Every one of them was awesome

September 4, 2006 1:59 PM

Hey facetious, I have a question, and there's no email address in your profile: Why did you go into a 10-month old thread on Sunday night and mark 267 consecutive comments as "Favorite"?
posted by NotMyselfRightNow to MetaFilter-related at 1:59 PM (89 comments total)

Perhaps he really liked the thread.

And why would it matter anyway?
posted by mr_crash_davis at 2:03 PM on September 4, 2006 [1 favorite has favorites]

because that's one of his favorite threads? ... it's one of mine, too, although i haven't marked it
posted by pyramid termite at 2:04 PM on September 4, 2006 [1 favorite has favorites]

One of mine, too. I don't mean this as a callout--I'm seriously curious about why. He marked one of mine as a favorite, and I didn't think it was that good a comment.
posted by NotMyselfRightNow at 2:05 PM on September 4, 2006 [1 favorite has favorites]

Because he's hardcore!
posted by loquacious at 2:10 PM on September 4, 2006 [2 favorites has favorites]

told you facetious was hardcore
posted by rxrfrx at 2:25 PM on September 4, 2006 [2 favorites has favorites]

Leave him alone. He was just being facetious.
posted by dobbs at 2:26 PM on September 4, 2006 [1 favorite has favorites]

I marked them all as favorite too, but I was using a magic marker on my computer screen, so you may not have noticed.
posted by Astro Zombie at 2:29 PM on September 4, 2006 [2 favorites has favorites]

What I want to know is how you discovered this?
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 2:33 PM on September 4, 2006 [1 favorite has favorites]

words with 5 vowels in order:

facetious
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abstemious
abstentious
acheilous
anemious
annelidous
arsenious
caesious
posted by ericb at 2:34 PM on September 4, 2006 [4 favorites has favorites]

I'm in ur mycology thread, faving all ur c0mments.
posted by Rhomboid at 2:42 PM on September 4, 2006 [5 favorites has favorites]

What I want to know is how you discovered this?

>He marked one of mine as a favorite...

Don't act like you don't check yours, SCDB.

/Tabs over to member page, F5ing like all get out. "C'mon, validation! C'mon..."
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 2:42 PM on September 4, 2006 [7 favorites has favorites]

You know, I bet it was some kind of link prefetching gone awry.
posted by grouse at 2:46 PM on September 4, 2006 [1 favorite has favorites]

Yeah, why would you go through and do it manually? Obviously just something got broken, probably to do with substandard "speed up yuor interwebs!!1" software.
posted by reklaw at 3:14 PM on September 4, 2006

Well, technically according to the HTTP specification, a GET request is never to be used for something that permanently changes state, such as adding a favorite or submitting an order or whatever -- POST method should be used for these. The same thing happened when Google first announced their web accelerator app. Admins of forums found that posts were randomly getting deleted, and all kinds of other unexplained gremlins. It turns out the the GWA was spidering all the links on the page to pre-cache them. Of course it did not spider POSTs, but only GETs, but these web forums were incorrectly using GETs to affect change in state, and so the result was chaos. For this (and I believe also privacy concerns) Google had to immediately scale back and retract their GWA plans.
posted by Rhomboid at 3:27 PM on September 4, 2006

Yeah, why would you go through and do it manually? Obviously just something got broken, probably to do with substandard "speed up yuor interwebs!!1" software.

"Substandard" here meaning "written in accordance with the spec?" I'm not actually going to mark someone's comment as favorite and watch the headers to see if there's some JavaScript wizardry going on, but on mouseover the 'favorite' link sure looks like a GET.

Of course, it would be much easier for Matt to do the right thing if UAs let you style submit buttons properly. Or if the writers of specs would stop trying to tell developers what their pages should look like and give us <a method="post" ... >, but that doesn't seem likely.

