Also, yeah, murdering your wife when you're 12? Not cool.

Technically, she was his ex-wife at the time — they divorced when he was 9. Not that this excuses anything.

And my Google namesake, for quite a while, was a Nazi war criminal.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 5:52 PM on April 21, 2008

So did he get better? Exonerated?

No, he was just displaced from #1 for a while by a music producer from Ohio. He quite recently got extradited back to Italy (where his prison camp was during the war), so it looks like he's back on top of the Google results again.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 8:28 AM on April 22, 2008

All right, so April 17 is Goat Day and October 8 is Elephant Day. Are there any others I'm forgetting?
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 9:23 AM on April 17, 2008

I vote for #1.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 8:36 AM on April 1, 2008

We're all Cory Doctorows

Where's my high-altitude balloon, then, huh? I was promised a high-altitude balloon.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 7:38 AM on March 24, 2008

I knew what pro-ana was (thank you very much Randal K. Milholland) without Googling, but a.s.h. I had to look up.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 10:43 AM on March 10, 2008

Sorry, I'm skipping down to comment having only read half the thread. What'd I miss?

Not much. Just a bunch of guys who can't be arsed to shave every morning.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 6:12 AM on March 5, 2008

All that Cheetos dust can't be good for an iMac.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 1:03 PM on February 13, 2008

Anyone remember when the 'only 10 per day' policy went into effect? Because if it was in place when the users in the comment linked to by voidcontext above were signing up multiple accounts in a row, I think I'm retroactively pissed off.

I was a ten-per-dayer, and I got in after only about a week of trying. This would have been summer of 2002. For comparison, user 13305 joined in December 2001, when I'm pretty sure that only the Sooper Seekrit... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 9:06 AM on January 28, 2008

We award him no points, and may God have mercy on his soul.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 8:37 AM on January 27, 2008

It's too bad the pixies got deleted. Although it's pretty amusing this way too.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 1:50 PM on January 12, 2008

Metafilter was swallowed & excreted by a shark? This explains so much.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 8:57 AM on December 11, 2007

To answer the question you asked in the title, I'm pretty sure the pinstripes have always been there.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 5:48 AM on November 19, 2007

A légpárnás hajóm tele van angolnákkal.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 9:08 AM on October 8, 2007

Un petit d'un petit
S'étonne aux Halles,
Un petit d'un petit
Ah! degrès te fallent,
Indolent qui ne sort cesse,
Indolent qui ne se mène,
Qu'importe un petit d'un petit
Tout gai de Reguennes.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 3:25 PM on October 9, 2007

I'm pretty sure I found it through Chris Livingston's blog Not My Desk, back when it was still active. I couldn't join for almost a year, though, since new user sign-ups were closed back then.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 10:05 PM on October 5, 2007

White background = white bread. Ordinary and uninspiring, not fitting for colorful Metafilter.

I believe that Mr. Dodger was making a reference to the "professional white background" thread.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 8:14 PM on September 29, 2007

I think the number you used in the title is a couple of orders of magnitude too small.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 7:41 PM on September 3, 2007

I'm not the only person I've talked to who has remarked on the almost-daily 3+ obit posts on the blue.

Either you're wildly exaggerating or some posts were deleted: before today, the most recent obituary I was able to find in the archives was Tammy Faye Bakker's. That means there were 240 posts (and nine days) between then and Ingmar Bergman's obituary today.

Is this really a pressing problem?
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 12:20 PM on July 30, 2007

I'm just waiting for someone to post a link to Antonioni's obituary so this thread will flare up again.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 5:06 AM on July 31, 2007

Is the the first for a flame-out in a thread not actually started by the flamee? Or would that be flamer? Flame-out-er?

Oh, hell no.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 1:54 PM on June 14, 2007

It looks very nice against the blue background of the main site. Not quite so nice against the green background of Ask MeFi, though.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 4:14 PM on May 21, 2007

Darth Vader is Luke's father. The woman in the "Crying Game" is really a man. Ole Yeller dies. In "Murder on the Orient Express" they all did it. Captain Kirk isn't really dead, he's in the Nexus; but then he dies for real later. On July 4th, we killed all the aliens by giving them a computer virus which took down their shields. Verbal is Kaiser Solteh. The North wins. The Nazi's lose. Tom Cruise screws over the firm and gets away. Jeff Bridges did kill his wife in... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 9:02 AM on May 15, 2007

I, for one, am all for the addition of the "why so hostile", "just answer the damned question", and "what the fuck is WITH people" categories.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 11:38 PM on March 31, 2007

They should be favorited by reality.

