Exclusive Free Album Project > Audiobulb

April 28, 2008 1:30 AM

Exclusive Mailing List Offer Hi Everyone. Just a heads up to encourage you and your friends (if you think they'd be into our sound) to sign up for our new PHP mailing list. I will be giving away the gift of an EXCLUSIVE free download album for everyone on the list next month + some amazing news about a new audiobulb sound module!!!!
posted by room (197 comments total)

Spam spam go away
posted by splice at 1:33 AM on April 28

Did you read the guidelines?
posted by malpractice at 1:34 AM on April 28

I find your spam irritating and I would not like to subscribe to your newsletter.
posted by soundofsuburbia at 1:37 AM on April 28

exclusive? free?! this audiobulb plug-in, is it bulbous enough to plug my butt?
posted by bunnytricks at 1:38 AM on April 28

no posts or comments since 2005, and now a spam link?
I think this is stranger than usual...
posted by heeeraldo at 1:38 AM on April 28

oh my god, what a wonderful opportunity to keep informed!!
posted by every_one_needs_a_hug_sometimes at 1:40 AM on April 28

FIRST, I MUST SOLICIT YOUR STRICTEST CONFIDENCE IN THIS TRANSACTION. THIS IS BY VIRTUE OF ITS NATURE AS BEING UTTERLY CONFIDENTIAL AND 'TOP SECRET'. I AM SURE AND HAVE CONFIDENCE OF YOUR ABILITY AND RELIABILITY TO PROSECUTE A TRANSACTION OF THIS GREAT MAGNITUDE INVOLVING A PENDING TRANSACTION REQUIRING MAXIIMUM CONFIDENCE.
posted by Poolio at 1:40 AM on April 28

When room is banned, is that user name available again?
posted by maxwelton at 1:43 AM on April 28

room probably had an eponymous password. It's cute how this was posted in the middle of the night when they thought the admins would be asleep, but they forget that metafilter is ran by vampires at night and werewolfs in remission during the daylight hours..
posted by bunnytricks at 1:43 AM on April 28

thx 4 payin 4 my blog
posted by Citizen Premier at 1:44 AM on April 28

If someone says something like "audiobulb is spyware" repeatedly in a thread like this, does it negate the lame spammy nature of the original post?

audiobulb is spyware
audiobulb is spyware
audiobulb is spyware
audiobulb is spyware
audiobulb is spyware
audiobulb is spyware

Who knows?
posted by maxwelton at 1:45 AM on April 28

I am agape.
posted by cillit bang at 1:46 AM on April 28 [1 favorite]

I wonder how many flags did this post get? Eleven comments + twice as many flags? Three times as many? Half as many? Flags vs Comments. This could be neat in a graph.
posted by dabitch at 1:47 AM on April 28 [1 favorite]

I want a mod in my time zone, please.
posted by sveskemus at 1:48 AM on April 28 [2 favorites]

Oh. I didn't realize I needed Javascript for flagging.

Now I wonder about the poster's prior (self?)posts, three years later...
posted by Pronoiac at 1:52 AM on April 28

Not only is audiobulb spyware, sources say he/she/they murdered a hobo on a bet.
Also NAMBLA.
posted by maryh at 1:53 AM on April 28

! = The writer is excited.
!! = The writer is probably 13.
!!! = The writer believes in the time cube.
!!!! = The writer is batshitinsane.
posted by maxwelton at 1:53 AM on April 28 [9 favorites]

Did cortex have spicy food tonight? With all of those sweet fivers mathowie gets, you'd think he'd spring for the team to have web-enabled toilets.
posted by bunnytricks at 1:55 AM on April 28

room probably had an eponymous password

Doubtful, unless the person who hacked the account also changed the website in the profile. Also doubtful since a site I just found links the username, the website in the account, and the site linked to in the post.

Bad boy, room, bad! Now go to your... uh... go on, just go.
posted by splice at 1:56 AM on April 28

Oh and just so we're clear: http://www.oddiooverplay.com/comp/index.html (will not eat your children, I think)

04. Room - Your Beautiful Flower

link: http://www.glowbulb.com

Room is David who operates the fabulous Audiobulb Records label. Hear more of his work on his Room site and at the label.
posted by splice at 1:58 AM on April 28 [1 favorite]

Spicy foods? Why would that put cortex out of business? Uunless you mean acme-spicy-head-submerged in water + smoke coming out spicy. I like that kind of spicy.
posted by dabitch at 1:59 AM on April 28

I lit up the mod signal, but unfortunately the one I have is olfactory in nature, fueled by a suspect chicken sandwich. (No one in my house is pleased, and the dogs are trying to roll on whatever is in the air. Please advise.)
posted by maxwelton at 1:59 AM on April 28 [2 favorites]

I am agape.

