@jbartus No no no no no not August. Do it August and the odds are high you will have an MIA goat for some of the month. September would be better.
EDIT: Never would be even better

@jbartus I’m definitely behind nominating @kidsandliz as goat, with one huge caveat is that we help her too.

https://www.gofundme.com/78d3nc

We’ve done a lot helping others. We can help one of our own mehmbers too.

@narfcake Thanks for that although I feel funny about doing this here. I was going to make a youcaringfor my cat (new asthma dx on top of hyperthyroid - 2 other cats have that too and one is in remission with diabetes, all three are 16 - and have run up way too much in bills and med costs like around $1350 or so and all sitting on my credit card) and for me (course I was to teach got canceled and so now I am short money for health insurance plus a bill just ended up in collection as they wouldn’t accept what I could pay a month and I can’t afford having care cut off there) as they take a lower percentage. I guess I need to move my butt to do so.

@narfcake Could you please email me at either mehricanexchange6@yahoo.com or my user name at the usual yahoo.

WTF is going on??!! I open up this thread, and continue to do so, but whenever I get down to @f00ls post my computer gets dangerous red and tells me that a deceptive site is ahead (newscrunch) and then kicks me out. It happens everytime at @f00l’s post. f00l what the hell are you doing now? Have you learned how to finally hack me?

@mfladd I was going to tease you about this, but I just got the same message. I’m using Chrome, did not get it in FF.

@f00l You are not getting this message?

@mfladd @Barney Yeah, I’m getting the same.

Any way to redact the offending post, @Thumperchick? Thank you!

@mfladd I keep getting the same message in Chrome. @shawn, help?

@Barney

I never get any message.
Ever.
Can’t you tell?

Ok, seriously.

What messages are you getting?

Here, I’m using Firefox on an iPhone.

The iOS version of Firefox is a safari shell (apple requires this).

If you are getting warnings, what post or image of mine triggers them? What do they say?

Not getting any warning here.

@narfcake Yeah, but what’s causing it? All i do is scroll down in this thread and I get the message.

@Barney I’m guessing an embedded image? Mediocre “lazy loads”, so if we don’t scroll down, it doesn’t load. When we do, it loads and that’s when it sets Chrome’s alarm off.

@f00l Not sure it’s you. I’m not getting it in FF. I’m getting it in Chrome when I scroll down. It’s a red warning and it takes over the whole Meh site. It says something warning about newscrunch.

@Barney

???
No idea.

Tried the topic in iOS safari and chrome also.

No warning in either. But chrome on iOS is another safari shell.

@f00l Well, I’m staying in FF until it gets fixed. No one else is complaining about it yet except us crazies.

@Barney

You called it.

/giphy crazies

@f00l Or maybe 3 of us crazies and one @f00l.

@Barney FUCKING @f00l! It’s always @f00l!!!

@Barney

/giphy "I’m a natural"

@f00l You get to be the goat again this month just for being a DICK!

@narfcake @Barney @mfladd @f00l - It was the last image in @f00l’s post below, we pulled it. Thanks for the head’s up!

BTW - does this mean we need to re-goat @f00l?

@Thumperchick

YES.

@Thumperchick @narfcake I guess I never saw it. Can we get her to post it again?

@f00l

@Barney You want a nomination too?

@narfcake nooo.

Fair warning: As I said before I can not be goat in August as I won’t be available to do it for at least 1/2 of the month. Draft me in September if you must, but do it in August and the back up goats will need to take over starting about Aug 8 through about the 25th or so.

@Tears_o_Phoenix So in other words you are volunteering to be goat?

@Kidsandliz Oh, crap! She’s back. This woman is bad news wherever she goes. (Yes, I have a long memory, and as long as I am around, I will warn people about her.)

Here is what she did at Meh (and at Woot):

https://meh.com/forum/topics/meh-screwed-up-on-the-onkyo

@Barney Holy Crap! Took me about 2/3 through that thread to figure out what the heck was going on (looks like I never read it the first time around). Good thing you have a long memory. And that it got locked.

