March 21, 2006

Curious, George: UNLURK! As we edge ever closer to the 5000-member mark, we, the more vocal monkeys of this filter, would like to meet those of you who are, shall we say, bashful. In other words, we want to meet all you sexy lurkers.

So introduce yourself, in whatever way you want. Say something stupid. Call me a bastard. Admit that, like me, you secretly think bananas are evil. Anything goes. Our contributers are what make this place worth visiting, and we need more. Without you, it's just me going on about why we don't have MoFi coffee mugs, which others apparently find tiresome. So put on your dancin' shoes, wax your moustache, stick pencils up your nose, and tell us something about anything. Like pie? WE'RE CURIOUS! Think Lindsay Lohan is your dream date? WE WANT TO KNOW! Want to send me cash? E-MAIL'S IN THE PROFILE! So step up, monkey mimes, and say hello. There's free coffee. Just not, you know, in mugs.

posted by middleclasstool 18 years ago
  • Oh okay. *ahem* Ah, my name's petebest42 and I like those Samoa girlscout cookies? (They'r really Twix bars, in cookie form, y'know.) Also I like the various poetry threads around here. I'm pushing for a wiki for us, so that we can have it in encyclopaedia format too. Someday. Also, coming up on MonkeyFilter, look for Mitch Hedberg Day (March 30) and TV Turnoff week (April 24-30) for free cookies and possibly some xanax. In other news, that darned Splash back game has devoured most of my free time in the last week. I'm thinking about trying the patch instead.
  • Umm-ah, tracicle says we're not allowed to thread-jack anymore, petebest. I'm telling.
  • MCT wasn't sure where you were at but anyone who hates bananas like i do just has to be OK ( History - born in what was then biggest banana growing area in Oz family moved to the current biggest banana growing area) UGH I Hate em - can't even stand the smell and if one more person tells me i should eat the disgusting things!!!!!!!! They stink!!!!!!
  • PS Chyren other thread yes there is an East coast and some of us are sentenced to live there or return there when we have escaped for three to five years.
  • Hi...mmm..uhh..(ok man...you can do this...just get it out there...just like the 12 step program)uhhmm...my name is Kernlicious..and I have a problem. I'm addicted to the MoFi, Reeses Monkeys (the choco kind) and whippets (not the dog). Hope to meet some other MoFi Monkeys in Dallas, TX.....I need some new people to fling poo at...the current ones are getting kind of tired of it. K.
  • Yes, welcome! MORE LURKERS!!1!
  • is a not reg allowed to say Hi to a newbie????
  • Lurkers are perverts Who peek through your windows And wish that You'd take off your clothes
  • *snickers* another comment-crazed monkey tries to derail a thread on which the n00bs and lurkers shall prevail /Eek-ook! will no one muzzle me?
  • Established members, please limit comments to responses to the n00bs. Or I will slap you.
  • STFU, n00bs!
  • Any lurkers here? I ain't never posted nowt, but I chirrup at the bottom of threads from time to time. Does that make me a lurker? Define a lurker. Lurker lurker lurker lurker lurker lurker. Sounds funny the more you say it.
  • slapped
  • I haven't seen a comment by a lurker yet.
  • *wave* *shuffle feet* *start singing Duran Duran song* *look around nervously for flying fruit* *look at hands to see what they are doing* *walk away briskly with stiff arms* *poke head back in* Hi, nice to meet you guys... I'll be going now... um, I've got something to... um... do. Bye.
  • MORE!1
  • Bleh! My fifth or sixth or seventh post! I'll be back in another couple weeks! You monkeys are pretty damn stylin'!
  • MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE!11!
  • Whoof! Whoof! *does Arsenio arm-circles* Hi-YAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!
  • Yay n00bz! What else ya got?
  • Hi! I sometimes post Curious Georges about my broken computer, and you guys have helped me out every time, often much more simply and directly than more tech-y forums. I don't post much, but I read mofi every day.
  • Visit Monkeyfilterland today, where only the Most Civil and (undoubtedly) Intelligent Lurk and only the fools jibberjabber away. Come! Read! Marvel at the yak-kitty denizens of this zoo but never say one single time so much as Boo
  • I'm visualizing the Lurkers as a circle of bearded sages, sitting around a table upon which the fools jibberjabber away as beeswacky said. Every now and then one of the Lurkers nudges another, points at one fool on the table and smiles. The other Lurkers smile in agreement.
