This, for example, does not explain anything besides the fact that it seems like it was an annoying meme. What's the backstory? posted by Stewriffic at 10:07 AM on May 11
Crappitylicious. It's just a word to fuck with people? Or did I just spell it wrong? Hm? posted by Stewriffic at 10:17 AM on May 11
Also, it looks like it's just a weird thing that caught on, and that it's daveadams' fault. posted by cortex at 10:18 AM on May 11
(The timeline of ZB comments is discernable from a site search on zippity bop.) posted by cortex at 10:19 AM on May 11
As for their being nothing on the wiki, that could change if someone is feeling saucy. I have already touched my nose and declared "not it", so, you know. posted by cortex at 10:22 AM on May 11
Oh, believe me, I looked and looked through the search results. I just couldn't figure out what was going on! Just a bizarre cultural artifact, looks like.
Your first comment up there made me literally shout ARGH! and then laugh, though. Heh. It's been tormenting me, this Zippity Bop thing. posted by Stewriffic at 10:22 AM on May 11
Seems like I might recall Chris-Kattan-as-David-Lee-Roth ejaculating similar nuggets of scat in an old and not very good SNL skit entitled Hey, Remember the 80's? alongside a half-man, half-goat hybrid portrayed by Jim Breuer at his most annoying. posted by Sys Rq at 10:29 AM on May 11
I'm pretty sure it was a nonsensical phrase that a few people repeated a lot in the early days then it thankfully just died. posted by mathowie at 10:33 AM on May 11
Has anyone seen my liver? I swear it was there earlier, next to the spleen and kidneys and stuff.
Sorry, I'm borrowing it. Did you not find the note or did that dissolve in the bathtub full of ice I left you in?
Anyway, it's currently busy helping me turn about 5 liters of cheap grain vodka into pee. It's fine. It's in this bucket with a bunch of tubes hooked up to it. I just daisy-chained it off of my liver. posted by loquacious at 1:03 PM on May 11
loquacious:I just daisy-chained it off of my liver.
somehow, it makes total sense to me that livers would be FireWire devices. I wonder what would happen if you ran Mini-DV footage through it or used it as an input for GarageBand... posted by heeeraldo at 1:10 PM on May 11 [1 favorite]
Was just coming back here to make a USB/Firewire joke about daisy chaining livers... posted by Burhanistan at 1:10 PM on May 11
LiverWire.com offers free booze filtering, iFumes store, fully extensible configuration and more of your favorites drinks and poisons, all in one web site, since 1337. posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 1:24 PM on May 11
The ZB action in thread 19 is after the fact, alas. posted by cortex at 1:30 PM on May 11
Don't try to get all facty on us, cortex. We want facts, we know where to go. Here, we want blood. posted by cgc373 at 1:46 PM on May 11 [2 favorites]
...I think it's a big pile of pointless shit.
"pancakes" were funny once, in a comment aaron made. "ponies" were funny a long time ago, and the baby jesus was funny once when someone first used it. Zippity-anything was *never* funny and frankly I don't understand why the hell it's even here, but it reminds me of pointless first posts and natalie portman comments on slashdot. posted by carsonb at 1:57 PM on May 11
carsonb, that link is *exactly* what I've been trying to find the last few days. thank. you. posted by Stewriffic at 2:06 PM on May 11
Cheers! It's not easy in MeTa these days, now that the site's been going downhill for so long. posted by carsonb at 2:09 PM on May 11
Cheers! It's not easy in MeTa these days, now that the site's been going downhill for so long.
BUT YOU CAN DO ANYTHING AT ZOMBO.COM. ANYTHING AT ALL. posted by loquacious at 2:13 PM on May 11 [1 favorite]
Heh. I know. Once it met critical mass after 10,000 members, everyone started getting mean and so they HAD to lighten it up by Zippity Bopping all over the place. posted by Stewriffic at 2:13 PM on May 11
Was just coming back here to make a USB/Firewire joke about daisy chaining livers...
*plucks low-hanging fruit* I think it's more like a SCSI device, really.
The etymology of "daisy-chaining" predates modern computing, and has been used as a term in industrial and farming machinery for some time. Also, the weaving of daisy chains - which I suppose could be clover or dandelion flowers.
On that note: when was the last time you ever actually "dialed" a phone? posted by loquacious at 2:18 PM on May 11
loquacious: "Was just coming back here to make a USB/Firewire joke about daisy chaining livers...
*plucks low-hanging fruit* I think it's more like a SCSI device, really."
*curses train for arriving at getting-off stop before he could make this joke* posted by dg at 3:03 PM on May 11
ZippityBop sounds like some cheap blog established to game search engines, or someone's failed attempt at creating a social networking site. Or a terrible catchphrase, a la Poochie. posted by limeonaire at 3:09 PM on May 11
You aren't even close to being as sorry as you would be if that had actually caught on. posted by dg at 7:45 PM on May 11
I think it started off-site, so any real attempt to figure it out is going to be mostly pointless. It was definitely the fault of Dave Adams.
I wish we could say it was part of a general effort to lighten the mood at MetaFilter but it was just people behaving badly. I'd forgotten all about it which is why this account is still active. I'll kill it now.
I know the identity of DoublePostGuy. posted by ZippityBOP at 8:02 AM on May 12
ZippityNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP posted by cortex at 8:11 AM on May 12
Man, I don't think I've ever had a callout before posted by ZippityBuddha at 8:43 AM on May 12
Subscribe
posted by Stewriffic at 10:07 AM on May 11