If I seem bitter, it's because I've been putting off the task of going back through some code and changing all the links which submit POSTed forms to buttons so that the pages will be conformant for non-JavaScript-supporting UAs, like the GWA, and then writing the JavaScript to replace all of the buttons with elements with onclick handlers at load time so that it doesn't look like somebody's interface builder's controls toolbox took a shit all over the page to people using real web browsers.
posted by IshmaelGraves at 3:46 PM on September 4, 2006

Give *me* the portobellos, you fucking cocksucker.
posted by nthdegx at 3:47 PM on September 4, 2006 [1 favorite has favorites]

I have a few comments in the mushroom thread. Now I assume I have a few comments marked fave. It's all good.

Note to facetious:have you looked up MeTa thread 9622?
posted by Cranberry at 3:50 PM on September 4, 2006 [1 favorite has favorites]

wow ericb, I had always known two of those -- and bored my friends to death with that trivia every time they'd use one of those words -- now I can really lay it on thick, thanks!
posted by jessamyn at 4:03 PM on September 4, 2006

he marked a buncha mine as favorites, too. I knew it was too good to be true.
posted by jonmc at 4:07 PM on September 4, 2006

jessamyn, more fun with words: 'twyndyllyngs' -- the longest word in the English language without any of the five main vowels; 'strengths' -- the longest word with only one vowel.
posted by ericb at 4:23 PM on September 4, 2006 [1 favorite has favorites]

Now, see, that's why I get fed up with these cutesy sites—you can't trust the info. There is no such word as twyndyllyng. It is an alternate reading for "twynlynge," i.e. twinling 'twin,' in a single fifteenth-century manuscript of Catholicon Anglicum: an English-Latin wordbook (1483 Cath. Angl. 399/1 A Twynlynge (A. Twyndyllyng), gemellus).

If that's a word, then every misspelling anybody's ever made is a word. Here, you want an even longer word without any of the five main vowels? How about tryptyswythygnyplyphs? There it is, recorded for the ages. Bah, humbug.
posted by languagehat at 5:55 PM on September 4, 2006 [1 favorite has favorites]

Is "latchstring" OK with you, Mr. Hat?
posted by dersins at 6:09 PM on September 4, 2006

what about "anymore"? I'm used to it in negative contexts where you say something like "we don't go there anymore" but lately I've heard it used in positive contexts like "we still go there anymore"

WTF?
posted by jessamyn at 6:14 PM on September 4, 2006

"I've heard it used in positive contexts like 'we still go there anymore'".

Slap them, hard.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 6:33 PM on September 4, 2006

There is no such word as twyndyllyng. It is an alternate reading for "twynlynge,"...

But I thought the fact that language is everchanging and evolving to suit people's needs and uses one of the beautiful things about it?

Just as irregardless, although informal, has taken the nation's tongues by storm and is recognized as a part of the lexicon, so shall twynlynge!

Yeah! Say it with me, people!

/Runs and hides from The Wrath of the 'Hat
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 6:47 PM on September 4, 2006

Now, see, that's why I get fed up with these cutesy sites...

Like a coiled tiger, he springs, etc, etc villagers decimated, etc, etc!
posted by jonson at 6:54 PM on September 4, 2006

What language is that sentence from, jessamyn?
posted by dg at 6:58 PM on September 4, 2006

I know jessamyn can tell you that the queueing is the word in the English language with the most consecutive vowels.
posted by vito90 at 7:25 PM on September 4, 2006

If that's a word, then every misspelling anybody's ever made is a word.

Whoa whoa whoa, languagehat. An "alternate reading" is hardly equivalent to a mispelling. I mean, it is right there in whatever dictionary you quoted, and "mispellings" hardly end up in dictionaries, do they?
posted by mediareport at 7:30 PM on September 4, 2006

And "firetruck" is the word in the English language that is most fun to use as a substitute for "fuck."
posted by Joseph Gurl at 7:32 PM on September 4, 2006

jessamyn, here's a PDF called "Who's Positive Anymore?" that explains "anymore" as a regional usage in the U.S. I heard a friend from Indiana use the word this way for months, puzzling the while, before looking up what he could have meant.
posted by cgc373 at 7:37 PM on September 4, 2006

lately I've heard it used in positive contexts like "we still go there anymore"

probably the person saying that is from philidelphia or baltimore
posted by pyramid termite at 7:42 PM on September 4, 2006

The person that uses "anymore" in that sense is obviously from the land of "I-need-to-be-beaten-senseless".
posted by blue_beetle at 8:09 PM on September 4, 2006

Because the thread is closed and it is the only remaining way to participate in its nonsensical spirit.
posted by sourwookie at 8:13 PM on September 4, 2006

The person that uses "anymore" in that sense is obviously from the land of "I-need-to-be-beaten-senseless".

