I am not quonsar. March 24, 2004 4:01 AM   Subscribe

quonsar and I: May I point out that I am not quonsar. I don't have any particular beef with him/her, but I am being frequently mistaken for him, and vice versa.

I got my handle from a local tribe when I was living in Tanzania, but mefi is the first place where I have come across a similar handle.
posted by quarsan to MetaFilter-Related at 4:01 AM (148 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite

I'm quonsar
posted by johnny novak at 4:29 AM on March 24, 2004


No, I'm quonsar.
posted by jpburns at 4:43 AM on March 24, 2004


FREE QUARSAN!
posted by anathema at 4:49 AM on March 24, 2004


Ha, that's hilarious. The first comment that came to my mind was "I'm quonsar." Scary.

*pokes at quarsan, looks behind his ears, sniffs his butt*

Nope, you're not quonsar.
posted by Shane at 5:19 AM on March 24, 2004


Poser.
posted by DaShiv at 5:20 AM on March 24, 2004


Poser.
posted by DaShiv at 5:20 AM PST on March 24


Hey, what the hell? You're not dabitch. Cheap knockoff!
posted by Shane at 5:30 AM on March 24, 2004


but I am being frequently mistaken for him, and vice versa.

unless this occurred overnight, i cannot recall one instance of ever having been mistaken for quarsan. ever. so, i eagerly await your examples of being mistaken for me.
posted by quonsar at 5:39 AM on March 24, 2004


I think quarsan IS quonsar, taking the piss.
posted by Shane at 5:40 AM on March 24, 2004


I have confused the two of you on #mefi and may be the cause of this mess.
*hangs head in shame*
posted by dg at 5:43 AM on March 24, 2004


I feel your pain, quarsan.
posted by crunchburger at 5:52 AM on March 24, 2004


i dont recall ever seeing quarsan on #mefi
posted by quonsar at 5:53 AM on March 24, 2004


but as long as we's airing minor peeves, keyser soze seems to have mistaken the site for his own personal chilton's guide. aside from soliciting legal advice for alcoholic "friends", he posts a followup in meta followed almost immediately by an obviously booze-driven screed consisting matts cute little "wisecrack" inscription from the AxMe posting box and nothing else, whihc matt deleted. yesterday he led off his personal hit parade with a request for life-sized Bacardi bottle cutouts. i think what we are seeing here is a genuine cry from help from his calling as a hyper-officious y6y6y6 junior.
posted by quonsar at 5:54 AM on March 24, 2004


but as long as we's airing minor peeves, keyser soze seems to have mistaken the site for his own personal chilton's guide. aside from soliciting legal advice for alcoholic "friends", he posts a followup in meta followed almost immediately by an obviously booze-driven screed consisting matts cute little "wisecrack" inscription from the AxMe posting box and nothing else, whihc matt deleted. yesterday he led off his personal hit parade with a request for life-sized Bacardi bottle cutouts. i think what we are seeing here is a genuine cry from help from a still-wet-behind-the-ears guzzler, or a guy whose found his calling as a hyper-officious y6y6y6 junior.
posted by quonsar at 5:56 AM on March 24, 2004


quarsan, just keep using the shift key every now and then.
posted by carter at 6:09 AM on March 24, 2004


This is very disappointing. I was under the impression that we were all quonsar since he was so cruelly banned by the only certifiable non-quonsar amongst us.

Even so, I take this opportunity to make clear I am not The God Complex - not on weekdays, anyway.
posted by MiguelCardoso at 6:29 AM on March 24, 2004


I am mathowie
posted by matteo at 6:32 AM on March 24, 2004


This is like a metafilter/nike commercial. I am Keyser Soze, but only on weekends.
posted by eastlakestandard at 6:39 AM on March 24, 2004


I'm quonsar, and so is my wife.
posted by Vidiot at 6:48 AM on March 24, 2004


All users here are one person, I understand. It's just me and you.
posted by SpaceCadet at 6:55 AM on March 24, 2004


Jonmc and Rushmc are the same person - it's just a question of which hand is the dominant one.
posted by orange swan at 6:56 AM on March 24, 2004


May I point out that I am not SpaceCadet, Spacelegoman, spacehug, spacewaitress, spaceboy86, Spaceboy, SpaceKadet or Spaceports? Thank you.
posted by Space Coyote at 6:58 AM on March 24, 2004


I am not a piece of grey flesh inside your brains.

