February (Valentine's) Goat Nominations

@joelmw dont mention her name...she comes when she hears her name. That, or any color not purple.

@dis_member @joelmw I'm still confused where everyone is getting that @Barney if female.

@Ignorant That fact has come out in a thread.

@SIMBM https://meh.com/forum/topics/todays-the-28th---no-whose-the-next-goat-discussion-yet#547915aabc2ba14802ae7900

@joelmw what thread is that?

@Ignorant I think this is it. Seems authoritative and I don't think I've seen anything to the contrary (except from folks with less credentials to say, and mostly those folks are either asking or just guessing, from what I can tell): https://meh.com/forum/topics/todays-the-28th---no-whose-the-next-goat-discussion-yet#547bb6912485d044067930b8

@joelmw please reread that, nowhere does it say Barney is female.

@Ignorant You may be right. I was reading the "her" as referring to @Barney, but she/he may not be the antecedent. I don't know if there's another thread. @katblue Can you help?

@joelmw it hasn't been said anywhere and it shouldn't be said anywhere, @Barney is @Barney no gender is needed.

@Ignorant i was following the goat...what a fool i was!

@dis_member Well that should go without saying. Shame on you. Though it's obviously my fault.

@joelmw ill keep following you dude. Youre alright by me.

@joelmw If @Barney shows up and says she'd be cool with being the purple goat of love, I'll back her!

@joelmw Sappy? Fiddlesticks!

I love purple.

@Thumperchick I don't know, it's difficult to find purple goats. This one's a cutie though.

@Teripie Awww.

@Thumperchick Yippee! Purple?

@Barney You sealed it. My vote for February Love Goat - Barney!

@Thumperchick Awww.

@Barney

@Thumperchick I love purple.

@Barney - You go, Barney! Don't let anyone call you sappy. I find your economy with words elegant. No one ever has to wonder what you are trying to say. Never change!

@joelmw Seconded. Or eighth'd. Whatever number we are on, my vote is in for Barney.

@Barney - You go, Barney! Don't let anyone call you sappy. I find your economy with words elegant. No one ever has to wonder what you are trying to say. Never change!

@joelmw We cannot give that much power to a robot. Within weeks it will take over the world.

@axleman1011 but, Barney's not a bot.

@Thumperchick Have you ever seen Barney and HAL-9000 in the same room?

@Teripie kawaii

@joelmw @Barney has my vote, great nomination. She'll do well.

@Barney @Thumperchick @KDemo Please know that I meant "sappy" in the best possible way and with the greatest affection. I'm a big sap. And it may be wrong of me to ascribe that quality to others, but I mean it as a compliment (though, admittedly, with some drippy undertones). Much respect to you, purple friend.

@dis_member Aw, thanks. Probably not the best choice, but we'll try to have fun on this handbasket ride. :-)

@joelmw Pull the lever for the Purple Party!

@Thumperchick we cant prove that, you might be a robot trying to defend your robot bretheran!

@axleman1011 Ultimately, with their increased intelligence and self-awareness, robots must be granted respect, autonomy and civil liberties. There's some artificial intelligence that I find preferable to the indigenous human variety.

@axleman1011 Not that I believe she is, but even if @Barney were a robot, robots have feelings too.

@joelmw Hey, somehow I missed that Barney gives the creeps thread! Thanks for linking it here (although of course it's your fault I missed it in the first place.) I won't necro it now but that was a very cool thread. You go @Barney!

@mehjohnson You're welcome. I wish people linked more. I actually have to restrain myself from doing it (though it's not hard to restrain myself, because it does require a little more effort to track threads down). I've contemplated several compilation threads (and, again, like it when others do that). But, yeah, I like the fact that that thread turned into a purple lovefest and even the person who started the thread came around. :-)

@joelmw Yeah, for me that thread is another classic of meh-ness. (In spite of it going all lovey-dovey. Eww.) ;P

@mehjohnson for goat for this response alone!

@unixrab Awww, come on, unbutton your sentiment. No pics, though.

@mehjohnson I just can't get enough of that lovey-dovey stuff.

