But now that it is called out in the grey...the post isn't really deleted, now, is it?
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 11:02 AM on October 13, 2006

it only takes a 9V battery on my nuts before I sing like a bird

I think we should all be issued shock-resistant Metafilter-branded codpieces.
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 5:35 AM on September 26, 2006

red bar panther ambilobe

But for a mere five dollars, I could have an excellently-named sock-puppet...
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 9:41 AM on February 28, 2006

I missed the quail, and hit the lawyer instead.
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 6:17 AM on February 15, 2006

In five years time, Metafilter will be neurally networked into each of us and we will all be finely-honed front-page-posting-machines. All password and jrun information will flow freely through our bloodstreams as we dance naked in the collective sub-Metafilter-conscience.

Or, i'll be sitting on a bus somewhere wondering what my password is.
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 11:43 AM on February 8, 2006

(Caveat - I am very pro-helpful images esp. in AskMe...all the examples above are great)

But, if Matt wanted to diabled the img tag to staunch the Man Titties, couldn't the same helpful effect be acheived by just including a link to the image...rather than making it inline?

Like a link to:
http://www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/Pilsinl/142.gif

or [See image]

or something?... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 3:23 AM on January 27, 2006

Me no likey the stripey.

Though, if I type this quick enough i'll get a highlighted row and i'll be more important!
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 8:05 AM on January 18, 2006

Yes! Score!
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 8:05 AM on January 18, 2006

Damn...nothing for me there...
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 5:23 PM on January 17, 2006

"The War on Christmas-porn: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday Is Worse Than You Thought."
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 7:56 AM on December 13, 2005

Rufus? Chuck? The Cop? The Midget?
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 2:59 PM on December 10, 2005

I like how all the "Smiley Box Avatar Icons" next to each make it seem like a band of grinning simpletons are answering your questions.
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 1:37 PM on December 8, 2005

(I hope that "align-left" business doesn't break this page...please hope me if it does)

I can also imagine how innappropriate the grinning smiley face boxes would be for a sad or depressing discussion:

[SMILIE] I just ran over my kitten and it is dying slowing in my arms...what do I do?

[SMILIE] OMG THAT"S SO SAD

[SMILIE] Put your wittle kitten in the freezer...it will go to sleep. Tell him you love him before you do.
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 1:44 PM on December 8, 2005

I, too, am in the "oh great, some huge block of links and skipped it entirely" camp. If i'm going to get and read newsfilter, sure, i'd like to see several (not a billion-millon) supporting/backstory/contextual links...but i'd also like it to read normally...and the text to flow normally into the links (again, contextually). In short, nicwolf seriously nailed it.

Cleverness is ok, I guess, for some things...but most... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 8:32 AM on December 7, 2005

I think we should just be assigned a random other MeFi'te to write up a ridiculously assumption-filled character profile about.
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 1:38 PM on December 6, 2005

Well, I guess if my first double was going to be anywhere...curses.
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 9:55 AM on December 6, 2005

I feel like this was just a speech-to-text command of someone talking to their computer.

"Microsoft Clippy go away!"
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 9:44 AM on December 2, 2005

I just shove two wads of leather into my nostrils when I browse MeFi...it lends the experience an air of prestige akin to making love in the front bench seat of a Chrysler Cordoba.
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 6:17 PM on December 1, 2005

Make it say pee...MAKE IT SAY PEE!

BBQPPT!
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 7:41 AM on November 30, 2005

tpl1212: pee

Ahh, now...I am whole.

Poo versus pee...which is better?
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 10:17 AM on November 30, 2005

Tubgirl. She totally cracks me up.
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 6:22 AM on November 30, 2005

Every time I post an answer that may be not as helpful as the poster may have liked...or one that is just flat-out wrong (hey, i'm human), I would like a detailed review of my answer and how it is wrong and how I ended up electrocuting the questioner's cat, got his or her house burnt to the ground, and inadvertantly rogered the responding officer. I don't want my bad- or clueless-samaritan efforts to go unnoticed.
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 6:17 AM on November 30, 2005

When my god spread his behind asunder, I stared into the gaping miasma and began to not believe.

