Comments on: The Born Addendum

The Born Addendum

Poolio — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:39:51 -0800

Hows about adding a free-form (go nuts) Born line to profile pages? [previ03ly]

By: Poolio

Poolio — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:00:18 -0800

DOA?

By: wendell

wendell — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:14:28 -0800

MeFites aren't born... they're made.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:18:17 -0800

I think the Hurfday* is more important than the birthday.

*Joined date. Mine's next week!

By: Poolio

Poolio — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:18:33 -0800

MeFites aren't born... they're made.

Not all of them... most are just friends of ours.

By: Poolio

Poolio — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:23:11 -0800

Re: most are just friends of ours.

By: Steven C. Den Beste

Steven C. Den Beste — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:26:36 -0800

Born: Yes.

By: Poolio

Poolio — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:29:37 -0800

Born: To Gender

By: sergeant sandwich

sergeant sandwich — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:51:09 -0800

Born: To Run

also, bug report: links to comments that people posted back before the readable-URLs were implemented seem to be broken. for instance clicking on this (from the "previously" link above) gets redirected to this which would be right, except the little #436013 anchor thingy gets lost.

also also, cute title.

also also also, poolio, were you someone else on metafilter before? seems like out of the blue, wham! theres this poolio everywhere, like a hyperactive tribble. just wonderin'.

By: Poolio

Poolio — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:56:57 -0800

poolio, were you someone else on metafilter before?

No... I lurked for a long time (since back when reg. was closed) before registering... Most of my "community" activity for the past few years has been on Daily Kos (UID 2255)... I recently got tired of all the primary bullshit there and decided to step away... and here I came.

By: amyms

amyms — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:05:42 -0800

Born? Sounds like a beer thing (i.e. "born on" date) to me. I don't see it being very useful, or necessary.

Poolio, I used to be a Kossack too (gawd, I don't even know what my UID number is because I don't even log in anymore) but I, too, got tired of all the drama. I still read it (albeit weekly instead of daily) but it's exhausting.

By: bunglin jones

bunglin jones — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:06:34 -0800

poolio, were you someone else on metafilter before?

Born: Again

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:09:20 -0800

Mommy, where do Mefites come from?

By: amyms

amyms — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:10:27 -0800

Mommy, where do Mefites come from?

Well, little Blazecock Pileon... When a Meta and a Filter love each other very much...

By: Poolio

Poolio — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:13:17 -0800

On The Bayou

To Run

By: wendell

wendell — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:13:30 -0800

Born? Born? Poolie, babe, you are just begging to make this clip into a viral phenomenon.
Just compare the song - and the performance - to the classic RickRoll and you will learn the true meaning of awesomeness

By: Poolio

Poolio — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:18:48 -0800

"Born" seemed (to me) in line with the "Gender" not "Sex" policy.

By: amyms

amyms — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:19:06 -0800

Born To Be Wild

By: amyms

amyms — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:21:23 -0800

Born To Be Alive

By: amyms

amyms — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:22:26 -0800

Oops, sorry wendell, my Born To Be Alive link is the same as yours... lol... But yeah, total 80s awesomeness!

By: wendell

wendell — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:30:23 -0800

It's ok, amyms, I have an even MORE awesome video of the same song HERE.

You have been GodwinRolled!!!

By: amyms

amyms — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:51:03 -0800

an even MORE awesome video of the same song

OMG wendell, I don't know whether I'm feeling amused, or disturbed, or amusingly disturbed... Or just very existential.

Either way, the video's sync with the "born" portion of the lyric is very creepy/haunting/skillful/something.

By: pracowity

pracowity — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:04:30 -0800

Born: eo
Born: loser
Born: with a silver spoon in my mouth
Born: free, as free as the wind blows...

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:20:31 -0800

Born:g Borng.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:30:23 -0800

Hows about adding a free-form (go nuts) Born line to profile pages?

A sexual activity form, which people could easily update, would be much more interesting.

By: chrismear

chrismear — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:40:40 -0800

also, bug report: links to comments that people posted back before the readable-URLs were implemented seem to be broken. for instance clicking on this (from the "previously" link above) gets redirected to this which would be right, except the little #436013 anchor thingy gets lost.

Only in particular browsers, such as Safari. Firefox and IE keep the anchor part of the URL during a redirect, but Safari throws it away. So it's not really a server-side thing.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:56:26 -0800

Bjorn: Turoque

By: sergeant sandwich

sergeant sandwich — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:08:43 -0800

oh, okay then. thanks chrismear.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:11:12 -0800

Don't forget my JustBorn Peeps.

By: terrapin

terrapin — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:19:00 -0800

Born: Under a Bad Sign

By: orthogonality

orthogonality — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:27:18 -0800

Mefites, like Drill Sergeants and other bacteria, reproduce by fission. (Heinlein paraphrase.)

