October 29, 2004

• *unzips pants*
• *puts on glasses*
• *practices WHAT.THE.FUCK.MATT?*
• Now now, that's just the kind of frivolous response that gives the MonkeyHaus a bad reputation among serious MeFites like y6. On the other hand, nice glasses, Cali, they really bring out your eyes. :)
• Shit, if it's gonna be that kinda party, I'm gonna stick my dick in the mashed potatoes.
• Quick! Let's close registration -- give the MeFites a taste of what the rest of the world gets when trying to join Metafilter.
• Oh goody!
• I'm ready!
• Caution..It's time to "regroup"
• lol Possum I'll second that motion.
• I'm looking forward to seeing what these changes will look like. *buys more MonkeyFilter blogshares*
• Alright ...more flinging!!
• *hides pete_best's pants*
• *adjusts glasses, sits next to mandyman*
• *sharpens tools*
• I've been a proud Monkeyfilter shares owner since June. Buy now while the gettins good.
• And for God's sake hide the allergy meds!!!
• Fuzzy dices.. I prefer cupholder armrests. Something that'll get me there.
• Noo!! Not the allergy meds! Then I wohn't be ahble to breahthe, anymore! *eyes start involuntarily watering* Ohg gweat...thang you bery mugsh.
• *puts away the good china* *takes out the paper-plates* Don't touch the walls! I just had them painted!
• No shares available now. But I might be willing to sell for real cash... (hey, funding is tight) (And more seriously, if there are monkeys who really want some mofi shares, I can gift you some on blogshares - just email me with a link to your blogshares profile.)
• I was thinking of selling 1000 of mine on the open market - but is it possible to gift them? Message me on blogshares, same username as here.
• *hides socks* Mmhh... who's got the cockpunch recipe?
• islander, that link o' yours shall inspire a poostick production line here. Little Halloween visitors, ye, too, shall brandish one!
• islander- you just made A.A.Milne roll over in his grave. (ROIHG?) I want one!
• Harry harry harry! Step RIGHT up, yes, this way, please, ladies and germs! Form a line, there's plenty of room! Getchyer ICE COLD, piping HOT NANABERS, BA-NAAA-NAS, rightcheer, yes indeed. One for you sir? Yes, sir! No, there's no charge - they do grow on trees, after all! HOMO FLORESIENSIS WELCOME! Dwarves, monkeys, hobbits, elves, leprechauns - all little people, step right up!
• If Matt's shoutout and testimony concerning the hotness of Women of MoFi(TM) didn't have people running here, nothing will.
• Wait, WE FORGOT TO CHAIN UP QUIDNUNC! Oh, fuck. There's going to be some covert leg-humping and shoe-chewing this weekend. *charges up cattle prod, dons catcher's mask*
• But when is leg-humping ever really covert?
• What is up with users whose accounts start with 'q'?
• What is this MeFi thing that you are all talking about?
• They are fungal parasites known to abound in sheep dip-rich regions of the countryside. Each has six eyeteeth and testicles the size and color of cue balls. They are mostly nocturnal, except on Tuesdays, when admission at the local pool is free. They read only gossip magazines, and prefer Elizabethan melodrama. And it's not so much leg-humping as it is femur-penis insinuation.
• Time to drink the good scotch. Because they'll find it, even if we hide it. (I second the Possum Plan)
• The big kids scare me.
• But Chaz, their keen perception, unflinching honesty, and enviable grasp of logic is sorely missed around here. It is foolish to compare ourselves to them and folly to try to equal them. Face it, we shall never amount to more than an abecedarian holding pen, a confusion of hastily sketched shadows of their finely faceted minds.
• *uncovers eyes* Are they gone yet? *covers eyes back up*
• Does this mean we get to fling poo?
• We can be nice. We even have events lined up for the travelling MeFites. How kind of you to volunteer, wendell.
• Should we cover the front page with posts about the U.S. election? You know, so they feel at home?
• It's down. Any. Minute. Now.
