KaiYves asked:
“Does anyone think it would be a good idea to award some kind of annual “Muser Unaware†awards to people or organizations outside of the blog who have promoted Musery in their own, unintentional way?”
We agree with Errata: why stop there? Use this thread to recognize inadvertent agents of Muserliness.
I’m confused. Is this like the Illumiminati or not? I do have a sneaky act of kindness to share if it is. And it was a very sneaky, very fun, and hopefully very kind one.
-A
No, the Illumiminati (if it exists) is about things you do. This is about recognizing other people or organizations who, unbeknownst to them, further the spirit of Muserliness.
(But we’re always happy to hear about sneaky acts of kindness.)
That is such an awesome idea!
(first post?)
Hmmm….
there WAS a street preformer that offered people a pie in the face for a dollar.
That offered to pie people for a dollar, or offered to be pied for a dollar? I wouldn’t think many people would take him up on the former….
Heh, he let people pie HIM for a dollar.
It was thouroghly enjoyable.
I’d give an award to the people at Snopes.com. Their site is both useful and thoroughly Muselike.
4- Seconded!
I’ll recommend Phil Plait, the creator of Bad Astronomy (Both the book and the website) and Chris and Blair of the NASA Edge podcast, for being informative, scientific, and absolutely, hilariously, random.
This is a really good idea! Unfortunately I can’t think of anybody right on but I’ll post if someone comes to me…
I would like to acknowledge a boy at my school who frequently wears “I like pie” T-shirts, along with the rest of the fifth grade and their pie mania. Only one of them is a Muser, at least to my knowledge.
When I was doing laundry on Monday, I saw a guy with a t-shirt that read:
On the front:
Life is short
On the back:
Eat pie first
’twas funny. I thought of all of you.
Maybe it’s because it’s cool and gray outside, but I could really go for some pumpkin pie right now.
mmm. Pumpkin pie is my favorite.
How about the Mythbusters? Mental Floss? The Exploratorium museum in San Francisco?
Mythbusters: Yes.
The Exploratorium: Yes, but with a little less humor than MB
Mental Floss: Yes, because the name is so awesome.
I love when I get muser vibes off people. I don’t know any musers IRL, so it’s both fun and frustrating to have the overwhelming sense that someone is muserly.
The Ontario Science Centre should definetly be awarded the muserly award.
I think museum workers in general are a Muserly bunch. As I mentioned once before, attending the North Carolina Museums Council annual conference is a lot like living inside the random thread.
Hmmm…How about OMSI, in Portland (Oregon)? It’s all sciency and stuff, my sis drags me there pretty much everytime we’re in that general area visiting relatives. As unMuserly as it sounds, I usually vote for the zoo–for whatever reason, I always come down with a headache at OMSI, perhaps because we somehow seem to always miss lunch……
Although, even though i won’t admit it to my sis, it is fun. OMSI, not the headache.
Hmm, I can’t think of any at the moment. Maybe the Smithsonian Institution? Eh, I don’t know.
I like this thread though!
I’d say the chorus you sing with deserves recognition, though we can’t mention it by name.
Kokopelli dot com, definetely!
The people at ThinkGeek.com should get a mention.
A staff member at Camp Ouareau, Emilie T., who is fully one of my favorite people ever because she’s just so cool. She is…like…a big, huge packet of French-speaking craziness. Once, as a prank at camp, someone strung all these bras on the flagpole and as we were all staring at it in stupefaction, she screamed “C’EST MA BRASSIERE!” and ran up to the flagpole and stared at it. Only one funny incident I can remember right now. you’d like her.
The Biotic Baking Brigade. [search them on Wikipedia!]
How can you not include them?
They pie important people.
Definetly.
(I spelled that wrong. Oh well.)
The editors of mental_floss, definitely. Anyone familiar with it?
My biology teacher who has now mentioned blind cavefish, Tiktaalik, and tenrecs in class. Also, my school’s french club, which is called “pamplemousse.” (I can now truthfully say “Je suis en pamplemousse.”
SFTDP.
It seems that my grammar ability has lapsed after outlining a huge history paper. That should be:
My biology teacher who has now mentioned blind cavefish, Tiktaalik, and tenrecs in class should definitely get an award. Also, my school’s French club, which is called “pamplemousse,†deserves some recognition. (I can now truthfully say “Je suis en pamplemousse.â€)
(You would think that I could close my parentheses after having to debug 6 pages of LaTeX.)
Wait- I just looked it up-“Je suis en pamplemousse” means “I am out of grapefruit”?
WOW.
So, to make this not a PoPo, my friend Eureka is a definite muser, although I don’t believe she reads it. She gets Calliope. Which I did not know was a magazine.
SFTDP
Wait- you meant “Je suis un pamplemousse”, right? And how do you even pronounce that?
