name: Ass MetaFilter.
posted by fandango_matt at 10:15 PM on March 5, 2006

AssMe. Has potential.
posted by mediareport at 11:00 PM on March 5, 2006

I think a lot of people are trying to FORGET that thread, actually....*shudder*

konolia between this and "I don't want to be exposed to anus" it's like you're becoming a proctologist's version of a Holocaust denier.
posted by Ryvar at 12:34 AM on March 6, 2006

Well, there is a difference between 'denying the existence of anus the holocaust' and 'not wanting to look at pictures of it'.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 1:13 AM on March 6, 2006

A very large difference.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 3:49 AM on March 6, 2006

It's an interesting post, but I'm not inclined to put ass worms on the sidebar. Maybe you can lobby mathowie to do it?
posted by jessamyn at 6:50 PM PST on March 5 [!]

That should go on the sidebar!
posted by pretzel at 4:30 AM on March 6, 2006

A buttload of difference.
posted by herrdoktor at 5:18 AM on March 6, 2006

Oh, I believe in worms, alright...and shudder.
posted by konolia at 5:21 AM on March 6, 2006

konolia believes!


...in worms!

Seriously, though, while I appreciate the value of a good assworm thread, the idea of keeping it open indefinitely is, well, dumb. It's just another thread.
posted by languagehat at 6:25 AM on March 6, 2006

As one of the purveyors of the ass-worm video site, I'd say the original post missed the best of the Ascaris videos.

If you've got the stomach for it, here are some more foreign bodies and parasites in the GI tract.

And especially for all the hypochondriacs with stomach pain, let me recommend: retrieving a swallowed toothpick.
posted by McGuillicuddy at 6:42 AM on March 6, 2006

Why did I click the link? Why? Now I must go wash myself in Lysol.
posted by FunkyHelix at 1:50 PM on March 6, 2006

Great, thanks a lot--I ate raw meat in Korea about a year ago.
posted by RikiTikiTavi at 2:39 PM on March 6, 2006

I eat raw meat in Korea a few times a month. What doesn't kill me makes me stronger.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 3:15 PM on March 6, 2006

(Nobody eats raw pork here -- if the meat was not fish, it was beef. Which is no guarantee of anything, as basic food hygiene is still a magical, futuristic and fanciful concept here for the most part, but there you go...)
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 3:17 PM on March 6, 2006

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but didn't Charles V like eating worms?
posted by horsewithnoname at 3:57 PM on March 6, 2006

posted by taz at 6:25 AM on March 7, 2006