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I don't see anything.

Me neither.

Are you sure you posted somthing, or was it all in your mind, man?

What post, where?

very funny

Wow! I saw it briefly only a moment ago (screenshot follows) but then it disappeared again. I didn't really have time to appreciate it but it looked magnificent.

I'm sticking around for another half-hour in case it appears again - but after that you're on your own, tj,

I saw it. It changed my life. I see now that I was wrong about all those tiny collectible figurines.

[looking at screen too closely]
{{{pow}}}
Ouch!...nice monkey punch, tj.

I saw something, but it was a figment of my imagination.

*quietly explains that the posts are setup to age off the page after 7 days and no one has posted anything this week*

Posts are so ten minutes ago.

*wakes up, drinks warm mug of beer, spits out Kaf's cigarette butts, passes out*

Hey! Which one of you dickheads broke MetaFilter? Why I oughta...

It was me.

And since I can't get to it at the moment, imagine me in the "airline pilot asks Christians to raise their hands" thread asking if anyone said "Do you like gladiator movies, Timmy?"

Because that's what I would've said, if I'd been there.

Let the record show that the Honorable Commish lays claim to that particular joke.

And may I add: Have you ever seen a grown man naked?

If you haven't, it can be arranged.

I thought about you tonight, Jon. Rice to Riches was on Food TV tonight.

Where's Lupo?

I don't feel safe unless I know where Lupo is.

i know tha the posts age off... but i thought that the most recent stayed up even if it was up for longer than that

its the wrath of god for being cheeky on 111's posts.

I miss you all !

I went to bed and when I woke up, the magic beans had sprouted into posts! Now where's that wonderchicken that lays the golden eggs??

He got that bird flu and is now cooped up.

BAGOCK!

Ever been in a Turkish prison, Jimmy?

Today, at work we have to go to our mandatory "Sexual Harassment Workshop" meeting. I'm hoping to learn some new techniques. Maybe there'll be a butt-pinching seminar.

Seriously. Who broke MetaFilter? I'm jonesin' baby, I'm jonesin'.

My skin feels like little bugs are crawling all over me!

Monkey Temptation, found @ M0nkeyfiltre

My skin feels like little bugs are crawling all over me!

Looks like you picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

good idea , lets go to monkeyfilter.com for the methadone hit.

*posts to the thread because that's what all the cool kids are doing*

Where's Lupo?

I don't feel safe unless I know where Lupo is.

Isn't Lupo in LaLa Land? When's the meet up? Where's the shout-outs?

Meet-Up will be soon. I got a phone message from Lupo yesterday. He sounds like a longshoreman. Or maybe a stevedore. Or a ballerina. Not sure.

Don't expect any of those napkin thingies, though. Maybe a gas-station continuous handtowel.

Nobody ever gives me a shout out.

Or a big ups.

Or one of them "whoa, you can see her panties" thing.

EVERYTHING'S GONNA BE ALRIGHT!

*smacks Tizzie with a tire iron*

Big up to ColdChef!

ColdChef, I'm not exactly doing the meetup thing, nor do I have my digital camera with me, but I'm meeting a friend at the bar for a pre-hockey game drink in about 1/2 hour. I promise I'll make a nice shoutout for you and wave it in the general direction of Louisiana. It'll be lovely.

No panties, though. Sorry.

I am pleased to report that, having just spoken to Lupo on the phone, he does in fact sound like a ballerina.

No one wears panties any more.

*me scratches*

Let's pass the time by declaring war on MonkeyFilter!

MonkeyFilter! Have at thee!

Or one of them "whoa, you can see her panties" thing.

What am I, chopped liver?

Oh. Dear. God.

Somehow and for some reason, that was blocked from my memory.

I must scratch my eyes out with a Brillo pad now.

hey, be honored CC. there's no other monkey, I'd debase myself that much for. Kinda gives you a tingly feeling, don't it?

I ain't sleepin' on the wet spot. No way.

Something's tingling, alright. My bleeding retinas!

