December 16, 2003

• Jim on women: "I had a girl friend once, in high school. Since then I had three or four dates. I haven't gone out with anyone for thirty years or so."
• For old skool innanut, this cat is hard to beat. His photo essay on safety cones is preposterous.
• Oh man, I screwed that first link. I meant to point here, of course. Apologies.
• I like this Jim. Because of him, I shall never again look at a can of Chicken of the Sea tuna without thinking "Charly".
• God Bless Jim Loy. He's the guy who waves when he drives by. The one with the extra Heftybags at Annual Spring Cleanup. The biggest booster of our District Champs. The guy who, two towns over, kills hookers while dressed in a bunny suit.
• Great site, the billiards section alone makes it worthwhile. Gotta implement some of those tips.
• Oopa! I love this guy's website.
• Good Ol' Jimmy Loy-- President, Billings Toastmasters, December '03. Section Leader, Skylarker Chorale Booster Club's "Holiday Hideaway", Octobrt '02. (Drilled airholes in trunk of Mom's Dodge Dart, summer, '01).
• Hhmmm..... And you wonder why Canadians choose to wear their flag patch when travelling abroad.
• I think Diz might be making some kind of point about sexual repression, but I'm not sure what it is. Please excuse derail upthread. (Which everyone sagely passed over in silence.) I promise to be nice for the next 10 minutes.
• Surplus Military Shovel: $6.00 Used DVD of "Silence of the Lambs": $12.00 Extra Boiler-room key taken from dad's workpants chain when he passed out after using his metal-detector at the drive-in on the hottest day in May: PRICELESS
• Joke Saddam moustache on eBay
• Pray tell, dear Wolof, what does "innanut" mean?
• I's that thing what you is on. It used to be called stuff like "aarpanet", or "onkaweb".
• PPS
• Pray to God Mr. 300 isn't reading this thread, he'll never want to post...
• Thanks, Wolof -- 'twas Geek to me until I Googled.
• I just wanted to mention that on one of the pages, this fellow says he just got a T-shirt from amazon.com. Good for him!
• Ok, I've learned my lesson. No more old skool innanut FPPs.
• jim loy was once in the new york times! The New York Times February 19, 1996, Monday, Late Edition - Final SECTION: Section B; Page 6; Column 4; Metropolitan Desk LENGTH: 329 words HEADLINE: Bridge BYLINE: By Alan Truscott BODY: There are now many programs that allow home computer owners to play bridge against their machine. Jim Loy of Bozeman, Mont., has performed a useful service by buying and testing 25 and reviewing them on the Internet. His conclusion: "The top programs bid about as well as the average club player, and play worse." i say we invite jim loy to be our pal. we should find interesting folks like that on the internet and invite them to mofi! and they should each have a title, being special monkeys and all.
• "Jim Loy: Not just any idiot." heh. this is great. wonderful link, zemat! this is the epitome of what's so cool about the internet.
• i really REALLY think we should invite jim loy and other unique folks we run across on the net to join mofi. it would be such a twist: mefi won't let US join, so we'll go out and SEEK PEOPLE to join. and of course we'll end up with a far more diverse and cool membership -- as is evident already. we could even put together an "official" invitation. any graphics artists out there?
• SideDish, I think maybe you're onto something here. (but will people like being called special monkeys...)
• Now hold on just a ding dang minuto, pardner! Jim Loy has been identified as a Team Leader at Wal-Mart and an alleged "furrie" serial killer on the weekend. You KNOW how we all feel about Wal-Mart...
• >>Jim Loy has been identified as a Team Leader at Wal-Mart and an alleged "furrie" serial killer on the weekend. all the more reason to honor him with Special Simian status! "Special Simian: An Official MoFite Invite."
• Word to the wise: they NEVER found noted Times Special Bridge Correspondant Alan Truscott's body...
• diz, methinks you've had a tad too much coffee today. hee hee.
• I'm ridin' the toast-brown pony of Pop-Tarts goodness, SD! Yeeee-Haaaw!
• Well.
• I've never eaten pop tarts. Does that make me a bad person?
• There is a special circle of hell reserved for people who put butter on toast and then ADD ANOTHER LAYER of PEANUT BUTTER, and for people who've not tried the fruity-gooey taste of good ol' Pop-Tarts. They're fortified!
• I haven't checked the score yet, but I think I'm losing.
• dng: yes.
• perhaps we can use pop tarts to lure jim loy to mofi.
