October 20, 2006

• Professor Petebest, University of Blogabaloo *draws on pipe* Yes, well I see it as a community-oriented acknowledgement of previous defecatory and otherwise evacuatory themed FPP movements, no pun intended, which serves as a central self-referential element that both eliminates dissonant communicative factors and engenders playful actions and saying penis and fart quite a bit. Furthermore the whole thing is inordinately silly. *draws on pipe again*
• We are monkeys. We do not hide our monkeyness. When we get up in the morning, we do not say "wow, I feel that I'm really not being all the monkey I can be." We simply are monkeys, 100%. Sometimes that involves infantile poopoo weewee jokes. Othertimes it involves arcane discussions about religion or Quantum Mechanics. Bend like a reed in the wind.
• ILIKE TOILET
• Nunia broke my reed!
• In all seriousness, it's the incidents such as the silly urinal meme that make me truly appreciate this fine community. An occasional pressure-relief valve, if you will...
• MicturateFilter Mo'peeFilter You're in eight filter. Your innate filter. Ewe ornate filter.
• Some of us monkeys look in the bathroom mirror and find that we're american and some of you look in the bathroom mirror and see European.
• I sense a spin-off in the making. Please?
• I think petebest has been in the South Farthing pipeweed again.
• I ENJOY FART
• periodic convulsions of this sort have always characterized MoFi we've had Urine Day and now we've a Day for Places To Pee wotwotwot d' ye mean, you don't do that? that the subject gets under your skin? didn't ye know the subject of urine makes the whole foolish world akin?
• Whatever it is, we probably don't need to be too concerned. This urinal fascination isn't scatological.
• There is not room on this planet for such childishness and sophomoric idiocy. So if you wish to continue, I say, take it to URANUS!
• Wanker.
• /flings poo and runs.
• Or perhaps to DOO DOO LAND!
• Somehow, I knew MonkeyFlinger would pass this whey...
• Is it possible that all the other interesting links to the entire internet have now been posted as MonkeyFilter FPPs? Perhaps its time for me to go public with all my carefully guarded pocket lint links.
• Whip 'em out!
• The lot of you are bonkers. I mean that in the nicest way possible.
• sugarmilkpee broke my funny bone!
• I hope you'll pardon me if I point out that your handle, as displayed on my screen, appears to read-let me see if I can make this out- ah yes!, "caution live frogs" I feel this alone disqualifies you from making snap judgements on our sanity or lack thereof. Harrumph!
• Make poo & pee, not war!
• Please don't piddle on the Oreo Middle, It's not the kind of middle you can piddle on
• Ah, thank you everyone for such insight. It will help when I'm having hot flushes, oops flashes. bees, perhaps, I knew MonkeyFlinger would piss this whey..
• yeah, dxlifer, this must all be crystal-clear for you now... in other news, my pee is pink today 'cause of the beets :D
• And the beet goes on..
• especially with anything that Koko might have flushed away since last spring Oh, yeah ... sorry, whoever lives downstream.
• omg, they've crossed international waters.
• Yer chompers, is it?
• Suburban Yesterday Mrs. Friar phoned. "Mr. Ciardi, how do you do?" she said. "I am sorry to say this isn't exactly a social call. The fact is your dog has just deposited—forgive me— a large repulsive object in my petunias." I thought to ask, "Have you checked the rectal grooving for a positive I.D.?" My dog, as it happened, was in Vermont with my son, who had gone fishing— if that's what one does with a girl, two cases of beer, and a borrowed camper. I guessed I'd get no trout. But why lose out on organic gold for a wise crack? "Yes, Mrs. Friar," I said, "I understand." "Most kind of you," she said. "Not at all," I said. I went with a spade. She pointed, looking away. "I always have loved dogs," she said, "but really!" I scooped it up and bowed. "The animal of it. I hope this hasn't upset you, Mrs. Friar." "Not really," she said, "but really!" I bore the turd across the line to my own petunias and buried it till the glorious resurrection when even these suburbs shall give up their dead. --John Ciardi
• so this thread is a metaphorical turd?
• Ya know, I've been gone a long time and I came back to check things out just in time to witness this bathroom fascination. I gotta tell ya, really not doing a thing for me. I'll see you all again in another year or so.
• Huh. It's hard to believe that someone who calls herself "IgnorantSlut" would find our humor too puerile.