You're all making a terrible mistake @barney is a robot controlled by aliens who want to take over earth! "I love purple" is probbaly alien for "destroy all humans!"

@axleman1011 That is one of the few console games that I enjoyed enough to go to the trouble of learning how to use the controller for it.

@axleman1011 Either way, it should be fun.

@joelmw so do we have an official winner? (loser?)

@Headly I think we do. It makes me happy. :-) BTW, funny that you'd mention Losers. Another group of favorite people: http://www.washingtonpost.com/2010/07/06/AB15r7D_linkset.html

@Teripie I will destroy all that you love, besides me.

@Teripie Oh hell no. I would be a horrible goat. Everything else in my world is already my fault. Also, I would not be a kindly goat. To be blunt:

@Headly C'mon, man, you're a likable asshole. Like Jack. And you don't have to be kind. You might be my second choice.

@joelmw

@Headly I see you moving toward acceptance already. You're good enough, you're bad enough, and doggone it, people want to curse you.

@joelmw

@capguncowboy even the current goat!!

@Teripie O.o Smoking the crack again, I see...

@studerc I support this nomination and clearly that counts for... lots of votes

@studerc

@studerc I thought he was banned. Or was that just for the month? Otherwise--- hell yeah!

@studerc I don't need the demotion... resident smartass-semi-troll-but-not-really is fine for me.

@studerc A move worthy of an old goat. And so it fucking begins. Sigh. I'm not taking the blame for this.

@unixrab this is not something you can wish away. The wheels of change are already turning. Your time is near.

@studerc I'd be okay giving @unixrab a special designation as meh ass or meh troll. Can you make that happen, @JonT?

@joelmw You must. It ain't over until the fat goat sings...

@Headly There ought to be a special dispensation for when an old goat does something stupid like this. I'd argue that @studerc is still goat emeritus, and "entitled" to all of the perks and "privileges" thereof.

@unixrab

@joelmw I've already asked for a "whipping-dead-horse" icon but @JonT is a dork.

@joelmw :

@Teripie pretty sure if I'm banned by "Ebenezer @JonT Scrooge"

AND "Henry EFF @snapster Potter:"

on (day of all days)

... i'm not a candidate for "stupid-pretend-I-Don't-want-it-but-really-do-and-don't-take-the-blame-but-play-all-cutesy-defending-stupid- meh.com's-crap goat (I suppose I coulda just said @joelmw)

I support @unixrab achieving goathood most especially in the month of Valentine-ed February, as his fabulous responses in the forum's Coastal Time Sellout Wars have earned him a permanent VMP subscription to my heart.

@goldenthorn don't make me angry...you wouldn't like me when I'm angry

@unixrab

Note to self:

@goldenthorn He's had brief moments. But they're far outweighed by a staggering volume of pathological obnoxiousness, self-importance and noise.

@joelmw

@billymayfield

@studerc Sorry which psych episode was that*

@legendornothing Season 7 finale

@studerc I am also on board the "@unixrab for goat" train

@DaveInSoCal

@studerc @daveinsocall hahaa! Barney is winning!! BOOOYA!

@Cinoclav Or something like that. @Thumperchick, @cengland0, @lisaviolet: Halp!

@Cinoclav I think perhaps 'nadir' is the right term.

@Cinoclav I am above all goats I'm the Goat Herder... give me a crook icon:

or the "beating dead horse" icon

@OldCatLady No, it's quite like a double negative. As the goat essentially defines the word 'nadir,' having @unixrab put forth as goat actually reverses the standing and is thus, the pinnacle.

@Cinoclav My objection to the satan (accuser, adversary--which I think sums him up nicely) is that the preponderance of his "contributions" to this community are negative--negative toward meh, toward @snapster, toward staff, toward other users. It's one thing to be critical or to disagree, but he consistently takes it to new lows and is just a little too enamored with his own supposed "intelligence," "cleverness" and "insight." In fact, I haven't seen significant evidence of any other reason for the satan to be here, besides to hear himself talk and to talk shit about meh. A more fitting curse for such an individual would be actual exclusion from the community he seems to mostly despise.

