February 05, 2005

Super Fantabulous MoFi Meetup Deluxe The impossible meetup to end all meetups! Come one, come all!

Recluse monkeys, this is your chance to hobnob with your social betters! LA monkeys with Bangor monkeys! London monkeys with Butte monkeys! (Hee he, Butte.) NYC monkeys with (dare we hope?) Perth monkeys! Initially conceived in this thread (sorry, I don't know how to link to specific comments; please scroll to the bottom). Monkeys, please post links to photos of your simian selves; Photoshoppers, this is your time to shine! Huzzah, huzzah!

  • Ooh, right Koko. reposting my ugly mug then: enemy of the State, friend of cuddly creatures.
  • A good chunk of the links are broken, but there's a good photo thread here, for those who missed it. I'll have to see if I can get my hands on a scanner.
  • lenks r gud i make lenk 4 u to pitcher thread now kthxbi. here
  • Shmokin' Alex. Are you assembling sexyrobot?
  • One naughty bit at a time.
  • Make sure you get the tie and the safety pins.
  • Don't forget the MoFi Flickr group. Lots of great meetup (and other) pictures there.
  • Here is one of me in my princess Mononoke gear from my lab website. I'm also on the people page (the one with the purple hair). And here is me as a blonde!
  • Here I am. Do your worst!
  • Alright, PEOPLE FREAKIN' MAGAZINE called me for photos (though they and I may not make the cut) in an article on music on the internet for the grammy issue. Here's what I sent them. This is from yesterday: Me Likee th' music and this is about a year old: My Pell Grant Pic. Do your worst.
  • Wait, dude already said that. Do your best.
  • This is from yesterday: Me Likee th' music Is that a new Dolby sound system?
  • that's me: nathan smithe (silent e), and sometimes mindy, larleen, etc.nsfw i think the etc. is nsfw
  • First entry. Lame, huh?
  • Smo's looking a bit pensive with forks creeping up behind him. And who wouldn't?
  • hey, forks is cute!
  • nathan you have decided me that I must post this picture: bunny hop
  • loto, that is one eeeevil looking kitten.
  • Digital camera=$250 Computer=$1,250 Internet Service, monthly= $50 Hearing a "mild manner sex worker by day" call you cute = priceless ...for everything else, there's monkeyfilter...
  • And I'm feelin' th' bunny look.
  • ok, I thought this would come out funny, but its a bit disturbing. my first, quick-n-dirty photoshop job for this thread... bunny meetup in the forest ak! I will try to make another one, a nice one, I promise!!
  • Find a picture of me here. Additional photos are scattered about in the MoFi flickr group.
  • re: bunny meetup in forest: oh my. oh.... my.
  • Me working a condescending librarian vibe. Photo compliments of S. Robot
  • yentruoc: i love that there's this super serious scientific jibberjabber and then there's a shot of you upside down in a white linen gown and a dagger grinning and (obviously) high. mandyman: "Um, 741.5 is the number for, um, "comic books"; I'm not precisely sure, um, WHERE we'd file the, um, "titty books", um, maybe in 176 or 779? Um."
  • Me with flash and without, taken about 10 minutes ago. My cat, Lily would also like to attend the "meetup".
  • Koko: Lily, eh? My cat is letting me know that he would like to meet your cat. Alnedra: He is a very evil cat who insists on kicking me in the groin at every oppertunity. His brother also likes to vomit on things.
  • I think we sorta already did this. Not that I actually care. Anyway, here's me snazzy, tipsy, and utterly shitfaced. More pictures can be found in my profile or on my MySpace page.
  • and medusa, just because i think you're gorgeous does not mean i'm going to let that bunny forest meetup thing slide without me saying I THINK THATS DISTURBING AS ALL HELL.
  • Loto: Lily gets big and puffy at the sight of other cats. But maybe your boy likes that sort of thing.
  • mfpb 2 21, its those times when we find another gorgeous that we must be most vigilant against letting them get away with such disturbing crimes against art and nature. and thanks :) and wait til you see what I am working on now!!!