Takes all kinds, I guess. I am eros.
posted by Naberius at 1:59 AM on April 28 [5 favorites]

when they thought the admins would be asleep, but they forget that metafilter is ran by vampires at night and werewolfs in remission during the daylight hours..

I dunno, it looks to me like we could use a third faction, possibly some Hawaiian zombies beginning about 8am GMT.

mmmm, zombies...
posted by tula at 1:59 AM on April 28

Yaknow, maybe room thought he was posting to projects and is paging cortex to get this off the blue asap too.
posted by dabitch at 2:00 AM on April 28

I want a mod in my time zone, please.

Me to.

In the mean time, what the fuck is this? Banhammer!
posted by From Bklyn at 2:01 AM on April 28

That this was meant for projects seems possible, but shouldn't he be in here begging for absolution if that was the case?
posted by bunnytricks at 2:04 AM on April 28

I dunno, it looks to me like we could use a third faction, possibly some Hawaiian zombies beginning about 8am GMT.

Can I be a pirate? Or a ninja, yeah! Both have good cause to be up at night or early in the morning, and they have swords!

Can a ninja have a parrot?
posted by splice at 2:04 AM on April 28

dabitch, I hope you're right, but that four-exclamation-point sentence is worthy of some time off.
posted by maxwelton at 2:04 AM on April 28

Damn it, where is my PUNCHYOUINTHEFUCKINGFACE Firefox addon, already?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 2:07 AM on April 28 [2 favorites]

Joined: September 22, 2005

Not a lot of posting history, but WTF.
posted by psmealey at 2:09 AM on April 28

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

No, wait.
posted by cillit bang at 2:09 AM on April 28

So, what's the longest spam has remained on the front page? I remember the "sexy japanese anime girls" thing managed to stay up for about three hours a couple of months back.
posted by bunnytricks at 2:12 AM on April 28

oh, I just wanted to get in a comment before this thread gets deleted.
posted by krautland at 2:13 AM on April 28

spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam (but just wanted to get a quick comment in before this post gets deleted).
posted by the_very_hungry_caterpillar at 2:14 AM on April 28

Clay Shirky, you start giving back those TV sets RIGHT NOW.
posted by davemee at 2:14 AM on April 28

This comment of mine will be deleted soon, but the memories will remain
posted by quarsan at 2:15 AM on April 28

So, what's the longest spam has remained on the front page?
I saw something - I don't recall what it was though - that hung around for at least four hours years back. These days they usually die within twenty minutes.
posted by dabitch at 2:16 AM on April 28

ahahahaha

fuck off and die you spamming cunt.
posted by Dillonlikescookies at 2:18 AM on April 28

I'm whacking you with my little toy inflatable banhammer until someone shows up with the real one.
posted by louche mustachio at 2:19 AM on April 28

Given that his first post was a self-link that went unnoticed and received lots of love, it's conceivable that room is blissfully ignorant of community norms. Doesn't make it less self-promoting, mind. Off with his head.
posted by mumkin at 2:20 AM on April 28

I saw something - I don't recall what it was though - that hung around for at least four hours years back. These days they usually die within twenty minutes.

I would go to metatalk to request a pony that throws posts that receive a huge number of flags into queue and off the front page, but that pony wouldn't be as fun to ride as the chatty spamfilter thread ponies.
posted by bunnytricks at 2:20 AM on April 28

There's no room for this sort of stuff here.
posted by grouse at 2:21 AM on April 28

Never mind the guidelines, on the new post page there's now a warning that involves the banhammer. And links Projects.
posted by Pronoiac at 2:21 AM on April 28

AUDIOBULB!
posted by louche mustachio at 2:22 AM on April 28

Title: "HE WHO MAKES A BEAST OF
HIMSELF GETS RID OF THE
PAIN OF BEING A MAN."

-- DR. JOHNSON

The VOICE OF RAOUL DUKE is heard.

DUKE VOICEOVER
We were somewhere around Barstow
on the edge of the desert when the
drugs began to take hold.

WHOOSH. The BLACK SCREEN gets wiped away by the WHITE
DESERT and the RED CHEVY CONVERTIBLE that races down the
highway at a hundred miles an hour....

Leaving behind it nothing but the DESERT.


