Burt in the masthead!

October 10, 2001 10:18 PM

MetaFilter: More Evil than Bert
posted by kindall to MetaFilter-Related at 10:18 PM (27 comments total)

This gave me a great laugh when I saw it!
posted by crog at 10:20 PM on October 10, 2001

That's hillarious.
posted by mrbula at 10:20 PM on October 10, 2001

I want that added into the rotation.
posted by rebeccablood at 10:21 PM on October 10, 2001

Man, oh man, that's funny.
You're having fun, aren't you, Matt? ^^,

(All it needs now is WTC Guy, and my MeFi day's made.)
posted by brownpau at 10:23 PM on October 10, 2001

It is in the rotation. That's where we all saw it.
posted by kindall at 10:23 PM on October 10, 2001

I actually took out the rotation. Everyone is seeing it. Someone posted the umpteenth link about it, so I put the image up to make it clear it has been discussed before.

I'll probably stick it in the random rotation tomorrow.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:24 PM on October 10, 2001

I love it (I've been using lofi).


posted by rebeccablood at 10:26 PM on October 10, 2001

oh, rcb, I'm going to make "lofi" a global option soon, so the entire site can be seen sans graphics or colors.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:53 PM on October 10, 2001

I usually use the Web with images off, so I missed this until I got home and, lo, Bert! It made my night. Thank you.
posted by Electric Elf at 11:20 PM on October 10, 2001

The more handsome, witty Ernie should be the mascot for MetaTalk. Along with the Rubber Ducky. Perhaps the letters of the alphabet could be contacted to sponsor Mefi? Thats 26 customers ready and able.
posted by owillis at 11:55 PM on October 10, 2001

totally awesome.
posted by jeb at 11:56 PM on October 10, 2001

I wet my pants.
posted by dong_resin at 12:13 AM on October 11, 2001

I wet Dong's pants.
posted by Doug at 12:54 AM on October 11, 2001

Thank god. I thought I burst a cyst.
posted by dong_resin at 1:05 AM on October 11, 2001

Another sudden incontinent burst of laughter here.

(That's incontinent in a non-moist way)
posted by Grangousier at 1:49 AM on October 11, 2001

I spilled my root beer, missing my keyboard by bare inches. Oh, and Bert kicks Tourist Guy's ass! (It's true. The "Angry Bert" in and of himself is just funnier.)
posted by metrocake at 8:20 AM on October 11, 2001

I immediately went to MetaTalk to see if I was imagining it, but I'm very pleased to see that I'm not.

That's funny on so many levels.
posted by jennyb at 8:30 AM on October 11, 2001

I think Bert is constantly hovering at your left shoulder, just as Don Juan suggested Death does in the possibly phony Carlos Castaneda books, waiting for his opportunity to snuff out your existence with his heinous scalp goatee.

Be ever vigilant!
posted by Kafkaesque at 9:12 AM on October 11, 2001

I've been seeing little Berts like that sneaking around for months. My doctor said I should ignore them.
posted by jpoulos at 9:39 AM on October 11, 2001

jpoulos, Berts can now be treated in just three days with new medication from Pfizer.

Remember, even if there is no evidence of a breakout, Berts may still be communicable.
posted by Kafkaesque at 9:43 AM on October 11, 2001

There is no reason Bertes simplex , to give it its proper name, should make you feel an outcast, jpoulos. I too have been contaminated and yet still enjoy an active life in a Devil's Island sort of way. Herr Doktor Kafkaesque is right: admitting you enjoy Bert "popping up" is half-way to being cured.
(a jar of Laden's Pommade is on its way)
posted by MiguelCardoso at 9:53 AM on October 11, 2001

Oh, great. Just when I was getting over my fear of ghostly Juan Valdez and his Burro accosting me in the supermarket, along comes Evil Bert. Great. I wonder what a chart of the global paranoia level would look like over the paast couple of months.
posted by kokogiak at 10:06 AM on October 11, 2001

I wish bert could randomly appear on lofi. wait that's having my cake and eating it too.

where's my pony?
posted by rebeccablood at 12:25 PM on October 11, 2001

Rebeccablood: You could keep a local copy of Bert, then set up a page with Bert at the top, and MeFiLoFi in a frame below. Then blink your eyes really fast and he'll appear at random.
posted by jpoulos at 2:06 PM on October 11, 2001

maybe I can have him tatooed on the inside of my eyelids.

mathowie on the inside of one eyelid and bert on the other.

where's my pony?
posted by rebeccablood at 4:18 PM on October 11, 2001

Copyright issue? It's great.
posted by ParisParamus at 9:33 PM on October 11, 2001

Oh yeah, mathowie my elf ho.
posted by daveadams at 7:40 AM on October 12, 2001