You can't see as well as these fucking flowers - and they're fucking plastic. December 5, 2007 3:47 PM   Subscribe

Jumping the gun a bit, but our fearless leader will be commentatin' the upcoming layer tennis.
posted by juv3nal to MetaFilter-Related at 3:47 PM (22 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite

layer-by-layer commentary by Matt Haughey of Metafiler

Metafiler: we'll place your file cabinets in the right order along the wall
posted by brain_drain at 3:58 PM on December 5, 2007


Let me just say now that I haven't followed very closely every week (I just look at the pretty pictures hours afterwards) so I'm kinda driving blind into this whole commentary thing but I'll do my best come Friday.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 4:07 PM on December 5, 2007


Wow, layer tennis is great! I'll definitely watch out for this.
posted by painquale at 4:31 PM on December 5, 2007


Call me a curmudgeon, but:

Can we stop calling him Our Fearless Leader, already? I want to suck up as much as the next girl, but it's gone past tongue-in-cheek into just twee.

And, I don't follow Coudal too much (read: at all), but isn't this layer tennis thing a pretty clear rip-off of the iStockphoto Steel Cage, which has been going on weekly since 2005?

Also: bah, humbug.
posted by pineapple at 4:42 PM on December 5, 2007


I will now make an upside-down cake joke and include reference to a frowny smiley.
posted by cgc373 at 4:45 PM on December 5, 2007


"Can we stop calling him Our Fearless Leader, already? "

How about "Our Adorable Leader"?

Just to balance shit out, y'know?
posted by mr_crash_davis at 4:49 PM on December 5, 2007


but isn't this layer tennis thing a pretty clear rip-off of the iStockphoto Steel Cage

Not to bah humbug back (but I agree that fearless leader is getting weird at this point), but the Coudal folks have been running Photoshop Tennis since 2001 and as far as I know came up with the concept.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 4:58 PM on December 5, 2007


bah, humbug.

It's okay: Sleep! That's where you too can be a fearless leader!
posted by juv3nal at 5:04 PM on December 5, 2007



"Can we stop calling him Our Fearless Leader, already? "


Name one thing he is fearful of.

See?

Ha! Petard, meet hoist!
posted by Rumple at 5:23 PM on December 5, 2007


Not to bah humbug back.. the Coudal folks have been running Photoshop Tennis since 2001 and as far as I know came up with the concept.

Nah, totally fair play. I poked through the Layer Tennis site and didn't see archives to pre-date the other. Good to know.

Btw, there definitely should be suggestions made for the next flavor of cheeky, sycophantic Matt honorary; I don't want to spoil anyone's fun. I just would like to start seeing a FRESH one.
posted by pineapple at 5:58 PM on December 5, 2007


How about Great Helmsman? The previous claimants have passed on, so I think it's up for grabs.
posted by languagehat at 6:06 PM on December 5, 2007


Speaking of fresh fun, how about a December FPP contest?
posted by Rumple at 6:07 PM on December 5, 2007


Ha! Petard, meet hoist!

Hoise. Or hoising, really.
posted by cortex (staff) at 6:10 PM on December 5, 2007


I call him CMO: Chief Meta Officer, or Chief for short.

If I knew for sure that he eschews underwear, I'd call him Commando-in' Chief. (But honestly, I really don't want to know)

I'd call him Boss, but jonmc would skin me alive for stealing that from Springsteen.

Whatever title, it needs to outrank Your Humble Benevolent Commissioner. It's a good thing President Dr. Whatsisname quit.
posted by wendell at 6:16 PM on December 5, 2007


I just think 'it's the Big Dude' when I see his name, but maybe that's me...
posted by pupdog at 6:20 PM on December 5, 2007


Matt's going play tennis...wearing layers? Shit, I wear layers, too! But I cannot play the tennis.
posted by everichon at 6:24 PM on December 5, 2007


Lovelt hoisery you're wearing, cortex.
posted by wendell at 6:30 PM on December 5, 2007


I like a lot of hoising sauce on my petard.
posted by languagehat at 6:31 PM on December 5, 2007 [1 favorite]


Pho real.
posted by pineapple at 6:48 PM on December 5, 2007


I like a lot of hoising sauce on my petard.

Those stains are a pain to get out though. It's for this reason that I hoist a few hours before a date.
posted by sparkletone at 7:45 AM on December 6, 2007


How about "Our Adorable Leader"?

Sexist.
posted by inigo2 at 8:31 AM on December 6, 2007


Our Gender-Neutral Leader it is, then.
posted by cortex (staff) at 8:37 AM on December 6, 2007


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