  • Ok, this one is MUCH better! (heeheehee...) Sidedish, please forgive me. I was inspired, and when inspiration strikes, much like a bolt of lightening that should have killed you, but didnt...well, what could I do? forgive the tired meme, like I said, I was inspired. and I swear I took my meds today, really... Sidedish death meetup
  • oh, and special prize, to be determined later, to the monkey who can correctly id each monkey (other than sidedish) in the pic...just for fun.
  • Go nuts.
  • This is me (as painted by me). Maybe I'll post a real picture if I get one up online.
  • Goddammit, Medusa. By the way, SideDish looks awfully happy about her death
  • I don't have any good pictures of myself online right now, however I did work a little photoshop-fu for y'all. Fork's Bone
  • A multiple choice offering. If this were a real life meet-up I would undoubtedly have a drink in at least one hand. And thanks for the thread, Koko. I missed the first photo meet-up and it's lot of fun to see what the monkeys look like. For some reason, I've always thought Mfpb was female. Sorry about that!)
  • Only ones I have right now are the London Meetup pictures. Including the Frodo picture. Thanks, Plegmund :)
  • Hubba-hubba biblochick.
  • can't see 'em, neddy...
  • genial has scared me. I now need comfort sex from one of the Hot Ladies of MonkeyFilter®.
  • Here's 19 years ago by meredithea
  • Bwa! Here is is for real. Teach me not to preview.
  • Good lord! Last Try before I give up! Sorry 'bout this. Now my expression on the picture is appropriate.
  • Unfortunately, I'm busy tonight, but I'll try my hand at photoshopping something together soon...until then here are a couple pictures from my recent trip to Israel.
  • Aww shucks- thanks, squidranch!
  • Oh my, I feel like a whippersnapper. That doesn't happen too often. The best picture ever taken of me, ever, which is kind of scary. In the depths of dorkness (Halloween, 2001). A combination of the two. (That's the guy whose stuff I sold after that thread a million years ago. Whee.) They're all old, but I avoid cameras these days. Someday, I'll get better ones. Someday!
  • Alnedra, your page is marked private.
  • Me in '86, when I worked for Miami Vice; Today's "Profiles In Pinstriped Courage" photo (for those of you who care, I am gazing forthrightly into the future in that shot, the future being to the left, slightly upward, and at least mildly irritating); some days the phone never stops; and me with little Feyd-Rautha is less formal times.
  • Caption for PIPC: "Honest, Officer, I was just standing here in the bushes reading my BusinessWeek. No, really. I swear."
  • As doctor. As cyborg. As child soldier.
  • damn... i go away for the weekend and exciting things happen! here i am!
  • can't see 'em, neddy... Oh bother. Thanks for the heads-up, surly. Here they are again.
  • I'm posting me as soon as bees does. :-)
  • Yentruoc looks damn near femme fatale-ish the second link. Psychobum's pics were disturbing and delightful at the same time. And I'll say again MuffPub is a good looking young man. Here's one of me doing my best to affect a greasy, white Robert Johnson The photo is much sillier with my sister in it. And here's my Flickr one if you haven't seen it.
  • OK, tick, will this do? Here.
  • Fedora, you're not half bad either. *basks in mutuality of alleged hotness*
  • Wow, beeswacky, I've always pictured you with a beard.
  • I'd like to add my inappropriate mrs robinsonesque comment that many of these cute guys are so...well, young. mmmm, maybe I should adopt a son or two?? any nice young man looking for a home?
  • Ms. Dusa, are you trying to seduce us?
  • Alright, bee- heck with ye. Fish tick with bubblewrap.
  • seduce, kidnap, indoctrinate, whatever, sure! all cute young men (and cute women of any age) can apply to be part of my snake cult today!! mention that you saw our ad here and get a free cup of kool-aid!
  • Well, I managed to misappropriate some of my wife's office equipment and got some photos scanned, but didn't think that I'd burned them on a freaking Mac and wouldn't be able to access the disc on my Windows box. So I'll be late to the party, hopefully tomorrow night.
  • kool-aid?! where do i sign?
  • I like grape kool-aid. Mmmmmm.
  • My Entry. Enjoy.