ON THE ROAD TO LAS VEGAS EXT DAY

Following the RED CONVERTIBLE.
The convertible, top down, plows forward manically like a
RED SHARK slicing through bloody water.

AT THE WHEEL

RAOUL DUKE, a.k.a. HUNTER S. THOMPSON, skeletal, bald,
sunglassed, beer in hand.

Beside him, turning the music up, up, UP, DR. GONZO (real
name withheld)--swarthy, stocky, firebreathing bull. He
wears ONE BLACK GLOVE.

DUKE V/O
I remember saying something like:
"I feel a bit lightheaded. Maybe
you should drive..."

But in the car, nothing is said. DUKE stares straight
ahead.

Oblivious to the bloody NICKS this procedure has left
behind.

DUKE V/O
Suddenly there was a terrible roar
all around us and the sky was full of
what looked like huge bats, all swooping
and screeching and diving around the car.
And my voice screaming: "Holy Jesus!
What are these goddamn animals?"

DUKE continues to look steadily ahead.
DR. GONZO looks lazily at him.

DR. GONZO
Did you say something?

DUKE shakes his head, pulls over with a screech to the side
of the road.

DUKE V/O
No point mentioning those bats, I
thought. The poor bastard will see
them soon enough.
posted by Dillonlikescookies at 2:22 AM on April 28

You know what I like? Lemons.
posted by Jofus at 2:27 AM on April 28

they're good on pancakes
posted by Dillonlikescookies at 2:29 AM on April 28

Perhaps you might be interested in the Sleeper Spam Cell Sauteed in Lemon Butter this evening?
posted by lunaazul at 2:30 AM on April 28

Wait, I didn't get my free album yet.
posted by Lord_Pall at 2:32 AM on April 28

Grrr. Room for improvement (or just ban the fucker).
posted by Shave at 2:33 AM on April 28

What does exclusive mean again?
posted by srboisvert at 2:34 AM on April 28

Whee!
posted by turgid dahlia at 2:35 AM on April 28

I wants to has a comment in a closed thread too!
posted by WalterMitty at 2:35 AM on April 28

3 <------ this may look like the number three, but lets pretend it's a butt, exposed as a sign of disrespect in a fit of juvenile pique.
posted by louche mustachio at 2:37 AM on April 28

This post was here.
posted by chillmost at 2:38 AM on April 28

You must have gone to that lemon festival this weekend. Man, that was great! The army recruiters showed up with spud guns that shot, get this, lemons instead of potatoes! The staff encouraged everyone to call their sweethears "sour"hearts for the duration of the soirée! Zany! For the kids they had a spy workshop where they taught them to use lemon juice as invisible ink. No telling what secrets they'll share with their little buddies now. Let's just hope they don't tell the judges of the lemonade making contest that the secret ingredients in my special lemonade zingers are GHB and deer urine! Talk about a scandal, hoo boy howdy!
posted by bunnytricks at 2:40 AM on April 28 [3 favorites]

Did you read the guidelines?
Clearly, knowing just the right time to post this required some info.

Why are there no night-people with modhammers again?
posted by rokusan at 2:41 AM on April 28

imminent deletions always bring out the best in metafilter imo
posted by Dillonlikescookies at 2:42 AM on April 28

Wow. Last post?
posted by MrMustard at 2:45 AM on April 28

this is why we need a mod in australia.

well, one of the reasons.
posted by UbuRoivas at 2:48 AM on April 28

you know, i don't even have the foggiest clue what this guy's trying to spam. audiowhat? is that something i'd need a computer to understand? module? PHP? sounds? what sounds? WHAT THE FUCK IS HE EVEN TALKING ABOUT?!???
posted by UbuRoivas at 2:50 AM on April 28

room for improvement?
posted by MrMustard at 2:51 AM on April 28

Last post!
posted by delmoi at 2:55 AM on April 28

LOL. Awesome timing for the post.
You realise the only way to get rid of this from the front page is for everyone to start making new posts.
And....

Last Comment?
posted by seanyboy at 2:56 AM on April 28

I'm whacking you with my little toy inflatable banhammer...

I would definitely like to subscribe to your newsletter.

OK, I'm gone, this chicken sandwich has a lot to answer for. Or rather, it's answering a question I'd rather have never been raised.
posted by maxwelton at 2:56 AM on April 28

I'm whacking you with my little toy inflatable banhammer...

i see.

i thought you were jacking off to anime. thanks for the correction.
posted by UbuRoivas at 3:01 AM on April 28

It's times like this that I realize that Metafilter has become Digg.
posted by Dave Faris at 3:02 AM on April 28

I'd make a post to shove this down the page while it's still there, but I just did the Craig Ferguson post...

