February 18, 2004

• oooh! this is my first post, so thanks for the opportunity. I have been reading metafilter for about a year. I found monkeyfilter thru the blogging tribe on tribe.net & was encouraged to check out (& join) monkeyfilter. metafilter has not been taking new members in a while, so I have never been able to join...besides, that banana-less, flinging-prone environment has me nervous ;)
• Me too! Long time mefi lurker...but....this allows new users! and has bananas!
• REPOST. Seriously, I like MonkeyFilter because is has 99% less bitching and whining than that "Meta" place. And 50% more COCKPUNCH.
• Ditto. Been a lurker for over a year at MeFi. They never opened up the new user thang. But here at "The Monkey" I was actually able put up my very first post today!
• Werd to your mother-monkey, MonkeyMotionLotion. I still check out the MetaFilter links, but rarely view the comments anymore. Too many nitpicky, shrill pedants eager to show how smart they are, and not nearly enough cockpunch.
• hey, some of us here are those nitpicky, shrill pedants! : P
• I meant those _other_ nitpicky, shrill pedants.
• Regarding cockpunch, should you need even more...
• Ew.
• Hi, new monkeys, and welcome. Dizzy, maybe they would prefer poptarts?
• I was drunk, wandering around without my pants for some reason and lo and behold! I'm a new monkey.
• MonkeyMotionLotion : that's 500% more Cockpunch!
• Right, whose Cockpunch page is it? I know one of you monkeys is behind it.
• Longtime MeFi lurker, and glad to be able to join and post here. I want quonsar around these parts, though.
• i'll email him for ya, Roach (or you can too, from blort.meepzorp.com)...Paging Quonsar!
• Pop-Tarts, as all good primates know, take time to cure in climate-controlled caves where they are seasoned and aged to the exact wishes of the Old Tart-Meister. A mysterious, some would say mind-expanding experience, their little bodies are then raveled up in space-age foil sleeves by foreign artisans, who take exquisite care in tucking them in for the short ride to your local grocer. "Pop-Tarts; more than a snack and just shy of religion."
• You then remove the little bodies from the pouches and toast them, unable to hear the poor pastries pleading for mercy. Pop-Tarts: Great if you slather them in butter first. Hurrah for the new users. Look out for Jim Loy, he's a mean one.
• We're just about two steps away from making it a cliche about how Monkeyfilter is so much nicer and friendlier than Metafilter. Howzabout: Monkeyfilter: We're a buncha goddamn lavender pansies. or maybe, Monkeyfilter: Your tags are showing...
• Hey, some of us really are goddamn lavender pansies! ; >
• Hey, Medusa! (christopher, from tribe)
• I saw amberglow's post mentioning MonkeyFilter while lurking in MeTa. Actually, I thought this was where you signed up to call Postroad a bonehead. Maybe I should have read the FAQ first.
• Tsk tsk damnitkage, what am I gonna do with you and flashboy? GranMa Monkey sez get yer red baboon butt back in the house, and PUT YER PANTS ON. Oh, and bananas for everyone! You MeFi people--have you heard about our Happy Monkey Rule? Ya gotta play nice. ooooh, invite quonsar? *swoon*
• Yeap, same as the others. Meta was down. I discovered this. And you love me enough to give me an account. Ben
• Er, quoi? Say *where* you found us, please. Super Admin 1 and I are both dying to know where all these new users are coming from. And you don't want to on the wrong side of Super Admin 1.
• Er, you don't want to *be* on the wrong side of her, either.
• #EEEEFF is the new #006699. Monkeyfilter: EEEEFF!
• I came here just before Mefi went down. I also came here because after finding said Mefi, I was only able to lurk. And while I heartily approve of the shrill and pedantic, I must point out that I'm not in Kenya and I never had an abortion paid for by George W. Bush. Okay, how was that? Can I have my $50?
• I was trying to decide between Annas Pets or Triple Shrinkathon when I got an IM from a friend suggesting I might find the answers here.
• I am a member at both Mefi and Mofi. I found out about Mofi b/c Mefi was down last week. I wonder if the flood of new users will cause problems here as it did at Mefi. I don't know if I will like Mofi better than Mefi, we'll have to wait and see.
• devoted mefi lurker for way too long... MONKEYFILTER I LOVE YOU!
• Isn't that tweet? Welcome, Beandip.
• I just love you guys here at Slashdot, and thought I'd join.
• Triple shrinkathon was from an dependence I shared with Sylvester, the fucking telethon is mine. Any pint-sized Ironside want a greasy piece of me ?
• Quonsar? Is he out? I'd heard he and his hardass crew had been beaten down by the man. He wack yo. Word.
• I'm new too. I've been lurking around both here and Mefi for a while, and decided it might be time to sign up (at least on the site that allows me to) I hate being like everyone else. Sorry I don't have a grand story. I guess I could make one up, but I just woke up and the wit is just not flowing. Maybe next time sorry.
• Also a longtime MeFi lurker. Jonesin' during the blackout last week and found a google reference to Monkeyfilter. The first post I read contained a comment about flinging poo. I knew I had found my new home. Bananas all round and a big OOK to the folks who had the intestinal fortitude to set this up. (Can we invite stavrosthewonderchicken too? He's the perfect evil opposite to quonsar's evil-er opposite. Or something.)
• >>Yeap, same as the others. Meta was down. I discovered this. And you love me enough to give me an account. Ditto! And mofi was mentioned on a FPP of mefi the day it came back up; that's where I first heard about it.
• I'm just here for the 'nanas.
• They come for the 'nanas. They *stay* for the cockpunch.
• MonkeyFilter: Check your pants at the door. Welcome everyone. Have a nice warm glass of cockpunch on me.