A ballerina? That really shatters my fantasies.

I had something much more stud-muffiny in mind.

Oh I dunno, tizzie - ballerina does it for me.

I had that Margot Fonteyn in the back of my cab once.

Hmmm. Funny how easily that could be misinterpreted if you put that "once" at the beginning of the sentence.

And you, ColdChef - are you really back or are you just teasin' again? ;)

oh...
god...
where's...
the...
mefi...

I'm just teasin'.

DEAR GOD! BRING BACK METAFILTER!

I had that Margot Fonteyn in the back of my cab once.

*sings* There is nothing like a Dame.... nothing!

I had that Margot Fonteyn in the back of my cab once.

Migsy, if that's true,

I. Am. So. Jealous.

So was Nureyev was along for the ride also? Because if so, I would then be forced to fly out to Portugual just to goggle mutely at you, tripping over my feet as I trail in your wake and occasionally touching your jacket sleeve in pious reverence.

/bunhead

Oh, and I have a vaugue initmation that the current server downfall of MeFi is indirectly caused by the fact that I actually have a question for AskMe. Because that's the way my cookie has been crumbling lately. Ever so sorry ColdChef.

Just for you, ColdChef.

It's not true, Kimmy! In fact, it's a blatant lie. It wuz the turn of phrase wot made me do, honest! :)

*wonders what ColdChef did right to merit such an enviable homage*

*strikes him off the much sought after Fado mailing list, fully aware that the Amália/Willy Nelson duet of "I Never Promised You A Rose Garden" will now never be his.

Tough!

*spruces up and determines to make an effort to charm romakimmy more than in the pitiable past*

Kimmy, you are too kind.

Hey! How come no one ever sends me pictures of Paris Hilton doing it with a burro?

*crosses his fingers and prays*

No burros in these here parts, CC. But will you settle for a bravura performance of a different sort?

Migsy, tesoro, your charm is a boon to mankind. In fact, if there was more Migsy Charm (tm), the world would be a better place. It is with these thoughts that I prepare for the approaching feast of San Valentino.

Prudence is neccessary in all actions, though; I fear the world at large is not ready for two times the Migsy Charm(tm) currently available. After much thought, trial and error, I choose my course of action and followed through.

Roses are red
Violets are blue
for the fourteenth
I mini-cloned you.

Be mine Migs? ;-P

*crawls in half-dead, waving feebly*
Me...Fi... Me...Fi....
*grabs banana, lacks strength to peel it, thumps self on head hoping to induce unconsciousness*

er, chose not choose. And I see title attributes for links are getting stripped out? Bugger.

I was sweating, feverish. Then : chills. I hopped a redeye to St. Thomas and hung out on the beach. When the sweats came on, I went into the water. Then, with the chills, I'd go back up to the beach to warm up in the sand.

36 Hours of this seemed to do the trick. I was free. Life without Metafilter. I need to start my own blog.

Anyway, I looked up Metafilter's curious absence : it's all here :

http://mssv.net/wiki.cgi?Current_Status

A burnt fan, and the server won't boot back up : ' "From the Mefi's group on Flickr.com: "So you might have noticed that mefi has been down. A processor fan died yesterday, shutting down the box due to heat, and refuses to boot again. New fans are being shipped and hopefully things should be back up on Friday or Saturday."

Overheard on Mefi's page on Orkut: "btw, I heard from Matt that a fan broke on the server. mefi probably won't be back up soon..." '

Then again, I wonder - a social experiment to measure the buzz ?

Five Stages of MetaFilter withdrawl:

1. Denial:

"MetaFilter isn't gone. My WiFi must be weak."

2. Anger:

"Fuck that fucking fuckface Haughey!"

3. Bargaining:

"Dear, sweet God, if you bring MetaFilter back, I'll stop posting links I stole from The Obscure Store and Matt Drudge!"

4. Depression:

"I'm so lonely that I vomited into my own mouth and just held it there so I could drown on my last meal that I ate while scanning the pages of AskMe."