I kinda wish someone would create an account called "Scrotex" so I could point out that I'm not them either.
posted by cortex at 7:09 AM on March 24, 2004


I am not cortex.
posted by carter at 7:20 AM on March 24, 2004


I want to know what happened to the earlier, funnier quonsar.
posted by fuzz at 7:21 AM on March 24, 2004


quarsan, you have mistaken me for someone who gives a fuck. ;-P
posted by mischief at 7:22 AM on March 24, 2004


bite your tongue, orange swan.
posted by jonmc at 7:30 AM on March 24, 2004


Shit, now I can't remember if I'm mischief. I may well be, but checking is not an option at this time. If I am, I make a point of not apologizing. If not, I'm truly sorry.

But Matteo, Vidiot, orange swan, cortex, jonmc, carter, Space Coyote, SpaceCadet and that "Please hope me administrator" guy, yeah, yeah, yeah - they're all undoubtedly me. What else is new, ducky?

But, as my great-aunt used to say before she was committed: "If something is so blindingly obvious, why wear wine-stained mauve pantaloons to the rodeo?"
posted by MiguelCardoso at 7:40 AM on March 24, 2004


I got my handle from a local tribe when I was living in Tanzania

And they want it back. Now.

This is the best MeTa thread in ages.
posted by languagehat at 7:41 AM on March 24, 2004


Evanizer is Fold and Mutilate is me.
posted by tr33hggr at 7:49 AM on March 24, 2004


I am Spartacus!
posted by soundofsuburbia at 7:55 AM on March 24, 2004




di dum

(iamb)
posted by andrew cooke at 8:04 AM on March 24, 2004


We are all quonsar now.

You know, since 9/11.
posted by weston at 8:05 AM on March 24, 2004


i am tracy!
posted by t r a c y at 8:07 AM on March 24, 2004


There is no quonsar
posted by angry modem at 8:08 AM on March 24, 2004


Okay, in my next Mefi incarnation can I be "wine_stained_mauve_pantaloons"? Because I think this pretty well summarizes my personality....
posted by taz at 8:11 AM on March 24, 2004


This went well
posted by Mick at 8:21 AM on March 24, 2004


Soylent Green is quonsar!
posted by filmgoerjuan at 8:22 AM on March 24, 2004




Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa adds:

"Who is this quarsan fella of which you speak? There is no knowledge of him amongst the Masai. We are a proud people - only three of us (which says a lot) are assumed members of the MetaFilter "tribe" and they are under strict observation.

Here they are:



They look lost, do they not? At least they're "all in it together"...

Our great nation recognizes only quonsar - even though that renegade bastard hasn't returned our calls in weeks. Although hoarding the tiger nuts we sent, he has yet to respond with the slightest crate of Wild Turkey or packet of Ritz crackers.

Let this be a warning to him; no offense.
posted by MiguelCardoso at 8:31 AM on March 24, 2004


Whoah, there, Mr. President..
The Florida Supreme Court has ordered the country of Tanzania to change its name, following a Trademark infringement claim by Tampa-based Tanzania Tanning Salons.
President Benamin Mkapa:

"Any use of my country's name constitutes infringement on the plaintiff's trademark... We've lost our national identity... This is a very sad day for the people once known as Tanzanians."
(Can't find the original link on the Onion)
posted by Space Coyote at 8:41 AM on March 24, 2004


di dum

(iamb)


Di dum di dum di dum di dum di dum.

I am Bic Pentameter.

*Baddabing*
posted by carter at 8:47 AM on March 24, 2004



posted by Steve_at_Linnwood at 8:48 AM on March 24, 2004


I blame everything on Bewitched. Since the Darren switcheroo, reality has been but an empty husk.

