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Someone hasn't had there coffee tea yet.

No kidding.
there their

That's me before my morning injection of cappucini.

french pressing my fix now....aaaaaahhhhhh

Anyone else get the feeling that the influx of 'new blood' at the #006699-Mobile is going to end up with them painting the walls with gouts of their own arterial blood while howling in pure simian rage, rather than rendering them all sweetly avuncular gentle guides in the growth of potentially newbies?

And feel slightly guilty and unpleasantly elitist as a result?

Just asking.

But if I see another fucking emoticon I'm gonna lose it.

Neato how you folks are drinking your first coffee of the day, and I'm on my fifth beer...(due to timezones, of course, rather than any tendency of mine to drink beer before brekky.)

stav: yes. Any bets on who'll be first to quit in a huff? Or maybe not.

Counterpunctually, I haven't been cut off yet, although the analog phone has. This means my gleaming, fast connection may stay active until Friday. Here's hoping. That monkey above will be me next week, until I've been reconnected.

And I'm envious of your beer. Moving boxes is hot, sweaty work. However, in a short five hours I'll be finished. Muhahahaaaaa!

Speaking of which, I haven't seen ( .)(. ) around. He used to post with a vengeance.

We have an Ignatius J. Reilly now. I am halfway through the ebook right now (Confederacy of Dunces), and wonder with anticipation what his posts will be like. *closes valve*

I finally have the vaunted MeFi login, after lurking for about a year. There were a few times when I itched to make a comment and couldn't, I think the most recent of which was the discussion on the redesign of US money and subsequent comparisions to the Euro. I started posting in Sportsfilter first, when I found I couldn't hold my tongue anymore against the Azzurri bashing during the World Cup. I decided to stop lurking here, well, because I got a bug up my ass and Miguel's birthday provided a perfect opportunity to "come out". Most, if not all of y'all here are posters I have enjoyed over on the blue and grey. And who can resist monkeys, poo flinging, and monitor Pollocking?

But the feeling I get now on the blue and grey is that the newbies, after lurking for so long, are trying too hard to obtain MeFi street cred (as I think it was coined in some MeTa call-out thread) and prove that "Hey man, I've got the vibe of this place, I'm not an ordinary newbie." Also partially caused by all the fretting done in MeTa before Matt opened the doors a crack.

I've seen some vicious criticisms of front page posts that make the old school MeTa junta look like doting and fawning Italian mammas. One thread astounded me with the number of newbies eager to administer the best smackdown and show off their styl-ee "I know MeFi better than you do" moves. I don't get the feeling of normal trolls (for the most part); more like an insistant desire to belong?

Hmm, I'm rambling, as per usual. Suffice to say, I'm waiting for the itching-can't-contain-it-anymore urge to come along before I deflower myself over at MeFi.

spot-on, romakimmy. beautifully accurate observation.

M*t*f*lt*r-allways good for a laugh -new tagline

Wish I was drinking cappucini in Italy with Romakimmy. At least there you get actual coffee that tastes like coffee and don't have to pay extra to have coffee added. I'm rambling as well. I'm at work and bored. I'm sooooooooo bored. I've just posted a story: 'Flash Player allows attacks on Windows, Linux'. Yawnarama.

It'll get better. Or it will get worse. Either one.

before I deflower myself over at Mefi

My first post at Mefi was about my G spot, so I know how that feels.

Summer, where might one read this stunning piece of journalism?

It'll get worse before it gets better I think.

Yeah, that G-Spot post was a stunning piece.

You may read it here. I didn't write it.

Work is only made bearable by some good monkey distractions. Dammit, why does the Yahoo briefcase always mess up my images?

I'm a cheeky monkey.

Personally, I've been stunned at the quality of the contributions by the newbies. They're doing a better job at having intelligent conversations than the veterans are - and proving the advocates of an open membership to be dead-right. I've scrolled through some threads, mouth hanging open, noting that every one of the balanced and well-written comments is by a 14k'er.

I've had the urge to make a MeTa post saying simply: "You guys [and gals] are absolutely amazing!", but I fear the MetaChat smackdown.

At least there you get actual coffee that tastes like coffee and don't have to pay extra to have coffee added.

Oooohhh yes. I am a spoiled brat, culinarily (sp) speaking. I don't drink coffee or eat pasta* outside of Italy, and I don't eat pizza north of Roma. I don't eat fish unless it's Tuesday or Fridays, and gnocchi only on Thursdays. I'm a food snob now. *winks*

*Unless Grandma cooks on my trips back Stateside.

