Comments on: My name is demo, for we are many

My name is demo, for we are many

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 06:37:15 -0800

please oh please would someone enable new users on mefi again. the shame and humiliation of posting as "demo" is monumentally soul-destroying. Won't anyone think of the children?

By: konolia

konolia — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 06:44:55 -0800

So what's the problem? You're able to post, right? And I can think of lots worse usernames than "demo."

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 06:51:33 -0800

Hey, look... I'm "demo" now. Wonder what my password is?

Hmm...

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 07:04:00 -0800

no! no! *i* am demo! feel my wrath!

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 07:07:27 -0800

Oh, great googily moogily.

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 07:09:59 -0800

Whoa!! Coooooooool!!!!

By: rory

rory — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 07:14:21 -0800

Coming soon from Pixar: Finding Demo. A bunch of bored MeFites locate an unused member account and flush group norms of online identity and accountability down the toilet. Rated G.

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 07:16:29 -0800

I made it go big and small. Big and small!

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 07:19:18 -0800

i'm gonna wash them group norms outta my hair...

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 07:29:11 -0800

now's my chance to annonymously say what I've never had the courage to. I'm attracted to small woodland fauna.

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 07:34:20 -0800

Are we not men?

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 07:35:23 -0800

A bunch of bored MeFites locate an unused member account and flush group norms of online identity and accountability down the toilet.

I resent that. How dare you call me bored.

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 07:35:56 -0800

DemoFilter?

I'll agree with what demo said....

By: yhbc

yhbc — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 07:38:32 -0800

The really fun thing will be trying to match up the real users with the demo jokes later.

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 07:40:02 -0800

This rocks!! Now to speak my mind about the Jews & homosexuals that have plagued this site with their liberal ideologies!!!

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 07:48:55 -0800

get your demo on.

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 07:50:27 -0800

demo-cracy at its finest.

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 07:50:42 -0800

See the amusement that mefi is losing out by not having people like me as members? Oh the humanity

-- the original demo, not the people who guessed the password after me

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 07:51:13 -0800

How long 'till Haughey axes us?

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 07:53:52 -0800

Will you people stop using my freaking username?

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 07:54:29 -0800

I can finally speak my mind:

Will you please please please please please stop posting, Miguel?

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 07:55:57 -0800

No I can't.

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 07:58:59 -0800

So tell me, demo, do you often talk to yourself?

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 07:59:11 -0800

Why yes, yes I do.

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 07:59:38 -0800

Only if I think I'm actually listening.

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 07:59:46 -0800

200/1000 or bust!

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:01:29 -0800

Shut up you.

By: riffola

riffola — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:02:42 -0800

IPs are logged, I vote for at least a temporary suspension of commenting, posting and viewing privileges of all the guilty parties.

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:02:48 -0800

We have Demo.

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:06:34 -0800

See, this is exactly what I was talking about. I can't tell all these usernames apart - they look so similar at first glance - and I'm getting mixed up trying to remember exactly who said what...

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:08:59 -0800

Come, riffola, join us - resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

By: walrus

walrus — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:09:20 -0800

I vote for at least a temporary suspension of commenting, posting and viewing privileges of all the guilty parties.

It's just a bit of fun, riffola. But to save matt the trouble of searching through all the IP logs, I suppose you had better start by banning me.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:12:33 -0800

I thought that was you, walrus - it was the accent that gave you away. And to be fair, I 'fess up to the devo joke and at least one other demo comment.

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:15:05 -0800

I like men.

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:15:05 -0800

So, riff, were you demo #3 or #7? We're wise to your diversionary tactics. Plea-bargains won't help you here.

By: test

test — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:18:30 -0800

Hi demo, ol' pal. Why don't you ever call?

By: trharlan

trharlan — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:22:42 -0800

I confess to writing the "Wonder what my password is..." comment. Did I incite this riot?

The original demo was begging us to figure it out. What are friends for?

riffola: It's just good, clean fun. And we kept it in the brown, where BS like this belongs.

By: walrus

walrus — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:23:24 -0800

I didn't start it though, yhbc. I'm just a wagon-jumper.

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:28:57 -0800

I am Spartacus!

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:31:58 -0800

No, that's me. Damn! I'm doing it again!

By: Ufez Jones

Ufez Jones — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:43:31 -0800

commish: the Are we not men? comment was by far the best (the only one that really made me laugh). Kudos. And yes, please, keep it in the grey/brown/asphalt/whatever).

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:01:08 -0800

I like pancakes. Do you like pancakes?

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:04:45 -0800

this is my first post to metafilter!

I can't say I much like it.

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:04:46 -0800

I hate that rabbit.

