Obits Callout

July 1, 2001 7:23 PM

Welcome to meta-obit.com. I know we've sort of covered this recently, but this is getting ridiculous.
posted by jpoulos to Etiquette/Policy at 7:23 PM (11 comments total)

The truly annoying part? After a few death posts, someone inevitably chimes in with the "death in threes" bullshit.

Kittens. I want kittens. And on Tuesday, ice cream.
posted by frykitty at 9:25 PM on July 1, 2001

I think that we should still report cat deaths, though. For bryanboyer's sake.
posted by hijinx at 9:30 PM on July 1, 2001

Praise be to the fallen weblogger kitties.


posted by fooljay at 5:08 AM on July 2, 2001

Fooljay: that is beautiful. Thank you for making me laugh on a dreary Monday.
posted by acridrabbit at 7:52 AM on July 2, 2001

fooljay is the true champion.
posted by darukaru at 8:20 AM on July 2, 2001

Oh, that was precious. Proving conclusively that dead kittens are more fun than dead puppies.
posted by frykitty at 9:14 AM on July 2, 2001

hehe
posted by fooljay at 12:01 PM on July 2, 2001

Judges' scores on fooljay's "bionic ghost kitty":

9.9 | 10 | 9.8 | 9.9 | 9.3 (East German) | 10 | 10 | 9.9

Very, very nice.


posted by jpoulos at 8:13 PM on July 2, 2001

You think I'm so, so sorry. But I'm not. It was all a lie.
posted by bryanboyer at 9:49 PM on July 2, 2001

Remember the original point of this thread? Well I'd just like to voice my agreement (cos I'm crazy like that). I know I can just ignore the frontpage posts in question but I have an irrational fear that this trend is going to turn into a MeFi habit and we'll soon be swamped with death notices.

And shouldn't that kitty be in an early episode of Star Trek: TNG? Looks to be doing about warp 9.3.
posted by MUD at 1:21 PM on July 3, 2001

That's a good point, MUD. I think users (especially new users) get a little nervous about what is "OK" to post on the front page. Obits, it would appear from recent posts, are "OK".

But, as Homer would say, "Eh...whattayagonnado?"
posted by jpoulos at 9:29 PM on July 4, 2001