Best of web, link now broken

January 1, 2007 1:35 PM

MSNBC kills a photo that's the heart of a post in the blue. Now the post is far from best of the Web. What to do?
posted by frogan to MetaFilter-Related at 1:35 PM (21 comments total)

Here's the post. If I could delete it, I would.
posted by frogan at 1:35 PM on January 1, 2007

frogan, what are you trying to do? Is there an existing picture that will work, or do you just want me to remove the post?
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 1:38 PM on January 1, 2007

This image?
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 1:41 PM on January 1, 2007

I fixed the post with AA's image. Is it okay now?
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 1:43 PM on January 1, 2007

There's an extra h in the http that's buggering it now, jessamyn.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 1:44 PM on January 1, 2007

unbuggered! ok now frogan? frogan?
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 1:45 PM on January 1, 2007

Horray! Tis fixed.
posted by econous at 1:46 PM on January 1, 2007

Truth be told, part of me was hoping/fearing the picture'd be a horrific close-up of Lucas' wattle.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 1:59 PM on January 1, 2007

Unbuggered. Thanks!
posted by frogan at 2:05 PM on January 1, 2007

it's as if 40,000 mefites suddenly cried out in fear, and then were silenced....
posted by blue_beetle at 2:07 PM on January 1, 2007

... the post is far from best of the Web. What to do?
Don't base a thread on a photo from MSNBC in the first place??
posted by dg at 2:09 PM on January 1, 2007

Don't base a thread on a photo from MSNBC in the first place??

I live and learn ... ;-)
posted by frogan at 2:10 PM on January 1, 2007

Next, if someone wouldn't mind unbuggering me. Thanks in advance.
posted by moonbird at 2:42 PM on January 1, 2007

Well, they would have to bugger you first, of course.
posted by dg at 3:05 PM on January 1, 2007

Well, they would have to bugger you first, of course.
posted by dg at 5:05 PM CST on January 1

I've got lube and whatnot for the buggering part, and a long-handled shoehorn, a mallet, and (ONLY TO BE USED IF ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY) an apple corer for the debuggering.

We're set up and ready to roll here, folks. Let's get this done! On the count of three...
posted by mountain_william at 4:17 PM on January 1, 2007

Next up: chiggering.
posted by cortex at 4:48 PM on January 1, 2007

And then: Ferreting.
posted by loquacious at 5:37 PM on January 1, 2007

Followed by: gophering.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 5:50 PM on January 1, 2007

"Lucas' wattle" - oddly enough, that is the name of my new sockpuppet.
posted by vronsky at 8:55 PM on January 1, 2007

9835; Where did I go wrong, I lost a link
Somewhere out there in the internets
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a post 9834;
posted by Plutor at 5:02 AM on January 2, 2007

Oh, balls.
posted by Plutor at 5:03 AM on January 2, 2007