Spewing Forth Information

December 1, 2004 7:34 AM

Webster's Online DictionaryI came across this online dictionary project when I was searching
for a word better than "spewing" to describe the
sentiments pouring out of an otherwise romantic
letter.

I searched for "spew antonym" and came up with a link
to your Webster's Online's definition of the word.

Wow! What a dictionary! They taught me more about that
word than I ever dreamed was possible. I am now a
spewing master. I will no longer regurgitate in the
same manner. I can spew in 100 different languages. I
can recite the spewage scene coming out of "Wayne's
World."

I can quote the more erudite Miguel De
Cervantes: "Good painters imitate nature. Bad ones
spew it up."

I saw biblical usages: "So then because
thos arete bitwene bothe and nether colde ner hot I
will spew ye oute of my mouth." from Revelations Ch. 3
V 16.

I could go on and on but I head is reeling and I
fear that I may (or you may):

Vomit, throw up, regurgitate, spew, puke, keck, retch, heave, upchuck, chuck up, barf; belch out; cast up, bring up, be sick, get sick, worship the porcelain god or simply spew if I go on.

Gentlemen and ladies, it is worth checking out.

posted by notmtwain (62 comments total)

Uh, can we not have any more newbies please? Pretty please?
posted by u.n. owen at 7:37 AM on December 1, 2004

Well, folks! I suppose this is payback for all those political posts of late. And by late I mean the last 4 years and one month.
posted by Blue Buddha at 7:39 AM on December 1, 2004

Well, this post followed my very first post. While I will not make any arguments regarding content, I will say that I win as far as formatting on the front page goes.
posted by flarbuse at 7:39 AM on December 1, 2004

I am now a spewing master.

Yes, we can see that.
posted by misteraitch at 7:39 AM on December 1, 2004

You mean worth deleting?
posted by jon_kill at 7:39 AM on December 1, 2004

this is a motherfucker of a way-too-long post, even for my standards
posted by matteo at 7:39 AM on December 1, 2004

"A noob or n00b is a newbie who claims to know a lot about a subject, but really does not. They often show off their false skills to gain a reputation."
posted by tpl1212 at 7:41 AM on December 1, 2004

This post made me throw up a little. Just now.
Appropriate, actually.
posted by grabbingsand at 7:41 AM on December 1, 2004

I can think of better uses for five dollars.
posted by Hartster at 7:43 AM on December 1, 2004

Hey, don't blame all us newbies. I know better than to post something that long and poorly formatted on the front page. Of course, I lurked on this site for over a year before I got an account, so I know generally how things work around here.
posted by Jupiter Jones at 7:43 AM on December 1, 2004

Oh my god. I am in awe. This is a zen puzzle of retardulousness that even the wise Shitashi cannot crack.
posted by fricative at 7:44 AM on December 1, 2004

This is... uh. Wow. Spectacularly bad. Well done. New depths of noobie doodie.
posted by papercake at 7:44 AM on December 1, 2004

O come on guys. It is a pretty exciting link and the link submission button said that it had not been submitted previously.
posted by notmtwain at 7:44 AM on December 1, 2004

Well... this is as good of a place as any...

*strips naked and wiggles slightly*
posted by sciurus at 7:45 AM on December 1, 2004

[this is good]

[because it's so, so bad]
posted by pardonyou? at 7:45 AM on December 1, 2004

Hey notmtwain, it's usually not a good idea to take up so much front page real estate. If you have a lot to say, post a couple of lines to the front page followed by a [More Inside], and then finish what you have to say inside.

Um, wait, I mean, DUMBASS N00B!!!!
posted by bondcliff at 7:46 AM on December 1, 2004

Why
are
you
hitting
the
return
key
after
every
few
words?

