@narfcake And the sharpie jokes went on for ages and ages.

@snapster Will you give yourself a $20 coupon code if this post wins?

@heartny that means I only have to give 9 out to others right

@snapster and of course then @JonT just has to smash one up into 53 pieces where to win a non-smashed up version we had to guess how many pieces he had conveniently scattered in a pile in the grass (photos of that are broken links in the thread unfortunately).

https://meh.com/forum/topics/guess-how-many-pieces-this-dumb-speaker-dock-is-in--win-a-prize

And the after about a million offerings of them, sadly, on 9/18/15:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/the-last-of-the-jbl-onbeat-micro-speaker-docks

@heartny @snapster I won one of these playing Battleship on a Periscope. I should go add Periscopes to the list.

@NobodysHome Rats, that’s the one I wanted to post because I didn’t experience it but always wished I had.

@NobodysHome I had to defend our claim to the NYPD, our local police, NY State Attorney, the US Postal Inspectors Office and then was called in to present to the FBI. Oh and followed by a civil trial! Gotta be the worst ROI ever on that deal but was quite the education!

@NobodysHome I was not in that debacle but received the shirt in an IRK. I sent it along in one of our Mehrican Exchanges.

@cbilyak

It was an interesting dumpster fire.

@cbilyak @NobodysHome I got some of the coins in various Irks. I’ve sent one or two of them along but I saw one the other day while cleaning out a drawer.

@snapster welcome to NYC!

Couldn’t find a link that has the actual Joe-rathon image but here’s this:

@Kyeh If I can start the week finding a coworker the name of a hot guy who stopped working next door in 2017 so she could lightly stalk him on instagram, I can end the week finding you a link. Terrifying mirror baby was my favorite.

@mossygreen I think he was my favorite too! But I wanted to find the original beginning of the Joe-rathon and somehow couldn’t. (Also I was in a rush to post it first, haha.)
Kudos on finding the hot guy for your coworker!

@Kyeh Got it. I left the forum deals list up in case you wanted a different link, they weren’t in order but I was pretty sure it was the t-shirts.

@Kyeh @mossygreen Ah, I was lucky enough to adopt Jackson before becoming an employee. He watches over my apartment and keeps it safe.

@mossygreen Thank you!

@er1c Lucky you!

@er1c @Kyeh @mossygreen Joe put a few in Fukos before the Mehrathon. Was a skeleton the first? And maybe someone did a trade to get a family of skeletons back together?

@er1c @mossygreen @sammydog01
I don’t know about the skeletons. I remember @tinamarie1974 and @chienfou both got scary dolls in their Irks.

@chienfou @er1c @Kyeh @mossygreen @sammydog01 Yup I was one of the first. Got a very scary doll and I gifted it to someone who desperately wanted her.

@chienfou @er1c @Kyeh @mossygreen @sammydog01 @tinamarie1974
That’s when I put Joe’s face on stuff!

@chienfou @er1c @Kyeh @mossygreen @sammydog01 @sillyheathen seems appropiate that his face was added to items in a murder shed. Lol

@tinamarie1974 Meeeee! You sent her to me and I love her SO much! Thank you again!

@Pony I am so glad you love her!!!

@tinamarie1974 Wow!

@tinamarie1974 That was so much fun!

@sammydog01 it really was I would love to see them do it again

@tinamarie1974 We played Oregon Trail too but @moose had a software failure and it broke.
https://meh.com/forum/topics/lets-play-oregon-trail-an-educational-adventure-in-what-can-go-wrong

@Moose @sammydog01 Reading all of this I feel like being slightly late to the party caused me to miss A LOT of fun!!

Invoking @sillyheathen - where are youuu?

@Kyeh @mike808 I swear I’m still here! It’s been a crazy shitshow lately and my poor ADHD brain is frazzled and now it’s spring fucking break with three crazy orange coat goat kids who might as well be the spawn of motherfuckin @carl669 running around! I need some motherfucking crawfish in my life but they’re so ducking expensive AND field run that I don’t know if I can even go for that. Mike knows what I’m talking about!