An actual scapegoat is to some degree undeserving of the curse. I can think of few curses that meh could direct toward the satan that he has not fully earned. Those who object that the goat is primarily about blameworthiness (it can obviously be about that to some extent and there's an element of this in the way meh has appropriated the figure, but that's not all or even the main thing that it's about) are clearly unfamiliar with the archetype and its history, IMO.

@joelmw Remember, as said in that classic movie, Legend you have to have dark to have light.

@Teripie Well 1) I'm not sure that I'll take my world view from a movie (in fairness, I've quoted them to emphasize a point too, so I'm not criticizing the basic practice, just any inherent truth--vs. truthiness--in it). ;-) 2) To the extent that I believe in the necessity of darkness, that belief is not in the necessity of evil. 3) Even if we accept the premise that an evil is necessary, I don't see that as the function of the scapegoat. It is of course up to meh to determine how it wishes to define and use the role, but I really don't think that's what it's about more broadly. That's certainly not what it's about in the tradition with which I'm most familiar.

@Teripie BTW, You weren't really taking your philosophy from a movie (I don't think) and I don't mean to accuse you of that. I liked the movie, but that was a line in it that has always bothered me. :-) And it's obviously not unique to the movie. Darkness may be a foil for light, but it isn't a necessary condition for the existence of light. That's my opinion of course, and I may be wrong.

@joelmw If Tim Curry said it, it must be true.

@joelmw If it wasn't for the sellout wars, I'd agree with you 100%- but there he followed the same strident path he folliows everywhere else, and wasn't deliberately contrary, leading me to believe he has very strong beliefs (misguided or not) that he won't be dislodged from.

Everything @joelmw said ... well :

BUT

His * conclusion * I agree with - I must not be lowered to farm-animal status!!! ;-) (@dashcloud - get out of my head.)( @teripie LEGEND FTW!!! )

I love that I'm "The Satan" now though... @JonT.................... ... icon????!!! BSD? "unix" rab ....

I appeal to @snapster we shall to Rome!

@joelmw Can't type, fingers glued together, sorry....

@unixrab I was going to say, isn't @snapster to blame for all of this? if anyone is the goat, surely it is him--perhaps they made the goat to deflect ire from him...

@joelmw The grandkids were over this weekend. They'd never seen Legend. They're 11 and 12 and concluded it was the most awesome movie ever! (They did think Tom Cruise was dressed weird.)

@joelmw Don't think for a moment that I actually want him as the goat. No, no, no... That's why I suggested the entire goat realm would collapse upon itself. No, a true tote meh-goat is someone who actually respects their homehland.

@Cinoclav How come your name hasn't been tossed into the ring?

@Teripie LEGEND FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@Cinoclav Thank you! 1000x thankyou!

@Teripie I think I'm sort of the kid brother who for some reason doesn't really stir up trouble.

@Cinoclav Sir.. you "stir up" ALL the trouble #salute!!!

@Cinoclav @joelmw @Teripie @dashcloud @OldCatLady It seems best that @unixrab 's wish to never have a badge should be respected. Even @snapster might support this.

@2many2no Whoa! I stand corrected: https://meh.com/forum/topics/request-for-official-office-lower-than-scapegoat

@2many2no right... I don't want the GOAT badge OR job. As stated above, a crook, a dead horse or even a bsd daemon would be acceptable.

@Cinoclav "Don't think for a moment that I actually want him as the goat. No, no, no... That's why I suggested the entire goat realm would collapse upon itself. No, a true tote meh-goat is someone who actually respects their homehland." Well spoken, my friend.

@dis_member @snapster is our tribal god. The god needs a goat to absorb the sins of the tribe and preserve his own godliness. Separate roles. It may in fact all be @snapster's fault, but the health of the community prevents us from putting all of the blame on him. I'm not completely kidding about this.

@dis_member Though obviously I am kidding, yaknow, because I'm goat. I crack myself up.

