Olly olly oxenfree!
Come out come out wherever you are!
We know you're out there, checking in every day--or every week. You've learned our names, our favorite books and movies and drinks. You know our darkest secrets and Jpoulos's most perverse sexual quirks. We know you've been lurking there all along.
Now it's time to make yourself known. Pop in and say hi. For one thread only, we'll waive the humiliating initiation ritual. We won't ask any embarrassing questions, or splatter you with anything...unwholesome. We just want you to make yourselves known.
Let's hear from the lurkers!
Posted by jpoulos at September 19, 2003 10:58 AM(Of course, all the regulars are welcome here too.)
(Also, just for the record, I think this whole talk-like-a-pirate day is stupid, but I'm trying to be less cynical and play along.)
Posted by: jpoulos on September 19, 2003 11:03 AMOK. I guess it's time for me to break the silence. Hi everyone!
Posted by: D.B. Cooper on September 19, 2003 11:56 AMI think we should have an MIA thread too. Find out where all those AWOL people went.
I could also use a shot of Jager if anyone has one handy.
And the ability to shrink to the size of a Micro Machine at will.
Posted by: ufez on September 19, 2003 11:58 AM*props up a box with a stick*
*ties a string to the stick*
*puts a beer under the box*
*hides*
I'm gonna catch me a lurker!
Posted by: Cyrano on September 19, 2003 12:05 PMI used to be able to post some, but now I have to lurk, ever since they moved my boss into the next cube. *sob*
Looking busy all the time is a pain in the ass.
And I owe ColdChef a CD. (I may owe others CDs too??)
Posted by: krimur on September 19, 2003 12:15 PMI used to be able to post some, but now I have to lurk, ever since they moved my boss into the next cube. *sob*
Looking busy all the time is a pain in the ass.
And I owe ColdChef a CD. (I may owe others CDs too??)
Posted by: krimur on September 19, 2003 12:16 PMAnd now that I've double posted, I guess I need to go back to lurking once more.
Posted by: krimur on September 19, 2003 12:18 PMOK, who changed the post to "Jpoulos's most perverse sexual quirks"? Why I oghtta...
Posted by: jpoulos on September 19, 2003 12:21 PMBut I thought unwholesome humiliation was the whole point! Monkey poo and beer!
OK, who changed the post to "Jpoulos's most perverse sexual quirks"? Why I oghtta...
Posted by: jpoulos on September 19, 2003 12:26 PMBut I thought unwholesome humiliation was the whole point! Monkey poo and beer! Bring it on!
I can see you from here, krimur. Posting break over, back on your heads.
Posted by: jonmc on September 19, 2003 12:27 PMBut I thought unwholesome humiliation was the whole point! Monkey poo and beer! Bring it on!
oops, sorry about that... too much coffee this morning.
Posted by: towerbrave on September 19, 2003 12:31 PMBoss-lady is out sick today - so it's a festival of web-related misbehavior, till quitting time.
Posted by: krimur on September 19, 2003 12:33 PMI am not aware of any post-changing activity, and even if I were aware of any such activity, I would not be at liberty to discuss it. Sir.
Posted by: kaf on September 19, 2003 12:44 PMThe database is being a total asshole today, so double postings are going to be common.
Posted by: jpoulos on September 19, 2003 12:46 PMSo, you will be off to Brooks Brothers around five-ish then?
Posted by: kaf on September 19, 2003 01:04 PMJon, just go down to Century 21 across the street from the trade center site and get yourself some cheap Helmut Lang. They have the CK Tech skivvies there too.
Posted by: ana on September 19, 2003 01:13 PMI shall be parking myself on a barstool, my good men. Someone has to keep them on the ground in these troubled times.
Posted by: jonmc on September 19, 2003 01:26 PMI don't lurk here, but I'm a banner MeFi lurker. Does that count? I haven't even bridged the 100 comment mark over there.
I think I should get a gold star!
Posted by: readymade on September 19, 2003 01:30 PMI shall be parking myself on a barstool, my good men. Someone has to keep them on the ground in these troubled times.
Posted by: jonmc on September 19, 2003 01:35 PMWell, there's no disguise for that double vision...