  • Arrrr! matey
  • bwahahaha, nice loto
  • Late to the meetup, and with a probably useless picture but it's the only one I have on computer. and the SideDish death meetup is terrifying - great job, medusa!
  • Oh no! Bees has been busted!
  • Bugger, can't see loto's entry because they block the host from here. Any chance of sticking it up on flickr?
  • Try here. Sorry, I don't have a flickr account.
  • Thanks loto, now I can see what the bwahahaha was about.
  • For now, this will have to do.
  • late to the party but here you go
  • Be kind to ramix ...she has a hangover!
  • Okay okay okay okay behold my terrible visage already and get on with the despairing will you I don't have all day Jesus.
  • OK, I'll play. Me and a parrot.
  • I'm the one in the purple shirt, only pretending to understand what the others are talking about.
  • The most recent pic of me - from my wedding day.
  • We really coulda made it, sweety. I just hope your happy with that ... that man ... *cries*
  • Just jokes! Congratulations! You look real beautiful - good on you and hubby!
  • Or wifey - ? This crazy modern world!
  • Thank you so much, quid - here's a tissue. And it's definitely a hubby. Now where's your pic, hmmm?
  • No one wants to see a sweaty balding 57 year-old man with an overbite dressed only in gold hotpants leering at the camera and nervously fingering his crotch with warty, wrinkled hands, or indeed me.
  • I know I do! But only if you're sucking on a Jell-o Pudding Pop in the photo, or the sweaty bald guy.
  • No one wants to see... Muahahahaha.... check the flickr pics for the last London meetup ;)
  • I'm in! Find me here and a little older here. Or use whatever you like from what's there. Sorry I don't have a flickr account...
  • Goddam we got some hot chicks here!
  • No one wants to see a sweaty balding 57 year-old man with an overbite dressed only in gold hotpants leering at the camera and nervously fingering his crotch with warty, wrinkled hands, or indeed me. You're just trying to get all of the girls us hot, aren't you? (OK, Bees, as you said concerning stockings, I'll show you mine if you show me yours)
  • bees is concerned that his soul will get stolen through the process of photography, it seems.
  • Bees photograph-phobia Theory 1: Bees is actually [some famous, incredibly handsome man, like Sean Connery. Yum.] in disguise. Theory 2: Bees is actually an alien intelligence gathering information about humanity. Theory 3: Bees is really a hive of bees, and the queen just hasn't been able to get everyone to take an hour off and settle down for a group shoot.
  • Alnedra, some men in black suits are waiting for you in the limo out front . . . *crouches back down behind desk*
  • Ah, you forget, dear BlueHorse, we've already seen your never-to-be-forgotten and utterly captivating appearance as The Pink Fairy Godmother. Alnedra's theory #3 is where the smart money rides.
  • Ah, but Bees, even though you have seen my personna, as we have seen yours here in this thread, have you never wondered about the woman behind the magic wand?
  • squid, i think i have a crush on highschool-you. *vigorously washes hands, mouth out*
  • {Almost whispering voiceover. You know, like they do for golf matches} Who will give first in this clash of the MoFi Titans? The dynamic BlueHorse has given us some idea of her beauty, but never really let us see her face, full on. Resident poet beeswacky has gracefully sidestepped the issue. Who will blink first? Bees, shh, don't let BlueHorse hear. I have a really funny high school graduation picture (thanks for the inspiration, Squid!) I'll show you mine if you'll show us yours.
  • mufpub, my old 42 year old self is flattered. I was a cute kid, although I totally didn't believe so at the time. Now if you would have told my high school self that you had a crush on me I would have been slightly wigged out, but truth be told, also secretly flattered. We grow older, and wiser.
  • oh my monkey goodness, it's tagline-o-rama here: Monkeyfilter: Have you never wondered about the woman behind the magic wand? Monkeyfilter: i think i have a crush on highschool-you Monkeyfilter: shh, don't let BlueHorse hear Monkeyfilter: I would have been slightly wigged out, but truth be told, also secretly flattered Monkeyfilter: We grow older, and wiser.
