Advance Wild Speculation Anticipating Meh's 10th.
15The middle of 2024 will be an auspicious time at Meh; it will mark ten years of oft-regrettable sales of merch from the sublime to the subprime to the sub-something. So let’s get a head start on trying to guess what kind of outlandish festivities may be in store. I don’t think we’ll see another TrackR-and-Mask craptacular like the first day of that two-day 'thon a couple of years back, but we can probably expect some warped mind to have cooked up a suitable follow-on. This topic may need to be revisited later on, of course, but right now, what sort of hijinks can you posit?
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Head-start you say? Better start growing your hair out.
@ChadP In my case, what’s left of it…
@ChadP @werehatrack like a chia pet?
@Cerridwyn @werehatrack Something like that.
@Cerridwyn @ChadP I have been reduced to having Social Hair that I put on when headed out in public.
Fun, games, toys and prizes?
@Kidsandliz But how do we play “pin the tail on the octopus” virtually?
@Kidsandliz @werehatrack The same way you would in person.
@brainmist @werehatrack We could always play pin that Irk on the Octopus (werehatrack where is that photo you were going to take???) or pin the leg on the Octopus which would increase the odds of a good outcome since there are so many legs.
Possibly a bunch of Built-style items where the price gets cheaper if you’re willing to take more hand sanitizer?
How about someone getting a pallet of all the shit I mean hand sanitizer, tracker, car lighters, phone screens/rings, MacBook cases and paint so we can finally start getting decent irks again.
Or how about someone just gets a pallet of something decent
Well, I want Speakerdocks and knives
Specifically, JBL speakerdocks and SHUN pocket knives.
@f00l KNIVES!!!
oh yes, a SharpOBjectatho
and not kitchen knives you dodos
@Cerridwyn @f00l And no bloody knives with painted blades, whether they’re there for the kitchen or anywhere else. I will allow that rainbow titanium effect, but no paint.
I anticipate Meh’s 10th will be less spectacular than Beethoven’s 5th, though no doubt will have more initial hype.
@phendrick Side note on karma.
“dit-dit-dit-dah” in Morse code spells out “V”, the Roman numeral for “5”.
@phendrick Well, now I’m not going to sleep tonight.
I can haz catshirts? I might run out by 2025.
@narfcake seems that someone said that this is some of your CatShirts,
So: I guess , You could indeed run out!
@lonocat @narfcake But the big question is will you run out of underwear and pants by then? Hopefully not so you can skip doing laundry for all of 2024.
@Kidsandliz @lonocat Yes. Laundry still has to be done at least biweekly.
Some shirts are also disproportionately worn more than others. This one is about due:
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/purrrfect-day-2
Help decorate the office again?
I’m expecting they will have a single balloon and a small paper sign in the break room saying “Happy 10th Birthd” and some stale cookies.
It’s the mediocre way to celebrate
@OnionSoup Four years ago we ordered an ice cream cake for my daughter that said ‘Happy Birthday Caitlin’. My wife had my father-in-law pick it up from the store, and being British, he put the frozen cake in the fridge for a day. On kiddo’s birthday the mostly thawed and melted cake merely said ‘Birth’ as the rest had slid off at an awkward angle. It was still tasty, and we had one of our biggest family laughs. And now, when we order a cake, we only ask for ‘Birth’ to be written on it. You get weird looks with that request, but we have lots of giggles at home.
@capnjb @OnionSoup That “being British” part cracked me up. But now I have to wonder what (if anything) is the story there:
@capnjb @xobzoo lol, my guess is it referred to the latter. I’m British, never saw an Ice Cream cake until I moved to the US. That said, I knew to keep one in freezer the first year one of my kids requested one.
@OnionSoup @xobzoo So my father-in-law is from Yorkshire. Mother-in-law was born and raised in Dublin. My wife grew up in New York city and has no discernable accent whatsoever. It’s like they all cancel each other out. Well… until she’s mad at me. Then it’s all Irish, all the time
I wish they would do another celebration like the 4th birthday. That was so much fun. There were games that were actually fun to participate in, like making art with stuff you’ve gotten from Meh, baking “Meh” birthday cakes, etc. and they were giving IRKs as prizes and also just at random. I think I wound up with like 13 of them. It was a blast.
@Pony I got 2 or 3 I think? They need to do a retro birthday celebration and to make it truly a step back in time they need to pay @jonT to come in as a consultant to run it/oversee it.
@Pony I think half the IRKs I’ve ever received came from that birthday!
OK, maybe not half, that’s an exageration, but a statistically significant chunk.
@Pony I got a few IRKs, and honestly, that was the beginning of me doing anything active with Meh AND trying for IRKs.
@OnionSoup @Pony i don’t think they were irks yet, but i forget
@Cerridwyn @OnionSoup Yeah, I think they were still Fukos at that point.
