Monkey beans

February 10, 2005 1:43 PM

Monkey beans.
posted by chasing to Etiquette/Policy at 1:43 PM (20 comments total)

My point is just that a link with a couple of words and no other context doesn't really make a useful post. Would maybe a sentence or two about the link be too much to ask?

Thanks!
posted by chasing at 1:46 PM on February 10, 2005

It's also a double post.
posted by milovoo at 1:49 PM on February 10, 2005

2001 called. They want their IDM flash thingy back. The girls say they're tired of this whole bang-the-drum-with-my-face-when-I-obviously-have-hands thing, and are threatening to unionize.
posted by loquacious at 1:52 PM on February 10, 2005

Would maybe a sentence or two about the link be too much to ask?

Nope, it's not too much to ask. I don't know what I would have added though, and I am drawn to odd posts with just a link, unlike chasing.

But anyway, it's a double post, so sorry to fuck up the blue. It's my first double though, and the first time I've been "called out" in MetaTalk too, so that's something.

And while we're at it - Monkey Beans!
posted by tr33hggr at 1:56 PM on February 10, 2005

chasing, the piece is actually called drum machine, so the post is just about as 100% spot on in terms of a description

However, I grant you it's a 100% double post, so it'll probably combust shortly.

When Tokyo Plastic finally get round to updating their site later this year (as has been promised for a while), would a link to it here be a double post?
posted by davehat at 1:56 PM on February 10, 2005

New content is never a double post. There's been dozens if not hundreds of FPPs like that.
posted by loquacious at 2:02 PM on February 10, 2005

Oh, and thanks for being a good sport, tr33hggr.
posted by loquacious at 2:03 PM on February 10, 2005

I pulled the double. It's sort of adorable how both posts were the word-for-word same except for the first one's disclaimer and the second's capitalization.
posted by jessamyn at 2:05 PM on February 10, 2005

My point is just that a link with a couple of words and no other context doesn't really make a useful post.

I disagree with you, chasing.

There's no denying that there is a strong and vocal contingent of anal-retentive, jackbooted control-freaking thugs here on Metafilter who think it is important - nay, imperative -- to have paragraphs of text to accompany all posts, to spoon-feed the masses, describing what each and every link is, and how each and every person should feel about each and every thing.

But they are all as wrong as you are.
posted by crunchland at 2:38 PM on February 10, 2005

tr33hggr, I wasn't trying to rudely call you in particular out -- it seems like these sorts of posts have been happening with increasing regularily.

You didn't ruin my afternoon or anything, and I'm happy that I got to finally post the phrase "monkey beans" somewhere. It's a really fun phrase, I think. Fun like gum.
posted by chasing at 2:40 PM on February 10, 2005

I'm also pretty impartial to the single word / single phrase links, as long as they're descriptive enough to pose any interest.

For example, "Drum Machine" would be enough for me to click. "Knitting" wouldn't make me click, but I can see it being interesting enough for others. Same for "Flying Dogs" or "Underwater Kingdom", or something else pretty descriptive and direct. Things like "Red", or "Politics" or "WTF?" have far too little descriptive value, and are the kinds of links that give links like this a bad name by association.
posted by Bugbread at 4:41 PM on February 10, 2005

My point is just that a link with a couple of words and no other context doesn't really make a useful post.

Thank you for your opinion. The Blue doesn't demand "utility." That's the Green site. One-liners are controversial, perennially, but there's simply no banning the practice, because many of them are great, if not classics.
posted by scarabic at 4:59 PM on February 10, 2005

whoa...
posted by ontic at 9:04 PM on February 10, 2005

Uh, yeah, that isn't one of them :)
posted by scarabic at 11:09 PM on February 10, 2005

loquacious - not a problem. :)

chasing - I sensed no rudeness at all on your part. After all, you gave me my first Meta-call out.

And now I am a man.
posted by tr33hggr at 6:32 AM on February 11, 2005

tr33hggr, I actually drank that coffee the other day but the packaging said it was regurgitated by weasels, not monkeys. Hmmmm.
(tastes a little chocolaty, not quite like any other coffee)
posted by dabitch at 9:09 AM on February 11, 2005

dabitch, you are braver than I! Good on ya!
posted by tr33hggr at 9:27 AM on February 11, 2005

Weird foods intrigue me, thanks for inspiring a post tr33hggr. I'll try anything once. :)
posted by dabitch at 9:47 AM on February 11, 2005

I hearby coin the term for this practice "monkey beaning" in his honor. I guess that makes the people who do it "monkey beaners" and the FPPs themselves the "monkey beans".

Sorry if coining the term makes me an anal-retentive, jackbooted, control-freaking thug.
posted by about_time at 5:39 PM on February 11, 2005

That is, Chasing's honor.
posted by about_time at 5:39 PM on February 11, 2005