By: These Penises Are Alarmed

These Penises Are Alarmed — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:11:57 -0800

Of frustration?

By: amyms

amyms — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:21:20 -0800

Born Loser

By: carsonb

carsonb — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:23:53 -0800

I just pictured each and every one of you crowning. Ugh.

Don't bother with me, I wasn't born. I was sneezed out by the mighty Arkleseizure.

By: amyms

amyms — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:25:08 -0800

Born To Be Filed

By: fair_game

fair_game — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:26:54 -0800

Huh? I am not a bum. I'm a jerk. I once had wealth, power, and the love of a beautiful woman. Now I only have two things: my friends and... uh... my thermos. Huh? My story? Okay. It was never easy for me. I was born a poor black child. I remember the days, sittin' on the porch with my family, singin' and dancin' down in Mississippi.

By: amyms

amyms — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:27:30 -0800

carsonb said: I just pictured each and every one of you crowning.

Not all of us has the opportunity to crown. I'll betcha some of us were Caesarian babies.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:37:56 -0800

Not all of us has the opportunity to crown.

Good point, amyms, bless you. For completeness, I believe some of you were also spawned in a stagnant shore pool on the lake of fire.

By: terrapin

terrapin — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:46:49 -0800

amyns is correct. I was a Caesarian. Call me Macduff.

By: patricio

patricio — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:50:26 -0800

Born: Borg vs Bjorn: Borg

Bjorn of Borg?

By: desjardins

desjardins — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:09:23 -0800

I think this would be about as useful as calculating someone's favorites ratio.

By: Abiezer

Abiezer — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:13:38 -0800

Lotus-born: "In the land of Uddiyana situated to the west of Bodhgaya there was an island in a huge lake on which appeared a multicolored lotus flower through the blessings of the buddhas. Buddha Amitabha sent from his heart center a golden vajra marked with the letter HRIH into the bud of this lotus flower which miraculously turned into a small child eight years of age holding a vajra and a lotus and adorned with the major and minor marks. The child remained there teaching the profound Dharma to the devas and dakinis on the island."

By: desjardins

desjardins — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:15:08 -0800

In all seriousness, as much as I like demographics (and I do, I'm applying for a Census bureau job this week), I actually like that I don't know most posters' age, race, religion or gender. I like that I can evaluate them solely on their words and not what perspective I think those words might be coming from.

It'd be interesting to find out the median age and the distribution, as well as the ratio of genders and races. But I'm not sure HOW you would get an accurate survey here.

One statistic that's certain: MeFi is 95% smartasses.

By: Item

Item — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:23:56 -0800

I'm young, black, and just don't give a fuck. Try me.

By: saladin

saladin — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:31:10 -0800

I call dibs on

Born: In a Casket

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:38:23 -0800

LIVE FATS. DIE YO GNU.

By: micayetoca

micayetoca — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:42:09 -0800

~~born~~: burnt!!

By: bonehead

bonehead — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:43:57 -0800

Some of us need a Manufactured line, you [MEATISTS]!

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:47:37 -0800

Whelped:

By: desjardins

desjardins — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:52:31 -0800

I'm young, black, and just don't give a fuck.

Yo, some white dude took over your Flickr photostream.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:53:27 -0800

The requisite funding bill having been passed, my system went on-line August 4th, 1997.

By: ludwig_van

ludwig_van — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:19:51 -0800

Born: Ultimatum

By: ROU_Xenophobe

ROU_Xenophobe — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:40:03 -0800

Not all of us has the opportunity to crown. I'll betcha some of us were Caesarian babies.

And some of us were breech, maybe even with no ill effects *twitch* *plot*.

By: ROU_Xenophobe

ROU_Xenophobe — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:40:35 -0800

Born: In the USA.

How can nobody have done that yet?

By: Durin's Bane

Durin's Bane — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:17:25 -0800

Born: To Rock

By: docpops

docpops — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:20:16 -0800

Born: Under Punches

By: grateful

grateful — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:22:33 -0800

Born to lose, was what they said,
You know I was better off dead.
Born to lose, you're just bad news,
You don't get a second chance.
It was a hot summer night in mid July,
A hangover and a black eye.
Your momma said I was a loser,
A dead end cruiser,
And deep inside I know that she was right.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:28:51 -0800

Four Year Old Ambrosia thinks your post is bad and you should feel bad.

By: arcticwoman

arcticwoman — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:31:18 -0800

Born: to be bad

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:46:12 -0800

Born: Slippy

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:48:45 -0800

Tennyson: you're comprimising my mission of scoring 1K favorites by my 1st Hurfday the right way.

By: theora55

theora55 — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:54:52 -0800

I think it would be good to have an indicator of age for those who want to use it. And if it's free form, the oppotrunities for amusement are expanded. Everybody wins.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:55:42 -0800

"I think it would be good to have an indicator of age for those who want to use it. "

You kids get the hell off my lawn.

