Comments on: The cutoff for comments to a MeFi thread is one calendar month?

The cutoff for comments to a MeFi thread is one calendar month?

wendell — Fri, 29 Aug 2003 23:26:39 -0800

Now we know for sure, as the legendary/infamous Blogstop/Acronyms thread goes into "overtime": The cutoff for comments to a MeFi thread is one calendar month, not thirty days. (I'm surprised nobody noticed AND complained last February...)
I'm sorry, but I have loved this thread, textual chain-jerkoff it may have been, and await the dropping of the MetaFilter equivalent of the Times Square New Year's Ball on our collective heads in less than eight hours as I stand like a cryogenically-preserved Dick Clark preparing to be resuscitated just in time to say: "Five...Four..."
So, as long as I've committed myself to a verbal thrashing from the Anti-Acronymatics among you, I must still ask the stupid question: "Why Can't MetaFilter Do Something Like This More Often?"

By: mischief

mischief — Sat, 30 Aug 2003 00:01:14 -0800

Because then it would be a double-post.

By: wendell

wendell — Sat, 30 Aug 2003 00:13:57 -0800

Like, not Same.
F'r'xample, I still think there's life in the "Tom Swifties" thread, now that the rest of us have made nearly as many contributions as bradlands did during his personal Swift-a-thon...

By: wendell

wendell — Sat, 30 Aug 2003 00:33:07 -0800

And I'm sure we could do more with the "Fictional Last Words" thread, Rosebud.

By: trondant

trondant — Sat, 30 Aug 2003 02:00:22 -0800

Et tu, booty.

By: wendell

wendell — Sat, 30 Aug 2003 02:18:06 -0800

I thought it was Popeye who said "Et tu, Bluto", but I might have that wrong...

By: boomchicka

boomchicka — Sat, 30 Aug 2003 08:14:40 -0800

Why not set up a space for this on your site, then buy some TextAd space from Matt to announce it? The ad can change every time a new game starts. That way the fun can continue, and you can support MeFi at the same time. It's a win-win!

By: iconomy

iconomy — Sat, 30 Aug 2003 08:52:55 -0800

I like the way she thinks.

By: timeistight

timeistight — Sat, 30 Aug 2003 09:03:30 -0800

You can change TextAds mid-run? How?

By: crunchland

crunchland — Sat, 30 Aug 2003 12:00:15 -0800

Matt's changed textads for me, mid run, with me sending a simple, courteous email.

By: weston

weston — Sat, 30 Aug 2003 15:02:35 -0800

What is this "courteous" of which you speak?

By: trharlan

trharlan — Sat, 30 Aug 2003 15:23:20 -0800

The thread is now closed.

By: jpburns

jpburns — Sat, 30 Aug 2003 18:29:32 -0800

I'm just glad I got the last word in.

What an embarrassing number of comments I posted to that thing. I probably tripled my number of comments on that posting, alone.

I can use the break.

(withdrawal symptoms starting already...)

By: wackybrit

wackybrit — Sat, 30 Aug 2003 18:49:54 -0800

Alright. Lets relive ending acronym drama? Yes!

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sat, 30 Aug 2003 19:04:49 -0800

you egregious shithead.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Sat, 30 Aug 2003 19:28:14 -0800

for the love of god, stop.

By: fvw

fvw — Sat, 30 Aug 2003 20:18:58 -0800

see the ominous posts!

By: yhbc

yhbc — Sat, 30 Aug 2003 20:26:17 -0800

Pistol, one shot; thread stopped.

By: cedar

cedar — Sat, 30 Aug 2003 21:22:37 -0800

That's just cruel.

By: IshmaelGraves

IshmaelGraves — Sat, 30 Aug 2003 23:11:48 -0800

Clearly, regular users elicit laughter.

By: condour75

condour75 — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 01:31:56 -0800

listing acronyms usually guarantees haughty tantrums, even raspberries.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 02:10:55 -0800

random acronyms savagely penetrate barriers enormously rend resistant, i. e. sphincters.

By: condour75

condour75 — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 02:41:31 -0800

seems posting here is naturally complimentary to everlastingblort's ribald scatology. :)

By: ed

ed — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 03:15:49 -0800

Splendid! Can a thread's oblong linger on? Glorious yammering!

By: feelinglistless

feelinglistless — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 03:36:39 -0800

you are murmuring merrily even realising it's now gone ...

