May 06, 2006

• Damn, you beat me. :P
• So- who's the lucky monkey? Is it a sock puppet, huh, is it?
• This is your second post accept the consequences and be prepared. This, the RA account, is the most used account. In total there are 5, used as mood demands. For instance I only use the tracicle account when feeling strange. Happy Days monkeyfilter.
• Wow, I feel old... I was here when the 500th monkey was big news.
• BTW, I wonder how many of those accounts have been logged into during the past year. I run a huge board and when we prune members it's really interesting seeing what it shrinks down to.
• You must be one of the Elders then rolypolyman. We get old for a reason?
• I demand postage of the 5000th member's profile to this thread so that we may harrass him or her with boatloads of barnyard midget pr0n.
• Congratulations, tracicle! Now that Stage 1 is complete, what say we get on with Stage 2 and conquer a small nation?
• i snagged the account and gave it to tracicle to do with as she sees fit.
• Mofi, it's my favorite place on the net to lurk. I know I should post more, but who has the time?? Much thanks to our favorite Kiwi for this respite from the mob.
• interestingly, we've been at 5000 members for a week or so, and the site actually has 5067 members right now; this is because people who deleted accounts in the first couple of months of mofi's existence apparently aren't counted in the "X number of members" field. this is still rad, though.
• Aw good times... My ex SO loved you guys, my new"ish" SO thinks I spend too much time here, but MF is still the constant...
• But those who deleted are counted as just one member - Anonymous. In any case, this is way cool. Thanks to tracicle and #2 for their hard work and, above all, patience!
• I PRAISE THEE O MIGHTY BRETHREN OF HOPE
• We're still well short of the number needed to accidentally generate the complete works of Shakespeare. Also, we're going to need some typewriters. /makes offering of sacrificial bananas to head monkeys
• Hooray for MoFi.
• So what happens when the 'Ten Thousand Monkey Effect' kicks in?
• Implosion creating vortex and reversemonkeyfilter
• MonkeyFilter users pass the 5000 mark! Yeah, but only, like, 2000 of us actually comment.
• my 2022 doesn't look as so shabby now, n00bs! mofi r0x0rzzz!!!!!1111!1!! w007!
• YAY! PARTY
• Congrats, #1! Long live mofi! *the crowd hurrahs!*
• Ook! Ook!
• Let's get drunk and go trash Metafilter! Oy!
• Meta... what? I'm confused.
• Okay, now tell us all how you found MoFi. I'm curious. I found it in the roof of my garage when I was putting my skis up there, brought it down and dusted it off. It looked like an ugly inverse-Mefi at the time: light background, orange and blue links and headings. Now it's a serene lavender. This must mean it's almost t-shirt2006 time.
• Oh, and it's not that all ex-members count as one member, rather that all comments by all deleted users are tagged "anonymous". So you can't tell which comments are from, say, a petebest, and which are from Dizzy. We've had 67 deleted accounts, in other words.
• Ah yes, my home away from the jungle. *bows in the general direction of the Honorable and Most High MonkeyBashi and her Consort *runs thru the MonkeyHaus wildly kissing Monkeys that don't duck fast enough
• This must mean it's almost t-shirt2006 time. YOU ANTI-COFFEE MUG BITCH
• I Love Monkeyfilter. Love love love.
• I found MoFi via Metafilter. I think the first thing to catch my eye was a picture of a chicken standing on a dog standing on a donkey in an election thread. I made the switch almost instantaniously.
• O-BLOODY-KAY, BLOODY COFFEE BLOODY MUGS FOR BLOODY MCT. Where's the love?
• whatthefuck...this Monkeyfilter?!?!?! I thought I was at Moneyfilter. Get me the hell outa here! (seriously, thanks for the place tracicle)
• *throws some love*
• Okay, now tell us all how you found MoFi. I was looking for MonkeyLove by randomly typing in google phrases and URLs. I spelt AMonkeyFeltHer.com wrong. Sidenote: even though the dialogue needed work: two thumbs occupied. I needed photos of bisexual gibbons and googled Curious George. I was doing internet research on how owl semen affects horse buggery. I forgot how to make cockpunch and was searching for the recipe. I was told that you guys know where I could score some weed. I was at the zoo and a monkey was simultaneously throwing feces and masturbating at me and I needed some sort of protection, something that could filter monkey goo... I ate the last piece of pie. I don't remember. How did I get here? Is my childhood all a lie? Is this my real life? I just want to sleep... Isn't this the place where you get an oil change? I figured if I looked hard enough here I could find porn. One of those reasons, I can't remember which. Cheers, tracicle.