• Ach, weel - we've come unscathed through the fires of this lady's displeasure before. WARNING: AN UNGENTLEMANLY OBSERVATION FOLLOWS Behold the Pattern: arrive after long absence and toss a stinkbomb. Then scoot. Only return after another long absence to toss yet another stinkbomb at MoFi. Flit off agian, until the monkeys have all but forgotten your name and your dislike/disapproval of everything monkeys say and everything monkeys do. Repeat ad nauseam. = tedious bitch
• Ach, weel - we've come unscathed through the fires of this lady's displeasure before. WARNING: AN UNGENTLEMANLY OBSERVATION FOLLOWS Behold the Pattern: arrive after long absence and toss a stinkbomb. Then scoot. Only return after another long absence to toss yet another stinkbomb at MoFi. Flit off agian, until the monkeys have all but forgotten your name and your dislike/disapproval of everything monkeys say and everything monkeys do. Repeat ad nauseam.
• I modified the second statement slightly - thinking the first one hadn't posted, because we're running very slowly right now. But I stand by both of 'em.
• because we're running very slowly right now. It's all those Medusaritas. I think one tipped over and soaked the server.
• Both tedious and judgmental Was that bitch in this thread excremental. An ignorant slut, She exclaimed, “Tut tut!” She expected the transcendental?
• Could have been worse, it could have been elephants.
• I haven't complained about this year's urine day, because it's so nice to see the front page so damn busy. But next time, can we have a different theme?
• tracicle500ed again not long after my last comment above, and for about 40 minutes or so. But ... a common theme? oh, no! ... those are all DOUBLE POSTS, since we already did Urine Day back in 2004! /flicks pollen from wing of his grand new loonsuit
• "But next time, can we have a different theme?" Masturbation?
• We haven't had a dumping day before.
• Well, we could go thru the motions.
• You're pulling it out of your arse now.
• YOU CANNOT SCHEDULE THE ZEITGEIST! IT DOES NOT KEEP APPOINTMENTS! IT SHOWS UP AT THE WRONG RESTAURANT! IT TAKES ITS CHILDREN TO R RATED MOVIES, AND EXCEEDS ITS DAILY RECOMMENDED CALCIUM INTAKE! HAIL!
• Now look, kamus, I clearly and distinctly remember explaining the weirdness which spawned my user name on my profile page. It was printed on a sticker, a sticker on a bucket, a bucket which contained live frogs, and of course as the frogs were alive one must be careful with them, thus most succinctly the sticker read "CAUTION LIVE FROGS" which amused me to no end. You just be glad that I didn't choose a user name based on stickers posted on boxes which must not be lifted via a forklift or else every signoff of mine would read "DO NOT FORK".
• (Or I could have chosen "EXCESSIVE USE OF RUN-ON SENTENCES" instead. Bleah.)
• ha ha ha, & you all thought *I* was the loony!
• yes, and we still do :D we just think you are in very, very good company!
• chy, you're the phoony loony.
• Wow Nickdanger, beeswacky - just what did I do to catch your ire? bees - what in that link was so bad?
• I'll see you all again in another year or so. It does seem that you return every 'year or so' for the sole purpose of saying nasty things.
• How the heck is that nasty?
• I meant exactly what Nickdanger said, IgnorantSlut. You've made it clear on a number of occasions that you don't like/approve of MoFi, although most of your unprovoked utterances have occurred on tracicle's blog as best I recall. It might be helpful if you could explain what your reason(s) for this behviour are. But you've typically fired a shot and then scuttled away, explaining nothing. You may well have reasons for your behaviour, but it's a mystery to the rest of us to understand what's been behind all this, or what can have provoked these utterances of what otherwise seem to be a long-sustained and pointless hostility on your part.
• I was a bit taken aback as well. Explain yourself, young lady.
• Look, y'all are looking really proud at dissing IgnorantSlut, while many of you have championed others who were truly destructive. How selectively arrogant have we become? And when my icon beeswhacky finds this meme funny, I know I've lost my connection to MoFi.
• path, this has been going on for years, now - and IgnorantSlut's habit of fleeing the premises without explanation, remedial suggestion, apology, or making it clear she was only joking -- or whatever is eating her -- and then not coming back for a year or more, only to do it all over again, is, to put it mildly, provocative and frustrating. I am attempting to engage the lady in dialogue, without rushing to any conclusion, in hopes we may finally clear this matter up. But it seems I have failed to make this clear. *depressed now beyond description*
• beeswacky, I really don't see where I made a nasty comment re: MoFi. This is probably the thread you are referring to on the MoFi Blog. It is the post after which I stopped coming to MoFi on anything resembling a regular basis. But, like Tracicle herself invited me to, I check back on occasion. To my knowledge, recollection and search capabilities I've not said one iota on the tenor of MoFi since then. Yesterday was hardly a comment on the tenor of MoFi. But if there are other posts here on MoFi that I'm just not recalling or am unable to find in a Google search, please do point them out. It's kind of disappointing to find that you and Nickdanger have such a low opinion of me because I didn't care for the direction MoFi went, but I seem to recall being an upstanding member of the community for a while. I didn't flame out, I just left when I didn't enjoy the discourse any longer. And, I think that I *did* answer the call for clarification in that MoFi Blog thread. For this I'm a bitch?