@mike808 also thank you. I needed some smiles in my face piece! Also I need to fly home. I need to go paddle on the bayou and get eaten by mosquitoes but instead my parents are coming here so I don’t know when I’m going back. Not soon enough. That’s when!

@mike808 @sillyheathen
Aww, sorry you’re in a maelstrom right now! Come back here for a little tomfoolery and smartassery - it will make you feel better, I bet!

@Kyeh @sillyheathen
Since when did crawfish get all “elevated”? Dey popepo food. They should be a buck a pound, sack prices by now.

@mike808 @sillyheathen i apologize for the spawn that might as well be mine. did you offer them an old fashioned? that usually pacifies me.

@carl669 Ah yes. The “Old Fashioned” cure-all Proof (about 80) that things get better with age. That’s why nobody knows what a “New Fangled” is.

@carl669 @mike808 if I’m offering anyone in this house an old fashioned, it’s me myself and I. The Englishman actually makes an excellent one and of course you choose the cocktail with orange in it Carl!

@carl669 @Kyeh @mike808 apparently I’d had a few drinks last night when I wrote that post.

@carl669 @Kyeh @mike808 @sillyheathen

Hey, @carl669
Know what?

You’re one serious fucking fuck, you fucker!

@tinamarie1974 aweeeeee tiny mummy

@connorbush right!!! She was so cute!!!

@connorbush @tinamarie1974 And @kittysprinkles needle felted a tiny little tiny tub mummy.

@connorbush @KittySprinkles @sammydog01 I DID NOT know that!!!

@connorbush @sammydog01 @tinamarie1974 oh hello there! That was a fun one

@KittySprinkles Yay you stopped by! Do you have a photo of the needle felting stuff you did for Meh? I think there were some others too.

@sammydog01 sadly, I don’t have the pictures anymore. I also tried looking up the popsicle stick puppet show to no avail!

@KittySprinkles @sammydog01 a couple that google brings up

@Ignorant @KittySprinkles @sammydog01
OMG, that’s SO CUTE!

@dave

That was on my list. I loved it. Mine came fine

@Cerridwyn @dave I bought a stinky bathrobe once that didn’t smell at all. I felt cheated.

@Cerridwyn @dave And I had three seconds of fame.
https://meh.com/forum/topics/speaking-of-candy-corn-guess-which-meh-user-got-quoted-in-this-observer-com-article?sort=most-likes

@speediedelivery The sea of broken links on that makes me sad.

@Thumperchick And the names that are not posting

MEALS! DEALS! EELS! AWESOME!

@cbilyak I had so much fun with that.
BTW - @chadp designed the pins!

@cbilyak
That was gonna be mine, I’m a huge @koolhandjoe fan. If whoever one the blind girl in the red coat holding a knife ever wants to get rid of her please let me know, she’s my absolute favorite.

@cbilyak @Koolhandjoe @Star2236 I loved the tutorials and need to get some more of my dolls looking scary.
https://meh.com/forum/topics/monsterfy-this-number-1
https://meh.com/forum/topics/monsterfy-this-part-duex

@cbilyak And I was lucky enough to get the benefit of that new hobby in the last Mehtizen Exchange:

@cbilyak @sammydog01 @Star2236 … I probably should bang out another tutorial… been awhile

@cbilyak @Koolhandjoe @sammydog01
And contest.

@cbilyak Hey, I was at Target yesterday, and in their $1 section (and $5) they were selling various sizes of little cutting boards if you need some more things to burn!

@Kyeh THANKS - always looking for mire!!

@mike808

YES YES YES

@wonderstew’s videos https://meh.com/forum/topics/the-best-pasta-movie-photoshops – my favorite

@snapster @wonderstew yeah, those were too good to be on such a mediocre site

@curtise /bow

@curtise @marklog this is the only correct answer

@jaybird this was a super cool and fun thing they did.