@Barney I love you, little tattletale. I love you a lot. I didn’t even need to read most of that before I decided to file the little creature in the special place where I put people that cannot be trusted, and do not deserve kindness.

XXOO

(I really need more coffee)

@Shrdlu Aww…(purple blush). I you, too.

@Barney

Read that thread, finally.

Uh. Wow.

I got the feeling, reading that thread, that possibly not all of a particular concerned individual’s alt id’s had been outed. Or perhaps they had.

It doesn’t really matter of course.
(cue Bohemian Rhapsody).
And I don’t really care.

But sometimes, when people reappear at about same time … One wonders.

Thanks. And …

Oh Fucking Well.

/youtube Bohemian Rhapsody

Anyway the wind blows

@Barney that was quite a read.

@Barney Is she aka (something)Rigel and Tazo Wolf and Tribble Trouble? I may be wrong.

@OldCatLady CircaRigel, yes, and Tazo Wolf. Don’t know about Tribble Trouble. But trouble she is.

@f00l, HELLOALICE used to talk a lot on the forums. I really like her, but she’s kind of drifted away.

@Kawa Yep, she’s been goat. And she was VERY worthy.

@huja Aww… so cute.

@Barney Don’t be fooled by that smile. This creature, though only about 10 lbs, is a destroyer of shoes, rugs and sound sleep.

@huja The three best reasons to have a pup!

/giphy demon dog

Yay for @huja pup!
Lacking time now is alright
We can goat two months.

Part time goats were done
Like @Ignorant and @Pavlov
And @PlacidPenguin.

@huja No, never could, never will

@f00l Whoa! Those are some thrill-seeking goats!

@ruouttaurmind No one ever said that goats are smart. Look at the ones we’ve had at meh.

@Barney

Why, thank you very much.

/giphy curtsy

@Barney hey… I resemble that remark!

@mikibell I think we all do.

@f00l I wonder how many of those fall off… We used to rescue sheep from the cliffs when I worked in Scotland and England.

@Kidsandliz

Goats vs sheep; dunno, but I’m thinking perhaps goats need less rescuing.

@f00l

I wish some of the images have been left up. They were great.

Google “goats dam”

Or follow this link to a Google image search:

https://www.google.com/search?q=goats+dam&prmd=ivmn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj_xe_biKvVAhUCxFQKHRlaAREQ_AUICSgB&biw=375&bih=559

@f00l yeah those were good ones but I don’t see that that google picks up the impressive ones you posted.

@f00l But I didn’t have any problems seeing the goats’ dam and that was up most of the day.

@Barney @f00l I didn’t have any trouble seeing the goat damn ones either - those were pretty cool

@Barney

@narfcake Nah, I wouldn’t do that to my worst enemy, or even someone who lives in Texas.

@Barney

Thx.

Will let you visit sometime.

If you come to your senses and wanna move here, I’ll try to expedite things.

You already have a token of admission I think.

@narfcake

Decline the nomination.

Thanks, so generous of you.

But all the other Goats Emeritus who served prior to me, and who are still active in the forums, have to re-goat first.

If you wish this to happen, please begin by nominating yourself.

/image catshirt

@f00l You do realize that if Mediocritee ever gets off the ground, I’d probably end up being the first temporary permanent shirtgoat, right? Suck it up, buttercup.

@narfcake An excellent position for a worthy candidate.

@narfcake

Thanks. mediocritee’s not really running yet.

I again decline the nomination.

If you wanna start re-goating people, start with yourself.

You know we love you.

You know you want it.

/giphy cat want

@f00l I sense resistance …

@narfcake

Some people think I should get off the internet because I break it. Are you trying to persuade me to do just that?

I respectfully decline.

@f00l aww, I like the idea of you being goat again.

@ConAndLibrarian
Everyone else first.

Or a lot of you.

Then I might agree.

@narfcake I support this nomination as well. If not @Kidsandliz then @f00l!