5. Acceptance:

"Hey! There's some pretty funny Photoshop shit over on Fark!"

Mefi being hosed has caused more heads to pop-up than a Whack-A-Mole. I deduce that the culprit must be...someone in this room!

/Sherlock Holmes

you can't prove nuthin'!

Now that I've cleared my desk of all the extra work that piled up from the past two months, no stinking Mefi..but we have this site. Some one, for the love of pr0n fire up a themed thread.

Now we know why stavros isn't here! His head will no longer fit through the door. Cool!

Egads, all my favorite players, strung out in one place. I should throw a wrench into the fan more often!

[wizard of oz]
"And you were there, Chef, and you Romakimmy, and Languagehat..."
[/oz]

You're all going to break my heart again, aren't you?

im really chuffed , i'm coming to new york in may and i hope to meet some of you lovely people !

What is this "Meta Filter" of which you speak? And who are you people? And why don't fortune cookies have actual "fortunes" any more ("You are a true friend to those in need" is not a fortune)? And what's the deal with airplanes?

Man, oh, man, I need my MeFi raction to the Kerry intern boinking NOW!

As a registered Democrat, I'd just like to say that, politically speaking, I hope this one didn't spooge on her dress.

Man, oh, man, I need my MeFi raction to the Kerry intern boinking NOW!
*warms up tv*grabs snacks*sits face planted watching*turns tv off*
"Damn, reposted jokes"
[/hopes late night tv heard]

Man, oh, man, I need my MeFi raction to the Kerry intern boinking NOW!

That's the kind of thinking that forced me to break MeFi.

I'd just like to interject that trying to go completely css layout wise is a righteous skullfuck.

I'd just like to say that, politically speaking, I hope this one didn't spooge on her dress.

If it's true that Kerry urged the intern to leave the country, he already has ... politically speaking. Amazingly, people always forget that the cover up is worse than the crime. The public will forgive an affair; it won't forgive a candidate who does desperate things to keep us from finding out about it.

This Kerry supporter hopes it's not true. We may see a Candidate Dean, but we'll never see a President Dean.

(Ain't this rich? I post for the first time in, like, a year, and it's about politics. Funny monkeys.)

{{{{{{{{pardon me!}}}}}}}}}}}}

WoooHOOO! You shoulda come next door with me to my tacky motel thread - wink, wink, hubba, hubba.

The vending machine here at work dosen't sell Dr. Pepper. I need help fighting this injustice.

:sob:

*smacks inside of elbow with index and middle fingers...*

*looks around for hypo full of mefi...*

WHO TOOK MY SMACK?!?!?!?

(this place feels kind of like the 2am fire at the rainbow gathering, where five or six people hang out, waiting for the next day to get started...)

Nice try, tizzie, but I'm immune to your electronic hugs and your feminine wiles. I will not be seduced back to this place by posts about charred hotels, or cute monkeys, or even pictures of Johnny Rotten chomping on a Koala. (Well, OK, maybe that last one, if you could also fit a supermodel in there somewhere).

Dr Pepper has no punctuation.

Look at a can. No period after the "Dr". Seriously, what up with that?

Next thing you know, we'll find out that Mr. Pepper's Phd is in Latin Studies or something.

People still go to rainbow gatherings?

Get jobs, you fuckin' hippies! Wait a minute, the people at Rainbow Gatherings probably run software empires. or their parents do.

Sorry. Make that "Mr Pepper"

Wow, romakimmy's hot!

Yes, notsnot.

Yes, she is.

** bursts through door, shoes unmatched, skirt all askew, shaking violently **

I ... uh ... I heard there were people here who are "friends of Haughey" ...

we've been waaaaaiting for you. perhaps you can tell us something about your whereabouts 36 hours ago, when the fan on the MeFi server "allegedly" "broke down"?

hm?

WHO TOOK MY SMACK?!?!?!?

Get yer monkeycrack here, best damn fix on the intarweb! Step right up! No membership required!