• Hugs the stuffing out of the bees. Yer a goodfella!
• Monkeyfilter: YOU CANNOT SCHEDULE THE ZEITGEIST! Although I was baffled by the urine theme, I've thoroughly enjoyed it. There's enough depressing crap in the world that the occasional burst of peurile humor from (otherwise!) smart people is like a breath of fresh air. Plus, it takes the pressure off full-time loonies like me.
• And when my icon beeswhacky finds this meme funny, I know I've lost my connection to MoFi. C'mon Path... bees is as bees does! I see nothing different in our outstanding and honorable friend (a friend to all in this community I might add). Anyone who takes this whole urinal thing with such seriousness probably needs a potty break.
• "I am confused about this new obsession/toilet fetish." Isn't life really all about the toilet?
• Oh, yeah. And if anybody's mean to bees, I'm gonna have to beat 'em with a honeycomb.
• Ya know, I've been gone a long time and I came back to check things out just in time to witness this bathroom fascination. I gotta tell ya, really not doing a thing for me. I'll see you all again in another year or so. That's the one I'm referring to. And it does seems remarkably like a comment on the tenor of MoFi, ye know. In your favour, despite your saying ye wouldn't be back for a year or so, I think better of ye for coming back now to talk about this. What's done is done. The past doesn't seem terribly relevant to what's going on now, in this thread, where you inserted the above comment. Seems you've been annoyed with us for a long time now. But 'twas not articulated so I grasped it except in a very general sense. And just as clearly your seeming dislike has remained with some of the rest of us, myself very obviously. I apologize for calling you a tedious bitch - I really don't like thinking or saying such about about people. But you came here again and were showing every evidence of flitting off again in a presumable huff. Now I suggest we see if we can't clear the air and start afresh. If you can forgive me for my rudeness, I will forgive you for your critical if occasional remarks. If you could explain why you dislike/disapprove of MoFi, I think it could be helpful in sorting the matter out. Just what is it about MoFi that bothers you? I was never at all clear about that.
• Nickdanger has been spunky lately. I like it.
• It's life on the rez I tell ya!
• In "I gotta tell ya, really not doing a thing for me. I'll see you all again in another year or so," the implication was of a general lameness, IgSlut. Surely you can see that.
• bees, in all honesty - that wasn't a comment on the tenor of MoFi overall, simply on the potty humor. It was rather poor timing on my part to come back to MoFi when it was urine humor day. Imagine being gone for nearly a year and coming back to see the front page fitted out with nothing but urine posts. It's an odd thing - did nothing for me. When I saw this post I was relieved (almost no pun intended) to find that I wasn't the only person confused. To me it was more of a "huh, strange - okay, I'll check back with ya all later!" But, clearly that wasn't how you or Nickdanger took it. If you haven't read the link I provided to the MoFi blog, do (specifically here) - I think it clears up why I took leave. I really don't think I ever said that I didn't like MoFi, but I stopped finding it worth my time as my work/life pace picked up. The signal to noise with the "cock punch", M.O.N.K.E.Y. games, turkmenbashi, etc. was a bit much for me. Every once in a while I'll come check things out. Maybe once a month more or less until say January 2006 when things just got crazy for me. I think, but am not sure, that my last comment was in December of last year when I answered a domain name related Curious George. I don't recall ever "crapping in a thread" or throwing a "stinkbomb" here on the lavender, so I don't understand the hostility nor the "Behold the Pattern" comment. I've not been annoyed with MoFi at all since I left and before that it was much more about being sad that everything seemed a joke or a game. I was the "odd man out" more or less, so I exited. But that was two years ago bees, I suppose in an odd way I should be charmed that you still care/remember, but I don't see/recall any evidence of leaving in a "huff". Tracy and I exchanged a very civil, cordial "best to you, see ya round" and I've done just that, I've come around now and then. Again, I note - never crapping in the lavender. Can you help me to understand why you (and apparently others) took this all so personally? on preview, HawthorneWingo, I would argue the inference was just that. The implication was something else entirely, but that is the problem with written communication and I'll accept that what I wrote/implied was not what everyone read/infered.
