Beat me to it Wolof.
And the envelope please?
Make yourself known, for the monkey kings will now hear your proud ook ook ook, mowgli.
Damn, beat me to it. I was grepping the archives for the "400" post.
Like, 400 is soooo last month, y'know.
boy, we're some sad bastards, eh fellas?
but I gotta date on Wednesday! And she's a redhead! Soon, I'll be postin' no more!
Whooooooooopeeeee!
/it's been awhile
Good luck, Forky!
Soon the flying fecund fingers of forky will be no more. Mazel tov, dude! Eat a banana before the date: if she's a monkey lover, she will find your breath irresistible, and if she isn't a monkey lover, well, we can all use more potassium.
Blame Amberglow for that. Another damn gay superhero.
(Thanks!)
Oops. That last comment referred to "they're talking about us".
Traffic's speeding up. Who wants to get swallowed by the blue, who wants to just stay here and ook?
I like it better here, but I wouldn't mind an account to use AskMefi. Besides, if forksclovetofu is any indication, I'm sure to be getting a date with a hot redhead anytime now.
*checks watch* Yep, any minute, now...
Swallowed by the blue, eh? Is this happy fun face sex time swallow, or krill that got in front of a blue whale swallowed? Ook.
Glub, glub.
stay here and ook, and if sign ups open come play with us in the blue too. best of both worlds and all that rot.
Come on, Diz, it's a party.
Bananas all around!
They're plagiarizing, too. Without even so much as a mention! Throw a monkey a banana!
Sorry I'm late-- I was down in the basement organizing my Breakfast Meats and wasn't sure if "Sausage, Soy, Maple-Flavored" went before or after "Sausage, Soy, Maple-Glazed".
And then I had a sudden type II A-C-P-D event (anomalous condenser pressure dip) in the Deep Freezer-- almost lost that baseball player--- I mean some of my storage matter could've spoiled, but the back-up system worked really well.
Thank God for them Swiffers!
Oh-- I brought chips and dip!
Who wants chips and dip!?
Where'd everybody go?
*reaches around from behind Dizzy, takes chip, dips, and eat*
with food in mouth: Wur righ her, Dezzy.
the 400 post was just 12 days ago. Heck at this rate we'll be as big as MeFi in . . like a month or something.
math is hard.
I'll stay and ook here. Although a little less than before.
I like it here, am not interested in MeFi.
And 31 more in, like, 6 hours. QUICK! CLOSE THE SIGNUPS!
It would be handy to have a mefi account for the rare times I actually have something to say, but usually it gets said more eloquently anyway.
I like it better here too - it's a high-quality breed of monkeys we've got ourselves here. What stripe (and pretty much everybody else) said.
Moreover, I plan to dye my hair red, and boy, then I'll be gettin' some action...
MonkeyFilter: Another damn gay superhero
I'm all about a MeFi account for Ask MeFi--which absolutely rocks. I've been spending a lot less time on the MeFi front page and even though should be used to it by now, I can't help but feel wonky and surreal (in a good way!) when heated but nice debates happen here. It leaves a minty-fresh feeling in my brain.
Up to 534 now.
So, when do we start typing the works of Shakespeare?
When can us hardcore members from way back when (like, December) start complaining that MoFi sold out?
BBF - some time after us November folks start complaining about the good old days.
Ah, for the good old days of 2003. Seems like it was only yesterday.
We only threw FRESH poo. These youngsters are throwing old, dried up clods; banana peels, pancake references... it's gettin' so a fella can't even listen to himself think with all the "ook"ing going on.
grumblemumble
*mutters fellow-November-folk complaints to IgnorantSlut*
*dons red wig, flutters eyelashes at forky*
Now THIS one is clam dip, and over HERE is a zesty Ranchero-style salsa with habaneros, and THAT one is, oops, no, THAT one is french-onion and THAT OTHER ONE is just plain sour cream for Wendell's IBS....
MeFi new user signups: I'll believe it when I see it.
It's so nice over here. No whining, bitching, or pissing on threads.
Cheese straw, Doc?
So, when do we start typing the works of Shakespeare?
*ding!* we have banana! Nice one bees.
In an unrelated story, did the html tags stop working? Did #542 do it?
Ok, now I'm gonna bitch about everyone (including me) saying over and over again that it's so nice over here.
Monkeyfilter: It's nicer over here, again and again...
snakr
gah! I should clam out...
