Neither funny nor on-topic

January 14, 2004 7:09 PM

Pardon me for asking, but WTF? I can't think of how this answer is useful, or even humorous yet off topic. It's just random and potentially offensive in a surreal sort of way. How do we head this stuff off at the pass? The "as useful as you make it" bit isn't working.
posted by majick to etiquette/policy at 7:09 PM (16 comments total)

I don't get it either, but in her defense answergrape did bring up a really important point a couple comments above in that thread, so she did actually make it useful. I don't know, chop the joke out and move on, I'd say, though now I do want to know what U-Haul has to do with lesbians.
posted by furiousthought at 7:16 PM on January 14, 2004

What does a lesbian bring on a second date?
posted by donth at 7:21 PM on January 14, 2004

stupid, removed.
posted by mathowie at 7:26 PM on January 14, 2004

Yes, wrong for Ask. Sorry....
posted by answergrape at 7:50 PM on January 14, 2004

So, err, what does U-Haul have to do with lesbians then?
posted by inpHilltr8r at 7:52 PM on January 14, 2004

It's a bad joke. "What do lesbians bring on the first date?" Answer: U-Haul. Commentary on the nesting tendencies of lesbians.
posted by answergrape at 7:57 PM on January 14, 2004

inp: A U-Haul is what lesbians bring on a second date. ;-P
posted by mischief at 7:57 PM on January 14, 2004

Heheh. Latency? Wait 'n' see!
posted by mischief at 7:58 PM on January 14, 2004

Why, you're right mischief, it's the second date. Clearly it's been long time since I dated at all, having already parked the U-Haul in the right driveway.
posted by answergrape at 8:02 PM on January 14, 2004

Don't you just love how these deleted posts take on a new life in MeTalk?! ;-P
posted by mischief at 8:10 PM on January 14, 2004

The joy of MeTa.
posted by answergrape at 8:34 PM on January 14, 2004

The "as useful as you make it" bit isn't working.

It's not working too badly at all, I don't think. Surgical nuclear strikes on offenders will hopefully keep it that way.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 9:36 PM on January 14, 2004

Metafilter: Commentary on the nesting tendencies of lesbians.
posted by PrinceValium at 10:10 PM on January 14, 2004

lesbians(lesbians());
posted by quonsar at 11:05 PM on January 14, 2004

I was thinking more along the lines of

MetaFilter: Surgical Nuclear Strikes

myself, but oh well.

You know, it's a good thing that it's only AskMeFi that's as useful as we make it. If MeTa were as useful as we made it, posts like this one would be right out.
posted by fvw at 1:41 AM on January 15, 2004

Complete version:

Q: What does a lesbian bring on the second date?
A: A U-Haul.
Q: What does a gay man bring on the second date?
A: What second date?
posted by widdershins at 8:55 AM on January 15, 2004