• So, we're feeling really stoked about trashing IgnorantSlut, who's been the grit in the craw for a long time. But isn't grit valuable? Many of you stood up for Berek, who, to my mind, was destructive and contributed nothing that I could see, but I don't understand why some of the same folks go after IS. Some sort of feeding frenzy? But look, this celebration of urine makes no sense to me. Can someone tell me what you're trying to accomplish? It's been done berfore, so it it nostalgia? I hsve to think I've lost my connection here.
• IgSlu: To me it was more of a "huh, strange - okay, I'll check back with ya all later!" I interpreted the comment in light of my last recollection of your involvement in MoFi. As is so often the case with the internet, I saw hostility that apparently wasn't there. I apoligize for that. Can you help me to understand why you (and apparently others) took this all so personally? Because you were a valued member of the community, well liked and appreciated. Your exit, (and understand I'm not really up for reviewing the nitty gritty details, just going on several year old impressions and the link-down-memory-lane you provided,) seemed sudden and surprisingly angry (and maybe that's the old internet rorschach working against me there), which perhaps hurt some feelings. And that's pretty much it. If you plan on participating more again, welcome back. If not, thanks for sticking around long enough to explain the intent in your comment. I appreciate that. Path: But look, this celebration of urine makes no sense to me. Can someone tell me what you're trying to accomplish? It's been done berfore, so it it nostalgia? I don't think there's any intent there. Just something that (yellow)snow-balled out of control for a day. It's over now. :) For the record, I found some of the links pretty damn good in their own right.
• The urinal stuff was just impromptu silliness, just because we could, path - just for the fun of being silly monkeys, posting silly stuff on the spot. I thought it was good fun and obviously others did, too. Sorry it seemed senseless to you.
• Being a relatively new monkey, I don't know most of these other primates. I will say that I don't particularly put much into speeches people give that are of the tenor: I didn't leave the Dhimmicrats! The Dhimmicrats left me!!!! Whatever. If you need to leave that's cool and I hope you find the node in the net you are searching for. The lecture is patronizing, probably just plain ignorant, and not a whole lot more than giving people the bird.
• Well, it's pleasant hearing ye aren't annoyed with us, but ye could have (and all too evidently did, alas) fool me. Again, my apologies. tracicle's wisdom often impresses me greatly, for I would be SO lousy running one of these places. It's very true we do joke a lot on MoFi, though not always. Think what I'm aware of in the way of recent self-criticism here centres upon the (too-?) quick descent from serious discussion into light badinage, which seems somewhat like what you point out in your link. My own impression is that we were in earlier days more inclined to hold off on the humour in a seriously-intended thread, giving it at least a day or two before protracted bouts of joking and so on started up. I know path in particular recently pointed to a lack of serious discussion on MoFi. (Butbutbut there are days when I don't seem able to find anything else!) So I wonder if our insights are at least partially due to our expectations. Serious-subject threads, of course, are the very ones I tend to eschew, for my offline existence seems over-full of stress and serious discussion. I get the impression something of the sort may be the case for some of the other monkeys. My impression is that most of our chattier monkeys are not students but trying to hold down a job and hence they may not have much time for much more than a wiity or flippant remark what with the office environment. And of course some come here for the relief that simply changing the subject of one's concentration can give. My own thinking with regard to the levity has been that the world is damnably stressful for many monkeys now - and most especially the USians among us. Humour's a way of alleviating, if only for a few seconds, some of the tensions people are experiencing in a world where nothing seems as clear as it did once. I daresay your view is less selfish than mine: I enjoy a good laugh now and then and so come here, where I usually get several. Given my druthers I'd prefer more posts of the sort Plegmund and Abiezer and Chy can all does so well: off-beat and informative. But the squee I figure we're going to have with us whether I relish it or not, for many monkeys seem to really enjoy the opportunity to make infantile noises online.
• Oh, and I'd be delighted if ye stuck around more. I HATE IT SO WHEN THEY GO AWAY AND LEAVE US IN THE DARK! ;]
• It's odd that, when someone complains that the level of seriousness on MoFi is in danger because of random silliness, all of the heated and intelligent discussions on athiesm, science, and politics (and other high-minded topics) are ignored. There is certainly not a dearth of high-brow conversation here, and honestly, if that were all that existed here I doubt I would bother to participate. Humor, in whatever form it is presented (and yes, all forms are present here, from the sophisticated to the banal to the completely moranic) is a necessary part of a community -- especially when our interaction with each other is only through our written word (or through Skype, if you get invited to a firc-athon). As I've said before: the cultures of online communities are dependent on the composition of the players. As players come and go, the culture changes, and that is not always to everyone's liking. Whether change is bad or good is not the point; it's inevitable. The only option one has when participating in a community that they find marginally worthwhile is to simply ignore the content that he or she does not wish to deal with and enjoy the content in which they find value.
