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mr_crash_davis — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:14:24 -0800

wtf?

By: niles

niles — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:21:48 -0800

Throw the word meta in front of all of the links..

Meta-del.icio.us

By: niles

niles — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:22:39 -0800

...but I think this is the same concept as this FPP. I don't really get it.

By: erebora

erebora — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:23:35 -0800

mmmm. juicy triple meta.

By: hangashore

hangashore — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:24:19 -0800

May I be the first to thank everyone for making DAY WITHOUT METATALK™ (or as near as we're going to see in our lifetime) a reality.

By: niles

niles — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:27:28 -0800

Almost, mr_crash_davis. Almost.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:43:45 -0800

Man, Matt will never get his MetaTalk thread-free day.

By: nj_subgenius

nj_subgenius — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:45:34 -0800

just let it metastasize!

By: mediareport

mediareport — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:46:10 -0800

Oh, man, someone needs to do something bad to mr_crash_davis. It's not even a worthwhile callout.

*sobs*

We were so close, too.

By: Cranberry

Cranberry — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:48:38 -0800

All mefites could make a resolution to avoid posting to MetaTalk on January 1, 2007. Think of it as a New Years' gift to #1 on 1-1.

By: hangashore

hangashore — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:48:38 -0800

We were so close, too.

...unless you're in Finland, Israel, or South Africa right now.

Hint: go to your Preferences page. Change your time zone to UTC+2 (Eastern European Time). Refresh and watch the fun!

By: veggieboy

veggieboy — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:50:02 -0800

Wait. Is this a real callout? Or are you just trying to increase the meta-y goodness?

By: bob sarabia

bob sarabia — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:57:02 -0800

I just don't know.

By: mediareport

mediareport — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:08:35 -0800

Refresh and watch the fun!

Omigod, that's great! Someone call languagehat - we did it! There has actually been A Day Without MetaTalk!

By: stirfry

stirfry — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:09:57 -0800

Really, Mr davis!

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:10:23 -0800

I thought those were compiler flags.

By: dirtynumbangelboy

dirtynumbangelboy — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:17:38 -0800

Is this the new flameout thread?

By: interrobang

interrobang — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:30:56 -0800

It sure is, Rothko!

By: gubo

gubo — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:44:35 -0800

Hmm, about 60,300 hits.

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:46:05 -0800

A/S/L?
ASL
LOL
ROFL
Settle
OMG UML
:-(

By: Steven C. Den Beste

Steven C. Den Beste — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:47:11 -0800

This was an example of something that's become more common lately, a post whose unwritten subtitle is "My google-fu is strong."

This post is another example of that. Google for "Saddam" and dump all the half-way reasonable links that turn up into a single MeFi post.

Yeah, there's a theme, and yeah, there are links. But that doesn't necessarily make for a good post.

Or "My You-Tube-fu is strong"; use the You-Tube search engine and dump all the videos that result.

(By the way, this YouTube genuinely is good.)

By: Steven C. Den Beste

Steven C. Den Beste — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:54:47 -0800

I have a feeling that this kind of thing will diminish come tomorrow. Matt's gracious and generous offer of a prize for best post in December has been a study in unintended consequences, yielding more posts but not really better posts.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:55:26 -0800

i don't get this whole meta-free day business. who cares? if matt wants meta free days, he can sell the site. or appoint someone to handle meta. like, say, me.

By: blasdelf

blasdelf — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:04:44 -0800

For once, Steven, I agree with you. I'm going to go put my head in the oven now.

By: Roger Dodger

Roger Dodger — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:08:49 -0800

How awesome (and unlikely) would it be if quonsar was made the third moderator?

By: Steven C. Den Beste

Steven C. Den Beste — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:12:07 -0800

Blasdelf, there's a first time for everything. But I'll try not to let it happen again.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:13:25 -0800

I am up in your meta stuffing fish in your pants.

