Dear Meh Staff
4A lot of people think that once Thanksgiving is done, we can focus on what WE want for OURSELVES.
Our culture has fostered that feeling by having Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and if everything goes as planned from now on, @sohmageek will get to brag about the idea behind Mediocre Wednesday.
Sure, some people claim that the deals they get are for other people, but let's be honest. Most of those people are lying.
Then come the Holidays, and we continue the tradition of convincing the next generation to be a tad narcissistic.
However, after hearing what gifts my nieces and nephew have gotten for the last 5 nights, I have decided I can't take it.
As such, on the way to you right now is a BoC in box form weighing 6 - 7 pounds so far.
Let's see how you like getting junk.
(I just hope the bugs don't die before @hollboll gets to see them... Wait... Are there bugs in the box? Not saying.) Enjoy.
MWAHAHA
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That is a bit mean. They don't want ladybugs send to them.
@sohmageek No ladybugs right now in my pond.
@FroodyFrog Well I can send you tons. Just liberated well over 100 out of my car and I am sure I missed a bunch. Yesterday at every stop light I was liberating them - still hadn't gotten them all hours later. They are like a locus swarm around here right now.
@Kidsandliz
We once had an infestation here. It was ridiculous after a while.
If you want to get on @hollboll s good side, send her a humongous box of them. She'll thank you for the ladybugs AND the box ;)
As it turns out, I can't ship it right now for various reasons, but it's coming eventually. If I were y'all, I'd start mentally preparing myself ;)
@FroodyFrog
@dashcloud The proper way to read it is in the same way that he would say that in the show ;)
Trouble on the way...
@galmaegi
All I'll say is one person's junk is another person's problem.
I think, in retrospect, calling it a BoC is slightly wrong though because some of the stuff is useful to the right people.
(Although i guess the same can be said for BoC,Fuku, and the evil twin of the Fuku)
Besides, i put something in it to keep @mehcus distracted ;)
So I decided that I'll have some fun with the BoC.
What better way to have fun than a "puzzle trail" involving Braille, Latin, the need to look up stuff in Meh forums, the need to Google locations etc?
The only problem I have is that some forms of communication don't recognize capital letters, and goo.gl is sensitive with capital letters. Would it be too nice of me to say which letters are capital?
Toilet paper? Doesn't Meh need toilet paper?
@Teripie
I tend not to keep records on companies toilet paper reserve levels.
@FroodyFrog
https://meh.com/forum/topics/meh-must-accept-toilet-paperapparently
@thismyusername
I meant on a day-to-day basis.
@FroodyFrog 377523.25/365 = 1034 feet per day or 2.714 average toilet rolls per day. You are welcome. :)
@thismyusername
Congratulations. I'm not sure how to respond to that.
@FroodyFrog Yeah, I was working on a reply too - and then, well, math.
@thismyusername You forgot to figure out how many squares per person per day.
@Kidsandliz
An average, or actual amount? Because while I'm sure you could ask them, it might be perceived as slightly creepy.
@FroodyFrog average of course... it was just to finish the stats run you did.
@Kidsandliz
Shame.
Also, in my defense, it was @thismyusername who was calculating toilet paper stats. I was trying to avoid it.
@FroodyFrog opps sorry about that. Hit reply to the wrong person. @thismyusername forgot to call you out on a message above this on this thread.
Dear Meh staff peeps/peepettes: I apologize in advance if you find anything of use in the box.
@FroodyFrog Are you really sure the box can stand up to the impressive hype behind it? :) Good luck!
@dashcloud
I don't believe in luck.
The more i raise the hype, the better the payoff when they realize that i have no qualms shipping a box with junk in it as opposed to just trashing it. Sort of like how they have no issues shipping people rugs which get trashed immediately ;)
@FroodyFrog
You work for meh don't you :)
I think he works for Woot.
@hallmike
I shuddered when i read that comment.
@thismyusername - they wish ;)
To anyone at Meh who wants to do something they might end up regretting:
The box was delivered yesterday to a parcel locker, so unless it was retrieved, there's a 7 pounds box waiting to be opened ;)
@FroodyFrog pretty sure @hollboll is going to take that to the trash.
@RedHot
If she wanted another box for her fort, it would need to be opened one way or another.
I clearly thought this out before sending it.
On the bright side, my room never looked more junk free.
Meh is probably already writing you a thank you for everything
@jaremelz
Hey, who am i to complain about a free autograph? ;)
If the bugs die I have thousands of lady bugs trying to winter in my car. I shoe them out the door and they keep coming back. If her bugs arrive DOA I can restock her if you pay postage. And I promise to poke air holes in the container.
@Kidsandliz
I didn't end up sending them. They wouldn't have fit in the box :(
Besides, they wouldn't have fit in with the theme of the box ( @moose )
Dear meh. If you pay for shipping I have a ton of things in my storage unit I can send you. Future fuku prizes perhaps? Obviously not total trash as the stuff is in a storage unit and not a dumpster...Might even be a pallet worth. (for all of you who wonder why I still have the stuff (a) I am selling it on craigslist and so far have more than broken even on the storage unit costs, and (b) I hope to have a job soon enough that I still have some of it left so I can actually have something in an apartment )
@Kidsandliz
Are you suggesting that we can get other people to pay for us to ship them stuff we don't need?
@FroodyFrog that's what meh does!
@thismyusername
Oh yeah.
snicker
@FroodyFrog Hey if they fall for that why not?
@Kidsandliz Have them send a trailer to your storage unit, and they can load up everything!
@dashcloud Yeah and I am only, maybe 8 hours from Dallas. They could do it in one long day.
@hollboll ... OPEN IT PLEASE. (then post about it in the forums)
@connorbush
Thank you for reinforcing what i was going to explain to @dashcloud (https://meh.com/forum/topics/dear-meh-staff#566ddfeed0dd90900cce12a0)
@FroodyFrog i have become confused.
@connorbush
Very well.
Due to my boredom, i decided to hype up this box. @dashcloud asked if it could stand up to the hype behind it.
I followed up with an explanation why i was hyping it up (https://meh.com/forum/topics/dear-meh-staff#566de101d0dd90900cce12be)
Turns out, because i hyped it up, and included a note (https://meh.com/forum/topics/a-challenge-from-froodyfrog), people are actually curious what the box contained, as you demonstrated.
@FroodyFrog Ah, yes--okay. Then I was not entirely confused. I did read both aforementioned threads prior to posting my gifs.
I did not think that I reinforced because the end result still has potential to be monumentally disappointing and might not live up to the hype.
I do not do well with suspense. SO until I see how awesome or not awesome it is, I shall remain excited.
As far as the hype goes--ten out of ten. Keep it coming.
"Body ten face ten that's my weakness." -Key and Pelle
@connorbush
Who said that hype has to build up to something great? Sometimes the best hype is for disappointing results.
But if you're looking for non-disappointing results, then the contents of this box probably aren't for you.
@FroodyFrog
@connorbush
Farnsworth Parabox.
Fun episode. (Then again, almost all of them were)
Y'know, I can't help but to think that we need to wave a magic wand here in the following week -- to turn this ...
... into this:
@narfcake Loving the frog. Although, while it's the correct species (frog), it's not a poison dart frog.
@narfcake then FF might send us cell phone junk as prizes for contests... might not be a good choice.
@thismyusername @narfcake
Someone's been paying attention ;)
@FroodyFrog Oh come on, you can't expect Ikea to sell something that specific now!
(Both the frog and the goat were purchased from there.)
@narfcake Sure I can. It's called entitlement.
And if these places could sell it:
This place is a zoo
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