ass from the past

August 12, 2011 5:11 PM

Does anybody have that comic fandango_matt made with the boy scouts and the anthropomorphic animals explaining metafilter? All the references/links to it lead to 404s and dead ends.

If we find it, could metafilter possibly host it somewhere? It's actually genuinely helpful in explaining metafilter to people who have never heard of it before. That is all.

posted by tehloki to Feature Requests at 5:11 PM (41 comments total)

here
posted by Kwine at 5:14 PM on August 12, 2011 [2 favorites]

I don't actually call people drama queens. I call them motherfuckers.
posted by jonmc at 5:17 PM on August 12, 2011

So, was that an original series or is it repurposed artwork?

It amuses the hell out of me. Someone should do an updated comic. You know, with the new moderator and people that are still on here.
posted by cjorgensen at 5:28 PM on August 12, 2011

It is presumably a repurposed Cub Scouts comic starring Baloo, Akela, and…whatever the Tiger's name was. Probably from Boy's Life or something. Presumably trying to teach kids the importance of turning off e computer and getting an adult when they see something that "confuses" them. Like, I guess, goatse.
posted by silby at 5:33 PM on August 12, 2011

#3 just makes me depressed that there hasn't been a good flameout in like, forever
posted by nathancaswell at 5:39 PM on August 12, 2011

ugh #5 just made it worse
posted by nathancaswell at 5:40 PM on August 12, 2011

I wonder if there have been more MeTa posts looking for this comic or asking for an explanation of the "."
posted by Navelgazer at 5:55 PM on August 12, 2011

Baloo, Akela, and…whatever the Tiger's name was

Shere Khan? (Isn't he the bad guy?)
posted by Sys Rq at 6:00 PM on August 12, 2011 [1 favorite]

Oh man, it's cub scouts? Haha. I actually remember all those "leader" names now. Jesus, what a weird thing to do to your children.
posted by tehloki at 6:14 PM on August 12, 2011

Who's got two thumbs and had all the badges
posted by tehloki at 6:14 PM on August 12, 2011 [1 favorite]

I think "stop the asshattery" is a sentiment we can all get behind.

It's like "a more perfect union" - it's never going to happen, but it's kind of endearing that we still try.
posted by absalom at 6:17 PM on August 12, 2011 [2 favorites]

I prefer "go fuck your hat, parisparamus"
posted by tehloki at 6:21 PM on August 12, 2011

Is fandango_matt still around?
posted by tehloki at 6:24 PM on August 12, 2011

Upon investigation, No. :(
posted by tehloki at 6:31 PM on August 12, 2011

Oh man, I've been looking for this comment for like two years, but I could never figure out whether it was real or I had just dreamed it, because it's pretty much impossible to search for. Now I finally know. Thanks for making the thread, tehloki!

It now occurs to me that I probably could have just asked cortex if it was real or not.
posted by maqsarian at 6:41 PM on August 12, 2011

How do you know you didn't just dream cortex?
posted by jonmc at 6:53 PM on August 12, 2011

now I'm going to put "lol"




lol
posted by DU at 6:58 PM on August 12, 2011

I do not tear assholes. At best, I might give 'em a little tickle.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 7:20 PM on August 12, 2011 [6 favorites]

How do you know you didn't just dream cortex?

One time I dreamed that I was at a meetup, except the meetup was like Team Fortress 2, like we were all running around trying to capture the intelligence and blowing each other up and what have you, and I was a spy, and cortex banned me because I kept backstabbing him and sapping his sentries. True story.
posted by maqsarian at 8:27 PM on August 12, 2011 [2 favorites]

(also, I just found out that Jani Lane (lead singer of Warrant whose claim to fame was "Cherry Pie") has passed away at age 47. This has saddened me more that I thought it wouldd. RIP, Jani)
posted by jonmc at 8:32 PM on August 12, 2011 [1 favorite]

I used to be a student music coordinator and we put on a Warrant show. These guys were unloading equipment and came up to my friend that was "guarding" the door. So he helps move some crap. One of the guys asks, "What do you think of the band?" My friend says, "These guys? These guys suck." He then proceeds to mock the Cherry Pie song. It ended up being one of the band members. They made him be their guide and took him mini-golfing. They didn't want a fan boy fawning over them all day, so my friend was perfect. I think they also went to Perkins.