Posted by: foriegner on September 19, 2003 01:56 PM'Fessing up as a lurker. you guys make my day
Posted by: peaseblossom on September 19, 2003 01:59 PMLong time reader first time poster love the new format.
Gotta say: What a right handsome chap up there. Strapping lad. Not too gamey-looking, all told, which I hear is pretty rare.
I might posit that he swabs a mean deck. If you know what I mean.
Posted by: Chico on September 19, 2003 02:06 PMI've been trying to get my cubemates to talk like pirates. They say if I don't cut it out, they're gonna make me walk the plank out our 8th floor window.
Arrr.
Posted by: jonmc on September 19, 2003 02:47 PM"Come on out and introduce yourself." Man, I ain't fallin' for that one, that's the oldest trick in the book. I'm just gonna sit right back and enjoy this beer some sucker fool left under this box. This now rapidly descending box.
Posted by: arto on September 19, 2003 03:01 PMI've been trying to buck the trend and make today Talk Like a Wino Day.
Posted by: adampsyche on September 19, 2003 03:13 PMI managed to talk about both pirates AND monkeys in Greek class today. I'm very proud.
*re-lurks*
Posted by: Herbert Herbert on September 19, 2003 03:21 PMAyyy Mateyz raise ye Toast tee yee
[thom slams a Rum bottle, whipes face with his cuff]
Hiccup!
Arrg...Avast, didn't delete any cookies lately yet I had to re-enter me Name-Email-URL. Whom might thee Ne’er do well be who stold them..Arrg yee scavy cookie thief. (or is this a database problem jpoulos?)
wow, thom actually writes pretty clearly in pirate. Might ye be considerin' a career change, landlubber?
Posted by: ufez on September 19, 2003 04:23 PMWell blow me down, I un-checked the "remember me".
[Ye goes back to my bung hole]
[before leaving]: Avast...need more Rum and a Beauty.
Mr. Catspike is perhaps the greatest of the surrealist pirates.
Or was it Jean Arrrp? Max Arrrnst?
Salvadarrr Dali?
Also, on the piratical wavelength, I think the best pirate humor ever was Monty Python's football match between the gynecologists and the Long John Silver impersonators. Every time I see it I cry with laughter.
Posted by: kaf on September 19, 2003 04:27 PMMight ye be considerin' a career change, landlubber?
Naw ...never ye was a landlubber til being ship wrecked in ye Dallas. Actually thee rum in me is a talk'in...the rum I wish was in thee me...ya mind if fired me cannon through your porthole?
Posted by: mateThomcatcross&bones on September 19, 2003 04:29 PMya mind if fired me cannon through your porthole?
I'm not sure what that means, but it sounds like it would leave a mark.
Posted by: Fes on September 19, 2003 04:35 PMPiratically speaking, I can't help but feel like a potential victim of the Crimson Permanent Assurance today.
*pulls letter opener from desk, places it in easy reach*
Posted by: Fes on September 19, 2003 04:36 PMAye, Black Cat Tommy McSpike might be one of the half-dozen most eloquentest waterlubbers in all the lone starrr state.
But I'll be goin' to Davy Jones' locker this very evenin' before I follow his knave self back to his bung hole.
Unless of course there be rum there, at least enough for him, me, an' Gertrude (me parrot). Then we're talking a whole bung o'fun. Arr.
Posted by: Chico on September 19, 2003 05:05 PMLupo is sexually perverted? Wow, miss a day and you miss a lot here.
Crash, let's roast up them lurkers. I'm a bit peckish.
Posted by: tizzie on September 19, 2003 05:06 PMBut they don't especially enjoy being chained up (or do they?)
Posted by: krimur on September 19, 2003 05:10 PMWhen I was a kid, my favorite dinner was a peculiar variety of teevee dinner called Pirates' Picnic. I don't remember much about it now, except that there were pictures of pirates underneath the apple cobbler.
In some odd way this is associated with a coffee cup my dad had that had a naked lady at the bottom.
I'm all messed up inside. But that was some good cobbler.
Posted by: kaf on September 19, 2003 05:24 PM1) I came out of hiding yesterday.
2) Our weekly famaily treat, when I was a kid, was Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips on Long Beach Blvd. in Oceanside then Nathan's across the street for the Video Arcade.
Posted by: Val on September 19, 2003 06:05 PM1) I came out of hiding yesterday.