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:06:24 -0800

Me too.

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:06:56 -0800

I realize that this will probably silence me forever from the social club that is metafilter, but I'm really impressed that no-one has thought to change the password yet.

Good on you all. There is hope in the world.

-- last post by the first demo

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:10:02 -0800

That would be because you can't change the password.

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:10:58 -0800

You fuck with Oolong, you fuck with DEMO!

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:18:38 -0800

I have a sight problem, hope you don't mind the font size change.

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:19:23 -0800

Your cookie, your font size.

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:20:34 -0800

cookies?

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:21:40 -0800

cookies.

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:22:03 -0800

dammit. fucking mathowie and his newfangled cookie bullshit.

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:41:09 -0800

The rabbit is DEAD.

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:41:40 -0800

Can I have a cookie?

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:44:17 -0800

Here you go. Have a rabbit cookie.

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:48:57 -0800

hey ! how come I dont get a cookie ?
*hides bagpipes*

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:50:37 -0800

OMG i'm posting from the outside. The dirty, chaotic, perverted outside...

The call is coming from inside the house!

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:51:19 -0800

is this my great opportunity to say that i wish to bear
madamejujujives children ?

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:52:38 -0800

i wish to bear the children of my fellow demos

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:53:53 -0800

I thought cloning was illegal...

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:56:12 -0800

*hands demo a turkey baster*

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:57:41 -0800

Isn't that washbasin filled up yet, Mickey?

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:58:07 -0800

finally i get to feel like im in war games !

me is a haxor ! i pwn joo suxors !

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:00:19 -0800

Finally I get to feel like I'm Borg. Assimilating tickles.

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:01:22 -0800

I'll never know what possessed me to join the madness.

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:11:47 -0800

I did

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:13:21 -0800

Oh, you demos. What will you think of next?

No, really - this thread makes for some of the best collective comedy MetaTalk has produced. Matt, I think demo deserves a gold star. No, not that one. That one.

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:15:07 -0800

Demo's in the wrong goddamn time zone.

Demo pissed!

By: quonsar

quonsar — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:16:31 -0800

the best collective comedy MetaTalk has produced

in your time, maybe...

By: demo

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:16:41 -0800

*registers 3318.net*

By: sgt.serenity

sgt.serenity — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:42:25 -0800

*hands quonsar zimmer and rose tinted spectacles*

By: sgt.serenity

sgt.serenity — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:49:54 -0800

IPs are logged, I vote for at least a temporary suspension of commenting, posting and viewing privileges of all the guilty parties.

hey ! riffs here ! now the party can really start !

By: test

test — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 11:08:55 -0800

So none of you figured me out yet? Hmph. That demo gets all of the Malkovich wannabes.

By: test

test — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 11:18:36 -0800

Yo. Test this, test-boy.

By: test

test — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 11:25:17 -0800

Has anyone seen icle?

By: test

test — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 11:29:25 -0800

Don't get testy with me, now.

By: Mid

Mid — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 11:36:39 -0800

All this time, I thought test was Miguel's neighbor.

By: j.edwards

j.edwards — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 11:59:01 -0800

<wishlist>For the love of all that is holy, show IP addresses in this thread.</wishlist>

By: Ufez Jones

Ufez Jones — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:41:52 -0800

Test is actually Demo's neighbor, but Demo types up all of his posts for him as they are quite good friends and at one time were both quite famous in their native land, but Test's grasp on the English language is somewhat questionable.

Or something like that.

By: PinkStainlessTail

PinkStainlessTail — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:46:14 -0800

Ufez that's the most ridiculous story I've ever heard. Who in their right mind would believe something like that?

By: andrew cooke

andrew cooke — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:52:21 -0800

matt.

By: andrew cooke

andrew cooke — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:54:08 -0800

hmmm. that snide little comment would have been so much better coming from an anonymous acct. wonder if that's possible...?

By: yhbc

yhbc — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:56:55 -0800

Sorry andrew, but it appears that dad came home and locked up the liquor cabinet again.

By: andrew cooke

andrew cooke — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 13:02:57 -0800

errr... oh dear. are you looking for advice on picking the lock?

By: languagehat

languagehat — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 13:04:31 -0800

Oh man, I miss dumb hilarity like this. I'm glad I got here before dad takes it outside and feeds it to the dog.

--demo

(Too lazy to log out, log in, log out, and log in)

By: Ignatius J. Reilly

Ignatius J. Reilly — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 13:15:17 -0800

Did you remember to pour some water into the bottles?

