Head Scan

February 26, 2003 5:28 PM

Head Scan is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their heads wedged into their scanners, or why.
posted by Stan Chin (71 comments total)

does anyone read the posts down here?
posted by Stan Chin at 5:29 PM on February 26, 2003

"i do"
posted by riffola at 5:32 PM on February 26, 2003

Ah, the old days.

(Nicely done)
posted by dhoyt at 5:32 PM on February 26, 2003

we all do!
posted by amberglow at 5:33 PM on February 26, 2003

And i do too.
posted by Stan Chin at 5:34 PM on February 26, 2003

How could you not?
posted by ArsncHeart at 5:40 PM on February 26, 2003

I haven't.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 5:41 PM on February 26, 2003

None of us have.
posted by Dreama at 5:43 PM on February 26, 2003

Somebody must be reading the posts down here.
posted by Jimbob at 5:43 PM on February 26, 2003

Neale, are you reading the posts down here?
posted by languagehat at 5:44 PM on February 26, 2003

dave?
posted by iconomy at 5:44 PM on February 26, 2003

anybody?
posted by Yelling At Nothing at 5:46 PM on February 26, 2003

What?
posted by Steve_at_Linnwood at 5:47 PM on February 26, 2003

t seems Head Scans is currently redesigning their site, but there archives are still there. I don't know if I agree with squeezing heads into a scanner for the pleasure of the internet viewing public. It just seems cruel to me.
posted by Steve_at_Linnwood at 5:49 PM on February 26, 2003

It seems Head Scans is currently redesigning their site, but there archives are still there. I don't know if I agree with squeezing heads into a scanner for the pleasure of the internet viewing public. It just seems cruel to me.
posted by Dreama at 5:49 PM on February 26, 2003

bunch of fucking amateurs
posted by Pretty_Generic at 5:51 PM on February 26, 2003

ZIPPITY BOP!
posted by ecrivain at 5:54 PM on February 26, 2003

Gee, I thought squeezing heads had something to do with frottage.

Or acne.
posted by WolfDaddy at 5:55 PM on February 26, 2003

The only way to top this would be if you waited until July 19th, for the 4th annual birthday celebration (it's gonna be a blow-out).
posted by mathowie at 5:55 PM on February 26, 2003

From the rules:
Try to avoid scanning the Head's genitals. We really don't need to see your face's junk up close and personal.

Head porn. Not good. I agree to that rules.
posted by Steve_at_Linnwood at 5:56 PM on February 26, 2003

I have never attempted to scan a head. I wouldn't even know where to start. In fact, I don't think I agree with it.
posted by poopy at 6:03 PM on February 26, 2003

She is fearsome in appearance.

She has wild eyes, a protruding tongue, and she wields a bloody sword. She also holds the severed head of a demon, and she wears a belt of severed heads.
posted by poopy at 6:17 PM on February 26, 2003

They fight crime!
posted by DyRE at 6:22 PM on February 26, 2003

last post! oh wait, this thread is supposed to be closed. ;)
posted by linux at 6:25 PM on February 26, 2003

I'm worried about the size of this thread... is 23894.org available?
posted by eddydamascene at 6:38 PM on February 26, 2003

let's
go
mets!
posted by iconomy at 6:46 PM on February 26, 2003

.
posted by ?! at 6:53 PM on February 26, 2003

In mid 1979, the show had to be canceled, not because it was doing poorly, but because it presented credibility problems for the company about to launch a more serious news effort, to be called Cable News Network.

Heh.
posted by eddydamascene at 7:00 PM on February 26, 2003

Must you guys piss all over everything to mark your territory?

Jeezly Cripes.
posted by Nothing at 7:01 PM on February 26, 2003

Boo!
posted by donkeyschlong at 7:04 PM on February 26, 2003

Damn, it smells musty in here. donkeyschlong, is that you?
posted by ashbury at 7:38 PM on February 26, 2003

Nothing, perhaps it would help if you start reading this thread from the way the post itself was framed, followed by the first comment by Stan, and compare it with the thread #19 linked by dhoyt above.
posted by riffola at 7:39 PM on February 26, 2003

Nothing was quoting Stavros in the original thread. Heh.
posted by iconomy at 7:51 PM on February 26, 2003

Don't forget to turn off the lights and lock up when you're done in here.
posted by hama7 at 7:59 PM on February 26, 2003

Me. It was me. A single mention by me ( that's me) on 11629 in October of last year brought this thread back from the dead. And I can do it again. Just watch me. Paul Hardcastle my patootie, I AM JOHN DENVER.

Let's see, limericks are always popular amongst the unwashed masses:

There was a young Man from Corvallis*
Who constantly wrote with his phallus
He fell off a cliff
But still remained stiff
And continued his poem in the talus

* A very nice college town in Oregon with a pioneer-French name - Cor (coeur:heart) vallis (vallais:heart), strangely enough in the middle of a valley. Right down the road from Philomath. Nowhere near Drain or Boring. Or Bend for that matter.

Hmmm. Don't even remember posting that. Does anybody remember why I thought I was John Denver?

Oh. And I am made very happy by a good link. Thanks Mr. Chin
posted by skyscraper at 8:00 PM on February 26, 2003

nobscan.com exists to show scanned pictures of male genitalia in flaccid and humorous states. It's not a pornography site - so you won't find any pictures of pointy projectiles on here.

Nobscan.com will consider pictorial submissions, provided that they are of flaccid members, belong to persons aged over 18, and are generated using a scanner. Our full submission policy (and some helpful hints) can be found under "scan your nob".
posted by homunculus at 8:34 PM on February 26, 2003

Yikes, I am sorry about that Nothing.
posted by riffola at 8:53 PM on February 26, 2003

my headscan's breath smells like headscan food
posted by thatweirdguy2 at 9:36 PM on February 26, 2003

Ah, the old days.