@jbartus
@narfcake

And to anyone else might vote for me and support this.

I repectfully decline.

I appreciate that you all found my tenure as Goat fun.

However, not at this time.

We have not before seriously nominated and voted for someone who has already served.

Anytime who votes for me and who has already served as Goat had better agree to serve their second month as Goat first. (Whether they served as Goat before me or after me in chronological terms.). And then do it.

Anytime who posts a lot in the forums and who votes for me to be Goat again had better put in a month as Goat first.

I would like to see some of you repeat as Goat.

Esp @carl669, esp if he would agree to make his posts all full of expletives.

I have not been out nominating “Goats Emeritus” to be the next Goat and do their second rounds. Even tho I would kinda be tempted.

In fact I have not been out nominating anyone as Goat that I can recall.

@jbartus
@narfcake

You were both loads of fun as Goat.

You two and the people who voted for me, please consider volunteering to be Goat yourselves (first or second time) before you ask me to repeat.

And @jbartus, if the Pats keep being incredibly good, we might really need you to serve again as Goat just to make sure that no triumph goes unpunished.

@narfcake, don’t you think you should serve yourself a second time before you go campaigning for someone else for who had already served?

As far as we know, Mediocritee may be a long way off. Or not. So if you think that people should repeat as Goat, it might be good for you to get your second term of service out of the way now.

Who has got the master list of "Goats Emeritus "handy so I don’t have to dig it up?

Let’s please post that list here.

Also, before I get to doing my second term, aren’t there some who did not have a building fall on them during their time as Goat. and who kinda need to make up for barely being present while they were Goat the first time?

Hmmmm?

@f00l I was the worst goat ever, I refuse to believe that I was loads of fun.

I’ve been a proponent of renominating people since long before I was a goat and will continue to do so for probably forever. I don’t get this insistence that you cannot be the first to be regoated because those who served before you haven’t been regoated yet. You can check my record, I’ve renominated @mfladd at least three times while he was still active.

If you really don’t want to be goat again for your own reasons just say so, don’t dress it up. I have rescinded my vote out of respect for you and your apparent wishes, obscured as they are by odd justifications.

@f00l I know you’re serious; I wasn’t, however. The idea of a renomination you was based off this post, and I had zero expectations of it gaining any ground. I don’t believe that @Thumperchick would have allowed the regoating to happen anyway.

FWIW, I’ve stepped in as substitute goat a few times already.

@jbartus Has there really been a “worst goat ever” here? Every past goat has had their own spin on things, whether it’s stories, ignoring everyone, or telling everyone else off. As much as I’ve joked about the absentee goats, it was very well their absence through “I’m on pause” or denial that made it unique that month.

@jbartus
You were stressed out during your Goathood, and perhaps a little overly proper. But you were fun. At least I thought so.

Btw @mfladd is a good thought for being the first Goat to serve for a second time as monthly Goat, if @narfcake and @carl669 don’t get there first.

@f00l My vote stays.

@f00l Ok, I removed it for another.

@mfladd

/giphy thanks

@mfladd

Now back to

/giphy "eternal torment"

That almost typed out as “eternal toddler”

@sammydog01

???

What’d I do?

@f00l (Shhh… I’m busy flouncing.)

@sammydog01

Then I salute you.

/giphy flounce

@f00l Nice flouncing.
Keepin’ it classy.

@carl669

Indeed. Fuck.

@carl669

Excuse me sir! Did you say fuck?

Did you dare say fuck, sir?

Well, sir, to that, I must reply!

Motherfucker!

@f00l

@carl669 Hey that is the one I found you a LONG TIME ago!!

@Kidsandliz i knew someone posted it, but couldn’t remember who. my brain has limited space!

@carl669 Glad you liked it!

@carl669 PS when I posted it on the fuck thread I was hoping it would bring the count to infinity based on the fact that it was an endless loop. LOL

@carl669 @Kidsandliz This is not increasing the fuck count.
We need active participation. If you didn’t type it, it didn’t happen.

