My only prior use of "feh" was here:

Doesn't the Feh reside somewhere between the Meh and the Fuck?

My "meh" usage is rather unimpressive - 7 comments before now.

That said, back to the original topic: if Sparx was in any way serious or earnest (or even Ernest) in his initial request, it appeared to be not as far as use of popular profanity in general, but specific terms to refer to persons of a... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by wendell at 10:41 PM on July 25, 2008

I really really need a word right now to describe the loathsome jerk who recently told Dee Extrovert "You're so full of shit that it isn't even amusing on MetaFilter"
posted to MetaTalk by wendell at 2:08 AM on July 26, 2008

2038: Walmart*, after 27 years with over 80% of the market share of Everything for the bottom 80% of the population (by income/net worth), files for Chapter 23 Bankruptcy with the Federal Business Insurance Corp. (FBIC). The one member of the Walton family still living in the U.S. and associated with the company, Chief Nepotism Officer Binky Walton, makes a statement declaring "there's no money in it anymore" and repeats for the 675th time in 30 years that the asterisky thing in the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 5:11 PM on July 16, 2008

Going way way back to the beginning, Xeni should have handled the original drama NOT by just "unpublishing" everything referring to Violet Blue but rather by "unlinking" all the links to Violet Blue in posts where they weren't central to the content, and changing all specific name references to "VB" (or maybe just disemvowel her to "Vlt Bl"? Nah, too ironic.) Yes, it would've taken more time but it might have been a good way to work out whatever anger... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 3:59 PM on July 21, 2008

Okay, I'm sorry I didn't break that up into 5 separate comments.

Got to support the "LongBoing Thread" (as I, and apparently nobody else likes to call it).
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 4:04 PM on July 21, 2008

I think the BoingBoing strategy all along was to wait for Blue to do something even more heinous and then sit back and say "See?"

And a restraining order against a "cyberstalker" in another state? That may qualify.

And the Boingers never had a particularly healthy relationship with the whole Blog Comment concept. Maybe they're just leading up to a "We give up. No more comments." announcement.
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 2:40 PM on July 22, 2008

#529 posted by Xeni Jardin, July 22, 2008 7:39 PM
Teresa is a wonderful moderator, and a true Boinger. Everyone hating on her here can suck it AFAIC. If I am disemvowelled for being so crass, sobeit.

Aw come on! Nobody will EVER be disemvoweled for being crass toward "BB haters". As long as the defense of the site includes such obvious DISHONESTY (something I have NEVER seen matt, jess or Josh guilty of), then BoingBoing really... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 9:37 PM on July 22, 2008

Or we could extend the LongBoing in the same way we had previously kept a couple of longboats floating. Unfortunately, 72928.com, .net, .me and .us have all been registered. We could do 72928.org, or LongBoing.com and all its other TLDs are avalable. Or unpublish.net, .org, .me or .us or disemvowel.(everything but com) can be used.
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 1:49 AM on July 26, 2008

shakespeherian wins.

end of topic.
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 10:44 PM on July 25, 2008

That's not a bat, actually. In fact, when you trace the outline with your finger, it looks kind of like . . . a "W."

And he can't have it. It's mine.
(Actually it's webcomicker Brad Guigar's, but it's Me.)
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 8:24 PM on July 25, 2008

Larry Craig still has his job, and will continue to do so until the end of his current Senate term. As a Retired Senator, he will enjoy all the benefits and substantial pension of any ex-Senator who has not been convicted of lewd activity. He remains an honoree in the Idaho Hall of Fame. Maybe the 'scandal' took away his opportunity to be re-elected; but it fell far far short of "ruining his life". There's the difference.

"Public shaming" as a part... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 8:03 PM on July 25, 2008

Okay, all the high-profile MeFites whose "real" names I know (including the Mods) all seem to be clean, all the offenses under their names were obviously somebody else with the same name of a different age in another state, except for one who apparently shows THREE "O" class crimes - which turned out to be a trio of minor driving infractions (no license, no reg & no lights) from a single incident. No, I'm not saying who.

(And go ahead and look me... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 12:42 AM on July 25, 2008

Far more than slightly obnoxious. Clearly offensive and quite jubilantly so. If this is what passes for "anti-Muslim satire" in his country, it surprises me much less that it is responded to with physical violence. Not excused, but explained. The problems caused by the medieval practices of the hard-core islamists in Europe will not be resolved and are sure to be worsened by pictures of bearded men getting fellated by children. (1) Provoke angry violent response, (2) Point out angry... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 4:18 PM on July 24, 2008

It's not terribly uncommon for a party who has had to pay a big settlement to try to publicly minimize the damage done and to be backed up by media weasels keeping to the popular "frivolous lawsuit" narrative. (Rhymes with Pantsy Face) Anybody who brings up the "Infamous McDonalds Hot Coffee Case" as an example of such is the kind of intentionally misinformed troublemaker who is best ignored.