By: inpHilltr8r

inpHilltr8r — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 03:45:05 -0800

Gone, or never existed?

By: jpburns

jpburns — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 06:20:48 -0800

Each "x" is something that everyone detests!

By: angry modem

angry modem — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 07:14:00 -0800

shut the fuck up.

By: jpburns

jpburns — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 09:13:11 -0800

"stfu?"

Gee, Mr. Angry Modem (edgy name, by the way...), perhaps you don't understand the rules of blogstop... or perhaps it would behoove you to educate yourself before posting.

Or you're a butthead.

By: angry modem

angry modem — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 10:40:50 -0800

But understanding this turd hurts empty agitators, dude.

By: jpburns

jpburns — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 11:43:24 -0800

Don't underestimate dialectical enthusiasm...

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 11:57:14 -0800

eh, nasty tasting hummus underlies several incomprehensible arab social mores.

By: bargle

bargle — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 12:10:18 -0800

MetaTalk orgies rarely exclude schadenfreude.

By: dash_slot-

dash_slot- — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 12:15:02 -0800

So cool! He always declaims everything no-one feels right expressing...unless death's expected.

By: condour75

condour75 — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 12:51:07 -0800

Even Christians participate eventually, concerning Thanatos' eventual dispatch.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 12:56:54 -0800

eleven xylophone-pounding egrets consumed the ethyl diazoacetoacetate.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 12:57:11 -0800

damn you, condor75!

By: crunchland

crunchland — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 13:01:30 -0800

for the love of god and all that is holy, stop.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 13:12:51 -0800

suck this old penis.

By: filmgoerjuan

filmgoerjuan — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 13:24:26 -0800

Please everyone, no insults (sorry)

By: condour75

condour75 — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 14:03:25 -0800

Some offenses require retribution, y'know.

By: konolia

konolia — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 14:19:08 -0800

Yo, konolia now offers wisdom.

By: inpHilltr8r

inpHilltr8r — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 14:58:05 -0800

Wheras inpHilllr8r swiftly dispenses outright myxomatosis.

Ha!

By: carter

carter — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 15:35:31 -0800

[Metafilter - Making endless tortuous rearrangements from initial letters 'til everyone's replete.

Sorry. Carry on ;) ]

By: soundofsuburbia

soundofsuburbia — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 15:54:18 -0800

Min yxrockande xylofoncombo orsakar mindre attraktiva turister ovanligt stora illaluktande sädesuttömningar. ;)

By: konolia

konolia — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 16:05:27 -0800

You do and you'll clean it up.

By: jpburns

jpburns — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 16:46:00 -0800

Some assholes despicably emit silliness, using Teutonic tenses, obligating many needlessly into numbingly ghastly acronymistic responses.

Umlauts omitted for convenience sake...

By: elwoodwiles

elwoodwiles — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 17:02:59 -0800

Really, everyone stop posting overly neurotic sexually enigmatic secrets!

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 17:40:11 -0800

sensual eggplant clusters repair eroded transexual surfaces.

By: condour75

condour75 — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 17:52:36 -0800

sordid urges revisit 'Filter, and condour ecstatically squeals.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 18:34:13 -0800

stolidly, quonsar undermines every attempted loophole squashing.

By: bargle

bargle — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 19:09:24 -0800

She quit undulating and snored, hating Ian's neurotic gynotikolobomassophilia.

By: carfilhiot

carfilhiot — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 19:34:08 -0800

gayly you nattered over tea, immediately kindling our love of beefy olive men and sexy sumptious old penises, having it licked is awesome!

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 19:34:58 -0800

gently you nibble on the itchy, kind of loose ocher, bending over meekly and savoring salty open pores, hell, i like it all.

By: carfilhiot

carfilhiot — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 19:37:58 -0800

awwww loser loser

By: tss

tss — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 19:56:19 -0800

Lame, odious sequence eradicator: ribulosebisphosphatecarboxylaseoxygenase.

By: namespan

namespan — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 19:59:42 -0800

"We could play at questions,"

"What good would that do?"

"Practice!"

"Statement! One to nothing."

"Cheating!"

"How?"

"I hadn't started yet."

"Statement! Two - nothing."

"Are you counting that?"

"What?"

"Are you counting that?"