@2many2no
@carl669

Shall @2many2no be the fucking Goat for August 2017?

@f00l Oh, hell no!
Why the fuck would anyone want that?

@2many2no The rules for the fuck count are determined by @carl669 as he is the emperor, initiator and keeper of the count.

@Kidsandliz Oops, sorry.

What’s the verdict, @carl669? Do /giphy fucks count? If so, how do you count them?

I’m all in favor of infinitely repeating fucking, but does it throw off the stats?

@Kidsandliz I have removed my vote at your request for now. But you have more excuses for goat then anyone yet. You have ditched this for around 6 months. At some point we won’t care and you will just be GOAT!

@mfladd She even contracted Lyme disease in order to avoid it. That’s a little extreme.

@Kidsandliz sorry I’m not backing off this time. Next month you’ll be telling us you’re going to the moon in September or some other reason that you can’t do it. You have been here actively a ton this month, despite what you said last month. I’m not buying it.

@mfladd Nah I didn’t ditch all those other times times - except a comment about July, I just didn’t get any votes Literally some of the time- others got more… Thank you for unvoting for me for August.

@jbartus Hey I’d LOVE LOVE LOVE to go to the moon. When can I leave? And this month I was out of town, including where there was limited to no internet some of the time, helping my mom with a ton of things and didn’t have much time for a chunk of the month (did have more other portions of the month). Next month I likely will lose my 200+ click streak as well…

@OldCatLady Yeah next time I am going with something a little less miserable to have the next time. I hadn’t read enough about it before I chose to get that. LOL

@Kidsandliz you were around plenty enough to create at least a half dozen threads and post actively in many others. I’d tell you just how much you’d done so but… profile’s disabled. Regardless, done buying these excuses. You have been pretty consistently declaring yourself unable to serve and then showing no meaningful or measurable drop in activity for the corresponding period. Nobody expects the goat to be on 24/7/31, you’d have done just fine.

@jbartus
@kidsandliz

Nobody expects the goat to be on 24/7/31, you’d have done just fine.

Yeah we do.

Then when someone fails we have cause to torment.

@f00l @Kidsandliz

Okay, you’re right, let me rephrase.

Nobody sincerely expects the goat to be on 24/7/31, they just pretend that they do so that when the goat fails they can put the screws to them.

@jbartus

@mfladd Oh shit! Evidently…
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Not far enough under the radar.

@2many2no

You’ve been noticed.

@2many2no yeah…you star a LOT of my posts!

@2many2no

Once someone is noticed, that one is

/giphy doomed

@mikibell That’s reason enough to be a goat…hehe
(plus, you didn’t vote yet)

@mfladd I have never voted for goat… Or at least not on purpose…

@mikibell

@2many2no

How many?

No?

@f00l @mfladd @mikibell et alia

I voted for @Kidsandliz, and I ain’t taking it back because it’s customary to beg off when you’re nominated.

I must admit she is way better than average at begging off, since unlike everyone else who tried, she has been successful multiple times. That’s all the more reason to override her objections this time.

In any case, in the traditional way:

• I did not ask for this.
• If nominated, I will not run.
• If elected,… Oh shit!

In any case, I am
/giphy blameless

@mfladd What did you do to break giphy?

@2many2no It broke?

@mfladd @2many2no I don’t see anything broken.

Also @2many2no Yes it is customary, but I did agree to do Sept presuming someone doesn’t deserve it more. I can’t do it for much of Aug based on what else is going on which will also involve likely no internet for some of it and so a substitute goat would be needed for several weeks.That is not an ideal goat situation. Or even close to ideal. AND it would appear that this is YOUR WAY of trying to get out of being goat - trying to stick it to me. LOL

@Kidsandliz Why, of course.

@2many2no So how does it feel to go from your longstanding under the radar existence and opening just another meh email and learn you might be goat?

Still luv me?

@mfladd As a good friend of mine just said, “You’re wearing me out, bitch!”