  • LurkerFilter? . . . *covers self nonchalantly*
  • waits for the thread to hit 4,700 comments before she posts
  • I don't believe the 4000+ members are comprised largely of lurkers. I think there are about 500 different members named 'middleclasstool', 348 members named 'beeswacky', 2375 members named some variant of 'petebest*', 47 gomichildren, 19 medusas, an untold, top-secret number of Chyrens etc., YOU GET MY POINT. there are NO LURKERS. sorry MCT, NOW GIT BACK TO WORK YOU SLACKER! hey, we've got plenty of those here, haven't we?
  • lurker, dear lurker where are you hiding? why keep avoiding the joking and sniding? inquiring monkeys want to know when you come here why your mouth don't go
  • All you silverbacks are very impressive....but we lurkers keep just out of your impaired range of vision.
  • Okay, you're a bastard. Happy now?
  • But . . but I just wanted to see the latest posts . . *sniff*
  • I just haven't been posting lately because my life is utter chaos, between my MA thesis and my department cutting all future funding for me and about 2/3 of the other graduate students. Anyone got any entry level museum jobs opening up? (rattles cup)
  • Darn! I shoulda waited to unlurk until there was a thread for it? Can I re-lurk then unlurk at a dramatic moment?
  • Also, what's this about not hijacking threads, and posting good FPPs and stuff?
  • erm I think 1338 comments kinda puts you out of contention for lurker status sweetie....
  • Read tracicle's blog, La.
  • Uh, hi all. I like pie, I don't know who lindsay lohan is, surely am not going to send MCT money, and I'm a particle accelerator physicist. Not much time to post as I'm busy modeling chromatic beta functions, nonlinear dispersion, and my master plan to install myself as Benevolent Dictator, but I do enjoy the monkey hijinks 'round here.
  • You know what, I'm happy to have seen a few of the lurkers actually comment in this thread. I had visualized something more along the lines of setting up a great big picnic/bbq at the edge of the redwood forest with a banner that reads "All Bigfoots Welcome!!!" Come to think of it, has anyone ever tried that? I mean, everybody loves BBQ, right? Wouldn't that convince Bigfoot to drop by?
  • Welcome, you lurky bastidges.
  • Hmm, I've posted about once every two-three weeks for the past couple of years: Lurker or participant, hard to say.
  • "malthusan has posted 0 links and 4 comments on MonkeyFilter since April 19, 2005." Ah, yes. I remember that flurry of activity well. Four posts in...well, no, actually I don't remember posting four comments. I distinctly remember two. I'm not sure where the other two comments came from or what I might have said in them. Apparently I lurked behind myself and posted twice without knowing it. I am the Supreme Lurker.
  • you are a lurkapants ha-ha-hahahaha!!!
  • Lurkipant.
  • I don't think I qualify as a lurker anymore, but I'm not all that active...I'm training to be an EMT and a wilderness guide and going to college for goodness knows what. I like pie too. And I despise Lindsey Lohan and her entire screwed up family.
  • i unlurked a little while ago... but in case anybody missed me, here i am again... any questions?
  • I'm not much of a lurker or commenter, but somewhere in between. Considering how long I've been here, I probably should have a lot more posts & comments. Hearing from the lurkers is a big thrill for me, and it's encouraging me to post my very best, knowing more quiet little monkeys are out there. particle accelerator physicist? seriously?
  • MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRE!!!11!PI!
  • Yes, lurkers! Come out, come out! We have Dobermans pie!
  • With 14 comments, probably don't count as a lurker. I love this site though: I steal the links all the time. Nothing interesting to say though. Programmer, London, blog.
  • Welcome essband! Please point that thing away from the screen when posting! OK! All one! Welcome (again) malthusan! You'll likely find at least half of your posts disappear into the fog of time - some before you're finished with them. Welcome monknoiz. Uh *mic handling noise* Um, monknoiz, your campaign seems to have the momentum of a runaway locomotive - how do you explain your popularity?
  • So, um, I've been a member for a while but haven't posted a damn thing - I don't know if I am a really bad regular or a really good lurker. I'll try to be interesting and amusing in the future.
  • Ok, I'll stop lurking and say Hi. "Hi"
  • Well, it says I've made 11 comments, but I can only remember the recent Blooker one, so I still consider myself a lurker. Was going to reply to this sooner, but I had to watch a squirrel hopping through the parking lot first. As for me, I'm easily distracted, have the cancer, came up with my username from my old motocross sandbagging name "Astro Moondoggie," my left foot is innately jealous of my right foot and I now have a grand total of three wisdom teeth, which I suppose makes me only 3/4 as smart as I was this time last week.
