Oh noes!

September 14, 2008 5:48 PM

A crucial piece of Mefi social commentary has disappeared. Will it ever be seen again?

I wanted to send an acquaintance of mine the infamous Metafilter Safety Guide created by fandango_matt. Unfortunately, while the original still exists, the edited version has vanished from the internets. Unfortunately-er, Google and Coral cache come up empty-handed, while Archive.org throws up some odd error about the site using "an invalid or unsupported form of compression."

Is there any other place on the web where the comic can still be found?

posted by Rhaomi to MetaFilter-Related at 5:48 PM (27 comments total)

Cortex has us covered.
posted by zamboni at 5:53 PM on September 14, 2008 [5 favorites]

Thanks, zamboni. And cortex!

And fandango_matt, wherever it is you've gone...
posted by Rhaomi at 5:57 PM on September 14, 2008

"Fuck you all! I'll cut off my own hand before I return to MetaFilter! You All SUCK!"

That's good stuff.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 6:01 PM on September 14, 2008

That walrus cock is going to haunt me forever.
posted by CKmtl at 6:14 PM on September 14, 2008

What happened to fandango_matt anyway? First he shut down his name then got another name, optovox, then he shut that one down too.
posted by puke & cry at 6:32 PM on September 14, 2008

Holy shit that is funny. I am wiping tears from my eyes. Can't believe I missed that the first time around.
posted by jayder at 6:37 PM on September 14, 2008

puke, he's been around in IRC now and then; I understand he'll be back. Just stuff going on, most likely.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 6:56 PM on September 14, 2008

rowr, Jessamyn in a wold costume?
posted by not_on_display at 7:04 PM on September 14, 2008

wolf. wolf costume. rowr, Jessamyn in a wolf costume.

Now I'll never get to see it.
posted by not_on_display at 7:05 PM on September 14, 2008 [1 favorite]

wold costume....I thought it was some sort of weird Harry Chapin thing....
posted by Confess, Fletch at 7:07 PM on September 14, 2008

Awesome. I remember seeing that referenced a while back, and was disappointing that I missed it. Thanks, Rhaomi, cortex, and all.
posted by Solon and Thanks at 8:14 PM on September 14, 2008

I wish I didn't get more of those jokes.
posted by danb at 10:25 PM on September 14, 2008

That shit cracks me up every time.
posted by cortex (staff) at 10:35 PM on September 14, 2008

:)
posted by caddis at 4:13 AM on September 15, 2008

You know, I had never seen the original. Lots of good advice in there, actually. I'm sending it to my parents right now.

Dad, you entered a contest, online?
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 7:20 AM on September 15, 2008

wow. i must have been m.i.a. last july when this was posted but that is funny! tip o' the hat to fandango_matt! (and thanks, Rhaomi, for posting the question & zamboni for posting the url & cortex for having the wisdom to archive that.)
posted by msconduct at 7:32 AM on September 15, 2008

and, yikes! just noticed that, speaking of m.i.a., fandango_matt is gone. lemme guess: head exploded after he did that cartoon?
posted by msconduct at 7:49 AM on September 15, 2008

Okay, who did the For Better or For Worse parodies in the same style - original artwork, photoshopped dialogue with MeFi references and lots of cussing? And did anyone save them?
posted by yhbc at 8:17 AM on September 15, 2008

Those were done by fatti too. I don't seem to have cached them, but I'm betting someone or other on IRC has 'em around, maybe brownpau.
posted by cortex (staff) at 8:40 AM on September 15, 2008

Interesting how many of the users mentioned in there are no longer here.
posted by inigo2 at 9:27 AM on September 15, 2008

Yeah, it gives "Bye, whore!" a whole different tone, doesn't it?
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 10:09 AM on September 15, 2008

Stupendous. Thank you!
posted by sadiehawkinstein at 11:29 AM on September 15, 2008

Okay, it's not FBOFW, but speaking of brownpau here's the criminally neglected fetamilter collection.
posted by cortex (staff) at 11:47 AM on September 15, 2008 [1 favorite]

Lord, I'd totally forgotten that comic. Hi-fuckin-larious.

So, out of everyone mentioned in the comic, who is actually still active? Delmoi, fer sure.
posted by Thorzdad at 2:56 PM on September 15, 2008

Damn, I miss dios. These new conservatives, I don't know...
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 9:18 PM on September 15, 2008

delmoi, languagehat, dios, stavros, jonmc, quonsar, methylviolet, parisparamus.

Five out of eight are still with us, more or less.
posted by zamboni at 8:04 AM on September 16, 2008

wooh...damn...goodnes...

That's some good stuff, right there.
posted by LMGM at 2:39 PM on September 16, 2008