Dude, that Sensitive Guy act is not going to get you laid. Especially on a web site.
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 5:10 AM on August 7, 2008

No way Fox News or a dirtball family already established as liars would sensationalize the story.

Also, it's the Internet. There are probably bloggers who have received death threats for offering their opinion on a low-calorie cheese.
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 2:05 AM on July 31, 2008

I was just out at a bar with friends, and the conversation turned to the Scientologists' card table on Boston Common. I got to give an excited, detailed explanation of Lord Xenu's imprisonment. Then I left, and I found 44 dollars on the sidewalk! Two ones together, then 15 feet later another one, then a twenty! I couldn't believe my luck! Then another 8 feet later, I found another one. Then I lifted my eyes and there was another 20! No shit! It can't be a coincidence.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 8:42 PM on July 26, 2008

Brian B. has had a disagreement with the newly canonized Saint Dee the Xtrovert.

I pray to Metafilter's Holy Trinity to smite him. If someone endures a horrible tragedy, they are entitled to never have anyone contradict them for the rest of their life.
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 4:37 AM on July 26, 2008

If you need something to do, I can find something for you to do.
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 7:08 AM on July 24, 2008

plexi has posted something 228 times, and has 355 favorites, which is 155% omg these numbers are bullshit favorites don't mean anything!

It's the third person references to yourself and the drunk's syntax/spelling that make me think you're the real loser.

Also, loquacious got you REEEEEL GUUUUUD in the example you use to start the thread. Why on Earth would you point out someone making you look pretentious so effectively?
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 6:45 PM on July 11, 2008

Summertime on the Maine Coast is something everyone should experience it.

So true. Too bad York County is North Massachusetts.

(MIDCOAST RULES!!!!)

(I would like to go, but can't justify the gas outlay unless it ends up corresponding with a trip to my folks.)
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 3:20 PM on July 10, 2008

Rather than Glasgow, why not have it in Edinburgh during the fringe?

City Linking-- Smart Thinking!
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 6:06 PM on July 7, 2008

Can we have a photo of an attendee drinking a sombrero?
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 7:23 AM on June 30, 2008

My old Boston-Irish Catholic relatives wish to have a word with you ... Mayor "lace curtain" Curley...

They can drop by house on the Jamaicaway-- the one with the shamrock shutters.

Shh! the conceit of my username is that my heritage is old school English Congregational, but I realize that The Rascal King was cooler than all of those wet blankets combined.
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 7:24 PM on June 29, 2008

X = Xavier McDaniel, maybe. Remember him?
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 4:28 AM on May 14, 2008

How is this different than the time I found a registered sex offender in Minnesota named "Jesus Quintana" and posted it? That got deleted, and while I love the site, we can all agree that Matt isn't as cool as The Jesus.
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 2:57 PM on April 21, 2008

A lot more people know Matt's name than know the name of an ancillary character from Lebowski

You were absolutely right for every point except that one. Fuckin' Quintana, man!
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 3:35 PM on April 21, 2008

Mayor Curley vs. the city of New York.

I've mostly given up on that. I'm wicked awesome, but I have now realized that I'm nowhere near as capable as Al Qaeda.
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 5:48 AM on April 10, 2008

What Burhanistan said. Jesus. Pick your battles more carefully.
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 2:03 PM on March 27, 2008

The community consensus is that if your spouse starts to resemble Jabba the Hutt, you are obligated to somehow be sexually attracted to Jabba the Hutt. I don't think it's shallow to say that I have never gotten an erection from Jabba the Hutt. The thread says a lot more about the insecurities of some people who are worried that they look like Jabba the Hutt than it does about the OP.
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 6:51 AM on March 16, 2008

Why do British people love dogs so much? I like dogs a whole lot myself (all animals really), but you can't go anywhere in the UK without seeing a ton of people walking dogs. Why is that? Here in my American neighborhood you see the occasioal dog out for a walk, but it's not like we're obsessed like those people.
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 4:16 PM on February 25, 2008

I'm in as Red Star Boston. You can only hope to slow me, suckers.
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 2:56 PM on February 8, 2008

Why do you plan this stuff around the holidays and a week before I move? Fucker.
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 2:05 PM on January 24, 2008

Anything will work as long as it's pretentious and ostentatiously liberal. How about one of those cocktails with a "-tini" suffix? The ones that have nothing to do with a martini except the inclusion of vodka and a hard-to-drink-from glass? That sounds perfect.