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:27:18 -0800

This post was deleted for the following reason: we just signified the number of deaths last week, when it surpassed 9/11 tower deaths.

this isn't meant as a call out or something against matt and i know it has nothing to do with this, but i didn't want to start a meta fpp over this

does anyone else consider this depressing as fuck? ... i do

By: MLIS

MLIS — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:31:47 -0800

I'll be handling the quonsar negotiations and my client will need an equity stake if he is to become a moderator.

does anyone else consider this depressing as fuck?

No. That was a righteous deletion, more of the same please.

By: dhammond

dhammond — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:41:16 -0800

Not as depressing as 3,000 little periods hastily cut and pasted in a misguided attempt at respect.

"But hey, we should remember that these are actual people and not just statistics, so I am going to show you how sensitive I am by making every single of them the same. And it only took me about 30 seconds to prove how caring I am. Woohoo!"

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:54:30 -0800

SCDB, that YouTube link was just a blatant Norm McLaren rip-off - and by blatant Norm McLaren rip-off, I mean awesome!

By: grapefruitmoon

grapefruitmoon — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:13:52 -0800

If you look at the times, it is more than twenty-four MetaTalk free hours, just not one calendar day.

On the subject of depressing and weird - I find it little bit weird when someone posts a "." in an obit thread and then proceeds to wax philosophical about that particular person's passing (I've probably even done this myself without thinking about it). I suppose things come to mean different things over time and it's no longer "I'm at a loss for words" but now a signifier of something completely different, but what is that different thing? Does "." now mean "Death is a real bummer"?

By: bob sarabia

bob sarabia — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:23:05 -0800

SCDB, that YouTube link was just a blatant Norm McLaren rip-off - and by blatant Norm McLaren rip-off, I mean awesome!

Someone should post it on the blue.

By: mediareport

mediareport — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:28:50 -0800

just not one calendar day.

It was indeed a calendar day if you're in the Eastern European time zone. Just do what hangashore suggests, and the MetaTalk front page jumps from December 30 to January 1 with no posts in between.

Frabjous.

By: graymouser

graymouser — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:31:15 -0800

dhammond:
Not as depressing as 3,000 little periods hastily cut and pasted in a misguided attempt at respect.

"But hey, we should remember that these are actual people and not just statistics, so I am going to show you how sensitive I am by making every single of them the same. And it only took me about 30 seconds to prove how caring I am. Woohoo!"

Now, now, it took over a minute to make sure that the post had the right number of dots. And the post is deleted, so it's a very small number of people who will be seeing this "depressing" post.

In all seriousness, it's simply a depressing fact. While I'm actually active in the antiwar movement and have had friends and family in Iraq -- so it's hardly the most significant thing I've done against the war -- I thought a 3000x sympathy note would be a lot more appropriate for the occasion than starting up a debate that would go nowhere.

By: blasdelf

blasdelf — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:38:46 -0800

SCDB, that YouTube link was just a blatant Norm McLaren rip-off - and by blatant Norm McLaren rip-off, I mean awesome!

Someone should post it on the blue.

I'm pretty damn sure it's been done before. I think that's where I saw it the first time.

By: quin

quin — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:22:19 -0800

dirtynumbangelboy : Is this the new flameout thread?

You know hwat? FUCK YOU I'm so sick of your shit. Always with the questoins, liek you are some sort of smart SHIT>

oNE of these days your going to open your mouth and someone s going to shut it for good ASSHOLE!

Fuck this I AM OUT OF HERE!/

By: quin

quin — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:24:56 -0800

Doesn't have the elegance or temerity of your last work dnab, but I figure it's an appropriate homage. Though, I have to admit, it feels a little odd. Kinda exhilarating. I see why you had some much fun doing it last time

By: loquacious

loquacious — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:32:25 -0800

WHAT
THE
FUCK
MR_CRASH_DAVIS?

Now quin's fucking gone? THANKS A LOT, YOU TEN-FISTED ASSHOLE!

If quin's gone I'm so gone I'm gonna knock the fucking door off the hinges with my ass on the way out. Fuck all you fuckers. Maybe if you're lucky I'll check in on you assholes next year.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:33:18 -0800

Yeah, there's a theme, and yeah, there are links. But that doesn't necessarily make for a good post.

