Ready to celebrate our 10th anniversary tomorrow?

I suggested some sort of party type thread the other day, but it went down like a Trump victory

Wow. Already? Let’s let the celebration go on for as long as Flutherites wish. Let’s have one helluva party.

I’ve arranged for a fine meal to start, served by formal waiters and waitresses, beginning with clams casino, a small caesar’s salad, and a choice of a fabulous legume platter for our vegetarians—but there will be a special waiting staff to take the orders of anyone who wishes something off menu.

There will be a next course of either freshly caught Red Snapper à la meunière, or Kansas grain fed filet mignon flavored with garlic and cracked black peppercorns. Baked potatoes with everything, braised snap beans with shallots and sauteed with or without bacon.

The wines will be a choice of Pinot Grigio, Chardonay for the first courses, a hearty Sangiovese and the more complicated, but equally robust Travaglini Gattinara for reds.

Afterward there will be an incredible dessert cart proudly presented by the pastry chef and the waiting staff, liqueurs and cognacs, maybe a little coffee and sambuco and conversation—then the music, the dance and the party begins!

I like the idea of doing something, but I’m drawing a blank on something fun to do, that isn’t a regular aspect of this site.

PANCAKES are always apropos at Fluther parties, sometimes popcorn.

Maybe we can have a town hall in chat?

I might even show up for that.

Cake. Cake, cake, cake.

With candles.

A Fluther tradition.

It’s after midnight on the West Coast.

HAPPY TENTH ANNIVERSARY, FLUTHER!

That’s great news!!! I’m in for the party..))

Pancakes? I’ve been in the mood to make latkes. I could definitely run up a big batch for a party.

Happy Anniversary, Fluther.

@BellaB the pancake reference kind of became an inside joke among jellies ever since this q early on.

I vote the tenth anniversary should be a pancake party!

So did the cakes.

The traditional symbolic gift for a tenth anniversary is tin. I say, for those of us who still have them, should officially surrender our tin hats to Fluther at the party.

There could be a party here or in one of the chat rooms where we can reveal our most irrational conspiracy theories we’ve held in the past or how we’ve been temporarily been duped by such, etc., while others observe and we can all laugh out loud together. I think they would make for great stories.

Ok, @Espiritus_Corvus, here’s one. I made this up all by myself: the generals who support Trump want him to win because they’ve always had a secret desire to stage a military coup.

I like that even better than my suggestion that the Democrats paid him to run against Hillary because no one could do a better job of making her look good.

Pass the tin hats, please.

I have one. Trump began this campaign based on a bet while on the golf course with Rupert Murdoch. The bet was one dollar that Trump didn’t have the balls to come under the scrutiny required of a presidential candidate. A few others on the course that day, including Bill Clinton, made side bets. To everyone’s surprise, the sonuvabitch gained a following of schmucks so repugnant that it has now become a running joke and the bets keep rolling in, the odds tied to Trumps polling numbers.

He was supposed to give the big reveal upon winning the nomination and finally end the charade (I really thought there was a slight possibility of something like this, considering the type of people this asshole hangs with), but those positioned far above both political parties who also know the circumstances of the bet showed him a never-before-seen-film of that moment in Dallas back on November 22nd, 1963.

And now he is literally running for his life.

What? What? It’s the Anniversary already? To be honest I didn’t know the anniversary existed until now. I’m a biy unprepared, anyone tells me what to do?

We’ve never done this before, @Mimishu1995. We’re making it up as we go along. What’s your idea?

Can we can all meet up in chat?

Wut wut wut a party?

Happy universary Fluther!

Good Idea, @RedDeerGuy1

<<Everyone needs a party hat!

@Yetanotheruser Where to get one?

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! Love you Fluther.

@Sneki95 I just googled “party hat” images and found one that I liked. Let’s be creative!

Woo Hoo…break out the party hats and uncork the bubbly! Happy Anniversary Fluther!!!

@Coloma What’s bubbly? Is it some easter egg on the site?
Nevermind, I read “unlock” instead of “uncork”.

