CortexHatesMe!

August 22, 2007 6:53 PM

Apparently I suck at life and don't know where to post... but someone we all know and love received AskMe license plates from the Vermont DMV today!
posted by SirStan to MetaFilter-related at 6:53 PM (55 comments total)

With every fiber of my being, you big galoot.

Hugs!
posted by cortex at 6:56 PM on August 22, 2007 [1 favorite]

Got it right on the second try, SirLoin.

Because we can overthink a license plate of beans.
posted by wendell at 7:02 PM on August 22, 2007

Nice!
posted by mathowie at 7:02 PM on August 22, 2007

I'd rather have plates that say BITE ME. Because "Rub my aching neck, please please please?" won't fit.
posted by davy at 7:03 PM on August 22, 2007

They have cars in Vermont?
posted by smackfu at 7:04 PM on August 22, 2007

Well, buggies, at least.
posted by cortex at 7:05 PM on August 22, 2007

Next time, overthink before you post, SirStan.
posted by Poolio at 7:07 PM on August 22, 2007

Apparently I suck at life...

Hey, don't take it so hard, SirStan, MetaFilter is just one little part of life.

Or so I'm told.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 7:07 PM on August 22, 2007

Anyway, how many Vermonters will know what "ASKME" refers to? I think she'll have strangers bunching up to ask her for directions, spare change, or worse.

But then I thought "Ask me about explosive diarrhea!" was so witty I let a T-shirt company use it for FREE. Maybe I'm out of the loop here too.
posted by davy at 7:07 PM on August 22, 2007

And SirStain, Cortex hates you? Join the club; no $5 charge required.
posted by wendell at 7:07 PM on August 22, 2007

Anyway, how many Vermonters will know what "ASKME" refers to? I think she'll have strangers bunching up to ask her for directions, spare change, or worse.

She's been sporting that tagline since before AskMe was a glint in Matt's milkman's computer's eye, actually.
posted by cortex at 7:10 PM on August 22, 2007

Very nice use of the nooneisabiggerdorkthanme tag.
posted by yhbc at 7:21 PM on August 22, 2007

I think she'll have strangers bunching up to ask her for directions, spare change, or worse.

The horrors! Imagine members of the public asking a librarian questions! It's absolute madness!

Jessamyn, get your restraining orders ready! You don't want to actually project that you might want to help them!
posted by mathowie at 7:27 PM on August 22, 2007 [1 favorite]

I'd keep driving til I found the person with the "BEST ANSR" license plate.
posted by Poolio at 7:32 PM on August 22, 2007 [4 favorites]

My META plate.

Which however has less to do with Metafilter, than just with the concept of 'meta' in general.
posted by dmd at 7:39 PM on August 22, 2007 [1 favorite]

I think she'll have strangers bunching up to ask her for directions, spare change, or worse.

No, no, no. In VT they'll understand that she wants people to take their damn questions to Maine, the "ask me" state.
posted by The corpse in the library at 7:41 PM on August 22, 2007

She's been sporting that tagline since before AskMe was a glint in Matt's milkman's computer's eye, actually.

In fact, that's how she got the job as moderator. Matt kept searching for his new site in Google, to see whether they picked it up yet, and this librarian kept coming up on top for no apparent reason. So he checked out here sit, sent an email, and the rest is history.
posted by smackfu at 7:45 PM on August 22, 2007

and the rest is historyurban legendary.
posted by wendell at 8:00 PM on August 22, 2007

Aw man, they're green, too! Too perfect.
posted by cog_nate at 8:15 PM on August 22, 2007

This is so awesome! This really gives my stalking hobby a big boost!
posted by The Deej at 8:39 PM on August 22, 2007

The horrors! Imagine members of the public asking a librarian questions! It's absolute madness!

Jessamyn, get your restraining orders ready! You don't want to actually project that you might want to help them!

Ah, but that's not the risk. What she has to worry about is Smiths fans crowding her with "If it's not love, then it's the bomb that will bring us together"
posted by UbuRoivas at 8:42 PM on August 22, 2007 [2 favorites]

Hee!

My parents' CA plates read: PANDA (father) and MONIUM.
posted by brujita at 9:02 PM on August 22, 2007

So which one of you same-state-as-Phish-dwellin' New England hippies got "MEFI" before she could, huh? Huh? *glares threateningly*
posted by arto at 9:22 PM on August 22, 2007

SirStan, I still think you are a special snowflake. : )
posted by misha at 9:34 PM on August 22, 2007

This is in the neighborhood of the coolest thing I've ever seen.
posted by Kwine at 9:45 PM on August 22, 2007

It's nice to hear that the GPS tracking device that you hid in jessamyn's car is working, but I'm more interested in what & where this "coolest thing ever seen" is.
posted by UbuRoivas at 9:53 PM on August 22, 2007 [1 favorite]

Heh. Point for the Aussie jellywrestling kangaroo consumer.
posted by Kwine at 9:55 PM on August 22, 2007

Like the sign says, "Please be careful when consuming the jellywrestling kangaroos."
posted by flapjax at midnite at 10:15 PM on August 22, 2007

Oh, I see you visited the banquet hall at the Opera House on your visit!
posted by UbuRoivas at 10:32 PM on August 22, 2007

My parents' CA plates read: PANDA (father) and MONIUM.