Frankenpot

Better living through genetic engineering! A new cash-crop hybrid has been developed which can be planted any time of the year. It can be harvested after just 2 months, vastly increasing annual yields per acre. It's resistant to herbicides and other nasty chemicals. It's referred to as "Columbian" and it's now the breed-of-choice for Michoacan marijuana farmers.
posted by Steven C. Den Beste (33 comments total) [add to favorites] [!]

This post was deleted for the following reason: this thread could be improved upon in many ways. So many that perhaps this thread as it stands is not very good at all. Please try again tomorrow. Thank you.

Hey, posted by Steven Den Beste on 12:50 PM PST on January 25, 2002">Hiawatha, you think one link to a Fox news story about something that isn't neither news nor even little known is post worthy. Compared to anything posted in the last month, that post stinks. If there's a dead AA battery for worst post of the month, if not evar, you're a contender.

By: cortex

cortex — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:45:00 -0800

Would it be a misstep to start a Happy New Year meta thread?

By: nj_subgenius

nj_subgenius — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:51:19 -0800

Holy fuckin Moses quonsar guest moderator!!!

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:52:47 -0800

I think this is that thread. SO QUIT FUCKIGN RAMPBLING ABOUTN HOW YOURT ARE GOINGH TO STYART A FUCKNING SUPER-FANTASTIVC TREAD GODDAMMIT

and happy new year from Philly!one11

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:55:21 -0800

If you look at the times, it is more than twenty-four MetaTalk free hours, just not one calendar day.

I am so glad you pointed this out. In my locale, it looked like we'd just about made it through a day of no MeTaing.

I suggest we make January 1st a no-MetaTalking day, in appreciation of Matt's dedication to the site. An entire day free of whinging, sniping, belly-aching, and shitheadedness.

My god, it is to dream!

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:56:15 -0800

to make a Jan 1st-free day (it might already be too late!) we'd probably need to maintain silence for at least forty-eight hours, so that everyone's had a full 24.

By: bob sarabia

bob sarabia — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:59:45 -0800

Would it be a misstep to start a Happy New Year meta thread?

Nah, go for it. I imagine a lot of people are going to be wasted anyway.

By: Steven C. Den Beste

Steven C. Den Beste — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 19:05:11 -0800

Someone seems to have a thin skin...

Y2Karl, I speak as an expert on bad posts, having produced my share of them and learned from the experience.

By: nj_subgenius

nj_subgenius — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 19:06:40 -0800

I'm getting my sparklers, pointy hat and asthmatic- sounding unravelling hooty whistle out!

By: loquacious

loquacious — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 19:11:29 -0800

to make a Jan 1st-free day (it might already be too late!) we'd probably need to maintain silence for at least forty-eight hours, so that everyone's had a full 24.

HOLY FUCK! GENE RAY WAS RIGHT!!!

By: Steven C. Den Beste

Steven C. Den Beste — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 19:12:19 -0800

By the way, Y2Karl, tu quoque is lame.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 19:31:46 -0800

Metafilter: asthmatic-sounding unravelling hooty whistle

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 19:35:04 -0800

quonsar guest moderator!!!

Yes, because if there's anything really holding MeTa back, it's that there just isn't enough quonsar. Still, it'd be nice change of pace to see people actually have a reason for kissing his ass.

I kid 'cause I love.
And I'm giving up making rude MeTa comments* in honour of the New Year two and a half hours away, so this bile has to go somewhere, dammit!
Make January 1st YOUR Brand New Day!

*For a while, at least.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 19:36:23 -0800

"someone needs to do something bad to mr_crash_davis"

I completely agree.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 19:45:59 -0800

Yes, because if there's anything really holding MeTa back, it's that there just isn't enough quonsar. Still, it'd be nice change of pace to see people actually have a reason for kissing his ass.

It's because that if there's anything really MeTa back there it'd be of a nice, still pace, reason. To see, have just enough quonsar actually isn't. Yes, people change, holding his ass for kissing.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 19:50:47 -0800

...I speak as an expert on bad posts, having produced my share of them and learned from the experience.

