OMG meh wants my phone number…

@carl669 You did see the header they put above my post did you not? From that I presume no prom date. LOL And besides whatever this is if it is a practical joke you do realize it is your fault goat!!

@Kidsandliz oh crap...didn't even see that. pretty damned funny though. also, if it turns out awesome, it's also my fault. no reason to blame the goat for only bad things.

@carl669 Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarl

@carl669 I blame google. Therefore by extension, since it's really your fault, then everything that Google screws up is also your fault. Gonna be a long month of a lot of emails. Stay thirsty my friend.

@ThatsHeadly your assumption is incorrect. google is correct. your search terms were not. google returned results based on your weak search terms. therefore, you cannot blame google, and by extension, me. Q.E.D. so sayeth the goat.

@carl669 tweren't my search terms - twere @Kidsandliz 's search terms.

@carl669
Dude, you got no say in who can blame you for what.

@ThatsHeadly What search terms? I didn't search google for anything… besides meh would not be posting on google what they are sending us LOL

@Kidsandliz The website (meh.com) searches Google with the post title, in this case "OMG meh wants my phone number…" and uses the first hit in Google Images as the image for the post. Therefore it is your search terms to google that determined the image for the post. At lease AFAIK. Anyone want to confirm/correct?

@ThatsHeadly Didn't know that. Pretty humorous what it picked in this case.

@carl669 "maybe they want to ask you to prom?" - I've skimmed this thread a dozen times or so and every time I read "prom" as "porn". My way is funnier. But very telling . . .

@Pavlov the funny thing is, i was wondering who going to own up to reading it the way you did. hell, i almost edited it to say 'porn' instead of prom.

@lichme Damn, I love an optimist!

@RedHot it did!

@nadroj No but the people whose house I am living in had goats. Two of them and a dog bigger than the goats to herd them. Although about a month ago they gave the goats to friends.

@JonT I hesitate to respond to this obvious bait.

@JonT

@Thumperchick

@JonT why not send this to your favorite Mehrican, @studerc? I mean, come on dude, you owe me. :)

@JonT How do I know if I want it or not if I don't know what it is????????????????????

@JonT PS read the email I just sent you

@JonT OK so I shared my "luck" with the people's whose house I live in. They said, "Accept the bait. In this neighborhood anything left of the curb will be taken. Guaranteed." So I am in. For whatever it is that meh is "blessing" us with. LOL

@JonT i will take it

@JonT I responded within the required time resquest. Thank you for your email. Looking forward to whatever may land at my home.

@Kidsandliz I'm really sorry, but it was extremely time sensitive that we receive the numbers for these deliveries – they were already on their way when we were informed we would need them. Between your initial email and this post you it seemed clear that receiving something from us would cause you more trouble than fun, so we had to scramble to get the shipment diverted to avoid paying some hefty new shipping costs and at this point it's too late to divert again. Sorry again, but you're probably better off.

@JonT Ooh, I know - they're monkeys, right?!

@cinoclav with capes!

@JonT waahhhhh - I know! Maybe you can send me a car as a consolation prize??? So do tell - who is the lucky recipient of mine?

@JonT PS That would be life sized real car that works, not a matchbox or barbie one LOL

@lichme

@lichme can I have your phone number??

@BillLehecka I'll take yours too.. and your ss #.. and address... and b-day..

@BillLehecka I've never regretted having the number of a pizza joint.

@Pony Did you get the Woot lights?

@pooflady Yes! Thank you so much! I thought I saved your email so I could thank you, but I was sadly mistaken.

@djslack Any other site maybe, but Meh is all about the community! Not talking about it is doing a disservice to fellow members. A disservice I tell you!

@zachary Which is why I posted. So we can all debate what "interesting" thing we will find delivered by truck to our house...

@somf69 I remember someone getting a pallet of action figures.

@Pavlov

@Pavlov I would have gone with National Rejection Hotline.

@Kidsandliz I wish I did, but I didn't. :)

@Kidsandliz Can I trade my PB n' J spreaders for what's behind door number 2?

@cinoclav Which one of us has door number 2? Can we wait to tell you until we see what we get? LOL

@Kidsandliz I got my email and responded the second I opened it. May I also add the @ JonT is a snappy dresser!

@somf69 Up to 4 of us… and the plot thickens...

@Kidsandliz At this point you all have door number 2. I'm rather jealous that you've already received a giant gumball machine and now this?!

