What is the MeFi Woo-Woo Brigade?

December 12, 2005 10:28 AM

What is the MeFi Woo-Woo Brigade? And where do I sign up?
posted by Saucy Intruder to MetaFilter-Related at 10:28 AM (47 comments total)

How could anyone not want to join a club with such a fun name? Woo woo!
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 10:31 AM on December 12, 2005 [1 favorite]

Read further: "MeFi Woo-Woo Brigade, the illustrious group of posters who will literally believe anything, no matter how irrational or how much it's been debunked, and who want you to believe it too."

Although, it is fairly self-explanatory. ;-P
posted by mischief at 10:32 AM on December 12, 2005

Obligatory metareference
posted by Rothko at 10:32 AM on December 12, 2005

the mefi woo-woo brigade is anyone other than optimus chyme.
posted by quonsar at 10:33 AM on December 12, 2005

Basically what you need to do is break into a Waffle House at 3:33 in the morning and draw pi on the floor with maple syrup.
posted by selfnoise at 10:35 AM on December 12, 2005

The links are dead! Try this.
posted by Rothko at 10:35 AM on December 12, 2005

Most Waffle Houses I knew were open at 3:33 am.
posted by mischief at 10:37 AM on December 12, 2005

I know you still have to break in though.
posted by selfnoise at 10:39 AM on December 12, 2005

ALL waffle houses are open at 3:33. That's primetime barrush hour, and I promise you all the maple syrup will be in use at that time.

Not to mention WH waitresses are not to be trifled with.
posted by konolia at 10:53 AM on December 12, 2005

Also, it's not actual maple syrup.
posted by mischief at 10:53 AM on December 12, 2005

Look, I didn't say this was going to be easy.
posted by selfnoise at 10:56 AM on December 12, 2005

You can get trifle at American waffle houses?
posted by gramschmidt at 11:00 AM on December 12, 2005

Woo-Woo-Woo
posted by jonmc at 11:08 AM on December 12, 2005

They have Waffle House outside the US? And we can't even get them up here in the Northeast?
posted by Eideteker at 11:13 AM on December 12, 2005

You can make maple syrup out of tulip poplar sap.
posted by Pollomacho at 11:22 AM on December 12, 2005

What does credulity have to do with woo-woos? Or am I confusing woo-woos with wo-wos or possibly hoo-has?
posted by scarabic at 11:22 AM on December 12, 2005

you don't sign up for the woo-woo brigade; you are chosen.

only the wooiest few of any generation are called.
posted by andrew cooke at 11:25 AM on December 12, 2005

If you have to ask . . .
posted by If I Had An Anus at 11:26 AM on December 12, 2005

Woo-woo defined.
posted by russilwvong at 11:26 AM on December 12, 2005

No, that's poplar syrup. Maple syrup comes from, you know, maple trees.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 11:27 AM on December 12, 2005

Optimus tends to communicate in seething attacks on straw men and bilious frothings over anything he disagrees with. It's better to just ignore him, generally.
(Unless there has been a large pro-dowsing contingent that I'm just unaware of.)
posted by klangklangston at 11:30 AM on December 12, 2005

and golden syrup is surprisingly cheap.
posted by andrew cooke at 11:31 AM on December 12, 2005

All mefites are invited up to Maine for a Sugar Shack tour later this winter. It's always fun and you can eat maple candy.
posted by selfnoise at 11:32 AM on December 12, 2005

Now accepting applications for the MeFi Be-Bop-A-Loo-Bop Society. $5.00 a pop.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 11:33 AM on December 12, 2005

These Waffles are making me thirsty.
/kramer/
posted by Radio7 at 11:45 AM on December 12, 2005

Syrup made from the Box Elder is still legally "Maple Syrup."
posted by Pollomacho at 12:45 PM on December 12, 2005

For Be-Bop-A-Loo-Bop, you expect us to drop $5 a pop?
posted by cortex at 12:45 PM on December 12, 2005

And where do I sign up?

