MetaFilter should really stop following us around and imitating us.

May 28, 2007 3:52 PM

Onlyconnect and I hosted a gathering yesterday evening starting around 6 pm eastern. Attendees included at least five Mefites. Topics dicussed at that party that have subsequently appeared on the front page through no action of our own include:

• An extended discussion of "Freaks and Geeks"
• The further creative output of Judd Apatow
• Lesbian Until Graduation (LUG)

Look MetaFilter, despite the fact that I wore the new MetaFilter shirt that onlyconnect gave me (a decision driven by its festive coloring and roominess, since I was planning some serious eating), it's time to stop following us around and copying us.
posted by NortonDC to MetaFilter-Related at 3:52 PM (29 comments total)

OMG, I was talking to myself a few hours ago and I said "wouldn't it be weird if onlyconnect and NortonDC met and talked about stuff that made the front page"!
posted by soundofsuburbia at 4:08 PM on May 28, 2007

This thread is useless without pictures.
posted by amro at 4:12 PM on May 28, 2007

This is so meta, because I was just asking onlyconnect about the odds that soundofsuburbia...

I almost forgot: ColdChef came up by name, too. And I think that the LUG discussion was especially appreciated by my (conservative, slightly anxious) sister's kids.
posted by NortonDC at 4:17 PM on May 28, 2007

WHAT DID YOU SMOKE AT THAT PARTY AND WHY AREN'T YOU SHARING?
posted by loquacious at 4:41 PM on May 28, 2007

I am so sorry that Baud got Dance Around The World stuck in his head.
posted by cortex (staff) at 5:12 PM on May 28, 2007 [3 favorites]

I hate it when websites I read are relevant to my conversations in the real world.
posted by spiderskull at 5:41 PM on May 28, 2007

Hmph. Until I see photos, this plate of beans sucks. And front page posts are vull and noid.
posted by taz at 6:12 PM on May 28, 2007

Cortex really doesn't make any sense today.
posted by wendell at 6:14 PM on May 28, 2007

i gather a lot of poeple have been drinking over the holiday?
posted by empath at 6:20 PM on May 28, 2007

we sure haev been
posted by brain_drain at 6:37 PM on May 28, 2007

yo i love freaks and geeks
posted by ludwig_van at 7:00 PM on May 28, 2007

more like judd apaterrific amirite
posted by cortex (staff) at 9:25 PM on May 28, 2007

Dude, check out my hands today!
posted by dreamsign at 12:31 AM on May 29, 2007

I would like to take this moment to acknowledge the sacrifices -- often the ultimate sacrifice -- made by our men in uniform. If not them, what is this holiday about?

*hiccups, falls over*
posted by brundlefly at 1:11 AM on May 29, 2007

I was at the party. Kool Aid pickles were consumed (and some left behind). Maybe they'll become the next kula?
posted by MrMoonPie at 6:36 AM on May 29, 2007

Did Cardoso put you up to this?
posted by caddis at 7:42 AM on May 29, 2007

Cortex really doesn't make any sense today.

Someone tell matt and jessamyn to reboot the cortex bot, please.
posted by terrapin at 7:43 AM on May 29, 2007

I'd like to point out that Dance around the World by Richenel was Hollands gift to the world.
It escaped our laboratories and has been infecting brains ever since.
Baud, there is no antidote.
posted by jouke at 9:55 AM on May 29, 2007

No cameras, only
You, mefi blue, the rain, and
electric pickles.
posted by onlyconnect at 2:52 PM on May 29, 2007

Huh. The same thing happened when I attended my 5-year-old cousin's birthday party after reading Fark.
posted by gsteff at 3:30 PM on May 29, 2007

Someone tell matt and jessamyn to reboot the cortex bot, please.

terrapin, you totally stole my joke!

And without attribution, no less.

Or does that make it a meme?
posted by dersins at 5:37 PM on May 29, 2007

or an "homage?"
posted by dersins at 5:38 PM on May 29, 2007

Is it plagiarism if one has never read or seen the original?

I said that because we tease cortex on IRC as being a bot. Never saw your comment. Sorry!
posted by terrapin at 7:17 PM on May 29, 2007

You mean that the thoughts of real people and the stuff on this website are one and the same?

*reevaluates MeFi*
posted by Miko at 7:22 PM on May 29, 2007

Oh come on, next you'll be saying there are real people on here.
posted by dg at 11:47 PM on May 29, 2007

In Soviet Russia, Metafilter is on real people!

*badaboom*
posted by PuGZ at 4:03 AM on May 30, 2007

Or at least Mefi meetups in Soviet Russia.
posted by PuGZ at 4:03 AM on May 30, 2007

Metafilter is peeeeooople!
posted by Miko at 8:23 AM on May 30, 2007

I AM IN YR THOUGTS, STEELING YR FPPS.
posted by grapefruitmoon at 9:55 AM on May 30, 2007