Comments on: Roger gets our get well card.

Roger gets our get well card.

hydrophonic — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:38:57 -0800

The Chicago Sun-Times ran a little item on page 30 today. It's full of get well messages from Metafilter to Roger Ebert. It's online too.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:46:08 -0800

Aw, that's cool. The messages are great in the little round-up they did.

By: French Fry

French Fry — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:49:05 -0800

we are in ur Times, wishing u well

By: lekvar

lekvar — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:49:19 -0800

Neat!

By: dios

dios — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:51:41 -0800

Oh noes! They led with mine. Something tells me that there will be some angry people here. Apparently the Sun Times doesn't know what a trolling thead-shitter I am.

By: nathan_teske

nathan_teske — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:54:40 -0800

It's too bad they didn't just print "." from someone.

By: serazin

serazin — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:55:32 -0800

I always cringe when I read internet quotes in a newspaper. No offense to 'Bovine Love' but it just looks wacky seeing a quote from you, stated as if Bovine Love was a perfectly average name.

By: dios

dios — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:56:38 -0800

I'm actually impressed they got the punctuation of username conventions correct. We have members here who can't master that.

By: danb

danb — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:57:16 -0800

"Pissed" is too naughty for newsprint? Who knew?

By: gsteff

gsteff — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:57:28 -0800

The neat part is that it makes it pretty likely that Ebert will read the thread.

By: bardic

bardic — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:57:53 -0800

They'd have printed mine if they knew that IRL I'm Quentin Tarantino.

By: quin

quin — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:05:43 -0800

dios : Apparently the Sun Times doesn't know what a trolling thead-shitter I am.

Oh come on dios, you sell yourself short. You are our favorite trolling thread-shitter.

:)

By: serazin

serazin — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:06:31 -0800

I was suprised that no one in that thread linked to the Siskel and Ebert smackdowns.

Or did I just miss it?

By: sveskemus

sveskemus — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:16:53 -0800

MetaFilter: What a trolling thead-shitter I am.

By: The World Famous

The World Famous — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:20:39 -0800

So who's the MeFite at the Sun-Times?

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:32:49 -0800

I notice they didn't quote me, the fuckers.

By: Partial Law

Partial Law — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:38:54 -0800

The Chicago Sun-Times is always about Dios.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:39:31 -0800

I notice they didn't quote me, the fuckers.

Me neither. Such oversight! Such missed opportunity! Whenever I'm again in Chicago I'll make it a point to not buy the Sun-Times!

By: Partial Law

Partial Law — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:40:41 -0800

...and I demonstrate my inability to master username capitalization conventions.

By: veggieboy

veggieboy — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:51:37 -0800

The World Famous: I emailed a few people who work there and didn't find out. Possibly someone just noticed metafilter.com was sending a lot of traffic to the site.

Or. . . maybe I am Roger Ebert. Thnk about it. Have we ever been seen online together at the same time?

Exactly.

By: EatTheWeak

EatTheWeak — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:18:25 -0800

Man, dios, why you gotta shit in the Times? *g*

This is pretty cool.

By: kyleg

kyleg — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:26:47 -0800

Come on, this is MetaTalk! Where's the outrage? The Sun-Times is using content copyrighted by the individual users without permission as a substitute for paying writers for content! Oh, the nerve of the mainstream media!

Oh, wait, that screed would be on boingboing. Sorry.

By: and hosted from Uranus

and hosted from Uranus — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:31:47 -0800

It's odd how they title it "Quick online responses" and then only include responses from one site and note the site on every response, no?

By: nanojath

nanojath — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:56:59 -0800

dios, you've been sounding a little "persecution complex" lately, even if it is all jokey jokey. Buck up, at least you still got all your mandibles.

By: popechunk

popechunk — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:00:24 -0800

I was suprised that no one in that thread linked to the Siskel and Ebert smackdowns.

Metafilter: we've been setting each other on fire since Martin Luther was a gleam in his mother's eye.

By: 3.2.3

3.2.3 — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:22:22 -0800

Oh noes! They led with mine.

why does every thread have to be about dios?

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:34:18 -0800

GAAAAH. *shoves spirit fingers disconsolately into pockets*
I went to film school in homage to that man. I guess I suck after all. Good thing I'm wasted.

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:14:01 -0800

it just looks wacky seeing a quote from you, stated as if Bovine Love was a perfectly average name.

And why wouldn't it be? Ovine Love is quite commonplace in New Zealand, for example.

By: and hosted from Uranus

and hosted from Uranus — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:53:45 -0800

Plucky Roger
The guy's got sand.

COBRA!, www.metafilter.com

Did the Chicago Sun-Times just unwittingly publish a MeFi in joke? Won't 99.9% of it's readers be asking themselves "Sand? WTF?" How long until "having sand" is in the OED?

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:02:03 -0800

AFAIK, "having sand"'s been around a lot longer than MetaFilter, Uranus.

Very cool, wish I had said something... but I'm still haven't quite gotten over Beyond The Valley of The Dolls.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:03:20 -0800

And they'd probably prefer to quote people who can make coherent sentences.

By: smallerdemon

smallerdemon — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:13:50 -0800

I KNEW mine should have been shorter! :)

By: homunculus

homunculus — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:50:08 -0800

Sweet!

By: Krrrlson

Krrrlson — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:52:57 -0800

Oh noes! They led with mine.

They probably just rated them by number of Metas about the user. "Hmm, everyone keeps talking about this dios fellow... he must be pretty important. miss lynster? Who's miss lynster?"