  • Hi, J80149678368. Did I ever ask you the reason for your username?
  • Hi J801496!
  • Hi Moondoggie! I like watching squirrels too!
  • Welcome Moondoggie. Good move on watching the squirrel first - usually some of us *cough*Koko*cough* don't wait, and then the posting gets all hoppity. Better to be focused before Ooo oh and that one time, when the cat fell out of that tree? heee! Oh, but it was funny because the cat was okay. Who wants gingersnaps?? On preview - Kokoooo! Why i oughta
  • Ahhh....Gingersnaps...... Oh, ya my username came from my first real job. I no longer have the job, but I kept the username. Now where's my gingersnapps!
  • No gingersnaps for me, thanks - the wisdom tooth thing. Pete and Koko, you need what I have at home - a swirly squirrel feeder. You pound it into a tree and attach four corncobs onto four arms that spin when weight is applied. Wait - that sounds entirely wrong. Think of a ferris wheel with a perpendicular rod through the middle affixing it to a tree and corncobs instead of little carriages and... umm... squirrels instead of carnies. Anyway, it's hours of entertainment.
  • ooo Like this? That *does* look like fun!
  • Justify your lurkership however you want. Really!
  • Lurkers rock! How many petebests, pete_bests, and PeteBests have we got lurking these days? *Bakes big batch of lurkadoodle cookies*
  • That's sort of it, Pete. Mine has screws on hooks (Samuel L. Jackson's next movie) for the corn, so it's a lot wigglier and harder to hold on to. At least, that's what she said.
  • Nickdanger, your bigfoot idea sounds like a plan that can't fail. Worst case scenario is that you have a BBQ.
  • Ah, here it is - the Squirrel-Go-Round. The only drawback to this feeder is, if you get a chunky squirrel on there, the cobpole can slide out. While the ensuing drop adds to the entertainment value, this allows the squirrel to run off into the bushes with both the cob and the cobpole.
  • Here be it declared By order of the Tracicle all ye who lurk shall be forced to make a comment in thine Monkey Filter Or else we shall send the Petebests after ye (Cause of death: Mauled by a pack of Petesbesteses)
  • I'll take a slice of that Doberman Pie, please. A la mode, if it's not too much trouble.
  • all you sexy lurkers What about the rest of us?! Bastard. Ahem. I like pi, e, sqrt(2) and other irrational things, you guys included. I promise to contribute more once I finish my thesis (=not very soon).
  • YOU ARE ALL TEH SEXHAY. ESPECIALLY THE IRRATIONAL ONES, OVER.
  • With one post and 5 comments, I would consider myself as a "mostly lurker". I'm a French-speaking person because of my place of birth, particle physicist by training, computer geek by interest, university administrator by accident, and "special friend" of Fish Tick by the most incredible strike of luck :-) I'm afraid I prefer Pythons over Monkeys, but I do own a MoFi shirt ;-)
  • Hi. I'm MonkeyToes, and I like Capt. Renault's middleclasstool. I also enjoy the quidnunc, kid, and I'm just beeswacky for forksclovetofu. Sadly, I don't like pie.
  • No, sorry. Still no lurkers commenting in this thread. As soon as a lurker posts, s/he ceases to be a lurker - one of them - and becomes.... One of Us.
  • A lurker with a mofi shirt?! 0_o
  • There's been a report on Tracy's blog that some longtimer lurkers are encountering a "you can't post" message when they try to comment. you probably won't read this - but... a bunch of us are *trying* to unlurk in the unlurk thread, but we can't because it says "you can't post" or some such nonsense. and it's making us sad. so... how do you post on mofi? do i need to give you five dollars? ...i'll give you five dollars... signed, baby_balrog
  • I checked my profile and it says I've posted 27 comments. I was expecting it to say maybe 4 at most. Still, if I can't remember them, that makes me a lurker. Like pie? No, I'm more like a rum-soaked fruitcake. MoFi coffee mugs! Excellent!
  • A lurker with a mofi shirt?! 0_o One post and five comments de-lurkifies. Besides, I've washed that shirt. Nevermind why.
  • Hang on, lurkers who can't unlurk. Our venerable Monkeybashi will assist you shortly.