• Peanut butter and butter tastes really good. Not as good as peanut butter and honey or peanut butter and bananas, or peanut butter and honey and bananas, but still quite tasty if you're in the mood for your daily intake of fat all at once. There is only one condition I can be in to truly appreciate pop-tarts, but I won't mention it here for fear that it may incriminate me.
• Side Dish-- As I'm sure you know, Jim Loy won the coveted 'Golden Toque' at the '97 Butte Bake-Off for his Pop-Tart Puree, but was forced to return the award after he was found face-down in a walk-in cooler of a Texas McDonalds with several "back massagers" ... Kim-- I wil pray for you.
• Kimberly, looks like I'll be seeing you in (Dizzy's special circle of) hell. The first (or possibly last) MonkeyFilter meet-up?
• dng- I'll bring the peanut butter, you bring the butter! woohoo!
• I was really bad at writing book reports, when I was in school. Now I write book reviews. Jim Loy definitely needs to be a monkey. I also enjoyed this story.
• OMG! I've created a monster! This is the most derailed & bizarre thread I've ever seen. Great comments Dizzy. Whatever they amount to... If a buttlerfly flaps it's wings in Tokio, a pop-tart-eating, bridge-playing monster would stomp over New York? Does the pop-tart will be covered in peanut butter and bananas?
• Mickey--- "...I pulled off the road, onto a turnoff." "...Trying hard not to 'Squeeze the Bee'". Thus Jim Loy invented HoneyPorn.
• Zemat-- What is the sound of one Jim using the Clapper?
• I like the idea of Special Simians. I also think that I should leave, and then you should invite me back, and then I'd feel special.
• It's the sound of two Loy's using The Buttoneer.
• Darn, it's been taken.. Sorry, Dizzy!
• wow---and sponsored by Budweiser too, so you KNOW their music's good! Thanks for trying, Ambrosia. I crave the sweet release of death.
• I always make my peanut butter sandwiches with butter. No jelly, no honey, just butter. *reserves room in hell*
• I think Jim Loy's GMC Sonoma has room for one more. languagehat. We're all meetin' up with the rest of the boys at the old mill, after dark. See ya'!
• Last night, I was trying to decide if I should watch television or get my Christmas cards mailed out. And it suddenly hit me like a ton of bricks. WWJLD: What Would Jim Loy Do? So I said "Bah Humbug!" and enjoyed an episode of Celebrity Poker Showdown. I still feel guilty about not getting the cards out, though.
• One time me and Jim Loy were back of the old mill tressing up some meat and hosing out the lockers before the weather got too hot and he turned to me, and said in that rich tenor of his, "Isn't that li'l Nicole Sullivan a FIRECRACKER?" And I thought "Roadtrip!!!!" Never went, though. But then we spliced together some of her words from A "ad" episode and Oh I gotta go now.
• ( runs to kitchen to fix peanut butter and butter sandwich ) Not bad!
• You get an elephant that sticks to the roof of your mouth.
• In a comment I just made on another forum, I posted a link about Newton and Leibniz. It was only after I posted that I noticed it was by the mighty Jim Loy. Jim Loy is great. I'm beginning to think Jim Loy must be God. He's certainly omniscient.
• Did we ever get in touch with this guy? He'd be like a god here...
• He wouldn't be able to post everything, though - anything he tried to post would inevitably be a self link...
• He wouldn't be able to post anything, I meant to say.
• This thread just makes me miss Dizzy. Damn you outside world! *shakes fist*
• Yes, where has Dizzy gone? Does moving take that long?
• He said 2 weeks on 9th March. Almost a month now. DIZZY!!! Surely geeky monkeys can back-trace a person [?]. but is this justifiable at this point? /not quite worried but admit to feeling fretful about his absence
• Here's a possible on Dizzy's dissapearance. I was in contact with Jim Loy via email, using other account, long ago (yes, my dark past). He's a nice person and I feel bad about making fun on him but, hell, it's more like a praising than an insult.
• Here's a possible on Dizzy's dissapearance. possible answer... preview damnit, preview!
• I consider it praising him, at least - he's a one man wikipedia.
• Took them long enough. Jeez.
• Ha!
• HA! HA!
• Hmm, I'd join in making fun of metafilter only now discovering the joys of Jim Loy, but that's what I'm doing. I love that he copyrights all of the pages, no matter how trivial.
• I like Jim Loy -- he seems an interesting and persistent fellow. Never could fathom why Dizzy took such aversion to him.