Given that a pancake buffet seems to be an orgy in Fluther-speak…let’s go!!! syrup and pancakes for all

Tin is the symbolic gift of tenth anniversaries. So, turn in your tin hats everyone. It’s candid conspiracy time.

Pancakes, champagne and a good time to everyone.

I would like to make my first toast to Janets.

@Jeruba oh, I meant that I don’t know the tradition and I ask if I can be of any help. Well if you said so… let’s create a new tradition!

I’m too busy for chat at the moment, can we make it here?

Why don’t we have some music? Here.

My tin hat

I found my hat too!

Here’s to Janets

Does anyone else remember the sources of other Fluther memes? The sexpancakes, for instance? Links please!

Here’s the CIA thread. I believe anyone who dares to open it will get a prize. But expect also to be [redacted]

My burning question: when did the pancake come into existence?

I remember the popcorn I found recently. It is also the birth of the pancake meme, Mimi.

@Andrew needs to make a 10th Anniversary award.

Where are Ben and Andrew, btw? They are missing the party…

Bravo, @Sneki95 That thread, in the second response, is also the origination of the Fluther Orgasm Pancake, the recipe of which was [redacted] by the [redacted].

@Mimishu1995: November 4th, 2008.

@Sneki95 you really have a lot of time in your hands :)

@Mimishu1995 It was on accident.

Mwen pral gen anpil bagay nan bè ak anpil siwoo! Ya Yaaaaaa!

Okay, going off a 2006-vintage theme, here are some things I’ll bring to the party!

These buoyant wonders since I figure we’ll be by a pool (we are having this at the mansion, no?)
This guy to help us keep track of what we’ve got in our cups (because apparently we can’t read labels and remember)
This for a mid-party or midnight pick-me-up (because who wants to drink their joe when they can… scoop it?)
This for some party tricks (I’m no magician, but sometimes a lack of blood is just as cool!)
These sweeties to battle the mysterious cat-bots, because I am also allergic to cats
These to change all the lightbulbs in the house
Fair warning, I’ll be arriving in this because I’ll need the cargo space.

I suggest a Mafia costume for me!

Happy anniversary to us! And mazel tov to Ben and Andrew for creating a community.

Rubber wristbands for everyone!

I am not much of a one for parties, so I might just sit by the buffet and check the scores on my phone unless somebody wants to talk about boilers, engineering in general, or good restaurants in Connecticut. But cheers, everyone. I’ll be leaving soon, too.

Thanks for the invite, though! Nice party. Love what you’ve done with the place. The women all look lovely tonight. Well, every night, really.

I’m bringing my pet spiders to the party. Here are my new favorites. The happy jumping spider (at the top), and toward the bottom, the wooly jumping spider. http://theverybesttop10.com/unusual-spiders/

They’re cute!

Those are the cutest nopes I’ve seen! ^_

I know there’s more than one thread like this, but at the moment I can find only one:

http://www.fluther.com/31729/what-are-fluthers-memes/

We need Auggie! She knows everything.

I’ve got the Vagina Nose Thread from 2010.

LOL. Good times. That one calls for a stiff shot of dark rum.

And a quick look through my old anatomy text to just… check on a couple things.

The vagina nose…
I can’t stop laughing. :D

^^lol..))

Here’s to Randy! Maybe Janets and Randy eloped.

Oh, man. Randy.

What’s an anniversary thread without a little Nose-stalgia!

BTW, one of my all-time favorite threads was the marriage proposal question. It got a whopping 210 GQ’s! (And let’s not forget the Wedding thread and the Gift Registry thread.

I think it’s threads like these that have made Fluther the community it is, at least for use old-timers.

I wish Gail were here to join in. It’s been nearly a year . . .

Gail, October 24th. Adirondackwannabee 18 January.

I miss them both intensely.

I just read the story. I only knew it existed, never read it. That was a masterpiece, where can I find the pdf version? Also, peedub needs to get back. That dude was too awesome.

And the proposal! I nearly cried when I read it. :D

Happy tenth anniversary to us all!! You Jellies are the best.

@Espiritus_Corvus yeah, I wish Adi was with me like the April Fool time…

BTW, where’re the April Fool threads when we need them?

