I, for one, welcome our new tired-meme deletion policy.
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 7:03 PM on March 31, 2008

Y'know, I'm a little fed up of people piping up with "Eponysterical", but, seriously : Static Vagabond?. Come on.
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 1:27 AM on March 20, 2008

I think it really rather base to post something like this.

I think it's rather base, too.
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 4:59 PM on February 2, 2008

I know a hex that would have saved you some digits.

No-one wants to hear you effing and blinding.
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 5:00 PM on February 2, 2008

I know a hex that would have saved you some digits.

No-one wants to hear you effing and blinding.

...because a hex is a curse, you see, and effing an blinding is cursing, and F is the last digit of hexadecimal....oh, fine, fine, it wasn't funny. I'll stick to base 2 humour.
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 9:12 PM on February 2, 2008

I could do 1, 4 or 5...the Brickhouse is good, yes. Way, way better than Earls. Plus, if we want to eat food, there's a really great vegetarian restaurant (Radha) in the same building.
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 7:54 PM on January 24, 2008

You rarely use it? You should spend more time nozin' around.
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 4:23 PM on December 15, 2007

Nthing singular "they" as the way to go - it's not perfect, but so much less clunky than s/he or she/he, and doesn't draw attention to itself unnecessarlly like she or he by themselves might. As for the idea that trying to de-gender language is comparable to Newspeak - well, yes, it is, in a way. The idea of Newspeak is to make counter governmental or revolutionary thought impossible by controlling language, but I don't see the disadvantage to changing language to make expressing... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 5:07 AM on November 25, 2007

cancel metafilter
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 6:09 PM on November 18, 2007

You're being a poseur and it's good for your soul to get called on it. Suck it up.

This is true. Unfortunately, it's bad for the soul to be the caller. Accusatory soul-enrichment is a zero-sum-game.

That's what I feel to be true, anyway, which I expect makes me a neuroscientist.
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 4:07 PM on November 10, 2007

Hey! Maybe we can have nice things!
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 4:36 PM on November 10, 2007

a meat grinder made my sheep falafel

It made your sheep into chickpeas???
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 11:49 PM on November 8, 2007

Mmmm. I haven't had shepherds pie in years. Who says we have crap food? Nonsense. I might well make some this weekend. ( Shepherds pie. Not crap food )
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 12:24 AM on November 9, 2007

I'd guess the writer is English-English, TPS, given her use of "mate" for "friend" and "us" to mean "myself". Your point still stands, though.
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 7:03 PM on November 9, 2007

Yes, I am, in fact, a Christain.

Oh, oh! Like on the Turin shroud? Cool!
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 12:14 AM on November 8, 2007

The thing that bothers me most about LOLCATS is the way they're redefining our collective image of cats as aloof, intelligent, and inscrutably feline creatures (see Old Possum's book of Practical Cats, The Cat Who Walked By Himself, Edward Gorey, and so on ) as moronic cheesburger seeking comedy illiterates. The thing that bothers me the second most is that no-one has, as yet, successfully combined the images from the aforementioned interpretations of cat... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 1:54 AM on November 3, 2007

One morning, as Gregor Nog awoke from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his sleep into a monstrous Viking.
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 3:34 AM on October 26, 2007

Last night I had a dream where I was this total chick-magnet

But, Greg, the much-less-often-used (or possibly NEVER) used interpretation of chick-magnet, that being the baby-bird-attractor, is pretty much the one you INSTANTLY leapt to in the case of Ralph's Viking.

Seriously, he means he dreams of being a Viking, and that's that. Although my interpretation of the word is now forever fuzzy and random after that thread, and the ensuing pub arguments.
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 2:53 PM on October 27, 2007

I'm going back to the UK for Xmas on the 17th, but, yes, I should be able to make this.
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 2:13 AM on October 26, 2007

I do bleeps and squiggles and have a just bought a shiny new (well, shiny old ) Jupiter-6. If vintage sci-fi noises are needed, I can provide them...
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 8:31 PM on October 13, 2007

I'm in...
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 7:43 PM on October 1, 2007

7's ok for me.
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 9:39 PM on October 3, 2007

Damn you, work. damn you. I'll swing by later if I get out alive. Otherwise, have a great time...
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 8:04 PM on October 11, 2007

"goodnewsfortheinsnae"

Ah, good news for the insane's Scottish sock puppet. He really disnae post enough.
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 1:44 AM on October 11, 2007

MCD, that is so good, I feel (relatively) little shame about the fact that I AM going to steal/appropriate/use it the first chance I get. Superb.
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 12:06 AM on October 6, 2007

antics and tomfoolery?

I personally dislike them. Shenanigans and gadabouting, that's where it's at...
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 11:12 PM on October 3, 2007

They're all from the mid to late 90's dot-comment boom. Don't worry about it. There's a second dot-comment 2.0 boom happening now, but it's just a bubble. Invest your favourites elsewhere.
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 2:20 AM on October 1, 2007

I would love to see BonoboFilter one day.