So:

2oz of vodka made by poor people but which poor people cannot afford

1/2 oz Fair Trade espresso

a splash of wine (not for... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 3:30 PM on January 6, 2008

I work on a website for a television program. You may have seen my name scroll by at 35 MPH.

"It said 'Betty Symington!'"

"No, it looks like 'Brad Storch'.'"
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 8:26 AM on December 14, 2007

If have a day where I don't like my job, I can feel good that I don't have to stick Roger Clemens in the ass with needles.
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 11:42 AM on December 13, 2007

Hey metafilter! Guess what I've been listening to!

- Shit you don't like

- Shit you don't care about

- Shit you're sick of

But I want you to know what it is! You've read my comments, now see what music I like. I'm a unique snowflake and you're sure to be impressed!

I guess what I'm trying to say is that even if Franklin Fucking Dee Roosevelt was user #666, I wouldn't care... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 4:24 PM on December 11, 2007

Somebody have a sombrero this time and document it photographically, please. I beg you. You can't get them here.
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 8:15 PM on November 14, 2007

You can't get 100% compliance for users, no matter how much you simplify. As long as there are any dicisions to make, a few people are going to mess up because they're too excited/nervous/careless. And I ought to know, because I'm one of them. Your current setup is just fine. It's users, not the site.

That said, I wish I could share some of the questions about use that arrive in my inbox.
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 8:09 AM on November 12, 2007

There's going to be an American version of "The IT Crowd"? So the US has finished making inferior versions of the best of UK TV and moved on to the worst of it?

I can't wait to hear Joe Buck covering an Indoor Bowls Championship. And I'm excited about the impending American version of the S4 Croeso show where the people in suits talk to each other passive-aggressively in Welsh.
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 1:40 PM on October 31, 2007

All activities that encourage us to modify our profiles are a plot to get rid of the img tag. My cat's ball is not going anywhere! CAN'T FOOL ME!
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 12:45 PM on October 29, 2007

rcade has some books (guides) published.

In 1999, I had a letter to the "Ask Beth" teen advice column published in the Boston Globe. Unfortunately, it might not count because I was pretending to be a girl who was worried about getting VD from toilet seats.
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 4:52 PM on October 20, 2007

HOLY SHIT! THIS IS THE LETTER! Awesome! I didn't know she was syndicated.
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 4:55 PM on October 20, 2007

Do we tolerate veiled ethnic slurs by AskMe posters?

I hope so, because I was just about to ask how to keep out my guinea neighbor's garlic stink. I was going to be much more subtle in the actual question, but now I won't bother.
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 6:50 AM on October 20, 2007

I'm going to be in Philadelphia that weekend, but I may be too obligated to visiting family to go. Regardless, I'm suggesting Eulogy Belgian Tavern at Second and Chestnut. Because it's great.
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 4:40 AM on October 15, 2007

>In 2007, rejecting premarital sex reduces the likelihood of getting married significantly

This statement is incorrect in so many ways, and makes so many assumptions that it's difficult for me to start to say what is wrong with it.

I agree. It would have been better if he had been more specific:

"In 2007, rejecting premarital sex reduces the likelihood of getting married significantly unless you... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 1:27 PM on September 26, 2007

Maybe you can look for a version of Jesus who thinks your pancreas is the inherently sinful organ to use? As in, the thing He ostensibly gave you but still holds the lease. Yeah, maybe it's your pancreas and insulin before marriage is what's sinful. That way you could bone.

That's just a suggestion. Either way it sounds like Jesus is an unreasonable control freak who just wants to fuck with you as part of a power trip.
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 5:41 PM on September 26, 2007

Aw man. Waltham is right across town and super convenient. But I will be in Baltimore to watch the Red Sox/Orioles game.

