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@cengland0

I find it entertaining that the bag head is being used. I remember a long ago thread where someone, I forget whom, created that.

Also thanks for posting this! I subscribe but am not getting the emails - even though I have the address marked as safe. Apparently I am not the only one.

@Kidsandliz Spam folder?

@cengland0 Nope. I check spam every day as a job openings announcement in my field ends up there even though that is on my safe list too.

@cengland0 @Kidsandliz
So, they’re hiring for experienced pharma sales reps for ED medications?

@tinamarie1974 Of course they are! Because I just cancelled mine.

@ruouttaurmind aawwww well if that is the case you should have cancelled sooner!

Tell ya what, if they do send something out and it is male focused, I will send it to you instead of chucking into my box of random for the next exchange. Then you won’t miss out

@tinamarie1974
/giphy in your dreams

@trlenoir I never even received those!!

@trlenoir I have a pair somewhere that I can ship you if you’d like.

@RiotDemon woot woot! Don’t tempt me!!!

/giphy temptation

@trlenoir I’m serious. I’ll look for them later today if I get a minute. They don’t fit my muscular calves.

@trlenoir I found them if you are interested.

@carl669 at least iguana is in season
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/01/22/florida-cold-weather-falling-iguanas-trees-meat/4541351002/

@duodec slightly used.

@duodec @Ignorant and repacked from old breathalyzer tests and candy corn

@medz they are getting a fish tank

@bleedmichigan
/image villain shark tank

@bleedmichigan @medz that is v cool

@medz @tinamarie1974 swimming with sharks is fun just an FYI

@bleedmichigan @medz @tinamarie1974 yeah did a shark dive in St Maarten that was way cool. Also snorkeled with some in Cayman Brac. Made SWMBO very nervous at first

@bleedmichigan @chienfou @medz agree, I have done sharks, stingrays and dolphins. All amazing in their own way

@bleedmichigan @chienfou @medz @tinamarie1974
Mantas are awesome.

POPSOCKETS! COURT DOCKETS! FOLK ROCK HITS! AWESOME!

@tinamarie1974 A shark tried to eat me when I was diving near Isla San Pedro Mártir about 15 years ago. I guess it didn’t care for the way I kept grabbing it’s tail trying to get it to turn around for a picture.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@ruouttaurmind @tinamarie1974

Underwater “hold my beer and watch this”?

@f00l Heh.

I had a few pictures of it’s ass, I just wanted to get a pic of it’s face. But the slimy bastard wouldn’t turn around! Until it did.

@f00l @ruouttaurmind @tinamarie1974 my… What big teeth you have Grandma .

@ruouttaurmind @tinamarie1974 So, did it eat you?

@mehcuda67 It tried to make a snack of my forearm and got it’s teeth snagged up in my wetsuit. I wouldn’t so much say it bit me. It was more like it tore my arm with it’s teeth as it shook it’s head trying to get free. Unfortunately, once there’s blood in the water, wee peckish sharks tend to become bigger, hangrier sharks. So I spoiled the day of diving for everyone on the boat.

@mehcuda67 @ruouttaurmind

@ruouttaurmind Dang… That’s what I get for kidding around. Well at least it makes a good story. Sorry everyone’s diving day was tanked, but glad it wasn’t worse!

@mehcuda67 No worries! It was just a flesh wound.

This is the scar circled in blue. You can see where his tooth made a nice clean incision in the middle, and the rough tears on each end going in opposite directions because the little bugger was shaking his head trying to get loose. I was more frightened by the prospect of going to the hospital in Guaymas than the shark wound.

@mehcuda67 @ruouttaurmind oh my gosh! How many stitches did you need?

@ruouttaurmind Well I guess you can go around saying that you won the battle with the shark - few can say that. That must have been scary and painful at the time. Salt water on a wound that big had to hurt.

@tinamarie1974 Nine. And I wish I had a dollar for every time I had to listen to “A stitch in time…”

@Kidsandliz TBH, I don’t remember ever feeling the sting of the salt water. You know how little traumas like that are. It’s really kind of numb at first.

@ruouttaurmind well I promise I was NOT going to say that!!

I was thinking at least you have a cool story for your scar!