Link it, Mimi. I’m not sure which one you mean. I’d like to see some of his posts again. Especially tonight.

Oh, and the vampire girls from last year. Can’t remember their names.

@Espiritus_Corvus I meant the time when Phi made the Jelly section for one day. Don’t know if you were there back then but it was in 2014. And I forgot the vampires’ names too :(

I came in 2008 in time for the election. I’m so happy Fluther is still here :-)

I just noticed Neptune ate @Cruiser. We PM’d recently. He’s been here forever. WTF?

@Espiritus_Corvus What are you talking about? I noticed he’s been absent lately

Yeah. He hasn’t been playing much since his mom died, but he’s been around. He was here just last week and now Poof.

:(
I’ve had a few messages with him, such a cool guy. I hope he gets back soon.

Don’t worry guys. He has always been like that, coming and going. I hope it’s just one of those occasions.

For the lovers of poetry, I found something.

Also, don’t put your hands in your pockets.

Happy Anniversary! Better late than never…

I’m here too. Happy Anniversary!

Let’s chill out here. It’s the anniversary anyway.

@Sneki95 The pocket thread was hilarious. You’re very good at finding these things.

Time for another toast. I’ll have whatever the guy passed out on the floor had. Aye, my inner pirate is emerrrrrrrging.

(raises glass)

There are good ships,
and there are wood ships,
The ships that sail the sea.
But the best ships, are friendships,

And may they always be!

I’ll drink to that!

Herre’s for a double—

Here’s to those who wish us well,
Those who don’t can go to hell!

I drink to that too.

Skoal, my friends!

Skål, Jellies!

Kanpai, everyone!

Cheers

Santé!

Happy Birthday Fluther! You have helped waaaay more people than you realize!
Thank you!

Živeli!

I am traveling, so I’m a bit handicapped being on my phone, but I wouldn’t miss this party. Ho’omaikai! Thanks, Ben and Andrew.

Whey-Hey…Fluther beats to my drum, you knew it made sense ;-}
This went down through the night over here, we Brits were getting our beauty sleep.
Belated happy Bo Derek to Fluther, you & I almost share birthdays…good to see you still kickin

Some more posts I found. (what the hell?)

Does anyone else remember some more epic posts?

also, I just saw I wrote “universary” instead of “anniversary”. My bad, sorry

We’ll be here all week, folks. Try the flank steak, and don’t forget to tip the cocktail waitress.

I’ll be waiting for @Sneki95 to dig through all the epic stuff while enjoying my booze.

You’ve been here longer than me, Mimi. Don’t you remember some awesome moments from the time you’ve been here? :D

I don’t mind researching, though.

@Sneki95 Unfortunately most of the most exciting things I’ve experienced here aren’t in the form of links. The funniest thing was the “Jelly” section, which was only up for one day. And then there was hilarious drama in the chatroom, and you can’t link to the chatroom right?

OK so I’m going to go with this for starter.

Thread Inception! lol

This, I think, was my most favorite thread of all time.

And I see that she comes back from time to time, too! Last here two months ago, and I missed it.

@CWOTUS “I tip my hat to your idiomatic, metaphorical genius!”

I’ll smoke to that. Enjoying a little herbal essence for the 1st time in about a year over here. Nice! :-)

High there, @Coloma ! I just ate one of those little Cookies & Cream cake balls from my local cannabis shop!

Ok so since I’m horrible at finding links, I’m going to find some wood, burn a campfire, and tell you stories from the past…

About the “Jelly” section, one day on April Fool of 2014, our tech guy Phi decided to make a section called “Jelly” for silly and burning questions. Some members of the mods also made new accounts to ask there. Questions like “Am I beautiful?” or “Does he like me?” went rampant. At that time I ran out of questions so I asked the late Adirondackwanabe may he rest in peace, I miss you to ask for me. I especially liked it when he asked the community if he looked like Angelia Jolie :D

@Yetanotheruser Cheers, nice rainy day relaxation for me.

Who remembers the person that claimed they fell on a Cactus and were rectally impaled? Haha I can’t find it anywhere, but, another Fluther classic.

