Comments on: Every one of them was awesome

Every one of them was awesome

NotMyselfRightNow — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 13:59:36 -0800

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"?

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:03:51 -0800

Perhaps he really liked the thread.

And why would it matter anyway?

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:04:16 -0800

because that's one of his favorite threads? ... it's one of mine, too, although i haven't marked it

By: NotMyselfRightNow

NotMyselfRightNow — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:05:42 -0800

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.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:10:36 -0800

Because he's hardcore!

By: rxrfrx

rxrfrx — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:25:48 -0800

told you facetious was hardcore

By: dobbs

dobbs — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:26:44 -0800

Leave him alone. He was just being facetious.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:29:29 -0800

I marked them all as favorite too, but I was using a magic marker on my computer screen, so you may not have noticed.

By: Steven C. Den Beste

Steven C. Den Beste — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:33:14 -0800

What I want to know is how you discovered this?

By: ericb

ericb — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:34:58 -0800

words with 5 vowels in order:

facetious
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abstemious
abstentious
acheilous
anemious
annelidous
arsenious
caesious

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:42:25 -0800

I'm in ur mycology thread, faving all ur c0mments.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:42:53 -0800

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..."

By: grouse

grouse — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:46:31 -0800

You know, I bet it was some kind of link prefetching gone awry.

By: reklaw

reklaw — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:14:14 -0800

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.

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:27:32 -0800

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.

By: IshmaelGraves

IshmaelGraves — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:46:55 -0800

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.

By: nthdegx

nthdegx — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:47:03 -0800

Give *me* the portobellos, you fucking cocksucker.

By: Cranberry

Cranberry — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:50:23 -0800

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?

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 16:03:49 -0800

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!

By: jonmc

jonmc — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 16:07:05 -0800

he marked a buncha mine as favorites, too. I knew it was too good to be true.

By: ericb

ericb — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 16:23:59 -0800

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.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 17:55:50 -0800

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.

By: dersins

dersins — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:09:29 -0800

Is "latchstring" OK with you, Mr. Hat?

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:14:06 -0800

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?

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:33:36 -0800

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

Slap them, hard.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:47:41 -0800

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

By: jonson

jonson — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:54:17 -0800

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!

By: dg

dg — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:58:38 -0800

What language is that sentence from, jessamyn?

By: vito90

vito90 — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:25:45 -0800

I know jessamyn can tell you that the queueing is the word in the English language with the most consecutive vowels.

By: mediareport

mediareport — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:30:45 -0800

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?

By: Joseph Gurl

Joseph Gurl — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:32:13 -0800

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

By: cgc373

cgc373 — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:37:48 -0800

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.

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:42:49 -0800

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

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:09:21 -0800

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

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:13:51 -0800

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

By: loquacious

loquacious — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:15:47 -0800

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!

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:16:30 -0800

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

Just curious, not that I ever would....

By: needs more cowbell

needs more cowbell — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:21:23 -0800

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.

By: leftcoastbob

leftcoastbob — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:22:41 -0800

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.

By: Skygazer

Skygazer — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:23:04 -0800

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.

By: jonson

jonson — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:30:01 -0800

and now popechuck has favorited every comment in this thread. nice work, popechuck... nice work indeed.

By: popechunk

popechunk — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:38:12 -0800

I'm not nearly as obsessive as Gator

By: cgc373

cgc373 — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:38:46 -0800

That's popechunk, jonson.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:38:47 -0800

Omahans often use "anymore" to mean "nowadays," which always sounded odd to me, but anymore I think it sounds all right.

By: allen.spaulding

allen.spaulding — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:54:24 -0800

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.

By: IshmaelGraves

IshmaelGraves — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 21:04:03 -0800

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.

By: jonson

jonson — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 21:04:56 -0800

I prefer "popechuck".

By: loquacious

loquacious — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 21:08:09 -0800

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!

By: popechunk

popechunk — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 21:13:22 -0800

I prefer "popechuck"

I must admit that it's growing on me, too.

