Ketchup.
September 26, 2001 1:29 AM   Subscribe

Ketchup.
posted by blackbeltjones (20 comments total)
 
erm.... okay, I'll bite...

Am I missing something here?
posted by Lionfire at 1:50 AM on September 26, 2001


i too don't get it.
posted by celmatic at 1:53 AM on September 26, 2001


See...One day, Momma Tomato, Pappa Tomato and Baby Tomato were walking down the street, and Baby Tomato started lagging behind. Papa Tomato got real mad, squished Baby Tomato, and said...
posted by Optamystic at 2:02 AM on September 26, 2001


It is rude not to put at least one sentence of description on the front page link.

The little piece sucked. Ooh, such a deep commentary on the .dot bom crap.
posted by yesster at 5:58 AM on September 26, 2001


It is rude not to put at least one sentence of description...

Long MetaTalk discussion here.
posted by ceiriog at 6:18 AM on September 26, 2001


I'd rather read pieces like this than "in-depth" articles from the San Jose Mercury on "dot-com casualties in homeless shelters, except actually they're not and we're crap at research", thankyouverymuch. And yesster? Want to come up with something better?
posted by holgate at 6:38 AM on September 26, 2001


Lame.
posted by jpoulos at 6:44 AM on September 26, 2001


Mayonnaise
posted by kerouaciness at 7:15 AM on September 26, 2001


holgate -
The piece was just lame. I'm not a journalist, nor a host of a web page, so it's not my responsibility to come up with something better. As a personal story of the dot-com fiasco, it's worthwhile. But it isn't really worthy of blogging. Besides, there's nothing special about the dot-com angle here. Many waiters/waitresses used to be: lawyers, doctors, social workers, teachers, salesmen, etc.
posted by yesster at 7:15 AM on September 26, 2001


Apologies for the minimal description for the posting - my bad.

Apologies for my ignorance of the thread that ceiriog posted (dioch yn fawr, ceiriog), and for not realising that MeFi readers were time-poor, task-oriented individuals.

Apologies for finding something minimal and personal quite affecting in a minimally personal way. And apologies for taking up more of your time with this apology.

Love, me.
posted by blackbeltjones at 7:58 AM on September 26, 2001


ooh. you have to apologize again since you double clicked.
posted by luser at 9:07 AM on September 26, 2001


ooh. you have to apologize again since you double clicked.

What, you missed the spelling mistake in the first version?

Croeso, bbj.
posted by ceiriog at 9:43 AM on September 26, 2001


I can't believe you all are missing the important piece:

Spotted Dick??!?!?!?
posted by preguicoso at 9:56 AM on September 26, 2001




yah. it was so damn "rude".

i know i was offended.

what an ass!

i know! lets publicly call him on it in MetaTalk and waste hours arguing about whether or it was "in-fact" rude, and then when that gets nowhere (because its so gosh darned futile to argue about stupid shit) lets post a snide message (in bitterness of the unresolved arguement) everytime someone does in fact post less than one sentence.



Rinse. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
posted by Satapher at 9:57 AM on September 26, 2001


Actually, it's the responsibilty of jpoulos to call them out. But his post here was just depressing...
posted by j.edwards at 10:16 AM on September 26, 2001


I believe that no one should post anything that I don't like to any Web site ever. Furthermore, link text on MetaFilter must now be at least 32 words in length, and contain at least four nouns, one verb, and three adjectives. Adverbs and gerunds will not be permitted.
posted by jjg at 11:41 AM on September 26, 2001


Ba ha ha ha!!!

BBJ - my condolences. You're not the first.
posted by mirla at 12:29 PM on September 26, 2001


Jesus. The reason I mentioned the previous MetaTalk thread was precisely so we wouldn't have to retread all that ground again, and this thread wouldn't get cluttered with irrelevant crap. Was that wrong?

(And if it was, please feel free to call me out in MetaTalk. I think that's how this is supposed to work. Irrelevant crap=grey background.)
posted by ceiriog at 3:09 PM on September 26, 2001


preguicoso: you know, spotted dick.
posted by skyscraper at 4:08 PM on September 26, 2001


Re the talk thread -

I haven't seen this volume of pointless typing since I tried to read that Tom Clancy book. I'm impressed by the effort.

LOL dong. Thank heavens for the PgDn and End keys.
posted by emf at 9:24 PM on September 27, 2001


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