December 17, 2003

• I've been having the same thoughts myself, but I hesitated to ask Tracicle for such a banana-laden pony. I like Gyan's solution though- it wouldn't make any extra work for our Fearless Leaser. I second the motion!
• Leader, Leader!
• All those in favor? "Oooo-oo-ah!"
• One though - do we have enough members to do it though? You need a broad knowledge base between users for it to really help. And I certainly no very little of use, really.
• Er... all those spelling mistakes were obviously intentional, self deprecating humour. Obviously...
• All we need to do is increase our question-answering skills by about 57.24% and we'll have all we need. oop! ack!
• uh . . each.
• I've thought the same thing myself. What's more natural to monkeys then asking other monkeys pick bugs out of their hair? (eating the bugs is optional)
• "to" pick bugs, that is... damn. it's contagious.
• dng - do we have enough members to do it though? Yes. I see a lot of MeFis participating in AskMeFi who don't normally comment on FPPs. We have 300 members, I'm sure this feature would encourage about 20-30 lurking members to contribute. And that's a start.
• but i thought our pals jesse "true suction" babson and jim loy have the answers to everything already
• There is nothing to lose by implementing an "Ask MonkeyFilter" section. I'd like to think i could help someone out if they needed information!
• I am addicted to AskMeFi and would love to import the feature, but given the massive number of posts it generates on MeFi, I would argue for a subsection. That said, I wouldn't want to ask much more of the great moderator in the sky...
• SideDish, haven't you read TimeCube yet? There are FOUR distinct realities (created by a lovely if presumedly hyperventillating netizen). Ape Advice could be just for the other three realities. Over time it would just be the Other Three Realities link on jimloy.com, but we'd have fun meanwhile.
• Aye sure, I'd like to think so, too, naxosaxur...Oopahaha! I mean, that monkeys just want to be helpful.
• I've been thinking about this off and on and I don't see any reason why we can't do it exactly as Gyan suggested: head your post with Asking Mofi and under the Internal category. (Side note; I've been meaning to add categories but haven't.) As long as it doesn't overpower the site, I'm good. I'll be home tomorrow - currently posting from my parents' evil Windows machine with a weird delay on the quotation marks. I blame useless wireless keyboard. I hope everything has been okay in my absence. :)
• I'll be home tomorrow - currently posting from my parents' evil Windows machine with a weird delay on the quotation marks. I blame useless wireless keyboard. I hope everything has been okay in my absence. I didn't realize we'd be abandoned! This is like sitting in the backseat of the stationwagon (we had the Dodge, where there was a seat that faced the back), turning around and realizing there was no parent in the front driving...
• that's "been abandoned"... *sigh*
• Its a good thing we never realised you'd gone tracicle, otherwise we would of wrecked the place, probably. Invited cock back in and everything.
• Ambrosia - our Fearless Leader is a title already overused. We should think of another title for, er, our Fearless Leader.
• King Louie?
• Benevolent Poindexter? Ooh! Ooh! Grape Ape!
• How about Feared Leader? At least she makes the trains run on time.
• I am completely against this. I can't believe you people want to do this. Geez.* *It's been entirely too agreeable in here. Sometimes it makes me feel all shakey and squinky.
• I think we need a Three Minute Hate. Suggested topic to start on: Berating me for forgetting the actual length of the original Hate.
• "Mom"? ('cause she takes care of us.) "La Patrona"? (In case she needs to scack us down occasionally.) "Alpha Monkey"? (The leader of the pack. Cue to music.)
• That's "smack." Though "scack" might have it uses.
• Damn you Blaise! It's TWO minutes!! TWO!!!!! (Wow thanks! I feel better.)
• Blaise, Jim Loy just called and asked for your address. I gave it to him. That wasn't wrong, was it?
• So Blaise is gonna get the pop-tarts. That's not fair.
• I like the "word" scack. I plan to incorporate it into my vocabulary forthwith.
• Let us know what your definition for "scack" is. It would cause us confusion if we really differ.
• I like the idea of AskMoFi. I like the word 'scack'. I like the idea of calling the fearless leader 'Prime Gibbon'. Perhaps we could do a quick straw poll of what specialities various mofiers can offer? Is there, for example, a doctor in the house? Can anybody offer us insights into the murky world of the music business? Do we have a sinologist amongst us? I can offer minor insider knowledge of the British TV industry and a reasonable if rusty familiarity with primatology (as you can no doubt tell from my misclassification of gibbons as monkeys above...), so it's probably safe to scack me off the list of useful contributors.
• Our Monkey Lord/Lady?
• Doctor Zaius?
• Er... The Organ Grinder? (no, sounds wrong, sounds sooooo wrong...)
• We could call the new feature "Curious, George?" Heh.
• And Tracicle's title should either be "You God-Damned Dirty Ape", the "Charlton", or "Yellow Hat". gotta go-- phone's ringing.
• Dizzy, take a lap for the Curious George comment. /me votes for it
• "Curious, George?" and (really) the "Organ Grinder" are pretty cool. But, La Patrona would have to agee to the latter.
• Tracy offered me 50 cents the other day for the user name "Dr Zaius". I successfully counterbid 25c. Ask her if you want, it's all true.
• Love "Curious, George?" and love this thread. You some funny monkeys!
• It's *got* to be "Curious, George?", moderated by Doctor Zaius. ::hopes::
• I posted a comment on this here. Just so you don't have to click over, here it is: Two comments about the "Ask MoFi" thing: First, anyone who hasn't read [this post] is going to be really confused by [the Curious, George posts]. I was, until I found where it was mentioned. Second, I was thinking that maybe to avoid interuppting the flow of the regularly scheduled posts, maybe we should put Curious George as the entire post and the actual question in the extended description so someone has to open up the post to read it.
• Kimberly, that can work, as long as the title of the post that appears in the right side of the screen is descriptive -- 10 "Curious, Georges" would be too confusing.
• Good point, certainsome1 - maybe if Dizzy put "Curious, George: Life Insurance" as the post title? That tells us all it's a AskMoFi question, and keeps the different questions straight.
• That's a great idea Mickey. I think that would work!
• You all have great ideas. I don't have to do a damn thing, it's so great. It's like Christmas. Wait, it is Christmas! Aw, you guys... (And I have to decline the Charlton above all others for purely political reasons. You know, calling me by name is good, too, and aids in prevention of God Complexes.)
• Mathowie wants a digital camera, and Tracicle's happy with a new feature. I say we all save up and buy her, say, a cup of coffee as well. What do you say, guys?
• So you ever get that cup of coffee there, Monkeybashi? Ah, the origin of the crious george posts. How wonderful.
• Well, I've had multiple people send me chocolate, so that's even better. And most of the time I'm too busy listening to my MoFiPod or watching my MoFiHDD recorder to want coffee. :)
• I'd been wondering when the CG concept came about too.
• So for the past two threads, that's bad deed 1, good deed 1. I'm feeling in equilibrium.