@ruouttaurmind

You’ve always been such a CHUM ha ha ha.

/giphy chum

@duodec if those ‘cars’ are what we get to pick from I want the one in the middle

@bleedmichigan @duodec I’m leaning towards the SWAT truck

@bleedmichigan @chienfou @duodec I’ll take KLEENSCHWEAP (for a better world).

@bleedmichigan @chienfou @duodec @stolicat I’ll take the dozer, or the fire engine. Whichever one is worth more money.

@bleedmichigan @chienfou @RiotDemon @stolicat the police car is a Mopar '70s B-body (fuselage style), probably a Polara since they put what looks like a Dodge sticker on it. Mine.

@bleedmichigan @chienfou @duodec @RiotDemon @stolicat that’s the one i want. I can drive around and pretend I’m in Hot Pursuit of those darn Duke Boys (I could even borrow my sister’s Beagle)

@bleedmichigan @chienfou @duodec @earlyre @RiotDemon @stolicat
A Nissan Cube and a Cadillac CTS-V wagon? Someone must have looked through Doug DeMuro’s list of cars he’s owned.

@bleedmichigan @duodec You’ve got the right idea. The most fun to drive, by far!

@bleedmichigan @duodec I’ll take the 57ish GMC/Chevy pickup truck in the bottom right. I used to have that Jimmy.

@bleedmichigan @duodec How did you know their name was Jimmy @blaineg?

@bleedmichigan @chienfou @duodec @earlyre @RiotDemon @stolicat great gif! Isn’t that Roscoe Pico Train? Or what was his name?

@moonhat

Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane

• as Played by the late James Best:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Best

@Kidsandliz I heard Malaria Tramp is working the Republican side of Senate with her knee pads to keep Trump’s support “up”.

PS that was a real headline as seen on the MSN home page yesterday.

So…is casemates not really part of the family in the same way the other sites are? I notice it is neither there nor on the mediocre.com page.

@medz I miss the old mediocre.

@zachdecker Me too. Those guys didn’t care that they had a self-denigrating company name and that saying “I work at a mediocre corporation” was fraught with confusion and inefficiencies.
“mercatalyst” reminds me of early 2000’s website names where they tried really hard to sound cool super high-tech.

It’s not a cool name unless they leave out a vowel. I suggest leaving out the “e” so that it can be misread as “Mr. Catalyst”.

@walarney I tried to buy the meerkatalyst .com domain, but I guess that already exists.

@medz Is this the big news? They’re changing the corp. name to Mercatalyst?

Maybe they’re going into merkin manufacturing?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@medz both their new and old website doesn’t go anywhere except to the 4 deals pages. Nothing else there which is too bad.

Did they email that announcement (despite being signed up I no longer get emails)? Or did you find out by accident? Or?

@DennisG2014 Assuming so… I thought being based in Texas, they were really embracing the patriotism there.

@Kidsandliz today’s email monkey troll chat said it was a name change. Google search revealed all.

I wonder if this means the kickstarter experiment is officially over now. Will there be a Mercatalyst Laboratories?

@Kidsandliz @medz Oh! It was in the email!
lol I never actually read them…

@CEOpaperbagMatt 2:48 PM So, big news is: we’re getting a name
change!

Wonder how much they want for the mediocre.com domain? I bid $50.

@DennisG2014 I no longer get them despite being subscribed.

@DennisG2014 @Kidsandliz

They are charging the name to

MerkinCorp.com?

Ok.

@f00l
https://mercatalyst.com
Right now it is a carbon copy of mediocre.com (where all tabs have been removed and the only live links are to the 4 sites) plus a few tabs on top. The mediocre forums are still there. At least just now.

@Kidsandliz

Yeah. I saw.

Not sure why that change is a win tho. Hmmmm.

@medz I’ve been asking that question for a while now. I’ve never gotten an answer. I didn’t ask them directly though.

@f00l @Kidsandliz
merkin + catalyst = mercatalyst

Maybe they’re not making the actual merkins - maybe they’ve come up with a substance that gets pubic hair to grow artificially in sheets, i.e., a merkin catalyst…
Then they can wholesale the bolts of pubic hair to the merkin manufacturers.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@medz Are they going to have to rename Mediocritee to Mercatalystee?

