HAHAHA...love the pop.

July 20, 2001 3:08 PM

I pity the fool! HAHAHA...love the pop. And it worked--I toddled right over and donated. Good on ya, Matt.
posted by frykitty to MetaFilter-Related at 3:08 PM (12 comments total)

Lol, I was about to post this. I pity the Filter!
posted by owillis at 3:10 PM on July 20, 2001

aaagggghhhh! there are pop up scripts that pop up once... go ahead, cookie me... please!
posted by heather at 3:12 PM on July 20, 2001

Big disagreement here. I guess it's supposed to be ironic or some such, but, um, it really just has the same effect on me as the "real thing." Well, actually, I've never seen one of these X10 ads, but I'm sure they would annoy me about as much as this does.

So yeah, I'm not taking the irony-deal. I'm going with it at face value - and it doesn't make me want to support sites that do use popunders...
posted by whatnotever at 3:13 PM on July 20, 2001

The pop-up says to support sites that don't use popunder ads. Of course, that's not MetaFilter...
posted by kindall at 3:24 PM on July 20, 2001

that mathowie...drunk on his own power. you know, you'd think the guy gets enough attention for the damn site that he doesn't have to resort to this...
posted by judith at 3:24 PM on July 20, 2001

Uhg! People! It's a temporary half-joke, half reminder that Metafilter costs money to run.

So yeah, I'm not taking the irony-deal. I'm going with it at face value - and it doesn't make me want to support sites that do use popunders...

Please.

Very clever Matt, it got me to donate again as well.
posted by Mark at 3:37 PM on July 20, 2001

If I hadn't just donated my £1.44 last week it would certainly have got me to do it! A very funny J-Ko (the official name for all popunder mischief from now on) matt. Nice one.
posted by nedrichards at 3:52 PM on July 20, 2001

hey, where'd my popunder go? popunder, come back! i miss you!

ps. matt dared me to say that other stuff, honest.
posted by judith at 4:40 PM on July 20, 2001

Oh I added the cookie. so you only get to see it once. I'll kill it tonight, it was just a bored afternoon joke.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:15 PM on July 20, 2001

Have you seen Mr. T lately? He still has that mohawk and all those chains. We're all familiar with that age people reach when their manner of dress and styling habits get frozen (think of your Econ teacher in high school and the 15 pairs of identical polyester pants slacks he's been wearing since he graduated from college)...I guess that age for Mr. T came right around the time of the A-Team.

Thirty years from now, it will be interesting to see if we get a whole generation of 50-somethings with nipple piercings and tattoos, wearing t-shirts with controversial slogans on them and oversized raver pants. What the hell will kids do to rebel in 2031? Polyester slacks?
posted by jkottke at 5:29 PM on July 20, 2001

What the hell will kids do to rebel in 2031?
Tweed, son, tweed.
posted by owillis at 5:36 PM on July 20, 2001

Did anyone see when Mr. T was on Conan O'Brian doing the "In the year 2000" skit? Most definitely one of the funniest moments of Conan's history.

It's also just funny that Conan still does "In the year 2000". Get it? It's 2001! Ha!
posted by Mark at 5:54 PM on July 20, 2001