Sorry, Jon.
posted by orange swan at 8:54 AM on March 24, 2004


Sincere greetings to you and your family. I know that You may be
surprised to receive this message from me Since you don't know me in
person but for the purpose Of introduction, I am themba funzani the son
of the late Mr. Harrison funzani who was murdered in a land dispute in
Tanzania. I got your contact through the world trade journal. As I feel,
you should be a reliable and trustworthy person to deal with hence I
have decided to write this to you.

My late father was among the few black Tanzanian farmers murdered
in cold blood by the agent of the ruling government of President Benjamin
Mkapa for his alleged support and Sympathy for Tanzanian opposition
party. Before the death of my father, he took me to South Africa to
deposit a US quarsan with a security and finance company, as if he knew
the looming danger In Tanzania. The quarsan was deposited as Artifact and
valuable personal effects. This quarsan was earmarked for the Purchase of
new machinery and chemicals for the farms and the establishment of new
farms in Lesotho and Swaziland.

After the death of my Dad, I and my Mother fled Tanzania and we are currently
staying in Holland(Amsterdam) as refugees/asylum seekers. The quarsan is
presently in the custody of a security Company here in Holland. We are
unable to lay claims to this quarsan because of our political status as
refugees here in the Netherlands. For this reason, we need a foreigner
who will come forward as the next of kin to my father and lay claims to
this quarsan. We shall need you to come to Holland to lay claims to this
quarsan to enable this quarsan to be transferred into your nominated
account. We have all the modalities to see that this quarsan is
transferred to you within the shortest possible time as soon as you
agree to assist us in this transaction. I must let you know that this
business is 100% risk Free, timely and the nature of your business does
not Necessarily matter. So if you are willing to assist us, I and my
mother have agreed to give you 25% of the Total quarsan, while 70% will be
for us which we shall also invest in your Country with your advice and
the remaining 5% will be mapped out for any incidental expenses which we
may incur during the transaction.

Therefore, if you are willing and interested to render the needed
assistance, endeavor to reply through this my Email Address. Remember
that this is highly confidential and the Success of this business
depends on how secret it is Kept. Please where you are not interested,
do not discuss this matter with anybody. I shall bring you into a more
detailed picture of this transaction when you reply me.

Best Regards,
themba funzani.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 8:59 AM on March 24, 2004


I am not Spock.

posted by leonardnimoy at 9:04 AM PST on March 24


Oh wait, yes I am.

posted by leonardnimoy at 9:05 AM PST on March 24
posted by soyjoy at 9:14 AM on March 24, 2004


I am not spartacusroosevelt.
posted by dabitch at 9:22 AM on March 24, 2004


I am not me.
posted by moonbird at 9:36 AM on March 24, 2004


~Secret Life of Gravy is away from her desk at this time. However, an autistic boy is standing by to answer all your questions by staring into a snowglobe~
posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 9:40 AM on March 24, 2004


I am me.
posted by piskycritter at 9:52 AM on March 24, 2004


You know who I am.
posted by konolia at 10:16 AM on March 24, 2004


This crap post is not worthy of Metatalk. Are we going to have to put up with this kind of thing every time somebody's name is similar to Quonsar's? When will it end?
posted by Slagman at 10:31 AM on March 24, 2004


I am not a number!
posted by keswick at 10:32 AM on March 24, 2004


I am me3dia.

No, really. I am.
posted by me3dia at 10:38 AM on March 24, 2004


I've been told many times that I am not witty.
posted by Witty at 10:43 AM on March 24, 2004


i am jack's medulla oblongata.
posted by keswick at 10:43 AM on March 24, 2004


MAYORBOB hasn't been seen in a while. That's good, because this town isn't big enough to have two mayors.
posted by Mayor Curley at 10:48 AM on March 24, 2004


Keswick, last time I looked, there was a Lotus 7, ostensibly the one belonging to Number Six, at the Motor Museum, in, wait for it... Keswick.