@jaybird Aw, the mediocre forums are gone.
/youtube rutger hauer tears in rain

@mossygreen nope, just gotta type directly.

mediocre.com/forum

Edit: well, they worked when i posted the link. I spent minutes looking for it.

Edit edit: works now. No s on forum

@jaybird Magic! Your reward is a Seligman video.

@jaybird I think I sent a banana slicer or a mini solar pig from dealextreme. Totally forgot about this!

@jaybird … rutger hauer tears in rain
A masterwork of sci-fi film.

@mossygreen
I waited, but it didn’t do anything.

Oh, nevermind - I went back and it DID!

@Kyeh If you reload, it might do something else!

@mossygreen Wow, it did!

@lilsrm123 Team cranberry checking in.

@Pony i never knew about the bath thing. Still have a couple of those cases though. People loved getting those things, even more when they actually fit a device they had.

@Pony The images don’t show up in the thread: https://meh.com/forum/topics/bath
But here’s the main photo:

STAR PONY’S POST SO SHE GETS THE CREDIT! ️

@Pony Here’s the sale page:

@Kyeh lolz yep, that’s the one. I still have a few of those cases hanging around. I had fun gifting most of them away.

@mossygreen thanks for finding that. I bought 50 of the danged things. I don’t know why!

@Pony PRINCIPLE.

WORKER BEES! HERCULES! TURKEY GREASE! AWESOME!

@Kidsandliz you can vote as much as you want

Oop serves me right for not reading the rules carefully .

As the thread I posted above about is really long, here are some highlights from that thread (there is a lot more on that thread):

@carl669 informed us:

my car is about 8 raccoons, or 1.3 rhinos long. (give or take 1/10th of rhino depending on what kind) what did you learn?

He a bit further down he defends his thread by saying:

this was just some random thing i wondered after reading an article about a sinkhole that measured “6-7 washing machines across”.

Of course @cinoclav, because of course you have to be practical, wanted to know:

How the fuck did you get the raccoons to line up and stay that way long enough to measure them?

It turns out carl699 didn’t actually line them up:

the average raccoon is 18-28", including tail. so, I just took the average of the average and used that. seems like a valid measurement.

Trying to standardize beaver measurements, @mike808 pointed out,

if you had chosen to measure in beavers, you would have had to use a logarithmic scale.

carl669 inadvertently tagged @fool when he said, >
only a fool would measure in aquatic based mammals.

f00l asked,

You fucking rang? Present and fucking semi-accounted for." and promptly posted a gif of a porpoise with a nail covered bat.

This prompted @unksol to point out the practical problems with measuring when using animals in the food chain:

I mean once you start using a porpoise we probably need fractions and then a raccoon might be closer. I lemmings are shorter and I hear line up well. How many raccoons to a porpoise? Lemmings to a racoon? Hamsters to a lemming? I really don’t want to start doing beetles.
At some point one is going to start eating the others and then it’s just a mess
Obligatory fuck.

And then unksol said,

What if the base 10 numeral system had been defined by animal length?"

To which I replied,

You could always use inch worms. Just sayin’

and the thread goes on and on and on… to which carl699 eventually says:

good lord. you people have taken my simple, humble, raccoon measurement system and run a-fucking-mok with it.

I mean, these are the fucking important things in life. Right? And it takes meh forums to make sure we know about these things. Wikipedia and google just don’t cut it for that. Good thing for meh!

I installed CAPTCHA to save my fellow robots from wasting money on this crap.

@cinoclav I LOVED the Possum Head Chronicles! I learned so much! I have actually cleaned a bunch of critter skulls using what I learned from those videos, and they came out perfect.

@Ignorant I love purple.

@Ignorant

@narfcake I thought I pasted that in my comment…editing now

@Ignorant Wow!