I'll repeat a previous point. This Dutch "Cartoonist... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 12:02 AM on July 25, 2008

Blazecock Pileon, you EEDIOT.

I've never felt so stimpy.
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 3:26 PM on July 24, 2008

Isn't jonmc our resident expert on Springsteenpunk?

And sextants don't belong in the house, they belong at camp.

Go falcon yourself.
posted to MetaTalk by wendell at 9:28 PM on July 23, 2008

Interesting backstory: D.J. Coffman had put his webcomicking on the back burner when he won a 'talent hunt' contest and got a contract to do a series of comic books based on a concept he pitched. Since then, the publisher (NOT one of the biggies) has had financial trouble, Coffman has had problems with them, and they have now apparently canceled the contract and taken possession of his concepts. The $2 cartoons are partly his way of responding to accusations he was a 'commercial whore'... by... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 8:50 PM on July 23, 2008

baconfilter.com and metabacon.com (and all the other TLDs) are available. Stop me before I domain again.
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 3:34 PM on July 23, 2008

I disagree with mudpuppie, jessamyn, cmonkey, et al. But then, I have been personally called out for putting MetaFilter in their MetaChat.

I'm glad this bit of silliness has been cross-posted here for one reason. On MetaChat, you can't 'favorite' anything.
posted to MetaTalk by wendell at 12:55 PM on July 18, 2008

Yeah, I'm pretty regular here and I never go there,

Could we PLEASE keep toilet habits out of this discussion?
posted to MetaTalk by wendell at 12:57 PM on July 18, 2008

It must be bunnies. It's always bunnies.

Dust bunnies.
Fuzzy bunnies.
Honey bunnies.
Easter bunnies.
Bugs bunnies.
Funny bunnies.
Snuggle bunnies.
Playboy bunnies.
Sunny bunnies.
Killer bunnies.
and Bun E. Carlos.
posted to MetaTalk by wendell at 3:17 PM on July 18, 2008

I once had a dream where a full sized railway went through my basement.

I once had an apartment where a full sized railway ran 50 feet from my back window. But I grew up in an L.A. suburb four houses away from a major freeway and was used to transportation noise (and the trains never blew their whistles as they passed the residential areas unless somebody was on the tracks). And it was a good apartment that was so cheap because of its bad location!... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by wendell at 7:37 PM on July 18, 2008

The streams shouldn't meet. Especially if they're running through your house.
posted to MetaTalk by wendell at 8:20 PM on July 22, 2008

Look, this reminds me of 1978 when I sat in the bookstacks of the NC State library trying to find biblical loopholes so I could go sleep with a boyfriend. I'm sure I twisted a few braincells into pretzels in the process.

You're not alone.

From where I stand, anyone who resorts to quoting The Bible, The Koran or any other Religious Fiction in an argument is not worth arguing with.

I would... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 7:05 PM on July 16, 2008

Reason never kept anyone out of hell any imaginary place. Dare I say 'fixed that'?

Reason also saved me from the "hell on earth" created by the delusions of someone who used to be very close to me. A lot of introspection as well as a lot of conversation with other people (very few of whom were 'professional therapists') helped me to find a moral center not dependent on believing that the Universe would EVER provide a 'short cut' to ultimate... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 7:59 PM on July 22, 2008

Good premise, well executed, but in the effort to make quick, punchy jokes, some of the stereotypical typefaces were "Meh". Yes, I've always been defensive over Bookman but if it had to be one of the two OLD guys, Baskerville should've had the beard and Bookman been clean shaven. When I saw the clown wig in the back row at the beginning, I immediately thought he'd be ComicSans, which made "ComicSans saves the day" a bigger surprise and a bigger laugh.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 3:26 PM on July 22, 2008

No need to apologize for not being Shatner. Really. Have you ever tried to read TekWar? Yeesh.
posted to MetaTalk by wendell at 4:02 PM on July 21, 2008

I am not a metatheist, but I do believe that Metamucil is a Gift from God.
posted to MetaTalk by wendell at 4:41 AM on July 22, 2008

Why Bob?
posted to MetaTalk by wendell at 4:36 AM on July 22, 2008

We are not amused.
posted to MetaTalk by wendell at 8:04 PM on July 21, 2008

Of course, I have the awesome three-digit 206, so I'm not a zip code but rather the area code for much of Seattle, where I have NEVER been. 206 is also the number of bones in the normal adult human body and the model number for a very very very small Peugeot.

