Comments on: GAME OVER

GAME OVER

ShawnStruck — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:37:37 -0800

This post was deleted for the following reason: I freakin' hate it when I go to delete a double and some has already snagged like the perfect deletion reason. It's like, hey, thanks, DAD. -- cortex (more inside) 'Cause I'm insatiably curious about behind the scenes stuff: has this really happened that often? Can any mods (or users) share any other examples of a user pointing to a double or triple or what have you with an "ooh, shoulda thought of that" comment?

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:43:16 -0800

It happens every once in a while. People here are clever and come up with good lines when they notice doubles. I'll usually soldier on through and find a pun of my own, but sometimes I just give up. You lucky dog.

I can't recall any specifics off the top of my head, though. Also, Matt and Jess usually just go with "previously" or something similarly staid, so they may not have so much of an opinion on it.

Also, this is kind of a silly metatalk question, but you can have a hug anyway. Also, there's a good chance some people will yell at me now re: jokey deletion reasons, but they are also welcome at the Hug Booth.

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:46:29 -0800

Wasn't there one post that was deleted by two mods?

*Searchy behavior*

Yes, there was.

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:50:12 -0800

And now I see that I am full of FAIL AT READING COMPREHENSION

*faily behavior*

By: mathowie

mathowie — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:58:15 -0800

our princess is in another castle is a pretty good joke, I woulda conceded the win too.

By: dg

dg — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:58:20 -0800

Just because someone needs a hug, doesn't mean they deserve one.

By: cowbellemoo

cowbellemoo — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:00:33 -0800

I suspect you just posted to brag about your funny. And you were right to. Jolly good.

By: cgc373

cgc373 — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:04:04 -0800

"Deserve's got nothing to do with it."

By: Fuzzy Skinner

Fuzzy Skinner — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:08:00 -0800

Pony request: Ability to flag deletion reasons.

This deletion reason was deleted for the following reason: Joke used previously by another mod.

By: ShawnStruck

ShawnStruck — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:14:58 -0800

I suspect you just posted to brag about your funny. And you were right to. Jolly good.

No, seriously, that's not my style.

I was really wondering if there had been any other deletion reasons that stood out for the mods that they they could have used, or built off of, or something like that-- it never occurred to me that something could've happened, because cortex, mathowie and jessamyn have had some pretty amusing deletion reason explanations before.

By: Dave Faris

Dave Faris — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:37:16 -0800

Jess's deletion reasons tend to be more pragmatic almost to the point of hectoring. Matt's deletion reasons are usually pretty terse. It's cortex who tries to be a deletion reason artiste.

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:43:46 -0800

Tries and succeeds.

By: cowbellemoo

cowbellemoo — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:47:50 -0800

Yes, yes. I was just joshin' ya.

There are a few I've chuckled at but it's so impossible to look them up. Do deleted threads even show up in searches? The mechanisms behind accessing deleted threads at will is beyond me -- is it more obvious to RSS subscribers? I've always just given deleted thread a look once in a while for some lulz. Perhaps one of our esteemed meta-list compilers can take it as a project.

By: Dave Faris

Dave Faris — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:52:39 -0800

puke & cry's deleted thread blog.

By: Artw

Artw — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:05:35 -0800

*faily behavior*

Well I gues theres a lot to be said for having properly implemented faily behavior, and not just flopping about or spewing gibberish errror messages.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:07:18 -0800

Did you ever rescue the king in Super Mario Bros?

By: chinston

chinston — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:07:39 -0800

The mechanisms behind accessing deleted threads at will is beyond me -- is it more obvious to RSS subscribers?

See Plutor's greasemonkey script here.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:08:56 -0800

Sometimes they just use them.

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:12:18 -0800

Nah, don't worry about that greasy monkey script. You just need to subscribe to the feed on the deleted thread blog. Plus, I hear the guy that runs it is a handsome rogue.

By: jedicus

jedicus — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:17:11 -0800

Did you ever rescue the king in Super Mario Bros?

Sort of. In SMB3, Mario has to rescue 7 kings, but it's actually just a ruse while Bowser kidnaps Peach.

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:40:22 -0800

You don't really rescue them so much as retrieve their magical wands, at that.