Oooo, eerie.
posted by George_Spiggott at 11:01 AM on March 24, 2004


I want to know what happened to the earlier, funnier quonsar.

matt took him out behind the greenish, open sewage pit which flows behind metatalk and dispatched him with a single shot to the head. but is was all for naught because no matter how much cheerleading "ah lurvs AxMe" he gets from the locals it's highly unlikely any magazine will want him on the cover for "creating" a 2 minute knock off of metatalk, dressing it in green and prodding y6y6y6 until he shouts from the hilltop what a wonderful NewThink™ AxMe is.
posted by quonsar at 11:12 AM on March 24, 2004


I am

Details at 10
posted by Outlawyr at 11:13 AM on March 24, 2004


I am not in a position to lend you any energon cubes. So quit asking.
posted by Galvatron at 11:15 AM on March 24, 2004


I am, I said
posted by amberglow at 11:17 AM on March 24, 2004


I am George Bush.
posted by clavdivs at 11:26 AM on March 24, 2004


I'm Kitty Carlisle, and I'm ready to play "To Tell the Truth!"
posted by scody at 11:28 AM on March 24, 2004


I'm Brian Blessed!
posted by homunculus at 11:31 AM on March 24, 2004


I'm waiting for God to speak up and say who he's not.
posted by dness2 at 11:46 AM on March 24, 2004


I am George Bush.

syntax blew your cover long ago, Mr President.
;)
posted by matteo at 11:48 AM on March 24, 2004


I am hama7 and I despise myself.
posted by strangeleftydoublethink at 11:50 AM on March 24, 2004


I think I'm quonsar therefore I am quonsar. (and therefor I'm also quarsan ofcourse)
posted by fvw at 11:55 AM on March 24, 2004


Call me Ishmael.

Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation.
posted by eddydamascene at 12:01 PM on March 24, 2004


While it is true that Miguel is not in fact me, at least on weekdays, it is equally true that I solicit his advise on a near-hourly basis using morse code and bird calls.
posted by The God Complex at 12:07 PM on March 24, 2004


Would the real quonsar please stand up? Please stand up?
posted by SpecialK at 12:14 PM on March 24, 2004


I am the eggman...

I am the walrus.

Ook-ook-a-choob.
posted by jpburns at 12:17 PM on March 24, 2004


What about the earlier, furrier quonsar? I found a hair in my soup, where's the rest of him?
posted by jfuller at 12:28 PM on March 24, 2004


"I am the walrus."
posted by dabitch at 12:40 PM on March 24, 2004


It's "Goo Goo Ga Joob," jpburns.
posted by jonmc at 12:53 PM on March 24, 2004


I am not getting any work done.
posted by dness2 at 12:58 PM on March 24, 2004


goddam larvae cant even get the beatles right. its all that punk they ruined their ears with.
posted by quonsar at 12:59 PM on March 24, 2004


i am pleased to see that people are having fun.

unfortunately i was earlier playing round on that flash thingy site and had to constantly state i wasn't quonsar. the same thing has happened on the few times i've been on #mefi. so i don't bother going there.

i would like to interact with other mefi's but not if the only conversation we have is am i quonsar or not.

miguel, although i have many maasai friends, the name comes from the iraqw tribe.
posted by quarsan at 1:00 PM on March 24, 2004


I'm waiting for the man.
posted by Quartermass at 1:11 PM on March 24, 2004


www.amiquonsarornot.com
posted by trondant at 1:14 PM on March 24, 2004


the same thing has happened on the few times i've been on #mefi. so i don't bother going there.

If it's really that much of a problem I suggest:

/nick alternate_nick_here
posted by anathema at 1:17 PM on March 24, 2004


thanks for that tip anathema, it's a couldn't be bothered type of problem.
posted by quarsan at 1:25 PM on March 24, 2004


Well, here's the deal: everytime I look at my profile and it says I've posted no comments to MetaTalk I've been slightly bothered. However I've never really had a reason to comment on a MetaTalk thread and I've worried about dragging down the level of discourse just to get rid of that stupid no post thing.