He/she doesn't seem to use favourites much.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 7:19 AM on March 21, 2007

I dunno, this will always be the canonical flameout in my book. But the flamer-outer wasn't the person who started the thread, so perhaps it's not canonical after all.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 2:19 PM on March 16, 2007

That kind of CSS frippery kind of defeats the point of "plain text", donchathink?
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 5:20 AM on December 20, 2006

Nay, says John.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 2:37 PM on December 19, 2006

For a moment, I was logged in as mathowie, and I deleted all of you. But then I woke up and you're still here.

You joke. But back when I first joined there was a strange interaction between the computer system where I work and Metafilter, such that if I switched between various workstations I would find myself logged in as mathowie. Of course, I was too damn boring & responsible to do anything other than report this to Matt.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 2:32 PM on October 25, 2006

Too bad the neu thread is lost to posterity. It did, however, create a memorable Miguel quote.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 3:08 PM on October 16, 2006

The weird value alone makes it an interesting story.

Ah, so that's how it works. Matt, can we somehow patch in an RSS feed or something so that the entire contents of ObscureStore also run here? It would save time.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 9:38 AM on October 12, 2006

::: revels in his majusculity :::
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 12:54 PM on October 6, 2006

Gratuitous callouts diminish the effectiveness of MetaTalk.

MetaTalk is effective?
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 12:47 PM on September 29, 2006

(the big grey gap this morning is my server falling over, so I can't complaint)

I know it's rough when MetaFilter is down for two hours, but repeatedly kicking your server is perhaps not the best way to relieve the stress.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 4:42 PM on September 5, 2006

yodelingisfun, responsible person that she is, sent hers out a couple of weeks ago. Mine were sent out on Friday, and jason's_planet sent us an e-mail with the track listing of his yesterday. So swapset Dodgy's got 50% on-time mailings, at least.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 7:08 PM on September 3, 2006

Oh, and Dreama's old site did indeed have forums for such discussions, but if they still exist they aren't linked to from her main page.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 7:12 PM on September 3, 2006

You know who else didn't code a database-driven timezone feature on a community weblog?

Hitler!
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 4:11 PM on September 1, 2006

Previously. Previously. Previously. Previously. Previously. Previously.

I don't think YouTube links are anywhere near "fully accepted" around here.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 10:10 PM on August 5, 2006

You know, I pondered posting something about this a few weeks ago, but decided that I would be cruelly mocked for it. You're a braver Canuck than I.

In all seriousness, it would be nice if it was fixed.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 7:12 PM on July 15, 2006

::: comes back in a day later, weeps :::
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 1:15 PM on July 17, 2006

Dammit, necessitas beat me to the scarlet letter joke.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 7:15 PM on July 15, 2006

Hot damn! I did indeed miss the previous post, so I'm glad you posted the reminder. Time to fire up the ol' burner...
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 10:34 AM on July 13, 2006

So not quite as bad as luck in NetHack (where the contents of your pockets and the phase of the moon partially determine your luck) but close.

Matt is hard at work on DHTML code that will scan the contents of users' pockets, I'm sure of it.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 3:53 PM on June 29, 2006

We jump the shark regularly. I think it is about an 8-month cycle.
"Observe," continued I, "This Thread! From the gateway, This Thread, there runneth a long eternal site backwards: behind us lieth an eternity.

Must not whatever can run its course of all things, have already run along that site? Must not whatever can happen of all things have already happened, resulted, and gone by?

And if everything... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 12:11 PM on June 8, 2006

Metafilter: Blah blah blah I hate all of you blah blah blah derail derail derail.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 6:19 AM on April 27, 2006

Of course, cortex's comment in the linked thread now comes across as somewhat Dadaesque.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 12:21 PM on April 3, 2006

Late in the USA night, we get some scandalous ones.

I would expect that this is because this is when the admins are done with their jobs for the day and go to approve the anonymous questions that have been piling up throughout the day. Remember, "11 PM to 2 AM EST" is 8 PM to 11 PM PST.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 6:10 AM on March 23, 2006

BOOGY WOOGY WOOGY WOOGY

::: does the Electric Slide :::
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 8:27 PM on March 21, 2006

As part of our CEO's new TQA program, all posts will be required to be ISO 9001-compliant within the next 90 days. Please see your departmental heads for further information on the transitional period.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 6:58 PM on March 13, 2006

See, that's how conflict should be handled in these parts.
posted to MetaTalk by Johnny Assay at 2:02 PM on February 24, 2006