I could be convinced
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 8:22 AM on February 3, 2008

Google's algorithm is believed to discount fast meteoric rises in inbound links, assuming that someone is gaming the sytem.

Also, your own personal search history can come into play in the results. They try to customize them based on your past searches (that's why all my results are porn).
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 3:40 PM on January 1, 2008

Has anyone seen the episode of King of the Hill where some French comedian/mime is an artist in residence at Bobby's School?

He takes Bobby under his wing and teaches him the history of comedy and how to be 'truly funny.'

Of course Bobby bombs on stage. All the while his enlightened tutor blames the audience, saying they are just not smart enough to get the intrinsic hilarity of his act.

Turns out he's just an... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 12:23 PM on January 3, 2008

Metafilter: the censorship, it's OK to like!
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 3:33 PM on December 30, 2007

/me files restraining order against grumblebee
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 12:33 PM on December 18, 2007

I'm self-unemployed
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 9:39 AM on December 14, 2007

Sadly I have no time now to read 1027 comments re: portobello mushrooms. Please can someone briefly summarise why that thread was not deleted and why it has 107 favourites.

GYOPAF!

(Get your own personal assistant, fuckWit!)
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 7:34 AM on November 9, 2007

Yeah Matt, you fascist!
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 12:27 PM on November 8, 2007

I prefer surprise buttsecks.
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 9:53 AM on October 26, 2007

it takes an octopus to give Metafilter the love it need

MetaTentacle Porn!
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 6:25 PM on August 16, 2007

430 checking in. I have 39 posts and none for over 2 years.

I live for the snarky one-liner
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 7:28 PM on August 5, 2007

Mostly web design, internet marketing, and WordPress stuff
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 9:43 AM on August 1, 2007

So my violin concerto on my just acquired Stradivarius is out?
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 8:46 PM on January 27, 2007

I wish I could remember the password for Chicken Little

Because sometimes the Blue is falling.
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 8:13 AM on December 16, 2006

I thought IANAL means you like butt sex.

No wonder no one is answering my craigslist ad.
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 7:31 AM on December 16, 2006

"I met Nick Denton at a really sheik party"

"Blow it out your hairdo, cause you work at Hardee's"
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 11:25 AM on September 1, 2006

He might just be implying that they are gay
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 9:41 AM on August 18, 2006

I read metafilter to feel beter about myself.

Seeing people who come across as know-it-alls in the blue ask the dumbest of questions in the green gives me great joy
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 2:39 PM on February 27, 2006

Whenever I come across an interesting post, I always make a note of it in my leather Designers Guild planner.
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 11:49 AM on January 28, 2006

I predict jimbob wil learn about the date function in cold fusion.
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 9:41 AM on January 1, 2006

And people say newspapers are in trouble.
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 5:00 PM on December 11, 2005

It looks like the post is using MeFi to push a campaign

Did you miss the last election cycle?
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 6:56 PM on August 12, 2005

You have no idea the power of the right side
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 3:55 PM on July 11, 2005

Congrats


Send Dan the bill for everything
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 1:12 PM on April 15, 2005

I married someone who's personel ad mentioned Matt
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 1:15 PM on March 11, 2005

oh, and congrats
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 1:16 PM on March 11, 2005

There's a major bug in leighm's tact engine
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 7:21 AM on February 12, 2005

Matt, I bet Viagra would pony-up big cash to sponsor MeF; It's a perfect fit: the color scheme, the denial, all the impotent anger.
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 9:34 AM on September 3, 2004

For God's sake the man wear's plaid, how can he respect women?
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 4:30 PM on June 4, 2004

There's a new Share'f in town boys, they call him the Cereal Kid.


...Sorry, just watched Deadwood.
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 8:48 PM on March 28, 2004

This went well
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 8:21 AM on March 24, 2004

Metafilter: .
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 9:51 AM on March 11, 2004

For a few weeks metatalk was realitivly calm but the last few days have been a real shit-storm. The next 8 months are going to be a really tragic thing to watch.

Thank god I'm buying a cinema display so I can watch it all in its w i d e s c r e e n glory.

/me runs off to stock-up on munchies.
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 4:37 PM on March 11, 2004

Wulfgar,
Your two analogs are fatally distinguishable.

You forgot his exclamation point! It defines him. He put it there for a reason, to show how in! your! face! he is.
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 11:55 AM on January 27, 2004

"If you make a bet, pay up. Its that simple."

Fuck that, don't make any bets where you promise to piss all over the front page.

And when the said loser fails to relieve his bladder all over the front page you sure as fuck don't whip it out and spray it down yourself.

Matt goes away to a funeral and it's like Lord of the Flies around here.

GROW UP!
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 10:44 PM on January 23, 2004

"Brains. Braaaiiiinnnnss."

Most of us are safe then.
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 1:04 PM on January 25, 2004

But yeah, fuck me, I'll go back to being silent.

Nice way to silence dissent y6y6y6, maybe there's a job for you in the Bush admin?
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 1:32 PM on December 18, 2003

I'm sick of posts in general, can we just have a blank front page?
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 4:40 PM on December 17, 2003

You get a camera and a trip and you're putting this off until next month?

No, no, no. You're supposed to feel indebted which will slowly give rise to resentment, then anger and finally complete revulsion.

Now back to work!
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 7:11 AM on December 10, 2003

The fact that he got called out for it so quickly by the community says a lot of good things about this place.

No, it says this place is full of oversensitive pussies cry babies who need to run and tell Dad whenever the other kids aren't playing fair.

Sticks and stones people. Sticks and Fucken' Stones!
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 7:43 AM on December 6, 2003

From now on I will be addressed as Abe Frohmann, the Sausage King of Chicago. If you do not I will assume you are being snooty snotty.
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 5:28 PM on December 7, 2003

So we're going to pack the camera with explosives...

But how will we decide who takes offer after he snaps his last picture? Largest contributor to the Topple Matt fund?
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 3:45 PM on November 24, 2003

over! not offer.

*sigh*
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 3:45 PM on November 24, 2003

MetaFilter: Ignore the Comments
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 4:42 PM on November 18, 2003

I had a blind date with another MeFite (arranged elsewhere). I was surprised when she said she already know a lot about me from my posts here.

Despite that fact we're engaged to be married this summer.
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 10:47 PM on November 15, 2003

I've been here a lot longer than most of you whelps and I assure you this place has gone down hill, not just from political debate but the attitude in general.

We've lost a lot of great people, and not just conservatives. If I had anything resembling self-control I'd never come back, but I'm fascinated by train-wrecks.
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 8:47 AM on November 13, 2003

and a Private Message function!

also I'd like to mark all threads as read.
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 8:31 PM on November 8, 2003

MetaFilter: Won't Someone Think of the Dead Horses?
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 1:54 PM on October 21, 2003

pxe2000, you forgot to complain about how baseball players make more money than teachers.
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 4:27 PM on October 18, 2003

It permeates everything; you cannot participate in the modern world without being assaulted by fanatics of one kind or another.

I feel the same about (insert any fucking thing in the world here), and people tell me I should just get over it.
posted to MetaTalk by Mick at 8:27 PM on October 19, 2003