Are you just a little slow?
Or are you a complete wanker who doesn't understand how to use a fucking browser edit window?
posted by mooncrow at 7:46 AM on December 1, 2004

notmtwain, prepare to get your world rocked. I present to you, the thesaurus. Shit yeah mother fucker! That's how we roll on the internet!
posted by Stan Chin at 7:47 AM on December 1, 2004

THIS IS THE WORST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN ON THE INTERNETS!
posted by xmutex at 7:47 AM on December 1, 2004

Is this a joke?
posted by sid at 7:47 AM on December 1, 2004

Hey look -- the dictionary has definitions for all sorts of words!
posted by Robot Johnny at 7:49 AM on December 1, 2004

Troll. Has to be a troll. Has to be a troll. Has to be a troll. Has to be a troll. Has to be a troll. Come on, glowing about "spewing" while... spewing. Troll. TROLLLLLLLLL. Cobra Lalalalallala Troll.

on preview: Stan Chin is my new god.
posted by cavalier at 7:49 AM on December 1, 2004

I love this thread but I fear it will be deleted by the time I have breakfast
posted by inksyndicate at 7:49 AM on December 1, 2004

No, you misunderstand:

It's performative.
posted by felix betachat at 7:50 AM on December 1, 2004

Are you having pancakes, inksyndicate?
posted by sciurus at 7:51 AM on December 1, 2004

I am humbled and awed by the power and majesty of your advice. I will endeavor to use less of your fragile bandwidth in the future, that you may save it for more valuable usages.
posted by notmtwain at 7:51 AM on December 1, 2004

To quote my man Fat Albert:

"A beating? I love to see a beating!"

This is gonna be fun...
posted by Irontom at 7:51 AM on December 1, 2004

Let us not unveil to him the great secret of the online encylopedia. Seeing what the dictionary has done to him, he'd need 12 hours and a shaman to come down off of that shit.
posted by fricative at 7:51 AM on December 1, 2004

notmtwain: I hope your leg is healing well; I'm afraid this thread may end up being more painful than your fall.

btw - was in Vegas for Thanksgiving myself and also climbed to the top of Red Rock, luckily without incident
posted by papercake at 7:52 AM on December 1, 2004

Troll. Has to be a troll. Has to be a troll. Has to be a troll. Has to be a troll. Has to be a troll.

No way -- didn't you read his defense? Don't you appreciate that It was a "pretty exciting" link, and besides, in the long history of MetaFilter, nobody had ever posted a link to the dictionary definition of "spew" before!
posted by pardonyou? at 7:53 AM on December 1, 2004

It looks like he either typed it out on a word editor for (possibly) spellcheck purposes and then just pasted the entire damn thing in a window, or he completely ripped it off from someone else's website.

Either way, he deserves death, and perhaps post-humonous anal rapage.

Matt! Matt! Wake up and fix the front page!
posted by Plinko at 7:53 AM on December 1, 2004

notmtwain: You, sir, are worse than Hitler.
posted by mek at 7:55 AM on December 1, 2004

And I definitely just realized that I buggered 'posthumous', thus destroying all chances of my post being taken seriously. Curses! Foiled again!
posted by Plinko at 7:55 AM on December 1, 2004

Sciurius: No, I came across a box of grape nuts while looking around my otherwise nondescript kitchen

Wow! What a cereal!

It taught me more about grains than I could ever have discovered on my own.

This thread could become Metafilter's Pickle Incident.
posted by inksyndicate at 7:55 AM on December 1, 2004

so this dictionary... it vibrates?
posted by handee at 7:56 AM on December 1, 2004

Wait, the dictionary is available on the intraweb now?
posted by tr33hggr at 7:56 AM on December 1, 2004

Worse than Hitler? Did he misuse Metafilter as a newbie too?
posted by notmtwain at 7:57 AM on December 1, 2004

After reading this post and the comments by newbies in the recent Metatalk threads that I'm starting to think that the "November 18, 2004" in user profiles has become a Scarlet Letter.
posted by Arch Stanton at 8:02 AM on December 1, 2004

Yeah, notmtwain, that's why he left art school. ;)
posted by robocop is bleeding at 8:03 AM on December 1, 2004

LOL LOL LOL!