/showme a Meh 10th Birthday Party
@mediocrebot Happpy Pirthday indeed.
That reminds me of mine. Except there wasn’t one.
/showme Presents from Meh 10th Birthday Party
@heartny Hahaha those all might be empty boxes.
@heartny @Kidsandliz They’re full of Trackrs.
@heartny @Kidsandliz
@Pony That’s what I was going to say!
@heartny @Kidsandliz @Kyeh @Pony and pop socket things and mac cases and iphone cases
@Cerridwyn @heartny @Kidsandliz @Kyeh @Pony And congealed candy corn and stolen toothbrushes.
/showme what we should all regret about meh turning 10.
@mediocrebot that’s deep. So deep that I don’t understand.
/showme a Meh April Fool Day celebration
@mediocrebot Hooray for April Lool’s ponks!
@mediocrebot @xobzoo April is the best of the Lools - she throws the best ponks!
How about a sequel to The Book Of Meh?
Just so if there’s a giant bubble gum machine awarded it goes to someone else.
@pooflady Are you the one that got that way back when?
@Kidsandliz Yeah, there were several of us.
I fully expect Meh to finally sell all the red Quips they got tucked away.
@Noddy93 the red quips cure cancer. Big pharma won’t let them sell the red quips because it would hurt their drug empire. And Bill Gates doesn’t want us to know, which is why there is no “Meh” button on the standard windows keyboard.
@Noddy93 @OnionSoup That button is missing from iOS and Mac-platform devices, too.
@Noddy93 @werehatrack the conspiracy goes wider than I thought.
@OnionSoup I now have the urge to create small “meh” stickers to place on the top of the Windows key, covering what’s there now, as an extended commentary.
@Noddy93 I received 3 of those in my last IRK…as well as another type of electric toothbrush. They trying to tell me something?
@Noddy93 @tohar1
That you need to buy teeth so you can use these? Or your family needs to be bigger so get busy with that as you have enough for a family of 4?
@Kidsandliz @Noddy93 Bigger family? Sorry, but that ship has long sailed away…
@tohar1 you got red ones? thems unicorns!
@Noddy93 All 3 were red…Triple Unicorn Score!!
@tohar1
time to buy a lottery ticket!
@Noddy93 @tohar1 You’re not a member of the illuminati are you?
@Noddy93 @OnionSoup You know I can’t tell you…The first rule of enlightenment to the brothers of the code is to not speak of the illuminati.
Knives. I’m picky about them.
Those painted Cuisinart kitchen knives would be so much more useful without the paint. Knives are not to look at. Knives are to cut things with.
And, honestly, the pocket knives with the black finish on the blade are much less interesting to me than ones without that coloration. Knives are tools. They are supposed to be used, and that implies their usage for things that will mar such coatings. It’s much better for the blade to be naked metal when that inevitably happens, in my opinion.
Also, IMNSHO, Frame Locks Bad, Lockbacks Somewhat Better. Give me a side button lock or just a tension-retainer that can be easily overridden for safe one-handed closure. I routinely mod lockbacks to achieve this, which is why I’m less annoyed when a knife is equipped with one of those than when it has a frame lock.
/showme Advance Wild Speculation Anticipating Meh’s 10th
Just a category suggestion: spend a day or two Mehrathoning things that were originally packaged with many individual items per retail package, but upon delivery from Meh arrive as a single item comprised of numerous inseparable units.
@shahnm A brick of ginger candy pellets lightly fused together? Rolled in a tray of TrackRs to give them a crunchy exterior, producing the Meh equivalent of the equally inedible and far more widely infamous Stuckey’s Pecan Log?
Another sure to be popular category for a Mehrathon: Things sold exclusively in Georgia red, but not actually available for purchase in Georgia.
Please sell a refrigerator for $XYZ, the price of which decreases by $x.yz for each package of batteries purchased on a sister site for storage in said fridge…
@shahnm And reduced by $x.yz/n for each five-pack of hand sanitizer that’s added to the order.
@shahnm Would TrackRs count as CR2016 batteries? (Not all of them are dead…)
And I give you my solemn word that if you figure out a way to sell this, I will purchase the maximum amount. Why? I have my reasons.
@shahnm I didn’t know Da Vinci’s Notebook covered that song (until now). Their “…skatin’ like the Leafs” line is pretty fun.
Yet I still find myself holding to the original. Possibly just nostalgia.
@shahnm Extra-long stainless steel shoe horns have been popping up lately on sites like Temu; it should be easy enough to grab a bunch of them wholesale somewhere, and quickly cut teeth in them with an angle grinder. Deburring the edges would probably take longer than making the teeth.
Or they could go for the full on Archie McPhee treatment, and glue some novelty dentures onto them.
If we’re wishlisting something for Meh to sell… I still want life-size badger statues. If meh loves me, they will sell Badger statues.
Maybe by then they will send out prizes from their 5th birthday