By: localhuman

localhuman — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:41:42 -0800

I enjoy metafilter because of what is not allowed on it.

Because of this, i take a snobbish pride in seeing things not allowed on it here.

And yes, this, pride- it is hollow.

By: Effigy2000

Effigy2000 — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:42:30 -0800

To change them back from their magically altered forms. If that isn't rescue, I don't know what is, sir.

By: TheOnlyCoolTim

TheOnlyCoolTim — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:59:31 -0800

lol, pwned

By: Cranberry

Cranberry — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:09:05 -0800

I have been here nearly 4 years and this is the first time I heard of the Hug Booth. I'll bet all the cool kids go there every day.

By: Free word order!

Free word order! — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:24:34 -0800

There is Insult Booth, Isolation Booth and Hug Booth and you really can't tell them apart. It is a constant source of confusion and disappointment in life. :hugs:

By: wendell

wendell — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:02:38 -0800

Wow. Three links to the Deleted Threads Blog. Er, four.

By: dhammond

dhammond — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:31:36 -0800

LOL indeed!

By: The Light Fantastic

The Light Fantastic — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:38:20 -0800

Also, this is kind of a silly metatalk question, but you can have a hug anyway.

I would very much like a hug, thanks.

By: jbickers

jbickers — Fri, 09 May 2008 02:43:38 -0800

Don't forget about this! Fun to read while in the bathtub, sipping chamomile tea and listening to Chopin.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Fri, 09 May 2008 03:48:53 -0800

Plus, I hear the guy that runs it is a handsome rogue.
...which is an anagram of "underage homos", but no-one should read anything into that.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:00:38 -0800

jedicus: Sort of. In SMB3, Mario has to rescue 7 kings, but it's actually just a ruse while Bowser kidnaps Peach.

I have a memory of, at some point, rescuing a king in the first Super Mario Bros.

Am I hallucinating?

By: dirtynumbangelboy

dirtynumbangelboy — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:02:13 -0800

You don't really rescue them so much as retrieve their magical wands, at that.

Y'know, that always struck me as a bit.. uhh... *waggles hand*

Plus, I hear the guy that runs it is a handsome rogue.
...which is an anagram of "underage homos", but no-one should read anything into that.
posted by Wolfdog at 6:48 AM on May 9 [+] [!]

Wolfdog, I think I love you.

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:35:38 -0800

To change them back from their magically altered forms. If that isn't rescue, I don't know what is, sir.

It is a documented behind-the-scenes fact that at least four of the kings in question are avid furries who were living out their previously impossible fantasies before being retransmogrified by your efforts; it is a testament to royal graciousness that they refrained from expressing their dismay to you (to say nothing of punishing you) for returning them to the banality of humandom.

The fact that when you show up to ruin their happiness you are wearing a raccoon outfit is really just a cruel final twist of the knife.

By: fantabulous timewaster

fantabulous timewaster — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:05:15 -0800

Wolfdog is an underage shmoo (not that I know the minimum age for shmoos)

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:19:26 -0800

HURF DURF POST DELETER

By: allkindsoftime

allkindsoftime — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:24:29 -0800

I'd just like to point out that I like the hugs.

No, really. I don't get them very often. The other day I was walking through the city, however, and those crazy kids who give out the free hugs were standing there, amongst the flotsam of humanity that is a late Tuesday morning in a sunny Union Square. They were holding small signs above their heads and shouting for all the world to hear that they had plenty of free hugs to give away.

It was one of those split seconds where I could have kept my eyes stoically on my path through the bodies ahead of me, but instead I met the eyes of the smallish Asian kid with a hand-painted tee shirt. He smiled, and hugged me, and held on a second or two longer than is normal, at least for the particular brand of American hugs I'm familiar with. It was the first time I had been really hugged right, by anybody, in months.

I know we're kinda jokey about it, but I think that hugs are important, and I'm glad we have them. That is all.

By: cowbellemoo

cowbellemoo — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:32:17 -0800

I hear you, allkindsoftime.

By: quin

quin — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:36:23 -0800

Am I hallucinating?

No, the walls actually are bubbling. And that frog doing the backstroke through that pool of fog really is singing Me and Bobby McGee. And that clock does actually appear to be painting a picture of a melting Salvador Dalí.