• It's down. Yay! Congratulations to all! It was a tough campaign, but we pulled through! Good job, everyone. Here's to four great years!
• *drinks the good Scotch, squeezes between mandyman and Space Kitty*
• OMG. Are all the Monkey men going to protect we poor, women from these lecherous.. fungal parasites known to abound in sheep dip-rich regions of the countryside. Each has six eyeteeth and testicles the size and color of cue balls.? /shivering in dreaded glee! No, perhaps we should beguile them with a "Women of MonkeyFilter post". With pictures, of course. /gone to find shot that makes her look half her age. never mind scotch...this is good for a toke.
• Bring 'em on! (very very sorry. couldn't resist. everyone have a banana, they have a calming effect on the nervous system, you know.)
• Y'all sit down for a spell. We've got tea. Cute shoes! How's your mama?
• You know, some of the comments in this thread (and in others like it) are the very reason I don't visit or take part in Monkeyfilter as much as I would like to. Maybe you're joking. Maybe not. Either way, as a Metafilter member, I almost always leave here after reading a "Metafilter" thread feeling I'm not welcome to be here.
• If anyone wants to share a banana, I recall a nifty trick I saw in that movie, 'The Dreamers'...
• Oh no. Nobody here jokes. Not at all. No, never.
• Call it an inferiority complex, Orb, or maybe red-headed stepchild syndrome. I think we're getting better.
• Maybe you're joking. Maybe not. Does spending too much time on Metafilter make you lose your sense of humor? Just askin'... Here, have a banana.
• You are altruistic and will be involved in many humanitarian projects. Your lucky numbers are 5 13 19 26 46 9 Please pass the Lo Mein
• I'm curious to see how many new members come in this weekend. Currently the number is 2226. Bit of a gap between that and ~17000.
• I almost always leave here after reading a "Metafilter" thread feeling I'm not welcome to be here. yep, i tend to react the same way. and when it's mentioned, they can sometimes get seriously ugly about it. i'd field you some example links but all the old threads were deleted (in what i assume was a big tidy up and or server restore). anyway, mefi will be back up in a few hours and apparently new memberships will be open next week. mefi status updates
• You're only as welcome as you let yourself feel. If you come to MoFi expecting to be made unwelcome, then you'll probably leave feeling the same way. Whatever happened to optimism?
• orb n tracy- In this time of loss let us all join hands together as one. For we are born of a place of dear respect for you and all you are. Thus we shall ever be bonded in a brotherhood that will stand the ages. (unless yall start acting all Mefi and such)
• It's also a bit much to judge everyone by a few ill-judged comments. There is, of course, jealously, lots of it (tracicle describes it well as "red-haired step child" angst, though her own red hair is lovely and bright); there has also been a certain element of superiority back, from a couple of metafilter members. But I have to point out that there are many of us who are members of both communities. On behalf of myself, I would like extend a welcome to Orb, and hello again to t r a c y; come for the links, enjoy the conversations if you like. Some are chatty (I like watching those, though I participate less often), some are not so (though I have to admit that I don't know what y6y6y6 expects, since my novella long digressions on agriculture, gay marriage or the future of mankind were apparently not weighty enough. I guess I will just have to upload my next paper. Do the comment boxes accept footnotes?)
• Welcome Orb and Tracy. It ain't MeFi, it's a little different here, and some of us rode to school on the special bus, but monkeys is monkeys, wherever they come from.
• and ye can add a comma there, where ye think it fits.
• If you come to MoFi expecting to be made unwelcome, then you'll probably leave feeling the same way. Whatever happened to optimism? i didn't expect it & i'm a very optimistic person, so i kept coming back but mofi's unneccessary inferiority complex kept rearing it's (red?) head (i hate that expression, what with being a red head and a step child, heh). i think a whole year of trying is more than enough, considering it's, you know, just a website... and especially considering the misguided and vitriolic attack that was directed at me last time i visited. unless yall start acting all Mefi and such well that's the thing... every time i came by here that's what monkeys were doing. and if i'm not experiencing it at mefi, why should i subject myself to it elsewhere...? yah a lot of you are completely awesome, but it's not worth the other annoyance when i have such limited time to play online. but it's good to see you all having fun and flourishing so well, as i expected this place would from the get-go. ach, it's all probably related to my dislike of bananas. had to live on them for a year, so naturally i can't bear them now :-D
• t r a c y: if it's any consolation, I probably will feel the same way about bananas in the next couple of months, given that they're all I seem to want to eat right now. Then I'll have to, you know, rename the site to whatever anti-monkeys are-filter.