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 21:13:32 -0800

I like popechuck too. pope + upchuck = hilarity. Although popechunk could possibly be pope + blow chunks. And that would equal hilarity as well.

By: popechunk

popechunk — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 21:14:46 -0800

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.

By: cgc373

cgc373 — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 21:16:36 -0800

Sweet, a new derail! And a new sport! If it were combined with some sort of high-rise pissing contest. . . .

By: cgc373

cgc373 — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 21:19:04 -0800

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

By: popechunk

popechunk — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 21:21:06 -0800

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

Faved. Totally faved.

By: Stauf

Stauf — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 21:23:07 -0800

How many popes could a popechunk chuck if a popehcunk could chuck popes?

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 21:26:20 -0800

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.

By: jonson

jonson — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 21:27:48 -0800

Faved. Totally faved.

Pshh. What ISN'T faved these days?

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 21:29:24 -0800

They probably do that while drinking pop.

Damn shame what they did to their dad.

By: George_Spiggott

George_Spiggott — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 21:33:45 -0800

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.)

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 21:34:20 -0800

popehcunk? Must be a regional dialect.

By: allen.spaulding

allen.spaulding — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 21:40:21 -0800

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.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 21:59:08 -0800

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.

By: AmbroseChapel

AmbroseChapel — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:05:26 -0800

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.

By: allen.spaulding

allen.spaulding — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:06:09 -0800

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?

By: The corpse in the library

The corpse in the library — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:13:08 -0800

Chuck Palahniuk...

...not to be confused with Chuck Popeniuk.

By: AmbroseChapel

AmbroseChapel — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:16:40 -0800

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.

By: mrmojoflying

mrmojoflying — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:24:33 -0800

Wouldn't it be really funny if facetious marked every answer in this thread +fave, but didn't respond?

By: bob sarabia

bob sarabia — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:34:14 -0800

Now that you said that, no.

By: persona non grata

persona non grata — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:53:28 -0800

You're not yourself right now. Get over it. We have!

By: TwelveTwo

TwelveTwo — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:13:27 -0800

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. :(

By: TwelveTwo

TwelveTwo — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:13:54 -0800

I mean it!

By: TwelveTwo

TwelveTwo — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:15:01 -0800

Nobody cares about #19375. :(

By: TwelveTwo

TwelveTwo — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:16:38 -0800

Don't stop me! I'll just be on my way.

By: TwelveTwo

TwelveTwo — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:18:03 -0800

...guys? Aw.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:25:40 -0800

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 [+] [!]

By: carsonb

carsonb — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:29:41 -0800

oops, that second link is boofooed. here.

By: Cranberry

Cranberry — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:30:53 -0800

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.

By: Cranberry

Cranberry — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:32:35 -0800

What carsonb said.

By: facetious

facetious — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:35:58 -0800

ok, i get it now. i saved the thread for posterity, and my dumbie pre-linking software did it on accident. *shame*

By: facetious

facetious — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:37:30 -0800

i wish i coulda told you there was a clever reason. but nope.

By: TwelveTwo

TwelveTwo — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:43:55 -0800

Cranberry for really?

By: carsonb

carsonb — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:46:37 -0800

By: Serial Killer Slumber Party

Serial Killer Slumber Party — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 06:01:26 -0800

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.

By: NotMyselfRightNow

NotMyselfRightNow — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 06:47:25 -0800

Hey, it's not too late for him to do that. Only 800 and some to go!

By: Kirth Gerson

Kirth Gerson — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 07:33:59 -0800

_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?

By: mbd1mbd1

mbd1mbd1 — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:46:54 -0800

The word bookkeeper has three consecutive sets of doubled letters.

My boss is from Baltimore and she uses the wacked anymore construction.

By: StrasbourgSecaucus

StrasbourgSecaucus — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 22:08:55 -0800

POPOZAO

By: meehawl

meehawl — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:21:05 -0800

"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.

By: raedyn

raedyn — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 09:05:16 -0800

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.

By: joedan

joedan — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:20:27 -0800

Silly bullshit like this is why I love Metafilter.