  • You ain't seen me
  • 168 comments?!? Oh. My. ::cough:: And here was me thinking I was lurker material. Oh well, carry-on.
  • Lurker here. Hi.
  • 69 comments. So not quite a lurker. I'm just spending most of my time around the punchbowl. For the record, middleclasstool - I will send you Lindsey Lohan, pie is my dream date, and I like cash.
  • I believe there is a 24-hour "cooling off" period after signing up, after which you should be able to post. If that doesn't cover everyone who can't post, post it here.
  • You know what this is turning into? A lurker BBQ! Hooray!
  • How do you like your lurker cooked?
  • I've posted twenty four comments so I suppose I'm excluded from the lurker party. If it counts for anything, I can't remember every posting a comment, let alone twenty four.
  • LOOK. LOOK UPON THAT WHICH THOU HAST UNLURKED! LOOK, MONKEYS - AND DESPAIR!
  • Hello.
  • petebest: i blame the success of my campaign on my opponent's constant threats of total desctruction of the earth... and my own promise to create the world's biggest minimall that will consume all of the midwest states...
  • I didn't think anyone could top baby balrog's entrance. Until arc showed up. I don't if that was planned, but the timing was perfect.
  • Can I proclaim "cobpole" as the Word of the Day? It's really the most awesomest word... And hi, all!
  • *points* *smiles* *strokes beard*
  • /despairs.
  • Despair? Or dis pair? I have two.
  • *unlurks* *despairs* *relurks* *desplurks*
  • I lurk. I signed up for Monkeyfilter at its inception, forgot my login for a long time, then never picked up and actually logged in. It never seemed like a place for adults, even though Tracicle is a grownup. It's not as heavy a boyzone as Metafilter, but the ambience i've experienced (from a lurk-corner) still tends towards snark. I think it's the "monkey" bit.. Flinging poo as a euphemism for the interactions? Bananas aren't evil, but they are a very small part of my diet. I'd like to compliment Tracicle and her cohort for humour and good parenting skills.
  • Have you noticed that so many of the confessed lurkers have been members since 2004, and have at least commented a number of times? I think that later signers-on haven't all been in tracicles backlog of account setup, so what's happened to the other 4,000 or so accounts since then. Early in our attempt to get things going, we found that getting to know each other (ladidadahda) was some sort of non-commital bonding experience in some old threads: Where do you live? What's your job? Tell us more. And other stuff. What do you look like? So, yeah, getting into the mix is a good thing. Serious lurkers and new members could comment on the original threads, or here, with whatever details they'd feel comfortable with sharing. Trust me!!!11 You'll be glad your did.
  • Grownup! *snrkt* *subtly sweeps children back under rug*
  • path: you forgot the original getting-to-know-you thing -- the list of 10! Originally started by Kimberly Whereforeartthou, kimbo? at one point we all had them! Or at least, I did. And that's all that matters!
  • I'm totally unlurking simply for the coffee mug mct promised... Hi!
  • Hello. I'm a lurker. I've posted 4 comments since November of 2003. That was a long time ago and much has happened since then. But what I really want to know is, are there any female petebests out there? Would they be called petebestess? And if they were the best petebestess ever, could they be described as petebestessiest? Bestpetebestess? Can I have my cookie and coffee mug now?
  • Wow, hi all you new monkeys! Err, new in the sense of "just posting" new. Well, you do have that "new monkey" smell
  • Wow, hi all you new monkeys! Err, new in the sense of "just posting" new. Well, you do have that "new monkey" smell
  • I'm content with my "not-a-grown-up-itude".
  • Ah, and of course that's my little way of pointing out that double-clicking the "post comment" button will, ah, create a double message. Mmm. Oh, I can tell you that as far as any of us are aware, there are no female petebesteses. There was that incident with petebest3.14 and the dress, but that was really more of an urban legend. Sort of a man-digs-a-hole-in-his-backyard type of thing. I'm pretty sure snopes has debunked it already.
  • I think petebest is very male, as you can see in this article from our one and only newpaper edition. It dates back to the time when our archives disappeared, and christphine decided to immortalize the experience. The multitudes of petesbest (if you don't know about that, you'll need to seriously study the archives, since I don't think that even I can explain it.) and BlueHorse were the perpetrators of streaking and smacking referred to in the story. If you check out the other linked pages, you'll get more background.
  • I'd like to say that I chose this nick not only because it's a palindrome, but because it requires the mouth to move in a singular way. Try it.
