Comments on: Notice and Gratitude

Notice and Gratitude

Navelgazer — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:37:03 -0800

Tomorrow's NPR episode of The Bryant Park Project will include features on Stuff Nobody Likes and Muxtapes, complete with an interview with our very own Afroblanco. As one of the founders of Stuff Nobody Likes, I want to thank ThePinkSuperhero, Matt, Jess, Cortex and pb, as well as all of the rest of you who helped to turn a silly joke into a popular site within a week. Even the snark in the open thread has only fueled us to try to do better. Metafilter: the site that keeps on giving

By: Navelgazer

Navelgazer — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:44:14 -0800

I should probably mention that by "tomorrow" I mean 'Thursday," at which point most of you reading this will have already missed it. Sorry about that, but it happened fast.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:44:34 -0800

Which one's gonna be the one with Afroblanco, then?

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:47:05 -0800

D'oh, never mind. Here's the link to the original Projects page.

By: Locative

Locative — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:50:10 -0800

Hooray! Congratulations.

By: Dave Faris

Dave Faris — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:30:46 -0800

congratulations!

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:44:41 -0800

What's NPR?

By: robocop is bleeding

robocop is bleeding — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:31:04 -0800

Awesome. I hope you all do "Groups of people who walk side-by-side" soon. Nothing gets me enraged like posses of wannabe Reservoir Dogs forcing me off the sidewalk and into the street to dodge out of their way. And usually, there's only two people talking at the center of the phalanx anyways, who why the excessive sidewalk wingmen?

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:35:36 -0800

What's the deal with "fun size" candybars?

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:11:47 -0800

I want a cut! Just kidding. Congrats.

By: Afroblanco

Afroblanco — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:27:07 -0800

Yeah, they didn't wind up letting me on because I refused to give them my full name. However, the site admin, Alia, did a wonderful job with the interview. She hit on all the important points, and the interview is tons of fun to listen to.

And yes, I'd like to thank everyone here who helped propel our weird little joke into the national spotlight.

MeFi has given me so much over the years. I actually met Navelgazer on here a couple years ago, and had I never met Navelgazer, this project would never have come to fruition. It was awesome to see things come full circle and have our site posted to MeFi.

Y'all are awesome. Thanks for everything. Life is good.

By: Dave Faris

Dave Faris — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:34:49 -0800

Why didn't you want to give your full name?

By: Afroblanco

Afroblanco — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:39:45 -0800

Because I'm the most profane blogger on the site, and I may want to work for a conservative bank some day.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:40:38 -0800

I have my MeFi names confused and I thought Afroblanco was a well-known clown in real life. Who is that?

By: Afroblanco

Afroblanco — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:42:30 -0800

??????

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:14:03 -0800

I thought Afroblanco was a well-known clown in real life

It's true.

By: Afroblanco

Afroblanco — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:25:25 -0800

Hah! Too true.

By: Miko

Miko — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:58:18 -0800

What's NPR?
This radio company that white people like.

By: item

item — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:30:43 -0800

So you're pimping a radio piece about a website you help run. How is this Metafilter-related?

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:34:24 -0800

Hmm. I know there is a regular user here who is also a professional clown (ie. paid cash for doing actual clown work). I'm pretty sure he's a New Yorker or a Washington, DCer. Oh well.

By: Afroblanco

Afroblanco — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:37:58 -0800

So you're pimping a radio piece about a website you help run. How is this Metafilter-related?

I didn't post this, but I'm imagining that Navelgazer did because :

1) It was on MeFi Projects
2) It made it from MeFi Projects to the front page
3) Once it made it to the front page, it kinda blew up (relatively speaking) and landed us an interview on NPR

By: besotted

besotted — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:59:25 -0800

Because I'm the most profane blogger on the site

This sounds like a new feature request to me. Is it possible to write a script to determine which mefites are the most prolific users of the infamous "seven words"?

By: empath

empath — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:17:03 -0800

long-time mefite gains measure of fame due to mefi = mefi related.

This is a bit self-linky, though.

By: Afroblanco

Afroblanco — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:18:28 -0800

Alright, well, as I said, I didn't post it (and didn't know that Navelgazer was going to post it, actually). I'm hoping that he'll hop in here and answer the charges. Otherwise, if it's beyond the pale, I'm sure that the mods will have no qualms with closing the thread.

By: frecklefaerie

frecklefaerie — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:22:16 -0800

I have an idea! Let's shit on a little bit of happiness on this site!

By: Navelgazer

Navelgazer — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:23:59 -0800

Indeed. Close the thread and delete it if it feels to hinky, for sure. As Afroblanco said, it was something we started as a joke, put on projects, it jumped to the front page from there, and then got us on NPR, with another featured segment on something else that was also recently on the blue. And (until it didn't work out) the interview was going to be with a long-time Mefite using his Mefite name. I thought that was enough to make it metafilter-related. Again, if it's truly problematic, I'm happy to see this taken down.

By: ibmcginty

ibmcginty — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:30:23 -0800

This is fun and exciting. Thanks for posting this thread!

By: danOstuporStar

danOstuporStar — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:40:51 -0800

For what it's worth, IMO this thread easily passes the smell test.

(The thread on the blue, on the other hand, was *slightly* iffy to me as I perceive TPS as being friends with all the NY crowd and posting a friend's site is sorta equivalent to a self-link. But not enough that I would have said anything ... well, except now that the argument is being made the post-on-the-blue somehow exempts criticism of this thread...does that make any sense?)