The 206th day of 2008 is coming up on Thursday the 24th. If you can't celebrate it with a wendell you love, then love the wendell you're with.

And MeFi Post #206 was posted my #1 himself,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by wendell at 2:07 AM on July 20, 2008

And just to prove that I got all 12 questions right, here is a screenshot of my results page(self-link, obviously). Why not 100? The 97 is the Percentile, because 3% of the people who took the test aced it, but then you should be smart enough to know that.
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 8:19 PM on July 18, 2008

Yeah, at the end of last week, it was actually slightly closer to 10,000, but this week it's up nearer 12,000... YOU GOTTA STAY CURRENT.
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 8:25 PM on July 18, 2008

now, everybody who takes the quiz after reading this thread will automatically get that one right. damn spoilers.
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 8:29 PM on July 18, 2008

Okay, AMERICAN CITIZENS who get more than 2 wrong are banished. Other Countries' folk can redeem themselves if they know "Who Is The Mole?"
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 8:35 PM on July 18, 2008

A 97 PERCENTILE MEANS YOU SCORED BETTER THAN 97% OF THE PEOPLE WHO TOOK THE TEST. 3% OF THE TEST-TAKERS GOT 12 OUT OF 12. THAT WAS THE REAL TRICK QUESTION. YOU FAIL AT MATH.
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 8:41 PM on July 18, 2008

DJIA closed under 11,000 maybe four times in the last two years.
One of which was Tuesday of this week. And nobody pats attention after Tuesday...
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 8:57 PM on July 18, 2008

pats? PAYS attention. I fail at typing.
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 8:58 PM on July 18, 2008

THAT'S THE 2ND PERCENTILE, MPDSEA!!!
sorry. shouldn't shout.
Anyway, that means you did better than 2% of the population who got..... less than 0 right?!? Wait a minute....... maybe the 2% didn't try to answer all the questions, or they hit the Pew polltaker on the head with an oar (like rtha did).... I don't know, but my confidence in Pew's polls just dropped by about 11%...
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 9:26 PM on July 18, 2008

oh, sorry I shouted, MPDSteve...
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 9:27 PM on July 18, 2008

I refreshed the page right BEFORE your clarifying comment, Steve, wrote the first two lines of my response, suddenly thought WAITAMINUTE... and lost what little mind I had left.

I think I'll go take the 1930's Husband quiz... g'night.
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 9:38 PM on July 18, 2008

Here in San Luis Obispo County, population just over 260K, we have a total of 15 Starbucks and two under construction (one of them in the Student Union at Cal Poly U., right next to the only Chick-Fil-A within 100 miles), and none of them are closing. But then none of them are uncomfortably close to each other, though there are an additional 9 "in-store" Starbucks (4 Vons, 4 Albertsons and a Target) and some of those are in the same shopping center with a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 7:12 PM on July 18, 2008

...hip, progressive people enjoy watching the employees of 600 coffee shops join the jobless ranks.

I'm not hip and progressive, but I'm celebrating the failure of an ubercorporation to become a virtual monopoly, along with all the employees of the locally owned coffee shops Starbucks tried to put out of business. And I really enjoy watching the locals hire ex-Sbux employees who are good at their jobs and wish the law required the top executives of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 7:23 PM on July 18, 2008

I have one word for this: NGAA!
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 11:00 AM on July 17, 2008

I think Stewart overreacted to the overreaction. But I guess there is only so much eye-rolling you can do before the eyes cramp up.
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 5:27 PM on July 16, 2008

Cnfnd tht blstd ms!

Disemvoweled that for you.

And how does copyright effect censored works? Does the censor have any rights to his/her BLEEPs?
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 11:52 AM on July 16, 2008

Superheroes must NOT be taken seriously. We need less Infinite Crises and Civil Wars and more Ticks, Incredibles, Mystery Men and Evil Incs.

That said, I used to work in the cubicle next to Sparkle Fists. She made department meetings interesting, but she never brought in doughnuts.
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 11:46 AM on July 16, 2008

This neocon paranoia is getting more than a little tiresome.

And it's very well refuted by a 23-year CIA vet here. (I considered posting that article to the front page, but I don't like SLOEs) The more often it can be repeated to more people that 'Al Qaeda's Worldwide Jihad' is a phony boogeyman, the better.

That said, the growing economic power of a Chinese government that has no respect for human (non-economic) rights is a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 11:36 AM on July 16, 2008

D'oh!
posted to MetaTalk by wendell at 2:38 PM on July 15, 2008

Sounds like MeFi Meetups are the only thing happening in NYC.
so glad I can't be physically slapped over the internet
posted to MetaTalk by wendell at 12:13 PM on July 15, 2008