2) Our weekly famaily treat, when I was a kid, was Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips on Long Beach Blvd. in Oceanside then Nathan's across the street for the Video Arcade.
Posted by: Val on September 19, 2003 06:06 PMSomehow I posted twice. It was an accident. I'm not hungry for attention.
No. Really.
Posted by: V on September 19, 2003 06:07 PMSalvadarrr Dali?
Ya know, a part of me is going, "boo! hiss!" on this, but most of me is clapping like one of those Queer Eye dudes after seeing Madonna win a lifetime achievement award for something.
Remember ye mateys..if ye be singing "take me out to the ball game" tonight...make the last line: drink some rum...in loving memory, Harry Carey.
A vast ye pirates, dead man can still tell tales...hiccup.
Hey, readymade -- if you get the gold star for MeFi lurking, I can't wait to see what I get. I've got way fewer posts and comments than you do.
And I'd lurk less, but then I'd be at work forever. (It's already 8pm on a Friday and I'm still here. Clients. Feh. It's too bad they pay the bills so nicely.)
Also, yarrr.
Posted by: aine42 on September 19, 2003 08:55 PMYarr!!! Another lurker here. I've got the 9622 RSS feed, even though I don't usually have much to say.
I NEVER kiss on a first keel-hauling.
I hope all the east-coasters handled Isabel okay.
Posted by: britain on September 19, 2003 09:39 PM
I got a GOLD STAR! I'd like to thank the committee for recognizing a great non-performance in the field of MeFi lurking, all of my non-fans, and, of course, the little people.
aine42, does this mean it's going to be an All About Eve thing? Am I going to have to be a jealous and bitter old has-been lurker?
Posted by: readymade on September 19, 2003 10:53 PMyo ho ho....
Do I only get a green star, instead of gold, if I've been drinking Old Crow (and pibb) instead of rum?
Consolation prize- somebody "borrowed" my drink, and refilled it with rum'n'coke instead of the usual. So it was refreshed with Pibb and Crow.
PUI, can you tell?
Posted by: notsnot on September 20, 2003 01:44 AMHaven't you gotten the e-memo from the Ceneral Server?
Monkeys are out.
Lemurs are in.
Celebrating over ten years of ringtailed goodness, and the licking of the envelopes and the forging of the Usenet messages and the hey-HEY-nglavinglavin...
Posted by: arto on September 20, 2003 06:10 AM*steps into thread*
*tips three-cornered hat*
*does a dance like Andy Richter in "Cabin Boy*
*steps out*
Posted by: ColdChef, who walked the plank a while back on September 20, 2003 07:36 AMhi. i am not a lurker but i've looked at this site once or twice. i am writing this from an igloo in the artic tundra.
Posted by: mokey on September 20, 2003 08:16 AMdelurks just long enough to give a heads up that the hot new bar here is called...
... The Monkey Bar.
Flamenco band on Tuesdays. For real. Just saying.
Posted by: vers on September 20, 2003 09:10 AMI don't lurk. I'm just on my way to somewhere else.
PUI = Posting Under the Influence
Also known as Drunk Surfing.
Posted by: notsnot on September 20, 2003 11:46 AMI'm not a lurker or a plank-walker; I'm just blocked from posting at work.
And there are quite a few lurkers around here, aren't there?
Posted by: yhbc on September 20, 2003 12:57 PMWhen are you going to make partner and make 9622 required for the associates?
Posted by: ana on September 20, 2003 03:36 PMCommish has had that pirate meme going on for a while, what with his wooden leg and all. Aye, Jim lad.
Posted by: tizzie on September 20, 2003 08:30 PMLurk lurk lurk lurk lurk, lurk lurk.
(Should be read to the tune of "Shave and a Haircut")
De-lurking to suggest another cd swap (and to suggest that Jon finish the last one).
Re-lurking.
Posted by: mikro on September 23, 2003 09:38 AMThe Autumn 9622 Swap is slated for just before Thanksgiving. Probably start around Halloween or so...?
Infernal forces are marshalling against jon for his negligence. You think that toothache just happened? Bwahahahahahahah!
Posted by: Swapinistratator on September 23, 2003 10:20 AMIt's not me, I was never here. You didn't see me, see?
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