GO SOX!
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 8:17 PM on August 31, 2007

I've been told it's hard to hear what Mayor Peace Love and Unity opens with. It's his version of "namaste".
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 2:27 PM on August 18, 2007

Mayor Peace Love and Unity has a 130% ratio. But I'm sure he's humble about it.
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 1:17 PM on August 14, 2007

The Post is for semi-literates now, huh? "Ooooh, SHAN-tee! side-SHOW Bob!"
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 6:19 PM on August 12, 2007

JaySunSee, I will only take you seriously when you start posting in Reformed Egyptian. And provide photos of you in funny Mormon underpants so I know you're a real Mormon.

I've actually lived under Mitt Romney's form of government. It's basically a Panderocracy, where leadership tells you what it thinks the populace wants to hear and the only action it takes is robbing from schools to give lavish-but-ineffectual incentives to corporations. Mitt Romney is a well-spoken,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 8:44 AM on August 6, 2007

It's the carefully-worded, crazy lies that some members of MetaFilter seem to happily gorge on.

Here are some crazy lies that I have worded carefully:

-Mormonism is not a secretive cult and would never keep its rituals secret.

-Reformed Egyptian is a real language, and not something Joseph Smith made up to keep people from trying to decipher his works on their own.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 8:53 AM on August 6, 2007

Tell me Mayor Curley is the black sheep here. He's the crazy uncle you keep locked in the basement during family socials, right?

That's fine though, right? Black sheep were allowed full participation in the late 70's, yeah? I'm pretty sure God decided we were deserving of equal treatment about 25 years after the US Supreme Court did.
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 8:59 AM on August 6, 2007

Wait, if we ever fail to bring up religion in every conversation we're suddenly stupid?

We're all educated stupid, anyway.
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 9:06 AM on August 6, 2007

This is sure weird. Of all the religious people I've ever met, Mormons have consistently been ... the least likely to prostelytize...

You've never had a front door that opens directly onto the sidewalk, I take it.
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 9:25 AM on August 6, 2007

apple scruff, anyone who has been on the bad side of an HR department likes anonymous's girlfriend a lot better than you, even if her felony was RPG'ing a hybrid-fueled bus full of orphans.
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 4:00 PM on August 5, 2007

Did you hear that interview with Nancy Cartwright on Fresh Air?

Did Terry Gross give her actual cunnilingus, or just fawn to the point of making the audience uncomfortable? Did Nancy Cartwright warn the listeners about Xenu?
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 6:57 PM on July 27, 2007

I am totally stalking you now

Boil his bunny! It's the only way to be sure.
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 4:58 PM on July 18, 2007

I read "turtlegirl" as "tubgirl" and I was momentarily very shocked that you knew a celebrity of that stature.
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 5:57 PM on July 16, 2007

so the show is shifted about three and and half steps leftward to aim not just at what passes for the left in America, but the mainstream lefties who seem to be doing a pretty decent job running most of Europe.

I assure you that I was only aiming for American liberals. The European left generally has teeth and objectives that are more than cosmetically different from its opposition. And I respect that.

But a sincere thanks for... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 9:07 AM on July 13, 2007

Good post? No thanks. The only thing a republican can do for Mefi is buy its records and shine its shoes.

Q: WHAT DO WE WANT?

A: NO SIDEBAR FOR CRYPTO-FASCISTS!

Q: AND WHEN DO WE WANT IT?

A: NOW

Did you hear that crowd?
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 7:55 PM on July 12, 2007

The Segway thing is kind of ironic. Much-hyped, little implemented Segway being ridden to get a much-hyped, probably hugely implemented phone.

I saw Dean Kamen at the Stoughton, MA IKEA on a Segway. I was not surprised to later learn that he is not married.
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 6:43 AM on June 30, 2007

A drop of his blood and her blood mixed together was in his mom's house, her blood was in his car,

Post-OJ and post rampant problems with my state's crime lab, I'm not so keen on blood evidence. I don't know whether he did it or not, but I think that once cops have settled on a suspect, they often stop looking and start cheating.
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 5:42 AM on June 28, 2007