how is babby scarred??

June 29, 2008 2:40 PM

While composing an AskMetafilter question about where I might purchase baby clothes, I was told the following:

The following previously-posted questions might be related to the question you're asking. Please take a look before posting to see if any of these answer your question.

Kinky Couture

That's some sick, Operation Daisy-Bird style shit! I tried to get offended about it but couldn't, so I thought I'd bring it here in the hopes that someone could.

Seriously though, that feature has the potential to offer up some seriously (hilariously) inappropriate related links.

posted by Mayor Curley to bugs at 2:40 PM (23 comments total)

I'll be offended for you, Mayor Curley.
posted by stubby phillips at 2:43 PM on June 29

This is reprehensible!

How's that?
posted by stubby phillips at 2:43 PM on June 29

This site went X-rated soon after we kicked out all the righties. Now we're a half-step from being a porn site and internet speakeasy. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
posted by SeizeTheDay at 2:52 PM on June 29

Oh, this is just one of those mixups like when you're putting together a resumé and Clippy's all, "It looks like you're trying to write erotic fiction. Would you like help?"
posted by Greg Nog at 3:08 PM on June 29 [8 favorites]

An early start really is the key to tightlacing, Mayor Curley.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 3:13 PM on June 29 [1 favorite]

From what I've seen, he's way ahead of you, AV.
posted by jonmc at 3:34 PM on June 29

Yeah, Curley's as tightly-laced as anyone I have ever met.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 3:40 PM on June 29

Back Bay Puritans, dude.
posted by jonmc at 3:48 PM on June 29

Oh, this is just one of those mixups like when you're putting together a resumé and Clippy's all, "It looks like you're trying to write erotic fiction. Would you like help?"

Good Clippy humor on Wait, Wait this last week. Something about taking Clippy out to be executed gangland-style and Clippy's all "It looks like you're digging a grave! Is this a business grave or a personal grave?"
posted by Rock Steady at 4:03 PM on June 29 [7 favorites]

They clearly are related, dear sir. Simply in the wrong order. Kinky Couture first, need for baby clothes second.
posted by R. Mutt at 5:13 PM on June 29

The mods, as ever, aim to broaden our horizons.
posted by lukemeister at 5:29 PM on June 29

Back Bay Puritans, dude.

And Beacon Hill Brahmins.
posted by ericb at 5:45 PM on June 29

It's easy-a two year old was mentioned in that link.
posted by konolia at 5:56 PM on June 29

Slashdot thread on the death of Clippy

Even though Clippy's dead, maybe MeFi could buy him real cheap. I think we need him. "It looks like you're starting a flame war. Would you like help?"
posted by lukemeister at 6:03 PM on June 29 [3 favorites]

MetaFilter: You're one sick fuck.
posted by not_on_display at 6:33 PM on June 29

The following previously-posted questions might be related to the question you're asking. Please take a look before posting to see if any of these answer your question.

Kinky Couture

That's some sick, Operation Daisy-Bird style shit! I tried to get offended about it but couldn't, so I thought I'd bring it here in the hopes that someone could.

I'm outraged!!!! Adjectival phrases ending in "ly" are NOT hyphenated!!! Whom shall we burn for this?!!!
posted by orange swan at 6:53 PM on June 29 [3 favorites]

Back Bay Puritans, dude.

And Beacon Hill Brahmins.

My old Boston-Irish Catholic relatives wish to have a word with you ... Mayor "lace curtain" Curley...
posted by R. Mutt at 7:09 PM on June 29

My old Boston-Irish Catholic relatives wish to have a word with you ... Mayor "lace curtain" Curley...

They can drop by house on the Jamaicaway-- the one with the shamrock shutters.

Shh! the conceit of my username is that my heritage is old school English Congregational, but I realize that The Rascal King was cooler than all of those wet blankets combined.
posted by Mayor Curley at 7:24 PM on June 29 [1 favorite]

I just met a distant relative, eighty two years old, head of an electrical engineers union and Boston democratic party player for years, he referred to an old family enemy as a "lace curtain cawksuckah and kid filddlin' pehvewt" and I have to say it was the highlight of my year. Dude has stories.
posted by Divine_Wino at 7:40 PM on June 29 [3 favorites]

Will someone please think of the children?!?!
did I sound outraged there? Should I have a prop or something? A holy book or maybe a corset? Both? I don't think I'm very good at this...
posted by pointystick at 7:46 PM on June 29

The mods, as ever, aim to broaden our horizons.

This is true. You're seeing one arm of Operation Free Association in action.

Actually, I've been really enjoying the hell out of Related Questions, in part because the results vary so much from question to question between helpful and surreal. I spent some time jumping around through it when I was putting together this metafilter bathroom etiquette roundup last week—Related Questions managed to give me some nice links to stuff I wasn't finding with my normal searching, which was pretty great.

It's basically the Oblique Strategies of metafilter.
posted by cortex at 7:46 PM on June 29 [1 favorite]

So, cortex, you're saying that Garkov writes Related Questions?
posted by lukemeister at 8:11 PM on June 29 [1 favorite]

While composing an AskMetafilter question about where I might purchase baby clothes...

Listen: it's still a fetish, no matter how "natural" you think it is.
posted by nanojath at 9:54 PM on June 29