Don't tell your father, but shouldn't his plate read 'PANDE'?

Also, isn't there some state that calls itself 'The Ask Me State'? Is that Vermont? Can I have a cookie? Am I asking too many questions?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:47 PM on August 22, 2007

No "Ask Me State," but we do have the "Show Me State." Do we have a ShowMe site yet?
posted by piratebowling at 2:10 AM on August 23, 2007

Also, speaking of stupid site ideas, I'd really like it if we could have a collection of MeFi recipies, either in dead tree form of online. There have been a ton of good recipes posted (mostly in AskMe) and I really can't keep track of them otherwise. I'd suggest BiteMe or EatMe as site and/or book name.
posted by piratebowling at 2:13 AM on August 23, 2007

Do we have a ShowMe site yet?
It could be flesh-coloured.
posted by dg at 3:05 AM on August 23, 2007

I'd really like it if we could have a collection of MeFi recipies

Yea, I hear someone has a great recipe for a three day old tuna sandwich. It may, or may not be edible.
posted by R. Mutt at 4:22 AM on August 23, 2007 [1 favorite]

mathowie, is BANHMMR is available in Oregon? and don't say you don't know
posted by luser at 6:36 AM on August 23, 2007

It could be flesh-coloured.

This is where we start discussing just exactly what flesh colour that might be?
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:43 AM on August 23, 2007

The red dripping bloody marbled-with-fat kind, I'd imagine.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 6:45 AM on August 23, 2007

mmmm!

(Damn, stavros, I envy you, sometimes, living over there in bulgogi paradise!)
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:47 AM on August 23, 2007

piratebowling, I think a site that was just links to awesome recipes and food links from MeFi would be great. I'm sort of surprised that there aren't more spin-off type sites that link to certain caegories of posts/comments.

This really gives my stalking hobby a big boost!

As one of the more easy to get ahold of people on the Internet, I don't think this is giving you much more of an advatage than you already had, though I guess now you can try to sweet talk the DMV into giving up my SSN and then you can actually try to BE me not just FIND me. Good luck!
posted by jessamyn at 6:54 AM on August 23, 2007

Shes so wrapped up in MeFi, she hosts meetups at her house, AND has ASKME plates.
posted by wheelieman at 7:03 AM on August 23, 2007

living over there in bulgogi paradise

Now that is definitely a Jimmy Buffett song.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 7:27 AM on August 23, 2007

Yeah, I was a ghost writer for Buffet there for a little while, but the pay was lousy. Now I'm working for this Waits fellow, he pays me in moonshine and old dry bones, plus I get to hang out with pool-playing Cuban midgets, which is every bit as fun as it sounds.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 7:43 AM on August 23, 2007 [2 favorites]

is BANHMMR is available in Oregon?

those plates have been bought up by General Motors. you need to buy a Hummer to get them, but on the bright side, if the car with the AskMe plates annoys you in any way, you can crush it into oblivion at will.
posted by UbuRoivas at 7:45 AM on August 23, 2007

I think she'll have strangers bunching up to ask her for directions, spare change, or worse.

No, no, no. In VT they'll understand that she wants people to take their damn questions to Maine, the "ask me" state.

...and that's not a terribly good idea, either, bacause you can't get there from here.
posted by SteveInMaine at 8:17 AM on August 23, 2007

Now someone needs to come up with some special sound effects for her 'Delete' button.

I'm thinking in terms of a revving engine followed by a rabbit scream and a heavy thump-thump.

After all, there has to be some reward for such a relatively thankless task.
posted by jamjam at 9:14 AM on August 23, 2007 [1 favorite]

I wonder if she put in for them before or after the sidebarred leetplate thread.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 10:05 AM on August 23, 2007

AV: well after.
posted by jessamyn at 11:14 AM on August 23, 2007

I think a site that was just links to awesome recipes and food links from MeFi would be great.

EATME?
posted by LordSludge at 11:41 AM on August 23, 2007 [1 favorite]

In VT they'll understand that she wants people to take their damn questions to Maine, the "ask me" state.

Nope, Maine's too busy with PE4ME.
posted by JanetLand at 12:57 PM on August 23, 2007

It has been my experience that most questions posed by outsiders are in Maine are answered with:

1) Ah, .... nope.

2) Ah, ..... yup.

3) Ah, .... could be.
posted by R. Mutt at 5:18 PM on August 23, 2007

stavros..."Panda" was my mother's compromise for refusing to call him "Andy" like the rest of his family and friends. He didn't know his given name (not Andrew) until the first day of kindergarten.
posted by brujita at 8:19 PM on August 23, 2007

"then you can actually try to BE me"

I'd settle for learning that Jessamyn Stare.
posted by davy at 8:27 PM on August 23, 2007

stavros..."Panda" was my mother's compromise for refusing to call him "Andy"

Well, that makes sense, then.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:36 PM on August 23, 2007

I'd settle for learning that Jessamyn Stare.

Well, the first thing you got to do is spend a few years moderating a community website. That's...well, that's pretty much what does it, as far as I can tell. Matt's head actually spins around sometimes.

So far, all I have is a twitch.
posted by cortex at 8:25 AM on August 24, 2007

So far, all I have is a twitch.

At least you don't spew pea soup.
posted by SteveInMaine at 10:18 AM on August 24, 2007