So, thank you all for finally giving me a thread that could be made no worse.
posted by BackwardsHatClub at 1:57 PM on March 24, 2004


I thought a girl mistook me for her ex-boyfriend once on the train. She got on one stop, sat opposite me long enough to glare at me and say "I still hate you for what did to me ..." and storm off at the next stop. It wasn't until I turned around to see if anyone was watching and noticed a rather shaken looking man behind me I realised who the real target of her vitriol was.
posted by feelinglistless at 2:06 PM on March 24, 2004


oh the irony.

someone is complaining they're mistaken for a minor weblog celebrity. their partner at work is called sinead o'connor.
posted by andrew cooke at 2:32 PM on March 24, 2004


I am not BackwardsHatClub.

And feelinglistless, I too still hate you for what did to me.
posted by languagehat at 2:36 PM on March 24, 2004


Bunch of silly bitches. Take the goat cock and like it.
posted by bargle at 2:45 PM on March 24, 2004


I have seen both quonsar and quarsan on #mefi, but never both at the same time. Just sayin' ....
posted by dg at 2:49 PM on March 24, 2004


I am Tiger Woods.
posted by pizzasub at 2:58 PM on March 24, 2004


MEN OF SCOTTLAND! I AM QUONSAR!
posted by Ryvar at 3:04 PM on March 24, 2004




i am not, in fact, a lymphatic organ. neither am i called joe.

just thought i should clear that up.
posted by i_am_joe's_spleen at 4:08 PM on March 24, 2004


I am the very model of a modern Major-general ...

Too obscure for all you pups out there?
posted by Wulfgar! at 4:11 PM on March 24, 2004


I yam what I yam...
posted by jpburns at 4:15 PM on March 24, 2004


I am not an animal! I am a human being!
posted by madamjujujive at 4:15 PM on March 24, 2004


This is really cool. I just typed my Mefi username into Google's image search, and I found pictures of dogs, cats, Vikings with big hammers (as if), a Beowulf linux cluster, elk, furry fan-art (sexually explicit), a link to SpoFi, a goat, maps, a ship, and even a picture of Mothra ... but no pictures of me. Maybe I don't really exist after all.

Oh, I tried quonsar also, but the results are just too scary. You'll have to try that on your own.
posted by Wulfgar! at 4:24 PM on March 24, 2004


BTW, if you try "fishfucker" the very first image is one of Miguel. How'd that happen, I wonder ...
posted by Wulfgar! at 4:28 PM on March 24, 2004


I'll tell you why that happens: because he's repeatedly raped my haddocks, that's why.
posted by MiguelCardoso at 5:07 PM on March 24, 2004


I am the emperor of Japan.
posted by cbrody at 5:08 PM on March 24, 2004


I am quonsar , and i am willing to negotiate.
posted by sgt.serenity at 5:45 PM on March 24, 2004


I think I am, therefore I am. I think.
posted by carter at 6:51 PM on March 24, 2004


I am Legion for I am many.
posted by ashbury at 7:20 PM on March 24, 2004


I am sorry.

Wulfgar! Yay Pirates!
posted by CunningLinguist at 7:54 PM on March 24, 2004


Who do I think I am?
posted by wendellseviltwin at 7:56 PM on March 24, 2004


Who the hell are you?
posted by wendell at 7:58 PM on March 24, 2004


This is why we can't have nice things.
posted by majick at 8:02 PM on March 24, 2004


No, the flesh eating virus is why we can't have nice things. This is why we don't get invited to parties anymore.
posted by fvw at 9:05 PM on March 24, 2004



posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 9:41 PM on March 24, 2004


Who's pzarquon, then?