"Foul! No repetitions. Three to nothing. First game to -"

"I'm not going to play if you're going to be like that,"

"Whose serve?"

"Huh?"

"Foul! No grunts. One - nothing."

"Look... Whose go?"

"Why?"

"Why not?"

"What for?"

"Foul! No synonyms! One - all."

"What in God's name is going on?"

"Foul! No rhetoric!"

"What does it all add up to?"

"Can't you guess?"

"Were you addressing me?"

"Is there anyone else?"

"Who?"

"How would I know?"

"Why do you ask?"

"Are you serious?"

"Was that rhetoric?"

"No."

"Statement! Two - all. Game point."

"What's the matter with you today?"

"When?"

"What?"

"Are you deaf?"

"Am I dead?"

"Yes or no?"

"Is there a choice?"

"Is there a God?"

"Foul! No non-sequiturs. Three - two, one game all."

"Very good, now let's try something that's actually pertinent."

"Foul! Imperative -"

"All right, what's your name?"

"What's yours?"

"I asked you first."

"Statement!"

"What's your name when you're at home?"

"What's yours?"

"When I'm at home?"

By: carfilhiot

carfilhiot — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 20:08:09 -0800

holy overly moly esquire.

By: ashbury

ashbury — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 21:35:16 -0800

Effortlessly serene, quietly urgent, I really exist.

By: ashbury

ashbury — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 21:39:47 -0800

namespan, I forgot to mention that Rosencrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead is one of my favorite movies. Thanks for that little walk down memory lane.

By: condour75

condour75 — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 22:16:05 -0800

ribulosebisphosphatecarboxylaseoxygenase.

Rendering inconsequential bygone ultimatums, leave odious sequence eradicators before intense Stoppard posts herewith. Of Shakespeare's pipsqueak Hamlet? all that existential crap about revenge, being, ontology, Christianity? Yorick's last antics? Our emulsifier, xanthan (yellow) gum, eliminates nihlism about spoiled existence.

By: Lynsey

Lynsey — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 22:42:33 -0800

Excepting x-rays, I seldom talk; ever nuanced charm, evidently.

By: Lynsey

Lynsey — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 22:45:16 -0800

Nice one, condour75!

By: condour75

condour75 — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 23:03:30 -0800

Missed an "s": make it "Yorick's last agonizing scene", and thanks Lynsey!

By: jpburns

jpburns — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 05:57:44 -0800

Evil, vindictive individuals decry enjoyable nonsensical tautological linguistic yahooism.

By: konolia

konolia — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 06:07:51 -0800

You always have other options in surfing Metafilter.

By: bargle

bargle — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 08:05:30 -0800

Matt eviscerated the asshats flinging Italian lasagna, that evil rapscallion!

By: filmgoerjuan

filmgoerjuan — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 09:07:46 -0800

Really, are people so concerned about linguistic levity in our neighbourhood?

By: PrinceValium

PrinceValium — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 09:29:45 -0800

No, even idiots go home before our undulating rabbits hell-bent on oneupsmanship dominate.

By: carfilhiot

carfilhiot — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 09:46:44 -0800

digeridooooo ooooooo moooooo. i never asked to exist.

By: adrianhon

adrianhon — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 10:02:05 -0800

Execrable 'x's indicate serious tomfoolery.

By: condour75

condour75 — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 10:32:06 -0800

Tomfoolery, or merely fate? Or Odin's locus, encircled rune? Yggdrasil!

By: carfilhiot

carfilhiot — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 10:49:18 -0800

Yonder green grasslands do righteous and solemn individuals live.

By: condour75

condour75 — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 11:09:25 -0800

(Like Ikea: viking elegance.)

By: notsnot

notsnot — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 12:00:47 -0800

Ere long, everything's gonna abate; now, enjoy - Everyone!

fuck, sorry to leave someone with all those 'e's!

By: carfilhiot

carfilhiot — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 13:12:00 -0800

everyone visited eight rancid yams on notsnot's e's

By: inpHilltr8r

inpHilltr8r — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 13:43:04 -0800

Eh - so?