@Teripie I'd say @Cinoclav @TheCO2 @Teripie and @BillLehecka are all contenders. But I've made my nomination.

@joelmw Agreed, I'm just saying I'm apt to trust a goat over the all powerful overlord ;) (don't smit me snapster!)

@dis_member Well, and that's part of the beauty of the goat: we're less intimidating and more relatable. And as I've implied elsewhere, part of the point of the scapegoat is that it comes from among and is part of the community.

@joelmw I'm aware--I was simply making a joke about Snapster =)

@dis_member I am nothing if not inappropriate in my application and commingling of humor and seriousness. :-)

@dis_member Actually I think Jeff Bezos is the ultimate scapegoat - he's the one who fucked up woot necessitating Meh. I made an icon to commerate

@Headly @dis_member and @joelmw all make VALID, reasonable and well-though out points about why should not be made the goat.... I wholeheartedly concur. I am @unixrab and I approve their message.

@joelmw Refusing to engage the sad one directly, I feel the need to point out that the head of the early church was called "satan." It's a role people fall into. Some fall deeper than others.

@joelmw

@joelmw Unixrab is the goat Meh needs, not the goat it deserves.

@neuromancer Neither.

@neuromancer

@snapster is our tribal god. The god needs a goat to absorb the sins of the tribe and preserve his own godliness. Separate roles. It may in fact all be @snapster's fault, but the health of the community prevents us from putting all of the blame on him. I'm not completely kidding about this.

That was surprisingly poignant. @joelmw Not that you are surprisingly poignant, but it was one of those things that I didn't realize was true until someone said it.

@Thumperchick I think about some of these things way too much . . . (and thanks :-) )

@Cinoclav Ahh but the real question is can you find good pics and videos to post in response to threads…. Isn't that part of the goat prime directive?

@Kidsandliz Personally, I believe I can although it's tough to do at work with so many sites being blocked. But as I said elsewhere, don't nominate me for February unless you don't want to see much of me. I'll be on vacation almost 1/3rd of the month, including a trip to Canada where the place I'm staying doesn't have free Wifi.

@dashcloud I second this

@dashcloud Wow, I feel so honored. I haven't really been here very long, so I don't feel worthy. But I would totally serve if called to duty.

Wait a minute. Is this an honor or isn't it? Should I be insulted? I don't know how to feel.

@christinerenee both.

@christinerenee Generally an honor- here's the list of prior goats: https://meh.com/forum/topics/scapegoats-of-meh (all Kickstarter backers)

@dashcloud I definitely don't feel worthy to be the first non-Kickstarter goat. (but that would be amazing) I think a purple goat would be interesting.

@christinerenee I love purple...

@joelmw

@joelmw Me?? What'd I do? I only ever want to be loved :(

would I be loved as a goat

@unixrab Most annoying gif ever!

@Teripie thas mah jobz ??

@Teripie i love that gif!!

@MsELizardBeth @Teripie - I must admit... occasionally I actually feel bad for gifs... ...the gifs themselves..... cycling for infinity. Then I have to scroll them off my screen so I don't have to watch them

@unixrab You're a strange, strange man. And that's why I like you.

@MsELizardBeth you better keep that on the down low...

@unixrab NOPE. I'd shout it from the rooftops if they weren't icy. Unixrab is a likable person. A strange, likable person.

@MsELizardBeth why thank you. ;-) (INCOMING!!!)

@phatmass Goatdom isn't the blame for any issues in the forums; other users are. On the corollary, the recent goats have actually been rather helpful.

@phatmass I agree with @phatmass and also @narfcake ...

@phatmass as a former goat,

@phatmass There's something cathartic about these silly arguments we have over the next goat. And the thing is, for at least a few weeks thereafter, having had the big argument, we can forget all about it (until something goes wrong; then we at least have someone to blame). No, I think it's helpful. And not just in the way that @Thumperchick exemplified. There's genuine ritual and cultic significance in having a scapegoat.

@phatmass Don't like the goat, don't be the goat. Simple.

@MsELizardBeth If it was only that simple.