No need, believing you have is enough.
posted by IronLizard at 12:49 PM on December 12, 2005

Sorry, cortex, that was supposed to be "poop." $5.00 a poop. We have pictures of elephants with diarrhea.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 12:53 PM on December 12, 2005

Syrup made from the Box Elder is still legally "Maple Syrup."
posted by Pollomacho

Got a link? Every place I looked said specifically Maple tree; none mentioned elders, or poplars, or any other kind of tree. Can you get cranberry juice from gooseberries?
posted by Kirth Gerson at 1:03 PM on December 12, 2005

Box Elder is also known as Ash Leaf Maple.
posted by mischief at 1:12 PM on December 12, 2005

ah thank you, russilwvong

whoa-whoa defined.
posted by scarabic at 1:15 PM on December 12, 2005

Also see.
posted by brownpau at 1:18 PM on December 12, 2005

21 CFR 168.140

Maple sirup is the liquid food derived by concentration and heat treatment of the sap of the maple tree (Acer)

Box Elder
posted by Pollomacho at 1:29 PM on December 12, 2005

maple trivia. box elder is a kind of maple.
posted by mdn at 1:36 PM on December 12, 2005

Wow. I can't believe that Optimus Chyme was being a jerk.
posted by Kwantsar at 1:46 PM on December 12, 2005

I kind of got what Optimus Chyme was getting at. But it's an Internet phenomenon, not just a Metafilter one. On the Internet, when something ludicrous is discussed, there always has to be some idiot who believes soulfully in whatever is being dismissed.

For instance if I mention 80's satanic ritual abuse, which was obviously moral panic and by and large not real, some delusional asshole is obligated to respond that they and everyone else in their town were molested by satanists. Despite the overwhelming odds given the number of active members that this did not happen.

If I mention something that is obviously a ponzi scheme, some moron is obligated to post a response that the scheme in question is legitimate, based both on the literature said scheme provides and a desire for free money that trumps common sense.

So I guess my point is that people will generally believe what's convenient for them. You should correct them rationally once and then you're better off just ridiculing them.
posted by Mayor Curley at 2:09 PM on December 12, 2005

Basically what you need to do is break into a Waffle House at 3:33 in the morning and draw pi on the floor with maple syrup.

If you do it at 3:14, though, you're just a geek with a pissed off waitron on your hands. Don't ask exactly what your hash browns are smothered and covered with after that.
posted by Aster at 2:18 PM on December 12, 2005

Is there something I can help with here? I'm smart with the maple stuff.
posted by jessamyn at 2:51 PM on December 12, 2005

Did OC's mind snap in that thread?
posted by xmutex at 3:04 PM on December 12, 2005

They have Waffle House outside the US? And we can't even get them up here in the Northeast?

There's PJ's Pancake House in New Jersey, if that's any comfort.
posted by Aknaton at 3:10 PM on December 12, 2005

WOO WOO !
posted by sgt.serenity at 3:22 PM on December 12, 2005

ANYWAY , theres this richard nixon guy , right ? and he walks down this dark corridor right ? and then it turns out it's not a corridor at all , it's actually going to turn out that he's in the middle of a game of pong , right ?
posted by sgt.serenity at 3:26 PM on December 12, 2005

Woo-woo defined.

It is interesting that the first usage was found in an article in the Seattle Times. The phrase has been very popular around these parts for years but then we certainly don't lack for airy fairy types hereabouts. There's a Bigfoot Museum just a block and a half away from my house complete with oxygen bar. It's Woo Woo Woo 24/7 here in Woo Woo Town. You get carpal tunnel of the eyes after awhile.
posted by y2karl at 3:34 PM on December 12, 2005

Metafilter:
It's Woo Woo Woo 24/7 here in Woo Woo Town.
posted by dash_slot- at 4:52 PM on December 12, 2005

Box Elder is also known as Ash Leaf Maple.

Damned sock puppets.
posted by moss at 9:08 PM on December 12, 2005

Aster : "...hash browns are smothered and covered..."

That right there is the one reason I wish I lived in the South. *drools*
posted by graventy at 12:54 PM on December 13, 2005