• DONT TAK AWY MY SKWEEE!
• Well said, rock bitch.
• Aw, you say the sweetest things, Ralphie. *sigh*
• This I say I am above all this I went away Because the piss But hear me now I'll be back When I feel You need some flack I am the judge Of all that's right Now heed my words Before my flight Reform thy ways And change what"s wrong Or I'll be back Before too long I'm just here For judgements sake Just think of me As the urinal cake
• well this has turned into a pretty interesting discussion, for which I suppose we can thank IgSlu, if inadvertently :) there are, and have always been long, on-going "serious" threads, with very intense conversations, links, arguments etc., regarding Iraq, the gubmint and other items. I love to read those threads, but I also don't tend to comment in them, for the sorts of reasons bees elucidates above. I personally find the serious parts enlightening, fascinating, enriching, but the wonderful silliness, the poetry and injokes are a deeply important mental tonic for me thru the workday, especially when all of those serious subject threaten to seriously depress me. I WUVS MAH MONKEYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• ))) to Argh!!!
• ))) to tedious bitches everywhere!!!
• I always miss the arguments... Also, its nice to see IgnorantSlut back, even if only for a few minutes Hello
• "Jane you ignorant slut." (someone had to say it)
• Nothing like urine day for having to defend the integrity of MonkeyFilter. Here I stand, I can do no other, though I may splash my shoes.
• Urine luck!
• MonkeyFilter: Although I was baffled by the urine theme, I've thoroughly enjoyed it. *exhales* Whew! path, I'll guard fish tick, you take bees long and we'll set up the bomb to TUM in the endzone. Ready? Break!
• I blame cynbadd's unsolvable toilet riddle for all of this.
• You know, you may be onto something there. The toilet riddle just ate away at our brains for months, nagging at us, prodding our subconscious thoughts until it just burst out in a veritable tidal wave.
• *blinks rapidly* /muses, whatever happened herein? Hi Iggy! I still think of you as a good monkey and really don't believe we should support the notion of any monkeys being otherwise. Considering my own erratic drop-ins here, I was not aware of so many new community standards and strictures as such dialogue indicates. I was truthfully curious about this new fixation and thought to provoke some insight into monkey-thought, which it seems happened. Where does all this monkey-anger come from? Internet in-fighting is idiotic. I'm into 'i's' today. c'mon kids, "ice it"
• May I remind you people that YOU DON'T HAVE TO READ (OR COMMENT) IN EVERY DAMN THREAD! Ya gotta mouse button, fools, USE IT!
• Whoops, that sounds a bit harsh. I'm barely recovered from MoFi withdrawal, and don't be hatin' on the Monkeys.
• Yeah, don't hate the monkey, hate the filtah!
• No, don't hate the filtah, hate the Google!
• The google has been terrorizing the internets lately.
• That's it. I'm plugging the tubes.
• Were you there when they placed him in the tubes?
• So, is the purpose of a monkey filter to catch only monkeys as they flow through the tubes? Like a monkey debris catchment? I suspect you got more than you bargained for.
• Monkeyishnessitudely things also linger in these here tubes. I have no air.
• "I'M YOUR GODDAMNED PARTNER!" Sorry ... that line always follows "you got more than you bargained for" in my head. Raiders of the Lost Ark
• If you filter the mokeys out of the tubes All you've got left is butts and boobs And ads for Viagra and butt plugs and lubes. Don't filter the monkeys. Filter the noobs!
• ((((( pour le Chien!
• Good boy!
• So, is the purpose of a monkey filter to catch only monkeys as they flow through the tubes? Like a monkey debris catchment? I don't know why, but that's comforting. The thought of whooshing willy-nilly through this heartless, cold tube, and a soft filter stops me and drags me in here. Yay!
• I think there's a hair clog in my monkey filter. *throws Ralph a bone* Atta boy.
• I'd hate to get caught in the filter on a high flow day. That could be crushing.
• Now you know why every spring Monkeybashi shakes out all the old threads.
• ((((( monkeys)))) /smiles again. And GranMa, ahem, Monkeyfilter:YOU DON'T HAVE TO READ (OR COMMENT) IN EVERY DAMN THREAD! *grins Thanks for that one.