What sealed the deal was when Nick and Jessica split.
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 7:26 AM on November 26, 2005

All these newsfilter posts SURE ARE AWE-SUM.
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 11:26 AM on November 22, 2005

With my $5, I bought two big blue "SUPPORT OUR NEWBIES" magnetic ribbons and slapped them on the back of my 1986 Olds Cutlass Cierra.
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 3:25 AM on November 18, 2005

In theory, I think the source of a MeFi link (the "via") would (should?) be an interesting link that, like the rest of the links in a good FPP, backs up the central idea (and is perhaps some source that not a lot of people are aware of).

In theory. In practice, it's all boingboing.
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 9:53 AM on November 17, 2005

Oops, I guess I should have made my point to be on-topic: I am "pro-verbosely-mentioning-the-source-link-in-the-FPP" for the theoretical reasoning above.
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 9:56 AM on November 17, 2005

This conversation is blowing my mind...it's like a staging area for Metafilter...since I saw the puppet post on the blue well before reading this...

Should we run all posts through MeTa prior to posting them to the blue?

foreplay.metafilter.com

I don't get it.
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 12:13 PM on November 16, 2005

Hellllls no.

Sorry, I was being sarcastic...
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 12:26 PM on November 16, 2005

Metafilter: Refreshing, like a pug and honey smoothie
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 7:58 AM on November 16, 2005

My dogs liked the Suicide Girl ads.
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 3:09 AM on November 16, 2005

However, don't wait underwater.

I read this as "However, don't wear underwear."
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 8:52 AM on November 15, 2005

The only thing vaguely mysterious about that post (to me) was that BMX skateboard-thing's site appeared completely black and empty in Firefox.

Like staring into the ABYSS...but more boring.
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 5:14 AM on November 9, 2005

"Sure, calling me out for being weirdly lame and annoying is something you can do, but did you know you could also view Metafilter users on Flickr using my 'tehsuck' tag?"

Blech. I'm untagging my photo out of pathetic spite.
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 8:04 AM on November 4, 2005

Please think of the children before untagging.

I did, and the children don't like buriednexttoyou's "performance art."
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 8:38 AM on November 4, 2005

I can't comment til I figure out what my THACO is.
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 3:34 AM on November 3, 2005

There aren't any photos available to you tagged with "mathtutor".
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 11:49 AM on November 1, 2005

Man, this is just going to turn into another popularity contest...and currently, Plutor is winning (ie: the most interesting)...at least in my un-massaged math-tutor-shoulders-broken-Flickr view.
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 2:00 PM on November 1, 2005

My commute home!! It looks ok now, but WAIT TILL 5PM..LOLers.

There is so much contemporary art in Woburn, MA.
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 9:33 AM on November 1, 2005

Is the "burning man argument" where you accuse your opponent of being dressed in nothing but body glitter and homemade fairy wings?

Nice macho-man randy savage argument, chasing.
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 5:51 AM on October 26, 2005

I'm going to dress up like MetaTalk and panhandle in the pit in Harvard Square. Then i'll donate all the proceeds to keeping IHOPs open...for the pancakes.
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 12:44 PM on October 25, 2005

Memeorandum does something (sort of? maybe?) like this (and i'm sure a bunch of other places do this...hell, even flickr)? Collecting the most discussed posts and arranging them dynamically.

"The most highly linked articles appear at the top and in bigger font sizes. Less popular items are below. Super-popular items eventually are pushed down as newer popular stuff goes up."

Maybe? Maybe not? Of course, I am... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 7:36 AM on October 14, 2005

Whoa, Monju's link is sweet!
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 7:44 AM on October 14, 2005

Stalkr?
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 1:03 PM on October 13, 2005

I'm sorry, Ms. Jackson.

- For Real
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 6:31 AM on October 12, 2005

Upcoming.org is great...so congrats to the team!
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 7:13 AM on October 5, 2005

...some big gorilla news happening...

Was it the video of the gorilla using a walking stick? Maybe something about streaking wearing only a gorilla mask? Or maybe how some actor can allegedly speak gorilla?

It seems like a slow gorilla news week...... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 11:58 AM on October 4, 2005

Metafilter: st.
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 8:34 AM on September 28, 2005

I think that AskMe question could have been worded better...something along the lines of:

I want to cook her the most amazing, mouth-watering vegetarian meals ever. Something that tastes like Hitler's mother is in my mouth.
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 12:24 PM on September 26, 2005

Whoa, everything is getting deleted today!
posted to MetaTalk by tpl1212 at 2:46 PM on September 8, 2005