I've snorted monkeycrack once before. Now, they don't let me into the zoo, anymore. So sad.

But tizzie, this is teh intarweb! The world of endless riches for all! Every man a king, every woman a queen (or vice versa, whichever!)! A rock in every pipe! Rice pudding & deepfried goodies on every corner!

And, of course, monkeys, monkeys, monkeys! And humping, humping, humping!

At least, that was what the brochure said. I'm waiting, patiently.

Dr Pepper has no punctuation.

Oddly, Mr Pibb appears to suffer from the same affliction, although that wasn't always the case.

Even Coca-Cola seems confused:

MR PIBB®/PIBB® XTRA

Bolder taste to match your lifestyle
Mr. Pibb was launched in Texas and quickly expanded through much of the U.S. Mr. Pibb appeals to 12-to-15 year olds who are just gaining independence from home and looking for things to call their own. Mr. Pibb enables them to have an uninhibited, fun and unconventional attitude because it has the sweet, refreshing bold taste they need to express their independence.

In 2001, Pibb Xtra was introduced in Houston and Dallas with an intense flavor kick -- a bolder version of the original taste. Its bold taste and graphics appeal to young adults who are looking to get the most out of life and the most out of their soft drink. Based on its tremendous success in Texas, Pibb Xtra will replace Mr Pibb across the U.S. in 2002.

I count two "Mr Pibb"s and three "Mr. Pibb"s. For the love of Haughey, you can't have it both ways!

As an aside, anyone else think they're overstating the life-altering character of their soda just a teensy bit?

*humps cactus in the lonely land of the downtrodden*

*re-lurks*

Actually the only place you can get Mr Pibb in the tri-state area seems to be at Ruby Tuesday's, the noted mall-based purveyor of scalded carbohydrates.

the noted mall-based purveyor of scalded carbohydrates.

actually ....
(Why the heck does it take so long for the websites of any of the noted 'chain/theme resturants to load?)

Great. Now I'm all hungry. mmmmm.... Unlimited Salad Bar... ::drools thinking about croutons::

perhaps you can tell us something about your whereabouts 36 hours ago, when the fan on the MeFi server "allegedly" "broke down"?

I heard Migs did it. In the closet. With the typewriter ribbon....

I heard Migs did it. In the closet. With the typewriter ribbon....

That's some fetish. I can see why he wouldn't want to come out of the closet.

Ok, this is a serious question. What is the correct way to say "He enjoys fishing, hunting and tractor pulling."???

He's a shitkicker.

In other news:

Sunday? Sunday? Fuck me running!

To keep it parallel structures, tizzie, you might wanna say "going to" or "participating in tractor pulls".

Sunday? Sunday? Fuck me running!

Nothing the Angel Season Three DVD set, a big bottle of vodka and copious wanking can't pull me through.

*hopes*

Heh. "Pull."

*tries injection of bootleg MeatFilter, keels over, starts turning blue*

Sunday? Sunday? Fuck me running!
[looking at saturday's work schedule]:[kneels on hands and knees]

Ok, this is a serious question. What is the correct way to say "He enjoys fishing, hunting and tractor pulling."???

tizzie, I agree with notsnot -- unless he's actually pulling the tractor himself (like, with his own body) it would read:

"He enjoys fishing, hunting, and attending tractor pulling competitions"

or, if he participates

"He enjjoys fishing, hunting, and competing in tractor pulls"

(or something like that)

And exactly what are you using "tractor pulling" as a eupehmism for?

(Note to self: inject metalifter.com with low-grade MeFi substitute cut with baking soda and paraquat)

damn man, I'm one of the unwashed without a mefi membership and even i am getting the cold shakes. googling "metafilter down" brought me here, but what will distract me from my thesis now?!

this is more a way of life than a distraction my friend.
a pretty crummy way of life, but there you go.

Guests? And here we are without the hors d'houvres. ColdChef, cook up some beanie weanie. These fuckers look hungry.