I must say Marquis is right. At the very least, the newbies have reinvigorated MeFi with the enthusiasm that a lot of veterans lack.

Tell me: is it Mark wis, or Mark ee? Witchstone and I were discussing this yesterday, and could come to no conclusion.

yes, we had a sneaky 9622 meeting in central park behind all y'all's collective back.

yes, we had a sneaky 9622 meeting in central park behind all y'all's collective back.

No -- I was stalking both of you. Saw the whole thing. Wasn't the park lovely yesterday?

btw, romakimmy, I agree with your analysis 100%. Whenever I see what seems like an overdone slam, I find myself mousing over the username, and 9 times out of 10 it's a member of the 14k club. But, as adam indicated, there have been a number of very good posts from that crowd, too. You take the bad with the good, I guess.

I always hear it as it would come before "de Sade."

There's good and there's bad in the new crowd, as you would expect, but one good thing is that you tend to notice people like Postroad, owillis and ParisParamus much less.

I hear it as "mar-key". "Mar-kwiss" sounds a whole lot more pretentious, and let's face it, the word is an internet pseudonym and not deserving of any level of dignity, let-alone an over-inflated sense of gravitas.

fishfucker, on the other hand...

The thought that people ascribe the "mar-kwiss" pronunciation to me is unnerving. I can only see such a monniker being ascribed to one who is a) loathed, b) resented, c) mocked, or d) foppish. And although I can cope with some of the above, all-at-once might make me swoon. In a bad way.

Surely the only difference is that one is Frenchified and one is Anglo? Are you saying you want to be French?

i have a fondness for mar-qwis. just because i love how the brits take french words and twist them all around.

ballet=BA-lay
marquis=MAR-qwis
renaissance=re-NAI-sance

love it!

the only reason i had, was because there is a company that i have familiarity with called marquis, and they staunchly make you call it mark wis. so, it got confusing for my simple monkey brain.

Yes, there have been many quality posts by the new crowd. Good with the bad and all that jazz. I think it was this thread that made me do a sharp inhale. Admittedly the snark was started by an "elder" member, maybe due to the FUBARing of the first link. Still - Some of the "self-policing-community" comments made me wince. Literally. Anywho, I'll stop with the analysis now, as monkeys and juntas are two things I'd prefer to keep separate.

I vote for "mar-key", spoken with a slight lisp whilst mincing around and proclaiming things as "fabulous." ;-) "Mar-kwis" just sounds feckless.

"Mar-kwiss", pronounced in an English (or especially Scots) accent is erudite and quite acceptable, I'll admit. When uttered by a Canadian or American mouth, however, there is a longer, more aspirate lisp on the final 's' which makes the whole thing sound forced and rather absurd. In that mode, it sounds so haughty (like Americans who attach an 'esquire', or a III), that I can think only of Veronica, or perhaps a gay Reggie.

MetaFilter was the first place I ever used the Marquis handle -- I wanted to pick something wholly separate from the tolkienesque pseudonyms I had used in my early Internet days, and also had to ensure that it had no relation to my website, as my membership to MeFi was initially for the sole purpose of self-linking. [Ha! Youth - so innocent, so foolish!] As alluded to on my bio page, it's cribbed from a character in Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere ("an exhilerating and stained-glass-bright bit of urban fantasy"). Gaiman's an English-born Jew living in Minnesota, so I haven't the faintest clue how the name is properly pronounced.

ok, no sweat, just curious as to how you saw it. now, am i adam cy kee? or adam sike? what? adam dyke you say?

Ack. Scratch my vote. I just realised I'm having another English/Italian brainfart over phonetically spelled vowel sounds. Italian vowels will drive an English dyslexic stark raving bonkers. Cazzo.

:) Sorry, adam. I rather went on (and on and on), there. You're adam-sike, by the way. Like Bill Sikes. Only nicer.

A Damp Sike

spoken with a sight lisp whilst mincing around and proclaiming things as "fabulous"

Wearing a huge powdered wig, rouge and garters? Hopefully not looking like Geoffrey Rush in 'Quills'.

Summer, that's eerily what I was thinking of, only more along the lines of a pouffy DiCaprio in "The Man in the Iron Mask". Better teeth, which is important when one is mincing, lisping, and flouncing.