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:29:57 -0800

Hey!!!!!!! I'm faaaaamous!!!!!! Wheeeeeeee!

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:36:21 -0800

BTW, I'm instilling a new rule. Everyone who forgets the second "N" in LynNster owes me a buck.* Starting now, so you're off the hook Krrrlson. (My name is Lynn, people! Not Lyn.)

*Payable by PayPal. I owe taxes so it'll go straight to the IRS.

By: quin

quin — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:40:22 -0800

/waves hand and lights cigarette lighter.

WOO! miss lynnster, can you do Free Bird?

All rock stars should know that one...

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:48:51 -0800

I'm a JAZZ singer, I don't do Skynrd! Well, other than Sweet Home Alabama...

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:51:16 -0800

In bumminham they luv the guvnah!

hooo! hooo! hooo!

By: Kirth Gerson

Kirth Gerson — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:39:27 -0800

She says she doesn't do Skynnrd, but I think she's lyn'.

By: cgc373

cgc373 — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:41:18 -0800

miss lynnster, I'm guilty of n-omission writing your username, but now you're guilty of excising the second Y from SKYNYRD! Redress!

(But please keep your top off for wendell.)

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:20:01 -0800

Congrats, miss lynnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnster.

That'll be sixteen dollars. You can thank me by PayPal.

By: and hosted from Uranus

and hosted from Uranus — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:25:17 -0800

AFAIK, "having sand"'s been around a lot longer than MetaFilter, Uranus.

Huh, I've never heard of sand as chutzpah before (though the phrase 'pounding sand' is somewhat familiar). I figured COBRA! was making a sand in the vagina reference.

By: TedW

TedW — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:01:08 -0800

Wow; being quoted in that article makes me imagine what a favorite from mathowie must feel like!

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:33:10 -0800

They didn't quote me. Maybe I shouldn't have dropped the F-bomb.

By: Firas

Firas — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:01:30 -0800

Least of your worries there, 'Faint of Butt'.

By: drezdn

drezdn — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:28:45 -0800

as if Bovine Love was a perfectly average name.
(cue sci-fi music)
VOT SOUND FULL

NARRATOR: IN THE FUTURE, BOVINE LOVE WILL BE AS COMMON OF A NAME AS JENNIFER OR MICHAEL.

###

By: COBRA!

COBRA! — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:04:48 -0800

AFAIK, "having sand"'s been around a lot longer than MetaFilter, Uranus.

Huh, I've never heard of sand as chutzpah before (though the phrase 'pounding sand' is somewhat familiar). I figured COBRA! was making a sand in the vagina reference.
posted by and hosted from Uranus at 6:25 AM on April 26 [+]
[!]

Whoa. Nope.

Actually, I hate to admit this, but I'm pretty sure I picked up "x has sand" as a compliment from a Tom Clancy book. Listen, you grow up in rural Nebraska, you read what you can find, ok?

Also: w00t! Adding the Sun-Times to the "my work has appeard in..." list.

By: staggernation

staggernation — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:28:07 -0800

Heh.

You want to see him really [angry]?

You wouldn't like me when I'm [angry].

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:36:39 -0800

The much favorited comment about an enlarged heart and balls sticking out was nixed I guess because the corrupt media complex is trying to keep the wool over our eyes on the prominent condition of Roger Ebert's nuts.

MetaFilter: This IS the news!

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:17:56 -0800

Oh whatever. Some guy has a thing and somebody says something about the thing, that's news?

/jealous

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:45:43 -0800

You callin' me a guy? Huh? Are ya? 'Cuz I'm not one. Just FYI.

By: French Fry

French Fry — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:53:00 -0800

I knew a guy I prison whos name was Miss Lynnster, but he wasn't No lady.

Not much of a gentleman either.

By: and hosted from Uranus

and hosted from Uranus — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:54:15 -0800

No, he's calling you a somebody.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:50:28 -0800

OED: sand 7b. Chiefly U.S. Firmness of purpose; pluck, stamina. Phr. sand in one's craw. Cf. GRIT n.1 5.

1867 G. W. HARRIS Sut Lovingood 102, I tell yu he hes lots ove san' in his gizzard; he is the best pluck I ever seed. 1872 Newton Kansan 5 Dec. 3/3 We hope to see Mr. Pettibone with sufficient ‘sand in his craw’ for this new position [sc. police judge]. 1875 B. HARTE Tales of Argonauts 71 Blank me if I didn't think he was losing his sand, till he walked to position. 1883 E. INGERSOLL in Harper's Mag. Jan. 202 Good, solid man he was, too, with heaps of sand in him. 1884 ‘MARK TWAIN’ Huck. Finn viii. 62 When I got to camp I warn't feeling very brash, there warn't much sand in my craw. 1924 GALSWORTHY Forest IV. ii. 120 By Jove, Mr. Farrell, there's sand in you. Tell me, isn't he ever ashamed of himself? 1933 J. BUCHAN Prince of Captivity III. i. 264 A plain face with nothing showy about it, but all the horse-sense and sand in the world. 1954 ‘W. HENRY’ Death of Legend 4 You losing your sand, Buck?

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:32:19 -0800

Brings new meaning to 'sand in a bottle'.

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:41:10 -0800

Look out miss lynnster... JOHN FOGERTY IS RIGHT BEHIND YOU!!!11!

By: Coaticass

Coaticass — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:06:50 -0800

I'd assumed sand was what you got when your stones have been ground down to almost nothing. But now I know better.