Sidebar please

June 14, 2004 6:14 AM

Ummm, this needs to be on the sidebar.
posted by machaus to MetaFilter-Related at 6:14 AM (30 comments total)

Agree.
posted by taz at 6:22 AM on June 14, 2004

If I asked MeFi how to 4s$as$in8 a certain Texan chimp, I'm sure the black helicopters would start circling.

Not fair.

Is this entertainment, or are the people in the thread now accessories to perverting the course of justice? Someone had to ask.
posted by dayvin at 6:31 AM on June 14, 2004

Ummm, this needs to be on the sidebar.

Agree.
posted by tcp at 6:43 AM on June 14, 2004

I completely disagree. It icks me out, not to mention the legal issues connected with promoting a post that helps us kill people and hide the bodies.

Sure, it's all fun and games until someone actually does it. Ick.
posted by onlyconnect at 6:58 AM on June 14, 2004

But you'll never know if someone does it! So it's always going to be fun and games! Huzzah! Chutes and Ladders for everyone!
posted by Stan Chin at 7:02 AM on June 14, 2004 [2 favorites]

Only if they do it right.

And who's to say who they had in mind?

Also, scarabic drinks for free in my company forever, even if only as a precautionary move. He knows way too much about this stuff.
posted by chicobangs at 7:16 AM on June 14, 2004 [1 favorite]

Scarabic even knows how and where to meet new people.
Yikes
posted by johnny7 at 7:28 AM on June 14, 2004

155 154 MetaFilter users near this user...
posted by Pretty_Generic at 7:51 AM on June 14, 2004 [10 favorites]

Scarabic even knows how and where to meet new people.

yes, I noticed the connection, too. but after all, it's not that being an expert at domestic corpse disposal means that you're using online dating services for...
...
*shudder*

anyway, I just hope scarabic never meets this user
posted by matteo at 8:12 AM on June 14, 2004

Scarabic's post may simply be the best Ask Me comment ever. I stand by that. And even if the whole thread isn't sidebar worthy, his answer most definitely is.
posted by John Kenneth Fisher at 8:16 AM on June 14, 2004

What sidebar?
posted by mischief at 8:26 AM on June 14, 2004

I could have done my own version of scarabic's comment, but why? I could also produce as well, from public sources, a great writeup on how to build a small breeder reactor in one's backyard. But why should I bother? As things stand now, there are already far too many deranged people armed with destructive technologies and ideas. I won't add to their numbers.

That's not to say that scarabic's comments wasn't, in it's own way, brilliant.

But I liked this comment best.

"And never invite Jimmy Stewart over to taunt him at a dinner party after the murder. I made that mistake once.

Once.
posted by John Kenneth Fisher at 8:06 AM PST on June 14"
posted by troutfishing at 8:43 AM on June 14, 2004

Matteo, I don't get it. Why not Jeff?
posted by me3dia at 9:07 AM on June 14, 2004

I concur - Scarabic's comment is simply legendary!
posted by dmt at 9:36 AM on June 14, 2004

THAT KNAVE ASHBURY STOLE MY IDEA FOR A THREAD!!!!!!

I've mentioned my intention to start a "perfect murder" thread twice in metatalk before. I've never felt so used.
posted by The God Complex at 9:40 AM on June 14, 2004

Got to agree that it's a fascinating thread, but I second the don't-put-it-on-the-sidebar request (or third, or fourth, or whatever). It's information that doesn't need to be any more accessible to nutjobs, who, to my knowledge, are just about the single largest demographic subset of internet users. Not saying to remove the thread; I just don't think it should be further publicized.
posted by Sinner at 9:54 AM on June 14, 2004

props are owed to TGC, but it is a great thread. Who knew there were so many ways to get rid of bodies? (who needs to know that is another question entirely, of course)
posted by amberglow at 10:08 AM on June 14, 2004

Suppose you ran a community weblog...

How would you dispose of the threads without getting caught? Would you dump them somewhere? Bury them in the backyard or basement? Dissolve them in lime? What? What would your master plan be that would allow you to get away with it?
posted by Pretty_Generic at 10:49 AM on June 14, 2004 [1 favorite]

Matteo, I don't get it. Why not Jeff?
posted by me3dia at 9:07 AM PST on June 14

"corpse"
posted by esch at 10:52 AM on June 14, 2004

Come on, there's no way this is going in the sidebar. I'm glad y'all got a kick out of that little piece of dark poetry, but enough's enough!
posted by scarabic at 11:20 AM on June 14, 2004

Getting a bit worried, are we, scarabic? Afraid the sidebar might inspire some questions regarding the quantities of lime in your basement, hmmm?
posted by IshmaelGraves at 11:45 AM on June 14, 2004

Matteo, I don't get it. Why not Jeff?
posted by me3dia at 9:07 AM PST on June 14

"corpse"

You know, I somehow overlooked his username altogether.
posted by me3dia at 11:48 AM on June 14, 2004

Getting a bit worried, are we, scarabic?

I'm flattered, really, that this little feat of imagination creates such a creepy vibe, creepy enough that you'd actually think I have bodies in my basement. In reality, I don't even have a basement.

they're hanging in the attic - sshh!
posted by scarabic at 11:51 AM on June 14, 2004

ha! I'm a persistent corpse, I've been around since sometime in 1999.
posted by corpse at 11:54 AM on June 14, 2004 [3 favorites]

And you seem surprisingly composed, corpse.
posted by orange swan at 12:16 PM on June 14, 2004

What's that smell?
posted by astruc at 1:13 PM on June 14, 2004

/me waits for the breeder reactor question to be posted to AskMe....
posted by majcher at 1:16 PM on June 14, 2004

My vote says that eyeballkid is the one to do it.
posted by orange swan at 1:20 PM on June 14, 2004

Hey, look! I just found the FPP of a deleted thread in this ice bucket!
posted by wendell at 1:30 PM on June 14, 2004

It's information that doesn't need to be any more accessible to nutjobs, who, to my knowledge, are just about the single largest demographic subset of internet users.

Nutjobs?

Hey, Scarabic. I gotta job for you...
posted by deborah at 1:32 PM on June 15, 2004