I wonder if Matt would let me be a mod if I moved to Australia. My screwed up biological clock is already on Sydney time. After several weeks of 28-hour cycles, it's settled down for me to sleep from 5AM to Noon, Pacific Time. Good thing I don't have a job to go to and hate Regis.
posted by wendell at 3:04 AM on April 28

An unabashed spam FPP, and I get to see it before it gets deleted. It's a rare and beautiful event, like a rainbow or an exploding whale carcass.
posted by Faint of Butt at 3:10 AM on April 28 [2 favorites]

spam tastes bad
posted by micklaw at 3:15 AM on April 28

Are members selling their accounts to spammers now? I wonder how much they're worth on the open market?
posted by sdodd at 3:18 AM on April 28

louche mustachio: I'm whacking you with my little toy inflatable banhammer until someone shows up with the real one.

Ooh! Does it make a little squeaking sound when it hits?

I want one!
posted by Pronoiac at 3:20 AM on April 28

Are members selling their accounts to spammers now? I wonder how much they're worth on the open market?

If not before, you just might have created a new niche market.
posted by psychomedia at 3:22 AM on April 28

We're starting to approach the two hour mark. This spam post's going for glory.

The funny thing about this post... well... one of the many funny things about this post is that room's 2 projects posts are much worthier FPPs than this tripe.
posted by Kattullus at 3:22 AM on April 28

I'm happy to hear that it's a PHP mailing list. If it was an ASP mailing list the whole thing might sound sketchy.
posted by Your Time Machine Sucks at 3:22 AM on April 28

This is straight up my favorite thread in ages.
posted by awesomebrad at 3:22 AM on April 28

I can't believe you favorited this, Faint of Butt.
posted by Pronoiac at 3:23 AM on April 28 [1 favorite]

Those JSP mailing lists are the worst.
posted by sdodd at 3:24 AM on April 28

WE CONTRIBUTE NOTHING AND HISTORY WILL NOT REMEMBER US
posted by Rhaomi at 3:25 AM on April 28

My other half has an incredibly low UID at a huge tech blog he got by the same method.

He promptly forgot the password.
posted by By The Grace of God at 3:26 AM on April 28

Real programmers use C++ mailing lists, and none of that Micro$oft trash either.
posted by splice at 3:27 AM on April 28

You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.
posted by dbiedny at 3:29 AM on April 28

Oooh! Awake before deletion! Not often that I get to say that.
posted by six-or-six-thirty at 3:29 AM on April 28

THIS IS A GREAT DEAL ANBD I HAVE SIGNED UP TWICE>
posted by dirtdirt at 3:30 AM on April 28

Shit Sandwich, with a side of Spam.
posted by dbiedny at 3:31 AM on April 28

posted by six-or-six-thirty at 6:29 AM on April 28 [+] [!]

Wow, this must take some dedication. Do you also include PM in there? An interesting concept either way.

[looks at comment history]

Cheater. You used to be cool.
posted by splice at 3:31 AM on April 28

Those JSP mailing lists are the worst.

I know, they're all

org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(Evilness:666)
posted by Your Time Machine Sucks at 3:31 AM on April 28 [1 favorite]

I've seen a thread go for five hours despite getting flagged, though it wasn't spam, just a dupe.

BtGoG: What method? It looks like this isn't a hacked account.

Rhaomi: Keep that up & you'll get a MeTa & flags for lots of attention.

Dammit, it's like it's hit critical mass, & it's hard to tear myself away from the trainwreck.
posted by Pronoiac at 3:33 AM on April 28

The free album is by The Pretty Flowers, I bet.
posted by First Post at 3:36 AM on April 28 [2 favorites]

Cheater. You used to be cool.

I post from a different location each time to ensure that, in the current time zone, my post is indeed sometime between six and six-thirty.

... crap.
posted by six-or-six-thirty at 3:37 AM on April 28

This bulb, it audios? Or vice versa?
posted by Hogshead at 3:37 AM on April 28

For the edification of all present: the modern origin of the word "spam". (Google Video: Monty Python's Spam Sketch.)
posted by WalterMitty at 3:43 AM on April 28

This thread is already sixth on a Google search for "Audiobulb." Sadly, their Wikipedia page lacks any mention of their unorthodox style of online self-promotion.
posted by sdodd at 3:46 AM on April 28

posted by six-or-six-thirty at 6:29 AM on April 28 [+] [!]