  • Welcome Lurky-Loos! Come on in. GramMa made plenty of cookies, and there's warm Pop Tarts and cockpunch for all. Bees can brew up a pot of coffee if you like, and we'll all sit down for a regular ol' confab. I'm a particle accelerator physicist. ...particle physicist by training... You Monkeys, I find this very scary. WHY are there physicists lurking in the Monkey underbrush? Is it because they're planning to build a Monkey-G0-Round and amuse themselves at our silly antics? It never seemed like a place for adults.... I think it's the "monkey" bit.. Flinging poo as a euphemism for the interactions? Meh, we gots plenty of adults here. And some of them are even physicists, so nanana! :P phuttttt! Moondoggie: Healthy good vibes comin' your way
  • I'm petebestess. Please touch my petebreast. Or maybe you shouldn't go anywhere near my petebust. This is a petetest, do not adjust your monitor. Surely you petejest. This comment is a petemesst.
  • oooo path that was certainly an interesting bunch of links.....
  • I (re-)read every one of path's links...it was fun (and a great timewaster!) to (re-)visit and occasionally comment on those old threads...
  • I think I count as a fairly new monkey, although I've been lurking for...hmm, a couple years at least. Not creepily, I swear. I just like the place. Anyway, hello everybody!
  • Excellent post MCT... it was nice to read all the comments...
  • Not my idea, actually, I just executed it. Keep 'em coming, folks, and I hope as many of you n00bs and long-time lurkers as are able will spread your contributions beyond this thread. I meant what I said up top about new blood, as every other regular contributor will heartily second. This is your monkeyhouse, too.
  • Holy shit, how did I miss this comment: For the record, middleclasstool - I will send you Lindsey Lohan, pie is my dream date, and I like cash. posted by Gestas at 10:25PM UTC on March 21, 2006 I vote we give Gestas admin privileges. It has nothing to do with the Lohan thing.
  • Meh, we gots plenty of adults here. And some of them are even physicists, so nanana! Not so sure that them thar sets intersect, GramMa.
  • I think I'm way out of the lurker status, though I did lurk for several months. :) You know..afterall this time...I still read peatBEAT not petebest. Watch out, we're sending the petebeasts after the non-commenting lurkers.
  • That was meant to be peteBEAST* >> Tpyo knig!
  • Well, the important thing is to welcome new people, help them feel encouraged to post, etc. y'know. Especially because of the plan we have for MCT. Y'know, the "bop-klonk-chop-chop-eewrrrwweeeeooooo-splutter", hey?!. What? What do you mean talk so loud? I'm typing, silly. Oh shit! was that out loud?? . . . *lurks*
  • I suppose I qualify as a lurker. I don't have an account -- I'm just the relative of a member who's overseas for a while. Since I have his computer to use while I house-sit, here I am. I see the odd topic discussed here which interests me but this is the first time I've posted. I'm a little too busy to do more than lurk, but if that changes I might sign up. Just don't do anything stupid like start charging five dollars to join like some other sites I peruse on occasion.
  • hullo relative-of-coppermac!
  • We already have a NZ admin; Gestas is a kiwi too. No admin for you! And hi, coppermac's housesitter!
  • coppermac's housesitter!!!! Say hi to Coppermac!
  • *stares at shoes awkwardly for a few moments* *relurks*
  • Wow, reading those old "so who are you" links brought back a lot of old names. Where are Blaise Bailey Finnegan and SideDish? See, lurkers, this is why we need you. We've lost too much good blood. Come, bloster our ranks. Help us ride to victory! Uncle, I'm looking at you.
  • Yeah, sure, all this 'welcome, lurkers' is just a plot to get rid of old, middle aged serial-posters *cough* with new blood... *sigh* I cn see right thru your nefarious schemes, you banana hater MCT!!
  • I guess I'm a lurker. I recently stumbled in here from another certain site ending in -filter. I live in the bay area, California. I think Lohan is a coke-snorting whore. Pie is okay I suppose, unless it has coconut in it, then it's just nasty.
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  • Lurker?! I prefer to think of myself as a deep-cover monkey operative.
  • I used to post more, once, but now less than then. So I guess I'm getting more... lurkerish? Lurkerlike? Lurkerlooking? Been spending my spare time posting on other (more game-related) forums, starting my own (still rather bloglike) forum, making multiplayer maps for games, sometimes actually playing games, watching movies, seeing bands, and, like, you know, stuff. I do have one idea, for one more post, but will have to do some research... sometime... once I get around to it... Um, yeah, so... eh... Hi!