I'm sure this will be a great ride, but this is my stop.
p.s. All your post (down here) are belong to us.
posted by LeLiLo at 10:38 PM on February 26, 2003

Thought I better stick my flag in here before Matt shuts 'er down.

Stan, this rocks
posted by anastasiav at 11:10 PM on February 26, 2003

{cult threads have been revived! This sums up everything I've read on MeFi for the last year and a half. Thanks Stan, but I really wish you had saved it for the fourth b-day}
posted by Ufez Jones at 11:42 PM on February 26, 2003

Boy, were the threads stupid back then!
posted by MiguelCardoso at 11:56 PM on February 26, 2003

tyler wuz here in '02
posted by escher at 12:18 AM on February 27, 2003

In afterthought, I realize that I'd rather make my mark as something much more pretentious than a simple summer-camp slogan.
So a spot of poetry!
Haiku to Metafilter

blue, yellow text
flying over our heads
some just dumb
posted by escher at 12:26 AM on February 27, 2003

I wish to publicly apologize for bringing up the subject of poetry.

Just out of curiousity, how many of you are submitting scans? Please include MeFi # if you do.
posted by skyscraper at 12:49 AM on February 27, 2003

-u
posted by skyscraper at 12:51 AM on February 27, 2003

Might as well.
posted by walrus at 1:31 AM on February 27, 2003

Does this mean we can all join in at 9622 now?
posted by muckybob at 1:53 AM on February 27, 2003

Has anyone covered "foot-scans" or ear-scans"? there must be some fetish groups for feet and ears out there......

Can I scan my soul?
posted by troutfishing at 4:32 AM on February 27, 2003

Yes, please do.
posted by daveadams at 4:33 AM on February 27, 2003

No.
posted by walrus at 4:33 AM on February 27, 2003

Has anyone covered "foot-scans" or ear-scans"? there must be some fetish groups for feet and ears out there......

Ask and ye shall receive
posted by Mahogne at 5:14 AM on February 27, 2003

eddydamascene: "In mid 1979, the show had to be canceled, not because it was doing poorly, but because it presented credibility problems for the company about to launch a more serious news effort, to be called Cable News Network."

Originally it was Cabal News Network, but the Cabal wasn't pleased with the name since there is no Cabal.
posted by DBAPaul at 6:03 AM on February 27, 2003

*grabs useful black stinky marker to scribble on the wall at Mefi*

um.... I'm sure I can think if something... how about some Poutine?
posted by jokeefe at 11:12 AM on February 28, 2003

{of something} sigh...
posted by jokeefe at 11:13 AM on February 28, 2003

Haiku to Metafilter

blue, yellow text
flying over our heads
some just dumb

I feel the need to provide your poem with its requisite 17 syllables while staying true to your poetic intentions:

blue and yellow text
flying over our heads
some are just plain dumb

apologies for needless anal retentiveness.
posted by mdn at 11:29 AM on February 28, 2003

ack.
flying straight over our heads
posted by mdn at 3:56 PM on February 28, 2003

Oh, my.
posted by languagehat at 5:22 PM on February 28, 2003

Heh, noone posting here anymore.

I'm pretty sure I'll be the last post.


Wow. That feels kinda good. I'll just stretchhhhhhh out my arms here.

(yawn)

heh.
head scans
that's a good one
posted by jeremias at 7:40 AM on March 4, 2003

I started this thread, I get the last post mister.
posted by Stan Chin at 8:29 AM on March 4, 2003

ok, it's just you and me, Stan.

I don't know you.
You don't know me.
You might be "bookmarking" this "thread", but I was feeling pretty comfortable in this big blue space all by my lonesome. So you're just going to need a better excuse than "I started it".

C'mon, this isn't grade school, it's METAFILTER.
posted by jeremias at 4:35 PM on March 4, 2003

Can I have the last word?
posted by turaho at 4:37 PM on March 4, 2003

no.
posted by ?! at 4:40 PM on March 4, 2003

I can.
posted by walrus at 4:32 AM on March 5, 2003

No you can't.
posted by languagehat at 12:22 PM on March 9, 2003

Stan rocks
posted by riffola at 2:32 PM on March 9, 2003

But then again, maybe none of us are the last. I mean, who's to say who is definitively the "last" among lasts? I mean life is long and when you look at it from the perspective of say, a mayfly, or an aubergine, eggplant if you will, then the last could really be composed of all the firsts in the world put together in a blinding eye-stab flash of all the monkeys in the world exploding in the same instant, from having misread the directions on the Alka-Seltzer bottle. Then you see that the last is indeed the penultimate, just as the New World monkey, because of the prehensile tail, is in fact the fourth-to-last monkey, in the greater scheme of things. We are the supernova, the mote in the eye of thread 23894.

--Paul hardcastle reference deleted due to irrelevance--

You see?
All posts are © their original authors.
posted by jeremias at 11:54 AM on March 15, 2003

Still....
posted by ?! at 2:28 PM on March 15, 2003

So does the cult thread
fade away into obscurity
As server space needs saving
and American flags need waving
Here do I say
Last Post!
posted by jeremias at 10:22 AM on March 26, 2003

There is a user close by us,
Who sounded oh so pious,
When loudly he did boast,
“Here do I say, Last post!”
Sorry, not so, jeremias.
posted by ?! at 12:13 PM on March 26, 2003

The person who started the thread,
Of whom you all have dread,
Has come back to say,
"I will have the last post today!"
So ends the talk of scanning your head.
posted by Stan Chin at 5:04 PM on March 26, 2003 [1 favorite]