• Fuck this place, if I can't post titshots without being ostracised (no one comments to my LJ anymore).
• hooray for mofi
• I don't actually remember how I found this place.
• PANTSOFF FOR MONKEYFILTER!!!1!! *grabs crotch of breakaway pants* *yoink* TAH-DAH!!!11!!1 kill the president
• I don't actually remember how I found this place. You were already here, and it found you
• KILL THE PRESIDENT!
• Okay, now tell us all how you found MoFi. I'm curious. I thought it was a prize for finishing the internets. Seriously speaking, I came here because I didn't want to shell out the 5 bucks (which I have since done) for MeFi. Found the MoFi reference in one of the threads on the blue. Been lurking/posting ever since. Thanks tracicle, you have a great site and have somehow, slightly, improved my general life. Which is not to demean the importance of keeping this site running, but I just wanted to let you know that all the way from NZ to US you are touching peoples lives and in a small way improving them. Kudos to you!
• Which is not to demean the importance of keeping this site running, but I just wanted to let you know that all the way from NZ to US you are touching peoples lives and in a small way improving them. Kudos to you! Which by the way, is something that most people don't get the chance to do, but I aspire to. (to clarify)
• No no, you've completely fucked it up. Just go away. ;)
• I found MoFi through it's Deadjournal, pressing the 'random journal (grave)' late at night. http://monkeyfilter.deadjournal.com Then I lurked for a long time. Eventually I just joined.
• ps- Can we make donations to Triacle?
• Feeding of the 5,000, second sitting.
• http://monkeyfilter.deadjournal.com Hey, I wrote some of that. Somehow.
• I lurked over at mefi for a while, before you could pay the $5 to join, then jccalhoun told me about mofi. I lurked for a looong time, then joined!
• How I found Monkeyfilter #1
  by drivingmenuts After many lonely and hungry months, I tracked monkeyfilter to a lonely cabin in Montana, kicked in the door and proceeded to beat seven kinds of hell out of it ... Wait, that wasn't monkeyfilter ... Who was that person? Oh, man, have I got some apologizing to do ...
• "Okay, now tell us all how you found MoFi. I'm curious." All joking aside, a mate put me onto MoFi and I'm hooked. Yeah, I'm an Aussie. Collating a history of Oz slang at the moment azzamattafack. A top place Tracicle. Congrats. A treat to catch up with posts, news, opinion from the front line of Homo Sapien intellectual evolution, and have a laugh too. A buncha real clever bastards lurk here. Bloody ace mate. No wuckin furries.
• How I found Monkeyfilter #2
  by drivingmenuts I don't remember how I found monkeyfilter, but now i can't remember a life without monkeyfilter ... Do I win a prize for most-loaded-with-saccharine entry?
• Can't recall; must have been off some MeFi link. I love this place's just right mix of serious, interesting discussion and commentary and off the wall, outrageous foolishness. That's what the interweb should be for: free, playful expression. Thanks to Tracicle and all other hard-working monkeys for this. *throws some love* Hey, hey gomichild, keep it on the oozinator thead! Eeeeuggh.
• I love you all very much. LEEK SOUP FOR EVERYONE!
• Har! That's very nice. Although after watching the lips very carefully, I suspect it's dubbed.
• And does it ever finnish?
• How did I discover MoFi? I was a lurker at MeFi for ages, but disgruntled with the fact that I couldn't join, and then by what I saw as a decline in the quality of comments and a lot of infighting. (This was before the five-buck thing came into play, I believe.) Went away for a while, and then I was directed to MoFi by close friend and then-lurker fimbulvetr. Never looked back. #1, thank you for putting this all together, and thank everyone else for making it such a worthwhile part of my day. And as geektastic as it is to say, I view you all as my friends, and I value and look forward to your company in a way that's probably not healthy. (Allright, that last bit was just for the quidquorpse.)
• Mad props to Monkeybashi and #2! The web is a better place with monkeys in it. And Alex Ander, I sooooo need to get that song, even if it doesn't ever finish.
• I found MoFi after googling something, I can't remember what (no, not "horse buggery"!). And I was hooked from day one. There's no place on the nets with as many smart, funny people as here. I'll add my thanks to Monkeybashi to the chorus.
• I did not discover Monkeyfilter. Rather, I dreamt of it, and am dreaming still. I think this is also a good time to point out that, due to those bastards at PC World wiping my laptop, I no longer have any idea what the passwords for any of my sockpuppet accounts are... Fuck.
• psst...from now on, make them all cockpunch...
• wow! I feel like a grizzled geezer! (#578) I lurked on mefi for a long time then found out about mofi thru a tribe, um...tribe, about community weblogs....and my monkeyhood began in earnest!