Which, when you think about it is pretty weird. I mean, who would have thought that an amphibian would have that kind of timbre?

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:41:11 -0800

All-time most awesomest thread about deletions.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:57:31 -0800

I think that hugs are important, and I'm glad we have them.

Yes.

By: dirtynumbangelboy

dirtynumbangelboy — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:09:23 -0800

*gives jessamyn a hug, properly categorized and filed*

By: jmd82

jmd82 — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:14:34 -0800

I'm still trying to figuring out whom cortex's dad deleted. Or doubled up on.

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:16:32 -0800

Note, for example, that when returning a wand to a king while wearing a Hammer Brothers outfit, the king is so overwhelmed by his dismay at being "rescued" that he cannot help but ask (for naught, too) for ownership of your clever beetle-carapace outfit.

It is, notably, the retainers, and not the kings, who request your assistance in retrieving the wands. Do you think each king's speech was some extemporaneous thing? No, nor willingly given—trained into them, rather, by a court they understood to paradoxically rule them.

Bowser as fulfiller of wishes, as Leary-esque liberator; Mario as unquestioning enforcer of the status quo. No wonder the princess keeps oops! not managing to avoid being kidnapped.

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:27:40 -0800

So this is what you do when you're not working on Bunt Cake?

By: Tehanu

Tehanu — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:34:12 -0800

I really wish I hadn't read cortex's interpretation of Mario 3.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:36:55 -0800

No, seriously, I have a vivid memory of getting to the final castle in the first Super Mario Bros. and instead of rescuing the princess, there's a king. I'm having no luck googling this.

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:39:51 -0800

In the Japanese version of SMB3, Mario attempts to commit ritual suicide at the end.

By: Viomeda

Viomeda — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:30:48 -0800

And has tentacles.

By: Marie Mon Dieu

Marie Mon Dieu — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:31:01 -0800

I would go to a hug booth. I think we should have hug booths in every city across the world.

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:45:20 -0800

Would the hugs be free?
Would they be seasonally/temporally priced?
How do you tax a hug?
How do you protect the huggers?
I'm intrigued, Marie, but I gotta run all this by Legal first...

By: orange swan

orange swan — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:54:21 -0800

Just because someone needs a hug, doesn't mean they deserve one.

Unlike spankings, which, when needed, are always deserved as well.

I once made a list of some of Matt's gnomic reasons for deletion. Ah, here it is.

By: i_am_a_Jedi

i_am_a_Jedi — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:04:14 -0800

Too clever

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:26:44 -0800

I wish I was as clever when I delete threads, but I just cross them off the screen with magic markers.

By: fantabulous timewaster

fantabulous timewaster — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:37:57 -0800

Astro Zombie: I did that for a while, but I have run out of screens. Can you send me some extras? Or do you use dry-erase markers?

By: Viomeda

Viomeda — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:55:03 -0800

Ah, fuck this. This charade is getting obnoxious.

Hey, jessamyn, cortex, mathowie: can somebody reactivate my account? Using my wife's account has gotten a little old. And I don't know how I feel about people thinking I'm a woman.

Do I have to send an email about this or something?

By: dersins

dersins — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:09:11 -0800

free koeselitz!

with purchase of &c.

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:32:46 -0800

Yeah, no sweat. Though there's this new "e-mail" thing they have now that works wonders for making this kind of request, kiddo.

By: Marie Mon Dieu

Marie Mon Dieu — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:05:42 -0800

Would the hugs be free?

Free, yes.

Would they be seasonally/temporally priced?

I think... twice as many in winter, because it's colder in the winter. But still free.

How do you tax a hug?

Hrm. I bet the IRS would figure a way...

How do you protect the huggers?

Volunteer bouncers?

I'm intrigued, Marie, but I gotta run all this by Legal first...

Figures. The govt would probably outlaw it due to potential liability within city limits. Or they'd make people wear masks and goggles, and latex gloves. Who wants to hug that? It would be like hugging a dentist who's about to stick a needle in your mouth.

Maybe we could just make 'em dress up as fuzzy animals, those guys get away with hugging all the time.

Dizzy was my nickname in high school, by the way.