Pittsburgh? Cleveland? St. Louis? No? Hollywood!
posted by loquacious at 8:15 PM on September 4, 2006 [1 favorite has favorites]

Is there a way to write an Automator workflow to do such a thing?

Just curious, not that I ever would....
posted by sourwookie at 8:16 PM on September 4, 2006

I've never heard "anymore" used in that sense during my 15 years in Baltimore. The one person I know who uses it that way is from California.
posted by needs more cowbell at 8:21 PM on September 4, 2006

Just as irregardless, although informal, has taken the nation's tongues by storm and is recognized as a part of the lexicon, so shall twynlynge!
posted by Alvy Ampersand

I do not recognize it and never will. You may say "irrespective" or you may say "regardless," but if you say "irregardless," I will be forced to look down on you. I don't want to do so, but I must.
posted by leftcoastbob at 8:22 PM on September 4, 2006

Lighttight and hillypilly, each 10 letters long, are the longest words consisting only of letters with ascenders, descenders and dots in lower case.


Metafilter: Ascenders, descenders and dots in lower case.
posted by Skygazer at 8:23 PM on September 4, 2006

and now popechuck has favorited every comment in this thread. nice work, popechuck... nice work indeed.
posted by jonson at 8:30 PM on September 4, 2006 [1 favorite has favorites]

I'm not nearly as obsessive as Gator
posted by popechunk at 8:38 PM on September 4, 2006 [1 favorite has favorites]

That's popechunk, jonson.
posted by cgc373 at 8:38 PM on September 4, 2006

Omahans often use "anymore" to mean "nowadays," which always sounded odd to me, but anymore I think it sounds all right.
posted by Astro Zombie at 8:38 PM on September 4, 2006

When I first heard Cortex's latest opus I too was overwhelmed with such a love of this site that I wanted to hug every comment in that thread. I, however, was drunk, and decided to urinate out of my window instead.
posted by allen.spaulding at 8:54 PM on September 4, 2006 [1 favorite has favorites]

probably the person saying that is from philidelphia or baltimore

Oh, it's spreading, I'm afraid — metastasizing, if you will. The elision of "to be," however (as in, "the laundry needs washed"), remains a reliable Pennsylvanian regional indicator, though I'm sure this can't last.
posted by IshmaelGraves at 9:04 PM on September 4, 2006

I prefer "popechuck".
posted by jonson at 9:04 PM on September 4, 2006

I, however, was drunk, and decided to urinate out of my window instead.

You!! You fucking fucker! You're the one! You're the one who keeps drenching my balcony in sour, beery piss and burning my goddamn ferns!
posted by loquacious at 9:08 PM on September 4, 2006 [2 favorites has favorites]

I prefer "popechuck"

I must admit that it's growing on me, too.
posted by popechunk at 9:13 PM on September 4, 2006

I like popechuck too. pope + upchuck = hilarity. Although popechunk could possibly be pope + blow chunks. And that would equal hilarity as well.
posted by Rhomboid at 9:13 PM on September 4, 2006

pope + upchuck = hilarity

Nah, I was thinking more along the lines of ABC Wide, Wide World of Sports with some huge guy hurling the pope ten meters across the snow for the win.
posted by popechunk at 9:14 PM on September 4, 2006 [1 favorite has favorites]

Sweet, a new derail! And a new sport! If it were combined with some sort of high-rise pissing contest. . . .
posted by cgc373 at 9:16 PM on September 4, 2006

That "anymore" paper I linked above talks about Canadian usage, not U.S. regional usage. I suck.
posted by cgc373 at 9:19 PM on September 4, 2006

You!! You fucking fucker! You're the one!