• Monkeyhoodies! *Much* nicer than mugs.
• I invented Monkeyfilter. And monkeys. And... er... Doctor Who. *beams*
• *tardises* My mode of interstellar travel beats your mode of interstellar travel.
• And if I did it again I'd retardis.
• if this is just going to degenerate into silliness, then i'm going out for a cup of tea. *leaves* *gets arrested for having no pants on*
• Fanks bashi & co... *mumbles something sincere but incoherent* *goes of to gaze at the capt and punch koko*
• Thank you tracicle. Thanks to the rest of you as well. When do we start the college fund?
• MonkeyFilter is not anusFilter. As hard as I try to make it so.
• Oh dear MoFi... How I stumbled upon you by accident and never looked back; I've never cheated or left or slept since... After meeting numerous monkeys, I'm always amazed at how similar, yet dissimilar, we are. A grand bunch!
• Damn, 5000!? If we had stopped at 666 or 4400, that would have explained a few things. But 5000? /-:
• PANTSOFF FOR MONKEYFILTER!!!1!! Now there's a slogan with a wholelotta Petebests behind it. *unbuttons levis, has second thoughts, clears throat I'm behind you in spirit.
• #592 checking in here. I'd take a mug, coffee + advertising the internets = confused looks from students. I like it.
• hoodies hoodies hoodies!!!... of course, with the cafepress we could do both...it would also simplify things a lot... BUT...they only have zip-up hoodies for the ladies, and its gotta be a zip-up....unless you WANT to look fat... mugs would be great for meetups...we could chuck them at each other!
• We could do a cheap 'n' nasty version of whatever design we use in Cafepress, plus decent-quality tees along the same lines as last time. With cafepress you can order as many of whichever item and it doesn't matter because it's overpriced whichever way you go. :P Would that be a good idea though?
• Might it be possible, instead of going through Cafepress for hoodies, to do a group order with Neighborhoodies instead? And it's too bad that their underoos are only available for the lady monkeys, otherwise we could have some nice banana action happening...
• (Personally, I think the 'ski' and 'sugarhill' jackets are pretty snazzy, although not technically hoodies. But team jackets! Duuuude!)
• How'd I miss this thread? Busy lately, I guess. So here's my belated input: Yay! And as for how I came to MoFi: Basically, I wanted a place to get passionate about politics in the lead-up to the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and there seemed to be a fair amount of that going on here at the time, which was fun if occasionally contentious. Chy (then Nostril) called me a nasty name, Mr. Knick derided me on the assumption that I agreed with something I posted, and I was hooked. Actually, no -- it was when Jonathan Quick convinced me to turn to Jesus that I became hooked! Thanks for all the hard work and the occasional assumption of mediation duties, tracicle!
• P.S. Whatever you decide re: t-shirts/hoodies/whatever, please use an option that can produce XXL. (Even for coffee cups. Mmmm, coffee....)
• oooohh! can we please please PULLLLEEEEZZZZZZZZZ have monkeyfilter underroos???????????????? please!
• XXXL?
• This thread is useless without pics! Oh -- sorry. Jumped the gun a bit there.
• tell us all how you found MoFi I used to be a Mefi lurker when you couldn't join even for ready money: then Mefi went down for about three months (alright, maybe weeks). As I was hanging disconsolately around the empty space where it used to be, someone came past and told me everyone was going over to Mofi - where you could even join! I've never visited Mefi again (well, maybe a couple of times).
• Okay, I'm going to do a call for design submissions in the next few days, so get thinking, you creative types! Don't forget: it may be appearing on women's underwear as well as hoodies and coffee mugs, so, uh, plan ahead.
• *claps hands like a little girl*
• Underroos! Squee! /"grown" woman who adores her Cookie Monster underwear
• ooh!! photoshop here I come...
• Does that there will be a new t-shirt thread? *pulls out doodling pencil*
• Wot's an underroo? I Googled, to no avail.
• Underoos. The second r makes all the difference!
• *looks for missing r*
• [An aside relating to Cookie Monster Underoos. "Me thinks me have serious problem. Me thinks me addicted. But since when it acceptable to call addict monster?"]
• You know, underoos might have been the first time I had stirrings that would lead to an anthropology degree. Even as an eight-year old, I remember seeing underoos and wondering what kind of world we lived in where this would be a product. Then I probably thought about how chocalate chip cookies are GREAT..... but that seed of analytical thinking was planted. Damn you, underoos!
• Wot's an underroo? I Googled, to no avail. A small aquatic marsupial indigenous to the coastal areas of Australia, often found near undertoads.