By: ac

ac — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 13:57:03 -0800

I hate that rabbit
What the hell is wrong with you! Everyone loves the rabbit. How can you possibly hate him.. He's so cute, and he has a pancake on his head! A pancake! Imagine that! A pancake!

By: holloway

holloway — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 14:50:25 -0800

I've met demo, and you, sir, are no demo.

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 15:18:38 -0800

And the madness continues unabated even after daddy took the t-bird away. As it should.

By: dg

dg — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 15:20:59 -0800

Damn stupid time zones. How come the US contingent get to have all the fun and the important parts of the world are left with nothing but seething and cleaning up the mess?

*picks up mop, starts on the only part of the floor that is still visible*

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 15:30:49 -0800

Wake up, ~~neo~~ demo.

By: i_cola

i_cola — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 15:36:56 -0800

*gets up bleary-eyed from behind sofa*

Did I miss something..?

By: Hildago

Hildago — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 15:49:25 -0800

Matt, seriously, block all those IPs up there.

By: elwoodwiles

elwoodwiles — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:07:02 -0800

Oh, people where just having a bit of fun, no harm done. If the "bug" hadn't been exploited here, someone else may have used it for less amusing purposes. Everybody got to play a game and the system is that much tighter for it.

*shrugs shoulders*

Of course, I didn't pile in, but only because I was too late and too dim.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:15:38 -0800

As long as we're telling Matt what to do, seriously, don't block 'em. Better idea would be to just block those who took advantage of the situation and did something malicious or cruel.

Oh, wait. Nobody did, as far as I can tell.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:28:55 -0800

Hildago must enjoy his new job in airport security.

By: theora55

theora55 — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 17:43:48 -0800

It's all fun and games till... The demo-abuse was limited to the brown, and demo didn't do any Front Page Foolishness. Pretty restrained, I'd say.

By: konolia

konolia — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 17:45:54 -0800

Hildago, if Matt did as you suggested, you might have banned some of his favorite people. Heck, how do you know HE didn't join in before he took "demo" off the market?

On the other hand I think you suspect Miguel of being one of the petty miscreants, and saw a chance of disposing of him quietly.

By: taz

taz — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 18:02:36 -0800

konolia? wtf?

please spit it out, because I am totally confused.

By: dg

dg — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 18:11:57 -0800

konolia knows where the bodies are buried, it seems.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 18:13:28 -0800

limited to the brown

well, it wasn't, but it was still pretty restrained.

By: taz

taz — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 18:29:19 -0800

quonsar, I think both of those were before this post, and, if I'm right, that means that nobody playing around here strayed, and also that the "original" demo, knowing full well that his/her skeleton key would self-implode, still chose to point out the hack. In other words, a great mefi member who doesn't yet exist...

By: quonsar

quonsar — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 18:53:58 -0800

quonsar, I think both of those were before this post
bzzt. i have inside information.

By: ashbury

ashbury — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 19:14:55 -0800

Okay, I admit that I'm dimmer than a broken light bulb. Will somebody please explain the hack, the secret, the trick, the whateveritwas? Please?

Oh, and since when is the grey side brown? When did that happen? Or am I even dimmer than I thought?

HOPE ME?!!?

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 19:51:09 -0800

Has anyone seen icle?
posted by test at 11:25 AM PST on June 10

Hildago: you'd block me for this? And the others for that? Well, that decides it. I'm going back to calling you Hidalgo. ;)

By: dg

dg — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 19:57:11 -0800

OK, that's one confession. Now, how about the rest of you miscreants?

By: yhbc

yhbc — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 19:59:55 -0800

I was all the funny ones.

By: Yelling At Nothing

Yelling At Nothing — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 20:01:27 -0800

No! I was the funny ones!

By: yhbc

yhbc — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 20:10:18 -0800

I had a lengthy confession spelled out, but on preview, the only thing I will now honestly confess to is being the two "test" comments bracketing the one miguel confessed to above. So there!

By: jonson

jonson — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 20:35:26 -0800

I was the one railing against the homosexuals & the Jews. Upon reflection, I realized there's no reason we can't all love one another. At least until the rapture, when the chosen ascend to heaven and the homosexuals and the Jews gets what's a-comin' to 'em.

By: konolia

konolia — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 20:39:19 -0800

Ashbury, all I can tell you is that for a short period of time, if one logged in as "demo" (and used the password "demo") then, lo and behold, one was POSTING as "demo".

*munches cookie while mourning Oolong*

By: adamgreenfield

adamgreenfield — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:01:55 -0800

Awwww, look...all your demo are belong to mathowie.

By: mischief

mischief — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:58:16 -0800

I am so above all this. ;-P

By: planetkyoto

planetkyoto — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 02:08:39 -0800

*gets home from work to find people cleaning up after a party*

I would have seconded the madamjjj comment and added dabitch.