  • 1 post and 3 comments in 18 months - hardly a prolific output. I'm a bit quiet in the real world to be honest, more of an observer. I've done 3 of the MOFI CD Swaps though...so I make a noise in another way :-)
  • Me, me, me!
  • I don't think I count as a lurker, but I'm not exactly prolific. With that in mind, Hello!
  • *lurks in thread, admires hell out of roryk's monkey*
  • Not really a lurker, but haven't posted lately because I've been horribly busy... I come read every few days though. Anyway, hi, and off I go now to be busy again... Also, I like pi. Especially pecan pi. Very tasty.
  • *quietly delurks* hi, is anyone still reading this thread? I'm a chronic, unrepentant lurker on my blogs and message boards. It's part of my daily reading regimen. I found you guys through my lurkations at metafilter and I just like you guys so much better. You're all very clever and witty and you have civilized, respectful conversations. The 'when is middle-age' is kind of thing that keeps me coming back every day. Sorry for being a voyeur bu I just find I can never commit the time and energy it would take to fully participate in a group like yours. But thanks for all the pie! *quietly relurks*
  • Wow, you've even got 'lurker' as part of your name! That's lurker commitment. Gold star.
  • Hello! I made an account just so I can tell you all that I lurk every day and never have anything to say! Woot. :)
  • Hurray! Lurking with an account is better. You get the sidebar, so you can see when old threads are updated.
  • I think one of the reasons that I like monkeyfilter is that the front page is usually active enough to provide something to read, while quiet enough that I feel like I can keep up with threads that I like... I shall definitely explore this "side bar" that you speak of, though!
  • *waves happily to all the delurking lurkers* Yay! Come join share!
  • "You're all very clever and witty and you have civilized, respectful conversations." Can you please give me a link to whatever site it is you are describing here? Sounds great!
  • so umm...hi! I'm armaghetto. I'm not a TOTAL lurker. I think I've posted maybe 20 comments in my tenure. I do <3 the monkeyfilter. You can feel the love...although that could be the background color of the website. I also have Arbitrary capitalization issues.
  • I also have Arbitrary capitalization issues. Have You any German Heritage? :) You lurker guys are all really cool people! I'm glad to meet you all. (I lurked here for a long time, but I finally just couldn't keep my big mouth shut. Not that I had anything important to say, just that I'm mouthy. Or finger-y if it's typing?)
  • i meant 151 comments >_>
  • Monkeyfilter: mouthy finger-y
  • **finds Chionophilia irresistably cute, begins making the cheek-pinching finger movement** I prefer to think of myself as a deep-cover monkey operative. Heaven knows with the current administration we need more of those! "You're all very clever and witty and you have civilized, respectful conversations." Yeah, and physicists, too. We're a buncha inteleckshuels!
  • My first (and only) post to a MMBlog was here on Monkeyfilter. Hopefully more to come, I just have to find the unfound. There is nothing new under the ______. (and other biblical madlibs...) Greetings from Iowa, the quadricep of the midwest! 3.14159 + 2.71828 ≅ delicious!
  • I also have Arbitrary capitalization issues. So did Ben Franklin. Yet the Gentleman found a most Prodigious Success, all the Same.
  • I dunno, I tend to go through hibernation periods so that people could think I'm a lurker. Then Nickdanger goes and does some damn fool stunt and I take it to the unnecessary next level. I'm also a sucker for comments about bears. Greetings from Iowa, the quadricep of the midwest! That's funny, I always thought of Illinois as something of a shinbone. Hmm, perhaps I should go lurk/hibernate now.
  • No hibernate! Bad bear! I've got a picanic basket here, and we've tied petebest up in a tree so that none of the other bears will eat him. So you must stay.
  • I lurked for a long time before I spoke up, too. Never fear, they're nice kids here! Welcome, new kids!
  • At first, I tried to just make comments. Now I only comment when I have something meaningful to say (which is why I haven't made any comments in a long time...). I wish that the year was 1975 and I was 25 years old. And I was living in an a-frame cabin on a lake in Canada. And Dan Haggerty was my boyfriend.
  • Lurkers or stalkers?
  • Lurkers! Stop! Can't you see what they're trying to do! They're trying to destroy us! If you say anything you're no longer a lurker! You're just... just... one of them... Oh... Oh, god... They've got me too! Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
  • /maniacal laughter
  • I only comment when I have something meaningful to say Wow, its the anti-quidnunc.