  • hey! here's beeswacky! yay! (thanks to b3tan funtastic pony magic - or whatever she is called atm)
  • soooooo...MsVader, your first name wouldn't happen to be Ella, would it? heeheehee *bonked on the head by multiple thrown bananas* mctool getting his head shaved by a group of burly men.....hmmmmmm? or maybe just mmmmmmmmm. hi medusa! shout out yo! stay funky 4ever n ever! ps...I ROCK!
  • Me as my usually surly self; Me in my colourized approximation of how I look when I meet clients...
  • It's true, Monkeys will meet up anywhere. Though bibliochick looks a might bit worried about what Fes plans to do with that pitchfork.
  • Pish. T'aint nothing with the pitchfork I've not seen before. But the pattern on that dress! Horrors! Might as well have worn the curtains!
  • We does whut we kin wits whut we gots, dollin. No one was lookin tru that winder anyhow.
  • *idly muses at the handsome couple bibliochick and I make - stern-faced capitalist with a pitchfork (and, let's be honest, more than adequate reason to use it) meets ebon ringletted medievalist with eyes like opals? Like Smith and Wesson, baby*
  • Not to mention that, judging by the workout photo, she might kick your ass.
  • Worth the risk. Plus I have a pitchfork, remember. And, in extremis, I can run *really* fast.
  • she might kick your ass Costs extra. Fes gets wingtip discount.
  • Oh hey, are you guys still checking this thread? sure, here I am. Sorry, best I can do, the designer broke all the photog links on the site, methinks. I'm the one in the middle smoking. Funny coincidence, I keep telling myself I need to get my pics up online.
  • moneyjane, squid, SideDish, and Medusa get in touch with their inner mutant... That took me wayyyy too long. you'd better enjoy.
  • oooh! I LOVE the spikes mfpb 2 21!!! am I wolverine? shout out and kisses to the way cute sexyrobot bibliochick you are a medievalist!! I had no idea. my degree (just a BA) from Rutgers is Medieval History, which I love, despite its near utter lack of relevance in my life....
  • You can't move for all the hot brainy chicks in here! It's wall-to-wall hot brainy chicks!
  • yes, MCT, and I am in the middle of a hot, brainy chick sandwich, thanks to muffbup. Tip of the hat to ya, muff.
  • Okay, whoever it was that was bugging me in #mofirc the other night, here's mine. Just kidding, here's a better one. I'm the one in the rear.
  • one more time
  • Worse than that, Medusa, I'm a medievalist and an art historian. I shall now have to request that my final diploma label me a Doctor of Utter Irrelevance. WooHoo! (Rutgers gooood school!)
  • All right, enough of the hot chicks. Time for the MoFi manflesh to represent. Of course it's obvious, but somebody had to.
  • Man, Fes looks like he's about to beat Abiezer_Coppe over the head.
  • Bravo, mct! damn, but there are some good-lookin' monkeys out there. More representing MoFi manflesh, please.
  • Forget the Mofi manflesh, I will settle for some more mothninja photos! Sweedish chicks rock!
  • Are we posting pictures? Fine, here's me. For some reason it says "pictures" but there's only one. Oh well.
  • fish tick with my girl moth alnedra and Destiny Charlie's Angels, come on. uh uh uh.
  • w00t muffpub! That's fantastic! You are the photoshopping god! By day, mild-mannered monkeys, by night - they fight crime! Right: fish tick, Alnedra, time for us girls to go kick some ass...
  • Um, mfpb - aren't you supposed to be studying? (But, great picture.)
  • I cannont get over the fact that the denizens of MoFi seem to be hotter than average, at least for the internets.
  • I also *cannot* get over the fact that my proofread is, evidently, teh suck.
  • AHHH! Proofreading. I'm gonna go die now. Don't mind me.
  • Nice job, muffpub! Hope those are pleather pants. What can I take for this stiff neck?
  • What a fine troop of monkeys to indulge in mutual grooming with y'all are. I pray for a monkey angel every night.
  • *dons monkey wings, prepares for monkey love*
  • I cannont get over the fact that the denizens of MoFi seem to be hotter than average... I know! It's uncanny, really. And mildly devilish. I suspect witchcraft.