(And by the way, quarsan, the first time I saw your name, I didn't confuse you with quonsar.)
posted by interrobang at 11:19 PM on March 24, 2004


but as long as we's airing minor peeves, keyser soze seems to have mistaken the site for his own personal chilton's guide. aside from soliciting legal advice for alcoholic "friends", he posts a followup in meta followed almost immediately by an obviously booze-driven screed consisting matts cute little "wisecrack" inscription from the AxMe posting box and nothing else, whihc matt deleted. yesterday he led off his personal hit parade with a request for life-sized Bacardi bottle cutouts. i think what we are seeing here is a genuine cry from help from a still-wet-behind-the-ears guzzler, or a guy whose found his calling as a hyper-officious y6y6y6 junior.
posted by quonsar at 5:56 AM PST on March 24


If you had more guts, I would meet you in person and fix your attitude in front of your friends.
posted by Keyser Soze at 11:20 PM on March 24, 2004


If you had more guts, I would meet you in person and fix your attitude in front of your friends.
posted by Keyser Soze at 11:20 PM PST on March 24


If you had more sense, you would meet a book on controlling your anger and rebut quonsar with snark, and not empty physical threats.

just sayin'
posted by lazaruslong at 11:44 PM on March 24, 2004


If quonsar had more guts he'd have to go on atkins. Have you seen that guy?! He has so much jelly in his belly Bill Cosby follows him around trying to get work. I'm not saying he's fat, but you have to take two trains and a bus just to get to his good side! I'm not trying to insinuate that Quonsarquon is fat, but when he goes to the restaurant he looks at the menu and says "ok"!
posted by The God Complex at 11:52 PM on March 24, 2004


Look, I'm not saying Quonsar isn't bright, but when someone asked him when a train leaving Los Angeles at 3:12PM for Las Vegas traveling at a speed 68.3mph would meet up with a train leaving Las Vegas at 4:08PM for Los Angeles at a varying rate of speed, he was off by 6x.

Oh, snap.
posted by The God Complex at 12:03 AM on March 25, 2004


That's right, I'm calling pzarquonsar out. Red rover, red rover, quonsar is about to get burned by my verbal flamethrower.
posted by The God Complex at 12:06 AM on March 25, 2004


Like the time I was at a football game with him and he thought the quarterback was a refund?
posted by Keyser Soze at 12:36 AM on March 25, 2004


Who are you, fuckin' Weird Al? Stop biting my act!
posted by The God Complex at 12:38 AM on March 25, 2004


quarsan, maybe if you spelled your name with a capital "Q" you wouldn't be quonsar, but as it is, I'm afraid you are wrong. You really are quonsar. Now, go start collecting your royalty checks from all those porn films.
posted by taz at 12:45 AM on March 25, 2004



posted by Keyser Soze at 12:49 AM on March 25, 2004



If you had more guts, I would meet you in person and fix your attitude in front of your friends.


yep. just like your "friend" fixed that cashier with a case of beer to the head. there are very few people here left to fool, "kieser", and you can rest assured that were your alky driven "friend" to commit another assault, me and my pre-geriatric friends would be proud to come down on alternate saturdays to feed you handfuls of peanuts and watch you fling poo and waggle your weeny behind the glass in the primate house. we might even quaff a few life-sized bacardi in front of you. though personally, i feel those exhibiting the levels of agressive stupidity demonstrated by yourself would probably exceed at killing in the middle east, except you'd be thrown out of boot camp ther first time you bricked your drill sergeant in the teeth with a 6-pack. at my middle-age, i have little to fear from youthful, foaming at the mouth drunks, they tend not to enjoy the taste of well-oiled blue steel jammed against the tonsils. you know, from when they trip and accidently swallow a parking meter.
posted by quonsar at 3:26 AM on March 25, 2004


quarsan is the Mario to quonsar's Wario.
posted by Blue Stone at 4:02 AM on March 25, 2004


Uh, no - this is why we don't get invited to parties no more.
posted by dash_slot- at 4:04 AM on March 25, 2004


So long , q: place won't be the same without ya.

keyser: such potential, thrown away. Best of luck mate.
posted by dash_slot- at 4:05 AM on March 25, 2004


Okay, the quonsar vs keyser deathmatch is no longer fun. Anti-fun, really.
posted by Shane at 5:52 AM on March 25, 2004


I think keyser reminds q of himself when he was young.
posted by amberglow at 5:54 AM on March 25, 2004


I am not the messiah.
posted by johnnyboy at 7:13 AM on March 25, 2004


better late than never:

I am the Quonsar Haderach
posted by m@ at 7:43 AM on March 25, 2004


I'm Batman.
posted by jpburns at 8:25 AM on March 25, 2004


We are not amused.
posted by wendell at 9:43 AM on March 25, 2004


I am Atrios.

