oh hey, that was on MY blog!

May 18, 2003 7:30 AM

so, fpatrick is browsing, finds a great link and posts it to mefi, giving proper credit to the site where he just happened to stumble on this great link. wow. how fortunate is that?
posted by quonsar to Etiquette/Policy at 7:30 AM (42 comments total)

Go Directly To Level 8.
posted by y2karl at 7:55 AM on May 18, 2003

I'm willing to bet that it's just a case of forgotten identity. It happens all the time. I walk into a house and look around and say to myself "Hey this is some snappy place some sombitch has here". I wonder around for a while and it hits me that it's my place. I'm sure that's what happen here.
posted by mss at 8:14 AM on May 18, 2003

I just edited that out. It's far from the first time that's happened before, which is pretty surprising to me since it seems like a blatant self-link.

How often do you hear the following in conversation?

"Oh I heard this great story today (from me)"
posted by mathowie (staff) at 9:41 AM on May 18, 2003

Great catch, quonsie.

And good call, y2k! (Hoist, or at least sentenced, by his own petard):
Level 8- the Malebolge -
Many and varied sinners suffer eternally in the multi-leveled Malebolge, an ampitheatre-shapped pit of despair Wholly of stone and of an iron colour: Those guilty of fraudulence and malice..
posted by dash_slot- at 9:44 AM on May 18, 2003

"Oh I heard this great story today (from me)"

You know who kicks ass?

Me.
posted by Ignatius J. Reilly at 10:42 AM on May 18, 2003

But enough about me. Let's talk about... me.
posted by jokeefe at 3:51 PM on May 18, 2003

Good one quonsar.

No comments are available on his self link [site], so he wants feedback from, hey, lookit that!

It's ok, he does it on the self linked site to his own company [more self links], however, under the heading "links", there is only a link of one, to his own company site.

That's focused? It should be singular.

The word, not the action.

Next stop, Level 10.
posted by alicesshoe at 4:50 PM on May 18, 2003

Who's got two thumbs and can rock?
posted by KnitWit at 4:28 AM on May 19, 2003

them?
posted by eddydamascene at 5:27 AM on May 19, 2003

You keep your damn male bulge out of this dash_slot!
posted by Pollomacho at 6:59 AM on May 19, 2003

male bulge
posted by Pollomacho at 7:08 AM on May 19, 2003

Y'know, something about this reminds me of Al Gore.
posted by soyjoy at 7:52 AM on May 19, 2003

democratic presidential candidate al gore, asking 'can my opponent do this?' releases a 50,000 kilowatt burst of ball-lightning from his pants.
posted by quonsar at 8:21 AM on May 19, 2003

hahaha!

That made I laugh, that did.
posted by dash_slot- at 10:53 AM on May 19, 2003

How often do you hear the following in conversation? "Oh I heard this great story today (from me)"

I sometime do the opposite, where I'm telling a story about something I did or said that was funny, but attribute it to some-made-up-person so it doesn't sound like I'm saying "listen to this funny thing I said!" which is, in fact, exactly what I'm saying.

"... and then my co-worker, um, Mikel, said 'rectum! It nearly killed 'im!' Ah hah hah hah! Holy shit my co-worker Mike is funny. Hah hah! Isn't he?! Isn't my coworker Mark funny?! I mean Mike! Don't you think? That's he's funny?!"

But, I mean, we all do that.
posted by Shadowkeeper at 11:23 AM on May 19, 2003

Gee, Gore's crotch newsworthiness hadn't come to my attention before. Could that have driven Bush to desperate measures?
posted by madamjujujive at 11:43 AM on May 19, 2003

But, I mean, we all do that.

Heh heh! Of course we do! We all do that! Oh, man, that is so true!!!