Please make this thread another good Fluther memory.

@Espiritus_Corvus The Vagina Nose…LMAO! That was so funny!

Did I miss it or is the celebration going on?

Still going on!

I’m not much of a party animal fish but I’ll raise my glass to jellies anytime, anywhere.

I’m late! Thanks to @Espiritus_Corvus for letting me know about this. I like his idea of a sit down dinner. Then let’s party all night and have pancakes for breakfast.

I really do wish we could all be together in real life. What a wild meetup that would be.

Are we in the mansion for the party? I didn’t catch that when I skimmed the thread.

@JLeslie We’e having a pool party, hehe. :D

@Coloma I found it (I’m getting really good at this. I feel like an archaeologist lol)

I found some others too!

Ranting about toes

Early installment weirdness of Hypocrisy Central
Naming a squirrel

EDIT: The original cactus question

Happy anniversary everyone. I’ve been here 5 years out of the 10. It’s getting to feel like home. Is that a good thing or not?

As we continue this fine shindig of wining and dining, lend me your ear while I beat around the bush to recall Randy’s moment in the sun. I might have my wires crossed since at that time I was on the lamb, as they say, out and about—but to cut to the chase, a little bird told me that this man of few words and a big mouth, not quite as bright as a button, became an overnight sensation. Every dog has his day, or at least his fifteen minutes. I guess Randy jumped in the deep end before learning the ropes and had a cow about having “only nice people answer!” ... Well, everything that shines isn’t gold, but if we’re going down memory lane, I thought I’d shoot the breeze with this one.

What beats me is finding a relevant link. But I know people in high places and maybe I can lasso someone into lending a hand?

To be frank, I’m barely keeping my head above water with these idioms, but son of a gun it looked like the cat’s meow, so I thought I’d go for broke!

(All of these past threads are hilarious! I was here for some, but missed most of them, and I’m having so much fun right now reminiscing/catching up! Haha)

This Randy?

Happy anniversary, jellies! Ben and Andrew are speaking on a panel at Brown University (their alma mater) today, on the subject of ‘moving.media.’ Fluther was born there, so it’s pretty damn cool. :)

@Sneki95 no, that Randy is a cool dude. You won’t find anything on the ‘only nice people answer’ Randy, because he was a persistent troll. All of his stuff was removed as quickly as possible, haha.

Thanks to @Jeruba for inviting me to this party!

@augustlan Oh :(

@Sneki95 It’s okay, I think that is about the end of it—but Auggie or someone else who knows more can correct me there—I just know that some jellies have put “Only nice people answer” at the end of their posts as a joke (see search results here). I think the actual incidents were during a time I wasn’t here, so I only know about the after-the-fact humor, not the trolling that was probably at least as annoying as it may have been amusing.

Personally, I enjoy the trolls, for the amusement factor. Catch and release. lol

I have a bunch of great memories from this place.

Happy Anniversary!

@Mama_Cakes Care to share?

Oh shit! Why did I forget the Yarnpocalyse?

@Sneki95:
Here is a thread about Randy.

Share the good times with us, @Mama_Cakes!

Where is Kardamom? Anybody know how to get a hold of her? She has the best food suggestions.

I remember telling rude Randy at some point, somewhere in time, that the odds of him ever seeing me naked were about the same as being struck by lightening while simultaneously being attacked by a mountain lion. haha

Happy Anniversary Fluther and to my dear (old) Jelly friends.

Campfire story number 2: one day a 13-year-old girl joined and asked what her dream meant. You know, the usual stuff, a dream about her crush and her doing things, and full of typos, I still remember something about him playing soccer. People came and told her it was just a dream. It could just be another day, but somehow the girl became really nasty, boasting about how she was so great. Our anti-troll woman Seek began to question her about how true her claim was. She answered her with a very rude manner. Seek kept pushing around until she was able to pinpoint the exact location of the girl (as the conversation went on, she was foolish enough to reveal bits and pieces of her real information. Seek only needed to push hard) The girl was so shock she asked a question about why people here were so rude. And people started educating her until she understood, and she became a fairly active jelly for a while.