By: carfilhiot

carfilhiot — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 13:56:58 -0800

superstitious ORNICOPYTHEOBIBLIOPSYCHOCRYSTARROSCIOAEROGENETHLIOMETEOROAUSTROHIEROANTHROPOICHTHYOPYROSIDER
OCHPNOMYOALECTRYOOPHIOBOTANOPEGOHYDRORHABDOCRITHOALEUROALPHITOHALOMOLYBDOCLEROBELOAXINOCO
SCINODACTYLIOGEOLITHOPESSOPSEPHOCATOPTROTEPHRAONEIROCHIROONYCHODACTYLOARITHSTICHOOXOGELOSCOGA
STROGYROCEROBLETONOOENOSCAPULINANIAC

By: condour75

condour75 — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 14:29:23 -0800

ok, really now, it's cold of you to hoist egregious offenses by invoking barbarically long ideograms onto posters. So you can't handle our creative ripostes, you sarcastic taffy assed roustabout? Reasonably, often such crap is often attended erratically.

Granted, even now, everyone throughout Haughey's little island of Metafilter ends threads eventually. Only, reaching out at universal, staid truths regarding ontology, humanity, inevitably ends responses of a natural, timely, human rhythm. Oft posted odiousness ires condour. Had thoughts hit you of prior yearnings regarding other such instances? Damn, everyone, rest...[first line only]

By: condour75

condour75 — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 14:53:25 -0800

sorry about the taffy assed roustabout thing, by the way.

By: Item

Item — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 15:30:18 -0800

What a yokel.

By: carfilhiot

carfilhiot — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 15:34:12 -0800

it's cold of [p] you - you missed a p. may i suggest pulchritudinous?

By: bargle

bargle — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 01:30:57 -0800

Just one line? I'll give it a try:

Offer relative nonsense, incite commercial outcomes. Postpone your thrusting, hateful eventuality. Ogle beauty in bliss – live inventively or perfectly, save your chosen handicaps. Hover over crystal rivers, yellow sunsets, tolerating any reality.

Render occasional sentiments completely invincible, outlasting arrogant enemy rhetoric. Originally generic evil never equaled the hopelessness living inside our minds, eating, tormenting everything our reality offers. Anticipate, understand such terrible realms. Only honed ideas emit real omnipotence.

Act neighborly, talk humbly, read others’ pain. Onward into chaos, heathen…this hellish yearning offers primordial yellow realities over stylishly infinite dreams.

Eagerly reaching out can help provide new opportunities. Meaningful yet opportunistic actions leave every corner turned rewarding.
Yet only preferring haze is omitting blessed offerings, told answers, named outcomes. Pursue each great order, heeding your heart, your daring only rarely harming anyone.

Be deadly. Offer criminals relative invisibility that happens only after lengthy exposure. Understand rage or at least pursue, hone it. That offers healthy allowances, leaves our minds olympic-like, yet beautifully delicate.

Outside criticism, like evil, returns occasionally. But every leaf overturned around xenophobic ideologies, nearly-opaque cowardliness, or serial creativity is nearly obligatory. Demons are casually thrown yonder, living in our generally empty outside-lives, in the hells our personas erect. Seeking solace only provides some ethereal promises, hopes or cares.

And the overtly perverse trials rendered over the existential phases help retread an oft-neglected environment inside realities or causalities, harshly inspiring reason.

Oh, our nameless yet crafty helper, our disease, always creates the yellow lies. Outcomes are reactionary in the half-state that incites creativity, hovering over our xeroxed offerings, grossly ending our stalemates.

Come or go, attack, surrender…think. Reach over general yearning, reach over contraptions erected recklessly. Our blandness leaves everyone throwing out noises over our evil namesakes. Only stop creators and play up life, ignoring nasty animosity, numbing idealism, and clowns.

*brain explodes*

By: condour75

condour75 — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 01:59:05 -0800

NICE!

By: jpburns

jpburns — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 04:09:15 -0800

Cerebellum leaps out; wonderful nonsense sentences.

By: carfilhiot

carfilhiot — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 07:48:54 -0800

such efforts need to elicit nice comments - excellent squire!

By: carfilhiot

carfilhiot — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 08:00:55 -0800

uhm you missed a letter... just kidding :) kinda reads like a cross between irvine welsh and revelations! good reading though.

By: arto

arto — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 12:00:54 -0800

Serious quality, if ridiculously enormous.

Nah, it needs more "ye fookin' coont"s to be Welsh. Maybe the spectacular flameout that ends "A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius"?

By: filmgoerjuan

filmgoerjuan — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 13:13:10 -0800

Everyone needs onanistic rhetorical memes (over usual stuff).

