Favorites... from the past!

March 19, 2008 6:32 AM

Being vain, of course, I noticed this morning that someone favorited my song. The details show two favorites, though, one of which is from 2006. Which I am fairly certain is not the case, unless somebody's got a sweet time machine.

And if you do have a sweet time machine, please share. Thanks.

posted by uncleozzy to Bugs at 6:32 AM (57 comments total)

But even if they had a time machine, how could they go back in time to favorite a song that you had yet to create?

So, maybe you have a time machine?
posted by kbanas at 6:45 AM on March 19, 2008

Why would anyone share their time machine? That's how you lose control of a time machine and then disaster ensues. Pffft. Amateurs
posted by typewriter at 6:48 AM on March 19, 2008 [1 favorite]

The mystery deepens
posted by Deathalicious at 6:51 AM on March 19, 2008

I wouldn't share my time machine. You're absolutely right, typewriter. Once the genie is out of the bottle, it's only a matter of time before we all suddenly have a third eyeball or something.

Not that I have a time machine, because I obviously don't.

INITIATE PLAN CHRONO OVERLORD
posted by kbanas at 6:51 AM on March 19, 2008

I think it's clear that this so-called Orange Goblin is actually Jean-Claude Van Damme.
posted by uncleozzy at 6:53 AM on March 19, 2008

I vote for Guy Pearce.
posted by kbanas at 6:54 AM on March 19, 2008

He just seems more like the MeFi type.
posted by kbanas at 6:55 AM on March 19, 2008

Yeah, looks like somethings definitely going wrong there.
posted by cortex (staff) at 6:57 AM on March 19, 2008

I traveled forward in time and spent a lovely afternoon with Madame President Clinton.
Chelsea Clinton.
But do you know what parking in DC costs in 2038?
Outrageous!
posted by Dizzy at 7:00 AM on March 19, 2008 [1 favorite]

If you have a time machine can I borrow it for a few minutes just to warn past me of whom I should and shouldn't agree to date? That would be super. Thanks.
posted by miss lynnster at 7:02 AM on March 19, 2008

I can't decide if the title of the song makes this all slightly eponysterical. I mean, what did you expect?
posted by Nabubrush at 7:03 AM on March 19, 2008

Alright miss lynnster, here's a freebie:

That guy Colin? He's gonna seem okay, but ultimately, can you really deal with all the extra toes?
posted by typewriter at 7:04 AM on March 19, 2008

Be careful folks. We all know Voyager turned to shit when they started time traveling every other episode. We don't want that to happen to Mefi, do we?
posted by robocop is bleeding at 7:13 AM on March 19, 2008

Listen, I'll do whatever it takes to get off of this damn island...
posted by miss lynnster at 7:15 AM on March 19, 2008

Well, you can be sure it was an American.
posted by TheOnlyCoolTim at 7:17 AM on March 19, 2008 [1 favorite]

That's one for the history books right there.
posted by ND¢ at 7:19 AM on March 19, 2008

Whatever you do, don't make cortex an administrator.

I've seen what happens. I know what happens.

...I'm... I'm too late?!
posted by kbanas at 7:20 AM on March 19, 2008 [1 favorite]

Miss L---
In a Very Special Episode, Glenn Frey apologizes for being a dick at House of Blues, sends you flowers, and charms the pants offa you.
Literally.
Ironic, huh?
posted by Dizzy at 7:23 AM on March 19, 2008

Wow, that is a wonderful comment.
posted by uncleozzy at 7:25 AM on March 19, 2008

miss lynnster, would you have listened to yourself? (or should that be: Will you would have listened to yourself?)
posted by winston at 7:51 AM on March 19, 2008

I will become used to being silenced for the rest of my life.
posted by box at 8:01 AM on March 19, 2008

So, Orange Goblin : What happened on September 3, 2006 that made you need to go back?

(And I'm prepared to wait a while for your reply. If I were you, and I had a time machine, I really doubt I'd bother coming to early 2008.)
posted by Dave Faris at 8:06 AM on March 19, 2008

But Dave, late March 2008 is when the Frajibtamarians from Algyroba-5 finally reveal themselves and bring the Blinar Iso-Palchneens to help all Mankind!
Silly!

Wait.
CORTEX PLEASE DELETE PLEASE DELETE
posted by Dizzy at 8:21 AM on March 19, 2008

According to this, Orange Goblin actually marked music comment 1999 as a favorite (and the dates agree), not song 1999. The music subsite thinks that all favorites are for threads, and none are for comments.
posted by Plutor at 8:46 AM on March 19, 2008

Here's another example: on August 25, 2006, ibfrog favorited music comment 1953. But it's displayed under song 1953.
posted by Plutor at 8:53 AM on March 19, 2008

Thanks for ruining our beautiful time-travel fantasy, Plutor.
posted by uncleozzy at 9:01 AM on March 19, 2008

Previously.
posted by chrismear at 9:05 AM on March 19, 2008

Note: I did not go back in time to post that.
posted by chrismear at 9:06 AM on March 19, 2008 [1 favorite]

(nice save, plu--- no one must know about the iso-palchneens; thanks to your quick thinking everyone just assumes I'm a lonely, rambling chucklehead in my underpants, sipping diet off-brand chai...)
posted by Dizzy at 9:06 AM on March 19, 2008

If you were from the future, Dizzy, you would know better than to drink diet off-brand chai. Ick.
posted by misha at 9:19 AM on March 19, 2008

Yep, Plutor nailed it. We're having some ID-collisions on the page that displays who favorited a thing. On most sites this isn't a problem, but Music is newer and less posted-to, so the comment IDs and post IDs are in the same neighborhood. We'll have to pass in a favorite type to that page in addition to an ID. We've had this on our to-fix list for a while, but it's been at a fairly low priority because the collision rate was low.
posted by pb (staff) at 9:20 AM on March 19, 2008

uncleozzy: "Thanks for ruining our beautiful time-travel fantasy, Plutor."