Zemat should clam down. /snakr
Zemat, we're sort of Canada to MeFi's USA. We keep carrying on about our proud monkey heritage, how nice we are, how we don't invade other threads except when they're really beggin' for it, etc. However, once Tracy gets a green card sees MeFi open she'll be soooo out of here for that phat MeFi-buying-power dollar. Sure, she can remind everybody over there that she remains a proud monkey, William Shatner was a monkey, etc., but she will ultimately SELL OUT to the MAN.
Meanwhile and until then, the rest of us will only wish we could sell out. But we will content ourselves with sour monkey grapes.
/am I snarkin' yet? gotta practice for MeFi
I can't believe you told everyone, goetter. You won't be marrying your way into the USA Metafilter through me!
Hey tracicle, you got tags and don't share?
Okay, I know all about the broken html tags, but it's SOOO unfair that they work for Tracy.
gah - after reload they go away, WTF?
and now they are back *rubs eyes*... ugh, going back to bed.
I'm one of the few people that don't care either way if MeFi lets new members in. If they do then what happens to this forum?
As much as I'd like to participate in AskMe, I don't think that I could manage the same *relative* civility that I am capable of here. I attribute that the the equal civility of my fellow monkeys.
There really is too much flaming in the blue.
I plan on having fun in AskMe, but probably less so on MeFi Proper. I like it here too much. Which is not to say that posting here or there is mutually exclusive, but I'd prefer to spend the bulk of my time with people who are decent at remaining civil. I mean check out the gay marriage thread. It was so good it was surreal.
* assuming that memberships open up and that I get in. All bets are off if they go ahead with that whole screening thing.
There really is too much flaming in the blue.
Yay, let the poo-flingin' start!
What Kimberly said. If they set up that screening process I'm not even trying.
Hmm, it seems I really got snarky with MeFi today. Sorry. I do love the site but its just that... it's nicer over here... damn! There, I said it again.
< "but I wouldn't mind an account to use AskMefi"
Enjoy: the "Curious George" threads.
When I get an account on MeFi I'm gonna use it to cross post direct contradictions to my MoFi gems. After a few months of kicking dirt on my shoes I'll eventually broker a fragile truce with myself in the hopes of raising the level of intra-filter-discourse. Sadly, a falling out becomes inevitable after my crass and arrogant posting of my own most embarassing blogging moments after the REO Speedwagon Fan Fest Inflatable Pool Party, thus spawning "PeteBestFilter" and "PeteBestFilterSucks.com"
*hands bottle back to Wolof*
Cocktail Weenie? They're piping hot!
Goetter--here's an extra napkin..
I like it here. Speaking of the good old days...*Long obscenely boring story, uphill both ways through five feet of snow, 28k modem blah blah*...you whippersnappers don't know how good you have it!
Pete: The way you say "intra-filter-discourse" makes it sound dirty.
*uses napkin to blot his running mascara*
Screw coctail weenies*, it's time for some Party Pigs!!
*so to speak
I have to get some more ice and hide flashboy's car keys.
Pez, would you put some more music on and watch the kids for ten minutes?
(and don't let Kimberly start playing "match the tats"-- last time the neighbors called the police...)
If petebest stops breathing like last time, just push his MedicAlert button, but ONLY after you've moved him to the sidewalk.
Be right back!~
I gotta say MoFi makes me care less about a MeFi acccount. Not least 'cause folks here seem so much more civilised. If I got a MeFi account tomorrow, I'd be unable to resist flinging poo at the bigger idiots over there (none of whom seemed to have bothered picking up MoFi accounts; long may that last).
Plus the hoops that are being talked about for MeFi signups incline me to say, "can't be arsed"; it sooo reeks of frat-boy initiation rites.
Alright kids, what do you want on the pizzas?
*Flashes Dizzies credit cards*
While you figure that out, I'mma go raid the liquor fridge. Cement mixer anyone? Ooh, Everclear and absinthe. Time to get the party started.
Warm glass of cockpunch for me. And anything but olives or onions on the pizza. Thick crust!
Pez - you're the only other person I've never met that knows about Cement Mixer. I think I love you!
Unless you're getting the pizza flown in from Chicago I'll pass. mmmm Pizza.
Woah... Must be the absinthe. Didn't even realise I had a car...
I'd just like to say it was so much better in the old days. December 10 was a particular high point. What's that?... Oh, banana and pepperoni on the pizza, cheers. Right, now where was I- hey, where have my house keys gone?... Anyway, who's in charge of the music here? Yeah, that's it, put 'We Like Tha Moon' on... YEAH!! Woo!!... anybody speak to Dr Zaius? he said he was coming... haven't seen him in ages...
*staggers across room, slips on flung poo, takes out jb, f8x and amberglow on the way down*
THAT OTHER ONE is just plain sour cream for Wendell's IBS....