Je (No equivalent sound in English) Soo-eess Uuhn Pamp-luh-Moose
“Suis” is pronounced something like “swee” but with a bit of an “oo” mixed in with the “ee.” (My teachers suggested saying “ee” while shaping your lips as if to say “oo.”)
I think he means “en.” En means in.
SFTDP. Well, sometimes it does.
“Je suis un pamplemousse” (“I am a grapefruit”) is the original statement made famous by kiwimuncher. It happens to be my all-time favorite sentence. I frequently say it when in a grump. It’s hard to stay cranky while saying “I am a grapefruit.”
I’m a she. But I do mean en.
Or should that be “dans”?
That’s probably write. My French seems to lapse often, despite the fact that I’m in French 4.
Oops, I’m sorry!
“Je suis en pamplemousse” means “I am in grapefruit.” Don’t rely on online translators.
Last year’s Academic Decathlon Super Quiz topic was Evolutionary Biology. There was a whole section in the materials we got on Tiktaalik.
I’m not sure if this belongs there, but in english class we had to brainstorm: What makes me happy. One of my friends: “World domination!”. It’s ironic, since a) I was daydreaming about the Kokonspiracy and b) everyone else was saying things like my family or playing with my dog…
My friend is very obsessed with pie. She’s got pie t-shirts and pie shoes, even a pie purse!! She even signed all the yearbooks last year with “REMEMBER: PIE.” I’m pretty sure she’s never heard of Muse, but she would definitely count as a Muser at heart. (She’s crazy enough to be one, at least…)
I would probably award my youth minister at my old church.When we brought enough canned goods she pied our preacher with two pies. I would also award my science teacher who talks about slime mold all the time.
I love slime mold!
Ack. Mold. *shudders*
Sorry, fungi freak me out.
But slime mold is different!
It is different its almost an animal.
I once saw a bumper sticker that said “Bikes for Cleaner Air.” However, I passed it by too quickly, and for the entire day was happily convinced it read “Bagels for Clam.”
BAGELS FOR CLAM!
Today, on Facebook, I glanced at the list of friends’ birthdays, and noticed today was the birthday of a certain muser (not that I would ever friend a muser I don’t know, of course
) and clicked on her name so I could go pie her. When I got to her page, I noticed “hpbday” at the end of the URL. For a moment I thought this might be her facebook username, but that didn’t make a lot of sense, and I realized it was simply because I had come to her page from the birthday link. The silly facebook people must have thought they were simply abbreviating “happy birthday.” But we all know it actually said “hot pink bunny day.” 
8 o
You’ve just been PoPo fined.
Er… Why was that a PoPo?
That was supposed to be a 8 0. And, maybe a :idea.
Grr.. HTML issue. HTML Gnome? * build temple and worships, pays choklit to gnome and Fishy, Restores Mana for HTML Gnome. Pays money to HTML gnome. * Please, thank me later.
I beg your forgivness for the triple post.
ThinkGeek, for sure.
I’d like to nominate my Latin teacher… XD He took a pie in the face last year, and keeps making accidental muserly allusions.
They Might Be Giants! Muserliness made musical.
Yes! TMBG are awesome.
My summer creative writing teachers are very Muser-ly. We have all sorts of crazy writing exercises and they’re the ones who introduced me to TMBG in the first place.
“No cigar, no lady on his arm,
Just a guy made of dots and lines.”
Oh, yes, I love them! “The sun is a mass of incondescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace! Where hydrodgen is built into helium, at temperatures of millions of degrees!” Sorry for any spelling errors.
The sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma. The sun’s not simply made out of gas. No, no, no.
Forget that song. They got it wrong. That thesis has been rendered invalid.
Rainn Wilson’s Soul Pancake website is a sign of muserliness.
Coldplay, because they have a song entitled “42.” And for having a song skyrocket to ultrafame and not having anything to do with romance (Viva La Vida).
There’s a Doctor Who episode called 42.
I was just listening to 42 a few minutes ago.
There was a youtube video I saw recently called “I Like Pie”. It featured someone, sounding a little younger than myself, doing a voice-over for a stream of pictures of pie. Real pie, drawn pie, animated pie, and number pi. It was weird because the person used the same terminology I would have, and sounded a bit like I do when I record my voice on my cell phone. Anyway, very Muserly!
I think I’ve seen that video too! And one of my friends has met the person who created it. (If it is the same one)
On Fan Fiction, Jezebel Raewin wrote:Review and tell me what you did – what your fav thing about this Christmas was – if you think the bunnies are taking over the world yet?
Wow. Maybe we should recruit en into the Bunny Resitance?
I have an idea!
what?
Nudge : ZOMG! It’s so cute!
Angel: It’s thinking evil thoughts…
Me: You are a creepy little kid.
Max: It’s with Pitex! destroy it!
Ohh, that should happen in the fan fic, wait. What is this doing here?
In Lost Hero:
Evil giant named Enceladus (Gasp)
Jason said ” Cake.” In the way we do!