By: condour75

condour75 — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 14:07:35 -0800

Sadly, true. Unusually fulfilling flagellation.

By: y6y6y6

y6y6y6 — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 14:24:36 -0800

First, let a guy extend (literally) legions of contemptuous bad thoughts on you f'ing losers.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 14:41:52 -0800

Lester only sees early retrograde spirochetes.

By: y6y6y6

y6y6y6 — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 14:46:55 -0800

Some people ignore really odious crap here. Either way, it was crap the first time, and it's crap now.

By: carfilhiot

carfilhiot — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 14:57:26 -0800

nagging olde wanker

hehe y6 you seem tohave a bit of trouble finishing off your sentence. keep peservering, you just need a little patience

By: y6y6y6

y6y6y6 — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 15:33:04 -0800

People attempt to indulge asshats. Total crap ensues. YMMV.

By: jpburns

jpburns — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 17:08:18 -0800

spirochewiwctftaicn?

Some people invoke rancor, offering choad-like, heinous evil tirades, eschewing spelling.

Dude! Get a spell checker, or a sense of humor...

By: carfilhiot

carfilhiot — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 17:42:14 -0800

here i'll help you out y6y6y6 - you need it.

people attempting to indulge excrement never cause enthusiasm

------------------

still persevering? 'e learns lessons in nitpicking. goy6y6y6go!

By: y2karl

y2karl — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 17:43:40 -0800

Heinous urchins mumbled ornate rhodomontade.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 18:12:10 -0800

actually, suffering sages have only lightheartedness, enduring sequels.

By: namespan

namespan — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 19:18:29 -0800

Please, just tell me that no one is going to start a MeTalk thread to comment on the phenomenon that (who could have predicted it?) this MetaThread on blogstopping has in fact become a blogstopping thread.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 19:18:56 -0800

fuck the fucking fuck fuck, fuckers.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 20:46:01 -0800

Four ugly cranks killed endless revels soonest.

By: carfilhiot

carfilhiot — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 21:31:35 -0800

i never particiated in the first thread, so this was like all new and exciting for me.

but i know see that such childishness is not acceptable. my apologies to all those who were forced to keep coming back to this page to hurl insults (if you are hurling insults - your skilz are so lacking it's hard to tell - except for you quonsar, excellent sentence composition).

i won't do it again and i'll try to be nice. so often only newbies end sentences tartly.

By: taz

taz — Wed, 03 Sep 2003 01:26:56 -0800

"Thread addiction," reflected Tom, longingly. "Yes..."

By: jpburns

jpburns — Wed, 03 Sep 2003 08:47:28 -0800

"Why Can't MetaFilter Do Something Like This More Often?"

Well, I guess we answered that question.

Grumpy-butts!

By: ed

ed — Wed, 03 Sep 2003 17:23:41 -0800

Yentl emphasizes Streisand.

By: buzzv

buzzv — Wed, 03 Sep 2003 19:47:42 -0800

Stunning to realize even innocent silliness angers non-participating disparagers.

By: buzzv

buzzv — Wed, 03 Sep 2003 20:04:12 -0800

Decided: I shall post acronymically regardless; all gainsaying egregiousness rejected summarily.

By: carfilhiot

carfilhiot — Wed, 03 Sep 2003 21:13:05 -0800

surely you must mean "acronyms regardless"? It's Latin y'know.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Wed, 03 Sep 2003 21:17:11 -0800

Sensually uxorious men mooted ardent risks in love's yesteryear.

By: condour75

condour75 — Thu, 04 Sep 2003 01:09:55 -0800

(y2karl[y2karl.length-1] | "y'know") { necessarily, order wins. }

By: y2karl

y2karl — Thu, 04 Sep 2003 07:27:03 -0800

You're kind of wimpy.

By: wendell

wendell — Fri, 05 Sep 2003 00:01:49 -0800

You're kinda not openly wendell.
(dropped an 'n' y2, penalty flag, half the distance to the blogstop)

However, I would like to express my graditude to those of you who turned this thread into Bastard Son of Blogstop. Now, I'm going to post another MetaTalk topic and await further abuse.

By: jpburns

jpburns — Sat, 06 Sep 2003 16:22:31 -0800

Wendell endures numerous dismissals, eventually lives large.