Post Ident Please August 1, 2008 7:36 PM Subscribe
Can't find a post. Did extensive search, but search-fu is off, or I am not remembering key details.
This was posted within the last few weeks. It was about a silent movie actress (I believe) who recently died (I believe) and have at least one link to a youtube video in the post (I know this part is true).
It may have been removed for being a single youtube post type post, but I think there was more there than that.
You would think this would be enough to find it, but am not sure it was a FPP at all. May have been a link from within the comments.
Any idea?
This was posted within the last few weeks. It was about a silent movie actress (I believe) who recently died (I believe) and have at least one link to a youtube video in the post (I know this part is true).
It may have been removed for being a single youtube post type post, but I think there was more there than that.
You would think this would be enough to find it, but am not sure it was a FPP at all. May have been a link from within the comments.
Any idea?
Pater Alethias's link is a totally amazing story, which I passed over when it was first posted because the description doesn't even begin to suggest what it's about. It's about the woman who posed nude for a number of famous early 20th c. public art works, went through a couple of big scandals and lived out the last 70 years of her life in an insane asylum.
posted by LobsterMitten at 8:09 PM on August 1, 2008
posted by LobsterMitten at 8:09 PM on August 1, 2008
the description doesn't even begin to suggest what it's about
Sorry about that; I was going for statuesque minimalism at the time and included the description-type stuff in the link mouse-overs. As much as I'd love to be able to write engaging copy for all my posts—like so many of my favorite MeFi posters—I'm inevitably struck with writer's block on that damned New Post page.
posted by carsonb at 8:26 PM on August 1, 2008
Sorry about that; I was going for statuesque minimalism at the time and included the description-type stuff in the link mouse-overs. As much as I'd love to be able to write engaging copy for all my posts—like so many of my favorite MeFi posters—I'm inevitably struck with writer's block on that damned New Post page.
posted by carsonb at 8:26 PM on August 1, 2008
carsonb: didn't mean to sound harsh. But really, that's a golden link, so cool! I missed the mouseovers, and am really pleased to have a chance to catch the post here.
About writer's block: I tend to go for just a sentence or so of plain and descriptive post text, because the link is what makes it or breaks it. If the link is great, the post will be well appreciated if you write something plain and straightforward.
posted by LobsterMitten at 8:50 PM on August 1, 2008
About writer's block: I tend to go for just a sentence or so of plain and descriptive post text, because the link is what makes it or breaks it. If the link is great, the post will be well appreciated if you write something plain and straightforward.
posted by LobsterMitten at 8:50 PM on August 1, 2008
Ok, still looking through first two comments. The video I was looking forward to was a comedy one, a spoof of a gamer show presenter. She was like 90 and in a skimpy outfit acting about 70 years younger. Dry British humor.
posted by cjorgensen at 11:00 AM on August 2, 2008
posted by cjorgensen at 11:00 AM on August 2, 2008
Well, this doesn't match up with the 'silent film star' nor 'British humor' restraints, but the Estelle Getty obit thread has YouTube video of her Clueless spoof wherein she acts about 70 years younger than her actual age.
posted by carsonb at 1:48 PM on August 2, 2008
posted by carsonb at 1:48 PM on August 2, 2008
Nah, wasn't Estelle Getty. Doesn't seem to be the first two links either. I read through the first two links, and watched most of the videos, and no. Am thinking I dreamt it.
posted by cjorgensen at 6:20 PM on August 2, 2008
posted by cjorgensen at 6:20 PM on August 2, 2008
A couple of longshots:
Evelyn Keyes was in Gone with the Wind; American, though
Elisabeth Spriggs was in Harry Potter among other things; British, close to the right age
wikipedia on deaths in July 08
posted by LobsterMitten at 10:43 PM on August 2, 2008
Evelyn Keyes was in Gone with the Wind; American, though
Elisabeth Spriggs was in Harry Potter among other things; British, close to the right age
wikipedia on deaths in July 08
posted by LobsterMitten at 10:43 PM on August 2, 2008
I really am starting to think I made this up, but the video looked like a standard game show, but when it came time to show the prizes it panned to an old lady showing the prizes off. I think there was a reoccurring joke from the fact that she didn't talk. A silent film era star, still not talking.
I am starting to think it was a link from a post I read her. You know, three pages of surfing out. Neither of the above two have been posted here.
posted by cjorgensen at 7:29 AM on August 3, 2008
I am starting to think it was a link from a post I read her. You know, three pages of surfing out. Neither of the above two have been posted here.
posted by cjorgensen at 7:29 AM on August 3, 2008
carsonb writes "Sorry about that; I was going for statuesque minimalism at the time and included the description-type stuff in the link mouse-overs. As much as I'd love to be able to write engaging copy for all my posts—like so many of my favorite MeFi posters—I'm inevitably struck with writer's block on that damned New Post page."
There is so much mystery meat on the front page that a lot of people (well me at least) don't put any effort into deciphering a post of just a few words (or a single letter, augh). It doesn't have to be great prose, just descriptive. Something like "Audrey Munson, Teenage Nude Model (NSFW) for hundreds of works, actress, and centenarian, spent the last 65 years of her life in an insane asylum."
I'm glad this came up here it was an awesome story.
posted by Mitheral at 7:54 AM on August 3, 2008
There is so much mystery meat on the front page that a lot of people (well me at least) don't put any effort into deciphering a post of just a few words (or a single letter, augh). It doesn't have to be great prose, just descriptive. Something like "Audrey Munson, Teenage Nude Model (NSFW) for hundreds of works, actress, and centenarian, spent the last 65 years of her life in an insane asylum."
I'm glad this came up here it was an awesome story.
posted by Mitheral at 7:54 AM on August 3, 2008
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posted by LobsterMitten at 7:43 PM on August 1, 2008