Upside the head

October 19, 2007 8:09 AM

Whack a Mole Nerd - Flash Friday
posted by caddis (21 comments total)

I'm just fundamentally opposed to helping the "cool" kids with anything.
posted by never used baby shoes at 8:18 AM on October 19, 2007 [2 favorites]

Metafilter: We Go Pher Moles!
posted by DenOfSizer at 8:18 AM on October 19, 2007

That's one sucky font, though.
posted by DenOfSizer at 8:19 AM on October 19, 2007

*slap*
posted by anthill at 8:28 AM on October 19, 2007 [1 favorite]

Speed games like that suck with a trackpad mouse.
Othewise, that *smack* sound is really satisfying.
posted by Brittanie at 8:29 AM on October 19, 2007

Damn! I wish I had one of those floating hands of doom in school.
posted by darkripper at 8:34 AM on October 19, 2007

Thwack Ye Mole
posted by christopherious at 8:38 AM on October 19, 2007

I looked at the site and couldn't do it. It'd be a class betrayal. It'd be like slapping myself. And I'm actually not attempting to be humorous here.
posted by darksasami at 8:47 AM on October 19, 2007

Was caddis inspired by recent post The Moleskine Project or Hammer-wielding granny smashes up Comcast office or both?
posted by christopherious at 8:50 AM on October 19, 2007

Your goal in this funny ass game is to help the cool kids get a chance in class.

Yes, because in real life all the cool kids are just chaffing to show off their brains, if only all those nerds would pipe down.
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 8:56 AM on October 19, 2007 [3 favorites]

I was that kid in class, but this was still oddly satisfying.
posted by desjardins at 8:57 AM on October 19, 2007

So... when are they coming out with the version of Duck Hunt with cool kids running down hallways to pick off? That wouldn't be such a "funny ass" game. HA.HA.HA.
sheesh
posted by edgeways at 9:19 AM on October 19, 2007

oh, and I so wanted to smack the cool kids, especially the girl with freakish eyelashes
posted by edgeways at 9:20 AM on October 19, 2007

edgeways: I agree. Unfortunately the score didn't go negative, no matter how I tried.
posted by anthill at 9:31 AM on October 19, 2007

"Slap the ugly nerds before they open their mouth"

If this site were anything but sincere it wouldn't work. As it is, I'm getting a kind of sarcastic enjoyment out if it.

And I'd like to think I wasn't an ugly nerd so much as a nerd who wasn't really clear on why looking presentable might matter. I'm not not REALLY slapping myself, just my friends.
posted by postcommunism at 9:42 AM on October 19, 2007

oh, and I so wanted to smack the cool kids, especially the girl with freakish eyelashes

I just took to smacking them all. Score, shmore.
posted by GuyZero at 9:48 AM on October 19, 2007

Your goal in this funny ass game is to help the cool kids get a chance in class.

Yes, because in real life all the cool kids are just chaffing to show off their brains, if only all those nerds would pipe down.

I am with you there.

Why would you not like nerds in class? If they are answering all the questions and taking up class time, then it decreases the chances that I will get called on and have to reveal that I didn't do the assignment.

Nerds help everyone.
posted by flarbuse at 10:44 AM on October 19, 2007 [1 favorite]

I looked at the site and couldn't do it. It'd be a class betrayal. It'd be like slapping myself. And I'm actually not attempting to be humorous here.

Please get over yourself.
posted by wfc123 at 11:36 AM on October 19, 2007 [1 favorite]

Heh. I remember in Geography class in Grade 10 we were studying the names of mountain ranges. I always knew the answers, and one of the cool girls looked at me with puzzlement and asked, how do you know all that stuff?

Needless to say, she had much more social intelligence than I did, although I wonder how 'popular' she was. More popular than me, that's for sure. But she also briefly helped me with an assignment, and, to this day, I have never forgotten her kindness.
posted by KokuRyu at 1:07 PM on October 19, 2007

I quit 30 seconds in. "Ooh! Pick me!" was just too much. The flashbacks, THE FLASHBACKS!
posted by gummi at 1:54 PM on October 19, 2007

Your goal in this funny ass game

I just developed a new rule: Anything that self-identifies as 'funny ass', probably won't be.
posted by quin at 5:02 PM on October 19, 2007 [1 favorite]