Wow, this must take some dedication. Do you also include PM in there? An interesting concept either way.

[looks at comment history]

Cheater. You used to be cool.

By my clock, it was posted at 3:29

Not nearly enough shit has been dumped on this thread, and yet the smell is still unholy big.
posted by From Bklyn at 3:48 AM on April 28

dabitch: I say we kill him!

MeFite Gang: [shouts] Yeah!

stavrosthewonderchicken: I say we hang him, then we kill him!

MeFite Gang: [shouts] Yeah!

wendell: I say we scalp him!

MeFite Gang: [shouts] Yeah!

wendell: Then we tattoo him!

MeFite Gang: [shouts] Yeah!

wendell: Then we hang him!

MeFite Gang: [shouts] Yeah!

wendell: And then we kill him!

MeFite Gang: [shouts] Yeah!

room: [trying to throw voice without moving lips] I say we let him go.

MeFite Gang: [shouts] No!

Quonsar: [whistles] I say you let me have him first

MeFite Gang: Yeah!
posted by chillmost at 3:49 AM on April 28 [6 favorites]

If anyone's still around...
posted by From Bklyn at 3:50 AM on April 28

audiobutt
posted by snofoam at 3:54 AM on April 28

.
posted by Wolof at 3:58 AM on April 28

Man. The one time I'm awake for one of these parties...I stumble in on the damned thing when I'm heading to bed. Aw shucks.

Before last call rolls around and this place gets shut down can you guys toss some back for me? I'm just too tired to live up to my otherwise wacky potential.

Oh, also, take my pitchfork. Just in case someone hastily arrives and forgets to grab one on the way in. Shame room couldn't wait another couple of days, we could have gotten an awesome walpurgisnacht bonfire going.
posted by Stunt at 3:59 AM on April 28

Wooo. I read all those comments.
posted by sycophant at 4:01 AM on April 28

My other half has an incredibly low UID at a huge tech blog he got by the same method.


My Slashdot UID is < 4000 which I think gives me some level of geek cred.
posted by sycophant at 4:02 AM on April 28

In the presence of spammers, the banhammer glows blue. Spammers hate and fear it, and call it "Beater" in their vile tongue.
posted by Jorus at 4:03 AM on April 28 [7 favorites]

I'm betting on 7:35 for deletion... anyone wanna cover that bet?
posted by HuronBob at 4:03 AM on April 28

hmmm...
posted by Elmore at 4:06 AM on April 28

I'll take that bet, HuronBob. Put me half for before 7:35 and half for after. You can keep it all if you win of course.
posted by splice at 4:08 AM on April 28

Wait, no, put it all on "not 7:35". Yeah, that's the ticket.
posted by splice at 4:09 AM on April 28

I AM IN UR WEBSITE, NOT WATCHING GILLIGANS ILSANDS

CAN I HAS PHP BASED SOLUTIONZ?
posted by davemee at 4:10 AM on April 28

Cock monkeys, I can't think of anything to say. Piss eggs. That'll have to do.
posted by TheDonF at 4:12 AM on April 28

First!
posted by Jofus at 4:13 AM on April 28

Mmmm piss eggs.
posted by goo at 4:14 AM on April 28

MeTa
posted by BrotherCaine at 4:14 AM on April 28

I post from a different location each time to ensure that, in the current time zone, my post is indeed sometime between six and six-thirty.

Well, obviously the comments show up as dated in the timezone that the reader is sitting, not the poster.
posted by delmoi at 4:15 AM on April 28

What crazed hell is this?
posted by liquorice at 4:16 AM on April 28

You know what this post reaaaalllllyyyy needs? THIS.

But hey, what post doesn't?
posted by miss lynnster at 4:18 AM on April 28

Mr. Copperfield and SPAM. A Delicious Way to Start Your Morning!
posted by Dizzy at 4:21 AM on April 28

My wife is thinking about getting an IUD.

wrong thread?
posted by From Bklyn at 4:22 AM on April 28 [1 favorite]

I got a mod in my time zone and all I got is shitty post.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 4:22 AM on April 28 [1 favorite]

no, what this thread definately needs is this
posted by Dillonlikescookies at 4:23 AM on April 28 [1 favorite]

bingo bango?
posted by nola at 4:25 AM on April 28

rupaul for president
posted by jepler at 4:26 AM on April 28

I was afraid I'd be late to the party.
I brought chips!
posted by willmize at 4:30 AM on April 28

Moderators, please hope us!
posted by Elmore at 4:30 AM on April 28

wait, this is spam? A fuck I just signed up for tit.
posted by nola at 4:32 AM on April 28

For the record, I think we should tattoo him first, then scalp him, then hang him, in that order. And I think I included waterboarding in there somewhere. Let me check my email...
posted by wendell at 4:34 AM on April 28

Well, obviously the comments show up as dated in the timezone that the reader is sitting, not the poster.