*doffs cooking beret, drinks bottle of sherry, humps the stove*

*pulls tractor*

Pulling one's tractor
Is a poor man's hobby that
Can cost you Deerely

lil smokies and a tractor pull? aw, you guys are as nice as I was told!

>"He enjjoys fishing, hunting, and competing in tractor pulls"
>aw you guys are as nice as I was told!
enjoys the outdoors as it tans his neck...
[thom drives off in pick-up]

I feel like we're all hiding out in a bomb shelter together--it's kind of scary, but exciting too!

Except that you all have the harried, unstable look of addicts...

*backs out quietly*

Mmmmmm...potted rations.

*long, slow romakimmy-induced swoon, followed by reassuring thump, while all around him fiddle hysterically with the controls, trying to turn the famous 9622 background light blue*

"Something has gone gravely askew with Matt's fan", says The Egg Man.

"God forbid he should break into his Iceland money to buy a new one", shudders The Walrus.

"Twitty twitty twee!", chirps annoyingly The Bjork.

Thom has a pick up truck?
(Adds to list of MeFites I'll ask to help me move IF I ever find a place to live...)

And I had long suspected that Miguel was the Egg Man.

Mmmmmmm... potted monkeys.

Goo-goo-ga-joob.

A friend will help you move, a good friend will help you move a body.

Sorry, CC, but if I can't move a body by myself, I am NOT calling youse guys...

Well, MeFi's up again - what are you all still doing here?

Just kiddin'.

I wish I had a penny for every time I click on the little house that says Home.

*sigh*

We are all ill and should seek treatment. :)

Metafiler is your home page????

l0zer!

Damn, Migs. That was fucking harsh. I clicked about four times before I came back here.

Friggin liar.

GODDAMN! The monkeys have risen.

Hey, what's in this closet--ARGGGHH!

No... MeFi... days now... can't survive... tremors... blurred vision... hallucinations...

What, you don't find purple nylon bell-bottoms, wing-tip shoes and a HyperColor shirt to be an acceptable fashion statement? Trust me, in about a week and a half, all the kids are gonna be doing it...

The vending machine here at work dosen't sell Dr. Pepper. I need help fighting this injustice.

You call that injustice? Har! Some of us live in countries where Dr Pepper is unavailable.

*sob*

Some of us saw Dr Pepper and he only gave us weeks to live!

Top THAT, suckas!

I'd get a second opinion, tiz. Pepper's a quack

Try Dr. Scholl, Dr. Demento, Dr. Who or Dr. Seuss. They're all in the book.

Also, boredom, it seems, as it were, makes me get, you know. You don't? Well, uh, shall we say, creative, like, with punctuation, and stuff.

litlnemo: Psst, wendell has metalifter.com with low-grade MeFi substitute. I haven't dared try it myself yet, but if you're really jonesin', give it a try and report back.

Day Pop site is having trouble...the site will not fully load...*looks at calender, todays date*{{{cries}}}

Dr. Pepper performed surgery on me on a sinking cruise ship, while high on mescaline.

And don't even think about going to Diet Dr. Pepper. I'm still trying to kick the phen-phen habit.

Still life with shoutout.

Diet Dr. Pepper, vidiot?? Do you pee standin' up or sittin' down, bawh??

Actually I solved my Dr. Pepper problem. The deli on Hudson & Spring sells it. But they lost their cigarette liscence. However, yesterday the Korean woman behind the counter looked me in the eye and whispered "Marlboro Light, right?" "Right," I answered, and pointed me toward the stockroom door. We did a quick shuffling of hands and I walked out with a crisp pack of butts. I felt like I was purhasing heroin or tickets to a snuff film. Or maybe this is a glimpse into the future...

*surveys room filled with shaking sweating monkeys*

where's the meta-done?

jon: pssst! (when it's poospatuck, you know it's quality) ; >

hi all!

(from amberglow's link)

The Poospatuck Smoke Shop selling discount cigarettes online
Mastic, Long Island, New York and the World!

What, no Manhattan or Berlin? Leonard Cohen would be ashamed.

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