Oh, and the Yarnpocalyse thing, could anyone tell me the full details? I remember hearing it somewhere but then I forgot.

@bythebay Great to see you!

This is awesome! Happy anniversary, everyone!

@bythebay! Wow!

@Espiritus_Corvus, I PM’d Kardamom yesterday and saw that she hadn’t been here in a few days.

@Haleth Hello! Long time no see!

@janbb
@Jeruba
So very nice to “see” you both!

Wow! ten years has flown by. I miss Gail, but I bet she’s at the party in spirit. I think we should rummage around in the frizzer and see what else is on there besides the baby. Also, we should all check our doorsteps to see if anyone baked us a cake (the founders can be vrey sneaky that way!). Did you bring your whip, @Augustlan?

I’m ready to dance so let’s put on some music.

—Nice to see you, @bythebay.—

@marinelife May I have the first dance?

@marinelife, the whip is basically an extra appendage at this point…where I go, it goes! ;)

@augustlan Hey there old friend, if you need any spurs and riding crops to add to your whip collection just ask. haha

LOL. What does it mean when a guy you met once at a party keeps sending you cake every 4 months over the course of 2 years, but otherwise does not get in touch at all? And doesn’t ask you out either…

Gail was in top form on this thread.

Could use one of those cakes right now!

Lots of chocolate cake for the ♥Penguin♥ .

Interesting: How do we fix Fluther? from March, 2008.

I want some cakes too.

CAKE for everyone! Bring on the cake!

Cake for Fluther party

You know, those cakes look so good I’d feel sorry to cut them and destroy such works of art. But then again, cakes are made to be eaten…

Magnificent cake, @chyna.

First Fluther question ever: 16 October 2006

Should we answer? :D

@Sneki95 You can’t. It’s archived.

Just saw it. Dammit!

11 December 2009: Augie welcomes Answerbag refugees to Fluther with open arms. Jeruba finds better Cake to welcome them with.

Except, some of the slices were laced with arsenic…not that we shall mention that here, dear me no.
“Harrumph…harrumph…I didn’t get a harrumph outta that guy”

^^ Yeah, love Blazing Saddles.

Why must so many people be rude to newbs that don’t understand the concept of Fluther?

Where is jonsblond, anyway?

Why are people so rude on Fluther?

I kinda remember the first ever question here & I was not a member yet, without clicking on the link, it was something about pepper & was largely a test question.
Do I get a prize?

Yeah. You get Randy for a night. But don’t let him near the staff.

Good Lord no, Carstairs is getting a bit long in the tooth for that malarky, last time he got randy for the night he had to break out the viagra…housed in a leather bound pouch full of moth balls.

Here’s a smelly old gem.

www.fluther.com/118233/how-do-you-poop/

@ucme One of your best lines ever lies in that archive. ;-)

@Coloma Wow, just like a dung beetle…the shit I pull :D

Here’s another one of those Fluther memes threads:

http://www.fluther.com/59021/what-questions-would-you-put-in-the-fluther-hall-of-fame/

Late, late, late! I am soooooooo late. Happy Anniversary everybody at Fluther : ). Now which one is this? Paper? Silver? Nachos?

I wanted to get each of you a ring, but then I realized there isn’t one size fits all , so I opted for This little bauble instead. I hope you like it.

I wasn’t here at the very beginning. I joined Fluther in 2010, but apparently This is how we started out.

This is what we have become in 10 years time. I’m so proud of us all.

And for This

And for This

And for This

And for This

And for This

And for This

And for This

And for This

Stay sweet, don’t ever change <3, K

Kardamom!!!!

@Jeruba That thread is a treasury of threads, thank you. The Collective Fluther Story is the only time I’ve seen that work. And they held it for almost 700 posts.

@Kardamom Perfect!

@Kardamom Can I taste some :D

@Mimishu1995 You mean the nachos? I wonder if I should have opted to give you all These instead, because you all mean so much to me. And I mean that from the bottom of my heart attack.

Oh Onion rings, my heart be still. forever lol

Holy smokes!