@Ignorant Drug dealers are all the same with @snapster being one of the worst

@Ignorant

@unixrab but his stuff is mediocre at best.

/giphy mediocre drugs

@Ignorant very

@Ignorant CHRISTMAS DAY

@Ignorant THAT WAS MY INTRODUCTION TO MEH!

@Ignorant And that was before Pitney Butthead shipping. Imagine if that was being used when that person had ordered.

@Ignorant
I don’t know how I missed that at the time, but it was worth the read. Love it! Really does sum up the meh community.

@Kyeh Aw, thank you! I’m so glad you enjoyed that

Aww, thanks @Kyeh. You make me smile!

@cinoclav @Kyeh @PooltoyWolf

yes that was a great month for the Goat performance

@unixrab I still think you should get VMP.

What’s the shelf life of Sodium Citrate anyway? I still have a bunch left from this.

@Ignorant infinity — it’s a molecule

@Ignorant And why do you have a bunch because you should still be making cheese dip today what is wrong??! are you depressed?

@connorbush I tried to do GISWHES without you guys and it wasn’t the same.

@connorbush I had no idea what I was doing, but did learn of some new songs while there.

@connorbush didn’t last long… now says can’t find server.

@cengland0 Wow. I didn’t know about that.
Pretty a-mehhhhh-zing! Here’s some of the pictures:

@cengland0 @Kyeh And I almost got a pallet of broken TV’s in a fuku because I had mentioned on some thread that I made one working laptop out of two broken ones with three tries and only 3 screws left over. I told @jonT I literally had no place for that to be delivered and so he sent them to someone else. They managed to make some working ones out of that pile. I had the sads over that.

https://meh.com/forum/topics/omg-meh-wants-my-phone-number?sort=most-likes

@Kyeh How did you recover those images? I tried and failed. Since I took the photos myself, I know I should have been able to retrieve them from the camera device but with the number of photos I take daily, I’d never find them.

@Kyeh Nevermind, I figured it out by looking at the HTML Code and extracting the URLS.

@cengland0 I found them by googling the name of your thread in “images.”
I bet some of the people who actually own goats are envious - @Pony, @mbersiam
Or do you also own goats?

@cengland0 I like how they’re using tin can telephones:

@cengland0 @Kyeh @mbersiam I don’t own any goats… just a few sheep.

@cengland0 @mbersiam @Pony
Oh, maybe I’m thinking of @macromeh?

@cengland0 @Kyeh @mbersiam @Pony I am but a former goat herder. Once our children were done with 4H and off to college, the goats were dispatched (adopted by another 4H-er, not terminated )

@cengland0 @macromeh @mbersiam @Pony Oh, okay.

@medz I liked the Photoshop contests too. I won a prize with this one in the “Make art meh” contest. (was going to link, but none of the pics show up anymore.)

@cengland0

@sammydog01 Test teas ended too quick. I think we need more reviews.

@sammydog01

https://meh.com/forum/topics/year-one-meh-stats--mediocre-stats-too

@narfcake @sammydog01
WTF is ppomppu.co.kr?

{VMod edit: corrected the URL.}

@mike808 @sammydog01 As far as I can tell, it’s a crowdsourced deals site. Koreans bought a lot of speaker docks during the first year.

@narfcake Interesting that the average item price was $12. I bet that’s up a lot.

@narfcake @sammydog01
Did they make one of these charts for pre-pandemic or for 2021 just for giggles to see how far things have changed since Year 1?

It would be pretty interesting to compare them, but if they aren’t for public disclosure, that’s understandable. I could see how some of those numbers could be considered proprietary and trade secrets. It would still be fun to see some of the silly stats posted for comparison for shits and giggles.

Like Meh clickers, geo distribution of mehtizens, #of VMPs still hanging on to the faded mehmory of something worth it, or the delivery times pre vs post covid.

