MetaFilter posts tagged with character

Noble and magnificent creatures of the animal kingdom... humiliated again for our amusement. Yay!

taz — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:08:39 -0800

The New Yorker's "Critterati" contest invites you to "take a picture of your pet—dog, cat, ferret, iguana, or any other nonhuman member of the animal kingdom—dressed as a character from literature, and upload it to newyorker.com by October 25th." Gallery | About | Rules | Enter. MetaFilter's own Jessamyn happens to be a judge (so well-dressed chicken entries might just have an edge, amirite?). "There will be up to 5 winners. Winning submissions, along with the creator's name, will be featured in a slideshow on www.newyorker.com and each winner will receive a signed copy of the book 'Indognito'.” The contest is only open to U.S. and Canadian residents (except Quebec), sadly, but the rest of us can still enjoy the hilarious discomfiture of other people's pets dressed up like Hairy Potter, Oedipuss, Huckleberry Fins and Miss Havishamster.

Not the princess you're expecting

cjorgensen — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:43:50 -0800

The Art of Jeffery Thomas On deviantart. Related: Jeff and Celeste. Be sure to see the re-envisioned princesses. And my favorite.

Esmeralda's final fade-out :(

miss lynnster — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 07:40:19 -0800

"I knew I didn't look like an ingenue... My nose was too long. I had crooked teeth. I wasn't blond. I knew I looked like a character actress. But I also knew I'd find a way." One of the most accomplished scene stea lers in the history of TV comedy, character actress Alice Ghostley, is dead at 81. Here she was in 2003 on the Designing Women reunion show. From imdb: Alice Ghostley originally did not appear as Esmeralda but as maid Naomi who caused havoc at the Stephens'. In the same episode ("Maid To Order"), she is asked to help with a client dinner at the Tate's home because their own maid was ill that night. The name of the Tate's usual maid was Esmeralda.

Character First!

Otis — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:21:45 -0800

Character Counts! Last year, Arizona State Treasurer David Petersen stood in front of the International Building Cities of Character Conference to deliver a keynote address. Inside the Character Training Institute's headquarters, Petersen took to the conference podium to tell how his state's Family Services Committee passed "Character Education Legislation." "All schools now have it implemented," he said. "We're fighting for the soul of this nation." Petersen added that he attributed his passion for character to a personal meeting with evangelist Bill Gothard, founder of Institute in Basic Life Principles. Petersen is now the focus of a theft and fraud inquiry alleging that he used his position and state funds to promote the character education program, a program to which he had financial ties. Is your city a City of Character?

Happy Scrappy

braun_richard — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:30:05 -0800

Welcome to Scrappyland. A site devoted to a long-lost cartoon character from the 1930s.

Doctor Steel

mwhybark — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 10:24:08 -0800

Help Dr. Steel take over the world! Doctor Steel is an escaped toymaker with an elaborate, flash-based website wherein you may witness him dancing, leaf through his notebooks and examine his toymaking ideas, and of course, buy his toys. Of particular interest are the recordings.

via the ever-lovin' Cartoonist.

Pink Bunny: Hip or myth?

joeclark — Tue, 04 Mar 2003 18:43:40 -0800

Pink Bunny’s LiveJournal Pink Bunny is a character in a film beginning principal photography this month, Crypto-Candida. If she isn’t real, how can her LiveJournal be?

twiggy — Wed, 05 Jun 2002 12:29:05 -0800

Create your approximate South Park (not to be confused with South Park) facsimile.

skallas — Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:35:46 -0800

The "They Fight Crime" character generator. He's an unconventional Republican master criminal with acid for blood. She's a tortured cigar-chomping nun living homeless in New York's sewers. They fight crime!

argybarg — Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:05:56 -0800

Assume your heroic form with this harmless, addictive bit of Flash. (Warning: probably coming to you by email soon, if not already.)

baylink — Sat, 20 May 2000 22:20:03 -0800

Camworld points to the [second page of] the Encyclopedia Brown piece (like everyone *else* who didn't actually *read* it; *Busted!* :-) and also to Comma Separated Values Considered Harmful, a treatise that the vertical bar character ("|") is a better field separator in tabular text data files than the comma or even the tab.

Is that really news? It wasn't to *me*...