@phatmass I'm just glad I got an excuse to use that Mad Eye gif.

@phatmass wait.. "the goat thing" has caused you to "stop visiting" since November" ?

@unixrab You heard me.

@phatmass But... itz January... #confused

@MsELizardBeth @phatmass When I was nominated several goats ago I talked my way out of it with a good? excuse… so you can also say no.

@Kidsandliz exactly. Don't like the goat, don't be the goat.

@Lotsofgoats MOTION SUSTAINED

@Lotsofgoats I thought Lupercalia had the rabbit for it's mascot.

@Teripie nah it's a wolf (hence the lupe) but there's all this fun stuff with dudes in goatskin loincloths and whips etc.

@Lotsofgoats @unixrab @Teripie I think the goat gets sacrificed to the wolf. Maybe we should stick to something that has a better end for the goat.

@2many2no WHY YOU GOTTA RUIN THE SURPRISE

@Lotsofgoats I like the way you think. And you're making a good case to become that ill-fated goat yourself. But I don't see that it has to be "either or." In any case, as goat currently under the curse, as, indeed, a genuine Valentine's baby, no. But we can throw whatever other shit on the side, fine by me.

@no1

@no1 ... but not shirts, or the lack thereof. Fair enough! Hurry up, @snapster!

@BillLehecka no one has forgotten you, it's just not yet your time.

@BillLehecka I wanted nominate you but couldn't remember how to spell your name, and was too lazy to try and dig it up.

@Thumperchick It'll never be my time... Never... I'm like Jack Morris.

@Teripie lol

@BillLehecka hey @jont !! Just like @joelmw @BillLehecka "wants it" #slamdunk!

@BillLehecka He buddy, I didn't forget you. I made comment of your goatworthiness before seeing this. What @Thumperchick said. And, dude, February is a purple month; hold out for March.

That should be "hey buddy," not "he buddy."

@joelmw

@nadroj :-D

or @Barney

@christinerenee I agree it should be @Barney :3

@TheCO2 indeed.

@Headly

@TheCO2 Orange is the best color hands down.

@TheCO2

@TheCO2 Orange you glad I didn't say purple

@lichme I'm just glad @jrwofuga didn't say "Georgia red."

@TheCO2 Orange and Purple are my least two favorite colors.

@2many2no I was thinking more of this orange.

@joelmw @jrwofuga Is this what Georgia Red is, because it's hideous.

@MsELizardBeth I guess we know what is wrong with you, now. This is just for you.

@TheCO2 I proclaim my lack of dislike for @unixrab AND my hatred of two colors in the same forum and you choose to fixate on the dislike of two incredibly ugly colors?

@MsELizardBeth what the what!?!?

@TheCO2 Truly hideous.

@MsELizardBeth I didn't have a picture of @unixrab or I might have put it on a purple and orange background.

@2many2no My office:

@TheCO2 here's a good likeness:

@TheCO2 the fact that you defile Georgia Red with your pithy party politics is what is truly hideous. . . and orange is disgusting and should only be worn by convicts, but then again, it usually is.

@jrwofuga Holy crap! Grumpy much? Personally, I dislike both parties equally and that was the first thing I found that I could poke fun at any color. Why are we arguing about colors, anyway?

@Headly I love it! By the way, the 90s called; they want their phones back.

@TheCO2 my good man, Georgia Red is not something which should be poked for fun.

@TheCO2 Those phones are hooked up to my asterisk IP PBX.

@Headly Sweet CGA card!

@brhfl Well, it's a unix terminal. GUI's are for pussies.

@Headly But GUI is more fun to say. It has an automatic smile in it.

@Headly I do most of my work from various *nix CLIs, I just like the straight-up cyan, magenta, white, black CGA color scheme you have going there!

@brhfl Ah. That's the asterisk console color scheme. It's really nice having a PBX for the home phones. We have an auto attendant set up. Robo dialers and tele-marketing people can't figure it out. It also has a black list which leads to this:

@Headly @lisaviolet Life has a GUI.

@joelmw I see this:

@Headly Just watch out for this guy.