This is comedy gold. Please tell me this was a purposeful joke!
posted by Shane at 8:03 AM on December 1, 2004

notmtwain?
You weawwy should get youw own bwog.
Twuwey, this post is inappwopwiate fow Metafiwtew.
posted by Floydd at 8:04 AM on December 1, 2004

. ! ! !
posted by cavalier at 8:04 AM on December 1, 2004

Hey I empathize with the guy. I got bitched at for asking a question on the ask.metafilter forum. Apparently you can ask any question except if it pertains to metafilter.
Sorry to contaminate your elite little club.
You are all my bitches now.
posted by dancingbaptist at 8:04 AM on December 1, 2004

that butter pecan syrup at IHOP...shit that stuff makes me spew bigtime....mmm, but the blueberry syrup, i'd slap my momma to get some of that on my griddle cakes.
posted by danOstuporStar at 8:07 AM on December 1, 2004

I just want to say "Hi" in this thread because I want to fit in.

BTW, The Hitler remark had me rolling.
posted by mic stand at 8:07 AM on December 1, 2004

It's a good thing this gentleman's username is "notmtwain", because otherwise I would have confused him with the US's greatest comic writer. Because this is just as good as anything in Huckleberry Finn.
posted by Sidhedevil at 8:08 AM on December 1, 2004

With 3K new people, shit like this is bound to happen. Don't tar all those 3K people by the very small percentage who do crap like this.

What's sort of sad is that this guy's trying to be funny and make a point. Or something. Too bad he sucks at it.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 8:08 AM on December 1, 2004

Are signups still open?
posted by bshort at 8:09 AM on December 1, 2004

In country Russia, government spews you.
posted by dancingbaptist at 8:10 AM on December 1, 2004

Hey, where did that originate? That cliche of "The pill takes you!" or "Television turns YOU on!"
posted by inksyndicate at 8:14 AM on December 1, 2004

Say what you like but this post and the ensuing chaos made me laugh outloud for the first time today. n00b indeed!
posted by bluesky43 at 8:15 AM on December 1, 2004

Sidhedevil, thanks to you I nearly "spewed" orange juice all over my keyboard!
posted by Robot Johnny at 8:15 AM on December 1, 2004

It's performative.

Yes! By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and n00b.
posted by ludwig_van at 8:15 AM on December 1, 2004

MeFi: a zen puzzle of retardulousness
posted by Tubes at 8:15 AM on December 1, 2004

With 3K new people, shit like this is bound to happen. Don't tar all those 3K people by the very small percentage who do crap like this.

Honestly EB, there are times when you are just too quick with your fancy toleranc-ing.
posted by biffa at 8:16 AM on December 1, 2004

inksyndicate,
I think it's cliche ripoff of a Yakoff Shmirnoff joke.
posted by Arch Stanton at 8:17 AM on December 1, 2004

This is probably very bad news for the Intarwebs.
posted by gramschmidt at 8:17 AM on December 1, 2004

heya notmtwain, i just wanted to say that i love the 'about' page on your website. seriously.

oh, and great post.
posted by poopy at 8:17 AM on December 1, 2004

HEY! WHO TOOK MY CLOTHES?!?
posted by sciurus at 8:17 AM on December 1, 2004

I'm a bloody newb, and my first FPP took up all of two lines, and actually linked to two web pages never before referenced on MeFi! and the second link provided background for the first. How do I do it? Go me!
posted by Devils Rancher at 8:18 AM on December 1, 2004

Arch: Fascinating, except it seems so much more recent than Yakoff Shmirnoff's heyday. Is there a renaissance of interest in his work?
posted by inksyndicate at 8:18 AM on December 1, 2004

Come on, this is hysterical. He makes a truly terrible post and it goes to....the dictionary! About spewing! How could this be anything but art? Hamhanded art yes, but still...
posted by CunningLinguist at 8:19 AM on December 1, 2004