Metafilter: funny tag lines

December 19, 2003 9:36 AM

"self-policing since 1999"
Has anyone else noticed all the funny tag lines floating around MetaTalk threads lately? I've collected a few, but there must be more, my favorite:
MetaFilter: the preview box is full of lies.
The rest, below...
posted by Blake to Bugs at 9:36 AM (20 comments total)

MetaFilter isn't dead, it's just inconsiderate.
MetaFilter: More Meta than Thou
Metafilter: More Peta than Thou
Metafilter: It pains me to watch my friends devote so much energy to this stuff.
MetaFilter: as balanced now as it has ever been.
MetaFilter: a god everyone must appease
Metafilter: Threat or Menace?
Metafilter: We can't let the assholes run the place
Metafilter: a few overly verbose anal nit-humpers
Metafilter: it doesn't matter! it doesn't matter one damn bit
MetaFilter: Not even for a little wet behind the ears cunt like you.
MetaFilter: Your sister sucks.
Metafilter: "Mom, sometimes I get that not-so-fresh feeling"
MetaFilter: underutilized and slightly aged
Metafilter: I keep my involvement here pretty strictly limited
Metafilter: We bully you till you behave the way we think you should.
MetaFilter: It's like having a blackout...but without all the drinking and sex
MetaFilter: drooling packs of leftwing zombies!
MetaFilter: Making the Simple, Complicated.
MetaFilter: I only make it here in spurts.
MetaFilter: the preview box is full of lies.
MetaFilter: naked men dressed as clowns spanking each other.

Sorry no links to the original threads, that would've taken too much time!
posted by Blake at 9:37 AM on December 19, 2003

Here you go , Blake, with links! "Little, #006699, different" is my favorite one.
posted by brownpau at 9:44 AM on December 19, 2003

Some of these are great. I can't pick a favourite.
posted by orange swan at 10:13 AM on December 19, 2003

When I read the first two lines of this comment I thought it would have made a perfect tagline. Didn't post it, though, since there was a mild shitstorm at the time and I was somewhat new to the place.
posted by Johnny Assay at 10:47 AM on December 19, 2003

Is there such a thing as a mild shitstorm on MeTa?
posted by mr_crash_davis at 12:57 PM on December 19, 2003

"I really get the idea that many here care, and many just enjoy spinning around with their dick out, spraying urine all over the place." - y6y6y6
posted by vito90 at 1:02 PM on December 19, 2003

Metafilter: spraying urine all over the place
posted by cortex at 2:03 PM on December 19, 2003

Metafilter: neither Meta nor a filter
posted by boaz at 2:27 PM on December 19, 2003

MetaFilter: Not dead, just inconsiderate. (y6y6y6)
posted by ArsncHeart at 2:39 PM on December 19, 2003

Metafilter: Metafilter: Metafilter: Metafilter: Metafilter: Metafilter: Metafilter: Metafilter: Metafilter: ...
posted by namespan at 7:24 PM on December 19, 2003

(Or: oh yeah, we're Meta)
posted by namespan at 7:25 PM on December 19, 2003

I never MetaFilter I didn't like.

BangaFilter? I never even Meta!

MetaFilter: a non-representative subset of the Web (thankfully).
posted by wendell at 9:25 PM on December 19, 2003

Hmm, I see it is long past time to update the taglines page. Oh well, I had nothing planned for the holidays anyway ...
posted by dg at 3:39 AM on December 20, 2003

Yeah, considering I've posted several dozen taglines since you last update, dg...

MetaFilter: I had nothing planned for the holidays anyway...
posted by wendell at 4:20 PM on December 20, 2003

Yeah, considering I've posted several dozen taglines since you last update, dg...
Me too--I never get tired of doing it (although i'm sure people are tired of seeing them)
posted by amberglow at 4:35 PM on December 20, 2003

MetaFilter: I never get tired of doing it (although i'm sure people are tired of seeing them)
couldn't resist... I am so morally weak
posted by wendell at 5:42 PM on December 20, 2003

I knew about Hüsker Dü waaay before you losers.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 6:09 PM on December 20, 2003

MetaFilter: I knew about [insert here] waaay before you losers.
posted by wendell at 2:43 PM on December 21, 2003

I seem to recall dg had a pretty robust list of these floating around on his site.
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 7:54 AM on December 22, 2003

I also seem to recall that dg posted in this thread before me mentioning the same thing... feck.. Sorry dg.
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 7:55 AM on December 22, 2003