@2many2no

@2many2no

1many1know

@2many2no
/image 2 many 2 no

@narfcake I don’t get it. Maybe it’s allergies…

Or maybe I’ve got a code in my node.

@f00l Bu… what?

@2many2no

Wha?

@2many2no I have no idea either. Blame the goat that it’s what /image found.

@susiq I don’t know who this person, and I don’t understand why she is out to get goat me.

Don’t believe anything you read here.

@susiq Yep, you’re right.

@2many2no Just shut up and take your punishment.

@Barney @Kidsandliz Seriously, we do need to drag these lurkers, kicking and screaming, into being participants in these forums.

We’ve got our eyes on you, @susiq @sirtomsmash

@2many2no I agree with you. And you, as goat, can coax them into talking with us on the forum. Good job, @2many2no!

@Barney loves purple

I’m not purple at all (except where I keep walking into the corner of the bed.)

Please be kind, take back y’all’s votes.

@2many2no Get a round bed?

@Barney Then I’d get lost looking for the corner.

/giphy how do you keep a blond busy?

@2many2no But they do have a vmp badge. Doesn’t that mean they are certified trustworthy by meh?

@2many2no I have an idea about drawing some lurkers here, but you aren’t going to like it. It is eViL.

@mfladd Nope, 'cause you’ve got one.

@Barney

@mfladd I may be open to limited eVil if I had co-conspirators actively participating in the process.

@2many2no I already have a good feeling about you (dark goat).

@mfladd @Barney @Kidsandliz @f00l @mikibell @narfcake @OldCatLady @jbartus

There was a young man who writes haiku
To express every thought that he needs to.
He wants to be goat
For the haiku he wrote,
But he needs more votes to be goat for you.

@2many2no
Worthy of votes for next goat
For writing limericks

@2many2no

You love being abused, don’t you?

Your walk down the street wearing a large sign that says “kick me”, don’t you?

/giphy "kick me"

@mfladd

but you aren’t going to like it. It is eViL.

We think we will like it very much. If it lives up to the promo.

Do tell.

@f00l I wouldn’t call that abuse. I do believe that @2many2no forgot that we “reward” mehmbers too through goatdom. Just ask @Thumperchick, @LisaViolet, and @Trillian.

@narfcake
A Limerick about a Haiku is flat out provocation.

There once was a mehtizen up for goat,
Who wrote a limerick to shift the vote.
Their target’s only offense?
Writing haiku that made sense.
@2many2no should some day be goat!

@jbartus @narfcake @f00l
Hold on… the limerick, like the pun, is the lowest form.

The haiku, being a higher form, therefore deserves the greater number of votes.

@huja is still in the running and most assuredly needs more votes.
If not for the haiku, at least for the cute but rambunctious puppy.

@2many2no

@huja is poet with puppy.
does @2many2no have a guppy?
I would choose to ask
but I drink from my flask
I say they are both more than uppity!

(i reserve the right to make truly terrible poems.)

@2many2no keep protesting and see where it gets you. As yet I refuse to budge from @Kidsandliz but if you keep it up you might convince me that my vote is better spent elsewhere.

@jbartus I’m tempted vote @2many2no 2wice now.

@jbartus No objection here. Your vote is perfect.

@narfcake This sounds like voter fraud.

We need an independent investigative commission.

@2many2no Investigation done.

@2many2no

You want to investigate ballot problems?

Remember Florida 2000?

Are you saying we might have

/giphy "hanging cats"

@2many2no and don’t you forget it. Don’t worry, you’ll get yours in September.

@2many2no

@2many2no

A Goat is a Goat, of note, of note,
And no one can talk to a Goat, I hope,
That is, unless, the Goat, of note,
Is @2many2no!

Go right to the quote, and ask the Goat;
A limerick will all ears bloat,
Perhaps the Goat is not a dope,
@2many2no!

People go yakkity yak a streak,
And waste the time is day,
@2many2no will never speak
Unless limericks to say!

A Goat is a Goat, of note, of note,
And no one can talk to a Goat, I hope,
That is, unless, the Goat, of note,
Is @2many2no!

/giphy limerick

@f00l

@f00l
And I got nothin’.

@2many2no

@2many2no I never joke around with my vote. There are some people I will NEVER vote for. You, my friend, are not one of them. You’ll make a great goat.

@2many2no

@2many2no

my fellow 'mehrican,

you have provided no valid reason for my to rescind my vote. therefore, in good conscience, i cannot not vote for you. i’m truly sorry and wish you all the best in your inevitable goathood. i leave you with my humble condolences and this small, but beautiful token of my apologies.

yours motherfucking truly,
carl669

@2many2no if you count @susiq’s post’s stars…there are even MORE people than that… welcome to the club ! I have it on good authority that @f00l can be bribed…

@carl669 hey @oldcatlady…come look at this man!! We can all be cougars with this macho man! He is all scratchy stubbly and everything!!

@mikibell Meeooow! I wanna play cougar, too!

@Barney of course…you are always welcome to oooooogle!

@carl669 If you look like that, why are you wearing a shirt, even a meh shirt?

@OldCatLady you didn’t know how handsome our @carl669 is?

@2many2no
/giphy just try and make me

@sammydog01 I vote giphy for goat

@mikibell @Barney @OldCatLady. you people are gonna make me blush. which is one hell of an accomplishment for someone with brown skin.

@carl669 I am good with that!

@OldCatLady ohhh… I forgot to invite @Shrdlu to ogle… I know there is a list… @f00l, @mehbee maybe? Who else?

@2many2no

@2many2no of course I still get to vote! Not that my vote would help/harm you on this one.

@kdemo i forgot to page you about our adorable Carl!

@mikibell Me, me! You forgot me! I want to ogle @carl669 too. Pleeeeeaaaase?

Caaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrllllllllllllllllll!

(Whew, thanks, @mikibell. Would’ve missed him without you).

@mikibell My ‘tag’ list includes, besides you, @lisaviolet @barney @jaremelz @beachbum @hollboll @teripie @LaVikinga @Foxborn @sammydog01

@2many2no oh man, sorry just looked at my profile and saw this… oh well… sorry about my tardiness.

@thismyusername It’s OK.
mea culpa

@OldCatLady As much as an honor that might be (and I’ve been called worse things than “goat”) it would be wasted on me for the month. I’m heading up to the cabin next Friday. Not the best internet connection up there, and I hate burning daylight sitting inside surfing the 'net when I could be bear bait roaming the meadow & back roads, or picking the last of the huckleberries.

@LaVikinga nooooo…you were invited to ogle @carl669 …not to be goat

@mikibell Oh…thank goodness. I think it’s time for a 2nd cup. Not firing on all cylinders yet.
Is there any particular part of @carl669 needing proper oogling? Or shall I just give him the ol’ once over? (I think a smile when giving the bird always adds a certain extra oomph to an eff you.)

@LaVikinga yes, I think the smile was missing this time… however – look at the stubbly scruffiness ;)…

@sammydog01 absolutely – I thought you had already, thus the lack of invite

@mikibell Ok, I might stop trying to reduce the f words of his now as long as he posts a pic or two once in awhile. Coraaalll get in my I mean the house! (sorry I’m missing my Walking Dead)

@2many2no don’t worry, it will totally be worth the pain in 5 years* when you get your goat trophy!

*estimate, may take longer

@thismyusername I heard a rumor that @Thumperchick had all this under control and was going to straighten out this backlog thing.

@2many2no iirc, we voluntold @woodhouse to handle prizes…

@Thumperchick Oops, my fault.
See, I knew you were in control.
I’m sure he’s doing a fine job.

@Thumperchick I’m so stealing voluntold unless its tc’d and I have to pay every time I use it.

@mehbee I stole it from a friend in the Navy that used to get voluntold a lot.

@carl669
Such beautiful hands.

@Thumperchick It’s the story of my life and I’d like to give someone else a chance to read!

@Yoda_Daenerys what the eff…

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/youtube there’s something happening here