By: danOstuporStar

danOstuporStar — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:43:08 -0800

I mean "do I make any sense", not does the exemption argument make any sense.

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:49:38 -0800

posting a friend's site is sorta equivalent to a self-link

Except that it's not, because I'm not involved in the site. It was the same method I find other stuff for FPPs- I figured, hey, this is cool, people should see this. I wondered if it would bother people that I knew Afroblanco (I don't know the other contributors, at least I don't think so) but I figured, eh, I'll post the site, if someone has a problem with it and it ends up getting deleted, that's fine, no skin off my nose.

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:51:27 -0800

If it was beyond the pale, we would have had no qualms about closing the thread and probably saying as much while we were at it. This is fine, everybody is cool, let's not have a tizzy.

By: Marie Mon Dieu

Marie Mon Dieu — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:53:10 -0800

You could have given them my name, cuz I'm never gonna work for a bank again.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:03:17 -0800

This is fine, everybody is cool, let's not have a tizzy.

Agreed, except for the tizzy part. Tizzy!

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:06:23 -0800

TIZZZZZZZZZYYYYYYYY!

By: Dave Faris

Dave Faris — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:08:52 -0800

For what it's worth, griping about the relevance to Metafilter never even occurred to me when I read this, so I interpret that to mean that either this is a non-issue, or that my meds have started to kick in.

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:09:20 -0800

What you guys want with my sister?

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:12:50 -0800

Tizzy!

OKAY BUT JUST THIS ONCE

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:14:02 -0800

If you don't stop that I'm gonna get my mom, Lizzy.

By: scabrous

scabrous — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:16:57 -0800

Who wants a slow gin fizz-y?

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:19:03 -0800

Too busy!

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:22:15 -0800

I just read a news report about an eleven year old boy who broke his leg after he put on a Superman costume and jumped out a window on the second floor of his hizzy.

By: Afroblanco

Afroblanco — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:22:56 -0800

I'm so glad we've got Dizzy in the hizzy.

By: Afroblanco

Afroblanco — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:23:06 -0800

jinx!

By: danOstuporStar

danOstuporStar — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:25:06 -0800

Dizzy, you're needed in the wiizzy.

By: scabrous

scabrous — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:29:55 -0800

I just read a news report about an eleven year old boy who broke his leg after he put on a Superman costume and jumped out a window on the second floor of his hizzy.

No shizzy my nizzle that's so crazzizzy!

I've got to lay off the caffeine.

By: slogger

slogger — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:38:49 -0800

Enough of this shizzy.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:40:09 -0800

It's humid so my hair is frizzy.

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:41:31 -0800

No-L Bear is feeling grizzy.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:42:33 -0800

He isn't fuzzy, is he?

By: dersins

dersins — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:17:35 -0800

Man, I hate these days where the weather can't quite make up its mind whether to rain or not.

They're so drizzy.

By: dersins

dersins — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:21:03 -0800

Which reminds me of one of my favorite dumb jokes:

Why does Snoop Dogg carry an umbrella?

By: dersins

dersins — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:21:20 -0800

Fo' drizzle.

By: kosem

kosem — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:22:48 -0800

"Expeditiously I be on my grizzly
Feds try to creep me somehow always miss me
Mister Fantastik put the busy in the bee
Rock from the bottom straight to the Tizzy"

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:24:24 -0800

I never got the deal with Thin Lizzy.

By: dersins

dersins — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:59:35 -0800

the deal with Thin Lizzy

20%SAIT.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:19:53 -0800

What a bizzy thread.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:37:26 -0800

Gosh, this soda is fizzy.

By: mygothlaundry

mygothlaundry — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:44:29 -0800

Well it started off all serious and stuff but now, hey, this thread is getting a little schizzy.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:47:33 -0800

Sometimes, it seems like there's a Mefi-syzygy.

By: ersatz

ersatz — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:54:23 -0800

And a fan of GNR would advise you to take it izzy.

By: Afroblanco

Afroblanco — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:05:51 -0800

And if we want to talk about Carter-era foreign policy, we can always get Brzezizzy.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:28:57 -0800

People keep name-dropping tizzy and I keep looking for her but not seeing her and that makes me sad.

Is it possible to write a script to determine which mefites are the most prolific users of the infamous "seven words"?

Hah. I am the Emperor of Pottymouthia! Kneel before ~~Zod~~ Stav!

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:45:44 -0800

I like how even though it's not what you probably meant to do (because I think I know exactly what you meant to do), it looks like you're implying that I or at least my profile page has something to do with you being a cursemonkey.

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:47:39 -0800

I think you were trying to link to this, in other words. And I think in a rush you right-click-copy-link-locationed on my username instead of on the timestamp of the comment. I think this because I do that shit all the damn time.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:03:09 -0800

I BLAME YOU FOR MY PROFANE RAGE CORTEX IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:12:41 -0800

And despite all that, there you are: in a cage, all varminty.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:40:15 -0800

Now I've got that song stuck in my head, displacing Sinatra's One For My Baby, which was what was playing in there when I woke up this morning. A little jarring, but not a bad thing at all.

By: The corpse in the library

The corpse in the library — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:19:23 -0800

I TIZZ YOU ALL