  • I zee nothink Colonel Hogan! Nooothink!
  • Monkeyfilter: my proofread is, evidently, teh suck
  • sniffle
  • bratcat - it looks like I have an audience saying 'Is that bastard strangling a puppy?'
  • kudos to fish tick and bratcat! One o' these days I'm gonna break out the ol' Photoshop 1.0 and THEN you'll see some hot 'shoppy action! Hell, on v1.0 the "select" tool is an actual X-acto knife! No shit! i lost more flat panel monitors that way . . .
  • currently working on bigger photoshop project, but i really cant finish it until these *3 day overdue papers* get done. so hang on to your hats, chairs, and personal belongings.
  • I really wanted to do "The Death of Socrates," but there are just too many dudes in that, and most of them have their backs turned to the viewer.
  • I want to see the Sgt. Pepper album cover monkeyfied. Hop to it!
  • I can't believe no one's done The Last Supper yet. ( ( ( ( bratcat -- I especially like yours because me & kitty are in it!
  • Bratcat, I like the cute little friend you gave me! :-)
  • I was under orders from bibliochick. (Not that I wouldn't have done this anyway.) It might only be a single Monkey, but nonetheless, I give you the_bone-a Lisa.
  • 'Is that bastard strangling a puppy?' "strangling" was not the first word that came to mind, I have to admit.
  • A masterpiece, Christophine!
  • beautimous!
  • Wow. That was pretty much the greatest thing ever, Christophine!
  • Sgt Pepper is a nice idea, but how would you decide who to put in the position of 'the Ringo Starr of Mofi'? As for the Last Supper... *head explodes*
  • Someone (with more HTML skills than I have) should collect all these pics and make a "People of MoFi" page, and, I dunno, stick a link to it on the sidebar. It'd be a good place to put the Photoshops too, for easier browsing.
  • Christophine- that is lurvely!!!
  • ))) for the Da Vinci, islander!!! Also enjoyed your muffpublication.
  • Monkeys have an audience with the Pope
  • I think the monkeys broke the papal brain.
  • Gawrsh, islander- nice work! Hope MJ wasn't asking difficult condom questions in that meeting.
  • ))))) for islander! Fes has, predictably, exasperated the pope.
  • He made the mistake of asking me he wrong question: "Whaddya thinking?" islander, awesome work!
  • great stuff . . and yet I demand Terry Gilliam style HI-larious animation! Now i say! *clap!**clap!*
  • caption... Fes: Hello, Your Holiness, I am Fes and this is Muffpub. Muffpub: I am Muffpub. Fes: We are Monkeyinites from the inner core of the Monkeyfilter. Muffpub: You said it right. Fes: Our race is hundreds of years beyond yours. Muffpub: Man, you hear what he's saying? Fes: Some would say that the Earth is our monkeyfilter. Muffpub: We're the mofi. Fes: But that would belittle the name of our monkeyfilter, which is: The Monkeyfilter. Muffpub: Point is: we're at the center, not you.
  • Better late than never? My apologies to those I've missed out: my humble apologies to those I haven't.
  • Incredibly late to the party, oh so late, and without mad photoshop skillz - but, who needs 'em? At 17 At 30ish Last fall
  • Nice plegmund!
  • Plegmund, that is the most beautiful thing I have seen all day. Made more so because I'm not in it.
  • last supper
  • Love the font you wrote the names in bratcat, very period authentic. But where's the bowl of cockpunch or a cockbong?
  • plegmund - that is soooo good! Monkey summer camp. And, bratcat - Inspired! But, beeswacky - now, see! If you'd been willing to share a picture I would have, too, and we might have been invited to one of those parties. But, no! You just slid away into the shadows and left me without an escort. (Story of my life.)
  • Plegmund-excellent stuff.
  • *applause for Plegmund & bratcat*
  • Too bad Forks is visiting his folks at the moment. He'll like that. Oh, and here I am at The Gates exhibit today.