Diz, I hope that's non-fat sour cream (artificial ingredients, oxymoron and all). I can handle a dollop or two of Gringo Salsa, or a half-package of Onion Soup Mix. Do you have jicama for dipping?
/snakr (which is like a snark with chips)
It's after midnight; UTC, when does this virtual party turn into a virtual orgy?
We're not bonobos, Wendell.
We aren't?
*stops approaching to Wendell's ass*
Hey Pezzie--I'm back!
Why are there three firetrucks in the drive-wa--
anyone looking for a red haired man ?
A monkey party! Quick, let's play Spin the Banana. Pucker up those hot
Pass the green olives and pickled plantain, please.
DAMN those tags!
NOW I understand the kilt and white socks, sgt...
Yeah Dizzy, somebody raided your liquor cabinet. Also, did you know you can rent fire trucks filled with LSD if you have a valid credit card? On the plus side, I found you a new house. 'Cause after the LSD fueled orgy, this one probably won't be livable.
B-b-but those weren't my credit cards!
they were--
{g-a-s-p!}--
JIM LOY'S CREDIT CARDS!!!
(close-up, then fade to black...)
see, we NEED a monkeytalk for just this reason.
Pardon? Is there something objectionable going on? I guess I don't follow.
EVERYBODY OUT OF THE POOL!
Hell's bazoongas, at this rate we'll have 600 by tomorrow.
*That's* not a ding dong!
...*this* is a ding dong...
400 to 500 in 12 days.
500 to 600 in two days.
Does this mean 600 to 700 in 16 hours? And then 700 to 800 in 2h 40 minutes?
Man, we'll be on 18,000 by the end of the week...
Depends on what kind of curve we fit to the points - looks to me like 8 hours, then 1h20, but you have some prior data, right? Let's ask the prophet Wolof, who can command the very bazoongas of Hell to his bidding....
Actually, you're right, goetter. Bloody arithmetic. I can't even do 48 divided by 6. Should have used a calculator, really.
It's getting so you can't swing a dead cat in here.
No way - we're not leaving until we see the SpaceKitty bits.
And I'm not talking about the comedy bits either!
okay that'd be pretty cool too
What flavor were those bits, again?
as long as mefi's down, more and more will come here--it really is addicting (and this place is truly fantabulous)
Holy hell, I should have stopped by ages ago! My invitation must have gotten lost in the mail.....
citrus flavored, thanks for asking!
Hey Diz, MeFi's back up, turn it on!
"Look at the limes, how they float. That's good news. Next time i'm on a boat and it capsizes I'll reach for a lime. I'm saved by the buoyancy of citrus!"
Mitch Hedberg
When this place hits 1000, all hell will break loose.
::sets up lounge chair, pours beverage::
*distracts wendell's attention, slips Extract of Foon into his beverage*
hmmm...
tastes like PepsiBlue...
ooooh...
look at all the purty colors...
Dude . . . he's totally fooning - check it out
*snkk*
OKAY!
I give up!
I will ask the "I AM STUPID" Question.
Please explain:
Pancakes
Pepsi Blue
Foon
Jim Loy
And anything else I should know by now but don't.
And you give me a straight answer or link or so help me, I'll give you such a zetz...
(oh and the date went very well, thanks for asking.)
Pepsi Blue is a reference to ProductFilter (matt's very guilty of this--Spirit Foam, Pepsi Blue, Apple stuff, etc...)
Foon is ..... i have no idea.
ditto for Jim Loy.
Pancakes i don't know how to explain, except that they're a nonsequitor that's used to denigrate a post by changing the subject.
Jim Loy, the real McCoy
*hastily removes red wig, hides it under sofa cushions*
At least you didn't ask about the poptarts, forks...
Hey, that Jim Loy thread has a comment about our 300th member. 300 in our first month, 300 in our next three - that fucks up all my calculations upthread.
--Pancakes - flat, i.e. no purpose threads, orignated on Mefi.
--Pepsi Blue - "Hey check out the new and improved frosted cinnamon poptarts (other random brand inserted as necessary)!" Basically viral marketing.
--Foon - first usage by quonsar on MeTa, migrated to MoFi via wendell.
--The first rule of Jim Loy is that we don't discuss Jim Loy. The second rule...
--Poptarts. mmmmm...poptarts.
dng: yes, if you watched the membership numbers in that period (circa Dec to Jan), they only crept up slowly after the initial november dash. I guess there needed another instigation -mefi being down- and lots of mentions of the monkey once mefi was back up.
Thenk yew vewy mudj.
