This question has a "best answer" checkmark, but no best answer inside.

July 10, 2006 3:15 PM

This question has a "best answer" checkmark, but no best answer inside.
posted by goosestepping poxi! to Bugs at 3:15 PM (19 comments total)

I'm guessing the "best answer" was deleted(!), but shouldn't that clear the checkmark?
posted by goosestepping poxi! at 3:16 PM on July 10, 2006

The best answer was some wisecrack about terriers, I'll see what mathowie has to say about the checkmark.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 3:28 PM on July 10, 2006

it doesn't clear the checkmark.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 3:31 PM on July 10, 2006

"Roger that."
"We have lost the checkmark, I repeat, we have LOST the checkmark."
"Attention all units, the checkmark is IN PLAY, the checkmark is IN PLAY."
[meanwhile at the Whitehouse]
"Sir, we've got to get you to AirForce One, there is a rogue checkmark lurking on Metafilter!"
"Gadzooks, go to DEFCON 1, get me the launch codes!"
posted by blue_beetle at 3:40 PM on July 10, 2006 [1 favorite]

Denormalization claims another victim.
posted by Rhomboid at 4:00 PM on July 10, 2006 [2 favorites]

Harrison FORD


Tommy Lee JONES


Ice CUBE



ROGUE CHECKMARK
Denormalization claims another victim.

7 10 2006
posted by hangashore at 4:19 PM on July 10, 2006

Oh, and Salma Hayek as jessamyn.
posted by hangashore at 4:22 PM on July 10, 2006

blue_beetle: ""Gadzooks, go to DEFCON 1, get me the launch codes!""

DEFCON 1, is that anything like Terror Alert red?
</kidding>
posted by Plutor at 4:24 PM on July 10, 2006

Can I get Steve Buscemi?
posted by cortex at 4:25 PM on July 10, 2006

JONES: When a joke is the best answer, it's time to eliminate the question.
CUBE: With extreme prejudice.
FORD: Why did it have to be checkmarks?
JACKSON: I want these motherfuckin' checkmarks off my motherfuckin' AskMe!!!
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 4:26 PM on July 10, 2006 [1 favorite]

I call Kevin Bacon
posted by Ryvar at 5:37 PM on July 10, 2006

And me to play the handsome Dr. Zoidberg, why not?
posted by Eideteker at 7:04 PM on July 10, 2006

*sea urchin*
posted by quonsar at 7:44 PM on July 10, 2006

Ice Cube? Pshaw!! More like Samuel L Jackson - as in Rogue Muthafuckin Checkmark.
posted by ramix at 9:39 PM on July 10, 2006

So these two terriers walk into the World Cup... stop me if you've heard this one.
posted by staggernation at 6:21 AM on July 11, 2006

ramix - see here.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 6:23 AM on July 11, 2006

Denormalization claims another victim.


Just what metafilter needs, more JOINs. (-;
posted by alana at 6:57 AM on July 11, 2006

I love you guys.
posted by slimepuppy at 8:16 AM on July 11, 2006

when /talk or /filter threads become the best of the web, does that make this place metafilterfilter or metametafilter?
posted by lord_wolf at 9:43 AM on July 11, 2006