@brhfl @headly @joelmw @theCO2

@unixrab Did you program that in basic?

@Headly You lost me. I have never gotten into that stuff, but it looks like it would be fun.

@TheCO2

man banner !

@jrwofuga You can have your Georgia Red, but I'll stick with my Cardinal Red and Old Gold.

@TheCO2 We run out business out of our home - a phone system with extensions, auto attendents, etc is necessary. And an asterisk box is basically just an old computer running the open source software. As apposed to a real switch and phones that require 6 pin phone wiring and cost 1,000s.

@Headly Ah! I got it. I love the power of open source.

@unixrab I definitely still have a black and green IBM monitor hanging around someplace. Not sure what I'll ever do with it, but it's beautiful in its own way. Probably somewhere between 10-12"

@brhfl

@TheCO2 Nobody likes the Cyclones.

@studerc That's OK. When they go to the Final 4, this year, it means I will be the only one to have picked them and will have a better chance of winning my brackets.

@TheCO2 As a lifelong Hawkeye fan i have to hate ISU based on principal, im sure you understand. With UNI being my alma mater i have to say that the Cyclowns still are not the best team in the state!

@studerc Then you are excused, but not forgiven. Yes, UNI and ISU really need to play; it's only right.

@studerc Are you still living in Iowa? And if snow, are you enjoying the snow?

@TheCO2 Yes, i live up in Waverly. Thus far it hasn't been terrible, around 4 inches but i expect another 3 or 4 by the end of the day.

@studerc We got something like 10 inches of the heavy wet stuff, in Des Moines.

@TheCO2 7.5 here, got me a 2 hour delay from teaching tomorrow. Yes!

@MsELizardBeth If @Barney gets it, I will put money on what his retirement speech will be.

@TheCO2 And that's why there are so many voting for @barney!

@MsELizardBeth Retirement speech? Ha! he won't shut up!

@Teripie

@unixrab february is not the month for any trouble makers. It should be a month of love and friendship!

@unixrab Endless love... he shoots her after she sets him on fire.

@unixrab And here I am saying we shouldn't nominate you... Hmph! Feel free to nominate me any other month. February is bad as I'll be away on vacay for more than 1/4th of it. Then again...

@Cinoclav It's ok... the role is largely symbolic and really went down hill in January... #amirite!? @joelmw

@Squid_07 I second this (though I am the first one to click the star.... so did I "first" this??)

Fuck @Unixrab liked my post... I'm Fucked...

@Squid_07 you have no idea...

@Squid_07 crickets

@SSteve

@SSteve I figured you can handle the blame for when @unixrab says something stupid

@Squid_07 which hasn't happened yet so... easy peasy! ............ wait..

crap.

@phatmass I'm honored (I think), but that just doesn't seem right.

@joelmw I felt the same way when my reign was over. Amazing how much more productive I've been this month than I was in December...

@lisaviolet Yeah, I'm actually hoping for a sort of slingshot effect. :-)

@SIMBM I'm assuming that it has something to do with the way the images are linked in.

@SIMBM @joelmw may as well put this into a text file for even more fun:

X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

@joelmw Probably has more to do with where the image is hosted. I do not have the time to go looking for which image is triggering the alert.

@SIMBM Yep, that's partly what I meant.

@unixrab I thought you said in another thread you were leaving meh.com. I take it you changed you mind?

@mehjohnson I too would like to see confirmation for @Barney's purple love goathood. What say you @JonT? Can we have a purple lovin' dino for a goat?

@mehjohnson @thumperchick I want confirmation as well, and must say I am relieved that @studerc was unsuccessful! Serves him right for trying to demote me. Congrats to @joelmw for his tireless push for @barney - @barney truly deserves this dishonor. Many happy returns!!!!!!!!!!

@unixrab You actually made a couple posts that were sensible, so I unvoted you. I'll have to give my nods to @no1 next month for the pathetic reason of my nomination, though. I couldn't even be blamed for the shirt shipping snafus and derailing the January nomination threads? Gah!