Regardless, my last post (and this) wouldn't show up at the required time.

I'd actually never thought of my username as a project and now maybe I'm a little sad it isn't. But 6 to 6:30 is lab work time, dammit.
posted by six-or-six-thirty at 4:37 AM on April 28

Oh great, now I have the Monty Python spam routine in my head.
posted by Marie Mon Dieu at 4:39 AM on April 28

Were leaving together,
But still its farewell
And maybe well come back,
To earth, who can tell?
I guess there is no one to blame
Were leaving ground
Will things ever be the same again?

Its the final countdown...
posted by Meatbomb at 4:41 AM on April 28

"What in the wide, wide world of sports is a-goin' on here?"
posted by FidelDonson at 4:42 AM on April 28

SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM :D

I wish I was a Viking.

More Monty Python for everybody!

This is liek my absolutest favouritest 1.
posted by WalterMitty at 4:44 AM on April 28 [1 favorite]

this post, like us, too, in time, will be forgotten, not a fragment remaining.
posted by Dillonlikescookies at 4:44 AM on April 28

Sleep. That's where the MetaFilter Moderators are Vikings.
posted by wendell at 4:46 AM on April 28 [1 favorite]

I signed up.

Best move I've ever made.
posted by mattoxic at 4:46 AM on April 28

BTW..I fully expect this psot to vanish soon because MetaFilter is not abou exchange of free ideas but the current mood--biased opinios of the webmaster. I paid to be on here and I know they will block these posts because they don't conform to the opinions of said webmasters. This is not a free speech post and they ( webmasters) will prove me out.
posted by UbuRoivas at 4:46 AM on April 28 [10 favorites]

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posted by unSane at 4:50 AM on April 28 [2 favorites]

Banhammer. More Wikipedia-flavoured edification!
Also related: Hammerspace.
posted by WalterMitty at 4:51 AM on April 28

If you want to be considered for mefi mod in the uncovered timezones leave some 'subtle hint' in metatalk.
you won't be the first
posted by jouke at 4:52 AM on April 28

LAST audiobulb post EVAR!!!!
posted by zerobyproxy at 4:53 AM on April 28

Wow, good morning mefi, a spam fpp!

Ok how's this for a feature request, if the mods aren't present and an FPP gets flagged as "Spam" or "self-link" enough, how about an automatic script that turns on IMG tag for that FPP? If posts like this slip through the cracks, let's have some fun with it at least.
posted by Uther Bentrazor at 4:54 AM on April 28 [4 favorites]

Walter Mitty, I actually clicked on that 2nd link. Damn you!
posted by Marie Mon Dieu at 4:54 AM on April 28

goodbye cruel post.
posted by sgt.serenity at 4:54 AM on April 28

Don't you guys agree those US americans are full of themselves? Gas-guzzling, gun-toting, sleeping....
posted by jouke at 4:55 AM on April 28

This is still going? I ran out of popcorn an hour ago, and I'm tired of carrying this pitchfork around.
posted by twirlypen at 4:57 AM on April 28

OMG they're waking up...
*walks away whistling innocently*
posted by jouke at 4:57 AM on April 28

Walter Mitty, I actually clicked on that 2nd link. Damn you!

Oh dear.

By way of apology, here is my real favourite. (It's the Parrot Sketch.)

"HELLO, POLLY! POOOOLLLLLEEEEEE!" *thump thump*

In related news, the Nigerian scam-artist version of said sketch.
posted by WalterMitty at 4:58 AM on April 28 [1 favorite]

Anyone else having a hard time coping with Flavor Flav starring in Flavor of Love on channel zero?
posted by Tuatara at 4:59 AM on April 28

OMG thats so excitement!!1!ELEVENTYONE!!!
posted by Lucie at 5:00 AM on April 28

april is the cruelest month breeding
spamposts out of the dead land...
posted by jouke at 5:00 AM on April 28

I officially declare this thread for the spaniards!