Faved. Totally faved.
posted by popechunk at 9:21 PM on September 4, 2006

How many popes could a popechunk chuck if a popehcunk could chuck popes?
posted by Stauf at 9:23 PM on September 4, 2006 [1 favorite has favorites]

jessamyn writes "I had always known two of those -- and bored my friends to death with that trivia every time they'd use one of those words -- now I can really lay it on thick"

I was going to ask how often annelidous would come up in conversation until I looked it up and what do you know, it might actually be a useful word.
posted by Mitheral at 9:26 PM on September 4, 2006

Faved. Totally faved.

Pshh. What ISN'T faved these days?
posted by jonson at 9:27 PM on September 4, 2006 [1 favorite has favorites]

They probably do that while drinking pop.

Damn shame what they did to their dad.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 9:29 PM on September 4, 2006

You!! You fucking fucker! You're the one!

Shouldn't that read "you firetrucking firetrucker?"

(I'm completely stealing the firetruck thing from now on)

(And by the way, my use of 'completely' instead of the more common 'totally' is less out of some sad need to be different whilst being effectively the same than an homage to Michelle Meyrink, who famously observed that there was a complete hole through a treetrunk.)
posted by George_Spiggott at 9:33 PM on September 4, 2006

popehcunk? Must be a regional dialect.
posted by blue_beetle at 9:34 PM on September 4, 2006

To me, popechunk sounds like a rare food item you can only get a exclusive clubs in London. I'll have the seared popechunk and the beluga, Jeeves.
posted by allen.spaulding at 9:40 PM on September 4, 2006

pope + upchuck = hilarity

Nah, I was thinking more along the lines of ABC Wide, Wide World of Sports with some huge guy hurling the pope ten meters across the snow for the win.

What? No popechucks? (They already have nunchucks, y'know.) It could be an even better idea than swordchucks!

Take a brief moment, close your eyes and imagine - really imagine - exactly how much ass you could kick if one end of the popechuck was 100% Genuine Pope and the other was 100% Genuine Antipope. That's a whole motherfiretrucking lot of kicked ass.
posted by loquacious at 9:59 PM on September 4, 2006 [1 favorite has favorites]

Chuck Palahniuk uses "anymore" in that positive sense in at least one novel. He's from the Pacific Northwest, isn't he? Though of course it would likely have been in a character voice.

I can't remember which book but I'm saying "Choke". I'll look it up later.
posted by AmbroseChapel at 10:05 PM on September 4, 2006

Take a brief moment, close your eyes and imagine - really imagine - exactly how much ass you could kick if one end of the popechuck was 100% Genuine Pope and the other was 100% Genuine Antipope.

Yes, but how much chuck could a popechuck chuck if a pope chuck could chuck pope?
posted by allen.spaulding at 10:06 PM on September 4, 2006

Chuck Palahniuk...

...not to be confused with Chuck Popeniuk.
posted by The corpse in the library at 10:13 PM on September 4, 2006

OK it's definitely in "Diary"

"Today is the longest day of the year--but anymore, every day is."

and he used it in this interview:

Palahniuk only composes his novels long-hand, out in the world, and only keyboards them into his computer at home. And he certainly doesn't travel with a laptop computer.

"Getting a laptop through the airport anymore is like getting an atomic bomb through an airport. I hate that,"

So, blame Chuck.
posted by AmbroseChapel at 10:16 PM on September 4, 2006

Wouldn't it be really funny if facetious marked every answer in this thread +fave, but didn't respond?
posted by mrmojoflying at 10:24 PM on September 4, 2006

Now that you said that, no.
posted by bob sarabia at 10:34 PM on September 4, 2006

You're not yourself right now. Get over it. We have!
posted by persona non grata at 10:53 PM on September 4, 2006