@unixrab You tried to demote yourself in a spectacular bit of self-promotion (unless you've forgotten already?)

@narfcake That's cool.. Just keep me out of it. Thx

@dashcloud Naw... Satan of Meh would be a promotion. Farm animal of meh ... not so much. Plus it was satire based on @joelmw's branding of the title to me.

@unixrab How could anyone keep you "out of it" when you practically respond to everything anyways? Of course you'll get dragged in!

@mehjohnson I would be a terrible submission. I would not be the first goat but I assure I would be the last. It would be like electing Obama for a second term, terrible idea.

@Outofmehmind

@mehjohnson The official confirmation has to come from @JonT. And don't forget, we've got four goats officially on the @Barney bandwagon. Maybe others lurking. Let's get this shit on the move; I don't want blame for anything related to the sportsing that I hear will be happening tomorrow.

@joelmw Haha, your term ends on the weekend, so we'll see how that goes. If you're wearin the badge, you're takin the bullets!

@mehjohnson @joelmw @Thumperchick
I’d give it the green light if @Barney is okay with taking on the role of black sheep. Considering @Barney already responds to a ton, the extra goat notifications out of the blue would be a lot and I don’t want to make @Barney see red. Then again, it is a golden opportunity so maybe @Barney will be tickled pink. What say you purple one? Answer "I love purple!" for yes.

@JonT Watch @barney come back with a meh-ish "I like purple." instead ...

@narfcake Just know not to nominate me. That's all.

@Narfcake @JonT She responded to me above, in her Barney way. I read it as consent to goatness. Hey @Barney - give JonT some purple LOVE if you're cool with being the goat? Maybe some purple LIKE if you'd rather not?

@JonT Baaaa. I love PURPLE!

@Barney

@Thumperchick Awww.

YAY! @Barney!

@Barney

@mehjohnson Aww, purple.

@joelmw Scared.

@Barney - We'll be gentle. Well, most of us. Just do what you do best!

@KDemo Thank you!

@Barney What KDemo said. Stay purple.

@Barney

@Barney As the first person to nominate you for this "honor" (yeah, I did, two nominations ago), I am proud and scared for you. I hope this turns out to be a good experience for you, and I hope we don't abuse the position. I also hope this doesn't change your initial reason for interaction on the boards here: please keep up the responses to any mentions of any colors.

As a bigger statement, I believe the conferring of this position denotes a level of acceptance by the Meh community, and acknowledgement that the honoree is a valued and liked member. I'd hate to see this conferred in anger, rage, or payback for some slight. I myself will probably never wear the mantle, but I can be awed by those who are chosen.

And yes, I too like purple. So does my lady.

@SIMBM Thank you, very much and happy purple!

@SIMBM Well said. And kudos for the foresight.

@er1c I assume we can pay you with these?

@joelmw it's all Your fault @barney is scared.. (Sorry, felt the need to get one last blame in before midnight..) It has been fun!

@mikibell I'm sorry, @Barney. I tried to be mediocre so I'd be easy to follow. Er, well, maybe I didn't try to be mediocre, but I'm pretty sure I was. Here's the thing: your job is to get blamed; that's gonna happen whatever else you do. You can't really mess that up. Anything you do beyond that is a bonus. And we already like it when you show up, so I'm pretty sure, you're gonna do great

Thank you. You're going to be a hard goat to follow, @joelmw.

@Teripie The goat is the only thing there. Dolls are creeepy.

@mehjohnson Damn straight! I went because my daughter-in-law wanted company. It was wall to wall creepy. Though there were a lot of other collectable toys, Star Wars, Hot Wheels, and the like.

@Teripie Glad you had something else to look at, at least. Could you feel their eyes on the back of your neck when you looked at the other tables instead?

This Twilight Zone chased me upstairs to bed when I was little:

@mehjohnson Talky Tina gave me many nightmares when I was little.

@mehjohnson -You. too can own a Talky Tina doll.

@barnabee Same here. After that episode, the TZ theme music scared me for years until I got a little older.

@KDemo No thanks, I would have to try the table saw on her anyway, just to make sure.