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  THESE ARE THE LARGEST RAINDROPS I HAVE EVER SEEN 

   HOLY CHRIST THAT'S NOT RAIN GOD IS PISSING ON ME

    I NEVER SHOULD HAVE IGNORED THAT ROMANS 1 THING

posted by splice at 5:01 AM on April 28

Hammertime
posted by goo at 5:02 AM on April 28

I may be handing this too much credit but...

Performance Art?
posted by cavalier at 5:02 AM on April 28

Specialising in the removal of monies
posted by goo at 5:07 AM on April 28

I have an audiobulb on my thigh and when I squeeze it I can see Matt and Jessamyn in the closet making babies and one of the babies had a fish in it's pants and the fish looked at me.
posted by Joseph Gurl at 5:07 AM on April 28 [1 favorite]

HOLY CHRIST THAT'S NOT RAIN GOD IS PISSING ON ME
posted by WalterMitty at 5:08 AM on April 28

So, at this point we can ssume that the mods think this thread is kosher. Let's all click the link now!
posted by dirtdirt at 5:10 AM on April 28

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posted by splice at 5:11 AM on April 28

Audiobulb: music for people who like spam. Artists associated with you must be happy now. Oh how this does irritate me. You aim to spread 'amazing news' but you only spoil everything you touch. Go blend your penis.
posted by Free word order! at 5:12 AM on April 28

SPAMALOT

Considering this post will shortly be (rightfully) deleted, I see this as necessary.
Now take your spamming ass and jog on.
posted by bobbyone at 5:12 AM on April 28

Audiobulb: music for people who like spam.

You mean Hawaiians? I like Brudda Iz.
posted by jonmc at 5:13 AM on April 28

I just want to say I like the name "room"
posted by starman at 5:16 AM on April 28

I chop yo five dolla
posted by Spacelegoman at 5:18 AM on April 28

You can't buy advertising like this...no, wait...
posted by oh pollo! at 5:21 AM on April 28

*wakes up, makes coffee, reads hockey scores, looks up from paper and finally notice the devastation from last night, goes back to reading paper*
posted by octothorpe at 5:22 AM on April 28

Thanks for the heads up!
posted by banishedimmortal at 5:22 AM on April 28

Audiobulb: music for people who like spam.

You mean Hawaiians? I like Brudda Iz.

Ho, cuz, you remembah dat spam post? Mods went delete 'em already.
posted by GooseOnTheLoose at 5:23 AM on April 28 [1 favorite]

I just can't wait to hear this amazing news about a new audiobulb sound module.
posted by iso_bars at 5:25 AM on April 28

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posted by konolia at 5:25 AM on April 28 [1 favorite]

We Built This City
Starship
Chorus:
We built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll

Say you don't know me, or recognize my face
Say you don't care who goes to that kind of place
Knee deep in the hoopla, sinking in your fight
Too many runaways eating up the night

Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember
We built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll

Chorus:
We built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll

Someone's always playing corporation games
Who cares they're always changing corporation names
We just want to dance here, someone stole the stage
They call us irresponsible, write us off the page

Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember
We built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll

Chorus:
We built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll

It's just another Sunday, in a tired old street
police have got the chokehold, and we just lost the beat!

Who counts the money underneath the bar
Who rides the wreaking ball into our guitars
Don't tell us you need us, 'cos we're just simple fools
Looking for America, coming through your schools

(I'm looking out over that Golden Gate bridge
on another gorgeous sunny Saturday and I'm seeing bumper to bumper traffic.

Don't you remember (remember)

(Here's your favorite radio station, in your favorite radio city
The city by the bay, the city that rocks, the city that never sleeps)

Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember
We built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll

Chorus:
We built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll

Chorus:
We built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll

c'mon mefites, all together

We built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll
posted by mattoxic at 5:27 AM on April 28

Argh! I unintentionally clicked on the link when trying to get into this thread.
posted by liquorice at 5:27 AM on April 28

My psychic friends tell me the admins are expecting a seance. We'll have to buy matches and a candle.
posted by Smart Dalek at 5:27 AM on April 28

JEZUS MOTHERFUCKING CHRIST! A thread has emerged from the deepest bowels of Tartarus! It violates all known guidelines. It will mutate from the blue tones of the soothing LCD screen and start infecting every civilized MeFite with a venereal disease from the far reaches of space, perhaps spawning the love child of William Shatner (can he still get it up?) and Rita Rudner!