@cinoclav I am not the gumball machine recipient. And my white elephant was just given to someone else because I expressed concern that due to my living circumstances I couldn't handle a huge white elephant.

@Kidsandliz Yeah, I saw that. Sorry! :( Who received the gumball machine?

@mikey Mine did not come in spam. 11:38am this morning. Inbox.

@mikey Good thinking. Ran to spam and it was spammy as expected.

@somf69 Well I have no way to video but I will post pics because of course the real fun is in the sharing of the madness (grin)

@jaremelz sounds like prom night

@jaremelz If you can trade a working car, preferably a used honda element with side airbags, I will trade. Offer open to anyone.

@TerriblyHuang if by that you mean that everyone will end up disappointed, yes.

@jsh139 Well do tell immediately what it is. I just lost mine because I expressed hesitation of something huge due to where I live. Someone else is getting it. Sigh.

@Kidsandliz Like Jon said, you probably are better off. I have a sick feeling in my stomach that I'm going to come home to a pallet full of manure or broken pinball machine parts!

@jsh139 Oooh, I'm close enough to call dibs on one of whatever it is of the 8000 items you're about to receive! ;-)

@jsh139 A pallet of manure can be used to start a tomato garden. Its that time of year.

@cinoclav Hopefully it's one large useful item :) Or, if not useful, one item that my trash company won't mind taking!

@jsh139 I hope it's not @moose trying to save money on airfare for a visit to PA.

@somf69 Funny, my 'other thing' was about 115 lbs altogether. I'm sure the FedEx guy wishes it was on a pallet instead of being a cardboard box covered in tape yet still falling apart.

@djslack cool. Seeings how the pallet reads RMA (Return Merchandise Authorization) you might make sure at least 1 works before getting all excited.

@medz yeah, they could be bum tvs. One of the top boxes looks like it's been smashed a little. Still, this is a really fun experience.

@djslack Awesome!!

@djslack Wow. Just wow. Congrats big time!!

A friend just pointed out that they could be TV boxes filled with Built NY sleeves, too. Excitement level in check.

@djslack Damn. That's awesome! Even if only one works, that's still so freaking awesome.

@djslack I will trade you one light up korean courier service sign for one working emerson 39" TV. Deal, or no deal?

@djslack Are they purple?

@Barney only if you feed purple into the HDMI inputs...

So we're back to an April Fool's joke, i think. They are RMAs. I've opened 2. One was smashed horribly, and one appears intact but powers off a few seconds after displaying the Emerson logo.

@lichme let me see if i have any working tvs first, that will affect my decision greatly :)

@djslack McGuyver could build a goddamn missle from a pen and a pack of gum. Don't tell me you can't build something even if they are all broken

@djslack Within about 10 minutes of the delivery truck coming, my girlfriend's mom got to town, and my sister is coming up too, so my tv testing may be long and drawn out so i don't appear to be an antisocial maniac stockpiling tvs for the network zombie apocalypse.

@djslack The ones with power issues or anything that isn't the screen can actually be easily fixed. A main board for that unit is around $30 and the power supply boards are $40-50. You can also "take two and make one", meaning you can swap parts around until you have a couple working units. Maybe order a board or two and have more. TVs are very easy to fix.

@djslack "Antisocial maniac stockpiles tvs" That's too funny! Good luck with all the testing and congrats on the mega haul.

@djslack An actual wall of tvs. The hermit in me is jealous as all get out.

@djslack congrats, I'm so jealous, hope they work

@The_Baron @djslack Yes it isn't too hard to swap parts around. I made one working MacAir from two broken ones I bought at university surplus. Took three tries and I went from 8 hours taking apart and putting back together to 2.5 hours for disassembly and then assembly. I only had 3 screws left over and it still works. LOL I doubt this was an apple approved repair job. I had never done this kind of thing before but I had figured what the heck. One didn't turn on and off and the other had a broken screen. Easier to figure out why the one didn't turn on and off than to switch out the screen.

@djslack The other question is whether you will be getting a regular fuko box too…

@Kidsandliz Yes, it should be here Tuesday last time I looked at tracking.

@djslack With any that don't work, you can always go to Best Buy and recycle the TVs for free. I think you can do three items a day.

@BillLehecka But if I do that, it's like a supersize, way more expensive version of an old Mitch Hedberg joke: "When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying, 'Here, you throw this away'."

