Badgers in (aero)Space!

August 24, 2004 12:15 PM

...badger badger badger...
posted by nthdegx (19 comments total)

* clap clap *
posted by Pretty_Generic at 12:19 PM on August 24, 2004

Also, a report on the failures of the Beagle 2 Mars mission was released today, including "lessons learned". Couldn't make it fit, alas.
posted by nthdegx at 12:20 PM on August 24, 2004

mushroom mushroom
posted by Pretty_Generic at 12:22 PM on August 24, 2004

badger badger badger indeed. smart arse
posted by zeoslap at 12:23 PM on August 24, 2004

lol...you win.
posted by LairBob at 12:28 PM on August 24, 2004

i hate fucking posts like these. you gotta be kidding me if you think i'm going to click on all those links without a decent description.
posted by dogmatic at 12:45 PM on August 24, 2004

A snake, a snake, ohhh...it's a snake.
posted by Succa at 12:46 PM on August 24, 2004

Speaking as someone who has The Badger as wallpaper...what the heck was that thing about anyway?
posted by konolia at 12:51 PM on August 24, 2004

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posted by DaRiLo at 12:54 PM on August 24, 2004

dogmatic, unless your "title" hover links aren't working somehow, nth gave more context in this FPP than most. I wouldn't be thrilled if all FPPs were like this, but I think it's definitely a humorous and well-researched example.
posted by LairBob at 1:04 PM on August 24, 2004

Yeah, the hover tags told a lot and were a Good Thing. Good post.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 1:14 PM on August 24, 2004

For those, like me, who now need to hear the damn song again - badgerbadgerbadger
posted by kokogiak at 1:40 PM on August 24, 2004

Speaking as someone who has The Badger as wallpaper...what the heck was that thing about anyway?

You mean you don't know!?
posted by reklaw at 1:43 PM on August 24, 2004

Okay, I don't know either. I have looked through the FAQ site, and I can find nothing in the InJoke web pages. So what is the joke with the 'badger' besides a song which makes me wish I was computer illiterate.

An interesting, but annoying way to post, these are labor intensive, which makes me wonder what the higher level thread is about. Anyone?
posted by fluffycreature at 4:36 PM on August 24, 2004

An interesting, but annoying way to post

Correction:

An interesting, inventive, highly entertaining way to post. Way to go nthdegx!

(wot no links for ASN, AK, E, or A, SNA, KE? I would, but, um, I plead family obligations!)
posted by mwhybark at 8:01 PM on August 24, 2004

An interesting, inventive, highly entertaining way to post.

I gotta agree.
posted by soyjoy at 8:17 PM on August 24, 2004

Very nice. Thanks.
posted by mooncrow at 6:39 AM on August 25, 2004

(The post is fundamentally different than yours of October, soyjoy; instead of obviously being many links that are variations on a theme [though well-researched indeed], it is subtly many links that initially appear to be one [annoying] link [that everyone knows about], which reveals itself upon mouse-hover to be cleverly [in my opinion] cut into discrete well-summarized component links. I know I didn't need to explain that, but your sarcastic-seeming link to your prior thread implies disagreement with mwhybark's assessment of the inventiveness of the post. I concur with mwhybark, but what do I know? I've never posted on the front page.)

Nicely done, nthdegx.
posted by gohlkus at 11:47 AM on August 25, 2004

I don't know why you find it sarcastic-seeming, gohlkus. The link is there to make clear why I do agree it's an interesting, inventive, highly entertaining way to post. Obviously it's not exactly the same, but to my eyes there are more similarities than differences.

Also: Why are we whispering?
posted by soyjoy at 6:47 AM on August 26, 2004