  • Path, he's such a ... such a ..... Well, woof! Darn him. Doesn't he know you and I fantasize about him? He's just playing hard to get. Perhaps we should chant. WE WANT BEES! WE WANT BEES! WEE WANT BEES! WEE WANT BEES! WEE WANT BEES! WEE WANT BEES! WEE WANT BEES! WEE WANT BEES!
  • Yay Plegmund and bratcat! Me thinks GramMa and Path are wanna-Bees
  • If anyone could find a picture of me on the internets, I would very much appreciate it. I searched and searched, and found nothing.
  • cockbong, do you mean this isn't you? Who the hell is it, then? (link obviously NSFW)
  • OMG, Christophine, just where do you find stuff like that??? *resists urge to peer down the hole with one eye and ask,"Cockbong, you in there?"*
  • It's amazing what you can find on Google image search with the right combination of search terms and safe search turned off. ;)
  • *bows before the greatness that is Pleggy and Bratcat*
  • Thank you so much Christophine! Extra hits for you, my dear.
  • ))) for pleggers and bratcat!!! And BlueHorse, I'm thinking you and path have tarried too long at the punch bowl.
  • Just let US be the judge of that, you bad boy.
  • I didn't get to the punch bowl, 'cause I wasn't invited to the party. And it's all your fault.
  • That was great stuff Plegmund & Bratcat Nice work!!!
  • Path, I'll bring a bowl of cockpunch over. We can sit in the corner and read bad poetry. Wear your mismatched socks and carry a peeled banana.
  • Hey, Blue - if we sit on the floor, it'll be just college.
  • *offers path and BlueHorse groovy handmade crochet rug to sit on*
  • great stuff here - nice work everyone!
  • forks,meredithea,drjimmy, they are off to see the wizard.
  • Our resident handyman, middleclasstool, wields his mighty monkey-wrench
  • Verily, a handsomer simian has never wielded yon wrench of doom! )))) for you, matey.
  • :( I remain unshopped... *feels unloved* *sadness*
  • prismatic7 but you were at the monkey's last supper, yes you were. Go look. :)
  • In fact, at the time, I said prismatic7 was the handsomest monkey at the table.
  • this looked a little bit better before it became a JPEG, but: prismatic7
  • bratcat - *sadness*, for I am clearly blind and you are the aceness. FedoraUndershirt - hurrah! I am more hindsome than ever!
  • And you're in mine, too, aren't you? Right of centre, leaning on a bush and negligently fingering your out-sized banana. Admittedly I can't match bratcat's skill and panache, and you may not have come out quite so hindsome (In fact I think your hindquarters are hidden).
  • oh, my goodness yes. lovely. thankyou. *feels sadness at negelectful noticing*
  • Would you mind if I put you on B3ta :D
  • ...prismatic7?
  • FedoraUndershirt: ummmm... that's a kind of immor(t)ality i'm not looking for...
  • )))))!! Brilliant, bratcat!
  • Another triumph!
  • Thank you, thank you. :)
  • Thank you, thank you. :)
  • ooh, i'm wearing yellow! does that make me McCartney?
  • *giggles uncontrollably* Thankee. I look kinda manic in that red jacket. Do I usually look like I'm some happy drug? o_O
  • Sniff. Can't see bratcat's last magnum opus due to the host being blocked. Will some kind soul put it on Flickr?
  • Abiezer I would have put it on flickr, but I uploaded all I can there for this month. Check your e-mail.
  • Well never mind, the email just bounced back to me. I tried, sorry.
  • Thanks for trying bratcat. I'll no doubt get to see it in the fullness of time and the anticipation will make it all the more appreciated. Not sure why that mail would bounce - the server's in the UK. Best check the mailbox settings, I've probably stuffed something up.
  • I WILL NEVER, EVER AGAIN LEAVE MOFI TO ATTEND THE WESTMINSTER DOG SHOW BECAUSE ALL PICTORAL HELL BREAKS LOOSE, obviously. medusa, BWHAAAAAAAAAA! i'll have to send my sweetie that one...
  • Ooh, ta mct. Didn't leave me much time to work up my anticipation tho' didya :)
  • Sidedish, I am so glad you didnt miss out on my opus!!