Look, it's a languagehat!
posted by soyjoy at 10:06 AM on March 25, 2004


Oh well, at least I got to talk to myself like Billy Cosby while composing three successive posts.
posted by The God Complex at 10:17 AM on March 25, 2004


Sweet Jeebus is this still going on?

You guys stop messing around and get back to the blue! Bush is pulling more crap and we need all our warriors out there. I mean it! You stop playing with quonsar's name right now!
posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 10:17 AM on March 25, 2004


You don't know where it has been.
posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 10:18 AM on March 25, 2004


There can be only one! ... QuonSAR!
posted by DaRiLo at 10:35 AM on March 25, 2004


You don't know want to know where it has been.
posted by Shane at 10:36 AM on March 25, 2004


Look, it's a languagehat!

Where? Where??
*looks around wildly*

Naw, that's just quonsar again.

Oh, and quarsan—these guys really want their name back. Don't make them come after you.
posted by languagehat at 11:29 AM on March 25, 2004


FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! *chugs beer*
posted by ashbury at 11:51 AM on March 25, 2004


languagehat, thank you for that. i know that family and they do call me quarsan.
posted by quarsan at 12:40 PM on March 25, 2004


MetaFilter: FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! *chugs beer*
posted by pizzasub at 1:12 PM on March 25, 2004


quarsan is OBVIOUSLY not quonsar! Here is a little tale of a quonsar - and what one is truly capable of : "The quonsar sat quietly in a strong bamboo cage and gnawed on a bone. Next to the cage a merchant was watching the crowd and the gentleman asked him if the quonsar was for sale.

`Of course,' the merchant said. "Otherwise I wouldn't be here. This is an excellent quonsar, strong, diligent and able to do anything you want him to do. He knows how to do carpentry, he is a good gardener, he can cook, mend clothes, read you stories, chop wood, and what he doesn't know he can learn. And I don't ask much for him, if you give me 50,000 yen (50 pounds) he is yours."

The gentlemen didn't haggle and paid in cash. He wanted to take the quonsar home at once.

`One moment,' the merchant said. `Because you haven't bargained with me I want to tell you something. Look here, he is a quonsar of course, and quonsars are no good, you know that don't you?'

`And you said he was an excellent quonsar.' The gentleman said indignantly.

`Sure, sure,' the merchant said, `And that's true as well. He is an excellent quonsar, but he is not good. He will always remain a quonsar....."
[ click on link above for the rest of this bone-chilling tale ]
posted by troutfishing at 1:13 PM on March 25, 2004


I'm a little teapot, short and stout....
posted by keswick at 2:42 PM on March 25, 2004


I'm languagehat!

Pah! Waaaay too late...
posted by i_cola at 6:24 PM on March 25, 2004


*tips keswick over, recoils in horror at what pours out*
posted by dg at 6:31 PM on March 25, 2004


Just for the record, I am not specialk420 and he is not me.
posted by dejah420 at 9:34 PM on March 25, 2004


Back off man.

I'm a scientist.
posted by kaibutsu at 1:06 AM on March 26, 2004


I think keyser reminds q of himself when he was young.

you know something amberglow? hammer, nail, head!
a new approach is in order.
posted by quonsar at 3:26 AM on March 26, 2004


You are planning to adopt him?
posted by dg at 5:09 AM on March 26, 2004


sorry, q
posted by amberglow at 3:42 PM on March 26, 2004


YOU ARE THE ONES WHO ARE THE BALL LICKERS
posted by basmati at 6:21 PM on April 1, 2004


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