@heartny ha. Prolly.

@heartny genius

@somf69 I would like all of those things.

@somf69 i would like none of those things

@CaptAmehrican @somf69 More of an anchovy fan?

@CaptAmehrican @mossygreen @somf69
/giphy sardines yummers

@CaptAmehrican @moonhat @mossygreen @somf69 that is a bit disturbing.

@CaptAmehrican @JnKL @moonhat @somf69 Yeah, I’ve been trying to figure out how to respond to it/whether or not to “like” it, and… I just don’t know.

@CaptAmehrican @JnKL @moonhat @mossygreen @somf69
So, you’re saying you feel … kinda “meh” about it?

@CaptAmehrican @JnKL @mike808 @moonhat @somf69 If “meh” has an undercurrent of discomfort and body horror, yes!

@cengland0 Medz leaked it above- they already have the new website set up. Unless they are changing meh too.

@RiotDemon To be fair, he likely gets away with The Boring Company by it being a pun and founded a decade after he had PayPal, Tesla, and SpaceX.

I’m a little surprised they didn’t announce it here until more than 2 weeks after it was on Linkedin.

@callow Thanks for posting. Despite having emails checked I haven’t gotten any since August (they aren’t in spam).

Can I still call em Mediocre

@Ignorant Our quality is constant.

@Kidsandliz You’re welcome. Did you try turning it off and back on again?

@callow Yes and I am trying again today but only clicked, saved, clicked again so maybe not off long enough. Turned if off this morning. Will turn it back on on Monday.

Is the mascot going to be a meerkat? That is what I think of every time i read the name.
/image meerkat

If i were fully awake and at my computer i would try to add them holding lists to complete the thought.

@tnhillbillygal It’s obvious to me that the mascot should be a mermaid cat named Alyst as shown in logo mock up below.

@medz That is a fine representation!

@macromeh YES! I’ll donate a dollar for @Matthew’s services. Maybe even 2.

@mrchristian yes. Please send tiny suits and ties for the meerkats.

@mrchristian @Thumperchick Suits and ties? What about the fashionable lady meerkats?

@mrchristian @rockblossom ladies can rock the hell out of a suit and tie.

@Thumperchick They certainly can! I’m all for suit-and-tied ladies for dress-up occasions, but as every-day work attire, ties suck for any gender of meerkatspokesanimals. I am, however, all for silk ties for the more annoying humans of either gender. Silk ties are strong and they are tied with a convenient slipknot. Just grab the bottom/inside tie and give it a hard yank, and it will have a wonderfully civilizing effect on the wearer, who will never again invade your personal space. In fact, if memory serves, the meer (not kat) mention of such a possible action often has the same effect, especially if the description is delivered in a conversational voice and followed by a smile. Or at least, MY description and smile had that effect. YMMV.

@rockblossom @Thumperchick this is…uhhh… why I stick to pocket squares.

@rockblossom @Thumperchick that! Go get em

Examples:

@medz option B please!!

@medz Current text one is actually kinda a placeholder.

@ThomasF well I should certainly hope so

@medz @tinamarie1974 Yeah, the top one is cool but it makes me think you blew up the store with a nuclear bomb, until I see the beaker.

@medz I think they should incorporate a Meerkat into the design, since Mercatalyst is somewhat similar. And Meerkats are kind of cute.

@curtise You act like being a Very Mercatalyst Person wouldn’t make sense?

@curtise @Thumperchick Verified Meerkat Panelist

@ybmuG Oh great, no my mehcedes is going to go slower.

@ybmuG They’re going to start manufacturing replacement catalytic converters for the Mercury Grand Marquis.

@medz That’s better than meerkats.

@medz *name

@ybmuG Irk shall henceforth be renamed Merc

@medz Now that would irk me!

@medz @ybmuG Maybe we find out Irk has a sibling/friend/partner: Irk & Merc.

@walarney @ybmuG Ah, like a Bert and Ernie situation…

@walarney Dunno about Irk, but I’m pretty sure that Glen once had a partner/mate (Mer the Sea Monster?), though perhaps he/she was lost in the dryer.