That one-link Fox-news-story-that-wasn't-even-news post was your latest.
There is no dispute--when it comes to making bad posts, you are the expert.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 20:00:05 -0800

loquacious, you bugger, you broke my brain!
Brand New Day '07 is so over!!!

By: blasdelf

blasdelf — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 20:34:00 -0800

All of the A-list MeFites have made some shitass posts over the years. You've made plenty of crap posts over the years too, y2karl. Quantity has a habit of betraying quality.

By: Steven C. Den Beste

Steven C. Den Beste — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:08:26 -0800

Blasdelf, are you agreeing with me again? I'm not sure the space-time continuum can stand this kind of warping!

By: y2karl

y2karl — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:15:52 -0800

Eleven days ago is not exactly over the years. It's more like yesterday.

There are plenty of things posted in which I have no interest. Flash games, for instance, or any sort of computer games, for that matter. I don't care about sports. I don't demand that posts about computer games or sports be banned. I don't belittle people for their tastes in music when I do not share their tastes or make surmises about the mental states of people I do not know and have never met.

I don't make MetaTalk posts about what should or should not be posted--but I do make fun of people who do when their own latest MetaFilter post was one of the suckier posts ever made.

By: Balisong

Balisong — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:25:57 -0800

Haha! Yeah!! Fuck those guys!

By: y2karl

y2karl — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:28:55 -0800

It's not exactly news around here that one link news stories have to really have some merit to make the bar. Posting one that isn't even news is just lazy beyond belief. Looking stuff up at least takes an iota or two of effort and forethought. People who can't even make the most minimal effort have little room to talk about people who do.

By: Balisong

Balisong — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:31:04 -0800

Thanks for your posts, Y2Karl, you are welcome for mine.

By: jonson

jonson — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:35:06 -0800

y2karl, I'm not a fan of this recent behavior of yours. I mean, I'm not a fan of calling out bad posts either, but come on, two wrongs don't make a right. And digging up a deleted post by someone, that's verging on just obsessive.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:59:54 -0800

HIPPO POOP SMEAR!

SOMEBODY FUCK QUONSAR.
TIA,
QUONS LOKKEN

By: XQUZYPHYR

XQUZYPHYR — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 22:06:14 -0800

Steven, when y2karl wins the Wii, even though you hate YouTube links, would you come over and play it with him if he invited you? That would kind of be a heartwarming way to resolve this.

By: jonson

jonson — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 22:11:47 -0800

You've said a lot of funny things, XQ, but that was just about the funniest that I've seen. Nice work.

By: MLIS

MLIS — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 22:13:46 -0800

Someone seems to have a thin skin...

Y2Karl, I speak as an expert on bad posts, having produced my share of them and learned from the experience.

That was the perfect response. Gracious and mature. Nothing more needed to be said.

Why you could not resist the urge to follow-up I have no idea.

By: blasdelf

blasdelf — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 22:20:29 -0800

y2karl, I don't hate on crap posts because of their subjects, but because of their construction. You know that. You are not a moron. Your later YouTube posts sucked ass because you just dumped link after link from generic searches on YouTube, and then you did it again and again. SCDB's frankenpot post sucked because it was a link to a shitty Fox News story, with no framing of substance. Stavros' recent post sucked because it was a poor copy-paste of a 3rd generation regex of a robot-crawled YouTube search, where most of the links were misleading.

I don't have a vendetta against videos that happen to be hosted by YouTube, or any specific subject for a post. I do tend to hate posts that are deliberately constructed — that are not found links. Also, links to poor tabloid journalism with no framing (FoxNews, The Register, any other British newspaper). Poorly made posts suck independently of their subject.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 22:38:36 -0800

blasdelf, I say this with love in my heart and a twinkle in my eye : please shut the fuck up about it already. You're being a dick.

By: purephase

purephase — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 22:47:52 -0800

Man, I just fucking like cake. Cake fucking kicks some serious motherfuckin' ass. I would marry me some fucking cake if there was ever some cake that would ever fucking marry my fucking cake-loving ass.