267, and none of them are mine. I never get to be favorite. Thanks a lot for that downer. This is miserable. What a terrible day. I might as well quit. Good bye, everyone. Like any of you would care. Or notice. :(
posted by TwelveTwo at 12:13 AM on September 5, 2006

I mean it!
posted by TwelveTwo at 12:13 AM on September 5, 2006 [1 favorite has favorites]

Nobody cares about #19375. :(
posted by TwelveTwo at 12:15 AM on September 5, 2006

Don't stop me! I'll just be on my way.
posted by TwelveTwo at 12:16 AM on September 5, 2006

...guys? Aw.
posted by TwelveTwo at 12:18 AM on September 5, 2006

I asked facetious:

*scratches head*. *scratches beard*. mushroom thread - check. comment - check. fave ever - hm. Nope.

*wonders if accidentally misspelling carbsonb twice is some sort of sympathetic reaction*
posted by facetious at 12:13 AM PST on September 5 [+] [!]


ooooooh. *gets it*. that is interesting, i didn't know i did that. i certainly didn't mean to.
posted by facetious at 12:14 AM PST on September 5 [+] [!]
posted by carsonb at 12:25 AM on September 5, 2006

oops, that second link is boofooed. here.
posted by carsonb at 12:29 AM on September 5, 2006

TwelveTwo - didn't it seem ghostly quiet when you were pleading for a favorite? No one had been here for like 80 minutes!

I am not a guy, but I marked a favorite for you. Now dry your eyes and step away from the edge.

Incidentally, facetious is over in the blue denying any knowledge of the favoriting that brought on this callout.
posted by Cranberry at 12:30 AM on September 5, 2006

What carsonb said.
posted by Cranberry at 12:32 AM on September 5, 2006

ok, i get it now. i saved the thread for posterity, and my dumbie pre-linking software did it on accident. *shame*
posted by facetious at 12:35 AM on September 5, 2006 [1 favorite has favorites]

i wish i coulda told you there was a clever reason. but nope.
posted by facetious at 12:37 AM on September 5, 2006 [2 favorites has favorites]

Cranberry for really?
posted by TwelveTwo at 12:43 AM on September 5, 2006

posted by carsonb at 12:46 AM on September 5, 2006

Now, a better thing facetious could have done was favourite every comment in that thread bar one.

Then just sit back and imagine that poor soul crying at his computer, waving one fist in the sky screaming "Why?"

Bastard.
posted by Serial Killer Slumber Party at 6:01 AM on September 5, 2006

Hey, it's not too late for him to do that. Only 800 and some to go!
posted by NotMyselfRightNow at 6:47 AM on September 5, 2006

_spaulding, you haven't lived until you've had Cajun Blackened Popechunk.


I just read a book where the author repeatedly used this construction: "not this but nor that." I had never seen "but nor" before. Just me?
posted by Kirth Gerson at 7:33 AM on September 5, 2006

The word bookkeeper has three consecutive sets of doubled letters.

My boss is from Baltimore and she uses the wacked anymore construction.
posted by mbd1mbd1 at 10:46 AM on September 5, 2006

POPOZAO
posted by StrasbourgSecaucus at 10:08 PM on September 5, 2006

"firetruck" is the word in the English language that is most fun to use as a substitute for "fuck."

No, it's feck.

Added bonus: also rude in Scots, Middle English, and Esperanto.
posted by meehawl at 8:21 AM on September 6, 2006

Because the thread is closed and it is the only remaining way to participate in its nonsensical spirit. - sourwookie

So true. I'm putting my hand over my ears and going to believe that's the reason, just because.

That "anymore" paper I linked above talks about Canadian usage, not U.S. regional usage. I suck. - cgc373

Yuck. I'm Canadian and have never heard that construction. I can't make heads nor tails of the sentences that use it. Once I read the article I see that supposedly people from 'down East' are using it. That explains it.
posted by raedyn at 9:05 AM on September 6, 2006

Silly bullshit like this is why I love Metafilter.
posted by joedan at 12:20 PM on September 6, 2006 [2 favorites has favorites]