Can anyone find the Yarncopalypse thread?

Well, there is this

@Dutchess_III I remember that, waking up to a sea of Yarnlady avatars. lol

Yeah. Look at all the old members on that thread. KatetheGreat, Michael Huntington, MyNewBoobs… and everephebe, RIP 22 May 2013.

Everpheobe, :-(

I missed it @Coloma. :( I did slip in on the Frizzer question as Dutchess12, though.

I remember the Vampires: Mastema and UnholyThirst. I think there were a couple of others, possibly sockpuppets. They all showed up on the same day. Mastema seemed like the dominant one. I enjoyed their posts, but UnholyThirst got into it with the Mods about a post he/she insisted on reposting and ::poof:: they were gone. They had a thing about drinking blood, claimed to do it in real life. A bit juvenile, but I thought they were fun.

I was a fan of @UnholyHunger.

So was I. Wasn’t that you, cookieman?

Does anyone remember the Astrochuck prank when we all changed our Avatars to his? It predated the Yarnpocalypse and was started by Jeruba.

I missed that one too. I miss all the good stuffy.

I think that was before my time. I wish people had screenshots of these things.

@EC: Yeah, that was me — just messing with the vampire girls. My avatar was a chocolate chip cookie vampire.

@janbb: I do remember that. I miss @AstroChuck.

Here’s a fun thread with the Vampire Jellies.

Ha! I forgot I even wrote a profile for @UnholyHunger.

I do have screenshots. Let me look.

. . .

Ok, go here for a narrative with links.

(First look up @AstroChuck. He used to be a top poster and was one of the first three to break 30,000, if I recall correctly.)

That would be very cool, Jeruba.

@cookieman Ha. I loved this thread. I think you actually got Araphel a little hot. Good man.

I think after the mods incident one of the vampires did return. But by that time their popularity had dropped and some jellies even didn’t know about their existence. They didn’t talk about blood either, more about dark things that sounded similar to what they asked before.

@Jeruba Thank you. That blow-by-blow essay was fantastic. You would make a great sports writer. I’m still waiting for the images to come up. Should take about ten more minutes. My internet connection is terrible today.

I’ve been so busy lately that I missed the celebration. Happy decade, Fluther!

@EC: I don’t normally poke the bear here in the lagoon, but the Vamps were such easy targets, I couldn’t resist.

@cookieman and the Vamps didn’t suspect anything? I recognized you immediately when I saw that profile.

I am so so sad I missed the vampires! D:

@Mimishu1995: They may have. It was a cookie vampire after all.

Here’s a fun one of mine from the archives. @LuckyGuy was ready to board a plane and come assist me with my maggot crisis and Gail was quite sympathetic. lol

www.fluther.com/123888/help-my-trash-can-is-full-of-maggots/

^^I really liked this person’s reply.

(I wonder where he’s been?)

@Yetanotheruser Another long lost member.

We got a lot of lost member, even during my time in 2013. Wish they knew how much they are appreciated.

MrShineyShoes was on that question @Coloma!

Never underestimate the educational value of Fluther. Here’s a thread on everything you ever wanted to know about sperm but were afraid to ask. Drastic Dreamer’s response is priceless.

Oh, that is fantastic!

Well..that sinks it. Clearly, every woman needs to imprison her man and put him on a strict, sperm sweetening diet. No beer for you honey, here, have a nice bowl of sweet cherries and peppermint. haha

@Espiritus_Corvus I have a sperm question too!

And a lovely one, too.

Well that was informative…

TMI but, many sperm are defective. I couldn’t get pregnant with my exhusband in New Zealand because, his sperm was reflective of his personality. Lots of it, but it didn’t do much.

My heart hurts.

It’s now the 12th anniversary. Two years later, we’re still chuggin along!

Sometimes looking through links of old posts is kind of like looking through an box of old pictures. You remember things you may not have thought about for years.

Like Mr. ShinyShoes.

I can still see some leftover of a party…

There are some spent balloons lying on the floor, but a few are still bobbing up a little—and look! One or two are still fresh-looking. Maybe they’ll last a while.