@narfcake Yes that caper was very funny. Those of us doing the exchange (this was pre-whispers on meh forums) got an email that meh needed toilet paper (they had posted something or other that prompted that) and that we should all send them some. And of course we did. How could we not?

@brainmist And all that came from this thread:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/pasta-drop

@speediedelivery

@sammydog01 I think there was only one I would have considered but didn’t have the ingredients. I love the button

@speediedelivery I forgot about game night! That was so much fun!

@sammydog01 I watched/listened but didn’t play because I was not on a desktop.

meant to end that wall with
Am I the only one

@f00l @speedydelivery
Rules say:

Try to use 50 words or less to describe an event with a meh.com link (deal links or forum links usually)
Post only 1 event per top-level comment.

So …

@f00l @Kyeh Not to mention the google-vomit links

@Kyeh

but following rulez is so hard.

/whine

@Kyeh @mike808

the google vomit links are the result of meh’s very own search box. if you can persuade them to write their own internal search…

oh well shoulda cleaned up the links to strictly local.

my bad. v tired. too much work too little sleep.

@f00l Did you ever go home? It’s been so long now, I can’t even remember what was in the homegrown IRK I sent you.

@ladyhawke001 Not quite. We want you to visit this topic to get a sense of what the “lifers” consider mehmorable forum topics or events (all sales events turn into forum topics automatically every day).

So that you can have a sense of the community you just joined, and hopefully find entertaining enough to stay and participate (or just live vicariously through reading about our shenanigans) and hopefully buy stuff you need (or not) at a good price.

@njfan I remember that certain people refused to use the quarantine thread and @thumperchick spent her days removing content.

@sammydog01 @Thumperchick I’m sure that won’t happen in a few months or two and half years from now…

@njfan @sammydog01 That was a trip down memory lane I could have gone without. You all should see the whispers I got in that topic.

@njfan @sammydog01 @Thumperchick
Weird. It reads so … one-sided since January 6th.
https://meh.com/forum/topics/freedom-of-speech

@mike808 @njfan @sammydog01 @Thumperchick

@njfan or a box without the console.

@njfan Let me know if you want a box of stuff. I’m desperately trying to declutter and keep coming across things like banana boat speakers and Yonanas. I get maybe buying one but why oh why did I buy multiples? And a better question why can’t I make myself take them to Goodwill?

@njfan @speediedelivery Did you see they’re actually selling one on Sidedeal right now?

@Kyeh @njfan @speediedelivery There’s a PS5 over there.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@njfan @sammydog01 @speediedelivery
Right!

@Kyeh @njfan @speediedelivery Oh, duh. I thought you meant an irk.

@njfan @sammydog01 @speediedelivery
Oh, sorry - no such luck!

@sammydog01 I might take you up on that. Great Christmas gifts! No one wants a yonananananana though.

@njfan @sammydog01 @speediedelivery
And the PS5s are gone now.

@Kyeh @sammydog01 I immediately thought IRK too

I am also trying to declutter. I keep finding things that would be fun to send to some unlucky soul. So do I keep those things since I have a potential use? This is hard. I did remove several large boxes of non useful junk and old paper so progress…

@Kyeh @speediedelivery We could trade junk but that would be counterproductive.

@njfan I loved my yonanas when I got around to freezing bananas. I added cubes of frozen canned pumpkin and tossed in crushed ginger snaps at the end.

I should go find some bananas….

@sammydog01 Does that turn it into stuff instead of junk? Maybe I could give you someone else’s address. I found a few things that members were looking to get but have not searched the threads to find out if is still wanted. I would say start a thread but the forums seem quiet.

@speediedelivery That would probably be a good idea- who knows, there may be someone out there that wants the stuff more than Goodwill. I wonder how much an NIB banana boat speaker would go for? $5?

@troy

/giphy Thank you

@troy What were the vote counts on these submissions? Ties were not allowed?

Thanks everyone for a kick-ass thread. Gave me another idea that I’ll post this Thursday.

@troy thanks for the game and letting us play!