There really isn't much more to that story. This was 15 years ago. We didn't go to the concert.
posted by cjorgensen at 9:01 PM on August 12, 2011 [6 favorites]

btw, NYT's paywall can blow me.
posted by cjorgensen at 9:03 PM on August 12, 2011

How do you know you didn't just dream cortex?

Do e-fites dream of electric me?
posted by cortex (staff) at 9:34 PM on August 12, 2011 [9 favorites]

Oh I totally had a Metafilter-related dream. I was in some new town (New England-y?) and there was some kind of meet-up going on with all the mods except it was in his shabby genteel house and everyone was playing with neon-colored kittens and I had to go out and find a specific kind of thread/string and got hopelessly lost what with all the houses looking alike and the fog.
posted by The Whelk at 9:37 PM on August 12, 2011 [2 favorites]

When I heard the news today, I got Warrant mixed up with White Lion, but then I was like "Wait...wait..."
posted by desjardins at 9:49 PM on August 12, 2011 [1 favorite]

Your dream, The Whelk. I want to dream it.
posted by maryr at 10:36 PM on August 12, 2011 [1 favorite]

Pony request: in addition to the favorite button, a special "groan" button after all cortex's posts so I can properly register my response to his (clever, but still groanworthy) puns.
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 10:40 PM on August 12, 2011 [1 favorite]

I thought that was what favorites were for? Puns?
posted by maryr at 10:41 PM on August 12, 2011 [2 favorites]

(I feel I am owed this because I'm still humming "all my ex-posts live in Tex-posts," which doesn't even make sense ... not cool, man! At this rate I'll never hang my hat in Tennessee.)
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 10:45 PM on August 12, 2011 [3 favorites]

Um, those sound awesome. Anyone want to change subconsciouses with me?
posted by NoraReed at 11:47 PM on August 12, 2011

btw, NYT's paywall can blow me.

Install Greasemonkey, grab one of the NYT paywall scripts, fuhgeddaboutit.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:59 PM on August 12, 2011

Reading that comic, years ago, was the first time I heard of Lemon Party.

My life is richer for it.
posted by ArmyOfKittens at 1:02 AM on August 13, 2011

♬ And all that I can see
Is just another lemon party ♬
posted by Meatbomb at 4:20 AM on August 13, 2011

And now I really want to play with a neon-coloured kitten, or if possible, more than one. Do they glow in the dark? Because that would be lovely.
posted by Pallas Athena at 4:59 AM on August 13, 2011

Do NOT, I repeat NOT!, let the furries see these panels.
posted by hippybear at 5:01 AM on August 13, 2011

just found out that Jani Lane (lead singer of Warrant whose claim to fame was "Cherry Pie"

No, his claim to fame was dating Bobbie Brown.

Also NYTimes, "heavy metal" lead singer? Um, okay.
posted by justgary at 6:48 AM on August 13, 2011

I did a post on a neon-coloured kitten.

It was one of my first posts.
posted by cjorgensen at 7:27 AM on August 13, 2011

From jonmc's link:

Mr. Lane was born John Kennedy Oswald on Feb. 1, 1964 in Akron, Ohio. (His parents named him after President John F. Kennedy, undeterred by the fact that they shared the last name of the suspect in the assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald.)
posted by heyho at 8:09 AM on August 13, 2011

352 comments! All by Delmoi!

L O L

L O L

lol

lol^2
posted by fake at 10:02 AM on August 13, 2011

Is fandango_matt still around?

Yes, he has a new username and is still around.
posted by killdevil at 11:01 AM on August 13, 2011

Are you sure? He disabled the new one in June 2011.
posted by mlis at 8:47 PM on August 13, 2011