By: Aloysius Bear

Aloysius Bear — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:55:59 -0800

Born: of the Virgin Mary,
Suffered under Pontius Pilate,
Was crucified, dead, and buried,
He descended into hell;
The third day he rose again from the dead,
He ascended into heaven,
And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

By: felix betachat

felix betachat — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:01:44 -0800

Born: Baby, Born

By: Abiezer

Abiezer — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:06:05 -0800

Panserbjørne!

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:08:40 -0800

BABYBJÖRN

By: YoBananaBoy

YoBananaBoy — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:08:55 -0800

Born 'n Rob

By: TwoWordReview

TwoWordReview — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:09:30 -0800

Born: On The Wrong Side of Time

By: Poolio

Poolio — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:10:12 -0800

I think it would be good to have an indicator of age for those who want to use it. And if it's free form, the oppotrunities for amusement are expanded. Everybody wins.

That's exactly what I was thinking.

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:10:21 -0800

Chuck Norris wasn't born. Chuck Norris decided to exist.

By: nowonmai

nowonmai — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:10:30 -0800

Born: Too Late

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:25:09 -0800

Born: To some shrew and her simpleton.

By: edgeways

edgeways — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:27:45 -0800

Björn again - a reincarnated Swede.

By: found missing

found missing — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:33:13 -0800

Born: Supremacy

By: Divine_Wino

Divine_Wino — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:34:15 -0800

Born: The truth is I had that too in my bleeding blood. . . Oh I gave it to them! Potopompos scroton evohe. Like that, hot and strong. . . . Step out of here, I said, with a stout heart and your bollocks in your boots and come again tomorrow, tell the missus to go chase apes in hell. There were delicate moments. . . Brats the offscourings of fornication and God Almighty a cheap scent in a jakes. . .

By: inigo2

inigo2 — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:37:27 -0800

If I had 5 dollars I would register the name "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and write "Born on the 4th of July." as my first comment.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:42:55 -0800

Penis! Penis! Big fucking erect penis, ma!

By: BitterOldPunk

BitterOldPunk — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:00:03 -0800

Born: To Do Dishes

By: dersins

dersins — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:25:57 -0800

If I had 5 dollars I would register the name "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and write "Born on the 4th of July." as my first comment.

If I had 5 dollars I'd buy another pack of cigarettes. Oh, wait. I do have 5 dollars. I'll be right back. Anyone need anything from the Plaid?

By: wendell

wendell — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:34:21 -0800

Boring.

By: edgeways

edgeways — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:38:52 -0800

I'll take a Coffee Crisp

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:39:27 -0800

Pick me up a sockpuppet.

By: dersins

dersins — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:49:42 -0800

Come on, cortex-- we all know you're growing your own these days.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:01:31 -0800

we all know you're growing your own these days.

Speaking of which, I just heard a commercial on the local classic rock station for gardening supplies. The ad was full of "hydroponic" this and "indoor growing" that. I don't think your average classic rock station listener is into bonsai, so I gotta admire the naked advertising for marijuana growers on a clear channel station.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:20:28 -0800

so I gotta admire the ~~naked advertising for marijuana growers~~ ingenuity of retailers to find workaday radio rock listening wannbes to fork over $400 for grow lights they will later craigslist on a clear channel station.

By: cgc373

cgc373 — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:39:37 -0800

"To craigslist" is a verb, now? Duuuude. I'm soooo out of it.

By: Cranberry

Cranberry — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:56:43 -0800

Born to kill this thread. (not administ)

By: jivadravya

jivadravya — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:12:30 -0800

Born Against

By: AstroGuy

AstroGuy — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:16:11 -0800

Born: in a barn

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:16:13 -0800

"To craigslist" is a verb, now?

Yeah. Didn't you google it?

By: phoque

phoque — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:21:24 -0800

Born: to bear a borne.

By: jamjam

jamjam — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:22:28 -0800

Born: every minute

By: fandango_matt

fandango_matt — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:26:45 -0800

Bjorned? Your spellcheck is Bjorked.

By: hortense

hortense — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:28:12 -0800

Born Again: As if you were not a big enough pain in the ass the first time.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:32:23 -0800

Born: K-Doe Born!

By: ormondsacker

ormondsacker — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:36:17 -0800

Born: and bred in the briar patch, Brer Poolio.

By: Tehanu

Tehanu — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:55:38 -0800

Born: 6 weeks premature.

By: killdevil

killdevil — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:09:30 -0800

Were I the Pope I would support immediate beatification for this idea.

By: Greg Nog

Greg Nog — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:23:27 -0800

Were I the Pope I would support immediate beatification for this idea.

This actually brings up a much more important point: Why has no one released a hip-hop album called "Beatification" yet?