88 Lines About 44 Mefites
February 14, 2007 10:47 PM
An ode to some of the more vibrant personas and memorable events in Metafilter history -- and an homage to the classic tune by The Nails. Lyrics with tremendous amounts of annotation inside.
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posted by cortex (91 comments total)
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MiHail liked the portobellos
Became a legend, rest in peace
jonmc's the Everyman [2, 3, 4]
He talked a lot, to say the least
Ethereal Bligh's a feminist [2, 3]
Who spoke in lengthy paragraphs [2, 3]
loquacious was some other guy
Who liked to play the site for laughs [2, 3, 4]
Stan Chin got a golden star
But lost it after folks complained [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
Effigy2000 posted
well [cf: A, B] and got it back again [2, 3, 4]
mathowie's the man in charge [2, 3, 4]
Quit [2, 3, 4, 5] his day job, had a kid [2, 3]
jessamyn's library science [2]
Kept the green unasshatted [2, 3, 4, 5]
asavage was mefi's own [2, 3, 4, 5]
He spent his workweek busting myths [2, ^]
It's Raining Florence Henderson
Adapted Arlo [2], always riffed [2, 3]
y2karl was fond of small tags [2, 3, 4, 5]
Favored blues and politics
jonson's posts were often faved [2, 3]
He gave the blue its daily fix [2]
matteo churned out stunning posts [2, 3, 4]
But spoke of fascists [2, 3, 4, 5, 6], liked to mock [2, 3, 4]
quonsar [~2] was a fishpants expert [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
Freed [2, 3, 4], he chanted "smock smock smock" [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
languagehat's a language hag [2, 3]
Prayed for flameouts [2, 3, 4, 5], argued words
amberglow showed lots of passion [2, 3]
Liked the fellas [2, 3] -- tough luck, birds
wendell's name was often dropped
when threads detoured from bad to worse [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
konolia declared herself
to be anus-expose-averse [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
MiguelCardoso liked to chat [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
They love him out in Portugal [2, 3, 4]
madamjujujive's output [2, 3, 4, 5]
Would make our cup to overflow
delmoi was a model mefite
Consistent, clearly spoken [2, 3] man
dhoyt [2, 3, 4] was four different people
All of them extremely banned [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
Stavros was a wonderchicken
Korea's [2, 3, 4] where he spent his time
ikkyu2's the AskMe doctor [2, 3, 4, 5]
Never charged a single dime
crunchland turned into Dave Faris [1]
Either way the method's good [2, 3, 4, 5]
kindall ran the old self-link list [2, 3, 4]
Projects stands where it once stood [1]
ParisParamus was sassy [2, 3]
Liked to praise the GOP [2, 3]
dame did not take shit from no one [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
Lived it up in NYC [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
un owen Trebeked [2, 3] and scammed [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14]
Once said "hurf durf butter eater" [2, 3, 4, 5]
jenleigh was a made-up redhead [1]
Lonely Scots had hoped to meet her
son_of_minya went out flaming [2, 3]
Threatened to cut off his hand [2, 3]
Meatbomb earned himself a timeout
for Westphalia Treaty spam [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
Pot was shrill and unforgiving
Always calling Kettle black [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
Kettle wasn't any better
couldn't shrug off Pot's attack [2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6]
hama7 split the middle
Heated [2, 3] comments, lovely posts
grumblebee was full of questions [2, 3]
More inquisitive [2, 3, 4] than most
jkottke was an old-school member [2, 3]
Ran his own blog, popped some corn [2, 3, 4]
Seth contended up through 04 [2, 3]
Then took off, his welcome worn [2, 3, 4]
AlexReynolds got the boot [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
For acting like a drama queen
Pretty_Generic [2] got banhammered [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
He was screwing with the green [2]
Keyzer Soze got in trouble [2, 3]
Asked the site to help him out [2, 3, 4]
dios was our Charybdis [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16]
This song's about him, have no doubt [2, 3]
Astro Zombie [2, 3] had some sequels
Fractured clones named 2 and 3 [2, 3, 4, 5]
cortex camped out in the grey [2, 3, 4, 5]
and sang [2, 3, 4] about the things he'd see
posted by cortex at 10:48 PM on February 14, 2007 [32 favorites has favorites]