Mr Haughey amusingly discusses MetaFilter

November 15, 2012 5:17 PM

An interesting and entertaining interview of MetaFilter user #1 by Colin Marshall. It's a free podcast, an hour in length.
posted by Wordshore to MetaFilter-Related at 5:17 PM (23 comments total)

That was neat! The interviewer was great - it's always nice to hear one who actually knows the topic and has thought about it enough to ask coherent, interesting questions.
posted by restless_nomad (staff) at 5:58 PM on November 15, 2012 [1 favorite]

"Village idiots, drunk on stupidity"
posted by KokuRyu at 6:19 PM on November 15, 2012

Sometimes I think they're just drunk on, you know, drinks.
posted by restless_nomad (staff) at 6:23 PM on November 15, 2012 [8 favorites]

Hey, it's the this thread guy!
posted by Sys Rq at 6:33 PM on November 15, 2012 [1 favorite]

I would love to get a graph of the "mobile hockey stick" measuring exponential growth in mobile pageviews on MetaFilter. Does such a PowerPoint slide exist out there???
posted by KokuRyu at 6:34 PM on November 15, 2012 [2 favorites]

Living in Japan at the moment, I find this post pretty funny.
posted by KokuRyu at 6:36 PM on November 15, 2012 [1 favorite]

Thanks for sharing, I really enjoyed this!
posted by livinglearning at 8:58 PM on November 15, 2012

"Hey, it's the this thread guy!"

One of my all-time favorite posts!
This is going to be good.
posted by TangerineGurl at 10:29 PM on November 15, 2012

That was great. I especially liked the bit at the end about the guy riding a unicycle dressed as darthvader santa playing bagpipes, but then I am drunk on drinks.
posted by mannequito at 12:15 AM on November 16, 2012 [1 favorite]

I listened to this on the bus on the way to my evil, evil bio exam. This was much better.
posted by ocherdraco at 7:14 AM on November 16, 2012

Oh man, the frisbee comment.
posted by lholladay at 9:15 AM on November 16, 2012

Does it address the fact that the real Matt Haughey retired years ago and is living like a king in Patagonia?
posted by Panjandrum at 9:21 AM on November 16, 2012 [1 favorite]

I thought he was working at a pizza place in Toronto.
posted by gracedissolved at 9:40 AM on November 16, 2012 [3 favorites]

Was that a Moxy Fruvous joke?
posted by pickinganameismuchharderthanihadanticipated at 10:32 AM on November 16, 2012 [1 favorite]

Really looking forward to listening to this. Thanks!
posted by bearwife at 11:20 AM on November 16, 2012

Do I sound more or less clever if I say yes? (Or more or less old?)
posted by gracedissolved at 1:39 PM on November 16, 2012

Sometimes I think they're just drunk on, you know, drinks.

I'm feeling watched right now.
posted by villanelles at dawn at 2:01 PM on November 16, 2012

On the AskMeFi element of this interview.

Am I the only one permanently nervous when going on to that section, of seeing a submission about relationships e.g. "He really doesn't get me but he thinks he does" that I slowly realise with increasing horror, on reading down and into the "DTMFA" territory of the comments, is from my girlfriend?

#MetaFilterInsecurities
posted by Wordshore at 2:09 PM on November 16, 2012

(Checks back) Oh. Okay. Just me, then :(
posted by Wordshore at 5:13 PM on November 16, 2012

Just me, then :(

That's what she said.
posted by HuronBob at 5:53 PM on November 16, 2012

Where is this "nerf world" he speaks of? Does it cost $5?
posted by HuronBob at 5:57 PM on November 16, 2012

I still have no idea what this comment has to do with the question.
posted by ODiV at 12:46 PM on November 17, 2012

Let me just say that in Misters Marshall and Haughey we have two men with the most delightful laughs.

The wordy parts of the interview were quite interesting as well.
posted by Kattullus at 5:11 AM on November 18, 2012 [1 favorite]