Yes, it is hit or miss with the new blue members, but then again, it seems to be that way with the oldies too. Reading a few threads, I am amazed at the disparity between some of the newbies posts...some are great, and some are, well...

i find most people are more or less as annoying as each other.

present company excepted, of course.

slow day today...

yes. what shall we do?

ah, hell.

*flings poo*

*humps computer*

anyone heard any good monkey jokes?

i always thought mar-key and adam sike-ey.

and yeah, why is everything so slow today? yesterday was mad slow, and i was like "it's okay bridget, everything will go back to normal tomorrow when people are at work, and you'll only be half as bored." but instead, i woke up at 5:30 am, when there is nothing to do anyway, and three hours later everything is still kind of ... dead.

A police officer came upon a terrible wreck where the driver and passenger had been killed. As he looked upon the wreckage a little monkey came out of the brush and hopped around the crashed car. The officer looked down at the monkey and said "I wish you could talk." The monkey looked up at the officer and shook his head up and down. "You can understand what I'm saying?" asked the officer.
Again, the monkey shook his head up and down.
"Well, did you see this?"
"Yes," motioned the monkey.
"What happened?"

The monkey pretended to have a can in his hand and turned it up by his mouth. "They were drinking?" asked the officer.

"Yes," nodded the Monkey.
"What else?" asked the officer.
The monkey pinched his fingers together and held them to his mouth, sucking inward quickly.

"They were smoking marijuana too?" said the officer.
"Yes," nodded the Monkey.
"What else?" queried the officer.

The monkey made a sexual sign with his fingers.
"So they were playing around too!?" asked the astounded officer. "Yes," nodded the monkey.

"Now wait, you're saying your owners were drinking, smoking and playing around before they wrecked the car?"

"Yes," the Monkey nodded.
"What were you doing during all this?" asked the Officer.
"Driving," motioned the monkey.

I am simulainiously wrestling with bloody Netcrap4 bugs and trying to rewire my brain to correctly pronounce written vowels as per the language I'm reading. With little sucess on both fronts, I admit. Screw it.

*flings poo and capers madly around the room*

This site has a dumb joke, but cool banana cursor scriptie.

Marquis?

I actually am busy today so I didn't actually read this, all I saw was "Monkey," "Lawyer," and "Italian," and decided that was enough of a reason.

Marquis?

Marquis.

Did somebody call me?

Hot Monkey Love
A certain zoo had acquired a very rare species of gorilla. Within a few weeks the gorilla, a female, became very hornery, and difficult to handle. Upon examination, the zoo veterinarian determined the problem: she was in heat. What to do? There was no male of this species available.

While reflecting on their problem, the zoo administrators noticed Mike, an employee responsible for cleaning the animals' cages. Now Mike, it was rumored, possessed ample ability to satisfy any female, and he wasn't very bright. So the zoo administrators thought they might have a solution. Perhaps they could entice Mike to satisfy the female gorilla. So he was approached with a proposition: would he be willing to screw the gorilla--for five hundred bucks? Mike replied that he might be interested, but would have to think the matter over.

The following day, Mike announced that he would accept their offer, but only under three conditions:

"First," he said, "I don't want to have to kiss her," and "Second, I want nothing to do with any offspring that may result from this union."

The zoo administration quickly acceded to these conditions, but what could be the third?

"Well," said Mike, "You've gotta give me another week to come up with the five hundred bucks."

hornery

heh.

All this talk of foppishness with photos of fine dandys reminded me of this great band, who seem to be right up this thread's alley, singing such hits as: "Finished with Finishing School, " " I've Got My Ascot And My Dickie," and other such confections.

Really, they're great. High comedy indeed.

Posted by: readymade on August 12, 2002 01:50 PM

The guy (can't remember his name, but he dated an old girlfriend of mine) who runs that label also has a decent record store down on Fell's Point in Baltimore. I think it's also called reptilian.

I sooooooo want a powder wig.

I was just enormously grumpy yesterday after being rectally probed, metaphorically speaking, by Korean immigration, who have fux0red my last couple weeks of summer holiday quite capably.

Bastards. There are a lot of good contributions by the newbs, it's true.

But I still get annoyed by all the emoticons. Moderation, OK. But not every damn post!

Ah well. *Flings poo, in the style of Samuel Beckett*

Mar-Keys?

Markey's.

I don't know if they're relatives, but given that it's a pub, they probably are.

vay good

Glad you approve, Edward.

We need more Edward-like pronouncements on this Web Site.

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