This thread is trying to SELL us something. It is that infuriating busker who Republicans want to kick in the ass on the subway, but who fear arrest. So what is to be done here? I shall start by quoting Lenin:

“Freedom of criticism” is undoubtedly the most fashionable slogan at the present time, and the one most frequently employed in the controversies between socialists and democrats in all countries. At first sight, nothing would appear to be more strange than the solemn appeals to freedom of criticism made by one of the parties to the dispute. Have voices been raised in the advanced parties against the constitutional law of the majority of European countries which guarantees freedom to science and scientific investigation? “Something must be wrong here,” will be the comment of the onlooker who has heard this fashionable slogan repeated at every turn but has not yet penetrated the essence of the disagreement among the disputants; evidently this slogan is one of the conventional phrases which, like nicknames, become legitimised by use, and become almost generic terms.”

Legitimized by use! I suspect that the disinterested onlooker here will look to this thread and wonder why it should be eliminated, excoriated, and otherwise extirpated from this CIVILIZED WEBSITE! This is a controversy that won't go away anytime soon. You can eliminate this thread, but five more will pop up in its place! I hesitate to use a Hydra head metaphor, because too many angry undergraduates before me have done so. But the leaflet campaign will be unleashed on Times Square this morning if I can survive my early morning conversion to Christianity.
posted by ed at 5:29 AM on April 28

4 hours, people! History is being made here!

HISTORY!!!!
posted by Kattullus at 5:31 AM on April 28 [2 favorites]

Why does the porridge bird lay it's eggs in the air?
posted by 40 Watt at 5:32 AM on April 28

Wasn't there an ASCII thread a while back? Can you just cut and paste them in? That is to say, as it were. I mean


last post?
posted by From Bklyn at 5:32 AM on April 28

Any pancakes left? I'm hungry.
posted by ardgedee at 5:32 AM on April 28

Potato pancakes ftw.
posted by WalterMitty at 5:33 AM on April 28

Does Audiobulb have any videos? If so, a single post youtube video link is in order.
posted by vagabond at 5:34 AM on April 28

AUDIODIMBULB
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:36 AM on April 28

Your internet fishbulb music website or whatever it is called does not work in Opera and I wish to receive no further communications regarding it. Good day, sir.
posted by cmonkey at 5:38 AM on April 28

Double
posted by tellurian at 5:39 AM on April 28

Well, I for one celebrate the audacity of this post.
posted by Astro Zombie at 5:39 AM on April 28

OK Room, it's time to untie the mods.
posted by Elmore at 5:39 AM on April 28

if you liked this post, then you will be interested in this amazing limited time offer i have for you! please mail $5 to my address for information, I will then send you $50 to say thank you!

many kind regards
dillonlikescookies
HrRh Sec. General Zimbabwe Treasury Commision, Inc.
posted by Dillonlikescookies at 5:41 AM on April 28

Hai Guys. I here you liek Audiobulbs?
posted by Jofus at 5:42 AM on April 28

I don;t get it, if it's been noted as spam 183 times, why is it still here?

PS—Buy my album of penis pills from the African bank where the gold you're entitled to is hidden.
posted by kristinahoge at 5:43 AM on April 28

Golden Memories.

BTW, anyone seen the mods lately?
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:44 AM on April 28

I just went for lunch. And came back. And this is still here. Cool.
posted by MrMustard at 5:44 AM on April 28

Potato pancakes are the bomb. I love them with sour cream. I like them best when they're really thin so the edges get suuuuper crispy. Mmm. Potato pancakes.
posted by macadamiaranch at 5:44 AM on April 28

Als de kat van huis is, dansen de muizen op tafel

Google tells me that there's a similar saying in english

Hint: als=when, huis=home
posted by jouke at 5:46 AM on April 28 [1 favorite]

Bring on the pooping horses.
posted by Mcable at 5:46 AM on April 28

Anybody got some askme questions they want to post here?
posted by srboisvert at 5:47 AM on April 28

portobello, nevar forget.
posted by Dillonlikescookies at 5:47 AM on April 28

O, for an image tag
posted by kosher_jenny at 5:48 AM on April 28

zimmer
posted by ericb at 5:51 AM on April 28 [1 favorite]

[yawn, stretch] It's a beautiful day in the neigh . . . hey, who replaced my Folger's Fucking Crystals with scrapplejuice?
posted by FelliniBlank at 5:52 AM on April 28

De Leeuw is a comic genius who may not be such a great babysitter.
posted by KokuRyu at 5:55 AM on April 28 [1 favorite]

room has either paid, or knocked the admins off....
posted by zeoslap at 5:55 AM on April 28