"Is Chris Messina married?" "I don't know." "Shall I look it up?"

September 24, 2018 7:23 AM

"3 friends try to have a conversation but can’t stop looking stuff up." A stand-alone episode by Cazzie David. [previously]
posted by Wordshore (20 comments total)

Wonderful. I Lol'd many times.
posted by dobbs at 7:36 AM on September 24, 2018 [1 favorite]

Ha, this was great. "Who was the first baby?"
posted by alleycat01 at 7:53 AM on September 24, 2018 [3 favorites]

Remember when TV Guide had a section where you could mail in your questions about actors and they would answer the questions for you?

Does TV Guide still exist in some form?

...

I looked it up. Yes, it’s a website and it has an app.
posted by BuddhaInABucket at 7:54 AM on September 24, 2018 [5 favorites]

Does TV Guide still exist in some form?
...
I looked it up.

We see what you did there.
posted by Wordshore at 7:55 AM on September 24, 2018

We see what you did there.

Wait, I don't get it, what did they - never mind, I'll just look it up.
posted by solotoro at 8:06 AM on September 24, 2018 [1 favorite]

Chris Messina! We were in the same production of "Pippin" in high school. I was Pippin, he was the Leading Player. A really nice guy. I'm glad he's had so much success.
posted by grumpybear69 at 8:38 AM on September 24, 2018 [8 favorites]

When my great aunt was near the end of her life in a care facility, my mom used to visit her, and -- in addition to playing some big band music on her phone for her aunt -- much of their conversation turned back to old movies. So they'd be chatting and say, "Oh, yeah, who was Bogart's co-star in that one movie?" and my mom would take out her phone, Google it, and report back.

Eventually, my great aunt would think of a movie-related question, and instruct my mom to "put it in your radio" to find out what the answer was. To this day, my family uses "put it in your radio" to instruct someone to look something up.
posted by knownassociate at 8:43 AM on September 24, 2018 [27 favorites]

I don't get why this is supposedly a problem. Honestly, chilling with friends and going down a wikipedia curiosity rabbit hole together sounds awesome. It's fun to find out more things about the world!
posted by storytam at 9:39 AM on September 24, 2018 [12 favorites]

I was confused why they'd be into the guy who invented the hashtag but it turns out there's more than one Chris Messina.
posted by GuyZero at 9:42 AM on September 24, 2018 [4 favorites]

Do you know how AGGRAVATING conversations were in the Dark Ages when one couldn't look things up? One hundred thousand years of people yelling over each other in an effort to show that They Knew The Facts. Now we can just look it up and move on.

(I may have a peeve.)
posted by XtinaS at 9:54 AM on September 24, 2018 [13 favorites]

so, grumpybear69, I've always read 69 as your birth year (nice), so your comment just now made me think huh, I thought Chris Messina was only like 40 or something and since I was already on the internet, I just

anyway, he's 44
posted by notquitemaryann at 9:59 AM on September 24, 2018 [3 favorites]

No, not my birthyear, nor the in-retrospect-clearly-salacious-reference angle, either. Chris was two years ahead of me.
posted by grumpybear69 at 10:21 AM on September 24, 2018 [1 favorite]

Our entire lunchtime conversation at work every day is a non-stop stream of "Let me Google that for you". Five middle-aged guys with opinions and smart phones.
posted by briank at 10:32 AM on September 24, 2018 [1 favorite]

MetaFilter: Five middle-aged guys with opinions and smart phones
posted by neroli at 11:39 AM on September 24, 2018 [11 favorites]

Remember when TV Guide had a section where you could mail in your questions about actors and they would answer the questions for you?

Parade used to run a column like that. The questions were transparently mailed in by publicists as a means of signalling their clients were still alive.

Dear Parade: The Mrs. and I enjoyed a late series re-run of Happy Days recently. We both marveled at Al Molinaro's muscular, charismatic portrayal of Al Delvecchio, the long-suffering drive-in owner. Why, he threatened to upstage "The Fonz" (Henry Winkler) himself! My wife was keen to know what new projects Mr. Molinaro is tackling these days. I'm confident he's got plenty to keep him busy, but I thought I'd turn to you folks for the details.
-Jim Fomalhaut, La Crescenta

Dear Jim: We're only too happy to help out fellow Molinaro fans! We've been devotees ever since Al played Office Murray Greshler on The Odd Couple. Al's taken some time off in recent years to try his hand at the restaurant game, but he'll be making a triumphant return to television next fall on CBS' The Family Man, alongside none other Gregory Harrison ("Gonzo" Gates on Trapper John, M.D.)! Tell the Mrs. to get ready for plenty of laughs—Molinaro style!

posted by Iridic at 12:01 PM on September 24, 2018 [10 favorites]

Do you know how AGGRAVATING conversations were in the Dark Ages when one couldn't look things up?

Fun fact: The Guinness Book of Records was originally compiled to forestall pub arguments that would escalate and turn into continent-wide wars slaying people by the hundreds of thousands. For example, the Thirty Years War originated in a disagreement over the largest mangel-wurzel. You don't need to look that up it's 100% truth.
posted by um at 4:40 PM on September 24, 2018 [1 favorite]

When it started I was like "Who or what is Christmas-ina?"
posted by glonous keming at 5:03 PM on September 24, 2018 [2 favorites]

Love these shorts, easily as lulzy as her dad's stuff.
posted by turbid dahlia at 8:35 PM on September 24, 2018 [1 favorite]

I was on a camping trip recently with a group of Mefites who like to constantly google stuff we're talking about but we had no cell service. So the rule was that you had to pick up your phone, pretend to be googling something and then make up the search results and report them as if they were fact. Hilarity ensued.
posted by bendy at 9:54 PM on September 24, 2018 [15 favorites]

I work with two brilliant young men, and I'm surprised that they are as amazed as I am by the gift of google. I'd have thought they grew up with it, but no, we have to remind each other all the time that we can google it.
(Irony may be part of this comment)
posted by mumimor at 12:26 PM on September 25, 2018 [1 favorite]