You motherfuckers and your anti-cake loving asses. Cake is the shit. Cake.

By: blasdelf

blasdelf — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 22:51:12 -0800

Everybody inevitably makes posts that suck if they just post enough. Luck of the draw. If I posted more I'd be sure to have some really bad posts. Nothing personal – I actually like you – when there was agitation for a third, non-north-american moderator, I nominated you repeatedly. It's all going to be okay. (^_^)

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 22:51:46 -0800

You just want to make me cry, I know it.

By: blasdelf

blasdelf — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 22:54:43 -0800

Awww…

By: Balisong

Balisong — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 22:56:32 -0800

You just want to make me cry, I know it.

Is this the fisting thread?

By: loquacious

loquacious — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:00:40 -0800

So then I got this idea about driving a cheesecake truck,
cuz I figured at the end of the day,
I could take some of the leftover cheesecakes home.
And I love cheesecake.

So I went to the cheesecake company
and they asked me if I could drive a truck and I said yes,
and they said 'You're hired!'

So the next day I got in the truck with all the cheesecakes
and I drove about a block and I just had to have a cheesecake
so I pulled over and opened the truck
and I got a cheesecake, and I also took one for later,
and I took one for my friend Farmboy,
and I took one to bring home,
and by that time I had eaten one of the cheesecakes
so I took another one.

Then I figured I might as well stop at my house
to drop off all the cheesecakes,
so I take five cakes to eat on the way,
and I drive another block and a half to my house.

Now it's lunch time so I eat ten cheesecakes,
and a cheesecake for dessert.
I should point out, by the way,
that all of these cheesecakes were very delicious.

Anyway, I decided that the only thing to do
would be to eat all the rest of the cheesecakes
and hide the truck somewhere
and leave town.

And I miss everybody a lot
but I'm not really sorry
because they were very delicious cheesecakes.

-- King Missle - Cheesecake Truck - Mystical Shit

By: Duncan

Duncan — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:44:44 -0800

James Brown is dead damn it!

By: wendell

wendell — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:11:31 -0800

And I'm not feeling too good myself.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:31:09 -0800

Well, this will end well.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 03:23:56 -0800

I mean, I'm not a fan of calling out bad posts either...

People who have actually put some effort into what they have posted rarely are. This is my experience.

And digging up a deleted post by someone...

Picking low hanging fruit from a lawn chair while napping is more like it. Less than two weeks old is not ancient history. I use the lofi as my start page--all it took was scrolling down.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 04:33:43 -0800

Metafilter: all it took was scrolling down.

By: cgc373

cgc373 — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 07:46:54 -0800

How do you get lofi to display more than a week at a time, y2karl? I'm stuck with seven days.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 08:52:19 -0800

My lofi goes to Dec. 1. I don't why mine does and yours doesn't. Man, there were a lot of nice posts I saw scrolling. Jonson consistently makes great posts but madamejujujive's are the greatest in my book. Then there was the guy with the bot fly larva... Eeyew. I forgot that one. Insect sex and violence is OK, but, man, I don't want to be exposed to botfly larvae. TweetleBeetleBattleBookie's Gumby post was good., too.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 09:06:53 -0800

Another random thought is that languagehat should post more. Shotaro Shimomura's portfolio was wonderful.

By: cgc373

cgc373 — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 09:44:29 -0800

Huh. I wonder if there's some preference deep in the MetaFilter mysteries where I can make lofi work with a month of posts instead of a week. Unless it's grandfathered in or something. Have you had lofi as your start page for a long time, y2karl?

And I'm totally with you about languagehat, and madamjujujive's Yardbirds documentary post rules, too. Good, good stuff.

By: cgc373

cgc373 — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 09:45:45 -0800

(And I don't mean to slight jonson. Good stuff from him, too. Lots of good stuff at MetaFilter, really. It's as if the site does its job almost all the time!)

