January 28, 2005

• Why not use this as a thread to test that out? I can't exactly understand what you mean, so just post it in this thread and then we can all discuss.
• It had better involve video games. Or porn. Or porn video games. On outdated systems. Involving pirates. But no Jews. Swarthy people are okay, though.
• I would bet that someone is hosting a web site with a discussion board component...might be a good place for this kind of post.... Posting here might be a good idea, but i would think that the powers that be should appove the concept before we clutter things up!
• True, our whole MoFi existence tends to center around other peoples' links, except for those folks who get to do meetups. I kind of like the Ask MeFi concept ("Ask MetaFilter is a discussion area for sharing knowledge among members of MetaFilter"). (The color is cool, too) On the other hand, Curious George is working for this and people are pretty tolerant of the content, so maybe two systems doesn't make sense.
• If there's no link, then I'm guessing it's a text message of some kind? A story or a joke, perhaps? In that case, just tack it on the end of the Daisy May thread.
• Didn't mean to be so cryptic on the post. I thought we might take the opportunity to discuss what we think are or are not appropriate Curious, George questions on here. But, as to the event about which I speak... I was in court yesterday here in District Court in North Carolina where they try misdemeanors. A man was being tried for Assault On a Female. He was unrepresented. The victim's testimony was, as follows: She, her husband, and another couple went out for New Year's Eve. They returned to the other couple's house and continued partying. They were all around fifty years old. She bent over to pet the dog. While doing so, the man who was not her husband got on his knees behind her and "put his hands on my buttocks and spread her cheeks." He then pressed his face against her ass and shook his head back and forth while in the confines of her buttocks. He then testified and told essentially the same story, except he said that his face "was in the vicinity" of her ass and not touching it. He demonstrated the action from the witness stand by placing his hands above him in the air, parting them slightly, and then very loudly making a "b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-" sound while shaking his head. He then proclaimed "Happy New Year!" upon completing this simulation. He did this three different times from the witness stand. The judge gave him 18 days in jail.
• Isn't that called a "Nixon"? (I think Diceman invented that)
• Tracy briefly toyed with the idea of setting up a separate site for CG posts, but general consensus, IIRC, was that we like 'em fine on the front page. I have no link. And the majority of monkeys seemed to be opposed to a MonkeyTalk site. Seriously, if you would post your example here, it would provide us with some good context for discussion. On preview, rocket's right if it's chatty, jokey stuff apropos of nothing. The Daisy_May thread, or this or this or any thread that has indisputably gone over to the dark side are excellent places to put that kind of stuff.
• It is a story, obviously. It did not strike me as appropriate for a Curious, George post, so I did not frame it as such. However, it did lead me to wonder if there was a place for the story here, and also to wonder what the current parameters of Curious, George are. I know that I probably do not want to hear everyone else's amusing tidbits, and I am sure that people do not want to hear mine. Delete this post if you want to, but remember: If you delete this post it will come back more powerful than you can ever imagine.
• Gak. Should have previewed again. Yeah, put stuff like that one of the playpen threads. We'll see it, I guarantee.
• I'm shocked and frightened. EIGHTEEN DAYS for a Nixon? Even Nixon never did that kind of time.
• Also, I think a PERMA post called 'PLAYPEN' would give us an excellent place to put this... Also, I wanna steal the "EXCELSIOR" thing they have going over at ILX. Trac, you listening?
• This can be alleviated by restricting Curious, George to questions about knowledge, seeing that they were modelled after AskMe. Let's have a new heading for stories and non-question non-link open-ended discussions: Monkey Musings.
• Sorry they gave you 18 days, bernockle - what a bummer. At least you've got internet access while you're locked up.
• One Monkey Musings thread would be sufficient, maybe with a permanent link on the sidebar.
• that would have fit perfectly in daisy_may, I believe. now I can't get the image of Nixon giving someone's ass a bronx cheer out of my head.
• I hereby donate space in any and/or all of my previous FPP's for anyone's posting pleasure. Whether it be personal stories of lewd courtroom behavior, daffy retellings of botched animal husbandry, or sordid tales of fungal woe, post at will. I only have like 4 FPP's and none of them are particularly grand, so be my guest.
• Actually, I like forks' PLAYPEN idea.
• Wait - that's a *crime*??
• Ah, someone stumbles onto that issue. Nice work, fes. That's why I found it compelling. It is very funny because of the outlandish nature of the actions. But shouldn't a criminal assault involve some physical harm or at least the threat of physical harm? Apparently not for this judge. And then to give 18 days is unbelievable. Has this judge ever been to a college party?
• bernockle, do you think the fellow might have done better had he appeared with legal representation? or would the judge still not have understood the context of the situation?
• But she bent over to pet the dog. She was asking for it!
• It is a classic example of someone who should have hired an attorney. No attorney would have allowed the guy to appear in front of that judge. By continuing the case, it allows for the likelihood that a different judge would be on the bench. She was definitely the only judge that would have put him in jail for that. I would not have tried the case. If my guy told me he was going to testify that he grabbed her ass, then I would have arranged to plead to the charge in front of a different judge. Though my opinion might be that the action was not criminal, I am certain any of our judges would have convicted him. Not trying the case would have also prevented him from looking like the pompous ass he did on the stand when he loudly re-enacted the Nixon three times. It is a wildly self-serving statement to make, but people should never appear in court without an attorney.