@barney Good question! The top 10 were 11 votes and up. Two comments reached 11, with default sort given to the earliest post… but we’ll allow ties.

So… @sammydog01 wins $20 too! And its all thanks to you, @barney!

@troy

@Barney @troy Aww thank you!!

@troy

@troy You get a for being so nice. (I don’t give these out too often anymore.)

Thank you!

@troy Wonder what would have happened if I had seen this thread earlier. Seems the early posts usually get the most votes and they dwindle over time. Ah well - congrats to the winners!

@cinoclav @troy
I think that’s true. It means you need to visit more frequently!

@Kyeh I’m trying. Work has been crazy busy and I’ve been away skiing a bit so meh has been on the back burner. But I miss this gang so I’m hoping to be back more.

@cinoclav Has the Covid situation at least gotten less intense at your hospital?

@troy Ooh nifty! Thank you!

@troy prediction: 11 out of the 11 winners will be using it at casemates.

@troy And to all the other winners, congrats!
Definitely spending mine over on Casemates.

@njfan @troy Nah. It’ll be more likely be at meh or mediocritee for me.

@njfan @troy I think you may lose that bet Im not a Casemate gal

@njfan @troy And I have had a few Casemates purchases but have NO ROOM for more. So I’m spending it elsewhere too.

@troy Now what we need to do is make sure the forum has new memory lane threads that go on to rise to the top 10 too!

@Kyeh It’s actually incredible how fast it rose and how quickly it dropped at the end. We maxed out somewhere around 180 + patients between our two hospitals. About 4 weeks after that it was down to around 20. Currently it’s bouncing around 5 or 6 total. Ironically, while I was in France a week and a half ago, it hit me Friday night. Bad chills, sore throat. We self tested in the morning and mine came up just barely positive while my buddy was negative. Really only lasted for one day with a slight lingering headache for a few days. Got home last Sunday night and by Wednesday he was sick. He very clearly tested positive. I’ll bet half of our group had it. The bus from Val Thorens to Geneva sounded like an orchestra of coughs and sniffles. Best part was that we had to pay to be tested to come home. We were at a Club Med and I was freaking out a bit that Saturday, knowing I was likely going to test positive. Every single person got a negative result back. Clearly they just wanted everyone out and didn’t want the negative PR.

@cinoclav Wow, that’s wild. I’m glad you had a light case and didn’t get stuck quarantined!
No lingering side effects, then?
Also glad your hospital has so few cases. The numbers have gone way down around here too.

@troy yay, thanks!

Wine or tshirts…looks like I’ve a year to decide.

@Kyeh I was wiped out last week but that’s more likely because of the time difference and the fact that we skied our asses off six straight days. Seeing it run through the group there did remind me that it’s never going away. It was also a good reminder of how important it is to be vaccinated so that it doesn’t hit you harder than it could.

@cinoclav Ironic that you avoided it the whole time you were working with the onslaught of patients only to get it on vacation. At least it was at the end of your trip. Glad it wasn’t that bad.

@cinoclav @Kyeh
Val Thorens, that’s cool! I lived in Sallanches for a time in the early 70’s. Did a bit of skiing there once or twice.

@chienfou It’s amazing that the entire town was basically built in the 80’s. They did an amazing job making almost everything ski in/out. One day we did the full round trip. Skied to Courchevel then to Meribel and back with stops in Saint Martin de Belleville and les Menuires. Probably a top 3 ski day in my life.

HIKING! VIKINGS! STRIKE KING [BRAND FISHING LURES]! AWESOME!

@studerc
As an ex-goat I still wish we had gotten the statues that were discussed once-upon-a-time.

@chienfou @studerc same. I also wonder what that individual did with all our contact info

@studerc And the Saturday oddball bundles.

@tinamarie1974 every once and a while i get a card in the mail that has “fuck you @studerc” spelled out in various magazine letters. I assume it is him. Im just kidding. Haha