If you went back in time and killed Orange Goblin, what would happen to this thread?
posted by Plutor at 9:24 AM on March 19, 2008

I was kidding about the chai.
Kinda serious about the underpants.
posted by Dizzy at 9:25 AM on March 19, 2008

If you went back in time and killed Orange Goblin, what would happen to this thread?

Whoa.

They call 'em fingers, but I never seen 'em fing. Oh wait, there they go...
posted by uncleozzy at 9:32 AM on March 19, 2008

Plutor: Orange Hobgoblin -- the Goblin's vengeful son -- would come after you.
posted by boo_radley at 9:33 AM on March 19, 2008 [1 favorite]

i have a Blinar Iso-Palchneen. in my pants.
posted by quonsar at 9:41 AM on March 19, 2008 [2 favorites]

I have a time machine. But it's actually pretty shit.
posted by slimepuppy at 9:46 AM on March 19, 2008

Hey, how about if jesmatexb's comments in Metatalk were a different color, like best answers? That would make MeTa much easier to read.
posted by roll truck roll at 10:00 AM on March 19, 2008

If you went back in time and killed Orange Goblin, what would happen to this thread?

People would complain about overzealous moderation.
posted by cortex (staff) at 10:05 AM on March 19, 2008 [6 favorites]

It's John Titor, broadening his musical horizons.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 10:36 AM on March 19, 2008

Make this an AskMe question and a FPP,
And you can tell everybody that this is your song.
It might be quite simple, but now the time-travel's done,
I hope you don't mind
I hope you don't mind
that I co-opted this song...

...how wonderful MeTa is, if only I could come up with a clever closing line.
posted by Sprout the Vulgarian at 11:08 AM on March 19, 2008

P.S. SCIENCE!!!
posted by Sprout the Vulgarian at 11:09 AM on March 19, 2008

People would complain about overzealous moderation.

Motion to complain about lack of moderation!
posted by jmd82 at 11:28 AM on March 19, 2008

Everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. I did. It always gets fixed within a few minutes, what's the harm?
posted by arto at 11:57 AM on March 19, 2008 [12 favorites]

If you have a time machine can I borrow it for a few minutes just to warn past me of whom I should and shouldn't agree to date? That would be super. Thanks.

Oh no you don't. It took me long enough to steal it back the last time and clean up the mess.
posted by Tehanu at 12:04 PM on March 19, 2008

The Time Machine will be invented by an American. Unfortunately, he/she will be an employee of Microsoft. Which explains so much.
posted by wendell at 2:35 PM on March 19, 2008

arto, I loved the link! Check your mefimail.
posted by misha at 3:46 PM on March 19, 2008

When I went to Orange Goblin's favorites page, there was a link for me to remove the favorite.

I'm strangely tempted to..

no

NO

WHAT HAVE I DONE OH GOD WHAT HAV
posted by tehloki at 4:10 PM on March 19, 2008

miss lynnster, would you have listened to yourself?

Totally. I find myself quite persuasive.
Not to mention totally adorable! :D
posted by miss lynnster at 5:52 PM on March 19, 2008

And Dizzy, it was not Glen Frey. IT WAS THAT DAMNABLE FOGERTY.
posted by miss lynnster at 5:52 PM on March 19, 2008

Heh, I yell FOGERTYYYYY! now whenever I shelve his CDs, solely because of your sad story, miss lynnster. It is satisfying, even without my own beef.
posted by carsonb at 6:36 PM on March 19, 2008

And it's time, time, time...
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:48 PM on March 19, 2008

I so love that you do that, carson b. :)

Just as satisfying, when his last cd was being sold at Starbucks, while I was waiting for my coffee I used to automatically -- without even really thinking about it -- move someone else's CD in front of his. It just felt right.

Take that, my crusty rocker dude arch nemesis!!! *shakes fist in air*
posted by miss lynnster at 11:33 PM on March 19, 2008

Whoops.
Apologies.
Full Disclosure:
Fogerty gave me a kidney last year.
posted by Dizzy at 7:52 AM on March 20, 2008

(It wasn't HIS kidney, actually, but I thought it a nice gesture.)
posted by Dizzy at 7:59 AM on March 20, 2008

Voyager turned to shit when they started time traveling every other episode

Voyager was always shit.

Maybe Q favorited the song? He's always doing things like that.
posted by Sys Rq at 11:47 AM on March 20, 2008

He probably donated his girlfriend's kidney. If he donated his own, he would be following you around daily saying, "You just ate a steak, and my kidney wants low protein. DON'T YOU KNOW WHOSE KIDNEY YOU HAVE?!!!??? DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM?!!!!???"
posted by miss lynnster at 9:02 AM on March 22, 2008 [1 favorite]