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14 July 2005

Hey, do we have lurkers too? Come out, come out, wherever you are! : >

post by: amberglow at: 09:59 | 42 comments

Ok...you got me. I've been lurking for the past 20 seconds.

*shyly draws lines in the dirt with her toes*

posted by iconomy 14 July | 10:11

I lurk under a transom off the LIRR yard, waiting for salty dogs to pass. Then I leap out and shout, "Efnet! EfNET! EFNET! EFnet!"

Usually four times works perfectly.

posted by Hugh Janus 14 July | 10:34

Huge: I THOUGHT that was you!

posted by papercake 14 July | 10:39

*lurks*

posted by mcgraw 14 July | 10:40

>turn off light_

Oh no! You have walked into the slavering fangs of a lurking grue!

**** You have died ****

posted by gigawhat? 14 July | 10:43

*shyly draws lines in the dirt with her toes*

*deepens crush already well on the way to unmanageable*

posted by omiewise 14 July | 11:08

Yes, yes you do.

posted by Johnny Hazard 14 July | 11:24

Yes.

posted by nylon 14 July | 11:29

I prefer to skulk.

posted by me3dia 14 July | 11:48

omiewise, now I'm blushing. Didn't you hear? I'm too old for you to have a crush on me - I have a kid in college. Although I do have cute toes, I have to admit. One of them is sort of shaped like a cobra. That one is ugly, but the other nine are pretty cute. I'll show them to you if I ever show up for some crabs.

No, not that kind of crabs!

posted by iconomy 14 July | 11:48

*delurks momentarily*

*runs back into the shadows, weeps softly*

posted by Kimberly 14 July | 12:45

Hey, cool! Hi, Kimberly.

posted by taz 14 July | 12:51

*gets out Sharpie, makes up a "HI! My Name Is Kimberly!" nametag*

posted by iconomy 14 July | 12:53

*pounces on taz, knocking into iconomy and getting Sharpie on face in the process, opens knapsack and offers everyone homemade chocolate chip cookies*

Hi guys! Did I miss anything? Where's Kimberly? Hey cyoot toes, taz!

posted by Frisbee Girl 14 July | 13:04

*delurks momentarily*

*runs back into the shadows, trips over misplaced skateboard, smacks head on the ground*

posted by Quartermass 14 July | 13:06

Actually, more of a "first time" thing than a lurking thing.

posted by Quartermass 14 July | 13:06

*circles Quartermass's boo boo with the sharpie, points at it and laughs, then shines a spotlight into the shadows to see who else is in there*

posted by iconomy 14 July | 13:09

거처를 감추다

posted by 김치 14 July | 13:10

*falls off chair laughing at Quartermass, but offers several cookies to make up for it*

거처를 감추다
posted by 김치 14 July | 13:10

!!! !!!

posted by Frisbee Girl 14 July | 13:15

I see one! Right over there...

Efnet! EfNET! EFNET! EFnet!

The saltier they are, the more offended they get.

posted by Hugh Janus 14 July | 13:18

gam sah
johy yah suh?

posted by ethylene 14 July | 13:47

Efnet! EfNET! EFNET! EFnet!

oh, it's like beetlejuice, beetlejuice, beetlej....

posted by amberglow 14 July | 14:07

Same Quartermass as mefi? I've been wondering where you've been lately.

posted by safetyfork 14 July | 14:18

welcome one and all--snacks are downstairs, and porn and hookers and blow are all upstairs. : >

posted by amberglow 14 July | 17:32

Same one! I have been quietly working in the backgrounds in my week-ish away finished thesis on... Metafilter!

posted by Quartermass 14 July | 17:45

mmmm, snacks.

posted by krix 14 July | 17:48

Err... not "in" my thesis - "on" my thesis. Though it has been feeling more like "in" than "on" of late. I decided to lay off my posting and just obsessively read, take notes and write for the last several months. Thank god it is almost done with.

posted by Quartermass 14 July | 17:48

hey lurkers - look at this delicious cheese sandwich. ignore the box held up with a ruler just look at the delicious sandwich...

* takes end of string to hidey hole and peers out *

posted by dodgygeezer 14 July | 18:03

Man, that brings back memories, dodgygeezer. I wonder if anyone ever caught a bird that way?

posted by dg 14 July | 18:44

Quartermass, are we all footnotes? spill.

posted by amberglow 14 July | 18:52

I laid it all out here back in January.

I am in the final push of writing it now, and when it is done, I am really, really hesitant to release it to the community, not because I have been unfair to it, or because I am worried about the quality of it, but because it is my baby, and I am scared of releasing it into the wild.

I am still planning on making a Metatalk post or two to ask some questions in the next week to back some things up and to help flesh out some ideas I have focused on.

Really scary though, as I only have a few weeks left to complete the damn thing, and I am less motivated than ever to finish it (it has been two years in the works, almost a full year of studying threads (mostly in the grey), and I am really, really, really sick of it).

posted by Quartermass 14 July | 19:35

: >

That's the thread where we gave advice last time--it'll be great.

posted by amberglow 14 July | 20:06

Hi.

*crickets chirp*

posted by Asparagirl 14 July | 22:45

Hey, there Asparagirl!

posted by taz 14 July | 23:15

Oh. I'd have declared earlier, but I got all caught up lurking on that other site until just now.

Um . . . Hi, everybody!

posted by Absit Invidia 15 July | 01:36

Hi! Great user name.

posted by taz 15 July | 01:43

Thanks, taz!

Nice place you got here. I've been reading it since day one, usually saving it as my dessert for the end of the working day. Amberglow's challenge was too good; I had to register so I could out myself as a lurker. Feels kinda, um, liberating.

*shields eyes and blinks into spotlight . . . grins uncertainly*

posted by Absit Invidia 15 July | 02:57

You know that you won't be able to resist our inticing wriggle now, right? And that you'll just have to come skinnydipping with us in the pool every now and then?

posted by taz 15 July | 03:24

Yes, indeedy. I hope everyone will laugh with my skinnydippiness, rather than at it.

*Strips, jumps in, test frolics*

Hmm. Seems to be working out fine, so far.

posted by Absit Invidia 15 July | 03:37

posted by taz 15 July | 04:27

cool! welcome!

: >

posted by amberglow 16 July | 14:39

*but I like to lurk*

posted by peacay 16 July | 15:49

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