Small-time blog calls MeFi something bad

January 10, 2003 12:44 AM

Or perhaps as someone named "stupidcomputernickname" posted on the MetaFilter Web site, a sort of electronic coffee klatch, we should only allow people whose children are in the military to be elected to Congress. That way, we get shared sacrifice without a draft.

Coffee klatch? We ain't no stinking coffee klatch...
*sudden sound of gunfire*
posted by y2karl to MetaFilter-Related at 12:44 AM (12 comments total)

An estrogenic metaphor. As prosaic as the rest of her article.
posted by Opus Dark at 1:22 AM on January 10, 2003

Coffee Klatch: When neighbors get together to bemoan the state of the world and gossip about everyone they know.

Well, if the big ugly German shoe fits...

In the end, there's not much difference between us and them.
posted by RJ Reynolds at 1:50 PM on January 10, 2003

mathowie is Linda Richman? I'm ferklempt!
posted by y2karl at 4:53 PM on January 10, 2003

Wow, now I am ferlempt!
posted by stupidcomputernickname at 4:57 PM on January 10, 2003

Klatchian Coffee - it takes you through sobriety and out the otherside...
posted by Orange Goblin at 5:03 PM on January 10, 2003

Kaffeeklatsch. It's Kaffeeklatsch.
posted by muckster at 5:18 PM on January 10, 2003

Cobra clutch? eh?
posted by rushmc at 5:23 PM on January 10, 2003

Hmm...sounds about right. Thanks for sharing.
posted by hama7 at 6:17 PM on January 10, 2003

there's not much difference between us and them

Except they have snacky things.

... More coffee anyone?
posted by octobersurprise at 9:03 PM on January 10, 2003

There's nothing like people misspelling their insults to reaffirm one's faith in humanity.
posted by IshmaelGraves at 11:51 PM on January 10, 2003

You sound like a bunch of mother hens!
posted by Hildago at 11:54 PM on January 10, 2003

"there's not much difference between us and them

Except they have snacky things."

And we have cameras.

Well, some of us, anyway.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 11:53 AM on January 11, 2003