By: koeselitz

koeselitz — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:08:20 -0800

urgh... uh.. Oh. Fuck, that sun is bright.

How long was I out?

JESUS CHRIST, WHAT HAPPENED TO MY LEGS?

By: languagehat

languagehat — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:14:02 -0800

Hey, koeselitz, old buddy! Long time no see! Say, look up there!

*ties k's shoelaces together*

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:31:08 -0800

Hi, koeslitz.

By: cgc373

cgc373 — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:43:01 -0800

koeselitz!

By: koeselitz

koeselitz — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:50:38 -0800

koeselitz.

Hi, people. Good to see you all.

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:06:28 -0800

So this is what you do when you're not working on Bunt Cake?

I'm pretty sure it's bundt cake unless you are trying, as a batter, to advance the runner. Heh.

By: dersins

dersins — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:10:58 -0800

unless you are trying, as a batter, to advance the runner

He was.

He didn't advance him very far, though.

Heh.

By: Pax

Pax — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:13:39 -0800

Batter.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:29:40 -0800

KOESELITZ. I have missed you.

By: koeselitz

koeselitz — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:41:09 -0800

Thank you, jessamyn.

That thread a while back in here about me, well, that almost had me tearing up.

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:55:11 -0800

Yeah, everybody all "oh look, I'm cutting onions! koeselitiz, I'm cutting up some nice fresh onions! Hey! Look! Look! Also, your dog died."

By: Free word order!

Free word order! — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:41:59 -0800

Welcome to the Insult Booth, sticklegs.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:30:50 -0800

Oh damn... koeselitz is back... he'll, like, say intelligent things and stuff... can't have that

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Sat, 10 May 2008 06:04:37 -0800

Am I hallucinating?

Of course you are. Us cool kids are at the drug booth. It's the approval-seeking ass-kissers who are all hanging out at the hug booth.

By: cortex

cortex — Sat, 10 May 2008 07:27:36 -0800

Peter I believe you are standing at the Fug Booth OH DISS

By: dersins

dersins — Sat, 10 May 2008 09:00:16 -0800

You should talk, Mister At-the-head-of-the-line-at-the-smug-booth.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Sat, 10 May 2008 09:25:57 -0800

Is this the bug booth? 'Cause I mugged these bugs and lugged them all the way here.

By: cortex

cortex — Sat, 10 May 2008 09:42:58 -0800

I'm just lost. I was trying to find the Jack Klugman booth.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sat, 10 May 2008 12:12:01 -0800

Sorry to be late, I have been in the snug as a bug in a rug booth. It's nice there.

By: dersins

dersins — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:15:11 -0800

See y'all later. I'll be pouring out a little liquor for my homie 2Pac over at the thug booth.

By: dersins

dersins — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:20:14 -0800

Well, either that or I'll head downtown to Ground Kontrol and slide a couple quarters into the Dig Dug booth. I can't decide.

By: Navelgazer

Navelgazer — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:34:52 -0800

allkindsoftime: Totally agree with you. I never ran into the Free Hugs kids in New York, but on a weekend in Montreal, I ran into performance artist of such who didn't say a word, but just gave free hugs to whoever wanted them. Surprisingly not a lot of takers, but I sure as hell got mine. (Third Pic)

Also, deletion reasons are some of the best entertainment on the site. Having had a few of my posts deleted in the past, I'm an avowed paranoid thread-babysitter. Recently I accidentally posted a double, and Cortex's humor on the matter was just as much an affirmation as if I hadn't fucked up in the first place.

By: danb

danb — Mon, 12 May 2008 06:35:42 -0800

I will not play at tug o' war.
I'd rather play at hug o' war,
Where everyone hugs
Instead of tugs,
Where everyone giggles
And rolls on the rug,
Where everyone kisses,
And everyone grins,
And everyone cuddles,
And everyone wins.

Yeah, that's right, it's getting all Shel Silverstein up in this bitch.

By: fantabulous timewaster

fantabulous timewaster — Mon, 12 May 2008 06:41:43 -0800

I thought about a shrug booth, but just couldn't get up the oomph for it.

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:09:48 -0800

You sluggardly mugs, tugging on pugs and adjusting your rugs,
I need ear-plugs and a jug from which to glug-glug drugs; instead I'll just shrug.