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15 February 2007

88 Lines About 44 Mefites I can't believe I actually did this. Good night.

post by: cortex at: 01:57 | 22 comments

There's something very, very wrong with you cortex ;-)
Sterling work, but I worry for your sanity.

posted by seanyboy 15 February | 02:44

There certainly is, in all the right ways.
Here's you're goddamn valentine:

# To: cortex
If love was words damning you with faint praise, i'd make sweet sweet mediocre commentary all night long that didn't amount to much up and down and all around until you begged for an honest complement and then your penis fell off.
07:14:39 15 February 2007

posted by ethylene 15 February | 03:03

Dude. I am in awe. Nice work.

posted by jonmc 15 February | 08:20

eth's just pissed off because she didn't make the cut. amirite?!?!?!

Also, cortex, your rhyming talents leave me feeling a little funny inside.

posted by muddgirl 15 February | 08:42

wow, i so hate amirite
And the goddamn was because he wasn't doing the valentine thing.
For me to be in there would be weird and inappropriate.
i didn't say i didn't like it.
*slightly pouty*

posted by ethylene 15 February | 08:51

Ah, she's just razzin' ya.

Thanks, y'all.

posted by cortex 15 February | 08:58

hmm, maybe I should have used, "ba-dum-ching!".

posted by muddgirl 15 February | 09:00

Daylight and laundry maybe just make me tetchy.
i was impressed by the annotation.

posted by ethylene 15 February | 09:02

I've decided I need to do something either so grand or so notorious that I make the next cut.

posted by drezdn 15 February | 10:08

heh... I can't believe I haven't been able to listen to this yet. Right now I have use of the computer, but in a room with a sleeping husband. Earlier, he wasn't sleeping, but was working on the computer. It's always something. /not at home - camping out in another city - so sick of not having my own computer in my own space - wah!

posted by taz 15 February | 10:32

A new metric of coolness. . .*smile*

posted by danf 15 February | 10:59

WOW

posted by interrobang 15 February | 11:48

That's pretty awesome. Rock on, cortex!

posted by me3dia 15 February | 11:49

Pot liked it, but Kettle was boiling hot.

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 15 February | 12:42

Yeah, you got three mentions and dhoyt got two.
It's funny what different people pick out of things and make prominent.
i always did like the Rashomon element to things.

posted by ethylene 15 February | 12:45

I considered titling its "...44 mefites (give or take)", but that seemed like pushing it.

posted by cortex 15 February | 12:52

The rhythmic match up goes well; i noticed that from reading it with the song in my head first.

posted by ethylene 15 February | 12:57

I have to say, with all the raw material you had to work with , perhaps I should be relieved that you chose THAT particular meme to associate with Konolia.

BTW, following your links in that segment, I had no idea how widespread the "not wanting to be exposed to x" thing was.

posted by bunnyfire 15 February | 14:15

bunnyfire: I had no desire to be too dredgy about it, basically, especially where active users were involved. Trust me, I dig it.

The anus thing was hilarious and continues to have legs as a mefi snowclone; those links are actually just a sampling of what you get if you go looking. Check out this google search to see what I mean.

posted by cortex 15 February | 14:36

What's worrying/impressive about this is that it doesn't feel strained at all.

posted by chrismear 15 February | 15:12

I have to admit that I get all tut-tutty at strained or badly metered parodies. There's a tremendous songwriter snob within me that would be insufferable (and get me in a lot of trouble) if I let if off a leash. So when someone just violates the flow of the source material when putting together a light-hearted parody, I boil with internal rage.

And don't get me started about the "rhyming" so-called poetry that my mom forwards to me and everyone else in her address book. Death, slowly, for the authors.

Which is to say that if this had felt very strained when I was working on it, it would never have seen the light of day. To the round file and speak no more of it, etc. And honestly, for every crazy idea I actually execute these days I have about ten that I don't, and eight of them are really bad.

posted by cortex 15 February | 15:47

The anus thing was hilarious and continues to have legs as a mefi snowclone; those links are actually just a sampling of what you get if you go looking. Check out this google search to see what I mean.

Oh. Oh my.

*mind boggled*

posted by bunnyfire 15 February | 17:15

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