• I feel terribly redundant. Long time lurker at MeFi, and I saw the link here while it was down. And I celebrated! I can join, I can Join! And I did. Although I hate me some bananas, I think I'll like MoFi.
• Saw the link on MeFi and decided to come here to check it out. Sometimes it gets too nasty for even Vader over there. But - I can have both, can't I?
• i found out about mofi when it was mentioned on mefi back in november. i've been lurking/reading since then, but didn't post until the mefi outage last week. like missbelledonna i hate me some bananas, but i do rather enjoy Wolof's shadberries.
• I think I saw something on MeFi. I came here and enjoyed it. I went to Metaphilter, investigated and saw that MoFi was the cream of the crop of those using Metaphilter. So I came back and joined.
• The Butcher welcomes [mp3] new monkeys to the 'Filter.
• I was googling to see what black hole MeFi had fallen into and I found a link here. I ought to confess that I am signed up over there, although I mostly lurk. I'm not shrill but I dabble in pedantry, and I can nit-pick with the best of 'em!
• I came here after waiting months for metafilter to open up. It never did. So, to paraphrase Groucho Marx: "I don't care to belong to any club that will NOT have me as a member." Thanks, monkeyfilter.
• yet another monkey kept out of metafilter. sadly, it's my own fault. i hit the "new user" button one day, and then decided to wait until later to fill out the form. the next day the membership closed. still kicking myself... ps: i have it on good authority that bananas have quite a decent dose of radioactive potassium... they used it as an example in a safety training class i did once, to keep us from being afraid of the radiation risk. i wasn't afraid of the radiation before, but now i am a bit wary of bananas...
• we need a 'best new user name' award... (mr. c l frogs wins)
• Another MeFite here. I've known about Monkeyfilter since it was first announced, and popped in to read on occasion, but it was the Big MeFi Blackout that spurred me to register an account. Only to find that my username was taken. *shakes fist* I'm over it, really. And I find the simian-centric discussion here to be refreshingly silly. Now I just need a sheet of blue cellophane to stretch over the screen when I visit. Or, you know, a new stylesheet...
• Whelp, there's three alternatives if you're cool and hip enough to use Mozilla. One of them's even kinda blue.
• BBF: Right, I'm actually using the "Yellow" theme now, but all four options make me go cross-eyed to varying degrees. But then, I spend much of my time writing code in a terminal emulator with a black background, so I'm probably hard to please.
• Flash's motion seconded and carried. G1, 'tis a pity you couldn't get your name. Esp. since your squatter has been soooo active hereon.
• I second flashboy. "caution live frogs" makes me think of California Newts because of the road closures during mating season (which is going on now.) Welcome to all the new Monkeys! (And Wolof, I have a feeling that part of this sudden demographic explosion is like that old shampoo commercial- I told two friends, and they told two friends, and so on, and so on...oops, maybe too US-ian a reference, but oh well. You get the idea.) *keeps using tags, hoping they will work again someday* on preview, goetter beat me to the second. drat!
• sweet! i'm popular! and after only my second post! thanks for all the new user name love. (there's a story behind the name, in my user profile if you care to peek.)
• Hey. I found this site through MetaFilter, where I've been a long time lurker/sporadic poster. Mostly hang out at k5, though.
• termite, I thought I recognized your nick. Well, it's been some time since k5 started corroding.
• Frogs - that is a beautiful name, and a great story.
• See above mentions of Metafilter and their elitist new user policies. And besides, Monkey is much cooler then Meta. Meta-Monkeys on the other hand...
• Hi Everyone! I was looking for a website to order some filters for my monkeys. I didn't find it, but you guys seemed so cool. (And I've been a lurker at Mefi for about a year too.)
• Hey TT, I've been looking for some monkeys for my filter. It's like a match made in heaven, honestly.
• Geez! Another MeFi/MoFi lurker here. Forget about those Meta-People. Any place that makes with the monkey noises and flings poo, while still revering the Sacred Pop-Tart, is an OK place to hang out. I'm honored to be with such august company.
• february company really, but who's counting?
• Count me as another MeFi lurker. You guys are nice here.
• First Time Poster! I got fed up of banging on the big blue MeFi doors and decided it was time to embrace the banana. You'll be glad to know i have a lot of great jokes about vibrating overlords.
• 590... 591... 597... ooh, it's so exciting! (not actually exciting enough to stop me going to the pub now, but still pretty exciting)
• Forget about those Meta-People well that's kind of unfriendly :-( it's not our fault matt won't open new sign ups, sheesh.
• 601!!!
• You're a Meta-Monkey now, t-r-a-c-y. One foot in each world: known to both, yet accepted by neither; torn! by her conflicting loyalties to her distant, legendary homeland and the kind New Zealand farm couple that took her in as a 404-ed foundling; with her own unique super-powers that mysteriously DO NOT WORK within 300km of a coffee shop or taco truck. Oh, the X-angst! Oh, the crossovers! //Soon to be a Vertigo mini-series. Writer: Chris Claremont Pencils: Jill Thompson Ink: Jeff Dee//
• Half-breed, that's all I ever heard Half-breed, how I learned to hate the word Half-breed, she's no good they warned Both sides were against me since the day I was born /Cher
• Stunning Stan Lee Presents: T R A C Y : If a Monkey I Be! Writer: Rascally Roy Thomas Pencils and Inks: Hustlin' Herb Trimpe
• While listening to the howler monkeys, I thought I heard them scream "monkeyfilter!". I also saw monkeyfilter mentioned on metatalk (me being another longtime locked-out mefi lurker). So here's my first post...
• Another long-time MeFi lurker here, but MoFi allows new monkeys into the jungle, AND provides bananas! Speaking of which, what
• I will *never* get Half-Breed out of my head now. Thanks a lot guys. This sounds like a job for "We like tha moon!"