that was a rough winter, I remember

April 22, 2007 12:40 AM

Why is this thread from December 2004 near the top of AskMe's "Popular Favorites"?
posted by nasreddin to Bugs at 12:40 AM (36 comments total)

I mean, did something happen that uncovered it to everybody favoriting it? Your favorite band sucks and all.
posted by nasreddin at 12:41 AM on April 22, 2007

Your favorite sucks.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 12:46 AM on April 22, 2007

I'm not seeing it.
posted by tula at 12:48 AM on April 22, 2007

I see dead posts.
posted by Dizzy at 12:52 AM on April 22, 2007

I see it. Odd. 4 new favourites today (but it says 9 on the popular favourites page) but I can't work out where it's been mentioned.
posted by peacay at 1:29 AM on April 22, 2007

I can see for Miles
(I'm Miles' seeing eye MeFite)
posted by wendell at 1:30 AM on April 22, 2007

Yeah, I see it. If you click on the '9 favorites' you get this page. It strongly suggests that some event around 8:30 pm led a bunch of people to that page. I kind of poked around but didn't find what it was. Presumably a comment in a thread somewhere.
posted by PercussivePaul at 1:31 AM on April 22, 2007

Dateline: Saturday night. Four people favorite a thread that contains a lot of music suggestions. And MetaTalk was there.
posted by Rhomboid at 1:44 AM on April 22, 2007

The three scariest words in the English language:
"I'm Stone Phillips."
posted by Dizzy at 1:45 AM on April 22, 2007 [1 favorite]

i think it was this comment.

so uh..

who likes to sing-a?
posted by sergeant sandwich at 4:32 AM on April 22, 2007

zomg, one of those favorites was from me. Mea culpa, Metatalk! Mea culpa!
posted by po at 4:36 AM on April 22, 2007

Something similar is going on right now on the MeFi PopFav page for the Marcus is here! 2005 thread, prompted by KevinSkomsvold's MeTa post from yesterday.
posted by carsonb at 6:18 AM on April 22, 2007

Just goes to show there's plenty of gold in them thar archives.
posted by carsonb at 6:19 AM on April 22, 2007

Well, po, as a responsible MetaFilter citizen, maybe you can tell us all how you found the thread, and everything will wendell, as it should, in our fine fashion. Pretty please?
posted by cgc373 at 6:19 AM on April 22, 2007

No, no, it just goes to show that mefites can't leave the past behind. Move on, man! She's over you! That was two years ago! There's an upcoming presidential primary! Quit mooning over that old music thread and get to work on rhymes for "Obama"!
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:42 AM on April 22, 2007

Yo mama?
posted by cgc373 at 7:48 AM on April 22, 2007

Rhyme, joke, not fightin' words.
posted by cgc373 at 7:48 AM on April 22, 2007

Salaama? Bailama? A llama? No drama? Mein name? Pajama? A comma? Hare rama?
posted by miss lynnster at 7:54 AM on April 22, 2007

So badass he's known from here to Yokohama?
posted by googly at 7:55 AM on April 22, 2007

Just vote for him and save the drama?
posted by googly at 7:55 AM on April 22, 2007

He's outta this world, like a Rendezvous with Rama?
posted by googly at 7:58 AM on April 22, 2007 [1 favorite]

How do you pronounce Obama anyway? Is it an a like /hammer/, or more like /tomato/ (which is not like /potato/)?
posted by jacalata at 8:49 AM on April 22, 2007

From what I heard on one of his Oprah appearances, it pretty much rhymes spot-on with "yo MA-ma." Buh-ROCK o-BAHM-uh.
posted by pineapple at 9:34 AM on April 22, 2007

Oh, bummer.
not an editorial comment on the candidate, but rather on the odd derail this thread has experienced
posted by wendell at 9:40 AM on April 22, 2007

you mean, *awesome* derail?
posted by LobsterMitten at 9:55 AM on April 22, 2007

Obama - the hot new pop song.
posted by niles at 10:24 AM on April 22, 2007

complete with "Buh-ROCK o-BAHM-uh" pronunciation
posted by niles at 10:25 AM on April 22, 2007

You know who else rocked yo' mama? That's right...
posted by Rhomboid at 11:36 AM on April 22, 2007

There's a hip-hop song, possibly by Jeru the Damaja, that contains the line 'Like Osama or Dahmer, I'ma cause drama.' Surely you can work it in somewhere.
posted by box at 11:39 AM on April 22, 2007

cgc373 - sergeant sandwich has it. ;)
posted by po at 3:06 PM on April 22, 2007

Thanks, po. I'd make a joke rhyme with Obama to stay on-topic, but miss lynster's grabbed all the good ones already. I'm sunk.
posted by cgc373 at 5:50 PM on April 22, 2007

I'd make a joke rhyme with Obama to stay on-topic, but miss lynster's grabbed all the good ones already

,
posted by and hosted from Uranus at 6:28 AM on April 23, 2007 [1 favorite]

Oh. Nevermind me.
posted by and hosted from Uranus at 6:29 AM on April 23, 2007

cgc373: It's not oo late! It's never too late!

Arm and Hamma.
Viet Nam-a.
Stumble 'n stamma.
Bad Mamma Jamma.
Glamarama.
Banarama.
A week in the slamma.
Fluffy bunnies.*

*Just making saure you were paying attention.
posted by Dizzy at 6:35 AM on April 23, 2007

Hay now guyz, dont teaze Obama hes sensative lol.









.... nostradam-a!
posted by po at 4:54 PM on April 23, 2007

he makes his bloody marys
with the to we call Clama
posted by cortex (staff) at 5:09 PM on April 23, 2007