Much love to all of MeFi!

April 9, 2012 7:31 PM

Shoutout!!!!

I asked my first ask.mefi question quite a while ago, and haven't kept up with it as so many people didn't have the answer. *FINALLY* I checked it today and mefi member alyxstarr had the answer for me. The answer I had been searching for, for years! I guess I just want to thank the whole mefi community (I've followed you guys for years before I became a member, actually donated back in the day in the hopes that Matt would offfer me a membership even though they were 'closed' at the time.) So thank you specifically to alyxstarr and in general to all of you. You bring happiness to my days!

(If you can't post this in metatalk... where can you post it???)

posted by one4themoment to MetaFilter-Related at 7:31 PM (42 comments total)

Collectively, we have seen every bad movie and maybe three or four good ones and two of the m are The Shining.
posted by griphus at 7:34 PM on April 9, 2012 [1 favorite]

Shootout!!!

Over at MeFight Club, daily!
posted by Ghidorah at 7:36 PM on April 9, 2012 [2 favorites]

Valid excuse for popcorn!
posted by arcticseal at 7:39 PM on April 9, 2012 [1 favorite]

PARTY POAST
posted by elizardbits at 7:39 PM on April 9, 2012 [1 favorite]

I find your enthusiasm endearingly adorable.
posted by Snarl Furillo at 7:42 PM on April 9, 2012 [2 favorites]

This is a good post and you should feel good! More like this, metafilter.
posted by the young rope-rider at 7:46 PM on April 9, 2012 [7 favorites]

I'm allowed to be adorable. ;)
posted by one4themoment at 7:46 PM on April 9, 2012

Weird, I would have known the answer if I had seen the question.

Saturday the 14th always struck me as a great idea, that I wondered why there wasn't other films like Thursday the 12th or Sunday the 15th. Rather than the expected horror of the 13th, the subtler, quieter and unexpected horror would be much more terrifying.

I didn't like Saturday the 14th though, but the idea is something else, which is why the movie always stuck with me.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 7:48 PM on April 9, 2012

Yay!
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 7:51 PM on April 9, 2012 [1 favorite]

Saturday the 14th Strikes Back is the actual movie I was thinking of, watching Saturday the 14th original now on netflix. :D
posted by one4themoment at 7:52 PM on April 9, 2012

And thanks to jessamyn for advice on how to word the question :)
posted by one4themoment at 7:52 PM on April 9, 2012

(And for everything else she does for this site)
posted by one4themoment at 7:53 PM on April 9, 2012

This is awesome.

I feel like the answer would have been noticed sooner if the use of Recent Activity were made more obvious to newcomers. I don't know how to do that, though.
posted by grouse at 8:13 PM on April 9, 2012 [2 favorites]

That's awesome, wish I had known about that. Going to make that my homepage. :)
posted by one4themoment at 8:26 PM on April 9, 2012

I can't remember if we tell people about it in the welcome email we send, maybe should look into that. I know we talk about it orientation, but no one ever goes to that.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 8:28 PM on April 9, 2012 [1 favorite]

In mine (and others) defense... we may not read the welcome email in its entirity (sp?). This is 2012 and so much of what is emailed is considered "subpar"...

In fact I just pulled up my welcome email.. unless it's somewhere buried in the faq...

ps Jeremy Preacher is cute.
posted by one4themoment at 8:39 PM on April 9, 2012

Jeremy Preacher is cute.