By: loquacious

loquacious — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 10:02:17 -0800

What in the unholy fuck are you sick freaks doing in here? Why don't you all put your goddamn pants back on and stop making out like Japanese schoolgirls? For Lob's sake, it's just a fucking pickle! You eat it with a sandwich and some chips! It's not the Holy Grail of self abuse and flagallation! Hello Kitty says Goodbye!

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 10:02:53 -0800

What y2karl said. IMO, madamejujujive is MeFi's not-so-secret weapon.

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 10:04:41 -0800

My post this month was so good that it only got three comments. Beat that!

(PS: It's been a weird holiday season, what with my girlfriend back in town. I don't know if it's the lack of time that I've had to keep up with the front page and the assorted gripes, or the amazing amount of sex that I'm having— and totally bragging about— sending endorphins through me, but this all seems so hilariously petty.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to going through Stav and Y2Karl's links once my girlfriend is back in LA and I'm all bummed out, looking for entertainment to console me. I can't say the same for the myriad of news links. Say what you will about YouTube dumps, but the biggest danger there is that the videos'll be taken down, not that they won't be interesting in a week.)

By: quonsar

quonsar — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 10:09:01 -0800

indeed, there used to exist a preference for "number of days to display on the front page". since matt quite rightly recoded the front page to show a fixed number of posts with older/newer links at the bottom, the option has disappeared into spaghettiville. the users setting is still stored in the db and is still consulted by the ancient lofi code. there's just no way to change the setting any longer.

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 10:10:59 -0800

My post this month was so good that it only got three comments. Beat that!

Amongst more germain articles, I went with a YouTube link, but forgot the Wikipedia entry. No one hates it yet, a first for me. How did I fail?

By: cgc373

cgc373 — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 10:19:50 -0800

Thanks for the straight dope, quonsar. Here I consider inserting a sad emoticon, and here I refrain, because I think emoticons are a bit stupid.

loquacious, I admit to some curiosity: How do Japanese schoolgirls make out?

By: quonsar

quonsar — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 10:24:17 -0800

How do Japanese schoolgirls make out?

squinting. on a slippery slope.

By: deborah

deborah — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 13:34:19 -0800

By: diddlegnome

diddlegnome — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 16:49:15 -0800

I am up in your meta stuffing fish in your pants.
posted by Duncan at 4:13 PM PST on December 31

d00d, wher TF did u lRn 2 rite? i cznt mkae hedz or talez of Ur post. cmon, make senz!1!

n it shud totaly b "in2 ur pantz."

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 16:53:35 -0800

slight jonson

Ha!

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 20:04:50 -0800

wowie, thanks for such kind words, y2karl, cgc373, and Alvy Amepersand - knowing that some people enjoy these posts is very motivating!

By: themadjuggler

themadjuggler — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 20:11:33 -0800

Oops! Had I known this would have upset people, I wouldn't have posted. I thought it might be fun.

Happy new year nonetheless!

By: loquacious

loquacious — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 20:24:04 -0800

Oops! Had I known this would have upset people, I wouldn't have posted.

Well, that's no way to get anything done around here. You should keep in mind that there are people out there who are geniunely upset by puppies. Fuck 'em.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 20:29:21 -0800

now i'm genuinely confused that nobody called me out for the racist japanese schoolgirl snark.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 20:43:39 -0800

You're drunk, dad--go home.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 20:44:25 -0800

ftw?

By: timeistight

timeistight — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 21:42:49 -0800

You're drunk, dad--go home.

He was what, three?

By: y2karl

y2karl — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 22:46:45 -0800

All fish and no pants.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 00:11:21 -0800

wowie, thanks for such kind words, y2karl, cgc373, and Alvy Amepersand - knowing that some people enjoy these posts is very motivating!

Aw, c'mon, mjj, you know there's a kajillion folks here who really dig your posts (and perhaps also how you're one of the most civil people on the site). I'm certainly one of 'em, as I've indicated in many comments to your threads. No false modesty, please! ;-)

By: and hosted from Uranus

and hosted from Uranus — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 06:02:17 -0800

Can I feel wendell's too good?

By: wendell

wendell — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 11:54:44 -0800

No.