My likely course of action will be to swap parts and get a few that work to upgrade the bedroom, parents' TV, and my nephews' play room (video game tv), and then find someone that likes to fix them to take the rest. But if some are unfixable (like the smashed one) I'll run them to best buy.

I did have short-lived visions of a wall of TVs. That would be pretty awesome.

@djslack You could still put it up, call it an art installation, and maybe sell it!
"That's not a bunch of broken TVs on the wall! It's a statement on the worth of modern entertainment and the migration to handheld snippets of things we once enjoyed as a family."
All of the money.

@Thumperchick A thousand favstars! I'm on it. Just need about $2000 worth of wall mounts.

Who got the pallet full of wall mounts and wants to collaborate on an installation piece?

@djslack So, I'd consider sending a note to iFixit offering them one of your broken (all pieces intact) models: iFixit Device Donation program

@djslack A dozen mounts from Monoprice won't cost anywhere near $2k. As for the ones with busted screens ... their boards are probably fine, so use those guts for the ones which won't turn on.

@dashcloud noted, and a good cause. I'll check it out (and also bookmark for my own reference).

@narfcake yeah, I was just going for a joke about someone getting a pallet of tv mounts. I'm definitely categorizing by failure mode to wind up with possible good parts. I strongly suspect that the smashed one was smashed on its way to me, or at least after the pallet was wrapped up. It looked like something big fell on the whole package. But I didn't get to open any more today so I don't know if more are physically damaged.

@djslack I made a working macbook air from 2 broken ones from university surplus (one with a busted screen and one that would not turn on). Only had 3 screws leftover LOL and it still works two some years later. Not as hard as I thought although I did learn to places the pieces in the order I took them out linearly across the floor (and shut the cats out of that room) occasionally putting a few notes with a step here or there. Shaved 4 hours off my disassembly, reassembly by the third and final try. Total cost: $50.

@Kidsandliz Great job!

On the 8th TV. 3 appear to work so far. There was an envelope in this one, with cash in it!

That's $97.68. Random, but awesome!

Thanks again! This has been the most epic April Fools for me! I'm sure I'll be sending that cash back over the next few purchases.

@djslack Wow!!

@djslack hey uh...can I get my $100 back? I've been looking for that...

@djslack Don't listen to @jont, that's my envelope.

@djslack This is super interesting. I want to know where the money came from.

@ChadP @JonT @hollboll I can't believe you guys actually sent him my money, y'all said it was just a joke! How rude.

@ChadP It was mine, probably.

@djslack Any more updates? How many total are working? Any more cash? (that's the craziest part of this, right?)

@hart @MEHcus @ChadP @JonT @hollboll This is starting to look like the staff rollcall list ...

@ChadP @JonT @MEHcus @hart @hollboll How dare y'all unleash cash on an unsuspecting customer. Rude indeed. I, on the other hand, am fully prepared to take this sort of thing off your hands. So, yaknow, if you have any more cash just lying around, you've got my email, I'll give you my phone number. I'm easy like that.

@joelmw Are you sure you want to temp us to send you "this sort of thing"?

@joelmw are you offering to do stuff for us in exchange for cash?

@hart Let me clarify that by "this sort of thing" I mean actual currency with current and significant value. And I did say "cash." Gawd, I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone. There's probably no ridiculousness of detail that would keep this from becoming something horrid.

@hollboll Um, maybe?

@hollboll Wait, is this a job interview?

@hollboll Because that could totally suck, since you can probably guess that I'm goofing off at work. I am actually working intermittently.

@joelmw Uh huh, sure. writes furiously on notepad

@joelmw Job description here

@hollboll So, in response to your posting:

- I'm very good at breaking things (this, IMO, is part of what makes a good tester).

- I can fix some things, especially when they have to do with words and with software and systems configuration.

@joelmw

@MEHcus

@joelmw Don't you look at me like that

@MEHcus

@joelmw

@MEHcus Good dog.

@hart @MEHcus @ChadP @JonT @hollboll Gotcha, just an extended April Fools' prank back at you guys.

So there wasn't really any random cash. But here are the stats, for those keeping count:

4 appear to work.
1 appears to work except it has no sound after it is turned off and back on.
1 works but has a significant video problem, everything is super trippy colored.
3 don't power on at all.
1 turns on, shuts itself back off.
1 is smashed.

@Teripie I second that emotion!