  • the quidnunc adult?
  • If you get him to post his name backwards, he has to go back to his home Filter though.
  • Man, that sounds dirty.
  • *tap*tap*tap* is this thing on? Wheeeee!
  • Yeah, and physicists, too. We're a buncha inteleckshuels! Mmmmm - braaaaaaaaaaainssss.
  • Moi? To tell you who I a REALLY am would never be possible. You MAY see me every night. You MAY see me every day. Not only do I lurk on the pages of MoFi, but the streets, gutters and alleyways of cities throughout the world. I present my face, and sometimes voice, for a living. Darkness is light. Giddy-up.
  • Oh yeah. I think I gave you change yesterday.
  • Who's playing that organ? that pipe organ you Squeeeverts.
  • I ain't lurking, I'm busy. My cookies haven't expired, too often.
  • Oh yeah, sure, all you 'I'm too busy, I have responsibilities, I have a life' people, you don't fool us, you're just too lazy to post. Heh. *sigh*
  • Yeah, I heard once about these people who "have a life". Some sort of Urban Legend or something.
  • Don't enlurken them!
  • Ahuh-huh-huh, pete said pipe.
  • pipe up? pipe down ye gormless clown! when lurkers come we must be dumb when lurkers call we frolic all when lurkers flee 'tis misery
  • Hi, just thought I'd de-cloak.
  • FIRE PHOTON TORPEDOES!!!
  • Eagh Ah cahn't! She's got all powah tu tha engines!
  • *chews scenery*
  • Apparently all but 2.30567% of this thread has been posted by non-lurking previously posting posters.
  • Yeah, but GramMa some of . . what? . . What's with the hand waving? Oh! crap! :^x
  • Lurkers bray and lurkers holler Post a comment braver, taller. Tell us how to mend some fences Be a Bruce an' tike sem chences! An' if ye've got a favorite critter post a pic to make us titter.
  • Koko, spit it out. Come on, spit.
  • "Moi? To tell you who I a REALLY am would never be possible. You MAY see me every night. You MAY see me every day. Not only do I lurk on the pages of MoFi, but the streets, gutters and alleyways of cities throughout the world. I present my face, and sometimes voice, for a living. Darkness is light. Giddy-up." OH MA GAWD IT'S GEORGE BUSH
  • What fun to put the newbies to the test. Alas! I like the ol' bees best.
  • Oldies Unlurk!
  • Just who you callin' an oldie, Whippersnapper!
  • I'm bumping this thread in light of the new "Participation Inequality" link. Special offer - if 12 lurkers comment on this thread in the next 24 hours, The Underpants Monster® will agree to refrain from posting for the following 24 hours. Also, I'll slash proces and offer 0.9% APR and all that fun stuff.
  • So, you're offering to not post* so that a dozen others will? Exactly who wins in that one? Dunno 'bout you, but I needs my daily TUM fix, sho nuff. --------------------- Yes, I split my infinitives. Whatcha gonna do about it?
  • Yes, I think that's a terrible notion, Monster - do stay!
  • Dive right in.
  • *blink*
  • *blank*
  • *bonk* Ouch! Dammit!
  • *splash* Wow, it's dark in here...
  • o my dear don't lurk alone out there in the dark do step in here where monkeys sometimes juggle poo and sometimes snark but mostly crack the jokes and peel bananas to show we're most at home with civil manners
  • You want lurkers? They don't come. They know this place is not for thum. They visit here, but just to read, They come, they go, they leave no seed That might grow fruit we all could et That otherwise we'd never get. The lurkers do not lurk scot free, Their karma suffers silently.
  • I think that we are all agreed 'tis better that they leave no seed 'cuz this is not one of those hosts That operates with sticky posts
  • lurkers are shy, dilly dilly they peek and pass by, willy nilly and we don't know why except that they're shy
  • I could tell you who I am, but then I'd have to kill you.
  • Aha! So there was one out there!
  • 'tis Mabel! Yes, yes tis Mabel!
  • By my guesstimates (*clack* *clack* *clickity-ka-chunk*) that leaves another 10 lurkers out there who saw that. A poem from a lurker! The thread demands it!
  • A sockpuppet's life can't be complete without a hand stuck up it's seat  posted by a lurker at 02:50PM UTC on October 30, 2006 Speak of the devil...