By: Orb

Orb — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 03:28:15 -0800

Looks like I missed the party ... again. So ... are there any cookies or pancakes left? I'd even take a rabbit if someone has a spare. :D

By: rory

rory — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 03:45:43 -0800

Matt, seriously, block all those IPs up there.

Hildago, seriously, take a chill pill.

We come here day after day to see what's going down in this place, to take an interest in the general health of the 'filter, and what do we get for our trouble? Moan, moan, moan, to the point where we actually start to believe the critics of MeFi who paint us as a bunch of uptight killjoys. Worse, we find ourselves drawn into the moaning, moaning along with everyone else, wallowing in our new-found puritanism 'til the negativity seeps into our pores. Then on one rare occasion we get the chance to play harmlessly with a minor security hole that we know Matt will close as soon as he sees it, which could be any time within 0 to 24 hours, yielding one of the most entertaining threads on MeTa since, ohhh, forever, and what do we get?

Block those IPs! Suspend their accounts! Stop that wanton fondling! Rock and roll is the devil's plaything!

Prescription: 1 chill pill, to be taken three times daily before meals.

Yours testily,

demo #14, 20, 21, 23, 28 and test #1 and 2.

By: rory

rory — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 03:47:54 -0800

Oops. Broke my own type-out-rant-but-do-not-post rule. Better get my sackcloth.

By: crunchburger

crunchburger — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 03:49:46 -0800

I previewed one of the very first demo comments and cancelled it, since I knew all of you would think crunchland was responsible.

It was great - sort of a zipless demo.

By: carter

carter — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 06:18:24 -0800

<sheepish>
ermm i suppose i may have posted one or two ...
</sheepish>
(starts to help with clearing up)

By: arco

arco — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 06:24:18 -0800

I'm responsible for a few of the unfunniest comments.

I noticed this a few days ago, after the OD (Original Demo) started commenting in Metafilter. I didn't do anything with it (honest!) until yesterday's shenanigans, other than log in and screw around with the font settings--just cause, you know, bored and all.

uh, I'll get the mop

By: ashbury

ashbury — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 06:36:14 -0800

Thank you konolia. It's as I suspected, but when I tried to perform said shenanigan myself, nothing happened. Dad must have already locked the liquor cabinet and nobody had yet noticed. I even had my own tagline which I thought was pretty good if I do say so myself, but now nobody will ever know.

*seethe*

By: GeekAnimator

GeekAnimator — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 07:04:38 -0800

I'd like to nominate "Are we not men?" as the comment in this thread.

By: carter

carter — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 07:10:10 -0800

I would like to thank one of the demo's for contributing the expression "Oh, great googily moogily" to my vocabulary.

By: konolia

konolia — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 07:22:45 -0800

Geek, I second the nomination-but when will we be passing out the flowerpot hats?

By: rory

rory — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 07:45:58 -0800

Well there you go. Always pays to check the user page of a fellow MeFite before you go all just-woke-up tetchy on them, because it turns out he writes one of your favourite damn websites.

C'mon, Hildago, don't tell me you weren't even tempted to don the demo cloak.

By: walrus

walrus — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 07:48:39 -0800

Is it too late to suggest that we ban the IP address of anyone requesting the banning of IP addresses in this thread? No! Wait! I didn't mean ... vanishes in a puff of logic ...

By: theora55

theora55 — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 08:13:27 -0800

The IP address to find is this one, so a prize can be awarded.

This would be funnier if everybody could have posted as MiguelCardoso.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 08:17:08 -0800

/me claims prize.

Although I personally thought the *hides bagpipes* line was the funniest.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:57:09 -0800

demo #2 (feel my wrath!) and demo #6 (group norms) here, and blue demo were me. and the prize is definitely taken by our humble commish.

By: rory

rory — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:44:01 -0800

Well if we're counting that way, quonsar, bump all my demo numbers up by one. I had the initial post by 'original demo' as #1.

--rory #1, feeling late-night regret for his earlier tetchiness.

By: rory

rory — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:58:44 -0800

er, down by one.

By: konolia

konolia — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 18:20:00 -0800

This would be funnier if everybody could have posted as MiguelCardoso

Well, if you can get hold of his password, it can be arranged.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 18:31:13 -0800

I assumed hildago was kidding, in a morbid unfunny sort of way. If he was serious, he gets the MetaJerk of the Week award, and I too will begin calling him hidalgo.

By: dg

dg — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 18:46:27 -0800

This would be funnier if everybody could have posted as MiguelCardoso
How would we notice the difference?