MeFi: political news posts and bitching about grammar/spelling
MoFi: monkey poo
Choices choices.
I was just thinking that. And wondering which thread it would be appropriate to post it in. Good find.
And, in case any one is wondering (as there are no years on comments), these last two comments are 2005. I believe the previous are all 2004 (I know mine was).
*head spins*
eso es ridiculo.
As usual :)
2997...
!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, there we go.
Well, I'll be damned. My tea tastes better! Thank you member 3000!
I missed it. And I was thinking of trying for it : ( There goes my sockpuppet with a cool user number. Oh well, I guess that just means more time for other things, like life...
Not to be a party pooper, but we've been over 3,000 for a while now. If you add 65 or so to the number on the front page, you'll have the true number of MoFi accounts created, including deletions/pre-Daisy_May banninations.
Thanks, the_bone, for ruining my tea.
Tracgdor! Banninating the countryside! Banninating the villagers! Banninating the villages and their Daisy_May cottages!
we've been over 3,000 for a while now
It is true - I know this, because I myself am the proud holder of user ID 3000.
HA HA! Victory is mine.
fuck me hard.
Green Cock is this Chinese year --
sometimes a cock on fence will crow,
and sometimes atop a weathervane
he shows which way the winds will blow.
Chinese cock predicts fowl weather!
To hear good news about the sun
Ask a bird of a different feather -
Preferably, a Christian one!
Wait - christian cock says even worse!
Clutching his scriptures with one leg,
He merely clucks out endless verse
"egg begat chicken, chicken begat egg ..."
user 3000 doesn't have the guts to delete their account.
I coulda been a contendah Chahlie, lets face it . . . not my night?!
So Hieronymus... what was Bruegel really like?
He was alright, you know... always a good laugh. Never seemed to take things too seriously - yet then he goes and locks himself away in his studio and does all these heavy paintings about guilt and persecution and shit. And peasants, obviously. Loved his peasants, did old Piet. Still, it was a strange time for all of us - all that unpleasantness, back and forth between Catholics and Protestants and what have you. Never understood what all the fuss was about, myself... I can tell you, though, the Roman Church was where the money was at!
Pieter was a dab hand at that, too; he'd follow his favourite Bishop around all over the place, and you know, they all seemed to really dig his stuff. Always thought was a bit odd, myself, but I suppose they saw what they wanted to see. But, no, no, the Romans, the Spaniards... they were always really good to me, even when they were slaughtering hundreds of thousands of my countrymen! Great architecture, too. Heh. Happy days.
Damn my forgetfulness of the mofi numberousness!
But then, if anyone else is to get #3000, a respected 16th century artist (especially one who worked with my fav Pieter - I love his peasants too) is deserving.
Heh! ))) for Quidninc!!!
Ppps.
Quidnunc + ink = Quidninc?
QuidCo. TM
Fall into my QuidDitch.
Quid Pro Quo?
I'm sure lots of people have dup accounts though ... so we'll never know ...
oooooEEEEOoooooooh
Squid Pro Bono?
Are you telling me quidnunc and squidranch are the same person? And they're both sock puppets for Bono?!?
Just askin'.
What will happen when Bono gets leadership of the World Bank? I can just see [s]quid using save-the-Ethiopians funds to subsidise his underwear allowance.
He's the quidnunc kid, and you're not. Goodnight and have a pleasant tomorrow.
Oh, you can talk! You're currently two-thirds of Monkeyfilter!
most of us resent that.
*signs up as pete_best_resents*
But can that explain why we're half crazy?
Darn. I'm user 3000 (at least according to the counter when I signed up) and now I just found out I'm actually user 3066.
This is soooo wrong.
/needs stiff drink and bananas
Yeah, but you'll always be petebest_3000 to me, sweety.
ps - )
Hey, there are year dates on the comments! Thanks tracicle and michaelh!
I'm dng and so is my wife.
Thats not your wife - its just a whelk glued to a stick, with an old blanket tied to it.
AND TILL DEATH DO US PART YOU GODDAM IDENTITY FRAUDERER!
*hugs whelk*
gets a green cardsees MeFi open she'll be soooo out of here for that phat MeFi-buying-power dollar. Sure, she can remind everybody over there that she remains a proud monkey, William Shatner was a monkey, etc., but she will ultimately SELL OUT to the MAN. Meanwhile and until then, the rest of us will only wish we could sell out. But we will content ourselves with sour monkey grapes. /am I snarkin' yet? gotta practice for MeFithe USAMetafilter through me!Monkey Lips!
Pass the green olives and pickled plantain, please.