(backs away cautiously while smiling and nodding, then turns and runs)
posted by soyjoy at 12:29 PM on May 19, 2003

[lack of male bulge] [NSFW]
posted by RJ Reynolds at 1:10 PM on May 19, 2003

whoa. Did I miss something? Why does Shadowkeeper get a goldstar??

on preview: it's not there...am I crazy?
posted by puffin at 1:16 PM on May 19, 2003

on preview: it's not there...am I crazy?

yes
posted by ginz at 1:20 PM on May 19, 2003

Interesting. Shadowkeeper's gold star does not appear in preview mode (presumably stan chin's doesn't either - they're the only two "mattie's boys" who've been given stars so far, afaik).

This is probably related to the same bug feature that makes the usernames (instead of the usernumbers) show up in preview mode as well.
posted by yhbc at 1:22 PM on May 19, 2003

p.s. But slightly less than the goldstar people.
posted by ginz at 1:23 PM on May 19, 2003

I want a gold star too. damnit I'm making my own!

posted by Knitwit at 4:46 PM PST on May 19
posted by KnitWit at 1:57 PM on May 19, 2003

Uh oh, KnitWit, if there's one thing that'll make you lose a gold star, it's doing that.
posted by soyjoy at 2:00 PM on May 19, 2003

But enough about me. Lets talk about you: How do you feel about me?
posted by blue_beetle at 2:06 PM on May 19, 2003

soyjoy...

I figured as much, but if we all start indiscriminatly adding and subtracting our stars eventually we'll all go back to being regular sneetchs.

Wait, no. That wasn't the moral was it?
posted by KnitWit at 2:28 PM on May 19, 2003

What I want to know is, are there a finite number of stars to work with? Is it a constant amount? If so, where does Matt keep all the extras?

I hope this doesn't somehow loop back to codpieces.
posted by cortex at 3:56 PM on May 19, 2003

i've got a photo somewhere of me in my star-shaped codpiece . . . hold on . . .
posted by _sirmissalot_ at 4:43 PM on May 19, 2003

"Oh I heard this great story today (from me)"

"People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first."
- Me Murphy
posted by MzB at 5:04 PM on May 19, 2003

Quonsar is complaining about someone's behaviour?

*checks horizon for Horsemen*
posted by sennoma at 10:07 PM on May 19, 2003

that's it, sennoma, go for the easy quip, i always do. quonsar is not complaining. quonsar is being a good little meficop. quonsar never links his sites on the front page. why should fpatrick?
posted by quonsar at 4:31 AM on May 20, 2003

i forgot the "!" after "i always do". it kinda puts a whole other slant on it!
posted by quonsar at 5:03 AM on May 20, 2003

I would like Blort out that self linking is not good.

as you were.
posted by clavdivs at 5:37 AM on May 20, 2003

ah. clav, not to be a grammar nazi, but i think you mean "I would like Blort out that self linking is not good."
posted by quonsar at 5:54 AM on May 20, 2003

I would like Blort out.

For good.
posted by soyjoy at 7:30 AM on May 20, 2003

OK, not really...
posted by soyjoy at 7:31 AM on May 20, 2003

it was a photoshop job that he did a while back, the blue and the gray coming together to form a corner into which bad mefites could be sent for a time out. browsing shadowkeepers recent comments should turn it up for you, i can't do that right now since the boss approacheth...
posted by quonsar at 11:42 AM on May 20, 2003

Choose one:

(a) for consistently producing amusing and interesting material on Defective Yeti.

(b) for making fun of Miguel in a clever way, without being really nasty about it. (note to quonsar - it was stan chin that did the photoshop you describe, and so earned the 1st golden star).

(c) for kissing Matt's rosy red bike-riding
REQUEST TIMED OUT - SUBMIT AGAIN
posted by yhbc at 11:43 AM on May 20, 2003

damn those errors!
posted by quonsar at 12:17 PM on May 20, 2003

'Twas this, was it not? (re: Shadowkeeper)
posted by hama7 at 5:07 PM on May 20, 2003

(which appears to have been covered in part (b))
posted by hama7 at 6:00 PM on May 20, 2003

MetaCorner by Stan Chin
posted by fvw at 7:56 AM on May 21, 2003