MetaTalk posts tagged with weird

"He'd bash your face in with the banhammer / If you ever tried to scan a cat ... "

WCityMike — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:20:46 -0800

Just wanted to highlight Lore Sjöberg's Mathowie-ing of Weird Al Yankovic's "Charles Nelson Reilly", which then inspired wendell's rewrite of the lyrics. Both fairly amusing and almost lost in the shuffle, I think.

I'm disgusted and repulsed and... and I can't look away

lizbunny — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:01:08 -0800

This AskMeFi post on what to do with your extracted teeth is completely bizarre - and noteworthy?

Is "weird" AskMe too chatty?

Brocktoon — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:50:58 -0800

My 5 year old needs an answer to "What is the weirdest thing you've ever heard of?". Would this be considered chat-filter on AskMe (and therefore inappropriate)?

AskMe Synchronicity

Plutor — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 10:12:56 -0800

At last month's CT meetup, nomad observed that from time to time he would see two consecutive AskMe threads that, while not identical, would be similar enough in subject to be notable. Several theories were put forth, but then the tea tree oil toothpicks distracted us from writing a formal paper to submit to an appropriate peer-reviewed journal. He's been spending the last few weeks emailing me whenever he sees these "twin threads" (my term, not his). Here, for your thank-god-it's-not-a-callout enjoyment are the ones he's pointed out to me: How do I get rid of [skin abnormality]: 28255, 28256; What to do in London: 28678, 28679; Bottled water: 29417, 29418. (Related, somehow, to eponysterical posts)

WTF AOL? Stripping URL's from Metafilter?

mathowie — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:10:40 -0800

This is bizarre. A person claims they sent an email with a link to a MeFi discussion over AOL's email system and the mefi link was removed and replaced with an error URL. The error page states "There is at least one URL in your email that is generating substantial complaints from AOL members."

Anyone got AOL and can test this by sending a mefi link to another AOL member? It sounds too weird to be true.

Ananova news is not the best of the web.

TacoConsumer — Sun, 07 Oct 2001 07:53:50 -0800

Ananova has quirkie news? Is this kind of link worthy of a front page post? I don't think so.

Just like something out of the Onion!

webmutant — Mon, 02 Jul 2001 12:00:14 -0800

Maybe it's just me, but if just one more person says that any random amusing, ironic, or unusual news story is "just like something out of The Onion!", then I'm going to be forced to go on a massive, multi-state killing spree, and I'm going to take the time to lovingly spell out "METAFILTER MADE ME DO IT" with my victims' entrails.

Metafilter of the weird

Mo Nickels — Sat, 10 Mar 2001 11:59:31 -0800

I'd just like to make a point about the way-too-predictable postings we get on Metafilter: