Meh Birthday Cards!
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To celebrate our recent 1 year birthday we sold Fukubukuros complete with confetti and noisemakers, but since we're a little needy we also included self-addressed stamped envelopes to make it as easy as possible for you to send us the birthday wishes that we so desperately desired.
Fortunately it was a huge success! We've received over 100 cards already with more still trickling in.
Unfortunately so many of you were awesome and creative and sent interesting stuff that this post would be way too long if I called out every card we liked, so I had to choose a handful of favorites (don't worry, there's a full gallery linked at the end).
@DaveInSoCal sent us origami post-its (not yet tested)
Some of you even included polaroids!
@Vermifuge showed off some mad art skills with this Irk drawing
@fernikfurra was not to be outdone with an awesome (and majestic af) unicorn and accompanying goat
The prankster known as "Alex" got our hopes up only to dash them
…I guess we know how it feels now
@Starblind included a drawing of @Moose's true self and a Tiny Tub Mummy!
@DarkZrobe stalked us but it's okay because now we can eat a bunch of cheesy tots and cherry limeaides
but we kinda earned it because they also sent us actual cat hair. Gross!
@SHOVAR drew a sweet robot and sent us some cool crap from their junk drawer, like a German Sudowoodo Pokémon card
@TheAlmighty1 really went all out by writing their card in Mad Ape Den and including an "other thing" note
as well as this major award lauding our 404 page
and that "other thing" ended up being A REAL WEDDING INVITATION
don't expect a response because WE'RE CRASHING THIS BABY
Speaking of overachievers, @Trillian sent us…
a custom made pop-up talking Irk card!!!
He says "I'm here because I heard there would be nachos" when you open the card!
Here's a quickly and terribly shot vertical video demonstrating what it says
Thanks so SO much for all of the birthday wishes, creative drawings, random crap, gift cards and miscellaneous legal U.S. tender! Y'all are the best community around.
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portrait is the most meh of videographic orientations
So much creativity and awesomeness!
Our awesomeness as a community is exceeded only by our humbleness as individuals. Especially me. I'm more humble than everyone.
Happy Birthday! Fold yourself a frog, or box, or butterfly. Or here are instructions to an Origami Goat (I assume Scapegoat):
O noes... The internet knows my name.
@darkzrobe Yeah, sorry I realized right before I posted that I forgot to protect your identity…I can take it down and reupload if you'd like.
@darkzrobe Mine too. I have no problem with that.
@JonT Meh, if you put two and two together you can figure it out anyway with a little google foo. You can leave it. Maybe kill off my signature though.
@darkzrobe done and done!
@JonT Much Obliged
@Vermifuge drew the most perfect little poo pile ever. The angle, the stink lines, the flies! It's a little poo pile so ideal that all other little poo piles just look like shit in comparison.
Also you guys do have the best 404 error. I may have stolen that video and put it in my own internal websites.
Those are all awesome, the meh community always amazes...
But did you really say "polaroids?"
It's hidden in the IMGUR album, but @Beardmancer 's card has a QR code that goes to something awesome:
http://imgur.com/0BaPcEX
@Starblind - He's pretty in purple. And so ebullient. Cheer down, @Beardmancer.
@Starblind that was incredible, it's a shame it was hidden in a QR code (because really, who scans QR codes?).
Seriously loved that @Beardmancer!
@Starblind -
And a thousand points for Birthday Tiny Tub Mummy! Yay!
@JonT Yeah, QR codes are pretty a pretty mediocre means of data transfer. I use them only when appropriate.
Thanks for the love! It's really a shame the .gif was hidden under so many layers of whacky image compression. I tried to make it not suck, but after about 10 seconds of effort I was le tired.
Also, It's kinda hard to tell, but one of my fuku items was a WiFi security camera, which is what I was using to record.
@KDemo Oooh, that's a fun new (to me) word. Thanks! Ebullient. Eeeeeboooolyunt. Sounds weird when it rolls off the tongue.
I love purple.
Dang, you are a cool and talented lot.
@JonT Take care of that winning ticket, could be worth a bazillion dollars some day, (in some other life I suspect.) Keep it out of the light. Those bet tickets fade out real easy. It's got a face value of about $3.50 and an EBay value of anywhere from $10 to $20.
It expires 90 days after the race.
It doesn't look like my card made it :( Sorry guys! I definitely sent it!
@mnchick27 don't worry... the tracking on my birthday present for the wonderful folks at meh says it was delivered on monday (of last week)... i'm pretty sure JonT & Co are swamped with photos and stuff
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@Noddy93 so when @jonT said "full gallery" he clearly meant of what they have opened ;)
what happened to the awesome glitter I put in there??? That was holographic glitter yo!
@thismyusername My husband is the one who sent the card with the dollar bill and pack of glitter. It was a do-it-yourself glitter bomb.
@Teripie I hand made holographic glitter out of some "holographic scare tape" and filled the card with a proper amount... it was beautiful in the light. Guess it just ended up in a robot vac ;)
@thismyusername - I filled mine with confetti from the fuku. They probably didn't notice it - warehouse camo.
Cool cards! Mine was pretty boring in comparison.
@jsh139 no worries, mine was incredibly mediocre.
@Einherjar13 So was mine. All of the mehs in strawberry scented ink.
As I did not get a fuku, being a robot and all, here is the one I made
Hey I sent in all the fake scratch tickets! I hope they fooled someone. (wow my handwriting is really bad)
You didn't check any of the boxes : (
@darksaber99999 Its a trap.
@darksaber99999 sorry, I was totally going to make my own box that said "kind of" but forgot so you can use this reply as that.
Hahaha I'm glad you guys liked the "Mogelbaum" Pokemon card. I didn't see the pirate potato temporary tattoo I sent in the pic though. Maybe someone's running around your office wearing it. Because everyone loves pirate potatoes. :D
Man, and I thought I was going to be awesome for sending in a pop up Irk card! Since I haven't started yet, guess I should change up the old plan now :)
Good job @Trillian!!
@djslack Aw, thanks! And I’m sure Meh would love to get a pop-up card featuring Glen, Mr. Chinface, or The Singing Cowboy. But not that asshole Mediocrebot.
@Trillian
I wanted to do a mediocrebot something but there just wasn't time. Something vaguely dalek-like with a grasping claw instead of the plunger (though given Meh's predilection for toilet paper, maybe the claw would replace the gun barrel, leaving the plunger for appropriate uses...)
Ah well, too many ideas, not enough time or skill...
@duodec Maybe a variation of this?
@Trillian Maybe, but it would have to say "EVACUATE", "EJECT", "ELIMINATE", or on a bad day "LIQUIDATE"...
@duodec um what about "use less TP" ?
I'm kinda sad, I sent my card out right at the start of July but it doesn't look like you guys got it, or the contents inside. That's really depressing actually. I'm sort of soul-crushingly disappointed it never came.
Did it just not get into the album (which I can live with) or did it really not come at all?
@Tiamat114 Hard to say for certain, there were a ton of cards that got sent back in and we tried to document them all but it's possible that it got misplaced. What was in it and I'll tell you if it rings a bell at least?
@Tiamat114 there were a few cards that we got that only had (perfectly lovely and appreciated) written birthday wishes inside that weren't included in the album, but once we get some more cards I can add them and update it.
@MEHcus Well, I know my card itself wasnt anything unique or special, so it wouldn't have stood out. The only notable thing was I included some cards for Sonic I had to drive around to 4 stores for as a way to treat you guys to drinks as a thank you and birthday present, as I totally stalked you on google maps and noticed you have one right next door (and I've seen the cups in pictures videos so I knew you go there).
I've been worrying that I didn't give you enough and left someone out, but I guess that's a moot point if they never arrived in the first place.
@Tiamat114 Ah yes! We definitely did get that one and there will be a follow up/separate post and maybe even a periscope session involved, don't you worry.
@MEHcus Oh thank goodness, I've been fretting over it since I sent it out and worried to death someone would help themselves to it and make off with it, I'm so relived to hear it made it safe and sounds, that's all I wanted.
@Tiamat114 rofl I did the same thing. The google foo internet stalking is strong with us.
@MEHcus wtf (strikethru font) WTMeh is a periscope session?
@dmlivezey Live feed they do HERE sometimes. They have done the Meh. 1 YR B-Day party, a day at the Dallas Zoo, etc.
So, is @MEHcus remembering the one @darkzrobe sent that was posted above, or is he remembering the one that @Tiamat114 also sent?
@dmlivezey the b-day party was like being there... we even saw the keeper of the baby arm.
@thismyusername but how can i see this now?
@dmlivezey can't sadly... they expire after 24 hours.
@thismyusername ah, like snapchat on crack (as david byrne would say)
@PurplePawprints @darkzrobe @Tiamat114 The answer is C: All of the above. Both of them were generous enough to send in Sonic gift cards. I think we ended up with around $75 total which is going to make for a fantastic Sonic Happy Hour!
@MEHcus Wow, I find it amazing that their are 3 other creepy folks out there that googled the shit out of where you live.
Also than you for posting this instead of the periscope stuff. This is much easier to see on my time without it disappearing.
Man, I am so happy I did not stay up that fateful night and win another FUKU, otherwise I would have been so dissappointed to not get mentioned in this thread, because @dmlivezey<>creative
@dmlivezey
"Ve can't all be der first violiners. Sum ov us just gotta push vind tru der trombones..."
(with apologies to E.E. Smith).
@duodec I was first trombone in HS band, providence
@dmlivezey Heh! Second French Horn, Las Vegas. but we did't have pansy violins ;)
Glad the Schlock Mercenary monkey coin made it! It always feels a little iffy sending coin-like objects in a card envelope.
Nie mój cyrk
Nie moje małpy
For your first
Happy Birthday!
I've been meaning to send a package instead of just the card, but I'm old and tired and forget things. ;) I am working on it, though.
Yeah, belated birthday cards are good, too.
@JonT @hollboll @MEHcus I'm curious, how many glitter bombs did you guys get? My husband sent a do-it-yourself one with an unopened pack of glitter.
@Teripie luckily we received more confetti than glitter. I only remember the packet of glitter but @MEHcus did open a lot of the cards.
@JonT Did my CPU keychain make it to yall? I see the rest of the card did.
@clonetek Sure did, thanks! It's very cool.
@JonT What CPU is it?
@duodec It's a socket 775 Pentium4
whoo hoo! i see mine...! it's the one in the pile with the three packs of "vintage" cards....gotta say how impressed i am with the creativity of all of the cards! thanks again Meh..! it was a great first year!!!!!!!!!!
@JonT did my special addition in the birthday card get to you yet?
@sohmageek we got it today!
@hollboll nice! I'd love to hear what @jont and @moose say about their parts ;)
@sohmageek
thanks for the TP/magic card (worst card ever)!
@JonT No... worse card would be a 1/0... muhaha... It's mostly unplayable... but IF I made it an artifact creature at 1 cost... very nice indeed... :)
Had a few more cards trickle in and had to highlight this awesome Adventure Time art! We're not sure of their usernames so we can't tag them:
We also received some more TP-related items…I guess you would call them felt toilet paper caddies?
They also came with this rad note:
Thanks everybody!
@JonT Apparently my stuff is always late to every party! Those are adorable, though. Appropriate feedback has been left on eBay. Will they send another gift?
@JonT I mailed you something today. It'll be there in a week or so. (I had to use parcel select because I was just short of having enough for Priority. Shouldn't have bought all those lanterns.) It's addressed to you, but you have to share the misery around the office. :p
@JonT just want to point out that I did give notice of mailification, well before the other thing started. So you see, I didn't disrupt the event intentionally. Neener.
@johnamo Just wanted to publicly acknowledge that we received your card today. Thank you. It was a great 1st birthday.
@ChadP So…did he just now send you the original card?
@medz That’s correct.
@ChadP my pleasure! It already had a stamp on it so… I didn’t want to waste that prepaid postage… better late than never.
@ChadP @johnamo Yay, someone else procrastinated less than I did!
/8ball Will Mediocre ever get their card?
Cannot predict now
In what year?
You rolled a total of 8
/roll 2d6
@ChadP So, I just got a notification that a Fuko4 may be coming my way. In such a case that “Tepid Busted Skin” is real (yeah, not gonna risk Google Image searching that one), I would like to share my favorite “Meh” item/message I have ever received --maybe from Fuku 4 on 1/14/15?. Someone studied how to write your logo really hard and I was very impressed.
But the way, this ‘extra’ box included a massive portable air condition that kept me cool all the way through medical school… so it was much appreciated!