• Where is the best place to post something that I think my fellow Monkeys will find interesting and humorous when there is no link to go along with it? I thought the socks thread was currently the place for that. Maybe someone should start another turkmanibashi thread for these purposes. the man who was not her husband ... "put his hands on my buttocks and spread her cheeks." Screw the attorneys, take this to Thunderdome! also, shouldn't it be: "the man who was not her husband got on his knees behind her and "put his hands on my buttocks and spread my cheeks."
• So this guy buys a new custom motorcycle, but he's maxed out his budget getting it made. He can't afford any extras, like rustproofing. The dealer assures him it's no problem, but will require some care on his part. "Carry Vaseline with you. When you see it's starting to rain," he says, smear it on any unpainted metal and you'll be fine." So the guy rides his new bike over to meet his girlfriend at her parents' house for dinner. On the way in she stops him. "We have a rule," she says. "No matter what happens, the first one to speak at the dinner table has to wash the dishes." So they all sit in silence during the meal. Wanting to mess with him and try to get him to say something, the girlfriend pulls out his penis and starts playing with it. But our hero will not be outsmarted. Without a word, he throws the girlfriend down on the table and starts having sex with her right there. Not wanting to do the dishes, the parents watch in silence. Now our hero's on a roll. He finishes off the daughter and goes for the mother, bending her over her plate and going straight to work. Midway through, he looks up, past the father and out the window behind him, where he sees it's starting to rain. He pulls out, removes a small jar of Vaseline from his pocket, and starts heading to the end of the table. "ALL RIGHT!" yells the father. "I'LL WASH THE FUCKING DISHES!"
• Since yall can't self link on the front page, I'd like to see a thread where you can post something like say a project you're working on or a show you're doing. Or maybe a contest you're having. Yep that's what I'd like to see Yep Maybe an "everthing else" thread ...
• I'm telling that one tonight! It rains alot here.
• How about calling it "Hilarious George"?
• I like the idea of perma-post(s) a.k.a. playpen ↑ for contests, ideas, projects, poetry and general silliness, plus it would be a riot to review as time goes on...the only caveat I would add is pages. i.e. 100 posts per page with navigation [page 1, 2, 3...] at the top/bottom to save on server and monkey load.
• The best place to post something...when there is no link to go along with it You might (1) Curious George it, or (2) find an Archived thread (perhaps this) you think appropriate to it or (3) create an FPP for the front page and for monkey discussion -- say an FPP about Rabelais, or about jokes and humour in storytelling -- and how I would love to read that one! I don't think we need a playpen for this sort of thing and am not enthusiastic about the playpen idea because it is suggested above that poetry end up in there. Should this mean no poetry could be placed anywhere but in the hypthetical playpen, then I would be adamantly opposed to the idea. Why? Because itr is quite difficult enough trying to write spontaneously on-topic without feeling trammeled by restrictions and because I write poetry in response to topics raised in particular posts or to someone else's comment there. If poetry is not to be restricted to the playpen, then I still am not clear on it, and what its purpose would be, I believe. We have many threads where no one much but homunculus and occaisionally a handful of others comment. All these marvelous toys! The archived threads are one of the really wonderful things about monkeyfilter because they're open-ended, and this has given us a character of our own. Those Archived threads just cry out to be played with. The other wonderful thing is that we are not Metafilter or Fark or whatever the rest are called. We are Something Else -- just what we're evolving into I don't think anyone really knows, but our tone is distinctly Our Own, insofar as I understand various comments of other monkeys who know about other forums. Our playfulness, our lesser (sometimes) snarkiness, are our own and we seem far less politicized, friendlier (though I don't think more maudlin, as someone recently remarked). I like the international flavour we have. And I like the mingling of Curious Georges and more discussion-directed FPPs -- our front page is always fascinating, something for every taste, I should think. I hope we don't have to split the discussion from the Curious Georges for a long time. The Curious George posts allow general questions about monkeys to be posed which monkeys may answer if they wish, which has made for a tighter community, I suspect, than may be the case elsewhere. We don't have to model ourselves on other forum type communities if we choose not to. We are free to invent/discover/stumble on something new. Quite an adventure, really. What we end up being in future intrigues me greatly.
• beeswacky - I love you. Perfect exposition.
• I'll go on record as steadfastly opposing the corralling of bees's poetry into a single thread. Not good for us or our resident poet.
• I'm with MCT--let the Poet (and the poets) find inspiration where they may. Meanwhile, Bernockle, that story would have enhanced the Daisy thread. As is, phutttt! waste of post space. /grumpy GramMa
• I have a request, as well, while we're covering site stuff: When you make a Curious, George post, could we please add a brief description to distinguish from other CG posts in the sidebar? Here lately there have been a ton of those that are impossible to tell apart when they're updated.