She is also very good at karate.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 8:42 PM on April 9, 2012 [5 favorites]

Also I had no idea there was an orientation....
posted by one4themoment at 8:43 PM on April 9, 2012

I'm going to write that down.
posted by one4themoment at 8:43 PM on April 9, 2012

Apparently I'm the ass part of assume :/
posted by one4themoment at 8:45 PM on April 9, 2012

Still cute regardless.
posted by one4themoment at 8:46 PM on April 9, 2012

When I went to orientation elizardbits had already eaten all the muffins and I was so, so sad.
posted by shakespeherian at 8:55 PM on April 9, 2012

Ohhhh restless_nooooomaaaad.... Wherefore art thou so damn cute?
posted by heyho at 8:58 PM on April 9, 2012

I went to orientation, but left when they brought out the paddle, because I didn't know the safe word.
posted by MexicanYenta at 8:59 PM on April 9, 2012 [1 favorite]

Pro-tip: It's vanilla.
posted by heyho at 9:00 PM on April 9, 2012

Maybe for you, but that sort of stuff scares me.
posted by shakespeherian at 9:01 PM on April 9, 2012 [1 favorite]

those were some good muffins i tell you what
posted by elizardbits at 9:06 PM on April 9, 2012 [1 favorite]

I'LL JUST TAKE YOUR WORD FOR IT
posted by shakespeherian at 9:08 PM on April 9, 2012 [3 favorites]

Wow, was Saturday the 14th like the Scary Movie of the early 1980's? Hooray for you for getting your answer, and hooray for me for retrieving dusty old memories of the USA network after midnight circa 1984.
posted by not_on_display at 9:12 PM on April 9, 2012

Hooray for you for getting your answer, and hooray for me for retrieving dusty old memories of the USA network after midnight circa 1984.

Everyone meet in 30 minutes at Mintcake Towers - we're watching Hardbodies tonight.
posted by mintcake! at 9:25 PM on April 9, 2012

Even though I am only tangentially involved in your success, I am willing to personally accept the accolades.
posted by crunchland at 3:47 AM on April 10, 2012 [1 favorite]

There's no sense in even goin'
when all you can order is hemoglobin...

No my friend don't even try it
livin' on a vampire's diet

*boggle*

This looks deliriously awful. A vampire singing about the joys of potatoes *and* Avery Schreiber? How have I never heard of this before?
posted by mediareport at 5:20 AM on April 10, 2012

(To be clear, the vampire doesn't sing about the joys of Avery Schreiber.)
posted by mediareport at 5:22 AM on April 10, 2012

Your enthusiasm makes me smile! Honest, I'm sitting at my desk grinning. Glad to have been able to help out.

(I've actually never seen Saturday the 14th Strikes Back. I just like tracking down half-remembered, this-has-been-bugging-me-for-years, please-tell-me-I-didn't-imagine-it movies and tv shows. Partly for the challenge, but mostly because sometimes you get reactions like this. I like making people happy over the little things in life!)
posted by alyxstarr at 6:15 AM on April 10, 2012

Let's make a list of Mefites who will appear in metatalk within 15 minutes of you mentioning their name like magic:
elizard obvs
the Whelk
Empath
Blazecock Pileon
Me (as if anyone would)
Brandon Blatcher or the word "spouse"
Its Raining Florence Henderson (i wish ;_;)
posted by Potomac Avenue at 7:36 AM on April 10, 2012

There's no way that's true. For example if I mention Potomac Avenue OH HOLY SHIT HOW
posted by shakespeherian at 7:37 AM on April 10, 2012

I can also be summoned by saying TACO three times.
posted by elizardbits at 7:50 AM on April 10, 2012

If I were a rich man, I'd drop five bucks to register Kibo as a username and do the internet equivalent of playing Bing Crosby songs on the piano at the senior citizens' home.
posted by griphus at 7:53 AM on April 10, 2012 [1 favorite]

Can you imagine being this guy? Dude must have been summoned all the time.
posted by shakespeherian at 7:59 AM on April 10, 2012

Couldn't you just mefi-mail the guy that answered your question? I mean, now you need to flame out in a sea of rage.
posted by chunking express at 10:05 AM on April 10, 2012

Kibo

Oof, just got a punch to the nostalgia.
posted by curious nu at 4:11 PM on April 10, 2012

griphus: "If I were a rich man, I'd drop five bucks to register Kibo as a username"

Not sure if you know, but that's actually $20, same as in town.
posted by namewithoutwords at 8:40 AM on April 11, 2012