MonkeyFilter is already taken. ;P

apeFilter. apeFilter. APEFILTER
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 12:59 AM on September 28, 2007

i'm more into the idea of a variety of serious, whimsical or artistic responses to a single thread.

Bbut that's what the threads are...
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 12:53 AM on September 28, 2007

Did you used to have shorter hair?

Didn't everyone?
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 3:55 PM on September 23, 2007

Seriously, we should stop with the in-jokes. Or at least the not very good ones.

I mean, yes, Wendell is an anagram of end well, certainly, which is clever, and certainly worth a couple of repetitions, maybe - but the hundreds of times it's been repeated?

I'm just asking for a little creativity here, people. It really bugs me when nerds, in place of humor, just parrot stock phrases. You've got to think for yourselves! You're all individuals!
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 8:32 PM on September 5, 2007

It's near me - I'd be in.
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 12:41 AM on September 5, 2007

It is currently set higher than the number of comments in this thread so far, anyway...
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 12:48 AM on August 31, 2007

I can do Whistler, Baker or Banff, on snowboard or skis. I live in Vancouver, so the Whistler day/weekend trip's the easiest for me. It's sunny enough that I'm still denying I'm going to need regular snowsports action to cure me of the the tv-tuned-to-a-dead-channel horror of the Vancouver winters ( Gibson lives in Vancouver, and I never really understood the start of that book until going through a winter here ), but it would be great.
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 12:11 AM on August 25, 2007

Christ, how many more Jesi Cortices are going to get linked to in this thread?
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 8:04 PM on August 16, 2007

That example's just plain old eponysterical, in the sense that the juxtaposition of the name and the content is amusing - it doesn't have to be apt to be funny, does it? (if it does, you're all using it wrong. Yes, all of you. )

Anyway, that's what the Wiki says.
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 4:29 PM on August 2, 2007

lurked, lurked, lurked
(signups opened)
joined
snarked, snarked, snarked
posted
(comments)
asked, asked, asked,
answered, answered, answered
posted
(to metatalk)
metup, metup, metup
posted
(to music)
lurked, lurked, lurked
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 12:09 AM on July 4, 2007

I actually found the speed one more motivating....you can at least catch up towards the end if you're in the ballpark anyway, but with the distance you have to just be plugging away...Which, OK, I guess is the point. But I am a lazy man. Why don't we have a simultaneous 2 challenges for both speed and distance every month: presumably the runs can count for both?
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 9:35 PM on May 31, 2007

Cheers pj....now that my back is no longer in kayak-related sciatic agony, I'll actually make a stab at getting a decent time in this one!
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 11:17 AM on June 2, 2007

OK, I'll give this one a go - I've actually been taking a running fitness and form class twice a week which, ironically, has been leaving me too sore to do any distance running outside of it, but I can squeeze in a 5K, especially as that's the distance from work to my house - handy!
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 7:59 AM on May 15, 2007

In 2003 a humorous experiment was performed with six Sulawesi crested macaques, but their literary contribution was five pages consisting largely of the letter S, besides attacking and defecating on the typewriter. (from the wikipedia article)

I'm so glad someone actually tried it.
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 10:07 PM on May 14, 2007

Alvy: this should help you out.
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 6:33 PM on May 13, 2007

Here's a link to Shahak from a bible site, which may please Kuttullus less or more, I can't tell. Now she can argue that Christians are antisemites if she dares.

Funnily, Christian anti-semites are mentioned n the very page you link to...

Jewish-American intellectuals abandoned liberalism for a series of demented alliances with the Christian (antisemitic) right ...
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 6:43 PM on May 13, 2007

Look, just do what I do, and [pettily], don't answer any questions which end with

if it's enough of a problem that it bothers the majority, it'll sort itself out.
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 12:23 AM on May 12, 2007

I can't do thursdays either, or mondays, usually.

So: Wednesday May 2nd? That gives people a week or so's notice.

The Drive could be good, actually, I rarely go there, and new places are a good thing. I've not been to any of those places bar Wazubee, but I'd happily try any of them.
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 6:32 PM on April 21, 2007

The Charlatan gets my vote...
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 10:31 AM on April 22, 2007

Sounds good, tickingclock...I'll try and fashion some sort of MeFi sign for easy recognizability. I don't have any pics on line, but I am bald/shaven headed, about 5'8, and if I don't have an English accent when you talk to me, you've got the wrong guy.
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 8:42 AM on May 1, 2007

It was a little tough, yeah....still, good to meet you guys!
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 12:26 PM on May 3, 2007

You know, at first I was upset about the loss of the IMG tag. But now I see it just forces everyone to make with the text-crazy instead, which I approve of. Carry on.
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 9:07 PM on April 18, 2007

No, most normal asses are actually 0.001 SI ass. The normal usage of "an assload" is similar to the quotidian usage of "calorie" in this respect - really you mean a kiloassload, but to point it out in polite conversation is considered rude and pedantic.
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 11:17 PM on March 24, 2007