I'm sorry

March 27, 2003 5:35 AM

This broom, it vibrates?!
posted by Orange Goblin (29 comments total)

Oh, you've really opened up a can of dildos this time.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 5:41 AM on March 27, 2003

posting this was either:

1) an act of supreme ignorance
2) an act of awesome arrogance

in either case, i salute you and shall remember you fondly.
posted by quonsar at 6:02 AM on March 27, 2003

This thread, it's doomed?
posted by thatweirdguy2 at 6:02 AM on March 27, 2003

This thread, it vibrates
posted by ElvisJesus at 6:03 AM on March 27, 2003

This Orange Goblin, it .... oh, never mind.
posted by spazzm at 6:05 AM on March 27, 2003

I want a vibrating thread! Where can I get one?
posted by twine42 at 6:06 AM on March 27, 2003

Since the title of the thread is, "I'm sorry", I'm guessing it's awesome arrogance, quonsar.
posted by ODiV at 6:09 AM on March 27, 2003

i for one would like to welcome our new vibrating thread overlords.
posted by quonsar at 6:10 AM on March 27, 2003

This x, it vibrates?
posted by Pretty_Generic at 6:12 AM on March 27, 2003

Hey kids, it's a MeFi stale meme handle pile-on! Who like vibrating pancakes? I like vibrating pancakes.
posted by MrBaliHai at 6:13 AM on March 27, 2003

well this has a slightly different spin, but it's a shaky thread nonetheless.
posted by madamjujujive at 6:14 AM on March 27, 2003

I have no idea how these people got their memes wedged into their comments, or why.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 6:15 AM on March 27, 2003

Ha! Ha! Ha! Funny cartoons!
posted by yhbc at 6:18 AM on March 27, 2003

tell us something we haven't heard before
posted by evening at 6:21 AM on March 27, 2003

Maybe it's in the date, Joshua Allen, 11 September 2002. OG would you like to go back in time, to a time when this post was our biggest nuisance(s)?
posted by thomcatspike at 6:21 AM on March 27, 2003

Anybody remember Mahir? The "I kiss you"-guy?
posted by spazzm at 6:22 AM on March 27, 2003

Is this thread something you need mock cleaning implements to understand? Because I do not have any mock cleaning implements.

(yes, I know this means my mock must be filthy)
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 6:23 AM on March 27, 2003

thomcatspike: Yeah, because the anniversary of the Al Qaeda attacks was a despicable tragedy that affected us all. I got practically no celebrity news that day.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 6:24 AM on March 27, 2003

shaky thread

heh. good one, jujube! :-)
posted by quonsar at 6:24 AM on March 27, 2003

jujube funny
posted by Pretty_Generic at 6:25 AM on March 27, 2003

But What Does Miguel Cardoso Think?

(oh, sorry, Miguel, I forgot you're not really an in-joke)
posted by briank at 7:16 AM on March 27, 2003

Maybe I've missed something along the way but I'm not getting the joke...
posted by i_cola at 7:37 AM on March 27, 2003

Doh. I missed the date, and thought this was something new on the issue....

quonsar - I'll take a bit of both, I think.

/brainfart
posted by Orange Goblin at 7:45 AM on March 27, 2003

OG: You are guilty of a far more serious crime. Ellipses (...) have only 3 dots and you used 4.

The Typography Police will be calling shortly...
posted by i_cola at 7:58 AM on March 27, 2003

(1) piece posted
(2) piece posted/referred to so many times it becomes annoying meme
(3) annoyance at meme becomes in-joke, cultural community signal
(4) origin of in-joke lost to the mists of time, in-joke continues
(5) suddenly, a nifty piece connected to in-joke is discovered?

Just speculation.
posted by namespan at 8:12 AM on March 27, 2003

[typography police action]
Actually, I learned once that four dots in an ellipses works if you're ending a complete sentence and three is good if it's a sentence fragment. But many grammar 'rules' are still debated hotly in some circles... where they don't have vibrating brooms probably....
[/typography police action]
posted by thunder at 8:19 AM on March 27, 2003

WHAT.
THE.
FART.
OG?

I kiss all your vibrating pancake-hat wearing bunny overlords.

namespan has your pony?
posted by asok at 8:23 AM on March 27, 2003

*shakes fist in manner of grizzled old man at thunder*
posted by i_cola at 8:24 AM on March 27, 2003

Ellipse? Screw that, I just let go of the full stop button when it feels good..............see?
posted by Orange Goblin at 8:24 AM on March 27, 2003