• The-man-in-the-yellow-hat-filter?
• I came for the hot women (though I swear I thought I had signed up when Mofi started)... Also, I dream of becoming a Mofi star, maybe the proverbial Dairy State Dreamboat, or something to that effect.
• They're baaaaack. And wicked fast.
• I almost always leave here after reading a "Metafilter" thread feeling I'm not welcome to be here. That's so sad. We have a lot to learn from MetaFilter on making people feel welcome. That one-finger salute on the signup page is so welcoming. Just to be on the safe side, maybe MeFites should show up screaming "I'm from MeFi!" and that way us monkeys will know it's time to start walking on eggshells. Oh wait, there's a large number of MetaMonkeys, and they all manage to feel welcome. Maybe this means that only some Mefites are hypersensitive, and not all of them. Phew! It's good to know that the few Mefites who get their feelings hurt don't represent the whole of Metafilter. It's safe for monkeys to be funny again! yay
• I want a few new Monkeys to sign up. In my eyes, MoFi will really arrived when the total number registered is greater than my MeFi number.
• So, I'm hearing that T r a c y and Tracy and tracicle are all different people? Oh man, I gotta go take a nap.
• Down again, but at least it isn't a JRun error.
• Welcome MeFites! Welcome all! The bananas are on the house! Fill the glasses! Let the cockpunch flow! MeFi folk have been consistently kind and helpful to monkeyfilter, And so the criticisms of our friends seem sadly out of kilter.
• Oh no, the MeFites feel unwelcome in MoFi! How shameful!
• Mefites are welcome, but they have to sleep in the barn and stay away from my daughter.
• From the MeFi new signups page: "Almost there! I'm currently moving the metafilter server to two new (much more powerful) servers, and when the migration is complete, signups will be back on for a small donation, which should help offset the hosting costs (which will now run in the hundreds of dollars every month). So stay tuned, signups will be back soon."
• As a MetaFilterian, I've never felt in the least unwelcome here. Just sayin'. I urge everyone not to take the "nyaa nyaa MeFi stinks" comments seriously; it's a natural response considering MoFi was started partly as a MeFi wannabe site and considering the closed, "elitist" nature of MeFi. All things considered, I think there's remarkably little of that, and I don't think it's ever directed at individual MeFites (other than those who expressly sneer at MoFi, like y6). Give this place a chance, y'all!
• There's sniping from both sides. We started out as a 'farm-team' for MeFi and now have our own thing, but still retain some sensitivity toward real and imagined comparisons to 'the big kids.' Don't take it too seriously. I like t r a c y and hope she's come back to stick around for a bit.
• As a MetaFilterian, I've never felt in the least unwelcome here. Just sayin'. You're also a charter monkey Mr. Hat. Heck, the "Hat & Wendell" show was all that was on this filter for the first few months. And then I wasn't wearing any pants, but I tuned out and missed how that happened. (probably GramMa) *shrug* Hey does someone want to let quidnunc out? he's lookin like he needs to pee again.
• *Grabs 15 foot pole with hook on the end and carefully unlatches cage door*
• *wonders why rocket88 just let out the resident velociraptor. proceeds to run like hell to hide from said raptor.ends up hiding with quidnunc in the cage accross the way*
• but pete, your still not wearing any pants. just sayin...it really doesn't bother me.
• Hell...if I was sportin' what pete's sportin' I wouldn't wear pants either.
• JRun is back!
• JRun is back! Yeah, great. I thought MeFi had gone bulletproof.